Eat my flesh?

"Still trying to run? Can you escape?" A half-sage powerhouse sealed off the exit.

"Wouldn't it be better to just let us divide and devour you? Why must you insist on suffering!"

Almost in the blink of an eye, the Azure Emperor was surrounded by a host of demonic powerhouses, their eyes filled with greed, as if they were beholding an peerless beauty.

As he spoke, the White Tiger Demon Sage had already made his move, suppressing him with a single hand.

The Azure Emperor held a blue lotus, behind him emerging the phantom of a Chaotic Green Lotus, traversing from ancient times, spanning endless space and time to suppress the present age!

"The Four Extremes Realm? Truly a monstrosity! The Undying Immortal Medicine is indeed one of the great mysteries of the world. Even after transforming into a demon, one can possess terrifying cultivation talent, growing from a tiny Divine Bridge realm cultivator into a master of the Four Extremes Realm in merely a decade!

What a pity, though—un-saged, one is ultimately an ant! No matter how heaven-defying your abilities are, today you must remain here and help me live out my second life!"

With a wave of his hand, he used a sage's power to shatter the Azure Emperor's dharma body, his bones, and his very cultivation magic.

The Flowing Fire Demon Sage also walked over from behind. After observing for a good while, he said, "We must hurry. The undying medicinal properties within his body are transforming into his foundational Dao base. For every breath he lives longer, the medicinal properties within him will diminish."

The Flowing Fire Demon Sage perceived that the Azure Emperor's physical body was undergoing a transformation.

"Uncle Luo!" the Azure Emperor muttered in a low voice.

Even though his past life was an Immortal King and the legendary Chaotic Green Lotus, given his current realm, he stood no chance against three Demon Sages.

Had the connection between this world and the Immortal Realm not been severed, he would undoubtedly have returned to the realm of the Immortal King!

Surpassing even the Great Emperors of today!

"Don't struggle. Even if your so-called guardian elder were here, he still couldn't escape a certain doom!" The three Demon Sages were extremely confident, paying no heed whatsoever to the guardian behind the Azure Emperor.

"If he dares to come, he can just taste what the flesh of a human sage really tastes like! I've never tasted that before!" The Azure Luan Demon Sage was no pushover either, and said with a sneer.

The Azure Emperor remained silent, for he already felt a familiar aura spreading toward them.

The heaven and earth suddenly grew dark.

No... it wasn't that the heaven and earth grew dark, but rather that a blinding light was shining from the edge of the sky, causing all colors to lose their original luster before this radiance, making the world appear as though it had darkened.

"What... is this?!!"

Countless demonic powerhouses were struck with terror in their hearts. They were fixed in place, their feet seemingly sunk into a quagmire, carrying huge mountains upon their shoulders. The vital blood within their bodies and the pervading Dao patterns fell silent at this moment, and their heaven-reaching magic could no longer be mobilized, losing all connection with them.

Not just them—the three Demon Sages were the same!

Who were they?

The top-tier powerhouses of this planet!

Supreme Demon Sages who divided the world into three parts, capable of shattering stars with their fists, treading upon the heavens, and crossing the starry sky with their physical bodies.

The moment that light shone upon them, they lost control of their own bodies!

"Eat my flesh? My flesh is not tasty at all!" A decaying aura swept over. Even though the man looked like a youth in his twenties, the aura of senility and decay spread outward from him as the center, making him look like an aging old man nearing his twilight years.

The crowd of demons was shaken to the core. This was definitely not a sage!

This person simply could not possess such strength, effortlessly suppressing three Demon Sages. Even without moving, as he walked step by step, the void itself trembled, his Dao collapsing and triggering a massive resonance...

The Azure Emperor was shocked.

It had only been a decade since they last met, yet Uncle Luo, who in his memory possessed an unparalleled heroic bearing, had actually grown so aged.

"Uncle Luo..."

Luo Yan looked at him calmly and said, "Though a man grows old, his childlike innocence remains undiminished! I am most proud when I am still a youth."

"Thud!"

With a wave and a slap of his hand, a half-sage was instantly beaten into mincemeat, his divine sense fleeing in terror as he rushed outward.

Luo Yan reached out and grabbed again. Although it looked incomparably slow, it ignored spatial distance and easily grasped that strand of divine sense in the palm of his hand.

"I remember you... Back then, you also attempted to hunt down Wan Qing, but were frightened away by a single aura of mine. Yet why must you still make a move?"

That strand of divine sense spoke in terror: "Senior, I was wrong! I shouldn't have harbored malicious intentions toward your junior, I shouldn't have plotted against your junior! Spare my life..."

He frantically repented, continuously begging for mercy.

"You don't know you were wrong; you just know you are going to die!" With a gentle squeeze, that strand of divine sense vanished into smoke, never to be revived again.

Killing a half-sage as easily as crushing an ant, without stirring up a single ripple, without employing any heaven-defying methods—merely a slap and a grab!

"Now... it's your turn!" Luo Yan looked toward the other demonic powerhouses.

"Quick... run quickly!!!"

The three Demon Sages burned their own life essence blood, paying a heavy price to break free from the restraint, and fled toward the outside of the city.

The remaining demonic powerhouses abandoned their physical bodies, their divine senses leaving their shells, and wrapped in momentum rushed out of this place.

They had truly provoked an extremely terrifying supreme existence, far surpassing the powerhouse of the Sage Realm!

Most likely a Sage King, and the kind who had walked to the extreme!

...

In the autumn of that year.

The three Demon Sages of the White Tiger Sacred City and a host of demonic powerhouses intended to carve up and devour the Azure Emperor, infusing the Undying Medicine into the Azure Emperor's body. The Azure Emperor severed his connection with the Green Lotus.

A mysterious powerhouse set foot in the White Tiger Sacred City, slaying numerous demons, and nailed the three Demon Sages to the city walls.

Not long after, the peerless prodigy Azure Emperor vanished. Some said he had been devoured by the mysterious powerhouse, while others said the mysterious powerhouse was his elder, leading him away to other star systems.

The demon star lost a peerless prodigy, while Beidou gained a heaven-chosen figure named Wan Qing.

That same year, Luo Yan's lifespan reached its end and he "died." The demonic powerhouses who had been guided here in the past began to hunt down the Azure Emperor.

Those demonic powerhouses, after being guided to Beidou back then, had not followed Luo Yan's instructions to spread the origin story of the Azure Emperor at all. Instead, they quietly went into dormancy, awaiting the news of Luo Yan's death to launch an attack on the Azure Emperor and refine him into a supreme medicine!

Their ambitions were beginning to show.

Of course, some demonic powerhouses did not stand in opposition to the Azure Emperor, but instead chose to follow him. Yet, in the end, there were far more enemies than friends. The majority of the demonic powerhouses began hunting down the Azure Emperor, and due to repeated failures, they began to unite with the demons of Beidou.

Luo Yan hid within the Mirror of Time, beginning to refine the Undying Green Lotus Medicine, fearing that he might not live to see the day the Azure Emperor attained the Dao and became a Great Emperor.

Luo Yan sighed with emotion; he truly was a man possessing Immortal King foundations. Hiding within the Mirror of Time, he could see the Azure Emperor's growth history clearly.

Facing the hunt by those demonic powerhouses whom Luo Yan had once suppressed, not only did he not feel fear, but time and again he emerged from near-death experiences, growing against the heavens.

After leaving a trace of his consciousness upon the Azure Emperor, Luo Yan plunged into a deep slumber.

"I hope that when I wake up again, I will have lived out my second life!" Luo Yan felt a trace of unease in his heart, always feeling that something would go wrong this time.