A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 623 Devouring Heavenly One, Changing the Timing

In the void, the emperors who had decided to submit to the underworld sat cross-legged, their cosmic remains slowly rotating behind them, each expounding their own doctrines.

Since they are determined to join forces, they will inevitably be outnumbered and outgunned, so they need to understand each other well in order to cooperate effectively.

Emperor Huangyun suddenly had a thought and secretly transmitted his voice to his brothers, asking, "Have you seen Ancestor Ande?"

"Isn't it supposed to be that every time there's a gathering at the Purple Bamboo Grove, a few people should make a brief appearance to find out what those people are up to?"

Emperor Lu Wu didn't take it seriously, "It's probably Ancestor Ande's turn to observe the situation this time. He hasn't returned yet, has he?"

Emperor Huangyun's expression turned solemn: "My Six Palaces Secret Technique is quite profound. After repeatedly using the Xuan Bird's foot to forge the aura of a Heavenly Venerable, I also retained some feeling for that Xuan Bird's foot. However, just now, that feeling faded rapidly and disappeared completely."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Moqian's expression changed drastically: "That's not right."

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"You should have heard your instructions, senior."

Guan Luoyang flicked his whisk and said to the Lord of Jiufang Mountain, "We only have three days left. We cannot delay. You should contact Ancestor Ande and ask him to cooperate with us to lure those stubborn fools who do not understand the will of Heaven into our ambush."

The Lord of Jiufang Mountain nodded slightly, took out a peculiar green fruit with tortoise shell patterns, and used his supernatural powers to contact Ancestor Ande.

The fact that there was a "one-legged black bird" among the remains of Ancestor Ande was considered a top secret, but there was another person in the entire underworld who knew about it, and that was the Lord of Jiufang Mountain.

When these ancient emperors fell into the underworld, they were still very wary of each other and did not get along well. After hundreds of millions of years, they could no longer endure the eighteenth level of the underworld and gradually put aside their hostility and had the idea of ​​uniting.

Ancestor Ander was the first person at that time to put the idea of ​​making peace into practice.

He voluntarily took out his inventory, revealing his secret of possessing one leg of the Xuan Bird, hoping that everyone could unite to cultivate a spiritual fruit that could bring their own cosmic remains back to life in this underworld environment.

Unfortunately, the process of cultivating the spiritual fruit did not go smoothly, and as everyone's condition deteriorated, the chances of successful cultivation became smaller and smaller.

In the end, only the Nine Directions Mountain Lord, who had the highest attainments in spiritual fruits, benefited the most. The others could not endure it any longer, split apart, and were reincarnated.

Although Ancestor Ande often got to taste some spiritual fruits, he mainly relied on the black bird's leg to sustain him.

After the Lord of Jiufang Mountain joined the group of the fake Ksitigarbha, he had already revealed everything he knew about the Underworld Emperor.

Ancestor Ander, with whom he had a friendship spanning billions of years, had long been betrayed by him.

Fortunately, the black bird's leg was not of much value, and the fake Ksitigarbha King was not in a position to openly attack the eighteenth level of the underworld. Otherwise, Ancestor Ande probably wouldn't have made it this far.

Guan Luoyang also gleaned these insights from the Muni Pearl, which led to his plan to have An De Lao Zu contact Huang Yun Di Jun and others to lure out more "fish".

The tortoise-shell spirit fruit flickered incessantly, but there was no response.

After a long silence, the Lord of Jiufang Mountain's expression changed slightly: "I can't contact Ander anymore."

"Oh? Has it been exposed?"

Guan Luoyang asked, "You guys contacted each other yesterday, right? Did you notice anything unusual at the time?"

"No, he said everything was going well."

The Lord of Jiufang Mountain frowned and said, "Moreover, the spiritual fruit divine power we secretly communicate with directly resonates with his origin. If he were suddenly exposed and suppressed, he should have had time to call for help from us, or at least cause the spiritual fruit to react. The current situation feels more like..."

The Lord of Jiufang Mountain hesitated for a moment.

"It's more like he cut off the connection between us himself."

Guan Luoyang silently gazed at the Lord of Jiufang Mountain.

The Lord of Jiufang Mountain immediately became somewhat nervous: "He...he...he wouldn't betray us, would he?"

Guan Luoyang smiled and said, "You two have been friends for billions of years, and you're asking me?"

"Well, he and I are just ordinary friends. As the saying goes, you can know a person's face but not their heart. We are both emperors, so who dares to say that they can accurately see through the other's mindset?"

The master of Jiufang Mountain quickly distanced himself from the matter, but still felt puzzled after thinking about it.

"Ander would never care about the lives of sentient beings or morality. Back when he was a general in the Immortal Spirit Clan, he never took the initiative to fight. Even when his allies were wiped out, he would hide and watch coldly. However, he was quicker than anyone else to accept the order to retreat, and he almost got taken to the execution platform for it."

"Later, the Black Bird was slain, the Immortal Spirits were defeated, and the Great Wilderness was defeated by the human race. In the midst of the chaos, he didn't even care about his own subordinates and was the first to flee to the Underworld. With such a character, there was no reason for him to betray us."

Guan Luoyang raised an eyebrow: "Is that so?"

He reached out and the tortoise shell spirit fruit flew into his palm, floating and spinning in the air, its spiritual light shining brightly and flowing endlessly.

The Lord of Jiufang Mountain realized that he was using an extremely profound method of calculation, and he waited anxiously for the result.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Guan Luoyang suddenly burst into laughter, "So that's how it is! You old thief!"

The Lord of Jiufang Mountain was also quite skilled in divination. Although it was impossible to discern what he had specifically divined, it was clear that he had not found the whereabouts of Ancestor Ande, which secretly alarmed him.

"This Master Qingdeng is truly capricious. Ander ruined his plans, and he can still laugh out loud..."

The more the Lord of Jiufang Mountain listened, the more he felt that the laughter was full of chilling intent. He secretly pinched the Muni Bead, still feeling uneasy.

This Master Qingdeng is highly regarded, and now that there is a reason for Ande's betrayal, if he were to take drastic measures and kill the Lord of Jiufang Mountain, he might be able to get away with it.

So, in addition to the Muni Pearl, the Lord of Jiufang Mountain also used all his supernatural powers, ready to flee far away at all costs should anything happen.

Little did he know that Guan Luoyang was genuinely laughing.

Because Ancestor Ande did not betray them, nor did he betray Emperor Huangyun and the others.

This old fellow, having received the favors of the Sands of Dharma and the Displacement of the Void, accepted their orders to carry out the first half of their plan, thus repaying the karmic debt.

Given the vastness of the underworld, once the karma on his body fades and he goes far away to hide, it becomes impossible for others to calculate his exact location.

Whether it was attacking the underworld or betraying the enemy at the last minute, he wasn't prepared to truly participate in either plan.

"What a pity."

Unfortunately, among the emperors of the underworld, there are very few with such light karma as that of Ancestor Ander.

Guan Luoyang looked down and saw that even excluding him and the Lord of Jiufang Mountain, there were still forty Emperors in the Purple Bamboo Forest.

These people are all karmic entanglements with the twenty emperors of the Six Hermits of Shangshan.

Even if Ancestor Ande has already escaped and cannot lure Emperor Huangyun and the others directly into the ambush, the forces on the side of the fake Ksitigarbha King can still completely deduce the whereabouts of those twenty emperors.

Since that's the case, let Guan Luoyang personally lead everyone to attack and turn those twenty emperors into "dead men".

"Fellow Daoists, the counterattack against the Underworld and the invasion of the mortal realm is a matter of life and death for all of us. However, not everyone in our Underworld ranks is as wise as we are. You should all be well aware of this."

Guan Luoyang's voice slowly spread, and many emperors in the Purple Bamboo Forest echoed in response.

"Instead of having to live in fear and constantly guard against the misdeeds of certain people during a major war, it would be better to eliminate them as soon as possible."

"I have already laid out the plan and obtained the list of those people, but I still need to rely on causal relationships to deduce their exact locations."

"Fellow Daoists, please temporarily unleash your supernatural powers that conceal cause and effect, and join me in making calculations."

These emperors in the Purple Bamboo Grove had already chosen their routes, and were even more impatient than the fake Ksitigarbha.

What they need to do now is to make the process of attacking the underworld smoother and without any worries. Naturally, they have no reason to refuse and have all released their means of concealing cause and effect.

Qing Shenjun smiled sinisterly and said, "So Master Qingdeng had planned this all along. Good! Those six hermits of Shangshan entered the Underworld and even helped the Heavenly Emperor, ruining our plans several times. I bet they're on the list of traitors too. This is perfect..."

boom!!!!!

Above the Purple Qi Continent, the void of the Netherworld suddenly trembled.

In an instant, the boundless void was stretched out and expanded wildly.

The silent stars, the rigid divine tree, the shattered glass of the River of Time, the collapsed and condensed deformed singularity, the brittle and overlapping multiple dimensions, the rotting and bleeding space...

The scenes of different Great Dao Realms after they fell into a period of decay were fully displayed above the Purple Bamboo Forest.

In the next instant, the immeasurable power flowing through the void condensed into twenty nodes and crashed down.

There are three nodes in the inner circle, four nodes in the outer circle, five nodes in the outermost circle, and eight nodes in the outermost layer.

Qing Shenjun is right in the middle of the three nodes. His "Wood Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations" is originally quite effective against emperors with the Five Turbidities Body, and can be said to be a power that many emperors in the underworld avoid.

However, today he couldn't even unleash this set of techniques and supernatural powers that were condensed from the source, before he was directly shattered by the unparalleled divine power formed by the combined operation of twenty nodes!

His cosmic remains, including his primordial imprint, were instantly blasted into dust and completely obliterated.

Not far from him, the remains of Xia Shenjun and Mo Shenjun were also directly shattered. Their original marks were covered with cracks, spewing out thick five turbid qi to reconstruct their bodies, but their forms were no longer human.

Emperors who are in their declining years mostly want to get rid of their physical remains, because their lifespan is longer than that of their physical world. As long as they can get rid of the burden of their remains, they can more easily expel the five turbid energies that have tainted them and return to their normal state.

However, if one's own universe is directly destroyed by external forces, the source of the five turbidities of the universe's remains will be transferred to the Emperor's original mark, causing this unfortunate Emperor to instantly transform into a celestial ghost.

Furthermore, because the remains of the universe were destroyed, this type of celestial demon is weaker than the most common type.

The three divine lords, Mo, Xia, and Qing, have all been killed by this attack.

Although the others were not in the area where the power of these twenty nodes was most concentrated, they were still affected. More than a dozen emperors who were sitting peacefully in the Purple Bamboo Forest were severely injured.

No, there is no such thing as a purple bamboo forest anymore.

After these twenty nodes fell, the entire Purple Qi Continent expanded outward like an inflating balloon, shattered, and exploded, leaving not a trace of matter behind, completely turning into nothingness.

The other emperors in the Purple Bamboo Forest scattered and moved aside, like water splashing up after a boulder is thrown into the water.

Even Guan Luoyang temporarily avoided the limelight, drifting away in the void of the underworld.

If it were twenty Heavenly Ghosts, Guan Luoyang's clone could easily fight against them, or even suppress them, all on his own.

However, an emperor who possesses the Great Dao Realm is not comparable to the Destroyer of Ruins.

Even if their own Great Dao Realm has become the remains of the Five Turbidities, as long as they have not been completely annihilated or separated from each other, their combat power is far beyond what the Annihilation Heavenly Ghost can compare to.

Moreover, these twenty emperors also used an array.

The array formations of Taiqing Chiming have created countless glorious and brilliant achievements.

Whether it's the Heavenly Court or the Underworld, the Xuanmen and Buddhist sects, or the demon race and the demonic path, all of them have had a period in their long development where formations were the mainstream.

Personal cultivation involves arrays placed within the body; arrays inspired by heaven and earth are placed in the external world; and array patterns are inscribed on different magical treasures, matched and inlaid to form entirely new effects.

And, a coordinated attack from multiple parties, a cross-border strike, a combined offensive formation that turns the impossible into the possible.

"What's going on? What's going on?!"

Although the Lord of Jiufang Mountain was relatively lucky and was not injured in the attack, he was still shaken by its power.

So many years...

Since the great calamity of antiquity and his entry into the Netherworld, how many years has it been since he last witnessed more than ten Emperors unleashing a combined attack technique?

Although the Lord of Jiufang Mountain had heard from Ancestor Ande that the number of traitors was basically a quarter of the total number of the Underworld Emperors.

However, he never expected that these traitors would actually dare to attack the Purple Bamboo Forest.

He never imagined that the people they had gathered, after numerous discussions and exchanges of wisdom, were not yet ready to open their hearts and practice a combined attack formation.

Those traitors over there, in such a short time, actually dared to place such great trust in each other, exchange Taoist techniques, and join forces to set up formations.

"When disaster strikes, being the weaker party actually presents a good opportunity to increase purity..."

Guan Luoyang was delighted and greatly appreciated the actions of Emperor Huangyun and the others.

Unfortunately, the traitors within the underworld other than the fake Ksitigarbha have not yet been exposed.

These twenty emperors have not yet reached the perfect time to shine.

"Fellow Daoists, do not panic! Let's work together to suppress their formation!"

Guan Luoyang flicked his whisk, and purple energy filled the sky. The many emperors around him, all skilled in battle, also made their moves.

The Taiqing Chiming cultivation system mostly advocates the charm of returning to simplicity and the great way is simple.

After these emperors unleashed their magic, one after another, great divine powers that disrupted the multiverse flew out into the air, but from their appearance alone, they were all very simple in form.

It could be a fist imprint, a precious mirror, a nine-story building collide with something in mid-air, or a five-colored altar emitting incantations.

The purple aura emitted by Guan Luoyang swept through the air, actually absorbing all the supernatural powers and transforming into a pure purple aura.

Within the mass of energy, the origin of the universe was faintly born. Then, countless streams of time flowed, trillions of Dao techniques evolved, and the innate and acquired migrated and rotated. The complexity of the changes in the primordial energy and physical matter was numbered in the hundreds of billions.

If these underworld emperors who have pledged allegiance to the fake Ksitigarbha could communicate effectively and work together to operate the formation, its power would certainly be greater than this purple aura.

However, now, Guan Luoyang, relying solely on a wisp of purple energy, connected the divine powers unleashed by the numerous emperors around him, and was able to present an aura of power as if the Great Dao Realm were at its peak.

It was enough to make the surrounding emperors tremble with fear and be mesmerized.

Although Emperor Huangyun and his group killed three Divine Lords and severely injured more than ten others in one fell swoop, they were still outnumbered.

Moreover, as beings of the Five Turbidities, their recovery is far more difficult than that of a normal emperor. After their all-out attack, they had no choice but to immediately switch the formation to a defensive stance to buy themselves some time to recover.

At this moment, seeing this ball of purple energy crushing towards them and colliding with the outer layer of the formation, the entire formation actually began to tremble.

Only the Three Powers and Four Symbols remain unchanged, while the surrounding Five Elements and Eight Trigrams nodes show slight deviations.

The purple aura exploded after striking.

Guan Luoyang's figure seized the flaw in the formation, traversed the void, cut into the formation, and in an instant crossed the nodes of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, pointing directly to one of the Four Symbols.

The surrounding emperors also surrounded the formation almost simultaneously, attacking the nodes on the outer layer, causing the deviation of the formation to accumulate more and more.

Guarding the four cardinal directions were the four brothers, Emperor Huangyun and his brother. Seeing Guan Luoyang's attack, Emperor Moqian was the most courageous and took the lead in resisting.

He took the water ladle from his waist, which contained seven kinds of true water. In an instant, the ladle overflowed, and the entire ladle seemed to be driven by the pressure of the true water, naturally crashing into Guan Luoyang's chest.

The multiverse that Emperor Moqian created back then used the method of creating a water-based universe.

Heaven gives birth to water, and water nurtures all things.

The seven kinds of true water in his ladle were accumulated before he fell into the underworld, and he had never been willing to use them. Now that he was using them, they had a faint 30% of the power they had at their peak.

But Guan Luoyang flicked his finger, and the seven kinds of true water nourished each other, rising and falling, enough to give rise to the mysteries of the multiverse. After being hit by his finger, they all froze for a moment.

A ripple spreads out in the water ladle, then contracts again.

Emperor Moqian was depressed and frustrated. He desperately used his supernatural powers again, and suddenly he saw Guan Luoyang open his mouth.

All things were in chaos, time was reversed, and Emperor Moqian lost his balance. His vision turned purple, the world spun, and he fell into a bottomless abyss. Then he heard the grief-stricken voices of his brothers behind him.

"Fourth Brother!"

Lu Wu's voice, in particular, was the loudest.

"I'll fight you... Ah!!!"

Lu Wu's roar grew closer and clearer.

Mo Qian felt a little puzzled. He turned around and saw that Lu Wu had also fallen into this abyss.

This happened far too fast; the two stared at each other, speechless for a moment.

(End of this chapter)