Divine Emperor of Death

"You dare!?" The Spatial Blight Emperor scowled, "I will retreat using an escape art and poison your entire Alstreim Family! You want to try me?"

Davis shrugged, "Even if you somehow manage to escape, you're going to die anyway."

Only at that time was Davis willing to use Fallen Heaven. After all, if he used it all the time, he would become too dependent on it, which he didn't want to as he already felt that he was overusing it.

Hearing Davis's blatant disregard, the Spatial Blight Emperor's heart began to thump at a faster rate. It was as though adrenaline left his body, making him learn the consequences of his actions. However, he still held onto the fact that they had commissioned the Hidden Night Emperor to kill the Emperor of Death's family and possibly even take them hostage.

They had taken it as a precaution and spent so much wealth to hire the Hidden Night Emperor that they knew they couldn't possibly back down just from a single word from the Emperor of Death. To them, every move they personally made against the righteous path was a do-or-die undertaking, and yet, this Emperor of Death had the gall to block them, declaring that they shouldn't attack the Burning Phoenix Ridge just because it was suddenly in an alliance with him.

Before invading, they mused that this was Burning Phoenix Ridge's miserable way of clinging onto life, just a political maneuver and carving an alliance through marrying their top disciple to the Emperor of Death, but they didn't expect that he would truly stand for them for a mere top disciple, going as far as to offend the four of them who commanded hundreds of powerhouses and hundred thousands of eighth stage experts.

'Curses! This brat is even more of a womanizer than my bastard son!'

Abruptly, the Spatial Blight Emperor lifted up his wine cup as energy began to revolve around it. However, the expressions of the experts and powerhouses below him changed.

"My Emperor! Why?"

A scantily-dressed woman screamed as she looked at him. A vortex appeared before her while her body was frozen in fear. Not exactly frozen in fear but locked by a mysterious power as it began refining her.

"Silence, wench! Since you all dared to practice my cultivation technique and became my loyal followers, become the nutrition, I require for me to survive!"

That woman's expression became aghast as tears flowed down her face. Not only her but all the seventy-eight powerhouses of varying levels and three thousand and eight hundred eighth stage experts were shaking as they also seemed to be experiencing a similar fate!

The sight of it was as though they were put into a blender as blood spurted from their bodies, flying into the vortex before gathering over the vortex of the wine cup, filling its capacity with their volume of blood although its appetite seemed to be endless.

This kind of scene made the people looking at it aghast. They couldn't believe that the Spatial Blight Emperor just refined all the experts under him in order to battle against the Emperor of Death.

"What an evil treasure this wine cup is..."

Davis's brows twitched, but a mocking smile still remained on his face. On the other hand, the Spatial Blight Emperor's prowess kept rapidly increasing without a stop.

"Thou shall not use your hands!"

Suddenly, an authoritative voice echoed behind Davis.

Davis did not even have to look behind to see that the righteous path's armada had arrived with the Mandate Emperor in the forefront and targeted the Deprived Soulstir Emperor. Although they seemed to be late, they still did come, taking out a question from his mind but still putting another as to why they were late.

Nevertheless, he didn't talk to the Mandate Emperor but kept staring at the Spatial Blight Emperor, who seemed to have finished refining his subordinates into poisonous blood essence and consumed that for increasing his own power.

Such a strange wine cup did attract his attention and greed, but he did not want Evelynn to be using this wine cup as it reeked of immorality and wickedness.

"Eldia, come back...!

Davis called out as soon the Blood World Emperor, Infernal Lightning Emperor, and Deprived Soulstir Emperor rapidly retreated towards the Spatial Blight Emperor, looking as though they had eaten crap.

With the strongest righteous path powerhouse appearing, they naturally felt that it was time to leave, and even the Spatial Blight Emperor's expression turned ugly because he felt that he might've wasted the valuable lives of his subordinates.

Their unwillingness and his own unwillingness rapidly manifested into a heart demon and made him laugh in a demonic manner!

"Ahahaha! Can you see my prowess growing!? With the gracious help of my subordinates, I'm now capable of battling two levels higher. No, it's still increasing! Today! I'm going to kill you no matter what and sacrifice you to the malice of my subordinates! Let me see how you can kill me with your mysterious technique!"

Once his energy reached a certain level, Davis heaved a sigh out. He knew that he was no longer capable of defeating this bastard.

A white-robed character abruptly appeared beside him before his lips moved.

"Emperor of Death, this is bad." The Mandate Emperor's eyes narrowed, "However, if we work together along with Nadia and this Purgatory Extinction Lightning, I'm fairly assured that we will be able to drive them away."

Davis turned to look at the staunch Mandate Emperor who didn't seem to be afraid of an opponent who seemed to have become a bit stronger than him. He couldn't help but ruefully shake his head.

"My only failure was to let the Spatial Blight Emperor power up even though I could argue I wanted to see what his Legacy Artifact was capable of. I thought he could become challenging to improve my battle skills using Death Laws, but he managed to surpass my expectation and became capable of battling two levels higher."

The Mandate Emperor couldn't help but nod, but he didn't berate Davis, thinking that it was just the mistake of youth, an overconfident one at that.

"Ahahaha! Scared?"

The Spatial Blight Emperor mockingly looked at Davis as the additional prowess granted by the wine cup seemed to have finally assimilated with him. His bluish-green poisonous energy swirled around as nine snake heads emerged from his back, their nine pair of eyes staring at them as though they would pounce at them at the slightest movement.

"Scared?" Davis's expression remained calm as he shook his head, "I low-key want to see what kind of backlash you would face, but it seems like I cannot."

"Still not comprehending reality as you want to escape?" The Spatial Blight Emperor sneered, "So what If I would receive a backlash? So what if you can escape? Just a while ago, you may have managed to defend against us by bringing your wicked wolf and this lightning elemental over here and acting pompously, but did you think that your family would survive back in the Alstreim Family!? Even now, they could be dying one by one! However, if you want them to stay alive, then get down on your knees and beg for their lives! Ahahaha!"

The Spatial Blight Emperor seemed to have gone mad with power as he cackled with laughter. Even the other three wicked path hegemons couldn't help but strangely look at him.

"The Hidden Night Emperor's name sure did become famous with almost killing the Vast Sky Emperor, increasing his reputation by far and wide."

Davis suddenly spoke, causing their hearts to palpitate while the Spatial Blight Emperor's laughter slowly died, his eyes becoming wide as saucers while staring at Davis.

"You knew!?"

Davis couldn't help but smile as he now knew that he guessed right.

"However, you failed to consider one thing, that is, you need a far bigger shadow to engulf my shadow, and as far as I consider about the Hidden Night Emperor's shadow lurking in my home, it is nothing in front of my Evelynn, whose shadow is currently greater than mine."

Davis had always considered various characters hiring assassins to kill him or his family members, for he had already experienced such scenarios while living in the Loret Castle but managed to avert them by acting as an assassin himself.

While Davis did not fear that someone would dare to strike him openly, for they would like to keep their identity hidden from him to not receive repercussion from him, he knew it was far likely they would send assassins at him or his family.

Heck, even he had used an assassin to kill the Vast Sky Emperor, not because he was afraid, but because he wanted to test Fallen Heaven's increased prowess as well as punish the Vast Sky Emperor for trying to court Isabella.

Although the test was a success and the Vast Sky Emperor survived as a result, Davis still wanted to kill him with his own hands. There was no change in that matter, but it still allowed him to guess how people would target him using assassins as they lost the option to openly target him or his family.

However, the wicked path went past that and openly offended him and left him a choice to make by threatening him with an assassin, which surprised him for he didn't think that they would be truly courting death, but with Evelynn and Nadia's main body still there at the Purple Guest Palace, he was completely assured that they would be able to protect his family and attacked them.

Hearing Davis's answer, the Spatial Blight Emperor sneered on the other hand. Contrary to Davis, he believed that the Hidden Night Emperor would get the job done as he knew his skills.

"No matter... even if he fails, I'll kill you all anyway. I'm interested in that poisonous fey called Evelynn too. I wonder how the Emperor of Death's first wife, who he is said to be head over heels for, is like... I can't wait to taste!"

He intentionally provoked and moved forward, assuming that Davis wouldn't dare to escape this way. And as expected, with a sharp yet cold light gleaming in his sapphire eyes, he walked towards him, marching right into his poisonous snare.

'Yes... come closer. Once you're close enough, I'll-'

The Spatial Blight Emperor's eyes became narrowed and confused as he suddenly saw Davis stop.

"Hmm, the aura of death intensely pervades the air..."

Davis's brows furrowed as he voiced out his thoughts.

He couldn't help but feel that the quality of the death aura permeating the air was enormous, and considering that the cultivators who were refined to death all eighth stage and ninth stage cultivators, he didn't find this surprising, but the aura that was comprehensible and perceivable by him and Nadia tried to overwhelm him, almost putting him in a trance.

He shook his head and instantly sat cross-legged on the ground, beginning to comprehend the intricacies of the solid aura of death beginning to swirl around him.

The eyes of many bulged, wondering what he was doing, but then a strange sound echoed.

*Thud!~*

*Cling!~*

Everyone turned to look at the Spatial Blight Emperor dropping face-first towards the ground while the wine cup in his hand tumbled out of his grasp before it rolled away like an ordinary cup, its extraordinary prowess beginning to fade away.

*Whoosh!~*

"Scram!"

Nadia abruptly appeared beside Davis as she roared. Her roar abruptly shook the wicked path powerhouses out of their reverie, causing their scalps to turn numb as they ran with their tails between their legs.

The Blood World Emperor, Deprived Soulstir Emperor, and Infernal Lightning Emperor's expression were already horrified from seeing the Spatial Blight Emperor collapse silently. They retreated even before Nadia roared at them.

If this wasn't that mysterious life extinguishing technique, then what was it!?

They couldn't even see it coming!