C2025 The Empress Joined the Battle

Human cultivators from the vast expanses and the elder powerhouses from the Outland Starry Sky let out cries of shock when the sword made its appearance.

Lin Daoke, the revered Sword Sect Lord, has always occupied a lofty position in the hearts of his people. Despite their allegiance to the Divine Soul Sect and their departure from the Boundless Great World for various reasons, they couldn't help but feel a sense of respect when faced with Lin Daoke himself. Inside the Divine Soul Sect, some who studied the sword spell held Lin Daoke in high esteem.

The appearance of Lin Daoke's Divine Sword caused everyone gazing upon it to experience a sharp pain in their eyes. It was as if their souls were being pricked with needles, forcing them to avert their eyes from the sword. To all who perceived it, the Divine Sword, forged by Lin Daoke's divine power, seemed to emit a fierce light capable of cleaving the heavens and the earth.

Within the depths of the blade, Lin Daoke's Primordial Spirit emerged, gazing calmly at Yu Yuan. His soul's expression was complex and inscrutable, and he simply observed Yu Yuan's Yang God without uttering a single word.

"Sir, we have arrived in the Gray Domain," whispered the highly perceptive soul image from within the Soul Summoning Flag, maintaining its usual humility.

Yu Yuan, clutching the Evil Cauldron, was using his crimson bloodline to suppress the intense Spiritual Sense within the cauldron, along with the original essence that had fused with Yuan Lianyao's Primordial Spirit. The sudden appearance of Lin Daoke's unique Divine Sword and the Soul Summoning Flag did not take him by surprise.

He was also aware that at the moment Lin Daoke and the figure of great wisdom broke through Andrea's seal, the once-stilled vastness roared back to life, as if reconnecting with the Gray Domain. Both the figure of great wisdom and Lin Daoke's sword contained an essence within them. The Extreme Flame's spiritual consciousness served as an eye, and so did the essence.

Yu Yuan was contemplating whether to confront the figure of great wisdom or Lin Daoke first, or to quickly refine the fiery Spiritual Sense, when a clear directive from the Origin Blood in the far-off Dim Starfield reached him—it urged him to erase the Extreme Flame's Spiritual Sense as soon as possible.

Inside the cauldron, nearly a hundred thousand Fiend Demons were arrayed in formation, and numerous vicious souls and ghosts were spread out along the "Path of the Undead," encircling a ball of flames and a crystal pillar that was gradually fracturing.

The flame pillar, signifying Yuan Lianyao's divine position, resembled a piece of charcoal on the verge of splitting, billowing with thick smoke.

Yuan Lianyao's Primordial Spirit, merged with the pillar, teetered on the brink of collapse due to the fissure.

Thankfully, her Yin God and Yang God were still external, recuperating their essence.

"Master, please descend to personally oversee the situation."

Yu Yiyi commanded the Evil Demons, employing Soul Split, Soul Prison, Death Sea, Corpse Mountain, Demonic Mist, and other inherent formations of the Evil Cauldron to gnaw and erode the flame embodying the spiritual essence of Extreme Flame.

The demonic body she had cultivated was drenched in sweat within the cauldron's realm.

The Ice Concubine, transformed into ice spires, dissolved like a lit candle each time she directed herself toward the flame of extreme fire.

As Yu Yiyi's weapon, the Ice Concubine nearly had her soul extinguished upon contact with the spiritual consciousness of the extreme flames.

Yet, among the formidable Evil Devils, she was one of the few who could withstand the intense heat.

The lesser Evil Devils encircling the flame were annihilated.

The mightiest among them, Black Widow, Rend Armor, and Silver Lock, could not draw near the spiritual consciousness of the extreme flames and merely perished on the sidelines.

Ghosts following the "Path of the Dead" also turned to ash, along with the chilling soul river that flowed toward the extreme flames.

"I'm struggling to maintain control."

Yu Yiyi looked up, seeking assistance.

Chains of souls and clusters of dark Demonic Marks collaborated, aiding the Evil Cauldron in subduing the attracted anomalies.

Despite these efforts, Yu Yiyi felt an overwhelming pressure.

Outside the cauldron, Yu Yuan observed Lin Daoke wielding the Divine Sword and the astute bearer of the Soul Summoning Flag. His brow furrowed in concern.

"Allow me to intervene."

Chen Qinghuang, now bearing the exquisite visage of a human, stood with an air of solitude on a branch of the Hannya Divine Tree.

Noticing Yu Yuan's indecision, she declared, "Dealing with a transcendent being like the Source Spirit is bound to be more challenging."

With those words, a radiant green branch from beneath her feet soared towards the sword held by Lin Daoke and the wise figure beside him.

The Muddy Divine Soil, infused with the essence of a star, soared from that realm.

Rooted in the earth, the Hannya Divine Tree siphoned the life force of vegetation from the Outland Starry Sky. Its razor-sharp branches lunged at Lin Daoke and Ji Hui.

"You take down the Soul Summoning Flag; I'll handle Lin Daoke."

Chen Qinghuang swept aside the beaded curtain veiling her face, revealing eyes that transformed into two Alien Realms of death and destruction.

Her gaze brought obliteration and eternal desolation to all life, as if her very purpose was to embody the end of existence.

She was the embodiment of the Grim Reaper, a malevolent instrument destined to annihilate life and the cosmos.

This was the profound truth of the Great Dao she had realized.

The branch beneath her feet, twisted in her grasp, became an instrument of massacre.

Under her stare, Lin Daoke's soul shadow, merged with the divine, seemed destined for destruction, shrinking and withering as if death was imminent.

Boom!

Chen Qinghuang manifested a mystical form with three heads and six arms, each face symbolizing dominion over destruction, mastery of death, and the harbinger of rebirth.

This bizarre visage emerged, and Lin Daoke's Divine Sword erupted with blinding brilliance.

Countless sword beams, as if to shatter the great calamity of life and death, sought to escape Chen Qinghuang's entrapment and clip the wings of the once-celebrated Secular Bird Queen of the galaxy.

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

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

Three pairs of wings unfolded into six peculiar worlds, their verdant feathers interlocking, channeling the esoteric truths of death, destruction, and venom, gradually engulfing Lin Daoke's sword.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

Sword beams continued to burst forth from the soon-to-vanish void within the wings, causing them to swell but not to be breached.

As the wings contracted and finally closed, Chen Qinghuang, with her three heads and six arms, silently vanished within.

Lin Daoke's Divine Sword vanished without a trace.

The sword light ceased to strike the wings.

Puff!

The sound of fabric being pierced echoed as the divine tree, rooted in the Muddy Divine Soil and capable of piercing through stars, penetrated the Soul Summoning Flag.

The soul shadow that Extreme Intelligence had painstakingly condensed had just begun to coalesce on the flag when it was impaled by a branch.

"After me, a supreme being who understands the mysteries of space has emerged. I've heard you've also grasped my Great Dao of Space and Time. I'm quite eager to witness it," Zhong Chichen said with a carefree smile, clutching the Time Book as he effortlessly made his way into the Soul Summoning Flag.

He intended to arm-wrestle with Extreme Intelligence's spirit within the world inside the flag.

"The Secular Bird Queen managed to trap Lin Daoke's Divine Sword with three pairs of wings?"

Jiang Miaojie of the Divine Soul Sect, along with the other juniors who had not yet ascended to the Unrestrained Stage, exclaimed in astonishment from beyond the boundary of the Tia Main Planet.

She gazed at the Secular Bird Queen with reverence and said, "The legends are true! Ten thousand years ago, she was second only to the Titan and the Spinosaurus!"

"Not even the Demon Phoenix could match her a hundred thousand years ago!"

Jiang Miaojie envisioned a green Divine Bird from a hundred thousand years past, its majestic presence dominating the Eon Realm.

Out of jealousy for her beauty, the Demon Phoenix had devised a venomous plot that caused her to unwittingly spread death and destruction, provoking the ire of all the celestial powerhouses who ultimately banded together to slay her in the Oblivion Starfield.

Meanwhile, in the Gray Domain.

Far from the Tia Main Planet, in the distant starry sky, the adult Ground Beetle and the Monolith Tortoise, who had not yet reached their full potential, were also observing her every move.

The two Starry Behemoths were astounded to discover that the Secular Bird Queen, with her bizarre three-headed and six-armed form, had ensnared a sword.

Such a form of the Secular Bird Queen was markedly different from the giant beast form they were familiar with.

They couldn't fathom how the Secular Bird Queen, in that peculiar form, managed to trap the mightiest Divine Sword of the Sword Sect Lord.

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