Chapter 1049: Semi-Primordial, Chen Chu Holding Up the Heavens (I)

At the edge of the Abyssal Demonic Domain, which spanned billions of kilometers, a pitch-black void that devoured all appeared. At its dark center, the Destructive Dragon Emperor, whose size had surged to 150,000 meters, radiated a dazzling golden-black light, so bright it seemed forged entirely from pure brilliance.

The energy and mass it released were beyond description. They twisted space-time across a million kilometers, bending light and forming a white halo a hundred thousand kilometers in diameter around the black hole. As space within the area collapsed, even the principle power of the Abyssal Demonic Domain’s laws was torn apart, creating an absolute domain of destruction.

Such an aura made the majestic existence standing deep within the projection of the endless Dark-Red World lower its head slightly. A vague yet terrifying gaze pierced through time and space, crossing from a supreme world to fall upon the Dragon Emperor, as if surprised by its resolve.

No one, neither man nor colossal beast, had expected that the heaven-defying Dragon Emperor would choose to shatter its own bloodline when facing the Primordial Ancestor, whose power had broken through to the peak.

Even the Ancestor hadn’t foreseen this. In its ultimate form, the Dragon Emperor was comparable in all respects to a late-stage true spirit. Though it wasn’t the Ancestor’s match, if it chose to withdraw, the other couldn’t keep it here.

This was why such an extreme choice, with either both dying or it dying alone, made even the Ancestor falter for a moment. Then, a voice of wrath and shock, rumbling across billions of kilometers, shook the heavens. "Thunder Fiery Dragon King, is this worth it for an alien civilization?"

It was no wonder the Ancestor was shocked and angry. With its current power, it was confident it could suppress this colossal beast and wipe out human civilization, but it had never intended to kill the Dragon Emperor. One reason was that it was exceedingly difficult, and another was that even if it succeeded, should the other fight to the bitter end, it would sustain significant injury.

For an existence in the midst of recovering its strength and seeking a further breakthrough, this would be a poor bargain. Its soul and will had grown a hundred times more powerful and tenacious, giving it a glimpse of breaking into the primordial level. It would not willingly go back into more centuries of slumber with fresh wounds.

From the depths of the black hole came the low, resonant, and terrifying growl of the Dragon Emperor.

For me, it does not matter whether it is worth it.

In that moment, within the forbidden zone battlefield, the Golden-Blue Colossal Dragon let out a furious roar.

Thunder Fiery, you are mad! You will die! Stop this burning state at once!

The other ancient titans also roared in disbelief, unable to understand why the Dragon Emperor would go this far.

Flames erupted from the Magma Dragon’s body as its nine heads bellowed.

My king, we only came to support you. If we cannot win, we can retreat first!

Yes, if we cannot win, then retreat!

With your growth speed, by the next day-cycle, you will be able to crush this thing!

Ancient titans all let out anxious roars; even the Azure-White Colossal Dragon couldn’t hold back.

Thunder Fiery, your life-engraving wheel is barely over a year. Your potential is boundless; there is no need to fight this true demon to the death. We can withdraw first.

A year old!?

In an instant, the faerie kings, the Heavenly Feathered divine kings, and Divine King Tarodell all looked visibly shaken. They hadn’t misheard. That terrifying colossal beast, whose combat strength matched a late-stage true spirit, was barely more than a year old.

I can no longer stop.

At the black hole’s center, the Dragon Emperor, its scales split and radiant light bursting from within, turned its head, revealing a ferocious smile. However, due to the warped light, no one could see it.

Since I stepped onto the transcendent path, I have roamed the world, invincible in my era. I have always crushed my enemies head-on. No one has ever suppressed me. Kill.

Boom!

A roar shook the world. The black hole that twisted and annihilated all suddenly moved, appearing before the Primordial Ancestor in an instant. In its wake, the sturdy Demonic Domain collapsed, forming a pitch-black passage.

"If you wish to die, I will grant it. Fourfold Dark Eternal Night Ensnarement." The Ancestor, thousands of kilometers tall and shrouded in endless dark light, gripped its spear in both hands. Four arms behind it bore strange, gleaming black demonic runes, fingers forming identical seals.

The entire domain shook. Infinite power gathered behind the Primordial Ancestor, forming four towering figures with twin heads and feet, their visages both demon and devil. Each enormous abyssal face, a hundred thousand kilometers in size, overlapped, then merged into the Eternal Dark Heaven Demonic Spear in the Primordial Ancestor’s grasp.

Boom!

Blessed by the Ancestor’s bloodline divine ability, the demonic spear’s radiance flared, coiling with principle chains. It pierced through the chaotic black hole and appeared before the Dragon Emperor.

A dragon claw composed entirely of pure golden-black light met this strike. It carried a force that transcended past and future, blotting out heaven and earth. The moment it slowly thrust forth, the entire world trembled.

Boom!

When the claw met the spear, the black hole instantly swelled, its halo blazing. The four layers of principle chains entwined around the spear shattered in an instant. The chaotic, destructive force didn’t slow in the slightest. It poured forth in a violent surge, shattering millions of kilometers of the Abyssal Demonic Domain in a single strike. Principles collapsed as if a vast sheet of dark-red crystal had exploded.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The massive Ancestor shook violently, its steps retreating. Each footfall crushed the void beneath it, leaving behind gaping black hollows. The arm holding the demonic spear split apart at the scales, flesh mangled, and drops of black blood laced with Ominous energy sprayed into the air, burning through the void before vanishing.

Before the Dragon Emperor, now burning away all of its power, even the Ancestor at the peak of the true spirit level had fallen into disadvantage. This filled the Ancestor, who had moments ago hurled the Dragon Emperor away with pride, with furious rage.

Again. Again. My cultivation was higher, my realm greater, my power superior, yet before that woman back then and this colossal beast today, I still wasn’t strong enough. Unforgivable.

"You all deserve to die!" Its roar, saturated with killing intent, shook the heavens and earth. The Ancestor’s aura exploded upward, dark-red flames blazing from its body and surging to a height of ten thousand kilometers. Burning away a tenth of its origin to strengthen its power was still not enough. With a bellow, the three-headed, six-armed Ancestor seized the head on its left and ripped it off.

Splurt!

The torn wound was a mess of flesh and blood, the black-and-red crystal-like spine exposed. Several drops of black blood sprayed out, making a gruesome and shocking sight.

The head gripped in its hand stared fixedly at the Dragon Emperor. Its mouth opened slightly, whispering in some frightening language, before dissolving into black smoke and scattering.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

Countless black runes appeared out of thin air across the Dragon Emperor’s body. Each rune was like a wicked ghost, trying to pounce upon it and gnaw away its flesh.

As soon as these curse-like runes approached, they dissolved into black smoke in the radiance emanating from its body. However, they surpassed the normal scope of principles and approached the level of pure concept[1]. They surged forth endlessly from nothingness in a frenzied tide.

Even with the Chaotic Dark Force and the Dragon Emperor’s force field, they couldn’t be fully dissolved. Occasionally, one would land on its scales, leaving behind a black mark several meters wide. They resembled grimacing ghost faces with eerie smiles, greedily drawing away the Dragon Emperor’s life force.

In proportion to its massive body, these marks were almost imperceptible, and the tiny amount of life force they drained was negligible in its burning state. However, if they accumulated...

Boom!

The Demonic Domain shuddered violently, its central region collapsing. The two terrifying figures clashed once more, this time with no intention of stopping until one of them perished.

Though the Dragon Emperor was overwhelmingly powerful in its current state, the Primordial Ancestor knew that this life-shattering eruption could last no more than half a day before it burned to nothing. In half a day, it would suffer only moderate depletion and lose part of its origin at most.

Sensing the massive energy waves millions of kilometers away, the Silver Colossal Dragon flapped its wings and released a high, exhilarated roar.

Kill it, Ao Tian, blast that thing apart!

On the ground, the Deep Sea Dragon Turtle planted its limbs and stretched its neck upward to bellow in excitement.

Thunder Fiery, blast that wretched thing apart, better yet tear it to pieces with your own claws!

K-Kill them all! Thunder Fiery is invincible!

The Single-Horned Kunpeng, which had already broken through to the beginning stage of the titan level, flew through the air like a vast winged beast.

So strong, Ao Ba, invincible, unstoppable!

Thunder Fiery, invincible!

The Nine-Headed Dragon, coiled in the air, and Zhulong both let out deep, soaring roars. Feeling the invisible, suffocating might that filled the skies, their entire bodies trembled with excitement.

Compared to the ancient-titan-level dragon kings, the colossal beasts that had followed the Dragon Emperor from the Blue Planet knew it better. Although the Dragon Emperor fought each battle with madness, bloodlust, and ferocity, it was in truth extraordinarily steady, never taking action without certainty. They also remembered that the Dragon Emperor possessed a life-based innate ability.

However, even as the colossal beasts roared to the heavens in support of the distant Dragon Emperor, endless demonic qi surged from beyond the forbidden zone. A legion of over ten billion dark demon phantoms roared within. At their head, eighteen shadowy figures radiated an aura on par with a demon god. Though the Dragon Emperor blocked the Primordial Ancestor from approaching the forbidden zone, that didn’t mean it had no other means.

Three-faced and ten-armed, emanating the pressure of an ordinary true spirit, Chen Chu let out a long howl. “Everyone at the mythical level and above, come with me! Block the entrance to the forbidden zone! Those demon phantoms are immortal. We can’t let them enter!”

Boom!

Space collapsed as Chen Chu crossed hundreds of thousands of kilometers in a few strides to reach the edge of the forbidden zone. This area, ravaged first by the apocalyptic nuclear weapons' explosions and then by a breath attack from the Dragon Emperor that had triggered the forbidden zone’s upheaval, had seen its original entrance shrink to about a hundred thousand kilometers.

It was split into dozens of passages, some wide, some narrow, forming channels through a place even ancient-titan-level beings dared not tread. The widest spanned more than thirty thousand kilometers, while the narrowest were only a few hundred to a thousand kilometers across.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

Led by four demon shadows that radiated demon-god-level pressure, countless dark legions bellowed in savagery, surging madly toward Chen Chu, who stood at the entrance of the widest channel.

Boom!

A halberd light blazing with brilliant golden dark-golden radiance cut across the void. The moment it descended, heaven and earth erupted in a cataclysm, forming a passage of destruction over a hundred thousand kilometers long and ten thousand kilometers wide.

Under that domineering, unmatched force, tens of millions of the dark legions turned to ash, including the four demon god phantoms. The dark phantom legions, immortal and undying, born of the Primordial Ancestor’s principles, were indeed terrifying, but they were not without weaknesses.

The stronger the phantoms reflected, the greater the fall in its strength. The phantom of Tyretis that Chen Chu shattered with a single halberd strike possessed only a tenth of its peak power. They also had no true consciousness, only fragments of battle instinct.

Even so, they were fearsome. If given enough time to contaminate more of the heavens and earth, demonize countless transcendent lives and mythical beings, the Ancestor’s power would reach unimaginable heights. This was because one of its bloodline abilities was to absorb the bloodline power of those it had demonized as they grew, feeding it back to itself.

Moreover, by devouring those true demons, it could also manifest them as dark demon phantoms. This mutually reinforcing bloodline ability was, in a sense, almost without weakness. If its innate ability had been just a little stronger, in the course of one hundred thousand years, it would already have reached an even higher stage.

1. This is just like laws and principles; in this novel, it serves as a kind of power. ☜