Spiritual Essence

Gu Changge's fingertips paused slightly, and the screams stopped abruptly, but the terrifying feeling of life draining away still lingered.

"Explain clearly."

Gu Changge's tone did not have the slightest ripple.

Supreme Blood Prison collapsed on the ground, panting in horror, and spoke intermittently:

"About tens of thousands of years ago, we were sleeping here, awakened by an abnormal spatial fluctuation, and initially thought it was an intruder..."

"Later, we found that it was not a living creature, but a teleportation array across the endless void, temporarily constructed, sending a mass of extremely pure energy and a divine sense message..."

"That energy turned out to be fairy spirit energy! Although thin, it far exceeds the level of spiritual energy in this realm!"

"The message said that as long as we secretly set up the arrays they gave us at key nodes everywhere in the Xuanhuang Great World, we could regularly get fairy spirit energy as a reward..."

Another supreme being could not bear the pressure and chimed in, his voice full of bitterness:

"Facing the extreme desire for prolonged life, we agreed. They promised that after the matter was completed, they could even help us reshape our Dao foundations and even become immortals!"

"We followed the instructions and set up those arrays on the edge of the universe and some ancient stars. Although we knew they must have ulterior motives, we did not expect that this array was actually draining the origin of this realm. Later, when we found out, we also thought about destroying the arrays, but..."

Great Emperor Tianhuang gave a miserable smile and continued, with endless regret and fear:

"But we wanted to live too much, and we guessed that the existence that could take out fairy spirit energy and teleport across realms must be a real... immortal!"

"Immortal?"

Gu Changge repeated softly, a sharp light flashing in his eyes.

It was actually an immortal who acted personally?

His mind raced. The immortal realm is high above, overlooking the ups and downs of all realms. Why would they lower their status and act against a mortal great world?

Even at the cost of consuming fairy spirit energy to buy over a few supreme beings who had cut themselves off as insiders?

Unless there was a problem with the immortal realm itself?

Could it be that the foundation of the immortal realm was also damaged and needed to drain the origin of the lower realm's great world to make up for it?

Or, were they plotting some earth-shattering move that required a massive amount of world origin to complete?

As soon as this thought arose, Gu Changge immediately associated it with the peerless great array he had seen set up on the edge of the Xuanhuang Great World before, which was a systematic and predatory extraction!

Then why did Ling Xi in her previous life want to break into the immortal realm, only to be killed by the laws of the immortal domain?

These supreme beings, in order to linger on, became accomplices and betrayed the world that gave birth to them!

Gu Changge's gaze turned completely cold, with a hint of solemnity added.

He originally thought it was just revenge, but he didn't expect it to involve the mystery of the disappearance of the world's origin.

"Stealing the origin of a realm, people from the immortal realm doing such sneaky tricks..."

He muttered to himself, the killing intent and inquiry contained in his voice seeming to freeze the space of the entire restricted area.

"It seems that this immortal realm is not the pure land imagined."

Just at the moment when Gu Changge's mind was racing and deducing the immortal realm's intentions—

A sudden change occurred!

The few people who were originally paralyzed on the ground, with sluggish auras and seemingly no power to resist, suddenly burst into ruthless and decisive light in their eyes!

Their previous fear, begging for mercy, and even revealing secrets, were all to numb Gu Changge and wait for this fleeting moment of mental relaxation!

"Now!"

"Extreme sublimation! Go all out!"

"Kill!!"

The supreme beings roared at the same time! They no longer had any reservations, crazily burning their final origin and lifespan, forcibly sublimating to the extreme, and returning to their respective peak states!

It was even more thorough and crazier than Great Emperor Tianhuang's previous sublimation, completely a mutually assured destruction fighting style!

They knew clearly in their hearts that since the outside secrets had been exposed, the other party would absolutely not leave them alive.

Since they were going to die anyway, it was better to burn everything and fight for that glimmer of hope!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Several terrifying emperor mights far exceeding before erupted at the same time!

Great Emperor Tianhuang held the Star Battle Halberd, the halberd light tearing through the ages; Supreme Blood Prison transformed into a boundless blood sea demon god; Venerable Hou revealed his Heaven-Swallowing Hou true body, its giant mouth swallowing stars.

Supreme Taichu's body was surrounded by the light of Taichu, transforming into the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe! The five attacks contained their lifelong Dao fruits and endless resentment, pouncing straight at Gu Changge with world-destroying momentum! This was their long-planned desperate counterattack!

The roars shook the starry sky!

However—

Facing this desperate strike that was enough to instantly heavily injure or even kill multiple great emperors of the same rank, Gu Changge didn't even lift an eyelid.

He still stood with his hands behind his back, only the Dao rhythm flowing naturally around his body rippled slightly.

Like a calm lake surface being thrown four stones.

Those four world-destroying attacks, when they touched the three-zhang radius around Gu Changge, melted, disintegrated, and returned to nothingness silently, like ice and snow under the blazing sun.

Not even a trace of energy fluctuation could be transmitted out, as if they had never existed.

The five supreme beings who had sublimated to the extreme and returned to their peaks instantly froze their crazy and decisive expressions, replaced by boundless horror and incomprehension.

Their all-out attacks didn't even have the qualification to make the other party move a finger?

"Ants trying to shake a tree."

Gu Changge finally raised his eyes and swept his gaze over them, that look like looking down at dust.

He didn't even make any obvious movements, just a slight thought.

"Pfft—!"

The five supreme beings who maintained their charging postures stiffened at the same time!

The majestic vitality and Dao laws brought by their extreme sublimation rapidly drained away like a deflating balloon!

"Im... pos... sible..."

They struggled to spit out a few words, their eyes full of extreme fear and absurdity.

The emperor bodies of the five supreme beings were like broken colored glaze, covered with spider web-like cracks, and dazzling emperor blood continuously seeped out from the cracks, dyeing the void with a layer of sorrowful dark gold.

The brief glory brought by their extreme sublimation was rapidly fading, replaced by deeper decay and death energy.

That was a sign of the collapse of the Dao foundation and the exhaustion of the origin, an irreversible end.

They struggled, trying to stabilize their collapsing emperor bodies, but everything was in vain.

With just a thought, Gu Changge had already disintegrated them from the root.

All struggles, all resistance, seemed so ridiculous and futile in the face of this absolute strength gap.

Great Emperor Tianhuang looked at his crack-covered hands, feeling life and Dao cultivation slipping away like quicksand, and the last trace of madness and unwillingness in his eyes finally extinguished, leaving only endless grayness and despair.

"Hehe... haha... hahaha..."

He let out a desolate and bitter laugh, full of self-deprecation.

"Planning for ages, lying dormant and surviving, I thought I caught a glimpse of an immortal opportunity, but I didn't expect it to be seeking my own death and acting as an accomplice to a tiger. Ridiculous, pathetic!"

The monstrous blood sea around Supreme Blood Prison had long dried up, revealing his shriveled and withered true body below. He said hoarsely: "The winner is king, the loser is a bandit. We admit defeat."

Venerable Hou's massive Heaven-Swallowing Hou true body transformed back into human form, breathing weakly, and growled: "Do it, give us a quick death!"

Supreme Taichu and Nine Nethers Supreme were also silent, their eyes hollow, having resigned themselves to their fate.

In the face of absolute power, they could not even muster the thought of struggling.