Realm of the Fallen Phoenix

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**Contains Spoiler**

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Realm of the Fallen Phoenix in the Purple Star State.

An area of over a thousand kilometers in radius had previously been engulfed by boundless scorching flames, reducing this place to a vast no man’s land.

Apparently, in ancient times, a divine phoenix had fallen here, and its dao of fire had wounded heaven and earth, thereby transforming this area into a realm of eternal flames.

However, half a year ago, the flames at the Realm of the Fallen Phoenix began to diminish.

This event had shocked the entire Purple Star State as various powers arrived on the scene to see if there was something special happening there.

The flames diminished day by day, and just a few days ago, the flames had completely disappeared.

Countless cultivators converged on this previously lethal landscape in search of potential opportunities.

This was a common way of thinking in the cultivating world; any place with abnormalities might present opportunities.

It had to be said, this was quite an applicable rule to this world. However, abnormalities also led to destruction sometimes.

In any case, it was just a matter of life and death. Risk and reward came hand in hand, and there was certainly no lack of cultivators who weren’t afraid of dying.

## Golden Egg

In the central region of the Realm of the Fallen Phoenix,  the golden light permeated through the air and scorching vital energy transformed into formidable flaming dragons that swept through the air.

There were five cultivators representing five different powers standing in the air above, and they were all staring down at something within the flames below with intense focus.

All five of them were also Return to Void Stage mighty figures.

These sects were, the Heavenly Demon Sect, the Flying Divine Sect, the Red Building Sect, the Life Harvesting Sect, and the Frosty Sun Immortal Sect… All of them top-rated sects within the Purple Star State.

Not only were the five top sects here, but even the several dozen powers littered throughout the region had gathered here in the hopes of picking up the scraps after the Return to Void Stage mighty figures were done.

Seeing so many forces gathered in one place, did everyone wonder what was in the central region? What made these cultivators with such low cultivation, from Dao Body Stage to Soul Formation Stage, face the aura pressure of the powerful beings of Return to Void Stage, risking their lives to be here?

The answer is, an egg.

This was a golden egg that was imbued with an extremely powerful life-force energy!

Everyone was well aware of what it meant for a flaming egg like this to appear in the central region of the Realm of the Fallen Phoenix.

A phoenix had fallen here?

But what about rebirth from the ashes?

This was a massive opportunity, if there was someone who could take the egg for themselves and make the phoenix refer to them as father, he would be the father of everyone else here.

But why was everyone waiting, why was no one trying to get the egg?

This was because the flames around the egg burned at extremely formidable temperatures, and the flames were also imbued with the power of the deceased phoenix’s divine dao. This power was not something that Return to Void Stage mighty figures dared to approach lightly as they feared that they would be burned to a crisp.

The golden egg was enveloped in layers of scorching flames, from which all the onlookers detected a sense of danger.

At that moment, something unexpected happened. The sky and the earth suddenly shook violently, soon after, the whole sky above was transformed into an expanding sea of flames.

The expression of everyone present faltered when they realized that the divine fire around the golden egg had been transformed into flaming dragons and flaming phoenixes, that soon afterwards began to attack everyone and absorb the energy of the life essence of their victims to nourish the golden egg.

After absorbing the life essence of hundreds of cultivators, these flaming dragons and phoenixes changed their target to Su Qianyun, who because of his True Yin Physique was an excellent nutrient for the golden egg.

However, when she was about to be devoured An Lin and Tina saved her from danger and managed to evade the chase of the flaming dragons and phoenixes.

After chasing Su Qianyun around for a long time to no avail, a flaming dragon suddenly let loose a frustrated roar and looked at Su Qianyun one last time before flying back toward the egg. All the other flaming dragons and phoenixes also retreated back to the egg.

Following that disastrous epidemic, the Realm of the Fallen Phoenix had been reduced to ruins. Not only were there countless massive holes in the ground, but there were also a series of inky-black spatial rifts torn open in the air, from which chaotic destructive power emanated, plunging the entire area into destruction and disarray.

More than half of the cultivators who had originally gathered here had been killed, and before they even had a chance to catch their breath, something suddenly happened.

All the divine dao flames converged toward the egg in a surging vortex before fusing with the egg itself.

Before long, all the flames had completely disappeared!

At that moment the battle for the golden egg began.

## Battle for the Golden Egg

All cultivators present feared the divine flames around the golden egg and as this obstacle has now been removed, this was the perfect time to fight for the golden egg.

Every single cultivator present charged toward the egg with all their might.

The Return to Void Stage cultivators fought each other, as they knew that the biggest obstacle for them to get the golden egg was their peers.

However, the battle was not restricted to them, Soul Formation Stage cultivators fought each other, as well as Spirit Nurturing Stage and Dao Body Stage cultivators, forming waves that killed each other and were soon replaced by another wave of cultivators.

However, when a Soul Formation Stage cultivator managed to approach the golden egg and was about to get it, the world came to know a new force unknown to everyone and yet extremely powerful, the Four Nine Immortal Sect.

Liu Qianhuan managed to injure and almost kill the Diamond King, a renowned cultivator of the Purple Star State, on account of his Diamond Body which allowed him to ignore almost all attacks and was considered invincible among his peers

Already Xiao Ze managed to wound Bai Pengzi, the Sect Leader of the Flying Divine Sect, a Return to Void Intermediate Stage mighty figure, with one strike.

Liu Qianhuan’s emergence had alerted everyone to the existence of such a sect, but Xiao Ze’s emergence had truly engraved the name of this sect deeply into everyone’s mind.

One had to realize that any sect with a Return to Void Stage mighty figure within their ranks could be considered as a top-rated sect in the Purple Star State. The Heavenly Demon Sect, the Flying Divine Sect, the Red Building Sect, the Life Harvesting Sect, the Frosty Sun Immortal Sect… All of these sects were examples of this, and all of them were relatively important sects, even in the context of the entire Tai Chu Continent.

But what shocked everyone the most was An Lin, a cultivator of the Soul Formation Stage, who managed to severely wound a Return to Void Stage mighty figure with one slash of his sword.

And besides, he was the sect leader of the Four Nine Immortal Sect.

With this battle the Four Nine Immortal Sect had already been categorized as a mysterious top-rated sect in everyone’s mind.

However, there were still more surprises waiting for everyone, such as the little fairy on the shoulder of An Lin, called Tina, who was actually a Return to Void Stage mighty figure, who managed to stop and force to retreat the Celestial Maiden Fei Ying when she tried to use her techniques illusory, to trap everyone in an illusion for a moment and take the golden egg.

In addition to a dog from the Spirit Nurturing Stage, called Da Bai, who managed to sneak under watch the Return to Void Stage mighty figure  and catch the golden egg without being noticed.

And finally, even the princess of the Green Wood Imperial Family, Su Qianyun, was part of the mysterious Four Nine Immortal Sect.

At the end of the battle for the golden egg, the unknown and super-powerful Four Nine Immortal Sect became the victor.

## The Real Realm of the Fallen Phoenix

However, when An Lin kept the golden egg and was preparing to retreat with his companions, the situation changed again. Boundless golden light and fearsomely scorching temperatures suddenly burst forth from within the White Fox Divine Box on his back alongside a bout of violent trembling.

Heaven and earth suddenly trembled again as an extremely fearsome spatial power burst forth from the golden egg.

Invisible spatial energy fluctuations instantly proliferated outward over fifty kilometers in radius, engulfing the several hundred cultivators on the scene.

In the next instant, all of them disappeared, leaving a severely ravaged battleground behind.

After passing through the spatial realm transference, An Lin was greeted with a shocking image of the sky entirely on fire, however this was not the strangest part, what was strange about it was that all the flames in the sky converged to form a series of massive, identical images.

This was an adorable round face upon which was etched a proud smile and a pair of red cheeks, which gave one a sense of infinite warmth. There was also a pair of joyful eyes under light, elegant brows.

An Lin was dumbstruck. He felt like he was being surveyed by countless doll faces in the sky!

After making sure he wasn’t in an illusionary realm, An Lin went on to look surroundings, he found that he was currently situated within a valley.

Vital energy was very rich here, and a small river flowed nearby with pleasant flora growing alongside the riverbank. The faint scents of flowers wafted through the air, and this was quite a lovely place overall.

After rising into the air, he was greeted by the sight of a magnificent view.

In the east was a cluster of elegant mountains, the west was a vast expanse of plateaus and deserts, the south was comprised entirely of crimson earth, and an extremely tall mountain, which pierced into the cloud, lay in the north.

He turned his attention below to find that the valley underneath was a component of a gargantuan image.

Many more valleys like the one he had just found himself in led to one another, creating an interconnected network of valleys that constructed the image of a gigantic phoenix a few dozen kilometers in size. An ancient, powerful aura swept toward him from the gargantuan image, giving him a sense of asphyxiation.

Then a thought occurred to him, and he realized where he was, this is the real Realm of the Fallen Phoenix.

### **The Comical Faces in the Sky**

Just like An Lin, all the others were separated and appeared in several different places in this mystic realm.

Liu Qianhuan, thought she was finally crazy because of all the mobile games she has been playing, after all only that could explain the comical faces in the sky, because there was no way the real world could be so absurd.

In the crimson plains in the south, Su Wenjun tried to discover information hidden in the comical faces in the sky.

In the mountain ranges of the east, the sect leader of the Life Harvesting Sect, Duan Hunzi believed that the comical faces in the sky were the mighty portrait of the Death God and he felt like he was attaining enlightenment in his dao of dead souls just by looking up at the sky.

In a forest elsewhere, Su Qianyun was given quite a fright by those comical faces.

She couldn’t shake the feeling that she had seen faces like those in the past, but she couldn’t pinpoint when or where she had seen them.

This was a frightening aspect to her. Those faces were like the faces that appeared in her nightmares; the ones that looked at her with mysterious smiles.

Atop an incredibly tall mountain in the north.

There was a miniature white dog halfway up the mountain, who had obscured his aura, and was waiting to be rescued.

This miniature white dog was none other than Da Bai in his miniature form.

Da Bai had just witnessed an epic battle between two Return to Void Stage mighty figures, and although the battle had ended quickly, he still pissed himself in fear during that time.

He couldn’t beat anyone here, so he could only hide himself away…

Da Bai hid behind a massive rock as he looked up with a disconsolate expression at the comical faces in the sky.

For Dong Guo, the comical faces in the sky were like an insult to everything that he had just done as they sent dull, throbbing pain shooting through his heart.

He had been single for over three thousand years. Just when he thought that he had finally met his true love, in the end, the man with the princess in his arms wasn’t him nor was he the hero who had rescued the princess from certain death. Not only that, but he was even severely wounded by a single sword strike from a Soul Formation Stage cultivator…

Prior to entering this realm, he had even heard other cultivators discussing among themselves, talking about how he was the weakest Return to Void Stage cultivator in ten thousand years…

### **A Dangerous Situation**

After An Lin easily defeated Dong Guo, he made him sign a slave contract with him, however as Dong Guo was very weak, he would be a slave from the outer circle at most.

However, after that event, An Lin detected a familiar aura nearby and went to the spot where he had detected the aura, but instead of finding who he was looking for, what he found was a dangerous situation.

A devastating battle was unfolding and devastating spell techniques were being exchanged, creating terrifying shockwaves that laid waste to everything within a radius of close to ten kilometers around them.

Those involved in the battle, were very familiar to An Lin, there was the handsome and graceful Bai Pengzi of the Flying Divine Sect, the cold and forbidding Shuang Yukong of the Frosty Sun Immortal Sect, and Celestial Maiden Fei Ying of the Red Building Sect, who had a spot of cinnabar on her forehead.

They were fighting for a strange tree that contained three fruits emanating snowy-white divine light were hung on the tree, they were definitely high-rank immortal fruits. However when the three detected An Lin's arrival they immediately stop battling as they turned scorching gazes upon him.

They were staring at the box on An Lin's back as their breathing quickened, high-rank immortal fruits were good, however they were nothing compared to the phoenix egg held by An Lin. So all three instantly changed their target to An Lin and started the chase.

An Lin and his group found themselves in a terrible situation, being chased by three Return to Void Stage mighty figures and with no other alternative, An Lin used his last Snow Explosion Orb to get some time to escape, which was quite effective, however the situation changed again.

A cloud of golden energy suddenly swept toward An Lin, however this cloud of golden energy had assumed an extremely peculiar shape, this was an adorable round face upon which was etched a proud smile and a pair of red cheeks, which gave one a sense of infinite warmth. There was also a pair of joyful eyes under light, elegant brows.

Without a doubt, this was one of those comical faces in the sky that unexpectedly was falling towards An Lin and his group. And above the comical face was standing, Duan Hunzi of the Life Harvesting Sect with the chest puffed out with pride and triumph as he swept down toward them.

Upon seeing this, the cold sweat began to drain from An Lin's forehead, because now he was being chased by four Return to Void Stage mighty figures.

An Lin and the others switched the direction toward which they were escaping, and the four mighty figures began playing a game of cat and mouse with them. However, no matter how much they struggled, they could not get any further away. Instead, the gap between the two parties was constantly closing.

However once again An Lin felt that familiar aura for a fraction of seconds inside the gargantuan mountain, but again he was not sure, but the situation was already precarious enough, so An Lin decided to make a bet, because if it were really her, they could be saved.

An Lin and the others skirted around the massive mountain as the mighty figures behind them gradually closed in. Duan Hunzi was unleashing a series of black soul slashes toward them, but An Lin managed to evade all of his attacks.

An Lin discovered a huge cave, and he was able to detect with his divine sense that there were a series of tunnels within.

He immediately dove into the cave without hesitation, and Dong Guo could only grit his teeth as he followed along.

The temperatures within the pitch-black cave were extremely high. An Lin had only flown a few hundred meters, but the temperatures had already sweltered to above a hundred degrees Celsius.

As they continued onward, a faint green light began to glow from within. The green light emanated from the rock formations and revealed to everyone the strange, jagged rock formations around them.

An Lin made a recollection of the general direction he had detected that familiar aura from before pointing toward one of the smaller tunnels.

Duan Hunzi arrived at the crossroads right after them, and the massive comical face crashed into the opening of the tunnel before imploding. Soon, Bai Pengzi, Celestial Maiden Fei Ying, and Shuang Yukong also arrived at the cave.

After that, each used a particular method and chose a different tunnel, before continuing to pursue An Lin and his group.

Meanwhile, An Lin and Dong Guo continued onward as fast as they could, and the green light up ahead seemed to become more intense as they forged ahead. Even the temperatures had risen by quite a bit. It was as if they were approaching a fiery cauldron.

After continuing onward for a while longer, the tunnel began to expand and they finally came to a large chamber, which was glowing with the light of green flames. There was a metal gate at the end of the chamber, which was tightly shut, in front of which was a silver figure, that An Lin found very familiar.

### **Finding a Gundam**

The silver figure standing before them was a technological product of the same origins as the Gundam One and Gundam Two.

At that moment, the silver figure turned to An Lin and the others as a smile appeared on its face. “All those who approach this place must die!”

Then, right before the shocked eyes of An Lin, Dong Guo, and Da Bai, the silver Gundam instantly appeared before Dong Guo as a blue light burst forth from its arm, and its fist crashed into Dong Guo’s chest like a cannonball.

The air was twisted by its punch, and Dong Guo was knocked flying by the overwhelming force.

After beating Dong Guo, the silver Gundam launched a fist in the direction of An Lin who barely managed to respond in time, but was still pushed back by the impact, which shocked him, because this attack was equivalent to a strike from a Return to Void Stage mighty figure.

After that An Lin released Gundam One and Gundam Two to deal with silver Gundam, however they had only just managed to unleash their attacks when the silver Gundam appeared right before them. It then launched its fists toward them, around which devastating black lightning revolved.

An ear-splitting boom erupted as the two Gundams’ metal bodies caved in from the silver Gundam’s fists. Their bodies then shot forth like cannonballs before leaving two humanoid craters in the surrounding rock face.

On seeing this scene An Lin was sure that his Gundams were definitely inferior forgeries.

But An Lin knew that this was not the case, the real reason was the power core of his Gundams that could only allow them to exhibit about twenty percent of their powers.

At that moment, the situation changed again, as a new enemy arrived, was the sect leader of the Red Building Sect, Celestial Maiden Fei Ying that finally reached An Lin.

Immediately Celestial Maiden Fei Ying prepared for battle, as the intense battle taking place here had very likely already attracted the attention of the other mighty figures.

Celestial Maiden Fei Ying stepped forward lightly as red cherry blossoms swept through the air in a beautiful yet lethal display.

The silver Gundam also drew closer as its particle sword shone with a dazzling light.

Then, before the astonished eyes of An Lin and Dong Guo, the Gundam swept through the air toward Celestial Maiden Fei Ying as it slashed a blue sword projection with its particle sword.

Fei Ying’s expression shifted as a barrier of flowers appeared before her.

The sword projection clashed with the barrier of flowers before reducing countless cherry blossoms to dust with its overwhelming power. However, there seemed to be no end to the cherry blossoms, thereby allowing her to keep the sword strike at bay in the end.

An Lin and Dong Guo were both shocked upon seeing the sudden turn of events.

The silver Gundam’s overall strength was roughly equivalent to a veteran Return to Void Initial Stage mighty figure. However, Celestial Maiden Fei Ying was a Return to Void Intermediate Stage mighty figure, so the Gundam was still decidedly at a disadvantage.

However, An Lin and Dong Guo’s participations would flip the battle on its head.

Celestial Maiden Fei Ying was growing more and more impatient. She was unable to strike down An Lin as the silver Gundam presented a constant distraction to her.

Not only that, but her energy was continually being depleted by the intense battles that she had to endure. If things continued like this, there was a good chance that she would be defeated!

When Celestial Maiden Fei Ying was preparing to bet everything and use a finishing attack to defeat An Lin and the silver Gundam, Duan Hunzi finally arriver out and prepared to reap the hard work of Celestial Maiden Fei Ying who was having a ferocious battle against An Lin and his group.

When An Lin and his group saw the arrival of Duan Hunzi, they were desperate and sought an escape route from this desperate situation, because if the Celestial Maiden Fei Ying was already difficult to deal with, imagine another Return to Void Intermediate Stage mighty figure.

At this moment, Fei Ying and Duan Hunzi pounced toward An Lin at once. Both mighty figures had unleashed their full strength in an attempt to get to the phoenix egg before the other!

One of them descended with a vast expanse of lethal cherry blossoms while the other swept forward with spiritual blades tearing through the space within the chamber.

However, at this moment, the seemingly-indestructible gate suddenly opened to allow the three of them to fly through, then immediately swung shut, thus keeping out An Lin’s assailants.

A moment later, an explosion of energy took place as a gap opened up in the gate for the Gundam to fly through before closing again, leaving Celestial Maiden Fei Ying and Duan Hunzi shocked by this unexpected development.

### **Finding Bai Ling again and battle against the Demonic Baby**

After gaining access to the gate, An lin, Da Bai and Dong Guo advanced in search of their ally, however on their way they found a super light particle energy formation blocking their path.

However, just as An Lin was considering how to bypass this energy formation, the beam of energy suddenly disappeared of its own accord, leaving a empty passageway.

While they were trying to decide whether this was a trap or not, a silver figure suddenly appeared before them.

The silver Gundam turned to An Lin and the others before instructing in a mechanical, professional voice, “Come with me.”

It immediately began to fly forward as it spoke.

As An Lin and the others continued forward behind the Gundam, the green light gradually grew brighter. They encountered a few crossroads on the way, but all of them followed the Gundam without hesitation.

Soon, they came to an exit, which led to an extremely cavernous area.

This was an extremely large space with length, width, and height all in excess of three kilometers. However, close to a kilometer of the ground was a pit of glowing green lava from which extremely fearsome temperatures exuded.

Within this cavernous space, directly above the green lava, there was a floating platform that was protected by a blue barrier.

A lithe and graceful woman in a flowing white robe had her hands pressed tightly to a white ball of light, and her brows were tightly furrowed. It was as if she was enduring an intense conflict.

This woman was none other than Bai Ling, who An Lin met twice at the 88th Purple Star Research Institute, the last being when he convinced her to leave the ruins of the 88th Purple Star Research Institute with him and explore this new world that she hasn't seen in so long.

However, An Lin didn't even have a chance to greet her properly, before receiving a voice transmission from her in his mind, warning him that there was an enemy present.

An Lin immediately unleashed his divine sense to its maximum capacity the instant he heard this warning.

It was also in that split second that a sense of impending doom engulfed his body, making him shudder from the biting chill. As he had unleashed his divine sense, he was only able to make a tiny adjustment of his body position before an inky-black saber projection pierced through his body.

An Lin experienced the pain of being torn apart for the first time. This was an excruciating pain that permeated throughout his entire body.

A black saber exited his body from the left side of his chest, having broken through his near-indestructible divine body!

Thankfully Bai Ling’s warning allowed him to react just in time. Otherwise, his heart would have been punctured by that attack.

The enemy had not unleashed a sneak attack from behind. Instead, this was a direct frontal attack.

Even so, An Lin still found it extremely difficult to detect the trajectory of the attack and was caught off guard.

After composing himself a little, An Lin finally caught a glimpse of the enemy that was attacking him. This was a huge baby with a sinister smile on its face and was about half the size of a grown man. Its skin was deathly pale, with a pair of pitch-black holes for eyes, a red undergarment over its body, and a pair of fleshy wings.

Its sinister smile appeared especially eerie and malicious under the glow of the green light.

Within its hand was a sharp, pitch-black spear, the other end of which was planted in An Lin’s body.

Upon seeing An Lin being injured Da Bai and Dong Guo attacked the demonic baby, however none of his attacks even reached him.

An Lin had been wounded by the first spear strike, and his Evergreen Technique immediately activated of its own accord to regenerate his injury.

However, he didn’t have time to wait until he was fully recovered. He quickly pulled out his Evil-Slaying Sword to join the battle.

However at that moment the situation underwent a major change, the silver Gundam that they thought had become an ally suddenly betrayed them, he unleashed gravitational manipulation powers with one hand as it held chains imbued with an extremely powerful sealing force with the other, who tied An Lin's body tightly.

An Lin unleashed all his strength to try and struggle free from the chains, but the chains did not budge in the slightest. It was as if they were indestructible.

At this moment, the crisp sound of clapping suddenly erupted and a  woman who was the epitome of perfection made her way slowly toward An Lin.

Her long, black hair danced behind her, and her beautiful, dark eyes exuded a peculiar charm. A faint smile lingered on her flawless features in a perfect combination of the might and prestige of a queen and the cheekiness of a little girl.

However, this woman was no stranger to An Lin, her name was Black Spirit Snake. That’s right, the woman standing before him was the exquisitely beautiful Black Spirit Snake, whom he had met once on Earth. At that time, they were discussing the childish question of how to maintain world peace.

She told An Lin that this world they were in was her vacation mansion and that the phoenix egg in An Lin's possession belonged to Her Majesty (Nuwa).

However when she was going to take An Lin's phoenix egg and leave it to deal with the demon baby, Bai Ling interfered and killed her, however she was only a clone of the Black Spirit Snake.

After that she released An Lin and told him to leave, however he ignored her and chose to help Bai Ling instead of running away, since she sacrificed something to save him.

The first thing An Lin did was to use his inheritance of mechanical engineering to deal with the silver Gundam and extract its energy core before refining and storing it, just like the silver Gundam itself.

After getting rid of the threat of the silver Gundam, An Lin started the battle against the demonic baby, however even after using all his strength An Lin was unable to match the counter attack of the demonic baby, who unexpectedly possessed an extremely sacred aura in your fist attacks, in the end An Lin was repelled by the attack of the demonic baby and wounded.

Seeing this development, An Lin decided to reactivate the silver Gundam to fight the demonic baby, who after An Lin injected his blood essence into the power core to establish a presence connection, was renamed Gundam Three.

However, Gundam Three was also no match for the demonic baby and was completely crushed by the demonic baby. An Lin then decided not to restrain himself and used his strongest move, Six Strikes of the War God — Sword Burial.

To launch this attack, An Lin sacrificed the Frost Cloud Congealing Sword, an intermediate-rank spirit tool and the Kun Wu Divine Lightning Sword, a high-rank spirit tool and managed to severely injure the demonic baby, sending him flying for several hundred meters before falling into the green lava.. However An Lin felt a strong pain in his heart when initiate this technique, as it cost him three hundred thousand spirit stones.

However, when A Lin and her group were thinking that it was all over, the green lava where the demonic baby had fallen started to disappear quickly, following which a gigantic baby with deathly pale skin appeared before An Lin. It didn’t look any different from before, but its mass had expanded several times to become even bigger than a grown man! Aside from that, a pair of green irises appeared in the holes it previously had for eyes. Dense green hair grew from its head as a dangerous aura emanated from its body.

Upon seeing this development, An Lin prepared for battle again, however, at that moment, he received a message from Bai Ling warning him that the demonic baby was currently in his most powerful and violent state, so An Lin he should forget to try to kill him and instead, An Lin needed to buy three minutes for this state to be automatically deactivated and the demon baby to return to normal.

After assuming this new form, the demonic baby directed all his intention to kill to An Lin, because An Lin was the one who hurt him.

An Lin then again unleashed the technique Six Strikes of the War God — Sword Burial, sacrificing the Crouching Tiger True Yang Sword, an intermediate-rank spirit tool. That was a attack that were equivalent to those attacks unleashed by veteran Return to Void Stage mighty figures.

However this time things happened differently from the last time, the demonic baby instead of dodging to avoid An Lin's attack, chose to launch a counterattack by taking an evasive action and launched the attack so quickly that even An Lin was unable to detect it, cutting An Lin's the Six Strikes of the War God — Sword Burial in half with extreme ease.

Was due to the fact that the demonic baby now possessed power of the divine dao, a power that could only be unleashed by powerful figures who were extremely close or were already in the Dao integration stage. However, this power was defective, but it was still not something that ordinary Return to Void figures were able to unleash.

After handling the tycoon An Lin's two-hundred-thousand-spirit-stone attack, the demonic baby turned his attention once more to An Lin, facing him like a dead man.

Now there were only two and a half minutes left.

An Lin then unleashed Divine Inspection Technique and Wings of Wind simultaneously and initiated a frontal attack, and the demonic baby responded with a spiritual attack with the intention of spreading An Lin's soul, however, it was a pity for the demonic baby that An Lin’s consciousness was first-rate even among Return to Void Stage mighty figures.

An Lin then grabbed his head with both hands while feigning an agonized expression, remaining that way for a full minute.

However realizing that something strange in this situation the demonic baby silently withdrew his spell technique, only to discover that An Lin was still crying in anguish.

Then when he realized that he had been made a fool by An Lin,and a sense of humiliation sent it into a flying rage and he then unleashed all his power to kill An Lin as quickly as possible and avenge that humiliation.

At the same time, An Lin once again unleashed the technique Six Strikes of the War God — Sword Burial, sacrificing the Nine Dragons Immortal Locking Sword, a high-rank spirit sword. This was a five-hundred-thousand-spirit-stone attack.

Now there was only a minute and a half left.

However, at that moment the attack of the demonic baby arrived, even with his Divine Inspection Technique activated An Lin only managed to deflect so that his shoulder was hit instead of his heart.

An Lin felt desperate, given the absolute speed and power he had no effective response method. Even after launching his Sword Burial technique, he didn't even have a chance to use it before being knocked to the ground by the demonic baby, how should he fight against such a powerful opponent?

When the demonic baby was preparing to attack An Lin once again, he was unexpectedly shot flying by Gundam Three's high-tech annihilation cannon, which proved to be much more reliable than Dong Guo, saving An Lin's life during a situation terrible.

An Lin then took this opportunity to use the attack he had launched with the Sword Burial technique, on the demonic baby managing to trap him under a fearsome restrictive power that was twisting and deforming his body.

An Lin did a rough calculation to find that there was still a minute left.

At that moment An Lin chose not to hold anything and once again launched the technique Six Strikes of the War God - Sword Burial, sacrificing the North Star Sword, a high-rank spirit tool, this attack combined with the previous one would be equivalent to one-million- spirit-stone, no matter what he had to endure this last minute.

Even once again being hit, the demonic baby managed to unleash once again an extreme power with green energy covering his entire body, becoming a baby bodybuilder and managing to free himself from the restrictive formation that held his body.

There were thirty seconds left.

Immediately afterwards, he launched an attack with all his strength, managing in the process to break the high-rank spirit sword that An Lin was preparing to launch another burial, before piercing An Lin's chest once again.

The Gundam Three then tried to arrest the demonic baby with its gravitational manipulation, but ended up being crushed and put out of service by him.

There were twenty seconds left.

An Lin had already taken this opportunity to retreat over a hundred meters away before unleashing another sword burial, with the High-rank spirit sword that had previously been broken by the demonic baby, but did not interfere with the sword burial.

At that moment, the demonic baby who had just crushed the Gundam Three, was crushed into a pancake by the power of An Lin's attack, thus avenging the Gundam Three.

When An Lin was preparing to perform another sword burial, he found that he no longer had high-rank spirit swords in his possession.

He was then about to use the less potent intermediate-rank spirit swords, when the demonic baby's attack hit him again, seriously injuring him in the process.

An Lin was about to be hit once again by the demonic baby's spear attack, when he launched the Make You Cry technique by making the demon baby's eyes explode, allowing An Lin to escape this lethal attack.

At that moment An Lin brought the Thousand Possibility Box, with the intention of killing the demonic baby with her, however the projection of a divine maiden appeared in the air and gave a resounding slap in the face of the demonic baby before disappearing, leaving An Lin and the demonic baby rooted in the spot without expression.

After recovering from the shock of receiving this slap, the demonic baby knelt on the floor and cried tears of blood, admitting his mistake and begging his mother not to leave him.

At that moment, time finally ended and all the green lava that the demonic baby had absorbed left his body, while his body was back to a smaller size than it was before, curling up in a fetal position, as if he were peacefully sleeping.

Seeing this, An Lin was about to give Da Bai permission to kill the demon baby, when he was stopped by Bai Ling's warning, warning him that the demon baby had expended all his energy and was in a sleeping state at the moment, but if they attacked, would activate your self-defense mechanism and wake you up again.

So this exhausting battle has finally come to an end.

### **Taming the Phoenix Egg**

After things calmed down, An Lin started to recover from his injuries and recover his energy for the next battles. Meanwhile, he discovered by Bai Ling that she made a bet with the Black Spirit Snake, where she had to relinquish control over the Realm of the Fallen Phoenix, and after that they would dispute to see who would gain control over this place first in order to decide ownership.

However after she gave up the dispute to save An Lin who was about to be killed by the demonic baby and the silver Gundam, her chances of winning the dispute were almost nil, but she still didn’t regret her decision.

An Lin felt very guilty after learning this, but Bai Ling implied that he was more important than the research institutes for her.

After that, she told An Lin that he shouldn't let the Black Spirit Snake get the phoenix egg, as that was the most valuable item that the Purple Star Phoenix Research Institute has to offer.

She then taught An Lin a spell formation to carve the egg, where after An Lin added a drop of blood essence he could tame him and make him accept him as his master.

She then told An Lin that even if other people obtained this phoenix egg, they could not do anything with it, which is why the Black Spirit Snake was in no hurry to get it back, however An Lin was different, as he ended up getting the phoenix egg and also met her there, which can be said to be the destiny.

However, An Lin was being hesitant because he was afraid that the Black Spirit Snake and the forces of Nuwa would decide to hunt him down, but Bai Ling comforted him by saying that the Black Spirit Snake was not stingy, and if the phoenix accepted a master, she can just let it go, not demeaning yourself to things like theft and murder.

An Lin then felt relieved and after sculpting the training that Bai Ling gave him he managed to establish a pet contract with the phoenix in the egg. And meanwhile within his sea of vital energy, the white vermilion bird let loose a joyful cry as if it were celebrating something.

After establishing a pet contract with the phoenix in the egg, An Lin returned his attention to recover from his injuries and return to his peak state and Bai Ling also continued in his efforts to fight for control over this research institute because even if the chances were slim she hoped that a miracle could happen.

Thinking about it, she looked at An Lin who was recovering and a smile as radiant and enchanting as a spring breeze appeared on her face.

For some reason, she had decided to pin her hopes on An Lin. Even someone as logical as her was capable of doing illogical things… Her heart was filled with a mysterious sense of anticipation.

## The Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial

At that moment, while An Lin was recovering, outside the research institute, things were becoming volatile. The Celestial Maiden Fei Ying, Duan Hunzi, and the newly-arrived Bai Pengzi were waiting for An Lin and his group to get out and while they waited a tense atmosphere was established between the three, with barter exchanges between Duan Hunzi and Bai Pengzi.

However, all three of the Return to Void Stage mighty figures knew their priorities, and they knew that fighting now would be a bad idea. But the An Lin’s emergence would signify the beginning of a battle; that was not going to change.

Meanwhile, Shuang Yukong was heading toward another direction. He had detected the powerful collisions of power from earlier, but he still decided to head elsewhere instead.

He felt a strong calling power drawing him to a different place and decided to follow his instincts, as this could be a great opportunity for him.

He passed through a winding tunnel to arrive at a cavernous space with a scorching heat that was difficult to endure even for a mighty figure like him.

All the rock formations here flowed as if they were all in liquid form, and a golden liquid surged as a dazzling green light shone in the distance.

The green light expanded in his field of vision, and Shuang Yukong finally caught sight of what had drawn him here before drawing a sharp intake of breath.

A colossus over ten thousand feet tall appeared before his eyes.

It had three enormous heads, which consisted of a human head, a phoenix head, and a dragon head.

It also had six strange arms, two of which held swords, another two of which were covered by red feathers, and the final two were covered by purple scales and had a pair of claws that radiated a sense of astonishing sharpness, even when stationary.

A pair of gigantic, white, bony wings grew from its back, from which a golden light shone.

There were black lightning revolving around its two white legs, which were exuding a fearsome might that seemed to be able to crush the space around it.

Some sort of green light enveloped the entire creature’s body. It was not to enhance its appearance, but instead, it seemed to restrict it.

Shuang Yukong’s eyes took on a scorching glow as an illogical desire somehow gripped his entire body.

His desire erupted explosively, instantly drowning out any remaining shred of logic.

Shuang Yukong crashed into the barrier of green light as a sharp ringing erupted in his head.

At that moment, he regained control over his emotions, and his expression shifted drastically as he looked at the three gigantic heads, which were almost within reach.

However, when he tried to open a space crack in an attempt to escape he realized that the space was sealed, and a terrifying power that threatened to crush the sky and the earth erupted without any warning and he was completely immobilized.

At that moment, among the three gigantic heads, the human head suddenly opened a pair of crimson eyes as a sinister smile appeared on its face…

Seeing this scene Shuang Yukong almost panicked when he was overcome by the monstrous aura, however he used his vast experience and managed to calm his emotions to try to escape this situation using all his trumps.

However in front of a monster so terribly powerful his trumps and life-saving methods were broken like paper and Shuang Yukong threw up a mouthful of blood when he was seriously injured.

Immediately afterwards her body exploded in the middle of a terrible space explosion and the body parts flew through the air before being sucked toward the giant human head’s mouth, upon which it quickly began to chew.

At this moment, the dragon head suddenly opened its golden eyes, which seemed to be able to pierce through all the illusions within this world.

A bolt of golden lightning blasted forth from the dragon head’s mouth before crashing into a certain spot in the air, which then began to ripple violently.

A figure began to appear. This was a man whose stomach had been punctured, leaving a ghastly hole in his midsection.

The man was none other than Shuang Yukong, who had just used the Divine Talisman of Life to resurrect himself.

Shuang Yukong immediately fled into the distance with shock and horror on his face.

He had no chance in hell of defeating such a fearsome creature!

During his escape, the entire space around him suddenly transformed into a boundless sea of flames.

Shuang Yukong’s expression shifted drastically as he unleashed his power of frost to keep the flames at bay. However, the monstrous flames were far too powerful for him to contend with, and it instantly burned through his defenses before engulfing his entire body.

At this time the phoenix head, whose eyes remained closed, suddenly burped with a satisfied smile.

Soon after that the three heads started to argue with each other and then the phoenix head opened its eyes, which were like a pair of bright suns and said in a slow and methodical voice, as if it was the leader of the group, “In any case, your energy would also be replenished from what I ate. I’m helping you guys eat, so you should be thanking me.”

At that moment, without realizing the new crisis that was approaching, An Lin and his group after recovering from their injuries were waiting for Bai Ling's victory over the Black Spirit Snake.

Outside the Phoenix Research Institute, the three Return to Void Stage mighty figures were also displaying astonishing patience as they continued to wait outside.

On the plateaus to the west of the mystic realm, Su Wenjun accompanied Liu Qianhuan and Su Qianyun as they flew toward the gargantuan mountain.

To the north of the mystic realm, General Long Kui pursued with the intention of killing the Daoist Yu Lang of the Heavenly Demon Sect, that tried to flee towards the gargantuan mountain to hide and get rid of the chase.

At that moment, the gigantic mountain broke and a monster with an extremely frightening aura leaped from the mountain. This was a monster with three heads and six arms as well as a pair of huge bony wings that allowed it to soar through the sky.

When the mountain exploded, Bai Ling managed to protect An Lin and his group from getting hurt, however Celestial Maiden Fei Ying, Bai Pengzi and Duan Hunzi were not so lucky.

Celestial Maiden Fei Ying ended up getting a long cut on her delicate cheek, as well as a series of wounds all over her body. One of Bai Pengzi's arms was eventually blown up and one of Duan Hunzi's legs had also been disfigured.

Meanwhile, Su Wenjun, Su Qianyun and Liu Qianhuan who were approaching the gargantuan mountain were amazed to see the mountain explode and the unexpected appearance of such a terrible monster.

As for Long Kui, who was chasing Taoist Yu Lang, upon seeing the monster with three heads and six arms, instantly abandoned the chase and tried to run away. And Taoist Yu Lang, who hoped to hide from Long Kui's chase on the gargantuan mountain, was stunned by this turn of events.

Fate worked in strange ways sometimes, and this was exemplified by all the mighty figures who had coincidentally gathered near this gargantuan mountain, just in time to become the meals of this terrifying monster.

Meanwhile, Bai Ling had launched a technique to hide his auras and were headed to the foot of the mountain with An Lin's group.

She then revealed the origin of the monster, as a failed Dao Integration experimental subject of the Phoenix Research Institute known as, Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial.

It was created using the bloodlines of a Divine Phoenix, a Dao Integration Stage True Dragon, and a True God. Unfortunately, the experiment was a failure, and the subject went on a frenzied rampage, upon which it had to be sealed away in this place.

### **Fighting the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial**

After devouring Taoist Yu Lang, the dragon head of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial turned his attention to Su Qianyun and Liu Qianhuan, who were being protected by Su Wenjun and Long Kui, wanting to capture them for their harem.

Seeing this An Lin decided not to hide, even if he was not pareo for the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial he could not abandon his friends.

A vulgar smile appeared on the dragon head’s face as it opened its huge mouth, from which a dark blue blast of energy burst forth, freezing everything in its path. It was clearly trying to turn all of them into ice sculptures!

The dark blue energy swept forth like a surging river, and Su Wenjun, Long Kui, Liu Qianhuan, and Su Qianyun could only fight for their lives as they all readied themselves for battle.

Su Wenjun bit open the tip of his tongue before spitting out a drop of blood essence. At the same time, he slit his wrist, from which a fountain of blood gushed forth, and it was clear that he was going to use some sort of mystic technique that could only be unleashed at an extremely heavy price.

Long Kui let loose a shrill cry as she stabbed her golden spear forward, creating a golden spear projection that pierced through heaven and earth with its unrivaled might.

Liu Qianhuan pulled out her Great Ice Sword, and the world around her transformed into a domain of frost and snow as blue sword projections swept through the air.

Su Qianyun tossed out a blood talisman. This was a life-saving blood talisman that Chang’e had personally crafted for her.

Moonlight instantly surged through heaven and earth as a bright moon appeared in the sky overhead. The projection of a woman with unsurpassed elegance and beauty materialized before pointing a finger toward the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial!

His attacks managed to block the attack from the dragon head of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial and even wound the human head with Su Qianyun's attack.

However, when the human head of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial was injured, he was totally enraged and decided to devour Su Qianyun's group to relieve his pain.

He then launched a spiritual attack imbued with the power of the Dao Integration Stage, an attack that was impossible for them to defend themselves.

However, just when everyone had been plunged into the depths of despair, a familiar figure appeared before them once again.

Su Qianyun and Liu Qianhuan were extremely familiar with this figure, and they felt as if everything was a bit surreal as their hearts thumped.

The man who had positioned himself before them then brought out a mirror to reflect the scintillating rainbow light.

The mirror absorbed the rainbow light before reflecting it and launching it in the opposite direction.

The rainbow light shone in the air on the way to the phoenix's head, but she managed to dodge at the last moment, however the reflected attack hit the human head with the power to destroy the soul and the conscience.

The human head howled with grief as tears flowed relentlessly from its eyes. There was even drool dripping from the corner of its mouth.

Overwhelmed with anger at seeing the human head hurt again, the dragon's head suddenly attacked An Lin. Devastating lightning might suddenly accumulated at the tip of its dragon horn, immediately following which a purple-and-golden bolt of lightning imbued with the power to destroy everything within this entire world abruptly shot forth toward An Lin.

This bolt of lightning was imbued with the power of the dragon head’s divine dao, and with its monstrous power, it left a series of gaping spatial rifts in its wake.

Prior to attaining the body of the War God, An Lin would’ve been completely powerless against such a bolt of lightning. He wouldn’t even be able to manipulate it with his Lightning Manipulation Technique, so all he would be able to do was await his death. However, now that he had attained the body of the War God, he was able to control this bolt of lightning.

Lightning flashed from An Lin’s fingertips, and the purple-and-golden bolt of lightning doubled over in the air before blasting toward the dragon head.

The dragon head turned pale with fright, but it was still able to evade the attack at the last moment.

The purple-and-golden divine lightning struck the human head’s forehead, charring the human head completely black.

The human head’s eyes rolled back even further as white smoke escaped from its mouth.

Seeing his attacks repeatedly reflected by An Lin, the dragon's head faltered in his attacks when a hint of caution appeared on his face.

At that moment, the phoenix head attacked An Lin with space techniques, and an inbuilt space storm with an invisible space compression force swept towards An Lin and the others from all directions.

This spatial storm was extremely fearsome, and it felt as if it were going to annihilate the entire atmosphere.

Everything in the path of the spatial storm was crushed into oblivion while leaving a vacuum in its wake!

However An Lin remained calm and at the last moment a white space cube instantly encapsulated An Lin and the others while keeping the devastating space storm at bay.

However the phoenix head managed to detect something wrong and Bai Lin who was helping An Lin in secret was forced to appear in front of everyone.

When the phoenix head felt safe, as it thought An Lin was using borrowed force all the time, An Lin seemed to have detected something when he looked at the sky, he then raised a finger to the sky and a royal aura exuded from his body as if he were the monarch of this world.

“I summon the power of the heavens to vanquish all evil!”

At that moment, an indescribably powerful sword projection fell from the sky. It was as white as a pristine cloud, as blue as a bright ocean, as green as a lush forest, as radiant as a rainbow. It seemed to have encompassed all the colors within this world, but at the same time, it wasn’t any one of those colors.

The Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial’s expression shifted drastically as its aura surged, and boundless divine light burst forth from its body to try and combat the sword projection.

However, the sword projection was peerlessly sharp, and it broke through the divine light with ease before crushing the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial’s massive body to the ground with its overwhelming sword intent.

The sword projection then pierced through the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial’s chest, nailing it to the ground.

An Lin retracted his finger nonchalantly, and in that moment, his body seemed to have grown infinitely in stature.

The Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial sprawled out onto the ground as howls of anguish erupted throughout heaven and earth.

An Lin felt extremely elated upon seeing the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial being pinned to the ground.

However, the cold voice of the Black Spirit Snake rang in An Lin's ears, warning him not to become complacent, as the Realm Creation Evil Vanquishing Sword has not been fully activated yet and could only unleash a sealing force that temporarily seals the power of a target of the divine dao and he must take appropriate defensive measures before the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial can break free.

Black Spirit Snake was also the one who had transmitted her voice to An Lin, informing him of the fact that she was going to unleash a sealing technique, thus leading to An Lin’s performance.

After hearing what the Black Spirit Snake said, An Lin immediately organized all Return to Void Stage cultivators and their friends to attack the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial that had its divine Dao sealed.

At this moment, the sword projection protruding from the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial’s chest suddenly began to merge into its body, as if it had dissolved into liquid, sending an extremely powerful sealing force coursing through its body and soul while sealing away even their true intent of dao.

The sword projection began to disappear, and the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial crawled up from the ground before turning to An Lin with fear and resentment.

They were faced with the choices of fight or flight.

A hesitant expression appeared on the phoenix head’s face, making it appear to be not as calm and collected as it always was.

The Soul Formation Stage human cultivator looked like he could be easily slain.

But it was exactly this human cultivator that was able to turn the tables time and time again. Instead, it was them that repeatedly came away second best, and now, even their powers had been sealed. In all honesty, the phoenix head just wanted to get as far away from this bizarre human cultivator as possible.

However there was no way they could run, they were the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial, which combined a Divine Phoenix, a True God from the Dao Integration Stage and a True God in a body, how they could run away in fear of a bunch of Soul Formation Stage and Return to Void Stage cultivators.

However when they tried to use their most powerful attacks to kill An Lin and his group, they were hit back by the lightning attack of the dragon head, leaving them on the verge of tears.

After being frustrated by being hit by their own attacks once again, the phoenix's head realized that An Lin could only handle lightning attacks, so they decided to use phoenix flame attacks.

However he was very weak now, and his attacks were blocked by Long Kui and Su Wenjun, Return to Void Stage mighty figures that they saw as ants.

Seeing that the attacks by An Lin and his friends were effective, the Celestial Maiden group Fei Ying finally decided to get together and attack too, however when the two phoenix and dragon heads were stunned by the combined attack, and Bai Pengzi decided to deliver the final blow, the human head, which had its eyes closed all the time, suddenly opened its red eyes and made his move.

Seeing this Bai Pengzi tried urgently to retreat, but ended up having his wings clipped by the attack of the human head, he then activated a mystical technique to drastically increase his speed and managed to space himself from being devoured, but had its wings devoured by the human head of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial.

After taking care of Bai Pengzi, the human head of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial immediately attacked Celestial Maiden Fei Ying with a flaming sword projection and Duan Hunzi with an icy sword projection, leaving the two half dead.

This scene shocked everyone, the human head that remained dormant for a long time, displayed immense power by taking out one Return to Void Stage mighty figure per attack, sending jolts of fear and shock running through everyone’s heart.

After taking care of the three of Celestial Maiden Fei Ying, the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial shifted their attention to An Lin, who in their view was the most dangerous and strange of all present and decided to use physical attacks to deal with An Lin.

Su Wenjun and Long Kui immediately mounted a hasty defense to stop him, however they still could not stop the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial and could only watch An Lin with shock and horror on his face, however at that moment a white space cube appeared around his again blocking the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial attack.

Bai Ling once again interfered at the last moment, but there was nothing that could be done, the effects of Bai Ling’s concealment technique was simply too potent, to the extent that the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial could not detect her presence at all unless she was in their field of vision.

The dragon head was so angry that he wanted to immediately kill Bai Ling with a lightning strike so that she could no longer interfere, however at the last moment he remembered something and immediately collected his spell technique, before looking at An Lin, with lingering fear in his heart, and seeing a look of disappointment on his face.

The dragon's head was extremely hurt, because his strength was in the lightning spell techniques, but he didn't even have the courage to unleash his lightning spell techniques against his opponent.

However, the hatred of the dragon's head by An Lin replaces all his rationality and he attacked An Lin recklessly, only to be thwarted by Bai Ling's white space cube.

An Lin was even impressed with her ability to attract hate to herself, but he soon realized from Bai Ling's expression that she was messing with the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial’s heads, thereby causing them to focus more of their attention in him.

### **Fighting a Stupid Idiot (The Human Head Takes Over the Body)**

After the nth time this loop was repeated, the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial finally figured out that something was amiss.

After realizing how much time they wasted attacking a Soul Formation Stage cultivator without killing him, they decided to combine themselves in order to achieve the divine power that was sealed.

Combining as one referred to a fusion of their three souls, where one of their three souls would take control of the entire body, upon which they would be able to see through and destroy all spiritual attacks. However, the price for unleashing such a spell technique would be excruciating agony akin to having one’s soul being torn apart.

After a long discussion between the heads of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial, they decided that the head of the phoenix would take over the body, however at the crucial moment when they would combine into one being, An Lin interfered.

He controlled the lightning power of the dragon head to attack the flame power of the phoenix head, when his powers were about to disperse the unexpected happened, the mysterious power of the human head took control and absorbed the powers of the other two heads.

At that moment what the two other heads of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial least wanted to see happened, his body was about to be controlled by a stupid idiot.

After the human head took control of the body, the two dragon and phoenix heads went into hibernation and a rainbow halo appeared above his head before turning constantly. An Lin realized that this rainbow halo was the same as the demonic baby possessed.

His first target was Bai Ling who was previously constantly interfering with his attempt to kill An Lin.

Seeing this, Bai Ling’s heart jolted in shock as she unleashed her exquisite movement techniques to evade the sword projection.

Even though she wasn’t at the Dao Integration Stage yet, she was already at the Return to Void Final Stage, and she was extremely proficient at calculations. As such, she was able to make extremely accurate calculations in the blink of an eye to predict the trajectory of the sword projection, thereby allowing her to evade just in time.

Su Wenjun and Long Kui tried to support Bai Ling however they were easily repressed by the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial. An Lin then requested that Celestial Maiden Fei Ying and Duan Hunzi join the battle to relieve pressure from Bai Ling, because if she fell and he died, the two would be the next to die.

As for Bai Pengzi, his two arms had been eaten by the human head, and he was suffering from extreme post-traumatic stress disorder! Hence, he to hide in the forest and refused to come out.

The human head became more and more enraged as it fought. Not only did it have to unleash attacks on Bai Ling, but it also had to focus on defending itself against the other Return to Void Stage mighty figures. It suddenly felt that even six arms were insufficient.

The Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial’s six arms waved in an uncoordinated manner as Bai Ling flew over its head as a streak of white light. It tried to follow Bai Ling with its eyes, upon which its head tilted backward along with its body and fell to the ground.

The Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial was buried under countless terrifying spell techniques as the earth within a radius of several dozen kilometers was pulverized, and the human head’s howls of grief and anguish reverberated throughout heaven and earth, at that moment he wished he had a thousand arms.

At the height of its rage and aggravation, the rainbow halo on its head suddenly glowed with boundless light, overwhelming all the colors within this world, and everyone was almost knocked senseless by the powerful glare.

When everyone came to their senses, they were dumbstruck by the sight of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial, which had stood up again.

A dense bunch of arms had appeared behind the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial as if it were a peacock canopy that fanned out in a semi-circle, and each arm controlled a divine ability within its palm.

There were transitioning divine abilities of the Five Elements, there were sword divine abilities that could pulverize space, there were bloody divine abilities of violence and slaughter, there were eerie spiritual divine abilities…

The Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial now had a thousand arms, each of which possessed an earth-shattering divine ability!!

The space around the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial seemed to be unable to bear the devastating power from all its spell techniques, and massive spatial rifts soon appeared within a radius of five kilometers from it.

Seeing this, the five Return to Void Stage mighty figures staged a panicked retreat as they fled into the distance, they had no idea how to fight it.

Upon realizing that everyone had fled away from him, the human head screamed angrily that if they fled they would be hit by a divine lightning,  immediately afterwards the rainbow halo over their head shone and countless divine lightning appeared in the sky pointing to everyone who they fled, but when they stopped to defend themselves the lightning in the sky suddenly disappeared.

Bai Ling then analyzed with a grave expression. “This is the first time that the human head has acted as the brain while it was in a combination with the other two souls of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial. The pillar of white light it had manifested was extremely pure and mysterious, indicating creation and infinite possibilities. As such, the pillar of white light must have given it an ability to make all its words come true!”

Seeing that no one else was running away from him, the human head unleashed an attack with ten of his thousand arms at the same time, and as the five figures on the Return to Void Stage were restricted by the divine lightning in the sky, they could only defend themselves with all their might.

Bai Ling, Su Wenjun, Long Kui, Fei Ying, and Duan Hunzi defended with all their might and finally managed to survive the cataclysmic attack, seeing that they were able to withstand their attack, the human head then decided to increase the previous attack to ten times, that is, the one hundred arm attack.

However, while the five were stifled by having to try to withstand the attack of a hundred arms, the thousand arms of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial moved at the same time and a thousand divine skills that rock the earth began to accumulate energy when the sky threatened to collapse in the high.

Bai Ling and the others were shocked to see this, as ten times ten the previous attack would be a hundred, but soon they remembered they were dealing with a retarded idiot.

The human head was about to unleash all its power at once! The hundred-arm attack had all of a sudden transformed into a thousand-arm attack.

A thousand Return to Void Stage spell techniques converged, and just the light radiating from them was enough to light up this entire mystic realm. If the attack really did fall, everyone felt like they would have front-row seats to the latest showing of Armageddon.

However, at this very moment, a change occurred again, and a series of blood cuts suddenly appeared on the body of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial.

The dragon's head then threw up a large mouthful of blood before opening its eyes, seemingly with great difficulty, upon which it was greeted by the sight of the one thousand techniques being prepared all at once by the human head.

The phoenix head also threw up a large mouthful of blood before opening a pair of listless eyes. It then saw the one thousand spell techniques the human head was preparing.

Immediately after seeing what the idiot was doing, they poured out a torrent of abuse and ordered him to stop the thousand spell techniques he was preparing.

The two big brothers had spoken, so the human head had no choice but to oblige. All the spell techniques from the one thousand arms began to vanish. In addition, all of the one thousand arms also began to crumble.

The Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial’s legs gave out from under it, and it triple faceplanted into the ground.

It was also at this moment that the rainbow halo above the human head began to crumble as its aura quickly diminished.

Everyone felt as if they had just survived an epic calamity, and they all heaved sighs of relief as they looked down at the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial sprawled out on the ground.

Bai Ling then told everyone that if it weren't for the timely awakening of the dragon and phoenix heads, the human head would have triggered these thousand spell techniques and that would probably have resulted in all their deaths and the reaction of the attack would also take life of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial.

Immediately afterwards the side effect of the combination mystic technique came into effect. The Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial’s soul-combination mystic technique required a heavy price to be paid following its activation, and that the price was the heartwrenching pain of having its soul torn apart, just like what it was currently experiencing.

The massive nightmarish monster was now lying on the ground, rolling frantically from side to side in agony.

The pain of having one’s soul split apart was no less severe than having one’s soul destroyed. However, the pain of having one’s soul destroyed only lasted for a split second, but the pain of having one’s soul split apart was much more persistent…

### **Black Spirit Snake Makes his Move**

While the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial was turning in pain and agony for having her soul torn as a side effect of the soul-combination mystic technique, Long Kui wanted to take advantage of her weakened state and kill him, however she was stopped by Bai Ling that comforted her with a gentle smile and told her that the sealing technique was about to be unleashed so she wouldn’t get so tense.

At that moment the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial, who managed to recover from the devastating pain he was suffering, stood up with difficulty and turned his eyes to An Lin with hatred and anger at remembering An Lin's terrible sealing technique and his control over the rays.

When the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial with intent to kill furious in the eye prepared to bet everything to kill An Lin, the Black Spirit Snake's warning rang in An Lin's ears.

*“Ding ding ding! The Realm Creation Evil Vanquishing Sword’s second technique, Heaven and Earth Seal, is ready! You can flex when you’re ready!”*

A light smile appeared on An Lin’s face, and there was not even a single hint of fear in his eyes as he looked at the oncoming Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial.

He pointed one hand at the sky and another finger at the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial. “I am the master of this world! I hereby command the power of the Great Dao to unleash the Heaven and Earth Seal!”

He pointed a finger toward the sky, upon which the entire sky was lit up by a golden, divine glow, and everything in this world seemed to slow down and become more sluggish.

This effect also acted on everyone’s senses, including those of the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial. It too felt as if everything within this world had slowed down, and even its own fearsome speed of movement appeared to be as slow as a snail that was crawling uphill.

The dragon head and phoenix head looked up into the sky involuntarily, where the clouds had parted to reveal a divine sword.

The divine sword’s radiance lit up the entire world, and countless tiny chains bound themselves over the sword. The chains had the appearance of golden stars, and they obscured the sword so that no one was able to see what the sword truly looked like.

A sharp ringing erupted across heaven and earth, and it was like a piece of heavenly music to everyone’s ears, but a sense of extreme fear welled up in the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial’s heart upon hearing it.

It immediately half-knelt onto the ground as it roared and clamped its hands over its ears.

When it raised its head again, they discovered that the divine sword had well and truly descended upon this world. The hilt of the sword transformed into the heavens, controlling the will of the sky, while the blade of the sword transformed into the earth, sealing and restricting all evil creatures.

Boundless, inexhaustible sealing power surged directly from heaven and earth toward the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial. The countless golden chains bound their body, and the power of heaven and earth pierced through their chest before beginning to seal away all of their powers.

The anguished wails of the dragon head and phoenix head slowly diminished as their awareness grew more and more blurry.

The human head had awoken, and it stared up at the divine sword in the sky with shock and horror. “Ahhhh! It’s so terrifying! What the hell is this? Brother Phoenix, Brother Dragon, save me!”

However, there was no response from the other two heads. The only response was a golden sword projection that was imbued with paramount power.

The golden sword projection pierced through the human head before merging into its body.

The human head’s eyes rolled over again as its head lolled to the side before it fainted.

Another pillar of green light, which was imbued with the power of heaven and earth, descended from the sky before enshrouding the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial’s body like a green cocoon.

The divine sword vanished and silence resumed.

A white-robed man remained standing in the air, and his entire body seemed to be glowing with a dazzling light.

Everyone turned their eyes toward him with differing emotions. However, one emotion was constant among everyone, and that was reverence!

The moment An Lin crossed his hands behind his back as he thought about how he was going to wrap things up, the Black Spirit Snake's voice rang out again in his ear.

*“Ding ding ding! The Realm Creation Evil Vanquishing Sword’s third technique, God-Slaying Strike, is ready! You can flex when you’re ready!”*

An Lin had not prepared anything for an attack like this, so he just managed to invent something on the spot.

He pointed a finger toward the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial before speaking in a slow voice, “I have one more sword strike known as the God-Slaying Strike. It summons the power of the Heavenly Dao to strike down anyone who dares to stand before me. Even a god would fall to this strike!”

Bai Ling's expression changed when she looked at An Lin with confusion in her eyes, then a golden divine sword fell from the sky and divided the entire sky.

It was imbued with boundless sharpness, and everything in its path crumbled before it even descended. This was a true killing technique; it was a sword strike of a God of Slaughter!

However, she was not being directed to the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial, but rather was targeting An Lin himself.

When An Lin suddenly felt an extremely potent sense of imminent destruction engulfing his entire body, he only had time to see a golden ray cross the sky at an extreme speed before tearing his divine body and piercing his chest.

An Lin felt as if all his internal organs had been pulverized by this sword strike, and the divine sword forced his body to crash onto the ground below, where it left a massive crater before dissipating into specks of golden light.

Heaven and earth suddenly fell completely silent as everyone stood rooted to the spot in shock.

When the golden light dissipated, a lithe and graceful woman who was wearing a black dress and had long, black hair that danced in the wind was sitting on top of An Lin.

She held a large golden sword, which punctured the right half of An Lin’s chest, and a hint of a smile lingered on her face.

Black Spirit Snake chuckled lightly as her serpentine lower body wound tightly around An Lin’s arms and waist, creating an inescapable bind.

That’s right. The woman who had suddenly stabbed An Lin was none other than Black Spirit Snake, who had allowed him to flex earlier!

Even though he didn’t even know what he had done wrong, tears still welled up in An Lin’s eyes as he implored with a sincere expression.

He knew that Black Spirit Snake had already spared his life and wasn’t really trying to kill him. Otherwise, the divine sword would’ve sunk itself into his heart instead of the right part of his chest.

Black Spirit Snake’s lips curved up in a smile as she slowly withdrew her sword before putting it away into her storage ring.

Blood gushed out in a frenzy from An Lin’s chest, but Black Spirit Snake very thoughtfully placed a beautiful hand over the wound on his chest to prevent excessive blood loss.

She then reached out her delicate hand reaching for the White Fox Divine Box on An Lin's back to the despair of Celestial Maiden Fei Ying and Duan Hunzi, who realized that she was after the phoenix egg.

Black Spirit Snake opened the White Fox Divine Box, and the phoenix egg appeared before her eyes.

After admiring the phoenix egg for a while and demonstrating its power and majesty to An Lin, she asked him if it was he who sent Tina and Xiao Ze to the top of the mountain and after seeing the confusion in An Lin's eyes she realized that he didn't seem to be lying and told him that he should introduce them to her if he gets a chance to do so in the future, because she was quite interested in them.

However, what An Lin didn’t know was that he had already paid the price for Xiao Ze and Tina’s actions. That inexplicable sword strike Black Spirit Snake inflicted upon him was payback for what they had done at the summit of the mountain…

After that the Black Spirit Snake turned toward the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial, which was cocooned in green light and waved her hand through the air. A vast power immediately hoisted the Holy Trinity Fiendcelestial into the air before sending it hurtling toward the massive pile of rubble that was once a gargantuan mountain.

“Heaven and earth, heed my call, Almighty Reversal!”

She made a peculiar hand seal, upon which wind and clouds surged between heaven and earth. The countless fragments of the gargantuan mountain were then swept up by an irresistible force before slowly floating into the sky, where they began to fuse together again.

In less than a minute, the gargantuan mountain was back to its original condition, complete with lush greenery and teeming with living creatures. It was almost as if its previous destruction was all but a dream.

All the Return to Void Stage mighty figures drew a massive lungful of air as they stared with incredulity at the scenes unfolding before their eyes.

After repairing the mountain, a satisfied smile appeared on Black Spirit Snake’s face, and she tossed her black ball toward Bai Ling. “I deliver on my promises. I’m now handing over the control of this world to you!”

She withdrew her spatial barrier and was just about to leave with her phoenix egg when a thought occurred to her. It seemed like it would be a good choice to use her blood here and now to make the phoenix egg accept her as its master!

So many people had gathered here for the phoenix egg.

With this in mind, Black Spirit Snake decided against leaving. She placed the phoenix egg down onto the ground with a buoyant grin. “I think I’ll make the phoenix egg accept me as its master before I leave!”

She slowly carved out an extremely complex spell formation on the golden egg, and just as the egg began to glow with a brilliant golden light, she slit open her own finger to release a drop of her blood essence.

The blood essence dripped onto the glowing egg, and Black Spirit Snake’s heart rate accelerated as she looked at the egg with anxiety and anticipation.

The blood essence dripped onto the smooth surface of the egg before slowly sliding down and dripping onto the ground.

Black Spirit Snake stared at the scenes unfolding before her with incredulity, and her chest rose and fell as her breathing accelerated.

A possibility suddenly occurred to Black Spirit Snake, and she unleashed another spell technique as a red light flashed from her fingertips. “Spirit of heaven and earth, trace the bloodline of this egg!”

This was a spell technique to determine if some other bloodline was connected to the phoenix egg.

In other words, it could determine whether the egg had already accepted a master!

The phoenix egg trembled for a short while before a golden line appeared from it. The golden line circled through the air before slowly flying toward An Lin, where it finally attached itself to An Lin’s chest.

Everyone fell silent again. This was the type of silence in which even a pin drop could be heard.

Black Spirit Snake opened her mouth as she looked at An Lin, but she felt as if there were some sort of obstruction in her chest, rendering her unable to speak!

She should’ve thought about this possibility a long time ago!

An Lin and Bai Ling had been together for so long, and during that time, Bai Ling definitely would’ve encouraged An Lin to take the egg for himself!

She just didn’t think… that An Lin would actually dare to take the egg!

She had spent a lot of time and energy in this world, all for this phoenix egg.

However, not only had she given away her control over this world to another person, even the phoenix egg had fallen into someone else’s hands. Her efforts were all in vain, and she had nothing left. How could she not be enraged?!

Black Spirit Snake made her way toward An Lin, and her storage ring flashed as her divine tool, Realm Creation Evil Vanquishing Sword, appeared in her hand again. The sword exuded an extremely formidable aura.

An Lin took a deep breath and raised his head to look into Black Spirit Snake’s eyes.

He was feeling the onset of panic, but he couldn’t lose in a battle of wills!

At that moment, a white light passed, and Bai Ling positioned herself in front of An Lin to face the Black Spirit Snake, who in a rare show of vulnerability, with tears in her eyes full of complaints, told Bai Ling that she would let An Lin go if she renounces control of this mystical kingdom for her, only to be firmly refused.

Bai Ling shot a glance at Black Spirit Snake before continuing, “Furthermore, you have far from nothing left. The Zhan Qi Continent, the You Ming Continent, the Hui Ling Continent, aren’t those all yours? And those are only the ones that I know of; there are even more that I do not know about… so don’t try to evoke my sympathy!”

After being exposed by Bai Ling, the vulnerability on Black Spirit Snake’s face disappeared, and it was replaced by a killing intent as she turned toward An Lin again. “An Lin, I’m not an unreasonable snake, so I won’t kill you for the phoenix egg. But… that doesn’t mean I’m not pissed off! I’m going to take it upon myself to teach you a lesson every time I encounter you!”

Black Spirit Snake stared deeply into An Lin’s eyes as goosebumps popped up all over An Lin’s body.

She then harrumphed coldly and transformed into a streak of black light as she flew toward the central region of this world.

Upon seeing this, An Lin collapsed to the ground while panting heavily. He felt as if he had just escaped certain death.

The killing intent of a Dao Integration Stage super mighty figure was not something to be scoffed at!

“Is she gone now?” An Lin asked while fear lingered in his heart.

Bai Ling nodded with a smile. “She has. Congratulations, An Lin, yet another beauty has made a spot for you in her heart!”

Bai Ling was clearly taking pleasure in An Lin’s misfortune, and he didn’t want to say anything as he silently put away his phoenix egg.

## Trivia

* The Gundams were technological products from Purple Star that An Lin obtained from the 88th Purple Star Research Institute.
* This is the sixth Purple Star Research Institute, also known as the Phoenix Research Institute. This place once belonged to the Purple Star, but Nuwa gained control over this research institute following the fall of the Purple Star civilization.
* After Bai Ling became the Pavilion Master of the Purple Star Pavilion, she modified that realm to suit the cultivation of Four Nine Immortal Sect disciples and was renamed Small Phoenix World.