Killing Aierloli, Gu Xiechen took all her magical artifacts, but without time to refine them, he rushed at full speed towards the ancient battlefield where Motap $\S$ Longgen was sealed. Tracking Aierloli had already wasted more than a month; he had no idea how the situation over there was progressing.

His escape light was swift, and aided by his knowledge of several hidden star gates, it took him only ten days to reach the distorted star field, where he concealed himself behind a small planet. Ahead lay the site where Motap $\S$ Longgen was sealed. The black hole had vanished, and the immense, vibrant green seal** hovered in the void, while the powerful, forceful roar of Motap $\S$ Longgen caused the very fabric of space to tremble.

Yu Guanzi and Fei Xing Daoren were maneuvering their sword lights, circling the seal that spanned over a million li, their robes tattered, pale gold blood weeping from their seven orifices. Fei Xing Daoren's left arm was severed; the wound suggested half the limb had been ripped off by sharp teeth. Yu Guanzi was even more wretched; the dazzling white bone showed at the root of his right thigh, all the muscle tissue on that leg having been completely corroded away.

Motap $\S$ Longgen panted within the seal, roaring curses, appearing close to madness. Dozens of his scales were shattered, as if meteors had struck him. The damaged scales covered areas of over a thousand li each, the jagged fragments deeply embedded in his muscles, spewing black blood that pooled beneath him, forming a vast lake of gore.

The moment Gu Xiechen concealed himself behind the planet and set up a few restrictive formations to mask his presence, a blinding flash of fire erupted from a massive, fractured planet far in the distance. Immediately following, the planet, roughly three hundred thousand li in diameter, disintegrated violently, and a nearly frenzied, twin-headed dragon, its body a mix of crimson and azure, burst forth from the wreckage.

Powerful psychic waves swept out as the twin-headed dragon bellowed in rage, huge tears continually spraying from its eyes. "You two brigands! You killed all my 9!i children! My children!"

"Ancestor, you must avenge me, avenge your descendants!"

"In the name of Motap $\S$ Longgen, I will perish with you!"

Across the chest and belly of the twin-headed dragon was a ghastly sword gash, several meters deep, stretching from the bifurcation of its necks down to its rear abdomen, exposing a mass of sticky, dark entrails that continuously leaked. Clearly, this twin-headed flying dragon had been cleaved down onto the planet by a single strike from Yu Guanzi and Fei Xing Daoren. However, due to the savage physical prowess and tenacious vitality of Motap $\S$ Longgen's bloodline, he had miraculously survived.

The enraged dragon summoned a streak of crimson firelight and charged towards Yu Guanzi, who was currently weaving hand signs, like a shooting star.

Yu Guanzi's expression darkened. He sharply reprimanded, "Insolent!" before his body began to rapidly swell.

In just the time it took to snap his fingers, Yu Guanzi revealed his true form: a massive serpent, nearly a hundred li long, entirely blood-red, bearing a pair of jade-colored fleshy crowns on its head, and now possessing four three-clawed dragon feet beneath its belly. Opening its maw lined with sharp teeth, Yu Guanzi swallowed the charging dragon whole. A muffled explosion sounded within his belly, causing his stomach to only slightly distend. "A mere Second-Grade Golden Immortal, what use is self-detonating your Nascent Soul? It still ends up as food in my stomach?"

Flicking out a serpentine tongue several li long, Yu Guanzi twisted his serpentine body to face Motap $\S$ Longgen. His sinister, merciless eyes locked onto the sealed dragon, and Yu Guanzi sneered, "Submit to us, and your descendants may live!"

Motap $\S$ Longgen laughed mockingly, glaring coldly at Yu Guanzi and snorting, "Nonsense! Descendants can be regrown once dead; my life is precious beyond measure. Not even the lives of all my progeny are worth a single scale from me!"

Taking a deep breath, Motap $\S$ Longgen suddenly opened his three great mouths and unleashed several bolts of black lightning and black flames towards Yu Guanzi.

Alas, the green seal suddenly flared with intense jade light, weakening Motap $\S$ Longgen's counterattack by at least ninety percent. The residual lightning and flames could not harm Yu Guanzi in the slightest; he merely shook his body slightly, shattering the attacks.

Motap $\S$ Longgen cursed the seal in furious exasperation, venting his rage upon the slain Aierloli. He roared furiously, "That damned slut, she deceived me! She stole my primordial essence! She stole my most precious ancestral genes! She paralyzed me and sealed me while I slept! If she hadn't used her own body to trick me, how could I have been sealed by her?" Gu Xiechen applauded heartily; so there was such a scandalous romantic entanglement involved?

It explained why he always felt that Aierloli and her companion were no match for Motap $\S$ Longgen, yet they had managed to seal him. Furthermore, that green seal was peculiar; it seemed the stronger Motap $\S$ Longgen became, the stronger the seal grew, drawing power directly from within him to fuel the restraint!

This essentially meant Motap $\S$ Longgen had sealed himself; such a seal could never have been achieved without his cooperation! If Aierloli had used her beauty as bait to entrap Motap $\S$ Longgen, then everything fell into place.

Why was Sagson injured more severely than Aierloli? Because Motap $\S$ Longgen was jealous and intended to eliminate Aierloli's legitimate partner.

Why was Motap $\S$ Longgen's natural mate killed? Because Aierloli needed to eliminate a rival, or perhaps long-standing enmity had brewed from jealous quarrels, leading Aierloli to strike down the white dragon first.

Why had the feud between Motap $\S$ Longgen's bloodline and the Roman people endured for so long? It was obvious: Motap $\S$ Longgen's wife, the mother, grandmother, or great-grandmother of those descendants, was killed by the Roman Mother God. That grievance was immense! With Motap $\S$ Longgen sealed, how could his descendants not seek retribution against the Roman people?

Even—the reproductive organ of Motap $\S$ Longgen's mate, that white flying dragon, had been fashioned into a sacred artifact of the Roman people—the womb-shaped artifact specifically used to condense Divine Crystals! Aierloli's methods were ruthlessly vicious; it left no room for anything but furious retaliation!

Fascinating, fascinating! Gu Xiechen sighed deeply. It was a pity he had dealt with Aierloli already; otherwise, today would have been even more spectacular! Motap $\S$ Longgen continued to curse Aierloli wildly, his language coarse and unbearable to the ear.

Yu Guanzi circled about with an eerie smile, deliberately provoking Motap $\S$ Longgen, trading insults with him using every vile term he could muster.

Motap $\S$ Longgen, already volatile, exploded like a bomb after only a few taunts, focusing all his attention on Yu Guanzi. He seemed to forget the presence of another enemy, Fei Xing Daoren, and failed to notice Fei Xing Daoren carefully weaving a spell.

Fei Xing Daoren hovered cautiously ten thousand li above Motap $\S$ Longgen’s head, holding a pinch of silver stardust in his cupped palms. As he held the dust, his ten fingers moved with the quickness of spirit snakes, rapidly executing mudras while murmuring incantations.

Mana continuously flooded into the small amount of stardust. The mana reserves of a Tenth-Rank Celestial Immortal were vast as the sea, normally ensuring no depletion. However, this tiny pinch of stardust was for Fei Xing Daoren’s one-time-use magical treasure, the ‘Heavenly Star Blast,’ which required immense power to activate.

In the span of fifteen minutes, all of Fei Xing Daoren’s mana poured into the stardust. Eventually, his mana could no longer meet the demand of the Heavenly Star Blast, and a small portion of his vital essence blood was drawn in as well.

When Fei Xing Daoren was utterly drained, nearly slumping helplessly in the void, the few thousand grains of stardust finally erupted in a brilliant white luminescence that momentarily dimmed the surrounding stars. The void across hundreds of millions of li instantly went black, and all of heaven and earth seemed illuminated solely by the stardust held in Fei Xing Daoren’s hands. Fei Xing Daoren seemed to be holding several great mountains, slowly raising his hands, and with extreme caution, tilting them downwards.

Heaven and earth stirred, and countless surrounding stars simultaneously trembled.

Countless motes of starlight, lighter than willow fluff, slowly sifted out between Fei Xing Daoren’s chubby fingers. The delicate, pristine light circled his thick, stout fingers for a moment before immense sounds of surging waves echoed from the void in all directions.

Several thousand grains of starlight, each a hundred times finer than sesame seeds, suddenly expanded to a diameter of nearly a thousand li. Accompanied by tremendous roars, the myriad points of light began to spin rapidly, crashing down upon Motap $\S$ Longgen.

Yu Guanzi flicked out his long serpent tongue and shouted, "Magnificent, truly magnificent! Daoist friend's Ancestor truly cherishes you, bestowing such a secret treasure!"

Fei Xing Daoren’s Ancestor was known as the Heavenly Venerable across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, his cultivation far surpassing the Great Overarching Golden Immortal realm. Although the Heavenly Star Blast he painstakingly condensed was single-use, its power was terrifyingly immense. Each falling mote of starlight struck as if a peak Golden Immortal were exerting their full strength.

Motap $\S$ Longgen emitted a mournful howl mixing pain and exhilaration. The seal that had contained him for hundreds of thousands of years was ripped apart layer by layer, shattered piece by piece by the rapidly exploding starlight. The dense cascade of light caused the entire cosmos to flash with silver-white brilliance. Even with the vision of Gu Xiechen’s Samsara Eye, he could barely make out a gigantic, three-headed flying dragon twisting and soaring within the white light, its scales shattering everywhere.

What a potent Heavenly Star Blast. Gu Xiechen frowned. Did Fei Xing Daoren have any more of these lethal items on him?

The explosion, which shook the entire void, lasted for a full half hour. The space where Motap $\S$ Longgen resided was utterly pulverized, leaving behind a massive spatial rupture nearly ten million li in diameter. Within the dark breach, dense plumes of black mist were faintly seen issuing forth. Fei Xing Daoren took a deep breath. "Is it dead?"

Yu Guanzi nodded, his eyes flickering. "I judge his peak cultivation to be no higher than the peak Golden Immortal. After being bombarded by the Heavenly Star Blast, even a Taiyi Golden Immortal should have perished, right? Once this rupture mends, we can search for his physical body and seize his Divine Soul." The two exchanged knowing smiles, a silent agreement passing between them.

Suddenly, a piercing dragon cry echoed from the pitch-black spatial rupture. An impossibly long, black cudgel slammed down from nowhere. Fei Xing Daoren and Yu Guanzi had no time to evade! Two pained cries rang out as the club struck them both, blowing their physical bodies apart—a solid Golden Immortal body was smashed into a bloody pulp.

A colossal hand, several tens of thousands of li wide, suddenly reached out from the spatial rupture. Accompanied by a muffled dragon roar, a gigantic figure, a million li tall, slowly struggled out of the rift.

Motap $\S$ Longgen, having reverted to his humanoid form, slowly crawled back into the universal space. His body was mangled, clearly having over seventy percent of his bones shattered. He could barely maintain his human shape, clinging to a thread of primordial life energy to prevent his physical form from collapsing entirely.

Gripping the immensely large black staff in his left hand, Motap $\S$ Longgen suddenly burst into a sinister laugh. "How does my Natal Sacred Artifact feel? Heh heh, peak Golden Immortal? You underestimated me, Motap $\S$ Longgen too much!"

Gritting his teeth, Motap $\S$ Longgen slowly crawled toward the terrified Yu Guanzi and Fei Xing Daoren’s Divine Souls, roaring in a low voice, "The moment I manifest, I possess the strength of a peak Taiyi Golden Immortal! Who am I? I am Motap $\S$ Longgen! The Primordial Demon Dragon God born from the world's engulfing and annihilating energy! Heh heh, in my memories, my past self was the Black Dragon God, one of the three hundred and sixty million Primordial Demon Gods of the Diyuan Star!" "How could a noble being such as I be killed by you little insects?" "First, I consume you to restore my energy, then I will find Aierloli and violently destroy her!" "That wretched woman! She... she... she..."

Motap $\S$ Longgen’s teeth gnashed so hard he almost cracked them. Gu Xiechen could only wonder what transpired between him and Aierloli to foster such profound hatred.

Gu Xiechen watched with a chuckle as Motap $\S$ Longgen devoured the Divine Souls of Yu Guanzi and Fei Xing Daoren, nodding with satisfaction.

The entire scene of the fierce battle between Yu Guanzi, Fei Xing Daoren, and Motap $\S$ Longgen had been recorded onto an Insight Scroll. Once the footage from this scroll was disseminated, powerful figures from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths would naturally seek out Motap $\S$ Longgen for vengeance, saving Gu Xiechen a great deal of effort.

Observing Motap $\S$ Longgen’s overwhelming murderous aura, although he and the two Celestial Immortals had reached a mutual crippling point, the residual power he possessed was still something Gu Xiechen could not handle. There was no need to take unnecessary risks!

Motap $\S$ Longgen’s primary enemies had always been Aierloli and the Roman people! As long as Gu Xiechen created the illusion that the Roman people still existed, he could send Motap $\S$ Longgen on a rampage across the lands hunting the Romans! Three hundred and sixty million Primordial Demon Gods of Diyuan Star? Hmph! Gu Xiechen sucked in a cold breath; this was the first time he had heard information about Diyuan Star.

Watching Motap $\S$ Longgen struggle to stand and slowly reduce his massive form, Gu Xiechen turned to leave. What a shame that Yu Guanzi and Fei Xing Daoren hadn't managed to injure the beast more severely! If they had crippled him to the point of immobility, that would have been ideal!

But Gu Xiechen had only taken a few steps when a flash of purple light appeared. That monkey let out a strange laugh, leaped onto a somersault cloud, and charged toward Motap $\S$ Longgen. The monkey snatched for the black staff in Motap $\S$ Longgen’s hand, then kicked him square in the face, sending the dragon flying thousands of li away. "Three-headed worm, your Grandpa Sun likes this staff! It's mine now!" Laughing maniacally into the sky, the monkey clutched the staff and turned to flee.

Motap $\S$ Longgen, momentarily delighted by his own escape, froze for a moment, then suddenly roared like a maddened bull and gave chase.

Observing the speed at which Motap $\S$ Longgen flew, even while severely injured, his pace was several times faster than Gu Xiechen flying at full power! "Heavens! You calamity-bringing, disaster-inviting monkey! For a staff... is it worth it?" Gu Xiechen howled at the sky, hurriedly summoning a stream of water light, like a headless fly, to pursue them.