Chapter 1490: Is That All?

“Is that all you got?” Seeing that the fake Danxia Zi and other Sages had withered away, and seeing that Old Man Profound Firmament had lost his fighting spirit, Ye Qing could not help but feel a tad disappointed.

“I guess this is all the famous Old Man Profound Firmament amounts to.”

Ye Qing slowly clenched his fingers as he said this.

If before the opening of his palm felt like the creation of a new world, then this was the reverse.

Heaven and earth were being forcefully combined into one, and all light was snuffed out of existence. At the same time, primal chaos was reborn.

Fear and trepidation snapped Old Man Profound Firmament out of his shock. Then, he saw Ye Qing clenching his fingers around him.

Ye Qing’s fingers were several inches long at most, and his palm a little bigger than that. And yet, for some inexplicable reason, Old Man Profound Firmament felt as if nothing was bigger than his palm; nowhere for him to escape from it.

“I refuse to believe that you can be this strong! I reject it!”

Strange runes manifested in Old Man Profound Firmament’s eye sockets, and the blood red world shuddered. Rivers of blood flowed in from every direction and into the old man’s body, causing his body and aura to increase some more.

At the same time, the Jade Firmament Blood Eyes in the sky were descending.

When it landed on Old Man Profound Firmament’s empty eye sockets, the two quickly merged into one. In just an instant, the Sage had completely lost his facial organs. All that was left was a single eye.

The eye had a blood red vertical pupil, and Old Man Profound Firmament was standing in the middle of it.

The moment they combined, bloody light burst out of their bodies, and demonic auras filled the nine heavens.

There existed infinity beyond the heavens, and there existed a demon called the One Pupil in that infinity. Born a pupil from the very moment it came to be, it was impossible tall and harbored countless living beings in its pupil. When it opened its eye, it was like daytime. The creatures within its pupil ate, slept, and reproduced like all other living beings. When it closed its eye, it was like nighttime. The creatures within its pupil all died and went extinct. Its Magia knew no bounds, its strength was infinite, and its existence was eternal.

In fact, the thing that inspired the Jade Firmament Dark Lord to invent the Jade Firmament Blood Eye was none other than the outer god demon, the One Pupil.

Because of this, one who had pushed the Jade Firmament Blood Eyes to the adept level could temporarily transform into the One Pupil itself and used its power. They could become temporarily omnipotent and immortal.

𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

That was what Old Man Profound Firmament had transformed into: The One Pupil.

Buzz!

After transforming into the One Pupil, Old Man Profound Firmament fired a beam of bloody light straight at Ye Qing. It was vast like the sea and grandiose like infinity. He was also throwing both of his arms forward like he would punch a hole in primal chaos and shatter the Nether into pieces.

“Now we’re talking.”

Old Man Profound Firmament had become as tall as the heavens and as wide as the earth itself after transforming into the One Pupil. Compared to him, Ye Qing was positively smaller than an ant. Despite this, his aura wasn’t weaker in the slightest. It was the opposite.

The cosmos could exist in a body as small as 1.7 meters.

Ye Qing reached out again, his arm just as steady as before, and his fingers still clenching at a glacial pace.

Could your fists break apart my world of five fingers? Let us see, shall we?

As Ye Qing clenched his fingers, the titanic beam of bloody light rapidly converged into one point as if manipulated by some sort of invisible power.

The gigantic Old Man Profound Firmament was shrinking rapidly as well.

By the time Ye Qing’s fingers made contact with each other, both the infinite beam and Old Man Profound Firmament himself had become as small as a bean.

“I guess you don’t have it in you after all!”

Ye Qing chuckled as the miniature bloody light and Old Man Profound Firmament appeared on his palm at the same time.

“This is impossible!”

On the palm, Old Man Profound Firmament was screaming and struggling like he had gone mad. But no matter what he tried, he just could not escape from Ye Qing’s palm.

A palm was like a prison. It could trap even a god demon.

“Nothing in this world is impossible.” Ye Qing looked down on Old Man Profound Firmament with a smile on his face. “Don’t worry. I’m not planning to kill you just yet.”

Ye Qing clenched his fists, and the bloody world slowly cracked and shattered into pieces. At the same time, demonic fire flooded into the broken domain and consumed it all.

In just a moment, the bloody world was more or less destroyed. The desolate, pale white world was replaced by raging fire as well.

The demonic fire stirred like oceanic waves, brutal and terrible. When they approached Ye Qing though, they became as gentle as the spring breeze and as obedient as slaves. They flanked him and protected him like he was a god or demon.

“Congratulations on obtaining the inheritance of a god demon. The day you forge your Great Way isn’t far away now.” Feng Qingyou walked over to Ye Qing’s side and congratulated him with a beautiful smile.

“Hahaha... thank you, Qingyou.”

Ye Qing wasn’t surprised that Feng Qingyou had figured out the truth. He admitted, “Seriously, it would have been dicey if you hadn't bought me enough time.”

Earlier, Old Man Profound Firmament was buying time to execute the Jade Firmament Blood Eyes.

However, Feng Qingyou was also buying time for him.

She might not know about the exact details, but the fact that she did this could only mean that she had figured out something a long time ago.

It was entirely thanks to Feng Qingyou keeping Old Man Profound Firmament busy and ignorant that he was able to accept the Burning Nether Holy Lord’s inheritance in full and take control of the remaining energy in his corpse.

It was why he was able to suppress Old Man Profound Firmament so easily.

A dead camel was still bigger than a horse. The Burning Nether Holy Lord might have died for countless millennia, and the power remaining in his corpse was less than one percent, it was still enough to suppress a mere Old Man Profound Firmament.

Feng Qingyou smiled but did not explore the topic further. Instead, she asked, “How much longer can you maintain this state?”

Ye Qing grinned. “Enough to wipe out the Rakshasa Kingdom!”

Thanks to the Burning Nether Holy Lord’s heart and inheritance, he was able to take control of the remaining energies in the god demon’s corpse and dramatically increase his strength. It couldn’t last long though.

For one, the power remaining within the corpse was far too great for him to handle. Despite bearing the Burning Nether Holy Lord’s heart and inheritance, he ultimately wasn’t the god demon or a Sage. To give an example, he was like a child trying to bear a mountain right now. It was completely beyond him to control such power. He could do it for a short time, but he was going to hurt himself if he took too long.

Besides that, the Burning Nether Holy Lord’s body had rotted away and become corrupted a long time ago. Part of his power had become contaminated and unusable as well. If he wasn’t using the power, then a precarious balance could still be maintained. But now, he had broken that balance of his own accord, so that contaminated power was running rampant right now. Forget controlling it, he could barely suppress it. It was only a matter of time before even suppression became impossible as well.

In short, the remaining power within the Burning Nether Holy Lord’s corpse was completely out of control right now. He could not return to his previous state even if he wanted to.

If Old Man Profound Firmament wasn’t a piece of shit, he would have had all the time in the world to slowly absorb and refine the remaining power. Alas, that was how life was sometimes.

Now, he only had two choices left.

One, he could say screw it and run off with the power he could control. This would cause the uncontrollable power within the Burning Nether Holy Lord’s body to completely lose control and annihilate everything within its corpse’s range. Absolutely nothing and no one—the Profound Alliance for example—would survive the calamity.

Two, he could use the controllable power to temporarily suppress the uncontrollable power. Once he had reached a specific location, he could vent it all while keeping the blast radius under an acceptable limit.

But of course, this would cost him much of the Burning Nether Holy Lord’s power.