The yellowing leaves fluttered slowly to the ground.
The demons that had been frozen in mid - air spread their wings again.
Yan Ruyu's flute melody sounded once more.
Zhao Huai unfurled his enormous wings fully.
What they were originally about to face was a massive explosion of high - level spiritual power mixed with divine power.
But at this very moment, all that divine power seemed to be withdrawn completely.
Everyone came to a halt.
Mo Yan stood still, his face showing an expression of disbelief.
Then, as the formation pressed closer, his body could no longer exert the powerful strength it had before.
With a shrill scream, Mo Yan's body was torn into countless pieces by the starry sky formation.
Before this, there had clearly been numerous spreading vines, but in an instant, they all disappeared.
It was as if those vines had never existed.
Everyone was greatly shocked and looked at each other in dismay.
"How could this be?"
"It's so easy."
Just now, Mo Yan had clearly unleashed an extremely powerful force.
Even if Mo Yan was doomed to die in the end, they wouldn't have fared well either.
At best, they would die on the spot; at worst, they wouldn't even be able to preserve their corpses and would end up completely annihilated.
But why did Mo Yan suddenly back down?
Moreover, the look in his eyes before he died was clearly one of fear.
Zhao Huai looked at Yan Ruyu. There were already quite a few bloodstains on Yan Ruyu's blue robe.
Zhao Huai's wings were also covered in blue liquid, which was his own blood.
"What's going on?"
Yan Ruyu shook his head. He didn't know either.
Then he looked at the ground, his pupils contracting rapidly.
Yan Ruyu's figure suddenly paused and then disappeared in mid - air, reappearing on the ground where Zhao Shuning had been lying.
Seeing this, Zhao Huai quickly flew in Yan Ruyu's direction.
"Where's little Ning'er?"
"Ning'er is gone."
Yan Ruyu looked at Song Zhiyi beside him.
There was regret in Song Zhiyi's eyes.
"Where's Ning'er?"
"I don't know either. Just now, Sister Ling was still here."
Yan Ruyu suddenly stood up. A stronger sense of unease quickly enveloped him.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Huai quickly asked.
At this moment, the space above the entire Kyushu Continent was distorted.
"Yan Ruyu, what's going on?"
"The evil star has been eliminated. Why is there such an abnormal phenomenon?"
Yan Ruyu quickly changed hand gestures in front of him. Relying on his powerful willpower, he summoned the starry disk formation.
Along with the appearance of the starry disk formation, Feng Zhan also appeared.
"Bu Ran, what happened?"
Yan Ruyu looked at the starry disk formation. In the center of the formation, the red light emitted by a dimly - visible constellation was getting stronger and stronger.
Following it were dozens of small constellations.
"What's going on?"
With a wave of his hand, Yan Ruyu made the image and the starry disk formation disappear. He frowned tightly.
"Go find Ning'er. Hurry."
At this moment, Yan Ruyu's hands were trembling, and his eye sockets were blood - red.
Zhao Huai grabbed Yan Ruyu and asked, "Yan Ruyu, what on earth is going on? Where's little Ning'er? Do you know where she went?"
"I, I don't know—"
"Then why are you so panicked?"
"Nothing, it's okay—"
Yan Ruyu forced himself to remain calm, but the panic in his heart had already made him, who was usually so cool and composed, unable to speak clearly.
"Yan Ruyu, if you know something, just tell me. If something happens to little Ning'er, I will never forgive you, and those so - called promises from before will be null and void."
"Null and void then."
Yan Ruyu pushed Zhao Huai away. He had to go find Ning'er.
"Do you know what's going to happen?"
Zhao Huai blocked Yan Ruyu. Yan Ruyu's face was deathly pale at this moment.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Maybe our previous guess was wrong."
Yan Ruyu's lips were bloodless, looking extremely pitiful.
"What do you mean?"
"Ning'er, she might, she might be the evil star I've been looking for."
"You're talking nonsense."
Zhao Huai pushed Yan Ruyu away. But Yan Ruyu just gave a desolate smile.
"The evil star is about to be born. Didn't you see the indication from the starry disk formation just now? The evil star is about to be born. I thought that by eliminating Mo Yan, protecting Ning'er, and gathering everyone's strength, we could stop the birth of the evil star. But I didn't know, Zhao Huai, that it was our actions that actually hastened the birth of the evil star."
"You're talking nonsense!" Zhao Huai clearly hadn't accepted this shocking news yet.
"Yan Ruyu, are you just judging her to be the evil star based on the previous starry disk formation and Ning'er's disappearance? Don't you have any trust in Ning'er at all?"
"I trust her, of course I do. But Zhao Huai, didn't you notice what was beneath that huge constellation just now?"
Zhao Huai recalled.
"The red light?"
"Yes, that's the light that can only appear when the Karma Fire of the Red Lotus collides with the Bana Flower."
Zhao Huai was stunned. He had also found it strange before.
The constellation was clearly a pure white color.
Why was the light emitted by the evil star in the starry disk formation in the image just now a bright red color?
"What do you want to do? You want to find Ning'er now to eliminate her, right? You want to find her to fulfill your mission as a member of the Feng family, right?"
Eliminating the evil star and protecting the safety of the people on the Kyushu Continent was originally Yan Ruyu's mission.
"Do you really think so?"
Zhao Huai took a step back. Yan Ruyu's eyes were blood - red, even covering the original blue color.
"I have to find her."
Zhao Huai blocked in front of Yan Ruyu.
"I won't let you hurt little Ning'er. Whether she is the evil star or a heinous demon, since she is my sister, I will protect her. No one can hurt her."
Zhao Huai's expression was extremely serious.
But at this moment, Yan Ruyu showed a bitter smile.
"Yan Ruyu, you let down little Ning'er's feelings for you."
"Zhao Huai, you can't stop this. Your strength is very powerful, but can you stop all the cultivators on the Kyushu Continent from attacking her?"
"What do you mean?"
"The birth of the evil star. Do you think only we know about it?"
Yan Ruyu continued.
"This incident will cause a huge stir, reaching up to the Nine Heavens and down to the Underworld. Thousands of years ago, there was an Emperor Yan in the Three Realms. He was the illegitimate son of the Demon King. Later, he rose to power. With his half - human and half - demon bloodline, he almost punched a huge hole in the Nine Heavens. You should know about this."
Zhao Huai certainly knew. It was precisely because of Emperor Yan that the people in his demon realm were completely destroyed.
Back then, Emperor Yan had fallen in love with Yan Ruyu's biological mother, the second young lady of the Underworld, Spirit Maiden Nian Nian.
For her, he almost caused the entire Three Realms to be destroyed. The impact and casualties he caused were countless.