Eternal God Emperor: Only I Am Emperor One

Chapter 156 Sudden Changes
"boom!"

The dozen or so Yin Impermanence, who were originally tightly bound by the spiritual artifact, suddenly went out of control and self-destructed almost simultaneously. The violent Yin energy formed a huge dark cloud, and several Black Market Half-Saints were caught in it, their bodies and souls destroyed.

"Boom! Boom!"

Not only in the black market camp, but also in the camps of various forces outside the Fallen Gods' Tomb Forest, all the captured undead self-destructed at this moment, as if an irresistible force had remotely controlled them.

The saints were alarmed, and at the point where the Eastern Domain Holy Academy and the Black Market First-Class Hall were facing off, a surge of ghostly energy emerged.

Luo Xu, who had been standing with his hands hanging down, suddenly moved and threw a punch into the ghostly aura.

The fist technique, with its nine twists and turns, completely enveloped the ghostly mist in its light; this was his signature move, the "Luoshui Fist."

A bone staff emerged from the ghostly mist, colliding with Luo Xu's fist imprint and shattering it. Without pausing, it attacked the other three Holy Academy Masters and the three members of the Black Market First-Class Hall present.

"Shh! Shh! Shh!"

He unleashed six blows in succession, each carrying unparalleled power. Apart from Luo Xu, who blocked the first blow of the bone staff, everyone, including the leader of the Black Market First-Class Hall, was knocked back dozens of feet by the blow and was no match for him.

"The Four Tribulations Ghost King?"

The head of the Black Market's First-Class Hall revealed an incredulous expression. A Fourth Tribulation Ghost King was comparable to a Human Saint King.

Before this, the strongest beings to emerge from the underworld were only Tribulation Three-fold Ghost Kings. This was the first time a Tribulation Four-fold Ghost King had made a move after the barrier between the Yin and Yang realms disappeared.

From the ghostly mist emerged the figure of a ghost king clad in armor. He had a fair complexion, held a bone staff, and looked no different from a human.

Undead that have reached the level of Ghost King have condensed into real ghost bodies and become a new race.

"It is the Yinchao Ghost King, one of the most powerful ghost kings below the Divine Beginning Ghost King on the outer edge of the underworld." In the past few days, the saints of Kunlun Realm have learned a lot about the underworld from the captured impermanent beings, including a group of ghost kings on the outer edge of the underworld.

Outside the underworld, led by the Divine Beginning Ghost King, there are nearly a hundred powerful individuals at the Ghost King level. The Yin Mocking Ghost King is among them, close to the top tier.

Ghostly energy surged from each of the array's nodes, revealing that the ghost kings of the underworld, who had been dormant for a long time, had secretly accumulated such terrifying power.

More than one Fourth Tribulation Ghost King made a move, and even the eighth-grade array set up by the array master could not withstand it. The array's light barrier was blasted open, and a massive army of undead poured out of the Fallen God Tomb Forest, passed through the array's gaps, and charged towards Kunlun Realm.

Luo Xu joined forces with the three heads of the Holy Academy to confront the Yinchao Ghost King once again. The three saints of the Black Market did not join forces with them, as they did not trust the four heads of the Holy Academy.

The head of the First-Class Hall summoned a sacred temple, combined the power of the two Holy Elders, and unleashed the temple's might, annihilating a large portion of the undead army.

But the undead army is impossible to kill completely; it continues to emerge.

"How dare these ghost kings attack the Fallen God Tomb Forest? With the old monster from the Chen family here, even a fourth-level ghost king would be courting death. Could it be that the overlord of the outer reaches of the underworld, the Divine Beginning Ghost King, has arrived?" The head of the First-Class Hall looked at the endless underworld spirits and was somewhat at a loss.

The gathering of saints outside the Tomb of Fallen Gods was enough to deal with a group of ghost kings, but these low-level undead were more troublesome to deal with without the obstruction of the formation.

If the army of the undead breaks through, the area around the Fallen God Mountains will turn into a ghost realm, affecting not only the nearby Liangyi Sect, but also the evil lands of the Eastern Region south of the mountains.

Emperor Yi unleashed the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm, drawing upon a thousand times the Yang energy within his body to condense into a palm print. With a single strike, he ignited the souls of a large number of undead, accompanied by a continuous stream of mournful howls.

His expression was solemn. His True Source Demon Eyes saw an extremely terrifying ghostly aura surging behind the array's light screen. The feeling it gave him was no less than that of the faint holy aura above the nine heavens.

The saints of the Chen family of the Eastern Region Holy King Mansion also joined the battle against the Ghost King. Chen Yin used the Cloud-Turning and Rain-Covering Hand to shatter the ghost body of a Three Tribulation Ghost King, but was immediately locked by a terrifying holy thought.

Six streams of light flew out from the Tomb of Fallen Gods, smashed through the array's light barrier, and crashed onto the ground after leaving the tomb, raising clouds of dust.

When the smoke and dust cleared, everyone saw what was in the pit and was greatly shocked.

These were the six saints of the Eastern Region Holy King's Palace who had previously entered the Tomb of Fallen Gods.

At this moment, all six saints were devoid of life force, their saintly souls vanished without a trace, and they perished completely.

The moment the six holy corpses broke through the array's light barrier, the master of that aura in the Fallen God's Tomb Forest also set off. His body was a hundred feet long, and his ghostly form crashed into the array, shattering the already riddled array. The main array's Qiongxu Saint Master spat out a mouthful of blood, his holy heart and holy soul injured by the Ghost King's will.

With the formation broken, the entire army of undead in the Fallen God's Tomb Forest rushed out, boundless and numbering in the millions.

It was something that the saints of Kunlun Realm gathered here could not withstand.

The half-saint who had been in the black market was instantly swallowed up by the army of the undead. Moments later, his holy soul dissipated, leaving only a cold corpse lying on the ground.

Di Yi released dark power, erecting a dark barrier that enveloped Di Yue and the surrounding Black Market Half-Saints, like a small boat being tossed about by a tide of undead.

The six-tribulation ghost king, whose ghostly form was a hundred feet tall, broke through the formation and ignored the saints, heading straight for the sky with a clear goal.

The leader of the Black Market First-Class Hall stared at the Ghost King, his face pale, and at the same time took the nearby Black Market Half-Saint into the temple.

"According to the information obtained from the Impermanence of the Underworld, apart from the Divine Beginning Ghost King, there shouldn't be such a powerful being on the outskirts of the Underworld."

"The power of the underworld has been underestimated." From the sky came the aftershocks of a world-destroying battle; the sound of the air vibrations alone caused the eardrums of the semi-saints to rupture, and holy blood to flow out.

The cultivation levels of the Six Tribulations Ghost King and the Chen family patriarch who made the move were simply too high; even saints could only avoid them due to the aftershocks of their battle.

The onslaught of the undead army was too terrifying, and the dark barrier that Emperor Yi had erected could not hold for long before collapsing.

He and Di Yue joined forces to reach a hilltop, while the other Black Market Half-Saints were overwhelmed by the tide of undead souls and were devoured of their Saintly Souls before they could hold out for long.

The Emperor's face was somewhat pale. The saints were too busy to take care of themselves, and the cultivators below the saint level from various forces were in a miserable situation.

The underworld is indeed not that simple. Even though the Divine Beginning Ghost King was held back by the Old Ancestor of Death Zen, a Six Tribulation Ghost King comparable to the peak of the Saint King realm still appeared.

I only hope that the Heavenly King of the Eastern Region can hold on. If he is defeated, the saints of Kunlun Realm outside the Tomb of Fallen Gods today will likely suffer heavy casualties.

Emperor Yue had never seen such a terrifying scene before, and his cheeks trembled slightly.

"How could the underworld be so powerful? According to the intelligence we received before, it shouldn't be like this. With such a powerful figure guarding the underworld, how could those powerful figures who entered the underworld earlier have escaped unscathed?"

Emperor Yi's expression was solemn, his thoughts racing. Even though he had anticipated the power of the underworld, he was still caught off guard by the sudden change. He never expected that a sixth-level Ghost King at the peak of the Saint King realm would rush out of the Fallen God Tomb Forest.

Outside the underworld, the Divine Primordial Ghost King is the absolute overlord, and the Ghost King in the sky may not necessarily be weaker than the Divine Primordial Ghost King.

"Could it be the King of Ghosts from the depths of the underworld?"

The underworld is divided into an inner and outer perimeter. The ghost kings of the inner perimeter almost never come to the outer perimeter, and they have a strong sense of territory among themselves.

Di Yi was unsure whether there were any Ghost Emperors at the Great Sage level in the inner sanctum of the underworld. If there were, and they had left the underworld, then today would be a catastrophe, unless a Great Sage from the Kunlun Realm intervened.

The battle in the sky gradually intensified. Behind the layers of clouds, a blurry figure could be seen, towering majestically, reaching a height of a thousand feet.

An ancient and profound voice resounded between heaven and earth, shaking one's soul.

"Heaven and earth are formless, the universe is created..."

As the sound rang out, the rules of heaven and earth seemed to come alive, converging towards the figure in the sky.

"It is the 'Creation of Heaven and Earth Palm,' hailed as the strongest technique among the Four Nine Mysterious Arts. Only Chen Yuhua, the Heavenly King of the Eastern Region, mastered it back then," Emperor Yue exclaimed. It was only at this moment that the Sages confirmed that the figure in the sky was indeed Chen Yuhua, the Heavenly King of the Eastern Region.

"With the Creation Palm, even a Six Tribulation Ghost King will perish." Chen Yin stood with the saints of the Chen family, his expression very excited. Even he had never truly seen the strongest technique of the Chen family.

The Creation of Heaven and Earth Palm Print, spanning dozens of miles in size, resembled a divine mountain pressing down upon the Six Tribulation Ghost King. Tens of millions of sacred rules pierced through his ghostly body like angry dragons.

The ghost's body shattered, transforming into pitch-black ghost energy that obscured the sky. It wasn't a force of darkness, but it still turned the world into darkness.

"boom!"

In the pitch-black sky, a bright red spear pierced through the void.

The spear was three zhang long, and its spear light extended for hundreds of miles, like a blood-red crack across the sky.

Sensing the danger, Chen Yuhua mobilized the power of the distant Bixie warships and unleashed a backhand attack, the Cloud-Turning and Rain-Overturning Hand.

The clouds and rain overlapped, forming a thousand layers, yet they still could not withstand the power of this single shot.

The opponent had been preparing for this attack for a long time.

To the saints watching from the ground, all they could see was a line of blood streaking across the void, cutting through the darkness, and colliding with that majestic figure.

The crimson spear is an extraordinary sacred artifact, containing the power of gods. When activated by a top-tier Saint King, its power can even threaten a Great Saint.

If it were Chen Yuhua from eight hundred years ago, he might have been able to block this attack.

But eight hundred years have passed, and his cultivation level has not improved. Instead, his blood and energy have withered, his lifespan is insufficient, and his combat power has declined.

The spear's edge pierced through the Cloud-Turning and Rain-Overturning Hand technique and landed on him.

Darkness, blood, and holy light surged and churned in the sky, causing the rules of heaven and earth to become chaotic and disordered.

Rain began to fall from the sky. Di Yi reached out and caught a drop of rain, smelling a faint scent of human blood in it.

Chen Yuhua, the Heavenly King of the Eastern Region, is injured.

A sage from the Northern Region recognized the blood-red spear and cried out in despair and terror: "The God-Slaying Spear is the Blood Emperor of Heaven-Sealing!"

(End of this chapter)