499: The Supreme One went south

Countless Cultivators and Mortals, regardless of their cultivation level, felt their hearts gripped by boundless terror at this moment.

They cried out and fled, but soon discovered there was nowhere to run.

The sky was gray, the earth was cracking, the Spiritual Qi was violent, and even directions were lost due to spatial distortion.

Some Holy Lands and Great Families had already activated their highest level of alert.

Light barriers rose, imperial runes roared, and Supreme Emperor Weapons were activated, yet everyone's faces were deathly pale.

They knew that in the face of the will of twenty-two Ancient Supremes, these defenses were pitifully fragile.

The Old Ancestors gathered together with faces full of sorrow; some were arranging for 'seeds' to escape, while others prepared to burn everything in a final struggle.

“Send the Divine Sons and Saintesses into the Ancestral Tool's space! Save as many as we can!”

“Fight them to the end! Even if we are like moths to a flame, we must splash our blood on them!”

Tragedy, despair, madness... all sorts of emotions played out across the lands.

However, just as the billions upon billions of living beings in the Xuanhuang Great World were trembling under the terrifying pressure of the Supremes appearing together—

Just as they closed their eyes to await death, waiting for the expected and inevitable bloody harvest to descend—

An unbelievable scene occurred.

Those terrifying figures who had soared into the sky, radiating an aura of extinction—

After coldly glancing at the endless living beings below who were like lambs for the slaughter, they all, without exception, turned their gazes toward the south!

Toward the direction of the Southern Region!

“Though Blood Food is good, it does not compare to the root of our troubles.”

A cold, raspy Divine Thought vibration, sounding like two pieces of rusted iron rubbing together, rang out not through the air, but directly in the depths of the Souls of all living beings.

This was the whisper of a Supreme who had just awakened from the Ruins of Gods Demise, carrying a hint of impatience and absolute indifference.

“First, we crush those two largest bugs, then we can take our time to enjoy the feast.”

Before the voice even faded—

*Rip!* *Rip!* *Rip!*

From the Burial God Abyss, the Ruins of Gods Demise, the Sea of Reincarnation, the Void Cave, the Eternal Permafrost Glacier, the Ancient Desert of Yellow Springs... the Ancient Supremes who had just emerged with sky-towering Evil Qi actually tore through the void before them one after another, turning into streaks of destructive light that pierced through heaven and earth, racing toward the Southern Region!

Over a dozen terrifying auras, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, crossed the boundless void with an unmistakably clear target: the Southern Region!

The expected harvest did not immediately arrive, but the terrifying pressure converging toward a single point—

Left the survivors of the entire Xuanhuang Great World in deeper confusion and horror.

“They left?”

A Cultivator huddled in the ruins trembled as he raised his head, his face full of the daze and disbelief of surviving a disaster.

“They all went to the Southern Region together! All the Supremes have gone to the Southern Region!”

“The Southern Region?! What are they going to the Southern Region for?!”

“Could there be something more important in the Southern Region than harvesting all living beings?”

“Heavens! Over twenty Supremes gathering in the Southern Region... what on earth is happening there?!”

After a brief dead silence, there was an even more surging wave of panic and discussion.

Most of the ignorant factions and Loose Cultivators were completely unable to understand this abnormal scene.

Did the Supremes not emerge specifically to harvest Life Essence to sustain themselves?

Why would they turn a blind eye to the 'Blood Food' right before them and instead all swarm toward the Southern Region?

This abnormal behavior was more unsettling than a direct massacre, as if it heralded some even more terrifying and unknown disaster.

However, the core members of some Holy Land-level factions who had been constantly monitoring the movements in the Southern Region quickly reacted after their brief astonishment.

A conjecture that made them turn cold all over surfaced.

“It's for the person behind Battle Asura!”

“The Golden Crow Ancient Emperor and the others were the first to strike in the Southern Region, targeting that mysterious powerhouse suspected to be related to Battle Asura.

Now it seems they not only failed, but likely kicked a steel plate!

They forced all the Forbidden Zone Supremess to temporarily put aside the harvest and join forces to go to the Southern Region first to deal with an existence capable of threatening them all!”

“To make all the Supremes so wary that they would even delay the harvest to prioritize his elimination, just how terrifying is that mysterious existence in the Southern Region?!”

This news swept through the highest levels of the major Holy Lands like the bitterest cold wind.

For a time, all the Peak powerhouses who were in the know were filled with anxiety.

They felt a trace of luck for their temporary survival, yet felt deep worry for that unknown variable in the Southern Region.

To make all the Supremes join forces to deal with him, the strength of that mysterious existence was likely far beyond imagination.

But once the Supremes resolved the trouble in the Southern Region and turned back, what awaited this world would be an even more frenzied and unscrupulous harvest!

Hope and despair intertwined in this eerie silence.

Everyone's gaze involuntarily turned toward the southern sky.

And they, these living beings who had luckily survived for now, could only pray for a slim miracle in this suffocating wait.

However, just as most of those terrifying auras turned into streaks of light and tore through the void to head for the Southern Region, another change occurred!

Not all Supremes were so restrained.

In the Eastern Region, from the directions of the Burial God Abyss and the Ruins of Gods Demise, two terrifying figures stopped abruptly at the moment they were about to step into the spatial rifts.

In the Central Region, two auras also showed a clear hesitation.

This tiny change was instantly captured by some powerhouses below who were staring intently at the sky.

“Wait, they haven't all left!”

The voice of a Holy Land Elder trembled; the heartstrings that had just slightly relaxed because the Supremes were heading south were suddenly tightened to the limit!

“There are four auras, four auras have stopped!”

Panic spread again like a plague, more rapid and thorough than before!

The celebration of surviving a disaster that had just risen was instantly doused with ice water, replaced by the ultimate fear of falling into an even darker abyss!

The aura of decay and death radiating from these four Supremes who had stopped was particularly strong, even carrying a type of weakness and greed that was hard to hide.

They had slumbered for far too long, their conditions were extremely poor, and forcibly emerging just now had consumed a massive amount of energy.

At this moment, the majestic Life Essence radiating from the billions of fresh living beings below was like fine wine and delicacies placed before a hungry traveler, radiating an irresistible temptation.

“Mmm...”

The mountain-like blurry figure from the Burial God Abyss let out a low growl from his throat that sounded like muffled thunder.

This low growl was like a death knell, striking the hearts of all living beings who perceived it.

His blood-red gaze shifted down from the south, locking onto a prosperous giant city with a population of tens of millions on the land of the Eastern Region.

The mixed life force in the city was as bright as a torch in the night to his perception.

“Why did he stop? He's looking at us, he's looking at us!”

In the giant city, countless Cultivators and Mortals looked up at the sky, locked in by that gaze full of greed and death.

Immediately, their Souls Flew Away and Spirits Scattered; cries and screams rang out in unison, and the order that had just been restored instantly collapsed into extreme chaos.