Chapter 567: Ultimate One’s Arrival

Baili Ruoxi hadn’t expected the Celestial Swan Clan’s secret technique to have such an effect.

If she had known earlier, she would have gathered the clan to join the battle back then. The outcome would certainly have been very different.

Alas, that was all in the past. There was no point dwelling on it now.

Remembering how the Heavenfall Immortal Sword had repeatedly struck the World Eaters’ vital points with every attack, Baili Ruoxi immediately nodded.

"All right. I’ll borrow that skill first."

Just as she finished speaking, a blood red waning moon swept across the sky, accompanied by a figure shrouded in crimson light.

The moment this figure appeared, the system, which normally carried out commands instantly, abruptly halted the skill exchange. It then did everything in its power to conceal its own presence.

Baili Ruoxi failed to notice the system’s unusual behavior. Instead, she stared at the crimson figure in disbelief.

Although the figure merely flew past them overhead, it instantly captured everyone’s attention. Their bodies suddenly froze, as though time continued to flow for their thoughts while stopping completely for their physical forms.

At the same time, the vast swarm of World Eaters vanished without warning. It looked as though some supreme being had casually erased their very existence.

The crimson figure seemed to have intended to fly straight past them. However, after casually eliminating the World Eaters, it suddenly stopped.

Without making any visible movement, it caused a ray of wood colored light to fly out of Baili Ruoxi’s body and directly into its own.

After that, the figure disappeared once again.

The blood red waning moon rapidly moved north before vanishing into the dark, greenish black ghost clouds. Only after the crimson figure had disappeared did everyone regain control of their bodies.

Whatever the others thought of this extraordinary encounter, Baili Ruoxi was utterly shocked. Completely unaware that something had been taken from her, she stared in disbelief and exclaimed, "The Ultimate One! Why is he here? Shouldn’t he be in the Divine Realm? Why would he suddenly descend to the lower realm?"

However, no one answered her question. After a while, the system’s weak, stuttering, and indistinct voice finally sounded.

[Static... System... damaged... Static... Weak... Mission... teleportation unavailable... Skills... unavailable... Collect... repair... Static...]

Its voice suddenly stopped before it could finish speaking.

"System! System, what’s wrong with you? Answer me! System!"

Baili Ruoxi called out to the system in a panic, but received no response.

This was the first time anything like this had happened since she obtained the system. It had actually been damaged!

It had to be him. It had to be him... The Ultimate One from the Divine Realm!

After calming down slightly, Baili Ruoxi immediately connected the incident to the Ultimate One.

That figure shrouded in a blood red glow, that cold and oppressive aura... How could she possibly mistake him for someone else?

In her previous life, the system had never malfunctioned before it was taken away by Yun Zixuan. Could the wood colored ray of light that had flown out of her body and entered his just now have been taken from the system? Was it a fragment of Yun Zixuan’s original body, something both Yun Zixuan and the Ultimate One wanted to obtain?

Countless questions tangled in Baili Ruoxi’s mind. She pressed her lips together and hesitated for a moment before realizing something.

Without the system, she would be nothing more than the unlucky, faceless woman of the Mystic Azure Realm. She might not even be able to return to her original body in the Mystic Azure Realm. The body she currently possessed had been suppressed by the system’s power. Without that suppression, its original consciousness could awaken at any moment and cast her out, leaving her as a wandering soul with nowhere to go.

Therefore, no matter what happened, she had to find a way to repair the system, even if the journey was full of danger and she had no power to fight back.

Without the system, her life would only become more miserable. She would also have no way to discover what Yun Zixuan truly felt.

With that thought, Baili Ruoxi gritted her teeth and firmly followed the trail of the blood red waning moon.

Meanwhile, the two people who were also pursuing the blood red waning moon soon reached the far northern region after performing several consecutive long distance spatial teleports.

The moment they stopped, they were hit by the intensely cold atmosphere surrounding them. Even with spiritual energy protecting his body, Xiao Shou couldn’t help shivering.

"Great Granduncle Shanhe, it’s freezing here!" he said, his voice trembling.

"Mm. Ah Shou, it seems we’ve arrived too early," Tushan Shanhe replied as he sensed their surroundings.

Xiao Shou froze for a moment. Shivering uncontrollably, he asked, "Why do you say that?"

"What has your spiritual consciousness detected?" Tushan Shanhe asked instead, guiding him to think through the situation himself.

Following Tushan Shanhe’s lead, Xiao Shou considered what he had sensed before answering.

"Within the range of my spiritual consciousness, there’s nothing except the extreme cold and countless World Eaters feeding on things. I can’t detect any lingering souls or fragments of souls at all. Ah! Do you mean that if the person possessing Young’er had already arrived, he wouldn’t have left these World Eaters here to feed?"

"That’s right! From what I can tell, that person’s movement speed is far greater than ours. He set out before us, yet arrived later. Something must have delayed him. The only possible cause I can think of is the World Eaters spreading throughout the area. He seems to despise them to the extreme and probably intends to wipe them all out. That means the World Eaters outside this area will also be his targets. Besides, the blood red waning moon that appeared alongside him is nowhere to be seen now!"

Tushan Shanhe said this while gazing up at the sky.

When Xiao Shou heard his explanation, his vague suspicions finally became clear.