BOOM!
A dense, dark beam of light shot past the Myriad Manifestations God Emperor as he barely evaded Fen Daozang's attack. The beam streaked by him and detonated in the void behind, erupting into a massive explosion.
"Damn it!" Almost at the same moment, a similar dark beam fired from a different direction. This time, it was Fen Daoqi's attack. His profound energy morphed into a thick white shield that blocked the strike. The Myriad Manifestations Realm was well known for divine powers that easily changed forms, and as their God Emperor, his mastery stood at the peak of this art.
Profound energy swirled in both his palms as he prepared to fight back against the two Moon Easters. He roared, "Despicable devils, if you force me into a corner, I swear I'll take at least one of you with—"
Before he could finish, a heavy storm of killing intent surged toward him. The Qilin Emperor lunged, eyes blazing with murder, aiming straight for the Myriad Manifestations God Emperor's head.
The Myriad Manifestations God Emperor scrambled to defend himself in panic.
The God Emperor was weaker than the Qilin Emperor to begin with, and now he was trapped between two other God Emperors.
The power he had just gathered shattered instantly under the Qilin Emperor's assault. The latter's fingers plunged deep into his skull, leaving a dozen bloody marks.
"You…" the Myriad Manifestations God Emperor hissed through clenched teeth.
"For the survival of my Qilin race, you and your people must die," the Qilin Emperor said coldly. Once a decision was made, there was no turning back. "Submit to your fate."
Bang!
He then detonated his energy directly against the Myriad Manifestations God Emperor's skull, making him roar in pain as he was sent flying. Before he could right himself, the Qilin Emperor, having discarded all notions of mercy, struck him again in the back.
All the Qilins launched their assault on the forces of the Myriad Manifestations Realm. Their fear pushed them to be even more merciless than they would be against any other opponent. They struck the profound practitioners as if they were sworn enemies.
The Moon Eaters weren't sitting idly by; they also resumed the attacks.
Fen Daoqi, currently the strongest Moon Eater and even stronger than the Burning Moon God Emperor, appeared in the direction of the Myriad Manifestations God Emperor. His hand curled into a claw as he grabbed the man's shoulder and yanked it cruelly, ripping it completely from his body.
"Aghhhh!! Damn you all! You will all die! Once the Dragon Monarch kills that man and his dragons, he will wipe you all from this world!" The Myriad Manifestations God Emperor ignored the blood spraying from his ripped shoulder and roared. Red veins bulged around his eyes as he screamed with pure hatred.
"Heh! Wishful thinking! His Lordship's power is greater than the heavens themselves! That overgrown worm who calls himself Monarch will meet his demise soon!" Fen Daoqi snickered disdainfully and threw a palm at the man's back. The strike shattered the barrier that the Myriad Manifestations God Emperor hastily raised and slammed into his back, sending him flying toward the Qilin Emperor.
"Arrogant! The Dragon Monarch is unrivaled in this world! How could you, lowly devils, understand his—" The Myriad Manifestations God Emperor erected another white barrier to block the Qilin Emperor's attack and roared again. The only thing keeping him holding this resistance was the hope that the Dragon Monarch and the Dragon God Realm would return and turn the tide.
Rumble!
But a sudden rumbling interrupted him before he could finish. The large, strange domain that had occupied a vast area vanished without warning.
The sudden movement forced everyone to stop fighting except the Dark Giant controlled by Yun Wuji, who was brutally tormenting the Southern Sea God Realm.
"Impossible!"
"Lies! It has to be a lie!"
"How could this be!?"
Slowly, the scene unfolded before everyone's eyes. What they saw shocked all the Divine Masters from the Western and Southern Divine Regions. Especially the four King Realms of the Western Divine Region, whose legs trembled wildly and uncontrollably, unable to believe what they were witnessing.
Blood splattered everywhere in World Dragon City, turning the scene into something straight out of a slaughterhouse. But that wasn't what scared them. What terrified everyone was the sight of six massive bodies lying on the ground. Five lay motionless, all signs of life gone. The remaining white dragon's body twitched pathetically, eyes burning with hatred at the man standing before him.
"Dragon Monarch! How could this be!" The Myriad Manifestations God Emperor's eyes nearly popped out, his pale face turning even paler, like wax. He stared at the half-dead Dragon Monarch, the very man he had just claimed would massacre everyone here and save them.
All the Divine Masters from every realm felt their souls slipping away as if thrust into a hellish nightmare.
Three hundred sixty-six Dragons, each a Divine Master, they were a force strong enough to rival an entire Divine Region.
How could they be destroyed by just a single human and around thirty Dragons of Absolute Beginning? What's more, the other side showed no serious injuries at all!?
How could this be!!??
Yun Wuji glanced around and said slowly, "Go help them clean up the remaining trash."
He naturally knew what was happening outside the Omnipresent Domain. After all, he had been controlling his Devil body to fight there, too. In fact, he had made the greatest contribution in this war.
"Yes, my lord!" The Dragons of Absolute Beginning answered respectfully, their wings beating as they soared toward their remaining enemies.
"Over... It's over!" Chi Dragon God Emperor stood frozen in despair, no longer bothering to resist the attacks from the enemies surrounding him.
Their only hope to keep fighting was the return of the Dragon Monarch and the Dragon God Realm, but to see their strongest pillar reduced to this pathetic state right before them crushed that hope completely.
"Your Excellency! Your Excellency! Mercy! Have mercy on us!" Hui Dragon God Emperor reacted much faster, immediately surrendering.
Feeling as if his heart and soul were twisted into a pretzel, he screamed, "We beg you to show us your infinite mercy and forgive us. We will worship only Your Excellency and obey only your orders! We swear to live and die by your will for all eternity!"
With the Hui Dragon God Emperor leading the way, the Myriad Manifestations God Emperor quickly shook off the devastating shock and dropped to his knees in the void. "The Western Region Myriad Manifestations Realm offers its eternal surrender to Your Majesty as well! We never wanted to be your enemies. The Dragon God Realm didn't give us the choice to disobey."
"If even one of us dares to break this eternal oath, may we be torn to ten thousand pieces and buried in a hundred-level purgatory!"
A declaration of complete submission, an emotional plea, a deadly oath, all screamed at the top of the Myriad Manifestations God Emperor's lungs. In terms of volume alone, he outdid the Hui Dragon God Emperor by several decibels.
Not a single Divine Master found the declaration humiliating.
On the contrary, they felt deeply relieved that their God Emperors were wise and flexible enough to recognize when they were utterly defeated.
The Qilins, Blue Dragons, and even the Yama Devils and Moon Eaters halted their assault, turning to await Yun Wuji's response.
"Submit? Surrender? Eternal loyalty? You are too late," Yun Wuji said with a mere glance in their direction. "If you had been smart enough like the other two races, I might have taken you in. But it is too late now." As he spoke, he cast a brief look at the Qilin Emperor and the Blue Dragon Emperor.
"The resources in this world are limited. The fewer people there are to compete for them, the better." He gave a casual shrug before ordering, "Kill them all. Do it quickly."
Yun Wuji wasn't interested in mindless slaughter. He had no intention of exterminating the three realms entirely, but he would absolutely wipe out their main fighting force, drive out their descendants, and take all their resources.
The resources in this world are limited. Why should he leave any for people like them? As for helping him rule the world, why would he ever need them?
Others might be mindful of this and feel some apprehension toward the potential resistance from the citizens of the God Realm, but he was not. The first thing he would do after this was forcefully gather all the Upper Realm's realm kings and make them submit.
As long as all the Divine Masters in this world were under his control, no amount of resistance would matter in the slightest.
He could then slowly choose to rule the Primal Chaos with benevolence or become a tyrant. That decision would be his to make when the time came.
"...Little darling is even hot when he is cruel~" Chi Wuyao whispered softly, her misty and limpid eyes locked onto Yun Wuji's.
"No, spare us, Your Excellency!"
"Spare us!"
"No!!"
Bang bang bang bang bang bang…
The three realms were not resigned to such a cruel fate. They tried to plead with him, but their voices were quickly silenced by the combined attacks of their enemies.
The situation was already desperate with the betrayal of the Qilin and Blue Dragon Realms. Now, with the Dragons of Absolute Beginning joining the fray, the collapse of the Western and Southern Divine Regions accelerated at an even faster rate.
The Dragon Emperor joined forces with the Dark Giant and the others, and together they finally ended the lives of the four Sea Kings and Nan Wansheng.
Nan Wansheng died with deep unwillingness etched across his face. The most famous harem king in the God Realm perished without even knowing the name of his enemy.
He died full of grievance.
The Star Gods and Star Elders, with the support of the Dragons of Absolute Beginning, exterminated the remaining Sword Elders and Purple Divine Envoys.
Finally, the Yama Realm, together with the Yama Ancestors, the Qilin Realm, the Blue Dragon Realm, and others, wiped out the disheartened remnants of the three realms.
Yun Wuji watched the massacre unfold without batting an eye. The process took over two hours but meant little to him. During that time, he kept his focus on the Eternal Heaven Pearl floating in the distant void and muttered, "So she didn't appear?"
One thing that disappointed him was that the Eternal Heaven's Great Ancestor made no move even after her realm was completely destroyed. But he figured it wasn't that she didn't want to, it was that she couldn't. Most likely, her real body had been destroyed by the earlier explosion.
"Everyone, I have something to say." Yun Wuji stepped forward slowly, lifting his head to address them all. His voice was low and deep. "In this world, there has never been a Dragon Queen. There has only ever been Long Shen Xi!"
Those words made everyone's eyes tremble with shock. At that moment, Long Bai's head snapped up to glare at Yun Wuji, a terrifying, bloody light blazing in his eyes.
"More than three hundred thousand years ago, you, Long Bai, had your limbs crippled and eyes blinded. You were then abandoned in a wasteland and left to die! It was Shen Xi who saved your life!"
"Your rebirth and subsequent rise, your ascension from hell to heaven as you took the throne and became the strongest Dragon God in the history of the Dragon God Realm. All of these were given to you by Shen Xi!"
"Without Shen Xi, you would have died a long time ago! Not even the dust from your tattered carcass would have remained!"
"The so-called title of 'Dragon Queen' was merely an empty title that Shen Xi allowed so that she would not be disturbed by the rest of the world. This should have merely been a woeful repayment of your heavy debt towards her. However, you… forcefully swept her up in your fabricated fantasy!"
"Krrrk… krrrk krrrrk…" The sound of Long Bai's teeth grinding against each other rang in the air as his eyes turned as wild and ghastly as a ghost's.
"Long Bai, listen up." Yun Wuji was slowly walking toward Long Bai. He was staring down at him from above while he lay on the ground like a cripple, as if he was using the mere power of his gaze to press Long Bai against the ground. "Shen Xi has never been any bullshit Dragon Queen! She only has two identities. The first is her original identity as Shen Xi. The second is my woman!"
The title of "Dragon Queen" had existed for more than two hundred thousand years. It had existed for longer than the reigns of generations of God Emperors, and it was a name that everyone in the God Realm knew of.
The beautiful story of the smitten Dragon Monarch and his queen had been passed down from generation to generation. Even the most common lower realm king had vast harems and entire crowds of concubines. However, the Dragon Monarch only took the "Dragon Queen" as his wife throughout his reign as emperor.
It turns out that everything had only been… a one-sided obsession on the part of the Dragon Monarch!?
And the world-renowned "Dragon Queen" Shen Xi had actually done what with Yun Wuji!?
"Pfttt! Hahaha! So that's why His Excellency has been calling him Simp Monarch all along!?" Cang Shitian's loud laughter exploded through the air, tears forming in his eyes as he clutched his stomach, laughing wildly. He pointed at the half-dead Dragon Monarch and said, "You really are the number one simp! Even I can't help but admire you! The greatest simp under heaven! The Simp Monarch!!!"
"..." The Qilin Emperor's face twitched, but he held himself together to maintain the dignity of an emperor.
"UWAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!"
Yun Wuji's words were undoubtedly the most cruel and venomous blade in the world to Long Bai, no matter the time or the moment. In fact, it was a million times more cruel than destroying the Dragon God Realm in front of him.
"Well, that's all I wanted to say." Yun Wuji lifted his leg and spoke casually, ignoring the glare full of malice from Long Bai. "You can go and die now." With that, he brought his leg down hard and stomped on Long Bai's head.
BOOM!
With a thunderous crack, Long Bai's head exploded like a watermelon. Blood, bone shards, and brain matter splattered everywhere.
The Dragon Monarch, the strongest profound practitioner in the universe, was dead.
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