Chapter 1589: You Lost, Teacher

“Are you planning to kill me, Chief Libationist?”

Seemingly guessing the Chief Libationist’s thoughts, Sect Spirit said smilingly, “I’m afraid it won’t go as easy as you think.”

As Sect Spirit spoke, his figure slowly grew transparent and illusory. It felt as if he was wiping out his own existence from the passage of time itself.

As soon as he disappeared, the Chief Libationist suddenly forgot about him. It was as if he had never existed.

“What was I planning to do just now?” The Chief Libationist shook his head. He felt as if he had forgotten something very important, but he just could not recall it no matter how hard he tried.

“You can still pull back, Chief Libationist. Otherwise, today is the day you die,” the other ghosts and gods declared while staring at him.

“Less talking, more fighting!” The Chief Libationist sneered. There was no way he was leaving today, not until he killed all of them at least.

He then threw himself at the Six Ghosts and Gods.

“A shame.” Tyrant Extinction let out a sigh and brought out a painting. The person in the painting was none other than himself.

The Tyrant Extinction in the painting walked out into reality.

“Greetings, Dao Friend.”

“You’ve worked hard, Dao Friend.”

The two Tyrant Extinctions saluted each other before the tattoos on their bodies shone brightly at the same time. Once more, countless ghosts, demons, and monsters descended to the Nether.

Grand Fiend, Illuminating Sin, Bright Star and Cojoined unleashed their power and attacked the Chief Libationist from multiple directions as well.

Rumble rumble rumble...

For a time, terrible explosions and indescribable powers clashed against one another. The impacts and shockwaves flipped the world upside down and shook the entire Nether. It was terrible to put it mildly.

Absorbed in the battle, the Chief Libationist did not notice that he had missed something. Emperor Jing Run, his prisoner, was missing.

Perhaps “notice” was not the most accurate description. After all, how could someone notice something he did not even remember?

In fact, the Chief Libationist hadn’t thought of Emperor Jing Run from the moment he entered the Nether.

This wasn’t a coincidence, of course. It was Sect Spirit’s doing.

As soon as the Chief Libationist entered the Nether, Sect Spirit had used his Magia to wipe out Emperor Jing Run’s existence from the passage of time itself. That was why the Chief Libationist had forgotten about his student.

He wasn’t doing this for the fun of it, of course. He did it because Emperor Jing Run needed to carry out an important mission.

So, where was Emperor Jing Run right now? He wasn’t fighting the Chief Libationist, that much was certain. That was the Six Ghosts and Gods’ responsibility. His responsibility was to facilitate the Yellow Spring’s entrance to the human world and corrupt humanity.

Therefore, Emperor Jing Run was inside the Yellow Spring right now.

Rumble...

There was a deafening rumble, and the severed Yellow Spring suddenly started flowing once more. The next moment, an unstoppable sea of yellow water began racing up the Son of Heaven Sword of Yellow Spring and flooding toward the human world.

“Jing Run!”

When the Chief Libationist saw Emperor Jing Run riding the waves of Yellow Spring with his hands clasped behind his back, he immediately realized what was happening and tried to stop him.

Unfortunately, he was stopped by Tyrant Extinction, Grand Fiend and Illuminating Sin the second he made a move.

“We are your opponents, Chief Libationist.” The Chief Libationist might be powerful, but the Six Ghosts and Gods were no slouches either. Their combined power was just enough to stop the Chief Libationist for a time. Try as he might, the Chief Libationist was unable to stop the Yellow Spring from racing toward humanity.

“Jing Run, you dare!”

The Chief Libationist let out a roar of fury.

“You lost, teacher.”

On top of the waters of the Yellow Spring, Emperor Jing Run looked down on his teacher calmly and indifferently, “This is my win.”

As soon as he said this, Emperor Jing Run’s figure vanished behind the yellow water.

“Everyone’s sins catch up to them eventually, Jing Run! You cannot win!”

The Chief Libationist shouted, “You cannot win, Jing Run!”

Before the Chief Libationist could say more, deafening rumbles and howls engulfed his voice. It was impossible to say if Emperor Jing Run had even heard his voice.

The emperor did, in fact, hear his yells. He just found it beneath him to answer.

It was also because it was unnecessary.

The Chief Libationist had failed to prevent the Yellow Spring from invading the human world. His victory was all but assured. Naturally, there was no need to waste his breath on the Chief Libationist any longer.

Besides that, he wanted to corrupt the human world with the Yellow Spring as soon as possible. He also wanted to kill the Chief Libationist and end the threat he posed once and for all.

Of course, he wasn’t strong enough to do this right now. In fact, that was putting it kindly. He was nowhere even close to being capable of killing the Chief Libationist, not even after he had transformed into the Yin Son of Heaven.

However, if he could pollute the human world with the Yellow Spring, if he could turn Chu into his empire of ghosts and steal the power of the realm for himself, if he could transform all of the citizens of Chu into his ghost citizens and steal their soul power for himself, then his power would definitely become hundreds, even thousands of times greater than it was now. He would become a true Yin Son of Heaven; the ghost emperor who commanded countless ghosts and gods.

When the time came, even the Chief Libationist would just be a bigger gnat he could squash as he pleased.

And after he killed the Chief Libationist, consumed his soul, and stole his power, who else in the world could threaten him? That was why he could not be bothered to waste his breath on the Chief Libationist, nor did he want to do so. He only wanted to fulfill his wish as soon as possible.

“Almost there... almost there...”

He saw a five-colored light shining from the gap ahead of him. It was a color that belonged to the human world alone. The Yellow Spring was going to appear in the human world very soon, and he was past waiting already.

THANG!

However, when Emperor Jing Run finally burst through the gap, what welcomed him wasn’t the screams and wails of pathetic humans, but a large bell.

A bell that had descended from above.

The bronze bell was rotating slowly while unleashing countless rays of profound light. It was small at the beginning, but it quickly grew as big as a hill and encompassed the entire imperial palace.

𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

“The Earthly Sovereign Bell? Ye Qing! But how are you here?”

For the first time since he transformed into the Yin Son of Heaven, Emperor Jing Run lost his cool and blurted out in shock and disbelief.

After he became a Yin Son of Heaven, his humanity had been completely stripped away from him. All that remained in him was rationality and coldness. Therefore, his soul no longer had much capacity left for any emotion.

Ye Qing’s appearance was such a shocker that it overwhelmed his inhumanity though.

He just could not understand why Ye Qing was here.

Wasn’t he being hunted by Hao Tianhong and Xuanyuan Wang in the Overseas right now? When did he appear in the imperial capital, and how was he here? Besides confusion, Emperor Jing Run was also feeling an endless amount of fury.

The reason he became like this and the reason Chu plummeted to the state it was was all thanks to this bastard. So how could he not hate? How could he not resent?

Just as well. He would settle both the old and the new scores right here and now!

“You think the likes of you can stop me? I’m going to rip you into a million pieces!”

Emperor Jing Run roared in fury as the waters of Yellow Spring burst out of the gap like a sinful dragon of hell. It charged straight toward the Earthly Sovereign Bell.

THUNK!

Yellow Spring and profound light clashed like sun and moon crashing into one another. Heaven and earth shattered, and the sounds of impact could be heard seemingly all over the world.

There was a deafening boom, and Emperor Jing Run was sent flying. At the same time, the Yellow Spring beneath his feet shattered and spread everywhere. Wherever it went, plants died, structures corroded, and even the earth lost its vitality, leaving behind only corruption and darkness.

This was the power of the Yellow Spring’s corruption.

However, the entire imperial palace was sealed inside the Earthly Sovereign Bell right now. Therefore, the corruptive waters could not leave its range and harm the citizens of the imperial capital.

As for the people inside the imperial palace, Ye Qing and Feng Qingyou had rescued them all long ago. Therefore, as corrupting and scary as the Yellow Spring was, it was more or less harmless so long as it failed to breach the Earthly Sovereign Bell’s seal.

Emperor Jing Run wasn’t paying attention to any of this, however. Right now, his mind was full of doubt and confusion.