Chapter 1191: Light-Year Being, Standing Alone to Suppress the Demon

As Chen Chu and the Dragon Emperor of the End ascended to the seventh layer, the overwhelming and tyrannical pressure that had filled the universe vanished with them. The darkness that had cloaked the sixth-layer cosmos also dissipated, and heaven and earth once again regained their brilliance. For a moment, everyone felt an illusion as if the apocalypse had passed. Instinctively, they exhaled, feeling lighter and freer than ever before in their lives.

However, only the Heavenly Flame Supreme and the others knew that the true catastrophe had only just begun.

Looking toward the passage that pierced through the layered cosmos, and at the vast seven-colored barrier at its end, spanning over ten trillion kilometers in diameter, every being’s expression was grave and shaken.

They were grim because the immortal-level monster of the Nine Hells had indeed awakened. They were shaken because Chen Chu, with a cultivation only at the Sixth Primordial Heaven, had truly entered that place to face the monster alongside his colossal beast companion.

Such fearless resolve in the face of death, such selfless righteousness, shook even the mightiest of civilizations. Even though Chen Chu’s combat strength defied heaven itself, if they were in his place, they would have chosen to lead their races away from the Ancient Battlefield rather than risk such madness.

The gap between the Sixth Primordial Heaven and the immortal realm was simply too vast. After a primordial lifeform broke through to the Seventh Primordial Heaven, every step became a transformation in essence. Even if Chen Chu and his colossal beast possessed strength surpassing many ancient undying beings, it was still unlikely they could suppress an immortal of the Nine Hells, even one that was injured. If a battle of that level reached a stalemate without either side gaining the upper hand, it could drag on for hundreds or even thousands of years.

The Blood Moon Supreme straightened, gazing solemnly at the True Radiant Sky Emperor and the True Void Emperor before bowing deeply. "The righteousness of the Divine Might Supreme is something none of us can compare to. I believe that with his strength, and that of the beast beside him, together they will hold off that monster of the Nine Hells."

"...Let us hope so." The Radiant Emperor raised her eyes to the brilliant multicolored barrier that shone high above the azure sky, her expression solemn yet tinged with faint confusion.

She didn’t understand why Chen Chu would take such a risk. If that Nine Hells monster wanted to corrupt the lower layers, so be it. The human race could retreat from the Ancient Battlefield; all powerhouses in the chaotic heavens could leave the Sea of Chaos.

With Chen Chu’s talent, time was on his side. If he simply waited a few centuries, or even millennia, until he broke through to the immortal realm, or perhaps ascended to the Ninth Primordial Heaven and became an everlasting sun blazing across all worlds, then he could return and suppress that monster with one hand.

The abstract shadow that was the Void Emperor slowly said "Huang, don’t overthink it. Chen Chu surely has his own reasons. But as he entered the seventh layer, I saw something in his actions: urgency."

He paused.

"Urgency?" The Radiant Emperor was startled. "With his unbelievable growth—less than ten years to ascend from a mortal life to a transcendent, surpass the mythical level, and become a primordial supreme—and with his power to battle across realms, what could possibly make him feel urgency? His lifespan? A mortal enemy? Or the sense that he still isn’t strong enough?"

The abstract shadow shook his head faintly. "Don’t ask me. I do not know. Perhaps I misread it."

But could a primordial supreme who had mastered the study of the void truly be mistaken in what he perceived?

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The Ancient Battlefield did not truly have nine layers; rather, with the self-healing of the Supreme Chaos, it had begun to merge, the boundaries blurring as it gradually became whole again, until it returned to being a single fragment of the cosmos. Thus, the seventh layer, now fused with the rest, was incomparably vast, like a pitch-black, frozen universe without sky or ground.

Its capacity was immense, capable of bearing even immortal beings or everlasting-sun-level life forms, yet today, this once silent and lifeless void blazed with light. Golden-white radiance, brilliant and domineering, pierced the endless darkness, illuminating the starry expanse.

That brilliance, filled with boundless power, expanded outward, clashing with the rolling black-gray mist that filled the dead cosmos.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

When the two forces met, it was like two universes colliding. The explosion shook the heavens, light surging for hundreds of light-years. The golden-white brilliance that embodied the Principle of Strength stretched across a full light-year. At its center stood Chen Chu, his three-headed, eighteen-armed form radiating divine majesty.

In his grasp was a golden-purple halberd thirty billion kilometers long, its surface coiled with dragon patterns, as it exuded an invisible heaviness like that of a supermassive black hole twisting all things. However, even in this terrifying form, radiating the aura of an emperor descending from the heavens, Chen Chu’s expression remained grave as he looked ahead.

Dozens of light-years away, within the tumbling black-gray mist, a vast silhouette began to emerge. It was a creature so enormous it made the scalp crawl, its diameter exceeding five light-years.

For comparison, the diameter of the entire Solar System, reaching as far as Pluto, was less than six billion kilometers. One could hardly imagine how colossal that Nine Hells monster truly was. On top of that, its size wasn’t empty; its very substance matched its scale. Even lying dormant, the invisible power it released crushed space-time itself.

It crushed everything, collapsing layers of dimensions and forming an invincible domain that spanned more than ten light-years around it. Without the strength of an ancient undying being, one didn’t even have the qualification to enter that field, let alone face or strike the creature directly.

At this level, numbers meant nothing. Even if a hundred thousand primordial stars joined forces, their combined might would be as futile as an ant pushing a mountain. It wouldn’t even shake a single strand of that monster’s form.

No wonder beings who had transcended into the Seventh or Eighth Primordial Heaven were so rarely seen. They no longer existed on the same tier as ordinary reality.

Deep within the rolling black-gray mist, nine circular scarlet lights appeared, gleaming like nine galaxies burning in the void. Their gaze radiated overwhelming malice and locked firmly onto Chen Chu.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Under that dreadful stare, the golden-white brilliance stretching across a light-year shuddered violently, collapsing inward to form nine enormous craters, each ten trillion kilometers deep.

Then, a hoarse and twisted voice, icy and filled with madness, echoed slowly through the cosmos.

You... came here... to die?

As it spoke, the black-gray fog surrounding the monster dispersed, revealing its twisted true form. It was a grotesque abomination, its body pieced together from the fused remains of countless massive lifeforms.

Its body was bloated and monstrous, resembling a spider with dozens of arms, writhing tentacles, and more than twenty pairs of uneven legs. Every inch of its flesh was covered in thick black scales. On its broad shoulders grew nine hideous heads, and one of them belonged to Luo Jia.

Earlier, Luo Jia had detonated its fragmented divine soul will, trying to escape with its half-destroyed upper body from the seventh layer, but had ultimately been dragged back by this very creature. As its final wisp of will vanished, Luo Jia’s true form was completely absorbed and fused into the monster’s body.

Looking at that vast, twisted horror, Chen Chu’s eyes blazed with even fiercer battle will. He could see that the creature’s injuries had yet to fully heal.

A million years ago, this monster had faced some unknown enemy and had been utterly crushed. Its undying true form was shattered, leaving behind only a fragment of its immortal will, which fled and settled within the Ancient Battlefield.

Yet even that surviving immortal will was terrifying beyond measure. With the Nine Hells Qi’s ability to restrain and corrupt life, it had suppressed one undying powerhouse after another and used its demonic qi to contaminate and assimilate their divine souls, gradually transforming their bodies into parts of its own.

That was how the monster refined the undying bodies it captured. Without eternal-level power, it couldn’t forcibly melt down those undying bodies; it could only merge them piece by piece through this twisted method.

However, the fusion was crude. Many of the undying bodies retained most of their original appearance, and after a million years, the creature had only completely merged two of them. The remaining seven were still partially fused, progress slow to the point of absurdity.

There were no other words. The moment the Nine Hells monster revealed its true form, the chaotic light wheels behind Chen Chu trembled violently. From the depths of the void, a vast purple-black shadow emerged.

The colossal beast, stretching over a trillion kilometers, descended as if from another dimension. Its massive wings spread wide, sweeping through the chaotic darkness and drowning the starlit sky, as a violent, ear-splitting roar shook the entire battlefield.

The soundwave shattered the enormous fragments of the black burial continent. Each piece, hundreds of billions of kilometers wide, exploded one after another.

Its roar shook the heavens and shattered the stars. Even the Nine Hells monster, which had regarded them with cold indifference at first, narrowed its nine blood-colored eyes.

Boom!

The Dragon Emperor moved. It became a black beam of light that pierced the cosmos, crossing dozens of light-years in an instant at a speed that transcended the very concept of time. When that colossal form collided with the gray mist, it was like a force moving at tens of thousands of times the speed of sound through an atmosphere, erupting into a blinding white radiance that illuminated the entire void.

The impact was so swift that the sound of the collision couldn’t even catch up.

Roar!

At the edge of the monster’s invincible domain, the purple-black beast roared once more, twisting its body. In an instant, a saber light of purple-red color, millions of billions of kilometers long, burst into the heavens.

The moment the saber light appeared, the monster’s nine heads all roared in fury. An enormous, dark-red beast claw spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers shot forward, its surface covered in dense black runes that blazed with sinister light.

Boom!

The heavens trembled. The purple-red saber light tore through the ten-light-year domain, slicing open an enormous rift. Its edge was unstoppable, flickering millions of times across layers of space-time in a single instant, as though wielded by a god of sabers who had reached the pinnacle.

In the end, the saber light struck the descending beast claw, which blanketed all beneath it.

Boom!

When the saber light and claw met, an explosion of blinding purple-red radiance erupted, and the unleashed power made the entire seventh-layer universe quake violently. In the distance, a faint seven-colored river appeared across the cosmos, roaring as though it had been severed in half.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the cataclysmic impact that could destroy the heavens, countless scale plates the size of stars shattered and flew apart from the beast’s claw, while deep cracks spread across its surface.

It was one of the Dragon Emperor’s life-bound abilities, the Annihilation True Blade. All it cut was divided into two; body and soul alike were annihilated. Combined with the power of its Dark Star End Form, even an immortal-level being couldn’t completely block this strike. It would still break through its defenses with a single blow.

For a creature of this monstrous scale, however, such a wound was almost insignificant.

Roar!

The monster’s nine heads howled in chaotic fury. From its enormous claws erupted endless black-gray mist, and in the next instant, an immense power exploded.

Boom!

The Dragon Emperor vanished instantly, the region where it had stood collapsing into a hollow void a hundred trillion kilometers wide. At the same time, hundreds of light-years away, a vast black burial ground, spanning over a hundred thousand light-years, suddenly exploded into fragments.

Before the monstrous Nine Hells creature, five light-years tall and stretching nearly five hundred trillion kilometers, the Dragon Emperor, though a trillion kilometers in length, seemed no larger than an ant. That immense size came with absolute strength, yet at this level, strength was no longer merely about size.

Boom!

The cosmic void trembled as nineteen chaotic light wheels behind Chen Chu blazed and merged, gradually forming a golden-white figure a trillion kilometers tall, with three heads and eighteen arms. The arm holding a massive bronze bell gave a subtle shake.

Without a sound, the domain surrounding the Nine Hells monster shattered completely, collapsing under its own pressure. The crushed layers of space-time exploded into a tide of multicolored destruction sweeping across the cosmos.

At the same time, in the dark sky, a pair of immense golden-black vertical pupils appeared, linking to the infinite void. In an instant, an overwhelming power burst forth from them.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Centered on the Nine Hells monster, space across dozens of light-years imploded like a shattering mirror, everything within crumbling to dust.

Even though Chen Chu unleashed the full might of the Void Death Pupils, he could only tear apart the outer layer of the monster’s invincible will, leaving behind a few "tiny" wounds, each several hundred million kilometers long, on its surface. Such damage, however, was utterly negligible to the creature.

The void behind Chen Chu cracked open, forming a rift that stretched for tens of trillions of kilometers. From the depths of the dimensional fracture emerged a monstrous, fanged maw that bit toward him. That mouth, lined with bone-white teeth, seemed to embody causality itself. It was inescapable and absolute.

Boom!

The golden radiance behind Chen Chu surged, expanding outward in rhombic ripples of shimmering light. With both his supreme forms active, his divine ability, the Eternal Force Field, reached a level of defense beyond imagination. Even the full strike of an immortal being could only tear through its luminous barrier little by little.

Boom!

A halberd light spanning a hundred trillion kilometers erupted, sweeping through the cosmos. The edge of the weapon carried the World Creation Edge, a force sharp enough to cleave heaven and earth itself. The biting maw instinctively recoiled, vanishing back into the depths of the dimension.

The moment Chen Chu struck to restrain the Nine Hells monster, a fiercer roar echoed across the universe. From the shattered burial ground, the colossal beast emerged, its body wreathed in purple-black flames. Its massive, ferocious form was unscathed. With a thunderous beat of its wings, it stirred a tidal wave of chaotic destruction and lunged toward the Nine Hells monster.

A terrifying battle erupted at once. By now, the power of both Chen Chu and the Dragon Emperor had surpassed all measurement. Every movement of theirs unleashed energy vast enough to shake the entire universe.

Yet between the two, the beast’s physical might was greater, its defense invincible, allowing it to clash head-on with the Nine Hells monster. Meanwhile, Chen Chu, who commanded the laws of divine abilities, wielded his halberd like a true world-ending king, striking from the flank.

Together, or rather, alone, Chen Chu stood against an immortal-level monster of the Nine Hells without falling into disadvantage.