"Still thinking about smashing it with brute force?" Shang Yuan couldn't help but sneer. "The Yin Yang Dao Diagram is a Divine Skill!"
Or rather, it is the path of Yin and Yang, an enlightennt in itself. Trying to break it with brute force is a fool's dream. It's like trying to punch the air—an impossible task!
Even Anna, who was also in the Quasi-Emperor Realm, didn't understand. Why doesn't The Supre Emperor use his Qingfeng Sword Intent? she muttered to herself.
The next mont, Xu Lai's fist t the Yin Yang Dao Diagram that stretched across nearly half the Star Domain and shattered it with a single punch!
CRACK.
The Dao Diagram instantly fractured, dissolving into motes of light that faded away.
"..."
The sneer on Shang Yuan's face froze, as did the expression on Anna's.
Only Fairy Qing Yuan, Taotie, and the hidden Elder Huang Quan remained unperturbed, as if they had anticipated this all along.
"Ti to go," the elder said, standing up and poling his boat across the Netherworld.
Although he was a Ninth-Heaven Quasi-Emperor like Shang Yuan, the latter was nothing more than a hothouse flower, nurtured by the endless blood within the Tree of Eternal Life. Shang Yuan had not fought for forty-three eons, nor had he ever dueled with other cultivators. He possessed the Boundary of a Quasi-Emperor and an Emperor Artifact, but nothing more.
In contrast, Great Emperor Qingfeng, the unparalleled sovereign of this era's Universe, had carved his path to emperorship from the bones of his enemies along the ruthless, dog-eat-dog Immortal Path.
From the very beginning, the battle between them was not on the sa level. After all, even the elder was seventy percent confident he could slay Shang Yuan.
The Netherworld faded away, and a distant, unnad ballad seed to drift from afar: "When shall I return, to be a carefree man? With a zither, a jug of wine, a stream of clouds..."
Although Elder Huang Quan departed, his judgnt wasn't wrong.
Shang Yuan possessed the Boundary but couldn't unleash its full combat power. Even with a fully awakened Emperor Artifact, he was no match for Xu Lai.
With the shattering of the Yin Yang Dao Diagram, Shang Yuan nearly went mad, summoning all the Magical Treasures and Killing Formations his father had sealed away for him. But Xu Lai dismantled them all, one by one.
It wasn't that these Magical Treasures and formations were weak. On the contrary, they were incredibly powerful—so powerful that the spectating Quasi-Emperors knew a re touch would an their demise. But before Xu Lai, who strolled about as if in a garden, everything was fragile and useless.
In less than one hundred exchanges, Shang Yuan's hand, which was clutching the Emperor Artifact, began to tremble violently. He was already struggling to hold onto the weapon his father had left him.
A surge of blood welled up in his throat, and he forcibly swallowed it down the mont it gushed out.
Shang Yuan didn't understand. Just forty-three eons ago, the Human Race's talent for cultivation was almost nonexistent and their status was low. How could such a terrifying monster have appeared among them now?
He was so terrifying it drove him to despair. The very ambition to beco an Emperor, the reason for his reergence, was beginning to shatter.
This man... he's likely an existence I can never hope to catch up to in this lifeti!
Throughout the entire fight, Xu Lai had never taken him seriously. He rely unraveled his moves, never once taking the initiative to attack.
"You're toying with !" Shang Yuan howled at the heavens. He was a Ninth-Heaven Quasi-Emperor, and his father had been the Great Emperor Yin Yang, yet today he was being so thoroughly humiliated.
With his hands behind his back, Xu Lai shook his head, a hint of disappointnt in his eyes.
That simple shake of the head wounded Shang Yuan's pride deeply, and he was on the verge of going mad with hatred.
"The Supre Emperor, the key! Don't forget the key!" Sikong Jiu, hiding far in the distance, couldn't help but whisper a reminder, terrified that Shang Yuan might be killed on the spot.
As if finding Xu Lai's weakness, the demoralized Shang Yuan gritted his teeth and roared, "If you kill , you will never get the key! Let go, and I can let bygones be bygones!"
"You? Let bygones be bygones?" Anna's wings fluttered behind her as she scoffed, "That's so thick skin you have there."
"A re Second-Heaven Quasi-Emperor! Do you think you have a say here? Get lost!" Murderous intent erupted in Shang Yuan's eyes.
If I can't defeat The Supre Emperor, surely I can handle a Quasi-Emperor seven heavens my junior?
Wanting to vent his frustration, he swung a slap toward her. If it connected, Anna would be severely injured, if not killed outright.
Anna's expression shifted. The slap was too fast; she had no ti to dodge.
Just then, a man's back appeared before her. Anna's anxious heart cald instantly. The back belonged to Xu Lai.
Xu Lai stood before Anna and returned the slap with one of his own.
A spray of blood erupted from Shang Yuan's lips as he was sent flying backward. This Ninth-Heaven Quasi-Emperor felt countless stars circling before his eyes. When he finally staggered to his feet, his cheek throbbed with a piercing, swollen pain. He was on the verge of madness, pure fury exploding in his eyes.
He had just been slapped by Xu Lai... a man more than forty million years his junior.
Anna's eyes flickered. She silently retreated to Fairy Qing Yuan's side, lowering her head slightly and twirling her fingers together.
This scene, witnessed by the nearby Divine General Taotie, was profoundly unsettling. This woman, whose hands were stained with the blood of countless souls, could still display such a girlish deanor!
Terrifying. Truly terrifying.
"If you have any other tricks, use them," Xu Lai said, his patience wearing thin. The Quasi-Emperor before him had the Boundary, but not the strength that should have co with it. He was even less competent than the old boatman on the Netherworld.
This battle was a disappointnt—not exhilarating, invigorating, or satisfying at all.
Shang Yuan let out a heavy breath, his eyes fixed on Xu Lai with venomous hatred for a long mont. He knew today's conflict could not be resolved peacefully. Whether because of his earlier killing intent or the secret of the key, it was destined that only one of them would leave here alive.
But he did not want to die.
He was just coming of age at sixty when his father sealed him within the Tree of Eternal Life. Shang Yuan had lost his parents, his clan, and his like-minded friends. He had even abandoned his childhood sweetheart, whom he had promised to marry.
For what had he forsaken everything? To beco an emperor upon awakening!
But today, Xu Lai had shattered the Tree of Eternal Life. He could no longer seal himself away to await another era to achieve his goal. It wasn't that he lacked longevity; he still had nearly two hundred thousand years of life left. But after today's battle, the entire world would know he possessed an Emperor Artifact. No matter where he hid, he would never know a mont of peace.
Therefore, Xu Lai had to die today. And he, Shang Yuan, must beco an emperor!
"Father once said that life and death are the turning wheel of Yin and Yang. Every living being is fated to die from the mont of birth, with no exceptions," Shang Yuan declared, his voice ringing with conviction. "What I must do is live my own glorious life within that cycle of life and death. And that glory ans leaving my na etched into the history of the Immortal Domain!"
As Shang Yuan ford a hand seal, he suddenly crushed the Emperor Artifact longbow in his grasp.
This ti, no Yin Yang Laws manifested, nor were there any bizarre techniques. Instead, a middle-aged man appeared in the center of the arena, dressed in a black and white robe and wearing a Crown.
He stood with his back to everyone, gazing at the stars, devoid of any aura. But the mont he appeared, the myriad stars dimd, the flowing Milky Way stalled, and even ti and space seed to freeze.
Seeing the man's back, Shang Yuan's knees went weak, and he fell to the ground. His eyes red, he choked out, "Father Emperor, your son sees you once again."
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