With this thought, Han Yi was about to turn and leave when the Evil God Mark on his arm suddenly burned fiercely. This burning posed no real danger to him, but it served as a clear warning.
He reacted swiftly.
Something was rapidly approaching, something connected to the Chaos Evil God.
Before the thought had fully formed, the three Profound Immortals who had just slain the Evil Immortal began to tremble violently, as if possessed.
Then, shaking violently, they raised their Immortal Artifacts and slit their own throats. Even their Immortal Souls dissipated without a trace.
Yet their corpses didn't go still. Instead, they melted into a pool of viscous, irregular matter, which then reformed into a mass of shapeless, bloody flesh.
This mass began to twist and contort, as if being molded into a desired form by an unseen force.
In three breaths, a new body materialized near Han Yi.
The body stood three meters tall, like a small giant. Even more bizarrely, it had three faces, six arms, and a serpent-like body.
A single head, hosting three faces: one of fury, one of compassion, and one of indifference.
Six arms extended from its shoulders.
Below, its lower body coiled like a serpent's tail.
This bizarre transformation sent a chill down Han Yi's spine, despite his millennia of cultivation and vast experience.
The moment this three-faced, six-armed, serpent-bodied entity fully materialized, the Evil God Mark on Han Yi's arm inexplicably stilled. Not only did it cease its burning heat, but it also reverted to its state before he entered the Immortal City.
This abnormal occurrence heightened Han Yi's vigilance. He retreated slowly, Green Ripple Sword gripped in hand, ready to meet any crisis.
As he backed away, the grotesque form—forged from the flesh of three self-immolated Profound Immortals—suddenly opened its eyes. Three faces, six eyes, all fixed intently on Han Yi.
A triad of voices, blending feminine, masculine, and childish tones, spoke in unison:
"Heaven-Devouring's aura?"
"It seems you are Heaven-Devouring's prey."
"Once you enter my Paradise and are devoured, even Heaven-Devouring will have no say."
As the words faded, the strange entity—a three-faced, six-eyed, six-armed serpent—suddenly opened its mouth and gave a faint inhalation.
At the same moment, Han Yi, who had already retreated several kilometers, felt a sudden chill in his heart. For some inexplicable reason, a bizarre force had invaded his body, directly targeting his Immortal Soul within the Immortal Spirit Realm.
If this force truly invaded his Immortal Soul, Han Yi feared he would meet the same mysterious fate as the previous three Profound Immortals—perhaps even compelled to reverse his retreat and deliver himself into the serpent's maw, to be devoured at will.
Moreover, Han Yi now realized that this entity was not merely a Dao Beacon carrying the aura of an Evil God, but the Evil God itself—an Evil God of Chaos who had invaded the Immortal Realm, likely at least an Immortal Monarch, and probably an Immortal Sovereign or even a Dao Ancestor.
Of course, it was highly probable that the three-faced serpent before him, summoned across space by the three Profound Immortals, was merely a fragment of the Evil God's consciousness, not its True Form. The Evil God's True Form likely resided not within this Immortal City, but perhaps not even within the Primordial Great World itself.
Instead, a fragment of the Chaos Evil God's consciousness had descended upon the Great Luo Immortal Realm, causing a malevolent corruption in the Omniscient Immortal City.
Moreover, this corruption had attracted Evil Immortals, who amplified its spread.
In a flash, Han Yi formed this conjecture.
Though its veracity remained uncertain, the presence of the Chaos Evil God's will within the Omniscient Immortal City was undeniable—a fact that already exceeded his capabilities.
After annihilating this faint strand of the Chaos Evil God's will that had materialized across the void, Han Yi would depart the Omniscient Immortal City, employing his Escape Technique to return to the Immortal Court and seek reinforcements.
With this resolve, Han Yi refrained from reckless attempts. Instead, he channeled his divine power to manifest a Divine Spear.
This Divine Spear resembled Yueguang's, but measured only about ten meters in length.
Simultaneously, his form shifted, expanding to a colossal twelve meters. This wasn't his complete True Body of an Ancient God, but it allowed him to wield greater divine power.
Next, he drew a sliver of aura from the Yueguang Divine Spear within his Divine Aperture World—a weapon spanning hundreds of thousands of meters—and infused it into the ten-meter Divine Spear he had condensed with his divine power.
The Divine Spear, infused with a wisp of aura from the Ancient Divine Artifact, suddenly surged with power.
Han Yi, wielding his Ancient God's Body that towered over ten meters tall, hurled the Divine Spear. In a fraction of a kshana—too swift for even a Peak Golden Immortal to react—the spear spanned kilometers, slamming into the bizarre entity: a three-faced, six-eyed, six-armed serpent being.
Though this entity's essence was inherently profound, belonging to a Wayless One, the fragment of will it projected across the void was its weakest, bolstered only by the corpses of three Profound Immortals.
Under Han Yi's strike, far surpassing the power of an ordinary Peak Golden Immortal, the entity had no time to react and was instantly obliterated.
As the entity exploded into a blood mist, a wisp of will coalesced, burning with indescribable fury. It hurled back a counter-strike before turning to flee without even glancing back at the impact, vanishing without hesitation.
This fragment of the Chaos Evil God's consciousness moved with speed surpassing that of an ordinary Immortal Monarch.
Despite Han Yi's own rapid escape, the wisp of will was already above him the instant he moved. It plummeted down, intent on piercing his body.
Meanwhile...
A violent, malevolent voice thundered into Han Yi's consciousness:
"Die!"
Under the influence of this voice, the savagery within Han Yi's heart stirred, threatening to overwhelm his rationality and destroy his Immortal Soul.
At that moment, Han Yi steeled himself, preparing to unleash the true form of the Yueguang Divine Spear.
Earlier, he had merely extended a wisp of the Ancient Divine Artifact's aura, maintaining the spear's main body through his divine power. This was primarily to control the scope of the battle.
This was merely a fragment of the Evil God's Will; he could eliminate it outright. But if he expanded the conflict, drawing the attention of the Evil God's Main Consciousness—or worse, the Evil God's Main Body—it would be difficult to escape.
After all, although he had recently ascended to Golden Immortal, his current strength was still tenfold greater than when he first faced the Black Star of the Black Realm. Yet without deploying the Yueguang Ancient Divine Artifact, he remained far from the Great Unity Immortal Realm.
Perhaps only by breaking through to the Seventh-Tier with Sword Flight, or by upgrading the Green Ripple Sword to a Seventh-Rank Immortal Sword, could he truly contend with an Immortal Monarch.
For now, his greatest trump card remained the Yueguang Ancient Divine Artifact.
However, revealing the true form of the Yueguang Divine Spear would inevitably attract the attention of either the Evil God's Main Consciousness or the Evil God itself within the Omniscient Immortal City.
This was the primary reason Han Yi had refrained from unleashing it earlier.
Yet he had underestimated the Evil God's Will. Even the most trivial strand of it contained countless thoughts of the Chaos Evil God. Its essence was not something that could be obliterated by merely channeling a wisp of aura from an Ancient Divine Artifact.
With this realization, Han Yi ignited his divine power, intending to hurl the Yueguang Ancient Divine Artifact and annihilate the strand of Evil God's consciousness first. He would worry about the consequences after dealing with this immediate threat.
But in that kshana—
The voice of the Great Abyss Divine Blade suddenly echoed in his mind: "Within the Chaos, every Evil God is a being of Non-Dao. Having lost the Dao Principles of the Great World, they wander the Chaos. Therefore, whether it's their consciousness or imprints, their Dao Principles are like duckweed without roots or water without a source—extremely prone to falling into chaos.
"If the auras of two Chaos Evil Gods were to merge, they would inevitably descend into even deeper chaos."
"Therefore, you should channel this wisp of the Evil God's Will to the Evil God Mark on your arm, allowing the two to clash, and then escape."
The Great Abyss Divine Blade added, "For certain reasons, I cannot intervene. You must rely on yourself."
Hearing this, Han Yi's burning divine power did not subside but intensified. With a swift motion, he swept his palm upward, covering it with dense divine power. The energy coalesced into a crimson-golden glove, its intricate surface densely woven with divine power.
This was a Divine Art from Knowing Destiny, simply called the Divine Sealing Art. This technique compresses divine power into a more potent, stable, and difficult-to-destroy structure, capable of trapping even Ancient Gods, hence its name.
The divine power glove on Han Yi's hand was a practical application of this art.
At his level, Immortal Arts, Divine Arts, and even Demon Arts were no longer simple attacks, but infinitely adaptable techniques that could be wielded with perfect freedom.
With a single thought, Han Yi could effortlessly wield any technique, adapting it to the situation at hand and transforming it into the most appropriate form.
The Divine Sealing Art, originally designed to suppress and seal enemies, now manifested in Han Yi's hands as crimson golden gloves.
Then, with a swift motion, he grasped the fragment of the Evil God's consciousness descending upon him.
Though Han Yi had transformed the Divine Sealing Art into gloves, the fundamental nature of the Evil God's consciousness was too profound to be completely sealed. In less than a tenth of a kshana, it would struggle free of the Divine Sealing Gloves' restraints.
But Han Yi's goal wasn't to completely seal it, only to briefly trap the Evil God's consciousness.
Next, he yanked the trapped consciousness downward and forcefully pressed it against the Heaven-Devouring Evil God Mark on his other arm.
In that fleeting instant, as the Evil God's consciousness touched the Heaven-Devouring Mark, the usually inert mark—its only previous reaction being a slight warmth—suddenly erupted into turmoil.
A chaotic and malevolent consciousness suddenly exploded forth.
Or perhaps it was more accurate to say it was an instinctive reaction of the mark itself.
Boom!
The Heaven-Devouring Evil God Mark, which had been permanently etched on Han Yi's arm, unshakable by any means, even persisting on a regenerated arm if he were to sever his limb, finally detached from Han Yi's arm and lunged toward the fragment of the Evil God's Will in his palm.
The captured fragment of the Evil God's Will, the moment it broke free from Han Yi's Divine Sealing Art, was immediately confronted by the Heaven-Devouring Mark.
"Damn it."
"How... how did you know?"
At that instant, the fragment of the Evil God's Will within the Omniscient Immortal City erupted in a furious roar of rage and panic.
But before it could react further, the contact with the Heaven-Devouring Mark triggered its berserk activation. The mark, now detached from Han Yi's arm, slammed violently into the fragment of the Evil God's Will.
In that instant,
like hot oil splashing into boiling water, the space containing the Evil God's consciousness and the Heaven-Devouring Mark exploded violently.
Meanwhile,
the moment the Heaven-Devouring Mark erupted, Han Yi didn't linger. Burning his Immortal Power, he activated the Cosmic Light Thought Realm Immortal Art, layered with True World Eternity, and used the Escape Technique to flee the city.
The explosive tremors behind him were brief. Han Yi didn't know who ultimately won, but he suspected it was the fragment of the Evil God's Will lurking within the Immortal City.
He didn't dare use his Immortal Sense to probe, fearing pursuit.
In less than three breaths, he had already escaped Omniscient Immortal City and put thousands of miles between them.
Meanwhile, thousands of miles behind him, an even more malevolent aura erupted from Omniscient Immortal City. This sinister energy roiled the Immortal Realm's winds and clouds, unleashing boundless corruption that surged out from the Immortal City and spread in all directions.
The Corrupted Territory, which had previously been purged by the Immortals, was once again tainted. This time, however, the contamination stemmed not from an Evil Immortal, but from the Chaos Evil God.
Han Yi glanced back briefly before daring not to linger further. The situation had grown beyond what a single Golden Immortal could handle.
Once he reported this to Immortal Monarch Yuanshu, the next visitor might be an Immortal Sovereign, or even the Dao Ancestor himself.
Han Yi remained vigilant, maintaining his swift pace without slowing.
After leaving the Heavenly Knowledge Immortal Domain and returning to the Primordial Arts Immortal Domain, he swiftly teleported back to the Immortal Court. Upon arrival, he immediately reported the incident to Immortal Monarch Yuanshu.
He didn't mention how he had exploited the conflict between the Chaos Evil God's Dao Principles to escape. He simply said he had encountered the Chaos Evil God's will and barely managed to escape, glossing over the details.
Upon hearing this, Immortal Monarch Yuanshu of the Origin Technique Arena didn't dare delay. He swiftly departed for the core of the Immortal Court to report the matter to the Immortal Sovereign and even the Dao Ancestor.
Anything involving Chaos was no trivial matter.
Especially after the Wisdom Realm invasion, the downfall of the Great Luo Immortal Court by the Counter-Dao, and the establishment of the Blazing Flame Dao Court through the Path of Dao Sacrifice, the immortals of the Immortal Realm had grown increasingly wary of visitors from Chaos.
No entity emerging from Chaos into the Primordial Great World was ever simple.
After informing Immortal Monarch Yuanshu, Han Yi returned to the Immortal Pavilion.
Inside the pavilion, he examined his arm once more and discovered that the Heaven-Devouring Evil God Mark had indeed vanished without a trace.
He slowly exhaled in relief.
This journey to the Heavenly Knowledge Immortal Domain had unexpectedly freed him from the Evil God Mark that had been planted within him for years—a development he had never anticipated.
Of course, this couldn't be considered a fortunate outcome of misfortune.
In his original plan, his ascension to Immortal Monarch was assured, and he was certain to achieve it before the end of the Epoch.
Once I'm promoted to Immortal Monarch, according to Taiyuan, it will be easy to remove this Evil God Mark.
I've just accomplished this step ahead of schedule.
However, this recent trip to Omniscient Immortal City has given me a deeper understanding of the Chaos Evil God.
"Senior Taiyuan, didn't you say before that Chaos Evil Gods wouldn't dare enter the Great Luo Immortal Realm?"
"Why then did a Chaos Evil God appear within Omniscient Immortal City?"
A thousand years ago, when Han Yi was still at the Transformation God stage, after being branded with the Heaven-Devouring Mark, Taiyuan had explained that he needn't worry. The mark would remain dormant for a long time because ordinary Chaos Evil Gods wouldn't dare enter the Primordial Great World.
Before escaping Omniscient Immortal City, Han Yi had speculated that it wasn't the entire Chaos Evil God that had entered the Great Luo, but only a fragment of its consciousness.
But after leaving Omniscient Immortal City, when he sensed the overwhelming, pervasive malevolent aura, Han Yi became convinced that it wasn't merely a fragment of the Evil God's consciousness, but a true Evil God. Only an Evil God could exude such terror.
After a long silence, Taiyuan's aged voice finally echoed in his mind, tinged with genuine confusion.
"I don't know either."