CHAPTER 282: CHAPTER 267: HEART OF WU MENG!

The barely visible eyes within the dark-gray wings began to tremble upon the Blue Demon’s shout, appearing as if they would open wider.

In an instant, a wild, destructive, cruel, and violent aura, filled with every terrifying emotion, spread out.

Lu Chen sensed this aura, furrowing his brows as he watched the eyes within the wings slowly open, making him feel as though something terrifying was awakening from its slumber.

"We can’t let those eyes open!" Lu Chen sensed the danger and immediately leaped forward again, brandishing the Black Gold Ruler, which carried a violent power so terrifying that it shook the entire world, towards the Blue Demon.

Thud!

A light sound echoed in Lu Chen’s heart.

He suddenly saw his pupils enlarge, and his gaze met those eyes filled with violent bloodlust.

Whoosh!

Lu Chen quickly withdrew, his body swiftly retreating, cold sweat dripping from his forehead.

Too terrifying.

Lu Chen felt as if he had traversed between life and death, his entire demeanor alarmed and unstable.

Those eyes were filled with every cruelty, violence, anger, jealousy, and malice in the cosmos, seemingly gathering all negative emotions.

Just one glance shook his spirit.

The Eye of Life and Death slowly opened, but correspondingly, the Blue Demon’s face grew paler.

After spending tens of millions of years, devouring the blood of countless living beings, these eyes had only opened slightly. Forcibly opening them was depleting the Blue Demon’s life force, stripping away several eras of his lifespan.

The Eye of Life and Death could no longer open, and the Blue Demon’s face turned to an extreme pallor, the maximum limit at which he could open those eyes.

"Die!"

The Blue Demon let out a hoarse roar, and a strand of black and white light from the Eye of Life and Death traveled through time and space, instantly appearing before Lu Chen.

This strand of black-and-white light was too fast, so fast that even Lu Chen, now at the Celestial God Realm, couldn’t react at such a speed.

"Pfft!"

Lu Chen flew backward like a cannonball, spewing a large mouthful of blood, his expression listless as his skin cracked open, with blood slowly seeping from the fissures, as if he had become a man made of blood.

"Brother Lu Chen!"

Wang Xu stepped forward, reaching behind Brother Lu Chen to support him, and instantly a surge of vast force surged forth, causing Wang Xu’s hands to burst into a cloud of blood mist!

Boom!

Brother Lu Chen forced himself to stand, leaping out from an abyss ten thousand meters deep.

Wang Xu stood by his side, his hands swiftly healed, and the two exchanged a glance, filled with dread at the power displayed by the Eye of Life and Death.

Too terrifying; just a strand of light from those eyes had turned Brother Lu Chen into such a state, when he was someone capable of hunting down Celestial God Realm individuals.

Hunting Celestial God Realm individuals requires the physical body to transform to the Celestial God Realm.

Yet even a Celestial God Realm body nearly collapsed under this strand of black-and-white light from the Eye of Life and Death.

Even Wang Xu, who had only just touched it, had his hands explode.

"Pfft!" Lu Chen was severely injured, nearly killed, and the Blue Demon didn’t fare well either; this attack exhausted his life force until it became depleted.

"He... he still isn’t dead..."

The Blue Demon’s eyelids drooped, his life force spent, turning him into white hair in an instant, and his youthful appearance transformed into extreme old age, layer upon layer of wrinkles covering his face, his voice weak.

"But he endured that strike, his end won’t be much better than mine. Just a five-star super War King, yet he forced me into this situation..." The Blue Demon was unwilling, but at this moment, he no longer had the strength to fight. He could only search for potions to increase life force or consume the life force of other creatures to recover.

Right now, all the Blue Demon could do was flee.

Whoosh!

At once, the Blue Demon turned, his dark-gray wings flapping, covering a distance of 160,000 kilometers in an instant, moving at half the speed of light.

"You want to escape?!" At this moment, Lu Chen was severely injured, fortunately, he had armor from a Divine Treasure that helped mitigate fifty percent of the power, or else he wouldn’t have survived.

Seeing the Blue Demon turn to flee, Lu Chen, without hesitation, dragged his wounded body in direct pursuit.

His condition was bad, but so was his opponent’s, even worse. If he didn’t seize this opportunity for revenge, when else would he?

Lu Chen’s strength was originally greater than the Blue Demon’s, and practicing the Perfect Secret Technique for Body Technique made him faster than the Blue Demon.

Seeing this, the Blue Demon was anxious, desperately fleeing with all his might.

His condition had become extremely weak. The Mixed Cosmos within him was mostly a shattered space, incapable of further burning; continuing to burn the Mixed Cosmos would only destroy his cultivation, forcing a retreat to the Basic Level to start over.

The two streaked through the void like two beams of light, one escaping, the other chasing.

"Too fast, I can’t catch up at all." Wang Xu’s speed was nine thousand kilometers per second, while those at the Celestial God Realm had reached a sub-light-speed state, leaving him only to watch their figures depart.

Back at the palace above, ninety-three million living beings below were continuously bowing to the heavens, praying.

They had witnessed a battle similar to that of Celestial Gods; though both the Blue Demon and Lu Chen had controlled their power to the utmost, just a trace of what overflowed was enough to instill great fear in the many beings below.

"You need not kneel in worship anymore, all of you can leave. From now on, never again will the Blue Demon exist in this Star Domain."

Hearing Wang Xu’s words, countless beings were stunned, then displayed incredulous expressions. But having a sliver of hope was like a beacon of light for beings teetering on the brink of despair. After thanking Wang Xu profusely, ninety-three million beings hurriedly fled the palace.

Along the way, the corpses of Blue Demon envoys lay scattered everywhere.

The enraged beings couldn’t help but kick, beat, and bite, venting their fury.

"Hmm?" Wang Xu’s gaze fell onto the palace where there was a ragged little girl, about six or seven years old. Her face was filthy but couldn’t hide her rosy cheeks. She was collapsed on the ground, seemingly unconscious.

All the other beings had already run away, leaving only this little girl fainted on the ground.

In an instant, Wang Xu’s figure descended, his black robe floating gently, as he walked over to the little girl’s side, sensing her faint life force.

"Her life is stable, just shocked, nothing serious." To Wang Xu, this girl’s life force was indeed like a flicker of a star, yet it was enough to sustain a Star Level being for a long time.

"Mmm..."

Just as Wang Xu was about to turn away, the little girl quietly woke up behind him. She rubbed her sleepy eyes, her eyeballs bloodshot, sat up from the ground, and from her tattered clothes, several hideous whip marks could be seen on her skin, all creations of the Blue Demon envoys.

Wang Xu’s form rose into the air, preparing to ascend.

"Big brother..." The little girl uttered in a soft, timid voice. Wang Xu’s body paused, as if transported back to the days on Earth, playing with Wang Yan.

Wang Xu stepped onto the void and turned his face, cold: "You are no longer in danger, leave here."

"Big brother... I don’t know where this is, nor do I know the way back." The little girl spoke timidly, her small hands rubbing the corners of her clothes, fear evident in her eyes.

Wang Xu observed this little girl, who had already achieved Star Level status—Star Level was extremely common in the Cosmos; even infants of low-bloodline races could reach Star Level at birth.

"Where is your home?" Wang Xu asked.

The little girl hung her head, staring at the corners of her clothes, remained silent for a moment, then shook her head forcefully.

"What about your parents?"

The little girl shook her head again.

"Where do you usually live?"

Still more head shaking.

Wang Xu frowned. He could sense no fluctuation in the little girl’s aura, and her heartbeat didn’t accelerate, clearly not lying.

No home, no parents, not even knowing where she usually lived—she was most likely a wandering orphan.

Cosmic wanderers, as long as they reach Star Level, can wander in the void. In the external Cosmos, such wanderers are countless.

"You know nothing, I cannot help you, farewell."

Having wandered for so long, she might as well keep wandering; Wang Xu had encountered countless wanderers in the external Cosmos and was already indifferent to such occurrences.

"Big brother..." Seeing Wang Xu about to leave, the little girl was so anxious she was about to cry.

Wang Xu did not turn back, and walked away.

Thud!

With a light sound, the little girl’s body fell to the ground, unconscious once more.

Wang Xu’s body rose slowly, but midway, he halted.

With a long sigh, Wang Xu finally turned back.

"Forget it, as the saying goes, saving one life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. I’ll let my heart soften this time." Wang Xu bent down to pick up the little girl, but the moment his fingers touched her—

Boom!

Wang Xu felt his mind explode, his consciousness went blank. When he regained awareness, he found himself in another world.

"Where is this...?" Wang Xu, astonished, looked around him.

Before him was an egg-shaped mist, like a yellow-brown cocoon, with countless white strands—thin and thick—extending into the void in all directions, spreading throughout the entire void world, with no end in sight.

The yellow-brown mist was immense; although from afar it seemed the size of an ordinary star to Wang Xu, he knew this mist was very far away, its true size much larger than it appeared!

This place was just like the external Cosmos.

The only difference being, there were no beautiful, dazzling stars, no magnificent and colorful nebulae, nor vast and boundless starry skies, only this enormous mist and the web-like white strands spread across every corner of the void.

"Wu Meng... Wu Meng... This is the ’Prokaryote’ of Wu Meng Sacred Cosmos!" Wang Xu was in a daze, only recovering after a long while.

The Prokaryote is the core of the Cosmos, the blueprint of the Cosmos.

How vast a Cosmos is, is determined by the Prokaryote, which dictates the Cosmos’s size.

Different Prokaryotes give rise to different Cosmos.

Likewise, there can be significant structural differences.

The Heaven-Reaching Sacred Cosmos and Wu Meng Sacred Cosmos are very clear contrasts.

But these are not what’s important; the most crucial thing is that Wang Xu is now inside the Prokaryote!

Therefore—

"This is the legendary... Heart of Wu Meng!" (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) and vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)