Chapter 1704: War Within The Void (2)

Chapter 1704: War Within The Void (2)

"DIE!" A harsh, masculine voice laced with ruthlessness and seething killing intent exploded outwards. Hidden within the voice was exhaustion and urgency, fueled and upheld by desire and forged by fire determination.

Within an isolated realm, known as a Shell World, sonorous sounds of fighting and effort resounded continuously alongside the incessant fluctuation of Mystic Power, Heavenly Radiance, and the distinct aura of Law. Not a single aura of Law flowing about exceeded the Nurturing Phase of the Seed of Law.

Five distinct figures, three males and two females, all humans, were clashing in a chaotic battle of rapidly shifting alliances and spontaneous crisis. Each figure had the stellarly impressive cultivation of an Original Magistrate, a genuine Heavenly Saint, and their robust or pure auras alongside their young physical features and life auras indicated their outstanding talent among cultivators and young ages relative to the Heavenly Saint Phase of cultivation.

They wielded high-grade Mystic-World armaments, not a single Heavenly Treasure among them, but each armament was exceedingly precious, the type that one wouldn't easily see in the hands of Heavenly Saints.

Each figure wore easily discernible robes with different indications of their respective organizations, either as a large insignia on their backs, or small, glowing depictions on their upper torso, and shoulders, or littered across their outfits that were unmissable to the average observer. They were worn with immense pride.

However, these robes were either damaged or in tatters at the moment, with only a single figure's clothes remaining untouched, only stained by the blood leaking from their mouth, ears, and nose, dripping down their chin and neck like an overflowing river. The ashen pale shade of their countenance wasn't due to external injuries, but internal injuries and excessive blood loss. Despite their horrific state, the figure was relentless in their fight, wielding a long dark-red spear with decisive stabs that sought to reap lives.

The Shell World's boundaries were well-defined as resplendently glowing Mystic Runes shone beautifully at the edges of the Sky Layer, constantly pulsating with restrictive mystic power. A restriction was established that prevented cultivators at the Ascended Saint and True Sage Phases from entering, only allowing those at the Heavenly Saint Phase and below to enter.

A tall, sturdy figure with lime-green eyes wielding two metallic gauntlets with two-inch spiked knuckles fastened to their arms unleashed a punch, a punch, and another punch. He was handsome with an aura of imposing righteousness, with an anchor beard that accentuated his masculine jawline and a bald head. He was dressed in red and gold robes, sporting a large pointy mountain with a white halo hovering around its tip.

From his aura of vibrant life that was radiating intensely as he placed that very life on the line, relying on that to throw each punch followed by the next, it was clear he was roughly 8,000 to 9,000 years old. For Heavenly Saints whose lifespans averaged 55,000 years, especially considering how difficult cultivation was, this was remarkably young, the mortal equivalent of a late teen to early adult.

He represented and belonged to the Sincere Mountain Sect, a force that was led by three Mystic Overlords, and located in the Prosperous Ruin Galaxy! In the Prosperous Ruin Galaxy, Utmost Purity Galaxy, and Treasured Vale Galaxy, this was not an unknown human genius, and he was widely known as Cao Zhulian.

With a surge of Mystic Aura, he double-fisted out an attack to execute an Ascension Art that clashed with the torrential wave of sword light threatening to slice him into unrecognizable strips of flesh and bone. He blocked the attack.

The culprit of that lethal, life-claiming wave of sword light was a young maiden garbed in dark violet robes whose colors were intense and captivating, and her forceful, direct aura that unleashed waves of sword light with the grace of a true swordswoman accentuated those traits. She was a valiant beauty, with sharp eyes, short, shoulder-length hair with swaying bangs and tied into a ponytail.

She was slightly older, roughly by five hundred to a thousand years in comparison to the red and gold-robed Serene Mountain Sect, similarly of human lineage. Her aura was exceedingly pure and sharp. She belonged to a Void Hunter organization, those who existed by exploring the depths of the unknown, seeking treasures and fortunes in the Dark Void's Void-Blank Spaces, named Violet Breath, and was a subsidiary of an Utmost Purity Galaxy stationed force.

Not many were familiar with her given her occupation, but she was known by those of the Violet Breath as Sui You.

After unleashing that attack, she hurriedly positioned her sword to defend her flank, unfurling her Mystic Ward that was crashed into by a spinning tomahawk. She released an exclamation of pain as she was blown back as her ward was nearly sliced in half, causing her abdomen to bleed, threatening to spew her internal organs with any sudden movement.

The others all knew his name—Lu Xuanyu. The one and only youngest Alchemic Knight of Exalted World-Saint Azureriver, the most prominent Exalted Worldly Saint Alchemist of Utmost Purity Galaxy's Zenith Creation Tower!

His aura was by far the strongest out of the five, and his cultivated foundation was at least a league and a half beyond their own, the only equality was the Seed of Law's cultivation at the Nurturing Phase, one of them had anything beyond 18%! Unfortunately, it was clear they had, at some point, ganged up against him to weaken his momentum and strength.

Still, he remained utterly dominant. Not a single one of them could touch his clothes, only injure him through an overexertion of his cultivation base and sly, sinister spells that harmed his Sea of Consciousness and drove his cultivation base into chaos with foreign energies.

The vast majority of his spewed blood was expelled foreign energies that forcefully carried some blood with it.

While they fought, an extremely tiny planet hovered at the center of the Shell World encased in only dense earth. The Edict Seed was there! It was an Edict Seed of Earth!

Earlier, they were all alerted by their respective forces using various means to breach the Shell World that the situation beyond was changing as the Sincere Mountain Sect, the strongest in terms of numbers and Void Vessels, had launched their Great Ruination Cannon, a unique item exclusive to the Prosperous Ruin Galaxy's Forgers, without any warning.

Furthermore, the region where the attack had struck was undergoing unpredictable changes. They all urged them to obtain the Edict Seed at the fastest possible time, regardless of how!

Yet the situation in the Shell World was far too complex as feelings, emotions, and history were preventing a quick conclusion. For example, Sui You was saved a total of six times by Chen Minghui after the swordswoman was targeted by joint attacks multiple times, while Cao Zhulian refused to attack Chen Minghui due to their friendship during their younger years prior to the migration of Chen Minghui's organization to the Utmost Purity Galaxy.

This further complicated things as Cao Zhulian never capitalized on any of Chen Minghui's openings and the reverse was equally as true.

But the fighting kept intensifying as Sui You fought through her injuries with a sword in hand and a steady heart.

Just as it was reaching an inevitable climax, a new fluctuation startled the five immediately. They all guarded themselves before looking at the region of the disturbance.

Without warning, a large figure was tossed into the Shell World and was unable to obtain its footing, slamming against the ground with a crash that shook the entire Shell World. Clearly, they were thrown a little too hard into the isolated realm from the outside.

Slowly rising, the muscular male figure spat out the earthy dust that had accumulated due to the presence of the Edict Seed of Earth, coughing lightly as he scratched his bald head while patting his dirty pants.

Wei Si's beady eyes blinked as he sensed five terrifying auras focusing on him. With a shy smile, he waved toward the figures with his big hand.

"Hello there!"