Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 1396: Chapter 673: Reckoning

In the vast nihility.

A figure draped in a black robe shuttled through the void, swiftly traversing the gaps between the space domains.

He was the Ya Xie Divine Monarch who once attacked Chen Mu, and also one of the divine monarchs who besieged Jianmu Divine Monarch, causing his death. At this moment, he wore a sullen expression, trying hard to conceal his aura, shuttling through one space domain after another, striving to leave no trace and not to alert any forces.

"Damn it, in just a hundred-plus epochs, he returned to the Nine Layer Heavens. How is Jianmu so lucky to attach himself to such a person, causing unrest even after death!"

Ya Xie Divine Monarch’s face was extremely ugly.

Although he had long distanced himself from the Nanhua Void, now being thousands of space seats away, his heart was still filled with unease.

He now knew about the events of the Nanhua Void, aware of the collapse of the Ancestral Demon Realm, the destruction of the Demon Clan, and that Chen Mu had already ascended to the Nine Layer Heavens. Naturally, his heart was full of oppression, only feeling clouds of darkness above his head.

It’s too absurd!

The reincarnation of the Nine Layer Heavens was such a rare occurrence, yet he had to encounter it.

When he first heard about Chen Mu, he never thought in this direction, because Jianmu Divine Monarch primarily cultivated the Life Lineage, nurturing countless living beings over the long years, and usually enjoyed cultivating living beings everywhere. Thus, when he learned about Chen Mu, he only assumed that Chen Mu was one of the living beings meticulously nurtured by Jianmu Divine Monarch.

But in the end, Chen Mu turned out to be a reincarnation of the Nine Layer Heavens!

Normally, someone like Chen Mu could never be involved with Jianmu Divine Monarch, but by chance, Chen Mu reincarnated into an uncivilized world and once received some resources from Jianmu Divine Monarch.

For someone like Chen Mu, even without Jianmu Divine Monarch’s help, he would inevitably become a divine monarch all the way, returning to the Nine Layer Heavens eventually. Yet along the way, Jianmu Divine Monarch gave some assistance, thereby forming a connection with Chen Mu.

What kind of existence is a Ninth Layer Heavenly Divine Monarch?

If Jianmu Divine Monarch could have attached himself to Chen Mu during his lifetime, he wouldn’t have fallen at all. With Chen Mu’s protection, in the entire Nanhua Void, there would be no one daring to provoke Jianmu Divine Monarch.

And with someone like Chen Mu, this supreme divine monarch from the Nine Layer Heavens, providing guidance, Jianmu Divine Monarch might not have been stuck at the Seventh Layer Heaven Peak, and the hope of stepping into the Eighth Layer Heaven would indeed have been great.

But things are just that strange.

In the brief period when Chen Mu had yet to rise, Jianmu Divine Monarch accidentally incurred causality with Chen Mu, then Jianmu fell due to their siege and attack, bringing Chen Mu into their sight. Finally, they misjudged Chen Mu’s identity, only thinking Chen Mu was a rarely encountered young prodigy favored by Jianmu and Fan Gu, hence attacking Chen Mu, ultimately forming a life-and-death grudge with him.

How terrifying is a Ninth Layer Heavens divine monarch from the Void Lineage?

Ya Xie Divine Monarch, in his long years, had never even seen a Ninth Layer Heavens Void Divine make a move. The most terrifying personality he had seen from the Void Lineage was only an Eighth Layer Heaven Limit.

And that Eighth Layer Heaven Limit Void Divine already had extremely terrifying means. At least, if facing him directly, he had no confidence at all to escape from his grasp. If the other was determined to kill him, even though he was a Seventh Layer Heaven Peak individual, it would be very difficult to save his life. Let alone now that Chen Mu had already claimed the Nine Layer Heavens!

At this moment,

All he could do was to obscure causality and aura as much as possible, distancing himself from the Nanhua Void, fleeing towards the far wasteland of the endless universe.

As a Seventh Layer Heaven Peak divine monarch, he could be considered well-informed, but even he didn’t know where the edge of this universe lay. He only knew that in the vast universe, if calculating the number of space seats, it was almost immeasurable.

A space domain often had three thousand Great Realms, a space seat often had three thousand space domains, and the vast universe as a whole had unknown billions of space seats. Even for the existence of divine monarchs, reaching its end was almost impossible.

Ya Xie Divine Monarch could only hope that Chen Mu had no interest in him, ignoring and forgetting him, or that because he had fled too far, Chen Mu would be unable to find him. That way, he still had the chance to seek survival in the distant universe’s wasteland.

As a divine monarch, he had a long life, undying through numerous tribulations. As long as he could stay alive, there was always a chance to comprehend the Great Dao, to ascend to the Eighth Layer Heaven or even the Ninth Layer Heavens. Moreover, this incident, for him, was definitely a calamity.

The universe’s Great Dao, disaster and fortune coexisted. Surviving a calamity could lead to great opportunities. If he truly survived this calamity, perhaps it wouldn’t take too long for him to break through the bottleneck that was never cracked over the long years and step into the Eighth Layer Heaven.

Ya Xie Divine Monarch thought so in his heart.

He continued to flee endlessly in the void, sensing any secret realm from afar and circumventing them, sensing the aura of any divine monarch or even ordinary True Gods and doing his utmost to hide and detour.

After fleeing like this for an unknown length of time, he finally traversed many space domains again, reaching the edge of this space seat. In the distance, he could already see the boundary wall of the space seat, like a white sky curtain, covering his entire view.

"Another space seat crossed."

Ya Xie Divine Monarch murmured to himself silently, walking towards the boundary wall of the space seat.

However,

In the next moment, his body suddenly paused, the beam of swift light suddenly slowed down, and finally came to a halt before the boundary wall, which looked like a white sky curtain.