The Saint appeared and personally bestowed the title of Southern Emperor!
Let alone the East Emperor, even the West Empress was so shocked her jaw dropped. She had never truly intended for another Emperor to emerge in the Northern Heavenly State to share her power. Her earlier promise was merely to pacify Jiang Fan.
She never imagined that the Saint would personally descend to bestow the position! And even agree to it!
What kind of cheap wine had the Saint been drinking to make such an absurd decision? An outsider acting as the Southern Emperor of the Northern Heavenly State? It was just like her going to Central Earth to serve as the second Great Wine Sacrifice.
Jiang Fan also looked up at the sky in astonishment.
He wondered if the Holy Angel was getting desperate. Couldn’t she just activate the rules of the world barrier to eject Yu Luo and Hun Yuan from the Northern Heavenly State? Why plead with him?
However, upon recalling the remains of the Eight-winged Archangel he had seen earlier, a realization dawned on him. He suspected that in the area enveloped by the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain, the rules of the world barrier were completely suppressed. Otherwise, the Holy Angel could have just activated those rules to safely eject them. Why would they be trapped to death within it?
Understanding this, Jiang Fan looked at the West Empress, then at Hun Yuan.
After a brief flash of contemplation in his eyes, he strode over to Hun Yuan. By now, under his absorption, the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain had already uprooted itself from the ground. The terrifying Five Elements Power surged and vibrated intensely.
Jiang Fan grabbed Hun Yuan’s wrist, attempting to snatch the World Dust from his hand.
Yu Luo screamed, "Stop right there!"
Whether his efforts would be ruined at the last second now rested entirely on Jiang Fan’s whim!
Jiang Fan, however, had no intention of stopping. If the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain remained here, he still had a chance to obtain it. If the people from the Lost Heavenly Realm took it away, could he really chase them all the way to the vicinity of the Divine Capital to snatch it back?
Hun Yuan’s eyes were filled with grief and indignation. Had he failed from the very beginning, he would only feel regret. But after exhausting all his schemes and being merely seconds away from success, having it ruined by an insignificant member of the Little People Clan made it impossible for him to remain calm.
Seeing that Jiang Fan had already grabbed hold of the World Dust, he hardened his heart and gritted his teeth. "Yu Luo! Protect yourself!"
Then, he channeled a Seal Technique into the World Dust.
Yu Luo’s expression changed drastically. "Don’t..."
Jiang Fan’s heart skipped a beat. Warning bells blared in his mind!
He had witnessed a similar scene with his own eyes. To resist the Tai Chu Prison Sky Gourd, the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis had crushed a grain of World Dust. The resulting apocalyptic light had illuminated the heavens in a radiant, nine-colored glow! That scene remained fresh in his memory to this day!
His heart hammered wildly. Throwing off Hun Yuan’s hand, he kicked off the ground and leaped toward the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain without hesitation!
If there was anywhere that could withstand the destructive impact of the World Dust, it was only the World Embryo!
"Take me with you!" the East Emperor’s frantic cry came from behind.
An explosion of World Dust at such close range was something not even the Three Calamities Realm could withstand!
Jiang Fan turned his head, thought for a fraction of a second, and whipped out a strand of Void Flow Power to wrap around... the West Empress!
Then, with a WHOOSH, he catapulted toward the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain!
"You!" the East Emperor roared in fury!
But his anger instantly morphed into terror because a swath of nine-colored light had erupted from the World Dust!
BOOM—
A deafening Sky Opening explosion that terrified even him, accompanied by endless nine-colored radiant light, swept away the nearby Five Elements Power! At the same time, it submerged everything in the area!
The terrifying nine-colored light crossed a radius of tens of thousands of feet, wildly surging outward.
Linglong gasped, shouting urgently, "Retreat, quickly!!!"
World Dust was a byproduct of breaking into the Saint Realm. Once detonated, it was enough to destroy half the Northern Heavenly State! Everyone present, except her, would die! All life in the irradiated area would go extinct!
A disaster had descended without warning!
CRACK!
At the most critical moment, the airborne Five Magnet Immortal Mountain suddenly plummeted from midair due to the shattering of the World Dust. The Purple Electric Spirit had once said that the true Five Magnet Immortal Mountain was as heavy as a small world!
Right now, its sudden drop generated an unparalleled impact force. The earth below simply couldn’t bear it and fractured on the spot. The external world barrier also snapped as a result.
Tens of thousands of feet of land caved in directly, plunging into the boundless Void.
The nine-colored destructive light that had been blasting in all directions was swept up by the power of the Void and flowed backward into the endless nothingness. An extinction-level crisis was thrillingly averted.
Every Angel present showed an expression of surviving a calamity.
Linglong clutched her chest, trying to calm her wildly beating heart. The Northern Heavenly State was almost finished.
Remembering that the East Emperor, the West Empress, and Jiang Fan had all fallen into the Void along with the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain, she ordered urgently, "Quickly seal the breach to the Void."
She herself cleaved open the world barrier above and dashed out.
In the Void.
Having lost its support, the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain fell madly.
On the mountain, Jiang Fan’s face was flushed red. His internal organs felt as if they had been boiled to mush, and the skin on his body was rotting away inch by inch. If one could see the bones inside his body, they would find that not a single inch remained intact.
Even with the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain blocking the vast majority of the nine-colored light, he had still been beaten half to death!
"COUGH, COUGH..." He tried to open his Space Storage Device to get a Healing Spirit Pill. But just moving a little made him cough up a mouthful of black blood mixed with bits of flesh.
"Use... mine..." came the weak voice of the West Empress from a short distance away.
She had also been caught in the blast. What was worse was that the Five Elements Power released by the core of the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain was terrifying to the extreme. As a Nine-winged Great Angel, let alone moving, even speaking had become exceptionally difficult for her. Therefore, she had taken the brunt of the shockwave squarely.
Her injuries were only slightly better than Jiang Fan’s.
With great difficulty, she opened her Space Storage Device and took out two unknown green Spirit Pills. Astonishingly, they were also Seventh Grade Great Pills. Emanating a faint aura of Life Spirit Liquid, they were clearly healing medicine.
Jiang Fan took them, painstakingly fed himself one, and then crawled over to feed the other to the West Empress. At the same time, he channeled a bit of Void Flow Power into her body. Otherwise, she wouldn’t even be able to swallow the Spirit Pill.
After the two ingested the Spirit Pills, their internal injuries rapidly improved.
Dozens of breaths later.
The intense pain in Jiang Fan’s body was greatly alleviated, allowing him to barely sit up. Looking at the continuously falling Five Magnet Immortal Mountain beneath his feet, he smiled bitterly. He truly hadn’t expected things to turn out this way.
However, now was not the time to be emotional. If he just let the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain keep falling, heaven knew where it would end up.
Carrying the West Empress on his back, he quietly took out the Dragon Ball and silently chanted in his mind, "Store!"
The next moment, the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain beneath his feet rumbled before shrinking drastically, ultimately reducing to the size of a thumb. Then, with a SWISH, it flew into the Dragon Ball.
The West Empress was immediately freed from the Five Elements Power and stared at Jiang Fan in astonishment. "Do... do you have World Dust too?"
Jiang Fan discreetly put the "dust" away and said, "There’s no need to be nervous.
"If I coveted your Five Magnet Immortal Mountain, it wouldn’t have been too late to kill you and the East Emperor earlier and then snatch it.
"I’ll return it to you once we get back to the Northern Heavenly State."
The West Empress thought about it and realized he was right. Earlier was indeed Jiang Fan’s best chance to obtain the Five Magnet Immortal Mountain. Having survived the disaster, she looked at Jiang Fan with an added measure of gratitude. This was already the third time Jiang Fan had saved her.
"Jiang Fan, after we go back, I..."
Just as she spoke, a cold voice struck them.
"Bastard, you’re dead!"
Jiang Fan turned his head, only to see Yu Luo—her clothes in tatters and hair smoking—glaring at him with unbridled fury!
This woman actually wasn’t dead yet?