162: Chapter 162 Demon Bone God Lord

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Deep within the Meng Family Ancestral Land, a secret room hidden from sunlight all year round was completely shrouded in a cold black mist as thick as ink.

Amidst the churning black mist, a simple yet hideous blood-colored altar stood quietly. Meng Ciyao stood alone before the altar, her luxurious divine robes of a Yuheng High Goddess fluttering without wind, yet she no longer possessed even a fraction of the dignified and gentle demeanor she showed to outsiders.

Deep within those eyes that were usually cold and Phoenix-like, only an unshakeable obsession and broken pain remained. Fifteen years of loneliness and waiting had long since exhausted this once-glorious High Goddess.

In the center of the altar, a pitch-black eyeball slowly hovered in mid-air. The white of the eye was as black as ink, and the pupil was covered with hideous, crimson bloodshot veins. Every rotation emitted a terrifying pressure that made the Divine Soul tremble. This was an evil aura originating from the depths of the sea of Stars, enough to make ordinary deities kneel on the spot.

Meng Ciyao did not know this thing's true name, only that he said the outside world called him—Demonic Bone Divine Lord.

He was a true ruler of a certain Star Domain within the sea of Stars, and what appeared before her eyes now was merely a part of him that had left his body.

Merely a single eye.

Yet even with just one eye, his cultivation was firmly in the Yuehuang Late Stage, and the unfathomable fluctuations of power made Meng Ciyao feel suffocated with every breath.

One could only imagine that his true body had long since transcended Yuehuang Realm, reaching a terrifying Realm that even the gods of the Cangtian Star Domain dared not imagine.

“Meng Xiao is dead. That young man seems somewhat unusual...”

Meng Ciyao's voice was indifferent, devoid of any emotion. To her, Meng Xiao's life or death was but a speck of dust, not worth mentioning at all. However, Chu Ran's strength in instantaneously killing someone at the Star Radiance Initial Realm still slightly startled her.

A cold, hoarse voice came from the evil gods eye, sounding like countless evil ghosts whispering simultaneously, causing the black mist in the secret room to churn incessantly: “Of course he's unusual. If he were an ordinary person, it would be impossible for me to seek him out.”

The evil gods eye emitted a man's voice, with a hint of playfulness in his tone: “Additionally, your precious daughter seems to be a bit infatuated with him. Do you know about this?”

Meng Ciyao's fingertips trembled slightly, and her hands hanging by her sides clenched tightly, her knuckles turning white.

She didn't look back, her voice calm but carrying a trace of unmistakable exhaustion: “I know.”

“You're not angry?” The Demonic Bone Divine Lord's voice carried a hint of mockery: “She is the only memento your husband left you. If she is spirited away by this kid, you will truly be all alone... Heh ha ha.”

“What if I am angry?”

Meng Ciyao slowly closed her eyes, and two lines of clear tears slid down silently, splashing onto the cold, hard ground and shattering into a crystalline shimmer.

Fifteen years.

A full fifteen years.

She suddenly raised her eyes, her voice abruptly rising, filled with long-suppressed breakdown and questioning as she stared fixedly at that terrifying demonic eye:

“Didn't you say you would deal with this kid?

Didn't you say that as long as your mission succeeded, my husband could come back to life?”

Her voice trembled as she looked at the eye of the Demonic Bone Divine Lord with near-supplication.

Her husband Meng Chen had stood alone fifteen years ago to protect the Yuheng Divine Territory, alone resisting an invasion of Extra-territorial Evils, nearly suffering Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, leaving only a wisp of a remnant soul anchored within the Ancestral Land Token.

Meng Ciyao had guarded Meng Chen's faint soul flame for fifteen years, seeking out every famous doctor in the Cangtian Star Domain and visiting every immortal sect in the world, yet not a single person could bring him back from the dead...

Until the demonic eye of the Demonic Bone Divine Lord came knocking three months ago...

The demonic eye told Meng Ciyao that if she did as he commanded, he would help her condense Meng Chen's soul after the task was completed, allowing her husband to return to the world and reuniting this ill-fated couple...

But for the first two months, the demonic eye didn't ask her to do anything, only remaining dormant in the ancestral land. This even made her harbor a trace of doubt about whether the demonic eye before her was as strong as he claimed...

Until... a few days ago.

Specifically, some time before the night the Kaiyang Divine Territory appeared, he suddenly unleashed a terrifying divine technique that could nearly annihilate more than half of the Divine Territory!

Meng Ciyao was scared to death at the time, fearing her Divine Territory would be devoured by this demonic god...

However, although he had unleashed a terrifying Spiritual Qi storm, he did not harm the Yuheng Divine Territory, and the Spiritual Qi storm disappeared after lasting for a while...

At that time, the entire Divine Territory thought some world-shaking treasure had appeared in the Meng Family Ancestral Land. Only Meng Ciyao knew that a terrifying expert had appeared in the Yuheng Divine Territory...

He said he was a Five-fold Divine Official and could walk unhindered through most of the Star Domain in the outside sea of Stars...

Meng Ciyao didn't know exactly what his divine technique had done that day...

Later, when the Kaiyang Divine Territory appeared, because such a method of appearance surely required a Yuehuang Realm expert to open the Moon Radiance Secret Realm, she had asked the Demonic Lord, but received a negative answer...

However, she had seen satisfaction within the demonic eye at that time...

Later she learned that although the Moon Radiance Secret Realm wasn't opened by him, most of the Spiritual Qi gifted upon the Secret Realm's closure had been absorbed by him...

“Who exactly is that kid, to be worth such a great effort from you?” Meng Ciyao asked in a deep voice.

The Demonic Bone Divine Lord had clearly seen through Chu Ran's identity long ago. From the moment Chu Ran stepped into the Yuheng Divine Territory, he had been firmly locked onto.

It was precisely because of this that Meng Ciyao had Meng Qingyuan start the Silk Ball Groom Selection...

All of this was to lure Chu Ran into the ancestral land to be devoured by the demonic eye...

This was Meng Ciyao's mission, and her only hope of resurrecting her husband...

She didn't care about Meng Xiao or Chu Ran; she only cared about whether she could see her husband, Meng Chen, again...

When Meng Chen was alive, he was the only Yuehuang Late Stage Perfection expert in the Cangtian Star Domain. Because of him, the Yuheng Divine Territory sat firmly at the Peak of the Star Domain. As his Dao Companion, Meng Ciyao held a supreme status, and her words could determine the winds and clouds of the Star Domain.

In the past, when the extra-territorial Demon Race invaded, the Yuheng Divine Territory was the first to be hit. To protect his family and the Star Domain, Meng Chen resolutely stood at the very front and fought a bloody battle to the death.

In that battle, he was the only Moon Brilliance Realm Deity of the Cangtian Star Domain to fall.

Since his death, the Yuheng Divine Territory had gradually declined, its glory fading.

In the past, the gods gave Meng Chen Face, tolerating the Yuheng tradition of women being superior to men and showing Meng Ciyao some courtesy. After Meng Chen's death, that awe remained, but no one would ever again let her words sway the overall situation of the Star Domain.

Meng Ciyao's personality became increasingly aggressive and cold, which instead led to her being further marginalized by the gods.

She always firmly believed that as long as Meng Chen could come back to life, she could return to her former Peak, and the Yuheng Divine Territory could once again stand at the Peak of the Star Domain.

It was deep love, and also an obsession, that had pushed her into her current state.

So, when she reached a covenant with the Demonic Bone Divine Lord, she was excited.

As long as Chu Ran stepped into the ancestral land, he would surely die!

Meng Chen could then be resurrected!

She could then reclaim everything!

At this thought, a sickly look of joy involuntarily surfaced on Meng Ciyao's Face.

“He is the Moon God in Charge of that newly opened Divine Territory,” the demonic eye spoke flatly.

Hearing this, a trace of sympathy flashed across Meng Ciyao's Face.

For a newborn Divine Territory like Star, when the Moon Radiance Secret Realm closed, the Moon God in Charge could have absorbed the first gift of essence from the Secret Realm to reach the heavens in a single bound.

But Chu Ran was unlucky; not only was the Secret Realm's essence devoured by the Demonic Bone Divine Lord, but now even his life was being targeted.

But it was undeniable that reaching the Yuehuang Middle Stage at such a young age meant his potential was limitless. If allowed to grow, his future achievements might not necessarily be inferior to the Meng Chen of the past.

“No wonder Meng Xiao was instantly killed by him...” Meng Ciyao murmured.

“Furthermore, he seems to be a God of Sky Patrol... a Sixth-level Divine Official, but his cultivation is only at the Yuehuang Middle Stage. His strength shouldn't be a match for this demonic eye of mine...” the demonic eye continued, his tone revealing contempt and disdain.

But upon hearing “God of Sky Patrol,” Meng Ciyao's eyes suddenly trembled violently, and an unstoppable wave of horror washed over her when she heard the other party's divine status was that of a Sixth-level Divine Official!

“What?” Meng Ciyao was so shocked that even her voice began to tremble. “A Sixth-level Divine Official? And a God of Sky Patrol?”

The God of Sky Patrol was already enough to shock her; no God of Sky Patrol had ever appeared in the entire Cangtian Star Domain...

However, judging from the divine techniques of the God of Sky Patrol they knew of, every God of Sky Patrol was an existence not to be trifled with...

The higher the Realm, the more this was true...

And the other party even has a Six-fold Godhead!

The Demonic Bone Divine Lord was only a five-fold... how did he dare to be so disdainful?

Meng Ciyao was questioning her life at this moment. She realized she seemed to have provoked an extraordinary existence and was currently attempting to murder him...

“No, I'm out!”

Meng Ciyao's words were resolute.

She wasn't a fool. The demonic eye before her wasn't the Demonic Lord's original body after all. Although its cultivation and strength had reached the Late Stage, its actions showed it didn't behave like any righteous path...

Encountering other divine positions was one thing, but encountering a God of Sky Patrol—it wasn't just a matter of whether he could be defeated in terms of strength...

If the Demonic Bone Divine Lord had committed countless evils and directly triggered a Sky Patrol Execution...

Never mind the Late Stage; even the Sun Radiance above Yuehuang would not be enough to survive...

And the other party even has a Six-fold Godhead...

A mere Godhead Suppression would already be enough to make them kneel and beg for mercy...

How could she even harbor the thought of a counter-kill?

This cannot be done!

If this thing was done, forget about Meng Chen not being able to be resurrected; perhaps the entire Yuheng Divine Territory would vanish from the Star Domain...

“You want to back out now?”

Within the demonic eye, the blackish-red bloodshot veins writhed frantically. His voice suddenly became bone-chillingly cold, and a pressure like a mountain pressed down heavily on Meng Ciyao, rendering her instantly immobile.

“Before this Venerable One, do you... have a choice?”

Black mist churned, and killing intent permeated the air.

Meng Ciyao's Face was as pale as paper, having completely fallen into an abyss of despair.

She wanted to retreat, but there was no longer any path back.

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