Demigod Yao Qing
Red Dust Domain.
The cold wind with flying sand and gravel brushed past the empty village, whistling.
A teenager's figure draped in a Theatrical Robe walked slowly beneath the withered tree trunks. Every step he took stirred up ripples in the puddles on the bluestone road... In this village on the edge of the Red Dust Domain, only he was left walking alone.
His pace was very slow, like an Ordinary Person taking a leisurely stroll. Occasionally, he would stop to pick a withered blade of grass or leaf, stop to observe the flowing river water, and the clouds drifting past from time to time...
Dong——!!!
Along with a deafening roar coming from the azure Divine Path connecting to the firmament in the distance, a visible aftershock swept across the sky.
The teenager draped in the Theatrical Robe didn't even cast a second glance over there. He just twirled a section of withered yellow leaf and walked forward slowly...
His broad sleeves danced lightly in the wind.
An Opera Vocals that sounded like an emotional sigh, and also like pity, echoed in the sky above the uninhabited village:
"Awakening to find the Red Dust is all illusion, seeing through the floating life~~ just a dream~~~"
...
Dong——!!
"This... This is..."
By the walls of the Red Dust Main City, the Architect Mu Changdong's pupils slightly contracted, his face full of shock!
Since just now, he felt the Path of the Arts Path in his body trembling, as if resonating with something. And the moment the ninth loud noise appeared, the Path in his body seemed to break free from some kind of restraint, and his Spiritual Power abruptly rose by a chunk!
Not just him, the Spiritual Power of everyone in the human world who had stepped onto the Path of the Arts obtained an increase at this moment... Although the magnitude of the increase wasn't large, it truly existed, saving them several months of bitter cultivation.
All Divine Path Possessors of the Path of the Arts sensed the changes in the Divine Path...
Their Chief had completed certification.
The Pathway Chief completed Divine Path Certification and obtained the Demigod Position. The feedback from the Divine Path also nourished every Divine Path Possessor, as if notifying everyone that in this era, the Path of the Arts had taken a step further!
Mu Changdong stared blankly at that azure Divine Path towering into the clouds, his eyes brimming with tears for a moment...
Yes, the "Divine Being" legends of the Red Dust Domain were fake from the very beginning.
But from the moment Yao Qing stepped into Rank 9,
The Red Dust Domain truly had a god.
...
Demigod Yao Qing.
The moment Yao Qing stood on the ninth step, he obtained a brand-new identity besides "Azure Spirit Dao Chief" and "Floating Life Painting Chief".
He represented the pinnacle of the Path of the Arts in this era; he was the only Demigod of the Path of the Arts in this era.
Yao Qing's black clothing flapped fiercely in the violent wind. The Divine Path phantom behind him gradually dissipated. Those calm eyes looked down at the earth, locking gazes with the white-clothed Lord of Wuji in the ruins once again.
The Lord of Wuji's complexion was extremely solemn.
As Different as Clouds and Mud?
No,
He had also ascended to the clouds.
"Now... I should have the qualifications to fight you, right?"
In the sky above the Red Dust Domain, a shadow massive enough to blot out the sky and cover the sun gradually descended. Like the moon pressing down across the void, semi-hollowed relief domes gradually approached in everyone's eyes.
That was the Red Dust Base!
As Yao Qing raised both hands, the Red Dust Base actually transformed into countless fine Embroidery Threads, plunging towards the earth overwhelmingly, like a colorful rainstorm of Embroidery Threads... This rainstorm froze beside Yao Qing. Looking from afar, it was like a city hanging upside down in mid-air.
Villages, rivers, willow trees, peach blossoms... The hundreds of towns in the Red Dust Domain were replicated 1-to-1 in the clouds in the form of an Embroidery Diagram at this moment.
Like a mirrored Red Dust Domain.
Beneath this inverted Embroidery Diagram Realm, Yao Qing hung in mid-air, like a Divine Being.
"Welcome to... [Embroidery Kingdom of All Things]."
The sky full of Embroidery Diagrams was reflected in the Lord of Wuji's pupils. Feeling that aura which similarly belonged to a Rank 9 Demigod, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.
He was pondering.
Then, with a thought, a surge of power was separated from his body;
Sizzle——
Faint lightning arcs traveled along his figure, roaming the devastated wasteland, and eventually seeping into the soil, vanishing without a trace...
"Very well." The Lord of Wuji said indifferently.
"Then let me witness, both being Rank 9, between you Divine Path Demigods and the Nine Monarchs... exactly who is stronger."
He stomped one foot on the ground, and his figure transformed into a white afterimage, tearing through the void. The Nine Sovereign Tier Oppressive Aura and the Demigod's Aura tore at each other frantically as he sped towards Yao Qing in mid-air!
Yao Qing's callus-covered fingertips lifted slightly, and the Red Dust Embroidery Diagram behind him accompanied his figure, swarming to meet the Lord of Wuji's crash!
One white and one black figure collided with a boom in mid-air!!
Bang——!!!
The impact of the two Demigods was like World-Ending meteorites colliding in mid-air. Churning waves of fire swept across the sky above the domain. The energy contained was not in the slightest inferior to the nuclear explosion just now!
But immediately after, the inverted Red Dust Embroidery Diagram rolled down, absorbing all the shockwaves of their battle, and even swallowing Yao Qing and the Lord of Wuji's figures within it!
A battle of Demigods could destroy heaven and earth.
A casual strike from the Lord of Wuji could trigger nuclear explosion-level damage. If his battle with Yao Qing was conducted in the Red Dust Domain, I'm afraid the entire domain would be beaten to ashes... Of course, this was what the Lord of Wuji wanted to see.
If he could use this method to slaughter the Red Dust Domain in one fell swoop, Brand could refine all the Philosopher's Stones in one breath, and the Lord of Wuji could also restore his peak strength on the spot and become the immortal Nine Monarchs mastering the Philosopher's Stones. He might even have to thank Yao Qing well.
And Yao Qing naturally wouldn't let this kind of thing happen.
The Embroidery Diagram tumbled, and both the Lord of Wuji and Yao Qing's figures had disappeared, as if truly trapped in the world of the Embroidery Diagram. Only occasionally did scorching light transmit from the gaps of the Embroidery Diagram, but not a single trace of power escaped into the Red Dust Domain.
The Red Dust once again fell into silence.
However,
Barely a minute after the Lord of Wuji and Yao Qing entered the Embroidery Diagram,
Fine electric arcs seeped out from underground again, covering the entire ruins... Under the transformation of these electric arcs, the internal structure of the soil was forcibly altered. The surface actually took on a mercury-like luster, silently rippling...
Mercury palms reached out from within, followed by bald heads and slender torsos. Tall, entirely silver freaks slowly crawled out from underground, like an army of densely packed maggots climbing onto the surface, making one's scalp tingle!
These freaks were nearly three meters tall, but their builds were slender, like dry, thin chopsticks. Their faces had no facial features either. Their surfaces emitted a luster similar to the Lord of Wuji's skin, and their auras were cold and murderous.
This group of silver freaks numbered a full thousand. They stood in the ruins, like a strange army, deathly silent.
Suddenly, as if receiving some kind of guidance, they simultaneously turned towards the direction of the Red Dust Main City. Their slender legs rapidly stepped out, scattering like a swarm of bees, charging out from different directions!
A silver tide was slaughtering its way into the Red Dust!