Chapter 1034: Decisive Killing Blow, Reversing Causality (I)

The moment the two Chen Chus entered the Dark Star World-Ending Form, dazzling rays of light dyed the entire world in a golden-purple hue. A boundless and ancient aura filled the heavens and earth.

Chen Chu’s three-faced, ten-armed true form soared explosively from ten thousand meters to thirty thousand. Six of his arms each wielded formidable companion weapons, such as the Golden Sun and the Death Millstone. Most strikingly, the white-golden light wheel, manifesting from the planar world, emitted layers of brilliant halos that rippled outward. At that moment, Chen Chu appeared as an ultimate deity descending from the past, stepping upon the river of time itself to suppress and annihilate the demon gods who would bring about the world’s end.

Yet as overwhelming as Chen Chu's aura was, the two demon gods opposite him, Tyretis and Cardeos, unleashed an equally monstrous demonic force, their presence piercing straight into the heavens.

"Chu Batian!"

Boom!

Tyretis roared viciously as dazzling black light erupted from the demonic saber in its hands. Instantly, a pitch-black saber radiance, tens of thousands of meters in length, cleaved downward with the power to split heaven and earth. The entire world split in two under the fearsome Demonic Saber of Darkness, forming a black abyss stretching across tens of thousands of kilometers.

The instant Tyretis launched its attack, Chen Chu, clad in dark-golden armor with his long hair blazing like golden-purple flames, shattered space itself as he shot forward. The dark-golden Eight Desolations Halberd descended with the crushing might of a neutron star, collapsing vast stretches of heaven and earth into a void thousands of kilometers wide and obliterating everything in its path.

In a blink of an eye, the incomparably heavy Eight Desolations Halberd collided fiercely with the saber light.

Boom!

The entire world shook violently as rings of black-and-gold energy erupted. They expanded relentlessly like an endlessly swelling black hole, devouring sky and land across tens of thousands of kilometers. Deep within that black hole, the two powers battled furiously.

Within moments, they exchanged tens of thousands of blows. The Eight Desolations Halberd, imbued with the will of world creation, swept through unmatched. Amplified by the top-level divine ability Vacuum Annihilation, its power became even more domineering and unstoppable. The exploding white-golden sun erupted like a supernova, instantly destroying an area tens of thousands of kilometers wide.

Yet, Tyretis’s Demonic Saber of Darkness was equally terrifying. Each slash held the dreadful power to obliterate worlds. Under its blade, the rules of heaven and earth shattered, and space-time itself crumbled. Whether it was the purple lightning spear of light stretching over a hundred thousand meters or the gray millstone spanning the heavens, all were sliced in two with a single strike.

Even the elusive Soul Chains, which directly attacked the soul, shattered under the onslaught of the Demonic Saber. Imbued with the power of an entire world's principle power, the saber demonstrated absolute dominance in Tyretis’s hands, unstoppable and utterly overwhelming.

The entire world shook madly from their battle, the deafening roars of their collisions echoing endlessly. Their powers reached near semi-true-spirit level, annihilating everything within a hundred-thousand-kilometer radius instantly. The invisible shockwaves of destruction alarmed even the distant battling demon gods and the Heavenly Feathered divine kings, for this was power from another dimension entirely.

Their violent clash even pierced through the deeper layers of space, leaving behind pitch-black rifts tens of thousands of kilometers long that persisted in the depths of the void. From these rifts emerged pairs of evil, crazed eyes, spying greedily upon the material world above. Yet, sensing the dreadful aura outside, the void monsters dared not take a single step forward.

Boom!

A pitch-black saber light sliced through heaven and earth, spanning over fifty thousand kilometers. It surged with devastating force toward the fifth heavenly palace guarded by Tolstoy, the Golden-Winged Divine King.

Feeling the ominous presence approaching, Tolstoy's expression changed, especially since he was already directly facing one late-stage ancient-titan-level demon god and another middle-stage ancient-titan-level demon god.

"Do not be distracted; leave it to me."

At the highest level of the Nine-Heaven Palace, Faerie King Xuntian raised an azure lotus in his palm. With the power of heaven and earth, he formed a colossal azure palm imprint that collided directly with the black saber light.

Boom!

The azure palm imprint only momentarily halted the saber’s advance before shattering explosively, scattering azure light across heaven and earth.

Undiminished, the powerful saber light struck the fifth heavenly palace's golden barrier, slicing through the unique world traits and creating a rift over thirty thousand kilometers long in the heavenly palace itself.

Pfft!

Tolstoy, instantly injured by the backlash, spat out a mouthful of blood, his power shaken violently. The difference between peak-ancient-titan-level power and semi-true-spirit level was immense.

Before the two demon gods besieging Tolstoy could even rejoice, a streak of dark-golden halberd light crossed time itself and descended with explosive force. Instantly, the space above the two demon gods collapsed into a massive black hole tens of thousands of kilometers wide.

"Watch out!"

"Block it!"

The two demon gods—one ten thousand meters tall, the other twenty thousand—roared furiously. Black flames and dark-red radiance surged from them, their auras explosively strengthened within their dark domains. Behind the late-stage ancient-titan-level demon god, a dark-red monster phantom emerged from the demonic region, rising slowly as though crawling out of an abyss. At the same time, 108 demon god pillars, each a thousand meters thick and seemingly tangible, soared skyward around the other demon god, burning with abyssal hellfire.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The dark-red monster phantom shattered instantly, and the pillars exploded one by one. Half of two demon gods’ true forms shattered violently. They vomited blood, crashing like meteors into their own dark domains. They pierced tens of thousands of kilometers downward, then slammed fiercely into the earth.

Boom!

The heavens shattered and the earth split open. Within a range of ten thousand kilometers, the land fractured, and a violent explosion mixed with countless shards of debris blasted skyward.

"Chu Batian, you court death!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In an instant, the battle between the two intensified explosively. However, with Chen Chu’s deliberate guidance, the battlefield gradually shifted deeper into the forbidden zone, away from where Qian Tian and the others were still locked in combat with more than ten demon gods.

While Chen Chu’s ancient-titan-level time clone held back Tyretis’ true form, his main body stood tens of thousands of kilometers away, his expression solemn as he looked into the distance. Compared to Tyretis, who had only revealed its true form and was using just half its strength, the aura of the great demon god named Cardeos was far more terrifying.

Unlike most demon gods whose true forms grew more arms the stronger they were, Cardeos’s hundred-thousand-meter-tall true form had only three heads and six arms, but it was lean and formidable. Its entire body was encased in pitch-black armor covered in backward spikes and sharp horns, including its demonic heads, which bore nine curved horns and were fully covered.

The overall appearance resembled the noble true demon from the Purgatory Clan that Chen Chu had encountered during his first battle on the southern battlefield, only now, it was far stronger and more horrifying.

Standing in the midst of a dark-red abyssal world, the invisible aura emanating from Cardeos suppressed the principles of heaven and earth, crushed space, and distorted time. It was like the ruler of an abyssal realm. In truth, it had fully condensed the abyssal principles and drawn forth the true Supreme Abyss, becoming its sovereign.

As it stood amid the abyss, crimson light glowed behind the faceplate over Cardeos’s eyes, and its voice, infused with divine soul and will, echoed through time and space. "Human, your talent... Even in the past ten thousand years, I have never seen anything like it. Had you been born in one of the top civilizations, you might’ve had a chance to become a star beyond the heavens. Unfortunately, today you are fated to die by my hand. To kill a freak with the potential of becoming a primordial star... Just thinking about it makes my blood boil.

Hahahaha, hahahaha

..."

As it laughed, the great demon god’s body radiated madness, brimming with boundless evil and murderous intent.

Boom!

Black light surged across Cardeos’s armor as its figure shattered space. It blasted a pitch-black passage tens of thousands of kilometers long through the air, reappearing right before Chen Chu. Its speed was so blinding that time itself seemed to halt within his awareness.

The instant Cardeos’s dragon-claw-like hand struck out, Chen Chu moved without hesitation, erupting with even greater speed. On the temporal plane where time had nearly stopped, Chen Chu swept his heavy, razor-sharp halberd, annihilating all in its path. A pitch-black arc slashed directly toward the demonic claw.

There was no thunderous explosion, just expanding black ripples that tore through space and time, unraveling layer after layer of the world. Only then came the eruption, as a black hole over forty thousand kilometers wide appeared, its roar shaking the world.

Boom!

Time and space trembled as chaotic energy surged violently. Chen Chu’s expression darkened as his body was hurled deep into the void by Cardeos’s unstoppable strength.

"Human, you're far too weak," Cardeos said coldly, standing amid the void filled with corrupted darkness, its gaze twisted with savagery and madness. It seemed more monstrous than any void monster.

Boom!

Cardeos’s aura erupted even more violently, and behind it, the dark-red Supreme Abyss plane descended once more, suppressing the void.

"My abyssal principles have fully matured, and I have become one with a world-level Dark Heaven Demonic Battle Armor. I now stand at the pinnacle of a world's principle. If not for the shackles of the bloodline, I would have long since reached the true spirit level and become the sovereign of the abyss. For me, the dark demonic domain is unnecessary. Even in this void where all power and matter is twisted, I remain unaffected. But here, every ounce of power you expend brings you closer to exhaustion. I am destined to be the one who tears you apart."

Cardeos wasn’t speaking nonsense; it was attempting to shatter Chen Chu’s will and resolve through words. At Chen Chu’s current level, killing him was no easier than defeating an ordinary true spirit. That was why Cardeos wouldn’t waste any opportunity to weaken its enemy. What it didn’t know was that Chen Chu had already mastered the Law of Void. Coupled with his Void Death Pupils, the void was practically his home ground.

Brilliant golden-purple light surged all around. Chen Chu, wielding his halberd, remained silent as he activated a second power within him.

Boom!

In that instant, a mightier force erupted from his body. Purple-black dragon scales covered his form, a pair of forked dragon horns sprouted atop his head, and a tail lashed out behind him.

With the eruption of the Destructive Dragon Emperor bloodline, Chen Chu’s thirty-thousand-meter-tall true form grew even larger, his muscles swelling with power. Simultaneously, on the left side of his phantom demon god face, the vertical blood-red eye on his brow snapped open.

Splurt!

A blood-colored rift tore open in the void behind Chen Chu. An endless torrent of blood-red light poured out like a celestial river, forming a hell drenched in crimson radiance. The moment the Supreme Hell descended, those torrents of blood-red light surged into Chen Chu.

With the fusion of the Dark Star World-Ending Form, the Dragon Emperor bloodline, and the blood power of the Supreme Hell, Chen Chu’s aura soared once more. His entire being transformed into a blood-red world-destroying demonic dragon, exuding an indescribably terrifying pressure.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A tremendous aura surged through the void, annihilating countless hidden void monsters within a range of one hundred thousand kilometers. They were wiped out in an instant. Even the river of time trembled.

In their previous clash, Chen Chu had been immediately overpowered in terms of raw strength by Cardeos. That domineering force, capable of crushing all of space-time, had already reached the true spirit level. Coupled with the armor that completely negated the light of the Eight Desolations Halberd, even Chen Chu felt immense pressure.

Thus, without hesitation, he pushed himself into his peak explosive state, regardless of the cost.