Chapter 859: Divine King Gravely Injured, World-Level Weapon (I)

As the distant powerhouses watched, the phenomena swirling around Chen Chu grew increasingly vast and awe-inspiring. A sun hung in the sky, thunderbolts struck, and finally, even a void capable of devouring all descended—the Void Summon.

Within that boundless, dark void enveloping the heavens and earth, a pair of enormous vertical pupils, golden-black in color, slowly emerged as phantasmal shadows. Everyone felt a chill surge from the base of their spines from that terrifying gaze—it was as if they were being watched by an ancient god of death.

Even Zhenwu, at the peak of the heavenly king level, and the chief god of the Heavenly Feathered Race, Bordea, both sensed an intense and ominous aura of danger. Those eyes were strong. So strong, in fact, that they posed a threat even to them.

Among the Feathered Race, a mythical-level powerhouse exclaimed in awe, "This human cultivator’s foundation is incredibly deep. I can't even imagine how he accumulated such power."

The strange phenomena that occurred during a breakthrough were manifestations of great powers mastered by the cultivator, resonating with the laws of heaven and earth. Right now, several different kinds of such phenomena surrounded Chen Chu, and each one represented a power comparable to high-level laws. That was precisely why the Feathered Race cultivators were so shocked.

Just then, however, the vast phenomena spanning hundreds of kilometers abruptly collapsed, converging toward the towering eight-armed demon god at the center. The ten-kilometer-wide golden-white sun imploded, compressing into an orb held in one palm. It rotated slowly, radiating a scorching heat powerful enough to incinerate the sky and boil the seas.

Meanwhile, the roaring lightning pool contracted, and its light condensed into a violet lightning battle spear, hundreds of meters long and gripped tightly in another hand. The golden gate also shrank continuously before splitting into nine, as if existing across nine overlapping time-spaces, all supported by a third arm.

The nine black-and-red dragon phantoms roared with fury, forming nine dragon-patterned chains that coiled tightly around the golden gates. Three other arms each held a different object: a black chain reaching into the void, a rotating gray wheel, and a towering black gate ten meters tall.

The demon god’s central face remained indifferent. A silver vertical eye stood upright on its brow, with silver wing-like divine markings etched into either side of its forehead—majestic and holy.

The left face, as always, was covered in fine red scales. The blood-red Hell’s Eye stood vertically at its brow, its gaze filled with endless slaughter. One could vaguely make out countless colossal beasts and monsters writhing and wailing within it.

The right face had its eyes tightly shut. A dark, hollow vertical eye was embedded in its brow, and even with its eyes closed, an indescribable terror leaked from within, as though opening them would annihilate all of creation.

Only now had the True Demon God Form been completely condensed.

Boom!

A world-shaking aura erupted from Chen Chu. Three faces and eight arms, black-and-white hair wildly streaming, set against the backdrop of a golden divine halo—he looked like a supreme deity descending upon the world.

Under his overwhelming divine might, all surrounding matter, and even space itself, twisted, collapsed, and exploded. Layers upon layers of transparent shockwaves surged outward in all directions, and the expressions of everyone outside the battleships immediately changed.

"Spatial tide!"

"Divert maximum power to the energy shields now—"

This kind of spatial tide, formed by collapsing, compressed, and exploding space, was far more devastating than the storms of spatial fragments within dimensional rifts. Even kings had to tread carefully.

"There's no need to panic." As the advanced cultivators watching began to retreat in alarm, Heavenly King Zhenwu spoke calmly in the sky. Instantly, a black stele’s phantasmal projection stretched across the space between them.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Layer upon layer of transparent shockwaves slammed into the True Martial Stele’s projection, erupting in deafening explosions that shook the heavens, yet not leaving a single mark on the stele.

Gulp!

Gabriella swallowed hard, her face filled with shock. "Chen—His Majesty's breakthrough is way too over the top. Just the aura alone is enough to gravely wound an ordinary king."

She had instinctively meant to call him by his name, but the words that came out were instead the honorific His Majesty. However, no one paid her any mind. Everyone’s attention was locked on the distance, where Chen Chu stood with a contemplative look, eyes gazing ahead as if deep in thought.

No matter how curious they were, none of them could have guessed that Chen Chu was currently studying his own data. Before him, on a translucent screen, all of his stats had undergone an earth-shattering transformation as both his main body and colossal beast body simultaneously evolved and broke through.

[Stats]

Realm: Mythical-Level King(Peak)

Physique(Heavenly Dragon): 70 → 92

- +10 from Dragon Emperor’s feedback enhancement, +12 from Innate Demon God Body breakthrough

Strength(Heavenly Dragon): 74 → 97

Agility(Heavenly Dragon): 41 → 65

Spirit(Divine Soul): 46 → 71

Attribute Points: 90,494

Soul Points: 3,570

[True Form]

Battle Demon God(Eight-Armed True Form)

- Fuses all powers and absorbs vast quantities of principle fragments to reforge the body of an Innate Demon God.

- Upon entering the True Demon God Form, all powers and divine abilities are unleashed. The Lord of Purgatory commands Hell, while the Lord of the Void commands the Void.

[Demon God Combat Skills]

World-Ending Sun

- Forged from the Great Sun innate rune, high-level Great Heavenly Sun Flame law, the divine might of the Innate Demon God Body, and a lifetime of martial cultivation. Generates destruction dozens of times beyond the limit in an instant, capable of incinerating skies and boiling seas.

Lightning God Spear:

- Formed by fusing the Purple Lightning innate rune, high-level Divine Thousand-Tribulations Lightning law, and might of the Innate Demon God Body with martial mastery. Possesses supreme piercing power, capable of penetrating worlds.

Wheel of Death

- Formed when the ultimate technique of the Law of Death absorbs principle fragments and fuses with the might of the Innate Demon God Body and martial cultivation. Each rotation erases life, defining death itself.

Soul Judgment

- Formed when the ultimate technique of the Soul Law absorbs principle fragments and fuses with the might of the Innate Demon God Body and martial cultivation. Devastating to entities of the fantasy and illusory side. Average effectiveness against physical world lifeforms.

Nine-Fold Heavenly Gate

- Forged with the Dark Star rune, Nine Dragon rune, Heavenly Gate rune, and Innate Demon God Body, condensed through martial essence.

- A sealing-type special technique. Behind the gate lies the World-Ending Dragon. For every gate broken and dragon-patterned chain shattered, strength, defense, and offense are boosted by one-fold (stackable).

[Divine Transformation Ability]

Soul Splitter

[Divine Creation Trait]

Halberd

- When wielding the Eight Desolations Halberd, all attacks gain sharpness, rending, and severing properties, capable of obliterating everything in their path.

[Supreme Divine Ability]

Temporal Reincarnation: +9

[Top-Level Divine Abilities]

Vacuum Annihilation

- Formed by fusing the strength-based divine ability Vacuum Supremacy with the ability Starcrusher. Contains destructive, crushing power that can shatter everything.

Absolute Force Field

- Formed by fusing the defensive divine ability Absolute Barrier with the ability Mystic Light. Integrates with the bio-magnetic field to form a defense that interferes with surrounding space-time.

- Negates all physical, energy, and illusory attacks, unless they exceed the body's endurance limit by a factor of ten.

[High-Level Divine Ability]

Realm-Walking Divine Step

- A movement/flash-type divine ability. Greatly enhanced after reforging the Innate Demon God Body and absorbing principle fragments.

- Allows instantaneous movement across vast distances, ignoring barriers, restrictions, and micro-world boundaries.

[Ordinary Divine Abilities]

Eye of Hidden Divinity

Gaze of the Void

[Laws]

Law of Power(Supreme, 88%)

Law of Void(High-Level, 86%)

Law of Death(High-Level, 84%)

Law of Soul(High-Level, 81%)

True Great Sun Flame(High-Level, Fusion 99% +20 Strength)

Heavenly Purple Lightning(High-Level, Fusion 98% +20 Strength)

[Arts]

Taixu Nether Light Scripture(Sixth Stage, 51%)

[Secret Arts]

Space-Time Summoning Mark(Max)

[Special Marks]

Ancient Duel Mark

Hell’s Eye

[True Worlds]

Fire, Earth, Wind, and Lightning(Small World – True Range: 3,700 km)

- Skill: Absolute Domain, Wall of Worlds

[Equipment]

Eight Desolations Creation Halberd

Demon God Battle Armor

[Avatar]

Heavenly Azure Destructive Dragon Emperor

Level: Late-Stage Titan

- A heavenly ancient colossal beast possessing ten high-level laws

- 3,507 meters long

[Laws]

Advanced:

Strength(Destruction)

Defense(Vajra)

Chaotic Dark Force

Great Golden Sun Flame

Speed

Source of Life

Chaotic Thunderbolt of Destruction

CorrosionDark-Red Power(High-Level Law, +10 Strength)

Dark Realm Power(High-Level Special Law, 55%.)

- Allows the user to absorb heavy matter to increase their strength

Evolution Points: 997,047 / 2,000,000

The reforging of the Demon God Body had directly propelled Chen Chu’s cultivation to the peak of the mythical level. Alongside this breakthrough, his comprehension of laws and mastery over divine abilities had undergone significant transformations.

After integrating the seven rune-based abilities from the ancient body enhancement arts, the might of his strength and defense-type divine abilities had increased dramatically. Simultaneously, the Hidden Divinity and the Insightful Void-Slashing Eye had ascended into fully formed divine abilities.

Furthermore, the power of the Void Death Pupils had been split, with the Law of Death now merged into the Wheel of Death, which itself had been integrated with five innate Demon God Combat Skills.

As for the black stone gate cradled in one of his palms, it was actually a projection of the Heaven's Gate from the planar world, representing the Law of Power. It wasn’t a mere Demon God Combat Skill.

Beyond the transformation of his body, the flame and lightning laws—two of the five high-level laws—had also been substantially empowered, due to their fusion with two rune-based abilities.

The "+20" strength noted in his attributes denoted a power index nearing the supreme level. Once the strength reached +100, the law would evolve into a supreme law.

Under the attribute panel, the Dragon Emperor’s Dark-Red Power had reached +10 in strength after it destroyed a micro-world and absorbed the annihilative energy released by the collapse of that world.

This meant that the Dragon Emperor only needed to destroy nine more full-fledged worlds, and its Dark-Red Power would metamorphose into the supreme-level Dark-Red Destruction Law.

Just as Chen Chu had expected, the planar world had been expanding frantically after the absorption of abundant resources, growing from just over a thousand kilometers to more than three thousand. This expansion of the plane, which nurtured the Law of Power, had pushed the progress of cultivating that supreme law past even the laws of Death and Soul.

***

As Chen Chu carefully reviewed the attribute panel and perceived the various changes, deep within the Chaotic Region, the Platinum Six-Tailed Tiger corpse held in the Destructive Dragon Emperor’s claws had nearly been devoured, bones and all.

Forging the Tiger’s remains into essence to enhance the planar world wasn’t urgent for now. With a collection of titans, one ancient colossal beast, and a vast accumulation of world-enhancing resources, it would be enough to expand the plane to five thousand kilometers and enhance the Law of Power to the advanced stage.

Compared to the plane’s expansion, the Dragon Emperor’s breakthrough to the ancient titan level was even more crucial. After consuming the ancient titan, the Dragon Emperor’s body instantly grew by two hundred meters, becoming even more immense—this, despite part of the energy being diverted to advance the law of the Dark Realm Power.

As a colossal beast, the Dragon Emperor didn’t need to comprehend laws the way human cultivators did. The mere growth of its body and the advancement of its bloodline naturally propelled the associated laws forward.

Boom!

The Dragon Emperor crunched down on the Six-Tailed Tiger’s last tail, its chewing producing roars like nuclear explosions, and after a few bites, it swallowed the rest. Instantly, its body swelled once more.

Whoosh!

From its black-and-red nostrils, waves of scorching heat burst forth, the temperature melting and vaporizing all material and energy within several kilometers in front of it. Its monstrous maw opened slightly, and a deep, rumbling voice echoed through the void.

So hungry. Big Horn, keep searching for something good.

Every cell in the Dragon Emperor's body cried out in hunger, yearning to fuse with more heavy metal substances and absorb more biological energy to evolve and grow stronger.

Thunder Fiery, over there, far in that direction. I smell something good!

Well done. Let’s go.

Boom!

As the Dragon Emperor’s mountain-sized body moved, the void shook violently. Shockwaves exploded in all directions like tsunamis, forcing the Silver Colossal Dragon and Golden-Blue Colossal Dragon to flap their wings in haste to stabilize themselves.

Surrounded by the three colossal beasts, each over nine hundred meters long, the Dragon Emperor swiftly vanished from sight.