Chapter 739: Impact

‘The Star Emperor?’

Yang Xiao was stunned, a flicker of confusion in his eyes as he watched the supreme Star descend from the heavens, brilliant and powerful.

But soon, a voice rang out, instantly dispelling all his doubts.

“Damn it! Star Old Ghost, you actually hid your true body in the void! Are you trying to kill me?”

Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch roared.

“Yuan Yang Beast! You die today!”

From within the brilliant Star, the voice of the Star Emperor echoed.

Evidently.

Just as Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch had said.

This time.

He had truly come with the intent to kill Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch.

‘To think the Star Emperor hates this guy so much.’

Yang Xiao’s heart stirred.

His gaze was fervent, his eyes fixed on the unfolding scene without blinking.

However, the Star Emperor, now transformed into a supreme Star, had no discernible features.

Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch, on the other hand.

Was seething with rage.

And overflowing with hatred.

He stood facing the Star Emperor’s will-clone.

But at this moment, he had neither the mind nor the luxury to bother with destroying the Star Emperor’s Clone. Instead, he began searching for a way to escape.

To dodge this killing blow from the Star Emperor.

However.

The Star Emperor had waited so long for this single opportunity.

One where he was completely certain he could heavily wound Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch in one fell swoop.

How could it be so easy to dodge?

And so.

The moment Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch thought to dodge.

The Star Emperor’s Clone—the very one that had emerged from Yang Xiao’s body to act as bait—gave a strange smile, and its entire being instantly burst apart.

It transformed into eighteen thousand Stars of various sizes.

They actually formed an immense and incomparably profound Array.

This Array.

Under normal circumstances, Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch probably wouldn’t have given it a second thought.

Given a little time, he could have shattered it with ease.

Although the Array was profound, at most it could only trap a Peak Emperor, and not for long at that. For a Supreme Immortal Monarch like him, whose power was comparable to a Top-tier Emperor, breaking it would be child’s play.

At the very most, it could hold him for half a breath.

But now.

Things were different.

Never mind half a breath; even a single instant.

For Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch, was a fatal crisis.

Because.

The Star Emperor’s attack—his very being transformed into a supreme Star—would land in far less than half a breath.

“Damn it! I was truly careless this time. But for this guy to think he can kill me? Impossible!”

Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch snorted coldly.

He knew he had fallen for the trap.

Yet for some reason, he wasn’t the least bit afraid.

It was as if he didn’t believe the Star Emperor could possibly kill him.

He abandoned all thought of fleeing or dodging, turned, and blasted out a palm strike.

He used.

His famous Ultimate Skill, the Six Paths Celestial Wheel Palm Technique.

With a single palm.

The Six Paths appeared.

Especially now, to counter the Star Emperor’s supreme Star, he directly unleashed the strongest Divine Technique of the Six Paths Celestial Wheel Palm Technique: Six Paths Unite.

And then.

The six massive vortexes instantly merged into one.

Forming a single, gigantic six-colored whirlpool.

In terms of sheer presence, it was hardly any weaker than the supreme Star formed from the Star Emperor’s true body.

Moreover.

It contained an incredibly profound aura.

Yang Xiao took only a single glance.

And felt.

As if his very Heart Spirit and Soul were about to be sucked into the six-colored vortex.

He hurriedly focused his mind, not daring to look any longer.

What was even more bizarre to him was this.

Just as the Six Paths vortex reached its peak, something stirred within his body.

In the very place where the Heaven and Earth Origin Flame resided, there was a strange tremor.

It wasn’t the Heaven and Earth Origin Flame.

Rather, the stirring came from the body itself, and it even carried a sense of yearning.

It was as if something was about to emerge in response to the Six Paths vortex.

‘It’s the Essence Qi! The withered source of my Essence Qi!’

In a flash of insight, Yang Xiao suddenly understood.

Ever since his spirit had descended into this body, he had known it possessed many strange qualities. Besides his entire bloodline having transformed into that of the Star Lineage…

Even stranger was the withered Essence Qi within his body.

That was why he had been called trash, unable to cultivate at all.

He couldn’t become a true Martial Artist.

It wasn’t until Yang Xiao’s True Spirit descended and replaced the body’s original Origin with the Heaven and Earth Origin Flame that it began to recover.

This was what led to Yang Xiao’s current accomplishments.

At the time.

He hadn’t given it much thought.

He simply assumed his body was Innately deficient.

But as his cultivation and strength grew, he increasingly sensed that his body’s potential was astonishingly vast.

And a body with such outstanding potential could not possibly be Innately deficient, leading to withered Essence Qi.

In fact.

Any creature with withered Essence Qi, especially a relatively weak flesh-and-blood being like a member of the Human Race, would be unable to survive.

Yet.

This body of Yang Xiao’s had survived for nearly sixteen years before he took possession of it. If not for being plotted against, it might have continued to live on.

Just like the current Yang Xiao.

It just wouldn’t have been able to cultivate the Martial Dao.

This was all extremely strange.

Taking everything into account.

With Yang Xiao’s vast knowledge, he could only think of one possibility—one that also seemed the most impossible.

‘Bloodline plunder! It must be bloodline plunder. It seems my identity in this life is, indeed, the child of this man named Yuan Yang. Otherwise, he never would have been able to perform a bloodline plunder on this body!’

Realizing this.

As Yang Xiao looked at Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch again, a new layer of fury was added to the anger he already felt from his hatred of the Immortal Dao.

Because this guy.

Was simply inhuman!

BOOM!

Just then.

The Star Emperor’s supreme Star finally collided with Yuan Yang Immortal Monarch’s Six Paths vortex.

Instantly, an incredibly terrifying shockwave.

Erupted from the impact.

A shockwave so powerful it seemed capable of shattering the void itself.

Within the entire void.

Endless cracks appeared.

Like fragile glass.

Shattering inch by inch.

It made it impossible for Yang Xiao to see what was happening within the collision.

Because.

Time and space themselves seemed to have been thrown into disarray.

What was even more terrifying was that.

Even though the chaotic time and space funneled the vast majority of the impact’s force into the surrounding shattered void.

A small portion still.

Managed to leak out.

And that leak.

Was enough to wash over Yang Xiao with the stench of death.

‘Not good! I can’t withstand this aftershock!’

Yang Xiao’s expression changed dramatically.

He subconsciously began to retreat.

But very quickly.

He discovered that it wasn’t necessary.

Because the lethal force that had leaked out was being nullified by streams of starlight.

It was the Star Array.

Precisely the Star Array that the Star Emperor’s Clone had transformed into earlier.

This Star Array.

Although not overwhelmingly powerful, it was strong enough to trap a Peak Emperor.

Dealing with a mere aftershock, therefore.

Was no cause for concern.

Simultaneously.

As the Star Array turned, it once again transformed into a figure and arrived before Yang Xiao.

It was none other than the Star Emperor’s Clone.

“Let’s go! We’re leaving!”

With a sharp cry.

The Clone vanished, taking Yang Xiao with it.

The void before them dissolved into Chaos.

Then.

Just as quickly, it returned to normal.

As if nothing had happened at all.

Not a single trace.

Was left behind.