In the black mist, the Yin Realm King's figure moved like a ghost, merging with the black mist. This black mist could actually obscure vision, making it difficult even for the most powerful Sky Yin Realm Master to see, making it impossible to pinpoint the Yin Realm King's figure within the mist.
"Myriad Ice Thunder Origin!"
The Mysterious Yin Realm Master formed hand seals, and countless ice crystals condensed in the black mist, acting as bells. In an instant, the sound of shattering ice crystals was incessant, allowing everyone to barely locate the Yin Realm King.
But the next moment, the millions of ice crystals condensed by the Profound Ice Realm Master shattered inch by inch in the mist, the sounds almost simultaneously echoing from all directions.
"To make this King pay such a heavy price, none of you will live today!"
The Yin Realm King's voice came from the depths of the mist, accompanied by a bone-chilling cracking sound. The Mysterious Yin Realm Master suddenly let out a scream, his protective Profound Ice exploding. Half of his body was instantly swallowed by the black mist, leaving only his left arm grasping futilely at the Void Realm. At the same time, a wisp of black mist coiled around the Origin power of his Profound Ice Realm.
"Save... me..."
The Profound Ice Realm Master spoke with difficulty, only to find that he couldn't make a sound. His Realm Origin power was being forcibly stripped away by the Yin Realm King.
"Disciple!"
The Evil God Realm Master roared, and two arms of the six-armed Demonic God's phantom suddenly shattered, the resulting light briefly dispersing the black mist. Everyone saw the Profound Ice Realm Master, now only half a body, lying in the Void Realm, still entangled with wisps of black mist, and the Yin Realm King below, manipulating the black mist to strip away the Origin power.
It was this momentary restoration of sight that allowed everyone to pinpoint the Yin Realm King's location, and they all attacked.
The Yin Realm King was pushed back by everyone's full-force attack, forced to abandon the Profound Ice Realm Master. In any case, the Profound Ice Realm Master had already lost his combat ability for a short time and no longer posed a threat to him.
"In this King's Domain, this King is invincible!"
Before the Yin Realm King finished speaking, the Demonic God's phantom shattered two more arms. The Yin Realm King, who was above everyone, was once again exposed. The Sky Yin Realm Master bore the brunt, shaking the Blood Soul Banner to fight the Yin Realm King. The Blood Soul Banner had absorbed the vengeful souls of the Yin Sha Guard, as well as the souls of three individuals comparable to top-tier World Masters, greatly increasing its power.
The Blood Dragon even seemed to solidify, baring its fangs and claws as it lunged at the Yin Realm King.
After a brief moment of light, darkness descended again, and everyone once again lost track of the Yin Realm King. The previously ferocious Blood Dragon hovered in the Void Realm, as if contemplating why it had lost its target.
The Evil God Realm Master was just about to control the Demonic God's phantom to self-destruct its remaining two arms, when a giant claw suddenly condensed in the black mist, actually tearing apart the Demonic God's phantom's chest.
The Evil God Realm Master spat out a mouthful of essence blood, but still forcibly controlled the Demonic God's phantom to self-destruct. The light generated by this explosion was much stronger than before, illuminating all the black mist.
The price was also incredibly heavy. The demonic lines on the Evil God Realm Master's forehead completely dissipated, and the Demonic God who had dominated the Yin Realm Starfield for ten thousand years thus met its end.
"Yin God, you could actually bear to abandon the Demonic God?"
The Yin Realm King's roar came, he had already been targeted by the Sky Yin Realm Master and could no longer rely on the black mist to hide himself. The next moment, he was torn open by a Blood Dragon's claw.
The Yin Realm King's figure re-solidified, but he was a hundred times older than before, his hair completely white, and his black armor covered in cracks. Only his eyes burned with a mad, bloody light.
"You are all crazy! Crazy! Even if you can kill me, you won't be able to rule the Yin Realm Starfield. Why don't we stop here? After this, as you said, you won't have to pay resources to the Yin Realm anymore, how about it?"
The Yin Realm King at this moment no longer had his previous arrogance. His demeanor was aged, and he now adopted a humble posture, pleading bitterly.
"Yin Jue, things have reached this point, there is only life and death between us."
The Sky Yin Realm Master said, brandishing the Blood Soul Banner, and blood-colored streams of light formed a cage.
The Dead Spirit Realm Master activated the ancient bronze coffin, and as the lid opened, a skeleton crawled out from within. The skeleton's aura was incredibly powerful, not much weaker than the Profound Ice Realm Master and the Nether Shadow Realm Master.
The Earth Yin Realm Master and the Mysterious Yin Realm Master also successively unleashed their most powerful attacks, intending to launch a final encirclement of the Yin Realm King.
The Yin Realm King sneered, "What a bunch of lunatics! In that case, then all of you shall die!"
The bone sword swept horizontally, tearing open the blood-light cage, and rushed towards the weakest corner of the Celestial Evolution World's grand Formation.
That was the gap left behind after the Tian Yan World Lord's self-detonation, and the remaining Formation power was less than thirty percent of its Peak.
"Self-destruct Origin, open!"
The Yin Realm King made the most insane decision. His black armor shattered inch by inch, and the Yin Realm Origin within him erupted like a volcano, transforming into a dark ink-colored pillar of light that pierced through heaven and earth.
In an instant, wherever the ink-colored light pillar passed, space was completely annihilated. The Sky Yin Realm Master's Blood Soul Banner was sent flying, and the Dead Spirit Realm Master's ancient bronze coffin cracked with fine lines.
The Earth Yin Realm Master, the Mysterious Yin Realm Master, and the Nether Shadow Realm Master were sent flying backward, and the already injured Profound Ice Realm Master was reduced to ashes in this explosion.
"Pfft!"
The blood-colored pillar of light collided with the Formation gap, and the entire Sky Evolution Realm ruins trembled violently. The Yin Realm King flew backward like a kite with a broken string, a bloody hole exploding in his chest, and even his Divine Soul was torn with cracks from the Origin self-detonation, but he finally broke out of the grand Formation.
"Chase!"
The Sky Yin Realm Master clutched his bleeding chest, his eyes bloodshot.
However, the Yin Realm King's figure had already transformed into a bloody rainbow, fleeing towards the Forbidden Land of the Yin Realm Starfield. That was the retreat path the Yin Realm King had cultivated for ten thousand years, concealing a teleportation Formation that could instantly traverse star realms.
The bloody rainbow swept across the Void Realm, and the stars along the way were polluted by the blood-light, transforming into strange blood beads. As the Yin Realm King flew past each area, he directly devoured all living beings on the passing stars to forcibly maintain his rapidly disintegrating Divine Soul.
He knew that the several great World Masters behind him would soon catch up. Although they were all injured, any one of them was not something the current Yin Realm King could handle, unless the Yin Realm King truly didn't want to live and continued to burn his remaining Origin.
He not only had to enter the Forbidden Land before being caught, but also had to quickly recover his strength, otherwise, if he was discovered by others, it would definitely be a dead end.
Just as the bloody rainbow entered the Forbidden Land, about to enter the Formation, a figure in a green robe suddenly stepped out of the Void Realm, blocking the teleportation platform.
"Yin Realm King, your path ends here."
Chaos Qi flowed at Li Mu's fingertips, and the phantom of the Chaotic Dao Tree behind him slowly unfolded. Where the tree phantom enveloped, the Yin Realm King's bloody rainbow strangely paused in the air, and those polluted star blood beads exploded one after another, turning into harmless light spots.
Looking at the phantom behind Li Mu, the Yin Realm King couldn't help but feel a chill, because he was horrified to discover that the other party's aura was actually above his own Peak.
In other words, even if he were at his Peak, he might not be an opponent for this person.
"Your Excellency, who are you?"
The Yin Realm King's voice trembled. The sudden appearance of a powerful expert made his recently relaxed nerves tense up again, and he didn't even notice the Chaos Qi on Li Mu's body.
"Your Excellency, in the Yin Realm Starfield, there is a realm where I have countless rare treasures hidden. As long as you are willing to let me go, all of those will be yours. I can give you the location and the method to break the Restriction right now, how about it?"
The Yin Realm King saw that Li Mu didn't attack immediately, and he thought Li Mu had something to gain. He immediately listed all the gold and silver treasures he had plundered over countless years since becoming the Yin Realm King.
"And, and other places, as long as Your Excellency spares me, I can give them all to you!"
"How do I know if what you're saying is true or false?"
Li Mu retracted the Chaotic Dao Tree. The reason he had unfolded it just now was merely to break through the blood beads around the Yin Realm King.
After hearing Li Mu's words, a glint flashed in the Yin Realm King's eyes.
"I can give you the location right now!"
He said, and a star map appeared in his hand, which he handed to Li Mu. Li Mu took it without even looking and directly put it away.
Watching this scene, the Yin Realm King was somewhat puzzled by Li Mu's actions.
"What do you mean, Your Excellency?"
As he spoke, he also looked back to see if the several World Masters had caught up.
Li Mu scoffed, laughing mockingly, "Foolish, it's still mine even if I kill you."
These words directly stunned the Yin Realm King in place. He looked at Li Mu with some disbelief, clearly not having anticipated that it could be like this.
"Your Excellency must be joking. Leaving aside other things, just the Restrictions in these places are as difficult to break as ascending to heaven..."
The Yin Realm King hadn't finished speaking when Li Mu waved his hand to interrupt him.
"These so-called treasures you speak of are not as valuable to me as the Yin Realm Origin power within your body."
"Realm Origin power? What do you mean?" Despair flashed in the Yin Realm King's eyes: "This King has no grievances or enmities with you. Let me go, and the Yin Realm Treasure Mansion is yours to take! You can even absorb the Origin power of all realms within the entire Yin Realm Starfield, how about it?"
Li Mu shook his head, a giant Chaos Axe appearing in his palm: "The Yin Realm's Origin power is good nourishment for the Chaotic Dao Tree."
"You want to gnaw on this tough bone of mine? Be careful not to break your teeth!" The Yin Realm King gritted his teeth and said. He knew he was no match, yet he burned his last Divine Soul, and the bone sword, carrying the residual power from his self-detonation, struck out.
Li Mu swung his axe to meet it. The moment the Chaos Axe blade collided with the bone sword, the cursed runes on the bone sword melted away like ice and snow.
The Yin Realm King felt an irresistible devouring force spread along his arm. The already fragmented Origin within his body began to uncontrollably surge towards Li Mu's palm.
At this moment, the Yin Realm King finally realized, recalling the Chaos Qi on Li Mu's body when they first met, and what Li Mu had just said about the Chaotic Dao Tree, combined with the fact that all the Night Shadow Realm's Origin power had disappeared, even he, slow as he was, reacted.
"Chaotic Great Dao! You are the Chaotic Great Dao?"
The Yin Realm King's bone sword shattered inch by inch under the giant Chaos Axe, and the cursed runes scattered like startled insects. He could clearly feel the Yin Realm Origin within his body frantically draining along his arm. Those Origin powers that supported his status as a Realm King now became a death knell.
"Damn Chaotic Great Dao, come die with this King!" The Yin Realm King suddenly opened his mouth and spat out a mass of pitch-black essence blood. That was his last Origin essence, containing the Yin Sha power accumulated over billions of years in the Yin Realm Starfield.
The essence blood transformed into a ferocious ghost head, pouncing towards Li Mu's face with a soul-devouring shriek. This was the Yin Realm King's last trump card, at the cost of burning his remaining Divine Soul to drag his opponent down with him.
Even the kings of the other several Star Domains had to temporarily avoid the sharpness of the Yin Realm King's final strike, not daring to meet it head-on, for the accumulation of a Star Domain King Realm over countless years was all contained in this one blow.
Li Mu, however, did not dodge or evade. His left hand formed a sword with his fingers, and the phantom of the Chaotic Dao Tree condensed into a single point of grey starlight at his fingertip. The moment his fingertip touched the ghost head's glabella, that mass of essence blood, capable of annihilating a top-tier World Master, instantly melted into a wisp of green smoke like ice meeting the sun.
"Pfft!"
The Yin Realm King's body trembled violently, and a grey mark appeared on his glabella—a sign that Chaos Power had invaded his Sea of Consciousness. He tried to retreat, but found his feet entangled by the roots of the Chaotic Dao Tree. The Chaos runes on the roots were slowly eroding his Physical Body.
"With the King Realm Origin as nourishment, the Chaotic Great Dao should be able to advance further."
Li Mu rotated his wrist, and the giant Chaos Axe swept out, an arc of light passing across the Yin Realm King's neck.
The moment the head of this King, who had ruled the Yin Realm Starfield for ten thousand years, separated from his torso, his remaining Divine Soul let out an unwilling roar. But before the roar could subside, it was completely crushed by the surging Chaos Qi, leaving not even a sliver of a chance for Reincarnation.
The Yin Realm King's corpse slowly fell, and the pitch-black King's token on his chest rolled to the ground. The bloodstains on it were quickly purified by the Chaos Qi, revealing intricate star map patterns. The coordinates of all realms in the Yin Realm Starfield were recorded on it, and now it became ownerless.
Li Mu reached out and beckoned. The King's token and the still-undispersed Origin core within the Yin Realm King's body simultaneously flew into his palm. The core felt cold to the touch, flowing with a Yin Sha Origin entirely different from that of the Night Shadow World and the Cold Water Realm, and it also contained faint traces of King Realm prestige.
"Receive."
The Chaos Treasure Mansion opened behind him, and the Origin core and the King's token were sucked into it.
Inside the mansion, the Chaotic Dao Tree instantly spread its branches and leaves. Its roots coiled around the core, beginning to suckle the Yin Sha power from within, and faint black patterns appeared on the tree's trunk.
"When the snipe and clam fight, the fisherman benefits. This is exactly it."
The next moment, Li Mu's figure disappeared from his original spot. Only a few breaths after Li Mu left, six figures landed one after another.
"There was a very powerful combat aura just now. Who killed Yin Jue?"
"He left immediately after killing Yin Jue. He should be an enemy, not a friend."
"When did the Yin Realm Starfield have such a figure? Could it be someone from another Star Domain?"
"If Yin Jue dies, what should we do if other Star Domains invade in force?"
"The Tian Yan World Lord has already left behind a countermeasure. We don't need to worry. The most important thing is to find the person who killed Yin Jue!"
"Not a single trace of Yin Jue's Yin Realm Origin power is left! It was taken by someone!"
"It seems the disappearance of the Night Shadow Realm's Origin power wasn't the work of some high-tier realm either. It might also have been done by this mysterious person."
"We can't rule out that possibility."
...
On the other side, Li Mu had already teleported near the Profound Ice Realm using the Yin Realm King's token he had just acquired. According to the Three Thousand Realms Map's description, if a World Master who controls Realm Origin power dies, that Origin power will return to the realm, unless it's like the Yin Realm King, whose Origin power was taken away.
Li Mu's purpose for this trip was the now ownerless Profound Ice Realm Origin power. (End of Chapter)
