The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 732 - 694: Sovereign Remains_1

Chapter 732: Chapter 694: Sovereign Remains_1

The Black Dragon King, who was supposed to stay in the Sixth Realm and wait for his message, appeared suddenly in the Seventh Realm.

There was no communication with him beforehand.

And the moment he arrived in the Seventh Realm, he actively severed the connection with him, making it impossible for him to sense the Black Dragon King’s movements, no matter how hard he tried.

Pang Jian was well aware that the Black Dragon King’s arrival wasn’t for his sake.

The enormous Black Phoenix radiating light, the Original Demon that was a fusion of the Demonic Soul Will and shadows, along with Qi Xu who was trying to get close to him, made the situation in the Seventh Realm extraordinarily complicated.

Pang Jian, who had intended to probe the Original Demon’s secrets and see if there was a way to eliminate him, was momentarily at a loss.

"Save me!"

Qi Xu shrieked as she flew by.

Her usually fierce and bold eyes were now struggling and pained, as if fighting against a different will, seemingly resisting something with all her might.

The infiltration of the Original Demon?

With the Divine Artifact Five Thunders Bombardment in hand and "Ghost Firefly" drawn, Pang Jian was on high alert.

"There’s something in the Black Phoenix’s corpse that’s affecting me! Pang Jian, I..."

Qi Xu, one of the most powerful of the Fifth Realm’s Flame Clan, pleaded helplessly, "I can’t even die, I don’t have the strength to end my own life, I don’t want to be a puppet for others forever! I..."

Clusters of flames dispersed from her tall and alluring body.

In every cluster of flame, there was a drop of blood as red as ruby, with soul shadows faintly emerging within each one.

The image of the Original Demon, handsome yet slightly effeminate, the peerless beauty of Luo Hongyan, along with an image of a Black Phoenix spreading its wings, were revealed in the different flames and blood.

The Original Demon, Luo Hongyan, and a Black Phoenix were treating Qi Xu’s body, her Spiritual Soul, as a miniature battlefield.

This discovery shocked Pang Jian deeply.

The Original Demon might be expected, but where is Luo Hongyan?

And what’s the deal with that Black Phoenix?

In the huge carcass of the Black Phoenix, there was no Soul Magnetic Field belonging to this great entity, He should have perished long ago, so why was there will still active?

And why were they all seeing Qi Xu as a coveted entity?

"Hiss!"

In Pang Jian’s Spirit Sea of Consciousness, there was a spattering of Thunderous Lightning.

An unfamiliar Divine Consciousness, which he didn’t recognize, was stealthily infiltrating his mind while he was deep in thought.

He, already on guard, had the Thunder Vortex and Ghost Electricity in his mind triggered instantly, obliterating the secretly sneaking foreign will.

"Who?"

Pang Jian snorted coldly and then smashed the Five Thunders Bombardment in his hand towards the massive shadow that was slowly pressing down upon him.

"Boom!"

As the rumble of thunder began, various colored Divine Thunders emerged, accompanied by a giant pillar, falling towards the overwhelming shadow of the Original Demon.

"It’s not me."

The effeminate and handsome visage of the Original Demon merged with the shadow, and in the moment the sky-filled Divine Thunder arrived, they split apart.

Countless shadows and demon souls scattered like birds taking flight.

In an instant, He split into thousands, shrinking into myriad parts, which evaded the bombardment of thunderbolts from the Five Thunders Bombardment, scattering into the void near Pang Jian and Qi Xu.

"There are not many flesh and blood creatures in this realm; every single one is worth fighting for."

The Original Demon spoke softly, and the divided shadows and demon souls merged and gathered together, quickly turning into nine tall shadows with identical forms.

Each shadow was an image of Himself, towering into the sky, yet each carried different Demon Tao Spells.

He incarnated as nine, each enacting Demon Path Truths as if nine Demon Gods were exerting their strength together.

"Freeze!"

Nine Original Demons surrounded Pang Jian as well as Qi Xu, chanting in unison.

Some of the Original Demons formed mysterious seals with their hands, some spat out Ancient Demon Scripts, some joyfully sang, some wove a Demon Realm, and some nurtured a Demon in the palm of their hands.

In the midst of the many Original Demons, Demon Element Power surged like a tidal wave, and the evil thoughts of all beings were materialized within, like threads.

Qi Xu suddenly found herself unable to move.

The evil thoughts in her heart, her fear and hesitation, her wariness of the Original Demons, and all sorts of miscellaneous thoughts were lured out and siphoned into those clusters of burning flames.

Within her blood, shadows of souls burned one after another.

The one of Luo Hongyan, that of the Black Phoenix, and the wills that were active within Qi Xu’s body, were ignited by an array of the Original Demons that Pang Jian could not comprehend.

By the means displayed by the Original Demons, He remained ferociously unmatched.

Pang Jian doubted whether He was just blustering, doubted whether He resorted to threatening him through Qi Xu because He was in a period of weakness, but that seemed to be a mistake.

"Crackle! Crackle!"

Thunderbolt leaped in Pang Jian’s mind, lightning enveloped him, and with the Five Thunders Bombardment, he swept away the demonic tides rushing toward him.

He was safe under the restraint of the nine Original Demons.

His body was unrestricted, he was not overtly eroded by the Original Demons into his Spiritual Soul, he still had plenty of strength!

"The Original Demons should not be this weak!"

"Qi Xu’s body is not the true battlefield!"

"The body of the Black Phoenix is the true battlefield for Luo Hongyan! It turns out, Luo Hongyan’s opponent is not the Original Demon!"

Pang Jian, who had been observing attentively, saw that the Brightness revealing the Black Phoenix was being devoured by the Darkness near the Black Phoenix, gradually disappearing.

The Brightness, carrying death and chill, sometimes had the advantage and could make the Black Phoenix manifest in the Darkness.

The Darkness, at times, could swallow up all light sources, erasing death and chill, and at these times, the Black Phoenix would fall into obscurity again.

The clash of light and darkness, circling around the carcass of the Black Phoenix, seemed to have lasted for a long time.

It involved two ancient beings who had been adversaries for millions of years and must have battled for millions of years, waging war in the carcass of the Black Phoenix within the Eternal Darkness of the Seventh Realm.

And in this war, the Original Demons only had the status of bystanders, unable to truly participate.

The small victory He achieved within Qi Xu was utterly insignificant, and it had no bearing on the outcome of the battle within the Black Phoenix’s body.

"A Sovereign who perished in the Seventh Realm of Purgatory, the Sovereign of the Ancient Demon Clan!"

Pang Jian was deeply shaken.

He glimpsed part of the truth, he believed that the massive Black Phoenix was indeed the true form of a Sovereign!

Moreover, it was the Sovereign of the Ancient Demon Clan that ruled over Darkness!

In the Outer Star River, Luo Hongyan was revered as "God Luo," with the reputation of a god of Brightness, and her true power as a Sovereign originated from Brightness.

The laws of Brightness, and the Divine Tao of Brightness, were forever her primary devotion on her path.

All other Divine Tao were secondary.

The Black Phoenix, on the other hand, was the opposite; Darkness was its innate source of power, destruction, chaos, violent madness, poison—all kinds of filth from the Fifth Realm were merely its auxiliaries.

Luo Hongyan and He were inevitably in opposition in the Outer Star River, and that had lasted for countless ages.

The outcome was marked by His fall in the Seventh Realm of Purgatory, with His carcass forever submerged in Darkness.

No, this might not be the end!

The most mysterious and core secret of the Phoenix Clan is called Nirvana Rebirth; He still possessed the possibility of being reborn anew!

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