Chapter 977: The Devouring Eye

The battle at the Western Sea shook the world. News of it quickly spread from shore to shore.

Eventually, the conflict came to an end due to the intervention of two more saints. The heavily injured Void Saint was taken back to a secret hall.

"These bastards! How dare they rebel against us?" the Void Saint roared in rage.

"You should watch your words. If we hadn't arrived in time, you wouldn't have managed to escape today," one of the saints replied.

"How dare they?" The Void Saint glanced at his companions grimly.

"It's because of Liu Miaoyin's declaration to the world. All manner of Immortal Emperors and hierarchs are coveting our charms of heavenly law. If we hadn't acted quickly and more cultivators had arrived, we might not even have been able to save you."

"Damn that Liu Miaoyin!" the Void Saint fumed.

"Save your strength. Much of the credit for your rescue lies with Tang. If he hadn't predicted your peril, we wouldn't have gone to your rescue. You might not have made it out alive."

"Tang is my subordinate. It's his duty to assist me—but there's something even more important I have to do right now," the Void Saint declared.

"Oh?"

"That fool Ao Xi exposed the location of my avatar, which Xiao Nanfeng killed. I have to avenge myself."

"And how will you do that? Xiao Nanfeng's whereabouts are unknown. Are you heading to Yongding?"

"During the battle with the ancestral dragon, while he was encircled by the three moons, I secretly placed a curse of heavenly law on one of them. I still don't fully understand their nature, but I can sense where my curse is."

"Oh?"

"Xiao Nanfeng recently passed his three moons to his other body, and they're now rapidly disintegrating. If I'm not mistaken, Xiao Nanfeng's other body must be refining the moons in secluded cultivation."

"In secluded cultivation?"

"Indeed. If I'm not mistaken, his other body is but a True Yin cultivator.While in secluded cultivation, he won't have time to draw on imperial might."

"What's your plan?"

"Using that curse as an anchor, I'll be able to send my spiritual avatar over and kill Xiao Nanfeng's other body instantly," the Void Saint snarled.

"Summon your spiritual avatar. We'll help you with the transmission," one of the saints said.

"He's already on his way."

With a whoosh, two identical figures rushed into the hall—two of the Void Saint's spiritual avatars.

With a wave of his hand, a pillar of blue light appeared. The two avatars stepped into the pillar and vanished in an instant.

The next moment, one of the Void Saint's avatars arrived in the Realm of the Three Worlds.

Not far away, Xiao Nanfeng looked at him in astonishment. "Void Saint? How did you get here?"

The Void Saint smirked. "I came to kill you, of course."

With that, he lunged at Xiao Nanfeng.

Xiao Nanfeng flashed into the sky.

"You've reached Deific Yin? You're advancing rather quickly, aren't you? But I have a Deific Yin realm of my own. Open!" the Void Saint's avatar roared.

A hum filled the air as the Realm of the Three Worlds was instantly inundated with countless threads of blue light. The Void Saint's Deific Yin realm began to merge with Xiao Nanfeng's.

The Void Saint's figure blurred as he appeared beside Xiao Nanfeng and launched a punch imbued with dazzling blue light.

"Die!" Xiao Nanfeng roared. He countered with a punch of his own as tri-colored light swirled around his fist.

The two Deific Yin cultivators clashed with each other. The impact caused both their realms to tremble, and both cultivators were sent flying backward.

"What tremendous strength! You just broke through to Deific Yin, but your strength already approaches mine," the Void Saint exclaimed. He waved a hand. "Spectral Descent!"

With a rumble, countless skeletons appeared out of thin air and charged toward Xiao Nanfeng.

"Red rope!" Xiao Nanfeng commanded.

With a loud hum, countless lengths of red rope emerged from the region illuminated by red moonlight, lashing at the skeletons like whips of order. The ropes shattered many of the skeletons, while those left intact were quickly bound and hung in mid-air.

However, there seemed to be an endless tide of skeletons. They continued their assault on Xiao Nanfeng ceaselessly.

"Death chants," Xiao Nanfeng bellowed.

The sound of resonant chants filled the air, instantly causing the skeletons to slow down dramatically. The ropes became even more effective and annihilated the endless swarm.

Meanwhile, Xiao Nanfeng and the Void Saint continued their fierce battle, their figures moving at lightning speed as they traded blows. They seemed evenly matched.

Just then, another of the saint's avatars stepped into the realm.

The second avatar glanced up at the three bright moons in the air and smirked. "How reckless you are, leaving your moons exposed like this. You don't understand how Deific Yin fights work yet, do you? Since you don't, I'll be destroying your Deific Yin realm here and now."

He shot toward the purple moon.

The red moon was surrounded by red rope, and the blue moon by death chants. The purple moon was quiet, and seemingly an easy target.

As he struck at the purple moon, it suddenly trembled and split open like an eye, revealing a sinister purple gaze.

The terrifying aura exuded from the eerie purple eye caused the Void Saint's avatar to shudder instinctively.

"What kind of monstrosity has Xiao Nanfeng cultivated? What a sinister aura—but it doesn't matter. Explode!" the avatar snarled, slamming his palm down.

With a hum, the purple eye emitted a dazzling light that engulfed the avatar. Countless serrated teeth appeared within the light, biting down and shattering the Void Saint's attack.

"Just what is this thing?!" the avatar screamed, trying to flee.

More serrated teeth emerged and overwhelmed him.

With a cry of agony, the avatar managed to escape the violet light, but only half of his body remained. Everything below his waist was gone, the stump jagged as if gnawed by countless teeth. Blood gushed from the wound, painting a horrific picture.

"This is impossible!" he roared.

With another flash of purple light, the remaining half of his body was devoured. His screams echoed as he was consumed completely.

The purple light receded into the purple eye, which then closed. It was, once again, nothing more than a purple moon.

Far away, Xiao Nanfeng and the Void Saint's remaining avatar had paused their battle.

Both of them felt a chill running down their spines.

"Xiao Nanfeng, what have you cultivated?!" the Void Saint's other avatar demanded.

Xiao Nanfeng remained silent, equally baffled. An eye that ate people? What kind of monstrosity was that?

He had no time to dwell on the question. Rather, he attacked the Void Saint again.

"Hegemon's Fist!" Xiao Nanfeng cried out.

His punch landed squarely on the Void Saint, who managed to stabilize himself. Just as he was preparing to counterattack, purple light engulfed him.

"Again? No!" the Void Saint screamed.

Countless serrated teeth had appeared once more and were now lunging toward him.

He was done for. He would be eaten again!

"Xiao Nanfeng, just you wait. I'll make you suffer a terrible death!" the Void Saint roared. "Explode!"

With a loud boom, the Void Saint detonated himself in an attempt to cause significant damage to Xiao Nanfeng.

But he had underestimated the purple eye. Though the purple light visibly ballooned a hundredfold as a result of the explosion, whatever entity controlled it remained unharmed. The serrated teeth emerged again, consuming the explosion before retreating into the pupil of the purple eye.

The purple moon hung silently in the sky, as if nothing had happened.

Having devoured the two avatars, the purple eye turned its gaze toward Xiao Nanfeng, exuding an ominous aura that made his scalp tingle.

In haste, Xiao Nanfeng summoned his red and blue moons to suppress the purple eye with their light.

Under their combined efforts, the eye reluctantly closed and reverted into a purple moon.

"Thank goodness my red moon has been suppressed. If it weren't, wouldn't it be even more terrifying than the purple moon?" Xiao Nanfeng shuddered.

By then, all the skeletons had vanished and the spatial rift had closed. Xiao Nanfeng had started to piece together the situation. He spat out a faint blue glow—the curse from the Void Saint.

"This must have revealed my location to the Void Saint," Xiao Nanfeng murmured.

He shattered the curse with a palm, then looked back up at the three moons high above. He couldn't help but feel a tremor of unease.

He stepped out of the Realm of the Three Worlds and emerged in reality again.

In another grand hall, the Void Saint's main body was so angry that he sent a table flying.

𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

"Did your two spiritual avatars fail to assassinate Xiao Nanfeng?" one of the saints asked curiously.

"Damn that Xiao Nanfeng! Just who does he consort with? Liu Miaoyin, an ancestral dragon, and now an eye that eats cultivators? Damn him, damn it!"

The Void Saint ranted on and on. He was fuming mad. How many times had he lost to Xiao Nanfeng by now?