Chapter 1053: Divine Fusion Dragon Emperor, Beyond Heaven and Earth (I)

Chen Chu had been suppressing the Divine Fusion all along, waiting for the outcome of the mythical surge. The moment the Destructive Dragon Emperor had arrived, the fate of the Purgatory Clan in this battle had already been sealed. The real concern was the Blue Planet.

If he had fused with the colossal beast’s body beforehand, the overwhelming power would have been unable to enter the Blue Planet. If anything changed there, he would have been unable to lend assistance.

Now that the Blue Planet was stable, Chen Chu had no more concerns. The instant his weakened self, hanging on by a thread, fell into the Dragon Emperor’s mouth, he initiated the Divine Fusion, taking the Dragon Emperor as the main body. Without a sound, Chen Chu’s mighty true form instantly collapsed, turning into a vast mist of blood that merged into the Dragon Emperor.

This fusion was not only of the true forms, but also the uniting of the once-divided soul. It included all high-level laws under Chen Chu’s command, his two supreme principles, six great divine abilities, the Void Death Pupils, and the planar world. Everything merged under his soul-based ability with the Dragon Emperor’s supreme principle and ten innate abilities, triggering an intense reaction.

Above the sky, the Dragon Emperor raised its head in a roar, releasing an incomparably dazzling nine-colored radiance that illuminated the entire world. Within that brilliance emerged an aura so fearsome it made all beings, even the Primordial Ancestor, tremble in fear.

"What is happening!?" Within the Abyssal Demonic Domain dyed in nine-colored light, the Ancestor, whose true form was thousands of kilometers tall, roared in fury and alarm. Dark principle sequence chains solidified and coiled around it, demonic force surging to the heavens. The black light of its demonic spear flared, shattering space and time.

With its full strength, the Ancestor poured the power of billions of kilometers of demonic domain into that strike, condensing the power of heaven and earth into the phantom of an enormous world. From afar, it was as if a colossal world rose from the ground, smashing toward the brilliant light above the sky.

Boom!

That demonic spear strike, enough to shatter half a planet, began to collapse under the endless nine-colored radiance when it was still a million kilometers away from the Dragon Emperor.

Even at the peak of the true spirit level, the Primordial Ancestor couldn’t even get close to the Divine Transformation Dragon Emperor. The sight shocked all of the faerie kings, divine kings, and ancient titans. None could believe the brilliance shining above the sky.

The figure wreathed in nine-colored light kept growing, a thousand kilometers, ten thousand kilometers, a hundred thousand kilometers. Its aura grew ever stronger, an oppressive might that surpassed even the true spirit level and filled the heavens and earth. Within a span of ten billion kilometers, the land and sky trembled beneath that light. Its invisible aura crushed the void itself, forcing everyone down to the ground with a thunderous crash, including the colossal beasts. The billions upon billions of dark troops disintegrated into nothingness. Under that divine radiance, like the blazing majesty of heaven, the demon phantoms condensed from dark power were utterly exposed, their foundational principles collapsing in an instant. The scene resembled the sun and moon hanging in the sky.

Primordial!

The unreachable, indescribable word surfaced instinctively in everyone’s mind.

Hoever, Heavenly King Xuanwu and the others’ faces darkened in anger as they looked toward that colossal figure straddling the void above the sky.

So this is the real reason that colossal beast always aided Chen Chu. All of it was for the sake of devouring him and everything he possesses.

Though the crowd was unaware of Divine Fusion or the fact that the two were originally one, they immediately guessed the cause, since the Dragon Emperor’s transformation had only begun the instant it swallowed Chen Chu. Yet before a terrifying beast that had nearly become a primordial existence, even the furious Xuanwu and the others dared not speak, nor risk provoking it. They were unafraid of death, but feared that in its anger, that beast would wipe out all of humanity with a single swipe. Primordial beings were a force that surpassed emperors; they were unmatchable.

The primordial darkness faded, and even the Ancestor’s world-shaking aura rapidly weakened, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

It fled. That true demon, whose demonic force had towered to the heavens, had decisively chosen to escape upon realizing that even its full-force spear couldn’t approach the Dragon Emperor.

Did... you... really... think... you... can... leave?

Above the sky, the Dragon Emperor slowly turned its head. Its gaze pierced across time and space, fixing on the depths of the void a billion kilometers away.

Though it radiated dazzling nine-colored light, its 120,000-kilometer-long true form was split into halves, one pitch-black as ink, the other golden. The black half seethed with indescribable destruction, the very embodiment of supreme chaotic annihilation. Any life below the mythical level would be reduced to ash at a mere glance. The golden half, from its gleaming scales and dorsal fins to its fearsome claws, emanated the aura of creation, containing seemingly boundless vitality and future.

Its three pairs of six dragon horns were also black and gold, exuding both supreme majesty and savage menace. Its long mane remained jet-black, but the edges of its strands were aglow with nine-colored light, flowing down its dorsal fins to the tail and swaying as if aflame without wind.

The left side commanded destruction and the end, while the right side wielded primordial creation. This was the Divine Fusion form after Chen Chu’s true form fused with the colossal beast’s body.

It wasn’t only an external change. The power of the Divine Fusion Dragon Emperor was so great it couldn’t be described. Its cultivation had broken through from the late stage of the ancient titan level to the peak of the true spirit level, and had even reached the semi-primordial level. Its true strength had shattered the boundaries of the mythical world’s principles and stepped into the realm of the primordial.

This was the reason Chen Chu had chosen to fuse with the colossal beast as the main body. After abandoning the Heavenly Dao Seal, his human form had all of its cultivation and power—gained earlier through the origin of the solar system—stripped away and left behind in the Blue Planet’s world. Moreover, holding up the heavens had exhausted all of his strength, almost killing him. He had only survived because his soul essence was strong enough.

If he had chosen to use his human form at the beginning stage of the ancient titan level as the main body, he likely would have only reached the beginning or middle stage of the true spirit level after Divine Fusion. In that case, using the colossal beast at the late stage of the ancient titan level as the main body was naturally the safer choice.

The Dragon Emperor felt incomparably strong. It felt as if, with a casual swipe of its claws, it could obliterate the billions of kilometers of the Abyssal Demonic Domain along with the Ancestor.

This wasn’t only a surge in cultivation. In the Dragon Emperor’s perception, the entire world was as if a heavy curtain had been lifted, revealing its true face. The land became incomparably small in its eyes, layered with countless vast, boundless, overlapping spaces. The heavens above also became extremely clear. Three suns—golden, red, and dark blue—resembled three colossal beasts standing outside the world, surrounded by distorted space-time.

The silver and blood-colored moons seemed like boundless planar worlds. The Blood Moon in particular radiated endless crimson light. The Dragon Emperor felt it could potentially be the Supreme Dark-Red Plane. Its light not only shone upon the mythical world, but also vanished into other spaces and times.

It wasn’t only the suns and moons above. Even the space-time around the Dragon Emperor distorted, half-detached from the world. Otherwise, with its current size, mass, and released energy, it could have instantly shattered the land below, forming a destructive black hole spanning tens of millions of kilometers.

The world is repelling me.

The Dragon Emperor’s deep voice rumbled as its gaze passed over the suns and moons and looked deeper beyond the heavens. There, countless stars shone. Some bright, some dim, each representing a primordial-level colossal beast or powerful lifeform.

As the Dragon Emperor’s cultivation reached the semi-primordial level, many terrifying gazes crossed endless space-time to fall upon it. Some of these gazes, heavy with oppressive might, carried surprise and joy. Others brimmed with malice and greed, as if wishing to devour it in a single bite.

As the Dragon Emperor looked beyond the sky, a faint pull came from there, as if telling it that was the true home of primordial colossal beasts.

Roar!

A faint roar echoed in its ears from beyond the sky, followed by the violent fluctuations of battle. In the depths beyond, two dim stars were locked in combat. However, dim didn’t mean weak. They were simply too far for their light to be seen.

Just like the stars in the depths of the Blue Planet’s original universe; they seemed faint compared to the sun and moons, yet each one was a star in its own right, some tens of thousands of times larger than the sun itself.