Nine Nether Dragon Emperor

Believe it or not, with Zuo Lie's forceful intervention, he actually succeeded.

Zuo Qian rushed toward the mobile villa at once. Unlike before, this time he managed to arrive directly above it. He was still slightly stunned when—BOOM!—a terrifying Majestic Pressure crushed him, forcing him to his knees.

On the other side, the smile on Zuo Lie's face froze. He felt like he was about to vomit blood. Zuo Qian's kneeling shattered the last shred of illusion in the hearts of Ming Dafa and Hou Cunzheng.

RUMBLE—

The three men once again erupted into battle, unleashing a might even more terrifying than before.

Aboard the mobile villa, Zuo Qian wanted to resist, but Ning Xuan focused the full weight of the Majestic Pressure on him alone, leaving him completely powerless.

"I surrender. But I want to know, how exactly did you break my curse?!" Zuo Qian gave a bitter laugh. He was sprawled on the ground like a dog, hoping to find an answer so he wouldn't die with lingering regrets.

"Your curse is nothing compared to the burden I bear," Ning Xuan said, shaking his head.

This was the absolute truth. Zuo Qian's curse was indeed powerful, but compared to the World-Ending Calamitous Soil, it was utter trash.

"What is it?!" Zuo Qian pressed, unwilling to give up.

"Don't ask. I'm afraid you haven't even heard its name. Wouldn't that be embarrassing?" Ning Xuan cautioned him.

This wasn't a slight against him. The Triple Stars Realm was a forsaken land, and its inhabitants could not leave. It was highly likely they had never heard of the World-Ending Calamitous Soil.

But Zuo Qian, ever the skeptic, tempted fate. And then his tragedy began. When Ning Xuan finally uttered the words "World-Ending Calamitous Soil," he was left completely dumbfounded.

"See? I gave you a chance to save face, and you threw it away. If I were you, I'd just run myself through with my own sword," Cheng Dabao chimed in, adding fuel to the fire.

Zuo Qian's face turned purple with rage and humiliation.

BOOM!

Across from them, the fierce battle was drawing to a close. It ended in mutual destruction. All three combatants collapsed, spewing blood.

Just as Zuo Lie was about to try and explain, Zuo Qian suddenly appeared in a flash. Without a word, he thrust his sword at Hou Cunzheng.

A head soared into the sky!

"Zuo Lie, I'll get you for this..." Ming Dafa's form vanished on the spot, his enraged roar echoing through the heavens. Seeing the tables turn, he had activated a Secret Technique. Unfortunately, he still could not escape his fate of being utterly obliterated!

"Qian'er, you..." Zuo Lie was livid. He didn't understand why his son would do such a thing.

Before he could finish speaking, Zuo Qian's sword pierced his heart.

"Father, I'm sorry. I want to live!"

Those were the last words Zuo Lie ever heard.

THUD!

As Zuo Lie breathed his last, Zuo Qian fell to his knees in Ning Xuan's direction and begged, "Your Highness, I've done everything you asked. Please, help me undo the World-Ending Calamitous Soil."

"The World-Ending what Soil?" Ning Xuan asked, feigning surprise.

Zuo Qian was stunned.

"Fool. If I could transfer the World-Ending Calamitous Soil to you, don't you think I would have gotten rid of it long ago?"

Hearing this, a sweet, coppery taste filled Zuo Qian's throat before he violently spewed a mouthful of blood. The world began to spin around him.

"His Mental State is really too weak, isn't it?" Ning Xuan was greatly disappointed.

Cheng Dabao asked, "So you're not going to kill him?"

"No. Wait a moment," Ning Xuan replied, then vanished from the mobile villa.

Just as he was searching Ming Xiaolou's body, the supposedly unconscious Zuo Qian transformed into a beam of light, charging straight for Cheng Dabao! If he could just capture this young girl, he could turn the tables and emerge as the final victor!

With no obstructions, he appeared before Cheng Dabao in an instant. The moment he struck, the smile on Zuo Qian's face froze.

Cheng Dabao had vanished from right in front of him!

Realizing his mistake, Zuo Qian reacted with incredible speed, but he was still a step too slow.

CRACK!

A pristine, white palm slammed down, driving his head straight into his neck!

As the body began to topple, Cheng Dabao sent it flying into the turbulent river with a swift kick.

「Meanwhile.」

Ning Xuan had also found something. He had looted eight Energy Cannons and an Energy Gathering Blueprint.

The Energy Cannons were powered by the boundless energy of the cosmos. The energy collected by the blueprint could not only give the cannons infinite firepower but also add another Energy Shield to the mobile villa! After studying it, Ning Xuan discovered that the collected energy could completely replace Energy Baryte as the mobile villa's power source.

He immediately set to work, installing the Energy Gathering Array on the mobile villa!

"Haha, this trip to the Triple Stars Realm was the right call! Let's go!" After testing the power of the Energy Cannons and watching the mushroom cloud blossom in the sky, Ning Xuan was in high spirits.

Cheng Dabao was excited too. But when she saw Ning Xuan's route, she immediately reminded him, "We shouldn't return the way we came!"

"Why not?"

"Did you forget how we got to the Triple Stars Realm in the first place?"

"How could I forget! I came back specifically to find that bastard!" Ning Xuan's eyes glinted, brimming with killing intent. They had been crossing the barrier without a problem, but a giant palm had suddenly slapped them down! Ning Xuan had not forgotten that debt.

"But we haven't even seen a trace of them, which means they're incredibly powerful! Let's take a detour and get to Tian Shu sooner." Cheng Dabao was really eager to see Ye Qingqing.

"Do you think it's possible our original route was the correct one? That it was the shortest path to Tian Shu?"

Cheng Dabao was taken aback and fell silent. That possibility was actually very high. Otherwise, why would they have just been slapped into the Triple Stars Realm?

"Let's go! Let's get 'em!" At this thought, Cheng Dabao began rubbing her hands together eagerly. She didn't care who they were; how dare they stand in the way of her reunion with Ye Qingqing!

"Alright, let's get 'em!" Ning Xuan echoed, pushing the mobile villa to top speed.

But when they arrived, the cosmos was utterly silent. There wasn't a soul in sight, not even a speck of dust.

"Did we come to the wrong place?" Cheng Dabao asked, looking at the featureless void around them.

"No, this is it!" Ning Xuan was certain. This mobile villa has an excellent sense of direction. The location is definitely correct!

"Then where did he go?" Before Ning Xuan could respond, Cheng Dabao answered her own question. "Maybe he didn't expect us to escape so quickly and has already left."

Thinking it was a real possibility, Ning Xuan abandoned the idea of testing the Energy Cannons there and urged the mobile villa onward.

As they traveled, Ning Xuan remained on high alert, but they encountered no danger.

Until…

BOOM!

Just as they crossed a barrier, a beam of light shot past them. If he and the other party hadn't both reacted so quickly, they would have certainly collided.

"What was that thing?" Cheng Dabao asked curiously, gazing at the departing object.

"It was probably an interstellar warship," Ning Xuan said, though he wasn't entirely sure.

He had barely finished speaking when...

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Several more entities, far larger than the previous warship, streaked past his mobile villa. They vanished from sight in an instant.

However, Ning Xuan keenly sensed that powerful experts aboard the warships had probed his mobile villa as they passed.