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Chapter 823: The Emperor has awakened and summons you.

At the same time, in the Earth Star's Immortal Realm.The Divine Descent was shattered, and Wu E's Divine Soul was severely injured. The moment his Remnant Soul returned to his main body, a tearing, agonizing pain erupted from all over his form.

"ROAR—!"

This pain was something even Wu E, as a Demon Immortal, could not endure. He curled up in agony, and the aura emanating from his body visibly weakened by several degrees.

This was because the power sent down through the Divine Descent was itself a part of his body, carrying his Immortal Essence and Divine Soul.

Now that the Divine Descent was broken, his Divine Soul was equivalent to having a piece directly torn away, and the Demon Core within his body had also dimmed.

"Damn it… How can this Chen Huaian possess such formidable strength? Could it be that he is also a variable?!"

A fierce light flickered in Wu E's eyes.

He had reason to suspect Chen Huaian's identity, but according to the information bestowed by the Divine Lord, the variables were clearly Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng, and did not include Chen Huaian at all.

He could distrust his own judgment, but he necessarily held deep faith in the Divine Lord's judgment.

Since the Divine Lord had not marked Chen Huaian, then Chen Huaian could not possibly be a variable.

Could Chen Huaian be the Dragon Soul inheritor?

Another thought surfaced in Wu E's mind.

Throughout the cycles of reincarnation, only the Dragon Soul inheritor would display strength that transcended the ordinary. Everything else was under the suppression of the Immortal Realm and the Divine Lords.

The Divine Lords were like someone intentionally raising a vicious dog. They clearly possessed the power to pin that vicious dog down and kill it in one move, yet they always gave it a bite to eat, letting it survive. At the same time, they made it fight the Dragon Soul inheritor, constantly pushing the Dragon Soul inheritor's strength to greater heights…

The Divine Lords seemed to want to obtain something from the strengthening Dragon Soul inheritor.

Or perhaps, from those lives that continuously resisted the cycle of reincarnation.

It was just that they had never achieved their goal each time, so they kept restarting the cycle.

But Chen Huaian did not carry the aura of a Dragon Soul inheritor, and he was somewhat close to Taotie.

That Taotie was a lump of tough, unyielding meat, a shit-stirring rod that would take a bite out of anyone.

Throughout the cycles, Taotie and the Dragon Soul inheritor fought upon meeting, and also fought upon meeting with their kind, the Demon Immortals, and the various immortals of Lingxiao.

The Divine Lords used Taotie as one of the tools to check and balance the Dragon Soul inheritor, so they let Taotie survive for a long time each cycle.

Furthermore, Taotie was, after all, the Beast King, harboring extreme loathing for the aura on the Dragon Soul inheritor. The hatred he displayed towards the Dragon Soul inheritor surpassed even theirs.

Analyzing it this way, Chen Huaian couldn't be the Dragon Soul inheritor either…

So where did the Dragon Soul inheritor go?

With all nine Wells of Heaven opened, the Dragon Soul inheritor should be gradually surfacing by now, right?

"Wu E!" A low roar sounded outside the cave dwelling.

Wu E's body shuddered. He saw a three-eyed weasel head poke inside.

It was the Great Immortal Huang, one of the Four Great Demon Immortals under Divine Joy's command.

"The Great Emperor has awakened. He summons you."

Great Immortal Huang's cold eyes stared at Wu E, deep within them a mix of wariness and greed.

The greed was because Wu E's aura was currently extremely weak, his foundation damaged, clearly seriously injured.

If one wanted to devour Wu E, now was the best opportunity!

The wariness was because Chen Niu, who had always been the strongest throughout the cycles, had actually been turned into a useless wreck by Wu E, leaving only a Remnant Soul and a ruined body, which had already been completely picked clean by the minor demons around Chen Niu's cave dwelling.

For a great earth dragon immortal to end in such a manner inevitably evoked the sorrow of seeing a fellow creature perish.

It also made Great Immortal Huang and the Golden Scale Heaven-Piercing Python harbor a bit more fear towards Wu E, who originally had only average strength.

"Retract your covetous gaze."

Wu E stood up, releasing a terrifying pressure.

This pressure was already that of having devoured Chen Niu's demonic power. The entire cave dwelling shook under the pressure. Great Immortal Huang's face changed drastically, his body as if suddenly burdened by a giant mountain, pressed firmly to the ground, unable to move.

"You… you've already reached the Earth Immortal realm?"

His eyes were full of jealousy and fear.

He knew Wu E had improved greatly, but never imagined that after devouring Chen Niu, he would directly break through a major realm, advancing from a Divine Immortal to an Earth Immortal…

Throughout the cycles, neither he nor the Golden Scale Heaven-Piercing Python had reached this height. Only Chen Niu was at the peak of the Divine Immortal realm, just one step away from Earth Immortal.

And now, Wu E was still in a state where his Divine Soul was damaged.

If he were at his peak…

Great Immortal Huang shrank his neck, the jealousy and resentment in his eyes receding deep within.

He retreated from Wu E's cave dwelling, prostrating himself outside.

Seeing this, Wu E snorted coldly and swaggered out.

In the depths of the Blissful Wasteland, there was no sight of sky or sun.

Black miasma rolled and surged across the ground, yet it was forcibly pushed back at the foot of a ring-shaped mountain—the residence of Divine Joy Emperor was embedded within the belly of that ring-shaped mountain.

From afar, it looked like the gaping maw of a giant beast. Up close, one realized that "maw" was actually pieced together from countless bloody bones. Blood-red mist seeped from the gaps between the bones, smelling of a cloyingly sweet fragrance, yet capable of instantly dissolving any low-level demon immortal that approached into pus.

Wu E slid along the ground, long accustomed to the sights along the way.

Countless demon immortals crowded at the mountain's base. Those fist-sized, glowing cracks in the stone were precisely the well openings through which Spiritual Energy from the Earth Star's Mortal Realm seeped upward.

Emaciated snake demons coiled around the stone cracks, their scales torn to bloody shreds by nearby bear demons; fox demons used sharp claws to rip open the throats of their own kind, just to monopolize a wisp of purer Spiritual Energy; even eagle demons with wings nearly withered away were frantically pecking at opponents fighting for position.

The ground was littered with severed limbs and blackened bloodstains.

Spiritual Energy, carrying the roars and shrieks of the demon immortals, drilled into Wu E's nostrils.

He didn't even lift an eyelid—in this Blissful Wasteland, the survival of the fittest was the only rule. Today, they were the ones fighting for Spiritual Energy; tomorrow, those devoured by stronger beings might still be them.

Passing through layer upon layer of demon crowds, Wu E finally stood before the "bone gate" of the residence.

The moment he stepped over the threshold, a suffocating pressure rushed over him.

All the scales on his body instantly stood on end, only to be forcibly flattened the next second.

Even his breathing became labored.

Lifting his gaze, he looked towards the High Platform deep within the residence.

A giant toad, fully a thousand *zhang* wide, lay sprawled there.

The toad's massive mouth held three golden stones. The halo emitted by the stones enveloped its head.

And upon the toad's broad forehead, half of an old man's torso stood upright—that old man's head was three times the size of a normal person's. His white hair and beard gleamed with an oily sheen, his face as red as a ripe fruit, his eyes tightly shut, yet the corners of his mouth stretched all the way to his ears.

That smile was not amiable; rather, it exuded a near-maddening satisfaction, as if he were about to devour everything before him in the next instant.

This was Divine Joy Emperor, the progenitor of all demons.

Wu E's legs went weak. With a *thump*, he fell prostrate on the ground, his forelimbs gripping the floor tightly.

He could feel that the pressure emanating from the Great Emperor was not deliberately released. It was like the weight of heaven and earth itself, pressing down until his Demon Core trembled. The Earth Immortal might he had displayed to Great Immortal Huang moments ago was now less than dust.

"Sub… subordinate Wu E, pays respects to the Great Emperor."

His voice trembled, his tail pressed tightly against the ground, not daring to sway in the slightest.

The old man on the High Platform finally slowly opened his eyes.

They were a pair of eyes without pupils, only a turbid white expanse.

Yet they seemed capable of seeing through Wu E's internal organs and the depths of his soul.

He did not open his mouth, yet his voice sounded directly in Wu E's mind, hoarse and icy: "Wu E, ah…" The corners of the old man's mouth stretched a bit wider, revealing two rows of fine, sharp teeth. "This Emperor has heard that you all took a trip down to the Mortal Realm?"

Wu E's heart sank violently, cold sweat beading on his forehead. "Yes… This subordinate, following the Great Emperor's command, went to the Mortal Realm to investigate the movements of the Wells of Heaven, and incidentally… to search for high-grade Celestial Essence."

"Ah, yes, high-grade Celestial Essence!" The old man's voice suddenly turned cold.

The golden stones in the toad's mouth trembled slightly.

The blood-red mist within the residence instantly thickened.

Wu E felt his throat constrict, as if gripped by an invisible hand.

"Then tell me," the old man's smile remained, but his eyes held a devouring, ferocious light, "on this trip down, how much high-grade Celestial Essence did you manage to seize?"

Each word that fell was like a heavy hammer smashing into Wu E's heart.

His body shook violently, even his reply becoming fragmented.

"This sub… subordinate is incompetent…

Unexpected changes occurred in the Mortal Realm, the high-grade Celestial Essence… has not yet been obtained.

I beg the Great Emperor's forgiveness!"