Chapter 1141: Chapter 331: Ten-layered Saint Realm (1/5)

The Tai Sui Great Saint is falling.

On the Immortal Path, a Golden Core True Monarch has already proven to be immortal, and a Dao Fetus Nascent Soul is further indestructible. Even in ‘death’, they inevitably return.

It can even be said that for most people, death is nothing more than an incurable wound to a True Monarch, but not unsolvable.

For a Heavenly Venerate, death is even more futile.

Rather than a wound, it is a firm but breakable shackle—like how the Tai Sui Great Saint actually died during the ancient Demon Calamity, yet it remains indestructible, even capable of rebirthing through the Holy Demon Power, the cost merely being its consciousness controlled by the Holy Demon.

But now, it is truly falling.

In the Tianyuan Realm, within the Demon Nation’s domain, a crimson meteor descends from the lightning-burnt purple-blue heavenly dome, enormous as a mountain range, trailing thousands of miles of fierce flame. Before yet breaching the atmosphere, its terrifying pressure has already shattered all clouds and aurora below, pushing away a circle of visible light rings.

And at its peak, five Great Suns revolve, each radiating different totemic divine light auras.

The Tai Sui Great Saint’s power is not weak; it is a Demon Great Saint and was once the protector of the Dao Courtyard, though fallen, its power has not diminished.

But its opponent is stronger, the Tianyuan Four Saints, and the Haotian Divine Mirror wielding the Candle Dragon Battle Armor!

If the strongest Heavenly Venerate holds the [Immortal and Indestructible], [Unmoving and Unwearable], [Unbreakable and Unretreating], [Unpolluted and Unfalling], [Non-stagnant and Non-obscure] Ten-layered Saint Realm, the Tai Sui Venerable holding five already counts as a powerhouse among Heavenly Venerates.

Yet, the Four Saints suppressed its immortality, indestructibility, and immovability, while the Candle Dragon Battle Armor shattered its last unfalling stance, so its five layers of cultivation were broken one by one—not truly shattered, as those who reach the Saint Realm will not truly perish, at most recovery will be slower.

But without a doubt, the Tai Sui Great Saint will fall into slumber, and the duration of this slumber might be longer than the universe’s end.

Now, its body fell back to the Tianyuan Realm—the vast Melt Sea once boiling incessantly now dented into a grand cavity before the Great Saint’s body fell, then set off a golden-red flame wall nearly a thousand miles high. As the Tai Sui Great Saint’s body fell entirely into the depths of the Melt Sea, and when the flame wall shattered, the blazing light had stained over half of the Tianyuan Realm in red, with an endless storm of smoke and fire surging nearly ten thousand miles high into the sky, starting to cycle between heaven and earth, causing the entire world’s temperature to rise rapidly.

The last Demon Great Saint has thus fallen.

And the last shadow of the Holy Demon also dissipated, returning to the Abyss of Eternal.

All eyes were gathered there.

Amidst the countless screams and wails of the demons, the remains of the Demon Nation Fortress plummeted back to the Tianyuan Realm along with the Tai Sui Great Saint. Fragments of meteors incessantly struck concentric ripples into the northern Melt Sea, and when the largest body crashed down thunderously, the Abyss of Eternal convulsed violently with distortion, transforming into a huge maw, swallowing the entire mainland fortress.

The Tianyuan Four Saints weren’t surprised by any means, though the Holy Demon was defeated, it was merely the ‘Heart of Heaven Demon’. The Abyss of Eternal still existed, so it was impossible for all of Tianyuan to truly die, and now the final counterattack of the Heaven Demon was about to begin.

All at once, the half of Tianyuan struck by the Heaven-Burning Divine Weapon surged with immense waves, while the profound abyss shadows continuously expanded, swallowing the lava tides, transforming into the world’s largest lava waterfalls. Terrifying gales exhaled from the abyss, carrying endless purple-black lightning, the purest incarnation of chaos and destruction, its light sweeping the void, resembling the scene of the apocalypse.

No, not resembling.

This is the apocalypse.

The final counterattack of the Heaven Demon wasn’t to resurrect the Holy Demon for another battle to decide victory—not at all. The Heaven Demon would not think so. The Heaven Demon wouldn’t pursue victory, wouldn’t pursue struggle.

What they seek is mutual destruction… just like now, the Abyss of Eternal began madly devouring all matter, Spiritual Fiend, and authority of half the Tianyuan Realm, preparing to completely destroy Tianyuan’s balance, to recrystallize the Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind, to destroy the Tianyuan Realm in a ‘mutual destruction’!

In the past, the Human Clan intended to do so, and now, it’s the Heaven Demon!

[What do you plan to do?]

In the void, wielding the Candle Dragon Battle Armor, Haotian Xiyi inquired loudly, turning to the four Cave Heavens in the distance: [Heaven Demon can’t play anymore and wants to end the world, what contingency plans do you have?]

[Yes]

The one who replied was the master of Shouyang Mountain, Feng Xiyu, the Xi Yu Immortal. His voice rumbled like thunder, echoing in the void: [But that is merely preparation for the most urgent, worst-case scenario, and now is far from it, quite the opposite, this is the best future we’ve never anticipated.]

[Regrettably] The master of Luofu Mountain, Chen Zhongyang, the Zhiyang Immortal, murmured: [Because we estimated the worst, so the countermeasure can’t cope with the best…]

At this moment, on the other side of the Tianyuan Realm, the entire continent trembled violently, shaking, then rose from the ground, centered around the Four Great Spiritual Veins Cities, including a portion of forests and oceans.

“The city… is flying?!”

In Xuanye City, Qu Tong, who was slaughtering demons, felt the change in the field’s spiritual atmosphere around him. Stunned, he gazed around, then discovered with utter shock that the entire land, centered on Xuanye City including the safe zone, was being elevated layer by layer. Beneath the collapsing soil and rock were ‘Spirit Vein Network’ glimmering with various spiritual lights!

These networks were like rhizomes, like branches, holding the steel base plate under the city, similar to a Floating Cloud City, ascending towards the sky.

Bamboo.

Upon seeing those Spirit Vein Networks, both Qu Tong and the Haotian Ancestor immediately thought of ‘bamboo’.

As known, bamboo roots are called ‘whip roots’, horizontally placed in the ground as thick rhizomes. As long as the environment is suitable, they sprout and grow… the bamboo forest keeps expanding, keeps growing, because they share the same root system, so even if it seems to spread across the mountains, it can actually be considered ‘one bamboo’.

The ‘Four Great Spiritual Veins Cities’ and the ‘safe zone towns’ share such a relationship.

Rooted in the Net Dao Spiritual Veins, the Four Great Spiritual Veins Cities continuously expand the safe zone, continuously pioneering outwards, expanding their territory. In an apocalyptic world almost entirely occupied by Heaven Demons, this perhaps is a way to continuously purify and reclaim the world, but undeniably, this requires a long time, and they haven’t succeeded yet.

But now, even if immature, must stand up.