CHAPTER 955: CHAPTER 93: CHONGMING

"Xuanyi!"

Within the Sword Origin River.

Zhao Chunyang was the first to sense the sound of the Sword Qi.

He was fiercely battling the Holy Empress, and as he turned his head toward the entrance of the forbidden area, that wisp of Phoenix Fire had already fallen from the Heavenly Peak...

This was a strike of the "Heavenly People"!

Let alone Xie Xuanyi, who hadn’t completed the Yang God ascension, even if the Life and Death Dual Dao were perfected, it would be impossible to withstand such a strike!

Just as Zhao Chunyang prepared to exert his Divine Skills, shatter the Lotus, and rush to the rescue.

He witnessed an unexpected scene.

The black-clad youth standing at the edge of the shattered Grotto Heaven, took a slight step, grasped the Golden Sword, and with an extremely subtle arc, completed a dodge, followed by a block, and then a slash!

Dang!

The burst of golden sword light from Chen Ke nearly illuminated half of the Great Phoenix Cave Heaven!

The wisp of Phoenix Fire was cut in half!

Zhao Chunyang was momentarily stunned, dismissing his initial thought of using divine skills to teleport, turning instead to seriously gaze at the black-clad youth in the distance.

A seventeen-year-old face, the same figure as before, seemed unchanged...

Took another look.

Zhao Chunyang already understood the reason in his heart.

At this moment, Xie Xuanyi, though his eyes were clear, emanated a swirling aura of chaos from the depths of his pupils.

Zhao Chunyang sighed lightly.

His most precious, beloved disciple, had ultimately come.

"...Not dead?"

After flicking out a wisp of Phoenix Fire, the Holy Empress shifted her gaze away.

In her view.

Even a casual strike from herself today wasn’t something a mere ant like Xie Xuanyi could resist.

But she never anticipated.

That wisp of Phoenix Fire would be cut apart so cleanly and decisively!

The Holy Empress narrowed her eyes in disbelief.

She coldly stared at the young man in black at the end of the Grotto Heaven.

The great wind swept past Xie Xuanyi’s black robe.

A golden sword, suspended in front of his face, maintaining a three-foot distance.

Xie Xuanyi withheld the "Life and Death Dao Domain", withheld the "Martial Arts Divine Embryo", and even withheld all his Primordial Energy. In this moment... he seemed to become an ordinary person without any cultivation, a true mortal. Because the mysterious transformation of Xuan Ming from the Primordial Swallowing Sacred Realm had completed its takeover of this body in a profound way.

Xie Xuanyi could still move, as soon as a wisp of Thought was transmitted.

He could regain control of this shell.

But at this moment, with the residence of Xuan Ming’s Divine Thought, Xie Xuanyi felt an unprecedented vastness.

Within the [Yuan Tun World].

Xuan Ming unraveled the blindfold.

His eyes were a void.

No pupils, no irises, nothing at all... just a deep darkness exuding a mysterious aura.

Xie Xuanyi had always been curious why his senior brother covered his eyes.

Now he finally understood the "reason".

Senior brother... is blind.

Somewhat ironic.

As a "Chongming Bird", yet unable to obtain light.

Yet fate often carries this kind of irony.

The Chongming Bird clan, renowned for their most powerful "Pupil Skill Divine Skills" inheritance in the Demon Country, yet in their old age... almost inevitably end up this way.

The Sky Watcher dies young, the Chongming Birds grow blind early.

Everything in this world balances...

Xuan Ming had long lost his "eyes", although Divine Thought could still perceive, after losing sight, the level of pupil skill divine skills in the Chongming Bird clan would see a significant drop.

The blindfold was personally crafted by Master Bai Ze for him, as long as it’s worn, it can "nourish the eyes".

Every time divine skills are used, wearing the blindfold allows for rapid recovery.

This time.

Xuan Ming took off the blindfold, prepared not to wear it again.

"Rumble, rumble, rumble."

The moment Xuan Ming removed the blindfold, the Primordial Swallowing Sacred Realm fell into darkness, enveloped in fog, swept by wind and sand.

Heaven and earth grew dim, a thin vertical light tore through the sky.

It was a vertical pupil.

A vertical pupil sufficient to illuminate the [Yuan Tun Sacred Realm]!

With the emergence of the vertical pupil, the center of Xie Xuanyi’s brows gradually tore open in the Great Phoenix Cave Heaven, he closed his eyes, tilted his head slightly, the flesh at the center of his brows bulged outward, a scarlet long line broke, Xuan Ming’s [Chongming] divine skill took effect on him, with the appearance of this third vertical pupil, the entire Great Phoenix Cave Heaven welcomed an incredible abnormal phenomenon!

The great sun hung high, thunder roared, wind and snow intermingled, torrents of rain poured.

All these extraordinary phenomena, all fell upon one person.

"Xie Xuanyi... Is this Xie Xuanyi?"

Standing at the Heavenly Peak, the Holy Empress saw this scene, her eyes full of disbelief.

What was happening?

Ever since the confrontation in the Imperial City—

Though she didn’t show herself, she continuously dispatched underlings to monitor this reborn "Xie Zhen".

Ren Shou Palace was fully aware of "Xie Zhen’s" every move.

Yet the Holy Empress couldn’t understand how, after a trip to the South Border, Xie Xuanyi had completely changed?

At this moment, this stunning phenomenon capable of contending with the Great Phoenix Cave Heaven, could definitely only be a divine skill exhibited by someone at least in the Yang God Ninth Heaven... Could it be that there is a mysterious forbidden area within Da Sui Sword Palace, unknown to her, hiding the soul of a sage who ascended to the Yang God Realm?

"Not good."

The Holy Empress softly exclaimed, in just that moment of distraction, the Sword Origin River, suppressed by the Great Phoenix Cave Heaven, began to rise once more.

She had just barely reached the "Heavenly Human Realm", not yet adept with the power of the Immortal Tree.

If it were solely to suppress Zhao Chunyang, it wouldn’t be a problem.

But with one more added...

To face two adversaries.

The situation would be vastly different.

Yuan Huang, his expression somber, raised his hands, pressing toward the ground.

Lotuses shattered one by one.

Boom, boom, boom!

The Sword Origin River, having just risen a few feet off the ground, was repressed back down.

Zhao Chunyang’s Lotus Robe was lit aflame by the Phoenix Fire.

The old man merely glanced down, withdrawing his gaze, seemingly impervious to the pain, stubbornly enduring the Heavenly Human Realm Phoenix Fire, continuing to punch! Having confirmed Xie Xuanyi’s wellbeing, Zhao Chunyang abandoned all other thoughts, exerting all his strength to unleash the Power of Dao Origin!

"Shoo!"

Just as the Holy Empress struggled against the Sword Origin River beneath her, a breaking sound suddenly erupted next to her.

The moment before, "Xie Xuanyi" was still at the end of the Grotto Heaven.

This moment, he had already appeared in front of Yuan Huang.

The two were only a hundred feet apart.

For a cultivator at the Heavenly Human Realm, a hundred feet was but a step.

Xuan Ming, having just "settled" into the junior brother’s body, wasn’t yet familiar with this shell, randomly lifted a finger, summoning Chen Ke—

The Golden Sword flew out.

The heaven and earth were cleaved by a single line of sword light.

Dang!

The Holy Empress had no time to respond, she could only raise her hand to block!

This clash seemed nonchalant, yet it was extremely powerful!

The launched Golden Sword was deflected, flying miles away.

The Holy Empress, having just set foot in the Heavenly Human Realm, retreated several steps.

"You are not Xie Xuanyi..."

The Holy Empress fixed her gaze on the black-clad youth in front of her, eyes focusing on the vertical pupil at Xie Xuanyi’s brow, a strong sense of unease spreading in her Heart Lake: "Who are you?!"

"..."

Xuan Ming did not answer this question.

After a strike.

He had become familiar with this shell.

The vertical pupil subtly rotated, locking on the Phoenix Fire above the Heavenly Peak, covering almost the entire world.

"This piece of heaven and earth is too dark."

Xuan Ming extended two fingers, gently placing them over his brow.

He softly spoke: "...Let there be light."

As the words fell.

The Holy Empress felt an overwhelming sense of pressure in her heart.

She looked up in disbelief.

The Phoenix Fire, immense and towering, that had ignited the azure sky, shattered under an unimaginable divine skill’s suppression, a line of heavenly light descended, countless crimson fragments scattering.

Just a single sentence.

This heaven and earth, returned to clarity!