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Standing amidst this turbulent realm, Dizang maintained an imposing demeanor, stepping closer to the Great Sun of Dusk, undisturbed by the heaven-shocking tides.
A trace of urgency flashed in the Eyes of Dusk, as the initially maintained outline of the Great Sun completely dissipated, revealing a giant eyeball akin to a celestial body hovering in the firmament above.
A contingency laid within the incense offering magic domain by the Dusk Realm was triggered, and the entire magic domain began to teeter on the brink of collapse amidst the turmoil.
"It’s preparing to tear through the incense offering magic domain, allowing the strange forces to forcefully spread within the Primal Chaos Realm."
Shen Yuan immediately understood the intention of the Eyes of Dusk.
"Stop it!"
Dizang, realizing the gravity of the situation, raised both hands high to project the shadow of the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda, with the shadowy outline of the 18 Levels of Hell appearing, endeavoring to stabilize this part of the realm.
The realm’s instability gradually began to steady, but it seemed to last only a moment before being disrupted again, as cracks began to form on the projection of the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda.
The incense offering magic domain, with Great Xia as its foundation, encompassed the vast majority of this grand world’s territories. Even though many of the domain’s regions were destitute of local deities, its sheer size still far surpassed the 18 Levels of Hell, and the mere projection of the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda was not nearly strong enough to suppress it.
Shen Yuan’s eyes narrowed, as the blessing of humanity’s fate empowered him, and with a light flick of his right hand, he tore open a giant spatial passageway.
With his stride, Shen Yuan vanished from the grand sacrificial altar.
Seeing this, Emperor Xia’s face, which was originally unsettled, dissolved into a mad laughter:
"The savior you all believe in, the Supreme Taoist cannot reverse the situation; he has abandoned you and fled alone."
"If I still wielded the humanity’s fate, I could have maintained a superficial alliance with the Dusk Realm, securing at least a hundred years of peace.
Regrettably, you have trusted the wrong person, leading to such a dire situation. It is you who have pushed the Primal Chaos Realm towards the abyss with your own hands!"
The scornful words of Emperor Xia should have been negligible, yet the sudden departure of the Supreme Taoist indeed left the civil and military officials at the scene full of doubt and confusion.
Emperor Xia saw the unease within the officials and scoffed:
"If you release me and restore me to the Mortal Emperor’s throne, there might still be a glimmer of hope.
If you insist on following this rebellious girl and the Supreme Taoist, you will only meet one end..."
A fierce sword light flashed by, and Emperor Xia’s speech was abruptly cut short.
An ice sword severed his head, and the blood, due to the extreme cold, instantly solidified, leaving his head in place with only a clear bloodline visible on the neck.
With a single stroke of the sword, his Spirit Soul was completely frozen by the Year End Freezing Weather, even the True Spirit was extinguished under the precious mirror, a Taoist artifact.
Gong Buyu, holding a sword forged from ice, let her indifferent voice finally rise slowly.
"How noisy!"
Afterward, her icy cold gaze swept over the civil and military officials present, and the restless thoughts in their minds froze in an instant.
Xia Yunqiu, unfazed by the death of Emperor Xia, gravely turned to Gong Buyu and softly asked,
"Senior Sister Gong, what should we do now?"
"Wait!"
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With the enhancement from humanity’s fate, Shen Yuan activated a spatial passageway, crossing tens of thousands of miles in a single step and returned to Fengdu City in Tai Province.
Upon re-entering Fengdu City, Shen Yuan could keenly sense his own Fengdu Emperor’s incorporeal persona steadily reviving, and the two Great Divine Powers, Unimpeded Netherworld and Gods Purging, reached their peak.
Without holding back any longer, the Emperor Fengdu’s incorporeal persona fully manifested, a majestic image of the Emperor materializing within Fengdu City.
"It’s the Emperor!"
"The Emperor has returned!"
"Welcome back, Emperor!"
Inside Fengdu City, the remaining three of the Mount Luofeng 6 Hell Deities, stationed in the Netherworld, appeared one after another, saluting Shen Yuan as he took on the manifestation of the Emperor Fengdu.
Dressed in imperial robes and crown, Shen Yuan remained silent, his gaze lifting to the sky above.
Even within Fengdu City, the incense offering magic domain enveloping the entirety of Great Xia could be seen.
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This incense offering magic domain, rooted in the Eyes of Dusk, blocked the will of heaven and earth from protecting the mortal world, allowing it to accommodate more powerful experts.
However, this incense offering magic domain couldn’t be destroyed at will. Once it collapsed, the Eyes of Dusk and the strange tides within would spread unreservedly throughout the Primal Chaos Realm.
By then, even if the heavenly tribulation descended, it might not be able to completely cleanse the bizarre contamination, and the Primal Chaos Realm, stable for ten thousand years, would suffer the same disasters as other realms.
Gazing across tens of thousands of miles towards the battle within the magic domain in the Imperial Capital, Shen Yuan, as a Divinity Path Emperor, felt unease when his gaze landed on the terrifying waves of strangeness and the Eyes of Dusk.
"This strange breath can even affect an incomplete Divinity Path Emperor. If faced with the strangeness behind the Eyes of Dusk, it might possess the ability to threaten Divinity Path Emperors."
However, compared to being able to erode the Capital City God at will, the high-ranking position of a Divinity Path Emperor still had certain advantages.
"But the foundation of the Incense Offering Divinity Path ultimately lies in the local deities of various realms; the spread of strangeness will inevitably lead to the collapse of Divinity Path rankings."
"The origin of the fall of the Donghua Emperor is this strangeness?"
Having a vague understanding in his heart, Shen Yuan had no opportunity to think it through carefully at the moment.
The will of the Fengdu Emperor flowed, the entire Netherworld trembled at this moment, and with the roar of the earth, the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda of the 18 Levels of Hell rose slowly from the depths of the earth.
This Half-Step Boundary Opening Treasure was suffused with the aura of ancient years, and its frescoes depicted the three paths of deities, ghosts, and humans, as if encompassing all phenomena of the realms.
With his right hand holding the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda, Shen Yuan waved towards the Imperial Capital.
"Go!"
Carrying the will of the Fengdu Emperor, the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda tore through the boundary and descended within the incense offering magic domain above the Imperial Capital.
The massive treasure pagoda shielded the sun, its hell-suppressing force from within the Half-Step Boundary Opening Treasure pouring down, suppressing all strangeness.
As its main body arrived, Dizang, who had been striving to stabilize the magic domain, relaxed.
The Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda, being a Half-Step Boundary Opening Treasure, had the ability to create a new world; suppressing a realm was mere child’s play.
Above the firmament, the Eyes of Dusk, which had been trying to tear apart the magic domain, suddenly felt that the spatial barriers were far more stable than before—by hundreds of times—and the magic domain, which had been on the verge of collapse, was now stable.
The Eyes of Dusk froze.
It had already descended into the Primal Chaos Realm, losing the possibility of returning to the Dusk Realm.
The plan to tear apart the magic domain, too, had failed with the arrival of the Primal Chaos Nifty Pagoda, and at this moment, it found itself in a dilemma.
But in just a few breaths, the Eyes of Dusk stabilized its emotions and turned to Dizang, as strange, squirming sounds like those made by soft-bodied creatures slowly echoed in the air.
"I am the foundation of the incense offering magic domain; to kill me is to actively destroy the magic domain. Your only option is to seal me away.
But even in a powerful seal, there will eventually come a day of destruction. I have ample time to wait for the day I can return."
Dizang remained unmoved, while another commanding voice echoed slowly from within the magic domain.
"I think, perhaps you won’t live to see that day."
At this moment, all of humanity’s fate gathered in the towering figure within Fengdu City, with the tides of humanity, the order of the Divine Path, and the Origin of the Netherworld all converging on him, reaching an unprecedented peak.
Shen Yuan extended his slowly right hand, and the origin of the three paths—human, ghost, and deity—leveraged this part of the world.
The sky of the Primal Chaos Realm fell into darkness at this moment.
A swath of ink concealed the Great Sun, and its quiet, eerie emanation turned the world into a land of dark Hell.
Then, a hand far beyond everyone’s imagination slowly materialized beneath that inky canopy.
Its fingerprints were like mountain ravines, a single finger could press down an entire province, and with its fingers spread wide, all eighteen provinces of Great Xia lay within its grasp.
Only then did everyone realize in horror that the inky canopy blocking out the sun was but a corner of that great hand’s sleeve.
With the fingers falling, the incense offering magic domain that had enveloped Great Xia was now entirely in the grasp of this boundless hand.
Inside Fengdu City, the three Mount Luofeng 6 Hell Deities suddenly felt their Divinity Path power growing wildly, and before they understood the reason, they saw that great hand holding an entire realm, forcibly stuffing it into the Netherworld.
Then, an Imperial Edict echoed between heaven and earth.
"All incense offering magic domains are henceforth the land of the Netherworld!"
