The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 747 - 709: The Lady Reappears_1

Chapter 747: Chapter 709: The Lady Reappears_1

Fifth Continent.

In the deep darkness of the night, that thick stone pillar glowed with a bluish radiance, towering high over the cold and desolate wilderness, protecting the vast continent with its divine alien power.

Zhu Ji and the others had not yet been able to break through the barrier created by the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, failing to set foot on the land.

And at this moment, atop the summit of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, a tall figure with black hair and black eyes suddenly appeared.

He intentionally hovered in the air above Bagua City, making sure that Pu Zhaotian and the others could see him at a glance.

He even gave the crowd a slight smile and nodded in greeting.

"Pang Jian!"

The shouts from the outsiders were filled with ecstatic joy.

"What did I just say?"

Pu Zhaotian grinned wildly, winking and smirking at Li Wang and the others, saying boastfully, "We all knew he was a Realm God! And wasn’t it a piece of cake for a Realm God who can freely traverse Purgatory to enter this Fifth Realm, sealed by filth alien power?"

"Do you believe it now?"

"Didn’t I say that this lad, Pang Jian, would show up at the crucial moment? How accurate was I?!"

Pu Zhaotian, as Pang Jian’s shifu, felt his mood suddenly relax with Pang Jian’s sudden appearance.

Li Wang was invigorated, saying, "I’m suddenly a bit more convinced that he can break through the light screen condensed by the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar!"

Jiang Fan, whose hair had turned white and then bald, was the most impatient. He spoke in a deep voice, "We must hurry, I’m afraid I can’t wait too long!"

His combat strength was weak, and he had the hardest time resisting the penetration of death force, fearing that he might follow in the footsteps of Li Yuanli and Tian Du San Ren.

"Are Realm Gods really so miraculous?" Su Wenrou was astonished.

She had always been optimistic about Pang Jian, but she was still surprised by the scene in front of her, not understanding how Pang Jian had suddenly appeared at the top of Bagua City.

"This Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, as well as Bagua City, was his origin of rise," Pu Zhaotian squinted, his smile radiant, "We are not good at breaking barriers and restrictions, but as the Realm God of this era, he naturally has his own methods. We just need to wait patiently."

"Old Zhu, you might as well save your strength. The rest of the task can be left to my young disciple, Pang Jian."

Pu Zhaotian smiled as he earnestly advised.

"Hmm."

Zhu Ji, who had just been gathering filthy alien power, finally chose to cease his efforts and curiously gazed at the fifth Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.

...

In the mid-air above City Lord Mansion.

Pang Jian, who had teleported here from the First Realm, gazed at the "Universe Box" within the pool, quietly sensing the seven continents and the seven mystical Heavenly Tribulation Pillars.

He learned through the Black Dragon King that after the deaths of Li Yuanli and Tian Du San Ren, two streams of fate had flown into this Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.

However, he had not sensed any traces of fate here.

After pondering for a moment, he once again hovered above the pool where the "Universe Box" was located, lifting the box out and opening it.

Inside the box was endless darkness, unlike any other time!

Gazing into the ultimate darkness, Pang Jian felt as if he had returned to the Seventh Realm, experiencing that true emptiness and stillness of death.

He was very sure that the box had changed while in Luo Hongyan’s hands, no longer simulating the environment of the Seventh Realm but actually leading directly to it!

"Hiss!"

Suddenly, a strange gleam of light, like a firefly, sparkled in the darkness, exuding death and extreme cold, carrying a unique divine power.

"Clack!"

Pang Jian closed the box lid and threw the box back down.

—He had guessed the true secret behind the vanishing fate.

After the deaths of Li Yuanli and Tian Du San Ren, the two streams of fate that had drifted away and been captured, Luo Hongyan had sent to her true body through the box, condensing into two new god statuses.

After the Death God Status, She had forged the Bright and Extreme Cold God Statuses.

Thus, in the struggle against the Black Phoenix, there were times when Brightness drove away darkness, and within the Brightness, death and extreme cold power were abundant.

Her first god status in Purgatory was forged through a Human Race woman who was already prepared, and then plundered by Herself.

The creation of the Death God Status involved the integration of fate, not the Filthy Essence that Black Phoenix had separated from—.

Both Bright and Cold Ice, these subsequent two major god statuses, She relied on the wondrous fate that scattered following the deaths of Li Yuanli and Tian Du San Ren.

In the outer void of the Fifth Continent, She kept poisoning Li Wang, Jiang Fan, and the others with a terrifyingly erosive death force.

What She seemed to crave was the deaths of more true gods; She wanted to collect only fate.

He, in the Outer Star River, a Sovereign-level being of fundamental Great Tao was Bright power, while also encompassing darkness, mastering death and life, merging flame and cold.

Clearly, He was planning to create six god statuses in Purgatory, and He was still missing three streams of fate.

But why fate?

By integrating six streams of fate into one being, forming six god statuses, is this the key to countering the resurrection of the Black Phoenix?

Then why doesn’t He directly plunder the essence of the Black Phoenix?

To completely eradicate that Sovereign-level Demon God, shouldn’t He swallow the opponent’s essence, so that there wouldn’t be a sliver of possibility for rebirth from the ashes?

This was something Pang Jian couldn’t comprehend.

But he knew that since he could once again establish a connection with the seven Heavenly Tribulation Pillars and teleport to Bagua City, it indicated that Luo Hongyan’s control over the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar had weakened.

The power and fallbacks of the Heaven Phoenix hidden within the Tribulation Pillars, which had participated in their creation, had been officially taken over by the Black Phoenix.

Seven Heavenly Tribulation Pillars stood erect on seven continents, playing a role in stabilizing the continents to prevent them from shattering and maintaining some kind of balance.

The pillars, initially forged in Purgatory by the Human True Gods from beyond the heavens, were entrusted to the Realm Gods upon their return.

The body of the pillar restricted the ascension of the strongest beings from the Fifth Realm, as well as the awakening of the Ancient Demons’ bloodlines, but more importantly, it preserved the integrity of the seven continents.

Why must the continents remain whole, and why can’t one be fragmented?

Could it be...

Standing high above Bagua City, Pang Jian sensed the mysteries of this world through the Dantian Fragment Land and his profound connection with the seven continents.

He held the bronze plaque and silently attuned himself to the seven Heavenly Tribulation Pillars.

Gradually, he felt two concealed yet vast wills, diffused within the seven Heavenly Tribulation Pillars!

They were still in the dense Filth Alien Power, amidst the deathly breath corrupting Li Wang and others, and even deep within the luminous aura!

The Fifth Realm’s seven continents, the dark void outside the continents, each Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, the dense Filth Alien Power, the mingled breath of death, the weak creatures of the Alien Tribes, and the Ferocious Beasts that had not left this realm, all were battlefields of those two concealed wills!

The mysterious and immeasurable Sovereigns waged war over the remains of the Black Phoenix, as well as within the Fifth Realm!

Perhaps, it even included the Sixth Realm!

Lie Yang, Shajia, Jingsha, and Aman, the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Mountains, had their bloodlines elevated to level ten by a source of the Black Phoenix, but now they all obeyed Luo Hongyan.

The source could perhaps shake their spiritual wills and subtly influence them.

However, Luo Hongyan’s arrival, the intimidation of being a Sovereign, their origin from the same Wisdom Race, and the promise to lead them to the First Realm, made them genuinely acknowledge Luo Hongyan from the bottom of their hearts.

It evidently could weaken, to a great extent, the influence of the source from the Black Phoenix on them.

This was, of course, also strategical warfare!

"Such warfare is truly unheard of!"

Pang Jian was deeply shocked.

If not for the quirky resonance between the seven fragments in his Dantian and the continents of the Fifth Realm, if not for the connection between the bronze plaque and the Heavenly Tribulation Pillars, even he, who had ascended to the status of a Middle-level God, would hardly notice the pervasive presence of those two Sovereigns’ concealed breaths!

The Mysterious Turtle, Bee Insect, and Pang Ling were his eyes, allowing him to see the external world through them.

Being imbued with a source from the Black Phoenix, would he also become the eyes of the Black Phoenix?

Lie Yang, Shajia, Jingsha, the Black Dragon King, Aman—who among those with the source could escape the will’s lock of the Black Phoenix?

The so-called Filth Alien Power, including its Filthy Essence, all originated from that fallen Black Phoenix.

Could Its visual perception extend into all the Filth Alien Power?

If so, wouldn’t all places in the Fifth Realm where Filth Alien Power dispersed be under Its watchful gaze?

Then, the regions filled with Death Force were also within the conscious infiltration of Luo Hongyan?

The more Pang Jian thought, the more his scalp tingled.

Vaguely, he touched upon fragments of the Sovereigns’ domain, which caused a huge surge in his heart.

He suddenly realized how shallow his understanding of power was at the moment.

Sovereign, Sovereign, Divine Power and will could easily dominate an entire world!

Land, stars, energy, all creatures, spirits!

All that is visible and invisible, known and unknown to truly exist, would be permeated by the powers of a Sovereign level!

This level of battle had long transcended physical collisions; confrontations at the Spiritual Soul level, more advanced and complex than the entanglement of laws and mysteries.

Take the current Fifth Realm, for example.

The battle between the two Sovereigns took place in the struggle for the Heavenly Tribulation Pillars, amidst the mix of Filth Alien Power and Death Force, and perhaps also within the subconscious depths of the creatures of the realm.

Yet he had been completely unaware before.

Mighty as Zhu Ji, wise as Li Wang, and shrewd as Ghost Mother—they were all unaware of the Sovereigns’ war surrounding the Fifth Realm that had been going on for quite some time.

They were but fishes caught in the whirlpool of war, their bodies and Spiritual Souls perhaps just one of the many battlegrounds of the two great Sovereigns.

Or rather, a tiny part of countless battlefields.

"Plop!"

In the pond of the City Lord Mansion, the "Universe Box" opened on its own again, but no water flowed into the box.

Water in the pond shimmered with ripples.

Suddenly, a light began to coalesce from the darkness within the box, taking the shape of a being of peerless elegance and perfection.

He was clothed in a white robe with intricate patterns, and his flawless, exquisitely beautiful face was filled with an eternal indifference.

He was a soul shadow of Luo Hongyan, not a body tempered in Purgatory, and He looked up at Pang Jian.

His gaze was calm, His spirit tranquil.

His voice was equally serene, without a hint of turbulence, "I still need three streaks of Fate."

"The Death Force’s corruption is, in my view, somewhat too slow. They are not dying fast enough, and I need to obtain new Fate as soon as possible."

"I can let you out, allowing you to decide the fall of three True Gods so that their Fate comes into my hands."

"I promise, I will allow the flame of life of the Human Race to continue burning in Purgatory. In the First Realm and the Second Realm, the Human Race will still have a place."

"In the Star River above the Mysterious Fog, the gods will no longer intercept the Human True Gods leaving Purgatory; the subsequent Human True Gods will again be qualified to stand in the heavens beyond."

"I only need you to hasten the death of three True Gods."

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