Chapter 1192: Fate and Reincarnation, Devouring the Heavens and Earth

As Chen Chu and the Dragon Emperor joined forces to clash head-on against the Nine Hells monster on the seventh layer, the grand war raging below between the human race and the two races was finally reaching its end.

"Heavenly Flame, why?!"

A voice filled with grief and fury echoed across the battlefield.

The Eternal Heavenly God Supreme of the Golden Divine Race stood tall amidst the ruins of the shattered fifth layer. His dragon-like golden body radiated divine brilliance as furious golden flames burned in his eyes, glaring up at the heavens.

High above the broken sky, six towering figures emanating the oppressive might of Primordial Supremes loomed in the void. Among them, the True Reincarnation Emperor, whose Wheel of Reincarnation revolved slowly behind him, possessed the greatest presence. He was followed by the Heavenly Silver-Winged Ant Supreme, its silver body resembling a colossal beast.

At the same time, the Heavenly Flame Supreme, Blood Moon Supreme, Purple-Maned King Hou Supreme, and Soul-Devouring Mayfly Supreme spread out to seal any path of retreat.

The Heavenly Flame Supreme responded to the Golden Divine Race's Supreme’s question, his tone calm and detached. "Divine Might Supreme single-handedly suppressed the Nine Hells and showed immense grace to every civilization within the Ancient Battlefield. This upheaval has made us reflect deeply, allowing us to see ourselves clearly for what we are."

Our civilizations are no more than ants before the vast and boundless Sea of Chaos. To continue warring over mere resources brings only harm, not benefit. After deliberation, the six peak civilizations and thirty-two top-level civilizations have decided to form the Ancient Alliance, dedicated to maintaining stability within the Ancient Battlefield.

"And the first act of this alliance is to purge the factions that have long sown chaos within the battlefield. For instance, the Heavenly Punishment Race, who have long acted as the tentacles of the Nine Hells; the Shadow War God Race, who have repeatedly incited racial wars; and you, the Golden Divine Race, who have been secretly stirring conflict among all sides."

The True Reincarnation Emperor, who tread upon the river of time and wielded the power of time itself, spoke slowly, "Heavenly Flame, enough talk. Do it."

"Do it."

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The six Primordial Supremes struck at once, surrounding and besieging the Golden Divine Race's Primordial Supreme. Their terrifying power shattered all chaotic fragments and shook the entire cosmos.

The six layers of the Ancient Battlefield also erupted in endless bloodshed. The alien civilizations turned their blades upon three great races across the vast universes, plunging the realms into carnage and causing rivers of blood to flood the lands.

This was the change brought forth by Chen Chu.

He had already sensed this shift in reality ever since the day he returned from Kyrola as the first freshman at Nantian Martial Arts High School to break through to the Fourth Heavenly Realm.

When one grew powerful, the wicked around them would naturally disappear. Similarly, the core of the so-called Ancient Alliance’s foundation was none other than Chen Chu’s invincible strength, having stepped into the undying realm. His overwhelming might had subdued all five peak civilizations.

As for the noble reason of him "righteously suppressing the Nine Hells alone," it was merely a convenient excuse. While the chaotic war across the Ancient Battlefield intensified, the million-meter-long Silver Colossal Dragon coiled beneath the prismatic barrier of heaven, letting out a listless growl.

So boring. Ao Tian isn’t here.

The Silver Colossal Dragon was dispirited and had no interest in the blood-soaked wars below.

Ever since meeting the Dragon Emperor, the Silver Colossal Dragon had followed it everywhere, battling side by side, assaulting one colossal beast empire after another, and challenging mythical beasts as an equal despite only being level nine.

Even during the centuries when the Dragon Emperor slumbered, the Silver Colossal Dragon had slept beside it, long accustomed to its immense presence. Now that it had been left behind without warning, it felt oddly empty and restless.

Its only wish now was for the Dragon Emperor to finish off that monster of the Nine Hells quickly, so they could once again roar together across the boundless chaos.

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A ferocious roar shook the void of the universe. The colossal purple-black beast, its body stretching for over a trillion kilometers, bellowed as blinding light gathered within its gaping, savage maw.

Boom!

A beam of dazzling purple-white light, hundreds of billions of kilometers thick, burst forth, tearing through the layers of space-time. It crossed dozens of light-years in the blink of an eye and struck the boundless body of the Nine Hells monster.

Instantly, radiant brilliance illuminated the entire void once more. The light reflected across the past and future, annihilating everything in its path. Mixed within that radiance were the furious roars of the Nine Hells monster’s nine heads. The breath of the Dragon Emperor shattered its scales and exploded vast chunks of black flesh.

But the monster’s reaction speed was terrifyingly fast. At the very instant the dragon’s breath erupted, its massive body remained motionless. Instead, the two-light-year-long tail behind it lashed out, the motion erasing time and space itself.

The blow moved so quickly it defied every principle of physics, appearing before the dragon’s head in the same instant its breath was released.

Boom!

The breath dissipated as a streak of black light flashed through the cosmos, vanishing into the distance before a black burial ground thousands of light-years away shattered and exploded.

At the same time the tail sent the Dragon Emperor flying, a gigantic black hand emerged from beneath the monster’s arm, blotting out the heavens as it reached for Chen Chu, who held his halberd.

"Heaven-Stepping Execution Blade, God-Slaughter of Eight Desolations!"

Tens of thousands of halberd lights, each stretching hundreds of trillions of kilometers, soared upward. Together, they formed a mountain of golden-purple light spanning a full light-year, radiating world-ending destruction.

The power and sharpness of that strike shredded heaven and earth, obliterating the ages. The instant the halberd light met the demonic claw of the Nine Hells monster, it bloomed like a lotus.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The deafening explosions shook the universe once again, their brilliance illuminating eternity. The shockwaves alone shattered continent after continent within hundreds of light-years.

The moment Chen Chu entangled the Nine Hells monster, the Dragon Emperor reappeared with a howl, its aura even more violent and murderous. Cracks spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers along its colossal body healed rapidly, and the shattered dorsal fins on its back regenerated in an instant.

But this time, the Dragon Emperor did not charge the monster. Instead, its cold gaze swept across the surroundings. The two sides had been locked in battle for half a month, trading blows without either gaining the upper hand. As Chen Chu and the Dragon Emperor grew accustomed to their surging power, they also discovered the monster’s weakness.

Its undying body was composed of fragments from nine undying corpses. Since those bodies had not been fully refined, its immense size, while terrifyingly oppressive, came at a cost. Its movements were slow, and its control over its immortal power was clumsy and uneven.

Even so, Chen Chu and the Dragon Emperor could only fight it evenly, and not suppress it. The strength this Nine Hells monster possessed was far greater than Chen Chu had anticipated. Its full strength placed it among the stronger immortal beings, and was comparable to the gap between the beginning and late stages of the immortal realm.

Unable to suppress or defeat it, their eventual defeat was only a matter of time. Unlike the monster, which had recovered half of its power, both Chen Chu and the Dragon Emperor were fighting at their absolute limits.

They had merged past, present, and future to reach the perfected realm of the primordial supreme level, allowing their super innate abilities to maintain their explosive power for a long duration.

Even fighting for ten years was nothing to them. But for beings of the immortal level, ten years passed in the blink of an eye. Battles of this magnitude often dragged on for hundreds or even thousands of years, with both sides possessing near-infinite strength and terrifying recovery.

They needed a way to break the deadlock. Perhaps, a breakthrough amid battle.

With that thought, the Dragon Emperor’s gaze turned toward the vast cosmic void behind the Nine Hells monster, where several massive burial grounds floated. Each one was over ten light-years in length, a black continent crowned by an immense stele, beneath which lay a broken undying corpse.

Since Luo Jia’s body had been completely devoured, only six of the nine undying corpses remained. If it could devour all six incomplete bodies, the undying power contained within them would allow it to complete its undying transformation and become a true undying colossal beast.

Hum!

A streak of lightning entwined with flame blazed through the void, moving faster than words could describe. As the purple-black beast charged once again like a cockroach that could not be killed, the Nine Hells monster roared in rage, its nine pairs of eyes burning with murderous intent.

But this time, the lightning arc merely swept past it, curving through space toward a black burial ground a hundred light-years away.

Meanwhile, Chen Chu stood tall, war halberd in hand, as sixteen arms unfolded behind him. A ruined universe spanning hundreds of trillions of kilometers appeared above his head, radiating a destructive aura. A gigantic, hideous ghostly face flickered within that broken cosmos, causing even the Nine Hells monster to tense slightly.

Boom!

In his Dark World-Ending True King Form[1], Chen Chu erupted with full power. As he restrained the Nine Hells monster, the purple-black colossal beast descended from the heavens, crashing into the immense black continent tens of light-years wide and shattering it into fragments.

A half-destroyed body spanning an entire light-year emerged from the cataclysmic explosion. A stele formed from black-gray mist, towering tens of trillions of kilometers high, stood atop the massive corpse, suppressing the immense power within the corpse below. A purple-red saber light stretching across a hundred trillion kilometers swept forth, destroying all in its path and obliterating the demonic stele in one stroke.

The Nine Hells monster, which had been pressing Chen Chu down moments before, suddenly turned in fury, all nine heads roaring at the purple-black beast that had destroyed its burial ground.

But then the monster’s nine eyes widened in shock and disbelief.

Boom!

The Dragon Emperor’s enormous jaws opened wide, and a world-devouring black hole of annihilation, spanning several light-years across, appeared behind it. Its terrifying gravitational pull engulfed the massive remains before it.

As its cultivation advanced, the Dragon Emperor’s innate life-bound abilities had grown exponentially stronger. When it was still at the primordial monarch level, it had needed half a month to devour an undying body even with Heng’s remaining power aiding it. Now, it swallowed half of one in the blink of an eye.

This scene filled the Nine Hells monster with uncontrollable rage.

Put... down... my... food!

Boom!

The monstrous being turned its colossal body, the shockwave it stirred shaking the entire seventh-layer cosmos. The impact, like the roar of mountains and seas, rippled across tens of light-years. Behind it, its tail swept out like a black-scaled python and blocked the halberd light that split worlds.

But when the monster surged forward, its body wreathed in rolling Nine Hells Qi, to stop the Dragon Emperor, the ruined corpse had already vanished into the black hole. Still, the Dragon Emperor was not satisfied. It turned its cold gaze toward another enormous burial ground floating fifty light-years away.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In that instant, the black-gray mist pervading the universe boiled violently, transforming into countless massive black tentacles that swept toward the Dragon Emperor. The colossal beast roared, its claws entwined with black light as it tore the surging Nine Hells tentacles apart.

"Your opponent is me."

Chen Chu’s voice thundered across the cosmos as his towering body, a trillion kilometers tall, blazed with multicolored chaotic light. He exploded into pure brilliance, transforming into a chaos light wheel that spanned ten light-years.

Nineteen layers of chaotic light wheels overlapped each other, forming a three-dimensional divine array that sealed the Nine Hells monster within. Each of those nineteen layers represented a power comparable to a primordial principle, and under the dominion of the Principle of Strength, their combined might pressed heavily upon the monster’s body.

Get out of my way!

The Nine Hells monster, its body spanning five light-years, roared in fury. Endless black-gray mist erupted from within it, the explosion of power shattering all nineteen layers of the chaos light wheel.

But Chen Chu continued his relentless assault, consuming his origin without hesitation, allowing the Dragon Emperor to reach the next burial ground.

Boom!

Its breath of annihilation pierced heaven and earth, obliterating the massive burial ground in a single strike. Countless fragments, each as large as stars, were flung outward amid the light of a nuclear explosion. The force was so immense that it twisted space-time, causing many fragments of black burial soil to pierce through dimensions and vanish into other timelines.

One such fragment traversed tens of thousands of years into the past, emerging in the mythical world like a burning meteor, reduced to only a few kilometers across.

Boom!

The black fragment struck, shattering the ground for tens of thousands of kilometers. The tremendous shock drew the attention of a newly formed alien civilization nearby, which turned toward the disturbance.

That piece of black burial soil was insignificant among the fragments of the destroyed land, yet as it vanished through time, the Dragon Emperor instinctively glanced in its direction. It faintly caught sight of a familiar scene through the distorted space-time.

In the depths of the pitch-black void, a dark continent a hundred meters wide silently floated along. At its center rested a silver sleeping pod five meters long and three meters wide, its design futuristic and refined. One could faintly see a young woman peacefully lying within through the slightly misted glass lid.

Though the vision lasted only a moment, the Dragon Emperor immediately recognized it. It was the same scene from long ago when Yan Ruoyi had defied death itself and entered her eternal slumber within the burial ground.

That burial ground where Yan Ruoyi had once slept had originated from here. Though it had been only a minuscule fragment of an undying corpse’s burial land, it had been imbued with mysterious instinctive power by the Nine Hells Qi and undying essence surrounding it.

It was this that had allowed Yan Ruoyi to transcend life and death to reconstruct her body anew. That transformation had allowed her very essence to surpass the mythical level. Her strength grew with each passing day, yet no matter how much it grew, she could not break through the limits of the mythical level.

For in truth, her essence had already become that of a chaotic lifeform. A strange sense of fate and reincarnation stirred within the Dragon Emperor’s mind. But its gaze hardened almost immediately. Its jaws opened once again with a thunderous roar, and the world-devouring black hole reappeared, radiating immense gravitational power as it swallowed the broken undying body below.

Boom!

Put... down... my... food!

The Nine Hells monster grew even more enraged. Its gigantic form swelled within the endless black-gray mist, becoming even more monstrous and terrifying. Countless tentacles, stretching tens of light-years long, writhed around it, each one erasing all it touched and driving Chen Chu steadily backward as he struggled to stop it.

Yet no matter how the monster roared, the Dragon Emperor still swallowed the second undying body whole. One of the monster’s nine heads finally flickered with a sinister gleam.

You're seeking death... You dare devour the food I nourished with Nine Hells power for a million years. Soon, I will contaminate you both... and you will become part of me.

1. This is short for Dark Star Demon God - The Thirteen-Wheel World-Ending True King Form. ☜