The Blood Disciple’s expression eased slightly: “Regardless of the situation, we must report this to the Master immediately for a final decision. You two, go and scour the Underworld Palace; see if you can find anything valuable.” With that, the Blood Disciple took out the long-distance communication array and reported everything to his superior.

Several days later, the three regrouped. The Blood Disciple said with a chilling expression, “The Master is now aware of the matter.

We need to contain our power and enter the Six Domains and Nine Continents to carefully investigate the history of that Lei Dong.” …… In the Demon Spirit Realm of the Three Realms, the main world was the largest area lifted up by the Mother of All Spirits when she reconstructed it—a place she named the Myriad Spirit World—serving as the core. The original world was left with an empty expanse of continent, which was naturally submerged by vast seawater, referred to by the locals as the Endless Sea.

Although the entire Demon Spirit Realm spanned an immense territory, that particular continent was perpetually regarded as a sacred domain by countless powerful beings of the realm, considered the soil of their homeland. The Vermilion Bird Divine Hall stood suspended above this very continent, wisps of spiritual energy curling around it, majestic and magnificent.

It was within this grand, ancient, and eternal Vermilion Bird Divine Hall that Ji Ziyan’s beautiful eyes flashed with cold malice, and she waved her crimson sleeve with an icy tone, shouting, “Long Aotian, how dare you still have the audacity to come to my Vermilion Bird Divine Hall?” The one she was berating was tall and slender, clad in a purple python robe, cinched at the waist with a dragon-head belt, and wearing a purple-gold crown. His two sword-like eyebrows shot sharply towards his temples.

Truly, he was a handsome man of exceptional bearing and distinguished appearance. Any expert familiar with the Three Realms would instantly recognize him: one of the Ten Supreme Experts, and the foremost among them, the Quasi-Saint level powerhouse, the Azure Dragon Emperor, Long Aotian.

“Ziyan,” the Azure Dragon Emperor Long Aotian, possessing an unmistakable imperial aura, bowed with a bitter smile, “Are you still angry with me over the matter of Chi Xing?” “Don’t call me Ziyan,” Ji Ziyan was so enraged that her delicate chest rose and fell violently, her face pale and her lips trembling: “Long Aotian, you are nothing but a despicable and shameless villain. If you hadn't revealed to the Mother Goddess that Chi Xing had advanced to Supreme and possessed the Primordial Chaos Origin, how could he have met with such a disaster?” “Ziyan, you and I are both descendants of the Mother Goddess, naturally we must consider her well-being.

Although we were all close friends of Chi Xing, Chi Xing repeatedly spoke of opposing the Mother Goddess,” Long Aotian said with a look of dejection. “I informed the Mother Goddess because I feared that if Chi Xing’s cultivation and strength grew too much, he might launch a surprise attack on her.

However, I begged the Mother Goddess at the time, hoping she would spare his life and only suppress Chi Xing, given that he was human and also her descendant. I never expected that the Mother Goddess would join forces with the Immortal and Demonic Dual Sovereigns to utterly eliminate Chi Xing.

Alas, it’s also Chi Xing’s overly straightforward temperament that sealed his fate—refusing to hand over the Primordial Chaos Origin and plead for the Mother Goddess’s forgiveness. Look, now I am also very dissatisfied with the Mother Goddess.” “Nonsense!” Ji Ziyan exploded with crude language in her fury: “Long Aotian, stop playing the hypocrite here.

I saw through your true colors long ago. If you hadn’t been secretly inciting conflict on both sides, how could such a thing have happened?

I, Chi Xing, and Xing Miao all considered you our best friend. Long Aotian, get out of my Vermilion Bird Divine Hall, or don't blame me for disregarding our shared kinship as members of the Demon Spirit Clan and throwing you out.” “Heh heh, so you have become aware,” Upon hearing this, Long Aotian shed his disguise entirely, revealing a surge of tyrannical and gloomy aura: “Ji Ziyan, you want to throw me out?

Do you have the ability?” “Hmph, don’t think you’re so great just because you advanced to Quasi-Saint early,” Ji Ziyan chastised, and the massive aura surrounding her was fully displayed, seemingly several times stronger than at her peak: “Among the Ten Supreme Experts, you are not the only Quasi-Saint.” “Jie jie.” Seeing that Ji Ziyan exhibited an aura no less imposing than his own, Long Aotian was neither surprised nor angered; instead, he burst into loud laughter: “It turns out that’s how it is. Back when Chi Xing traversed the Sea of Chaos and reached the core region of the Universe Will—the Heart of Chaos—he was baptized by it, breaking through to the Quasi-Saint body and advancing to Supreme, bringing back two Primordial Chaos Origins.

One he refined into the Chaos Pagoda at the final moment; the whereabouts of the other are unknown—it must have been for your enjoyment. He truly treated me as a good brother.” “Long Aotian, you uncultivated beast,” Ji Ziyan was so angry her face turned deathly pale, almost spitting blood: “Although Chi Xing didn't give you a Primordial Chaos Origin, he always felt guilty.

He intended to re-enter the Sea of Chaos to search for another one for you and Xing Miao after settling some affairs. Unexpectedly, before he could act, you couldn't hold back and made your move.” “So what if I couldn’t hold back and made my move?” Long Aotian’s tyrannical aura grew stronger, and that unusually handsome face seemed to twist, radiating monstrous hostility.

He roared with laughter: “Why? Why must every good thing belong to Yan Chi Xing?

He not only inherited the entirety of the Underworld King’s legacy but also had the luck to traverse the Sea of Chaos and enter the Heart of Chaos to become a Supreme? Why should a mere human of lowly birth win your favor?

Why should he monopolize all good fortune? I refuse to accept it!

I also want the Chaos Pagoda, and I want the complete inheritance of the Underworld King! Oh, and I also want you, Ji Ziyan.” “Bah, you wishful, idiotic dog thing,” Ji Ziyan trembled with rage and spat furiously before sending a palm strike toward him.

A fierce scarlet flame rushed forward with menacing momentum. “Sun True Fire?” Long Aotian laughed instead of being angry, his face contorted with violent glee: “Your aptitude is indeed good.

It’s been tens of millions of years since anyone in the Vermilion Bird Clan managed to cultivate the Sun True Fire.” Without Long Aotian making any visible move, the fiercely burning red fire extinguished itself several feet before reaching him. “A pity that mere Sun True Fire cannot possibly deal with me?” Long Aotian’s imposing aura erupted, and he flicked a burst of finger energy towards Ji Ziyan.

Ji Ziyan, putting aside her shock, utilized exquisite spatial laws, shifting her figure to dodge the eerie and extremely fast finger strike. With a puff, the strike hit the rear hall, easily piercing straight through.

Wherever the finger energy passed, everything was annihilated into nothingness, as if utterly erased. “Tu, Tu Xian Finger!” Ji Ziyan cried out in absolute horror, her face filled with disbelief: “How, how could you know this move?

Did Chi Xing teach you?” “Ji Ziyan, must you assume that only your human paramour knows the Tu Xian Finger?” Long Aotian seemed to genuinely savor her current expression, standing with his hands behind his back, laughing wildly: “Throughout history, many people have known the Tu Xian Finger, such as the God of the Underworld, the Underworld King, and that human brat named Lei Dong. Ji Ziyan, for the sake of the years of friendship we shared, I will spare your life this time.

However, you must obediently submit to me and become my concubine. And you must tell me the whereabouts of that young man named Lei.” “You dream on,” Ji Ziyan’s face turned bone-white, cold and furious: “Long Aotian, seeing your Tu Xian Finger, are the increasingly rampant murders recently your doing?” “Heh heh, regarding that, haven't you already searched using the Wheel of Time and Space?” Long Aotian said full of hostility.

“I can tell you, yes, I did kill them all.” “Why?” Ji Ziyan was dumbfounded. “It might be understandable regarding the Immortal and Demonic sides, but why would you kill your own Demon Spirit brothers and sisters?

Did they provoke you?” “I had no prior enmity with them,” Long Aotian replied with complete indifference. “However, I coveted the treasures they possessed.

Since things have progressed to this point today, it’s no harm telling you. Do you remember the four of us helping Yan Chi Xing repair and perfect his Chaos Pagoda back then?

Haha, I managed to replicate a Chaos Pagoda whose function, hehe, is to devour the souls of all living things and convert them into Chaos Spiritual Energy and Primordial Origin.” “That’s impossible!” Ji Ziyan took a step back in disbelief. “Even if you participated in the entire process of perfecting the Chaos Pagoda, you absolutely could not replicate it.

That Pagoda was, for the most part, forged by the Underworld King. What we improved was only a small fraction.” “Jie jie, did you forget where I got my Tu Xian Finger from?” Long Aotian’s face was twisted with perverse triumph: “In this world, it’s not just Yan Chi Xing who can have fortuitous encounters; I, Long Aotian, can as well.” “Did you also obtain the Underworld King’s inheritance?” Ji Ziyan carefully recalled his previous words, and a chill ran down her spine; she sensed something was terribly wrong.

“When the Underworld King died, I was just a nascent soul level young dragon, not even fully grown,” Long Aotian roared with laughter. “But I was lucky enough to obtain a wisp of the Underworld King’s remnant soul as he fled.

I gained considerable benefits from that wisp of his soul—the Tu Xian Finger, and the method for refining the Chaos Pagoda. Otherwise, why would you think that I, the Azure Dragon of the dignified Azure Dragon Clan, would lower myself to deal with a human?” “So you had designs long ago,” Ji Ziyan was so enraged she spat out a mouthful of blood: “So you only approached Chi Xing for the Chaos Pagoda!

We were all blind and failed to see your true colors.” “Hmph, so what? I inherited part of the Underworld King’s legacy; the Chaos Pagoda was mine by right anyway,” Long Aotian’s handsome face became even more twisted and hideous.

“It’s laughable that Yan Chi Xing thought he was clever, only to be played around by me. What a pity that at the last moment, when I was almost successful, he saw through me.

He’d rather self-destruct than give me the Chaos Pagoda. I was even tricked by him into thinking the Chaos Pagoda had exploded.

Who knew he’d pull such a trick, merging the essence of all his knowledge into the Chaos Pagoda to pass on his legacy. What a scheme, what a scheme.”