Soul Land 5: The Rebirth of Tang San

Chapter 563: An Unexpected Development

At this moment, Mei Gongzi felt a wave of nausea emanating from her chest. Both the Celestial Plume and her body were being eroded by the bloody aura and countless vengeful spirits were surging toward her. If not for the golden-silver energy's protection, she would have already been corroded into blood pulp.

At that moment, a calming voice sounded in her ear.

"Relax."

In the next instant, the massive crystal core connected to the smaller one floating in her sea of consciousness suddenly radiated a brilliant light.

Time stood still.

Mei Gongzi vaguely saw starlight—real starlight this time, from the boundless cosmos. It was as if she was suddenly connected to another world. A pair of strong hands wrapped around her waist from behind, drawing her naturally into a tight embrace.

In the next moment, time seemed to resume, but what Mei Gongzi experienced were countless fragmented images flashing through her mind. Each fragment was blurry, and yet she felt an intimate connection to them.

She felt dizzy and dazed, and her spirit core was shaking violently. However, the warmth of those arms and the gentle power of the huge crystal core stabilized everything about her.

A point of starlight suddenly brightened in her spiritual world. In that moment, she seemed to see an ancient world, a pair of embracing figures, and endless feelings....

A red glow suddenly expanded within her mind, and the Celestial Plume in Mei Gongzi's hand disappeared. Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, her hands slowly reached toward each other above her head. Though her movements seemed slow, they were extraordinarily mystical, like when she had previously conjured the Mysterious Circles of Heaven.

The moment her palms joined, a red beam shot up from her hands.

Meng Dede’s bloody light exuded a vicious aura and was accompanied by the wails of countless vengeful spirits. But the light emerging from Mei Gongzi's hands, though also blood-colored, was vast and grand, filled with majesty and righteousness.

The blood-red light suddenly rose. None of the spectators, including the Emperors, sensed the overwhelming power in that blight. But the moment it made contact with Meng Dede’s light, a strange scene unfolded.

The wails of the vengeful spirits turned to laments. The boiling frenzy of the Blood Slaughter Demon Spear faded, and all the ferocity and darkness seemed to be cleaved apart.

Meng Dede's fierce gaze turned to astonishment almost instantly. He suddenly jerked his back, forcefully flinging Meng Deshi off and sending her flying out of the arena.

The two bloody lights collided and crossed in an instant. One of them seemed to be completely split open, dissipating into the sky.

For a moment, time and space seemed to freeze.

All the fragments floating in Mei Gongzi's mind stopped moving and gradually turned to illusions. In her mind, she seemed to hear Asura's voice again.

"Today, I feel great, better than ever."

The two Great Demon King-level referees stared in astonishment at the scene. When the image in front of their eyes froze, they instinctively wanted to intervene. But at that moment, it seemed everything had already ended.

BOOM!

It wasn't the sound of a collision between fighters, but the sound of Meng Dede falling from the sky, crashing heavily onto the ground!

Clang!

The broken Blood Slaughter Demon Spear fell to the ground, turning into dark metal, devoid of any demonic aura.

A vast and mighty aura soared into the sky, sweeping away the malevolent aura brought by the Blood Slaughter Demon Spear. The entire sky cleared up; the tribulation clouds that had once more started to form silently dissipated.

The entire arena was silent. All the spectators felt as if they didn't know what had happened. In fact, they truly didn't understand why everything had suddenly changed. How had Meng Dede, who clearly had the upper hand and wielded a powerful divine weapon, been suddenly defeated?

Down on the stage, Meng Dede seemed like he was trying to move, but in fact his body was just twitching, and he was unconscious. Fortunately, the Blood Slaughter Demon Spear had blocked most of the attack, preventing his body from being split in two. Even so, his condition was dire, and he was bleeding like a fountain. The Blood Slaughter Demon Spear was his life weapon, perfectly integrated with his body and spirit. Its destruction, along with the dispelling of its demonic and vengeful aura, caused a fundamental injury to him, even causing the horn on his head to crack.

A dark figure suddenly appeared on the stage, and a purple-black halo enveloped Meng Dede. At the same time, a gloomy gaze fell upon Mei Gongzi, who stood there with closed eyes and a pale face.

The next instant, however, another person appeared in front of Mei Gongzi, protecting her—it was Tang San.

A terrifying pressure surged forth like a tidal wave, crashing down on Tang San and Mei Gongzi.

"Do you intend to sully the fairness of the Ancestral Court?" A cold voice rang out, followed by a surge of murderous aura descending from the sky, tearing through the immense pressure and standing in front of Tang San and Mei Gongzi.

Even with the newcomer facing away from him, Tang San could feel the terrifying and domineering killing intent.

The one who had appeared beside Meng Dede was naturally his grandfather, the Eternal Night Sovereign Tenebrous Demon Emperor. And standing in front of Tang San and Mei Gongzi was the Heaven-Crossing Earth-Piercing White Tiger Demon Emperor. These two Demon Emperors were ranked fifth and sixth, respectively.

The Tenebrous Demon Emperor's voice was as cold as a glacier. "I am sullying it? Then how about them?"

The White Tiger Demon Emperor was unperturbed. "This is a competition, and a competitor’s skill turned out to be inferior to another’s. I don’t see where the problem is."

"Do you know he is the dragon race's chosen one?" said the Tenebrous Demon Emperor. His gaze shifted to the main VIP box, where the Ancestral Court's strongest and the current leader of the dragon race was seated.

"I only know that this competition is held under the auspices of the Ancestral Court, and the competition must be fair. Everyone is watching you, so what are you planning to do?"

The Tenebrous Demon Emperor looked at Meng Dede, who lay on the ground with his body still twitching. He pressed his right hand in the air, and a dark halo enveloped Meng Dede. "He's crippled, and it will be tough for him to ever reach godhood. This loss will be accounted for."

The surrounding air suddenly darkened, and in the next instant, the Tenebrous Demon Emperor vanished into thin air.

A match that ended with two Demon Emperors confronting each other was extremely rare in the history of the Ancestral Court Elite Competition. The Tenebrous Demon Emperor had to leave—not because he was afraid of the White Tiger Demon Emperor, even though the latter was ranked higher, but because he was indeed in the wrong. Under the watchful eyes of the entire Ancestral Court, he couldn't do anything. But enmity had been evidently forged.

The Peacock Demon clan had gained another powerful enemy!

The White Tiger Demon Emperor turned around and looked at his granddaughter. At this moment, Mei Gongzi had fallen unconscious and was being held by Asura.

The visible half of Asura’s face was pale as paper.

The White Tiger Demon Emperor frowned but didn't say anything. He simply nodded and vanished.

It was only then that the audience erupted in an uproar.

They won!

The Peacock Princess and Asura actually won, defeating the Meng Dede and Meng Deshi team in spite of the latter borrowing the power of tribulation lightning and demonic weapons to fully unleash their strength!

What intrigued the audience the most was the red light that destroyed Meng Dede’s divine weapon. To block and suppress a divine weapon, one could rely on overwhelming strength, but destroying one completely was nowhere near as simple. Moreover, it was clear that the power of Asura and the Peacock Princess didn’t remotely count as "overwhelming" when they faced someone like Meng Dede. This suggested that she actually might possess a divine artifact even stronger than the Blood Slaughter Demon Spear, and it was this divine artifact that had unleashed a burst of power, destroying the demonic weapon and severely injuring Meng Dede.