As Bai Qing perished, the barrier she had erected around them slowly vanished. The Underworld, which she had evolved, was once again eroded by Nether Qi and reverted to its original state.
Ye Ling summoned the Great Dao of Time and Reincarnation. While rewinding time, he resurrected the souls that Bai Qing had erased.
Fortunately, Bai Qing had not paid much attention to those souls and had not deliberately erased their reincarnation information. Otherwise, Ye Ling would have been powerless to turn the tide and could only have buried this place.
After Ye Ling teleported Hades, who was lying outside the barrier, back to his palace and completely restored order to the area, he then had the cosmic barrier absorb the Chaos Heart and the Great Dao origin.
Only after the Chaos Heart and the Great Dao origin were absorbed did Yue Qingning step forward and ask Ye Ling, "Who are we going to hunt next?"
Ye Ling looked at his hands, felt the surging power within him for a moment, and then said to Yue Qingning, "We don't need to plan slowly anymore. Let's go in order. Whichever one is closest to us, we'll go kill them."
"Closest to us..."
Yue Qingning murmured the words, then closed her eyes and meditated for a moment. She said to Ye Ling, "According to my illusion array, Emperor Shi Gamma should be hiding in the extreme south of the Underworld. He is currently the closest to us."
"Emperor Shi Gamma..." Ye Ling looked towards the south of the Underworld and said, "Then it's him. Let's go directly."
"En!"
Yue Qingning nodded, and together with Ye Ling, they soared into the sky and fled towards the south of the Underworld.
In the dim sky of the Underworld, two dazzling streams of light tore through the sky. Countless souls looked up at the sky in shock, terrified by the terrifying aura!
Ye Ling and Yue Qingning's pressure covered the entire Underworld!
In the blink of an eye, Ye Ling and Yue Qingning crossed millions of miles, from the northwest of the Underworld to the extreme south.
However, the extreme south of the Underworld had already become a scene of devastation, looking as if it had just experienced a great battle.
Yue Qingning landed on the ground and looked at the pitted earth in front of her. She couldn't help but ask Ye Ling, "Has this place always been like this?"
Seeing the scene before him, Ye Ling frowned and shook his head. "No, the extreme south of the Underworld is a no-man's-land. Not even a single soul has set foot here in a thousand years. This place has clearly experienced a battle not long ago..."
"It seems Emperor Shi Gamma has already fought with someone else."
A hint of surprise flashed in Yue Qingning's eyes. "Besides you and Xuan Yu, is there anyone else on Earth who can fight Gamma?"
Ye Ling looked at Yue Qingning and said, "Right... I've always forgotten to ask, where did Xuan Yu go?"
Ye Ling believed that Xuan Yu's strength was not inferior to his own. Even though the entire world was shrouded in the environment, Ye Ling did not believe that Xuan Yu would be affected.
Ye Ling had reason to believe that this might have been Xuan Yu's doing.
To Ye Ling's question, Yue Qingning shook her head. "I don't know about that... Xuan Yu went to chase Soul Ancestor Qing Bukong. I only know that the last place they appeared was the Immortal Realm, which is the location I marked on the map for Qing Bukong."
Yue Qingning did not have the ability to monitor the positions of other Great Dao Immortal Lords and Chaos Rulers in real-time. All she could do was capture the last known positions of others when they disappeared while constructing her illusion array.
"Disappeared in the Immortal Realm..." Ye Ling murmured. In that case, the one fighting here was likely not Xuan Yu.
But if not Xuan Yu, then who?
Ye Ling fell into thought, shifting his attention entirely to the extreme south of the Underworld.
As for the missing Xuan Yu, Ye Ling was not too worried about her safety. After all, Xuan Yu possessed the bloodline of a Creator God, and her background was terrifying. She would not be captured by Qing Bukong.
Unable to figure it out, Ye Ling quickly scanned the entire extreme south of the Underworld with his divine soul. Suddenly, he felt that this place was filled with strangeness.
"Something is wrong... The traces of battle here clearly occurred not long ago, yet why do I have the illusion that this is an ancient battlefield?"
"I know this."
Yue Qingning explained, "Emperor Shi Gamma is most skilled at manipulating time and space. The places where he has fought are often extremely chaotic in time and space. The chaos of time and space here indicates that Gamma has fought here."
As she spoke, Yue Qingning instantly moved to the center of the extreme south of the Underworld, the most heavily damaged area. She released her spiritual power to stabilize the fragile time and space.
After releasing her spiritual power, Yue Qingning transmitted to Ye Ling, "Ye Ling, don't you also understand a little bit of the Great Dao of Time and Space? I'll help you stabilize the time and space here. You try to use the Great Dao of Time and Space to see if you can reproduce the fragments of time and space that occurred before..."
"En, I'll try."
Ye Ling nodded slightly, also teleporting next to Yue Qingning. He summoned the Great Dao of Time and Space, attempting to recreate the events that had occurred here before.
Soon, the image of Emperor Shi Gamma appeared before Ye Ling.
However, the Emperor Shi Gamma before Ye Ling was covered in wounds and was staring fixedly at the sky, his eyes filled with fear. He showed no semblance of a Great Dao Immortal Lord.
"Gamma was defeated?"
Seeing Emperor Shi Gamma's miserable state, a hint of shock flashed in Yue Qingning's eyes. Just as she was about to ask Ye Ling to pull the timeline back a bit further, Emperor Shi Gamma's image directly disappeared.
The Great Dao of Time and Space that Ye Ling maintained dissipated, and his entire face turned abnormally pale, clearly indicating immense exhaustion.
Ye Ling said, "No, this is already my limit..."
Seeing Ye Ling's condition, Yue Qingning opened her mouth and could only comfort him, "It's good that you tried your best."
Although if Ye Ling had pulled the timeline back a little further, they would have known what had happened here, Yue Qingning knew that Ye Ling had only just touched the threshold of the Great Dao of Time and Space. It could be said that he only knew a little bit of its superficial aspects. Asking Ye Ling to reverse the time and space damaged by a Great Dao Immortal Lord was akin to asking the impossible.
After Ye Ling adjusted his breathing for a moment and recovered, he said to Yue Qingning, "Although we didn't get much information, judging by Gamma's miserable state and the fear in his eyes, he clearly encountered a terrifying enemy."
"I think Gamma was likely killed by someone."
Hearing Ye Ling's guess, Yue Qingning frowned and said in a deep voice, "This is an unexpected development. A suddenly appearing powerhouse will introduce many variables into our hunting operation."
Ye Ling was quite calm. "No matter who that person is, at least their current goal is the same as ours. Let's continue hunting the next one. If that mysterious person makes another move, we will definitely encounter them... and then we'll know who they are."
"That's the only way..."
Yue Qingning nodded, putting the matter of Gamma behind her. She then said, "The remaining people are all in the Immortal Realm. Besides those who have already died, there are currently Soul Ancestor Qing Bukong, Chaos God Tai Yuan, and the Twin Evils, Can Xu and Can Huang."
"Now Qing Bukong's whereabouts are unknown, and the Twin Evils are a pair of twins from the Evil Race. They belong directly to the Lord of Evils and act together. Currently, our most suitable target should be Tai Yuan."
As she said this, Yue Qingning herself felt a sense of melancholy.
She had originally thought that powerhouses like Great Dao Immortal Lords and Chaos Rulers, who had traversed the outer realms for billions of years, would simply sweep through the inner realms upon arrival. She never expected that after only three days on Earth, four of them would have already died!
Great Dao Immortal Lords and Chaos Rulers, beings who dominated the outer realms, had now become prey that could be hunted at will on Earth!
If what happened here were to spread to the outer realms, who knew how much of a stir it would cause!
While Yue Qingning sighed, she also felt immensely fortunate that she had made the right decision.
Otherwise... she would now share the same fate as Feng Shiyi and Bai Qing.
This small Earth was truly too terrifying!
While Yue Qingning was sighing, Ye Ling had also quickly organized the information on Tai Yuan. He opened the passage to the Immortal Realm and said to Yue Qingning, "Let's go. We're running out of time, otherwise Tai Yuan might also suffer a tragic death at someone else's hands."
Ye Ling had just inquired with the cosmic barrier and confirmed Gamma's death...
Logically, this should have been a good thing for Ye Ling, as it reduced his workload. However, he was somewhat worried...
The cosmic barrier had not absorbed Gamma's Great Dao origin!
The person who killed Gamma had snatched Gamma's most powerful force!
What if that mysterious powerhouse was an enemy, absorbed the Great Dao origin, and finally managed to break free from the suppression of the cosmic barrier...
A deep worry appeared in Ye Ling's eyes.
This was a major issue!
"We absolutely cannot let the Chaos Heart and the Great Dao origin fall into anyone else's hands again!"