Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 1395: Chapter 672: The Death of the Shang Mang Demon Monarch (2)

“The Xuanyuan Dao River, is it.”

Chen Mu’s gaze turned to the Shang Mang Demon Monarch, his eyes reflecting the endless void, piercing through all things, swiftly seeing in a distant, special secret realm, another body of the Shang Mang Demon Monarch standing at the edge of a giant vortex.

And that enormous vortex, with just one glance, made Chen Mu feel somewhat oppressed. The unfamiliar place it led to clearly had a certain level of danger for the Nine Layer Heavens, like the Abyss of Eternity.

The scene reflected in Chen Mu’s eyes, but his face remained as calm as an ancient well, saying, “It is indeed a method. In that case, try it.”

“Hahahahaha…”

The Shang Mang Demon Monarch laughed loudly, eyes filled with madness. The body standing at the vortex’s edge suddenly plunged into the dark, somber vortex, while the body in the cave said to Chen Mu, “This is a calamity. If I survive this tribulation, I will definitely ascend to the Nine Layer Heavens in the future!”

Chen Mu merely watched the Shang Mang Demon Monarch lightly, without speaking.

The Shang Mang Demon Monarch continued to laugh, but his laughter abruptly stopped just a few breaths later. His eyes showed extreme fear, as if he had seen something terrifying.

“Heh…”

Only one syllable escaped his lips before his entire being froze in place.

Bang!

The body of the Shang Mang Demon Monarch exploded instantly.

Simultaneously, an invisible wisp of grey mist extended from an unknown place, and the rock layer beneath where the Shang Mang Demon Monarch stood began to dissolve upon contact with this grey mist. Not only the rock layer, but even the surrounding void started to melt!

Chen Mu watched the wisp of grey mist, a slight change in his expression, and instantly retreated backward.

Chi!

As he moved, the wisp of grey mist seemed to become active, sensing Chen Mu’s presence. It swiftly spread towards him, forcibly penetrating layer upon layer of void stabilized by Chen Mu, emitting hissing sounds.

Chen Mu instantly retreated beyond the floating island, watching the wisp of grey mist continue to spread, a glint of cold light flashed in his eyes, and he gently clasped his hands in front of him.

Boom!

The void trembled as a surge of power from the Nine Layer Heavens erupted, violently enclosing the grey mist in the center and then fiercely squeezing it.

Under the pressure of the Void Force, the grey mist emitted sizzling sounds, surprisingly not collapsing and disintegrating immediately, even struggling tenaciously until it was forcibly crushed into nothingness after several breaths.

“Interesting.”

Chen Mu slowly lowered his hands, looking at the traces left by the eroding path of the grey mist in the void, a faint light flashing in his eyes. Simultaneously, in his vision, all the lines of causality related to the Shang Mang Demon Monarch had completely disappeared.

This indicated that the Shang Mang Demon Monarch had indeed completely fallen!

The Shang Mang Demon Monarch, who once regarded him as an ant, now fell like an ant before him. And all this had occurred in just over a hundred epochs, a period not long at all for many True Gods, let alone for the existence of Divine Monarchs, for whom it was merely the snap of a finger.

Although Chen Mu was not highly proficient in the Way of Cause and Effect, if a Divine Monarch from the Creation Lineage Nine Heavens took action, they might indeed obscure the causality related to the Shang Mang Demon Monarch. However, if the Shang Mang Demon Monarch could have enlisted the help of a Divine Monarch from the Creation Nine Heavens, he wouldn’t have needed to put on such a show before him. Moreover, that wisp of grey mist was not a method of the Creation Lineage at all.

Chen Mu had seen something similar to this grey mist before, in the depths of the Dark Sky Abyss, where extreme chaos manifested in such a way, not containing any complete mystical great dao, but rather, all the forces were presented in a twisted chaotic state.

If the Shang Mang Demon Monarch could wield such power, even a Ninth Layer Heavenly Divine Monarch would need to make a hasty retreat.

This kind of power, along with its half-body, directly ignored the concept of space, instantly permeating the other avatars. With the means of the Shang Mang Demon Monarch, it was simply impossible to survive. Just now, even if he were hit, he would likely have been injured.

Swish.

Chen Mu turned his gaze back to the distant void.

After a brief moment of staring, he took a step forward, quietly leaving the floating island and soon reached a vast, deep yellow river, diving directly to its bottom, arriving at the edge of a massive vortex.

This was where the half-body of the Shang Mang Demon Monarch stepped in. Although he couldn’t see what lay beyond the vortex, that wisp of grey mist had given Chen Mu many vague speculations.

“The Endless Universe has both order and reverse; these extremely dangerous secret realms are the void passages connecting order and chaos, connecting positive and negative. Perhaps when the universe reaches its end, that will be when order and chaos overlap.”

Chen Mu muttered softly, gazing at the pitch-black vortex.

For someone who had ascended the Nine Layer Heavens in the Void Lineage, Chen Mu already had a somewhat intuitive understanding of the entire Endless Universe. Though he could not contain the entire cosmic firmament in his sight, nor could he embody the structure of the Endless Space Domain in his heart, he at least understood the general idea.

The Endless Universe, with the Primordial Domain at its center, extends infinitely outward, forming the Endless Space Domain.

The Void has nine layers; the ninth is the end, where the origin of the great dao resides. However, beneath the ninth layer is another void universe, a negative universe, a world constructed of endless chaos, where causality is disordered, and time is reversed.

A very few secret realms, such as the Dark Sky Abyss, penetrate both.

As for the Abyss of Eternity, Chen Mu can now roughly determine its location, probably deep within the Ninth Layer Void, or at the boundary between the positive and negative of the Endless Space Domain.

Because of this, the Abyss of Eternity is filled with the forces of both order and chaos; those representing order are the cultivators, while the abyss beasts represent chaos. The shallow layers of the Abyss of Eternity lean more towards order, while the deeper layers lean towards chaos, which is why only those in the Nine Layer Heavens are qualified to explore the deeper regions.

Ordinary Divine Monarchs, who dare to venture into such chaotic places, are almost certainly doomed. As seen with that wisp of nameless grey mist, if an Eighth Layer Heavenly Divine Monarch Dominator encountered it, they would likely be contaminated. Even if they survived, they’d likely be grievously wounded!

In this light,

the Shang Mang Demon Monarch, as a Divine Monarch, did indeed possess some courage. Although attempting to enter such a perilous place feared by even the Nine Layer Heavens with a Seventh Layer status was almost suicidal, at least he did not beg for mercy.

Chen Mu slightly shook his head and then observed the vortex for a while longer before finally turning away.

With his current realm, he now has the qualification to explore such extremely perilous places, but for now, there is no need. Though curious about the world beyond the vortex, he can temporarily put aside satisfying his curiosity.

Relying on the system panel, as long as he cultivates steadily, he will eventually achieve Dao Venerable status, reaching the pinnacle, with the entire endless universe reflecting in his eyes, no longer posing any threat.

Swish.

Chen Mu’s figure gathered and vanished at the river’s bottom.

With Shang Mang fallen, the Ancestral Demon Realm collapsing, and the Demon Ancestor on the run, the affairs of the Demon Clan have temporarily come to an end, but his affairs have not yet concluded. Xunmu once provided significant help on his cultivation path, and this causality has always been linked to the Jianmu Divine Monarch. Jianmu Divine Monarch’s former enemies also once targeted him, which too is a causality.

The True Body of Divine Monarch Ming Fan fell into the Abyss of Eternity, currently missing, which is not to be mentioned for now. The other three, Ya Xie, Feng Mao, and Cang Shu, once caused the fall of Jianmu Divine Monarch and also besieged him. Now that he has ascended to the Nine Layer Heavens, he naturally intends to settle accounts one by one.

“Hiding so far away, you have indeed tried your best.”

Chen Mu now, through the lines of causality, sought the positions of Ya Xie, Feng Mao, and Cang Shu.

These three were each extremely far away, even farther than the Shang Mang Demon Monarch had fled, and also tried their best to obscure causality. However, Chen Mu could still perceive slight traces. Though the causality they left when they attacked Jianmu Divine Monarch and besieged Chen Mu was not as clear as that of the Shang Mang Demon Monarch, it still could not be completely obscured.

While Chen Mu could not clearly perceive their locations, he could vaguely discern a direction, and identifying a specific direction was already sufficient for a Ninth Layer Heavenly Divine Monarch of the Void Lineage.