Chapter 897: I, No Regrets

A presence, carried through time and space, across realms, arrived from the mortal world to the divine realm, and from Wanggu, the Northern Immortal descended. It appeared above the vortex, beneath the Three Deities.

A thunderous sound echoed throughout the divine realm. An invisible cutting force, carrying tens of thousands of years of karma and seeking a promise made by time, unleashed an astonishing sharpness, tearing open the void.

Consequently, a massive rift appeared before the Three Deities.

The rift stretched endlessly, spanning above the vortex. From afar, it resembled an open eye, evoking a sense of grandeur and vastness.

Wind howled out from within this rift, swirling in all directions like a blooming flower, and settled in the indifferent gaze of the Three Deities.

The choice of the Mountain Sea, which they had been observing, now had an answer.

Inside the rift lay the Blazing Moon Xuantian Clan's Mountain Sea Great Domain, with the Land of Jiuli at its very center.

The entire Land of Jiuli completely collapsed at this instant, sinking deeply, revealing the sealed Spider God Shrine. However, the shrine's radiance was already dimmed, and the Spider God within it trembled violently, visibly withering.

What withered was not merely flesh and blood, but also his karma, and even time itself, all silently decaying. Everything was gradually taken away by a hand placed before it.

It was a withered, black skeletal hand. The hand's owner wore a long black robe that billowed around him, obscuring his face. Yet it could not conceal the ancient, weathered aura emanating from him.

He stood before the Spider God. His withered hand gradually gained flesh and blood, while the Spider God became increasingly dry. It clearly tried to struggle, but its fate was sealed; all was futile.

Until finally, as the Spider God turned to dust and dissipated into the world, that hand seemed to transform from death, returning from the passage of time, gaining color and becoming full.

At this moment, the wind lifted his hood, revealing long gray hair and an aged face. Although the passage of time had once made him appear neither human nor ghost.

Yet, as he absorbed everything from the Spider God, one could still vaguely discern, on his face gradually regaining flesh and blood, amidst the crisscrossing wrinkles, the same grace and bearing as the ancient statue standing in the Blazing Moon Xuantian Clan.

This was the Great Archon, who tens of thousands of years ago unified the Blazing Moon Xuantian Clan and was worshipped for countless generations!

He raised his head, looking at the land, as if gazing upon the history of his clan on this soil.

He saw the rise of Blazing Moon, its contention with myriad clans, its multiple battles with the human race, the protection of the Three Deities, and especially Blazing Moon's current powerful status in Wanggu.

As his gaze swept across, perceiving history and consolidating past and present, his aura surged, becoming stronger and denser. It eventually spread throughout the Mountain Sea, affecting the Blazing Moon homeland, causing the sky and earth to change color, with great winds whipping up clouds.

All Blazing Moon Xuantian Clan cultivators felt a bloodline resonance at this instant. Especially the three Archons, who emerged from their respective grand tents, their expressions filled with shock as they looked towards the Mountain Sea, sensing the ancestor who had emerged from history.

For the Blazing Moon Xuantian Clan, this Great Archon, who once unified the clan, held a status in the hearts of all clansmen no different from a deity.

They all bowed in worship.

Amidst the worship of the entire clan, the returned Great Archon shifted his gaze to the sky.

Then, he lifted his foot and walked towards the firmament, towards the torn rift.

From the Spider God, he absorbed not only flesh, blood, and time, but also... the authority of the divine realm.

This authority, with his steps, now transferred into his destiny, empowering his fate, perfecting his deficiencies, and reigniting a spark that had been extinguished for tens of thousands of years.

In this way, he walked step by step, his status and life-level both elevating, until he walked from the divine realm, from beneath the gaze of the Three Deities, towards the sacred realm.

"I have waited a long time."

This voice, like heavenly thunder, spread throughout the divine realm and resonated within the vortex, in Xu Qing's heart.

Xu Qing remained silent. He recognized the other party's identity and felt the sorrow left behind by time within the Witch's Treasury.

He had seen that betrayal very clearly in Jiuli's memories. And now, the karma of that betrayal seemed even clearer.

Outside the vortex, as the Great Archon approached, the Sun and Moon remained as they were, and the Star God glanced at the vortex, speaking faintly.

"Then, let us begin."

Upon hearing this, the Great Archon's gaze fell upon this divine realm.

"I had a question back then, which I wish to ask today. According to what you three have said, this divine realm was once your homeland. So, the corrupted divine beings here were all once your people. Are you... willing to sacrifice them?"

"The Northern Emperor is dead, and the karma is settled. He was us, but we are not him."

The Moon God answered this.

The Great Archon said no more.

At this moment, the Sun God's voice, carrying immense might, pierced through the void from this divine realm, echoing through the cosmos.

"Ancient paths are not empty, there is light above the desolate wastes.Sleeping until now, the source scattered through time.The Star Ring has gained, all are its children.The myriad realms have sensed, all call me Father.Now, the sons of the Northern Realm's Source — Sun, Moon, and Star — along with five ancient priests, shall offer sacrifice to the Father God!"

The Sun God's voice rose and fell, thundering through the divine realm. Every word caused the divine realm to tremble, and together, they caused Wanggu to react dramatically, as a great sun rose into the sky behind it.

Beside him, the Moon God closed her eyes, and a bright moon shone in the sky. Furthermore, the Star God opened his eyes, replacing the sky of this divine realm with endless stars! The Three Deities were actually going to sacrifice to the Incomplete Face!

At this moment, it was no longer just a breeze, but a storm... had arrived.

Below, within the vortex, the Emperor's Corpse, observing all this, also trembled, and the Captain within it burst into wild laughter.

And Xu Qing, too, completely understood everything!

The Three Deities' objective was fully revealed!

They wanted to sacrifice to the Incomplete God's Face, to exchange for the Incomplete Face to open its eyes and look upon this divine realm where they were!

A single glance from the Incomplete Face could spontaneously create a forbidden zone; if it looked at a forbidden zone, the forbidden zone could become a restricted area; if it looked at a restricted area, it would solidify into a forbidden land. But what if... it looked at a divine realm!

Xu Qing had gotten the answer to this question back on the Red Moon.

That was, the divine realm would be elevated, becoming a divine world!

Once that happened, as masters of the divine realm, they would also inevitably be elevated along with the divine realm during this process!

Combining this with the Captain's previous words, Xu Qing now understood the path of the Three Deities.

They intended to use their identity as masters of the divine realm to directly bypass the entire Tribulation Fire realm in one step during this divine realm's elevation, reaching the Flawless realm.

This way, there would be no catastrophe like those faced by the Scarlet Mother or the Spider God. And while their fate was perfected, the path to the Divine Altar would also be directly opened!

Subsequently, with sufficient accumulation, the Divine Altar would be within reach!

This was an astonishingly great opportunity, but also an extremely terrifying danger.

Even the Scarlet Mother had failed then.

However, the Three Deities and the Scarlet Mother were different.

The Scarlet Mother's attempt was a passive encounter, while the Three Deities' current attempt was an active summoning.

One was unprepared, the other had planned for tens of thousands of years. What a grand scheme!

Xu Qing was moved. During the Scarlet Mother's attempt, he was too weak to get involved in this step, but now... it was different. Meanwhile, the dramatic changes outside were still ongoing.

The Sun God's voice thundered through the divine realm.

"First Sacrifice: The Sentient Beings of the Seven Domains!"

The Sun God's world-shaking words echoed throughout Wanggu, falling upon the seven vast domains that the Blazing Moon Xuantian Clan had specifically chosen, conquered, and secretly prepared for years, just for this very day. Each of these seven great domains was vast in scope. At this moment, within these seven domains, multiple Honored Kings of the Blazing Moon Xuantian Clan unleashed their towering auras, changing the weather and atmosphere. Looking around, the Blazing Moon army was a dense black mass within the seven domains, their banners unfurled as if to blot out the sky and sun.

Before them were countless prisoners of war.

The uniqueness of these seven domains was also reflected in these prisoners of war: each domain was surprisingly home to a unified race.

Apart from the dominant race of that domain, there were no other races!

At this moment, all these prisoners knelt there, despair in their eyes. Until the next instant, as the Sun God's voice spread, Honored Kings across the seven domains each issued their command.

"Blood sacrifice initiated, execute!"

At a single command, slaughter erupted simultaneously across the seven domains!

Instantly, the number of deaths in that moment, while not unprecedented, was rarely seen in tens of thousands of years.

Blood flowed like rivers, and the spirits of the dead filled the sky.

Some tried to escape, some tried to resist, but they could not break through the seal or escape their destined fate. And another unique characteristic of these seven races in the seven domains also became apparent with their slaughter.

Their blood was of seven colors!

Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple!

One color per domain.

The domain with red blood, the race that died, was not the human race.

But it can be imagined that, given the Blazing Moon Xuantian Clan's domineering nature, a great domain predominantly inhabited by humans could not have been outside their original target. Looking back at previous battles, the Black Sky Clan's initial military advance also seemed to have an answer.

If that battle had been lost, if there had been no Sun of Dawn, if the Sword-Wielding Great Emperor's last sword had been forced out... But history has no "ifs"; there are only results.

At this moment, all seven races of the seven domains, with their seven blood colors, were completely annihilated. Corpses piled up, blood formed seas, and spirits of the dead permeated the air, seemingly forming a ghost realm—all for... the sacrifice!

Above Wanggu, the supreme existence, the colossal Incomplete Face that suppressed all cultivators, all clans, all life, and even all deities, its eyelid twitched slightly.

Then, a voice from the divine realm echoed once more.

"Second Sacrifice: The War Souls of Ten Thousand Years!"

This voice was not the Sun God's, but... the Great Archon's.

Because this time, the sacrifice was of the heroic souls of the Blazing Moon Xuantian Clan who had died over tens of thousands of years. This was a self-sacrifice by the Blazing Moon Xuantian Clan!

Only by doing so could true sincerity be demonstrated.

Only in this manner could it truly be called a sacrifice!

Therefore, the ones truly qualified to shake antiquity and modernity, to declare the sacrifice of war souls, could not be the Three Deities.

It could only be the first Great Archon who unified this former Xuantian Grand Witch Clan, to align with karma.

If he had perished, then the current three Archons would have taken his place.

Instantly, among the three Archons of the Blazing Moon Xuantian Clan, all clan ancestral halls and all halls of heroic spirits simultaneously thundered. Countless war souls accumulated over tens of thousands of years soared into the sky, forming a legion of their own!

The entire Blazing Moon Clan was silent. From the Archons to the common people, sadness surged uncontrollably within their hearts.

But this was fate!

Their fate was also the fate of the Great Archon who had returned from history.

When he chose to betray, although there was a promise of becoming a god, there was also the consideration for the long-term future of the clan.

He knew that Jiuli, who had inherited the position of Ancestral Witch, could not kill the Spider God. And he did not want the fate of the Xuantian Grand Witch Clan to be decided by just one Grand Ancestral Witch Array.

Jiuli's choice could only protect the clan for a short time.

"But my choice can secure an eternally existing future for the clan!"

History has no "ifs"; there are only results.

"Therefore, I have no regrets!"