Chapter 892: Half A Supreme Powerhouse, Principle Power

Boom!

With the fall of the great demon king, the power of laws he commanded collapsed and dispersed, returning to the world and forming a radiant blood-red moon that emerged high in the sky before descending in a slow fall. Beneath the blood moon, at the center of the black hole brimming with chaotic turbulence, Chen Chu stood a kilometer tall, holding his halberd single-handedly.

Behind him, his six arms held six different divine manifestations. One hand cradled a golden-white sun, another gripped a purple thunderbolt battle spear. The others bore a nine-fold layered golden gate entwined in black chains, a grey wheel, and a pitch-black stone door.

Together with the golden wheel of light rotating behind him, he resembled a peerless god standing atop the sky, emanating an aura so overwhelming it made all of heaven and earth tremble.

Chen Chu quietly attuned himself to the changes brought by that previous strike. Only then did he activate his will, summoning forth his attribute panel. Though the final battle had already erupted, he needed to examine the detailed changes brought by this breakthrough before slaying the Purgatory powerhouses.

[Stats]

Realm: Heavenly King(Beginning Stage, Eleventh Tier)

Physique(Heavenly Dragon): 92 → 115 (17 points from the Dragon Emperor’s feedback enhancement, 6 points from heavy metal enhancement)

Strength(Heavenly Dragon): 97 → 119

Agility(Heavenly Dragon): 65 → 79

Spirit(Divine Soul): 71 → 85

Attribute Points: 10,494

Soul Points: 3,570

[True Form]

True Battle Demon God Form

- After absorbing a top-level heavy metal ore vein, the Innate Demon God Body has undergone a transformation, and is now as heavy as a celestial body.

[Supreme Divine Ability]

Temporal Reincarnation(+9, Middle-Stage Mythical Level ×5, Late-Stage Mythical Level ×4)

[Top-Level Divine Abilities]

Vacuum Annihilation

Absolute Force Field

[High-Level Divine Ability]

Realm-Walking Divine Step

[Ordinary Divine Abilities]

Hidden Divinity

Gaze of the Void

[Demon God Combat Skills]

World-Ending Sun

Lightning God Spear

Wheel of Death

Soul Judgment

[Special Power]

Nine-Fold Heavenly Gate

- Seals the World-Ending Dragon behind it. The user can crush the Heavenly Gate at any time to enter the forms of the Battle Demon God or the World-Ending Dragon Emperor.

- Note: In human form, only 60% of this power’s full strength can be unleashed. True potential is realized only in the eight-armed form, where all divine abilities can be fully manifested.

[Divine Transformation Abilities]

Soul Splitter

Double Void Pupil

[Principle]

Supreme Power(1%)

- An initial embryonic principle forged with the perfected Law of Power at its core, fused with five high-level laws: Void, Death, Soul, Fire, and Lightning.

Power Amplification

- All original divine abilities and laws' ultimate techniques receive a fifteenfold boost.

- Note: The current origin of this principle is limited. Excessive use may disrupt the fusion progress of the six laws and hinder the tempering of the true heavenly king form.

[Art]

Taixu Nether Light Scripture(Sixth stage, 73%)

[Secret Art]

Space-Time Summoning Mark(Max)

[Special Marks]

Ancient Duel Mark

Hell's Eye

[True World]

Earth, Fire, Wind, and Lightning(Medium World)

- Real range: 5,900 kilometers

- Ability: Absolute Domain, Wall of Worlds

[Equipment]

Eight Desolations World-Creating Halberd

- A law-level weapon reforged with vast amounts of heavy metal material, containing the unique trait of World Creation.

Demon God Meteor Armor

- A law-level armor fused with heavy metal materials and the essence of a heavenly-tier colossal beast, integrated seamlessly with the user.

[Avatar]

Heavenly Azure Destructive Dragon Emperor

Level: Titan(Peak Stage)

- Length: 4,235 meters

- State: Dormant, undergoing breakthrough toward ancient titan level

Laws:Destruction(Strength)...

Evolution Points: 1,480,737 / 2,000,000(Next evolution at the peak of the ancient titan level)

Chen Chu’s gaze swept across all the changes in his attributes, and finally settled on the Supreme Power principle. The overall transformation after breaking through to the heavenly king level wasn’t drastic, mainly because he had already completed the path-forging phase beforehand. His level of comprehension had long since reached the peak of the heavenly king level, so most of the enhancements were simply amplifications upon his existing foundation.

Only the change in law power was significant. Centered on the Law of Power, he had birthed an embryonic principle. From here onward, Chen Chu merely needed to accelerate the fusion of his laws, temper his true form to the level of a true heavenly king, and once the embryonic principle fully matured within him, he would step into the supreme level.

This was the reward for all of the time and energy he had poured into reforging the Innate Demon God Body. Now, the path from the heavenly king level to the supreme level was as smooth as a paved road. There was no need to waste effort comprehending or perfecting laws. He could soon surpass the distance that even Heavenly King Xuanwu and others had spent decades trying to cross.

The difference between a law and a principle lay in the level of power. Laws were manifestations of natural forces, like raging wind, fire, and other elemental energies. However, a principle was a conceptual force of coercion. A cultivator who grasped a principle could, with a mere thought, reverse the positions of earth and sky.

The sky could become a heavy, solid mass, while the earth floated above the azure heavens—light and intangible. Of course, to achieve such a reversal required unfathomable power. It was tantamount to redefining the very foundations of heaven and earth, no different from true world creation.

In a sense, Chen Chu, who had already grasped the power of an embryonic principle, was no different from Zuo Mo, the peak great demon king who had brushed the edge of such power.

The only difference was, other heavenly kings and great demon kings only began to touch on principles after reaching their peak and reforging their paths. Chen Chu, however, had already taken this step immediately upon breaking through. Moreover, during his breakthrough, he had devoured and refined an entire heavy copper mountain range, further enhancing his physical strength and empowering both his weapon and armor.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

As Chen Chu was immersed in the perception of his breakthrough, in the vast expanse of the Eternal Divine Region, spanning millions of kilometers, a series of powerful auras erupted. Multiple demon kings and great demon kings unleashed explosive waves of dark energy, sending towering clouds of demonic qi spiraling into the sky.

Among them, a peak great demon king distorted space at blinding speeds and lunged toward a distant Heavenly Feathered legion, located over a hundred thousand kilometers away.

Half an hour later, the broken heavens and earth were saturated with thick demonic qi. Countless colossal corpses of the Silverplume Lineage lay strewn across the ground, shredded into hundreds, even thousands, of pieces by some sharp force. They hadn’t been completely annihilated, and the fragmented bodies gushed rivers of blood, forming twisted red streams that snaked across the terrain.

In the sky, clutched in the eight arms of that great demon king, were the mangled corpses of two Heavenly Feathered mythical-level powerhouses. Coils of black lightning crackled around them, suppressing and erasing the origins of their divine souls.

At the same time, more than a hundred thousand kilometers from the human frontlines, another peak great demon king stood tall. This one reached two thousand meters in height, with three heads and ten arms, clad in thick dark-red armor. Around it, blood-red flames raged, spreading across a thousand-kilometer radius. The fire twisted the heavens and earth, transforming the land into a dark-red abyssal domain—ominous and dreadful.

The great demon king’s eyes were icy as they fixed on the direction of the human forces. From that direction, it faintly sensed a trace of danger. Kuerstack licked its lips with all three heads, a savage and cruel gleam flickering in its eyes. “To make me feel even a hint of threat... your strength must be decent. You’re worthy of dying by my hand.”

Boom!

In a flash, the peak great demon king erupted in a sea of blood-colored flames and shot toward the human front at lightning speed. In the blink of an eye, it had crossed a thousand kilometers. Very soon, it appeared just a thousand kilometers from the human legion, its expression growing slightly grave as it gazed ahead.

There, the land had collapsed into a massive two-thousand-kilometer-wide crater, with gigantic rifts webbing out in all directions like a shattered spiderweb stretching across ten thousand kilometers.

At the heart of the pit stood a towering black stone stele, over ten thousand meters tall. Beneath it, a great demon king had been sealed. Its aura was faint and withering. Its true form had already been eroded into transparency by the stone stele’s power, and it was only hanging onto its last breath.

Standing atop the True Martial Stele, Heavenly King Zhenwu raised his head and looked toward the burning blood-red flames in the sky. He slowly said, “Another great demon king has arrived.”

***

After finishing his review of the data changes, Chen Chu slowly let out a breath and dismissed the attribute page. His pupils shimmered with twin vertical slits of black-gold light.

Because this was a flat battlefield, his eyesight easily pierced across hundreds of thousands of kilometers, taking in the chaos of over a dozen combat zones erupting in distant corners of the sky.

Among them, one particular formation drew his attention: a great demon king, three demon kings, and over a hundred thousand soldiers of the Purgatory Clan moving as one unit.

Got you.

Whoosh!

Chen Chu’s figure vanished in a flicker of black light, streaking across the sky. After only a few flashes, he appeared more than four thousand kilometers away.

With the power of his Realm-Walking Divine Step, Chen Chu’s speed reached monstrous extremes, warping space itself to leap forward with each step. In just a few breaths, he had crossed tens of thousands of kilometers.

Chen Chu's speed far surpassed even that of the Destructive Dragon Emperor, which typically traveled at over two hundred times the speed of sound in its normal state. For colossal beasts, their massive size imposed inherent limits. Unless they possessed speed-based abilities or laws, their enormous bodies would significantly hamper both mobility and soul.

After all, a beast stretching over a kilometer in length carried immense weight. Even if law domains helped offset part of their own mass, they remained subject to the fundamental influence of the gravitational principle.

Though his strength had surged after the breakthrough, Chen Chu chose not to openly challenge any demon-god-level beings on this chaotic battlefield just yet. He intended to move with discretion.

His primary targets were the demon kings and great demon kings. Compared to engaging the nearly unkillable demon gods, crushing and slaughtering the demon kings yielded far better results.

If he could eliminate the demon kings and even great demon kings of the three great empires, then even if the Heavenly Feathered Race were wiped out in this war, the pressure on the human race would lessen drastically.

In addition, if he managed to return to the human frontlines quickly enough after this battle, there was a chance he could exploit the timing gap to destroy the two Purgatory Empires before they could react.

Whoosh!

Chen Chu’s figure came to a halt, silently appearing in the sky hundreds of thousands of meters high. He lowered his head slightly, and his icy gaze locked onto the battlefield below—an area of devastation stretching over a thousand kilometers. At that moment, a great demon king was locked in fierce battle with a Heavenly Feathered chief god, one whom Chen Chu recognized: Bordea.

Despite being in the late stage of the chief god level, Bordea was holding his own against a middle-stage great demon king and three demon kings. In fact, he was even gaining the upper hand and suppressing his foes.

Hum!

Just then, one of the six arms behind Chen Chu, the one holding the purple thunderbolt battle spear, suddenly raised high, emitting a blinding light.

The formless aura of destruction that radiated from it immediately startled the hundreds of thousands of Purgatory True Demons and Heavenly Feathered warriors on the battlefield below. An inexplicable fear gripped their hearts as they instinctively looked up. Even the great demon king and the three demon kings who were battling Bordea couldn’t help but pause and raise their heads.

Boom!

A dazzling purple pillar of lightning descended from the heavens, piercing sky and earth. The brilliance it unleashed illuminated the entire battlefield.