Realms In The Firmament

The ninth altar was the head of the nine Demonic Flame Altars, so it required much more energy than the other eight altars. Specifically, it needed twice as much as the energy as any single altar of the other eight needed. It was basically an extremely difficult job to complete it. However, because the Honor Demon kept slaughtering like a mad man, the ninth altar was closer and closer to completion!

The gate in the sky was clearer and clearer. It was going to be finished soon!

It was the Honor Demon’s first time to see the Gate to the Great Demon, so he was glad, laughing out loud. He said, “Ye Xiao, you are just some powerless ants. How dare you ever try to stop the Gate to the Great Demon? You can’t! Hah, hah, hah…”

The Honor Demon was gasping hard at the moment after staying in the tough fight for a long time. Even though he was such a powerful cultivator, the long term strain on himself had almost exhausted him to the last bit of energy. However, he was excited, which made him look much better than Ye Xiao and the others.

Ye Xiao was looking forward to the movement of Erhuo, but nothing happened yet. Ye Xiao thought for a while, having all information in mind, and he was finally enlightened. The third altar was obviously destroyed, and the nine altars formation was broken. Why was the Gate to the Great Demon still activated?

There was only one explanation. The Gate to the Great Demon needed the energy from the nine Demonic Flame Altars, but as soon as each altar of the nine got the flame lit up, the formation of nine altars had taken the energy from it. That was why destroying one of the altars wouldn’t make any big difference.

In other words, there was no way to stop the Gate to the Great Demon from showing up, except destroying all the nine altars!

People heard the Honor Demon’s crazy laugh, and they were all frightened. All of a sudden, a huge sound cracked in the sky. Behind the ink jade door, the sound of somebody talking came out, “Where is this Gate to the Great Demon from? Is there a new realm going to become a part of the Demon’s Realm?”

“Hurry up!”

“I want to get through this gate!”

“Ah! I can smell the delicious flesh from the other side… I miss that taste… It is fabulous… Hah, hah, hah, hah…”

Ye Xiao and the others were all terrified!

[The demons are real!]

[There are demons for real!]

It seemed the Honor Demon didn’t waste the great efforts he had put into the great plan. He was going to connect the Demon’s Realm any minute soon.

The dark fog kept rolling around the gate like a boiling dark water in the pot. Shadows of some strange beasts in weird shapes appeared in the sky…

The cultivators all felt the destructive power from the demons, and they were all shaking because of fright.

They could tell by sensing the demons on the other side of the gate that if these demons got through, nobody would be able to defeat them!

Any one of those demons was much more powerful than the Honor Demon!

If they didn’t saw the demons with their own eyes, they would never believe that there were actually such incredibly powerful demonic creatures! This was a nightmare that they couldn’t even stand seeing in imagination!

It was bloodcurdling!

Those monsters were too strong!

As the battle went to the current situation, it seemed they were not going to stop the Gate to the Great Demon from opening…

The smoke on the ninth altar was getting denser and denser, and the Gate to the Great Demon was becoming more and more realistic…

At this particular moment, a cracking sound rang up from nowhere!

People thought that it was the sound of the Gate to the Great Demon opening up after breaking through the boundary, so they started to tremble in fear. While they looked to the gate in desperation…

It was a such a surprise… They saw the door frame of the Gate to the Great Demon broken.

The dark qi around the gate started to become disordered. It seemed the Gate to the Great Demon was not going to be completed…

The monsters on the other side of the gate started to shout in chaos.

“What the hell is going on? Why is the tunnel unstable?”

“Open the damn door now! Open it now…”

“Damn it! Let me get over it…”

However, the monsters’ voice was getting weaker and weaker. It seemed they were getting further and further away…

The Honor Demon turned around and looked over with a pair of fierce eyes, and he was shocked… The fourth altar, which had been completed, had its flame put off.

The seven great cultivators who were guarding the altar all became ashes in destruction!

The entire altar was collapsing… The bones that the altar was built with started to become ashes bit by bit… The altar broke down completely…

Another altar got destroyed!

Ye Xiao was so glad to see it happening. It was just like he was expecting. When one of the nine Demonic Flame Altars was destroyed, the Gate to the Great Demon would be affected, but not so much. As long as the altars kept going down one by one, the Gate to the Great Demon would definitely fail to open. The fourth altar was down, and the Gate to the Great Demon started to shake—the demons on the other side of the gate were leaving! It proved Ye Xiao’s theory right!

“Who is it? Who did this? Who?” The Honor Demon was shouting. His eyes almost popped out of the eye frames. It was so close. He almost got to finish the Gate to the Great Demon, yet two of the nine Demonic Flame Altars were destroyed!

They just collapsed, without any signs beforehand. It was unbelievable!

The Honor Demon felt like the flame of anger was burning inside his body!

He rushed to the place where the two destructed altars were located. Ye Xiao and the others kept everything they could to stop the Honor Demon; they even started to burn their life energy. However, the Honor Demon was totally mad. He didn’t care about anything anymore. He didn’t mind if he was going to get hurt or killed… He didn’t care… All he wanted to do was to rush over to the altars and check on them.

He wanted to know what was happening. He wanted to know what destroyed the two altars! He wanted to know who did it!

He had to find out who took away his great opportunity to fulfill his life goal!

This was the moment he showed his true incredible power. Xuan Bing, Jun Yinglian, Xue Danru, and the others… Whoever was touched by the crazy Honor Demon would be blown away with a mouthful of blood leaving their mouth… Whoever got hit by such unbelievable attack would immediately lose all the power to fight…

If the Honor Demon hadn’t gone mad, he might make a casual palm hit on these people, and these people would definitely die right away!

However, the Honor Demon didn’t have time to even think of killing the enemies. He just kept shouting, yelling, murmuring… Some black demonic blood came out of his mouth. The dark silk on his face was gone for quite some time now. His ugly and evil face was revealed. The only thought he had in the head was to find out who destroyed his beloved altars.

Ye Xiao and Li Wuliang both made a long sigh. The two brothers stood in the front, holding their weapons up, a sword and a saber at the same time. They burned out the last bit of their power to get ready to attack the Honor Demon when he approached them.

The last crash!

The Honor Demon was completely mad. Perhaps, after this crash, Ye Xiao and Li Wuliang would die…

However, they had to do it!

The battle against demons was a battle they were willing to die for! There wouldn’t be regret in their heart no matter how it ended!

The two of them shouted at the same time and rushed fast forward.

The Honor Demon’s eyes were full of craziness as he said, “Die!”

His two hands were wrapped by some raging demonic qi while he was making a slash with the two hands. It seemed his attack was going to destroy the world.

At this moment…

Two broad stream of glaring sword light approached at lightning speed like two big rainbows. The sword light took a move later but arrived earlier. When the Honor Demon was about to hit the two brothers, the sword light appeared right between the two sides and blocked the Honor Demon’s attack!

The Honor Demon seemed to be much more powerful than ever before, but in fact, he was now less than ten percent as powerful as he had been. That aside, even though he was only ten percent powerful now, ordinary cultivators did not have the power to block his attack.

The two glaring lights in white color were not from some ordinary cultivators, but from two of the most powerful cultivators in the world!

Ye Xiao realized that somebody had come to help, and he felt relieved. As he felt relieved, he started to feel so exhausted that he almost closed the eyes. He tried so hard not to let his eyelids fall, and he looked to the place where the sword lights came from.

There were two cultivators, who were both in white clothes, standing straight up like two giant mountains after stopping the Honor Demon’s fierce attack.

Well, they not only stopped the Honor Demon, but also forced the Honor Demon backward again and again with the two swords in their hands.

One of them was a middle-aged man who looked gentle and polite, but also fierce and domineering. The other was a lady who was beautiful and fabulous. There was one thing about the lady that caught everyone’s attention—her big baby bump. She was pregnant!

Ye Xiao was shocked, and then he felt tears in the eyes. His heart was suddenly full of different feelings.

It was Ye Nantian and Yue Gongxue.

These two who came to help him were the most unexpected thing for him!

They actually came to the battle together at this critical moment to help Ye Xiao.

Somewhere, the Moon Queen, who was weary because of the severe injury, saw them, and she shouted in surprise, “Xue’er!”

“Master!” Yue Gongxue answered while still wielding her longsword in the hand like flying snowflakes. She had to have a look at her master.

As she looked around, she looked right into Ye Xiao’s eyes. What a coincidence! They had an eye contact at this moment.

Yue Gongxue was shocked. As she saw how miserable Ye Xiao was at the moment, she felt unbearable pain in the heart. Her heart was full of complicated feelings as well…

She turned back immediately to fight alongside Ye Nantian. They wielded their swords as one, pushing the Honor Demon back.

In the fifth altar.

Erhuo was sitting in front of the flame. It opened its mouth and started to inhale. Endless soul energy kept running into its little mouth.

Erhuo had already sucked up the soul energy of two altars, and now it had improved greatly. It was more than ten times faster than before.

Ye Nantian stood in front of Ye Xiao, protecting him with his tall and sturdy body, but he didn’t look back.

He finally started to talk.

While wielding the sword in the fight, he spoke to Ye Xiao.

“Ye Xiao!

“We are here!

“I don’t know what we should call you now.

“But we both recognize you. We want you, but we do not dare to…

“I believe you understand what I mean, and why we would feel that it was difficult.

“Most importantly, we do not blame you for anything.

“We have to let you know! And you have to understand that we don’t blame you.

“No matter what, there is one other thing we need you to know.

“When you are in danger, we will definitely stand by your side. We won’t let you get hurt. We will protect you with our lives. Nobody could hurt you unless we die!

“In fact… Perhaps… Actually…”

Ye Nantian was emotional, and he didn’t know what to say anymore. He stopped talking for a while, and then he made a long shout which shocked the sky, “Who in the world dares to hurt my son!”

Ye Xiao’s eyes were full of tears. He was moved!

[I know!]

[Of course, I do!]

[You know me back. You forgive me.]

[But… But you have to hide your feelings deep in your hearts. You can’t show it.]

[I know!]

[I understand.]

[I totally understand it.]

Ye Xiao made a long shout. He was obviously exhausted to the extremet, and he apparently shouldn’t be able to move anymore. However, after what was said, he became energetic again, jumping up and saying, “I understand!”

[I have no regret now!]

Deep in the bottom of his heart, he whispered. [Father, mother, thank you!]

He didn’t speak it out and just kept it in his heart.

Deep in his heart, a hurdle that had been sticking in there suddenly disappeared. He seemed to be enlightened, but he couldn’t tell what exactly it was. Anyway, he got something rising inside him, which nobody knew what it was…

A rising qi of life fiercely burst out of him.

It was some truly mystical power.

When the other noticed his power they were shocked. Everybody started to look at Ye Xiao.

It was a sense of the greatness, the extreme achievement in mysteriousness.

[Did he just break through?]

[Did he just make it at this critical moment?]

The Honor Demon kept his eyes widely opened, staring at Ye Xiao with doubt and surprise in the eyes.

The Honor Demon was forced back bit by bit, but he didn’t really care about what Ye Nantian and Yue Gongxue did. In fact, he wanted to thank the couple—the two of them showing up had helped him hold down the craziness in his mind. The Honor Demon was back to consciousness, and he immediately saw through everything at the current situation. He felt lucky about it.

If Ye Nantian and Yue Gongxue didn’t show up, if Ye Xiao and Li Wuliang exploded themselves to attack the Honor Demon, he would fail to defend himself against that explosion blast. Maybe Ye Xiao and Li Wuliang’s soul energy would fill up the altars after they died, but the Honor Demon was definitely not going to see it!

The Honor Demon could sacrifice everybody else to complete the altars, but he could never give up on his own life. If he could not see the great achievement of himself, it would be absurd!

It looked like Ye Nantian and Yue Gongxue were winning the fight, suppressing the Honor Demon, but it was just a false impression. The Honor Demon took a rest for a while and finally recovered some power. Ye Nantian and Yue Gongxue were only at the Tittle Phase, so it was easy for the Honor Demon to kill them both!

Therefore, Ye Xiao’s surprising breakthrough saved everybody’s life!

“Everybody! Guys, go away!

“I am breaking through!” Ye Xiao took a deep breath and said, “I am going to use the thunder trial on me to strike that bloody demonic creature to death!”

As the barrier in his heart disappeared fully, he eventually took the most important step in cultivation, as well as the last step in the current stage!

The thunder trial began, cracking in the sky!

Ye Xiao had been planning for this all the time. He knew that it was impossible to defeat the powerful Honor Demon with the people he had in the union. The Honor Demon had been confident all the time, sacrificing all his people to death…

The Honor Demon wasn’t a fool. If he wasn’t absolutely sure about it, he wouldn’t have given up all his men!

That was why Ye Xiao had been making his own plan, a brilliant one. First, he started the battle with a big fight. It would be great if they luckily won it anyway. Second, he asked Erhuo to put off the flames in the Demonic Flame Altars. Third, if nothing went well, he would burst out all the energy in the Boundless Space to break through. As long as he entered a higher level, he would have to get through a thunder trial, and the thunder was the last thing he could count on! He might have to die with the Honor Demon, though.

He had asked the Golden Hawk to stay in the sky as a backup as well. If he didn’t get enough energy to activate a proper thunder trial, the Golden Hawk might be able to make use of its nature of thunder and wind. It should be able to strike down a thunder trial for him in the end.

What he hadn’t thought of was the appearance of Ye Nantian and Yue Gongxue. He couldn’t have known that they would come to help him at the critical moment. Because of that, the barrier in Ye Xiao’s heart was removed. He had been so close to a breakthrough for a long time, and as long as the barrier was gone, he would definitely get to it.

At this moment, he did! He was breaking through a new level now!