This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder-Chapter 584: Abysslord

Chunsang waited patiently, like a predator stalking its prey. She showed no fluctuation when Xi Tianyi appeared. Even when her target became enthralled by the devil duke’s performance, she bided her time. Finally, Dantalion revealed his true identity and exerted tremendous pressure on the immortal sovereign.

She had to admit that for all the rumors regarding Dantalion’s cowardice and being weak, the amount of devilish energy he released shocked her. Chunsang prided herself on her ability to stay concealed, but she had to admit that the devil duke had a leg up on her in that department.

Pink tongue wetted red lips. ‘If I find a chance to devour him.’

Chunsang reigned her ravenous desires back in and focused on Xi Tianyi. Now wasn’t the time to attack Dantalion. Nor did she want to alert him of her goals. Although generally viewed as the weakest among the survivors, he was known to be much more difficult. He was known for his schemes and lies for a reason.

Just as Xi Tianyi readied himself against Dantalion, she struck.

She didn’t attack from the back. For humans and even animals, their back was their most vulnerable spot. Unlike animals, humans could train to eliminate this weakness. Especially for cultivators. Because of this, the backside was the second hardest spot to attack unnoticed after the front.

With the front side and backside eliminated as options, there were only two sides left. Depending on the dominant, she would attack the opposite. From what she observed, before and after her creation, Xi Tianyi was right-handed.

Unnoticed and unimpeded, Chunsang appeared on her target’s left—an ebon dagger darker than black in her hand. She thrust it forward, and the tip poked Xi Tianyi’s neck.

The amount of resistance shocked her. She had assassinated armor-wearing emperor-level targets before. The sensation of striking those armor was about the same as trying to pierce his skin. Since she had already reached her prey and exposed herself, Chunsang no longer concealed her presence and power. Without the need to contain herself, her attack increased by twenty percent.

All this happened within a second. Once the second passed, her dagger had pierced the skin of his neck. At that point, she fully unleashed her power. Her dagger thrummed and released a dense, devilish energy shaped like a blade spanning kilometers.

A lion would use all its might to hunt a rabbit, and Chunsang abided by the same principle. Unless she could not reveal herself after killing the target, she would unload all her power into one strike and make sure her target was dead.

Although Chunsang would love for nothing more than to have Xi Tianyi begging for mercy under feet, she knew that it was too risky. It was better just to get rid of him and use his death to incite despair in Jiang Daoyi and Xi Mengfei.

However, Chunsang noticed something amiss immediately. Her dagger should have disconnected Xi Tianyi’s head from his neck, but there wasn’t even a sign of something piercing out from the other end.

Chunsang immediately retreated, but she noticed her dagger was stuck. It was as if it had been embedded in stone, and she had transformed into an ordinary mortal. Acting decisively, she let go the dagger and retreated.

Just in time too, as Xi Tianyi swung his fist. Wherever his fist passed, space imploded. She prided herself on her offense, not her defense.

Xi Tianyi glanced at her, but Chunsang immediately vanished midair, as if everything that had happened was but a hallucination. He reached out and grabbed the dagger. Unlike when she tried to pull it out, it slid out like butter. The hole in his neck also closed without nary a speck of blood.

He glanced at the dagger before clenching his fist, but although the sound of iron bending rang out, the dagger remained untouched. He snorted, and the dagger disappeared from his hand.

“Jiang Chunye, we meet again. I never expected you to become a devil though,” Xi Tianyi said, his voice radiating absolute zero.

Chunsang ignored Xi Tianyi’s words. She could tell from his gaze that he couldn’t find a trace of her.

“Don’t think you can escape again just because you became a devil!” The vertical flame mark on Xi Tianyi’s glabella opened to reveal a third eye. The pupil cracked with a silver mist and golden swirls.

The moment the third eye opened, spacetime within hundreds of kilometers shifted. Chunsang felt as if she was no longer in the Nahui Ollin System. It felt intimate and familiar, as if part of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System had merged with the land of Nahui Ollin.

That was only her intuition. There was a more direct change. Xi Tianyi stared directly at her position.

Although she wanted to kill Tianyi, she knew her advantages. She had the possibility of defeating Tianyi, but losing was also possible. Not to mention killing was an entirely different matter without the advantage of assassination.

So, she turned tail and fled. Her figure split into several shadows, each one exuding the same aura as her. Even against a divinity, she had the confidence to trick them long enough for her to escape. She had done the same. Granted, the circumstances were in her favor, but that was beside the point.

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Xi Tianyi didn’t chase any of her decoys like she expected. Instead, several miniature suns appeared in his hand. He chucked them into the air, where they immediately disappeared. Before Chunsang could wonder where they went, a miniature sun appeared next to each decoy.

The miniature sun exploded, engulfing each decoy and raising the temperature of the environment to several thousand degrees. The blackened fauna spontaneously combusted into flames. Dirt turned into clay, glass, and shards, depending on their composition.

The supernovas did not last long, but it did not bring relief. Only more destruction.

When the miniature sun used up all its energy, the excessive density of its mass caused the surrounding to implode into it, creating a black hole. When the black hole could no longer sustain itself, it exploded, and its fragments flying everywhere.

Tianyi frowned when staring at the devastation wrought by his hands. As early as Jiang Chunye appeared, he had locked onto her and Dantalion. When he opened his One Heaven Eye, he covered the surrounding ten thousand kilometers in his spacetime domain. Although he called it spacetime domain, it was imbued with many laws he had comprehended. The Law of Spacetime was only the core.

When Jiang Chunye attempted to flee, Dantalion also disappeared. He could not detect the latter’s presence even with his third eye. What was intriguing was how he disappeared. It was as if Dantalion became one with the world. He didn’t know if it was the same for a divinity, but he couldn’t differentiate Dantalion from the world itself.

Tianyi had heard of Dantalion. As one of the seventy-two devils of Solomon that survived the Godsfall War, the Pantheon Alliance had distributed all the information regarding the surviving seventy-two devils. Killing one would mean much more contribution than killing a devil at the same level.

But how could a devil that survived the Godsfall War be simple?

So he ignored the disappeared Dantalion. Naturally, he sent a message through the Xiyinet to warn his companions and focused on Jiang Chunye.

Several shadows streaked through the land like snakes, all fleeing away from him. Tianyi couldn’t detect Jiang Chunye’s aura on them, but it didn’t stop him from attacking them. He didn’t know how Jiang Chunye reached the Nahui Ollin System, but it was undoubtedly not easy. Even if she became a devil, she couldn’t have done it without enough power.

Since Stellar Silence didn’t work, he would use Constellation Cessation instead. After the long years, he had also applied the Three States of Qi to his Constellation Cessation. Unlike the Stellar Silence, which was based on the Law of Spacetime, Fire, Light, and Yang, Constellation Cessation combined many more laws like the five elemental laws, Law of Light and Darkness, Law of Yin, Law of Life, Law of Death, Law of Samsara, etc.

Tianyi had some success in merging all those laws into the Law of Spacetime with various degrees of success. He sometimes merged them with each other and even succeeded in merging three and four laws together, although his progress was not great. This intricate web of fused laws increased the power of his Constellation Cessation to a terrifying degree.

Xi Tianyi only used one Constellation Cessation. The previous Stellar Silences had already destroyed the land. Although it was infested by devils, he did not think the divinities of Nahui Ollin would accept the destruction of the land in return for destroying a single devil.

However, he didn’t expect the power of his Constellation Cessation to be so powerful. The most powerful Constellation Cessation he had used was its first appearance in the world, when he used it to destroy the Eight Pillars Sect. Although he used it many times since then, none of them had reached the same level of power. Simply because he did not have the same charging time.

And now, the current Constellation Cessation far eclipsed the first time he used it. It was truly world-destroying. He had underestimated the suppression of the Heavenly Dao on him, which the Nahui Ollin System did not have.

When the Constellation Cessation ended, all that was left was a massive crater over ten thousand kilometers large. The deepest point had become an abyss. Not long later, magma spewed out from the bottom, transforming into lava. More lava continued to emerge until a small volcano appeared.

Even when Tianyi left, it was still spewing lava and ash clouds.

Tianyi only left after making sure he found no traces of Jiang Chunye.

The land ravaged by his attack was no longer corroded by the devilish influence, but since it was deep in the Mictlan, it was only a matter of time before it was corrupted once more. It was not worth the Immortal Court’s effort to form a route to the location.

Upon returning, Minister Vastlight met him.

‘He’s not going to talk to me about how I destroyed the land, right?’ Tianyi thought, while preparing himself.

“Nine Heavens Grand Elder, did you kill the second devil?” Minister Vastlight asked.

Tianyi blinked, surprised by the subject, but he was happy to oblige. “Yes, I detected no traces of them. Although I don’t think even an immortal sovereign would have a chance to escape under the power of my Constellation Cessation. I even stayed forty days and pretended to leave, only to come back just to make sure she wasn’t hiding, waiting to escape after I left.”

Although Tianyi answered confidently, Minister Vastlight had a pensive face.

“You think Jiang Chunye’s alive?”

“I just have my suspicions,” Minister Vastlight answered. “For a devil to cooperate with Duke Dantalion, their rank must not be lower. So I suspect she is an abysslord.”

“Abysslord? Like a ruler of sin?” Tianyi asked.

“Not quite right. A ruler of sin is an abysslord, but an abysslord is not necessarily a ruler of sin. The biggest difference is scope. A ruler of sin is an abysslord that controls one of the nine hells. Compared to them, abysslords just control territories within one of the hells,” Minister Vastlight said.

“Well, it doesn’t matter. She should be dead now,” Tianyi said.

Minister Vastlight refuted. “Not quite. Abysslords are special. Although they are not unkillable, abysslords are incredibly hard to eliminate completely. Even if they die faraway from their territory in the Nine Hells Abyss, they can revive in their territory. It’s the same even if every ounce of flesh is vanquished, their souls shattered.”

Tianyi felt as if a fish bone was stuck in his throat. This cockroach-like vitality reminded him of an old foe. No matter how many times he killed him, the Dragon Emperor always seems to find a way back. This was only exacerbated thanks to his many clones.

Since their last confrontation, the Dragon Emperor never appeared again, giving Tianyi some peace of thought. Perhaps he really killed the latter, but just as one unkillable enemy was laid to rest, another one popped up.

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