Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao

In this situation, the Soul Emperor’s combat power can continue to improve and is no longer shackled, standing at a vantage point with significant dominance over the Pan Emperor and Zhou Yan.

Moreover, the crack between the eyebrows of the enormous corpse offers him a perfect opportunity for an ambush. With the help of the array, the Soul Emperor is ninety percent confident that he can kill the Pan Emperor and Zhou Yan in one move.

This opportunity is immensely significant.

Once successful, the Soul Emperor will truly become the Sovereign, seizing all the origin inheritance of the Immortal Buddha Divine Race’s ancient land, and at the same time acquiring the entire original legacy of the Human Clan.

He can also further achieve a more advanced realm and combat power in the Evil Venerate Realm.

At this moment, the Soul Emperor gives it his all, throwing everything into the effort, pouring forth his utmost strength.

He meticulously repairs, setting up layer upon layer of schemes centered around that enormous corpse, ensuring that as soon as the opponent crawls out from the crack between the corpse’s eyebrows, they will be undeniably doomed!

The Soul Emperor repeatedly strengthens the array, and the vast, enticing power gradually spreads outward. Initially, it does not reach the location of the Chaos Lake, but when this enticing power grows tenfold stronger, its formidable might truly begins to manifest.

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Purple Flame Ancient Land.

In the Tao Establishment space between Zhou Yan’s eyebrows.

Lee Ran, sitting cross-legged in Enlightenment, suddenly opened his eyes.

At that moment, his heart skipped a beat, and the blood crystal coffin between his eyebrows became extremely restless, as if an unknown, strange situation had occurred.

However, no matter how much Lee Ran repeatedly derived and analyzed, he still couldn’t detect anything.

Yet, a pressure akin to death began to spread in his heart, causing Lee Ran’s heart to sink to the bottom.

Lee Ran has faced dangers, has faced death; even the time axis has been shattered. What hasn’t he experienced?

But at this moment, it was different from any previous time; Lee Ran couldn’t even articulate what was so different, but he knew that such a situation indicated extremely severe peril.

Lee Ran called out to Zhou Yan in his heart, unable to control his emotional turmoil.

This made him unable to focus on Enlightenment, instead pacing back and forth with great anxiety.

Immediately, Lee Ran summoned the blood crystal coffin. On the coffin, strange emperor patterns appeared, evolving into an ancient array carrying an immensely terrifying killing intent.

The ancient array was vast and desolate, with ancient transformations, manifesting a transcendent, complex artistic conception.

However, the ancient array appeared for a moment, then suddenly vanished.

Next, the blood crystal coffin suddenly opened its lid, revealing a gentle light inside.

Within the light, an unknown figure appeared.

This figure manifested a form that startled Lee Ran.

However, this form never fully developed and quickly disappeared.

Lee Ran’s heart sank to the extreme, feeling as if he had fallen into an icy abyss.

Suddenly, Lee Ran felt utterly despondent, almost despairing as if he had seen through all fate.

He stood there dazedly, not knowing what to do.

The blood crystal coffin showed such a sign for the first time, and it was an inexpressible ominous sign, an extreme disaster.

It seemed this time was an eternal exile, an eternal annihilation, the greatest failure.

"What—is this!"

"Why have I been unable to see through it all these years!"

"Why is this happening!"

"No, I must not let this happen, even if—"

Lee Ran’s blood burned entirely, and his body trembled violently.

However, at this moment, a warm hand suddenly rested on his shoulder, followed by an ethereal and distant voice drifting toward him from afar.

Lee Ran’s whole body shuddered and immediately awoke, only to find Zhou Yan had already appeared beside him.

"Brother, what’s wrong? You fell into an illusion?"

Zhou Yan’s inquiry was slightly surprised, as well as shocked and puzzled.

After all, Lee Ran was already comparable to a half-step Evil Venerate Realm’s Supreme Strongman, though still slightly short, the gap wasn’t significant.

With such ability and strength, to fall into an illusion implies something extraordinary must have occurred.

Zhou Yan was actually very uneasy at this time, as the Soul Emperor suddenly disappeared. This matter may seem trivial, but it was indeed a significant issue.

"Illusion? Have I fallen into an illusion?"

Lee Ran was startled and then looked around, yet he didn’t find the existence of the Blood Crystal Coffin in front of him, nor did he find anything unusual about it.

He sensed for a moment, the Crystal Coffin quietly lay within his brow, utterly peaceful and serenely elegant, as if nothing unusual had happened.

Lee Ran sensed back and forth once again, there was no sign of any unusual movement from the Crystal Coffin, nor any trace that it had left.

Lee Ran was quite certain about this; what was there was there, what wasn’t wasn’t, his current ability allowed him to sense this with unparalleled clarity.

However, now, Lee Ran found no traces of the Crystal Coffin having moved at all, so was the previous scene really just an illusion?

But, was that really an illusion?

With Lee Ran’s intelligence, he naturally didn’t believe it, so he fell silent for a moment, instead asking blankly.

"Yes, when you called me earlier, I happened to detect the information of the Soul Emperor’s disappearance. So I appeared here immediately. After I arrived, I found you in a daze, somewhat at sixes and sevens. I feared something might occur and sensed this Tao Establishment Space of my own and sensed your earlier series of situations, but found nothing unusual."

Zhou Yan was not foolish; seeing Lee Ran like this, he naturally had to check thoroughly if anything was amiss, but he couldn’t detect any anomaly.

"Nothing?"

Lee Ran didn’t doubt Zhou Yan; since Zhou Yan said so, he completely believed it.

And it was because of this complete belief that Lee Ran knew the scene he saw earlier might indeed be the revelation of fate.

This world, this void, is there truly no further condition beyond it? Then what lies beyond the end of this void?

Lee Ran had a profound understanding of Tao cultivation; on a plane, there is space, above space there are dimensions. This point, in fact, also has deep realizations on the level of technology.

The technological civilization created by the Mechanical Emperor speaks of ’limits’—in reality, there are no limits, it’s endless.

One type is endless cycles, another is completely endless, non-repetitive, infinitely approaching a certain value situation.

This is the true reflection of cultivation.

One is endless reincarnation, another is endless transformation.

These are all the data representations corresponding to cultivation.

Currently, Lee Ran also had insights about the Evil Venerate Realm situation; discussing Tao with Zhou Yan additionally made him know that Zhou Yan is now truly at perfection.

The perfection of the Evil Venerate Realm.

But to just step into this realm and then immediately achieve Great Perfection, with no further progression, is highly unreasonable.

From small to large, seeing the micro to know the macro, these all sufficiently reflect the endless transformation situations of Tao cultivation, but in the present circumstances, an end arose—how could that be possible?

Lee Ran remained silent, then saw Zhou Yan wave his hand, and the scene of his previous enlightenment immediately appeared before him.

Meditating on enlightenment, then inexplicably standing up to pace back and forth a few times, and then he stood still, followed by Zhou Yan’s appearance.

This scene was precisely what had happened before, reproduced by Zhou Yan through the means of Time Origin, without any difference.

At this moment, Lee Ran also sensed his brow but found no change within the Crystal Coffin therein; thus, Lee Ran completely understood that he had developed a ’premonition’.

Premonition—an occurrence on an ordinary Earth would naturally arise—but such premonition happens nine out of ten times, extremely accurate and very frightening.

Yet now, this premonition appearing signifies a true annihilation.

Lee Ran looked at Zhou Yan, contemplated for a moment, then suddenly said, "Zhou Yan, what do you plan to do this time? I sense there’s an enormous and dangerous threat. Therefore, I want to join you in making certain preparations for this enormous crisis, although it might not necessarily be useful, but it is always better to be prepared in some way, so as not to be completely passive when the time comes."

Lee Ran spoke with such gravity.

Of course, Zhou Yan would not oppose this; in fact, he himself was extremely uneasy, from the moment the Soul Emperor disappeared, that unease had emerged, and now seeing Lee Ran like this, Zhou Yan felt even more burdened.

He would no longer conceal his emotions now, and would express whatever matters straightforwardly.

"I know, my emergence here is actually with the intention to discuss this with you. Not just you, I even plan to have Ji Wu, Chen Chen, and them all come, and to inform them of the current situation."

Lee Ran was startled, asked, "What have you figured out?"

Zhou Yan remained silent.

Lee Ran said, "You have seen annihilation and despair, haven’t you? If that’s the case..."

Zhou Yan nodded and said, "I am now already at Great Perfection in the Evil Venerate Realm; supposedly, I am the strongest, with perhaps no equal. The Soul Emperor and Pan Emperor have not joined forces against me, also possibly because they might not genuinely have the ability against me now, and if I were to fight desperately, I could certainly kill one, at which point it would only benefit one of them."

"Therefore, the Soul Emperor’s disappearance either means he has concocted a plan with Pan Emperor to kill me, or the Soul Emperor has indeed encountered trouble; but no matter which one it is, it’s a disaster of destruction for me."

"And Pan Emperor, he possesses the Evil Venerate Sword capable of killing Evil Venerate Realm strongmen, which is even forged from my thirteen wives into weapons, making me very passive when dealing with him. In such circumstances, it’s difficult to fully exert my strength, being completely restrained, so I also have to guard against Pan Emperor."

Zhou Yan appropriately disclosed some of his circumstances, things that Lee Ran could deduce and analyze.

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