Invincible Dad-Chapter 757: The Supreme Emperor, Save Me!_1

Therefore, though Heaven Beyond Heaven was boundless, many cultivators who strayed into this place met a grim fate. Over the long years, besides the endless expanse of dead stars, one could occasionally glimpse corpses drifting in the infinite darkness. These were all cultivators who had lost their way here. Growing old bit by bit in the despair of being unable to find an exit, they turned into statuesque corpses, awaiting the next lost soul.

TING-A-LING...

A crisp bell chimed in Heaven Beyond Heaven.

Three Emperor's Corpses, swirling with Hundun energy, were manipulated by the bell to encircle Xu Lai, forming a triangular pincer formation.

With his hands behind his back, Xu Lai was not at all panicked. He was seeing the Blood Demon Emperor's corpse for the first time, but he had fought the other two before. While he couldn't claim to know them inside and out, he had some understanding of their capabilities.

His gaze was as sharp as a torch, still fixed on the Bell in the black-robed person's hands. His eyes then shifted to the person herself. This cultivator had used several layers of concealment Divine Skills and Magic Artifacts, clearly worried about her identity being revealed.

Even so, Xu Lai still saw the face she was hiding, which looked exactly like a human's, only with slightly pointed ears. This was a woman who appeared quite young, her features carrying the youthful innocence of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old human girl.

"Celestial Clan?" Xu Lai's brow furrowed slightly as he sensed the bloodline within the girl. It was almost identical to that of the Human Race, yet it carried subtle differences.

Strictly speaking, the Celestial Clan was considered part of the Human Race in ancient times. But a hundred eons ago, for reasons unknown, a rebel faction emerged from within the Human Race, which was already as insignificant as ants. This group of cultivators declared themselves the Celestial Clan and separated from the Human Race.

The Celestial Clan claimed to be born of Heavenly Fate, unlike the cursed Human Race. They believed the future of the Immortal Domain was destined to belong to them. Yet, in less than a few tens of thousands of years, the Celestial Clan vanished without a trace, as if they had never existed.

At that time, to the other top species and Holy Lands of the Immortal Domain, the Human Race was no different from ants—an inferior existence to be slaughtered and enslaved at will. The high and mighty Gods paid no mind to how the ant-like races on the ground split among themselves.

Xu Lai had learned this piece of history from a rare book in the Human Race's ancestral hall after he became a Venerable and shattered the shackles binding his people. The record, however, was not detailed, mentioning it only in passing. Xu Lai never expected that after a hundred eons, he would meet a descendant of the long-vanished Celestial Clan.

"Oh? What are you talking about?" the girl asked, her voice still the hoarse rasp of an old crone. She sounded calm, but her true expression was like that of a cat whose tail had been stepped on—sheer terror.

For this day, the clan elders prepared me with a foolproof disguise. So how did Xu Qingfeng discover me? No. Impossible. He must be bluffing!

The girl sneered, "For the great Supreme Emperor to be spouting such nonsense... that's truly unexpected."

"..."

Xu Lai felt helpless. I've seen right through you, girl. Why keep up the act? A little rabbit pretending to be an old fox. It's full of holes.

Xu Lai sighed, "Considering you still have human blood in your veins, retreat now, and I will not kill you."

"Hmph!" the girl snorted coldly. You won't kill me? But I want to kill you! If you don't die, the millions of my Celestial Clan will have no place for their graves.

"Kill!"

With resolve, the girl shook the Bell in her hand, and the three Emperor's Corpses charged at Xu Lai simultaneously. The seemingly simple charge was teeming with the countless laws of the Great Dao. Cultivators below the Nine Heavens of the Quasi-Emperor Realm couldn't even see the fierce clash, only feel a terror that reached the depths of their souls.

RUMBLE!

Countless stars exploded. They had long since died over the eons, and swarms of Starfish formed from their stellar cores fled in panic. Luckily, this place was desolate and boundless, with no life on the stars. Otherwise, that single instant would have reduced billions of beings to ash. Their bodies dead and their Daos extinguished, their souls would be utterly annihilated, unable to even step into the Samsara Sea.

"If they were three living Great Emperors, it might be a challenge. But mere corpses? How dare a firefly vie with the bright moon for glory!"

As Xu Lai finished speaking, he formed a sword with his fingers and swept out with a Sword of Qingfeng. There was no great noise, nor were the three Emperor's Corpses harmed in any way, yet the black-robed girl's face lost all color.

She realized the connection between the Bell and the three Puppets had been severed!

Before she could react, an indescribable fear rose in her heart again, and goosebumps erupted all over her skin. It felt as if someone was perched on her shoulder, blowing cold breath down her neck.

She stiffly turned her head.

Indeed, she saw a man's face. Unremarkable at first glance, but upon a closer look, it filled her with an inexplicable, soul-shaking dread.

It was Great Emperor Qingfeng, Xu Qingfeng!

The girl viciously bit her tongue to jolt herself awake. Her body transformed into a streak of light as she shot backward.

"Oh?" Xu Lai was slightly surprised. "Sixth heaven of the Quasi-Emperor Realm."

He could tell that this Celestial Clan girl wasn't very old, thirty thousand years at most. To reach this boundary at her age, she could be considered a Great Emperor seed in any era of the Immortal Domain.

What a pity. She had run into him.

Xu Lai made a beckoning gesture. To her despair, the girl found that no matter how fast she fled using her Spiritual Energy, she could not escape the fifty-thousand-mile radius around him. Moreover, this distance was constantly shrinking: forty thousand miles, thirty thousand, twenty thousand, ten thousand...

In just ten breaths, the girl who was desperately trying to flee was now less than a hundred feet away from Xu Lai.

The girl glanced back, glowering at the man she both hated and feared, and retrieved a Transmission Jade Slip from her Storage Space. Just as she was about to crush it, she heard him say leisurely, "If I were you, I wouldn't use this Quasi-Emperor Artifact-level Transmission Jade Slip. It's a waste."

The girl's hand froze. That's right. A Quasi-Emperor Artifact-level Transmission Jade Slip can't create a Teleportation Array in the presence of an Emperor.

So, she took out another Jade Slip. This one faintly emanated the oppressive might of the Emperor Realm, its aura identical to that of the Blood Demon Emperor's corpse.

The girl crushed the Jade Slip and beamed a brilliant smile. "Xu, I'm outta here! Next time we meet, I'll make sure you die without a burial... hmm?"

She had crushed the Transmission Jade Slip personally refined by the Blood Demon Emperor and sealed by her ancestors with a secret technique for nearly a full cycle, but no teleportation light screen appeared before her.

The girl was dumbfounded.

Xu Lai had a peculiar expression. "Don't you know that Heaven Beyond Heaven blocks all Teleportation Arrays?"

The Celestial Clan girl cried out in grief and indignation, "Then why didn't you say so earlier, making me waste a—"

Wait. If Teleportation Arrays are blocked, doesn't that mean I have no hope of escaping today?

As if reading her mind, Xu Lai nodded seriously. "That's right. You can't escape."

The girl quickly calmed down. She shook the Bell, confirmed she could no longer control the three Emperor Realm corpses, and then fell silent.

Xu Lai watched with interest, waiting for her next escape attempt. She must have spent years planning today's assassination with Emperor's Corpses; surely, she had another trump card.

But what Xu Lai never expected was that instead of a trump card, what came next was the thud of someone kneeling.

"The Supreme Emperor, save me!"

"..."