Breaking Through to the Mid Sacred Emperor Realm, Leaving a Memento for Empress Yao Xi
Breaking Through to the Mid Sacred Emperor Realm, Leaving a Memento for Empress Yao Xi
“Don’t worry, none of you are getting away either.”
Gu Changge turned toward the Blood Demon Overlord and the other Demon Overlord on the other side, their faces drastically changing, and with a thought—
In an instant, the void on all sides suddenly froze, followed by vast, surging fluctuations.
Chaos Energy roiled. Heavenly palaces, immortal halls, divine towers... numerous towering divine structures materialized, enveloping all directions.
Surging divine light erupted from within them, completely shrouding the area. Heaven and earth dissolved into nothingness, transforming into a realm of primordial murk.
“The Seal the Heaven and Earth Grand Array...”
The Blood Demon Overlord recognized the formation, his expression shifting rapidly.
He was already gravely wounded.
At his peak, he could have easily broken this array.
But now he clearly couldn’t—and even if he could, it would take time. By then, Gu Changge would have finished off the Solar Demon Overlord and come for him.
Having personally witnessed the Crimson Cloud Demon Overlord’s death, the Blood Demon Overlord didn’t dare underestimate Gu Changge in the slightest.
Even grievously wounded and on death’s door, the Crimson Cloud Demon Overlord was no easy foe—he could draw upon the Source of the laws of heaven and earth at any moment to restore himself to his peak.
Yet he had been effortlessly annihilated by that terrifying halberd of Gu Changge’s.
“The two of us fight him together, or we’ll have no chance of survival at all.”
The Blood Demon Overlord was decisive, unleashing his strongest techniques in his current state.
Behind him, blood light shot into the sky, as if it could blast through this very universe! Torrential blood rain bloomed across the void, becoming flower after flower of bewitching yet horrifying blood blossoms, within which ancient worlds seemed to evolve, brimming with vast, boundless power.
Carrying this immense force, he crushed forward.
“Do you two even have the strength left to resist?”
Gu Changge paid it no mind, his expression utterly cold.
The Eight Barren Demon Halberd swept across, its dark light like a monstrous tidal wave that made heaven and earth tremble. Countless worlds collapsed into ash—resistance was futile. The charging Blood Demon Overlord was cleaved straight in half.
The other Demon Overlord’s courage froze, stunned by the sight.
Though they were heavily injured, slaying a Sacred Emperor Realm cultivator should still have been child’s play—yet before Gu Changge, they were utterly powerless to resist.
Granted, much of it was due to that terrifying weapon, but it also proved Gu Changge’s own strength was formidable enough.
“You said you and my son hit it off at first sight. Then where is Bufan now?”
Watching this scene, the Solar Demon Overlord’s face grew ever colder. He knew he would not escape this calamity today, but doubts still lingered in his heart.
How had Gu Changge obtained the Solar Heavenly Blade and smoothly entered this place?
“Your son? Go down and look for him now—you might still catch up with him on the road to the Yellow Springs.”
Hearing this, Gu Changge merely smiled faintly.
“You...”
“You killed my son?!”
The hatred in the Solar Demon Overlord’s heart surged to the heavens. As a Demon Overlord, this was the first time he had ever hated someone so deeply—not even his old nemesis, the Crimson Cloud Demon Overlord, had earned such hatred.
“What vicious, ruthless methods! If I don’t die today...”
Pfft!
But Gu Changge didn’t let him finish. His arm shook, and the Eight Barren Demon Halberd chopped straight down, splitting him in two. Even though the Solar Demon Overlord still struggled to resist at the very last moment, it was all in vain.
Then the Eight Barren Demon Halberd shot from his hand, dark light flashing, hurtling toward the distant Demon Overlord whose face trembled with terror. Blood rain flooded the sky, and the laws of the Great Dao snapped apart.
Soon, peace returned to this place.
“The Solar Heavenly Blade, the Primeval True Feather...”
A faint, mocking smile hung on Gu Changge’s lips as his figure descended from the sky.
Golden light flashed in the distance, and the Primeval True Feather landed in his hand, sharpness flowing across its surface, containing countless archaic Dao rhythms and patterns.
“The toughest true feather of a Nirvana Realm being.”
Then, terrifying Grey Fog began to surge forth across this place, blotting out the sky and sun. In a daze, a bottomless black hole seemed to appear between heaven and earth, enveloping all directions, devouring everything.
Gu Changge sat cross-legged here. Sixty trillion cells seemed to awaken in unison, and from his bones, organs, flesh and blood, rolling waves of qi and blood erupted forth.
Fragments of the River of Time emerged behind him.
Faintly, one could see a figure with an indistinct face, one that suppressed all ages and heavens, merging into one with him. Countless Grand Runes cascaded down, condensing into a Grand Flask.
Streams of Source converged toward him—especially the Sources of the two Nirvana Realm beings, which were particularly dazzling, imbued with five-colored radiance.
Within them, their figures had even condensed, still carrying their undispersed Fortuity and Original Souls.
Yet Gu Changge’s expression remained cold and unchanged throughout.
His aura shifted continuously. This harvest was considerable indeed.
For his comprehension of the Source of laws had long since broken through the bottleneck of his realm, reaching another plane entirely.
What he lacked now was merely cultivation.
Late Sacred King Realm! Peak! Sacred Emperor Realm! ...Early stage! Mid stage!
Nirvana Realm Sources were exceedingly rare, but for Gu Changge, they were still not enough—in the end, they only sustained his breakthrough to the mid Sacred Emperor Realm.
No matter how heaven-defying the Taboo Demonic Arts were, they couldn’t reshape a Nirvana Realm being out of Nirvana Realm Sources alone.
Let alone the fact that the Source he needed to devour was measured in oceanic quantities.
Still, the many cultivation insights, Transcendent techniques, and heavenly arts contained within were quite precious.
“If the World Source here matures, it should be enough for me to touch the threshold of the Sacred Emperor Realm’s peak...”
Then Gu Changge rose. The terrifying phenomena here vanished, and tranquility returned. Aside from the traces of the earlier battle, nothing was amiss.
Four Demon Overlords had fallen here, including two genuine Nirvana Realm beings, their very corpses reduced to ash.
Had this happened in the outside world, it would have been a world-shaking event, sending shockwaves of horror in all directions.
But apart from him, no one knew. After all, to the outside world, the Six Demon Overlords of the Demon World had already perished and vanished six thousand years ago.
No one would care about such a thing.
“If not for taking advantage of their infighting...”
Then Gu Changge transformed into divine light, chasing in the direction the Lunar Demon Overlord had fled. The matter of the World Source wasn’t urgent for now—within the vast Mirror World, after all, there was no one left but them.
In Gu Changge’s eyes, the Lunar Demon Overlord was already a dead woman.
At this moment, inside a stone cave radiating rosy light, the Lunar Demon Overlord’s face was somewhat pale, but her eyes were unusually calm.
She sat cross-legged, beginning to recover from her injuries. Being besieged by two opponents earlier—with her strength, she shouldn’t have ended up in such a sorry state.
But to make the Solar Demon Overlord, the Crimson Cloud Demon Overlord, and the others lower their guard, she had no choice but to do so.
After all, in everyone’s eyes, her cultivation ranked at the bottom.
The Crimson Cloud Demon Overlord and the others naturally wouldn’t regard her as much of a threat.
Only by preserving her strength and trump cards could she claim a share when the World Source matured.
And if that failed, she still had a chance to leave this world, escaping through the Gates of Life.
“Brother Xuanyang, don’t blame me for abandoning you and fleeing. The truth is, with my strength, staying there wouldn’t have helped you at all.”
“If anything happens to you, once I’m out, I’ll look after your child Jun Bufan for you.”
“But with the Solar Heavenly Blade in hand, they surely can’t do anything to you...”
The Lunar Demon Overlord sighed softly. If not for the attachments in her heart, she wouldn’t have resorted to such a plan.
Then, light emerged from between her brows, and a sealed palace manifested, from which a divine robe of brilliant radiance floated out.
Countless laws and orders flickered across it, sacred and transcendent, with an aura of indestructibility permeating the air.
This was an Indestructible Robe, said to have been forged by a Primal Godly Spirit in the Demon World’s ancient era, capable of withstanding Nirvana Realm attacks.
This was her trump card. Since she had agreed with the other Five Demon Overlords to come to this world, she had naturally made ample preparations.
The Solar Demon Overlord had used his son Jun Bufan as a contingency, hoping to smuggle his Dao Artifact, the Solar Heavenly Blade, inside.
The Lunar Demon Overlord naturally had her own countermeasures—she had simply hidden them deeply. Even the Solar Demon Overlord, who treated her like a sworn sister, knew nothing of this.
But just as the Lunar Demon Overlord was about to don the Indestructible Robe, a fluctuation suddenly came from beyond the cave.
The Lunar Demon Overlord frowned, puzzled and wary. Who had tracked her all this way, arriving here in secret?
“Xuanyang and Crimson Cloud are all locked in battle, and Blood Demon shouldn’t be able to break away to chase me right now...”
Light flashed in the Lunar Demon Overlord’s hand, and a pale-blue staff appeared, as if forged of indestructible blue gold, glimmering with star-like radiance.
But soon, sensing the newcomer’s aura, her expression grew even more puzzled.
“Young Master of the Gu Family... what brings you chasing after me?”
The Lunar Demon Overlord rose and walked out, having put away the Indestructible Robe, her face calm and her aura steady.
Outside the cave, Gu Changge’s figure descended from the sky.
“How are your injuries, Lunar qianbei? I happen to have quite a few healing sacred medicines on hand. If you need them, I’ll just leave them here.”
He spoke first, wearing a proper, natural smile, as if he already knew what the Lunar Demon Overlord was about to ask.
Hearing this, the Lunar Demon Overlord shook her head slightly, her gaze fixed on him, as if trying to see straight through him.
“Why did you follow me all the way here?”
She asked in return, unmoved by Gu Changge’s words.
At the same time, a terrifying Quasi-Nirvana Realm pressure emanated from her body. The void trembled, on the verge of collapse and shattering.
“This junior saw that Lunar qianbei’s injuries were quite severe and grew worried, so I followed. Of course, it was also because I feared being caught in the shockwaves of Solar qianbei and the others’ battle, so I kept my distance from the battlefield.”
Gu Changge seemed entirely unbothered by the Lunar Demon Overlord’s intimidation, smiling casually.
Hearing this explanation, the Lunar Demon Overlord actually believed it somewhat. She didn’t think Gu Changge would be so stupid as to remain there after seeing the Solar Demon Overlord fall into a disadvantage.
“When you left, how was the battle going?”
She couldn’t help asking.
“How the battle went? This junior thinks Lunar qianbei had better go see for yourself.”
Gu Changge smiled. “Or go down and ask them personally.”
As his words fell, the Lunar Demon Overlord instantly felt a terrifying killing intent descend upon her. Her expression changed drastically, and she immediately brought out the Indestructible Robe.
But Gu Changge was faster. Golden light flashed beneath his sleeve, and the Primeval True Feather, like an unsheathed immortal sword, instantly pierced through the void, slashing straight toward the space between her brows.
“You dare!”
The Lunar Demon Overlord’s expression changed dramatically. She never imagined Gu Changge would suddenly strike, intending to kill her.
In an instant, the cave collapsed. Her figure shot rapidly toward the sky above, feeling a horrifying chill.
Gu Changge’s strength was simply beyond imagination. She was at the third heaven of the Quasi-Nirvana Realm.
Yet from him, she sensed something unfathomable—even more terrifying than when she had seen him before.
What on earth had happened in just a few short days? Or had Gu Changge been hiding his true strength all along?
The Lunar Demon Overlord’s heart quaked. The Indestructible Robe she had brought out shimmered with light, blocking the golden feather Gu Changge had launched.
But she wasn’t faring well either—her qi and blood roiled, she retreated several steps, and blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.
“This is the Crimson Cloud Demon Overlord’s Primeval True Feather. How is it in your hands...”
What shook and horrified her even more was that the golden feather before her was the very Primeval True Feather the Crimson Cloud Demon Overlord had brought out when fighting the Solar Demon Overlord.
It was the toughest feather on the Crimson Cloud Demon Overlord’s body, nurtured by him for countless years, its might no weaker than a Nirvana Grade Artifact.
“What exactly happened? After I fled, did the Solar Demon Overlord, the Crimson Cloud Demon Overlord... did they all fall to your poisonous hand?”
The Lunar Demon Overlord’s face was filled with horror, a scalp-tingling sensation washing over her.
To her, such a thing was as inconceivable as the sky falling.
How exactly had Gu Changge done it? What other possibility could there be?
“It can’t even slay a third-heaven Quasi-Nirvana Realm being. Seems this thing isn’t all that impressive after all.”
“But that divine robe of yours is rather special. So that’s how it is.”
However, Gu Changge didn’t answer the Lunar Demon Overlord’s question, instead withdrawing the Primeval True Feather with some regret.
His gaze fell upon the Indestructible Robe radiating its hazy glow.
At this moment, the Lunar Demon Overlord’s back ran cold with fear, her divine soul trembling. For the first time, she felt terror from a young man.
“Do you plan to end yourself, or would you rather I help you with it?”
Gu Changge’s gaze swept toward her, his tone breezy and casual, as if asking something as trivial as whether she wanted to eat.
“The Solar Demon Overlord, the Crimson Cloud Demon Overlord... they all died by your hand?”
The Lunar Demon Overlord’s voice trembled uncontrollably. She couldn’t imagine how such a thing had happened.
No matter what unfathomable methods Gu Changge possessed, he couldn’t possibly have killed two Nirvana Realm beings.
It was simply a fantasy—yet the Crimson Cloud Demon Overlord’s Primeval True Feather was right there in Gu Changge’s hand!
“If you want to know, go down and ask them yourself.”
The Solar Heavenly Blade appeared in Gu Changge’s hand once more. With a resonant clang, its terrifying blade qi seemed capable of splitting the universe apart.
“There’s no enmity between us. Why must you kill me?”
The Lunar Demon Overlord’s entire body ran cold. She circulated every law and Dao technique at her disposal, uncertain whether the Indestructible Robe could withstand this strike of Gu Changge’s.
“Does something like this need a reason?”
Gu Changge swung the blade down. The Lunar Demon Overlord coughed up blood again. The light on the Indestructible Robe dimmed, many of its runes ground away.
Every technique she unleashed turned to ash, all in vain.
This sight filled the Lunar Demon Overlord with despair. She had already recovered from much of her injuries.
Yet before this young man, she didn’t have the slightest power to resist.
Powerful to the point of despair!
“I can stretch out my neck for the slaughter and give you this Indestructible Robe, but can you grant me one request?”
“Otherwise, I’d rather detonate my own body and destroy the Indestructible Robe than let you have it.”
The Lunar Demon Overlord gritted her teeth. At this point, this was the only plan she could think of.
She believed that as long as Gu Changge wasn’t a fool, he would understand which option benefited him.
“What request?”
Gu Changge said indifferently.
He was indeed interested in the Indestructible Robe—a defensive Supreme Treasure of this caliber, capable of withstanding Nirvana Realm attacks.
Even among the many Cults of Immortality and Supreme Dao Lineages, such a thing was rare.
Though he had no use for it himself, Yue Mingkong would probably like it.
“This request should be very simple for you. I only wish to beg you to pass a message to my daughter Yao Xi... These six thousand years, I...”
The Lunar Demon Overlord smiled bitterly. At this point, she had accepted her fate and ceased her futile struggles.
What she wanted most now was to leave this place, confess everything of these six thousand years to her daughter Yao Xi, and beg her forgiveness.
“No need.”
Gu Changge frowned, cutting her off.
“Save those words and tell her yourself.”
He didn’t like leaving survivors. The secrets of the Six Demon Overlords could be annihilated and buried right here.
Though the Lunar Demon Overlord was Yao Xi’s mother, in his eyes she was just an insignificant passerby.
Empress Yao Xi was, at most, a tool to him—Gu Changge wouldn’t waste excessive sentiment on her.
Still, at times, he would take Yao Xi’s feelings into a little consideration.
Since the Lunar Demon Overlord had put it this way, he couldn’t be bothered to meddle further—consider it leaving Yao Xi a memento.
And if the Lunar Demon Overlord held no feelings for Yao Xi at all, then Gu Changge would gladly sever that memento for her.
Hearing this, the Lunar Demon Overlord froze, then her face went white, drained of all color.
Her face filled with grief, her voice trembling. “My daughter Yao Xi... did you kill her too?”
In her understanding, Gu Changge’s words meant he was sending her on her way—to go tell Yao Xi in person.
Didn’t that mean Yao Xi had died before her?
Gu Changge gave her a strange look, put away the Solar Heavenly Blade, and said flatly, “I didn’t kill your daughter, and I won’t kill you either.”
“You just need to keep your mouth shut.”
Hearing this, the Lunar Demon Overlord was stunned, hardly able to believe it. Why had Gu Changge’s attitude changed so quickly?
A moment ago he looked ready to kill her, and now he wasn’t going to—but she didn’t dare ask too much about such things.
She vaguely guessed it might have something to do with her daughter Yao Xi.
“Thank you, Young Master of the Gu Family, for sparing my life. Rest assured, I will not leak a word of what happened here. I swear upon my Dao Heart—should I break this oath, may heaven and earth destroy me, may I perish body and Dao, never to reincarnate for all eternity.”
The Lunar Demon Overlord’s attitude toward Gu Changge grew considerably more deferential. After making her oath, she offered up the Indestructible Robe.
She was not one to fail to appreciate kindness—staying alive mattered more than anything.