"A celestial's body is indeed delicious!"

As the doppelganger Ming was devoured by the black flames, Hei Qing Gui licked his lips, looking at Ming's true form with a gloomy expression.

The power consumed from tangling with Qing Wang was completely restored, even recovering some of his former strength.

"Why were you able to enter my Xinqiang Realm (Heart Wall Realm)? This isn't like the Qingchuan Realm (Green River Realm), where even the power of the rules is fragmented. Even if a guiyi (weird entity) invaded, it should have suffered immense rejection from the realm!"

Qingchuan Realm was once a very special place... no, even now, Qingchuan Realm is still a very special place.

It contains Jing Shan (Mirror Mountain), offering a chance to reach Jiuyuan (Nine Abyss), while also retaining information about legendary places like Youquan (Nether Spring), Tianhai (Sky Sea), and Wanyun (Ten Thousand Clouds).

But its internal rules are the most fragmented and complex. Aside from the native celestials, the difficulty for people from other realms to interfere is so high that even celestials can only shake their heads. It's practically a completely closed realm. If not for the impending Sky Devour, even if Ming broke her head, she wouldn't have been able to step into Qingchuan Realm even half a step.

In the closed Qingchuan Realm, native celestials have an absolute advantage, but that broken place almost completely severs celestial fate. People without spiritual roots are everywhere. Even guiyi (weird entities) don't have the chance to give birth to demon seeds and achieve demon-level power, let alone ordinary people.

Perhaps because the Sky Devour is imminent, people with spiritual roots have emerged one after another, but Ming doesn't know exactly what the situation is in Qingchuan Realm.

In any case, compared to the fragmented and strange Qingchuan Realm, her Xinqiang Realm (Heart Wall Realm) is a realm with complete defensive measures. Therefore, the rejection of outsiders will be exceptionally strong, especially for the powerful ones.

A Transcendent-level guiyi (weird entity) crossed realms to come to her territory. The rejection force shouldn't have had no reaction.

"You seem to be expecting something?" Hei Qing Gui looked at her playfully. "You seem to not understand Transcendent-level guiyi (weird entities) enough. What is transcendence? To transcend mortality is transcendence! The mere power of realm rejection has no effect on Transcendent-level guiyi (weird entities) like us at all."

Transcendence is to transcend all rules!

The difference between realms is nothing to it!

"Impossible! I've seen a first-order Transcendent-level guiyi (weird entity) of this realm, and it didn't have such means!"

Under normal circumstances, to cross realms, one must first possess celestial-demon level strength to do so, and the process is dangerous. Unless there is a special need, no one is willing to cross realms.

And Ming, in her long years, has seen Transcendent-level guiyi (weird entities), whether they were invading or escaping, and their endings all conformed to the power of the realm rules!

Only the one before her...

Seeming to sense Ming's intense emotions, the corners of Hei Qing Gui's mouth rose, and he said mockingly, "Who told you that I am a first-order Transcendent-level guiyi (weird entity)?"

"Not... a first-order Transcendent-level guiyi (weird entity)?"

Ming's eyes widened. No matter how she looked at it, the Hei Qing Gui before her was within the range of a first-order Transcendent-level guiyi (weird entity)'s strength, but it said this... wait! Could it be!

"Heh heh heh! Did you realize it? That's right, I'm not a first-order Transcendent-level guiyi (weird entity) at all. It's just that my strength was damaged, and that's why I became like this. Even so, merely crossing realms and ignoring the power of realm rejection is still easy for me."

As if recalling past events, Hei Qing Gui's expression revealed an arrogance from the bone, a kind of unparalleled pride, an attitude of looking down on everything, as if everything in the world couldn't enter his eyes.

As for now...

Hei Qing Gui looked at the immortal before him, and black flames ignited all over his body, turning into a huge black hawk, pouncing towards her.

Ming immediately reacted, igniting golden flames to resist. The two flames collided, engaging in a fierce battle.

Ming fought while calling for help. She had realized that the opponent's strength was not as weak as her doppelganger had seen! The strength of this Transcendent-level guiyi (weird entity) was far beyond what she could handle alone!

But before the rescue message could reach the sect, the golden flames on her body seemed to be assimilated, transforming into black flames.

"Analysis, complete!"

As Hei Qing Gui's demon-like whisper sounded, Ming felt death so close for the first time, and completely panicked. With her mind in chaos, the black flames suddenly surged, devouring the golden flames along with Ming's true form.

"The familiar taste of an immortal."

With powerful energy being digested within his body, nourishing himself, Hei Qing Gui looked towards the sky. A vast divine sense was already enveloping this place.

"What guiyi (weird entity)! How dare you harm a disciple of my Tianming Palace (Heavenly Echo Palace)!"

Under the shroud of divine sense, it was as if this world was at his disposal! Spiritual energy, guiqi (weird energy), and all kinds of forces were all mobilized under this shout, pressing down towards Hei Qing Gui's direction, as if this person was the master of this realm!

But Hei Qing Gui understood that it was just borrowed power. Although this person was strong, there was still a considerable gap between him and a Realm Lord.

Although Hei Qing Gui had vast knowledge and had reached extremely high levels in the past, his current dilapidated body, which had been sealed for who knows how many years, had no ability to resist this person.

Looking at the giant hand formed by the power of divine sense above him, pressing down towards him, Hei Qing Gui smiled coldly. His body gradually faded, and by the time the giant hand of divine sense passed through, he had completely disappeared from this realm.

Almost immediately after Hei Qing Gui disappeared, streams of light pierced the sky one after another, arriving at the place where Hei Qing Gui had last been.

After they checked the last remaining aura of Ming, the leader sighed and looked up at the sky, shaking his head slightly.

"Reporting to Master Wanfa (Ten Thousand Laws), Senior Sister Ming has already... had both her body and soul extinguished."

The power of divine sense around them condensed into a handsome young man's face, his expression slightly frozen.

Then he looked into the distance, his gaze seemingly piercing through layers of realm barriers, looking at the location of Hei Qing Gui, but suddenly his eyes seemed to be stimulated by something, his face twitched, as if his eyes had been pricked, and he closed his eyes but shed tears of blood.

The crowd's expressions changed.

"Master?!"

"Master! Peering into the land of the Sky Devour will attract the attention of such existences, absolutely not!"

"Please, Master, prioritize the lives of all beings in the Xinqiang Realm (Heart Wall Realm), and do not stimulate the likes of the Lock Master any further..."

"Master, trials in the mortal world inherently have risks. Ming insisted on going to such a place to prove herself, so her death is also a destined calamity. It is not permissible to bring disaster to this realm for her sake!"

The crowd knelt down in the void towards the face. After sighing, the face shook his head slightly, not saying anything more.

They were all too young and hadn't realized the seriousness of the problem.

The Lock of Heaven is unavoidable. Qingchuan Realm has fallen. How long can they hold out here?

"There is no need to keep this doppelganger anymore, lest it attract the attention of the Lock Master."

In the sigh, the face of divine sense disappeared, and Wanfa Xianzun (Ten Thousand Laws Celestial Venerable), who was in Tianming Palace (Heavenly Echo Palace), also disappeared without a trace.

No one knew where Wanfa Xianzun (Ten Thousand Laws Celestial Venerable) had gone, just as no one knew when Wanfa Xianzun (Ten Thousand Laws Celestial Venerable) had appeared in this realm.

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