The Decaying World

The Abyssal Court.

Black mist coiled in the air.

The Mist Emperor had just flown out from the center of the black vortex. He looked up at a group of small insects scrambling wretchedly out of the passage above.

"Emperor’s Lock, you have disappointed me greatly... I chose you to corrupt this Divine Weapon, thinking you were the most suitable candidate. A pity... I was even prepared to pass my throne to you..."

"This subordinate has failed his duty." Emperor’s Lock’s figure appeared behind him, kneeling on one knee.

"You did not fail your duty. You were simply too weak..." The Mist Emperor turned, his gaze filled with disappointment as he stared at the old subordinate who had served him for tens of thousands of years.

"After this, you will join me..."

BZZZZ!!

Suddenly, the entire Abyssal Court began to shake violently.

From some unknown location, the howling of rushing air began to echo.

"This is bad!"

The Mist Emperor’s expression changed slightly as he instantly perceived the source of the problem. He spun around and shot back into the center of the black vortex.

Emperor’s Lock hesitated for a moment before charging in after him. Behind him, Huang Weijun also followed close behind into the vortex.

The three of them sped through the passage. As they drew closer and closer to the exit...

Suddenly, the Mist Emperor came to an abrupt halt, freezing at the exit, unmoving.

His eyes widened as he looked through the thin barrier between the two worlds at the exit, gazing at the scene on the other side.

Outside the mirror-like isolating barrier...

...in the Decaying Home World, the once purple-black sky had completely changed. It had become a sheet of dark red.

Bloody cracks split the corners of the sky, like wounds gushing thick, viscous blood.

The blood was scattered by a strange, blue-black breeze, turning into a rain of blood that fell upon the land.

In the bloody rain.

Two figures, both shimmering with a fluorescent glow, floated in mid-air, exceptionally eye-catching.

One was a strange old man in a blue robe, with white hair and a tall crown. He held a multicolored Longsword, looking down at the churning, purple-black viscous river on the ground in the distance.

He seemed to be waiting for something.

Behind the old man stood Lin Hui.

As if sensing something, he turned his head slightly, his eyes meeting the Mist Emperor’s on the other side of the barrier.

With a faint smile, Lin Hui’s lips parted, as if he were saying something.

But in the next instant, the old man swung his sword at the sky, and his body suddenly exploded, vanishing on the spot.

The torrent of blood from the sky crashed down, covering everything, submerging everything, and cutting off their line of sight.

After the bloody torrent came an endless, blue wind!

Within the wind were countless bizarre, pale-blue, fluorescent human heads, dragging long, blue-light comet tails as they were swept into the world.

Not only that, but among the countless heads, translucent Wind Calamity creatures resembling giant slugs also rushed into this world with the wind.

Anything they touched, they would envelop, devour, and then decompose and digest within their bodies.

The grotesque Calamity creatures within the Wind Calamity were endless. With the gate now wide open, this was only the beginning.

"No... this is wrong... It shouldn’t be like this!?" The Mist Emperor trembled, watching everything on the other side of the barrier.

His Heart and Spirit went blank; he had no idea why things had turned out this way.

’The Home World is extremely close to the core of decay. Even for a Wind Calamity, it shouldn’t have been so easy to open a passage, right!?’

’Why... why is this happening!?’

’Unless that person... isn’t an ordinary Wind Calamity fusion... but a final contaminated entity that has also fused with a core power...!’

At this moment, the panic in both his and Emperor’s Lock’s hearts was indescribable.

The Home World was the source of their power. If something happened to it, their strength would rapidly decay.

Logically, the best thing to do right now was to abandon everything and flee this place immediately.

’But if we just leave now, in the future... we’ll never have another chance to rise again...!’ The Mist Emperor clenched his jaw, his fists tightening.

"We have no way to retreat," Emperor’s Lock said in a low voice.

"Yes... we have no way to retreat..." The Mist Emperor closed his eyes, his body trembling slightly.

The Wind Calamity was unleashed, the torrent was pouring out. The tide had turned, and with their current power, it was impossible to reverse the situation.

Before leaving, the only thing they could do was...

"Blade, to me!" Suddenly, he opened his eyes and roared.

Behind him, Emperor’s Lock instantly revealed his true form, spinning through the air and landing in his hand.

SWOOSH!!

In the next instant, the Mist Emperor fearlessly charged through the barrier, lunging at Lin Hui, whose figure had just reappeared from within the torrent.

He would end all of this!

End the source that had brought this destruction!!

"KILL!!!"

The powers of the Mist Emperor and Emperor’s Lock merged in that instant. The blade of the Evil Soldier erupted with countless particle-like specks of purple light.

Behind him, terrifying, giant black chains, each hundreds of meters thick, burst forth from the Void and lunged at Lin Hui.

The dense mass of giant black chains actually managed to briefly part the torrent of Wind Calamity monsters before them.

In the gap that was cleaved open, Lin Hui’s figure was clearly visible.

He floated in mid-air with a smile, watching the rapidly approaching Mist Emperor as he slowly drew his sword.

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The Abyssal Court.

Large chunks of rubble rained down from above.

The entire Abyssal Court trembled and shook violently.

The ground fractured, cliffs continuously broke apart, and pieces plunged into the abyssal fissures.

The rift in the Sea of Consciousness that Lin Hui had opened still hung in mid-air, constantly emitting a massive gravitational pull, devouring all matter below.

Although the rift was slowly closing as it was filled by the matter it devoured, a quick calculation of the time it would take revealed that the entire Abyssal Court would likely be destroyed long before it sealed completely.

At this moment, every living creature that could still move was frantically rushing into the tunnels, heading back toward the surface world.

Grand God White Deer and the Green Leaf Girl stood within the endless green mist, watching it all unfold.

"Daoist Master Qingfeng is locked in the Decaying Home World. This matter is finally resolved... Before, he must have used the Sea of Consciousness to pinpoint the Heart and Spirit of a creature here, which is how he found his way and used Breaking Realm to return," the White Deer sighed.

"To be able to create an ultimate technique that touches the Sea of Consciousness, and to connect with a powerful individual’s Heart and Spirit from such an extreme distance... I really don’t know how this person cultivates..."

No matter how they thought about it, the two of them couldn’t figure out what kind of connection Lin Hui relied on to locate this place from across a world barrier.

Because his positioning wasn’t just a vague general direction; it was extremely precise, with a margin of error of no more than a hundred meters.

For a world of this scale, that was a terrifying degree of accuracy.

They just had no idea that Lin Hui hadn’t returned to the world through those means, but had relied on his Celestial Father fate...

All those who practiced the Dharma Gate he taught would continuously provide him with a one-percent feedback of their Cultivation.

In his final moments before death, Yuanhe’s Heart and Spirit had suddenly surged, increasing drastically in strength. At the same time, this provided Lin Hui with the most conspicuous and eye-catching beacon in the Void.

In comparison, the others either had insufficient Cultivation or lacked the necessary stimulus. For instance, Xia Si and Su Yaping, because of the existence of the Indestructible Sacred Eye, were never truly facing a life-or-death situation, so their Heart and Spirit never had the opportunity for a sudden surge.

It could be said that if not for Yuanhe, it would have taken Lin Hui much longer to return.

"Let’s go. It’s no longer safe here. The Abyssal Court is about to be destroyed. This space is self-contained; if something happens, it will affect us as well." The White Deer’s face was weary as he turned and flew into the depths of the green mist.

The Green Leaf Girl followed him. Just as she was about to leave, both of them suddenly shuddered and stopped, turning to look at the black vortex below the cliffs of the Abyssal Court.

There...

The dense aura of the Decaying Home World was rapidly weakening and fading.

"What’s going on!?"

Their expressions changed. But before they could react, a powerful aura of the Wind Calamity surged out from the vortex in the next instant.

"No!! How could the Wind Calamity...!?" An unbelievable guess rose in the White Deer’s mind.

"Go!" The Green Leaf Girl immediately charged toward the vortex.

The White Deer followed.

Using the special isolating properties of the green mist, the two of them quickly passed through the tunnel and arrived at the world barrier.

At the same time, they saw the Mist Emperor drawing his blade and charging at Lin Hui, along with that despair-inducing blue torrent of the Wind Calamity.

In that instant.

At the center of the endless torrent of monsters.

Lin Hui slowly drew his sword, a strange smile on his face, as he met the Mist Emperor’s full-powered strike head-on.

BOOM!!

In the sky, Qimei’s blue-black Disaster Energy clashed directly with the purple mist of the Decaying Home World.

Cascading torrents of energy burst forth, venting and scattering in all directions toward the ground.

Each of these torrents was endless. One could only feel the heavens and earth tremble, and everything in sight was a chaotic mixture of blue and purple Disaster Energy.

The earth vanished. The sky vanished.

Everything was concealed and submerged by this torrent of Disaster Energy.

CLANG!!!

Within this torrent, the Mist Emperor and Lin Hui collided violently.

Terrifying halos of purple-black light and blue light exploded simultaneously, then shattered together.

Following that was a dense shower of brilliant golden sparks.

Each golden point of light was a spark from the clash of their blade and sword.

For thousands of miles around, the Disaster Energy shuddered in unison at that moment.

The Wind Disaster Energy in the torrent gathered around Lin Hui, while the aura of decay gathered around the Mist Emperor.

"Kill!"

The Mist Emperor’s eyes turned red. He could feel that in a direct confrontation, his opponent was no match for him!

So he once again combined with the power of Emperor’s Lock and charged forward.

But...

In the next instant, his blade flashed through Lin Hui’s body, passing through empty air.

This did not exceed his expectations.

Immediately, the blade of Emperor’s Lock trembled in sync, unleashing countless rays of black, chain-like light that shot out in all directions.

The light-speed chains caught up to Lin Hui and once again fixed his figure in mid-air.

"Great Hatred of Heaven and Earth, Nine Lives Departing the Heart!!" Seizing the opportunity, the Mist Emperor unleashed the ultimate killing spell of his Cultivation Technique.

The Evil Energy’s restriction erupted in sync. This restriction wasn’t meant to limit all living beings, but to concentrate its limiting power into the smallest possible area, confining it to the small space around Lin Hui and causing his strength and Realm to plummet instantly.

A Descent of the Heart God erupted.

This strike from the Mist Emperor contained almost everything he had.

He knew that with the Wind Calamity’s gate open, the tide of battle would inevitably shift in his opponent’s favor over time. Therefore, he had to unleash his full power as quickly as possible to eliminate this person.

Otherwise, having become sworn enemies, he would know no peace in the future, even if he managed to escape this world.

Especially since his future strength would plummet once his home world was destroyed. With one side growing weaker and the other stronger, he had to end this battle once and for all to eliminate any future threat!

’Thinking of this, his heart filled with even greater hatred. ’If not for this person... IF NOT FOR THIS PERSON!!!’ His plans, laid out over tens of thousands of years, would have reached Great Success in another thousand years. At that time, with his Cultivation Technique at Perfection, he would have ascended in a single step, certain to reach the supreme Realm he had always dreamed of!!

’But now...’

AAAAAHHHH!!!

The Mist Emperor roared, gripping his blade with both hands. He poured all the Disaster Energy in his body into the blade and brought it down on Lin Hui’s head.

Nine giant, dark-red hands materialized behind him, grabbing Lin Hui’s body from all directions, layer by layer, further immobilizing him.

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