Chapter 1347: Evil Infant Awakens

Outside the Star God Realm, the three God Emperors of the Eastern Region—Qianye Fantian, Zhou Xuzi, and Yue Wuya—still had not departed.

However, isolated by the Star Soul Barrier, they knew nothing of what was happening within Star God City.

"The Star Soul Barrier cannot last much longer; seven more days will be its limit. Are you two still planning to wait?" asked the Heaven God Emperor.

"Since we're here, of course we'll wait," the Brahma God Emperor said with a chuckle.

"A major event that would cause the Star God Realm to activate the Star Soul Barrier could very likely impact our entire Eastern Divine Region. How can we rest easy if we don't discover what truly happened right away?" Compared to the Brahma God Emperor, the Moon God Emperor's expression was somewhat more solemn.

The Heaven God Emperor nodded slightly, worry reappearing on his face as he thought of Yun Che, who had directly entered the Star Soul Barrier. "Regardless of why Yun Che suddenly came here from the Dragon God Realm, his entry into the Star God Realm, especially while they are conducting a major event with the realm sealed, will undoubtedly be an unexpected variable. I fear..."

"Haha, Heaven God Emperor, you needn't worry," the Brahma God Emperor said. "Yun Che is no ordinary junior; his talent is unparalleled, he is the 'Son of the Heavenly Way' personally prophesied by the Three Elders of Heavenly Mystery, and he has the Dragon Emperor's protection. No one would dare lay a hand on him. Furthermore, his power is ultimately weak, so even if he is an unexpected variable, he is merely a dispensable one."

"..." The Heaven God Emperor nodded. "I hope so."

His gaze swept over the Heaven God Emperor's face, and the Brahma God Emperor's smile deepened. "It seems that even though Yun Che chose to remain in the Western Region's Dragon God Realm, the Heaven God Emperor still shows him such profound concern. This child is truly blessed. Speaking of which, the Heaven God Emperor must deeply regret that Yun Che didn't enter the Heaven Realm but instead stayed in the Dragon God Realm. However, if you wish for him to return to the Eastern Divine Region, it actually isn't difficult."

"Oh?" The Heaven God Emperor glanced sideways.

"It's common knowledge that Yun Che went to the Dragon God Realm and didn't return because he feared the Moon God Emperor," the Brahma God Emperor said with a chuckle, glancing at the Moon God Emperor. "As long as the Moon God Emperor publicly states that he will no longer trouble Yun Che over the 'God Empress' matter, he will naturally return. Isn't that right, Moon God Emperor?"

The Moon God Emperor gave no clear answer. He turned his face away, his eyes narrowing coldly.

The Brahma God Emperor continued, "This way, it would both demonstrate the Moon God Emperor's magnanimity and fulfill the Heaven God Emperor's desire. When Yun Che matures, it would be a great fortune for the Eastern Divine Region. Three gains with one action—how splendid is that?"

"Hehe, the Brahma God Emperor is absolutely right," the Moon God Emperor said with a faint smile. "Since I have publicly taken Qingyue as my adopted daughter, I naturally can't be bothered to pursue that Yun Che boy's matter. As for why that boy remained in the Dragon God Realm and didn't return... Brahma God Emperor, surely you don't really think..."

*Thump!*

Before the Moon God Emperor could finish speaking, his heart suddenly throbbed... The expressions of all three God Emperors changed drastically at the same moment.

"What's going on!?" the Moon God Emperor asked gravely.

"..." The Heaven God Emperor furrowed his brow, instantly releasing his spiritual sense to sweep across the vast world around them.

The Brahma God Emperor looked up... The sky suddenly darkened at that moment. Black clouds, gathering rapidly from an unknown source, rolled and churned in the air, then pressed down layer by layer. In no time, the sky, completely engulfed by black clouds, descended so low it felt almost within reach.

"This... what is this?"

The expressions of the three God Emperors instantly became extremely grave. A similar phenomenon had appeared over a year ago. That time, rolling black clouds covered the entire Eastern Divine Region, followed by the terrifying Nine Heavens Divine Tribulation.

This time, however, was different. The sinister and oppressive feeling that descended with the black clouds was hundreds, if not thousands, of times heavier and more terrifying than before!

It was so terrifying that it utterly suffocated the three God Emperors, their souls convulsing in a way they had never experienced before.

Within Star God City, black clouds also filled the sky. An invisible pressure weighed heavily on everyone's hearts. Between heaven and earth, the sound of a heart beating grew louder and louder... It was as if a primordial fiend god, silent for countless ages and vaster than even the God Realm, had suddenly awakened and was extending its demonic claws and fangs over this fragile world.

"What's going on? What exactly is happening?" Under this terrifying oppression, even the Star Gods themselves felt a deep unease rise within them... Soon, this unease quickly turned into fear, growing deeper and deeper, causing their souls, hearts, bodies, and even their hair to tremble wildly.

*Thump!**Thump!**Thump-thump-thump...**Thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump...*

The heartbeats grew heavier and faster. An extremely terrifying aura permeated every corner of the world. Only Jasmine remained motionless, without the slightest reaction; only her eyes were incredibly dark and hollow.

Yun Che...Yun Che... Yun Che...

"Sister, what... what's wrong with you? Sister..." Caizhi's face was deathly pale. Facing the person closest to her in her life, a deep, deep fear inexplicably surged within her heart. She called out again and again, but Jasmine remained unresponsive. Finally, she desperately suppressed all her fear and reached out to grasp her hand.

Instantly, she recoiled as if shocked, her face losing even more color. "Sis... Sister..."

Jasmine's hand was incredibly cold, colder than even the Arctic Frozen Region... and it was a coldness that pierced straight to the soul.

At that moment, Jasmine suddenly moved.

She raised her left hand and pressed it onto the barrier that sealed her and Caizhi, suppressing all their power.

On the back of her hand, a pitch-black wheel mark flashed, followed by the sudden release of an intensely deep black light.

The moment this black light appeared, it was as if a black hole with endless tearing power had emerged. Everyone's spiritual senses and gazes were irresistibly drawn and focused upon it. Staring blankly at the black light shining on Jasmine's hand, everyone's pupils unconsciously widened little by little, then widened further...

Black, the most common and familiar color in the mortal world.

Yet, none of them had ever known that black could be so intensely deep and profound.

That wisp of black light was very small, yet as they stared at it, a terrifying thought inexplicably arose in everyone's heart:

This black light was enough to devour any life, enough to devour the entire Star God Realm, enough to devour everything in the world...

"What... what is that?" The Heaven Origin Star God was the first to regain his senses, horrified as he blurted out.

Black light... no profound artifact in the Star God Realm could emit such profound light, nor could it possibly be the power of the Heaven Punishing Star God!

Black profound light—that was clearly profound light only released by dark profound energy! Yet, among all the dark "demons" or dark spirits he had encountered in his tens of thousands of years of life, none of the dark profound light they released had ever given him such a terrifying feeling.

"..." The Star God Emperor was speechless. More than anyone, he wanted to know what that black light was, what was happening to Jasmine, and what was happening to the entire Star God City!

As the black light illuminated her soul, streaks of black light suddenly emanated from her left hand, which was covered by the black glow, rapidly spreading and radiating to every part of Jasmine's body. In just a few breaths, intricate black light streaks had covered her entire body.

Her hair, too, began to float up at that moment. In everyone's utterly terrified eyes, her long blood-red hair, dyed by the Heaven Punishing divine power and symbolizing the Heaven Punishing Star God, little by little, turned into a vast expanse of swirling pitch-black.

Darker than the abyss, deeper than the darkest night.

"Ah... ahhh... ah!? Th-th-this... what exactly is happening!?"

More than half of the Star Gods and elders stood up within the barrier. They had just barely recovered from the shock brought by Yun Che, only to be overwhelmed by a fresh wave of fear...

But everything was just beginning. In the next instant, they were all utterly terrified.

*CRACK!!!!*

A tiny crack appeared under Jasmine's palm, yet it brought forth an explosive sound that seemed to tear heaven and earth apart. The moment this crack appeared, it almost made the eyeballs of all the Star Gods, elders, and Star Guards burst simultaneously.

This crack, shockingly, appeared on the barrier that sealed Jasmine and Caizhi.

It was a ritual barrier connected to the power of the Nine Star Gods, thirty-six elders, and countless profound stones and crystals—a barrier that, in their understanding, could absolutely never be breached or destroyed!

"Ah!!??""No... impossible!!" The Star God Emperor rose, trembling, his eyes bloodshot, as if he had fallen into a nightmare.

*CRACK————*

The black light flashed again, instantly expanding several times, engulfing Jasmine's slender left arm. Another long crack burst open on the barrier. Subsequently, this crack merged with the previous tiny fissure, then spread rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it extended directly across the entire barrier.

This barrier, which condensed the peak power and aura of a King Realm and could be called the strongest isolation barrier in the world, under that strange black light, shattered like a fragile sheet of glass, easily split in two by a single crack.

Then... it shattered with a deafening roar.

The sound of the strongest barrier shattering was so piercing that it felt like billions of awls simultaneously stabbed into their eardrums and hearts.

This barrier was connected not only to the power of the Nine Star Gods and thirty-six elders, but also to their auras; the terrifying backlash from its collapse was unimaginable. Amidst the sharp, tearing sound of shattering, countless Star Guards' eardrums burst, and blood poured from their seven orifices. As for the Nine Star Gods and thirty-six elders, including the Star God Emperor, they all seemed to have been struck by a divine hammer, spewing blood wildly from their mouths. Their meridians and blood vessels shattered into fragments, and countless cracks appeared even in their internal organs...

The ritual barrier they were in, as well as the two layers of the Star Soul Barrier that sealed Star God City and the Star God Realm, also completely collapsed at the same instant. The sounds of shattering and the exploding power stirred up thousands of catastrophic storms in the sky above the Star God Realm, instantly turning the entire Star God Realm into a world struck by a natural disaster, filled with screams of horror.

The Nine Star Gods and the thirty-six elders... they all lay sprawled on the ground, frantically vomiting blood under the terrifying backlash, almost emptying their entire blood supply. They didn't know what kind of nightmare this was; their minds were blank, and their souls trembled, on the verge of scattering...

"Hehehehehe...""Woooo... Wooooo...""Ying ying... Ying ying ying ying... Chatter chatter chatter... Chatter hahahaahahahah..."

In this nightmarish world, terrifying sounds suddenly echoed. The sounds were sharp and thin, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, seemingly both. At first listen, they seemed like children's voices, yet they were sinister and terrifying to the extreme, making their entire bodies run cold, as if they had fallen into the abyss of an ice prison.

They instinctively looked up... Above, black clouds obscured the sun, churning with apocalyptic, catastrophic sights. And within the churning black clouds, a dark, grayish face slowly emerged... It was the face of an infant, yet it had eyes more hideous than a devil's, emitting laughter and wails more sinister than a vengeful spirit's...

"Ying ying ying...""Chatter chatter chatter... Wooooo... Tee-hee-hee-hee-hee..."

Below the infant's face, Jasmine stood quietly. Her body was covered in black markings, and her pitch-black hair danced without wind. Her former blood-red eyes were now covered in terrifying black light, which also made her face appear even paler.

On her left hand, a pitch-black wheel was attached. The wheel was about the size of her body, and its unfolding blades were as sinister as a devil's fangs. She slowly raised her pitch-black eyes, looking at the world enveloped in darkness before her, and uttered words of hatred from the deepest parts of the demonic abyss:

"You... all... deserve... to die...""You... all... deserve... to die!!"

"..." The Star God Emperor stared intently at the dark wheel in Jasmine's hand. His body began to tremble, shaking so violently it felt as though his God Emperor's body would shatter. From his mouth escaped the most terrified, most trembling sound of his life: