All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes-Chapter 1578 - 323: Demon of Impermanence (6/7)

The endless brilliance covered all Heavenly Venerables besieging the Mysterious Heaven Ceremony; they felt that the difficulty of refining Infinite Power was rapidly decreasing, the restrictions of the heavens and earth were altered, suppressed, in an instant, the power of all Heavenly Venerables surged, transforming into a mighty tide, pressing towards the Mysterious Heaven Ceremony.

The Mysterious Heaven Ceremony was still operating the Dharma Aspect of three heads and six arms, constantly expanding, aiming to tear the Void Cave Heaven apart from the inside completely.

However, when this tide of power descended, it immediately sensed trouble.

Its advantage relative to the other Heavenly Venerables was the extremely high rate of power growth, and for thirty thousand years, it leveraged the Heavenly Undying Tree and Ex Nihilo’s power to stack its power foundation to the extreme; whereas other Heavenly Venerables, even if they reached similar realms, could not fully suppress it, rather, they would be suppressed by it.

But with An Jing and Xuan Mingyu joining forces to directly transform the Heavenly Dao, equivalent to everyone receiving ’Heavenly Dao Special Permission’, its power was instantly suppressed!

[Not good!]

At this moment, the Mysterious Heaven Ceremony felt its power momentum, originally infinitely boosted by Infinite Power, being forced to zero — not that its power disappeared, but its ability to grow power by operating Infinite Power was directly reduced to zero.

On a graph, its upward curve, infinitely approaching a straight line, instantly became a flat horizontal line!

In this instant, it was directly locked into the ’current’ state, unable to change, and all its accumulated power reflected, rotating, rewriting laws, those ’perpetually sustaining Arts of Magic’ all based on Infinite Power’s Divine Skill, disappeared in an instant, as if they never existed.

Immediately, four of the six arms sustaining the Void Cave Heaven scattered, and the Cave Heaven, originally collapsing towards the Dark Tribulation Cave, began imploding rapidly.

[Now is the time!]

Without An Jing needing to say more, including the Heavenly Intent Sect Master, the Bright Mirror Alliance, and other Heavenly Venerables all took action together, aiming to completely seal the Mysterious Heaven Ceremony!

But this sealing is not like the preventive sealing done by past Emperors of the Great Chen Dynasty when things seemed amiss; all Heavenly Venerables will announce to the Huaixu Ten Continents, uniting forces to completely refine the Mysterious Heaven Ceremony, returning it to the heavens!

Yet An Jing sensed something was off.

"Damn it."

Not feeling that the Mysterious Heaven Ceremony could be resolved so easily, he frowned: "Why hasn’t the Heavenly Demon appeared yet? When exactly do they plan to strike?"

"Or..."

It’s not that they haven’t appeared.

In the very moment that the Mysterious Heaven Ceremony fully fell into a losing position, in the center of Immortal Heaven, hosting the ’Master of All Things’, Xuan Mingyu suddenly looked up slightly, as if sensing something: "Is it you, Prince Zhong?"

At that same instant, behind him, or perhaps from within Xuan Mingyu’s body, a violent eruption of Demonic Qi emerged, followed by a pitch-black long sword piercing through his heart from inside out, then stirring, creating a large hole in the center of his chest.

"Cough!"

At the central sky dome, Xuan Mingyu coughed, yet did not spit out any blood, only large swaths of black mist, he turned his head towards the black mist behind him, forcing a smile: "Indeed, it’s you, Uncle Guangzhong... I never trusted anyone, never gave anyone a chance, never did I expect..."

At the moment, he had no strength to speak further, because within that pitch-black long sword lay the Erosion of Heaven’s Decline, even a Heavenly Venerate would be heavily wounded or even fall; Xuan Mingyu, still speaking now, was entirely due to being the Lord of Heavenly Destiny, currently under An Jing’s empowerment.

And that shadow also condensed into a familiar silhouette, the loyal Prince Zhong of Dachen Town, now clad in Mystic Armor, holding a long sword, calmly looking at the bowing-headed Xuan Mingyu: "Yes, that’s why I never had a chance, but this time, you gained unprecedented power, yet also an unprecedented flaw... you somehow let down your guard, truly incredible."

"You tried to control me by ’devouring’ part of my soul as a Dark Hand, yet obviously, you haven’t become the ’Other-Transformed Heavenly Demon Lord’, and should I choose to convert into the Heavenly Demon under such circumstances, how could you control me with these Demon Means?"

"Why now, of all times?"

Exhausted, holding down the wound far larger than his palm, Xuan Mingyu gazed at his uncle: "The Holy Ancestor hasn’t been defeated yet; though they use the Heavenly Demon, there’s absolutely no chance of collaborating with you."

"Because now is the only time it can be done."

Prince Zhong smiled: "And nephew, why do you think I need to consider these normal pros and cons?"

"You know, I always loved reading storybooks, those folk tales. I always wondered, ah, when those major villains or protagonists went on and on about reasoning, or were striving with all their might together as one, why didn’t anyone suddenly have the idea, hey, just to stab them in the back with a sword?"

"Yes, I understand why no one does it, the author wouldn’t either, because the story needs rationality, and being like this is too ’abnormal’."

"But, honestly, I just found it annoying, why didn’t anyone do it? Are they afraid to die, or unwilling to create a stir? We martial artists love causing these things, right?"

"Back then, I thought... wow, if I did it at that time, it’d be really fun—not, it’d definitely be uninteresting, right? Whether it’s the readers, onlookers, or anyone watching this scene, they’d probably be utterly confused thinking ’Who is this person?’ ’What exactly happened?’, they’d certainly find it inexplicable!"

Speaking thus, Prince Zhong burst into laughter, raising his sword, spreading his arms: "But, what I probably want is just that, isn’t it?"

On this point, Prince Zhong wasn’t entirely sure either, but soon he shook his head in relief and thrust his sword again: "It doesn’t matter, after all, this is probably my only chance in a lifetime, it’s not a waste."

[—Demon—]

[—Impermanence—]

Faced with Prince Zhong’s sword thrust, Xuan Mingyu could not evade, and this time, he was pierced right through the head.

Immediately after, his body fell like a massive stone, swiftly plummeting towards the earth.

At this moment, originally suppressed by all Heavenly Venerables, being nearly pressed fully into the Dark Tribulation Cave, the Mysterious Heaven Ceremony suddenly burst forth power, forcibly expanding the contracting Void Cave Heaven by several rings, while a palm-like protrusion writhed, seemingly attempting to reach towards the location of Xuan Mingyu’s body falling.

And the Heavenly Venerables, now without Xuan Mingyu’s empowerment, had no spare attention, striving with all efforts to maintain suppression.

Meanwhile, An Jing, who initially tried to strike and crush Prince Zhong with a palm to halt him, now frowned as he surveyed the surroundings.

Because, silently and unbeknownst, three familiar and one unfamiliar, four shadows filled with boundless Demonic Qi, had surrounded him.

"Bitter Silence, Decay, Jiexin... and this elderly man is probably Heavenly Decline."

Surveying the Cold Dragon Girl appearing around him, a smiling middle-aged man, a beautiful lady, and a kind elder with a serene expression, An Jing slowly said: "Four Exalted Great Heavenly Demons, lurking in dark corners, striking at this time—you truly know patience." 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

[No, Lord of Heavenly Destiny, we have not been in hiding]

Ever-courteous Decay laughed heartily: [We have always existed between heavens and earth, at the bottom of the Nether Sea—were it not for the Undying Tree’s rainbow-absorbing Tear Sea, the Nature Master shaking the heavens, rewriting All Things, how could we Heavenly Demons be fit to appear here in this Huaixu Tian Shu, the Immortal Heaven Realm?]

[You need not bother awakening Venerable Fu Xie; should the Lord revive, we’d escape instantly—and it must be known, now in this Immortal Heaven, the point where infinite possibilities converge, should Venerable Fu Xie take action, inevitably the result would be a convergence of demon and self, returning to the chaos and indistinction of self when first encountered]

[You have painstakingly guided Venerable Fu Xie towards the ’Dao’, rather than us ’demons’, should not wish to sacrifice Fu Xie’s self as past Evil Suppressing Sword Masters did, to accomplish some grand task, right?]