Those time travelers that year

"Damn it!" This was blatant humiliation, a genuine disgrace to the God of Extinction. This ridiculously handsome fellow had interrupted his fight with the sect leader right away, and then casually tossed him away. What did he take him for? Some worthless piece of trash? Enraged, the God of Extinction mustered all his power, stomped his foot on the ground, and then, in a flash, shot forward, hurtling towards the uninvited guest.

In an instant, dozens of heavy punches were unleashed, each carrying the force of eightfold. The Demon God was confident that this attack would definitely knock the man before him down. Even the sect leader on the other side, who had been forced to step out of the battle to protect his son due to the interference of this uninvited guest, was startled by the Demon God's attack.

"Unfortunately, it's not enough..." But the sect leader still didn't think much of Extinguishing Ghosts and Gods and said in a low voice. As soon as he said this, his son and Nian Cangsheng, who had run over with him, were greatly surprised.

The fist's shadow vanished, leaving the Demon God frozen in place, staring in utter astonishment. Before him, his right fist was suspended in mid-air, unable to land. However, if it had been intercepted, he wouldn't be so surprised; unfortunately, the scene before him only brought him shock and humiliation.

It was a finger, a slender, delicate finger.

In that instant, dozens of powerful punches, each capable of shattering mountains and splitting the earth, were met with nothing more than a single finger extended by the opponent. With just that one finger, this person had blocked all of his attacks.

"Not bad, you're qualified to know some things!" The words of the person before him reached the ears of the Demon Exterminator. Before he could react, a repulsive force came from in front of him. The next moment, the Demon Exterminator was directly thrown away by this repulsive force and landed next to the sect leader.

"You!" The Demon God, regaining his senses, was instantly enraged and gathered his power again, attempting to fight once more. But at that moment, the sect leader reached out and stopped him.

"Don't be impulsive! You are no match for him!" The sect leader's words were filled with an unprecedented solemnity and seriousness, causing the Demon Exterminator to pause and subconsciously look at the sect leader.

The sect leader's expression was extremely tense, a look he had never shown before. He had never been seen with such an expression in the sects of Exterminating Ghosts and Gods, Concerning All Living Beings, or Martial Valor.

"You know him?"

"I don't know him, but I've heard of him!" The sect leader's tone couldn't hide the burning fighting spirit. "The person standing before you, if nothing unexpected happens, is the other god-demon in the world today, besides the resurrected Chi You."

"A reincarnated immortal!"

......

"No need for flattery, successor of the Great Rakshasa God." Looking at the sect leader's high fighting spirit and the drastically changed expressions of Extinction God, Nian Cang Sheng, and Wu Yong, Xia Er shook his head and sighed, "Although your days are numbered, you are already approaching my level... You are now even stronger than many low-level gods who are not skilled in combat!" Indeed, the Great Rakshasa Sect leader before him, who, in the Divine Weapon series, could continuously surpass his peak through sheer willpower and near-death experiences, now possessed immense power. How powerful? So powerful that, in Xia Er's view, even if Thor from Asgard in the Marvel universe he had experienced were stripped of his authority and power, his fate in a direct confrontation with this sect leader would be a resounding victory for the current sect leader, who would be utterly defeated and knocked to the ground.

In many worlds, this sect leader is already qualified to conquer gods. Even many low-level gods would be annihilated by this sect leader, whose fighting spirit is infinitely heightened, growing stronger the closer he gets to death. With the sect leader's high morale and fighting spirit, coupled with his ever-increasing power, even lethal extraordinary forces would be forcibly absolved by the sect leader himself, regardless of whether the user is a god.

"It is my honor to be praised by the last god and demon walking in the mortal world today!" Although he said this, the sect leader did not have the slightest sense of honor on his face. On the contrary, his fighting spirit was stronger than imagined, and even the people around him felt a terrifying pressure.

"...Make your move! I know you want to test your skills!" Looking at the sect leader's high fighting spirit, Xia Er said, "Your days are numbered. If you want to reach your ultimate level and take that final leap, then you don't need to suppress your fighting spirit..."

"Come! Test the distance between you and gods and demons—"

"—How much is left!"

"Then I won't hold back and will blast you through!" With a roar, powerful internal energy exploded from the sect leader's body, along with a blazing fighting spirit that seemed to burn. Under the terrifying pressure, even Demon Destroyer, Compassionate One, and Valiant One had no choice but to step back.

With soaring fighting spirit and lightning-fast movements, the sect leader stomped his foot, his figure bursting forth as he charged towards Xia Er. His iron fist clenched tightly, he unleashed a powerful punch, controlling ten layers of his internal energy.

"Take this punch!" His fighting spirit surged, and the Firefly Blast, one of Rakshasa Kui's four ultimate techniques, burst forth. Although it was just an ordinary move, at the level of a sect leader, even an ordinary move could unleash powerful destructive force enough to defeat an enemy. The power of this punch was enough to surpass the hundred punches that Extinguishing God TM had unleashed before.

A terrifying force crashed down, bringing with it the energy chains that had previously bound and restrained the demons and gods. But at this moment, facing the sect leader's aggressive, fiery punch, like a meteorite falling, those energy chains could only withstand it for a moment before being shattered by the iron fist.

The Demon God, who was watching from the sidelines, was even more surprised to find that, given his previous state, he would have had no chance of withstanding that punch.

boom!!!

They clashed! Another fist appeared in front of the sect leader, Firefly's iron fist being blocked by a fist smaller than the sect leader's. In that instant, the sect leader seemed to hear the roar of the ocean and see a colossal killer whale, capable of crushing everything, hurtling towards him.

A violent gust of wind swept out, and the archway, which was originally held together by the chains of vital energy, was instantly shattered by the two bursts of fist force.

Based on this punch alone, the sect leader had reason to believe that the person before him was indeed a reincarnated immortal. The opponent's punch was heavier and stronger than his own. There were no other factors involved; it was simply sheer weight and power.

boom! ! ! !

Xia Er took a slight step back, looking at the sect leader with slight surprise. Although he knew that the person in front of him was even more overpowered than the cheat-like Wentian, he hadn't expected this overpowered person to be so ridiculously strong. His entire right hand was numb from the impact of that punch, and it was almost shattered.

However, before that, the healing ability had already neutralized the power of the sect leader's heavy punch. Even so, Xia Er had to take a step back to completely eliminate the force. You must know that the power of this clone, now without any restrictions, is completely comparable to that of gods and demons.

395. The Sect Leader (Part 2)

Even so, the sect leader's heavy punch was still able to injure him, which was quite astonishing. Not only that, when that punch came, it was accompanied by an energy of destructive and destructive nature, which directly penetrated into Xia's arm, attempting to shatter every component of his arm.

Although this power was extremely weak, so weak that it was completely annihilated before Ciel could even mount a subconscious counterattack, it was still a power that could indeed threaten Ciel, even if it was far too weak.

'The Rakshasa God's Divine Art?' Feeling this power, Xia Er couldn't help but feel somewhat surprised. This power, containing the nature of great destruction, was absolutely powerful in quality. If this power were to increase in quantity, Xia Er would find it extremely troublesome. Thinking about it this way, it's not surprising. Why was the Rakshasa God able to wield the Soul Devourer and fight his way up from the ground to the Ninth Heaven, almost invincible, forcing the Jade Emperor to resort to underhanded means to suppress the Rakshasa God?

This kind of energy, containing the nature of cataclysm, is essentially the nemesis of most gods and demons. Their immortal bodies and indestructible souls are nothing but a joke in the face of this kind of energy. Only forces with similar properties can counteract this power.

"Again!" Just as Xia Er was slightly stunned, the sect leader, who had just clashed with Xia Er and had to retreat more than ten steps, shouted loudly with high fighting spirit. He stomped his foot to stop his retreating body, and after neutralizing the force, he charged forward again with undiminished momentum.

With a knife, a claw, a finger, and a fist, the sect leader seemed to split into four in an instant. The four ultimate techniques of Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill—Ghost Axe Chop (knife), Lightning Grab (claw), Meteor Pierce (finger), and Firefly Blast (fist)—were launched at Xia Er from four different directions.

A cleaver cleaved down towards his forehead, lightning tore at his throat, a meteor pierced his heart, and a firefly slammed into his chest. Without a doubt, the Sect Master was channeling his power with absolute killing intent. Although he was only using the Four Absolutes, not the Two Tyrants and One Annihilation, this attack was still the pinnacle of the Sect Master's current mental, technical, and physical abilities. At least, the Ghost Exterminator, watching from the sidelines, was certain that if it were him, he wouldn't be able to dodge this series of attacks; the only thing he could do was withstand them. From this, the Ghost Exterminator could see that the Sect Master's strength surpassed his own.

Faced with the sect leader's fierce attack, Xia Er's solution was simple: the sect leader had not yet reached the peak state of constantly surpassing the pinnacle of mind, skill, and body by using battle intent and the twenty-seven limit. Although his current realm could be said to be below that of gods and demons, he was still a little short.

With his sense of time stretched out, the Sect Master's lightning-fast attacks instantly revealed numerous flaws in Xia Er's eyes. However, it wasn't exactly flawed. After all, a muscular barbarian like the Sect Master, who was about to reach his peak, even if he couldn't keep up with Xia Er's stretched sense of time, still possessed an almost supernatural, bug-like awareness that allowed him to react at the last second.

Therefore, faced with the sect leader's offensive, Charles decided to fight back without showing any weakness.

The Magnetic Field Heavenly Blade slashed down with a cleaving axe, the Explosive Fist withstood the Lightning Grab, the Gale blocked the Meteor Piercer, and the Killing Whale Overlord Fist clashed with the Firefly Blast. In an instant, four consecutive strikes, Xia Er easily withstood the sect leader's offensive.

"Well done!" The sect leader retreated a zhang away before his attack succeeded, shouting loudly. "Five strikes in total, yet I only managed to make you take a step back on the first strike... You are indeed strong. If I hadn't used the Annihilation Technique, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have been qualified to make you take this seriously!"

"So now, can you please listen to me quietly?" Shaking his hands, which were a little numb from the sect leader's heavy punch, Xia Er said that if he encountered such a muscular barbarian again, he would definitely keep his distance and use a spell to cleanse the area first. Fighting these guys in close combat was a thankless and exhausting task.

"What could possibly require your personal visit, given that you are a reincarnated immortal?"

"Some things to prepare you mentally, such as demonic soldiers, the Xuan Tian Evil Emperor, and so on—the origin of everything!"

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When Xuan Tian Xie Di and Tie Xin stepped into a winery in Dukang Town, several familiar faces had already gathered there. The winery owner, who was also Nian Cang Sheng's master, was a short, stout man named Nian Min Ren. In addition, Yong Wu, Mie Gui Shen, Nian Cang Sheng, and his greatest and most respected rival, the sect leader, were all gathered there.

"What's wrong?" The Xuan Tian Evil Emperor, whose demonic appearance had long since faded and who now appeared younger with snake markings on his face, entered the room and, seeing the scene before him, couldn't help but ask in confusion, "What happened..." However, he stopped abruptly before he could finish his question, because there was an uninvited guest he didn't recognize there. A figure whose presence, upon first sight, triggered a constant warning from his martial arts instincts.

"Nice to meet you, Dugu Xingye!" The figure greeted Xuan Tian Xiedi.

"It's you!" The Evil Emperor didn't recognize the person in front of him, but before he could speak, Tie Xin, who had come with him, suddenly exclaimed in astonishment, "So you're still alive!"

"Chi You's Fiery Blade wasn't enough to kill me! Little brat!" Xia Er said irritably to Tie Xin, who immediately declared himself dead upon meeting him, "Even if Chi You hadn't been weakened back then, it would have been absolutely impossible for him to kill me without using Devouring Heaven..."

"Tie Xin? Who is he?"

“He is Xia Er, and can be considered Nangong Wentian’s uncle!” Tie Xin replied in response to the Evil Emperor’s question.

"So you're the god-demon who was resurrected in this era alongside Chi You!?" Raising an eyebrow, the Evil Emperor looked at Xia Er with a meaningful gaze. To be honest, the only concept the Evil Emperor had of gods and demons was the Primordial Heavenly Demon, who had both brought him glory and led to his downfall. Besides that, it seemed only Nuwa remained. Although he did know after his resurrection that gods and demons had indeed appeared in the world, Chi You had now retreated to the Xuanwang. With his and the Flower Goddess's control, the Xuanwang was no longer the easily accessible place it used to be. Let alone a few top-tier individuals wielding divine weapons, even he himself, without using his third divine skill, wasn't confident he could enter the Xuanwang now.

Besides Chi You, the other resurrected god and demon was Xia Er, who had fought Chi You in the Battle of Xuanwang and whom he referred to as a reincarnated immortal and a god and demon destined for tribulation.

"Resurrection is hard to say! To put it bluntly, I'm just an unlucky guy who died under the heavenly tribulation!" Charles spread his hands and sighed, "However, I think you don't care about my identity, do you?"

"That's true!" Nodding, the Evil Emperor looked at the Sect Master.

"No doubt about it, Evil Emperor!" The sect leader said with his arms crossed, "The person standing here is indeed a monster strong enough. I have full confidence against you, but against this monster, I don't have that certainty of victory!"

"So I said! I'm just here to talk to the sect leader and the evil emperor about some things! There are some things that you probably need to know..." As for this kind of battle-crazed muscle-bound barbarian, Xia Er thought that at least he was a product of this world, and those who left this place should not encounter such guys again.

396. Ciel's spoilers

"In the myths circulating in the mortal realm, at the beginning of the world, the pure energy transformed into the Primordial Celestial Venerable, representing the righteous path, while the turbid energy gave birth to the Primordial Heavenly Demon, representing the demonic path. You should have heard of this, right?" Xia Er glanced at everyone present and continued, "But I'm afraid there's one thing the myths say wrong... that is, the Primordial Celestial Venerable and the Primordial Heavenly Demon were actually one and the same, and... almost all gods and demons, including the Primordial Celestial Venerable, were not actually born from this world, but came from other worlds!"

"what?!"

"Don't be surprised! I'm telling the truth. In fact, you all have your own standards when it comes to so-called gods and demons, don't you?" Xia Er said. "Compared to reverence, if it were you, you probably wouldn't grovel before the sect leader or the evil emperor. Instead, you would choose to surpass them!"

"So, the so-called gods and demons," the sect leader said, "are merely more powerful—stronger beings, is that it!?"

“Of course!” Charles nodded. “Gods and demons are actually just more powerful beings… Yuanshi, Nuwa, and others were not actually born from this world, but came from another world, a very distant world. And the source of all this is a—”

"—War!" the Evil Emperor said. "Then, what kind of war could bring gods and demons to this world!?"

"I'd also like to know, just like the Evil Emperor said!" The sect leader took over the conversation and asked, "If I heard you correctly, then that war—the war of the gods—was lost!"

“That’s right! They were defeated, and utterly defeated, so utterly defeated that they couldn’t even protect the world they were born from, and were forced to fight and flee, retreating all the way to this world.” Charles said with a smile, “...Unfortunately, among the forces that crushed the gods, the Primordial Demon was merely a vanguard!”

"Are you saying that the Primordial Demon is just someone else's underling!" The Evil Emperor spoke first, and having a long-standing entanglement with the Primordial Demon, he naturally reacted most strongly to what Xia Er said.

“Pretty much!” Charles nodded. “Back then, when the gods were defeated, under the leadership of the Primordial Celestial Lord, they retreated from their original world. That was at least tens of thousands of years ago… The gods concealed their tracks and finally found this pure land that had not been discovered or sought by that terrifying enemy, where they came to recuperate and regroup.”

"However, no one expected that during the great war, the enemy of the gods, that—the Five-Dimensional Celestial Venerable—had already planted a hidden trap for the Primordial Celestial Venerable!"

"A Five-Dimensional Celestial Venerable?!" the sect leader muttered under his breath, then looked at Xia Er seriously and asked, "How strong is he?!"

“Even the Rakshasa God is nothing but a weakling to him. You must know that a large part of the reason why the gods were defeated was because of him,” Xia Er replied. “A being who can control space at will, and even wield the power of the universe. The great gods such as Yuanshi Tianzun and Nuwa were defeated by him and had no choice but to flee to this world.”

"So, in other words, one day in the future, will the Five-Dimensional Celestial Venerable who once defeated the gods find this world?" the Evil Emperor asked.

“That’s just a matter of time, but that time span is at least in the tens of thousands of years. Of course, that’s not our focus—” Charles continued, “The focus is that the contingency plan left behind by the Primordial Celestial Venerable finally erupted when the gods came to this world. From the Primordial Celestial Venerable, the Primordial Demon was born, and it also took away half of the Primordial Celestial Venerable’s power.”

"You've all heard about what happened next: the Primordial Celestial Venerable sacrificed himself to become the Heavenly Net, sealing off the Primordial Demon. In order to escape the Heavenly Net, destroy the gods, and even guide the extraterrestrial demon army to this world, the Primordial Demon split his body into demonic beads and threw them into this world."

"Are you saying that the Primordial Heavenly Demon could possibly escape the Heavenly Net?" the sect leader asked. "With demonic soldiers emerging one after another, it's as if the Primordial Heavenly Demon has a chance to break free from the Heavenly Net and be resurrected in this world!"

"That's right!"

The Five Dimensional Celestial Venerable, this being who supposedly defeated the gods, was indeed far removed from them. But the Primordial Heavenly Demon was different; he was within the Heavenly Net above. Upon hearing that he might soon break free and return to the mortal world, the expressions of everyone present changed.

"And this is what I wanted to say to you, Sect Master and Evil Emperor." Xia Er looked at the Sect Master and Evil Emperor, who had fallen silent and were serious, and said, "I can tell you very clearly that after the Primordial Demon is freed, the gods will absolutely not fight him! In other words, we can only rely on humanity itself."

"Why!" Nian Cangsheng, Wu Yong, and the others, who had been listening for a long time, were taken aback.

"It's very simple. The Primordial Celestial Lord was infected by that strange method, giving birth to the Primordial Demon. The Primordial Demon took away most of his power, forcing him to sacrifice himself. The Demon Pearl created by the Primordial Demon, after its entanglement with the Goddess Nuwa, even infected Nuwa, who had created the power to restrain the demon, giving birth to a different kind of demon, forcing her to commit suicide." Xia Er said solemnly. "As a result, the Primordial Celestial Lord and Nuwa, who were once the two consecutive leaders of the gods, both sacrificed themselves for this reason..."

"Now you know why I said that once the Primordial Demon is freed, humanity will have to rely on itself!"

"...The gods cannot participate in the war, because if they do, they risk being infected by the demonic energy of the Primordial Heavenly Demon, causing them to breed even more demonic beings!" The sect leader said in a hoarse voice, "That would truly be a hopeless situation!"

"Indeed!" The Evil Emperor's deep voice also rang out, "I never expected that my former employer would be so troublesome! This is truly—frustrating!"

With the Primordial Demon freed, the gods will not participate in the war; their intervention would only trigger greater chaos. The fate of everything, even the very existence of this world, rests solely in the hands of humanity, or more precisely, the strongest among them. This is far more devastating than imagined. At least for now, aside from the Sect Master and the Evil Emperor, Tie Xin, Nian Cang Sheng, Nian Min Ren, Wu Yong, and Mie Gui Shen all appear deeply shaken.

"Isn't there any other way?!" the Demon Slayer God said with a hint of anger. "Once the Primordial Heavenly Demon is freed, are the gods just going to stand by and watch?!"

"No! It should be said that only humanity itself can truly defeat the Primordial Heavenly Demon!" Xia Er replied with another startling statement. "Or rather, only humanity itself, and only humanity, can truly kill the Primordial Heavenly Demon, who is capable of destroying all the gods!"

"Why?" the sect leader asked.

“After the gods came to this world, during the countless years that the Primordial Demon was trapped and trying to escape, they made efforts, as you know, Evil Emperor.” Xia Er said to the Evil Emperor, “But what you don’t know is that when he was trapped, the Primordial Demon had already made an effort. He spread his demonic energy across this world, infecting the ancestors of mankind.”

"It can be said that humanity itself is a contradictory entity possessing both divinity and demonic nature. Within your bodies, in your blood, and throughout your generations, the divinity representing the Primordial Celestial Venerable and the demonic nature representing the Primordial Heavenly Demon are both rooted in your souls, which is equivalent to you being born with resistance to the power of the Primordial Heavenly Demon," Xia Er said. "And this is also the Primordial Heavenly Demon's downfall, the key to defeating him, but equally, it is also the means by which the Primordial Heavenly Demon used to control humanity after escaping."

“You can only rely on your own will to forcibly break free from this control, and speaking of will, the strongest here is—” Xia Er glanced at the sect leader and the evil emperor and said, “the sect leader of the Great Rakshasa Sect with high fighting spirit, and Dugu Xingye, who has experienced being human and becoming a demon, and now has chosen the identity of a human, completely abandoning and letting go of the past of more than a hundred years ago, also known as the Xuan Tian Evil Emperor.”

This last chapter has to be filler...

397. 398. Deceiving people relentlessly.