Ming Zhi Tian hurriedly shouted around, "Xing Chen! Xing Chen! Xing Chen!..."
The Empress Xing Chen heard someone calling her name. After killing two platinum magic beasts, she followed the sound.
Upon seeing the tragic scene before her, she gasped in surprise, covering her lips. Ming Zhi Tian beckoned her over, and without a second thought, she teleported to his side.
"Zhi Tian, your body... your cultivation?"
Ming Zhi Tian shook his head, supporting the semi-conscious Divine Martial King. "Now is not the time. Look at him, he is your biological father!"
"What?" Empress Xing Chen asked, confused.
The Divine Martial King, with a strong will, managed to remain half-conscious. He looked up at Empress Xing Chen and indeed, she looked exactly like his beloved deceased wife. "Do you have a cinnabar flower mark on your right shoulder?"
"!"
Empress Xing Chen covered her mouth, incredulous. "How did you know? Are you really... my long-lost father?"
The Divine Martial King nodded. "Come... here."
Empress Xing Chen slowly approached. The Divine Martial King, with his last ounce of strength, poured his lifelong inheritance into Empress Xing Chen's body.
He then collapsed, exhausted. "This is the only thing this father can give you. I'm sorry. Now... can you call me father?"
Looking at the dying Divine Martial King, his eyes gradually becoming vacant, Empress Xing Chen thought for a moment and then softly called out, "Dad."
The Divine Martial King spat out the Martial Spirit Pill from his body! His cultivation plummeted. He formed hand seals and summoned a forbidden secret technique, scattering all his cultivation!
Clutching the Martial Spirit Pill, he instantly appeared behind the Undying Divine Emperor and held him tightly!
Just as the Undying Divine Emperor tried to struggle, the Divine Martial King detonated the Martial Spirit Pill, which took a hundred thousand years to form just one!
The sky roared! ... deafening! Resounding through the heavens! ...
It stirred ten thousand chaotic clouds, forming a never-before-seen colored mushroom cloud, still rising! The temperature reached one hundred thousand degrees!
Divine Martial Continent...
Cloud Void Temple—
Madam Hui Gui, who looked exactly like Empress Xing Chen, forcibly opened the core mechanism, pulled out the perpetual motion machine within her, crushed and discarded it, and then stopped functioning entirely.
Guards who learned of the anomaly rushed in, shouting, "Madam! Madam!..."
The scene returned to the main battlefield of the Ancient Cultivation Realm—
Just as everyone thought the Divine Martial King and the Undying Divine Emperor had perished together, he revived!
A chilling, eerie laugh echoed from the colored mushroom cloud, making everyone present shudder: "Hahaha! Ah ha ha ha! Hee hee hee!..."
"This Emperor has the Sacred Divine Body. You want to kill me? You're still far from it!"
"What?" Ming Zhi Tian, Ming Ya, and the others were all stunned!
The next second! The Undying Divine Emperor stood before them, his skin and body completely unharmed, except for his clothes!
The Undying Divine Emperor looked coldly at Ming Zhi Tian. "A Divine Emperor of Cultivation is nothing more than this! I should have annihilated you in one move, but for someone who has lost their cultivation, this is too merciful. As punishment for your ignorance in defying me, I shall make you fall into the cycle of hell for eternity."
"Hell Seal! Activate!"
The Undying Divine Emperor summoned a red, semi-finished divine artifact, the Hell Seal!
Ming Zhi Tian pushed Empress Xing Chen away, and a beam of light shone! He was sealed within the cycle of reincarnation by the Hell Seal, never to escape for eternity!
...
Ming Zhi Tian fell from the dark red light, plummeting downwards... continuously downwards...
Unknowingly, he passed the Bridge of Forgetfulness, the Three Pure Springs, the Ghost Refining Purgatory, or the eighteen levels of hell...
Ming Zhi Tian crashed heavily onto the ground, feeling his body weak and powerless. The air around him was incredibly strange, no longer "fresh."