The Nine Kings' Palace and Tian Gui Yuan Yin are both enemies.

On this kill-on-sight list of ten names, three rank at the very front, marked to have their entire bloodlines eradicated, their skin flayed, bones drawn, and tortured for ten thousand years to console the spirits of sworn brothers in the heavens.

Ji Family's old ancestor Ji Ming.

Bai Family's old ancestor Bai Shuang.

Ji Clan's old ancestor Ji Chengtian.

Ever since fleeing from the First Era, Sikong Jiu had been thinking of these three day and night, constantly pondering how to kill them.

It was just that while he was thinking and fleeing at the same time, time slipped into the Era of Fallen Emperors.

Thank heaven, thank earth.

These three old tortoises hadn't died to the years.

...

"Living too long isn't a good thing either. You lose that sharp edge from back then and end up fighting with your hands and feet tied."

Ji Ming's voice betrayed no joy or anger; he was clearly talking about the battle between Zhao Yuehua and Li Bahuang.

Zhao Yuehua didn't refute it; it was indeed the truth.

But his Dao companion Chen Chi said coldly, "Ji Ming, you're not Li Bahuang's match either, so stop making snide remarks."

Ji Ming's face remained calm as a still well. His gaze landed on Sikong Jiu, then quickly moved away, sweeping around:

"Why doesn't Xu Qingfeng dare to come?"

Jiu Kongsi, who had changed his name to Sikong Jiu.

Li Bahuang.

Jin Shi.

These three were all people with deep ties to the Heavenly Court's Xu Qingfeng.

As for Jiu Feng…

Ji Ming understood the enmity between the Nine Phoenix Clan and the Heavenly Court. This trip likely had nothing to do with Xu Qingfeng; those two Emperor Realm cultivators were neither friends nor foes, and might well have a battle in the future.

After all, the Ji Family had a collateral branch that still had roots on the Moon to this day. This unwittingly placed chess piece had brought Ji Ming no small amount of useful information.

Xu Qingfeng doesn't dare to come?

Sikong Jiu laughed, the smile carrying a bit of carefree delight. "I hope you all can stay alive. I'm really looking forward to killing you with my own hands."

"Arrogant nonsense."

Ji Ming's face was expressionless. He didn't use a Domain, nor did he employ an Emperor Artifact; he merely reached forward with one grasp.

Sikong Jiu knew the Ji Family's Innate Divine Ability was Fate Usurpation—he could even seize fate itself, domineering beyond compare.

So at that casual grasp into the void, he didn't dare take it head-on at all, and directly dodged behind Li Bahuang.

"..." Jin Shi.

"..." Jiu Feng.

"..." The many cultivators of the nine great Royal Clans.

Only the six Emperor Realm cultivators of the Nine Kings' Palace headed by Ji Ming showed not the slightest surprise. It was indeed still that same Jiu Kongsi from back then.

Clinging to life, fearing death.

Only knows how to hide behind others.

"Pu!"

Li Bahuang was already heavily injured.

Under Ji Ming's grasp through the void, this Emperor Bahuang only felt that what little lifespan he had left was shortened by a huge chunk.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, a bit helpless. "Daoist friend, I'm calling you senior here, could you maybe stop screwing me over?"

"When the sky falls, shouldn't the tallest one hold it up?"

Sikong Jiu spoke righteously, yet inwardly he was anxious, unable to understand why The Supreme Emperor still hadn't appeared.

In the Southern Immortal Domain, Xu Lai was driving tens of thousands of Emperor-level Teleportation Arrays, successfully teleporting over the Colossal Jellyfish vicious beast.

It was just that…

The distance was off by a bit.

He happened to sense the aura of an Emperor Artifact awakening from before.

So he arrived early before the Nine Kings' Palace, using a special method to awaken the Green Gourd's Artifact Spirit, which had long been suppressed by Xiao Yan to the brink of extinction.

But he waited and waited, and still saw no sign of Xu Lai.

"If all four Emperor Realm are killed, the Immortal Path Shackles will be cut by at least a hundred steps."

Bai Family's old ancestor Bai Shuang was a young woman with white hair and a white dress; even her eyebrows were white. Her voice was cold to the bone.

Clearly.

In her eyes, Li Bahuang or Jiu Kongsi, they were all just materials to shorten the White Jade Stairway of the Immortal Path.

"Kill!"

Li Bahuang gripped the Eight Desolate Cauldron, killing intent surging.

Jiu Feng nodded slightly, the Nine Blades Spear humming.

Even Jin Shi raised the Soul-Settling Umbrella, while only Sikong Jiu muttered in a low voice, "You three retreat first, just wait a bit."

"Wait for what?"

Not only Li Bahuang, Jiu Feng, and Jin Shi, even Bai Shuang and the other Emperor Realm of the Nine Kings' Palace were baffled.

"Wait for wind to come."

Wind?

Heaven Beyond Heaven had no concept of time or space; the Heavenly Dao Laws here were almost nonexistent.

How could there be wind here!

Bai Shuang tapped lightly with her fingertip, and an ice-and-snow Domain enveloped everything within her sight.

Not only Jiu Kongsi, Li Bahuang, Bai Feng, and Jin Shi, but also the floating giant island and the nine stars.

Including Emperor Realm cultivators like Ji Ming and Xiao Yan.

"You all just watch."

Bai Shuang said coldly. She actually intended to fight one against four!

As an Emperor Realm.

When had she ever been treated with such contempt? 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Jiu Feng raised his spear and charged, but when he was still a hundred zhang from Bai Shuang, all his feathers bristled as an indescribable sense of crisis surged in his heart.

Danger!

Not only him, many Emperor Realm cultivators sensed it as well.

Bai Shuang's brows knitted tight, yet she refused to withdraw her Bai Xue Domain.

But in the next instant, she was stunned to discover that her Domain had been swallowed in one gulp by something, and the Spiritual Energy was disappearing at an unimaginable speed.

It seemed to have been devoured.

In only the span of ten breaths, this ice-and-snow Domain was gone.

Bai Shuang saw a colossal blue jellyfish finish swallowing the last corner of her ice-and-snow Domain, and then countless tentacles instantly dragged the floating island and nine stars that were close at hand into its mouth…

The change came too fast.

So fast that everyone basically had no time to react.

"It's the Blue Giant Jellyfish in its enraged state, retreat at once!"

Ji Ming's mind shook violently as his Divine Sense transmitted the warning.

Emperor Realm cultivators like Chen Chi and Xiao Yan turned pale with fear and rapidly fled.

Bai Shuang's very soul almost fled her body; she had once personally witnessed the Blue Giant Jellyfish ravage an Immortal Domain.

She also knew that when sixteen Emperor Realm joined forces to besiege the Blue Giant Jellyfish, fifteen of them died.

She wanted to retreat, to get away from the jellyfish tentacles that were extremely close to her.

Just then, a breeze blew past.

Bai Shuang's pupils shrank, a layer of ice crystals forming around her, but that gust of wind actually pierced through the ice-crystal barrier, heading straight for her glabella.

This was no wind.

It was a Sword Intent that made even her shudder in fear—it was Xu Qingfeng's Qingfeng Sword Intent!

"How bold!"

A crisp shout.

Bai Shuang gripped a long sword drifting with Diandian snowflakes and struck back with a sword of her own.

"Bang!"

The two Sword Intents collided and dissipated into nothingness.

The crisis of being ambushed by the Qingfeng Sword Intent was resolved, but Bai Shuang secretly thought, this is bad.

She had defended against Xu Qingfeng, but she was very close to the Blue Giant Jellyfish, less than a hundred zhang away.

The thought had just arisen.

Tens of thousands of tentacles wound around and wrapped Bai Shuang up, secreting some sticky unknown liquid.

The Bai Family's old ancestor, who had looked peerlessly immortal just a moment ago, was now utterly disheveled.

"Old Ancestor!"

The many cultivators of the Bai Family, one of the Royal Clans, glared till their eyes reddened.

They didn't understand how terrifying the Blue Giant Jellyfish was and overestimated themselves by attempting to rescue their old ancestor.

Not only was it futile, but the Blue Giant Jellyfish devoured thousands of them in turn, including one Quasi-Emperor Realm.

"Escape!"

Bai Shuang couldn't spare the effort to save the Bai Family descendants; she decisively bit through the tip of her tongue.

Her body turned into drifting snowflakes, and her figure appeared ten thousand zhang away. This was clearly the Blood Escape Technique.

"Pu——"

Bai Shuang's face went pale.

Her expression was gloomy and cold; since becoming an Emperor Realm, she had never been this miserable. The look in her eyes toward the Blue Giant Jellyfish carried deep dread.

The Blue Giant Jellyfish had two forms.

When its temper was mild, its body was transparent, and its rate of devouring Spiritual Energy was relatively slow.

But once it was violently provoked, its body would turn dark blue.

In that state, any touch from its tentacles would instantly drain your Spiritual Energy dry, just like those nine stars inhabited by the descendants of the nine Royal Clans.