World-Ending Demon Emperor

Chapter 2109 - 997: Zhi Yan, Do You Regret? Enter the Dragon Emperor’s Tomb!

Next, the expressions on the faces of Shi Tian and several other leaders turned solemn.

"In light of the leak of the fourth level of the ’Disaster of Nine Swords,’ to ensure everyone’s innocence, no one is allowed to leave during this period. Each person will undergo spirit testing and memory erasure without any mental defenses or resistance," said Shi Tian.

"Understood!" all present responded.

Next, four Tomb Priests specializing in spirit entered, and the conference room doors closed.

Under the supervision of Tian Daoqi and Shi Tian, each person underwent spirit testing to check for any unusual fluctuations. Then, each one’s recent memories were erased.

After a full four hours, the memory erasures were complete.

The conference room doors opened, and everyone left.

...

"Your Majesties, no abnormalities were found," reported the four Tomb Priests specializing in spirit. "No one was found hiding or replicating memories within their minds!"

Shi Tian nodded and said, "Understood, you may leave."

Tian Daoqi said, "When we invited the Dragon Emperor, we indeed provided information step by step, first asking him to come to the Western Territories, then to Danzhou, and finally to the entrance of Danzhou. Danzhou was a tomb we had prepared for the Dragon Emperor in advance, completed after over two hundred years of construction, even requiring assistance from the Lunar Holy Palace, making Danzhou the site of the Dragon Emperor’s demise."

Gu Ban said, "We just examined everyone present and found no anomalies. What does this prove? Can it rule out that old Hell Knight No. 4 isn’t in the Sky Holy Palace?"

Shi Tian and Tian Daoqi exchanged a glance but didn’t speak.

Ning Wuya said, "But at least, the fourth level of the ’Disaster of Nine Swords’ won’t be leaked."

Shi Tian said, "Monitor all Energy Arrays in the Sky Holy Palace. If anyone attempts to use them to transmit information, monitor them immediately, regardless of who it is."

"Yes!"

...

Lanling quietly waited, waiting for the new information from old Hell Knight No. 4.

Suddenly, one day, the Undying Ghost Supreme fell into a state of madness once again and started drawing.

Clearly, old Hell Knight No. 4 was transmitting intelligence again.

This time, however, it wasn’t just a few words, but a real painting.

The fourth level of ’Disaster of Nine Swords,’ among thousands of varied moves, the final sword tip pointed in the air, forming a painting.

The painting was extremely clear.

In the sky, a bright moon illuminated the vast ocean.

Surrounding the sea surface, the waves surged violently. Only the area where the moon was reflected remained as smooth as a mirror.

This mirror-like water surface seemed to reflect another world, looking like the entrance to a different realm.

Now everything was very clear!

This full-moon reflection on the mirror surface was the entrance to Danzhou.

And Danzhou was the place of the Dragon Emperor’s fall, the Dragon Emperor’s tomb.

On the night of the full moon, the entire Western Sea should be tumultuous except for the one place that remains mirror-smooth, which is the entrance to Danzhou.

...

Lanling once again communicated with Yao Xing.

"Now that I already have the Demonic Nihility Bloodline within me, what would happen if I also inherited the Divine Dragon Nihility Bloodline?" Lanling asked.

"I don’t know," Yao Xing replied. "It’s something that has never happened before, but I think the most likely outcome is that the two nirvana bloodlines will fiercely clash, cancel each other out, and perish together."

The possibility was quite high.

Because divine dragon and demon energies are naturally opposing forces, once the two nihility bloodlines encounter each other, they will instinctively repel and battle.

Lanling nodded.

Then he held the Crow Crying Sword in his left hand and the Crystal Stone Sword (Gods Slaughter Demon Extermination Sword) obtained from Emperor E Tian’s tomb in his right, and fell into a daze.

...

"Xue, how much longer until the completion of the Tower of Heavenly Fiends and Deities in the Northern Barbaric Lands?" Lanling asked.

Na Xue replied, "About three more months, and it will extend to the south of the Ten Thousand Mountains, completely opposing the Sky-Piercing Dragon Tower to the north."

Lanling said, "Does everyone think that once the Tower of Heavenly Fiends and Deities is completed, it will be the time for my northern expedition?"

"Yes!" Na Xue said. "Everyone thinks so; everyone believes the Demon Emperor is invincible and that victory in this battle is certain."

Lanling said, "What if, after the Tower of Heavenly Fiends and Deities is completed, there is still no battle?"

Na Xue replied, "Then countless people will have some doubts, and morale will slightly decline. However, the entire Demon Empire has immense trust and reverence for Your Majesty, so the morale loss shouldn’t be significant."

Lanling nodded.

Waiting is useless; without a complete change in this situation, the Ten Thousand Mountains can never be conquered.

The Dragon Temple has replaced the Dragon Emperor, wielding the power of the entire plane, and possesses a force dozens of times greater than the Flame Demon Empire.

Therefore, without finding a method, Lanling’s northern expedition is destined to fail.

And the only solution is the Divine Dragon Nihility Bloodline.

Either destroy it, or seize it!

In short, depriving the Dragon Temple of its authority over the plane of the Human Kingdom.

If victory is desired, this is the only path!

Lanling gently embraced Na Xue and softly said, "I need to leave for a while, leaving the Northern Barbaric Lands in your hands."

Na Xue nodded, then raised her head and asked, "It won’t be too dangerous, will it? You won’t return, will you?"

"Is your little mouth really that venomous?" Lanling pinched her lips.

...

Lanling left the Northern Barbaric Lands and headed towards the Western Sea of the Human Kingdom.

However, he didn’t go directly north but first traveled west, continuously west, reaching the Western Sea of the Northern Barbaric Lands.

The entire Western Sea doesn’t have many islands, so there’s no Sky-Piercing Dragon Tower, and the power of the Dragon Temple here is very weak. Of course, the power of Demon Emperor Lanling here is also very weak.

Next, Lanling floated above the sea, quietly waiting.

According to the information from the fourth Hell Knight, the entrance to Danzhou would only open during the full moon.

This is certainly not due to some legend, but definitely related to a certain energy field.

Three thousand years ago, it was not easy for the Dragon Temple to imprison the Dragon Emperor, and perhaps they also relied on the assistance of the Lunar Holy Palace.

Lanling awaited the arrival of the full moon night, with the Crow Crying Sword on his left and Emperor E Tian’s Gods Slaughter Demon Extermination Sword on his right.

Day by day passed.

The moon in the sky grew rounder.

...

Sky Holy Palace!

Ji Yingsha invited Zhi Yan as a guest.

It was really strange, these two had almost no interactions.

"You might be very curious why I invited you for tea," said Ji Yingsha. "You don’t have to be on guard, I definitely won’t be like others, urging you to marry someone."

Zhi Yan rarely smiled.

Ji Yingsha said, "I only invited you because we share the same plight. You killed your husband, and I killed mine. After returning to the Sky Holy Palace, although some say we’ve sacrificed so much, in their hearts they look at us with bias, as if we’re... some kind of venomous snake."

Ji Yingsha became excited and said, "But why don’t they think about why we killed our husbands? Wasn’t it for the Dragon Temple? We are the most loyal to the Dragon Temple. When we married our men, it was for the Dragon Temple, sacrificing ourselves to the tiger..."

Zhi Yan didn’t speak, quietly drinking water.

Ji Yingsha calmed down and asked, "Zhi Yan, did you ever love Suo Lun?"

Zhi Yan was silent for a moment, then said, "I don’t know."

Ji Yingsha said, "I loved Jiang Shang, even very, very much. You can’t imagine there being someone so righteous, so noble, to the point of being pedantically foolish. I really loved him, but it didn’t stop me from killing him. I wasn’t sad even when I did it, but felt a sense of relief. It was finally over, all the agony finally ended. What about you? How did you feel when you killed Suo Lun?"

Zhi Yan said, "It felt like nothing, yet it felt somewhat uncomfortable."

"Didn’t you feel any relief?" Ji Yingsha asked.

"No, I am different from you," Zhi Yan said. "I knew he was the master of Yao Xing for a shorter time."

Ji Yingsha asked, "Not even a little sense of relief?"

As she asked this question, Ji Yingsha’s beautiful eyes were tightly fixed on Zhi Yan’s eyes.

Zhi Yan was silent for a while, then nodded and said, "Perhaps a little, perhaps not."

Then, Zhi Yan looked up and saw a bright moon.

At the Sky Holy Palace, the moon appeared particularly large, particularly round, and particularly bright.

"To the full moon night, to our husbands whom we killed," Ji Yingsha said.

Then, the two raised their glasses, this time drinking not fragrant tea but blood-red wine.

"Zhi Yan, do you regret killing Suo Lun?" Ji Yingsha suddenly asked.

...

The full moon night arrived.

The entire Western Sea began to surge violently, the sea surface rolling, with waves rising across billions of square kilometers.

Everywhere were crashing waves, so the moon’s reflection shattered into pieces, no complete reflection of the moon remained.

The moon rose higher.

The waves on the sea grew more turbulent and chaotic.

By now, there was no reflection of the moon at all.

When the moon reached its peak, it was at its fullest.

Then...

Suddenly, in a certain part of the Western Sea, the waves calmed, and the sea surface was smooth as a mirror.

And this area of the sea was only about one square kilometer, over ten thousand miles away from Demon Emperor Lanling, in a corner of the Western Sea.

This smooth, mirror-like sea not only had the moon’s reflection, but also the reflection of another world, which should be Danzhou, the location of the Dragon Emperor’s tomb.

Instantly...

Demon Emperor Lanling’s figure shot like a shooting star, traveling towards this smooth, mirror-like sea at over a thousand meters per second.

The moon began to tilt west, the waves on the sea surface growing smaller.

The moon’s reflection magic mirror was about to disappear, and the entrance to Danzhou was about to vanish.

Even if Lanling flew as fast as he could, he wouldn’t make it in time.

So, Lanling used the Great Spatial Skill, frantically folding space, crazily traversing the dangerous Dark Rift.

"Swish, swish, swish, swish..."

In just a few minutes, Lanling reached this smooth, mirror-like sea.

Indeed, there was a complete reflection of the moon here, and also the reflection of another world.

Lanling charged in fiercely!

...

Note: Here’s the first update, thank you all.