The palm transformed into a mountain range, taking the shape of five fingers.
It pressed down from the heavens, utterly crushing this grand dream, along with Chen Changsheng who stood at the mountain's peak.
It was just like the defiant Great Sage in the palm of Tathagata—treated as a mere plaything, pinned down and rendered completely immobile by a simple flip of the wrist.
The Celestial Court receded, and the grand dream returned to the space between the Demon Sovereign's brows.
He arrived at the foot of Five Finger Mountain and looked down at Chen Changsheng, who was pinned beneath it.
Chen Changsheng looked up at him in silence.
The Demon Sovereign took a deep breath. A sudden wind swept in, hinting at the turbulence in Chen Changsheng's heart as a gale rose from the flat ground and stirred up ripples.
Under Chen Changsheng's gaze, the Demon Sovereign reached up and removed the Opera Mask concealing his face.
His true face was revealed.
At this moment, it was just like looking in a mirror.
The Demon Sovereign asked, "What are your thoughts now?"
Chen Changsheng replied, "I have nothing to say."
The Demon Sovereign said, "You were always a game piece I cast out deliberately, a piece severed from my very soul. I threw you into Reincarnation solely for this moment today."
Chen Changsheng raised his head and stared at him. "What are you going to do?"
The Demon Sovereign sat down and set the mask aside. Without hiding anything now, he said, "I need your physical body to deceive the Heavenly Dao for me."
Chen Changsheng paused at those words, his eyes locked on him.
The Demon Sovereign exhaled and said, "You should feel fortunate. If not for me, there would be no you."
Chen Changsheng looked away, only murmuring softly, "Ridiculous."
The Demon Sovereign scoffed and said, "As for you, you can endure the thunder tribulation in my place."
Flicking his sleeve, the Demon Sovereign said nothing more to him.
The time had come.
Everything was proceeding step by step.
He hoisted Chen Changsheng up, and the surroundings instantly shifted, leading out of Reincarnation and back to the world.
...
"Crack!"
Above the Altar, the wind and clouds surged.
Thunderclouds rolled in, heralding the imminent Heavenly Tribulation.
Rain washed over the demonic cultivators below the Altar, pattering loudly.
The damp rain and gloomy sky accompanied the Bone-Cold Fire on the Altar, which burned unextinguished by the wind and rain.
Draped in a cloak, Wang He walked step by step to the front of the Altar.
He held an Opera Mask in his hands.
He stood at the peak of the Altar.
"Boom!"
Heavenly lightning struck down, landing beside Wang He and kicking up a cloud of dust.
Wang He's heart trembled. Swallowing hard as he reached the summit, he took a deep breath and spoke.
"Heaven and earth, dark and yellow, let no ghost or god remain hidden. Cosmos and void, the Dao is peerless. As yin and yang beget one another, through the Reincarnation of life and death, I call your revered name and beseech you to turn back! With my heart's blood, let your soul return to its homeland!"
"Boom!!"
Upon the Altar, a physical body dense with demonic energy lay quietly. As the thunder tribulation struck, inch by inch, it gradually gained vitality.
The energies of the four directions and the wind and rain from all eight corners converged.
"We welcome the Demon Sovereign!!"
The demonic cultivators kneeling below the Altar offered up their own demonic energy, sending it drifting wisp by wisp up onto the Altar.
The withered corpse gradually regained its color. Its flesh and blood swelled, slowly taking shape.
Strands of soul arrived from heaven and earth. The Three Souls and Seven Spirits, wisp by wisp, returned to the body.
Thunderclouds roared, and wind and rain lashed down.
"Boom!"
The thunder tribulation struck the corpse bolt after bolt.
Yet ultimately, it could do nothing to the corpse. Instead, the lightning was absorbed by the physical body, steadily strengthening it.
Seeing something amiss, celestial fire sparked.
Scorching true yang fire rained down from the heavens.
Wang He stared blankly. He staggered two steps back, set the mask down, and hurriedly descended the Altar.
Following that, countless waves of celestial fire burned down.
"Boom!!"
Even amid the heavy rain, the fire could not be doused.
The celestial fire blazed, attempting to burn the body to ashes. But through the glare, the physical body only gave off a radiant luster; its flesh was already complete, rendering it impervious to thunder and fire.
The soul had returned.
When the body sat up upon the Altar and opened its eyes, a dense cosmic pressure filled the air. The celestial fire and thunder tribulation hid a murderous intent, as if determined to kill him.
"The Demon Sovereign has awakened!!"
"Greetings to the Demon Sovereign!!"
"Welcome the Demon Sovereign's return!"
"Welcome the Demon Sovereign!"
The demonic cultivators beneath the Altar surged with excitement, bowing their heads and kowtowing repeatedly.
Atop the Altar, the Demon Sovereign's eyes looked a bit blank. He raised a hand, only to find it brimming with demonic energy.
He hesitated for a moment.
With a slight lift of his hand, the celestial fire dispersed and the thunder tribulation ground to a halt.
The Demon Sovereign slowly stood up upon the Altar. Taking a deep breath, he looked up at the heavens.
A bolt of Purple Firmament Divine Lightning had already finished brewing.
"Boom!!!"
Accompanied by a roar, a flash of lightning exploded forth.
Such heavenly might left everyone present unable to raise their heads.
This was heavenly wrath.
As the thunder tribulation struck his body, the Demon Sovereign let out a miserable shriek.
"Ah!!"
Only now did he realize that the previous strikes had just been playing around.
And now was the time it was truly getting serious.
The Demon Sovereign trembled. Under the assault of the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, his body caught fire in several places. In an instant, scorch marks appeared, and his physical body showed signs of disintegrating.
"Fiend!!"
The Demon Sovereign let out a low shout, "You won't get away with this!"
His expression shifted as his gaze turned to the demonic cultivators kneeling beneath the Altar.
His heart trembled slightly, and he made up his mind.
"Unite my demonic energy, forge my great dao!! All cultivators hear my decree: let the demonic energy converge as one!!"
Hearing this, the demonic cultivators beneath the Altar flushed red with excitement.
"Demon Sovereign!!"
"I am willing to offer myself!"
Demonic energy surged endlessly from the demonic cultivators' bodies.
The Purple Firmament Divine Lightning never ceased, striking down bolt after bolt without pause.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!!"
Such a commotion was also detected by the entire Cultivation World.
The Daoist cultivators of Tianji Mountain immediately struck the Great Bell, and the mountain's cultivators rode their swords, rushing over at once.
All the major Immortal Mountains responded immediately, racing toward the site of the thunder tribulation.
Chen Daoqiu's face was grave as he said, "Hurry, we must seize this chance to annihilate that fiend!!"
The entire Cultivation World had been alarmed by this.
An untold number of Sword Immortals and Daoist cultivators mobilized.
Within the Mortal World.
Jing Wuya, who was listening to music in a brothel, suddenly paled.
"What's wrong, my lord?"
Jing Wuya pushed away the woman beside him and went to the window, his gaze locked on the distance.
His right eyelid twitched incessantly, and his heart grew increasingly uneasy.
The woman sauntered over, inviting him to drink.
Jing Wuya waved his hand. Under the woman's gaze, the Immortal Sword beside him rose into the air, and he strode onto it.
"Damn it, what the hell is going on? Why is my eyelid twitching so fast?!"
With a sharp ring of the sword, Jing Wuya flew off on his sword.
The woman stared blankly at this scene. The wine cup in her hand fell to the floor, clattering loudly.
Like a startled swan taking flight, the Sword Cultivator rocketed away, his eyes sharp as he rushed outside the Mortal World.
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