Chapter 27: Spatial Waves

The Azure Sky Stele emitted a red glow, like that of a star, reaching everywhere in all directions. Each ray of this red light represented perfect spatial power—equivalent to the strength of a Divine King with ten billion beings in his realm—shot out in all directions. Naturally, none of the Divine Kings in this stone cave was spared and suffered attacks.
“Damn you, Qu Yi! You deceived us!” The Divine Kings of the Eight Realms immediately understood Qu Yi’s intentions and shouted in fury.
Qu Yi first lured the Divine Kings of the Eight Realms to use their divine senses to explore the Azure Sky Stele, causing damage to their souls and minor injuries to their bodies. Then, he activated the attacks of the Azure Sky Stele, subjecting the Divine Kings of the Eight Realms to even greater pressure.
Of course, Qu Yi must have discovered the secrets of the Azure Sky Stele, which led to this situation.
Qu Yi merely smiled faintly as he drew out his Star Sword. With a swift swing, he easily dispelled all the red rays aimed at him.
On the side of the Ascended Divine Kings, having been warned by Qu Yi earlier and each possessing ten billion beings in their realms, they could also unleash perfect spatial power. When they wielded their Divine King weapons, those red rays were likewise dispelled, failing to reach them.
The Divine Kings of the Eight Realms, however, were in trouble. Each red ray carried perfect spatial power. Among them, only Qiu Yan and Bai Rong had ten billion beings in their realms, while the other Divine Kings had only over five million. Naturally, they couldn’t withstand these attacks head-on.
Still, each of the Divine Kings of the Eight Realms possessed an innate spiritual treasure.
“Final Blow!”
“Yin-Yang Division!”
“Spear of the Divine Tomb—Sweeping Through Heaven and Earth!”
……
In an instant, the Divine Kings of the Eight Realms drew out their innate spiritual treasures and, with a loud shout, easily dispelled the incoming red rays using these treasures.
Right after the Azure Sky Stele emitted a wave of red rays, its full shape became visible—entirely greenish-blue, surrounded by countless circular red rings, looking extremely awe-inspiring. At the same time, the stele continuously emitted waves of spatial power, as if preparing to launch some kind of spatial spell attack.
At this moment, Qu Yi flew to Qing Wu Gui’s side and, together with the Ascended Divine Kings, prepared to face another attack from the Azure Sky Stele.
The Divine Kings of the Eight Realms certainly wouldn’t handle it alone either. They gathered closer together, staring solemnly at the Azure Sky Stele, ready to resist together at any moment.

The Azure Sky Stele suddenly trembled, bouncing back and forth like shrapnel. Immediately afterward, waves of intense spatial power surged forward like tides, resembling powerful streams of cosmic energy that sought to erase everything in their path.
“These are spatial waves. Everyone, act together—just don’t let them sweep you away,” Qu Yi shouted right away.
Spatial waves were also a form of utilizing spatial rules. In essence, spatial fluctuations drove immense amounts of spatial power, mimicking ocean waves with unimaginable force. If anyone was caught by these waves, their entire body would be crushed by them, and even the strongest would be utterly destroyed.
Qu Yi took the lead, his Star Sword shaking the surroundings as perfect spatial power poured forth, instantly forming a circular barrier in front of everyone to withstand the impact of the spatial waves.
Qing Wugui also showed no weakness. He took out his top-tier innate spiritual treasure, the Invisible Sword, and moved forward into space. Wielding the Invisible Sword, he drew upon all the spatial power there, creating another spatial barrier. Since Qing Wugui had slain the Five Elements Laws, he was unaffected by spatial rules and thus needn’t worry about the spatial waves. Now, he could fully assist the others in bearing some of the pressure.
Zong Jing, Qi Shen, Xu Miao, Qian Mao, Zhu Chen, Xiao Feng, and other Ascended Divine Kings also stepped in, each drawing out their Divine King artifacts and unleashing spatial power to help Qu Yi maintain the barriers and resist the spatial waves.
On the side of the Eight Realms Divine Kings, Qiu Yan, Tian Chen, Bai Rong, Sang Yu, Jin Chengbo, Wu Lian, and Yan Yi—these seven Divine Kings who possessed Origin Beads—also took out their Origin Beads and created a spatial barrier ahead. The other Divine Kings joined forces to sustain this barrier as well.
The spatial waves emitted by the Azure Sky Stele kept coming, with massive waves of spatial power assaulting the two barriers. Neither could be broken, so the waves were forced to split and flow aside.
The Ascended Divine Kings and the Eight Realms Divine Kings suffered no damage and once again dodged these spatial waves.
However, this struggle had cost both sides a significant amount of spatial power.
After blocking the spatial waves, Qu Yi looked at the Eight Realms Divine Kings with a faint smile. “How much spatial power do you all still have? The next attack from the Azure Sky Stele will surely be even more powerful. I advise you to stop resisting and leave this space immediately.”
Qing Wugui, Zong Jing, and the others burst into laughter, looking extremely triumphant.

Upon hearing this, Qiu Yan’s expression changed repeatedly. He actually knew that if he continued to resist, the spatial power of the Eight Realms Divine King would be completely exhausted, while the spatial power emanating from the Azure Sky Stele showed no sign of weakening. If more spatial spells kept coming, it was very likely that the Eight Realms Divine King would lose all his spatial power.

Even if he didn’t exhaust all his spatial power, if Qu Yi, along with the Ascended Divine Kings, launched an attack, the Eight Realms Divine King would suffer heavy losses.

It wasn’t worth it!

Qiu Yan realized this, and so did the other Eight Realms Divine Kings. They immediately understood that competing with Qu Yi for the Azure Sky Stele at this moment was unwise.

“Let’s go,” Qiu Yan said first.

The other Eight Realms Divine Kings quickly followed, also wanting to leave this space immediately and give up the struggle for the Azure Sky Stele.

The Eight Realms Divine Kings were well aware that as long as the Divine Emperor killed Qu Yi, even if Qu Yi obtained the Azure Sky Stele, it would still fall into their hands. So why risk exhausting their spatial power now?

Seeing the reaction of the Eight Realms Divine Kings, Qu Yi laughed again, “You’re really naive. Thinking you can really leave now? Since we, the Ascended Divine Kings, haven’t left first, you think you can just go? How naive. If you want to leave, leave, but leave behind a few of your divine king corpses.”

After saying that, Qu Yi stopped paying attention to the changes in the Azure Sky Stele and immediately flew away, wielding his Star Sword to attack Qiu Yan.

Zong Jing, Qing Wu Gui, Qi Shen, and the other Divine Kings also followed, closing in on the Eight Realms Divine Kings and launching fierce attacks, starting a battle right away.

The Eight Realms Divine Kings were furious. They never expected Qu Yi to dare fight them right in front of the Azure Sky Stele—this was clearly an attempt to kill them. They had already witnessed the power of the Azure Sky Stele. If they were really entangled with the Ascended Divine Kings now, the next wave of attacks from the Azure Sky Stele could cause them serious harm.

“Qu Yi, don’t go too far,” Qiu Yan said, using his Origin Pearl to transform surging spatial power into a shield to block the Star Sword’s attack, while also shouting in reproach.

“If we’re going to die, let’s die all together,” the Eight Realms Divine Kings replied, using their innate spiritual treasures to block the attacks of the Ascended Divine Kings, also shouting angrily.

Qu Yi didn’t respond and continued to attack.

Qing Wu Gui, Zong Jing, Qi Shen, and the other Ascended Divine Kings didn’t waste words either. Their divine king weapons flew out in waves, unleashing successive bursts of spatial power at the Eight Realms Divine Kings without mercy, as if determined to eliminate them all at once.

The faces of the Eight Realms Divine Kings turned anxious.

At that moment, the Azure Sky Stele moved again, this time as if jumping up and down, and another wave of spatial ripples akin to an earthquake appeared throughout the space. These spatial ripples rose and fell continuously, spreading throughout the entire space, and soon reached all the Divine Kings, attempting to wash them away and crush them to death one by one. The ascended Divine Kings such as Qu Yi, Qing Wu Gui, and Zong Jing also stopped attacking the Eight Realms Divine Kings, flew together once more, and created another spatial barrier to resist these spatial ripples. The Eight Realms Divine Kings could only gather together as well—Qiu Yan, Tian Chen, Bai Rong, Sang Yu, Jin Cheng Bo, Wu Lian, and Yan Yi each summoned their Origin Beads and formed another spatial barrier to withstand this wave of spatial ripples. None of the Divine Kings were harmed. However, everyone’s spatial power undoubtedly declined significantly, and their strength weakened greatly. Just as the spatial ripples disappeared, Qing Wu Gui suddenly moved, heading straight to where the Eight Realms Divine Kings were gathered. With a fierce invisible sword strike, a huge blood hole appeared on the body of Wu Quan, the Divine King of the Water Dike Divine Realm. Qing Wu Gui’s body was not bound by spatial rules, so he wasn’t affected by these spatial ripples. He had been lurking near the Eight Realms Divine Kings all along and finally struck, severely injuring Wu Quan. At that moment, Wu Quan abandoned his physical body and escaped in the form of his Soul Infant—a small infant-like entity—that hid right in Wu Lian’s arms. “Second brother!” Wu Lian carefully held the Soul Infant of Wu Quan, calling out concernfully, before turning to Qing Wu Gui with murderous intent in his eyes. Qing Wu Gui merely smiled faintly and then floated back to Qu Yi’s side. “It’s a pity my attack power isn’t very strong; otherwise, I could have erased Wu Quan’s Soul Infant with a single strike,” Qing Wu Gui said indifferently as he landed. Qu Yi smiled slightly and replied, “With only his Soul Infant, Wu Quan is essentially useless. If we attack again, that Soul Infant won’t survive.” With that, Qu Yi took the lead and flew straight at Wu Lian, trying to snatch Wu Quan from him and kill him. “Elder brother, save me!” the Soul Infant of Wu Quan cried out desperately. Wu Lian reacted quickly, immediately putting the Soul Infant into one of his spatial treasures to protect it, then taking out his Origin Bead and using spatial power to block Qu Yi’s attack.

The Ascended Divine King saw Qu Yi attacking again and wouldn’t miss such an opportunity; he flew over as well and once more faced off against the Eight Realms Divine King.