Chapter 1031 — The Void of the End

More than a hundred thousand gods and demons flew toward the Valley of the Fallen Gods, cutting trails of flowing light across the air like a hundred thousand shooting stars tearing through the firmament and sweeping over the Primordial Realm. In midair the formations of those hundred thousand gods and demons shifted without cease.

As the Great Emperor Juyu, the most ancient being in the world today, he possessed a learning beyond measure; every formation was his to command at a thought, endlessly varied, inexhaustibly subtle. It had been a very long time since he had been this angry. Few things remained that could truly rouse his wrath.

Heavenly Venerable Yun, in league with the Creator race of the Great Void, had schemed against him and trapped his mortal body unto death; that had angered him.

Heavenly Venerable Ling had devised the divine art of Immutable Matter, revealing to him that his own divine art could be broken; that too had angered him, for he knew all too well how dreadful the harm of such an art was to him, and that if Ling were not eliminated, sooner or later he would die at that woman's hands. For a million years, only these two things had stirred his fury.

And now, once again, he was angry. When the seal upon the Primordial Realm had first broken, he had sent forth the divine artifact Yutianzun, only for that whelp Shen Mu to slay it in the Valley of the Fallen Gods. Though at the time he had not wished to reveal his identity and had not resorted to his true means, dying at that whelp's hands had left him profoundly displeased.

And yet the whelp had even gone to the Jade Pool of the Heavenly Court and stripped away the Great Bloodline Curse he had left in Yun Jianli's blood!

That alone would not let him remain unangered.

Nor was that the end of it. Shen Mu had gone deep into the Great Void, seized the corpse of Heavenly Venerable Yun from the Supreme Spiritual Consciousness Domain, refined away a portion of his own spiritual consciousness, and sought to probe the mysteries of his divine art! What was more, after returning to the Heavenly Court, the whelp had actually told the Court's Venerables that the Great Emperor was not dead, that he lurked among the Heavenly Court's Ten Heavenly Venerables, leaving him in a most awkward position.

He had come to kill the boy himself, only to be intercepted and slain midway by Emperor Kai, dying unjustly, dying for no reason at all.

And now Shen Mu had actually returned to the Valley of the Fallen Gods, intending to summon his spiritual consciousness and refine him once more!

Even when fleecing a sheep, one does not keep fleecing the same sheep forever; the whelp seemed to have taken a grudge against him, fleecing him without ever staying his hand! He could tolerate the whelp no longer.

Today, by whatever means, Shen Mu had to be eradicated! "Ignorant little creature.

I have roamed the universe at will; I have seen countless men of genius, numerous as the stars, and every one of them has fallen.

Only I remain!

" The hundred thousand gods and demons soared through the void, rushing toward the Valley of the Fallen Gods, and their spiritual consciousness fell into a violent, seething fluctuation that became one vast voice. "You do not even qualify as my enemy!

" "The enemies I have met in my long life were stronger than you, cleverer than you.

You are an ant I could crush with a casual hand! " "My lifespan stretches from the very dawn of antiquity to this day.

I am the oldest life in the universe, an undefeated legend! My experience is itself a long river of time!

" In the Valley of the Fallen Gods, Shen Mu looked west, where the radiance blazed and surged like a tide.

The voice formed of the Great Emperor's spiritual consciousness had already exploded at his ear, resounding through heaven and earth, deafening! "In my life you are no more than an insignificant figure in that long river of time, a single drop of water I would not deign to notice; you do not even amount to a spray of foam!

" Within the great tide of radiance, the figures of the hundred thousand gods and demons had already entered Shen Mu's sight. It was the Heavenly Court's deepest and most arcane formation of slaughter, steeped in a killing intent that reached the heavens, howling toward them.

Before it had even reached the Valley of the Fallen Gods, the earth there began to break apart; the ground, under a dreadful tremor, turned loose and buoyant and floated upward! That surging tide of gods rushed in and swept up heaven and earth.

The sky looked like glass smashed to fragments; the ground vanished utterly, and the soil and stones suspended in the air kept crumbling and disintegrating into nothingness! Now only the ground beneath Shen Mu's feet remained more or less whole, and the sky above his head still a patch of purity, untouched by the formation of slaughter.

The hundred thousand gods and demons arrived, and in one voice their cry became a world-shaking thunder: "So this is what the so-called Heavenly Venerable Mu amounts to; so this is what the so-called Ten Heavenly Venerables amount to; all of them, all alike!

" Before the echo had died, Divine King Langwan suddenly raised her palm, plucked the willow leaf from between her brows, revealing the diamond-shaped vertical eye at her brow; her hands clasped, and her divine art of spiritual consciousness erupted! In an instant her spiritual consciousness swept across the void, and wherever it passed, the hundred thousand gods and demons fell from the sky like rain, plunging into the Valley of the Fallen Gods, which had already become an abyss! Even the divine general of the Lingxiao Realm had the Great Emperor's spiritual consciousness driven out of his mind, and it plunged down of its own accord!

Divine King Langwan brought her hands together, and the abyss vanished at once. Under her visualization, the earth grew with astonishing speed and filled the abyss level!

Even the chaotic, shattered sky all around was restored to its former state in a single instant. Divine King Shujun roared, activating the seals hidden within the thirty-five layers of void.

These seals had been laid by him and Divine King Langwan together. By his present cultivation of spiritual consciousness alone he could never contend with a being as dreadful as the Great Emperor Juyu, but he had experience in abundance, and Divine King Langwan had a terrifying cultivation.

Struck by Divine King Langwan's surprise attack, the Great Emperor's spiritual consciousness came to its senses at once. His dreadful consciousness surged like a tide and struggled to gather itself against Shen Mu's Soul-Reeling Art, yet it still could not withstand Shen Mu's divine art and was dragged toward the jade bottle at Shen Mu's feet.

At that very moment the seals within the thirty-five layers of void activated one after another. Beginning from the thirty-fifth void, the seals leaped to the thirty-fourth void, where they joined with the seals of the thirty-fourth void and leaped again to the thirty-third void.

Layer upon layer the void seals merged.

Slow to tell, it was in truth blindingly fast; in the blink of an eye they arrived at the first void, the Primordial Realm where Shen Mu and the others stood.

The Great Emperor's spiritual consciousness was already shrouded by the seals and pressed down toward the jade bottle!

When all of the Great Emperor's spiritual consciousness had poured into the jade bottle, ring after ring of seals spun around it, thirty-five layers of seals in all, covering every part of the bottle and leaving not a single gap!

"So it is you! " The jade bottle shook, and the Great Emperor's furious voice came from within: "I know you, the little woman who joined hands with Heavenly Venerable Yun to scheme against me! A Creator of the Great Void!