Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 1394: Chapter 672: Death of the Shang Mang Demon Monarch

Xuanhuang Space Domain.

Somewhere.

In the dim and boundless void, from time to time, floating islands drifted by. The void here was in a chaotic state, making it difficult for those below the Divine Monarch to enter. Yet, these floating islands seemed to possess peculiar properties, capable of resisting the chaos in the void.

This was a special secret realm in the Xuanhuang Space Domain. In the vast and endless void, there were countless such floating islands. Some islands were perilously dangerous, with crises at every step, while others were very safe and might even breed many resources.

And on one of these unremarkable floating islands.

Amidst a barren hill without a trace of life, inside a dark brown cave, a figure sat cross-legged. He wore pitch-black armor, with a faint flow of black demonic qi around his body. This was none other than the Shang Mang Demon Monarch, one of the Divine Monarchs from the Ancestral Demon Realm.

“So, the Ancestral Demon Realm is destroyed, is it?”

Shang Mang Demon Monarch slowly opened his eyes at this moment, a hint of gloom reflected deep within them.

Once dominating the Space Domain, plundering wantonly, he once believed he would be the Demon Clan’s second Divine Monarch Overlord to reach the Eighth Layer Heaven. Yet before he fully understood the Three Mysterious Fusion and ascended to the Eighth Layer Heaven, he encountered the reincarnation of a Nine Layer Heavens being like Chen Mu.

If he could do it all over again, he would not have used the Da Xuan World to test Fan Gu Divine Monarch. Even if things couldn’t be undone, he would have tried by all means to eliminate Chen Mu before he succeeded.

But now,

it all seemed meaningless.

It is said that a Dao Venerable from the Time Lineage can reverse time, return to the past, and correct past mistakes. But he was not a Dao Venerable from the Time Lineage, not even a Divine Monarch of the Time Lineage.

“To return to the Nine Layer Heavens so swiftly, he must have been an extraordinary figure in his previous life.”

“Now, the only option left is to do just that.”

Shang Mang Demon Monarch let out a silent sigh.

Chen Mu returned to the Nine Layer Heavens and effortlessly obliterated the entire Ancestral Demon Realm. The mortal enmity between him and Chen Mu was a causality that couldn’t be erased. Hiding to the ends of the earth might not even be enough to escape Chen Mu’s vengeance.

To survive, merely staying away from the Nanhua Void wasn’t enough. One must stake their life in a desperate gamble.

And so,

the cave plummeted into deathly silence.

It was unknown how much time passed before a foot quietly stepped into the cave.

The figure wore plain clothes, draped in an ordinary rough cloth garment. However, merely by his appearance, the surrounding void for ten thousand miles became frozen. Even a Divine Monarch of the Seventh Layer Heaven would find it impossible to move in this immobilized void.

“You’ve come.”

Shang Mang Demon Monarch looked at the person entering the cave, showing no surprise in his eyes.

“I have.”

Chen Mu said indifferently, “Your life is at least worth me coming to take it myself.”

Even though Shang Mang Demon Monarch had fled far from the Nanhua Void, escaping countless voids, hundreds of space seats away, for Chen Mu, who stepped into the Nine Layer Heavens with the Void Dao, spatial distances had almost lost significance.

Though he couldn’t appear anywhere in the Endless Universe with just a thought, each step he took could easily cross one space seat, reaching distances of hundreds of seats in an instant.

“Haha, I once thought Fan Gu was my clan’s nemesis, who would have imagined you would emerge out of nowhere. To be targeted by a being of the Nine Layer Heavens, how honored I am. Moreover, in this life, to prove Dao through the Void Lineage to the Nine Layer Heavens, you must have been among the most formidable in the previous Nine Layer Heavens, possibly nearing the utmost power below Dao Venerable?”

Shang Mang Demon Monarch faced Chen Mu with no hint of tension, but instead, an expression of great calmness.

He naturally knew the moment Chen Mu destroyed the Ancestral Demon Realm and had returned to the Nine Layer Heavens via the Void Lineage. With the Nine Layer Heavens of the Void Lineage, hiding to the ends of the earth bore no significance, hence, his means of confronting Chen Mu was not to hide.

“Have you split your Divine Body?”

Chen Mu looked at Shang Mang Demon Monarch, suddenly speaking faintly.

Previously, he wasn’t clear through causality, but now that he was here in front of Shang Mang Demon Monarch, he could sense the Demon Monarch’s Divine Body wasn’t whole or was extremely feeble, with at most only half of his Divine Power.

This wasn’t due to injuries, but because he had voluntarily split his Divine Body. At present, Shang Mang’s power level didn’t even reach the Peak of the Seventh Layer Heaven, leaving no doubt that there was another similar avatar elsewhere.

To call it an avatar might be somewhat inaccurate.

This was more like splitting his Divine Power almost in half, making both virtually the main body, otherwise, Chen Mu would have detected it earlier.

“Hahaha, indeed.”

Shang Mang Demon Monarch raised his head to look at Chen Mu, a hint of madness emerged in his eyes, “A being as powerful as you, nearly reaching the edge of the Universe in your past life, naturally leaves me without any delusions of luck. Facing you, ordinary methods offer no chance of survival. Only risking those most perilous secret realms that even you would fear to enter!”

“Here in the Xuanhuang Space Domain, there’s such a place, akin to the Void River, called the Xuanyuan Dao River. At its depths lies a massive whirlpool, leading to an extremely perilous secret realm, where even a Divine Monarch’s existence is almost certain death!”

Shang Mang Demon Monarch’s face twisted grimly.

Such perilous secret realms are like the many whirlpools in the Void River, leading to unknown dangerous places.

The hazards encountered in such places could endanger all avatars, even if he split half his Divine Body. Should he encounter a deadly peril inside, every part of him would be annihilated.