Wayfarer

Chapter 976: Realm of the Three Worlds

After killing Ao Xi, Xiao Nanfeng quickly left Holyspring Island with his group.

Not long thereafter, streaks of flowing light descended from the sky and landed on the island. Xiao Nanfeng frowned as he watched from a distance.

"What are you looking at, Xiao Nanfeng?" Ao Zhou asked curiously.

Xiao Nanfeng glanced at Holyspring Island, then at the beams of light shooting toward it. "They're here."

"Who?" Ao Zhou asked.

"The other saints, and the supreme cultivators of the world. They've probably all arrived by now."

"The other saints?" Ao Zhou's eyes widened.

In the distance, the Void Saint continued to take on the skeletal dragon. He grew stronger and stronger as he fought; the skeletal dragon grew weaker and weaker.

"If I'm not mistaken, you're a remnant soul of an ancestral dragon, aren't you? How dare you interfere with my plans? I'll obliterate you right here and now!" the Void Saint shouted coldly.

With a boom, part of the sea exploded. The skeletal dragon's body shattered in many places, sending it flying and crashing into the sea in a massive tsunami.

"You're a traitor to all living beings. Die!" the skeletal dragon roared angrily.

"You're barely holding yourself together. What makes you think you can take me down? I'll be sending you on your way!" the Void Saint thundered.

A boundless blue sea surged upward, forming a massive tsunami that engulfed the skeletal dragon, trapping it.

"Something's wrong," Xiao Nanfeng frowned.

He stepped forward decisively, a black lotus petal in his hand.

At that moment, a loud noise erupted from the center of the blue sea in the distance.

With a deafening explosion, the entire sea detonated. Space ruptured as the explosion shook heaven and earth.

In the middle of the explosion, the Void Saint let out a miserable scream. "You lunatic!"

Xiao Nanfeng stopped short. "The ancestral dragon self-destructed?"

"Self-destructed?!" the spirits cried out.

In the distance, the storm churned violently, sweeping across a vast stretch of the sea and spawning tsunami after tsunami.

When the explosion subsided, the Void Saint could be seen floating in the air, covered in blood. His clothes were in tatters, and he was coughing up blood. He was severely injured.

Not far from him was a mass of black light. The white bone dragon was gone, replaced by the enormous shadow of a black dragon, trembling as if it could dissipate at any moment. It was the remnant soul of the ancestral dragon.

The remnant soul gazed at the Void Saint with a sigh. "What a pity. I gave my all and still couldn't blow you to pieces."

"You lunatic!" the Void Saint cursed.

The remnant soul no longer spoke to the Void Saint but instead looked at the world, its eyes filled with longing and reluctance.

"Young ones hiding in the shadows, I've dealt this traitor to all living beings a heavy blow. The rest is up to you. This world, this celestial firmament, I leave to you," the ancestral dragon's remnant soul said, smiling faintly.

With a loud bang, the remnant soul disintegrated completely. Having exhausted all its strength, the ancestral dragon's truesoul could no longer maintain its form. It dissipated entirely.

Even as it vanished, it blessed the world.

"Leave in peace, ancestral dragon. I shall take on this traitor!" a voice rang out.

A figure appeared in the sky above the Western Sea, glancing down coldly at the Void Saint.

"The Void Saint is mine!" another voice declared.

Another figure flew over from a distance.

"Everyone, stop fighting. We're in the Western Sea—my territory. I'll handle the Void Saint!"

"I'll take care of it!"

Voices echoed as supreme cultivators appeared from every direction, all vying to hunt down the injured Void Saint.

"Do you all intend to rebel?!" the Void Saint roared in anger.

"For the good of the world, you must die!" the others responded coldly.

With that, a group of powerful individuals charged at the Void Saint.

"You're all fools!" the Void Saint roared, striking at them with a wave of his hand.

With a thunderous boom, their combined attacks generated a fiery storm, engulfing a vast region of the sky above the Western Sea.

Xiao Nanfeng and his companions all wore grim expressions.

Xiao Nanfeng bowed toward the distance. "Rest in peace, ancestral dragon. We shall fulfill your wishes."

Ao Zhou, Croak, and Warble emulated his actions. "Rest in peace, ancestral dragon."

"Very well, then. Let's go," Xiao Nanfeng said.

"Now's the perfect time to hunt the Void Saint. Why leave?" Ao Zhou asked.

"It isn't a good time. The other saints are here as well. The Void Saint won't die, and we can't intervene in this battle, so there's no point in staying," Xiao Nanfeng explained.

The three spirits considered Xiao Nanfeng's words before ultimately nodding. They followed Xiao Nanfeng and quietly departed, cloaked in white fog.

As they left, more and more cultivators from around the world rushed toward the Western Sea.

The fighting grew more and more intense as more saints joined in, escalating the battle to unimaginable levels.

Xiao Nanfeng and his group returned directly to Yongding. They shook out the fake Dragon King of the Western Saa and his subordinates from a gourd.

Xiao Nanfeng summoned You Jiu. "Interrogate them harshly. I want to know the whereabouts of Ye Dafu and the others."

"Understood!" You Jiu replied.

Then, Xiao Nanfeng handed the three moons that the ancestral dragon had gifted him to his avatar.

While his main body managed the affairs of state, his avatar went into secluded cultivation.

Inside a grand hall, Xiao Nanfeng's avatar sat cross-legged in meditation. Before him floated the three moons given to him by the ancestral dragon..

These red, blue, and purple moons were distinct from those derived from spiritual cultivation. They were the purest forms of spiritual power that the three Qing Grandmasters had conjured personally.

Xiao Nanfeng opened his mouth and swallowed all three moons.

With a hum, three radiant colors erupted from his body.

At the same time, his own three spiritual moons emerged and floated into the air. Though his moons exuded extremely refined spiritual power, that spiritual power was still clearly inferior to that from the three Qing Grandmasters.

The three Qing Grandmasters' moons began to nourish his own spiritual moons.

Through their spiritual power, he was able to contemplate the Taiqing, Yuqing, and Shangqing Yin Body techniques more deeply than ever before.

Gradually, his three moons radiated brilliant light. Flaws hidden within his moons were being perfected under the influence of the pure spiritual power from the three Qing Grandmasters. Profound auras began emanating from his moons.

With a rumble, his deific domain expanded and began to evolve.

Time passed without notice. Suddenly, the hall trembled as all surrounding objects slowly faded into nothingness, transforming the area into an immense space. At the same time, his body began to radiate dazzling three-colored light.

"A Deific Yin realm? I've reached Deific Yin!" Xiao Nanfeng exclaimed.

His breakthrough wasn't over just yet.

His Deific Yin realm underwent an upheaval. His three moons hung high in the air, each casting moonlight over a distinct region, dividing the realm into three.

The red and blue moons were stable, but something seemed off with his purple moon.

The purple moon trembled before its surface split, like a closed eye opening wide.

"The purple moon transformed into a purple eye..." Xiao Nanfeng frowned.

The purple eye loomed high in the air, glaring at him with killing intent.

A shiver ran down his spine. His hair stood on end. He felt as though a cursed effigy sought to kill and possess him. He stared intently at the purple eye, which stared back, sending a chilling sense of dread through him.

"Something I created myself, trying to kill me? What audacity!" Xiao Nanfeng hissed.

He sensed immense danger from the purple eye and hastily activated his red and blue moons.

With a hum, the red and blue moons each emitted a beam of light that struck the purple eye.

The purple eye's pupil contracted, unleashing two beams of purple light to counter the attacks. With a loud boom, the red and blue beams suppressed the purple beams, forcing the purple eye into submission.

The purple eye glared fiercely at the red and blue moons before slowly reverting into its purple moon form.

The purple moon had calmed down, but Xiao Nanfeng's heart was still racing.

"Why did the purple moon suddenly act up? It even tried to kill me... The manual given by the Heavenly Emperor should be fine. Could something be wrong with the Yuqing Yin Body itself? Does the purple moon pose a threat to its master?" Xiao Nanfeng mused gravely.

He suddenly recalled some old tales: disciples who cultivated the Taiqing red moon often ended up dead, seemingly devoured by their red moons.

He also remembered the Superior once telling him that he would have been devoured by his silver moon long ago if the Superior hadn't helped him suppress it..

"Are all these spiritual cultivation techniques problematic...? But my red and blue moons don't seem to be affected." Xiao Nanfeng frowned before realization struck him. "No—they're simply being suppressed by cursed effigies! The red rope suppresses the red moon, and vice versa. The golden lotus hood suppresses the blue moon, and vice versa. But the purple moon lacks an opposing force, which is allowing it to act recklessly."

After a moment of contemplation, he sighed. "The three Qing Grandmasters' techniques truly aren't meant for ordinary people. I have to find a cursed effigy to suppress my purple moon."

Then, Xiao Nanfeng glanced around him. "And this Deific Yin realm should be named. I'll call it the Realm of the Three Worlds."

At that moment, the void nearby trembled. With a hum, a streak of blue light tore through the void, as if ripping open a spatial rift. An immense aura poured in.

"Who's there?" Xiao Nanfeng demanded.

This was his Deific Yin realm, and his surroundings were protected by numerous formations. How could an outsider have entered?

With a hum, a figure stepped out of the spatial rift, radiating an overwhelming killing intent that enveloped him.

"Void Saint? How could you have found your way here?" Xiao Nanfeng exclaimed.