Chapter 1184: Eternal Heaven-Devouring Darkness, Assault into the Ancient Era

A majestic and tyrannical colossal beast roared, its sound shaking through the chaos.

Before the horrified gazes of all Primordial Sovereigns and Primordial Emperors, a black-and-red colossal beast, one hundred and fifty million kilometers in length, descended through space and time. However, what made those Primordial Sovereigns’ hearts tremble, however, was not its size but the aura radiating from its body. It was ferocious, awe-inspiring, and sacredly supreme.

As they looked upon that colossal beast towering in the void, the alien powerhouses all felt as if they were witnessing the ancient starlight of the primordial cosmos, those original stars that had existed for billions of years.

Eternal and undying!

Unlike Chen Chu, whose power had been hidden deep within, the Dragon Emperor, summoned through the coordinates of the space-time altar that tore through dimensions, immediately erupted with its full strength.

Such a descent could not possibly conceal its realm and aura. Even the True Radiant Sky Emperor and the other mighty beings were struck instantly dumb with horror.

This was a colossal beast that had reached the Seventh Primordial Heaven. Although the aura it released now appeared only at the Sixth Primordial Heaven, its terrifying might was no weaker than that of the Seventh. A being of this level had not appeared on the Ancient Battlefield for over a million years. Here, it was an existence of absolute invincibility.

Run!

Without a second thought, Sigmund’s first instinct was to flee.

Boom!

The golden world spanning billions of kilometers around it collapsed inward, shrinking into a singularity. Only a small golden dot, barely a hundred meters wide, remained within the Sea of Chaos.

And in the next instant, its aura vanished. Suddenly, it could no longer be sensed across several light-years. It no longer existed in this space-time, and was entirely erased from the current timeline. Such a divine ability, to erase all traces of oneself in an instant, indeed befitted a Primordial Emperor.

But today, its opponent was Chen Chu and the Dragon Emperor.

Standing within the Blood Sea Purgatory, Chen Chu gazed indifferently at that fading point of golden light. "Do you think you can simply leave?"

The Dragon Emperor behind him suddenly moved. Its wings, vast enough to blot out the heavens, unfurled with a thunderous rumble. Its maw opened wide, and a black hole formed within.

Boom!

The chaotic qi within a trillion kilometers surged violently around where Sigmund had vanished, forming a world-devouring vortex. Within that whirlpool, time and space folded and twisted layer upon layer like the event horizon of a black hole before collapsing into ruin.

In one of those collapsing fragments of space-time, a golden dragon-man a million kilometers tall stood at the heart of a world, its face filled with terror as it looked up at the sky where the devouring black hole swallowed heaven and earth.

Space-time continuously caved inward around the black hole, compressing into a tangible tide of black destruction that swept across the world.

In the face of that annihilating vortex, Sigmund felt a surge of deathly dread unlike any other.

Boom!

The two golden horns upon its head shattered, releasing endless brilliance. A rune shaped like the head of a ferocious dragon appeared behind it, blazing with primordial light. The power of its divine rune condensed from its life-bound ability soared exponentially under the amplification of its primordial super-innate ability.

An overwhelming force erupted from Sigmund as it was enveloped by the rune. Its true form expanded rapidly, transforming into a golden dragon-man ten million kilometers tall.

That vast true form carried its absolute strength with it. The instant its gigantic body rose upon the earth, the entire Great Thousand World trembled. The sky and continents cracked apart, collapsing piece by piece. Time was compressed and space annihilated within a billion-kilometer radius, forming an absolute domain under its command.

"Power of Gold, Eternal Burial!" Sigmund raised both arms toward the heavens as it roared. A golden world materialized between its hands, real, solid, and boundless.

Heaven and earth perished together within that golden world, unleashing a devastating energy wave that shook through dimensions. The unleashed power was so immense that it stirred the surrounding space-time itself, projecting countless visions of golden dragon-men descending from collapsing worlds. Amplified by those projections, Sigmund’s aura surged tenfold, blazing like a rising golden sun.

After the Fourth Primordial Heaven, any Primordial Sovereign who grasped the power of chaotic space-time could affect time and space itself with every movement. Attacks from those beneath their realm could not even approach them, and would vanish instantly into endless space-time, lost within the folded dimensions of space.

Thus, when Sigmund detonated its divine rune and unleashed its Eternal Golden Divine Ability to shatter the black hole’s event horizon and tear open a rift in space-time’s seal, another golden dragon-man appeared beneath its millions-kilometer-long tail.

That dragon-man was ten thousand kilometers tall, its aura faint and shrouded in the power of space-time. Raising its head slightly, it looked coldly at the roaring Sigmund above.

It was waiting. The moment Sigmund shattered the event horizon and tore open the sealed space-time, this future self, yet to merge, would escape instantly, vanishing along the flow of principles into an untraceable, unpredictable future. Then, even if Sigmund’s present body were crushed and sealed, as long as that future form remained, it could one day return, reviving the present through the future.

Sigmund had no delusions of resistance before an existence like the Dragon Emperor, whose might rivaled the undying beings of the Seventh Primordial Heaven. Its only thought was to flee. There was no other way; the gap between them was too vast.

Even a Primordial Emperor was nothing but dust before an undying being. The colossal eternal golden world, billions of kilometers across, rushed outward through the frozen layers of distorted space-time at a speed beyond perception.

Boom!

It collided head-on with the sky-covering darkness, releasing an explosion of dazzling golden light. There was no thunderous roar, only a magnificent burst of golden fireworks that scattered across the black hole, illuminating half its surface before being swallowed into the abyss.

The overlapping, twisted layers of space-time forming that boundary wall contained an unshakable and indestructible divine might.

"How is this possible?!" Sigmund’s golden, scale-covered face twisted in disbelief.

The gap between a Primordial Emperor and an undying being might have been immense, but for even its full-force strike, fueled by the detonation of its divine rune, to fail to shake it in the slightest was beyond comprehension.

"I do not believe it!" Sigmund roared again.

The golden flames of its long hair instantly turned black. Even its body, once as though it had been forged from pure gold, darkened entirely in a single breath. A far more vicious and sinister aura erupted from it.

Dark Sigmund released black and purple shockwaves that shot skyward, surging toward the darkness that had already devoured half the world. In the shattered void of the outer heavens, Sigmund gripped a chaotic supreme treasure, a divine spear tens of millions of kilometers long, and thrust it forward to strike the black tide before it.

Boom!

The dark light burst forth, shaking heaven and earth. Yet the overlapping, crushing, world-devouring layers of the dark horizon remained unmoved, swallowing the entire world along with Sigmund in an instant.

Everything happened within the blink of an eye.

Boom!

The turbid currents of the Sea of Chaos surged violently as a pitch-black void spanning hundreds of billions of kilometers appeared. Everything within that void was erased, leaving a wound that refused to heal. From afar, it looked like a black scar branded into the Sea of Chaos.

At the edge of that dark scar stood a colossal black and red beast over a hundred million kilometers tall, emanating a terrifying aura that chilled Alquest to its very core. Just moments ago, Sigmund, who had clearly escaped, had been devoured in one bite by this terrifying beast across another space-time.

Even the Great Thousand World that Sigmund had descended into had been eaten. This devouring erased every trace of Sigmund’s existence, including the primordial principle it represented. Everything that once was had been swallowed whole by that terrifying beast.

With a single attack, it had annihilated a Primordial Emperor.

Such horrifying power made Alquest’s scalp go numb. It was not just Alquest. Even the four alien Primordial Sovereigns outside the battlefield felt their bodies weaken, their hearts consumed by an overwhelming fear of death.

Almost nothing in the boundless Sea of Chaos could threaten them since breaking through to the primordial level and mastering space-time. After tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of years, their awareness had grown dull. They had long forgotten what death felt like. Yet today, before this terrifying colossal beast, immortality, endless might, and dominion over eternity all meant nothing.

One bite, and all was gone.

Alquest roared,

Run! Run!

Its million-kilometer-tall obsidian true form erupted in endless black flames. A terrifying power burst from its body, powerful enough to make even True Radiant Sky Emperor's expression change.

"Are you insane?!"

The True Radiant Sky Emperor's face darkened in shock. Fire erupted from her body, and five golden skies unfolded around her, covering a billion kilometers. As the True Radiant Sky Emperor activated her Primordial Heaven, forming five layers of space-time barriers for defense, a violent explosion tore through the chaos.

Boom!

Boundless black fire burst outward, scorching everything. A black-and-white wave of light spread in all directions, sweeping across hundreds of billions of kilometers. The turbid currents vanished wherever the black-and-white flames passed, forcing space-time to appear and the dimensions to shatter. Everything burned under that light.

Even the stellar domes surrounding the True Radiant Sky Emperor were shattered. Four layers of barriers broke instantly. The black-and-white wave finally faded only after the fifth was destroyed. This was the terrifying power of a Primordial Emperor’s self-detonation, enough to leave all witnesses stunned.

Alquest’s resolve shocked everyone. None had expected it to be so ruthless. The instant it saw Sigmund devoured, it chose to self-detonate its true form, obliterating everything nearby, including space-time itself.

In this way, even that terrifying black-and-red colossal beast would not be able to catch its divine soul will, which would instantly return to the Shadow War God Race's divine region through the power of its bloodline ability.

Although doing so meant that it would be gravely injured and would need hundreds of thousands of years to reforge its body and refine its bloodline again, this was far preferable to total annihilation and being swallowed by that terrifying beast.

Just then, a calm voice echoed through the raging chaos.

"You think you can leave?"

Chen Chu stood within the blood sea. The moment the black-and-white explosion approached the blood sea, it twisted and vanished under an invisible force. Chen Chu’s expression remained calm within the crimson radiance.

Three pairs of vertical pupils—blood-red, silver-white, and black-gold—appeared in his eyes. Together with his pure-black pupils, the four layers of overlapping eyes looked terrifying beyond description. Even the True Radiant Sky Emperor, standing within the stellar dome, felt her heart tremble.

Boom!

Darkness collapsed inward at the center of Alquest’s self-detonation. Invisible void spread, forming an immense eye billions of kilometers wide, within which silver clock hands began to turn in reverse.

Just as the Reincarnation Eye appeared, the terrifying power of time spread outward. The shattered and burning space-time began to reform and reverse. Everything started flowing backward, including Alquest, whose true form had self-detonated and whose will had returned to the Shadow War God Race's divine region. It reappeared once more, its true form whole again.

How can this be possible?!

Even the True Radiant Sky Emperor was caught in utter disbelief. She could also reverse time, but only for true-spirit-level beings or lower. The temporal manipulation required for a primordial-level lifeform was far too immense; even she could not withstand it.

Yet Chen Chu had merely used a divine ability born of his eyes related to time to make local time flow backward, reviving a Primordial Emperor who had self-detonated its true form.

Such might was no longer something a Sixth-Primordial-Heaven being could possess. In some ways, it was no weaker than the terrifying colossal beast that had devoured Sigmund in one bite. The True Radiant Sky Emperor’s hands trembled slightly at the sight, while the four alien powerhouses were so terrified that their bodies shook uncontrollably.

This human... This human is far too terrifying.

"I... self-detonated my true form, didn’t I?" Alquest, reborn in the reversed flow of time, was shaken and filled with dread as it stared at the scene before it.

Before it could even react, a massive black-and-red dragon head materialized above, its horns like a crown and its mane flowing wildly. Three pairs of magnificent feathery horns unfurled from its sides, radiating overwhelming majesty and divinity.

The Dragon Emperor opened its immense jaws and bit down with a thunderous roar.

Boom!

The newly revived Alquest vanished in an instant, leaving behind a pitch-black void billions of kilometers wide within the chaos.

Dead. Just like that?!

The True Radiant Sky Emperor instinctively drew in a sharp breath as she looked at the black-and-red colossal beast standing at the edge of the black hole. The four aliens beside her were dazed, as if trapped in a dream.

The Primordial Emperors who had once dominated the Ancient Battlefield, whose might had intimidated all peak civilizations, had fallen with contemptuous ease, devoured by a single bite from a colossal beast.

Wasn’t such an ending far too absurd? Shouldn’t such mighty beings wage battles lasting months against equals or stronger foes? Shouldn’t their deaths come from their true forms finally shattering and their divine souls and wills dissipating? At the very least, should the aftermath not shake the chaos and the heavens?

While everyone were frozen in shock at how swiftly two Primordial Emperors had perished, Chen Chu stood calmly within the Blood Sea Purgatory. With the absolute strength he and the Dragon Emperor possessed, a level comparable to the Seventh Primordial Heaven, crushing Primordial Emperors was perfectly natural.

Both he and the Dragon Emperor not only surpassed them in sheer power but also possessed multiple supreme divine abilities, primordial principles, and life-bound abilities. Either alone was already immensely powerful, and when combined, their might multiplied explosively.

For example, the so-called simple bite that the Dragon Emperor had used to devour Sigmund and Alquest was in fact its newly awakened life-bound ability, the Eternal Heaven-Devouring Darkness. The essence of this ability was the compression of thousands of dimensional layers of space-time power, fused with the Dragon Emperor’s body, forming a devouring maw that melted and destroyed all, capable of swallowing heaven and earth alike.

It was an invincible force powerful enough to suppress and consume even the Heavenly Dao of an entire Great Thousand World. The existence of a Primordial Emperor was erased entirely with a single bite, its essence suppressed within the stomach of the Dragon Emperor, where it would be slowly refined away.

Under such circumstances, it would have been beneath Chen Chu to bother with even one more exchange against Alquest and its kind.