With a shhh-lip, a Crimson-veined Azure-scaled Python, its entire body a brilliant azure save for a thin crimson line running along its spine, was sucked whole into the beak of the King Vulture of the Purple Eyes.

The Crimson-veined Azure-scaled Python was a remnant lineage of the monstrous Honghuang species, the Crimson-veined Azure-scaled Flood Dragon. Its flesh and blood were incomparably delicious, the best sustenance for bolstering strength and hardening sinews. It was the favored meal of Demon Immortals, especially those of the Great Draining lineage. After years of relentless hunting, such creatures had become exceedingly rare in the Vast Prison’s Extended Heaven.

The King Vulture of the Purple Eyes was the youngest son of the King of the Purple Eyes Roc, a mixed-blood offspring of the Roc King and a 'Phoenix Crown Seven-Colored Vulture.' Born with extraordinary divine abilities, though barely one Yuanhui old, he had already cultivated the strength of a Mid-grade Grand Unity Golden Immortal. He was the most powerful, vicious in temperament, and wickedly skilled among the famed 'Seven Roc Sons' of the King of the Purple Eyes Roc.

Satisfied, the King Vulture of the Purple Eyes licked the python blood from the corner of his mouth, his pale violet eyes gazing across the situation within Mount Daluo. He mused doubtfully, "That fellow profited but still lingers inside, courting death? Are Chi Yue, Qing Yang, and Bai Shui truly so easy to handle?"

Dozens of Grand Unity Golden Immortals stood guard around the King Vulture of the Purple Eyes, clutching various weapons and magical artifacts, prepared for battle.

The Demon Immortal lineage of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths was fiercely united. Although the Great Sage of Inspiration possessed only the cultivation of a Minor-grade Grand Unity Golden Immortal, he was still a recognized figure among the Demon Immortals. As a member of the Demon Alliance, it was incumbent upon the Great Sage of Inspiration and his two companions—who had been executed—to provoke a reaction from the King of the Purple Eyes Roc, the rotating leader of the alliance.

For a Demon Immortal given to slaughter, such a reaction could only manifest in one way: for those who had earned enmity, it meant complete extermination!

The King Vulture of the Purple Eyes had led his capable subordinates from the lower realm all the way back to the Vast Prison’s Extended Heaven specifically to slay Gu Xiechen and his party! If Gu Wuchen and the others hadn't slipped into Mount Daluo, and given the strained relations between the Demon Immortals and the Three Divine Palaces, the King Vulture of the Purple Eyes would already have confronted Gu Xiechen directly.

Seeing that Gu Wuchen was intent on causing trouble for the Three Divine Palaces, the King Vulture of the Purple Eyes was happy to let the Palaces drain Gu Xiechen’s strength, or perhaps even watch them annihilate him, thus saving him the expenditure of magical power. But seeing that the Three Divine Monarchs seemed to have been bested, the King Vulture of the Purple Eyes grew surprised.

"Truly not? Could he have laid some hidden traps these past days? Tsk, tsk, interesting!" The King Vulture of the Purple Eyes rolled his eyes, pondered for a moment, then suddenly summoned a subordinate and whispered a few instructions.

The Demon Immortal, whose true form was an Iron-Winged Golden Condor, startled slightly, then a cruel grin spread across his face. He quickly nodded to the King Vulture of the Purple Eyes, transformed into his true form, soared into the sky, and rushed away into the distance.

The King Vulture of the Purple Eyes chuckled smugly. If Gu Wuchen truly had a hidden means capable of shaking the foundations of Mount Daluo, he would seize the opportunity to take over the territory—a solid foothold for himself in the Vast Prison’s Extended Heaven. If Gu Xiechen couldn't harm the vitality of Mount Daluo, then taking the opportunity to abduct a few female Immortals for his enjoyment of their exquisite flesh and blood would still count as a gain.

Just as the King Vulture of the Purple Eyes was smugly calculating his good fortune, Gu Xiechen’s hidden contingency was activated.

Waving a distant greeting to Chi Yue and Qing Yang, the two Divine Monarchs of the Three Divine Palaces who were furious enough to emit smoke from all seven orifices, Gu Xiechen flicked his finger. From a remote, desolate corner of Mount Daluo, a peak a hundred zhang high suddenly shot into the sky. This peak, identical in appearance to Dragon Head Peak, was shrouded in thick black smoke, surrounded by churning pools of water and gusts of fire wind, and rushed towards Dragon Head Peak with a thunderous roar.

Divine Monarch Chi Yue roared in anger and flung out a restrictive seal, attempting to lock down the space and halt the approaching mountain.

However, the restrictive seal, which usually worked flawlessly for Divine Monarch Chi Yue, proved utterly useless against this small mountain. The peak slid out of the confinement field like a loach slicked with oil, leaving only a faint afterimage in the void before crashing directly into Dragon Head Peak.

"Forget it!" Divine Monarch Chi Yue and Divine Monarch Qing Yang cried out in unison, a mix of shock, rage, and despair clouding their voices.

After being refined for over ten days by the Ten Heavenly Lords, this small mountain had become a projection of Dragon Head Peak within the physical realm—an object existing between energy and matter. Now that the restrictions were fully unleashed, the small mountain seemed to overlap with Dragon Head Peak at the exact same location, causing the space there to buckle under the immense alteration. The very existence of Dragon Head Peak immediately became unstable.

Furthermore, the Four Phases primal energies—water, fire, wind, and earth—clinging to the small mountain surged forth. The space, already compromised, exploded as if struck by a bomb. The vast mountain, along with the palaces upon it, detonated with maximum force.

A flash of white light swept out, followed by a pillar of fire shooting heavenward, a towering mushroom cloud accompanied by spatial tremors and the roar of the earth, soaring tens of thousands of li high. In that instant, Dragon Head Peak was utterly annihilated; every flower, every blade of grass, every grain of sand and stone upon it was completely transformed into energy. Every brick and tile of the main hall of the Three Divine Palaces vanished without leaving the slightest trace.

To invoke a cosmic change with meager power, to shake a massive heavenly object with minimal force—this was the true might of Daoist divine abilities!

With their profound mastery of restrictive arts, the Ten Heavenly Lords unleashed an attack in an instant, equivalent to the full power of a Late-grade Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Dragon Head Peak and the main hall of the Three Divine Palaces were destroyed that day. The Grand Unity Golden Immortals and Golden Immortals on duty inside and outside Dragon Head Peak were jolted by the explosion's aftermath. Immortals below the peak of the Golden Immortal realm instantly dissolved into fine powder, wiped out entirely.

Immortals at the Sixteenth Grade of Golden Immortal and above retained enough power to escape the explosion's shockwave. They unleashed their protective artifacts and fled outward with all their might. Without external interference, nearly a thousand Grand Unity Golden Immortals and peak Golden Immortals would have had a seven or eight in ten chance of escaping! But the three brothers of the Kongsang Clan acted decisively.

The tens of thousands of painted scrolls they had created were stacked into dozens of thick piles. The moment the explosion occurred, they simultaneously formed a hand seal, blasting dozens of azure lightning bolts onto the scrolls. All scrolls ignited simultaneously. The forests across sixty million li surrounding Mount Daluo vibrated; countless massive trees swayed in unison, releasing vast quantities of wood-attribute spiritual energy from their cores, which transformed into a violent azure gale and poured into the burning scrolls.

The nearly one thousand Grand Unity Golden Immortals and peak Golden Immortals of the Three Divine Palaces who were fleeing stiffened. A wildly explosive, wood-attribute lightning flared up within their bodies, instantly blasting the Golden Immortal-level Immortals into pieces, even shattering their divine souls into dust. The Grand Unity Golden Immortals fared slightly better; the wood-attribute lightning, imbued with paralysis, only caused their bodies to stiffen momentarily.

But in that single instant, the white light generated by Dragon Head Peak’s annihilation swept over them, consuming them utterly in the next breath.

Divine Monarchs Chi Yue and Qing Yang witnessed the instantaneous annihilation of their most capable subordinates. They clutched their chests, spitting out streams of vital blood. Grand Unity Golden Immortals possessed boundless vitality; the two spewed blood hundreds of li—a spectacular golden-red torrent spanning the void. Ordinary beings could not spit blood so far, and even if they could, they wouldn't have this much blood to spare.

Guo Hua clapped his hands and laughed heartily, "Spitting blood in a rainbow spanning a hundred li! Truly magnificent! Well done, well done!"

Divine Monarchs Chi Yue and Qing Yang, however, were in excruciating pain, reeling from the enemy's ruthlessness and terrifying divine arts. The destruction of Dragon Head Peak and the sudden surge of azure lightning within their disciples were all wondrous skills and strange techniques they had never encountered. These methods did not seem to belong to the Immortals of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths today; rather, they resembled the techniques of the ancient Immortals.

Furious and flustered, Divine Monarch Chi Yue shrieked heavenward, "What enmity have my Three Divine Palaces incurred with you? Why strike such a vicious blow and destroy our foundation?"

Gu Xiechen stood upon a cloud of water and shouted coldly, "Kidnapping my wife and attempting to steal her magical artifact—is that not enmity enough?"

Divine Monarch Qing Yang glared at Gu Xiechen and roared until his voice cracked, "Did we steal her artifact? You have already rescued her, so why such a vicious attack?"

Below, Guo Hua shouted loudly, "You two old fogeys with your glib tongues are indeed formidable! You did the initial wrong, so can we not retaliate? You violently abducted innocent people, yet we who rescue them and seek vengeance become the villains? Hey! Do you even know what 'eradicating evil completely' means?"

Chi Yue and Qing Yang trembled with rage. Qing Yang bellowed unreasonably, "So what if my nephew abducted that woman? So what if we wanted her artifact? Our cultivation is higher than yours, we are stronger than you—we should do as we please! You, you..."

Gu Xiechen nodded solemnly, "Therefore, it is only just that we destroy your mountain gate and slay your disciples!"

Laughing chillingly, Gu Wuchen said blandly, "The strong prey on the weak; might makes right. It has always been so throughout history. You two are of the status of Late-grade Grand Unity Golden Immortals; do not expose yourselves as shrewish women over the deaths of your disciples—it brings shame upon all Grand Unity Golden Immortals! Have some decorum! Please, exhibit the bearing expected of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal!"

His cold sarcasm caused the vital blood of Chi Yue and Qing Yang to surge, and bloodstains reappeared at the corners of their mouths.

Chi Yue let out a sharp cry. The red treasure mirror above his head flickered, spewing forth immense amounts of red light and purple energy, manifesting as countless unstoppable fiery meteors that rained down upon Gu Wuchen. Qing Yang furiously waved his hand, and the Azure Gold Ruyi spat out waves of azure fierce light, seeming to ignite half the sky as it descended towards Gu Xiechen’s group amidst the mighty roar of wind and fire. "Excellent! These two Innate Treasures are truly remarkable!"

Gu Xiechen roared with laughter. A cyan treasure mirror suddenly shot up above his head, launching a streak of cyan light that collided head-on with the red light, purple energy, and myriad meteors ejected by Divine Monarch Chi Yue’s red treasure mirror. Immediately following this, a pitch-black pearl, completely devoid of luster, shot out from behind the mirror and plunged into the vast azure fierce light unleashed by Divine Monarch Qing Yang.

With a deafening crash, blood erupted from Gu Xiechen’s entire body, accompanied by the sound of cracking bones, as he was sent flying backward rapidly.

The power of the red light, purple energy, and fiery meteors from Divine Monarch Chi Yue’s red treasure mirror was far beyond his imagination. Although the Haotian Mirror successfully reflected all incoming attacks, the resultant recoil from the clash between the two mirrors was something he could not withstand. His body was nearly shattered, and he plummeted downward, vomiting blood uncontrollably.

The Haotian Mirror seemed to reluctantly dodge a flash of azure light and gracefully retreated back into Gu Wuchen’s body. As one of the few ultimate Innate Treasures in the Three Realms, the Haotian Mirror held immense power, yet Gu Wuchen currently found it too strenuous to control. His physical body could not even endure the aftermath of the collision between the Haotian Mirror and the other innate artifacts.

However, even this brief exchange left Chi Yue in disarray. The attack launched by his red treasure mirror, which he had refined into a life-bound artifact, suddenly veered, turning back upon him uncontrollably. Caught completely off guard, Divine Monarch Chi Yue didn't even manage a defensive posture before being enveloped by the red light, purple energy, and countless meteors ejected by his own artifact.

Dull, continuous impacts sounded. The momentary backlash nearly destroyed Chi Yue’s physical form; his limbs were corroded by the red light, and his body was pulverized by the golden meteors. Divine Monarch Chi Yue burst forth with a near-manic roar, the red treasure mirror above his head shining even brighter.

Howling in utter fury, Divine Monarch Chi Yue cautiously released several peak-grade Immortal Artifacts to shield himself, then spat a mouthful of life-bound essence blood onto the mirror, preparing to unleash a fatal blow upon Gu Xiechen and the others by fully activating it.

Divine Monarch Qing Yang, meanwhile, was screaming in panic. The azure fierce light released by the Azure Gold Ruyi possessed the ability to incinerate heaven and earth. As far as Qing Yang knew, no material in existence could withstand its burning. This Ruyi once boasted the glorious record of incinerating two Grand Unity Golden Immortals who dared to compete with the Three Divine Palaces in a single strike—an attack that even melted their life-bound artifacts into ash.

But today, it was as if he had seen a ghost. The azure fierce light spewed by the Azure Gold Ruyi was completely swallowed by a fist-sized black pearl. The black pearl didn't even emit the slightest wisp of heat; it greedily devoured the azure light released by the Azure Gold Ruyi like a bottomless pit.

By the time Divine Monarch Qing Yang realized something was wrong, over thirty percent of the azure fierce light stored within the Azure Gold Ruyi—energy that took ten thousand years to generate a single trace—had been absorbed. Hesitating for a moment, wondering whether to continue the attack or recall his life-bound artifact, the black pearl relentlessly pressed towards him. The stored azure fierce light surged out like a tide, and in the blink of an eye, another thirty percent was gone.

Divine Monarch Qing Yang wailed, making the tragic decision of a strong man severing a limb. He painfully severed the connection between the Azure Gold Ruyi and the azure fierce light.

If that black pearl swallowed any more, even the artifact spirit of the Azure Gold Ruyi would be dragged out. This Innate Treasure would be destroyed by this strange black pearl. Severing the connection in agony, Divine Monarch Qing Yang immediately felt a sharp pain throughout his internal organs as his severely weakened life-bound artifact dragged him down. His primordial spirit seemed to suffer a crushing blow, and another torrent of fresh blood sprayed far into the distance. "Tsk, refined it into a life-bound artifact, did you? Suffering now? A life-bound artifact isn't so easily used to fight others, is it?"

Having suffered losses from a life-bound artifact before, Gu Wuchen laughed heartily at Divine Monarch Qing Yang’s plight. Although his own body was battered and broken, currently lying immobile in Fu Ya and Ming’s embrace, his tongue remained sharp. After relentlessly mocking Qing Yang, he drew a breath and swallowed back the Sun Profound Pearl, which was now glowing with a deep black light, gorged full.

What a pity. Divine Monarch Qing Yang’s decision was swift; otherwise, if he had hesitated a moment longer, the Sun Profound Pearl could have completely devoured all the power within the azure pearl housed in the Azure Gold Ruyi. This was an extremely pure essence of innate fire, a great tonic for the Sun Profound Pearl, enough to elevate its power to match that of the Moon Profound Pearl in its current state.

Alas, what a pity. Staring intensely at the haggard Divine Monarch Qing Yang, Gu Xiechen silently noted this grievance.

With Qing Yang repulsed and frustrated, Divine Monarch Chi Yue, enraged by humiliation, spat out his life-bound essence blood, preparing for a desperate final assault.

It was too humiliating. Two Late-grade Grand Unity Golden Immortals had suffered such a massive setback in front of a crowd of Grand Unity Golden Immortals. Admittedly, Gu Xiechen’s techniques were peculiar, and his artifacts were marvelous, but the difference in their cultivation levels was immense. In comparison, if Chi Yue and Qing Yang were Mount Everest, Gu Xiechen and his company would be mere dust at the base!

To have suffered such a disgrace, if word spread, they would have no standing left in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. They must kill Gu Xiechen and his party, at any cost!

Divine Monarch Chi Yue was bordering on frenzy. A Grand Unity Golden Immortal viewed their life-essence as paramount; the Primordial Chaos True Blood—which could only be condensed drop by drop at the core of the divine soul over one Yuanhui, possessing the power to transform the acquired into the innate and make the rotten marvelous—was spat out three times in a row.

The three drops of Primordial Chaos True Blood dissolved into a faint purple mist upon leaving his body, seeping into the red treasure mirror. The mirror, measuring three zhang six chi in diameter, immediately emitted a brilliant light that illuminated ten thousand li. The intense crimson glow enveloped the entire Mount Daluo range, causing the very earth to tremble.

The King Vulture of the Purple Eyes, watching from a distance, widened his eyes in shock. He nodded repeatedly, "Three drops of Primordial Chaos True Blood—this is truly fighting to the death! Three Yuanhui of arduous cultivation! Is it truly necessary? Wasting it on a petty fight! It would have been better to gift it to me; I would owe him a great favor for the year!"

The ability to condense Primordial Chaos True Blood at the core of the divine soul indicated that a Grand Unity Golden Immortal possessed the potential to reach the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm—the level of the Vast Prison’s Heaven—and thus held the qualification to challenge the Three Pure Heavens, the so-called Primordial Chaos realm.

The Primordial Chaos True Blood was the very foundation of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal's Dao attainment. It took tens of thousands of years of cultivation over a Yuanhui to condense a single drop at the core of the divine soul, and the magical essence contained within was unfathomably potent!

Spitting out three drops of Primordial Chaos True Blood meant Divine Monarch Chi Yue was driven mad by anger. However, after spitting out those three drops, he truly felt on the verge of madness and despair. In that instant, he even contemplated suicide. How could he have been foolish enough to sacrifice his Primordial Chaos True Blood in a fight?

It was akin to an alchemist at the Golden Core stage self-detonating his core, or a Nascent Soul cultivator casually using his own Nascent Soul as a canvas for carving, or a Spirit Transformation cultivator using lightning to strike his own primordial spirit under the guise of tempering his mind and body. A Grand Unity Golden Immortal using Primordial Chaos True Blood in battle was comparable to those three instances of utter derangement.

Gazing at the three wisps of purple energy dissolving into the red treasure mirror, Divine Monarch Chi Yue was overcome with true, absolute despair!

How had things come to this?

It began as such a joyous occasion: his son brought home a great beauty, along with several Ultimate Innate Treasures. How did it devolve into this? Was the lineage of the Three Divine Palaces fated for calamity this year? He had no premonition of this while in seclusion! Staring blankly at the mirror blazing with divine light, Divine Monarch Chi Yue howled like a maddened tiger. "It’s all your fault! You all deserve to die! Go die for this Divine Monarch!"

He roared every word, blood light spraying from his eyes, glaring ferociously at the blazing treasure mirror suspended in the void.

Gu Xiechen, rapidly circulating the Primordial Yellow Indestructible Body technique to repair his body, felt the terrifying pressure that seemed capable of destroying everything radiating from the void. He urgently shrieked, "Monkey, what are you doing? Hurry and activate your restrictions! If we weren't waiting for you, we’d already be long gone!"

In a nearby ravine, the Monkey, having reverted to his true ape form—fangs fully extended, eyes blazing with fierce golden light—was holding his hands above his head, chanting spells and setting up formations through gritted teeth. Hearing Gu Xiechen’s shout, the Monkey muttered incoherently, "Grandpa knows he needs to hurry! But... sigh, Master once said this method absolutely requires attainment of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm before it can be deployed. Grandpa Sun is still just a hair’s breadth short!"

Unable to activate the formation he had long laid down after much effort, the Monkey roared furiously at the sky, frustrated and ashamed. By the time the Monkey’s face was as red as the other parts of his body, his anger reached its peak. He leaped and roared almost maniacally, his dual cultivation of Buddhist and Daoist immortal power surging like a tide. A terrifying power of defiance and refusal, emanating from the very core of his divine soul’s inscription, began to emerge, flooding his entire being.

"Has this Old Sun... ever begged for mercy?"

The Monkey's once flighty and unrestrained face suddenly grew still as water. A golden light shot up from his head, and a hazy, indistinct phantom image of a monkey gradually manifested within that light. "Since it was a promise made, it must be fulfilled!"

Two beams of golden light shot from the Monkey’s eyes, piercing the firmament, and an indomitable aura that shook heaven and earth surged upward. This was not Buddhist power, nor was it magical energy, nor any power familiar to those present. It was an unyielding belief, representing the ultimate yang and unyielding strength in the cosmos, hidden deep within the Monkey’s primordial soul. Before their eyes, everyone experienced a sudden illusion, as if they saw a fresh, vibrant green bamboo shoot struggling beneath a massive boulder, finally succeeding in overturning it. Yang Jie’s expression abruptly changed; he spun his head violently toward the direction where the Monkey was concealed.

“A mere monkey head. Well done, Great Sage!”

Fire blazed in Yang Jian’s eyes—a battle intent born of pure, rapturous excitement. His hand, tightly gripping the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade, trembled with eagerness. “Open up for your Grandpa Sun! Master—even an Immortal of the Grand Unity (Taiyi Jinxian) can channel this divine ability!”

With a furious roar, a hazy silhouette of a golden ape soared out from above the Monkey’s head, rocketing into the sky. This golden ape was roughly a thousand zhang tall. It bared its teeth and snarled into the void, its massive arms violently churning and flipping the empty space.

With the cultivation level of a Taiyi Jinxian, without borrowing any external force, relying purely on an unyielding inner spirit, the Monkey actually managed to sever a corpse-clone under these circumstances! In that single instant, the brilliance in the Monkey’s eyes blazed intensely; he seemed to have pierced through countless secrets all at once.

His arms, previously unable to move, violently lifted upward following the movement of the colossal golden ape. The divine restrictions he had spent over ten days painstakingly preparing were finally activated!

In the void of Fanjian Xuyantian, the sky suddenly showed a blazing red sun high above and the bright moon shining clearly, creating the rare spectacle of the seven luminaries (sun and moon) illuminating the sky simultaneously.

Under the astonished gaze of countless immortals in Fanjian Xuyantian, the red sun and the bright moon suddenly darted rapidly across the void, the two celestial bodies instantly converging into one. The sunlight and moonlight merged, and then a brilliant, dazzling light, ten thousand zhang wide, shot down fiercely from the high heavens.

The measures the Monkey had pre-arranged in the various spiritual caverns and energy vents within Mount Dalou took effect. Innumerable beams of sunlight and moonlight shot up to the sky, drawing the great power of the sun and moon from the void to descend upon them. This magnificent force, coalesced from the supreme might of the sun and moon in Fanjian Xuyantian, slammed down like a massive hand gripping the spiritual veins and cavities of Mount Dalou, flipping them over ruthlessly with a single motion.

The arrangements previously set up by Gu Xechen were rendered useless; the entirety of Mount Dalou, spanning sixty million li, was flipped upside down.

The rock strata of Mount Dalou, sixty million li wide and a million li thick, were turned over like slices of bread by the light of the sun and moon, and then slammed down hard onto the ground. While the sky was illuminated by the splendor of the sun and moon, outside the boundaries of Mount Dalou—separated only by the breadth of the Nishui River—not a single speck of dust was stirred.

With a deafening crash, the Purple-Eyed Vulture King, who had been squatting on a mountaintop between Mount Dalou and Fayan to watch the spectacle, along with dozens of his Taiyi Jinxian subordinates, were caught off guard. They were sucked in by the rays of the sun and moon, and together with the entire Mount Dalou, were smashed deep into the earth.

Mount Dalou was utterly annihilated—annihilation meaning the mountain body, along with all the plants, trees, insects, fish, birds, and beasts upon it, turned into green smoke.

The Purple-Eyed Vulture King, who had no time to deploy his protective magic treasure, roared an oath of extreme profanity. Rolling his eyes back, he was smashed into the planet’s core, vast streams of blood erupting simultaneously from his seven orifices and every pore of his body. More than half of the dozens of Taiyi Jinxian he brought with him died instantly; only seven or eight powerful Demon Immortals, possessing inherently robust bodies and the bloodlines of ancient primordial divine beasts, narrowly survived.

The millions of immortals residing in the more than a dozen cities and hundreds of villages under the Three Divine Palaces of Mount Dalou were plunged underground as the Monkey utilized the power of the sun and moon to invert the terrestrial veins. These immortals, whose strongest members were only at the early stage of Golden Immortal rank, hadn't even grasped what had happened before they vanished along with Mount Dalou. The Crimson Moon Divine Lord vomited blood once more; the Azure Sun Divine Lord once again spat blood.

Too ruthless, too ruthless. Even if they had forcibly taken Gu Xechen’s beloved, even if their own foolish sons had provoked Gu Wuchen’s beloved, a sincere apology from the Three Divine Palaces would have settled the matter. How could they strike with such overwhelming force?

Protected by the ten-thousand-zhang flames of the red magic mirror, only the three Divine Lords—Crimson Moon, Azure Sun, and White Water—along with the ashen-faced Tianyuan Young Man, managed to survive. Of the millions of immortals belonging to the Three Divine Palaces, not a single strand of hair remained.

In the blink of an eye, the Three Divine Palaces, once dominant powers in Fanjian Xuyantian, had abruptly become the sects with the smallest number of members in the entire history of Fanjian Xuyantian. “They have gone too far! Too far!”

The three Divine Lords roared toward the heavens. The Azure Sun Divine Lord and the White Water Divine Lord simultaneously spewed out true blood of the Grand Primordial Chaos (Hongmeng Zhenxue); they were truly fighting with their lives on the line.

Gu Xechen’s group did not deign to speak to them. They had already gathered their speed and fled far away. With the Pangu Banner clearing the way for Gu Xechen, their escape speed was more than a hundred times faster than what a normal Taiyi Jinxian’s light escape should be. “If you flee to heaven, we will chase you to the Thirty-Third Heaven; if you burrow into the earth, we will pursue you down to the Eighteenth Hell!” the Crimson Moon Divine Lord roared through gritted teeth. “Unless we kill you all, we swear never to rest—!”

The Tianyuan Young Man also let out a roar of extreme fury, taking the lead to mount his light escape and pursue Gu Wuchen’s party.

The former sixty million li of Mount Dalou now consisted only of a sinkhole a million li deep, from which wisps of dark smoke continued to rise rhythmically.