This domain seemed to exist within an ethereal space-time.
Yet everything had already become so real.
Falling blossoms were everywhere, the fragrance of herbs like waterfalls, a massive Flame Divine Tree stretching into the Sky Domain, filling the vault of heaven with fierce flames.
This tree, with golden melt for a trunk, flames for leaves, appeared to never extinguish.
The girl wore a red dress, blazing like fire, as if she were a sprite of this world, seemingly the Supreme Fire deity.
With a waist that could be encircled by a hand, her slender figure, and a flame-hued dress trailing on the grassy ground like a waterfall, her features were exquisite to the extreme.
Her eyes were red, the red of flames, the true gold of blazing fire.
She raised her gaze and it fell upon Dugu Yuqing.
She looked towards what was in Dugu Yuqing’s hands.
In Dugu Yuqing’s hands, there was no Sword.“Where is your Sword?”
She suddenly murmured softly.
At that moment, it seemed as though tears were sliding down from her scorching eyes.
“You are without a Sword, with the Sword you exist, when the Sword shatters… you too have left…”
She floated down before Dugu Yuqing.
She reached out her delicate jade hand, appearing to want to caress Dugu Yuqing’s face.
Dugu Yuqing looked at the girl in the red dress before him, feeling a warmth in his eyes, but as he strained to think, his mind was only met with a blank.
“Who are you…”
“And who am I…”
He mumbled, then suddenly reached out, wanting to grasp the hand of the red-dressed girl.
But the moment he reached out, there was nothing.
His hand passed through the girl’s hand.
The other… was like air!
There was a hint of sadness in the kind and affectionate eyes of the girl in the red dress.
Straightaway, her figure began to fade.
“I wait for you…”
“I wait for you…”
“You…”
Her voice grew faint, and following that, this entire world suddenly vanished.
The figure of Dugu Yuqing re-emerged before the pale giant tree in Vermilion Bird Ruins.
He gazed at the pale giant tree, his eyes inexplicably lost and desolate.
“Did you see her?”
Big Black Dog suddenly spoke up.
“Who is she?”
Dugu Yuqing stared at Big Black Dog.
After a long silence, Big Black Dog said, “Your former Sword spirit.”
Dugu Yuqing also fell silent, “And who am I…”
Big Black Dog said:
“I do not know whether you are the person from the past, or you as you are now … The Master pulled you out from the karmic ties in the Yin Realm … All answers, you must find them yourself.”
Dugu Yuqing seemed to understand yet not comprehend.
He walked towards that solitary grave.
Once, the Unextinguishable Fire Tree illuminated the Sky Domain, and she was the sprite of a world.
Now, the giant tree is pale, the flames scattered, the solitary grave stands alone, and the fragrant grass no longer flourishes.
Is she… within that grave?
“Summon the Divine Spirits to descend!”
But, at that moment, Mu Jinglong next to him cried out loudly!
In his hands, there appeared a mud sculpture!
That was a Divine Spirit Statue.
At this moment, his hands were covered in fresh blood, which he poured over the statue.
——The Wood Spirit Dynasty dared to enter the Great Wilderness this time, primarily relying on this Divine Spirit Statue.
Within the Great Ruins Realm, almost all forces would worship Divine Spirits.
Divine Spirits represent the most transcendent existence, a synonym for invincibility, a Master of a world!
When devotion to a Divine Spirit is sufficiently devout or the offerings reach a certain number, one may receive the blessings of a Divine Spirit.
Certain Divine Spirit Statues that receive offerings of incense can even become an embodiment of the Divine Spirit, possessing a portion of the Divine Spirit’s power.
Although this is far from a true Divine Spirit, within the entire Great Ruins Realm, it is still a Supreme force!
With his blood sacrifice to the statue.
The Great Wilderness, below the Sky Vault, suddenly became shrouded in a green light.
The sunlight dimmed, and only this green light remained between heaven and earth.
At this moment, everyone felt an inexplicable and terrifying pressure!
This… came from the Divine Spirits!
“The Divine Spirit is approaching… The Divine Spirit is manifesting!”
“The Supreme Divine Spirit… has really come!”
“Welcome the Divine Spirit!”
The people of the Crow Food Tribe and the Wood Spirit Dynasty all knelt and cried out loudly.
Green clouds surged, opening and closing as one, and an existence shrouded in green light suddenly appeared in this Sky Domain.
Its presence overwhelmed everything around.
Within the green light was a man in green divine robes, otherworldly and Supreme.
This was a… Divine Spirit!
His gaze fell upon the giant tree in front as well as the lonely grave.
“This tree… could it be the rumored Undying Tree…”
This Divine Spirit mumbled, his eyes flashing with fiery passion, saying:
“The ancient legends, the Supreme opportunity… This belongs to me!”
He reached out his hand towards the pale giant tree!
At the same time, a strong Spiritual Power emitted from his hand, intending to split open the solitary grave, in search of treasures!
“How dare you!”
Dugu Yuqing, however, was filled with rage, his entire being transforming into a soaring Sword intent, confronting the Divine Spirit!
“Ants, daring to display your might!”
The green Divine Spirit snapped its fingers!
Like rolling thunder, this was a finger strike capable of annihilating everything!
In the face of this strike, Dugu Yuqing was like a withered leaf in the wind!
He was merely at the Saintly Path Completion stage of Peeking Path, while the one acting now was a divine body of a Divine Spirit.
Dugu Yuqing was immediately sent flying backward!
“Woof!”
Big Black Dog let out a loud roar, its paw blocking countless Divine Spirits’ Spiritual Power, catching Dugu Yuqing.
The Divine Spirit looked indifferently at Big Black Dog, a flash of surprise in its eyes.
“Once a god?”
But, it shook its head immediately after and said,
“Now you have fallen from your divine pedestal, your Dao Fruit has been wasted, like ants.”
Aloof and uncaring, it looked down upon Big Black Dog.
Big Black Dog’s eyes darkened as it said,
“A mere Wandering God dares to scorn this emperor… you must die!”
The green Divine Spirit, however, smiled and replied,
“Daring to call yourself emperor? How laughable… What if I scorn you?”
Upon hearing this, Wu Dade couldn’t hold back anymore, and said resentfully,
“Damn it, I can’t take it anymore, I’ve never seen such an arrogant bastard, dare to scorn my dog, come on, let me give you a grand salute!”
He immediately stepped forward, ready to bow.
However, Big Black Dog raised its paw and stopped him.
Big Black Dog looked at the green Divine Spirit and said,
“Do you want the things inside the tomb?”
The green Divine Spirit coldly replied,
“They are all mine!”
As its voice fell, it reached out its hand towards the tomb!
Yet, the moment its hand was about to touch the tomb,
A wisp of faint gray mist drifted out from the humble grave.
The mist, like a bone-eating maggot, instantly went through the Divine Spirit’s Spiritual Power and reached in front of it.
“Hm? What is this thing?”
The green Divine Spirit was shocked.
As it hesitated for a moment, the gray mist entered its body.
“Ah… No!”
The green Divine Spirit suddenly let out a terrible cry.
Its body, incredibly, split open in an instant.
Seeing this scene, everyone was shocked.
“What happened?”
“What is that… able to split a divine body?”
It is known that Divine Spirits look down on all living creatures, their divine bodies flawless, a single hair capable of annihilating a world of beings, a single drop of blood able to destroy the strongest of this world.
All eyes were on the scene as blood gushed from the Divine Spirit’s body, pouring down.
And from within the solitary grave, the strange gray mist kept coming out, one wisp after another, like a hidden ghost finally crawling out.
The mist seeped into the Divine Blood.
The Divine Spirit… had already perished!
In the face of this gray mist, the Divine Spirit didn’t even have the power to resist, as insignificant as an Earth Chicken!
“No!”
“What is this thing?!”
“So terrifying, this… can actually kill a Divine Spirit?”
At this moment, Old Crow, Mu Jinglong, and others were terrified to the extreme, their faces filled with horror.
That was a Divine Spirit.
And yet, it had just died like that!
The strange gray mist…
“Strange… Is this the strangeness mentioned in the ancestral teachings? It can easily slay gods… No!”
Mu Jinglong trembled all over, recalling the ancestral teachings at this moment.
Do not further explore the Great Wilderness, do not leave the Great Wilderness, and do not allow the things from here to appear outside the Great Wilderness…
Besides, there were only two words.
Strangeness.
Strangeness!
As the gray mist penetrated the Divine Blood, the blood seemed to gain another kind of life…
A creature that looked exactly like the green Divine Spirit appeared, except, there was no divine aura about it, only the smell of death, no vibrancy of life, only a stark, ice-cold numbness.
The moment this creature appeared, everyone at the site found themselves prostrating on the ground.
Panic, an immense panic.
Old Crow, Mu Jinglong, Mu Manqing, and the rest at this moment voided their bowels and bladders, like sheep before a tiger, completely losing their wits!
This terrifying aura even swept across the entire Great Wilderness!
Countless ferocious beasts now knelt and howled pitifully, birds in flight fell from the sky, their shrill cries echoing through the heavens…
All beings within the Ten Thousand Li of the Great Wilderness trembled!
This was a primeval fear!
Meanwhile, inside the Vermilion Bird Ruins.
Wu Dade was stunned and said, “This, what on earth is this ghostly thing?”
Big Black Dog’s eyes conveyed an unprecedented seriousness, saying,
“The Strange Spirit…”
That Strange Spirit was now slowly walking toward Dugu Yuqing.
It was no different in appearance from the green Divine Spirit before.
But its aura was so cold, decaying, its gray skin ghostlike.
It reached out its hand and grabbed Dugu Yuqing by the throat!
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