“It’s not that I’m stingy,” Nyarlathotep explained with a helpless expression, “but the gap between you and the Great Old Ones is just too big! So big that even if I reveal information about my true form, Nyarlathotep… it will affect you.”
"Although the Hall of Mist protects your minds... it only blocks most of the harmful information! Not all of it... The remaining trace is enough to cause brain problems or even madness after you return to reality."
"Hiss, is it really that dangerous?" Xiaoyu gasped.
"As expected," the Drunken Sword Immortal said lazily.
Su Han surveyed the crowd below with interest. Just as he was about to say something, suddenly, mist rose from a bronze chair. Then, a colossal figure appeared out of thin air—it was Liu Shen.
At this moment, the willow tree's branches sprouted new buds, and the charred remains on its body were mostly gone. It had clearly recovered a lot... Although it was still a long way from its former peak, it was at least not as half-dead as before.
"Your Excellency Speaker, I need your help." The willow branch trembled slightly, its voice calm and light, getting straight to the point.
"Hmm? Something happened in your world?" The Sword Immortal's expression turned serious in an instant. He recalled the plot of Perfect World and the Starry Sky, his eyes flashing. "Did those supreme beings from the Upper Realm discover your whereabouts and prepare to take action against you?"
"...I remember a while ago, didn't the Great Emperor Wushi take the fruit of a complete immortal elixir from his own world and give it to the Willow Goddess?" Conan frowned, somewhat puzzled.
"Although Liu Shen cannot recover to her peak with the help of the elixir of immortality, she should still be able to recover to the level of an ancient emperor comparable to the ancient emperors of the world of Shrouding the Heavens, or even reach the level of an immortal... right?"
"Those supreme beings in the Perfect World, although they claim to be supreme beings, are actually just deceiving the people of the lower realms... They are not supreme beings at all, and the gap between them and the ancient emperors is unimaginable. The current Willow God could easily sweep them all away, right?"
“You’ve misunderstood,” Willow God’s voice remained as calm as ever. “It’s not the Upper Realm, and it’s not even another realm.”
"In reality, what truly happened is beyond my current capabilities to ascertain. The only thing I know is that the concentration of dark and corrupting power in the lower realm where I am now has suddenly reached an unimaginable level... That is what truly alarms me."
A brief silence fell over the Hall of Mist, and the expressions of many quick-thinking council members underwent a dramatic change at that moment.
Even Liu Shen, who is highly likely to have recovered to the Immortal Realm, couldn't figure out the problem, and the concentration of dark, corrupted power in the lower realm had skyrocketed... Is the problem with an Immortal King-level being? A Quasi-Immortal Emperor-level being? Or even...?
Su Han's fingers gently caressed the armrest of the chair. After a brief moment of thought, his gaze sharpened slightly, driven by his omniscient and omnipotent power...
The information that followed made Su Han's pupils widen in surprise.
Letting out a soft breath, Su Han spoke, "Interesting."
With a light tap of his fingers on the armrest, a dazzling light suddenly burst forth from Liu Shen's body, weaving a realistic illusion around them.
It was a strange world so vast that it defied description, filled with countless broken worlds rising and falling, and permeated every corner of this vast realm with an ominous power capable of corrupting everything.
“…The Boundary Sea?!” Weber reacted, almost uttering those two words in a terrified voice, his expression one of utter horror.
"It seems this is truly a momentous event." Madara Uchiha took two deep breaths, barely managing to calm himself down. He narrowed his eyes slightly, and the Mangekyou Sharingan in his Rinnegan spun rapidly at an unimaginable speed.
The illusion of reality continues to circulate.
In the deepest part of the Boundary Sea, there lies a corpse of immense size.
The corpse was wrapped in faint, colorless threads, which slowly seeped into the body, making its aura even more terrifying.
Hundreds of light-years away from this corpse, in different locations, were three or four slender figures, sitting cross-legged, cultivating...
They were trying their best to capture those colorless threads in mid-air...
Although they expended tremendous effort and only managed to capture one or two threads compared to the enormous corpse... the fact that these one or two threads merged into their bodies still allowed their aura to steadily increase...
With a crisp buzzing sound, the illusion vanished completely.
"...The Corpse Immortal Emperor, and the four Fallen Quasi-Immortal Emperors of the Perfect World." Huang Rong spoke softly, but her voice was hoarse. Because she knew just how incredibly powerful the beings who had caused this problem truly were.
Even if the current top-tier powers of the council, such as the Great Emperor Wushi and the Willow God, joined forces, they might not be able to defeat a single Immortal King. Let alone the Quasi-Immortal Emperors who are above Immortal Kings…
Moreover, those four Dark Quasi-Immortal Emperors were not ordinary Quasi-Immortal Emperors. The strongest of them, the World-Destroying Old Man, even had one foot in the legendary Immortal Emperor realm.
This is still their strength as it was in the original historical trajectory... Now that they have absorbed strange threads, whether their strength will increase again is still unknown.
Aizen also felt immense pressure, but after thinking for a moment, he turned to look at Su Han and asked softly, "Chairman, what exactly are those threads...?"
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Chapter 552 Nyarlathotep's Wrathful Killing Intent? The True Meaning of the Ten Directions Realm!
"Yes, that thing! It must be the divinity of Lord Azathoth." Nyarlathotep spoke, but a chilling and murderous aura emanated from her eyes. "I never imagined... that such a vast number of divinities would fall into that world."
"If you do the math, the number of divinities must be at least one-twentieth to one-tenth of the total number of divinities at the peak of Azathoth's reign, right?"
Su Han's eyelids twitched. He recalled his conversation with Nyaruko yesterday and then pondered this information again... No matter how he looked at it, he felt that Perfect World had a big problem.
After a moment's thought, Su Han and Nyaruko looked at each other. Nyaruko nodded slightly, and Su Han understood what was going on. He then used his omniscient power to read Nyaruko's thoughts.
"That strange world that you call the perfect world is very likely the most important part of the real mastermind's plan. But that's not important! What's important is that divinity."
"That guy, um, should be the one known as the Corpse Immortal Emperor? His original life level was equivalent to the Ten Directions Realm."
"Wait a minute," Su Han frowned. Although he didn't say anything, his meaning naturally entered Nyaruko's mind. "The Corpse Immortal Emperor, is it Shifang? At the same level as the Ancient Rulers?"
Su Han suddenly remembered the plot of Sacred Ruins. Although Sacred Ruins was not yet finished when he transmigrated, he still knew that the Immortal Emperor was definitely not the peak.
After that, there might be many more great realms...
If the Corpse Immortal Emperor is on par with the Old Ones, wouldn't that mean that the world of Sacred Ruins could produce a bunch of beings that are comparable to, or even surpass, the Old Ones?
"Actually, the Ten Directions Realm isn't just a simple realm... You can think of it as the starting point of a completely new realm." Nyarlathotep pouted, somewhat speechless, but she still patiently explained.
"However, because each person at the Ten Directions Realm has already forged their own path, there is simply no way for the Ten Directions Realm to establish a universally accepted power system to evaluate the various Ten Directions Realm experts..."
"Or rather, even if someone summarizes a power level, if you use it to evaluate others, they won't be convinced. We've already come this far, so who's lacking whom?"