Chapter 223: Chapter 224: Breaking Realm Demon Monarch

"Countless years without sun or sky. I’m sick of this darkness."

"This is all your fault, you damned humans! You deserve death more than ’Heaven’ itself! The day I see the sun again, I will slaughter everyone in the Grand Emperor Domain."

Having sealed the vortex overhead, the Demon Shadow showed no concern that Ye Wushuang might escape. It muttered to itself, its eyes brimming with endless hatred.

"Your Grand Emperor Domain owes me! It owes me! Boy, it is only right that this Monarch takes your insignificant body. Grant me this!"

The Demon Shadow stared at Ye Wushuang, advancing on him step by step. Its body surged with vast, chaotic, and terrifying Demon Qi, making Ye Wushuang seem like a mere ant in its presence.

"So because the Grand Emperor Domain owes you, I have to pay with my body? I’m not that noble. If you want my body, come and take it if you’ve got what it takes."

Ye Wushuang’s expression was grim as he kept his Divine Sense locked firmly on the figure.

"There’s no point in resisting. I fear neither the Spiritual Spring Realm nor the Yin Yang Realm. Why would I fear a piddling True Essence Realm cultivator like you?"

The Demon Shadow sneered, and a Mysterious Power instantly bound Ye Wushuang in place.

The power was too strange, too terrifying.

Ye Wushuang lacked even the strength to resist. The overwhelming stench of death washed over him. Against a mysterious old monster like this, any attack was utterly futile.

Gazing at the bound Ye Wushuang, the Demon Shadow’s body gradually condensed, transforming into a ray of Demonic Light that shot toward the center of Ye Wushuang’s brow, preparing to seize his body.

BOOM!

Suddenly, a brilliant, dazzling slash of light cut through the air. Like a blood-red canopy, it tore through the space between Ye Wushuang and the Demonic Light, splitting the Blood-Colored Space in half.

A single slash, sundering a Realm!

A great chasm formed between Ye Wushuang and the Demonic Light, stretching into infinity!

Endless Saber Intent permeated the void, shattering the Mysterious Power that bound Ye Wushuang. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

’One slash to sunder a Realm... That’s just too terrifying!’

’Now *this* is a truly invincible slash!’

Meanwhile, the blocked Demonic Light transformed back into the Demon Shadow.

"Bastard! Why are you stopping me? Have you forgotten those ungrateful wretches from the Grand Emperor Domain? Have you forgotten how they treated us?"

The Demon Shadow roared, glaring furiously into the void.

WHOOSH!

A colossal Blood Saber emerged from the void.

This Blood Saber was a full hundred zhang long, resembling a Destructive Divine Saber. Boundless Saber Intent radiated in all directions, so powerful that the void itself could not withstand it and began to collapse.

The slash from moments ago had come from this very saber!

BOOM!

To Ye Wushuang’s astonishment, the hundred-zhang Blood Saber transformed into a peerless Demon Shadow!

This Demon Shadow’s Demon Power shook the very heavens. His black hair flowed like a waterfall, his black pupils were like ink, and he radiated a Demonic Light that stretched for ten thousand zhang. He looked like an inviolable Nine Heavens Demon Lord.

Standing there in the void, he seemed the very definition of invincible!

He stared down coldly at the other Demon Shadow and said, "You are merely a sliver of my lingering obsession. Do you think you’re worthy of rebuking me?"

With that, a vast power pressed down.

BOOM!

Instantly, the Demon Shadow below seemed like nothing more than an ant as its body began to crumble and dissipate.

"Breaking Realm! I am you, and you are me! Are you really going to be so cruel as to obliterate me?"

"Have you forgotten that hatred that’s seared into our very bones?"

The Demon Shadow below roared in fury.

Hearing this, the Breaking Realm Demon Monarch let out a weary sigh. "I don’t wish to speak of the past anymore."

"Hahaha! You don’t wish to, or you don’t *dare* to?"

"Back then, when ’Heaven’ sought to annihilate the Grand Emperor Domain, it sent down ’Jue’ to butcher the living and bring about the end of the world. Those ants from the Grand Emperor Domain howled in grief and struggled in despair."

"And at that time, who was it that sacrificed everything to save them?"

"To save them, the Breaking Realm Demon Monarch, whose power once shook the Demon Domain, fell in battle. His family was annihilated, and only his broken body remained."

"But what about them? Did they treat you as a hero?"

"They were greedy, selfish. For the slightest bit of personal gain, they desecrated your body."

"Have you forgotten how they carved up your heroic corpse, piece by piece, to divide amongst themselves? Even your remaining family was caught in the aftermath."

"To cover up their deeds, they twisted the truth, turning the hero into a peerless Demon, reviled by generation after generation. That is the fate of a hero!"

The Demon Shadow’s body was fading, but its hateful and resentful words continued to echo through the Blood-Colored Space, revealing a hidden truth.

Ye Wushuang listened, utterly shocked by the sheer amount of information in the Demon Shadow’s words.

’Heaven’s’ world-ending plot?

’The truth behind the great war of Ancient Times?’

All of it was being laid bare.

Ye Wushuang knew nothing about ’Heaven’s’ world-ending plot, but he had heard of the great war of Ancient Times before.

Legend told of a peerless Fierce Demon that sought to slaughter the Grand Emperor Domain, only to be slain at the Celestial Abyss by a peerless Saint who appeared out of thin air.

But now, Ye Wushuang was learning that the truth was the exact opposite, with countless secrets hidden within the tale.

Ye Wushuang fixed his gaze on the peerless figure in the void: the Breaking Realm Demon Monarch!

The Breaking Realm Demon Monarch looked up, his eyes seeming to pierce through the void, and could only let out a helpless sigh.

BOOM!

With that, the Demon Shadow below completely disintegrated, turning into motes of light that drilled into the Breaking Realm Demon Monarch’s body.

This lingering remnant of his will was a demonic obsession, born from a truth he couldn’t accept back then—an obsession he had once excised from himself with his own saber.

Now, it was time to take it back.

The ethereal figure of the Breaking Realm Demon Monarch hovered in the void. He stared at Ye Wushuang and suddenly asked, "What do you think I should do?"

’He never expected that a mighty Demon Monarch would ask for his opinion.’

He was clearly a world-saving hero who should have been revered for eternity. Instead, he met a tragic end and was condemned for all time.

And the ones responsible for it all were the very people he had saved!

Such is the fate of a hero. He did not fail the world, but the world failed him!

Ye Wushuang fell silent for a moment before looking up. "Senior, you shouldn’t ask me. You should ask your own heart and follow its will."

"My heart?" The Breaking Realm Demon Monarch’s eyes lit up. "If you were in my position, what would you do?"

"What would I do?" Ye Wushuang paused again before speaking. "If it were me, I would never let something like that happen. I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me. If the heavens are unjust, I will destroy them! If humanity is unjust, I will slaughter it!"

The Breaking Realm Demon Monarch’s eyes narrowed. "You are very selfish."

"Selfish? Perhaps," Ye Wushuang said with a self-mocking smile. "But if you can’t even protect your own life or the lives of your family, what right do you have to speak of righteous deeds? Besides, the path of a Cultivator is one of defying fate itself. We contend with other people, we contend with the heavens, and we contend with all of existence. If we fail to win, we are destroyed, dragging our families down to Hell with us."

Ye Wushuang didn’t want to deceive others, nor did he want to deceive himself. This was his true conviction!

Contend with people, contend with the heavens, contend with all of existence!

The Breaking Realm Demon Monarch suddenly burst into laughter. "You are certainly candid. For one so young to hold such a view, you’ve truly made me see you in a new light. It seems my ’World-Destroying Slash’ has found its successor. My long wait has not been in vain."