Chapter 1025: Blood Moon in the Sky, the Great Battle Ends (I)

Within the seven-colored stream of light, where time rapidly rewound, divine silver light burst forth from the eye at the center of Chen Chu’s brow, illuminating the frozen vision of the future he had glimpsed. As he gazed at the figure radiating a powerful aura, standing in opposition to the void monsters, a flicker of astonishment appeared in Chen Chu’s eyes.

That woman looked like Shi Feitong, yet compared to the girl of sixteen or seventeen he remembered, the woman in the image appeared more mature, more beautiful, and her figure had grown even fuller.

Cough! What am I even thinking?

Chen Chu shook his head and, at the same time, the silver eye at his brow dimmed and vanished.

This spontaneous glimpse into the future through the storm of time had only lasted a brief moment, but it consumed a full tenth of the power within his body. Still, what he had seen was significant. It was someone he once knew from the Lost World.

Though it was only a fleeting fragment of the future and he hadn’t been physically present, judging by the portion of the void monster that was revealed, with just a corner of its body spanning over a thousand kilometers, the powers involved had clearly surpassed the ancient titan level.

Back then, the Lost World had been unable to withstand beings of such magnitude. Evidently, who knew how many years after his departure, Shi Feirou and the others had entered the mythical world, embarking on the path of the ancients. It was highly likely they had used the altar of coordinates to locate the ancient human race.

"Unfortunately, this was just a vision of the future. I couldn’t establish contact with her or the ancient human race behind her. Otherwise, if they sent over even one or two true spirit level beings, or one emperor from the Ancient Civilization that’s no doubt grown stronger, we could easily suppress the Purgatory Demon Clan." With a quiet sigh, Chen Chu vanished into the turbulent currents of time.

At that same moment, just as Chen Chu locked onto his time clone’s coordinate and leapt back through the Supreme Hell’s portal, a black-haired woman standing in the void of that future timeline suddenly looked up. "Who is watching me?"

Boom!

An immense pressure erupted from Shi Feitong. Endless black flames surged upward, forming a dark sun that radiated an intense heat from the principle of annihilation. The black flames melted everything; even the principles of heaven and earth and the foundational space were obliterated, giving rise to pitch-black, continuously expanding rifts that pierced deep into the fabric of time and space.

Just as Shi Feitong was about to follow that obscure sense of being watched and trace it back to the observer, a roar of overwhelming evil and chaos exploded from deep within the void. Amid the terrifying howl, dozens of black, spike-covered tentacles extended from the void. Grey mist coiled around them, releasing a dreadful aura that made all living beings despair.

At the center of the black sun, Shi Feitong’s eyes turned cold, black flames burning within them. "Seeking death."

In the blink of an eye, a great battle broke out.

***

In the ruins of the Silver Forest Forbidden Zone was a massive crater spanning tens of thousands of kilometers, blasted open by Chen Chu’s halberd. Time suddenly twisted and folded above, forming rings of translucent ripples.

Chen Chu’s figure gradually emerged from nothingness, finally bursting free from the depths of time. Because of how time was oriented, only a few minutes had passed from when he first entered the temporal rift to the moment he came back.

Just as he returned, the sky collapsed, and boundless black-and-white light exploded outward in every direction, engulfing the entire world. Simultaneously, a black-and-white divine wheel, as massive as a mountain, descended from the heavens. It sliced through space, tearing open a dark rift stretching tens of thousands of kilometers across the sky and earth.

Boom!

Along the edge of the abyssal crater, the ground shattered again, forming a semicircular pit ten thousand kilometers wide. The intense release of yin-yang power hurled countless rocks and clumps of soil thousands of kilometers into the sky. A storm of dust and wind swept over an area of tens of thousands of kilometers.

Above the sky, a demon god stood tall, gripping a crimson blood-colored saber. A monstrous, violent aura radiated from its body. Where the blade pointed, everything was torn apart.

Facing this late-stage ancient-titan-level demon god, who was the ruler of an empire holding a world-level weapon, Qian Tian could only barely hold on by reversing the principles of life and death to reach peak combat power.

At the bottom of the crater, amid the collapsed space, Qian Tian suppressed the churning power in his body, holding up the Divine Yin-Yang Wheel. A trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes as he considered whether to use the inherited artifact sealed within him.

Just then, Chen Chu’s voice rang out from tens of thousands of kilometers away, low and resonant. "Qian Tian, allow me to deal with this demon god."

As Chen Chu spoke, the aura he had instinctively kept hidden was now fully released. Karotis, standing high above the heavens thirty thousand kilometers away, suddenly looked over.

Sensing Chen Chu’s aura, a smile emerged on Qian Tian’s face. Chen Chu’s main body had returned. Clearly, their primary target, Deorus, had already been slain, and the Purgatory Demon Clan had lost another demon god.

"I’ll leave this to you, Chen Chu." With a long howl, Qian Tian swept up the divine yin-yang light and rushed toward a distant battlefield.

There, Livedes and two demon gods had only just begun their clash, but were already being beaten so badly by Tarodell and the other two that their true forms had cracked. Their auras were feeble, and all attempts to burn their origin and break out had been blocked. Now sensing the principles of yin-yang and life and death hurtling toward them from over seventy thousand kilometers away, the two’s faces contorted with despair.

Ignoring Qian Tian’s departure, Karotis narrowed its eyes as it looked toward Chen Chu’s ten-armed, three-faced figure approaching with a halberd in hand, stepping across the void.

Although Chen Chu had withdrawn from the Dark Star World-Ending Dragon Emperor Form due to extreme depletion, the pressure he emitted remained as heavy and domineering as ever, shaking the heavens and earth.

Dark-red blood-colored light swirled around Karotis, and like a great demon of the abyss, it slowly said in a cold, low voice, "Human, of all I’ve seen in ten thousand years, your talent stands unmatched."

Chen Chu was no stranger to Karotis. Back on the battlefield where the Heavenly Feathered Race had fought to the death, this human, while only at the level of a great demon king, had slain a demon god.

Although that demon god had only just broken through to the beginning stage of the ancient titan level, the achievement still provoked the killing intent of every demon god, including Karotis. Had it not been entangled at the time with the Divine King of Light, the three rulers of the three great empires, including Tyretis, would have long since joined forces to strike him down with overwhelming thunderous might.

Now, after just over a day-cycle, this human had already reached the demon god level, emanating an aura so dangerous that even Karotis felt a deep sense of threat.

Seeing that this demon god hadn’t attacked immediately, and with the advantage still in his grasp, the heavily depleted Chen Chu remained calm and coolly said, "To think I'd one day hear a compliment from the mouth of a demon god. Should I feel honored right now?"

Karotis' gaze was icy. "You certainly should. But in the vast world, having too much talent often leads to an early death. I hope next time we meet, you’ll still look this relaxed."

As soon as its words fell, the abyssal world behind Karotis quaked, and a colossal black demon claw stretched forth from its depths. A heavy, dark aura spread out at once, towering above all things. A single wisp of that aura was enough to suppress the laws of this entire world.

Seeing the giant claw covered in black fur, Chen Chu’s pupils contracted slightly, and he felt a shiver of dread from its presence.

This had come from the true Supreme Abyss.

Boom!

A blinding brilliance erupted from Chen Chu, as dazzling as a blazing star. Bands of golden-white lightning exploded outward, forming an immense electric net that spanned ten thousand kilometers.

Whether it was due to the influence of the Dragon Emperor’s heavenly-tier aura or something else, the supreme principle that Chen Chu wielded manifested as lightning after breaking through to the ancient titan level. Under the might of this pure and overbearing power, the space within ten thousand kilometers shattered with a deafening roar.

From within the vortex of destruction and spatial storms, saturated with the Supreme Power Principle, a black-and-gold halberd light wrapped in golden-white bands of light tore through space-time.

From afar, it looked like two colossal ancient demon gods clashing, as the halberd and demon claw collided in an instant. The entire world seemed to fall still.

Crack! Crack!

Massive cracks appeared along the halberd’s black-and-gold light, while the sky-darkening demon claw’s back also radiated golden-white brilliance.

Boom!

The halberd light shattered, the demon claw exploded, and a world-shattering force was unleashed. It was as if a star had expanded tens of thousands of times, releasing golden-black light that lit up the heavens. Even Chen Chu was sent flying from the force of the blast.

As the torrent of annihilating energy swept across all living things, the roar of explosions thundered in Chen Chu’s ears. His principle domain shook violently, and diamond-shaped golden halos flickered around him.

Using the momentum of that strike’s destructive impact, Karotis shattered the void in an instant, becoming a streak of dark-red light that raced across the skies and spanned hundreds of thousands of kilometers in a flash.

Now that Chen Chu had returned, and the tide had turned, Karotis had no desire to linger in battle, and burned its origin to activate its bloodline divine ability. Once that single strike sent Chen Chu flying, it decisively withdrew, preparing to retreat into the dark domain and regroup with the other demon gods.

Otherwise, once Livedes and the other demon god fell and Tarodell's group closed in, even it likely wouldn’t escape today.