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  The cracks between worlds tinued spreading as the battle between ic Deities reached a stalemate that never ended. Her eyes spread across the eower, a gigantic structure across spad time, her eyes widening as she noticed these cracks.

  “So this was your purpose the eime? To infiltrate the worlds slowly, you cockroach?”

  A titanic being made of pure white light ughed with its dozens of human-like heads lined up together, its form and body defying the ws of reality, as it seemed to exist between several dimensions at once.

  “If I couldn’t get there by myself, I simply had to slowly do so, don’t you think? It is no genius pn, but something very simple. You should have predicted that already.”

  “Bastard…! This Tower and its Worlds, they’re all mio protect!”

  The ic Deity proteg the Tower, her presence resembling a beautiful young woman, enpassed her surroundings, the os itself twisting and ing around her.

  Hundreds of gigantic stars were u her foe, the alien from another dimension, whose white body began to slightly crumble as more stars impacted it.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  “You will not get away with this!” she screamed. “They are there, and they will stop whatever you’re pnning; I know they will!”

  “Eheh… Heheahahaha!”

  The monstrous alien ughed; its entire body crumbled down and exploded into white light, only for another body to emerge out of the Tower he had pletely taken over.

  “This is unending…!” The Tower Master’s eyes, made of many stars glistening across a body posed of nebus, muttered. “Diseg the Tower from Earth would be the natural course at this moment, but it seems impossible now. Her very existench the tower with her world…!”

  She had already tried simply plugging the Tower out, as some would say, but that seemed utterly impossible, her presence having twisted the very roots of the tower into that world.

  And both were unified even wheh wasn’t even reized as a Floor!

  “Bing Xue…! My precious Bing Xue…! I finally see her! Ahhh! She’s so beautiful! SO BEAUTIFUL! I WANT HER…! I WANT HER ALL FOR MYSELF!”

  The monstrous entity before her started grabbing its head, twisting it apart, and tearing out his eyes oer another, inflig harm on itself due to its endless madness.

  “By the stars, I couldn’t be possibly sidering requesting the help of other Tower Masters now?” wohe girl. “The price for their aid would be too great for me to pay even in a billion years! Maybe my brother wouldn’t mind helping me, but I’ve already asked him too many favors.”

  She was running out of options…

  A.

  She g that world again, at the source of these problems, and also at the only ohat could eventually solve them.

  “You and your family… If you reach this point… Perhaps I won’t o ask for their aid.”

  “GRAAAHHH!”

  The monstrous alien attacked her again; thousands of massive, long, white-colored arms swung down, attempting to ssh through her preseh their sharp cws.

  “Another csh… Fihe Tower Master said. “As long as I hold you on…!”

  “{Myriad Self Arts}: {Soul Nebu}”

  The Tower Master suddenly summoned a rainbow and ic Aura from her ethereal body posed of stars, expanding into millions of es of herself.

  Their hands moved dexterously, summoning all kinds of ons, resembling a nebu made out of her own soul.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  As they cshed and seemed evenly matched, the alien from another w its own Tower, which it had stolen from another ic deity, foolishly attempting a iation with him.

  The tower breached towards the world this entity beloo, the worlds it tained, and even its gods, rapidly beginning to fall towards this world, fueling it with even more of its otherworldly essence.

  “I’ll simply feed Murim with this Tower, further merging their pos…” The being ughed internally. “This way, I will gain more of its powers, as my in remains anchored to Murim!”

  After the Era of Peace, which Bing Xue worked so hard to make a reality, it seemed that a new Era of Chaos was about to begin within Murim.

  .

  .

  .

  RUMBLE!

  The World of Murim trembled; the Nine Heavens above twisted and rapidly began to create a gigantic vortex, provoking a gigantic tear, a crack through space, and even time.

  The people of the World of Murim all watched in disbelief and awe as the titanic cra space expanded for dozens of kilometers, being a perma “wound” in the skies.

  All provoked not by any Immortal, Primordial, or even Venerable…

  But by the Heavenly Will itself.

  Within the Headquarters of the Heavenly Court, the disciples of Bing Xue, the only person to ever achieve Rank 21 of the Primordial Immemorial Venerable Realm and the ohat had escaped this world long ago, g the se in disbelief.

  “What is happening…!”

  “The sky is tearing apart!”

  “Won’t we be sucked into that vortex?! It’s dangerous!”

  “This is a power even beyond our uanding…!”

  The Primordial Immortals within the Heavenly Court, the stro Elders, and representatives of various Orthodox Sects and s aurim all seemed to have simir reas.

  Except Bing Xue’s disciples, who, despite the adversities, remained calm, analyzing the situation. A beautiful long-haired blonde woman with glistening sapphire-colored eyes gnced into the skies, notig the disturbances across the Nine Heavens.

  “We ot remain here! The Heaveo be colpsing. Let us retreat below, into the World of Mortals,” she said with a anding voice.

  Despite being among the you members of this entire Court, she was the stro and Bing Xue’s greatest and most talented disciple ever.

  Young Lady Fen , the Heavenly Court’s Leader, and the Radiant Star Princess.

  Wielder of the powerful Radiant Star Essence, a power that had evolved from Bing Xue’s feared Photon Essence, she was without a doubt the stro of Murim right now.

  Someone who was only a step from being the new Venerable of Murim!

  “But Court Leader!”

  “Princess, we ot possibly leave the Heavens!”

  “This is our territory; all our resources grow here; without them, the Heavenly Court would slowly colpse as we-”

  “They’re nothing more than luxuries!” said Fen . “Desd this very instant; it is an ORDER.”

  “Well, you heard her,” giggled a young and handsome man with short silver hair and azure-colored eyes; he was Fen ’s left hand, her aide, her retainer, and Bing Xue’s sed-stro disciple. “Let’s begin our dest this very moment.”

  RUMBLE!

  The massive and titanic structure, a gigantic pace divided into twelve different towers and gardens across the White Heavens, began its rapid dest.

  The hundreds of Primordial Immortals panicked slightly as they saw their territory being abandoned after thousands of years, but the majority ended up agreeing to this at the end.

  TRUUUM!

  However, as the paces desded, a presence of overwhelming pan to rapidly approach them, its gigantic, divine, and immortal presence making the temples themselves tremble!

  “T-This is…?!”

  Fen ’s eyes widened as she rushed outside of the pace, her body enpassed with her Radiant Star Essence, as she noticed a massive presenmense power moving across the skies.

  Her golden and silver robes waved by the strong winds; a gigantic multi-heaven storm was happening right now, the Heavenly Ki seeping and leaking everywhere; anybody weaker than Primordial Immortals would be easily swept away by it and torn to shreds.

  “It ’t be… a Venerable’s presence?!”

  She gnced into the skies, realizing just how lucky she was. If she had not desded just a few minutes ago, she would have gotten oh of whatever this monster was and could have paid the price for that insolence.

  “This ’t be! There is no longer any Venerables after Master left! Who… Who is that man?!”

  The man didn’t even give her a goo lowly before his might to even be sidered anything worthwhile, though his appearanstantly made her remember something.

  The appearance of one of the powerful Venerables of the past, when there were many alive and when they fought for supremacy, spreading chaos aru aurim because of their own selfish desires.

  Yes, this man was the living embodiment of a statue of one of such Venerables, long bck hair, a slender and tall body, a handsome face, a cocky smile, bd red robes, and a Primordial Immortal Aura taining thousands of other Auras within it, taken and devoured from its foes.

  “F-Fang Gu Lang, the Heavenly Venerable of the Seven Paths of Heaven.”

  His name and title alo shivers down her spine—a mohat self-procimed himself as “The Greatest Vilin of Murim”, who robbed, sughtered, and raped millions.

  A man with a harem of millions of women he had personally kidnapped, raped, and tortured until their minds were broken, someohat every female feared even more than males.

  An unhinged demon that Bing Xue tricked, sedug him, to then backstab him and kill him at cold blood, finally ending his tyranny.

  For the first time in thousands of years, Fen felt fear; she rapidly flew back to the pace, alerting everyone of what she saw.

  Naturally, they couldn’t believe her, despite his enormous presence above the skies!

  “B-But how is he alive?! I am fairly sure our Master killed him!”

  “I am sure of it; she even said she absorbed his powers to bee stronger… Not even his bones should be left after that…”

  “This could be a plot from the Heavenly Will, which had tio bee stranger and more ed since Master left…” Yun g said, the young man by Fen ’s side. “The Heavenly Will is the bination of the Nine Primordial Heaven Gods; his power is boundless and infinite. But as a will that desires to protect the world, they ruly maed… until master appeared, and it gained a strange obsession with her.”

  “You’re saying that the Heavenly Will revived Fang Gu?!”

  “T-This is impossible!”

  “Why would the Heavens revive such a monster? Someohat went directly against them to begin with?”

  “I ot… even fathom what it is pnning anymore!”

  From beautiful immortal fairies, old masters, talented youngsters, swordsmen, and mighty warriors, the Primordial Immortals talked with one another, creating a massive ruckus.

  “Calm down, everyone,” Fen said. “For now, he seems to have left; his presence has now bee faint. It seems that he moved towards that portal, alongside thousands of others… Immortals, not from our Court, but from the other annexed s as.”

  “W-What?!”

  “You’re saying they betrayed us?”

  “Bastards! I k…! Our master was too merciful; we should’ve sughtered them all while we had the opportunity!”

  “So the moment that despicable monster was revived, they jumped ships, huh?”

  “Master is not dead,” Fen said. “Sihat portal opened, her presence has bee ever stronger. I sense her. Wherever Fang Gu is going, he’s moving where she is. There is a great plot and a great scheme at py here! I believe the Heavenly Will revived Fang Gu to kill Master, who had escaped to another world.”

  “T-That’s… Are you sure this could be true?”

  “If that’s the case, we should follow him and find master as well!”

  “No.” Fen quickly stopped them. “She left to us a great task: to protect Murim’s Era of Peace… And that is what we must do. Let’s remain calm; let’s gather resources, any ally that remains, and the us scout the surrounding…”

  “Fen !” suddenly, a young Primordial Immortal boy with blue hair and golden eyes screamed, flying towards the pad calling for the Radiant Star Princess. “Sister Fen ! This is bad! Really bad news!”

  “Lan Lianhua?” Fen asked. “What’s wrong?!”

  “The Lower World… The Immortal Realm! It’s stra has ged way too much!” Lan Lianhua cried, moving his arms around and shaking his robes.

  “C-Calm down, please! What do you mean? Of course it’ll ge; it has been thousands of years since we visited this pd-”

  “It’s not that! It’s stra is as if the entire ndscape became merged… with something else entirely! e! Everyone has to see this!”

  The little boy guided the elders outside, their eyes widening in disbelief at what they saw.

  The beautiful Green Mountains of this Land had been pletely rewritten; only a third of their inal appearance remained, as the other half had been repced by pletely different ndscapes.

  Apocalyptic, ruined city ndscapes, with massive monsters made of metal walking around, a burning volidscape with gigantic, red-scaled samanders and dragons, an endless forest as gigantic as the mountains, with massive forest creatures that should never be this gigantic, a s of foul bck miasma, where aberrations lurk everywhere, desertic steppes, where gigantic humans wandered, gring them from afar…

  “W-What is this? Our world… Murim has ged so much? This presehese aren’t from our world either!” Fen said. “What is the meaning of this?!”

  And as if things couldn’t get crazier…

  BOOOM!

  A gigantic explosion happened in the distance as a massive ship made of white and silver steel desded from the skies, its metalligs on fmes.

  “A meteor?!”

  “No, that’s some sort of metallic bird?”

  “What is that thing? A ship of some sort?”

  “That’s… a pne?” Fen remembered the toys her master made for her and the children; a pne was a strange flying mae made in her inal world, where humans with no supernatural powers quered the world with teology. “Move aside!”

  She waved her hand, her Radiant Star Essence surging like a hand and catg the massive pne from crashing down, turning off its fmes.

  BAAAM!

  As the pne ced above the grassnds in front of them, the door was kicked out, as someone wearing strange, meical armor crawled out of it, coug blood, with a rge steel pipe pierg his stomach.

  “H-Help…! Please… someone…!”

  The meical armor had all sorts of strange, bizarre lights; the Primordial Immortals detected no threat in the wounded man, a mortal with no power, yet his teology… it was too alien!

  “Are you okay?”

  Fen ran to help, the Immortals trying to warn her, yet she did not care.

  “A-Ah…!”

  The steel pipe was extracted, as the man’s wounds were rapidly healed by her Heavenly Light teiques; healing a mortal was simple enough.

  Fen took off his helmet and armor, revealing the body of a young woman, no older than her early twenties, with short brown hair and blue eyes.

  Her appearance wasn’t like any person from Murim and resembled more the “western looks” of Bing Xue, someohat came from another world.

  “T-Thank you…! Ah! No! T-They’re ing! You have to run away!”

  The young woman started hyperventiting in horror after remembering what she went through, trying to warn Fen .

  “They’re here…! T-They’re-”

  CRASH!

  Until she fell silent, her eyes gng at the in of that sound.

  A five-meter tall, humanoid… puppet thing, made of white and silver metal, with glowing red eyes and many arms and legs.

  “HOMO SAPIENS FOUND. INITIATIERMINATION.”

  Not even Murim would be safe from the horrors that existed beyond the os.

  “Begone.”

  BOOOM!

  The mae exploded into pieces as a ray of Starlight Essence reached it in a split sed.

  The armored woman g the se in disbelief as the nemesis of her p’s humanity was killed so… easily.

  “Don’t worry, whatever that was, it won’t hurt you anymore.”

  “A-Ah… I ’t believe it…”

  Perhaps it was the opposite.

  The worlds beyond the os weren’t ready for Murim.

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