Chapter 423 - 306: Cyan Celestial Decree, Golden Life, Master Yan and Bai Xiao

[Bai Ze and Xiao Jiu held a skeptical view, deciding to go to Purple Sky Island with a "try anything once" mentality.]

[Deep down, they had already lost hope—the matter of the Demon Dragon was not something that could be solved by ordinary means.]

[Unless the sacred of this world cooperated...]

[Bai Ze was not worried for her own safety; besides her own strength, moreover... Profound Truth Demon Emperor Ling Xian had already informed the saints of Daluo Heaven of Xiao Jiu’s identity—the child of the Demon Dragon.]

[The Demon Dragon who once single-handedly suppressed the Three Saints of Divine Land, its power incomparable to Ancestral Dragon, perhaps even surpassing it.]

[Because of this, Bai Ze and Xiao Jiu could not leave this world.]

[They stood as the symbols of peace between the two realms, as well as... hostages.]

[Bai Ze was well aware of this situation.]

[The two reached Purple Sky Island, where the two children, Baiyun and Qingfeng, had long awaited them, leading Bai Ze and Xiao Jiu, the honored guests, into Cyan Mountain Heaven and Earth.]

[At the apex of Cyan Cloud Peak, clouds surged like the sea, a man in a cyan robe stood against the crowd at the cliff’s edge, the Ancient Bronze Sword at his waist resonating with a dragon-like tremor.]

[Upon hearing footsteps, the man slowly turned, holding a golden volume titled "The End of the Beginning: Dragon and Phoenix Celestial Tribulation", his gaze rested on Xiao Jiu, a gentle smile like jade appearing at the corners of his lips.]

["The End of the Beginning: Dragon and Phoenix Celestial Tribulation?" Bai Ze’s pupils contracted slightly, pondering inwardly, "Isn’t this the apocalypse power Xiao Ying last unleashed to reopen fire, water, earth, and wind?"]

[Bai Ze’s eyes focused, her sight scanned across the purple pattern akin to a sword scar between the man’s brows, suddenly realizing—this face... had a faint familiarity.]

["Greetings, a pleasure to meet you. I am Cyan Cloud Sword Leader, Ning Xunqiu." The man introduced himself.]

["Ning? Qiu? You are the World-Ending Great Demon: Qiu from the ancient ruins!" Bai Ze’s pupils constricted violently, the cyan-robed man’s face gradually overlapping with the memory of that grim statue.]

["Indeed." Ning Xunqiu nodded.]

["As expected! You know everything." Bai Ze hadn’t mentioned the ancient ruins matter to the sacred of this world, "The founder of the Transmigrator Alliance, Zero, is you?! All of this... orchestrated by you?!"]

["What?!" Xiao Jiu was shaken all over.]

[The Silver-White Divine Dragon erupted from her palm, transforming into a radiant stream wrapping her body. Dragon roars resounded through the sky, the girl’s eyes igniting with a blood-red hue: "Are you the one behind everything?!"]

["Impudence!" Baiyun Tongzi shouted sternly.]

["Roar—"]

[The Silver-White Divine Dragon let out a thunderous roar, its body swelling against the wind. Xiao Jiu’s eyes were crimson, the Qi around her surging like raging waves, crushing the rocks at the cliff edge to dust.]

[—Time Divine Dragon Palm!]

["Too impulsive." Ning Xunqiu sighed softly, his left hand’s two fingers extending as though picking a flower. That seemingly world-shattering dragon head was effortlessly captured by him, the ferocity in the dragon’s eyes instantly frozen.]

["!!!"]

[Xiao Jiu had nothing to say about the backstage manipulator who had caused her "home to be broken and people to perish."]

[Fueled by sheer anger, eighteen dragon palm forces exploded in succession, shaking the entire Cyan Mountain Heaven and Earth intensely, shredding the sea of clouds into fragments, each palm brimming with Xiao Jiu’s deep-seated hatred.]

[Ning Xunqiu’s cyan robe remained unmoved in the fierce wind; his right hand behind his back, his left hand raised as a sword, slowly pointing upward. A star-like brilliance flickered at his fingertip, the surrounding air warping into a transparent vortex.]

["—Startled Swan Sword Point!"]

[The first silver dragon lunged at his face, its fangs mere inches from his forehead. Ning Xunqiu’s sword finger trembled lightly, the starry brilliance burst into countless light points.]

[Time and space shattered like a broken mirror, eighteen dragon shadows simultaneously crashing into invisible spatial barriers. Silver scales disintegrated piece by piece, dragon bodies distorted in the ripples, finally scattering into a light rain across the sky.]

[A leaf gently drifted between the two, shredded into dust by the residual Qi force before reaching the ground.]

["How is this possible? This is... Startled Swan Sword Point?!!" Bai Ze was shocked to the core.]

[The ultimate intent of the Phoenix Three Techniques, "Startled Swan Sword Point", "Sky-Splitting Palm", and "Carefree Wanderings", came from the Martial Arts Grandmaster South Phoenix, and apart from Xuanming, Jiu Yue, and Xiao Jiu, no one had truly understood it.]

[How could an outsider know?]

["I don’t believe it!"]

["—Boundless! Hatred!" Xiao Jiu roared, scarlet blood seeping between her teeth. Her palms fluttered like butterflies, every strike encapsulating overwhelming hatred.]

[Silver-white dragon shadows erupted from her acupoints, dragon palm forces continuously surged towards Ning Xunqiu.]

["Enough."]

[Ning Xunqiu’s cyan robe remained spotless, his brow furrowed slightly.]

[His right sleeve lightly flicked, the time-space within ten zhang around froze like a lake surface. The incoming dragon palm forces collided with rippling spatial folds, vanishing without a trace.]

["Huff... Huff..."]

[Xiao Jiu gasped for breath; her "Time Divine Dragon Palm" forged through eternal hatred known as the "Eight Great Hatreds of Life", surpassed even Jiu Yue, yet now failed to touch the enemy’s attire.]

["It’s not enough! No matter what, it’s not enough to erase this eternal hatred!"]

[Xiao Jiu took a deep breath, slowly clenched her fist, scarlet demon flames erupted, using the "Extreme Path Demon Dragon" to unleash "eternal hatred" revealed her true strength. Only in dire circumstances would she resort to using her father’s power.]

["Oh, is that so." Ning Xunqiu said, "What if I say I can save your mother?"]

["...What?" Xiao Jiu was taken aback, the Primordial Gemstone had fully merged into the Demon Dragon Armor, the universe could no longer restart, yet she would never forget the moment her mother calmly died at the Demon Dragon’s hands.]

["Do you have a means...?" Bai Ze asked.]

["Do you know what this world is called?" Ning Xunqiu smiled, "This realm is called—Cyan Heaven Realm!"]