Chapter 1120: Starry Sky

Chapter 1120: The Starry Sky

Is this the starry sky?

As soon as Ye Chen emerged, he scanned his surroundings.

The starry sky was vast and boundless, filled with irregularly shaped asteroids as far as the eye could see. Some were as large as mountains, while others were as small as wine jars.

Beyond the scattered asteroids, there were countless ancient stars of varying sizes, like ancient relics suspended in display. Some emitted a faint glow, nurturing myriad life forms, while others were utterly lifeless and desolate, yet still added a touch of color to the eternal starry expanse.

The universe was immensely broad and endless!

Ye Chen was awestruck by the vastness of the starry sky, feeling like a mere grain of sand in the vast sea, insignificant as dust.

Suddenly, he turned back to glance at Zhuque Xing.

Perhaps due to the immense distance, Zhuque Xing was shrouded in hazy mist. It was a spherical star of enormous size, with flowing sands and surrounding nebulae, radiating brilliant starlight. Activating the Six Paths Immortal Wheel Eye, he could even make out the vast rivers and mountains on Zhuque Xing.

Ye Chen sighed in wonder. He had always known Zhuque Xing to be boundless, but he never realized it was just one star among the vast universe. In the past, he could only gaze up at the stars, never imagining he would one day be among them.

Kill! Kill! Kill!

Yin Shi Wang pursued him, shattering Ye Chen's thoughts.

Ye Chen quickly turned and used Shrinking the Ground into an Inch, stepping onto an asteroid and darting thousands of zhang away.

Yin Shi Wang possessed great divine abilities and teleported after him, refusing to let up. He unleashed powerful divine techniques repeatedly, reducing asteroids to ash and shattering small stars.

Ye Chen dared not slacken, moving like a streak of divine light after each step.

Behind him, Yin Shi Wang was like a divine rainbow.

The two streaked through the starry sky side by side, tracing two brilliant paths.

"Wow! A meteor!"

As they passed a blue ancient star, Ye Chen faintly heard someone exclaim in surprise from the star.

Indeed, the two of them looked just like meteors at that moment.

Mortals!

Sweeping his divine sense over it, Ye Chen paused, realizing that the blue ancient star had no cultivators' auras – it was inhabited only by ordinary mortals who had not yet begun cultivation.

Ye Chen's eyes twinkled. He had assumed that all realms in the heavens were filled with cultivators.

Now, it seemed that among the countless stars in the universe, not every one had life, and not every star with life had cultivators.

Interesting!

Ye Chen murmured to himself, surging his magical power to increase his speed.

No sooner had he moved than Yin Shi Wang caught up, smashing a lifeless star with a palm strike. Then, a blood light shot from his forehead, aiming to destroy Ye Chen's primordial spirit.

Ye Chen felt a chill down his spine and a stab of pain in his primordial spirit. He abruptly turned, activating the Taixu Cave secret technique to absorb the blood light, then swiftly teleported backward to evade Yin Shi Wang's Mie Mie Sword.

"Seal!"

Seeing Ye Chen about to escape again, Yin Shi Wang pointed at him from afar.

Instantly, Ye Chen felt the surrounding starry sky solidify, as if he were trapped in mud, unable to move an inch.

"What other tricks do you have!"

Yin Shi Wang crossed the starry sky, his face twisted in ferocity as he approached.

But as soon as he arrived, Ye Chen slipped away like an eel, his escape skills as slippery as ever, already a thousand zhang away in the blink of an eye, leaving Yin Shi Wang furious.

Ye Chen glanced back and smirked coldly. If he could activate his bloodline limit now, he would charge back without hesitation and kick Yin Shi Wang to death.

Turning his gaze from Yin Shi Wang, Ye Chen looked toward Zhuque Xing again.

This time, the distance was truly too great - he could only vaguely see it as a tiny speck of light.

Boom!

A thunderous explosion behind him interrupted his gaze once more, as Yin Shi Wang pulverized a massive asteroid with a palm, creating a spectacular meteor shower in the starry sky.

Ye Chen fled again, like a beam of divine light.

Yin Shi Wang chased relentlessly, determined not to stop until he seized Ye Chen's sacred body and bloodline.

The two of them, one fleeing and one pursuing, stirred up quite a commotion in the vast starry sky, with continuous booms along their path. On the ancient stars they passed that harbored life, the cultivators there felt the Quasi-Saint pressure and dared not show themselves.

Day and night cycled, dawn and dusk alternating.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed quietly. Ye Chen could no longer see Zhuque Xing, and Yin Shi Wang had yet to catch up.

Shifting his gaze to Zhuque Xing, that realm was a scene of blood and carnage, with corpses strewn everywhere and rivers of blood flowing. Qing Long Xing had retreated, repelled by Zhuque Xing's fierce counterattack, while Tian Long Wang and Di Long Wang returned in rage.

The battle had been brutal, with You Du suffering heavy losses.

Tian Zhu Que stood in the void, her face pale, her white robes stained with blood.

Not just her - the ancestors of the eight great families and the holy lords were in the same state. Too many had died in this war.

"Ancestor!"

The people of the Mu family knelt on the ground, prostrate before a shattered jade tablet.

That jade tablet was a primordial spirit tablet, more precisely, Mu Xuan Gong's. With Mu Xuan Gong's death, the tablet had naturally shattered, leaving the Mu family members weeping uncontrollably. Their ancestor had survived the heavenly tribulation, only to meet such a calamity.

Witnessing this scene, Tian Zhu Que and the others sighed in sorrow.

Was this the destined fate? After a millennium, Zhuque Xing finally had someone advance to Quasi-Saint, yet it had drawn such a catastrophic event. They had failed to save Mu Xuan Gong's life.

Little did they know, Mu Xuan Gong was still alive, trapped in a space black hole.

As for the shattering of his primordial spirit tablet, it was due to the space black hole severing his connection to it. A space black hole could even block the link between a true body and its clone, let alone between the true body and the tablet.

Watching the Mu family members weep tears of blood, Tian Zhu Que sighed again and turned her eyes to the misty starry sky.

She worried about Ye Chen, pursued by Yin Shi Wang - would he be safe? Though she wanted to search for him, Zhuque Xing could not afford her absence. It needed her to hold the fort, as Qing Long Gu Xing might strike back at any moment.

May the heavens protect him!

Tian Zhu Que took a deep breath and silently turned away.

In the space black hole, Mu Xuan Gong had already risen, replenishing his depleted energy and restoring himself to his peak state. His vital energy surged like the sea, making him appear much younger, with his withered life force blooming vibrantly once more.

He stood there like a spear, but he glanced around warily, not daring to move a step. The space black hole was an endless darkness full of pitfalls - he might fall into one with a single misstep.

Where is everyone?

Mu Xuan Gong scratched his head repeatedly, feeling quite perplexed, but Ye Chen never came to guide him out. It was embarrassing for a mighty Quasi-Saint to be stuck in this forsaken place.

Boom! Bang!

While Mu Xuan Gong pondered, on a lifeless star millions of li from Zhuque Xing, thunderous booms echoed continuously.

Looking from afar, two figures were locked in a massive battle - one side with a sinister blood sea raging, the other with a dazzling golden star domain. Upon closer inspection, it was Ye Chen and Yin Shi Wang.

Clearly, Ye Chen was completely suppressed. Even with his profound secret techniques, he was being beaten without any chance to fight back.

"Suppress!"

With Yin Shi Wang's cold shout, Ye Chen spat blood and plummeted from the sky, crashing into the ground and forming a massive crater.

"You old hag!"

Ye Chen staggered to his feet, his sacred body nearly ruined, his body drenched in blood and bones. Even the domineering regenerative power of the Immortal Wheel couldn't keep up with his depleting vital energy - Yin Shi Wang was just too powerful.

"Seal!"

As soon as Ye Chen steadied himself, Yin Shi Wang used a forbidden secret technique to bind him, leaving him immobile.

Sacred body! Sacred body! Sacred body!

With Ye Chen sealed, Yin Shi Wang's eyes blazed with excitement, verging on madness, his gaze full of greed. He couldn't wait to reach out and seize Ye Chen, intent on extinguishing his primordial spirit and claiming his sacred body and bloodline - this was a tremendous fortune for him.

"Forcing me to play my trump card!"

Ye Chen snorted coldly and suddenly activated his Six Paths Immortal Wheel Eye.

"What's that?"

Yin Shi Wang exclaimed in shock, staring at Ye Chen's left eye.

The Six Paths Immortal Wheel Eye!

Yin Shi Wang trembled, as if recognizing the immortal clan's eye and knowing its terror.