Chapter 490: Nightmare God Clan, Quasi-God King!

The Nightmare Force was exhausted, and the Saint King fell.

Ye Lingtian's remnant Soul completely vanished, meaning he had finally been reduced to ashes.

Everyone watched this scene in silence, their hearts unable to shake off the shock.

Saint King Beiming had witnessed the entire process and also did not speak again; Li Xuanfeng must have just exchanged Divine Sense with Ye Lingtian.

The rapid succession of expressions on Ye Lingtian's face—excitement, shock, joy, and pleading—could not have escaped Saint King Beiming's notice; he was very puzzled but felt it inappropriate to ask, only becoming increasingly curious about Li Xuanfeng.

"Fellow Daoist's talent is truly earth-shattering. To be able to defy the heavens and crush a Saint King while in the body of a Saint—throughout history, you are the only one!"

"I am Xu Beiming, founder of the Holy Land of Beiming. May I ask for your name, Fellow Daoist?"

Saint King Beiming smiled and cupped his hands toward Li Xuanfeng.

"Wushuang."

Li Xuanfeng nodded at him.

As the saying goes, one does not strike a smiling face. Although Saint King Beiming had previously prepared to forcibly intervene to make him and Ye Lingtian cease hostilities, he had not taken any particularly excessive actions, nor had he deliberately targeted Li Xuanfeng, so Li Xuanfeng held no ill will toward him.

From Saint King Beiming's perspective, intervening without knowing Li Xuanfeng's true strength was actually an attempt to help him.

Given Li Xuanfeng's personality, he generally wouldn't bother with you as long as you didn't provoke him, but once you did, he certainly wouldn't let you off.

"Wushuang…"

Saint King Beiming savored the title, feeling it was fitting for Li Xuanfeng's talent and strength; a Prodigy like him could probably not be found a second time, looking across both the Canglan Realm and the alien races.

However, Xu Beiming truly had no impression of the title "Saint Wushuang," and his deeds had not yet circulated in the Canglan Realm. But from now on, this person would likely gradually appear in everyone's view, and his name would surely spread rapidly throughout the Canglan Realm.

Many gazes were fixed here; the fall of a Saint King was an earth-shattering event for any continent or even any great domain.

Even if Saint King Beiming didn't speak of it, what happened today would soon circulate within the circles of Saints and Saint Kings.

"The Holy Land of Beiming is not far from here. I have collected some spirit wine over the years; why not come to my residence for a chat, Fellow Daoist Wushuang?"

Saint King Beiming extended an invitation.

Some Cultivators who heard this couldn't help but look at each other. This place was countless billions of miles away from the Holy Land of Beiming; many Cultivators would exhaust their energy flying toward it and likely wouldn't even cover a tenth of the distance. Could this really be called "not far"?

However, for Saints and Saint Kings, it was indeed not far; a single thought could traverse the distance in an instant.

"Many thanks for your kindness, Fellow Daoist, but I have urgent matters to attend to, so I will not disturb you."

Li Xuanfeng said.

Seeing that Li Xuanfeng declined and had no intention of continuing the conversation, Saint King Beiming sensibly stopped inviting him, exchanged some pleasantries, and took his leave.

"Junior Brother, did you discover anything?"

Ye Qingqing's Divine Sense transmission sounded in his mind.

"Ye Lingtian was also eroded by the Nightmare Force at the Battle Heaven Ruins Barrier. When Great Sage Zhantian fell, a portion of that Nightmare Force remained."

Li Xuanfeng said via transmission.

Feeling that it would be troublesome to explain, Li Xuanfeng simply transmitted the images he had seen regarding the memory of the Nightmare Force to Ye Qingqing.

Searching Ye Lingtian's Soul had revealed many secrets to him, the most important of which were some memories regarding the remnants of the Nightmare Force.

Li Xuanfeng also understood the strangeness and terror of this power.

The so-called Nightmare Force, actually also called the Power of Nightmare, was a means used by the alien races to specifically attack the Soul, and it was currently the strongest known method for both the Canglan Realm and the alien races!

As long as the Nightmare God Clan succeeded in attacking your Soul, everything related to your Soul would be traced and infected.

For example.

If a Cultivator had a Clone, possessing two bodies and two Souls.

One was here, and the other was tens or even hundreds of light-years away.

The moment the Soul of the Clone here was successfully invaded by the Power of Nightmare, the Power of Nightmare would instantly lock onto the other Clone tens or hundreds of light-years away through the Soul, achieving entanglement of the Nightmare Force at the same time, causing that Clone to be infected with this power out of thin air!

The weapons used by Cultivators, the Formation Plates and Formation Flags they refined, and the various runes they inscribed generally contained Soul Power imprints. Once the main body's Soul was successfully invaded by the Nightmare Force, these items would all simultaneously give birth to Nightmare Force, causing a backlash against the imprints.

Back then, Great Sage Zhantian was successfully attacked by a Quasi-God King of the Nightmare God Clan, and the Nightmare Force successfully invaded his Soul. Therefore, even though that Quasi-God King had not breached the Boundary Pass and had not entered the Canglan Realm, he still, from the Void Battlefield across an incredibly vast distance, caused everything in the Battle Heaven Holy Realm that bore Great Sage Zhantian's Soul imprint to become entangled and give birth to Nightmare Force, completing the backlash!

After Great Sage Zhantian created the Battle Heaven Holy Realm, he had put in a lot of effort to make it more stable, inscribing too many spatial runes containing Soul imprints. Therefore, the backlash he suffered was quite intense, causing the Battle Heaven Holy Realm to directly collapse and fall. The remaining Nightmare Force took this opportunity to erode the Cultivators who survived in the Battle Heaven Holy Realm, ultimately causing the strongest power that once shone brilliantly on the Ancient Spirit Continent to be completely wiped out!

This method could not be described as anything less than perverse.

It was not as if Li Xuanfeng had never dealt with Cultivators who possessed Clones; a Venerable he had killed in the past had possessed a substitute-death Clone.

After killing the main body, if he wanted to kill the Clone, Li Xuanfeng had to find it first to be able to do so.

If he could master this method of the Nightmare God Clan, no matter how many Clones that Cultivator possessed, as long as Li Xuanfeng could destroy the Soul of one of the Clones, he could follow the trail and kill all of that Cultivator's Clone Souls!

And cause a backlash to and eradicate everything that carried the other party's Soul imprint!

The Chaos Power that Li Xuanfeng mastered was the origin of all power and also the end of all power. If he could master this method, his Chaos Power would certainly be able to achieve a similar effect.

What the Nightmare Force could do, the Chaos Power would inevitably be able to do as well!

However, besides being related to the strangeness of the Nightmare Force itself, a greater reason was the innate racial talent of the Nightmare God Clan. Innate Divine Abilities could not be passed down like Secret Arts; it was almost impossible to learn them.

If Li Xuanfeng wanted to learn it, the best method would be to capture a member of the Nightmare God Clan alive and then study them to see if there was a chance.

Even Li Xuanfeng was quite tempted by such a perverse method.

Imagine this: your enemy has thousands of Clones, and these Clones are spread all over the place. To completely eradicate them, you must kill all the Clones. Just searching for them and traveling is an extremely massive undertaking.

But as long as you master this method of the Nightmare God Clan, if you can kill one Clone, the remaining thousands of Clones will also cease to exist!

"So that's how it is!"

"The root cause of Great Sage Zhantian's fall was that a Quasi-God King of the Nightmare God Clan took action!"

"However, to be able to kill Great Sage Zhantian and still have Nightmare Force remaining after so many years, apart from that Quasi-God King, no one else from the Nightmare God Clan could possibly have done it!"

After watching the memory images, Ye Qingqing's Divine Sense transmission sounded in Li Xuanfeng's mind.