Somewhere in the darkness stood an ancient black palace.

That was the… Demon Palace!

It was the location where the higher-ups of the Demonic Dao would gather. Today, all the elites of the Ten Demonic Dao Sects had gathered in that place.

Just when the eruption of earth qi happened in the Luo Hou Ancestral Land far away, a tremendous burst of demonic qi suddenly erupted from the Demon Palace.

That demonic qi was strong enough to rumble the ground and even the nearby planets!

An elderly man opened his eyes, revealing a look of shock and rage in them.

“Curse you, Chu Kuangren. I can’t believe you’d dare to wipe out all of our best sky-prides and Heavenly Champions!”

“Curse you until the end of time!”

The elderly man was so furious that demonic flames were burning in his eyes.

He pondered a while and then gritted his teeth. “Hmph. I don’t care even if the karmic repercussions will erode my strength. I mustn’t let Chu Kuangren get his way. Otherwise, the forces of the Demonic Dao will weaken!”

He channeled his demonic qi to form a gigantic demonic qi vortex above the Demon Palace.

From the vortex, an incredibly terrifying white demonic skeletal claw emerged and made its way toward the Luo Hou Ancestral Land millions of kilometers away!

Just as the elderly man unleashed that attack, he immediately started shuddering uncontrollably. Blood then started flowing out from every orifice on his face while his body started to take damage.

He screamed in pain, for he had faced the karmic repercussions, and because of that, the whole Demon Palace trembled.

Many sighed.

“Skeletal Demon King, the Demonic Dao will forever remember your contribution today.”

“D*mn that Chu Kuangren. His actions have forced the hand of an Arch Gilded Immortal to interfere with the Battle of Heavenly Champions and cause him to suffer the karmic repercussions. How terrible!”

In the meantime, inside a magnificent palace, a man sitting in the air narrowed his gaze and snorted.

“Chu Kuangren! Seeking to kill the Eastern King School’s best Heavenly Champion, huh? How dare you!”

“Even if karmic judgment falls on me, I can’t stand by and do nothing.”

That elite of the Eastern King School snorted, and a golden surge of finger strength was released from his fingertip.

The instant he made his move, an incomparably powerful force emerged and landed on him.

Spit!

The Eastern King School’s elite cultivator immediately spat out a mouthful of blood, his face turning pale.

Three ethereal and mysterious flowers appeared on his head faintly, but one of the flowers suddenly withered away rapidly.

“To think I’ve been punished by karma just by taking action, and I’ve lost one of the three flowers…” The Eastern King School’s elite cultivator smiled bitterly.

The Arch Gilded elite cultivators of the Demon Palace and the Eastern King School had taken action, seeking to foil Chu Kuangren’s attempt to kill Zhuo Donglai, Shi Tianxuan, and the others.

The white demonic skeletal claw and the golden light beam arrived at the Luo Hou Ancestral Lands at lightning speed.

As it was the power of Arch Gilded Immortals, many of the great ones in the Immortal World who also sensed that power were shocked.

“The Eastern King School and the Demon Palace… What are they trying to do?”

“What a powerful aura. It looks like an Arch Gilded has taken action.”

“Their target is… Huh? Isn’t that the Luo Hou Ancestral Lands that the Demonic Dao has been excavating recently?!”

Some of the great ones activated their Immortal Consciousness toward Luo Hou Ancestral Lands.

Soon, they found out what was happening there.

“Tsk tsk… Interesting… No wonder the Eastern King School and the Demon Palace could not stand by and watch any longer.”

“I can’t believe Chu Kuangren has managed to do that. Besides, that’s only the work of his clone!”

Inside the Luo Hou Ancestral Land, Chu Kuangren had laid out the Great Earth Qi Formation and was preparing to kill Shi Tianxuan, Zhuo Donglai, and the others.

Having sensed the terrifying power of Chu Kuangren’s Great Earth Qi Formation, Zhuo Donglai and the others knew they were no match against it.

That formation could kill even a True Immortal!

“First sowing chaos within the Demonic Dao in just one month and then making himself bait to lure out all of us demonic sky-prides to wipe us out? Well planned, Chu Kuangren!”

Shi Tianxuan let out a bitter smile.

Whether it was strength, talents, or tactics, he paled in comparison to Chu Kuangren in all those aspects!

He was defeated on all fronts, and it shook his Daoist core.

“He has won this battle, but how could anyone win against him in the Battle of Heavenly Champions?”

From Shi Tianxuan’s perspective, even those Immortal Hall Imperial Commanders or Embodier Successors would not be as terrifying as Chu Kuangren.

“Alright. It’s time I send you all off to meet your maker,” Chu Kuangren said calmly.

However, he suddenly sensed something at that moment and looked into the distance. His gaze turned cold.

From what he could sense, two incredibly powerful energies were coming toward him at lightning speed.

The incoming energies were so powerful that his Great Earth Qi Formation had started trembling before they even arrived.

Moreover, the earth qi pillars started to show signs of crumbling.

“These energies… They contain Arch Gilded intent. The Arch Gilded Immortals have taken action!”

Chu Kuangren had met Mister Lu, Bei Ming, and even Master Daoist Qing Ling from the Three Clarity Daoist Sect, all of whom were Arch Gilded Immortals.

Since he had felt their Arch Gilded intent before, his ability to sense Arch Gilded’s intent became very sensitive.

Needless to say, he would not even need to think to know that someone from the Eastern King School and Demon Palace had taken action.

Chu Kuangren sneered. “Interesting, so the Arch Gilded Immortals have forcefully taken action despite knowing the cost of karmic judgment that befalls them. I wonder what kind of price they have to pay for doing this.”

There was no way he could stand a chance against an Arch Gilded Immortal’s power, but he was not afraid.

After all, this was only his clone. If it was destroyed, all he would do is make another one since it would not take him much effort.

However, he would take note of that personally.

The Arch Gilded Immortals taking action meant that the strong were bullying the weak.

When he reached a certain realm in his cultivation in the future, he would definitely pay those people a visit!

Boom, boom!

The void trembled as a white demonic claw emanating surges of demonic qi, and a golden ray of light arrived above everyone.

Their endless domineering aura caused the whole Luo Hou Ancestral Land to quake.

“That’s… The Demon Palace’s Skeletal Demon King!”

“And my Eastern King School’s Dharma King!”

Zhuo Donglai, Shi Tianxuan, and the others were overjoyed. They felt as if they were saved from a messy situation.

However, at that very moment, a torn book page appeared, gently blocking the way of the two supreme Arch Gilded Immortal’s attacks.

That was right. It was a single torn book page.

An ordinary-looking page was now blocking the two Arch Gilded level attacks without trouble.

The next instant, a dazzling light emerged from the torn book page and instantly turned into a tremendous sun that filled the sky!

Every single character on the page had turned into the size of a mountain peak.

The characters combined, seemingly forming a paragraph that seemed to be a dialogue or passage from a script.

Boom!

The giant white skeletal claw and golden ray smashed onto the torn book page.

In that instant, the giant claw shattered into pieces, and the golden light dispersed. Meanwhile, that torn book page gradually crumbled, turning into scraps of paper.

Everyone was stunned at the sight.

A single torn book page had blocked the attacks from two Arch Gilded Immortals!

‘Which great one has done this?’

In one of the small towns in the Immortal World, a middle-aged man in green robes with a refined temperament was riding a donkey. He had a book in his hand, and he was enjoying his reading.

However, there was a torn mark on the book he was reading, with a page missing in the middle.

The middle-aged man looked at the page and frowned a little. “Sigh… How troublesome… I should’ve read it before tearing that page away. It looks like I’ll have to go and get a new book after this.”

Then, he looked into the distance and snorted. “Eastern King School and Demon Palace, huh? Do they really think they can mess with my Hundred Academy?”