C2025 The Empress Joined the Battle

Human cultivators from the Everlands and venerable experts from the extraterrestrial astral domain were taken aback, letting out cries of astonishment as the sword made its appearance.

Lin Daoke, the esteemed master of the Sword Sect, held a revered status among his people. Despite many having chosen to follow the Boulderdawn Sect and depart from the Everlands for various reasons, they couldn't help but harbor a sense of respect when confronted with Lin Daoke. Inside the Boulderdawn Sect, there were even those who deeply revered him and his mastery of the sword spell.

The appearance of the Divine Sword, a symbol of Lin Daoke, caused everyone gazing upon it to experience a sharp pain in their eyes. Their souls felt as if they were being pricked by needles, forcing them to avert their gaze from Lin Daoke's formidable blade. To all who beheld it, the Divine Sword, crafted by the divine will of Lin Daoke, seemed to emit a relentless sword light capable of cleaving through the fabric of the cosmos.

Within the depths of the blade, Lin Daoke's primordial spirit emerged, serenely observing Yu Yuan. His phantom bore an expression of complex emotions, silently contemplating Yu Yuan's Solar Spirit without uttering a single word.

"Sir, we have arrived in the Ashlands," came the soft, respectful voice of Jihui's soulful image from within the flag.

Yu Yuan, clutching the Crucible of Evil, was using his scarlet bloodline's lightning to subdue the blazing fire's spiritual sense within the crucible, along with a strand of primordial spirit that had fused with Yuan Lianyao's own. The sudden appearance of Lin Daoke's unparalleled Divine Sword and Jihui's Wraithbanner did not catch him off guard.

He was also aware that at the very moment Lin Daoke and Jihui shattered Kaiya's seal, the Everlands, which had momentarily paused, seemed to reestablish their connection with the Ashlands, resuming their thunderous roar.

Both Jihui and Lin Daoke's sword contained an essence within them. The spiritual sense of the blazing fire served as an eye, as did their origins.

Yu Yuan was contemplating whether to confront Jihui or Lin Daoke first, or to swiftly refine the flame's spiritual sense. Abruptly, a clear mandate came from the Primal Blood, far off in the Dark Star Domain.

He needed to swiftly obliterate the spiritual sense of the Blazing Fire.

Within the cauldron's world, nearly a hundred thousand Banes were strategically positioned in formation, with numerous evil spirits lurking in the depths of the "Path of the Undead," encircling a ball of flame and a crystal pillar that was gradually cracking.

The flame crystal pillar, symbolizing Yuan Lianyao's divine status, now resembled a piece of charcoal on the verge of splitting, billowing thick smoke.

Yuan Lianyao's primordial spirit, merged with the pillar, was on the brink of shattering due to the fissure.

Thankfully, her Lunar Spirit and Solar Spirit remained outside, already in the process of self-recovery.

"Master, I implore you to descend and take control of this critical situation."

Yu Yiyi, wielding command over the Banes, utilized the cauldron's inherent formations such as Soul Shatter, Soul Prison, Death Sea, mountain of corpses, and dark fog to grind and tear at the flame embodying the Blazing Fire's spiritual essence.

Her demonform, which she had cultivated, was drenched in sweat within the cauldron's realm.

The Frost Queen, transformed into an ice spike, would dissolve like a lit candle whenever she aimed at the flame representing the Blazing Fire.

Now serving as Yu Yiyi's weapon, the Frost Queen nearly had her soul extinguished upon contact with the Blazing Fire's spiritual sense.

Yet, amidst the multitude of formidable Banes, she was one of the few capable of withstanding the intense flames.

The lower-tier Banes encircling the flame were all annihilated.

The Chebus, Armor Crusher, and Silver Chain-like Banes could not approach the Blazing Fire's spiritual sense and were left to perish on the sidelines.

Also reduced to ashes were the ghosts that followed the Path of the Undead, like a chilling stream of souls, flowing towards the Blazing Fire.

"I'm nearing my limit," Yu Yiyi called out, seeking assistance.

Chains of souls and clusters of dark glyphs joined forces with the cauldron to suppress the foreign entities being drawn in.

Despite these efforts, Yu Yiyi still felt an overwhelming pressure.

Outside the cauldron, Yu Yuan's brow furrowed as he observed Lin Daoke with the Divine Sword and Jihui wielding the Wraithbanner.

"I'll handle this."

Nearby, Chen Qinghuang, now bearing the exquisite visage of a human, stood aloof on a limb of the Uxthar Tree.

She noticed Yu Yuan's hesitation and remarked, "Dealing with a Primal Anima, a being of such extraordinary nature, is bound to be more troublesome."

With those words, a radiant, verdant branch beneath her feet shot towards the sword wielded by Jihui and Lin Daoke. The Phoenix Ashes, having merged with a star, soared from that realm.

The Uxthar Tree, rooted deep in the soil, drew in the plant essence from the cosmos. Its razor-sharp limbs thrust towards Lin Daoke and Jihui.

"You pierce the flag; I'll handle Lin Daoke."

Chen Qinghuang swept aside the beaded curtain veiling her face, revealing eyes that regarded all life with indifference, transforming into two Otherworlds of death and destruction.

Her gaze alone seemed to doom beings to a desolate and eternal demise, as if her very existence was synonymous with obliteration.

She was the embodiment of the Grim Reaper, a malevolent instrument destined to annihilate life and the cosmos. Her birthright appeared to be the destruction of all beings and the universe itself.

This was the ultimate truth she had discerned.

The branch at her feet, twisted by her hand, became an instrument of massacre.

Under her stare, Lin Daoke's phantom, now intertwined with his divine essence, seemed tainted by a destructive fate, teetering on the brink of death.

The phantom visibly withered and shrank, as though death was imminent.

Boom!

Chen Qinghuang suddenly manifested a Divine Visage with three heads and six arms: one face commanded destruction, another wielded death, and a third nurtured rebirth.

Upon the appearance of this bizarre Divine Visage, Lin Daoke's sword erupted with blinding sword light.

The myriad beams appeared to shatter the great ordeal of life and death, striving to escape Chen Qinghuang's entrapment and clip the wings of the Secular Bird Queen, once renowned across the Star River.

"You should not have relied solely on the Divine Sword."

Chen Qinghuang's voice, devoid of emotion, echoed from six directions.

Three pairs of wings unfolded into six bizarre realms, their luminous feathers merging to convey the profound truths of death, destruction, and lethal poison, slowly engulfing Lin Daoke's sword.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

Sword lights ceaselessly shot out from the void where the wings were on the verge of vanishing, causing the three pairs of wings to protrude, yet they remained unscathed.

As the wings gradually contracted and finally closed, Chen Qinghuang, with her three heads and six arms, stealthily slipped inside.

And with that, Lin Daoke's Divine Sword vanished.

No more sword light continued to strike the wings.

Puchi!

The sound of the flag being pierced echoed, as the divine tree, rooted in the Phoenix Ashes capable of piercing the stars, penetrated Jihui's flag.

Jihui had barely managed to condense a phantom before it was impaled by the tree's branches as it began to coalesce.

"After me, a supreme being who mastered the secrets of space rose in the Everlands. I've heard you've even grasped my Way of Heaven, and I'm eager to witness it," Zhong Chichen said with a carefree smile, clutching the Book of Time as he confidently made his way into the Wraithbanner.

He was intent on wrestling with Jihui's soul within the realm inside the flag.

"The Secular Bird Queen actually trapped Lin Daoke's Divine Sword with three pairs of wings?"

Jiang Miaojie of the Boulderdawn Sect, along with Hua Xin and the other juniors who had not yet ascended to the Unbound Realm, watched in astonishment from beyond the barrier of the Tyria Main Planet.

She observed the Secular Bird Queen entering the realm that held the Divine Sword through a wing radiating a stunning emerald glow and said in reverence, "The legends are true! A hundred thousand years ago, she was second only to the Titan Spinosaurus and Bertain!"

"Not even the Dark Phoenix could rival her a hundred thousand years ago!"

Jiang Miaojie could almost see it—a hundred thousand years prior, an Azure Bird reigned supreme over the Star River.

The Dark Phoenix, envious of her beauty, devised a treacherous plot that led her to unwittingly sow death and destruction, provoking the ire of all the extraterrestrial powerhouses who banded together to hunt her down in the Annihilation Nebula.

Meanwhile, in the Ashlands.

Far from Tyria, the mature Starpierced and the Titan Turtle, still striving to surpass their limits, were also fixated on her every move as the Secular Bird Queen revealed her colossal Azure Bird form.

When the two Cosmic Giant Beasts encountered the Secular Bird Queen in her bizarre form, with three heads and six arms, and saw her trap a sword, they were astounded.

This version of the Secular Bird Queen was vastly different from any giant beast they were familiar with.

They couldn't fathom how, in such an unusual form, the Secular Bird Queen managed to ensnare the strongest Divine Sword, a legendary weapon of the Sword Sect's master.

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