Chapter 526: One Hundred and Fifty Years
The majestic Heavenly Palace submerged within Lu Heng's consciousness sea.
The gods of the Heavenly Court are temporarily safe.
And freed from the burden, Lu Heng can finally depart from this enigmatic realm concealed within the depths of the Celestial Desolation Realm, the eerie world.
Before departing, Lu Heng extended an invitation to Tao Wu, one of the Four Great Fiendish Beasts, to accompany him, hoping that Tao Wu would join him in seeking refuge and leaving the Celestial Desolation Realm.
After all, in the current state of the Celestial Desolation Realm, there is no glimpse of hope as even the Fire God, along with the descendants of Emperor Yan, entered the Heavenly Court, intending to leave with Lu Heng. Tao Wu's fate, remaining in the Celestial Desolation Realm, would simply end in tragic demise.
Nowadays, even the Wu family has long vanished within the Celestial Desolation Realm, so it is likely that the old master of the Wu family has nothing left to worry about.
However, Lu Heng's invitation was met with rejection.
The colossal creature Tao Wu stood upon the vast land of the eerie world, shaking its head with a deliberate motion, uttering, "I, as a junior, have a significant mission to fulfill and cannot depart alongside the Wolf God."
This is the final moment of farewell, in the vast and treacherous expanse of the eerie world, three malevolent and ominous forces descend from the horizon.
That is the aura of three other ferocious beasts, all incredibly vicious, no less formidable than the current Tao Wu.
Taotie, Qiongqi, and Hun Dun… These three ancient monstrous creatures, which were supposed to be dead, have long been reborn in the eerie world.
These three ferocious beasts, however, are not the unfortunate souls devoured by Sun Yan, but rather, newly conceived beings born within the eerie world.
The ancient Four Beasts, who have existed in the Celestial Desolation Realm for countless years, are surprisingly invincible, undefeated in slaying and undying in death.
Now, with the rare convergence of the four ancient ferocious beasts, it turns out to be a farewell to Lu Heng.
"Hehe… Heavenly Lord, I am acquainted with you," the enormous malevolent beast Hun Dun cackled sinisterly. "I hope we will have the chance to meet again in the future."
Taotie, on the other hand, opened its blood-stained mouth wide and grunted, "Our mission is about to unfold. We shall not meet again in the days to come!"
The cunning Qiongqi scrutinized Lu Heng from head to toe with an unfriendly gaze, saying, "What a pity… what a pity…"
It is also unknown what it regrets.
In Lu Heng's astonished surprise, the colossal beast Tao Wu explained, "Heavenly Lord, we ancient ferocious beasts indeed have a mysterious mission to fulfill, which has recently surfaced in our minds. Even we are unaware of the exact nature of this mission."
"The only thing I can deduce is that it is related to something beneath Mount Buzhou!" the malevolent beast Hun Dun roared with an evil tone. "Alright then! Heavenly Lord, you better leave! The stench of a living being makes me want to vomit!"
The various ferocious beasts had unfavorable attitudes and would have acted aggressively if they didn't hesitate due to Lu Heng's notorious reputation.
Upon seeing this, Lu Heng didn't say much and simply gestured by cupping his hands towards Tao Wu, saying, "Take care."
After speaking, he immediately departed.
The once elusive eerie world, which originally required the guidance of ancient ferocious beasts to enter and exit, now, in the midst of the ravaged state repeatedly swept by the extinguishing force of the Celestial Desolation Realm, Lu Heng unexpectedly possesses the ability to venture in and out independently.
After departing the eerie realm, the atmosphere outside has increasingly become tinged with terror.
Compared to Lu Heng's entry into the eerie world, the current state of the Celestial Desolation Realm is oppressively despairing, to the extent that even cultivators like Lu Heng find it somewhat unbearable.
However, he still didn't leave immediately.
Blazing white lightning darted through the scarlet sky, searching for every possible survivor.
However, apart from the lineage of wizards from the Fire Pass Country, and those nine individuals from the Li Tribe on the Scared Mountain, there truly are no survivors in this realm.
Even if Lu Heng did discover a few cultivator abodes that were not completely ruined, realizing that some individuals had managed to withstand the Earthly Catastrophe through their own cultivation, the signs of battle indicate that there is more than one cultivator from the seven realms who have descended like the Lord of Calamity, mercilessly eliminating cultivators in this world.
If it were not for the timely appearance of the Li Tribe's ancestor, Chi You, it would have been difficult for the Li Tribe to withstand this instance of the Earthly Catastrophe.
Finally, Lu Heng made a trip to the South Sea, intending to pay a visit to the ancient predecessors within the Demon Subduing Stele Forest before his departure.
However, when he arrived at the Immortal Kingdom, he found that the sea of Mandala flowers, which had bloomed persistently during the Earthly Catastrophe, had already vanished.
Even though Lu Heng stood in place and shouted the name "Nüwa" hundreds of times, the malevolent aura of the War General didn't emerge to silence him. It seemed that those ancient monsters, hidden within the ancient battlefield, had truly vanished.
Lu Heng, who ultimately found nothing, could only let out a sigh and left the Celestial Desolation Realm alone.
His figure swiftly traversed beneath the celestial dome and soon arrived at the end of the South Sea. Here, the Mermaid Kingdom had long been destroyed, and even the ancient divine weapons, concealed beneath the palace for countless years, had now been shattered, unable to withstand the annihilating forces of consecutive cataclysmic waves.
Having traversed the desiccated South Sea, devoid of a single drop of water, Lu Heng arrived before the Extreme Hell Black Water.
Amidst the catastrophic devastation in the Celestial Desolation Realm, where life perished and the seas evaporated, the peculiar and inexplicable Extreme Hell Black Water remained steadfast and unmoved.
Due to the evaporation of the water in the South Sea, from afar, the solidified and immobile Extreme Hell Black Water appeared as a colossal, pitch-black curtain blocking the end of the heavens and the earth, forbidding any living beings from entering.
However, without a moment's hesitation, Lu Heng, transformed into a bolt of lightning, didn't pause and directly plunged into the eerie and terrifying Extreme Hell Black Water. The sound of crackling lightning resounded outside as the Extreme Hell Black Water voraciously corroded the power of heavenly thunder.
The terror of this Extreme Hell Black Water is so immense that even heavenly thunder is unable to escape its clutches.
Lu Heng's brow furrowed slightly, yet he didn't linger.
The present version of him is no longer the same Lu Heng who first arrived in the South Sea. Although the Extreme Hell Black Water is terrifying, it is unable to halt his progress.
Lu Heng's figure passed directly through the Extreme Hell Black Water, continuously soaring through the abyss of darkness, traversing one treacherous and unpredictable eerie space and formidable formation after another, yet remaining unscathed.
Eventually, a blazing white bolt of lightning flew out from within the black water and emerged into the outside world.
The resplendent starry sky unfolded within his sight.
The chaos of the world of myriad heavens surges at the distant horizon.
However, the anticipated ambush that Lu Heng had envisioned didn't materialize.
The Extreme Hell Black Water is the unavoidable path for beings from the Celestial Desolation Realm to escape to the outside world. In theory, it should be teeming with cultivators from the Seven Realms carrying out interceptions. However, when Lu Heng emerged, he didn't sense any trace of hostility.
What he sensed instead was an overwhelmingly intense and indescribable scent of blood.
With astonishment, he gazed into the distance and discovered that within the vast expanse of the starry seas, a terrifying monster was roaring and laughing maniacally, ruthlessly slaughtering numerous cultivators who were pale-faced, trembling with fear.
The breath of those cultivators, unlike the beings of the Celestial Desolation Realm, resembled the otherworldly visitors that Lu Heng had encountered, unmistakably belonging to cultivators from the Seven Realms.
However, these enemies from the Seven Realms, who were supposed to be guarding the outskirts of the Extreme Hell Black Water and ambushing cultivators from the Celestial Desolation Realm, were now being relentlessly pursued by a monstrously terrifying creature adorned in alternating red and white.
The intense scent of blood, even across vast spatial distances, still permeated Lu Heng's senses.
That monster is…
"Di Tian Devil Lord?" Lu Heng's expression was somewhat peculiar.
The Di Tian Devil Lord Zhu Yan, who once possessed Sun Yan and sought to reclaim his own soul, unexpectedly commits murder here?
However, after observing for a while longer, Lu Heng quickly discerned the truth.
Although this Di Tian Devil Lord has possessed Sun Yan, his cultivation has not fully recovered, and he is currently relying on killing to harvest the life essence of these cultivators from the Seven Realms.
The horrific monster that once afflicted the Celestial Desolation Realm throughout the ages, after the inhabitants of the Celestial Desolation Realm have been annihilated, his only option left is to kill the cultivators from the Seven Realms.
After all, even if there are cultivators in the various worlds beneath the World of Eight Desolations, the spiritual energy there is too scarce. For creatures like the Di Tian Devil Lord at that level, no matter how much they consume, it would not be worth the effort.
In the vast expanse of the starry sky, the enormous monster laughed maniacally, its laughter shattering countless stars. Meanwhile, the cultivators from the Seven Realms, who were mercilessly slaughtered by it, all stood in formation, struggling to control the onslaught of this terrifying creature, while simultaneously trying to escape.
However, despite their formidable formation, they were still defenseless against the terrifying and elusive monster. Every time the immense demon shadow disappeared and reappeared, it managed to snatch away over a dozen innate cultivators, leaving behind only screams of horror.
All the cultivators from the Seven Realms turned pale, recalling the records in ancient texts about the Di Tian Devil Lord of the Celestial Desolation Realm, the terrifying monster that once wreaked havoc in the World of Eight Desolations, not sparing even his own realms.
However, the terror described in the ancient texts cannot compare to the firsthand experience, ah!
These cultivators from the Seven Realms were almost frightened to the point of despair.
However, at this moment, a blazing white lightning bolt came from afar, heading straight towards the Di Tian Devil Lord who was in the midst of his murderous rampage.
It was none other than Lu Heng who made a move.
Within the surging lightning, the colossal monster paused for a moment and then its face underwent a dramatic change.
"Shit! Lu Heng, the Heavenly Lord!"
Without even a moment to ponder why Lu Heng had appeared here, the colossal monster, trembling in fear, didn't dare utter a single word, and promptly vanished into the void, dragging along dozens of terrified cultivators from the Seven Realms who were screaming in agony.
It turned out that it had broken through the spatial rift and escaped.
Following closely behind, Lu Heng's brow furrowed slightly, without pausing, he also ruptured the space and chased after Zhu Yan.
How could he turn a blind eye to Zhu Yan who had forcefully taken possession of his disciple's physical body?
As the figure in white passed by the bewildered cultivators from the Seven Realms, who were still immersed in astonishment, Lu Heng simply waved his hand without even sparing a glance at this group of cultivators. He vanished behind the ruptured space.
As the group of cultivators, gasping for breath in the void, their faces froze in shock, in the next second, they were engulfed by a massive torrent of heavenly thunder.
They were completely disoriented and filled with overwhelming despair.
The figure of Lu Heng constantly shuttled through the void.
Up ahead, the colossal demonic creature emitted loud cries, fleeing incessantly in a state of disarray, devoid of its previous ferocious and menacing demeanor.
Space shattered incessantly, boundaries of the world continuously breached by it. Yet, behind it, there was a figure in white garb that always trailed closely, never being left behind.
The half-red, half-white demonic creature wailed in agony repeatedly, eventually resorting to both fleeing and pleading for mercy. Yet, the figure behind it never ceased its relentless pursuit. Moreover, the distance between the two parties continued to shorten as bolts of heavenly thunder flashed by. The demon, too afraid to retaliate, was left with half of its body charred black, emitting steady streams of smoke. The fierce flames of lightning engulfed its posterior, burning fiercely and indomitably.
The agony of being scorched by lightning fire pierced into the marrow.
However, even so, the demonic creature didn't dare to pause, not even for a moment.
Its figure shuttled through one world after another, crossing countless barriers of existence.
As for Lu Heng, the distance between him and it, however, was continuously closing in.
Finally, after one hundred and fifty years and thirty days since leaving the Celestial Desolation Realm, this relentless pursuit that had lasted for over a century came to an end.
The colossal demonic creature lay weakly and languidly in the vast expanse of darkness, prostrated upon a ruined temple debris. Facing Lu Heng, who was gradually descending behind it, it spoke with feeble breath.
"Heavenly Lord, spare… spare me…"
The Di Tian Devil Lord who once intimidated the entire World of Eight Desolations, now weak and feeble, plead with Lu Heng, looking pitifully, "I haven't harmed your disciple… truly, I merely borrowed his body temporarily, planning to depart once my soul is restored. Heavenly Lord, trust me, I genuinely had no intention of harming Sun Yan…"
