Chapter 143: Mu Nanzhi Terrified Into Stupor

On the plain.

The firewood crackled and popped, sparks flying and illuminating the plain.

A man and a woman sat dazedly, simply staring at the firelight.

The little girl chased the sparks, sometimes giggling, sometimes rolling happily in the grass.

Long Kui’s gaze was complex as she stared at the little girl and murmured to herself, “If a person’s life could be like hers now—forever carefree—that would be wonderful.”

Her eyes were wistful. “My life has been spent in these battles. I’ve lived in the Dragon Palace since I was little. My sister said the Beixuan Continent is vast and the world outside is wonderful, but I have never been to see it.”

“If we win this battle and the Dragon Clan’s mission is fulfilled, I’ll go visit that world.”

Her expression moved as deep unease stirred in her eyes. “Father and the others must return victorious!”

Gu Changqing did not respond.

He merely watched the Dragon Clan princess.

Compared to that girl who held a lobster and laughed heartlessly and stupidly, her young maturity somehow pitiful in a way that tugged at hearts.

But it seemed the Princess Long Kui before him was the more pitiable of the two.

It was hard to imagine how this Great Emperor had endured a life of endless slaughter.

“We will win. You will also go and see that world.”

“Your sister is right—the world out there truly is wonderful.”

Gu Changqing spoke calmly.

Long Kui turned her head, her eyes fixed on Gu Changqing.

She seemed not to have expected that this somewhat cold, out-of-place man would offer consolation.

She smiled softly.

The smile was radiant.

Like an exotic flower just blooming, a gem with a halo—brilliant beyond compare.

Buzz…

A hum broke the seemingly harmonious atmosphere.

Gu Changqing took out the source of the hum from his own clothes: a jade piece, the one the Heavenly Emperor had given him before departing.

Gu Changqing’s expression changed.

“What’s wrong?” Long Kui seemed to notice Gu Changqing’s change in aura.

Gu Changqing said nothing more. He tore open the void and plunged into a rift in space-time.

…

Gu Changqing stepped out into the extraterrestrial space-time.

Then he saw a horrifying scene.

Before him, the heavens burned, fractured paths ran with divine blood, and boundless killing intent stretched endlessly.

In the void’s starfield, countless great stars were shattered. Ancient star fragments were swept into chaotic, dark winds and battered this space-time.

Countless bones and legions of heavenly soldiers floated here, ground to dust by that terrifying hurricane.

The void was stained red with blood. In the endless sea of blood, vast and shattered Dragon corpses bobbed and sank.

It was an apocalyptic scene.

A sight that made the soul shudder.

Gu Changqing’s face grew cold.

The reality was just as Long Kui had suspected before.

The Dragon Clan and Heavenly Palace cultivators had ventured into this ancient ground and encountered an even more terrifying counterattack from the Youming clan.

They didn’t just lose—they were utterly annihilated!

Dozens of Great Emperors and two Immortals—such formidable backing—yet the victor was decided so quickly.

Gu Changqing did not linger long in this space-time.

Because he saw Qin Yuan and the Old Dragon King and others fleeing back, but he did not see Mu Nanzhi.

Swoosh!

The void was torn again, and Gu Changqing arrived at the Youming clan’s territory.

Here the fighting was even more brutal—these were Dragon Clan and Heavenly Palace cultivators who hadn’t managed to withdraw in time.

The Youming clan appeared as ghostly black skeletons. Around each skull swirled boundless murderous qi.

They emitted ear-piercing screams that chilled the soul, like falling into an icy pit, instilling dread.

The terrifying Youming horde seemed endless, surging out of that dark space-time like a flood, inundating countless Heavenly Palace and Dragon Clan cultivators.

In such combat.

Even Saint King and Supreme-level powerhouses could only fight like trapped beasts.

They could not tear through the net-like formation of the Youming horde.

One Saint King after another, one Supreme after another, bled out in the void and were devoured and assimilated into the Youming ranks.

Gu Changqing stood proudly in the depths of that space-time.

He saw the radiant woman enveloped by the Youming horde.

She no longer had her former pride and nobility…

At this moment she was pale and bloodless. A dignified Quasi-Emperor, yet frightened by the deafening roar of the Youming tide and covering her ears.

She looked terrified, her gaze fearful.

Companions dying beside her, surrounded by countless foes… This delicate canary sheltered all her life had never experienced anything like it.

If not for the Heavenly Palace generals and Quasi-Emperors fighting desperately to protect her, she would already have been swallowed by the Youming horde.

“Bell, come!”

Amid the endless shouts and screams on that ancient ground, a thunderous roar shattered the void and quieted all the noise.

“Block!”

From the nine heavens above, a vast golden ancient bell descended.

It enveloped Mu Nanzhi and the others.

As it fell, it unleashed an extremely terrifying sound wave. The ripples it splashed out instantly calmed everything.

Countless Youming troops were blasted apart by the sound wave. Whether Supreme or quasi-Emperor, they were instantly pulverized by the bell’s roar!

When the dust settled, the realm had become clear.

Above the nine heavens, a one-armed man with tattered clothes and a bearded face leapt down and stood atop the ancient bell.

An abyssal pressure, terrifying as an ocean trench, surged from the man’s body and drowned countless miles.

Within ten thousand miles, no one could approach an inch!

Mu Nanzhi watched, stunned and terrified!

She had never imagined that a man of the same realm as herself could be so terrifyingly powerful.

“Gu Changqing…”

Mu Nanzhi seemed to see a ray of dawn in the darkness.

The man standing proudly on the bell, slaying all great foes, gave her an endless sense of safety in this peril-filled space-time.

Ssssh!

Ssssh!

At the same time.

Rifts in the firmament were continuously torn open.

Terrifying figures, extreme in horror, rapidly emerged from the voids surrounding Gu Changqing.

This ancient ground, which had been swept clean.

The clarity lasted only an instant before countless Supremes and countless Quasi-Emperors arrived, as well as three terrifying existences at the Great Emperor level.