Chapter 3: Mobilization

Fireflame Star, Tianxia District, Fireflame Palace.
Huang Xu gathered all the powerful immortals of the Fireflame Alliance and brought them to Fireflame Palace to announce important matters.
There were three thousand Heavenly Soul Immortals and thirty-six Heavenly Spirit Immortals.
In a hall of Fireflame Palace arranged in a fan shape, over three thousand seats had been prepared. The thirty-six Heavenly Soul Immortals sat in the front row, while the remaining seats were occupied by Heavenly Spirit Immortals.
Huang Xu, the leader of the alliance, faced the crowd and sat on the Nine-Flame Dragon-Slaying Throne at the center of the fan shape.
The entire hall was extremely quiet.
Huang Xu glanced at all the immortals before him, nodded in satisfaction, and said with a smile, “Gentlemen, the Ruins Realm Divine World is about to open, and there’s less than two years left. I’ve calculated that its entrance will form in a certain region of the Jinxuan Star Region. Therefore, if the cultivators of our Fireflame Alliance wish to enter the Ruins Realm Divine World to seek treasures, they must head to the Jinxuan Star Region right now. Otherwise, we’ll have to wait another ten years until the entrance moves back to the Immortal Realm before we can enter again.”
This time, the entrance to the Ruins Realm Divine World would form in the Immortal Realm first, then drift to the Demon Realm, followed by the Fiend Realm, before returning to the Immortal Realm. The entrance kept changing locations.
Despite hearing this, the over three thousand immortals remained quiet. As high-ranking beings, they had already known this information long ago. So they sat quietly, continuing to listen to Huang Xu’s speech.
“Gentlemen, this time I hope that all the immortals of our Fireflame Alliance will enter the Ruins Realm Divine World and use their greatest strength to search for various treasures. Of course, if anyone can obtain a divine artifact, it will be their reliance in the future. In the Fireflame Alliance and in the Immortal Realm, they will become renowned figures,” Huang Xu said with a smile.
At the mention of divine artifacts, all the immortals took a deep breath collectively, their emotions surging as greed flashed in their eyes.
With divine artifacts, not only would their strength soar, but passing through the Divine Tribulation would also become much easier. These were the most highly valued treasures among all powerful immortals.
“Leader, the Ruins Realm Divine World opens only once every million years. Surely many cultivators from the Immortal Realm will enter it. Can those at the Human-Immortal or Earth-Immortal levels also enter?” asked a Heavenly Spirit Immortal from one of the seats.
This Heavenly Spirit Immortal came from a major cultivation sect. He asked this out of self-interest, hoping that his sect’s cultivators could enter the Ruins Realm Divine World to increase their chances of finding divine artifacts.

A powerful Tianpo Immortal, in the vast Ruins Realm Divine World, has a limited search area after all. Naturally, such powerful Tianpo Immortals also want to bring in more of their own people to expand the search scope, thus increasing the chances of finding the divine artifacts.

Many of the Tianpo Immortals present understood the intention of the one who had just asked and smiled at Huang Xu, waiting for him to give an answer.

Huang Xu glanced at the Tianpo Immortal who had asked, feeling a hint of disdain and mockery in his heart. The plan was not bad, but things often don’t go as one wishes. The Ruins Realm Divine World was a place where powerful Tianhen Immortals competed, and for other cultivators, the only outcome there was death.

Of course, Huang Xu wouldn’t reveal such secrets.

“Of course, the Ruins Realm Divine World is a place where cultivators from all three realms can enter, regardless of their cultivation level. Whether they can obtain divine artifacts depends on their luck,” Huang Xu replied with a smile.

Huang Xu had gathered all the Tianxian to discuss this purposefully—to promote the Ruins Realm Divine World and encourage all cultivators to enter it and explore. The more people there were, the more treasures could be found, and all the treasures obtained from the Ruins Realm Divine World would ultimately fall into the hands of the powerful Tianhen Immortals.

Therefore, Huang Xu had already made plans to strongly urge the cultivators of the Huoxia Star Region to enter the Ruins Realm Divine World, then continuously seize the treasures obtained by those cultivators and take them all for himself. This way, he could ensure he had enough resources to survive in the Divine World after ascending.

Unfortunately, the Tianxian seated there would never know about Huang Xu’s scheme.

After hearing Huang Xu’s answer, the Tianxian immediately burst into enthusiastic applause, filling the hall with excitement.

Huang Xu watched it all, a sinister smile appearing on his lips as he was overjoyed.

“All of you come from major sects. Now, you can issue orders to your respective sects to spread the news about the Ruins Realm Divine World. I hope that those who enter the Ruins Realm Divine World will form large factions led by their sects, so that they can gain an advantage in competing with other factions,” Huang Xu added slowly.

This made the Tianxian even more excited. They had their own ulterior motives—by leading their own sects and commanding many cultivators, they could increase their chances of obtaining divine artifacts, which would naturally fall into their own hands.

“Yes, Alliance Leader,” the Tianxian replied excitedly.

Immediately afterward, each Tianxian took out a communication card to contact their respective sects.

Huang Xu watched it all, but in his heart, he harbored sinister thoughts: “Rejoice now, for all the divine artifacts you obtain will end up in my hands. I’ve stayed in the Immortal Realm for so long precisely to accumulate more resources so that I can establish myself in the Divine Realm. Cultivation is truly cruel—for my own future, you must all sacrifice yourselves for me.”

All the immortals were excitedly sending messages. Who could have guessed that Huang Xu had such a sinister plan in mind?

In fact, it wasn’t just Huang Xu. The nine others who had gone with him to hunt down Emperor Hao also shared the same intentions. After all, the benefits they had gained in the Divine Realm of the Ruin Domain had benefited them all these years, so naturally, they wanted to acquire even more from it.

Human desires are never satisfied.

“League Leader, I’ve already given the orders,” the immortals exclaimed joyfully one after another.

Huang Xu waited quietly until all the immortals had passed on the orders.

“Alright, now everyone return to your own caves. Then we’ll set off together for the Golden Mysterious Star Region,” Huang Xu said firmly as he stood up.

“Yes, League Leader,” the immortals replied, also standing up resolutely.

In a short while, all the powerful immortals flew out of the Fire Glow Palace and returned to their cultivation caves to pack their belongings. Of course, these powerful immortals usually kept their most important treasures in space rings, so their return was mainly to give some final instructions, as each of their caves also had personal disciples and followers.

At that moment, Luo Xinyun, who possessed the cultivation level of Six-Star Heavenly Soul Immortal, returned to his cave and gathered all his disciples and followers.

Fire Lord was among them.

Luo Xinyun glanced at his disciples and said calmly, “The Divine Realm of the Ruin Domain is about to open, and I am going inside to search for treasures. You have followed me for so long. Do you want to come with me into the Divine Realm of the Ruin Domain? I respect your own decisions. If you don’t want to go, you can leave Fire Glow Star now and cultivate on your own from then on.”

Including Fire Lord, a total of twelve people understood Luo Xinyun’s words immediately. Although he claimed to respect their opinions, none of them were fools. Anyone who dared say they wanted to leave on their own would surely face Luo Xinyun’s revenge. After all, they were aware of some of Luo Xinyun’s past actions—how could he possibly allow such things to be spread?

“Master, we are willing to accompany you into the Divine Realm of the Ruin Domain,” the twelve replied firmly.

Luo Xinyun nodded in satisfaction.

Standing in the group, Huo Zun noticed that a celestial awareness was constantly exploring everything around. He quickly realized that Huang Xu had been keeping an eye on him the whole time. If Huo Zun had mentioned leaving earlier, not only would he have faced retaliation from Luo Xinyun, but he would also have been directly questioned by Huang Xu, who would surely conclude that Huo Zun was Qu Yi and then use suppression techniques against him.

“Alright, now pack up and follow me to the Jin Xuan Star Region,” Luo Xinyun ordered.

The twelve people immediately returned to their own caves, quickly packed up, and rejoined Luo Xinyun.

At Huo Xia Palace, as Huang Xu watched all the celestial immortals leave, he released his celestial awareness and directly sensed everything in Luo Xinyun’s cave, trying to see how Huo Zun would react. Naturally, this time too, Huang Xu remained puzzled and still couldn’t confirm that Huo Zun was Qu Yi.

“Over these ten thousand years, Huo Zun’s cultivation level has risen from one-star Earth Soul Immortal to six-star Earth Soul Immortal. His progress is fast, but not to the point of being supernatural. Moreover, there’s no trace of any divine artifact on him. Could my guess be wrong? Is Huo Zun not actually Qu Yi in disguise?” Huang Xu stood still, pondering anxiously.

Like other alliance leaders, Huang Xu also wanted to find Qu Yi’s true whereabouts and then devise a plan to kill him in order to obtain the transcendent divine artifact he possessed.

“Never mind. With the opening of the Ruin Realm Divine World this time, Qu Yi will definitely enter. I’ll test Huo Zun then. If not, I’ll give up and let him die in the Ruin Realm Divine World,” Huang Xu decided in his heart.

Before long, more than three thousand celestial immortals, along with their disciples and followers, arrived at Huo Xia Palace.

The total number had reached forty thousand.

In front of the square of Huo Xia Palace, Huang Xu smiled and glanced at everyone, saying lightly, “Everyone, take out your Starships and follow me to the Jin Xuan Star Region.”

Instantly, the entire square was filled with a silver glow. Each celestial immortal took out a Starship and flew away with their disciples.

Nearly four thousand Starships formed a vast river of silver light that cut through the stars, racing toward the Jin Xuan Star Region like meteors.

Inside Luo Xinyun’s Starship, Huo Zun, as soon as he entered, settled in like an ancient tree with deep roots and quietly closed his eyes to meditate.

Meanwhile, Qu Yi had already embedded the Dimensional Sphere within Huo Zun’s body.