NOVPUBThe power of the Seal of Opening Heaven with Talisman bolstered the Incense Magic Sword of the Capital City God, and with another slash carrying the might of the Divinity Path’s heaven-opening force, it tore apart the spirit souls of the two Void Refining True Monarchs.
In the midst of such an intense clash, the entirety of the incense offering magic domain was collapsing, yet the dynastic fortune and incense offering willpower from the Imperial Capital continued to support it.
Even Shen Yuan could not help but feel slightly astonished upon witnessing this scene.
"In terms of strength alone, the City God possessed by Emperor Xia’s spirit soul holds the home field advantage and is also no weakling among the Void Refining True Monarchs," he said.
"Without employing the Gods Purging Divine Power, even if I were to face the City God directly, it would be difficult to contend against him."
"These Void Refining True Monarchs of the Dusk Realm seem to have some inherent flaws, and in addition to being severely wounded by a sword slash immediately upon their arrival, they simply have no strength to resist the City God."
Underneath that power capable of annihilating an entire realm, the effeminate man had no chance to resist before being slain by the sword of the City God.
Only the somewhat more powerful Blind Old Taoist, dragging his shattered body, managed to escape to ascendance, but by this moment, he was at the end of his tether.
A mouthful of fresh blood spurted out, with fragments of his spirit soul eroded by the incense offering willpower mixed within; the Blind Old Taoist’s hollow eye sockets were fixed dead on the City God and Emperor Xia.
"Good, good, good!"
"I had not expected that you had already secretly joined hands to deal with my Dusk Realm."
"How condescending it is for the Mortal Emperor himself to stoop so low as to enter the fray. This time, we of the Dusk Realm concede," he declared bitterly.
His hoarse voice was filled with venom.
He did not resent Shen Yuan, who was initially seen as an enemy; at least in his view, Shen Yuan was merely a target set up by Emperor Xia.
Emperor Xia intentionally made Shen Yuan out to be an enemy, then used this as a pretext to continuously borrow the power of the Dusk Realm to strike at Shen Yuan, all for the sake of today’s scheme.
The effeminate man possessed a unique Natural Divine Power, and he had already established a connection with Emperor Xia that allowed cross-realm communication. Emperor Xia took the opportunity to enter into the intricate planning to eliminate the effeminate man and then rid the Primal Chaos Realm of the Dusk Realm’s agents.
Once accomplished, the Dusk Realm could be kicked out of the game, monopolizing the profits of the Incense Magic Sword and magic domain.
"Such a venomous tactic, such profound scheming!" he stated.
Facing the Blind Old Taoist’s enmity, the flummoxed Emperor Xia found himself utterly without a defense at that moment.
Because from any perspective, it appeared that everything had been orchestrated by him, the Great Xia Emperor; otherwise, there would be no explanation for the betrayal of the City God.
His half spirit soul that had just split away was beyond control, an unbelievable tale even to a three-year-old child.
The connection between the Dusk Realm and Emperor Xia was established quite by accident just as the Spirit Energy Tidal Surge began to make a comeback.
At first, under the influence of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau’s superintendent, Emperor Xia was extremely cautious about the Dusk Realm, and the two sides merely exchanged information.
However, as the subsequent Spirit Energy Tidal Surge gradually revived and Great Xia grew increasingly unstable, Emperor Xia and the superintendent began to consider engaging in resource exchange with the Dusk Realm.
The first item traded between the two sides was indeed a fragment of the Lang Huan Bibliotheca.
With the help of the Lang Huan Bibliotheca fragment, the superintendent successfully established a connection with the Lang Huan Blessed Land, leveraging the various recorded messages to control the Great Xia political situation and stabilize the dynastic order.
Once trade had begun, having experienced the convenience brought by the resources of another world, Emperor Xia intensified the exchange with the Dusk Realm.
Relying on the precious resources from another world, Emperor Xia repaired the Imperial Capital Great Array Formation, nurtured the dynastic army, and attempted to suppress the various sects with it.
However, the repeated manifestations of the Supreme Taoist completely disrupted Emperor Xia’s original plans.
An uncheckable Earth Immortal, capable of walking at will despite the incomplete rules of heaven and earth, posed too great a threat to the dynasty.
Emperor Xia felt a deep fear, to the extent that he even killed his own beloved offspring because he was implicated in the Supreme Taoist affair.
Thereafter, Emperor Xia began to entertain the thought of leveraging the Dusk Realm’s power to suppress this realm.
This idea was stopped by the superintendent, who believed that the Dusk Realm had ulterior motives and it was absolutely impermissible to entrust an affair that could affect the entire Primal Chaos Realm to the Dusk Realm.
However, when the Netherworld was in turmoil and ghostly calamities spread across several states, Emperor Xia completely abandoned his reservations.
He wanted to become a Mortal Emperor mighty enough to be equated with the expression "his word is as heavy as nine tripods," not an Emperor who sought stability under the oppression of all sides.
Thus, he began to seek from the Dusk Realm a way to suppress this world, and eventually acquired the Incense Offering Deity Method.
By reestablishing All City Gods, connecting with the incense offering magic domain, and cultivating his own body to achieve the position of the Capital City God, he could interfere with the mortal world with the help of the incense offering magic domain spread throughout Great Xia, ruling over secular humans with the existence of a local deity.
Despite the vehement opposition of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau’s Superintendent, Emperor Xia still chose to employ the Incense Offering Deity Method.
For this, Emperor Xia paid a huge price to gain the support of the Netherworld and local magnates, successfully lighting 3,650 City God Furnaces, thereby transforming into a deity in the form of the Capital City God.
As the price of gaining support from the Dusk Realm, the Dusk Realm requested a share of the seats in the pantheon within the incense offering magic domain, which was also agreed to by Emperor Xia.
This was supposed to be a perfect plan, yet it led to such an absurd situation today.
The silence of Emperor Xia only made the Blind Old Taoist more certain of his judgment. The Capital City God, holding a magic sword, had already stepped out from the shrine hall, ready to slay him with the final blow.
Facing such a desperate situation, the Blind Old Taoist suddenly laughed. His aged face, full of cracks, coupled with the hollow blackness of his eyes’ sockets, rendered the laugh incredibly sinister.
"O treacherous Mortal Emperor, don’t think you have won.
The means of the Dusk Realm are not something your complacent world, stagnant for ten thousand years, can fathom!"
As the words fell, specks of dusk yellow light suddenly appeared in the Blind Old Taoist’s pitch-black eye sockets, and two eyeballs emerged in his gaze.
Both eyeballs were turbid, displaying a dusk yellow hue similar to the sunset, and with the emergence of these Eyes of Dusk, the faltering vitality of the Blind Old Taoist came to a sudden halt.
"No!"
Shen Yuan’s gaze sharpened, for at this moment he could clearly sense that the eerie aura originally weak on the Blind Old Taoist was growing swiftly.
Above the sky of the Imperial Capital, Heavenly Tribulation gathered once more, with thunder booming but seemingly unable to locate the Blind Old Taoist within the Incense Fire God Realm.
"Kill him!"
The Gods Purging Edict resounded at this moment, and the Capital City God, following the Divine Edict, slashed down with the Incense Magic Sword again.
The Blind Old Taoist stared at the descending Incense Magic Sword, which was instantaneously corrupted by filth, causing the gathered pure incense offering willpower to shatter explosively.
Accompanied by the burgeoning eerie aura, the incense offering magic domain, tinted with the color of dusk, seemed to resonate with the Blind Old Taoist’s Eyes of Dusk, and the entire incense offering magic domain appeared to be on the verge of changing masters.
A pale Great Sun, silently risen within the incense offering magic domain, sprinkled the light of dusk as if it carried the burden of a future filled with destruction and decay.
"Eyes of Dusk!"
Shen Yuan’s eyes trembled violently. At this moment, he finally realized the origin of the familiar sensation he had felt when he first encountered the incense offering magic domain; the dusk light within the incense offering magic domain and the Blind Old Taoist’s strange eyes were identical to the Eyes of Dusk that Shen Yuan had witnessed in that small world. There must be some connection between the Dusk Realm and the Eyes of Dusk.
Ten thousand years ago, an Eye of Dusk had taken possession of the body of the Demon King Ground Spider, corrupting a small world.
And ten thousand years later, the powerful expert behind the Eyes of Dusk must be even more terrifying.
With this thought, Shen Yuan held nothing back.
The Incense Magic Sword, corrupted by the power of dusk, could not exert its might, but Shen Yuan’s own Earthly Destroyer Divine Power was not restricted.
Union of the sword and Elemental Qi • Zhuming Chengye!
As the day and night phenomena alternated, the Earthly Destroyer Sword Technique of the Third Realm reached its pinnacle at this moment, and the Qi of heaven and earth from within the Secret Realm Square-Inch was entirely bestowed upon the Darkness-Light Sword, striking tirelessly at the spent Blind Old Taoist.
Besides the eerie corruption, those eyes seemed to have no other protective abilities, and the remnants of the Blind Old Taoist’s spirit soul were obliterated by this strike.
Facing his own demise, the Blind Old Taoist showed no fear but instead gazed intently at Emperor Xia.
"Mortal Emperor of Great Xia, I will await your arrival in my master’s divine kingdom!"
