"They’re gone..." Lanling said.

"Has Master figured it out?" the Heavenly Demon women said joyfully.

Lanling nodded.

The Heavenly Demon women immediately clapped their hands in delight,献上 one fragrant kiss after another, then flew into the Wordless Heavenly Scripture like butterflies.

Lanling took Emperor E Tian’s Wordless Heavenly Scripture and the Gods Slaughter Demon Extermination Sword and headed straight for the Fallen Land.

...

A day later, Lanling returned to his old haunt, arriving at the boundary of the Fallen Land.

"Hoo..."

Once again, Lanling entered the Fallen Land, the most terrifying place in this world, the absolute forbidden zone of life.

It was here that Lanling had encountered that half of Jing Wubian’s demonic void energy. He had thought about this woman’s origin many times, and had almost guessed her identity right, yet never imagined she had been exiled here by Emperor E Tian.

At this moment, the Fallen Land was the same as always, energy storms everywhere, twisted space everywhere.

The last time Lanling was in the Fallen Land, it was truly a narrow escape from death, like a small boat in raging waves, completely out of control at every moment, shattered to pieces countless times, dying and reviving countless times.

But this time, Lanling already possessed the Chaotic Bloodline and Emperor-level cultivation; facing this terrifying energy storm, he remained utterly unmoved.

He closed his eyes and drew in a breath.

Sure enough, the energy aura here was completely different from the outside world, and was the same as that on the moon and on Dragon Demon Island. Or rather, not exactly the same, but the underlying nature was identical.

This all the more confirmed Lanling’s view: the current moon was very likely a part of the Dragon Demon Planet, severed away as that one-sixth.

How did the Fallen Land come to be?

According to legend, it was the Ancient Dragon and the Ancient Demon who battled fiercely and perished together, nearly tearing the entire planet apart and thus creating the Fallen Land.

Now it seemed that this was very likely just a colossal lie.

Lanling released an energy shield to wrap his body, especially to protect the Wordless Heavenly Scripture and the Gods Slaughter Demon Extermination Sword.

Then he completely went with the flow, allowing the energy storm to blow him in any direction whatsoever.

At this time, the terrifying energy storms, the terrifying twisted spaces, the terrifying spatial rifts could no longer harm him in the slightest.

In this way he roamed throughout the Fallen Land, fully sensing this place.

In the entire Fallen Land there was only him, drifting back and forth like this.

And his mind kept on thinking.

...

There was no doubt that Emperor E Tian had already comprehended the origin of the moon, so he certainly had come to investigate the Fallen Land not just once or twice; he had likely even found the route leading to the Lunar Holy Palace.

Thus in various rumors, Emperor E Tian vanished on the eve of setting out to wage war on the Lunar Holy Palace.

Of course, that saying had an exaggeration, namely the phrase "wage war on the Lunar Holy Palace"!

Emperor E Tian was greater than Lanling, and even more ambitious and far-seeing, but in terms of sheer cultivation and bloodline, he was already inferior to Lanling.

Lanling not only possessed Emperor-level energy cultivation, but also the Chaotic Bloodline. Even with Lanling being this powerful, he did not dare speak of waging war on the Lunar Holy Palace, only of merely going to the Lunar Holy Palace.

But in any case, Lanling firmly believed that, at least for now, Emperor E Tian was far greater than he.

Because the path he was walking now was one Emperor E Tian had already walked.

It was he who discovered the road leading to the Lunar Holy Palace, and yet just as he was preparing to head to the Lunar Holy Palace, Jing Wubian appeared before him and spoke of the fact that the Dragon Demon Planet was about to be destroyed by Void Creatures. Emperor E Tian decided to sacrifice himself to save the world. But before that, he exiled Jing Wubian’s Void Bloodline into the Fallen Land, simply unwilling for her Void Bloodline to be used by the Sky Holy Palace, then went to his own tomb and wrote a Wordless Heavenly Scripture, leaving behind a Gods Slaughter Demon Extermination Sword.

Drifting through the Fallen Land like this, Lanling opened the Wordless Heavenly Scripture.

At once, the Wordless Heavenly Scripture displayed content, and it was a three-dimensional energy map.

The internal structure of the entire Fallen Land was completely contained within the three-dimensional energy map of the Wordless Heavenly Scripture. And at the center of the three-dimensional map was the symbol of a door.

Emperor E Tian had already said very clearly: reaching the position of this door was the path to the Lunar Holy Palace.

Lanling controlled his direction and flew within the Fallen Land, sometimes against the energy storms, sometimes with them, seeming to drift with the current and yet move with ease.

In this way, he did not know how long he had flown, nor how long he had drifted.

Lanling arrived at the absolute central region of the Fallen Land.

This was precisely the door position on the three-dimensional energy map in the Wordless Heavenly Scripture.

By rights, there should be a door here that could lead to the Lunar Holy Palace, yet the place was still utterly empty.

There was truly nothing at all!

There were no energy storms here, no twisted space—like the eye of a tornado that was instead tranquil.

The Fallen Land was filled everywhere with terrifying rifts and distortions; any life that came in would be smashed to pieces, body and soul annihilated. Yet only the center remained calm to the extreme, without even the slightest breeze.

But then, where was the door to the Lunar Holy Palace?

And just at this moment, one Heavenly Demon woman after another flew out from the Wordless Heavenly Scripture.

Dozens, hundreds, over a thousand!

After coming out, they were confused for a moment, then seemed to start remembering, as something in their minds was activated.

"Oh, I remember now, it was here that Master created us."

"Yes, yes, yes..."

"In the Fallen Land, even souls cannot survive; everywhere are shattered fragments of souls. Master gathered them piece by piece, and then used the energy of the Fallen Land to forge our meridians and bodies."

"What are we supposed to do?"

"Yes, yes, the Heavenly Demon Gate, the Heavenly Demon Gate!"

Countless Heavenly Demon girls giggled and laughed as they circled around Lanling, one after another offering up fragrant kisses and saying, "Master, we’re going to fulfill our mission now!"

"Being able to accompany Master during this period has been so happy, so joyful..."

"Master, goodbye..."

"Master, take care..."

"Master must remember to come visit us often, okay!"

Then these Heavenly Demon girls, laughing coquettishly, happily turned into countless streams of energy light and flew toward the darkness.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang..."

Countless Heavenly Demon girls gathered in midair, etching out a door.

The Heavenly Demon Gate!

The first time Lanling saw them, it was on a huge flashing Heavenly Demon Gate, as if they were countless jade statues.

And now, they once again condensed into a gate, a Heavenly Demon Gate leading to the Lunar Holy Palace.

This was their mission!

Their long yet short lives had ended!

Though condensing into the Heavenly Demon Gate was a kind of sacrifice, there was not the slightest bit of tragic solemnity. These pure, beautiful Heavenly Demon girls giggled and laughed, one after another turning into parts of the Heavenly Demon Gate.

It was like emperor butterflies, needing the effort of several generations to fly thousands upon thousands of miles, over mountains and rivers, to go to the destined land where they overwinter and thus continue their race.

And these cute, pure Heavenly Demon girls, the mission of their entire lives was for this very moment—to condense the Heavenly Demon Gate so that Lanling could go to the Lunar Holy Palace!

In the midst of the laughter and cutely ringing voices of countless Heavenly Demon girls.

Everything returned to silence.

A crystal-clear Heavenly Demon Gate stood upright before Lanling.

Lanling did not know whether this was the closest any Master of Yao Xing had ever come to the Lunar Holy Palace.

But it had cost nearly thirty thousand years and the sacrifice of over a dozen generations of Masters of Yao Xing.

The striving and struggle of Emperor E Tian, the struggle of Emperor EYun, the struggle of the Dragon Emperor.

In the end, everyone’s efforts condensed onto the body of Lanling, the Chaos Emperor, opening a gate leading to the Lunar Holy Palace!

The previous Lanling had been selfish, doing whatever he pleased.

But now, he truly felt a sense of mission.

Several generations of Masters of Yao Xing really were like emperor butterflies, sacrificing the lives of generations just so that the last generation before winter could reach the land of destiny.

The gate before his eyes was also paid for by the sacrifices of several generations of Masters of Yao Xing, several generations of Great Emperors. Among them, Lanling’s own struggle weighed the least.

A true sense of mission!

Lanling took a deep breath and told himself in his heart that from this moment on, he would no longer live purely for himself.

He stepped forward and gently pushed open this Heavenly Demon Gate.

Instantly, an incomparably dazzling light shone into his eyes.

All he could see was a mass of blinding radiance, like a pillar of light, yet also like a staircase leading into the heavens.

Lanling followed this energy-light staircase, flying upward, and upward.

On both sides, it was as if countless images and shadows were changing.

Yesterday in history, the day before, the day before that, all flowed backward within these shifting images.

They changed too quickly, too unfamiliar, too mysterious; the tens of thousands of years of history of the entire Dragon Demon Planet seemed to be contained within these scenes.

Lanling was only responsible for remembering, not for analyzing.

Because everything was too fast; just remember it first and talk later.

Flying, flying, flying...

He flew tens of thousands of miles...

Lanling left the Fallen Land and came to the sky outside.

The sky here shared the same geographic position as the sky above Dragon Demon Planet, but it no longer counted as the same plane.

The frenzied explosion countless years ago had, in an instant, created two independent planar worlds in this region. One was the real world of Dragon Demon Planet, and one was the frozen world at the instant of destruction.

He looked up at the sky; there were still two moons!

"Whoosh..."

Lanling turned into a beam of light, once again flying toward the moon.

After flying for twenty hours!

There was only one moon before his eyes; the other moon had also vanished.

Only, this time, the moon before his eyes was that energy reflection, and not the moon he had gone to before.

Hovering above this moon, Lanling clearly saw the complex of buildings on its surface.

That was the Lunar Holy Palace!

After exhausting every hardship and going through the efforts and sacrifices of several generations of Masters of Yao Xing, Lanling had finally found the Lunar Holy Palace.

He had finally reached the Lunar Holy Palace!

...

Note: Here’s the second update. I earnestly beg for your support. I had something to do tonight and only got home after ten, so the update is especially late. My apologies.