Dominating Martial King

Chapter 2024: Chapter 401: North Sea Palace

As he spoke to this point, a pair of golden wings, as though condensed from blazing light, unfurled behind him.

"Since matters here cannot be accomplished for the time being, I should take my leave as well. If anything happens on your side, you may contact me at any time."

The feather‑robed man gave a single beat of his wings, and likewise turned into a streak of golden light flowing off into the distance.

However, the direction in which he fled was toward another sea inlet.

At the very moment he transformed into light and fled, a sliver of chilling cold surfaced in the feather‑robed man’s eyes.

—This place can no longer be stayed in.

Though that Returning Ruins Core could help him heal the injuries within his body, it was constantly battering his Primordial Spirit, making his Divine Soul strain to the breaking point.

This object was a "Heavenly Dao" copied out by the Eight Heavenly Emperors, left behind after their fall.

At first all Gods flocked to it like mad, and even fought several great wars before they realized this defective "Heavenly Dao" seemed to possess a will of its own, harboring immense malice toward all Eternal Giant Spirits.

In time, no one paid it any further heed, and in the end it fell to this place and formed the "Returning Ruins."

Besides, this place was no longer safe; just now, the feather‑robed man had actually sensed a trace of Kill Intent.

He did not know from which of the two it originated, but he knew that between this Drought and Hou Qing, one of them had certainly been moved.

There was another point that puzzled him: when Chu Xisheng had just now fixed his gaze upon the Ruins Core, he felt that within the core, there had been some strange fluctuation.

He suspected that between Chu Xisheng and the Ruins Core, there might be some mysterious connection.

Was it that shred of obsession left behind by the Eight Heavenly Emperors within the core? Could Chu Xisheng possibly control this Ruins Core?

In addition, what Si Chen Star Lord could be certain of was that his own existence was, in all likelihood, already exposed.

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At the same time, Chu Xisheng received a talisman sent out from within the Returning Ruins.

The talisman came from Hou Qing; this one tactfully declined his kindness, and no longer insisted that he must complete the Yin Yang Inversion of the Heavenly Gaze.

The meaning was that though the transaction failed, the sentiment remained, and he even forthrightly said that if Chu Xisheng had any need of the two of them or of the Xu Clan, he could still dispatch people to seek their aid.

What was laughable was that, in addition to this token, he also received two extra strands of concealed Divine Thought messages.

Chu Xisheng shook his head and crushed this talisman into fine powder.

These two former Human Clan princesses, Primordial Emperor’s War Generals, indeed had issues.

Chu Xisheng then lifted his hand and closed his fingers, seizing a cluster of light from the surroundings.

"Your Excellency, were you able to probe what lies below?"

Hou Qing was once one of Emperor Xuanhuang’s Dragon Guard War Generals; in life, his battle power nearly rivaled that of an Emperor.

Though that was by relying on the Primordial Emperor’s Dragon Energy, after accumulating for more than three hundred thousand years, his cultivation and combat strength were extremely formidable, likely approaching Upper Eternal.

Drought needed no further mention; she was Emperor Xuanhuang’s daughter, of peerless talent, and in life had already been one of the pillar experts under Emperor Xuanhuang.

This should be the strongest among the Four Great Corpse Ancestors.

As for that Si Chen Star Lord, even less needed to be said; as the True Soul Embodiment of an Emperor, his battle power could in no way be weaker than a middle-level Eternal, and should stand somewhere between Middle and Upper.

Under normal circumstances, Shen Puzhao could not possibly monitor these few.

However, the radiance near the Ruins Core was omnipresent, and Chu Xisheng himself could influence the core to a certain degree, which granted Shen Puzhao the chance to lurk and spy.

"That is indeed Si Chen Star Lord’s True Soul Embodiment! Just now he emerged from the Ruins Core and had a discussion with the two Corpse Ancestors. They were very cautious; even with no outsiders present, they still screened off and blocked all Outer Power. However, through that omnipresent light of yours, I still heard a little."

Shen Puzhao kept his words as brief as possible: "They intend to invert the Yin Yang of the first Heavenly Gaze in order to complete the ’Heavenly Dao’ within the Ruins Core. To compel Your Majesty to comply, they have already decided to aid Emperor Jianyuan in completing that first Heavenly Gaze clone. Also, Si Chen Star Lord is certain that Burial Sky will, within ten days, undergo Demon Fall! It should be related to the Lord of Deceit."

In his voice and tone there was only a faint trace of astonishment.

This was information he had not previously possessed.

However, the foundation of the Divine Continent Clan now no longer rested upon Burial Sky.

This news was not yet enough to shake the cooperation between Shen Puzhao and this Human Clan’s Saint Emperor.

Upon hearing that final sentence, Chu Xisheng’s pupils couldn’t help but widen slightly.

Burial Sky to undergo Demon Fall within ten days?

How was that possible?

At this moment, Burial Sky was hidden in the deepest part of the Demon Realm Battlefront recuperating, with almost no contact with the outside world.

Chu Xisheng promptly inquired, "Then where did Si Chen Star Lord go?"

"He has already left the Returning Ruins."

Shen Puzhao’s tone wavered slightly: "Judging from the direction of his flight, he should be headed for your Human Clan’s Beiming Palace!"

At this moment, if his closest friend Shen Jingli could have heard his current voice, she would have discovered that within the seemingly calm tone of this Master of All Heaven, there was actually a faint hint of expectation.

"Beiming Palace?"

Chu Xisheng immediately looked toward the north.

Beiming Palace, along with Penglai Eternal City and Extreme East Ice City, formed one of the three great powers of the Human Clan beyond the seas; it was also the Sect within the Human Clan most tightly entwined with the Eternal Giant Spirits.

The Gods they venerated were the Kunpeng God, the Golden Winged God, and the Bifang Great God among the Chaos Gods, all of them first‑generation Divine Beasts of extremely mighty battle strength and formidable background.

Because Beiming Palace and the Formless Divine Sect lay relatively close, they had repeatedly contested Juezhou with the Formless Divine Sect, only to be repelled each time, and thus were the Formless Divine Sect’s hereditary enemy.

However, ever since he rose to power in the Divine Continent and Chu Yunyun returned to You State to re‑assume control over the Northern Territory, Beiming Palace had shown no major movements.

Chu Xisheng had originally thought that Beiming Palace must have recognized the danger and chosen to give him wide berth.

He had not expected this Sect to have formed ties with the Great Sun Golden Crow Lineage as well.

Chu Xisheng then dispersed the cluster of light in his hand and put away the Sword Mirror that was isolating all Spiritual Sense perception in the vicinity.

"Your Majesty!" Chu Ming, seeing this scene, had his expression stir slightly: "May I ask what Hou Qing said? I feel these two are highly questionable. The Returning Ruins is already a perilous land; it is best not to enter again if it can be helped."

Chu Xisheng shook his head, then took command of the Bathing Sun Divine Ship, soaring up into the nine-layered cloud sky: "There is no need to return to the Returning Ruins. We are going to Beiming Palace!"

"Beiming Palace?"

The two Bai Lingxis behind him couldn’t help but glance at each other.

Bai Lingxi No. 1 probed in her tone: "Is Your Majesty intending to go and hold them to account?"

Back in the He Status war, Beiming Palace had all along been secretly aiding the hundred clans of He Status, and she had even once captured evidence of this.

Bai Lingxi No. 1 had reported this matter to Chu Xisheng, but his response had always been nothing more than a simple "I know."

She had thought Chu Xisheng was unwilling, at this juncture, to offend the three Chaos Gods backing Beiming Palace.

Beiming Palace had also never gone beyond covert assistance, taking no further action, so Bai Lingxi No. 1 had let it be.

"More or less."

Chu Xisheng’s face was expressionless, only the depths of his gaze revealing a razor‑edged Kill Intent: "But Beiming Palace is only incidental. Our true target lies elsewhere, and at that time we will also need to draw upon the strength of you two Dragon Guards."

From the moment he sensed that Si Chen Star Lord was hidden within the Ruins Core, Chu Xisheng had already resolved that this man must be eliminated.

It is said in Military Strategy: ’When meeting a forest, do not enter.’

The meaning is that one must not fight an enemy in an environment one does not know.

The Returning Ruins had been managed by those two Ancestor Corpses for several hundred thousand years; it was by no means the ideal battlefield. Hence he had to wait for Si Chen Star Lord to leave the Returning Ruins, or for Chu Yunyun to arrive, to ensure absolute certainty.

When facing an enemy like Si Chen Star Lord, whose Escape Skill was Unrivaled, no degree of caution could be excessive.

Now, however, he had gained another reason why he must capture and kill this True Soul Embodiment of Si Chen Star Lord.

He wanted to know what exactly that Lord of Deceit had done, and why Burial Sky would undergo Demon Fall within ten days.

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