Path of the Tyrant King

33 The Battle Begins

Ye Yuyan was meditating in the throne room alone when his eyes grew gradually colder. He blinked his left eye three times and it suddenly turned completely black except for the white pupil.

The power of the heavenly dao coursed through his left eye. If someone looked into his eye, they would see a universe in its grand splendor go to its inevitable destruction. This was the most supreme law under heaven and earth.

Using his left eye, Ye Yuyan perceived the mysteries of heaven and earth. As all things reduced into different forces, all around him he could see sword forces, blood forces, aquatic forces, and the strongest of all the lightning forces.

Ye Yuyan gaze was focused on the red throne, and seated on it was a red silhouette that grew increasingly clear. It phased in and out of existence as it stabilized becoming a young man dressed in red robes.

The entire throne room was enshrouded in a pair of massive red lightning wings that shook the room apart. Along his robes were lightning bolts and his eyes shined with red lightning.

Ye Yuyan stood calmly dispelling the red lightning around him as he gazed at the young man atop the throne.

"Fellow immortal Lei Sheng, no need for the show." Ye Yuyan chuckled as if talking to an old friend. His left eye released a powerful dark force that devoured the red lightning.

"So you have succeeded." Lei Sheng said with a smirk as he sat arrogantly atop the red throne.

"That little girl, she's a spitting image of Song Qian." Lei Sheng laughed while keeping a sly smile.

Ye Yuyan stared at Lei Sheng unflinchingly with dark and cold eyes. He swiftly reached into his robes and removed a black scroll. The scroll unfurled sprawling onto the ground, along it appeared inscriptions made of lightning.

Each inscription held a different nomological power as they all coalesced to the bottom of the scroll as a 9 colored lightning. Lei Sheng eyes filled with malice as he gripped the throne until it started to show cracks.

"So you still have that accursed thing." Lei Sheng said with a deep almost growling voice. His sonorous voice boomed through the temple fully displaying his anger.

"I know that fellow immortal wouldn't risk his resurrection. But I don't leave such matters to fate, I prefer a writ such as this." Ye Yuyan said with a sneering smile.

Lei Sheng's brows furrowed as red lightning crackled around him, he was like a teapot ready to explode.

"I will be needing fellow immortal assistance." Ye Yuyan said with a dastardly grin, his eyes flashed with a malevolent intent as the scroll automatically flew on its own.

"Hmph!" Lei Sheng snorted as he raised his pinky and tapped out into the air.

Red lightning exploded out hitting into the temple walls. The murals started to shine as if coming to life as the red lightning moved across it like a river.

The temple sprung to life as the red light opened up the entire world. At that moment, Lightning shot out from the extreme void striking through the temple's barrier. The lightning fused with the temple as the various electrical streams gathered.

Together they formed into a red lightning river that spanned the entire blood plains. Throughout the blood plains, every disciple became wrapped in the red lightning. Their cultivations suddenly rose as the many lightning beasts in the plains were slaughtered and converted into lightning marks.

The blood river swept through extinguishing all life born from lightning and harvesting the lightning marks toward the temple.

Ye Yuyan's perception was still fused with the temple, so he guided the river around swishing through the realm. He made the river fly to the limits of the extreme void, the river swirled wildly as it split into two.

The first flew toward the aquatic plains, the second went towards the shadow mountain. The two rivers flowed through the void at rapid speeds both simultaneously slamming into their destinations.

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In the aquatic plains of heaven's realm was the city of pixies at the center of a massive lake. Su Xinyue was seated inside a palace in front of an older man with four wings on his back and blue hair.

When suddenly the hairs on her neck stood up, it was once said that experts had premonitions about their fates. Right now her premonition was telling her about her impending doom.

"Don't worry, Pavilion Master. Venerable Moon had long ago prepared us." The pixie man said as he clasped his hands behind his back.

"But your majesty..." She tried to say when suddenly there was a massive boom in the sky. From Su Xinyue's body burst out another Su Xinyue dressed in blue robes.

Her Aspect shot out like a phantom passing through the palace walls. She went outside just in time to see the red river of lightning burst down onto the city.

Although Heaven's Realm had no sky, the city of pixies had a blue sky and a blue moon that stood from time immemorial. The blue moon released blue motes of light which engulfed the red river, the majesty of the blue moon stood unmatched as the red river was forced back.

Suddenly the blue-haired old man appeared to Su Xinyue's aspect, she turned to see him standing there calmly.

"Your Majesty..." She muttered as her eyes narrowed, she saw at the center of the red river was strange willpower that had the shape of a red lotus.

Two beams of light one black and the other bronze burst out from the city approaching Su Xinyue and the Pixie king. The two lights materialized into a black-haired man in black armor and another man in bronze armor.

"Good that you're all here. I cannot leave this city but you three can handle the rest."

"I feel her majesty's power." Xia Yunyi said as a silhouette of a two-headed black dog appeared behind him.

"That lotus...he's awoken no doubt." The Bronze Knight said as an Iron knight appeared behind him.

Su Xinyue looked towards the red river coiling in skies, it kept trying to stab through the skies of the city and enter. A glint of determination passed through her eyes as Aquatics Qis gathered around her.

"Then let's move." She said as she pursed her lips and transformed into a blue beam and flew into the red river. At the center of the red river spun a red lotus surrounding it was an ominous blue light.

The Bronze Knight and Xia Yunyi followed behind with only the pixie king standing in place as he watched.

"I can only hope they survive." The pixie king muttered to himself as he disappeared.

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At the base of the mountain in heaven's realm, near the wall of shadow chains was a congregation of black-robed and armored figures. At the forefront was Yunshi, his muscular body swayed with the shadows as dark forces assembled on his form.

Behind him was a young man dressed in red plate armor and a war skirt, his long red hair draped on his back flowed with the dark winds. Next to him was a blonde young lady dressed in heavy armor.

"Hmm..." Yunshi eyes narrowed as he looked to the sky and saw an incoming red river. He could see inside of the river was a red lotus that was the genesis of it all. The swaying red lotus reminded him of the scene of in the immortal graveyard of the red lotus blooming.

"Ji Shu." He muttered to himself with a dazed expression. He turned his attention to the two behind him and spoke solemnly: "Wu Han and Wang Shi, release your bloodlines."

Yunshi quickly leaned forward getting closer to the shadow chains. Behind him manifested the outline of a demonic Yunshi, its eyes were pitch black.

Odd whispers flowed through the winds like the temptations of the devil. Both Yunshi cooperated as they released a potent shadow force into the shadow chains, slowly unraveling the restrictions in the chains.

Wu Han and Wang Shi looked at each other and nodded and suddenly two powerful auras burst into the skies.

"Marks of War, Red War God!" Wu Han's bloodline boiled as red marks appeared all across his body inspiring a powerful nomological aura, behind him appeared a red silhouette.

"Marks of Justice, Lady Lustitia!" All along Wang Shi's body appeared yellow marks that came to together forming a silhouette behind her.

Their auras simultaneously tore through the firmament ascending to high heavens, as the silhouette grew a hundred meters. Wu Han's silhouette was a red-haired man wielding a spear and a shield while wearing red plate armor.

Wang Shi's Silhouette was a yellow woman in a white tunic. She emanated a powerful and just aura as a blindfold wrapped around her eyes. In her left hand materialized the scales of justice, and in her right appeared a sword with justice marks along it.

"Kill!" They roared as one mind as the two giants flew toward the red river slashing down madly. The red lotus at the center of the river hummed releasing a deep crimson aura.

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In the Immortal Graveyard, a woman dressed in a dress fitted with swords appeared. Behind her were four different people dressed in blue, red, green, and black attire respectively. Each of them had a sword sheathed to their side.

Next to the woman was a man dressed in yellow robes, he had a graying beard and part of his body was distorted in yellow light.

"Yunshi and the Su Xinyue have already started the attack." She said to the yellow man next to her.

"We just need to deal with that tomb then." The yellow-robed man said as they starting deducing the path through the darkness.

"This should be your specialty, Su Yan." The woman said with a teasing smile.

"I understand, your highness." Su Yan wryly smiled as he released a power yellow light that dispelled the darkness around them, illuminating a path to the center of the valley. If one looked closely they could see a scarlet hue dancing in the skies close to the center of the valley.

Su Yan zoomed forward transforming into yellow light, Emily and her companions joined with transforming into lights themselves. They all shot through the valley unhindered as Su Yan illuminated the darkness.

In moments the approached the graveyard, the first sight was of sky-high scarlet flames that danced across the valley sky like an aurora. The flames originated from a massive tomb that stretched to the top of the valley.

Behind the tomb were hundreds of tombs each emanating a powerful sanguine aura. Around the valley walls were hundreds of sword marks and remnant Qis from a great battle.

Emily scanned over the sword marks on the valley wall as she remembered the sword scar on the mountain near Gulan's village.

"Yunshi wasn't lying it seems, but how did he escape from Ji Shu's clutches?" Emily muttered as her eyes narrowed in concentration.

"Ji Shu? Are you saying he's responsible?!?" Su Yan said as his brows creased in disbelief. He thought Ji Shu was suspicious when he met him, but he never thought he would be responsible.

"He's more than responsible. He's the orchestrator of this entire affair." A voice said as it echoed out of the void.

"Who's there?" Emily yelled as her eyes narrowed, atop the tombstone appeared a woman in a tight fitting black dress.

Her immaculate figure on full display, her splendor black hair draped over her shoulder reaching just up to her waist. A white aura surrounded her as her shadow swayed with the flames.