The core disciples of sects like the Nine Nether Path were already aware of the impending arrival of the divine beings from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths in a few decades; no one knew what these beings would do upon descending, nor what their ultimate purpose was. Given the current cultivation levels of Gu Xiachen and his peers, a mere extension of a finger from those sacred entities could likely crush everyone instantly.

Gu Xiachen's sudden decision to launch this long voyage must be related to the divine beings descending in a few decades.

Gu Xiachen’s actions along the journey confirmed the speculations of the various sect cultivators. Led by Gu Xiachen, the Corpse Emperor, True Man Baishui, and True Man Hancran successively established altars on the road, imparting the profound principles they had comprehended to the masses. Various miraculous elixirs and magical artifacts were bestowed like flowing water, arming the over a thousand accompanying disciples to the teeth.

The Supreme Dao of Great Yin and Great Yang taught by Gu Xiachen—this was the principle that most cultivators found utterly baffling and incomprehensible. The True Scripture of Great Yin and the True Scripture of Great Yang that Gu Xiachen had comprehended himself were treasures of the Primordial Chaos level, which few cultivators could understand, and that was precisely how it should be.

Aside from the doctrines taught by Gu Xiachen, there was also the Path of Darkness derived by the Corpse Emperor from the Star Lord Rahu. However, this teaching only captivated Mo Ta Longgen and his thirteen blood descendants; few of the zombie disciples from the Nine Nether Path cared for it.

There were also the Daofic arts comprehended by True Man Baishui and True Man Hancran, which were the genuine essence of righteous cultivation. Along the journey, the days when True Man Baishui and True Man Hancran preached were the most eagerly anticipated by the disciples of all sects.

Transmitting the essence of the Daofic arts all the way, seven years and nine months passed. Given the incredible speed of the Flying Dragon Vessel, this duration was equivalent to a mid-grade Golden Immortal continuously teleporting forward using the Great Star Shift divine ability for seven years and nine months. The Flying Dragon Vessel had long since left the familiar starry expanse, and along the way, it traversed a vast expanse entirely devoid of even a single star, finally arriving at an unfamiliar star domain.

This domain was hundreds of times larger than the Star Alliance once controlled by Mo Ta Longgen's descendants. However, the intelligent life forms within this starry space were still in a nascent, unawakened state, their level of evolution comparable to Neolithic humans on Earth.

These unawakened intelligent beings were almost completely undeveloped technologically, but they had made significant strides in religion.

The intelligent beings on every planet in this star domain worshipped a supreme deity, whose manifestation was a mass of purple light of varying sizes. Blazing radiance constantly erupted from this purple light mass. This light dispelled the cold of the night, drove away the fear of darkness in their hearts, and could even heal the various injuries and diseases they suffered daily.

It was easy to imagine how vital this supreme god was to unawakened creatures who had no concept of medicine—a being that could emit light, provide warmth, and cure wounds and various ailments.

Thus, they constructed colossal temples to venerate the supreme god. Beyond hunting for food, their days were spent entirely in worship.

When Gu Xiachen and the others passed through this star domain, wherever their divine senses swept, the intelligent beings wore expressions of blissful rapture, kneeling foolishly before the purple light mass, bowing to it with piety that bordered on veneration. Their souls seemed to be absorbed by the light mass; they appeared to be dwelling in paradise, completely oblivious to any upheaval in the outside world, even if the heavens collapsed.

Vast power of faith spread throughout the entire star domain. This was the aggregated power of faith from countless intelligent beings, a power trillions of times greater than the faith power the Corpse Emperor had obtained from dark creatures.

All the faith power condensed into tens of thousands of massive vortexes in the void. Golden vortexes pierced the spatial barriers, leading into a certain immeasurable space. Gu Xiachen directed the Flying Dragon Vessel to drill into one of these vortexes, plunging directly into an incomparably wondrous realm.

Then, the Corpse Emperor and the others saw the progenitor of the Angel race—that colossal Celestial Moth.

Its immense body stretched for countless billions of li, cradling a star that resembled a Celestial Moth egg in its embrace, and the immense mental energy that had already solidified into substance in the void. The expressions of the Corpse Emperor and the others turned profoundly grim. Everyone looked toward Gu Xiachen, perplexed as to his intentions.

Gu Xiachen opened his mouth, spewing forth that strand of ghastly, pale-green wicked flame. He pointed at the gigantic Celestial Moth in the distance and sneered, "We came here precisely to use the Profound Yin Form Refining and Origin Seizing Grand Method to completely refine it, seizing all its essence, spirit, and divine power to convert into our own cultivation!" Eyes dropped to the floor; everyone believed Gu Xiachen had gone mad.

For a Celestial Moth of such appearance and imposing aura, Gu Xiachen intended to refine it—what else could this be but madness?

Fuyamei Ming nervously grasped Gu Xiachen’s hand, wanting to say something, but Gu Xiachen shook his head proudly: "Don't worry. Although it is still alive, it is no different from a dead person. If we refine it, it won't show any reaction."

The others stared at the gigantic Celestial Moth in disbelief, only Gu Xiachen smiled with confidence.

Aierluoli had met her end by his hand, and he had obtained some vague information from her memories. Combined with his inquiries into some of Mo Ta Longgen’s past affairs, he had deduced the events of that time with near certainty. Furthermore, he had dispatched his avatars several times using the secret arts of the Angel race into this void, allowing him to clearly perceive the current predicament of the Celestial Moth.

The tale was straightforward: the Celestial Moth had attacked Aierluoli and Sagesson back then, intending to transform them into its descendants.

Mo Ta Longgen happened to be passing by. Smitten by Aierluoli's beauty, he used his secret arts to accelerate her development, injecting a portion of his own vital blood into her body, forcefully devouring the innate power of the Angel race that the Celestial Moth had implanted within Aierluoli.

Aierluoli and Sagesson had already obtained the innate essence of the Samsara Divine Wood and had evolved into two new Samsara Divine Woods. When they emerged from their ‘mother body,’ they encountered the enraged Celestial Moth fighting fiercely with Mo Ta Longgen, who was then at his peak strength, aiming to eliminate this formidable foe before forcibly plundering the power of Aierluoli and Sagesson.

The newborn Aierluoli and Sagesson immediately activated the divine power of the Samsara Divine Wood, reversing the power of reincarnation to strike a fierce blow against the Celestial Moth.

The Samsara Divine Wood possessed the miraculous ability to allow a creature to escape the cycle of reincarnation and break free from the constraints of the Heavenly Dao rules; naturally, it could also reverse this process, plunging a creature into reincarnation, binding it with countless Heavenly Dao rules, and ensnaring it in innumerable karmic entanglements. Gu Xiachen's Dharma Eye of Reincarnation held a similar function, capable of linking karmic threads that originally had no relation to certain individuals to them, drawing forth immense power from heaven and earth to inflict harm.

The unfortunate Celestial Moth—its act of parasitizing the body of a congenital being with its origin power to transform it into its descendant was inherently a perverse act against Heaven, intolerable to the cosmos. By corrupting foundations and seizing the primal spirits of others, it had annihilated the descendants of countless congenital beings throughout its existence.

The strike from the Samsara Divine Wood’s power was like a single spark landing in a gasoline drum, igniting all the Celestial Moth’s accumulated karma. Just as it managed to flee back to its lair, heavenly tribulation descended, severely wounding the Celestial Moth and forcing it into deep slumber, relying on absorbing the power of faith to recover its injuries.

Now, facing its true form, Gu Xiachen observed the Celestial Moth’s true body with his Eye of Reincarnation and was overjoyed to find everything precisely as he had predicted.

Severely wounded by the strike of the Samsara Divine Wood's power, the Celestial Moth would never wake again.

Its Angelic descendants constantly transmitted immense faith power to it, and all the intelligent beings in this star domain continuously offered it vast faith power as well. As all the faith power intertwined, the beliefs of countless beings surged into the Celestial Moth’s soul. Guided by the Samsara Divine Wood’s power, the Celestial Moth’s soul was gradually worn away by the power of faith; its consciousness had completely dissipated!

What remained in this void was merely an energy storage tank sustained by absorbing the power of faith. It could not even control the overflow of its own spiritual energy, resulting in its vast spiritual power solidifying into crystal walls deep in the starry expanse.

Countless years of energy accumulation pushed the Celestial Moth’s power infinitely close to the peak of the First Grade of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal. After all, it was a formidable life form venerated by an immeasurable number of beings' faith power for hundreds of thousands of years; it was equivalent to cultivating for hundreds of thousands of years by borrowing the soul power of countless living beings! Coupled with its inherently powerful spiritual nature and extraordinary foundation, possessing the strength of a peak First Grade Grand Unity Golden Immortal was only to be expected!

What was even more gratifying was that the Celestial Moth had absorbed the faith power of countless individuals, effectively stripping them of their soul power. The power of the Samsara Divine Wood remained entwined with it, drawing its surrounding karma to be extremely dense. Viewing it with the Dharma Eye of Reincarnation, the Celestial Moth was suffused with a heavy aura of bloody light, an ominous murderous aura that even illuminated hundreds of star domains.

With such dense malevolent karma, if this Celestial Moth were to be destroyed, the resulting merit would be unbelievably immense!

Not to mention the terrifying power the Celestial Moth possessed. The strength gap between any two Celestial Immortals was measured in factors of ten; the strength gap between different realms of Golden Immortals was measured in factors of a hundred; the gap between the two realms surrounding the Grand Unity Golden Immortal was measured in factors of a thousand; and the gap between the two realms of Grand Unity Golden Immortals was roughly a factor of ten thousand.

By calculation, theoretically, the strength of this Celestial Moth before them was enough to grant Gu Xiachen the equivalent of ten thousand peak Grand Unity Golden Immortals joining his side!

Coupled with the immense merit obtained from destroying the Celestial Moth, Gu Xiachen was eager to see what kind of miracle he could create!

However, after observing the Celestial Moth with his Dharma Eye for a while, Gu Xiachen simply smiled and requested the Corpse Emperor, along with True Man Baishui and True Man Hancran, to join forces and attack that single dazzling purple light point between the Celestial Moth’s brows, completely destroying the last shred of its true spirit.

The Corpse Emperor, Baishui, and Hancran asked no further questions. They unleashed the immense power inherited by their respective physical bodies and attacked with a combined blow.

Three beams of lightning struck the Celestial Moth’s brow simultaneously. With a massive roar, the last trace of the Celestial Moth’s true spirit was destroyed. The Heavenly Dao rules immediately determined that it was the three of them who annihilated the sin-laden Celestial Moth, avenging the extinction of the descendants of tens of thousands of congenital beings destroyed by it.

A visible yellow halo descended from the high sky, and a suffocatingly massive sea of merit rushed in, squeezing into the physical bodies of the three.

The Corpse Emperor, Baishui, and Hancran simultaneously exclaimed in surprise. They were astonished to find that their physical bodies, which had taken centuries to barely master, were rapidly merging with their nascent souls, enabling them to command their bodies with ease very soon. Amidst their joyous surprise, the three grandmasters also sensed a wonderful lightness in their nascent souls, as if some barrier was about to be broken.

With a long cry, the three of them hurriedly sat cross-legged inside the Flying Dragon Vessel, focusing entirely on absorbing the massive influx of merit descending from heaven and earth, paying no further heed to external affairs.

Gu Xiachen smiled contentedly. Very good. With this merit, the three of them should be able to cleave off one corpse using the power of merit—Gu Xiachen had long ago revealed the method of corpse-slaying practiced by the Three Pure Ones to them. This way, his faction gained three more formidable experts.

After roaring with laughter a few times, Gu Xiachen pointed his finger at the wicked flame swirling in the void. The flame transformed into a green light that shot rapidly toward the Celestial Moth.

In the void, tens of thousands of stars simultaneously flickered. The high-ranking angels of the Angel race simultaneously let out hysterical cries; they had lost all connection with their progenitor and could no longer sense its existence.

A faint green fire enveloped the Celestial Moth, and Gu Xiachen and his party arrayed themselves and advanced toward it.