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The Godking quickly explained to Master Stonerule, “Ji Ning’s Dao-companion is named Yu Wei. She was one of the countless spies I, the Seamless Gate, planted within the Nuwa Camp. The bond between Yu Wei and Ji Ning runs incredibly deep. I once ordered her to kill him, but she dared to disobey! It was then that I resolved to see her dead. I only spared her because the great tribulation was imminent and talents were rare… In the Crimsonbright Realmverse war, she managed to accomplish some merits, and I brought her soul back. At the time, Ji Ning had reached the fourth stage of Heartforce and had single-handedly turned the tide of the entire Crimsonbright war. I truly saw his terrifying talent and the depth of his feelings for Yu Wei. So I forced a choice upon him…”

“If he chose to join the Seamless Gate, then naturally Yu Wei would be reunited with him. My Seamless Gate could also shelter his family and his clan. We would bestow treasures upon him and teach him divine abilities. If he persisted in staying with the Nuwa Camp, then I would cast Yu Wei into the Infinity Hells.”

“And Ji Ning chose the Nuwa Camp,” the Godking concluded.

Master Stonerule nodded.

This was a war of survival between two camps. The Godking’s actions, while ruthless, were within his authority as the nominal leader. No one could fault him for such a tactical decision. The Godking also sent a divine sense message to the major powers of his own camp, briefly explaining the situation.

Given his status, no one had anything further to say about the matter.

“It seems your judgment was correct. This Ji Ning is indeed extraordinary, and his feelings for that girl, Yu Wei, are every bit as deep as you believed,” Master Stonerule finally said. “Now that this Ji Ning has acquired that teleportation art, even though he is still a minor figure, he has become a massive headache. Think carefully about how to deal with this problem.”

The Godking nodded, his eyes dark and gloomy.

To be pushed to this point by Ji Ning! Rage burned endlessly in the Godking’s heart, but no matter how furious he was, he dared not act directly. In terms of pure power, he was not at the very apex of the Three Realms. Beings like Master Stonerule and the Lord of All Demons on his own side, or Suiren, Shennong, and Daofather Three Purities on the enemy’s side, were all utterly transcendent above him.

…

On the roof of a palace, a green-robed man sat, clutching a gourd of wine. He seemed half-drunk as he gazed into the distance, letting out a light sigh. “That little fellow from the Immortal Fortunes Assembly back in the Grand Xia world… he’s already grown to this level. Able to shake the entire Three Realms, giving the Seamless Gate such a headache that they can’t do a thing to him. I thought he would become a Sword Immortal, but who would have guessed he’d surpass even my expectations.”

Back then, at the Immortal Fortunes Assembly, Lu Dongbin had not been impressed by any of the contestants except Ji Ning. He had even personally gone to the Xia Emperor, hoping to take Ji Ning as his disciple.

Though he failed to take Ji Ning, sensing something wrong, he instead took Yu Wei, Ji Ning’s Dao-companion, as his disciple.

“Alas, my disciple’s fortune was thin. In the end, I could not change her fate,” Lu Dongbin said, shaking his head. “The Godking of the Seamless Gate is a disciple of the Lord of the Heartlord. His skill at beguiling people’s hearts is formidable. He made my disciple so loyal to him. But now, it seems she has been cast into the Infinity Hells.”

“And yet…”

“If Yu Wei knew that Ji Ning would go to war with the Seamless Gate for her sake, slaughtering his way across the Three Realms…”

Lu Dongbin shook his head and sighed.

He had the greatest sympathy for lovers. While roaming the Three Realms, he was even nicknamed the ‘Old Matchmaker’ because he delighted in helping lovers unite. And Ji Ning and Yu Wei were special: one was a Sword Immortal he greatly admired, and the other was his own disciple. Unfortunately, their fate was not something he, Lu Dongbin, could change.

“Waging war against the vast Seamless Gate… I hope you get what you wish for.” Lu Dongbin tilted his head back and took another drink.

…

Inside the Imperial Kitchen of a minor world’s palace.

A coughing old eunuch sat there, legs crossed, while a young eunuch massaged his shoulders and back, attending to him.

“Your Excellency, please try this soft heart cake,” the head eunuch of the Imperial Kitchen said, bustling about as he presented a plate to the old eunuch.

“Mm, not bad,” the old eunuch said, nodding in praise.

Suddenly, he frowned.

“Everyone out. I need to be alone for a moment,” the old eunuch commanded.

“Yes, yes, yes,” the surrounding eunuchs replied respectfully as they quickly filed out, leaving only the old eunuch behind.

The old eunuch’s gaze pierced through the void, observing a distant major world. There, a ten-thousand-zhang tall Fiendgod, Ji Ning, was in the process of annihilating a Seamless Gate stronghold. “I gave him the Heart Sutra back then, but I never imagined this kid would grow so fast. Now, beneath the True God and Daofather level, it seems no one can do anything to him.”

“What a freak, a true freak.”

“Looking at the trend… he just might actually become a True God or Daofather,” the old eunuch muttered to himself. “And that teleportation divine ability he has, tch tch, I wonder where the hell he got it from.”

…

The Thunder God Major World.

Seated on a floating mountain peak, the towering Thunder God opened his eyes. His divine sense tore through the void, observing the rampaging Fiendgod Ji Ning.

“The Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent?” The Thunder God frowned.

“He actually has such a divine ability. When he came to beg me for a Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent last time, was it for this?” The Thunder God was naturally envious. He, too, desperately wanted to learn this technique. With the Lightning-Serpent Teleportation, his chances of survival in the coming tribulation would increase tenfold, a hundredfold! Someone like Ji Ning, even with the Rahu Formation, could still be killed if he ran into any group of Empyrean Gods and True Immortals from the Seamless Gate!

But with the Lightning-Serpent Teleportation, Ji Ning’s survivability had skyrocketed. The Seamless Gate would need to dispatch over five thousand Empyrean Gods and True Immortals to deal with him. A mobilization of that scale was not something that could be ordered on a whim!

This single Lightning-Serpent Teleportation…

Combined with his fourth-stage Heartforce, his divine soul secret arts, and the Rahu Formation, it had created a monster like Ji Ning!

“That teleportation divine ability…” The Thunder God burned with desire to obtain this technique.

…

Both major powers of the Nuwa Camp and the Seamless Gate had to admit that the current Ji Ning had become incredibly difficult to deal with! His strength was enough to completely upend the Seamless Gate’s strategy of infiltrating the Three Realms! All of their previous painstaking efforts might have to be abandoned!

“Heavenbreaker Stance!”

The Fiendgod Ji Ning’s divine sword swelled to tens of thousands of zhang as it came crashing down like a collapsing pillar of heaven.

BOOM!

The towering pagoda was split open by the sheer force. Then, the Fiendgod Ji Ning’s other five divine swords struck in rapid succession. After just a single round of attacks from the six swords, the magnificent pagoda was reduced to rubble. The formation seals, divine runes, and everything else were utterly destroyed. It had taken immense effort to construct, but destroying it was effortless.

“Next.” The Fiendgod Ji Ning climbed back into his Void Boat and sped off to the next destination.

“The Seamless Gate still won’t surrender. They still won’t come to me. Fine. Very good. I’ve only destroyed a little over a hundred major worlds so far. There’s plenty of time. Slowly, one by one, I’ll destroy every single one of your strongholds in every major world.” Ji Ning had no other thoughts. He had only one goal.

He would force the Seamless Gate to submit.

…

Ji Ning’s relentless destruction was putting immense pressure on the Godking. Every moment of delay meant another major world’s stronghead being destroyed. The Godking’s face grew uglier and uglier as his mind churned, constantly weighing his options.

The grand Seamless Gate… it represented the Seamless Chaosworld! Was it truly going to be forced to bow its head by a single Ji Ning? Where would its pride and honor be then?

But if it didn’t bow, would it have to abandon its entire infiltration strategy across the Three Realms? Changing strategies now would likely be far less effective.

And with the great tribulation descending, the very survival of the Seamless Gate was on the line. At a time like this… face was not really that important.

…

While the black-robed Godking was locked in fierce internal debate, another figure appeared beside him.

Master Stonerule looked at the red-robed, green-haired giant who had appeared and smiled. “Windfiend.”

“Stonerule,” the red-robed man replied with a slight nod.

“Lord of All Demons,” the Godking immediately said with reverence.

This man, wearing a red robe with loose green hair and a thick beard, his eyes faintly glowing with a green light, was the undisputed strongest and most highly ranked existence in the entire Seamless Gate camp. He was the Seamless Gate’s savior: the Lord of All Demons. An existence born from the primordial chaos.

Like the Lord of the Heartlord, he was at the Elder God level. The Lord of All Demons was born already grasping a Heavenly Dao: the Heavenly Dao of Wind!

Within the Seamless Chaosworld, the Heavenly Daos were divided into Chaos, Heart, Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind. As a Primordial Fiendgod of that world, his status was naturally supreme. However, he remained low-key, not making a name for himself until the Primordial War of Destruction. At that time, Nuwa had already reached the World God level, yet the Lord of All Demons suddenly erupted, saving a massive number of major powers, Empyrean Gods, and True Immortals before fleeing. Mother Nuwa herself could not catch him.

This final eruption convinced the Nuwa Camp that the ‘Lord of All Demons’ was the Seamless Gate’s deepest secret, that his power was truly unfathomable, and that he was, without a doubt, their strongest member.

And indeed he was.

The Lord of All Demons sat in the ‘All-Demon Realm,’ which housed countless secret puppet legions. The Nuwa Camp exhausted every method but could never infiltrate it.

The Godking was the nominal leader, but that was only because the Lord of All Demons did not wish to be bothered with trivial matters.

The Lord of All Demons was the true highest authority.

“The great tribulation is paramount. What we need is survival,” the Lord of All Demons said, looking at the Godking.

“Yes, my lord.” The Godking answered respectfully.

The Lord of All Demons nodded, then vanished into thin air. He had only manifested an avatar; his true body remained seated in the All-Demon Realm.

The Godking’s heart was no longer torn. The Lord of All Demons’ words had made his decision absolute.

“Hmph.” The Godking suddenly let out a cold laugh. “The Empyrean Gods and True Immortals of the Nuwa Camp have started to gather. They seem to be waiting for us to mobilize our Empyrean Gods and True Immortals. If we dare to dispatch several thousand of our Empyrean Gods and True Immortals, the Nuwa Camp will likely attack immediately. In the midst of the great tribulation, everyone is desperately fighting for any sliver of victory.”

…

The Fiendgod Ji Ning rode the Void Boat, traveling from one major world to the next. The Seamless Gate did not come to stop him. They clearly understood that a few hundred Empyrean Gods and True Immortals could not catch him, and they dared not dispatch any more than that.

Amidst a vast, tranquil lake.

The island at the lake’s center had already been reduced to rubble. The Fiendgod Ji Ning stood atop the ruin.

“Ji Ning.”

The power of Heaven and Earth converged, condensing into a figure cloaked in black robes. The Fiendgod Ji Ning’s eyes locked onto it. He immediately recognized it as the Godking of the Seamless Gate. This was merely a manifestation; it posed no threat.

“You win,” the black-robed Godking declared.

(End of Volume)