With the end of the massacre, everyone stood respectfully, facing Yun Wuji's impassive eyes. Almost all of them trembled under his gaze.
The Northern Region's three King Realms, Star God Realm, and Moon God Realm were shaking from excitement, while the Ten Directions Deep Sea Realm, Qilin Realm, and Blue Dragon Realm were shaking from fear.
There was one more person trembling, but his was from euphoria. "Your loyal dog Cang Shitian congratulates my lord for exterminating the demonic Dragons and freeing this world from their tyrannical rule!" Cang Shitian knelt to the ground and shouted loudly.
Cang Shitian was someone who despised rules and regulations. He had never once been interested in his position as God Emperor. If it weren't for his younger sister, he wouldn't have overthrown his father and taken the throne.
He longed for chaos. He wanted to rebel against the world's order. And what had just happened was exactly what he had always longed for.
He immediately labeled the Dragon God Realm as demonic dragons, despite the fact that in their million-year reign, they had never oppressed any race or abused their power. In truth, they had helped many races throughout their long rule.
But as they say, history is written by the winner. Just like how the Dragon Monarch once labeled Yun Wuji as a calamity even though he hadn't done anything wrong, yet, now that the Dragon God Realm were the ones who had lost, they had become the villains, the demonic, evil dragons who oppressed the people. And Yun Wuji? He was the hero who had liberated the Primal Chaos from their so-called tyranny.
Or at least, that was the narrative that would be pushed from now on. Anyone who dared object would be labeled a heretic sympathizing with a monstrous villain and punished or even killed for it.
"Shameless," Jasmine muttered while staring at the disgraceful God Emperor.
The Qilin Emperor stepped forward from among the Qilins and dropped to his knees. "This sinful Qi Tianli greets my Lord. I thank my Lord for his infinite mercy in sparing our lives. We swear to be eternally loyal to you and never betray your trust!"
"..." The Blue Dragon Emperor didn't speak. She couldn't bring herself to label herself as sinful. Even after living for a hundred thousand years, it seemed she had wasted all those years. She was still far too naive and inflexible compared to an old fox like the Qilin Emperor. In the end, she knelt on the ground in silence along with the other Blue Dragons.
Yun Wuji observed the new group. First, he stared at Cang Shitian. The guy was as crazy as the novel described him to be. Then he looked at the Qilin Emperor. Finally, his gaze settled on the Blue Dragon Emperor.
He observed her very closely. She was very beautiful, with a voluptuous figure and extremely tall, nearly as tall as him. What stood out most were her legs. They were very long, extremely long, round, and plump.
Yun Wuji's thoughts spiraled. He could already imagine her legs locked around his waist, refusing to let go as he nutted deep inside her.
He pictured her thighs wrapped in blue stockings, black stockings, fishnets, garter belts...
Shaking off the perverted thoughts, it was all the Dragon God Blood's fault, definitely not his for being this horny. Shaking his head, Yun Wuji spoke calmly, "Rise. Since you have submitted to me, I shall take you in. However, if you want a place in this new world, you need to prove your sincerity and that you deserve it."
"Thank you, my lord!" The Qilin Emperor, Blue Dragon Emperor, and their followers sighed in relief at his words. Slowly, they rose, heads lowered in submission.
A sweet, soft, lazy voice slithered into their ears like a dream, melting their bodies into mush and warming their souls. Chi Wuyao floated over to him and purred, "Little darling, what are you planning to do next?"
"Clean up the battlefield first. We'll talk about what comes next later," Yun Wuji said, reaching out to gently pat her head. "Wuyao, you didn't disappoint me. You did well."
"Mmm~" Chi Wuyao's eyes narrowed slightly as she hummed in satisfaction.
Everyone froze in shock, including the king realms from the Northern Divine Region.
The infamous Devil Queen, known for her dreadful and vicious methods, had actually made such a voice. Even without seeing her face, they all knew exactly what expression she wore.
'Fuck!' Cang Shitian's eyes nearly popped out as he cursed silently in his mind.
"Hmph!" Luo Guxie and the other women snorted coldly at the scene. Why did he only praise Chi Wuyao and not them? Still, they held back from causing a scene in front of everyone, choosing to preserve their man's dignity and majesty.
Swoosh!
The Dark Giant landed before them and stretched out its hand, handing Yun Wuji a golden pearl.
It was something Yun Wuji had taken from Nan Wansheng's dead body, the Southern Sea's artifact of inheritance, the Southern Sea Divine Pearl.
The pearl was the size of a child's head, with twenty-two divine runes engraved on it. They represented the sixteen Sea Gods, four Sea Kings, Nan Wansheng, and Nan Guizhong.
Twenty-one of the runes glowed with golden light, except one. After the inheritors died, their power returned to the pearl. The remaining rune belonged to Nan Guizhong's power.
Yun Wuji put away the pearl for now, then controlled the Dark Giant to fly into the distance to retrieve another one.
Unlike the golden Southern Sea Divine Pearl or the green Sky Poison Pearl, this one was grey, glowing with a faint white light. It gave off a sacred and ancient aura.
Swoosh!
Suddenly, followed by the aura of a strong presence, a pair of pupils slowly opened in the void, above the pearl. They looked like a pair of human eyes, except that they were radiating a peaceful and holy light. Wherever they looked, the holy light wiped away the unease, violence, and fear in anyone's heart.
"Sigh, why is someone like you joining hands with the devils?"
A transient voice came from above. It was the voice of an old woman, and it sounded as ancient and vast as a mantra from time immemorial.
"The Eternal Heaven Pearl Spirit?" The sudden appearance of that pair of eyes caught everyone off guard.
"That's racist, you know?" Others might feel some level of respect for this ancient, so-called spirit, but Yun Wuji didn't hold a single shred of it. Not to mention, she wasn't even a real heavenly spirit. And even if she was, he still wouldn't care. Just look at Hei Xiaolian. The first time they met, he had slapped over a hundred slave seals on her without blinking.
"Why are you showing yourself only now, Eternal Heaven's Great Ancestor? You didn't appear when your realm was facing destruction," Yun Wuji said while commanding the giant to seize the pearl.
A brilliant light erupted from the pearl in a desperate attempt to resist, but how could the useless struggles of a dying woman do anything against him? With a muffled sound, the light scattered as Yun Wuji closed his hand around the pearl.
"You!" Eternal Heaven's Great Ancestor hadn't expected him to make a direct move without giving her a chance to speak. She felt both helpless and bitter over her situation.
When Yun Wuji began his invasion, she chose not to reveal herself right away, hoping reinforcements would arrive. And just when she was about to act, the Dragon God Realm and their allies appeared, which made her stop.
She watched everything unfold with confidence that these devils would soon be wiped out, especially when Zhou Xuzi was preparing to fire the Kalachakra Ark Cannon.
However, the explosion that followed, which evaporated the entire Eternal Heaven God Realm, had not only killed all the citizens but also destroyed the Eternal Heaven Tower where her body was kept!
Her body might have been at the God Emperor level in strength, but it was already extremely old and had not been used for hundreds of thousands of years. There was no profound energy protecting it apart from the powerful formation surrounding it. In truth, it was far weaker than even a 1st level Divine Master in that situation. The explosion had vaporized her body before she could even comprehend what was happening.
"You possess great strength and even greater talent, but you chose to use it to aid the wicked. Your murderous nature is so overwhelming that you didn't even spare the lives of those who clearly surrendered to you," Eternal Heaven's Great Ancestor continued her futile struggles as she spoke. "I mourn for the living beings of this world, now that someone as evil and devilish as you is ruling over them."
Those eyes scanned the other Divine Masters watching the scene as she spoke directly to them, "Everyone! Are you really going to let this person rule over you, drag this world into darkness, and slaughter the innocent?"
"You still have a chance to fight back, to end this!"
Her voice carried a heavy sorrow and fierce righteousness, lamenting the future of the people and the world.
"..." Everyone stared at her in silence, as if she were an idiot. Resist? Fight for the world? Was this woman serious? Even if they wanted to, how could they possibly do that?
"Pfft Hahahaha!" Yun Wuji burst into loud laughter. "Wicked, murderous, killing innocents? Old hag, how can you say such nonsense with a straight face?"
"In this world, you're the last one who has any right to lecture me!"
"Because of your twisted indoctrination, you turned your realm into the ultimate force aiming to exterminate the people of the Northern Divine Region, innocent people who did nothing wrong to this world."
"They are trapped forever in a cage of darkness and treated like livestock. If they dared to take a single step outside their cage, your people, along with others brainwashed by your so-called righteousness would hunt them down."
"By what right do you kill these people just because they cultivate darkness? What unforgivable sin or evil have they committed that demands their eradication?"
Listening to Yun Wuji's speech, the people from the Northern Divine Region stared at him with emotional eyes. Yan Wu's gaze grew misty. Every word he spoke shook their hearts and pierced their souls. These were the thoughts each of them wrestled with every day.
Why were they evil? What had they ever done to deserve such a fate?
"..." Eternal Heaven's Great Ancestor was momentarily speechless. Because of the previous Eternal Heaven Pearl spirit, she had always believed that devils deserved to die, and she had stood firmly by this belief her entire life.
"And don't use that crappy excuse that the devils ended the Primordial Era!" Yun Wuji cut her off before she could speak. "Let's not even mention that the people in the Northern Divine Region are humans like us, not the ancient devils from the past. They just happened to end up there."
"Who the fuck are you to say the ancient devils are evil and should never exist? They were created by the Ancestral Goddess just like them, just like the Gods. How could you be so arrogant as to consider yourself better than her? A puny, trashy mortal?!"
"The devils and gods used to live separate from each other, rarely interfering in one another's affairs, but that bastard Mo E had to go and fuck everything up by ambushing the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor and her clan in a despicable way." His voice was filled with disdain as he spoke of Mo E.
The guy was a total failure. No matter his motive, it didn't change the fact that he fucked the world over countless times, and the consequences still linger today. Yun Wuji had to clean up his mess.
"He was the one who provoked that war, the reason why everything started!"
His words shocked not only the self-righteous Eternal Heaven's Great Ancestor but also the other Divine Masters. This ancient truth was known by very few. In fact, aside from the Dragon God Realm, which held ancestral records, and a few special King Realms, no one else knew about it. Discovering that Mo Er was the true cause of the war was nothing short of astonishing.
"Ahh! Who are you? How did you get in?" Suddenly, Eternal Heaven's Great Ancestor's shocked and furious voice rang out, her eyes wide with panic as she snapped her attention back to the Eternal Heaven Pearl.
Inside, she saw a very voluptuous woman dressed in black had invaded the pearl and already claimed control over twenty percent of the space within!
"Cheap knockoff! Fuck off! This place is mine now!" Hei Xiaolian sneered cockily, pushing her consciousness deeper in and shoving the Eternal Heaven's Great Ancestor out, steadily taking over more and more territory.
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