In the End, Making a Wedding Dress for Another; Celestia Holy Land Is No Longer Safe
In the End, Making a Wedding Dress for Another; Celestia Holy Land Is No Longer Safe
“Not good...”
Zhao Yi’s expression changed, turning somewhat pale. “These warriors are all at the Enlightened King Realm, and there are quite a few Quasi-Sacred and Sacred Realm ones too.”
Her voice trembled.
Never mind the Sacred Realm—even Sacred Noble Realm, and even Sacred Lord Realm beings had manifested their traces, all of them moving to kill Jiang Yang.
A single Sacred Lord was already the pinnacle of power in the current Heavenly Star Realm.
Aside from Celestia Holy Land, no other force had a Sacred Lord holding down the fort—their foundations fell far short.
Yet now, with a casual wave of the opponent’s hand, numerous powerhouses of this caliber had appeared, coming to kill Jiang Yang.
Just moments ago, she had thought this group had come to welcome Jiang Yang. She never expected they had been lying in wait here all along, intending to kill him.
This scene made Jiang Yang furrow his brow. Though surprised, it wasn’t to an extreme degree.
“If you dare make a move against me, you will regret it.”
He spoke calmly to Yue Mingkong. At this point, he still believed Yue Mingkong was the Successor of Mortal Palace.
“Enough nonsense. Today, you die!”
Yue Mingkong’s reply was short and cold. Between heaven and earth, a great fog began to rise, turning hazy like Chaos Energy, enveloping this place.
At the same time, she unfurled a golden Commandment!
Boom rumble rumble!
Heaven and earth trembled!
From within the Commandment, sword intent shot skyward!
In the blink of an eye, a sword streaked across the firmament, chaos billowing, thick as mountain ranges, like the eruption of hundreds of millions of stars.
That vast, terrifying energy was enough to destroy everything. Its aftershock alone reduced many of the mountain peaks around the valley to dust.
At the same time, she struck out herself, moving to kill Jiang Yang and take his life!
Swish!
Her robes flared, divine radiance dazzling, five-colored divine light surging skyward. The giant mountains beside her were uprooted, then disintegrated into dust midair.
“This...”
“You’re not the Successor of Mortal Palace?”
Seeing this, Jiang Yang’s brow furrowed, and his previously composed expression suddenly changed.
He wasn’t stupid. At this point, no matter how he looked at it, the other party had nothing to do with the Mortal Palace.
She was purely here to kill him.
All his earlier guesses had been wrong!
And he had foolishly delivered himself to her doorstep?
This made Jiang Yang’s expression turn rather ugly. Matters had once again slipped beyond his control.
Then who was it that had used the Mortal Palace’s secret technique to inform him of this location?
“Damn it, who exactly is scheming against me?”
At this moment, Jiang Yang had no time to react. With his current cultivation, there was no way he could withstand such a strike.
Let alone with this group of Golden Warriors surrounding him on all sides.
It was nothing short of an Inescapable Net!
Weng!!
Thinking this, Jiang Yang’s expression turned cold as he began forming seals.
Behind him, sheet after sheet of light rose up.
Resplendent and dazzling, grand and majestic, like rounds of great suns about to rise.
It was a golden great seal, incomparably blinding, suddenly appearing high in the sky, hovering there, strands of divine light cascading down—the supreme rules and order.
It could easily crush an entire continent.
Only, with his current strength, it was difficult to fully awaken the deity within.
“The Celestial Seal?”
Yue Mingkong recognized this weapon almost immediately. The deity within was awakening, about to unleash the peerless might of a Sacred Emperor Grade Weapon!
In the entire Heavenly Star Realm, there was absolutely only this one!
It was none other than the Sacred Emperor Grade Weapon of the Celestia Sacred Emperor from back then!
But her expression showed no panic—instead, it grew even colder.
Clang!
Clang!
Clang!
Along with the sounds, it was as if celestial soldiers were forging weapons!
This place filled with a holy, transcendent aura.
She brought out an incomparably sacred golden divine sword, its deity awakening on its own, requiring no activation from her.
“A Sacred Emperor Grade Weapon... what thorough preparations indeed...”
“Who exactly is it that wants to kill me...”
Jiang Yang’s expression changed once again. The Celestial Seal he carried for protection no longer seemed to offer any sense of security.
Boom rumble rumble!
Soon, terrifying fluctuations erupted here in an instant, as if star after star was exploding, as if swathe after swathe of star fields were turning to ash.
It was like billions of jun of chaotic tides crashing down, like layer upon layer of universes smashing down, directly causing the void here to shatter!
Bang!
The next moment, Jiang Yang spat blood as he was sent flying, his body covered in blood, bursting apart, smashing through a great stretch of mountain ranges. His injuries were extremely severe, and he looked utterly wretched.
Not only did he have to endure Yue Mingkong’s attacks, he also had to guard against the Golden Warriors charging in from all sides.
Though he possessed a Sacred Emperor Grade Weapon, he couldn’t bring out even one ten-thousandth of its power.
He couldn’t even match a single Sacred Emperor Grade Weapon of hers!
“Who exactly are you?”
“Why are you trying to kill me?”
Jiang Yang shouted coldly, wanting to know Yue Mingkong’s origins.
But Yue Mingkong remained unmoved, continuing her assault. She felt that today she might truly be able to erase him here, removing this great threat for Gu Changge!
And at this moment, Jiang Yang made the most correct choice... He gritted his teeth once more and, with unwillingness, shattered the seal on the Symbol of Reincarnation, then fled into the distance!
Jiang Yang rode the great momentum of this land, using the Celestial Seal to break through the obstacles before him. Aside from Yue Mingkong with her Sacred Emperor Grade Weapon, none of the others could stop him at all.
“Jiang Yang, save me...”
He even had the means to grab the utterly miserable Zhao Yi from the other side along the way, intending to break out of the encirclement together.
Yue Mingkong naturally noticed Jiang Yang shattering the Symbol of Reincarnation.
For the Reincarnation of the Mortal One, the Symbol of Reincarnation was something more important than life itself.
Because not every reincarnation was guaranteed to cultivate a Symbol of Reincarnation.
This showed that Jiang Yang had panicked, thrown himself into disarray, unable to distinguish priorities!
“Send my orders to the various Mystic Mountains and Forbidden Areas: launch the Dark Turmoil, with the target aimed directly at Celestia Holy Land...”
“Their disciple stole spiritual treasures from the Mystic Mountains. Demand they hand over Jiang Yang!”
Then, with a cold gaze, Yue Mingkong waved her jade hand and instructed the people behind her.
Her original intention had been to delay the Mortal One’s return. Now that he had shattered his own Symbol of Reincarnation to borrow power, it played right into her hands!
After that, Yue Mingkong herself continued the pursuit, not intending to let Jiang Yang go.
If she could kill him, all the better.
...
Meanwhile, as the outside world’s cultivators and forces fell into panic and frantic discussion...
Deep within the Sky Pool of Death.
Celestial mist drifted ethereally, everything incomparably hazy. The pool water was clear, and within it grew stalk after stalk of towering green lotuses, their leaves like washbasins, receiving the essence of heaven and earth, the radiance of sun, moon, and stars.
Strand after strand cascaded down here, like a vast waterfall.
Accompanied by sky-blotting demonic qi.
A blurry, slender figure, wreathed in celestial qi and demonic qi, sat cross-legged in this place.
Above his head floated a Grand Flask, black light flickering, the veins of the Great Dao interweaving, forming something like the scriptures of heaven and earth—mysterious and terrifying.
If any cultivator saw this scene, they would surely stare in shock.
Unable to believe that someone actually existed deep within the Sky Pool of Death.
Of course, this figure was naturally Gu Changge.
His eyes were slightly closed, black and white divine light flowing from within his pupils.
Streak after streak of black runes were casually struck out by him, branded into the eight directions, like brilliant little black suns, intending to reverse the great momentum of this place.
Soon, after completing all this...
Gu Changge opened his eyes, looking somewhat puzzled.
“I’ve actually received Jiang Yang’s Fortuity points again out of nowhere. It seems Yue Mingkong’s plan has succeeded. With her methods, even if Jiang Yang manages to escape, he’ll probably have to shed a layer of skin.”
“That said, this counts as striking at Jiang Yang’s Fortuity.”
Gu Changge had originally planned to have Yue Mingkong stall Jiang Yang for a few more days.
But judging from the System’s notification, he had underestimated Yue Mingkong’s methods.
By now, Jiang Yang was probably already being hunted down by her.
Under Gu Changge’s calculations, Jiang Yang had believed the Successor of Mortal Palace had come seeking him, so he left the Celestia Holy Land where he had been holed up all this time and came outside.
As a regressor, Yue Mingkong should know quite a bit about Jiang Yang’s methods. With layer upon layer of arrangements, even if Jiang Yang was the Reincarnation of the Mortal One, he would have to obediently accept his fate.
But with Yue Mingkong’s methods alone, killing Jiang Yang would be very difficult.
“Still, it seems the Mortal One really went to great lengths for the thing in the Sky Pool—he even laid down quite a few Principles of Destruction Dao, tsk tsk tsk...”
“Just at the outermost layer there are three whole Sacred Lord Realm ferocious beasts, plus a headless knight of the Sacred Lord Realm standing guard...”
“What a pity. These little tricks can stop others, but they can’t stop me.”
Gu Changge swept his gaze over the many runes nearby without touching them.
The commotion caused in the outside world these days was naturally his deliberate doing.
With his current methods, sneaking into the deepest part wasn’t actually difficult.
Back in the Celestial Ancient Continent, right under the noses of countless old monsters and ancient relics...
He had calmly entered the Celestial Gate and snatched away the Celestial Spirit, likewise without anyone noticing.
The backup arrangements within the Sky Pool of Death were actually far inferior compared to that path inside the Celestial Gate.
After all, the environments of heaven and earth were completely different. The rules of this place would not permit too much power exceeding this world’s capacity.
One could say the difficulty dropped severalfold in an instant.
Gu Changge himself was proficient in the Space Talent and extremely skilled at concealment.
So after some consideration, he created the false impression outside that he had perished, which conveniently allowed him to deceive the world without alerting the Mortal One’s other arrangements.
On the other hand, it also made the living beings and cultivators outside retreat in the face of difficulty, lest they come disturb his plans.
Of course, Gu Changge’s greater consideration was turning the enemy’s plot against them. Wasn’t Jiang Yang planning to scheme against him?
Then this suited him perfectly. He could take this opportunity to snatch away the fortuitous opportunity Jiang Yang had painstakingly planned over multiple lifetimes—wouldn’t that be wonderful?
Incidentally, it would pour the final oil on the fire of Yao Yao and Jiang Yang’s falling-out, tearing off all pretenses.
All Gu Changge needed to do now was sit here and reap the benefits like a fisherman, waiting for Jiang Yang to come deliver his head, harvesting the last wave of his remaining value.
Boom rumble rumble!
Then, the Eight Barren Demon Halberd appeared, awakening on its own.
Carrying sky-blotting demonic might, it ground away the many Array Patterns before him.
Gu Changge continued to act, altering the great momentum and rules within, turning these Array Patterns to his own use.
At the deepest point.
An incomparably special green lotus was spreading open its leaves, wisps of Chaos Energy twining around it, rooted deep in the lakebed, as if it wouldn’t sway even if heaven and earth withered and the universe perished.
The World Purifying Green Lotus.
Only, it had yet to mature.
Gazing at this object from afar, all sorts of thoughts flashed through Gu Changge’s mind.
Finally, with a weng!!
He chose to step forward. Even if it hadn’t matured, he had to claim it first!
The Grand Flask emerged on its own, shielding him from the terrifying pressure within.
His bones crackled.
Gu Changge even heard the rumbling, weighty sounds of ancient worlds revolving.
As if they could crush a person to pieces.
But as the Grand Flask descended, the lotus leaves parted one by one. He stepped into their midst, then sat down cross-legged.
The lotus leaves closed, and all aura and fluctuations gradually vanished.
On the vast, boundless lake surface, soon only this single green lotus remained standing, rooted in place.
Silent and soundless.
And Gu Changge’s current state was very peculiar.
His Demonic Heart throbbed, his blood surged, emitting terrifying sounds like giant war drums.
At the same time came a devouring craving!
In a trance, Gu Changge saw a thumb-sized lotus seed, its surface wrapped in mysterious, ancient patterns.
As if it were the embodiment of the Great Dao, or the condensation of rules.
It seemed to float in a boundless void.
Around it were chaos-like scenes, the dawn of primordial creation. He could even see the flowing traces of time and the river of ages.
One embryonic world after another bloomed within the chaos as the lotus seed fell, then evolved into vast, boundless heavens and earths.
But in the end, as he opened his mouth and swallowed this lotus seed, a terrifying black hole devoured the universe.
All the scenes began to collapse and shatter.
His Internal World, at this moment, began to evolve.
A sublimation of levels!
The Internal World transformed into an Inner Universe!
Gu Changge’s most direct feeling was that he could now control the power of a world!
The universe held within his palm, the cosmos contained within his fist!
Even his cultivation broke through to the Sacred Noble Realm because of it!
“What’s going on? What happened?”
“This aura... could it be that thing from the ancient records... has finally been obtained by this demon?”
“The Mortal One’s plan... did it really end up making a wedding dress for someone else?”
Jiang Chuchu, currently inside the Internal World, watched as the Internal World was being flooded by surging Chaos Energy, with only the Heavenly Court standing tall amid the clouds remaining unchanged.
At this moment, she couldn’t help but be shaken, unable to maintain her composure.
In the end, her face turned pale, and she slumped down onto the green stone as if in despair.
Her soul lost.
“Impossible. Didn’t I already warn the Reincarnation of the Mortal One? All those backup plans of his—are they all useless now?”
Jiang Chuchu simply couldn’t believe what she was seeing.
Or had Gu Changge already grown powerful enough to disregard all of the Mortal One’s backup arrangements?
And there was nothing she could do to stop any of it.
Everything was developing in the direction Gu Changge had said it would.
...
And in the following days, another great event swept across the entire Sky Domain, alarming many forces and clans.
Countless cultivators and living beings were scared pale.
A terrifying Dark Turmoil suddenly erupted.
Without any warning.
From within the various Mystic Mountains and Forbidden Areas, ancient existences spoke out, declaring that a young disciple of Celestia Holy Land had stolen their divine treasures, demanding Celestia Holy Land hand him over.
Numerous terrifying old relics, whose cultivation had reached the Sacred Noble Realm, began to awaken, their forces pressing upon the gates of Celestia Holy Land.
Many people speculated that this matter was perhaps just an excuse, and that disciple merely a tiny fuse.
The various Mystic Mountains and Forbidden Areas had actually wanted to move against Celestia Holy Land all along.
They simply hadn’t acted until now.
“Now even Celestia Holy Land can’t be stayed in for long... Why has the phantom left behind by Celestia back then disappeared?”
Inside the great hall of Celestia Holy Land.
The atmosphere was oppressively heavy.
Jiang Yang, who had used numerous methods and fled back to Celestia Holy Land with severe injuries, immediately sensed the thick malice.
The various Mystic Mountains and Forbidden Areas pressing in were clearly acting on the orders of that mysterious woman he had only barely managed to shake off that day.
Jiang Yang had originally planned to invoke the phantom of the Celestia Ancestral Founder and, together with the Celestial Seal, contend against that mysterious woman—but he failed.
Because the phantom of the Celestia Ancestral Founder seemed to have vanished, completely unresponsive to his summons!
This matter instantly reversed his standing within Celestia Holy Land.
Moreover, his theft of the Celestial Seal had also been noticed by many elders of Celestia Holy Land.
With troubles both within and without, a major crisis nearly erupted.
This made Jiang Yang’s expression extremely ugly. Gone was his former composure—he felt that someone in the shadows was scheming against him!
“No. At this point, I have to go to the Sky Pool of Death...”
“Celestia Holy Land is no longer safe...”