ASER - Chapter 250
Chapter 250: Hegemony
These ten extreme experts had a rather bitter lot. Although the Grand Archbishop had painted a grand picture for them, deep down, they weren't too keen on leaving the Celestial Realm.
Having stayed in the Celestial Realm, how could they adapt to the cultivation environment of the human realm? Besides, they didn't even know if they could return.
The Grand Archbishop hadn't mastered the Celestial Gate yet, after all.
In truth, if they had been the trusted confidants of the three Red-Robed Cardinals, they wouldn't have been relegated to this first wave of adventurers.
However, it was fortunate that there were enough of them, rather than just two or three; otherwise, they might not have dared to confront A'Diao.
Having lived to their age and reached the Celestial Clan, they were well aware that some people were uncontrollable.
Those whose upper limits couldn't be seen often determined the lower limits of others – for example, death.
But after discovering A'Diao's traces in the universe and pursuing her, they saw her enter the human realm's barrier, so they hastily followed her into the human realm.
Thus, the ten of them descended at this moment.
However, their descent required passing through the human realm's barrier. No matter how subtle the disturbance, it was sensed by others.
So, when they descended, Baiyue Qinggu and the others instantly teleported and appeared.
These ten naturally saw them too.
"They are human realm experts."
"Recruited by A'Diao, some are also from Bronze Mountain."
"Leave no one. Kill them, then find A'Diao."
"Kill!"
Their killing intent surged, directly locking onto Kunlun and the others below.
If the Celestial Seed was a power system, it would have definitely activated by now. Connected to it were bloodlines, Dao Steles, and so on. Once outside the barrier, they could directly attack Kunlun and the others.
Logically, with their strength and numbers, they could directly inflict heavy casualties or even kill Kunlun and the others in one wave. At least killing one or two wouldn't be a problem, and heavily injuring everyone also wouldn't be an issue.
However, they were also wary, cautious of A'Diao hiding in the shadows to ambush them. So, while locking onto Kunlun and the others, they also scanned the surrounding space, but their scans were ineffective.
The moment they descended, the space had changed.
Everything in space was an element, elements formed compositions, compositions formed matter, and matter was the most tangible pressure.
A'Diao, hidden nearby, flashed out. Her red robe flowed like water ripples. She had revealed her true form during the public address earlier, dressed beautifully then. Now, however, she had changed into a red and white martial attire, looking valiant and heroic, with an imposing aura.
She directly unleashed a major move. The World Book activated, the Yellow Springs Eye glinted mysteriously, and the entire space and city shattered, becoming power in her palm. It directly enveloped the ten people like a cage, trapping them within. Under the furious crushing force, the ten were astonished, but their reactions were swift. They quickly established light streams connecting each other, forming a ten-person ring, achieving energy sharing and pressure distribution, directly mitigating more than half of the destructive power.
"She's here."
"Is this a Civilization Book? Or a World Book?"
"Let's get out first!"
These individuals possessed extraordinary insight. Previous intelligence had mentioned A'Diao luring and killing the kings of three nations; those who survived had submitted to her. Anyone directly controlled by the Arbitration Council had been completely eliminated by her.
Because everyone had died, no actual information had reached them. This was the first time they had witnessed A'Diao executing this move.
They recognized the Book of Civilization, but they had never seen one so powerful. Someone immediately thought of it: the World Book.
There were no more than five people in this world who possessed a World Book, all of them Celestials, and all of them dead.
So, if her current book was a World Book, then the problem was significant.
However, they had no time to dwell on this. The light emitted by their Celestial Seeds pulsed in circles.
After withstanding this terrifying world power, the ten were about to join forces to attack this confining world.
They could break it.
The extreme was, after all, the extreme, especially ten of them. They had come prepared.
Dong!
With this first strike, a large section of the combined world power was directly shattered.
Overbearing, tyrannical, and astonishingly powerful.
The internally sealed world prison, like a solid crystal ball, suffered a heavy blow from within, causing crystal-like cracks to spread outwards, as if it were about to be directly shattered.
However, the world power was created by A'Diao using the World Book, the Yellow Springs Eye, and her talent for controlling molecules. The latter meant it possessed sustainable repair capabilities.
Upon seeing the internal cracks, A'Diao immediately manipulated the separated molecules to reassemble, repairing the fissures.
"Quick! Forward!"
"Ignore it, push forward."
Initially, when A'Diao erupted, Song Ling and the others below were still in awe. Later, seeing the ten-member group from the Arbitration Council being even more formidable, they also felt panicked. Fortunately, A'Diao stabilized the situation.
Their hearts also steadied. They listened to A'Diao's words – push forward!
"With the assistance of the national vein, and them using equipment to blockade the airspace, we can't directly teleport to the capital of Lie Qin. We can only fight our way there."
"Has the equipment's location been locked down? Let's blow up the equipment along the way, then we can teleport collectively..."
The army was restless, its morale like a rainbow.
Having conquered three nations, their national veins belonged to her, naturally enabling A'Diao to turn the tide.
However, some were unwilling, attempting to disrupt Tang Song's offensive rhythm.
"Everyone, the Arbitration Council has already... you all... ah!"
The person shouting suddenly had their spiritual body explode, their pupils losing their light, and they collapsed weakly.
Not far away, Song Ling's eyes glinted slightly. She retracted her mental secret art and waved her hand, signaling the army to advance.
"Attack!!!"
"Those who surrender, retreat! Otherwise, kill!"
There was no need to fight anymore. The army ahead had already collapsed. Even now, seeing the Arbitration Council truly descend, many imperial family members were opportunistically killed by the quick-reacting Song Ling and others to silence them.
Wherever the imperial family was, kill them all, leave no one behind!
They advanced ruthlessly, showing no mercy. The Demonic Spirit army was even more ferocious; even some commoners were within their attack range, frightening many into obediently hiding in tunnels and houses, not daring to get involved.
Song Ling and the others advanced, and the ten people in the world prison began to attack together once more.
Evidently, they had plenty of strength left, capable of multiple bursts and even continuously enduring the damage from the world power.
"That light should be the ability of the Celestial Seed."
"To be able to fight like this."
Although Baiyue Qinggu and the others had anticipated that this wave of people sent by the Arbitration Council would be extraordinary, they hadn't expected ten Celestial Seeds to possess such power. They used to think that if they advanced to the extreme level, they might be able to contend with these beings who had nurtured Celestial Seeds. They were still naive.
However... they didn't have much time to think, because those ten people were visibly launching a second wave of attacks. This time, the damage to the world prison was even greater; the crystal fracture lines in the visibly burst area were longer, approaching the outer shell.
But outside, Kunlun, Qu Xia'er, and even experts like Yan Xi were also gathering power.
Qu Xia'er, who had released boundless mental threads to envelop the outer shell of the world prison to corrode these people's minds at the first opportunity, transmitted to A'Diao: "What about the poison you promised earlier?"
She knew very well that with their strength, they could at best entangle the opponents for one wave. If A'Diao couldn't heavily injure these ten, apart from Kunlun, they wouldn't even have the ability to harm the opponents.
A'Diao: "Don't rush, there will be a surprise."
Om!!!
Just as the Arbitration Council experts were about to erupt, the world power suddenly compressed and shrank. The ten individuals suddenly felt a stinging pain in their eyes. Before they could react...
Swish, swish, swish, their eyes suddenly started to draw threads.
Streams of black, viscous liquid shot out from the eyeballs of the ten people.
However, these threads were a bit thick, mainly because the ejection speed was very fast, lacking the smooth feel of drawn silk, more like fountains.
The visual impact was strong. Ten cuttlefish spirits?
Kunlun and the others: "?"
Perhaps the only one who got it was Qu Jiangnan. Her expression at that moment was indescribable.
This familiar formula, this familiar taste.
This skill could still be seen?
She had always thought its effectiveness was limited to the early stages. When did even extreme experts become susceptible to A'Diao drawing threads from them?
It could only mean that A'Diao had been continuously improving and upgrading it. This person, it seemed, really liked this skill deep down.
Qu Jiangnan silently criticized the insidious nature of this devious student in her heart.
However, this poison thread seemed to be the corrosive damaging substance left over after the Sun-aspect substance split off mutated matter. A'Diao had used it once before, and its power was astonishing. But theoretically, it shouldn't be able to harm extreme experts with Celestial Seeds in their bodies; this was the difference in aptitude and constitution.
"Foolish!" Although he had just been shocked by this unscrupulous skill, with all sorts of curses running through his mind, one of the Arbitration Council experts maintained his composure well. He endured the pain in his eyeballs, used the energy within his body to form an internal barrier to suppress the poison, and while cursing A'Diao as foolish, he used mental guidance to direct everyone's combined attack onto the wall of the world prison again.
This time, the cracks reached the outer shell.
They were almost out.
Everyone was overjoyed, about to make a final push, when suddenly.
A'Diao's hand gesture changed. It seemed to be a very complex control technique. Baiyue Qinggu and the others, acknowledging A'Diao's "skill," subconsciously wanted to observe and learn. But then they saw this person just casually flicked her hands a few times, changing gestures, and finally settled on – a middle finger freeze-frame.
She then righteously uttered an extremely vicious curse.
"Get diarrhea, damn it."
The ten from the Arbitration Council: "???"
Before they could react, they still felt the stinging in their eyes, but another place felt even more sore. A terrifying urge gathered from their body's meridians to one point – very itchy, very bloated, so uncomfortable.
And then...
"Ah!!!"
When one person screamed, the other nine saw this person's miserable and wretched fate.
The chrysanthemum... exploded.
A thick fountain of black poison... just burst forth like that.
The nine were scared out of their wits, frantically trying to protect their chrysanthemums. However, their level was only slightly different from this person's. Seeing it meant experiencing it, so...
Nine chrysanthemums bloomed collectively.
Spraying each other, spraying without any blind spots.
A'Diao received mental power from all present who witnessed it. The people from the Arbitration Council didn't count, but Baiyue Qinggu and the others had contributed mental power to A'Diao several times. Their mental power values fluctuated, but this time, it instantly skyrocketed to the limit.
And it was a cross-tier skyrocket.
From Kunlun +9999 stars!
From Baiyue Qinggu +8999 stars!
From Qu Xia'er +8888 stars!
From...
It was too terrifying. Having lived for so long, they had never seen such a deranged skill.
A'Diao was a little surprised, muttering to Toilet: "What's wrong with these people? Why such a big reaction to this? So repressed. They're all so lewd inside."
And she had the audacity to call them lewd and repressed?
This hypocritical act was particularly infuriating.
Toilet, equally shocked, spoke with considerable complexity: "I did some calculations. You're also live-streaming this, aren't you?"
It knew she was researching and upgrading her old skills. After all, the upgrades brought by Toilet's own advancement were only in terms of intensity. Her realm was higher, her knowledge of techniques more abundant, so she began to upgrade and flexibly alter the modes of these skills.
If the eyes are blocked, other places can spray, right?
Can't the nostrils work?
Why did it have to be... that.
She was being so disgusting; she must have a motive.
A'Diao: "Yeah, for mental power, it's not shameful."
She felt she had a legitimate reason, innocent and pure as a white lotus, but Kunlun and the others were just repressed.
No arguments accepted.
But she had to appease her teammates, seeing their dark expressions.
"Don't be nervous, everyone is on our side. I never attack my own people, really."
She was very sincere and cordial, completely forgetting that not long ago at Mount Qi, she had buried them all together.
Baiyue Qinggu and the others said nothing. It seemed they believed her, yet they didn't.
Spraying poisonous liquid from the chrysanthemum was no big deal, as long as it could be suppressed.
But the quantity was large, and its form was changing.
The gushing toxins quickly compressed, turning into solid Sun-aspect toxins. They sealed the entire inner surface of the world prison, both repairing the cracks and sealing them in a terrifying world of Sun-aspect poison.
"This is..."
The walls solidified and sealed, and the inner circle gurgled as it filled with poisonous liquid. The ten were soon trapped in the sticky Sun-aspect liquid. Furthermore, this terrifying Sun-aspect liquid, after flowing, compressed against itself, turning into Sun-aspect solids with a poison density hundreds of times greater. This toxicity directly penetrated their armor and entered their bodies.
Even Celestial Seeds couldn't be immune to all poisons.
A'Diao's technical skills were truly kingly.
If A'Diao hadn't mastered separation and extraction techniques, nor the technology for converting and compressing Sun-aspect substances between gaseous, liquid, and solid states, none of this would have been possible.
But she had mastered them, which meant she could "poison the entire field without a fight."
Ah!!
The toxins caused them unbearable pain, their energy systems collapsing rapidly. They could only frantically attack the world wall, even burning their spiritual bodies and elixirs for this purpose...
Wave after wave of desperate, life-risking attacks, like cornered dogs, finally allowed them to see a crack open in the pitch-black prison wall.
The ten once again unleashed a large amount of energy... Attack!
With a loud bang, the world prison finally exploded. The ten, battered and weakened, rushed out. But just as they emerged, A'Diao directly used a move.
"Turn into pigs!"
Bang, bang, bang!
Super smooth armor removal... then a group of pink piggies appeared.
Not only did they turn into pigs, but each pig also had a manifested restriction binding it, meant to suppress their spiritual body damage and control their counterattacks.
This move was formidable.
Especially that restriction manifestation, its effect was spot on, truly sealing these people's spiritual bodies as well.
It just looked a bit like a bra, and a pink one at that.
Tied very tightly.
And not just one bra, but sets of them.
"A'Diao! You beast!"
"Damn it!!"
"This is intolerable!"
"You're pushing it too far!"
This group's mentality collapsed. While their chrysanthemums sprayed poison, while they vomited blood, they cursed A'Diao, comparable to hysterical aunties raging in a countryside market, clearly furious to the extreme.
This time, even the indifferent Qu Xia'er couldn't maintain her composure, her clear, cold eyes glaring at A'Diao reproachfully.
She had previously suspected A'Diao wasn't human. Now, she felt, she truly wasn't human.
Although Baiyue Qinggu and the others had seen ancient records and had battle plans with A'Diao, they still tried their best to ignore the strange feeling in their hearts – they were inferior to these extreme experts, which meant A'Diao could also make their eyes spray silk and then collectively turn them into pigs wearing bras with a single thought?
Despite the strange feeling, it was the enemy who was unlucky. The various big shots were very experienced. Taking advantage of the ten from the Arbitration Council turning into pigs, they directly unleashed their strongest attacks and techniques.
Kunlun, wielding the Langya Yin-Yang Sword, instantly killed one. He was the only one not afraid of these extreme experts, because back then, even without a Celestial Seed, he was comparable to the extreme level. What's more, he now had a Celestial Seed, and these people were heavily injured, making the power disparity obvious.
Meanwhile, Qu Xia'er and the others combined forces to eliminate two.
The remaining seven were terrified. How could they still dare to speak of assassinating A'Diao as their mission objective?
Flee, they must flee!
But at this moment, they were at the end of their rope, while A'Diao was on a killing spree, taking down these poisoned and energy-depleted individuals one by one.
The world prison was merely an auxiliary means, intended to weaken them.
Seven quickly became five. Two of the five were caught by Kunlun and the others. The remaining three fled for their lives, but before they could get far, A'Diao immobilized them.
It's over, it's over.
In their despair, the three sensed a celestial phenomenon.
"They're here!"
"It's the Grand Archbishop and the Red-Robed Lords, they're here!"
"Hahaha, A'Diao, you're dead meat!"
These three were overjoyed, because they saw not only the Grand Archbishop, but also a large group behind him – the three Red-Robed Cardinals and twenty to thirty experts from the Arbitration Council had all come.
They thought many people had come, but they didn't know that the entire expert team of the Arbitration Council had turned out in full force, only to be slaughtered down to this small number.
Meaning, only a quarter remained.
They were oblivious, only feeling immense gratitude and joy towards the Grand Archbishop and the others, even as black liquid sprayed from behind them.
The Grand Archbishop must have seen their crisis and rushed to save them, traversing space at great speed.
But soon – why was there also a mass of blackness behind the Grand Archbishop and his group?
That sky-obscuring sense of darkness.
"That is?"
"It's the Supreme Demon King!!"
The expressions of the three froze, their eyes filled with terror.
Flee!
They immediately fled in the opposite direction, but were blocked by A'Diao and the others, resulting in a reversed encirclement and a sound thrashing of the already defeated.
Meanwhile, due to the large-scale forced descent of the Grand Archbishop and his party, the intense spatial disturbance was also sensed by Yu Xuanji and others, but they didn't turn back to check.
"So fast, faster than planned. What do we do? The airspace hasn't been cleared yet, we can't reach the capital."
"Almost there! Prepare!"
In a hidden location, the national-level equipment blockading the airspace was detonated.
Airspace cleared.
Everyone was overjoyed and teleported one after another...
They teleported towards the capitals of Lie Qin and Nan Jin, intending to directly attack the royal cities.
But at this moment, the Grand Archbishop Dantai Zongming also saw this scene. He narrowed his eyes and immediately ordered several people to indeed go to the royal cities to kill and obstruct them from taking the capitals after exiting the barrier.
On the other side, they rushed towards A'Diao.
In any case, Dantai Zongming's target was A'Diao. He wanted to lead the Supreme Demon King to A'Diao so he could escape and have time to refine the Celestial Gate.
And even if he couldn't draw A'Diao into battle, with so many of them, they were enough to instantly kill A'Diao and her group in the first round. At that time, he would devour the national karmic luck on A'Diao, which could also accelerate the speed of refining the Celestial Gate.
Because of this urgency, just as they tore through the last thin membrane of the human realm, before they even touched the first breath of fresh air from the human world, suddenly, Dantai Zongming discovered that the membrane actively clung to them like an adhesive car cover. Dense restriction totems covered the transparent spatial membrane; it was vast and profound, at least it enveloped them, like a flexible, sentient piece of sacred cloth.
What level was Dantai Zongming at? Just now, he was only anxious because he was being chased by the Supreme Demon King, and in his haste, he failed to inspect the outermost layer of the membrane. Now, seeing it envelop them, his face instantly changed.
Not good, this is an ambush!
"Break it, quickly!"
He dodged himself and also raised his hand to attack the membrane-like sacred cloth. The three Grand Cardinals also managed to dodge at his warning, but more people weren't fast enough and failed to evade, getting wrapped by these sacred cloths. Then, after these cloths entangled them, they transformed into dense restriction imprints on their bodies.
At this time, A'Diao had just finished killing one of the three unlucky extreme experts, leaving the remaining two to Qu Xia'er and the others. Her Yellow Springs Eye swept across the space, calculated the time, and a slight smile touched her lips. She extricated herself, floated in the sky, and her hands intertwined to form seals.
Here we go!
As the seals formed, the restriction characters glittered with golden light, coming alive and drilling into the bodies of the experts, heading straight for their Celestial Seeds.
"This..."
"What is this!"
The experts naturally didn't want these foreign, mysterious characters to enter their bodies. But terrifyingly, they seemed to be of the same origin as the Celestial Seeds; the Celestial Seeds even craved them intensely, actively absorbing them. This caused the experts' wills to be weaker than the Celestial Seeds' initiative, allowing these characters to enter their dantian abdomens directly.
Entering, melting.
How is this possible!
Everyone was utterly horrified, even the Grand Archbishop and the three Red-Robed Cardinals were stunned.
What was the flaw of the Celestial Seed? It was inevitably where it differed from a true Celestial bloodline.
A'Diao had compared them and eventually discovered that her own bloodline contained a tiny, mysterious, special DNA chain. It was very simple, hidden within the complex Celestial DNA chain, and impossible to find without a targeted search.
It existed between physical tissue and the spiritual body, capable of residing in the body or hiding in the spiritual sea.
Later, it had indeed always hidden in her spiritual sea, which also aligned with the characteristic of Celestials generally having the strongest mental-type talents and excelling at curses.
A'Diao had specifically extracted a bit from her Celestial bloodline for research. After in-depth investigation, she found it was closer to the essence of the spiritual path.
Perhaps this was why the Celestials' cultivation ceiling was higher than that of humans.
Most importantly, she knew that the Arbitration Council must have made similar discoveries over the past three hundred years. That's why they later placed the Celestial Seed in the Celestial Maiden's brain for gestation, perhaps also wanting this Celestial Seed to be closer to the true, original Celestial bloodline.
Because they discovered that even though the Celestial Seed could make them collectively stronger, possessing aptitudes comparable to Celestials in all aspects, it couldn't allow them to break through to demigod – the only one who truly reached demigod was Grand Archbishop Dantai Zongming.
Dantai Zongming was the leader and had priority access to all resources. Those below him knew full well that his breakthrough was entirely due to accumulated resources. Moreover, he controlled the Celestial Gate and the legacy left after the Divine Maiden's death; others simply couldn't compare.
As time went on, if these people remained stuck below demigod, it would be detrimental to stability. Furthermore, Dantai Zongming also wanted to break through past demigod, so both superiors and subordinates focused on researching how to elevate the Celestial Seed further.
Later, they also conducted such tests, but before they could succeed, the troublemaker A'Diao snatched away both the coffin and the Celestial Seed.
Now, A'Diao, leveraging her bloodline advantage, had mastered this secret and prepared these restriction characters.
The core wasn't the restriction characters themselves, but the material used to write them – it was that special substance A'Diao had extracted and refined from her own bloodline.
One desires what one lacks. The Celestial Seed craved it. A'Diao could naturally use this characteristic to bypass all the physical armor and defenses of these experts and send it directly into their Celestial Seed regions.
As they absorbed it...
The restrictive meaning represented by the characters was revealed.
A'Diao was ruthless. After these characters were absorbed by the Celestial Seeds of these super experts, she formed a seal and activated it with her will.
Restriction curse, triggered by characters, and then...
"Explode!"
And so... the Celestial Seeds of these experts exploded.
Chrysanthemums tattered, the ground scarred.
But if the Celestial Seed exploded, it wasn't a matter of injury or not, but devastating damage.
Boom, boom, boom!
When the Celestial Seeds of these twenty to thirty super experts exploded, a few powerful ones managed to suppress the internal explosion, preferring backlash rather than an external blast. An external blast would destroy their physical bodies, and once their bodies were gone, they would be like lambs to the slaughter, most likely to be killed here.
But if the backlash was contained within the Celestial Seed, at least it would only destroy the Celestial Seed, causing a temporary loss of most combat power, but they could still flee to the universe and later recultivate their realm or use a new Celestial Seed to nurture again.
However, only seven or eight people managed to do this in a short time, successfully suppressing the explosion. More people failed to suppress it.
So, they exploded.
The Celestial Seeds had been nurtured by them for many years. These winners of yesteryear were highly dependent on their Celestial Seeds, abandoning everything in the human realm for them, unaware that this very thing would one day become their death warrant.
The energy level of an extreme expert was immense. The shockwave from the explosion of eighteen people directly encompassed that area, covering both Dantai Zongming and the menacingly pursuing Supreme Demon King in one go.
A single branch of red apricot blossoms leans out over the wall; a thousand, ten thousand pear trees bloom.
This scene reflected in the eyes of Kunlun and the others. They felt both amazed and deeply fearful of A'Diao's terror – a while ago, she had casually mentioned having a way to suppress the Celestial Seed talents of these Arbitration Council experts.
She had seemed a bit like she was showing off.
Later, her actions indeed contradicted her words.
This wasn't suppression; it was a direct takedown.
If victory could be achieved through skill and intellect (cunning), then one should never engage in a head-on confrontation.
This had been A'Diao's style since childhood, and it remained so now.
After these people were enveloped by the explosion, several light figures scattered and rushed out.
Among them, seven or eight were surviving Arbitration Council experts, three were Ying Lie and his group, while the Supreme Demon King and the Grand Archbishop were actually fighting at the epicenter of the explosion.
With the demigod cultivation of the Grand Archbishop and the Supreme Demon King, an explosion of this magnitude was only enough to graze their skin; it couldn't even shake their foundations.
So, they still had the motivation to fight.
The Grand Archbishop was cunning, and he spoke out: "Demon King, although you and I are sworn enemies, in these three worlds, it currently seems that this A'Diao is the most dangerous. Looking at today, don't you feel you've been schemed against by her, becoming a pawn? Her schemes are all to make us, the snipe and clam, fight, so she can be the fisherman who profits. Why don't you and I..."
Once a person has been in a high position for a long time, they can't even bother with their past pretenses of morality and righteousness. For their own sake, they would rather join forces with the Supreme Demon King, so what talk is there of the human race's safety and peril?
It shows that there are countless experts in this world, but few saints.
However, the Grand Archbishop's persuasive words were directly interrupted by the Supreme Demon King, "You despicable human ladybug, you think you're worthy of being called my sworn enemy? My only sworn enemy is the Divine Maiden. What are you?"
This was a direct slap in the face.
A'Diao, having been cued, immediately chimed in, "Demon King, how can you speak like that? The Grand Archbishop back then was a conniving sycophant, colluding with our family's old turtle. He managed to use the Celestial Maiden's love-addled brain to successfully kill the two sisters, wipe out the Celestial Clan, and even got you killed in the process. Then he gloriously ascended to the Celestial Realm with a bunch of old fogeys. This is a perfect example of one person making it big and bringing all their cronies along! The number one inspirational figure of the three races! How could a powerhouse like you, born a Demon King, understand the grand ambitions of hypocrites like them?"
Every time she was cued, she had to drag out the two Celestial Maiden sisters, those old royal ancestors, and the Demon King to diss them all. Her sarcastic tone, overtly praising but covertly demeaning, or overtly demeaning and covertly demeaning even more, made both the Grand Archbishop and the Supreme Demon King's faces darken.
But it wasn't over. This rascal was on a roll, her little cherry-red mouth babbling endlessly.
"By the way, Grand Archbishop, I've successfully schemed this Demon King to your presence. Run quickly, quickly refine the Celestial Gate. Once you refine it, you'll be the new deity. What Demon King, what Demonic Spirit race, they're all trash, to be trampled under your feet in minutes, including this Supreme Demon King who wiped out most of your men. No matter how strong he is, can he be stronger than you, the number one old schemer of all time?"
"Oh my, why are you looking at me like that? Run, run quickly! You and I are both humans, how could I possibly harm you? Let me lead this Demon King away to buy you time... You don't need to be moved. In fact, as a shameless old scumbag, you, Grand Archbishop, are my, A'Diao's, lifelong idol."
"Tsk, you old undying Demon King, come over here!"
She even made a classic beckoning gesture with her index finger.
You, come over here!
Supreme Demon King: "..."
Grand Archbishop: "..."
This little bastard, I really want to beat her to death!
The killing intent of the two ultimate bosses towards A'Diao reached its peak, but the Supreme Demon King was too rational. Even though he was infuriated by A'Diao, he stubbornly clung to the Grand Archbishop.
The Grand Archbishop held the Celestial Gate; he wouldn't give the opponent any breathing room, otherwise, if the opponent mastered the Celestial Gate, it would be troublesome.
And currently, A'Diao's strength lay in her cunning and step-by-step scheming, but her actual combat power did not threaten demigods like them.
The Supreme Demon King fixed his gaze on the Grand Archbishop.
The Grand Archbishop was entangled and suppressed, looking quite wretched and feeling stifled. He wanted to run towards A'Diao to seize the opportunity to devour her, but this damn thing, though her mouth spouted green tea fragrance, actually ran faster than a rabbit.
You come over here.
If you come over, I'll run.
Come on, come on again.
Too despicable!!
The Grand Archbishop could do nothing about A'Diao. On the other hand, Kunlun, A'Diao, and the others on the periphery were already prepared, locking onto those weakened experts who had escaped and attacking them.
Hmm, today was all about hitting weakened targets, reaping heads, and playing dirty...
At least, that's how it was for now.
Kunlun and the others frantically slaughtered these incapacitated survivors, one slash per person, like chopping melons and vegetables. The combat feeling wasn't exhilarating at all, but it was really... so satisfying!
Baiyue Qinggu inexplicably zoned out: Perhaps, in the future, the combat style in the human realm will be dominated by this kind of underhanded style. The elite system of the human realm might produce many more scumbags.
The Grand Archbishop was not without means. He transmitted a message to the three Red-Robed Cardinals, who immediately locked onto A'Diao.
These three were not easy to deal with.
So A'Diao quickly ran towards Kunlun and the others.
Kunlun and the others: "?"
Ah no, don't come over, go away, go away.
Unfortunately, Ying Lie, Ji Wuchen, and Dantai Yun were already chasing after her.
These three were terrifying, three of them equivalent to 15 extreme Great Spirit Kings. A'Diao took one look and shouted to Kunlun and the others: "Oh dear, these three old fogeys are hard to deal with. Are you willing to fight for me?"
This time she was more tactful, not mentioning dying in battle.
But how could Baiyue Qinggu and these people not understand? No one paid her any attention.
A'Diao didn't need them to respond. She turned and ran, muttering to herself with emotion, "Then I'll have to trouble you sisters, brothers, and aunties to hold them off for me. I will definitely not forget you."
She ran off again. The three Red-Robed Cardinals chased after her once more, completely ignoring Kunlun and the others.
Kunlun and the others, who were actually prepared to intercept for A'Diao: "???"
Is A'Diao leading the enemy away in reverse? Such painstaking effort.
Only Toilet and Qu Xia'er knew: No, she was genuinely trying to run.
This unscrupulous ghost.
"Damn, they're really chasing me, these three old fogeys."
A'Diao cursed as she seemed about to flee. But how could Ying Lie and the other two let her? Seeing the distance was about right, they simultaneously activated their Celestial Seeds and launched a powerful offensive from behind.
But just then, A'Diao turned back and gave them a mysterious smile.
This smile was so sinister.
Then she forcibly broke free from their lock, merged into space, but used the World Order she held in her hand towards one direction.
There, with a hum, the Demon Cave directly opened.
The Four Great Demon Kings and countless Demonic Spirits still working hard behind the Demon Cave: "?"
They were planning to lie low for a while, to be the oriole behind, so why did the human realm proactively open half the space?
Not good, it was that A'Diao doing it deliberately!
She knew they were hiding here all along.
However, ahead they saw their old enemies, the three idiot Cardinals from the Arbitration Council.
Kui Wei, Bi Shi, and the other two sneered upon seeing Ying Lie and his group.
Jiu Wei swished its tail, sneering.
"Long time no see, you three old native chickens."
When a chicken or dog ascends to heaven, right? Anyway, the Demonic Spirit race also mocked these human imperial families this way.
After all, the Celestial Clan should have been the lifelong pursued delicacy of their Demonic Spirit race, but it was eaten by the lowly human race. Could they tolerate that?
Enemies meeting, their eyes blaze with hatred.
And the dirty trick of setting dogs on each other was also a classic tactic of A'Diao's.
Timing, calculation, everything was part of her plan.
For example, now, even if the Four Great Demon Kings and the three Red-Robed Cardinals knew this was A'Diao's scheme, since they had met, neither side could possibly take a step back.
Moreover, the Four Great Demon Kings saw that the three Cardinals were only three strong, the Arbitration Council's forces were mostly dead or injured, while their Demon Cave side was teeming with experts, like the sun at noon.
Opportunity knocks but once.
Kui Wei grinned, his protruding sharp teeth glinting with black light, "Kill!"
The experts of the Demonic Spirit world poured out in full force. The Demon Kings blotted out the sky, the demonic tide surged, directly surrounding the pitifully outnumbered Ying Lie and his two companions.
A beautifully executed incitement to battle.
At this moment, in the eyes of others: she wasn't like those peerless heroes and overlords, invincible and ever-victorious. She often fell behind, with no hope of winning through direct confrontation.
So she hid, she fled, she disguised herself, silently developing, and then launched a domineering counter-kill. If she really couldn't get the time to develop to a point where she could stably defeat her opponent, then she could only resort to tricks, various calculations to weaken them, leveraging strength against strength, suppressing the opponent's power to a level similar to or even weaker than her own.
But even so, she could currently only eliminate those extreme experts from the Arbitration Council and trap the three Red-Robed Cardinals, yet she dared not approach the two Grand Archbishops.
Sneaky and underhanded, but who dared to underestimate her?
The Grand Archbishop's expression froze; he deeply felt A'Diao's terror. His thoughts turned, and he shouted, "Demon King, you see, this A'Diao understands your Demonic Spirit race extremely well. Haven't you ever suspected how you were resurrected? And if she had the confidence to resurrect you to kill me, doesn't she also have the means to counter you? If you insist on killing me and end up being counter-killed by her, that would be truly foolish, your illustrious name ruined!"
This time, the Supreme Demon King was faintly persuaded and swayed.
The Grand Archbishop added another strong dose, "Most importantly, she has actually mastered the secrets of the Celestial Seed. I suspect she is a descendant of the Celestials, and not an ordinary Celestial, but a Celestial Maiden. Otherwise, how could she master the World Civilization Book – that technique she used before was the World Civilization Book. You and I both know that only Celestials master civilization. The initial, strongest Civilization Book is the World Book. However, the Celestial Maiden only has an ordinary World Book, but the Divine Maiden controls the Book of Divine Authority."
"If she is the Celestial Maiden, she is a compatriot of the Divine Maiden. After the Divine Maiden's death, she could completely succeed the Divine Maiden and obtain all divine power. Therefore, I suspect that once she obtains the national karmic luck of the other two countries, and the three national veins merge, she can ascend to godhood. At that time, where would there be any chance for you to live?"
Truly worthy of being the Grand Archbishop, his nonsense was well-reasoned. This time, even Kunlun and the others were half-convinced.
Even A'Diao herself began to doubt.
Ah, is she really the Celestial Maiden? Impossible, how could she be that super love-struck fool.
A'Diao was disgusted.
The Supreme Demon King only hesitated for a few seconds. In these few seconds, his body transformed into an inferno, delving deep into space. Half the sky was invaded by the inferno, and countless tentacles extended from it. It permeated space, directly tracking A'Diao.
The speed was too incredible, and too powerful. Kunlun and the others had just finished killing those few people when they suddenly heard a loud noise. Turning back, they saw A'Diao pierced by a tentacle.
It was said to be pierced, but she had a shield in front of her that blocked it. However, other tentacles followed, chasing and killing her from all directions.
Evidently, this Supreme Demon King had indeed developed killing intent towards her.
He was too terrifying. If based on A'Diao's previous combat power, where she even had to avoid the three Red-Robed Cardinals, then she would undoubtedly die now.
The Grand Archbishop watched coldly, while Kunlun and the others flew over, attempting to help. However, A'Diao's brow twitched, and immense world power crushed these tentacles.
She dodged in time, floating high in the sky, forming a triangular standoff with the Grand Archbishop and the Supreme Demon King.
"Ah, you old scoundrel saw through me, huh? What a pity, I couldn't wait for this old Demon King to kill you."
A'Diao, having shed her disguise of playing the pig to eat the tiger, revealed her true self, arrogant and with a MAX level of showing off.
The strength she now displayed was roughly on par with the Grand Archbishop, indeed qualifying her to threaten the Supreme Demon King.
Just as the Grand Archbishop was about to speak, A'Diao suddenly interrupted him, "You old scoundrel, shut up! Don't try to stall for time. Is this a place where a lowly bastard like you can interject? Only I, the Celestial Maiden, and the Demon King are qualified to converse."
Though she said she didn't like being the Celestial Maiden, she quite enjoyed high positions, anyway, just climbing up the pole.
Her thick-skinned appearance was truly shameless.
Grand Archbishop: "..."
Everyone: "..."
After cursing the Grand Archbishop, A'Diao goaded the Supreme Demon King, "My dear Demon King, what are you waiting for? This old schemer is definitely stalling for time, he might have some trick buried somewhere. Hurry up and kill him! After you kill him, you and I will have another battle. This is the way of the strong."
Toilet was a bit suspicious at this moment: What's wrong with this Supreme Demon King? Why is he distracted by A'Diao? Yet he doesn't make a move. Isn't this falling for the Grand Archbishop's trick? Something feels strange.
The Supreme Demon King glanced at her and sneered, "No need for you to say more. Even if I don't kill him now, he cannot refine the Celestial Gate. Otherwise, he would be interrupted by you and me on the spot – you have this ability too, right? Otherwise, why did you lure him into the human realm? Just counting on me alone to kill him? Cut that out. I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice."
Kunlun: "Not necessarily. She can eat five bowls of rice in one meal, plus two afternoon teas and two late-night snacks. Where do you get your confidence?"
The devastatingly handsome, immortal-like Kunlun suddenly said this with such seriousness and indignation, as if he absolutely had to stand up for his precious grand-disciple.
The atmosphere became subtle.
Supreme Demon King: "..."
Is she the Celestial Maiden? Why do I feel like she's the long-lost Pig Demon King of my Demonic Spirit race?
A'Diao: Kunlun Old Ancestor, are you praising me? Are you, are you?
Just then, the Grand Archbishop suddenly chuckled. This chuckle caught the attention of A'Diao and the Supreme Demon King.
Ah, could it be...
A'Diao and the Supreme Demon King attacked simultaneously, attempting to strike the Grand Archbishop and interrupt his refinement.
But in fact, he didn't have a refinement process, because he directly received immense karmic luck.
"Haha, A'Diao, you think you're the only one in the world skilled at using avatars? Little do you know, I, Dantai Zongming, also had a plan long ago."
Where did the karmic luck come from? Could it be that the national veins of Lie Qin and Nan Jin were seized by this person instead?
It was not.
The Four Great Demon Kings, who were beating Ying Lie and his two companions into retreat, were all shocked at this moment.
They sensed it.
"Your Majesty, it's our race's karmic luck! Damn it, these bastards have stolen the peaches!"
In the Demonic Spirit World, the karmic luck pillar at the Demon King's Palace was being stolen.
And the perpetrators were, shockingly, a group of Arbitration Council experts.
That's right, this was another team that had been dispatched – Dantai Zongming had actually sent out two teams: one to assassinate A'Diao, and another to secretly enter the Demonic Spirit World.
As the number one who had schemed against the three races and become the ultimate winner back then, Dantai Zongming naturally had the habit of making backup plans.
If his refinement of the Celestial Gate was interrupted and he couldn't continue, he would have to take the karmic luck shortcut. However, the human realm was of the same race as him, and backlash could also affect him; he couldn't take it by force. And when he initially withdrew manpower from the human realm, he also lost direct control over it, which had its pros and cons. Now, his best option was the Demonic Spirit race. Coincidentally, at that time, he didn't know the Supreme Demon King had awakened. It was also a coincidence that after the Supreme Demon King awakened, he went to the black hole in the universe. At that exact time, this group of people hadn't yet entered the Demonic Spirit World, otherwise, they would have been detected by the Supreme Demon King's sweep.
Thus, while the Supreme Demon King was slaughtering the Arbitration Council in the Celestial Realm, this group quietly entered the Demonic Spirit World.
Now, the main army was out, and the Demonic Spirit World was internally empty. The Crimson Flame Golden Lion Beast sensed the changes in the Demon King's Palace, but it looked back at that altar and dared not leave, only growling and staring at the Demon King's Palace.
It actually abandoned the Demonic Spirit race's karmic luck for this altar?
In the Demon King's Palace, this group of experts smiled, and the Dantai Zongming avatar leading them had a slight smile on his lips, enjoying the pleasure of karmic luck entering his body. The main body and the avatar shared karmic luck; what he gained was gained by the main body.
This universe was about to be his.
At that time, in the imperial capitals of Lie Qin and Nan Jin in the human realm, after Song Ling and their armies teleported, they were supposed to launch a strong offensive into the royal cities and take them easily. But they suddenly found both royal cities armed to the teeth. Even worse, outside the royal cities, large numbers of cultists and remnants of the Demonic Spirit race were ambushing them.
They were surrounded.
Song Ling frowned, "These cults should be the forces supported by the Arbitration Council in the human realm. No wonder I always felt that the evil formations these cults used before were somewhat similar to devouring living beings' vitality and bones... The source was invented by the imperial families of the three nations."
It wasn't that the cults and the Demonic Spirits had joined forces, but that they shared a common goal, both obstructing A'Diao's war of three nations at this final juncture.
They succeeded.
Om, the Grand Archbishop, augmented by the karmic luck of the Demonic Spirit race, directly succeeded in refining the Celestial Gate.
In that instant, he changed.
An aura of supreme dominance emanated from him, his oppressive might sweeping across the entire field. Behind him, a colossal gate of light suddenly appeared.
Standing in the void, ten thousand zhang tall, boundless and majestic, within it was the entrance to the Celestial Realm, but it could also be the entrance to any space.
But its power was not limited to this; it itself signified authority, the authority of the Divine Maiden.
A'Diao and the others, along with the Supreme Demon King and the Demonic Spirit faction, all launched a combined attack against him. However, with a sweep of his eyes, the Celestial Gate acted like a black hole, actively sucking in all these powers.
Like a clay ox entering the sea, there was no reaction at all.
Heavens, this Celestial Gate was too terrifying.
Dantai Zongming was ecstatic. Since his youth, he had been cautious, thoughtful, and calculating, always maintaining a refined demeanor, respectful before the Celestials. He had finally achieved his wish. But he still toiled tirelessly for his supreme goal, and now, at last, his wish was fulfilled.
"All you ants, let me show you what true supremacy is."
He spread his hands, his body transforming into a mist of light, and in a blink, he flew towards... A'Diao?
No, it was the Supreme Demon King.
The Grand Archbishop was seen swallowing the Supreme Demon King in one gulp.
"Your Majesty!"
"No!"
The Four Great Demon Kings were aghast, unable to believe what they were seeing.
A'Diao's pupils also trembled slightly. She saw the Grand Archbishop's Celestial Seed and the Demonic Seed fusing within his body...
Good heavens, the Arbitration Council's three hundred years of research were no joke. This old schemer truly had grand ambitions.
Celestial-Demon fusion.
He was about to become the strongest Celestial-Demon. Once he successfully fused, they would all die.
Everyone was panicked and bewildered, momentarily unsure what to do. But Toilet, after its shock, checked A'Diao's true trump card.
A'Diao, this person who scavenged everywhere, also held the demon cores of several billion Demonic Spirits and had concentrated the vast resources of the three imperial families, directly raising her level to 50.
Level: 50 (Current energy 0 stars / 50000 stars, requires 50000 stars energy to advance to level 46. Note: Level 50 grants 50 million cubic meters of storage space and a 5000 cubic meter living space. Level 50 can automatically absorb ambient spiritual energy to upgrade all redeemed skills by +880 levels.)
Mental Power: 200,000 stars.
Synchronous Spiritual Energy Release: 50,000 stars.
Redeemed Skills:
...
Redeemable Skills:
1: Divine Authority Domain. (Celestial Divine Scion's innate talent, no description, manifests based on aptitude level. Requires 100,000 stars mental power to redeem, requires 200,000 stars mental power per use.)
Up to now, it hadn't actually seen A'Diao reveal her true methods. She seemed to be waiting, waiting for this Grand Archbishop to swallow the Supreme Demon King?
Could it be that she had already anticipated this step? Or was she improvising, adapting to the situation...
But this mysterious Divine Authority Domain required too much mental power. She could redeem it, but she still didn't have enough to use it. No wonder she had been desperately hoarding mental power resources, trying all sorts of ways to stimulate mental power, but was still short by one hundred thousand.
It didn't know if she had other means...
If not, she would surely die.
If she did, what were they?
While Toilet was puzzled, it soon realized it had overlooked the obvious.
The means, hadn't they been set in motion from the very beginning?
Heaven and earth suddenly trembled. The national destiny of Tang Song abruptly flourished, its pillar soaring into the sky. And from Lie Qin and Nan Jin, enormous pillars of national vein light also erupted.
Very good, the national veins of Lie Qin and Nan Jin had been secured.
Both the Grand Archbishop and the Demonic Spirit race side were astonished.
That's not right. Lie Qin and Nan Jin had deployed massive forces and powerful equipment in their capitals. And they, too, had used their remaining forces in the human realm to deploy in the capitals, precisely to stall for time at this final juncture.
No matter how strong Tang Song was, with its experts tied down here, Song Ling and the other juniors alone could not possibly secure the national veins of two countries.
Unless an accident occurred.
They all looked at A'Diao, only to see this rascal, while enjoying the descent of the three nations' karmic luck, wiping her elegantly decorated glasses with her sleeve, and saying in an affectedly delicate manner: "Oh dear, the common people ultimately chose me after all. It's truly touching. So, am I the hegemon of three nations now?"
"This is so embarrassing. I haven't even celebrated my 20th birthday yet, and I've risen to power in just two years. It makes all you old fogeys look quite useless, doesn't it?"
"Right, old fogeys?"
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