Chapter 1480: Millennial Calamity

The Rank Nine Giant Serpent Emperor sneered, then suddenly shrunk his enormous body to maximize his movement speed. At the same time, his very form transformed into an incredibly sharp black light sword, which he fiercely thrust towards Xu Yang's motionless body, standing proudly in the void before him.

Unexpectedly, just as the black giant sword, formed from his body, was about to pierce Xu Yang, the latter's eyes opened once more. With a slight lift of his right hand, immensely powerful soul energy rapidly surged forth, and in an instant, it firmly sealed the black sword light in place. No matter how powerful the Rank Nine Giant Serpent Emperor was, he could not break free from the halo surrounding Xu Yang, not even an inch.

"Haha, did you think I voluntarily took your attack just now because I wanted to die? I've seen through all your secrets. You are not a true demonic beast at all; you are a cultivator with a human soul."

Hearing Xu Yang's words, Xiao Hua and the other two below were stunned and utterly astonished. The Rank Nine Giant Serpent Emperor before them seemed as if his greatest taboo in life had been touched. He decisively flew backward, his gaze, as he looked at Xu Yang again, filled with terror.

"How did you discover that? It's impossible! No one can see my soul through my body!"

Xu Yang sneered. "Just because you can't, doesn't mean others can't. Even if no one in the entire world could do it, it doesn't mean I, Xu Yang, can't. It's a simple truth, but unfortunately, you'll never have the chance to fully grasp it. Now, answer me one question: why are you here, impersonating a Demonic Emperor with a human soul?"

"You can choose to honestly answer my question, or you can refuse to answer. Of course, if you make the second choice, you will have no chance of escaping this place."

The Rank Nine Giant Serpent Emperor's soul clearly became agitated. He had no idea that Xu Yang, before him, had become so inconceivably powerful, nor did he understand how Xu Yang had discovered his secret. But because of this, he was completely thrown into disarray.

Xu Yang had long since gained control over everything about the Rank Nine Serpent Emperor. After a cold chuckle in his mind, he transformed into a streak of light and quickly appeared before the Serpent Emperor. He grabbed his neck with one hand and squeezed it fiercely. With a crunching sound, the Serpent Emperor's body emitted the sound of bones shattering.

"How do you feel now? You should give me a precise answer. Will you choose to cooperate and tell me the truth, or refuse, and let your secrets and your life wither away together?"

Little did Xu Yang know, a deep obsession persisted in the Serpent Emperor's heart. He absolutely could not allow his life, after cultivating to the Rank Nine Demonic Emperor stage, to be ended like this by the mysterious Xu Yang and his techniques.

Therefore, he decisively nodded, choosing to compromise.

"As long as you don't harm my life, I am willing to tell you all the secrets about myself, including the hidden secrets within this Kunlun Abyss!"

This was the answer Xu Yang most desired. With a wave of his palm, a space-time seal was immediately placed upon the Rank Nine Serpent Emperor. Little did the Serpent Emperor know, this was a seal formed by complete space-time laws. It directly confined him in the void, making it impossible for him to move even an inch.

It was equivalent to completely isolating his body from the surrounding space. Only the exclusive soul channel established by Xu Yang could maintain their communication; it would be utterly impossible for anyone else to eavesdrop. Of course, Xiao Hua and a few others who understood partial space-time laws might be able to.

"Now, you can tell me all your secrets without holding anything back. No one else will be able to hear."

The Rank Nine Serpent Emperor sighed helplessly. In the end, within the space-time seal, she restored her human soul's form. It was the image of a beautiful woman.

Although she was enveloped in a faint purple, eerie aura, Xu Yang could still sense a persistent hint of resentment and sorrow about her.

"Your discovery actually concerns a secret shared by all demonic tribes beneath the Kunlun Abyss. The millennium catastrophe I mentioned earlier is closely related to this secret."

"Little do outsiders know, deep within the Kunlun Abyss, especially in some hidden areas unknown to outsiders, there live a large number of top-tier human cultivators who have committed crimes."

"These cultivators, punished by the unique rules of the Kunlun Divine Path, were forced to bind their souls with top-tier demonic beasts in the abyss, becoming half-human, half-demonic beings. They permanently lost their physical bodies and could never again become human."

Hearing the Serpent Emperor's words, Xu Yang instinctively furrowed his brows.

"I never imagined such a punishment existed within the Kunlun Divine Path. The methods for human cultivators are truly malicious. Top human cultivators value their dignity immensely. To force them to bind with a demonic beast is more painful than simply annihilating their souls."

The woman's eyes grew even more resentful and sorrowful as she nodded gently. "But what choice do we have? We are completely unable to contend with the Six Great Imperial Clans who control the Kunlun Divine Path."

"Although our human souls are bound to demonic beasts, every millennium, all top-tier demonic beasts with human souls, who have been subjected to this law's judgment, will involuntarily undergo a bloodline transformation and ascension."

"This leads to what is known as the berserk period. In this berserk state, these human-soul demonic beasts will spontaneously gather and wage a destructive war against all mercenaries and warriors within the abyss."

"They will also, to a certain extent, invade the borders of the Kunlun Divine Path and launch a furious retaliation against its enforcers."

"The Six Great Imperial Clans, who wield supreme power over the Kunlun Divine Path, will also send down top-tier cultivators of the younger generation to suppress them. Calculating the time, this great war between humans and demons, which occurs every millennium, should be starting soon."

"Because the Kunlun Divine Path has a unique cultivation system different from other divine paths, human cultivators, after cultivating to a certain strength, will condense their own Soul Pills."

"And in this great war, if top-tier demonic powerhouses like us, who possess human souls, can slay those humans who have cultivated Soul Pills, we can break free from the seals on our bodies by devouring their Soul Pills, escaping the fate of being human-soul demonic beasts. We can then revert to our free human form. Once we successfully seize a body, it's equivalent to gaining a second life."

"Of course, those human cultivators, the chosen prodigies, who are ordered to participate in this millennium catastrophe, will also accumulate their unique merits by hunting powerful demonic beasts and gain status within their clans."

"This is the secret I can tell you."

Upon learning this secret, Xu Yang nodded in satisfaction.

"Besides that, I also want to know a personal secret about you. What crime did you commit to be punished by the Kunlun Divine Path and become this human-soul demonic deity?"

The woman's resentful expression seemed to deepen even further.

"Back then, I was originally a commoner. But due to my innate cultivation talent, which was extremely strong, I stood out in the Kunlun Divine Path domain and quickly rose to prominence. By chance, I met one of the chosen prodigies from the Six Imperial Clans, and we fell in love."

"My beloved insisted on bringing me back to the Six Imperial Clans, longing to spend his life with me. However, the Six Imperial Clans had strict rules forbidding romance with commoners' children, and they used this as a reason to forcibly suppress me."

"To save me, my beloved secretly escaped from the Imperial Clan with me. Along the way, he killed many of the Imperial Clan's guardians. As for what happened next, I don't need to explain; you should already be very clear."