Chapter 1077: Funeral Dirge

On the surface of Nightking Planet, shattered pieces of earth pressed down upon the leg of the Fireplume Tribe woman, and her thigh bled incessantly. Nearby, plumes of lava shot into the air and burned away the trickling blood while turning the air red.

The woman looked over. She could not see the battle, but she could still hear it. Her name was Ellen Gale.

There was a bang as the ground split open. Lu Yin instantly grabbed Nightking Zhenwu and rose into the air before fiercely pounding Nightking Zhenwu back down into the ground. Nightking Zhenwu’s mouth opened wide, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. His face betrayed his agony, though his eyes continued to grow even more hateful and malevolent. He was waiting for the moment when Lu Yin faltered. Zhenwu would not allow Lu Yin to die too easily, and the young Nightking intended to torture Lu Yin to death.

Lu Yin’s arms trembled as his blood continued to trickle down. He was truly about to reach his limit, but he still had not breached the Nightking’s innate gift yet. Lu Yin could only gamble by continuing to roll his die. If he rolled four pips: Timestop, he would be able to completely recover, and after that, they would see who outlasted the other.

Ellen Gale faced the battlefield. The Fireplume Tribe’s war song for Nightking Zhenwu still echoed within her ears. She slowly opened her mouth, and a pleasant and elegant melody flowed forth as she guided the Fireplume Tribe to change their tune. It quickly became a distressed song that had never been heard before. This was the Fireplume Tribe’s funeral dirge, and Ellen was sending off her dead sisters.

As the funeral dirge filled the battlefield, Nightking Zhenwu’s expression suddenly changed, and he felt an intense pain in his heart that was so severe that it left him unable to breathe. He whirled around to glare at Ellen Gale. “Shut up!”

Ellen Gale was kneeling on the ground, her fists clenched as she held them in front of her chest and sang a moving and mournful song that sounded more like a prayer. This funeral dirge was to send off her sisters, but at the same time, she also intended to send Nightking Zhenwu on his way.

Nightking Zhenwu had never heard the Fireplume Tribe’s funeral dirge before, and the grief contained within this song made his heart ache so badly that he could hardly breathe. He felt like something was off, and he wanted to stop the Fireplume Tribe, but at that moment, Lu Yin’s punch landed above his heart. Nightking Zhenwu was once again forced to face the sky as he spat out a mouthful of blood. He hurriedly tried to transfer his new injuries away, but the pain and grief surging within his heart interrupted his ability to do so. He was fully experiencing Ellen Gale’s emotions because his heart held Ellen Gale’s heartblood as well as the heartblood of the entire Fireplume Tribe.

All of the sorrow, despair, and helplessness that the Fireplume Tribe had ever experienced was surging through Nightking Zhenwu at this moment.

Humans possessed a wide range of emotions, and there were several basic ones shared by everyone. Nightking Zhenwu had originally ignored all of these emotions, but as much as he tried at this moment, they were magnified beyond his control. Specifically, the agony he felt was multiplied until it was unlike anything he had ever experienced before.

“Shut up, shut up!” Nightking Zhenwu screamed.

Lu Yin kicked out, stomping Nightking Zhenwu underground. Lu Yin’s eyes were completely bloodshot. “Nightking Zhenwu, you’re finished!”

He knew that Nightking Zhenwu could no longer transfer his injuries away, and no matter what the reason behind that change was, the Nightking was doomed.

Lu Yin landed multiple punches right above Nightking Zhenwu’s heart.

Nightking Zhenwu shrieked and tried to unleash Skybreaker, but Lu Yin severed the Nightking’s left arm. “This is for Wendy!”

Zhenwu raised a hand to create a quadruple-fletched arrow, but his right arm was sliced off by Lu Yin before the arrow could form. “This is for slandering me!”

Zhenwu’s spiritual force erupted, but it was useless against Lu Yin.

He had unleashed the Heart Seeker secret technique the moment that Lu Yin attacked, but Lu Yin had instantly diverted it with his Ce Secret Art and ripped off another chunk of his own flesh.

Both youths’ bodies were heavily mutilated by now, and Lu Yin’s punch landed on Nightking Zhenwu’s face, sending him flying away before crashing straight into a stone wall. “This punch is for the Fireplume Tribe!”

Nightking Zhenwu was no longer able to transfer his injuries not only because Ellen Gale had started singing the Fireplume Tribe’s funeral dirge, but also because all of the women of the Fireplume Tribe with whom he had linked himself had killed themselves. After Lu Yin had started attacking his heart, Zhenwu was no longer able to transfer his injuries.

Over a thousand members of the Fireplume Tribe had killed themselves all at once, and this showed Ellen Gale’s determination. She had waited a long time for this day, and she had already recorded down her swan song in her diary. Right now, she was determined to drag Nightking Zhenwu down with them. Nightking Zhenwu had condemned the Fireplume Tribe to a lifetime of agony and despair, and Ellen Gale had found herself unable to continue living like this. At the same time, she could not stop herself from loving Nightking Zhenwu, as this man had given her a taste of love. Thus, all she could do was take the man down along with her.

Nightking Zhenwu was embedded within the stone wall, and he looked at Lu Yin with scarlet eyes, refusing to accept his situation as he constantly coughed up blood. “I- I won’t lose! No, I am.. peerless! I am the… mandate of heaven!”

Lu Yin slammed a hand down, blasting Nightking Zhenwu straight underground. The earth erupted as the surface dropped by dozens of meters.

Nightking Zhenwu collapsed onto the ground like a corpse, still coughing up blood.

The people in the Innerverse and Outerverse were all completely silent, as no one knew what to think. They could only blankly stare at the screens.

However, they were certain of one thing: Nightking Zhenwu was truly finished this time.

Above Nightking Planet, Nightking Dijiang suddenly appeared, and he raised a hand as he tried to reach toward Nightking Planet. However, right as he stretched out his hand, a tyrant blade slashed out, and Highsage Leon snarled, “Dijiang, are you trying to interfere?”

Nightking Dijiang’s face grew dark. “Zhenwu’s already lost, so there’s no need for them to keep fighting.”

Highsage Leon laughed maniacally. “This isn’t a duel—it’s a war!”

Nightking Dijiang’s expression grew cold. “Highsage Leon, are you trying to become mortal enemies with my Daynight clan?”

Highsage Leon sneered. “So what if I am?”

Nightking Dijiang’s eyes narrowed, and he kept glancing down at Nightking Planet. Nightking Zhenwu was of vital importance to the Nightking bloodline, as the kid’s talent was second only to the First and Third Nightkings. In fact, he had even gained the opportunity to receive an inheritance from the Astral Tower. Zhenwu was the Daynight clan’s best hope of rising to a higher level, and they could not allow him to be killed.

𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

“Highsage Leon, my Daynight clan will pay any price as long as Nightking Zhenwu can survive,” Nightking Dijiang said in a deep voice. He was the patriarch of the Daynight clan, and he was already setting his dignity aside by speaking to a pirate in such a manner.

Highsage Leon twirled his blade around. “Don’t bother. This is their battlefield, so the outcome should be decided by them.”

On the other side of Nightking Planet, one after another, powerhouses from the Nightking clan tried to force their way onto Nightking Planet so that they could rescue Nightking Zhenwu. However, every last one of them was stopped.

At this moment, Daynight Flowzone was filled with chaos, and many of the Daynight clan’s powerhouses were busy dealing with the pirates, like Nightking Yuanjing.

The outside universe was unable to reinforce the Daynight clan, and those who had supported the Daynight clan within the Hall of Honor had also been stalled. Blazing Mist Flowzone had been ambushed, the Daynight clan’s ancestral grounds had activated the sourcebox array to protect the stone plaque, and the final unaffected experts in the ancestral grounds had been stalled by the Great Yu Empire’s androids.

The entire Daynight clan was unable to support Nightking Planet in any way.

Beneath the stone plaque, in the Daynight clan’s ancestral grounds, a person within the elders stood up and calmly looked at the elder who had activated the sourcebox array. “Your sin will be judged once I return.”

He then stepped out. His strength, which should have been that of an Enlighter, suddenly exploded. Space itself distorted, and he instantly vanished.

The ones left behind were all overwhelmed. “That’s an Envoy’s strength, as only an Envoy can break through this array. When did he become an Envoy?”

“The strength of stellular energy. My Daynight clan actually has a hidden Envoy.”

That elder who had activated the Sourcebox Array to protect the plaque suddenly went pale; there had actually been an Envoy among them. This was the end, as an Envoy could change everything.

Above Nightking Planet, the person who had been seated with the elders in the ancestral grounds appeared, and he was about to descend upon Nightking Planet when a longsword tore through the void in front of him, blocking his path to Nightking Planet. “One more step forward, and you’ll die.”

The emissary's eyes shrunk, “The Liu family?”

Behind the sword stood a middle-aged man. “Subordinate to Leon’s Armada, captain of the Lightning Sword Regiment, Liu Feng.”

The emissary was shocked. “Liu Feng? Back then someone with that name had left the Liu family, destroyed all of the Liu family sword techniques that they had learned, and entered the Cosmic Sea alone. Are you that Liu Feng? You actually became an Envoy?”

Liu Feng clenched his sword hilt and pointed it at the Daynight elders’ emissary. “Another step forward and you will die.”

The emissary smiled bitterly. “Who could have known that Leon’s Armada even contained a hidden powerhouse like you. It’s no wonder why they stand at the top of the Cosmic Sea’s four pirate crews and are even able to leave the Hall of Honor apprehensive.”

He then turned to glance over at Nightking Planet before also looking at Highsage Leon. “Captain Leon, can you give my Nightking clan some face and not kill Zhenwu? My Nightking clan will forever remember this favor.”

Highsage Leon barked, “I’ve already said that the outcome of this battle is up to those two kids. If Little Seven dies, then I won’t try to stop the Nightking either. Thus, if Nightking Zhenwu dies, I won’t let you guys stop it.”

The emissary shook his head, “Since you’ve revealed your stance, then there’s nothing more to discuss.”

The man’s body gradually dispersed and slowly floated away before ultimately merging into Nightking Dijiang’s body.

When they witnessed this scene, both Highsage Leon and Liu Feng were left in a daze; what was happening?

Nightking Dijiang’s aura had originally been weaker than Highsage Leon’s, but it suddenly surged and climbed past Highsage Leon when the two men merged together, leaving space trembling. The Nightking patriarch waved a hand, and Highsage Leon was actually beaten back. He cried out in alarm, “A power level of 800,000? You-”

On Nightking Planet, Lu Yin looked up, completely stunned. This was a terrifying power level, and it was comparable to Ancestor Autumnfrost, whom Lu Yin had seen at Endless Weave’s border. So the Daynight clan actually had a powerful expert on this level.

Nightking Dijiang had absorbed the elders’ emissary, allowing his power level to surge dramatically and instantly surpass Highsage Leon’s. The Nightking patriarch had reached the level of a World Imprinter.

Nobody could have predicted this.

When the Sixth Mainland had invaded the Innerverse, the Daynight clan also had suffered some casualties, and more than ten of their Enlighters had died. In fact, even an Envoy of the clan had perished. Despite all of that, Nightking Dijiang had never revealed his full strength. But at this moment, for Nightking Zhenwu, he had exposed his full strength in view of the entire universe.

This was the Daynight clan’s hidden power.

Nightking Dijiang was the Daynight clan patriarch, and he had always remained quiet, rarely ever showing his face. However, the moment he revealed himself, he had shocked the universe.

Highsage Leon swallowed his saliva. “You- What the hell? How did you do it?”

Nightking Dijiang had a stern expression, and his voice was cold. “I’ve already told you—take your people away, and we can ignore everything that’s happened today.”

Highsage Leon gritted his teeth.

Liu Feng’s gaze grew sharp.

Above Nightking Planet, the pirate captains who had been blocking the Nightking clan’s experts were also shocked. It was no wonder why the Daynight clan was considered to be one of the ultimate families of the Innerverse. Out of nowhere, they had revealed the existence of a powerhouse whose power level exceeded 800,000. It was simply insane.

On Nightking Planet, Nightking Zhenwu coughed up blood as he stared up into outer space. He then smiled in a very sinister and miserable fashion. “Lu Yin, do you dare to move? Do you dare? Hahaha, in the end, you don’t even dare to attack me!”

Lu Yin clenched his fists.

In the distance, Zhuo Daynight was grieving.

Nightking Zhenwu laughed in a disturbing manner. “Wait, oh just wait for me to get back from the Neoverse after I become one of the Cosmic Five and obtain a Progenitor’s inheritance! At that time, I’ll stomp on you, and then, you’ll never be able to beat me! It will be forever impossible!”

Lu Yin calmly looked down at Nightking Zhenwu. “There’s no need to wait. You’re doomed to die today.”

Nightking Zhenwu glared at Lu Yin. “Do you actually dare to kill me? Do you even have the ability to do so? My patriarch is watching. Let alone you, even if that entire group of pirates wanted to kill me, they wouldn’t be able to! No one can kill me, and you’ll never be able to either! I’ll slowly torment Zhuo Daynight to death, so just wait. I’ll bury the entire Dayking bloodline!”