Divine Emperor of Death

A visible crack emerged in space, splitting apart two sides and creating a massive rift separating two entities.

*Whizzzz!~*

The next moment rift appeared, and a massive gush of wind emerged from the rift, sending shockwaves through all directions as it sent both entities flying.

"Wha-!?"

Wix Voidfield flicked her sleeves in an attempt to regain balance, only to see a claw stretch out from the dark rift. It emerged from the deep ravine, stretching out with absolute range as though it had no end.

"…!"

Visible shock painted Wix Voidfield's face as her eyes went wide, but despite that, she quickly yet calmly flicked her sleeves, balancing herself while her spatial energy rushed out of her body. The violet energy converged all the way to the edges of the rift, stopping the massive claw sizing a few thousand kilometers from grasping her.

At the same time, her spatial energy tried to close the rift, pushing the edges against each other.

*Aoooo!~*

A deep dragon roar resounded from a distance, but Wix Voidfield knew it was just from the other side of the rift. Her eyes were narrowed heavily as she could sense this claw belonged to a-

'An Immortal Emperor Vacuous Beast…'

Flicking her hands and conjoining them, she tried to seal it before it could exit. She kept it sealed, unable to even extend its face out, but that also made it clear just how big it was. However, a chill seeped across her spine.

"If you focus on that, then you wouldn't be able to protect yourself. I see you want to become mine..."

A pair of pitch-black gleams appeared behind Wix Voidfield, causing her to quickly form a spatial shield around her.

*Bang!~*

The semi-transparent spatial shield broke under the sudden attack of unknown nature. She staggered to the front, her heart pounding with a mixture of shock and fear. She was a Level Four Immortal Emperor with a prowess that may have very well reached the peak of the Immortal Emperor Stage, but her spatial shield was broken like it was nothing.

Instantly, she came to understand the prowess of the madman behind her.

Regaining her composure, Wix Voidfield turned to face her assailant. Standing before her was that madman with a wide grin on his face. He seemed to hold something in his palms as though it was the most precious thing in this world.

It was crimson and appeared like a heart, causing the Void Dust Empress's expression to freeze.

"Prepare to become mine~"

*Pow!~*

Just as he cackled with victorious confidence gleaming in his mad eyes, he was suddenly sent flying into the distance. His figure flew without a stop, and to his shock, he was unable to regain balance.

"Void Dust Empress, are you fine?"

A black-robed man appeared near her. His red pupils gleamed on her figure before he turned to look at the rift that was still sealed. He could hear the abyssal roars of an Immortal Emperor Beast, one that was at the very peak, causing him to blink.

Wix Voidfield touched the bosom to her right, an uncomfortable feeling remaining in her heart, "I'm fine, I suppose but remain cautious of him, Little Kalaxis. It's safe to presume that he could use Bloodcurse Laws."

"Oh…?"

Guardian Kalaxis Vain's eyes gleamed.

Bloodcurse Laws were one that fused Blood Laws, Yin Laws, and Curse Laws which was a fusion of Darkness Laws and Karma Laws. It was as powerful as Hex Laws, but because of its conditional tie with blood, it sometimes proved itself to be more powerful than Hex Laws.

However, his interest fell as he turned to look at Wix Voidfield.

"Void Dust Empress, I have the utmost respect for your power and stature, but I think you should leave. You are currently weak, not enough to handle this person. With all your adventures outside, I also presume you ran out of Void Dust Fruits to boost your cultivation temporarily."

"I agree, but if I leave, this rift leading out of the First Haven World will completely open."

Wix Voidfield joined her hands again, strengthening the spatial barrier around the rift as she tried to compress it back into stitching. The claw was also pushed back, although the Peak Immortal Emperor Vacuous Beast seemed to give her a hard time.

"I need five minutes. Can you hold him back?"

"Easy request."

Guardian Kalaxis Vain took a step forward and disappeared.

Wix Voidfield watched him leave despite what he had just said. However, it only spoke volumes of how he believed that she would be able to close this rift. Without making much of a sound, her hands disappeared, making many gestures that appeared to construct a pyramid in the air.

She instantly constructed a superposition of the spacial region before her and began to compress it. Not only did the skies change colors, but her spatial prowess, which was also limited, became ten times as powerful.

She seemed to be using something very similar to a species technique and a Divine Technique.

At the same time, her spatial energy spread inside the barrier she created, engulfing the Immortal Emperor Vacuous Beast in a blinding maelstrom of spatial energy. It restricted its movements and bound the claws into a fist, disallowing it to pierce through as it pushed it back.

"I won't even need five minutes for this..."

Wix Voidfield uttered with a bit of derision before she threw a bit of her focus on the battle in the distance.

"Scram! Although you've powerful, you're not rare. I have no interest in making you mine!"

Despite what the madman screamed, he seemed to be flying around in circles.

*Bang!~*

His body exploded into a sea of blood, but he instantly condensed somewhere else.

Blood congregated into a humanoid shape and turned into a human, very similar to the madman, except half of his head and the lower half of his body were missing.

*Bang!~* *Bang!~* *Bang!~*

His body was repeatedly crushed to death through spatial might, but he appeared to revive as though it was nothing.

"…"

Despite the annoyance of being unable to finish off the opponent, Guardian Kalaxis Vain remained calm. His soul sense spread out, locating the millions of blood droplets that seemed to be scattered in the air and even behind the layers of space. There were so many that he could not track each one of them as millions anew sprouted every second.

Inwardly, he was shocked, knowing that this madman's comprehension of Blood Laws was far higher than it seemed, that he instantly came to the conclusion that he was facing an Empyrean Stage character.

However, the other party's cultivation base was just at Level Three Immortal Emperor Stage, not to mention displaying different kinds of undulations than immortals, which made him believe that he was in this world through his avatar, yet this avatar was already immensely powerful, being able to escape from him even if not able to battle with him.

At this moment, he wished the fabled Frostcloud Sword Empress was here because he knew that she could do better work for him than him as she could freeze the entire region without causing disturbance to the spatial rift that the Void Dust Empress was working on.

"Why bother remaining here when you know you're going to run out of energy and lose? Do you want to obtain the Void Dust Empress that badly?"

"Ah? Yes!"

He posed a question, which quickly caught the madman's attention.

"Do you know that there are only three Void Dust Trees in the Three-Layered Universe, and two of them are male who are unable to grow powerful through self-synthesis and need a female Void Dust Tree to do so? Do you know they're capable of creating their own realm like the one we're in!? Would you even know how to appreciate her value!?"

"…"

Guardian Kalaxis Vain didn't know how to reply to this madman who looked at the Void Dust Empress as though she was a resource. But he felt like he had enough, his red eyes turning blue as the icy fog began to manifest around him.

"…!"

But at this moment, he froze, looking at the crack in space that appeared right in front of him.

"Little Kalaxis, run!"

The Void Dust Empress's voice suddenly fell into his mind, causing him to sidestep quickly.

*Ripp!~*

A claw swiped over him. It belonged to a massive tiger that was thousands of kilometers long. It had its vicious head out, its bloodshot eyes alone appearing to be the size of a dome of a wide palace. It took another one of its claws out of the rift, pulling its body out of the rift.

Guardian Kalaxis Vain had naturally dodged its attack, regrouping beside the Void Dust Empress, who had retreated. She seemed to have abandoned the rift she was trying to seal, but looking around, Guardian Kalaxis Vain knew that it didn't matter if they sealed it or not, as tens of rifts were sprouting in this region.

It seemed to stop as more and more rifts were appearing by the second.

"Void Dust Empress, you should retreat. The situation isn't controllable anymore, but I'll continue to hold out as long as I can…"

"I will be back with the other Guardians."

Wix Voidfield didn't bicker as she quickly nodded and left.

Her expression was solemn, realizing that this madman used the factor of divergence present here to cause a spatial calamity to appear here.

After all, the space here, although wild, was still stable, but because it was filled with the factor of divergence emanating from the heavenly tribulation of Divergents, which had been reeking in this region for millions of years, it gave birth to permutations of fate that were impossible to predict.

The permutations could be pretty much anything, ranging from a natural disaster to the birth of a vicious savage beast. It occasionally triggered a calamity, but they were always there to restrict the disasters from happening.

However, she never thought that someone would be able to use it to their advantage, causing the spatial balance here to collapse and connect to the universe outside!