Chapter 2449: World Cleansing

In the dim ancient land, desolate and without light.

The four young emperors of the Jin Qu still stood on that mountain peak, using secret methods to spy and locate the position of the Yi Space.

Boom!

Suddenly, a thunderous rumble shook the heavens and earth. The shattered Yi World reappeared, not just a fleeting glimpse, but fully manifesting because Tianxu Dizi and the others had destroyed the array foundations.

Zing!

Huangquan Dizi was the first to charge forward, wielding an immortal sword to carve out an opening.

However, before his sword could fall, he was struck by an unknown object, causing him to spit blood. Even someone as powerful as him was left battered with blood and bones exposed. Before he could steady himself, another unknown object hit him even harder, sending him flying with one mouthful of old blood after another.

The ones that hit him one after the other were, of course, the mysterious Shengti and Ye Chen. Their speed was too fast for anyone to see they were people, let alone recognize them. Huangquan Dizi was left utterly stunned.

Not just him—the later arrivals, Mingtu Dizi, Lianyu Dizi, and Wangchuan Dinu, couldn't escape either. They were sent flying all over the sky by the two Huanggu Shengti, their divine bodies nearly exploding.

"What thing."

Huangquan Dizi shook himself and finally stabilized his form.

Mingtu Dizi, Lianyu Dizi, and Wangchuan Dinu each coughed up blood and turned their gazes in that direction.

Only then did they see it was two people: one with overwhelming might, the other with surging demonic energy. They didn't know their origins, only that their physical bodies were incredibly powerful, truly formidable.

"Shengti?"

"Two of them?"

"Demonized?"

"Blood Succession Boundary?"

The four were all stunned, uttering different words.

"Chase them."

Tianxu Dizi charged out, streaking across the sky, and didn't forget to send a message to the four. Without pausing, he and Kui Niu and the others rushed after Ye Chen and the mysterious Shengti.

The four didn't have time to ask questions; like four rays of immortal light, they followed the pace of the five.

"What kind of mess is this?" Huangquan Dizi clutched his chest and said, still surging with blood in his mouth.

Tianxu Dizi said nothing, engraving the scenes from the Yi Space into a divine sense, dividing it into four parts, and transmitting it to them. They all needed to know.

The four young emperors read it, and their expressions changed dramatically in an instant.

Only now did they realize that the mysterious person the Jin Qu had sent them to find was actually a Huanggu Shengti, and moreover, a Shengti with an innate Blood Succession Boundary. It was undying and unkillable, extremely terrifying. Even Ye Chen and Tianxu Dizi teaming up were being suppressed.

As for Ye Chen's demonization, it made the four even more astonished. They weren't unfamiliar with demonization, but something as strange as Ye Chen's was a first. Just one of him was pressing the attack.

Yet, they were even more puzzled. Both being Shengti, where did such deep resentment come from? What secrets were hidden in the Shengti lineage? And what was the true meaning behind the mission from the Jin Qu?

Boom! Bang! Boom!

Ahead, Ye Chen and the mysterious Shengti were out of sight, but the rumbling sounds followed all the way.

The mysterious Shengti was fleeing and had grown considerably weaker.

The demonized Ye Chen was chasing relentlessly from behind, treating the mysterious Shengti like a piece of prime meat. He had no interest in the other minor pests anymore.

In their pursuit and escape, the commotion was massive. Every mountain range they encountered collapsed peak by peak; every vast sea they passed turned into dry waves; every Cangyuan they crossed couldn't withstand their pressure and crumbled in booms, collapsing piece by piece. Thunder flashed and rumbled along the way, in utter chaos.

Such a huge disturbance naturally drew attention from all sides. Cultivators searching for treasures gathered in groups of three or five. The booming was so loud that they instinctively thought a great treasure had appeared.

When they saw Ye Chen and the mysterious Shengti, everyone was stunned.

"It's Da Chu's Tenth Emperor again, and he's demonized?"

"Heavens! The one he's chasing is actually another Huanggu Shengti. This..."

"Are there really four Shengti in the Zhutian?"

"Both are Shengti, so why are they fighting so fiercely? What massive grudge could this be?"

The gathered crowd was vast and bustling, with too many people scratching their heads. Doubts and exclamations echoed endlessly. No one could make sense of the situation, all lost in confusion.

"How did he demonize again?"

From one side, Dongzhou Wuwang and Riyue Shenzi emerged, spotting Ye Chen's state from afar and immediately frowning. That night, Ye Chen's demonic nature had been wiped out by Da Chu's Quasi-Emperor, so how was it happening now? And that mysterious Shengti—where had it come from? The aura of the two was extraordinarily strong.

"Even more terrifying than that day's demonization." Emperors from all sides appeared one after another.

"Where did this Shengti come from?" Everyone gathered, all baffled.

"Quickly, follow them."

Kui Niu and the others streaked across the sky, passing words to the Zhutian emperor-level figures.

The mysterious Shengti needed to be suppressed, but Ye Chen's demonic nature had to be eliminated too. With his current combat power, no one could face him alone; it would take a group effort.

The Zhutian emperor-level figures didn't ask more and followed together. After inquiring, their expressions were no different from those of the four young emperors of the Jin Qu—strange events happened every year, but this year was especially full of them.

Not just them—many treasure seekers also followed, one group after another.

"Don't get too close to the Shengti."

Tianxu Dizi gave a cold hum, his words reaching everyone's ears.

The demonized Huanggu Shengti recognized no kin. Those with weak cultivation who chased too aggressively might be slaughtered. That was no longer Ye Chen, but a great demon.

Boom! Bang! Boom!

Ahead, the booms grew even louder, with swathes of mountains collapsing.

Ye Chen's demonic might soared to the heavens, chasing and striking all the way, determined not to stop until the mysterious Shengti was dead. Whenever he caught up, there were no words—just a fatal hammering.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

Blood sprayed everywhere, quite striking.

The weakened mysterious Shengti was in a pitiful state. His dominant Shengti body endured one immortal technique after another, exploding repeatedly with blood and bones scattering across the sky.

His Blood Succession Boundary had nearly dissipated, unable to sustain the consumption or withstand Ye Chen's attacks, so he fled desperately, waiting for it to activate again.

"Kill!"

Ye Chen's words were violently savage, his scarlet eyes filled with bloody light. Across the vast universe, he threw a heaven-defying punch that nearly blasted the mysterious Shengti apart.

"One day, I will cut you down."

The mysterious Shengti gritted his teeth, not daring to stop, fleeing through the sky. His eyes, like black holes, were now veiled in blood. The face under his black robe was twisted and grotesque, like a demon, his fury clouding his mind and driving him mad.

Boom! Bang! Boom!

The two sped on, one like divine light, the other like immortal light, extremely conspicuous.

More onlookers arrived from all directions. Those from other areas were fine, but the cultivators ahead suffered greatly, being knocked out in waves by the mysterious Shengti and Ye Chen.

"Get out of the way!" Kui Niu roared.

No need for him to say it; the gathered cultivators had already fled far. Many were knocked into Yuanshen form, their expressions terrified and their souls trembling. Those two were too frightening.

Tianxu Dizi and the others, like rays of divine light, pursued without letting up.

"Once the mysterious Shengti is suppressed, we'll seal Ye Chen. I'll remove his demonic nature," Beisheng transmitted to everyone, with a divine pattern already etched on her brow, mysterious power flowing.

The Zhutian emperor-level figures nodded in agreement, no objections.

The five young emperors of the Jin Qu, however, all turned their gazes sideways toward Beisheng, their eyes flashing with deep meaning.

Deeper in the Zangshen Gudi, it grew even darker, Yinleng and desolate.

In a mountain range, Ye Chen caught up to the mysterious Shengti and slapped him down from the sky.

Boom!

A mountain peak was crushed under the mysterious Shengti.

Amid flying rubble, the mysterious Shengti staggered to his feet. His Shengti body was shattered, his Blood Succession Boundary gone. His eyes were no longer like black holes; now, they were filled with blood, dyeing his pupils scarlet, grotesque like a malevolent ghost. His hatred for Ye Chen had seeped into his bones. What should have been a crushing victory had been disrupted by Ye Chen time and again.

Bang!

Ye Chen stepped on a sea of demonic energy and blood, descending from the sky. Without a word, he flipped his hand to unleash a sky-covering great seal, heavy as a mountain range. Before it even landed fully, the mountain peak had already collapsed.

The mysterious Shengti suddenly fixed in place, raising his hands to summon a vision—a golden immortal domain with laws crisscrossing, visions appearing everywhere, and the sounds of the Great Dao echoing through the eight directions.

Sadly, it wasn't nearly enough. Without the Blood Succession Boundary, how could he match Ye Chen? Ye Chen's palm pressed down, shattering his Shengti body and spraying holy blood, while that golden immortal domain also collapsed. No matter how profound the laws, they couldn't withstand Ye Chen's strike.

"Kill!"

Ye Chen dove down from the air, thrusting a finger of divine light toward the mysterious Shengti.

"One day, I will cut you down."

The mysterious Shengti let out a grotesque roar, using some divine ability to shatter the space and vanish in an instant. In the heavens and earth, his trace was lost, destination unknown.

However, Ye Chen's finger didn't stop because of his escape. That finger was truly domineering, piercing a deep abyss into the ground, from which spring water gushed.

Unable to find him, Ye Chen erupted in fury. The duck he had ready to eat had flown away—how could he not be angry? Already demonic, he grew even more violent, craving the blood of living beings to quench his rage. The surging demonic energy pulverized that mountain range inch by inch.

From behind, Tianxu Dizi and the others arrived.

The demonic Ye Chen turned his eyes back. Seeing the crowd, he laughed savagely, licking his lips, his gaze filled with violent bloodlust, intent on slaughtering these living beings.

At his glance, the onlookers froze in place.

Because Ye Chen's eyes were like the stare of the god of death, too terrifying. Being targeted by him made their minds tremble, their bodies ice-cold, as if plunged into the nine underworlds.

"Seal!"

Before Ye Chen could kill, Tianxu Dizi acted, one hand holding a sword, the other forming seals.

Buzz!

The heavens and earth trembled together as ancient bronze pillars manifested, one after another towering into the sky, piercing through the vast universe, engraved with divine patterns and linked by law chains, forming a cage.

Ye Chen grinned ferociously and suddenly went mad, surging demonic energy slamming the cage, making the ancient bronze pillars shake unsteadily, on the verge of collapsing. It wasn't that the cage was weak; Ye Chen was just too fierce.

"Seal!"

The four young emperor-level figures shouted in unison, positioning themselves at the four corners and jointly activating a killing array. Each held an array foundation, with array patterns filling the sky. The massive array, infused with sealing power, descended from above and reinforced the Fengtian cage.

"Seal!"

The Zhutian emperor-level figures weren't idle either, some ascending to the nine heavens, some stepping into the sky, some standing on mountain peaks, all forming seals together to cast sealing divine abilities. One array after another manifested, filling the vast sky, all without exception reinforcing the Fengtian cage.

Ye Chen staggered, his body's demonic energy dissipating slightly.

"Kill!"

But he roared fiercely, the demonic energy reigniting, even stronger, with a mysterious force bursting forth, making the massive Fengtian cage buzz and shake, on the brink of collapse.

"Don't just watch, help out."

Kui Niu cursed, directing it at the spectators.

The shocked masses finally reacted, each forming seals and deploying their own arrays. Though not as profound as Tianxu Dizi's, their numbers were vast—one after another, all with sealing power, and beams of sealing array light shot through the sky, everywhere.

Now, Ye Chen was outmatched. His reignited demonic energy dissipated again, and the mysterious force was sealed back into his body. Though he tried to break free, he couldn't withstand the myriad arrays.

In that instant, countless seals were etched onto him, binding his bloodline and origin, sealing his laws, leaving the peerless great demon immobilized, like a stone statue. Only his pair of blood-red eyes stared at the world, his violence and bloodlust even stronger.

"Finally sealed."

Kui Niu plopped down on the ground, his heart pounding. Ye Chen's two demonizations had left even him, as the boss, with a shadow. He'd never seen such a terrifying Ye Chen.

"In the future, when we go to Da Chu, we need to be on our best behavior."

Xiao Yuan Huang coughed dryly.

The Zhutian emperor-level figures had no objections to this. Ye Chen was too unpredictable; if provoked, another demonization would mean getting hammered again.

"What on earth made him demonize?"

"Who knows? And that mysterious Shengti—what's his background?"

"Both Shengti, where does the grudge come from?"

The masses discussed animatedly, surrounding the area, filling the sky and ground.

Amid the discussions, Beisheng rose gracefully, her steps elegant, her divine form fluttering.

Under the gaze of all, she pressed her palms together, her jade lips parting slightly, as if murmuring something. Pure immortal light flowed, flawless and radiant, cascading from the sky and enveloping Ye Chen.

"Jing Shi."

Tianxu Dizi murmured lightly, as if recognizing that force.

"Jing Shi."

The other four young emperors of the Jin Qu also furrowed their brows slightly, recognizing it.

"What pure power."

The Zhutian emperor-level figures looked astonished, unaware that Beisheng hid such a force. It was ethereal and dreamy, truly like Jing Shi immortal power, able to wash away all the filth of time.

The masses were the same, staring in a daze, not knowing what kind of immortal technique it was, only that the power was pure, without a trace of impurity. Just a glance made their minds feel clear.

The Jing Shi immortal power was indeed extraordinary. Enveloping Ye Chen's Shengti body, it truly extinguished the demonic energy. Because of it, the demonic nature in Ye Chen's eyes dissipated bit by bit, gradually returning to clarity.

The great demon, having lost his demonic nature, finally reverted to his original form. In the void, he swayed and fell into Beisheng's arms, sinking into unconsciousness.

Seeing this, Tianxu Dizi was the first to step forward, narrowing his eyes as he scanned Ye Chen.

Ye Chen's demonic nature had indeed been cleared—or so it seemed. It gave Tianxu Dizi the illusion that it had been eliminated. It wasn't that his vision was lacking; it was just that the Magu Tian Emperor's curse was too mysterious and terrifying. Even Jing Shi immortal power couldn't erase it completely.

He didn't know, but the two great supremes understood it well.

In this era of the Zhutian, without a great emperor, there was only one way to eliminate the Magu Tian Emperor's curse, and only one person who could do it: the one with Jing Shi immortal power.

Relying solely on Jing Shi immortal power couldn't fully erase the curse.

But if something was added to it, it could be done.