Chapter 1195: Suppress and Devour, the Great Catastrophe Descends

As Chen Chu rose to his feet, the boundless aura surging from his body caused the surrounding universe to tremble, as if a colossal beast no weaker than the Dragon Emperor itself had awakened.

In that instant, a roar echoed through the darkness as countless massive black fangs sprang out of the void hundreds of light-years away, sealing off the heavens in every direction. From afar, it looked as though the head of a monster tens of light-years long had emerged from oblivion, opening its enormous maw to devour the Dragon Emperor along with the surrounding space-time.

Boom!

A ring of purple-black lightning erupted, shattering the monstrous black maw and those jagged fangs. The radiant flash of destruction illuminated almost the entire seventh layer. A colossal beast stretching over a hundred trillion kilometers stood upright within that storm of purple-black lightning, letting out a thunderous bellow toward the heavens.

The Dragon Emperor roared back, its twin claws tightening in the void as an overwhelming tide of the Principle of Strength burst forth, spreading across hundreds of light-years. Its draconic power was amplified to a terrifying extent under the overlapping resonance of the Principle of Strength, so much so that even the Nine Hells monster froze for an instant.

Then, the Dragon Emperor’s claws tore outward.

Rip!

A massive rift split the universe apart across hundreds of light-years, opening a gaping black abyss. The Nine Hells monster screeched in fury as its enormous body was torn open by a wound stretching tens of trillions of kilometers, exposing the flesh beneath its scales. But rather than flesh, what appeared was a mesh of glowing black principle chains that glittered like stars.

Whoosh!

Black-gray mist surged, and the massive wound healed completely within a blink.

Just as the enraged Nine Hells monster was about to unleash its strength in retaliation, its vast frame suddenly stiffened. All nine of its heads turned, eyes filled with caution, staring at the Dragon Emperor’s crown.

There, Chen Chu appeared out of thin air. Chen Chu was no stranger to this creature, since he and the colossal beast had joined forces against it. Though both had been at the perfected Sixth Primordial Heaven, his combat power had been ridiculous enough to rival even the limit of the Seventh Primordial Heaven. The human wielded an absolute force that could barely contend with it.

However, after the colossal beast devoured the undying remnants and its power skyrocketed, the human had withdrawn from the battlefield. Yet now, in the monster’s perception, Chen Chu’s aura had grown even stronger than ten years ago. The undying essence emanating from his body nearly approached the threshold of the undying realm.

This is troublesome.

Even this Nine Hells monster, whose demonic might once drowned worlds, revealed a rare caution in its nine twisted, maddened eyes. It had to exert its full power merely to avoid falling behind this now exponentially stronger colossal beast; but now this human had returned, stronger than before.

Should I retreat?

For a fleeting moment, the thought of withdrawal crossed the monster’s mind. But it ruthlessly crushed that idea. As the immortal king who had devoured countless worlds and contaminated billions of lives, how could it flee from a newly ascended undying being and a Primordial Supreme?

This battlefield, born from the clash of two eternal-level beasts that pierced the Supreme Chaos, had long become its den of healing. The eternal qi here was far denser than below, and the endless influx of Supreme Chaos energy continuously mended its wounded divine soul, hastening the regeneration of its true form.

It had taken over a million years to refine the entire seventh layer into a "greenhouse," saturating the layer’s cosmos with pure and potent Supreme Chaos energy, woven through with countless principle particles.

Thus, for the sake of both its dignity of an immortal being and its healing sanctuary, these two intruders had to be eradicated.

Originally, the monster’s plan had been to wear Chen Chu and the Dragon Emperor down until it could devour and fuse with them. But that plan had long been abandoned as the Dragon Emperor’s power grew stronger with every clash.

As these thoughts flashed rapidly through its mind, a force so dreadful it made the monster’s heart tremble suddenly appeared before it.

Chen Chu stood tall above the Dragon Emperor’s head. A vast phantom figure wearing an imperial robe and holding an imperial seal slowly took form behind him, radiating a terrifying soul wave. The density and strength of that soul energy were enough to shock even the Nine Hells monster.

Deep within the Dragon Emperor’s body, another mighty soul stirred in response, manifesting as a black-gold claw tipped with white flames that slowly extended outward.

At the same time, the towering soul phantom behind Chen Chu, standing nearly a light-year tall, lowered its head slightly. In that moment, within a layer of space-time where both consciousness and time seemed to freeze, the two souls brushed against each other.

When they touched, an overwhelming sense of completeness arose, along with a powerful urge to fuse, to transform into a more perfect, more terrifying lifeform that transcended chaos itself and stood above all heavens.

Huff!

Chen Chu exhaled deeply, forcibly suppressing that burning impulse. He steadied his mind and guided both souls into perfect resonance.

Boom!

Brilliant crimson light burst from within the Dragon Emperor, seeping through space-time and dyeing even the seventh-layer cosmos and its gray mists blood-red. The vague outline of a ferocious beast spanning tens of thousands of light-years emerged as the blood-colored light condensed.

In that instant, a heavenly-tier pressure beyond the immortal realm exploded forth. The colossal phantom roared and plunged back into the Dragon Emperor’s body.

Whoosh!

A torrent of unimaginable power erupted, shaking the heavens themselves. The entire seventh-layer universe quaked violently as a terrifying might swept through the Ancient Battlefield, rippling outward to the surrounding Sea of Chaos and causing countless worlds to tremble.

Even the distant mythical world shuddered faintly, as the three suns—one golden, one red, one blue—blazed brighter over the sky. Faint roars echoed from three colossal beasts in the distance.

Day suddenly turned into night in the mythical world. Both a bright moon and a Blood Moon rose in the dark sky, emanating a terrifying pressure.

Meanwhile, in the chaotic void beyond the mythical world, countless stars flared into brilliance. Each star represented a primordial-level colossal beast, and their eyes flashed with shock and solemnity as they looked toward the Ancient Battlefield.

In the world of the Divine Void Dragon Race, a silver divine dragon coiling around the world let out a deep, grave growl.

A colossal beast has stepped into the immortal realm of reincarnation. Who is it?

Ziyan’s eyes shimmered with doubt within that growl. It somehow felt that the terrifying destructive aura shaking the surrounding Sea of Chaos was faintly familiar.

Above the sky of the Divine Void Dragon world, deep within a brilliant golden-purple light egg, a purple divine dragon whose body had grown to a million meters slowly opened its eyes, letting out a drowsy cry.

It's Big Brother’s aura.

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H-How is that possible? How can you... you two... actually be one?

In the blood-tinted Ancient Battlefield, the monstrous creature spanning more than ten light-years howled in shock and fury, its black-gray tentacles writhing madly. Its horror was so great that even its long-standing stutter was cured. All nine pairs of its frenzied, murderous eyes were locked tightly on the figure in the distance.

There, within the sea of blood-colored light, stood a colossal beast three light-years tall, its body pitch-black and covered in dense crimson lightning patterns. What terrified the Nine Hells monster most was that the Dragon Emperor and that human were, in essence, one being.

Their souls resonated in unison, and as their true forms' life essences fused, their combined realm surged instantly to the limit of the undying realm, infinitely close to the immortal realm.

The purple-red lightning coiling around the Dragon Emperor’s body made even the Nine Hells monster’s scalp prickle with dread. Those lightning bolts were a divine phenomenon formed from the Dragon Emperor’s mastery of the supreme principles of chaos and destruction and Chen Chu’s mastery of the Principle of Strength and the Primordial Genesis Principle.

Those were four primordial supreme principles, each strong enough to cultivate to the limit of the Nine Primordial Heaven. Now, as the Dragon Emperor stood there, the destructive aura emanating from its body caused even the universe imbued with the Supreme Chaos principle to begin collapsing.

Such was the terrifying power of Chen Chu’s original soul-based ability, the Divine Fusion, when strengthened to its utmost limit. The higher his cultivation, the more terrifying the power of Divine Fusion became. Back when Chen Chu had only been at the ancient titan level and had merged with the Dragon Emperor, his realm had skyrocketed to the peak of the true spirit level, and even the semi-primordial level.

Now, even though this was merely soul resonance, the fusion of their life auras and principle powers made their strength soar to near invincibility.

The massive Nine Hells monster roared,

This is fake... All of it is fake!

Its gigantic body split down the center, revealing a colossal pale serpent’s eye spanning a full light-year.

Boom!

In an instant, a true immortal pressure erupted. The white serpent eye was its main body, the only remaining fragment of its true form after its original body had been destroyed and its soul severely wounded long ago.

Whoosh!

A pillar of white light, tens of trillions of kilometers wide, shot forth from the serpent’s pupil. The entire universe began to lose its color from that dreadful radiance as its principles faded away.

Space and matter shrank endlessly, collapsing into itself, creating the illusion that the universe had been flattened into two dimensions. But after that one strike, powerful enough to reduce the cosmos in dimension, the serpent’s pupil dimmed, its divine soul and will instantly weakened by half. It had paid an immense price to unleash that blow.

Facing the Dragon Emperor, whose strength had skyrocketed to terrifying heights, the Nine Hells monster that once sought to exhaust its foes had now gone mad in desperation.

But...

The monstrous beast wrapped in purple-red lightning howled, and a brilliant arc of blood-colored light slashed across the void, splitting the oncoming white beam in two.

The fissure extended for hundreds of light-years, a black fan-shaped wound that cleaved the immense Nine Hells monster cleanly in half.

Boom!

At the instant that the descending strike was shattered, a pair of colossal claws entwined with purple-red lightning tore through space-time and descended from above, ignoring every dimensional boundary.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Nine Hells monster’s nine fused heads exploded one after another under those claws that embodied supreme power. A miserable roar shook the entire Ancient Battlefield.

The Dragon Emperor bellowed, its arms swelling with boundless strength. With a single violent pull, it tore the bisected Nine Hells monster’s body apart, ripping it into four fragments.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Arcs of purple-red lightning leapt and detonated around the shattered remains of the monster’s true form, blasting the flesh into shreds as black smoke rose in curling wisps. It was the manifestation of the monster’s will being annihilated.

Facing a being whose realm stood at the limit of the Seventh Primordial Heaven yet whose power surpassed even the immortal realm, the Nine Hells monster, whose strength had already reduced to a mere fraction, was completely crushed.

The Dragon Emperor stood at the heart of the sea of purple-red lightning, suppressing all directions. It reached out, seized a chunk of flesh tens of trillions of kilometers wide, and bit down in one swift motion.

Boom!

The torn flesh exploded and was shredded apart by the colossal maw radiating blood-colored light. A shrill, agonized scream resounded through the void.

The Dragon Emperor’s second trait was fully unleashed. Once its enemy was crushed, its devouring ability would reveal a savage side, one that tore and swallowed with unstoppable ferocity.

At this point, the outcome of the battle had already been decided.

But below, the True Radiant Sky Emperor and the others knew none of this. They looked up at the violently trembling seven-colored light curtain above, watching as the overlapping worlds were dyed crimson by the endless blood light and as mournful roars echoed across the entire battlefield. Every civilization’s warriors stood with grim expressions.

The phenomenon lasted for nearly half a year before it finally subsided. Even the blood light that had enveloped the seventh-layer universe began to fade, and the world grew calm, as though nothing had ever happened.

"The great battle... is over?" The Heavenly Flame Supreme murmured uncertainly.

"I don’t know." The others shook their heads slightly, still staring solemnly at the seven-colored light curtain overhead.

Although the powerful fluctuations of battle that had raged for over a decade in the seventh-layer battlefield had vanished, an inexplicable pressure still lingered in everyone’s hearts.

It felt as if an even more terrifying existence was coiled above, slumbering in some kind of metamorphosis as its strength continued to rise. The invisible ripples of power penetrated the barriers of the layered universe, making their legs tremble and their bodies weak, evoking an uncontrollable urge to kneel and worship.

Did Chen Chu and the colossal beast win, or was it the Nine Hells monster that prevailed?

Just as the Heavenly Silver-Winged Ant Supreme and the others were debating whether to risk sending a clone into the seventh-layer battlefield to investigate, the True Radiant Sky Emperor's expression suddenly changed.

Hum!

A golden mirror spanning a kilometer appeared in her hand, and its surface began to ripple.

Shi Feirou appeared in the mirror, her expression heavy and serious as she looked at her. "Master, something has happened in the divine region."

"What happened?" The True Radiant Sky Emperor brows furrowed. Nearby, the True Reincarnation Emperor looked over as well.

Shi Feirou’s tone was grave. "It began about a month ago. Countless people in the divine region suddenly underwent grotesque transformations. Their bodies swelled, and they turned into bloodthirsty monsters, attacking and devouring every living being around them. In addition, many towns and cities across multiple provinces have vanished overnight. Tens or even hundreds of thousands of people in each city disappeared without a trace.

"But aside from the people, everything else remained untouched—the buildings, objects, even the environment. It’s as if those people had never existed at all, or were erased by some overwhelming power.

"At first, it wasn’t severe, but it still drew the attention of us and the Flamewheel Emperor, so we joined forces to investigate. Yet we found nothing. No detectable source. Even heavenly-secret-type divine abilities, fate, and prophetic powers revealed no clues at all. As time passed, these incidents grew increasingly frequent, spreading throughout the six divine regions.

"In just one month, more than a billion people have vanished, and hundreds of millions have mutated into monsters. With no information to be found, I had no choice but to disturb you, Master."

Shi Feirou’s words made both the True Radiant Sky Emperor and True Reincarnation Emperor’s expressions turn solemn. This terrifying phenomenon was not limited to the six divine regions. The Solar Divine Region where the Human Federation resided was experiencing the same crisis. In a single month, tens of millions of people had vanished without a trace.

More than a million had suddenly mutated into bloodthirsty creatures, causing tens of millions of casualties and plunging the entire Federation into chaos and fear. Even Chen Hu and Qian Tian, who had both reached the true spirit level over the past decade, investigated together with several kings, yet they, too, found nothing.

Even Luo Fei, who sat in command over the Solar Divine Region and wielded a portion of the Heavenly Dao’s power, could not perceive the slightest clue.

A towering white-golden figure a million meters tall stood on the blazing surface of the sun, now expanded nearly tenfold to a diameter of ten million kilometers, their eyes on Blue Planet.

"No matter what, nothing must happen to Aunty." Luo Fei’s figure vanished from sight.

This sudden upheaval was like a great catastrophe descending upon humanity, shrouding the entire race in dread and unrest.