Chapter 1503: The Oriole Behind

The Rakshasa God Blood had long become one with this land. That was why he set up the Rakshasa Seal and borrowed the strength of five—no, six, since he was contributing his own power—Sages to refine this land. It was to separate the Rakshasa God Blood from the land and extract it.

Yes, he had lied to the five Sages by omission. The Rakshasa Seal did not just possess the power to cut off the Rakshasa King’s connection to the Rakshasa Land. It could refine the Rakshasa Land and extract the Rakshasa God Blood as well.

On the surface, it looked like the Rakshasa God Blood had already been separated from the Rakshasa Land. However, now was the most critical moment. If he slipped up, then everything he had done would be for naught. If the Rakshasa God Blood were to become one with the Rakshasa Land again, then it would be oh-so-difficult for him to redo everything.

He did not want to falter at the last step. That was why he became increasingly meticulous despite his urgency.

“Almost... almost...” White Robe Demon Master whispered to himself. Before he knew it, he had become an entire size smaller. His arms looked thin as sticks.

It was due to the strain of channeling the Rakshasa Seal, of course.

It wasn’t just him. Danxia Zi, Empress Yue Su and everyone else were enduring the same fate. In fact, they looked even worse than him.

Even so, White Robe Demon Master’s body and arms remained as steady as ever.

He would not allow even a bit of mistake or accident to happen at the last moment.

“It’s done!”

When the drop of blood emanating boundless power floated into the sky, and its connection to the Rakshasa Land was completely cut off, White Robe Demon Master let out a bark of excitement and reached out to grab it.

It was at this moment an accident occurred.

A moment before White Robe Demon Master could seize the blood, a slender hand reached out from space and grabbed the blood before him. It then dragged the blood into the space.

“You dare!”

The unexpected turn of events caught White Robe Demon Master off guard at first. It quickly turned into uncontrollable rage.

He had plotted a thousand years for the Rakshasa God Blood. Naturally, he could not tolerate someone stealing the fruits of his labor at all.

No one knew how deadly an enraged White Robe Demon Master was. After all, the man rarely got angry in his life. Enraged? That had literally never happened before. This also meant that no one had ever seen White Robe Demon Master going all out!

But today, they saw it. Danxia Zi saw it, Empress Yue Su saw it, the culprit who stole his fruits of labor also saw it.

They found out exactly how powerful and terrible an enraged White Robe Demon Master was.

As he roared, the sky and space within thousands and thousands of kilometers twisted, cracked, and crumbled. They were then squeezed from all sides like a bundle of cotton. Because of this, the crumbling sky and space slid even faster toward destruction and annihilation.

Be it formless objects such as the air, the wind, the clouds; or substanceless elements such as spiritual energy, space, and time, everything was dying and disintegrating.

In one shout, the sky and space within thousands and thousands of kilometers had disappeared permanently.

This battle would eventually end, just as White Robe Demon Master would eventually depart this place. However, this place would never be anything more but a place of chaos, void, and nothingness. Thousands of years might pass, but life would never be born in this place, and the passage of time would not affect it because it simply did not exist in the first place.

Nothing would exist anymore.

Like a human, this corner of the world had been utterly killed by White Robe Demon Master.

In most cases, killing a person was quite easy. But killing a corner of the world? That was difficult. Very difficult.

But White Robe Demon Master did it.

He didn’t do it because he had a problem with this corner of the world, of course. He did it to kill the thief who stole his precious Rakshasa God Blood.

Everyone thought that the thief who stole the Rakshasa God Blood had died, and the matter was settled. However, something unexpected happened once more.

THANG!

A bell rang. It was pretty soft at first, but it grew louder and grander over time. It was only one ring, but it felt like the passion of armies waging war on the battlefield, the loftiness of the sun, the moon, the mountains, the rivers, the nations, and the world under the heavens, and the vastness of the endless sky and infinite earth.

As the bell chime continued, dark yellow light floated out of the shattered corner of the world. It looked like a flood that was battering some sort of invisible dam, or a sun that was illuminating the dark clouds.

Eventually, the dam crumbled underneath the flood, and the dark clouds were scattered by the sunlight.

In an instant, profound light filled the world like the rising sun.

“Argh!” White Robe Demon Master let out a terrible cry as his arms turned black like burned branches. His white robe was also burned away by the profound light, revealing his true form.

At first glance, White Robe Demon Master looked no different from a human. However, half of his face was pitch black like ink, and the other half was as white as jade. Penta-colored deer horns were growing out of his head as well.

This wasn’t the important point. The point was that White Robe Demon Master was half human, and half Stranger. He was the child of a Stranger and a human.

Halflings had always been a great taboo. They were loathed not just by society, but the world itself. Their lives were naturally riddled with peril, and they were scorned by all living creatures. Humans and even Strangers spurned their existence. That was why halflings rarely managed to survive in this world.

White Robe Demon Master was one such existence.

But White Robe Demon Master did not die a tragic death before he reached the heavens. He even became a Sage. It wasn’t unprecedented, but it was certainly a rare achievement.

The fact that he was able to break through the barriers of the world and leap out of the cage of fate all proved that White Robe Demon Master was as talented as he was powerful.

The extraordinarily talented and powerful White Robe Demon Master was currently facing a terrible situation though. Just terrible.

White Robe Demon Master was hardpressed to withstand the profound light, but still he wasn’t willing to let go. He was trying to pin down the thief who stole the Rakshasa God Blood.

However, this meant that he could do nothing but allow the burns to creep up his fingers, his palm, his arms, his shoulders, his torso...

Just a moment later, his entire body was scorched black.

THANG!

It was at this moment the bell rang again.

Profound light illuminated heaven and earth, and the bell chime deafened the cosmos.

As soon as the bell rang, the world in White Robe Demon Master’s palm crumbled inch by inch.

At the same time, cracks slowly spread throughout his whole body.

“This cannot be happening! Argh!!!” White Robe Demon Master let out a terrible howl, and his body abruptly exploded to pieces and scattered to ash.

As soon as White Robe Demon Master scattered to ash, a beam of profound light penetrated space and vanished into the horizon. At the same time, countless rays of profound light descended from the sky and struck the five Sages.

The five Sages were seriously injured and exhausted because of White Robe Demon Master’s trap. But now, they felt warm and comfortable like they were basking in the sun. Their pain and fatigue had all been alleviated to an extent.

“Are you alright?” After recovering a bit of strength, Empress Yue Su dragged her emptied body across the plains and rescued her fellow Sages one by one.

She was the one who suffered the least of the five Sages. Although her roots were damaged, and she might never make another inch of progress in her lifetime, she was at least still a Sage. Danxia Zi, Sea Dividing Sword Sage, Sky Scorching Great Emperor and Celestial Suppressing Wisdom King could not say the same thing. Not only were their roots damaged, their cultivation level had dropped as White Robe Demon Master predicted it would. They might never return to their former level in their lifetime.