Chapter 802: The Arrogant Sun of Myriad Realms (IX)
"In one hundred and sixty hourglasses, the spatial turbulence will experience a brief lull. The three of us will each activate an Immortal Space-Stabilizing Talisman. Its effects can last for approximately two tea-brewing times."
"Good." Yi Xi Si quietly received the magical talisman from Yuan Shi Dao Ren, secretly calculating her escape route.
Having been in this world for several millennia, her main body had already taken deep root. But over the years, she had witnessed one True Immortal after another in the Dao Chen Realm lose all their cultivation under the sunlight, including one peak Golden Immortal who was not much weaker than herself. In her heart, she understood that remaining here would only lead to death.
The Zerg were an alien race with a blood feud against the natives. Once she was demonically corrupted and lost her power, Yuan Shi Dao Ren would undoubtedly turn hostile immediately and casually eliminate this enemy. The only reason they weren't at odds now was due to the common great enemy before them.
Currently, over eighty percent of the Dao Chen Realm's land had been demonically corrupted. Even if they didn't leave, the remaining lands capable of producing Purple-Green Spirit Elixir wouldn't be enough to sustain so many True Immortals.
"It's about to begin." Just as everyone was calculating their escape plans, Bai Mo, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke. His voice was incredibly faint, sounding utterly weak and devoid of strength. Moving the entire Sun to the Dao Chen Realm seemed to have exhausted most of his energy, for he was not yet a true True Sun Star Lord.
"Before everything begins, I can answer one last question for you."
"..."
"What exactly is the Purple-Green Spirit Elixir?" Daoist Chen preemptively asked. He and his Sacred Chen Sect had made all preparations for evacuation; now, they were merely waiting for the weakest moment of spatial turbulence, needing only a slight delay.
"The Heavenly Dao was once the strongest cultivator in this world, but ultimately succumbed to the power of Daoization and perished, transforming into a part of the Dao Chen Realm. Before its death, it also annihilated most of the living beings from the previous epoch. And the Purple-Green Spirit Elixir was its gift to future generations, left with its last vestiges of consciousness. Refining a wisp of Purple-Green Spirit Elixir could slow Daoization by a fraction. It was merely buying more time for future generations, perhaps for a day when they could conquer Daoization."
"Impossible! I've lived in these heavens and earth for tens of thousands of years. How could you possibly know such a secret better than I?!" Hearing such a hidden truth, neither of the two Dao Venerables could remain calm. They had dominated the Dao Chen Realm for tens of thousands of years, having traversed its countless miles of mountains and rivers, and had even tried to uncover the story behind the Purple-Green Spirit Elixir, but ultimately found nothing.
"Whether you believe it or not, it doesn't matter."
"Because you will soon forget it all again."
"???" A sudden chill erupted from their spines, as if something incredibly bad was about to happen.
...
"I hope I can succeed." Before his voice fully faded, the Demon Sun, which had been pressing down on everyone, making them gasp for breath, began to rapidly collapse inwards. The sky turned incomparably dark. In just a few minutes, that glowing, burning fireball vanished without a trace, leaving only a hollow space with a lingering warmth.
On the wind-swept land, the two Dao Venerables were still pondering the words they had just heard. As the land lost the Sun's radiance, the temperature began to plummet. Whether cultivators, mortals, birds, or beasts, all appeared incredibly uneasy.
In the past, during the days of resisting the Demon Sun, although the sky was always dim, there was at least a glimmer of light. Now that the Demon Sun had completely disappeared, it caused even greater panic. Darkness can awaken the deepest fears in the human heart.
"He's gone?" The Moral Immortal Sect Master asked Yuan Shi Dao Ren.
"No, he's coming. Hurry!"
"We can't wait for the spatial turbulence to be at its weakest!"
In the darkness, three streaks of light flew towards three different directions in the sky. Simultaneously, a small number of True Immortals who had already sensed that something was amiss also advanced. The others, upon realizing their comrades were consciously retreating, each chose one of these three directions.
"Bang."
A sound lighter than light itself rang out from the very center of where the Demon Sun had been.
The sound was soft, yet it struck everyone's hearts like a heavy hammer.
Yuan Shi Dao Ren, who had already flashed tens of thousands of miles away, instinctively looked back when he sensed something was wrong.
And that glance was his last memory of it all.
Heaven! Earth! Re-! Opened?!
In a void of utter darkness, an infinitely bright and hot singularity was born, beginning to devour everything at the speed of light. Wherever it passed, all things dissolved into chaos...
The entire Sun's mass-energy ignited at that moment.
...
"The supernova exploded." These were the last words Ji Er Ke Fu's true spirit avatar left before departing the Dao Chen Realm.
"'Don't let anyone below Tier Seven come to their deaths within ten years,' so that's what it meant..."
"Below Tier Seven, there would be no chance to escape when the supernova explodes."
They had received Bai Mo's telepathic message about temporarily evacuating the Dao Chen Realm, along with an ordinary magical talisman, thirty seconds in advance.
But only thirty seconds.
Fortunately, they were all True Immortal projections. Otherwise, even knowing everything thirty seconds beforehand, anyone below the True Immortal stage would have had no possible way to escape alive.
"Stabilize Space! " Xu Xuan Ling, holding the magical talisman, used her Spirit Energy as a guide to unleash its full power. The pattern on the talisman began to glow, and the light of Spirit energy converged from all directions toward the center. When all the Spirit Energy currents on the talisman gathered at the central point, an imperceptible beam of light shot towards the depths of the sky, until it vanished.
A shadow, comparable to half a continent, silently emerged from the darkness.
"It looks a little bit like... the outline of a hand?"
This shadow fell rapidly.
From the unfathomably high sky to truly pressing down upon them, it was merely ten milliseconds. They only had time for a few fleeting thoughts.
The shadow caused no harm to the projections, but the previously active spatial turbulence was completely suppressed by this palm, even slowing the impact of the subsequent supernova explosion for a few precious seconds.
"Go!"
Seizing this opportunity, the various avatars quickly opened a spatial layer passage and left the Dao Chen Realm at their fastest speed. And that activated magical talisman, as if it had a consciousness of its own, also slipped into the passage.
Everyone could see that even after unleashing that astonishing power just now, the talisman had only burned through a quarter of its energy.
In other words, that single output, comparable to a full-force strike from an Eight-Tier entity, could still be unleashed three more times by this talisman.
"This talisman has an owner, don't even think about it," Xu Xuan Ling promptly dispelled the others' thoughts. "And this owner isn't me, it's someone He decided upon."
As the group departed, they seemed to hear a faint sigh.
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