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Chapter 7062: Triple Manifestation Divine Sovereign
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A third primal chaos item had appeared!

The Six Dao Stone was a masterless item, and it had always been so. Even back in the primal chaos era, it was not the kind of divine weapon that maintained the karmic luck of the world. Among the ten great primal chaos divine items, it was an oddity; in all fairness, it was an oddity by any standards. It suffered no restrictions, and its disposition switched between good and bad randomly. Encountering it could be a great blessing or a terrible calamity.

However, when Long Chen charged into the Zither Sect, he had enlisted its help. That shook the entire Heavenly Magnificence Divine Prefecture. There used to be rumors that Long Chen had once been the master of the heaven-earth Cauldron. The people later learned that it had been just the Earth Cauldron, and that was when the Earth Cauldron had already been taken away from him. But then, it appeared that he had some connections to the Six Dao Stone!

The latter piece of information was not quite believable. But the rumored green parrot really had shown up again, and it was unleashing shocking power. People had no choice but to believe it.

“What the hell is this?! Are you fucking joining hands against me?” roared Cao Yuyang.

“Who said it had to be a one on one, you rusty fiddle?” sneered the green parrot.

Suddenly, the seven Zi Yans unleashed seven soundwaves. These soundwaves struck the six pillars and then rebounded towards Cao Yuyang like sharp blades.

“How despicable! You don’t deserve to be primal chaos divine items!” Cao Yuyang roared and rapidly plucked the zither strings. Seven-color rays of divine light struck Zi Yan’s sound blades.

Heaven-shaking explosions caused the entire Jiuli Divine Realm to shake violently. Every exchange made people feel as if their souls were shattering.

“Heavens, if it weren’t for the Six Dao Stone suppressing the impacts…”

People were horrified. The two Heavenly Devil Zithers were unleashing world-destroying power, and the six pillars of light were reflecting a portion of their power and absorbing another part. Yet even though only the tiniest bit of power was escaping through the pillars, it was enough to affect the entire Jiuli Divine Realm. Countless buildings collapsed and turned into rubble.

This was the terrifying power of the primal chaos divine items. Without the Six Dao Stone containing the aftershocks of their battle, everyone in the Jiuli Divine Realm would have been instantly annihilated by the power of the first strike.

The green parrot floated in the air, keeping up the six light pillars. It was laughing delightedly inside.

Zi Yan wanted to reclaim the pure source energy inside the sinister Heavenly Devil Zither’s body. But its corrupted laws and law power were all going to the parrot. After all, the Six Dao Stone was entirely unafraid of corruption. As the two Heavenly Devil Zithers clashed, it was happily absorbing the benefits.

The sacred Heavenly Devil Zither was stripping out the evil source of her opponent. With the Six Dao Stone’s seal added up, the sinister Heavenly Devil Zither would only grow weaker and weaker.

“Damn it, you despicable…”

It wasn’t long before the sinister Heavenly Devil Zither realized exactly what kind of situation she was in. The seal of the Six Dao Stone meant that no one could help her. She roared, “Capture Long Chen, or you’ll all die!”

The bewildered experts of the Jilui race quickly recovered their wits. Only now did they realize the scope of what was happening.

Jiang Li had tried to kill Long Chen by using others.

Long Can had joined forces with the Zither Sect, Painting Sect, and Chess Sect and schemed against Jiang Li in order to seize the Jiuli Tower and the Jiuli race.

The sinister Heavenly Devil Zither also schemed against Long Can, wanting the blood soul energy of the Jiuli race, their karmic luck, as well as a portion of the Jiuli Tower’s source.

Now, the sinister Heavenly Devil Zither wanted them to capture Long Chen to use him against Zi Yan and the sacred Heavenly Devil Zither.

As for Long Chen, he had managed to factor everyone's schemes into play. Seeing his completely relaxed appearance, the Jiuli race’s experts couldn’t help feeling a chill running down their spine. Long Chen himself had said that Jiang Li had severely overestimated himself thinking that he could out-scheme Long Can and the others. But now, Long Chen was managing to out-scheme this group of old foxes with many millennia of experience.

Xie Lingyun and Luo Tianxiang’s expressions were extremely ugly. Everything happening was far beyond their expectations. They looked up at the sky only to see that the dome had already repaired itself. The Brahma faction was sealing this place. However, this seemingly absolute seal was insufficient to stop a primal chaos divine item. Even though these eight hundred thousand Divine Sovereigns used the Brahma Divine Diagram, they could not stop Zi Yan from entering when she wanted to, and neither could they do anything against the parrot.

That made them realize that everything was completely out of control. Long Chen was the true oriole lying in wait.

“What are you waiting for?! Do you not know what you’ve done already?! Do you think that Long Chen will forgive you?!” roared Cao Yuyang.

The seven Zi Yans were unleashing a barrage of attacks that were completely suppressing the sinister Heavenly Devil Zither. As time passed, this fight would only grow more one-sided.

“Attack!”

Xie Lingyun and Luo Tianxiang exchanged a look. That was all it took; they both took a deep breath and made their move.

Xie Lingyun crossed the gap with a single step and unleashed a palm at Long Chen. At the same time, a giant figure appeared behind him. This was his heaven-earth law manifestation.

Xie Lingyun’s heaven-earth law manifestation was completely different from any other that Long Chen had seen—three figures layered on top of each other. But they weren’t perfectly merged; it was possible to see areas that were imperfect. More importantly, one of the three figures was not entirely condensed. From his point of view, it seemed as if the first two were real, while the last one was an illusion.

Whatever the case was, the moment this manifestation appeared, Long Chen instantly felt the laws of heaven and earth freeze. The surrounding space locked him down.

“Three Pillar Shield!”

Long Chen once more summoned the Taiji diagram and thrust his palm out.

BOOM!

The void shattered like ice. Cracks spread throughout the sky, and Long Chen was sent flying. He smashed into the ground, and the shockwave tore the surrounding buildings apart.

“This is a triple-manifestation Divine Sovereign?!”

“No, his third manifestation is not fully condensed. He has not truly reached that realm.”

“He isn’t a triple-manifestation Divine Sovereign. His third manifestation looks like it was forcefully condensed through his sect’s karmic luck.”

“There’s no way to maintain such a thing for long, then. It must also be damaging to the body. He’s going all-out!”

The Jiuli race’s senior experts clenched their fists as they watched. Although Long Chen was powerful, there was still a huge gap between him and a triple-manifestation Divine Sovereign. Such a Divine Sovereign was able to control the laws of heaven and earth at probably ten thousand times the level of a Sovereign Lord. Even though Xie Lingyun was just an imitation, in this state, he still completely outmatched Long Chen.

BOOM!

Just as Long Chen smashed into the ground, a massive sword slashed down from the sky, giving Long Chen no time to breathe. It was Luo Tianxiang, and he also had a triple-layered manifestation behind him!

Two sect masters, both with three manifestations, and they showed no mercy.

But just then, a god-like voice rang out from underground. “Yin and Yang flip; the heavens collapse and the earth upends. Endless Heaven-Earth Laws!”

BOOM!

The earth exploded. Burning Blood Qi soared into the sky. A figure cloaked in divine light appeared before everyone.

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    Chapter 7071 The Curtains Close

    BOOM!

    The violet-gold polearm was like a heavenly pillar standing in front of Long Chen. Long Can’s attack instantly shattered on contact with it. Long Can was blown back by the rebound force of her own attack, and blood sprayed from her mouth.

    “The violet-gold polearm?! You…!”

    Long Can was shocked and enraged. Her heart sank. The violet-gold polearm was part of a primal chaos divine item, the Violet Gold Bell. How could someone like Long Can not recognize it? But how was it that the violet-gold polearm was in Long Chen’s hands?

    She suddenly recalled how Long Chen had first gone to the Violet Abyss. But had he really managed to reach such a level of trust that the Violet Abyss willingly lent him the violet-gold polearm?!

    He had come to the Jiuli Divine Realm and acted as if he had failed his negotiations with the Violet Abyss. Now, it seemed all of that had been nothing more than a meticulous setup, and all of them had fallen for it.

    All of them except Lord Brahma, more specifically. The moment he found out about this, he instantly knew that Long Can had been duped. He also knew that it would be difficult to reverse this situation. But he was also unwilling to just give up on a plan he had been working towards for countless years, so he did the only thing he could do: He took a gamble.

    Right now, Lord Brahma’s hopes were on her. As long as she could capture Long Chen, it wouldn’t count as a loss. However, now that Long Chen was holding the violet-gold polearm, had recovered his bloodline power, and was in his Heaven Earth law empowerment state, she felt despair.

    The violet-gold polearm stood before Long Chen. Its sacred divine light illuminated this world, and the area of destruction resulting from their previous exchange was actually slowly healing under this sacred light.

    As space settled, the Six Dao Stone’s six pillars of light reappeared. There were now countless white chains stretched around those six pillars; they formed a net that enclosed the Six Dao Stone, Zi Yan, and the sinister Heavenly Devil Zither.

    It appeared that this white net was what had stopped Green Old Sixth from coming to Long Chen’s aid. Other than immense faith energy, this net had blood-colored veins running through it. This was divine blood—the essence blood of a venerate among gods!

    It was filled with divine laws that made it incredibly tough; even the Six Dao Stone was temporarily unable to break it. This was obviously something Lord Brahma had put into place to give Long Can the leisure to deal with Long Chen.

    “Damn brat, even if I have to throw away this life of mine, I will still kill you!”

    Long Can let out a roar of desperation. Her long hair flew back. A determined expression appeared in her eyes. She raised her head and shouted, “My body burns to forge the divine body! My soul burns to forge the divine soul! offer everything I have to Brahma!

    “Three manifestations merge with the Dao; ten thousand laws resonate! Brahma Sacrifice!”

    Her body and soul burned away. She grew more and more translucent with each passing moment. But her three law manifestations merged into one, and it took the shape of Lord Brahma.

    BOOM!

    Long Can was wrapped in faith energy, and law power erupted like a volcano. A powerful divine pressure shook the world so hard that it felt as if the heavens would collapse. She had sacrificed herself in exchange for supreme power, and this sacrifice could not be stopped. In other words, even if Lord Brahma came out to save her, it would be useless. Whatever else happened, the immutable fact was that Long Can was dead.

    Long Can’s aura instantly grew by ten times. The terrifying pressure caused thin cracks to appear in the void. Space looked like a shattered mirror, and it seemed as if the whole world would explode into countless colorful shards

    “Fu#k, what the hell?!” Long Chen jumped in fright. It was a good thing he had the violet-gold polearm. It was blocking Long Can’s horrifying power and created space for him to breathe even under this pressure.

    At the same time, he was thankful that his bloodline power was essentially inexhaustible with the violet-gold polearm. While using his astral energy to fight, he had secretly been using his endless violet blood energy to replenish his Supreme Blood and dragon blood energy.

    “She’s gone totally crazy! She really just killed herself to kill us!” said Evilmoon heavily. In this state, even its edge could not tear through Long Can’s domain.

    Just as Evilmoon said this, Long Can’s sword arrived. A milky-white blade of Sword Qi slashed towards Long Chen; but even before the Sword Qi arrived, Long Chen’s soul shuddered from the pressure. He could distinctly smell the scent of impending death.

    Grasping the violet-gold polearm, Long Chen mobilized the power of Heaven and Earth.

    With things as they stood, he was utterly incapable of wielding the violet-gold polearm as its master. However, by using it as a conduit, he could create a domain with his Heaven-Earth law empowerment state. That would save him a great deal of power. Otherwise, whatever bloodline power he had, he would be instantly exhausted. Meanwhile, in his Heaven-Earth law empowerment state, his law power was limitless.

    The violet-gold polearm blazed with light. Its massive domain instantly shrank down to an area a few hundred meters around Long Chen.

    BOOM!

    Just then, Long Can’s Sword Qi slashed onto the domain. The Sword Qi exploded.

    Long Chen spat out blood. Shock flashed through his eyes. In this state, Long Can’s power was truly absurd; it had even managed to injure him through the violet-gold polearm’s defenses! Fortunately, his physical body was extremely tough. Otherwise, even with the violet-gold polearm, his body would have been destroyed.

    Meanwhile, the Sword Qi shattered, but the clash of forces caused a titanic shockwave that spread through the air.

    The people in the distance screamed in terror and turned to flee. But the shockwave was just too fast and reached them regardless of what they did. There was nowhere to run. All the spectators in the area were simply erased from existence; even people who took out their own divine weapons were unable to escape this fate.

    Those who were viewing the “show” from far enough to avoid the shockwave were in utter disbelief. “Damn, even that distance wasn’t enough?!”

    The area that the shockwave had passed through was now a large crater. Mountains had been not just crushed flat, but turned into pits. In fact, there had been two smaller sects in this area that no longer existed.

    “LONG CHEN!!! DIIIIIEEEE!!!”

    Seeing that Long Chen was still alive, Long Can roared with desperate fury and attacked once more.

    Against such a terrifying attack, even Long Chen had no other solution. He gritted his teeth and prepared to block it again. He reminded himself to thank Li Qiaoyin for lending him the violet-gold polearm. Without it, even nine lives wouldn’t be enough to survive Long Can’s wild assault.

    BOOM!

    Another streak of Sword Qi struck the domain. Long Chen once more spat out blood.

    “It’s faith energy!”

    This time, Long Chen realized that the energy that was managing to pass through the violet-gold polearm’s defenses was law power formed from faith energy. Fortunately, although it managed to bypass the shield, by the time it reached Long Chen, it was weakened by over eighty percent.

    Long Can unleashed thirteen blows, and every single one caused Long Chen to cough up blood. The final attack in particular caused cracks to appear all across his body, and he was covered in so much blood that nobody could tell his skin color anymore. Worst of all, it also caused his Three Thousand Worlds to disappear. His Supreme Blood was completely exhausted, and he could no longer maintain the Heaven-Earth law empowerment state.

    “Long Chen, it looks like you’re still going to die by my hand today!”

    Long Can raised her head and laughed crazily. She once more raised the Divine Commander Blade. Sharp Sword Qi locked onto Long Chen.

    With his Supreme Blood exhausted, all Long Chen had was his violet blood, and he didn’t know how much law power his violet blood alone could endure. He had no confidence it would be able to block Long Can’s attack. But there was nothing he could do. His Earth Dao Violet Eyes appeared, and the violet-gold polearm prepared for the next attack.

    At that instant, Long Can froze. Her already translucent body began to fade away. The flames extinguished.

    “Damn… I… I failed… Divine Venerate, I’m sorry…” Long Can struggled to unleash one more blow, but her body and soul vanished like mist under the scorching sunlight. The Divine Commander Blade and the Brahma Divine Diagram disintegrated.

    Long Can had died, just like that.

    Another divine commander was dead at the hands of Long Chen.

    …

    Long Chen took a deep breath. The domain around him slowly dissipated.

    Just as his tense nerves finally relaxed, a long and slender sword suddenly appeared out of empty space, piercing towards his back. He instinctively twisted his upper body and dodged, but he was still a bit too slow. A large gash opened across his back, deep enough that his spine and ribs were visible.

    The attacker was a short, masked figure in black robes. This person's aura was incredibly powerful; although it couldn’t quite match up to Xie Lingyun’s and Luo Tianxiang’s, it was not much weaker. His sword was like a viper’s tongue about to strike. Ripples of light flowed across it, and strange law power flowed within. This was definitely a top-grade Divine Sovereign law item; something sharp enough to cut through Long Chen’s tough skin could not possibly be ordinary.

    “Lifehunter bastards, you really don’t know when to stop!”

    Long Chen’s killing intent surged. The Lifehunter race had always been the mortal enemy of the violet blood race, yet in the last while they’d been rather quiet. He had thought that they were done for, only for one of them to suddenly appear here. That attack had almost taken his life just now.

    “It seems that I really did exhaust myself this time. Even my reactions and senses have weakened…”

    Things were not going well for him. Although he had the violet-gold polearm, it only provided him with violet blood power. But these consecutive fights had drained him of every other kind of energy, and they had taken a toll on his mind as well. In his weary state, his perceptivity dropped, as did his reaction speed. Worse still, this fellow’s weapon, techniques, and even cultivation art were all highly specialized for the purpose of dealing with the violet blood race.

    “Little brat, your death is at hand!” snorted the Lifehunter expert. His voice was ancient and icy. His sword quivered, and sword-light filled the sky like thousands of flowers blooming.

    In response to this beautiful attack, Long Chen simply swung the violet-gold polearm behind him.

    BOOM!

    A large figure wielding a warhammer was sent flying. That giant was over ten meters tall, and had been going for a sneak attack just as the Lifehunter expert drew Long Chen’s attention.

    After blowing back the giant, Long Chen spat out another mouthful of blood.

    “Damn, I forgot that my body is at its limit!”

    He had been badly injured by Long Can’s final suicidal attacks, and right now, he was really feeling it.

    “Die!”

    Just then, the surrounding space twisted, and multiple figures came flying out. They were all Divine Sovereigns, and quite a few of them had embryonic forms of a triple manifestation.

    These people were all overlords in their own right. Each one was the master of a major sect, the patriarch of a major clan, or a similarly powerful figure, yet now, they were all attacking Long Chen like the most basic suicidal warriors. They looked intent on killing Long Chen even if it cost them their lives!

    “Oh my, Lord Brahma, you really are putting in the capital in order to kill me!” Long Chen couldn’t help chuckling. “Unfortunately, I’ll have to disappoint you this time as well.”

    Long Chen waved his hand. Huo Linger, Lei Linger, and Cang Lu appeared. Lightning and flames formed a sea that unfurled throughout the battlefield. A massive forest rose. Golden Crows and Jade Rabbits came flying out. The entire world descended into chaos.

    Millions of blood-colored petals flew through the air. With how exhausted Long Chen was, he no longer had the power to control Evilmoon even with just Spiritual Strength. Evilmoon could attack on its own, but right now, it wasn’t in a good condition to do so either. It had just absorbed the energy of the Mountain-River Diagram and the Yin-Yang Board, and that was enough energy to make it feel like bursting. It needed to refine the energy urgently.

    Using the Blood Moon Heaven-Slashing Art once was its limit. If it continued fighting and its petals broke, it would cause some of its energy to disappear, and that would pain Evilmoon greatly.

    Fortunately, Long Chen didn’t ask it to kill people, but to simply stall and cause them trouble. After all, Cang Lu, Huo Linger, and Lei Linger still found it taxing to fight experts on this level. Two or three would have not been a problem, but right now, there were two or three hundred of them. Stalling them was the best they could do. Meanwhile, Long Chen sat down in the middle of this chaos and consumed a medicinal pill to quickly recover his energy.

    Just as he was starting to recover, a slender sword pierced through space, bypassing Cang Lu’s Bloodfiend Halberd to strike at Long Chen directly.

    “Even with the violet-gold polearm, you will still die!” sneered the Lifehunter expert.

    The sword was actually ripping apart the violet-gold polearm’s domain. At the same time, Long Chen sensed violet blood fluctuations from it. It was obvious that this sword had absorbed an unfathomable amount of the violet blood race’s experts’ blood and souls, resulting in the violet-gold polearm not having much of an effect on it.

    Long Chen’s gaze turned cold, and his killing intent soared. This person was incredibly powerful, and also had immense combat experience. He was truly a tough opponent. Furthermore, Long Chen’s injuries were severe. With the violet-gold polearm suppressed, the situation did not bode well for him.

    “Since you insist on courting death, fine! I’ll send you on a date!” Long Chen’s fury erupted. Even if he had to injure himself further, he would kill this hateful fellow.

    But just then, the sound of a zither rang out. Zi Yan’s beautiful figure appeared in front of Long Chen.

    The Heavenly Devil Zither floated in front of her. Zi Yan’s fingers hooked onto the strings. Her killing intent surged out like the tide.

    “Heavenly Devil Music—Army Crusher!”

    The sound of a zither rang out. The Lifehunter’s sword exploded into shards, and the sound blade that followed cut him in twain.

    Zi Yan’s fingers swiftly danced over the zither strings, unleashing multiple waves. Blade-shaped sound runes appeared throughout the entire battlefield. When these runes appeared throughout the battlefield, everyone’s expressions changed. Their first thought was to flee.

    However, Zi Yan suddenly slammed her hands on the Heavenly Devil Zither. The zither music instantly stopped, and all the runes throughout the entire battlefield detonated at once. Blood rained down from the sky as hundreds of people with the potential to become triple-manifestation Divine Sovereigns were annihilated!

    They did not even have time to scream. The only sound was the echo of the zither music, which didn’t fade for a long time.
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      Chapter 7072 Half Saint, Half Devil

      At first glance, Zi Yan looked the same as always; she wore the same purple robes, her long hair flowed with the wind, and her face was just as stunning as it had always been. Yet Long Chen immediately noticed that she was not the same at all. The pure, even sacred aura that had always accompanied her was now mixed with terrifying devil qi. Her eyes were filled with killing intent, and she radiated bone-chilling ferociousness.

      When she saw Long Chen full of blood and exuding a listless aura that spoke volumes about his exhaustion, her hands trembled. Long Chen hastily comforted her. “Zi Yan, I’m fine…”

      It was obvious to him that she was now in a half-saint, half-devil state. This was clearly an effect of the merger between the sacred Heavenly Devil Zither and the sinister Heavenly Devil Zither.

      Suddenly, Green Old Sixth appeared, landing onto Long Chen’s shoulder. It squawked, “After your man’s been bullied into this state, are you really going to let things go? There are still some people in hiding. If you don’t deal with them now, don’t tell me you’re going to wait to invite them to dinner?”

      With Green Old Sixth’s provocation, the devil qi in Zi Yan surged. She pressed a hand on the Heavenly Devil Zither and flew into the sky.

      The Heavenly Devil Zither expanded to a massive size, filling the sky. A terrifying pressure made Long Chen’s soul shake.

      This is the complete Heavenly Devil Zither?

      Long Chen stared in awe. Although he had the violet-gold polearm protecting him, he still felt a sense of powerlessness facing the Heavenly Devil Zither. Let alone the violet-gold polearm, which was barely a third of a primal chaos item, even the complete Jiuli Tower didn’t have this kind of aura.

      “Pentatonic Voidbreaker Slash!” shouted Zi Yan, crossing her hands in front of her chest. Her jade-like fingers looked like the petals of a blooming lotus.

      Five strings quivered on the giant Heavenly Devil Zither, and a space ripple instantly spread out, covering who-knew-how-many miles. Across the entire radius, in many different directions, space was ripped open. It was as if the ripple had suddenly smoothed out the silk fabric covering the tips of many sharp swords.

      Blood flowed out of these holes. As it turned out, there had been dozens more people hiding in space, ready to attack if the opportunity presented itself.

      Lord Brahma had truly gathered many experts, but he hadn’t given them an order to directly attack. They were supposed to attack based on their own judgment. Thus, those who were more conservative had decided not to join the direct attack and wait until Long Chen was exhausted. Given the circumstances, this was undoubtedly the right decision. Yet even so, they could not escape the senses of the Heavenly Devil Zither. Zi Yan killed them all in one blow, just like she had killed the others.

      The blood raining down was filled with terrifying power. These sneak attackers were all half-step triple-manifestation Divine Sovereigns. This was only natural; only people on this level were qualified to participate in such a battle. Unfortunately for them, they did not have the profound foundation of the Chess Sect or the Painting Sect, let alone the Brahma line. One attack was all it took to kill them.

      “Your mouth is really wretched…” Long Chen glared at the green parrot before going to Zi Yan’s side.

      Zi Yan’s fingertips were bleeding, and her aura was unstable. Clearly, using the Heavenly Devil Zither to unleash such a large-scale attack was too much for her.

      A primal chaos divine item was truly powerful, but Zi Yan had to expend a tremendous amount of energy to use even her original half of the Heavenly Devil Zither; as for this complete version, it required more than double that. After all, the sinister Heavenly Devil Zither had struggled to her death, not submitting even as she was devoured. Although she had eventually failed and the merger was now complete, the Heavenly Devil Zither’s energy was used up. Controlling it was even harder at this time.

      Long Chen would rather Zi Yan had not killed those people. Seeing her injured and exhausted state, his heart broke. And the green parrot really was a wretch; it actually fanned the flames at this time! Long Chen had an urge to pluck it of all its feathers.

      Sadly, the green parrot was actually the biggest winner of this battle, and more importantly, the smallest loser. It was in top shape right now, so Long Chen was hardly able to deal with it.

      “Long Chen, I…” Zi Yan bit her lip.

      Her jade-like face, framed by her long hair, shone with holy light; she looked as if she were the envoy of heaven, sent to bring peace to the masses. Yet at the same time, raging devil qi swirled around her. It was like she was wearing a long dress of flames on top of her violet robe.

      She was a sacred lotus enveloped by devilish flames. She was beautiful, and she was terrifying.

      Such was the nature of the Heavenly Devil Zither, as its name implied: half righteous, half corrupt. Such had to be the master of it: half saint, half devil.

      “You foolish girl, how could you listen to some stupid bird?” Long Chen reached out and held Zi Yan’s hands. His heart ached, and at the same time, he was starting to get angry.

      Meanwhile, when she saw that Long Chen showed no signs of rejecting her and his face reflected only the most tender care and love, Zi Yan’s eyes filled up with tears.

      All the way from the start, the sacred Heavenly Devil Zither had told her that if she wanted to control the Heavenly Devil Zither, she would have to become a devil. In order to test her resolve, it had then made her walk this world as a monster. As a result, nobody was willing to come anywhere near her; in spite of her unearthly beauty, the evil aura she radiated was enough to drive away every single person she encountered.

      The sacred Heavenly Devil Zither did this for Zi Yan. She was choosing to be its master for the sake of Long Chen, but if one day Long Chen saw her like this and rejected her, it would make her Dao-heart crumble. Thus, Zi Yan had to be mentally prepared for it. After all, for a primal chaos divine item to find a suitable master was far too difficult.

      It was finally time for that prediction to be fulfilled. Now that the sacred Heavenly Devil Zither had merged with the sinister one, Zi Yan would need to walk this world in this form forever. If Long Chen showed any negative reaction, it would be a scar on Zi Yan’s heart.

      Fortunately, Long Chen didn’t disappoint.

      “You’re the stupid bird! Your mom and dad are stupid birds! Brat, you really are rude! You dare to use me like this, and then you dare to curse me? You’re not even going to thank me?” yelled Green Old Sixth.

      Long Chen ignored it. He let it squawk in his ear while he fed Zi Yan a medicinal pill.

      Zi Yan’s face reddened, but she opened her mouth and took it.

      “Ugh, gross!” Green Old Sixth immediately flew off, unable to bear seeing them acting so romantic in front of it. “This matter is over. Grandpa Sixth is leaving! Remember me the next time you’ve got something good like this!”

      After that, the green parrot disappeared into the void.

      In spite of its protests, the parrot was well aware of its wretched mouth, and it was also well aware that Long Chen would remember this. With Long Chen’s vengeful character, who knew when he would decide to get back at it? It was best to go away while it could. In any case, it had gotten all the benefits it could this time. Even when the Jiuli Tower came back, there wouldn’t be anything for it.

      With the parrot gone, Long Chen fully turned his attention toward Zi Yan. “Zi Yan, you’re beautiful.”

      The contrast in her beauty was absolutely bewitching. It was the kind of beauty that could take lives.

      “Long Chen… do you really… not dislike me now that I’m like this?” asked Zi Yan worriedly.

      “You’re saying foolish things again. How could I ever dislike you? This kind of beauty… hehe… It’s unmatched in this world!” Long Chen chuckled.

      Seeing Long Chen sincerely smiling, Zi Yan could finally let out a sigh of relief. He truly did not feel any aversion toward her. In fact, for some strange reason, he seemed to like her even more than before.

      “Long Chen…” she whispered. Her eyes grew blurry, and she slowly got closer to him.

      “Ahem, that’s about enough. You’re in a very unstable state now. It wouldn’t be good to get too emotional.”

      The Heavenly Devil Zither’s voice rang out, interrupting them. Zi Yan instantly turned red, and even Long Chen was a bit embarrassed.

      BOOM!

      Just then, the void collapsed. The Jiuli Tower reappeared!

      The Jiuli Tower’s divine might was on full display. Zi Yan immediately pulled the Heavenly Devil Zither in front of her. Zither music rang out, forming a barrier around her and Long Chen.

      Meanwhile, Long Chen’s heart shook when he saw what was going on.

      “What the…?!”
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