Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension Chapter 1530: 828: Stealing the Treasure (Part 3)

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Zhao Sheng infiltrated a grand palace and accessed a hidden corridor leading deep into the Sky-reaching Cliff, bypassing multiple restriction arrays with ease. He entered the Treasure Cave, where a colossal True Dragon skeleton loomed amid over thirty jade platforms holding invaluable treasures enveloped in barriers. Using the Five Directions Treasure Mirror, he collected artifacts like the Earth Element Law Crystal, a mysterious jade box, and a bone tripod containing Nine Heavens Pure Qi, spending nearly half a day on the task before targeting the skeleton. As he absorbed it, a subtle gravity mechanism triggered, releasing a vast, deathly pressure; Zhao Sheng sensed the peril and fled underground via an Earth Escape Talisman just as the cave wall collapsed.

After taking a single breath, a burst of yellow glow erupted from the cliffside, shooting forward hundreds of feet in a flash.

Zhao Sheng had no time to consider other matters and promptly triggered the Thousand Miles Escape Sky Talisman concealed within his sleeve.

Within a mere instant, a dense blood-red radiance once more surrounded him completely.

This blood light rocketed upward, morphing into a breathtaking crimson rainbow that vanished at a velocity beyond comprehension.

Shortly after, an overwhelming and matchless Divine Thought suddenly stabbed through the Sky-reaching Cliff, covering a thousand-mile area in the blink of an eye.

Even though the blood rainbow moved with incredible swiftness, it failed to evade the pursuit of that Divine Thought.

After another breath, Zhao Sheng had traversed a thousand miles, emerging above a barren expanse of snow-covered wasteland.

With the blood light fading away, he swiftly extended his Divine Thought downward a hundred feet into the earth without delay, and right away set off the pre-set Ten Thousand Miles Crossing Array.

Buzz buzz!

Suddenly, the Nine Array Pillars burst forth with brilliant illumination, the terrain glowed in unison, and an enormous surge of heaven and earth's spiritual energy wildly surged into the soil and the Nine Array Pillars.

Zhao Sheng focused his mind intently, rapidly detecting the emergence of extraordinarily majestic “curves” amid the cosmos.

Guided by this enigmatic perception, his Divine Thought immediately connected with one of those “curves.”

A thunderous boom resounded across the heavens, massive rings of enormous shockwave clouds materialized from nowhere, then exploded outward in waves.

At that precise moment, a powerful Divine Thought sliced through the emptiness and reached the spot, yet it arrived just too late, discovering merely the concealed Array beneath the surface.

Hmph!

From the depths of the void, a chilling huff echoed abruptly, resembling a peal of thunder that scattered the entire canopy of shockwave clouds in an instant.

The ground cracked apart violently, exposing the cavern below and the crumbling Array encircling the Array pillar.

One breath passed, and then a tear ripped across the sky, from which a faintly translucent form emerged, drifting into view.

This form towered impressively, bearing a majestic visage that bore a resemblance to Jun Beiming.

In the entirety of the Green Peng Demon Country, only King Beiming was aware that a Returning to Void Realm Demon Emperor's Primordial Spirit lay dormant inside the Treasure Cave; no other demon had knowledge of it.

This Primordial Spirit belonged to Jun Beiming’s father, who during his lifetime had been an ascended Demon Clan Emperor originating from the Lower Realm.

Following his ascension, fortunes arrived successively, and ultimately, over ten thousand years, his lineage awakened fully, transforming him into a true-blooded Golden Wing Roc King.

Having relished three millennia of liberty, this ascended demon sadly drew the ire of a formidable foe.

In the ensuing brutal clash, his physical body was obliterated by a Space-Time Storm, leaving just a single Returning to Void Splitting God to narrowly flee.

What happened afterward requires little explanation. Jun Beiming himself had sealed him away in the Treasure Cave, intending to absorb and assimilate him upon achieving a breakthrough.

Regrettably, after close to ten thousand years, Jun Beiming was still mired in the Returning Void Third Realm, without even a hint of progress toward breaking through.

On this occasion, Zhao Sheng had thoroughly ransacked the Treasure Cave, unwittingly freeing him.

With this Returning to Void Splitting God shattering the seal and fleeing the Sky-reaching Cliff, a catastrophe unlike any before loomed over Demon Vibration City, located billions of miles distant.

Jun Beiming hovered amid the lofty skies, his face impassive, gazing upon the colossal metropolis swallowed by flames and bloodshed, screams piercing the firmament, yet he harbored no desire to act.

Right now, Nascent Soul Great Demons one by one stormed into Demon Vibration City, ruthlessly butchering the millions of inhabitants.

Across a span of thousands of miles, every Human Clan outpost crumbled swiftly, every human within utterly exterminated.

Suddenly, Jun Beiming’s eyes bulged wide, quickly igniting with blazing wrath.

“The seal has shattered! Who in the world… could have done such a thing?” Jun Beiming bellowed in fury, his anger surging toward the heavens.

In that instant, ferocious gales and Dragon Tornadoes whipped up from nothing, slamming savagely into the sprawling city beneath, hurling structures, beasts, and beings aloft, reducing the landscape to devastation.

The Nascent Soul Demon Birds fled in terror, desperate to avoid entanglement in the whirlwinds.

Gazing upon his terrified followers, Jun Beiming grappled with indecision.

Demon Vibration City teetered on the brink of total ruin at this juncture, and the Human Clan’s “grain route” stood ready to be severed.

With his meticulously crafted scheme on the cusp of success, how could he possibly head back to the Sky-reaching Cliff now, allowing everything to unravel?!

Yet, should he permit that Splitting God to get away, Jun Beiming experienced an intense unwillingness.

Departing proves difficult, remaining brings despair!

In the core of this demon lord’s being, genuine rage and vexation churned at that very moment.