Chapter 3017: The Burial

"Tian Ting Nü Di, not much to speak of."

On the Tai Gu Road in the void, the sinister laughter of the Tian Di Sheng Mo echoed.

The battle's fluctuations were extraordinarily vast.

The Nü Di appeared quite disheveled, yet her expression remained indifferent. She fought while retreating, occasionally glancing toward the end of the Tai Gu Road, as if aware that Ye Chen had already drawn the first Sheng Mo into the Xu Wang. She knew Ye Chen's combat strength well—he had the capability to slaughter the first Sheng Mo. Thus, her task was simply to hold back the second and third Sheng Mo. Facing two against three might offer no chance of victory, but in one-on-one combat, she could slay a Tian Di Sheng Mo, and so could Ye Chen.

"Extinguish."

As he spoke, the second Sheng Mo attacked again, his hand like a divine blade, with demonic patterns etched between his fingers, targeting the primordial spirit directly.

The Nü Di employed Yong Heng, instantly evading.

The third Sheng Mo followed suit, his finger strike carrying devastating power, originally aimed at the Nü Di's brow. However, it hit her jade shoulder instead, as she had shifted her vital points.

"Slaughter."

The second Sheng Mo roared furiously, manifesting a demonic mirror in the void. The mirror's surface gleamed crystal clear, radiating demonic light and flowing with dark laws, possessing the power to annihilate upon sight.

The Nü Di didn't even glance at it, piercing the mirror with a single finger.

The second Sheng Mo grunted dully, staggering back with a more ferocious expression. Even in her incomplete state, the Nü Di was extremely fierce.

As he retreated, the third Sheng Mo charged forward.

However, before he could unleash his attack, a slight furrow appeared on his brow. Instinctively, he turned his gaze toward the end of the Tai Gu Road.

"How did he enter the Xu Wang?"

The second Sheng Mo narrowed his eyes, seemingly seeing it as well.

"Hold her back."

The third Sheng Mo snorted coldly and dashed straight for the end. In his view, joining forces to kill Ye Chen would be simpler than eliminating the Nü Di. With a two-against-one setup, he didn't believe they couldn't destroy the Sheng Ti.

He tried to leave, but the Nü Di gave him no opportunity. She transformed into an immortal sea with Yong Heng, sweeping him back with a brilliant wave.

"Get lost."

The third Sheng Mo bellowed, tearing through the immortal sea and escaping into the sky.

Facing him, the Nü Di struck with a palm.

The third Sheng Mo met it head-on, colliding solidly and instantly covering himself in blood and bones, though his blood lineage sustained him, allowing rapid regeneration.

The second Sheng Mo's face turned sinister as he seized the heavens and fled. Both being Tian Di-level Sheng Mo, either could assist in the fight.

The Nü Di unleashed a great divine ability, her brow opening a third eye wreathed in dazzling immortal light, carrying a demonic essence.

"Illusion has no effect on my true self."

The second Sheng Mo snorted coldly, instantly breaking free from the illusion.

The illusion might be useless, but the Nü Di's palm strike was highly effective. She slapped him directly, sending the second Sheng Mo flying horizontally, his demonic body exploding mid-flight with blood and bones scattering.

The two Sheng Mo were enraged, sweeping in from left and right with blood fiends, intent on forcing their way through. They refused to believe the Nü Di could stop them.

The Nü Di said nothing, wielding the Yong Heng Immortal Sword and advancing atop the immortal sea. She couldn't block them forever, but she could delay them.

Boom! Bang! Boom!

The battle resumed, one side trying to escape and the other obstructing, shattering the heavens and earth, turning the void into a scene of destruction.

It was clear the Nü Di was at a disadvantage, retreating as she blocked, ultimately defeated. The two Tian Di Sheng Mo launched fierce assaults; she could hold them off for a time but not indefinitely.

In contrast, the Sheng Mo were exceptionally ruthless, violent and bloodthirsty, sustained by their blood lineage limits in an undying state, attacking relentlessly without defense.

Equally chaotic was the scene in the Nil Void of Xu Wang.

Looking toward the end, a vast world of destruction had taken shape in the haze, where Ye Chen and the first Sheng Mo were locked in fierce combat.

The sight was extremely brutal.

Ye Chen's Sheng Ti was stained with blood, covered in countless gashes with exposed muscles and bones in places, yet his attacks were peerless, his battle intent soaring like an eight desolations war god, his aura shaking the universe.

In contrast, the first Sheng Mo stood amid demonic fiends, like a demon god. In terms of appearance, he was even more wretched than Ye Chen, with disheveled hair and a grotesque, ghost-like face. Though protected by his blood lineage, the gashes on his body were no fewer than Ye Chen's.

There was no helping it—this was the Xu Wang, where an invisible force suppressed the blood lineage, greatly reducing recovery speed.

For the Sheng Mo, the suppression of blood lineage wasn't the worst part; what was truly revolting was that his blood lineage was slowly weakening. At this rate, it would eventually dissipate, trapping him in the Xu Wang. His fate was easy to imagine.

Thinking of this, he turned and fled.

"The fight isn't over yet. Where are you going?"

Ye Chen crossed the void with a single step, delivering an eight desolations punch that sent him flying back.

"I wish to leave—who can stop me?"

The first Sheng Mo gritted his teeth, slapping out a vast realm as he fled. This accursed place couldn't hold him any longer.

Ye Chen sneered, effortlessly cleaving the great realm with a sword and using Shifting Heavens and Earth to swap positions with the first Sheng Mo.

Undeterred, the first Sheng Mo transformed into a black demonic dragon, charging straight ahead with one goal: to return.

"You won't escape."

Ye Chen's roar was resounding, surging with a brilliant Yong Heng sea that submerged the first Sheng Mo. The Sheng Mo, who had just taken dragon form, reverted to human shape under the Yong Heng force.

From that point, his momentum plummeted.

In contrast, Ye Chen's power grew even more dominant, like a blazing sun adorning the Xu Wang. Even supreme beings from the outer domains found it dazzling, with strands of Yong Heng immortal light piercing the soul.

Looking at the Sheng Mo, a hint of fear had appeared in his black-hole-like eyes—not fear of Ye Chen, but of the Xu Wang itself. It not only suppressed his blood lineage but also accelerated its dissipation. If he didn't leave soon, he never would.

In this regard, Ye Chen held the advantage. Though his Yong Heng was incomplete, it wasn't suppressed by the invisible forces. A prolonged war of attrition in the Xu Wang would surely end with the first Sheng Mo's death.

Buzz!

In a moment of distraction, Ye Chen summoned the Chaos Cauldron, pressing down from above. As it fell, the cauldron expanded to mountainous proportions, surging with chaotic energy and Yong Heng immortal light. The escutcheon characters on the cauldron shone brilliantly, evolving laws and manifesting Yong Heng visions.

The first Sheng Mo stumbled, his form wavering as his newly healed demonic body cracked open again.

Zing!

Ye Chen gripped the Yong Heng Sword, thrusting it forward.

Ah!

The first Sheng Mo howled, propping up the Chaos Cauldron and fleeing instantly. Though Ye Chen's sword missed, a wisp of its killing intent escaped, transforming into a brilliant immortal light that severed one of his arms. The Yong Heng annihilation was terrifyingly effective.

Even so, the first Sheng Mo fled without looking back.

"I told you, you won't escape."

Ye Chen snorted coldly, using Flying Thunder God combined with Dream Back to Antiquity to block his path again, slashing him down with a sword.

Ah!

The first Sheng Mo went berserk, etching a demonic pattern on his brow—it was a divine ability empowered by demonic force, causing his aura to surge wildly as his frenzied blood collided with the Yong Heng light, dimming it.

Ye Chen didn't back down, also unlocking his forbidden laws. No matter what, he had to keep the first Sheng Mo trapped here. He didn't need to destroy him outright—just hold out until the blood lineage limit dissipated. Then, the invisible forces would handle the rest.

Boom! Bang! Boom!

Explosions echoed through the Xu Wang as the first Sheng Mo tried to flee and Ye Chen blocked him. One a Sheng Mo and the other a Sheng Ti, they fought to utter madness, with blood and bones scattering in the haze.

The emperors in the cauldron watched with boiling blood, eager to join the fight, but without Yong Heng protection, stepping out would mean death.

The supreme beings at the end of the Tai Gu Road shared this sentiment. Though many in number, they could only watch and offer no help. From the Sheng Mo's state, it was clear he couldn't hold out much longer.

"Kill!"

From the western Cang Miao, roars of fury came from the second and third Sheng Mo, driving the Nü Di into retreat. Gazing intently, one could see her blood-stained figure and the towering demonic fiends, brightening the eyes of the outer domain supreme beings.

They had forgotten— their side still had two Tian Di-level Sheng Mo who could enter the Xu Wang and rescue the first.

Pfft!

As the outer domain supreme beings watched, the Nü Di spat blood again, nearly split in two by the second Sheng Mo's sword, saved only by Yong Heng.

The third Sheng Mo grinned maliciously, unleashing demonic fiends to swallow the heavens.

The Nü Di remained silent. In the instant before being engulfed, she had already escaped and no longer blocked the two Sheng Mo, turning instead toward the end of the Tai Gu Road. Since she couldn't stop them, she would enter the Xu Wang and join Ye Chen to quickly slay the first Sheng Mo.

"Stop her."

The outer domain supreme beings roared, with over a dozen Tian Di charging forth.

"Get lost."

The Nü Di parted her lips lightly, uttering a single soft word that shook the skies to collapse. Without using any secret arts, she barreled straight ahead, sending all the blocking outer domain supreme beings flying. The Tian Di fared better, but the great emperors and great Cheng Sheng Mo were miserably shattered, with many hurled into the Xu Wang and subsequently annihilated by invisible forces, one after another.

"Save me."

From the Xu Wang, the first Sheng Mo's howls rang out. He had truly gone mad; a peak Tian Di being trapped by an initial-stage Tian Di was humiliating. Several attempts to break out had been thwarted.

"Xu Wang shall be your grave."

The Nü Di had returned, slashing the first Sheng Mo down with a sword.

"One Thought Yong Heng."

Ye Chen spoke calmly, casting an imprisoning immortal art to freeze the Sheng Mo.

The Sheng Mo was tenacious, breaking free in an instant.

In that brief moment, the Nü Di arrived, piercing him with a sword.

"Don't rush—there's more."

Ye Chen's sword followed, stabbing through the first Sheng Mo's back of the head and out his face, utterly domineering.

Pfft! Pfft!

The first Sheng Mo's head exploded, followed by his indestructible demonic body crumbling inch by inch. He had endured not just simple strikes but the combined annihilating immortal arts of the Nü Di and Ye Chen, both infused with Yong Heng, unleashing destructive power.

"I am undying and indestructible."

The Sheng Mo roared, his demonic body destroyed but his primordial spirit escaping as a beam of demonic light, racing toward the end of the Tai Gu Road.

Outrageous!

The gods and generals of the heavens clicked their tongues, and the emperors sighed in admiration. Even with the Nü Di and Ye Chen's combined strike, that fiend's primordial spirit had escaped.

"It's over."

Ye Chen said lightly, his voice carrying a desolate authority like a heavenly decree. He drew his bow, using the emperor's path as the bow and Yong Heng as the arrow, locking onto the Sheng Mo and firing a destructive shot.

Pfft!

The fleeing first Sheng Mo was pierced by the arrow.

To Ye Chen's slight embarrassment, the fiend didn't die.

No problem—he didn't die, but the Nü Di's arrow followed, even more overbearing. Using it for a finishing blow was overkill, but the half-dead first Sheng Mo took another hit.

"No!"

The first Sheng Mo wailed, his eyes bulging and pupils contracting. No matter how loudly he screamed, he couldn't withstand Yong Heng's absolute kill. What made it worse was that his blood lineage limit had dissipated in that instant. Both Yong Heng and the invisible forces unleashed annihilating power, and even a Tian Di-level primordial spirit couldn't endure, crumbling bit by bit in the Xu Wang and turning to historical dust.

He must have died with deep regret.

A peak Tian Di Sheng Mo, a great general under the throne, an existence of such caliber who had slain countless Heavenly Court emperors in ancient times, now buried in the Xu Wang.