Chapter 929: The Terrifying Dark-Red World, Civilization’s Guardian (I)

In the Dark-Red World bathed in crimson radiance, a dazzling glowing sphere descended from the sky, resembling the silhouette of an immense, boundless tree falling upon the earth.

Boom!

This time, the star truly exploded. At the moment of impact, the Eternal Divine Region, with a diameter exceeding two million kilometers, unleashed an unfathomable surge of energy, annihilating everything in its path and releasing an endless wave of light and power.

Yet despite such cataclysmic force and explosion, the crimson rocky ground of the Dark-Red World remained astoundingly firm. It merely fractured into massive rifts stretching across tens of millions of kilometers.

From deep beneath the surface, a vague, ominous roar echoed. The unyielding red earth trembled as though it were alive, and the titanic fissures began to mend on their own. It was as if this land wasn't land at all, but rather the flesh of a colossal beast.

Roar!

At the heart of the world-destroying blast, a colossal beast over ten thousand meters tall let out a furious roar. It resembled a four-armed Rampage Ape, but its entire body was covered in crimson scales and spikes.

The creature's body pulsed with the power of Dark-Red Principle, stirring the red light of heaven and earth. Behind it rose the phantom of a Rampage Ape a million meters tall, its four claws outstretched and clasping a crimson world as it came crashing down. The sheer power intensified the already destructive blast zone, rendering the devastation even more violent. The force was nearly on par with that of a true spirit.

"Begone!" Tyretis roared, its might surging sky-high. The demonic saber in its hand, entwined with the essence of five alien sovereigns, swelled in size and transformed into a black saber light that stretched from earth to sky.

Boom!

The world clasped in the Rampage Ape’s claws shattered. That fearsome saber light carved a massive wound across the beast’s body, slicing through laws themselves with unmatched sharpness.

Roar!

𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

The dark-red colossal beast howled in fury, stumbling back several steps. The ground beneath it shook violently, and the rocky surface cracked open. Such terrifying might was indeed worthy of its title. It was known as the strongest among the three great empires, bearing the title of Abyssal Great Demon God. However, the cost of unleashing such extreme power was equally steep, and Tyretis didn’t emerge unscathed.

The five alien sovereign phantoms on Tyretis's demonic saber began to creep along its arm, their shrill wails piercing into its bones. The agony etched faint traces of torment onto Tyretis’s face.

Roar!

The dark-red colossal beast bellowed again, summoning the destructive force of the world to surge toward Tyretis. The battle erupted anew.

While Tyretis fought fiercely, trading a thousand kills for eight hundred wounds, two abyssal demon gods stood tall in the distant sky, vast enough to blot out the heavens.

Each wielded a world-level weapon pushed to the extreme. One had taken the form of a boundless black demonic dragon, and the other a monstrous phantom wreathed in thorny vines. Each one blanketed a region of hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

With the protection of these two rulers, the brunt of the Eternal Divine Region's apocalyptic explosion had been withstood, allowing the majority of the Purgatory legions and demon kings to survive. Only an unlucky few—several tens of millions from the Purgatory legions, along with some demon kings and great demon kings—were reduced to ashes in the blast.

Just as the surviving demons rejoiced at having escaped death, another earth-shattering roar thundered across the heavens. At the far end of the crimson world, a blurry figure even larger than the Rampage Ape emerged. It emanated a pressure that unmistakably belonged to the true spirit level.

Another figure appeared from a different direction, and all of the demon gods instantly turned pale. “The Eternal Region’s explosion drew too much attention. Split up!”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The five remaining demon gods acted at once. They unleashed their abyssal or dark domains and propelled the Purgatory legions outward in all directions.

Among them, Zuo Mo abruptly withdrew his True Demon God Form, reverting into the form of an ordinary three-thousand-meter-tall great demon king. Seizing An Fuqing, he tore through space and vanished in an instant, going in a completely different direction from any of the others.

While the demon gods were dividing the shattered remains of the Eternal Divine Tree, a sudden anomaly occurred far away in the human territory, outside the logistics city near Passage One. Under the sunlight, a golden divine tree towering over ten thousand meters began to tremble.

Hum!

The divine tree burst into radiant brilliance, as though forged from pure gold. On each golden leaf, mysterious white markings appeared, hovering in mid-air as if they were solid. White principle runes swirled across the sky, forming a massive ring of light that suddenly contracted and disappeared.

At the same time, the entire tree began to shake more violently. A brilliant glow surged from deep within the trunk, penetrated the bark, and radiated dazzling golden halos that circled the tree.

This sudden change immediately alarmed all of the human cultivators, including the kings guarding the passage. They were all stunned as they watched the divine tree begin to tremble. Its branches and trunk grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, swelling until it pierced through the clouds over thirty thousand meters high.

At the same time, the roots tore through the earth. Some of them followed the surface rifts, spreading dozens of kilometers toward Passage One, and then extended into the surrounding void.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Passage One trembled violently. The silver vortex, over a thousand meters tall, spun faster and faster, and even began to expand. Everyone could feel that the passage was becoming more stable.

While the cultivators in the logistics city were still shaken by this sudden upheaval, a powerful will descended silently and appeared within the treetop of the divine tree, now drowned in golden light. It took the shape of Qian Tian, his long black-and-white hair flowing without wind as he looked forward. There stood a blurry, transparent white figure. Behind it floated fourteen white wings of light, and above its head hovered a white halo, resembling a mythical angel of creation.

Qian Tian slowly said, “Should I address you as the Divine King of Light, or as the Guardian of Civilization?”

The white phantom slowly shook its head. “I am merely a strand of prematurely awakened will. I can no longer protect civilization, nor can I continue leading the race to expand. My existence is solely to bear witness, and at the proper time, to awaken 'It.'”

“You cannot tell whether your purpose is to guard or to pioneer? It seems your current state is not ideal,” Qian Tian murmured with a faint sigh, then vanished without a trace.

No one noticed Qian Tian's arrival or departure. All attention remained fixed on the ever-growing Eternal Divine Tree. Before their eyes, the golden tree continued to swell until it reached nearly one hundred thousand meters in height, before gradually stopping. It stood like a towering mountain upon the earth.

Its sprawling canopy spread over more than two hundred kilometers, blotting out the sky and sun and covering half of the logistics base behind Passage One.

As the Eternal Divine Tree sapling gathered strength, the concentration of transcendent energy within the reach of its crown grew denser and denser, eventually condensing into tangible dew that began to drip from the air.

Some cultivators even discovered in shock that with the golden radiance of the divine tree, their previously unyielding bottlenecks in cultivation had begun to loosen.