Warrior Emperor Wuzang attempted to save the Heavenly Dragon True Emperor, only to find himself set ablaze by Demon Emperor Blood River's strange flames.
The strange flames were formless and mindless, akin to spiritual fire. They burned not only at Warrior Emperor Wuzang's heart and mind but also at his very self-consciousness.
Warrior Emperor Wuzang tried to disperse the strange flames.
Unfortunately, he failed.
These strange flames were exceptionally overbearing, as if they had merged with his incarnation.
Unable to disperse them, he attempted to purify them.
Alas, purification also failed.
The strange flames seemed endless, flowing forth continuously.
With purification unsuccessful, Warrior Emperor Wuzang tried to suppress them.
Regrettably.
Suppression failed as well.
The strange flames were like water, seeping into every pore, impossible to block, impossible to defend against, and even more impossible to suppress.
As the strange flames grew stronger and stronger, Warrior Emperor Wuzang's heart and mind began to twist, and his self-consciousness grew hazy.
This was one of his external incarnations, its self-consciousness a strand of divine sense from his true body.
Now, the strange flames were burning precisely that divine sense.
Perhaps, as Miao Rulai had said, Demon Emperor Blood River intended to use these strange flames to refine their divine sense, probe all their incarnations, hunt down their true bodies, and thus uncover the secrets hidden behind them.
Thinking of this.
Warrior Emperor Wuzang was both horrified and enraged. With a whoosh, he leaped into the air, his form like a blazing sun, erupting with ten thousand zhang of radiant light. The originally dark Void was instantly illuminated by him.
"De—
mon—
Em—
peror—
Blood—
River!"
Warrior Emperor Wuzang roared as he charged towards Demon Emperor Blood River!
Opposite him.
Demon Emperor Blood River stood in the Void, his long hair dancing wildly, his robes snapping, cold and ruthless, serene yet solitary. As the incarnation of the blazing sun, Warrior Emperor Wuzang, attacked, he raised his hand and struck out with a palm.
It was still a dull, unadorned palm strike, devoid of any profound mystery.
With a thunderous explosion, the blazing sun instantly dimmed, as if a raging fire had been extinguished. The ten thousand zhang of radiant light filling the sky scattered and dissipated. Warrior Emperor Wuzang was sent flying sideways by this palm strike, blood spraying from his mouth and nose.
Demon Emperor Blood River's palm was simply too powerful.
The Heavenly Dragon True Emperor could not withstand it, and neither could Warrior Emperor Wuzang.
Just as Warrior Emperor Wuzang was sent flying sideways, he transformed once more into a blazing sun, erupting with ten thousand zhang of radiant light that filled the sky. This time, the surrounding Void seemed to change, appearing like an illusory world of shifting winds and clouds, somewhat ethereal and elusive.
Immediately after, five light spheres gradually appeared beside Warrior Emperor Wuzang, who had transformed into a blazing sun of purification.
The light spheres spun wildly like whirlpools, growing larger and larger as they rotated. As they spun, they released countless rays of blazing sun light. The faster they spun, the more ethereal and elusive the surrounding Void became.
The first light sphere seemed golden, serene as an abyss, as if it could devour all things. The second seemed cyan, brimming with endless vitality, as if it could evolve all things. The third seemed azure, infinitely mutable, as if it could fuse with all things. The fourth seemed crimson, blazing fiercely, as if it could incinerate all things. The fifth seemed yellow, overflowing with vitality, as if it could nurture all things.
The five light spheres slowly rotated around Warrior Emperor Wuzang, who had transformed into a blazing sun of purification. They appeared to both generate and restrain each other, like a dazzling star, or like five miraculous sources.
The Great Dao experts hiding within the Desolate Ancient Era ruins all knew that these five light spheres were the Metal Luminosity Venus, the Wood Luminosity Jupiter, the Water Luminosity Mercury, the Fire Luminosity Mars, and the Earth Luminosity Saturn. They were the innate creations of the Great Dao, and moreover, the legendary innate Great Dao creations that guarded the five directions of heaven and earth.
Everyone had just witnessed Warrior Emperor Wuzang summon the Five Stars Solar Sovereign and clash with Miao Rulai's Five Wisdom Kings Wrathful Buddha Manifestations until both sides scattered. It could be said that the Five Stars Solar Sovereign was immensely powerful, both in its profundity and its might.
The Five Stars Solar Sovereign swept in from the five directions like the transformations of the five elements, surrounding Demon Emperor Blood River in the blink of an eye.
As Demon Emperor Blood River raised his hand, he drew a circle in the Void. With this single motion, he actually stirred the Void.
Yes!
He stirred the Void. The Void twisted and blurred, beginning to rotate. The speed increased faster and faster. The more it rotated, the more twisted and blurred the Void became. In the time it takes to snap a finger, the surrounding Void had transformed into a vortex—a Void vortex.
The Five Stars Solar Sovereign was sucked into the Void vortex, involuntarily spinning along with it, like five ships caught in a raging storm.
As the Void vortex spun faster and faster, so fast that its rotation became invisible, the radiance of the Five Stars Solar Sovereign grew dimmer and dimmer after being drawn into the vortex.
With a series of crackling, crisp sounds, the Five Stars Solar Sovereign was simply scattered into nothingness by the spinning Void vortex.
It must be said, the existence of Demon Emperor Blood River was truly terrifying.
One must understand that what Warrior Emperor Wuzang had summoned was the legendary innate Great Dao creation that guarded the five directions of heaven and earth. Although Warrior Emperor Wuzang had not yet mastered the source of the Five Stars Solar Sovereign, he had already merged himself into it. The Five Stars Solar Sovereign he summoned, while only possessing form and intent, was after all the innate Great Dao creation guarding the five directions.
Even just the form and intent of the Five Stars Solar Sovereign possessed unimaginable power. If it were not so, Warrior Emperor Wuzang could not have previously summoned it to clash with and scatter Miao Rulai's Five Wisdom Kings Wrathful Buddha Manifestations.
Yet, such a powerful Five Stars Solar Sovereign was now effortlessly dealt with by Demon Emperor Blood River. With a single move—drawing a circle in the Void—he directly turned the Void into a Void vortex, sucked the Five Stars Solar Sovereign into it, and churned it into scattered nothingness.
It was truly too terrifying, too horrifying.
The Great Dao experts hiding within the various Desolate Ancient Era ruins, witnessing this scene, all sucked in a cold breath, their hearts filled with shock and dread.
What horrified them was not that Demon Emperor Blood River had destroyed the innate Great Dao creation, the Five Stars Solar Sovereign, with one move.
It was that Demon Emperor Blood River could stir the Void with a mere wave of his hand.
This Void was not the Void of the Great Desolate.
It was the Void of the Desolate Ancient Nine Palaces.
The Void of the Great Desolate was governed by the laws and order of Yin-Yang and the five elements; it was the Void of nature. One could stir the Void of the Great Desolate by shaking the Yin-Yang and five elements of nature.
The Void of the Desolate Ancient Nine Palaces had neither Yin nor Yang, nor the five elements, and even more so, no laws or order of nature.
Not only did it lack the laws and order of nature, it lacked the laws and order of any of the three thousand Great Daos.
The Endless Sea beyond the heavens had no laws or order of any Great Dao.
The Desolate Ancient Black Hole was born from the Endless Sea and also had no laws or order.
The Desolate Ancient Nine Palaces were born from the Desolate Ancient Black Hole and had even less laws or order.
Most terrifying of all, the Desolate Ancient Nine Palaces contained endless mysteries and transformations. These mysteries and transformations were something the onlookers couldn't even comprehend, couldn't even begin to fathom. So how could anyone possibly stir the Void of the Desolate Ancient Nine Palaces?
To them, the Void of the Desolate Ancient Nine Palaces was like a vast ocean. Punching it would not even raise a single ripple.
That Demon Emperor Blood River could stir the Void of the Desolate Ancient Nine Palaces with a wave of his hand indicated only two possibilities.
Either he had already comprehended the mysteries and transformations of the Desolate Ancient Nine Palaces.
Or his strength had already grown powerful enough to overturn rivers and seas within the Desolate Ancient Nine Palaces.
However.
Whichever of these two possibilities was true, it was enough to prove that the existence of Demon Emperor Blood River surpassed all imagination.