The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 489 - 465 Once The Bright Moon Shattered_1

Chapter 489: Chapter 465 Once The Bright Moon Shattered_1

Underground.

Pang Jian maintained a gentlemanly deportment, not to entangle further, yet he still cherished the memory greatly.

"Shifu didn’t deceive me; on the long cultivation journey, there are indeed exceptional scenes that intoxicate the traveler, truly indescribable wonders."

He had developed a taste for it.

Belonging to him, his Divine Consciousness Inspiration soared skyward, and as it was about to reach the surface, he gradually felt the difficulty.

He knew that deep beneath the earth, the penetration and roaming of Divine Sense were severely limited.

After reflecting for a moment, to get a clearer view of the Star Moon Valley, to catch another glimpse of that white-robed woman who called herself Ying Yue, he ascended from five hundred to three hundred zhang above the bedrock.

At this underground height, he could spy on the scenes within Star Moon Valley.

It was another deep night, the bright moon like a silver plate, stars like precious diamonds.

Ying Yue, a woman in white with a graceful appearance, was surrounded by chaos, with many Individual Cultivator corpses crushed to bone fragments by her erupting power.

The corpses of Individual Cultivators purged and slain by the Demon Sect received a second impact.

Among the broken ruins of stone huts, Ying Yue’s face was as cold as frost.

With His level of Divine Skills and prowess, He could see tiny golden sparkles, released through the earth.

"What more does he want to do?"

Ying Yue roared inwardly.

He guarded his mindset sternly, daring not to let even a strand of Divine Sense seep out, fearing that the thief lurking deep in the earth would seize the opportunity.

Having not ascended to God Spirit via the Moon’s Divine Tao in the Outer Realm Galaxy, He had never felt such deep humiliation and embarrassment.

At this moment, He harbored deep-seated hatred towards the person below, yet he was helpless to do anything.

Those tiny golden sparkles persisted without vanishing, and He knew the other party was silently watching Him.

The more He watched, the more those golden sparkles seemed indescribably lecherous and vulgar.

He silently cursed, pretending not to know, and flew up, landing in a rocky cave on one side of Star Moon Valley.

There, jutting out of that prominent cave entrance, He operated Divine Skills to establish a connection with His main body, far above on the moon.

Soon, an extremely concentrated Moon Energy descended, integrating into His body.

He knew this was risky, aware it was easy to be detected by the Great Cultivators of the Human Race, but He couldn’t care too much anymore.

He only wanted to solidify his body quickly, to refine His Spiritual Soul well, and once He ascended to the Extinction Realm, He would immediately drag the thief hiding deep in the earth out and torture Him to death.

"The lowly Human Race should disappear from the Star River."

He shifted the hatred for Pang Jian onto the entire Purgatory Human Tribe.

...

"To be able to harness the pure Moon Energy with a flesh and blood body directly. This Ying Yue must be a cultivator from Star Moon Sect, and moreover, is involved with Outer Realm God Spirits."

Pang Jian reined in his Divine Consciousness, abandoning various speculations, and once more focused on himself.

The pure Moon Energy had been absorbed cleanly, and inside those seven Star Veins, each had only about a quarter of the Star Power remaining.

He planned to work harder to quickly gather the marvels inside Star Moon Valley.

Several days later.

When the last trace of Star Power fused into the stars above Dantian Fragment Land, a magnificent miracle suddenly appeared.

"Whoosh! Whoosh, whoosh!"

A vast expanse of the starry sky, as if a whole new Star Domain had opened, with more brilliant stars emerging.

The new twinkling stars were only the size of rice grains, all illusory points of light, existing far beyond those substantiated stars.

But their number was immense.

With a brief glance, Pang Jian knew that the stars that newly surged forth, there were at least a few hundred of them.

It seemed they also faintly corresponded to the Star River outside of Purgatory.

And those that he had recently substantiated, with actual inner cores in the stars, amounted to a total of thirty-six.

The substantiated thirty-six stars, contained pure and robust Star Power, while the suddenly appeared hundreds of stars had only sparse traces of Star Power.

These illusory stars seemed to act as a coordinate, serving to expand the Star River.

"One sun, one crescent and a full moon, thirty stars, all these are approaching reality, all harboring astounding power. Is this unique starry sky corresponding to some outer Star Domain? Given these conditions, it’s unlikely to be the starry sky outside of Purgatory. Above Purgatory’s dense Mysterious Fog, there’s only one moon."

Pang Jian mulled over it secretly.

He, underground, scratched his head and naturally established a connection with the Mysterious Turtle, casually inquiring, "You’ve lived the longest; in your memory, how many moons were there outside Purgatory?"

The Mysterious Turtle was silent, as if tracing back through memories, seemingly searching hard.

After a while, the Mysterious Turtle spoke slowly, "I remember, there were initially two moons in the starry sky above Purgatory. One of the moons later shattered; its breaking wasn’t a natural cause, it seemed to be due to a divine war."

"For the specifics, I need to retrieve all my memory to know. Also..."

The Mysterious Turtle paused for a bit, then said, "There was a time in the Purgatory World when eternal night prevailed; only the moon and stars, no sun suspended high. No sun suspended high signifies there was no daylight."

Pang Jian was greatly shocked, "What does this mean?!"

"This current sun isn’t the original one. The sun before might have burst or vanished, leading to Purgatory falling into a period of eternal night. Sorry, my memory isn’t complete; I can’t give you an accurate answer," the Mysterious Turtle meditated and said slowly: "In any case, this sun appeared later on, suddenly."

Underground, Pang Jian was stunned.

One moon shattered, the sun disappeared, only for a new sun to take its place?

The information revealed by the Mysterious Turtle was highly credible; he had no choice but to believe it.

Fortunate to have glimpsed beyond the skies through the Universe Box and "Purgatory Gate" copper plate, Pang Jian, who had seen the true form of God Spirits, felt that the mightiest God Spirits likely truly possessed the power to shatter suns and moons.

Perhaps, He could even move the sun and the moon, shifting them to specific positions.

If one day the sun and moon disappeared, what would Purgatory become?

The Human Race, those Alien Tribes that worship the gods, the ancient Demon Race, how many would be able to cling to life tenaciously?

The more Pang Jian thought about it, the more his heart palpitated, always feeling that once the Human Race truly became overwhelmingly powerful and unmanageable, the god spirits of the Outer Domain Galaxy might abandon all the Alien Tribes that worshipped Them.

They might directly shift the sun and moon, executing an extinction plan upon the creatures of Purgatory, ensuring not a single living thing remained.

"Little Rock Bear, failing to ascend to the Demon God through the ninth-level Ice Crystal Beast, he shall battle the Four Pupils Spirit Fox once more. I have a feeling that after the next battle concludes, it should determine the ownership of the Demon God seat."

"The more dire the era, the higher the likelihood of a Demon God emerging. Given the current chaos in Purgatory, this time there will definitely be a Demon God forming."

Mysterious Turtle was exhilarated as he sent his message, then suddenly said, "That guy who left Dragon Cave, hasn’t returned for quite a while. His conversation with the Northern Qi Fragment Land Demon Race should have ended long ago."

"I remind you, tell Fan Ao to be very careful, and by no means should he carelessly expose his tracks."

"From what I understand about Him, He has the guts to kill Fan Ao."

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Deep underground, it took Pang Jian some time to digest the astonishing news revealed by Mysterious Turtle.

He suspected that the starry sky currently appearing above his Dantian Fragment Land matched that of the ancient starry sky outside of Purgatory. Back then, the two moons had not yet shattered, and the sun was still the original one.

"Chaos Sea, my special dantian Spiritual Sea must have a connection to the star structure of the primeval era."

The power within his Moon Vein and Star Veins had all been absorbed by him. Just as he planned to quietly leave the place, a violent tremor suddenly came from the surface above.

He inspected with his Divine Sense.

He soon saw Wu Yuan from the Demon Sect, using the Purple Demon Eye to chase down Ying Yue within Star Moon Valley.

Ying Yue struggled to condense the Moon Light Curtain, a gigantic moon shield, among many profound and unpredictable measures, all of which were shattered by the power of the Great Demon God Hemo Tian within the Purple Demon Eye.

With a cultivation at the late stage of the Soul Wandering Realm and wielding the most powerful weapon of the Demon Sect, Wu Yuan was like a Demon God incarnate.

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In the valley.

With insufficient cultivation realm, insufficiently tempered body, and an unrefined Spiritual Soul — Ying Yue, who didn’t possess a single sacred-grade weapon, was naturally no match for the new era’s talent of the Demon Sect.

She felt — outside of Star Moon Valley, even more strong members of the Demon Sect were scattered.

This indicated that the original attackers from the Demon Sect had not withdrawn far and still regarded Star Moon Valley as an important target.

"Damn it, another Divine Consciousness Holder with astonishing Divine Consciousness within their Spiritual Soul. I can’t shatter her Sea of Consciousness and strangle her Spiritual Soul."

Ying Yue felt extremely annoyed inside.

Her several proud Soul Secret Skills, after being deployed, were either crushed by the divine image of Hemo Tian within the Purple Demon Eye or blocked by Wu Yuan’s secret Soul Skill.

With Wu Yuan’s Divine Consciousness being another Divine Consciousness Holder, He could perceive Her sneak attacks and make advance preparations.

"Forget it, all of my plans for this trip have been ruined by that vile thief underground. Without his interference, by integrating the Moon Vein into my body, I should have already fled from Star Moon Valley."

With a heavy sigh, Ying Yue was about to abandon her physical body and intended to return this part of Divine Consciousness to its original owner.

At that moment.

A youth with sickly pale complexion and tall, refined stature, dressed in blue clothes, walked in from outside the valley.

He wore a Sword Command at his waist, carrying an unsheathed longsword of black and gold on his back, his expression cold and indifferent.

The newcomer stood at the entrance of Star Moon Valley, looked up at the black-clothed man of the Demon Sect and said, "Wu Yuan, why do you kill her?"

Beneath the suspended Purple Demon Eye, endless Demonic Qi surged in waves pushing forward, submerging the landscapes where Ying Yue was located, as Wu Yuan, with a wooden face and gloomy eyes, replied.

"Huh?"

He turned to look, and then he saw the black and gold longsword carried by that person.

Even though the material of the sword had changed, with his understanding of this person and the familiarity of the Purple Demon Eye with the Origin Demon Sword, he instantly recognized the identity of the newcomer.

"You know her?" Wu Yuan asked, surprised.

"No," the newcomer shook his head.

"Let her live? Or let her die?" Wu Yuan asked again.

The newcomer hesitated for a moment, recalling all the pleasant entanglements of their Divine Consciousness, and then said, "Live."

"Oh."

Wu Yuan grasped the Purple Demon Eye, swiftly retreated the boundless Demonic Qi, turned his head, and walked towards the newcomer, saying, "Let’s talk about old times outside."

"Mm."

The pale-faced youth also turned and left.

In the valley, at the entrance to a cave on the cliffside.

The Moon Goddess Ying Yue, who had intended to discard this body, bit her moist lips and said coldly, "It’s you, isn’t it?"

The man stopped, turned his head with a blank look, and said, "What?"

Ying Yue, teeth clenched and eyes almost spewing frigid fury, angrily said, "The one lurking underground — it’s you, isn’t it?"

"It’s not me."

The man answered innocently, and as soon as Wu Yuan approached, the two of them left Star Moon Valley together.

"You won’t admit it? I know it’s you!"

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