Chapter 646
Birth
"So the Azure Star Sea is actually connected to three Fifth Realm cultivators..."
"Tsk."
"No wonder I always felt something was off. The fallen Chen Sheng, the suppressed Hai Sheng, and Ming Lian, a newcomer to the fifth realm..."
Su Chen murmured softly, his voice carrying a complex and indescribable meaning.
Su Chen was unaware of why Minglian attacked Xinghai.
Even many ancient and powerful beings were unaware of the ten eras.
Even the First Heavenly Emperor of the Immortal Path, Zuo Qingcang, was unaware of this, but now Su Chen knew this earth-shattering secret.
Beneath this sea of stars, there is another, even more ferocious and insane Fifth Realm being suppressed—the Skeleton Lord!
This truth, like a massive boulder, crashed into his heart, which had been calm for 1,500 years, stirring up a monstrous wave.
Su Chen suddenly understood many things he couldn't comprehend before.
The purpose of the Nether Lotus has never been conquest, but liberation! To liberate the Skeleton Lord, who has been suppressed for countless epochs by the Corpse Universe of the Star Saint!
"What a grand strategy that spans generations."
"I'm afraid the conflict between the two saints involves some even greater secrets. After all, what they are about to explore may be related to the sixth realm..."
Su Chen's eyes became incredibly deep.
If the Skeleton Lord could kill a veteran Fifth Realm expert like Chen Sheng, then this chaotic powerhouse from the Ruins Domain, even if severely injured and suppressed, would never simply fade into obscurity.
He must have conveyed a message to the outside world in some way over the long years, or rather, His forces in the Ruins never gave up searching for Him.
Minglian is probably a subordinate of the Skeleton Lord, or an ally lured by the Skeleton Lord with great benefits.
And what about yourself?
He thwarted Minglian's plans twice, and even on the level of cause and effect, he personally ended Chen Sheng's last lingering resentment, which was the Mythical Heavenly Dao.
In a sense, he was the "prison master" who destroyed this "cage" in the mythical era that only existed in the past.
The mythological era is an era that should not exist.
But it still exists.
This is because this era exists based on the barrier that seals the Corpse Lord.
The fourteen star seas today seem to have reached a certain balance in the new era, with the ten ancient deities and the ten celestial deities standing side by side, dividing the world.
But Su Chen knew that this was just the calm before the storm.
Without the suppression of the will of Heaven, this barrier of corpses is becoming increasingly unstable.
The "order" imprint left by Chen Sheng when he fell is being slowly worn away by time and chaos as his lingering resentment dissipates.
As one side gains and the other loses, the "chaos" and "destruction" aura of the Corpse Lord, suppressed at the bottom, will one day seep out and even break free from its restraints.
At that time, all living beings in the fourteen star seas will become His food for restoring His power.
"We can't wait any longer."
Su Chen slowly stood up. The moonlight outside the thatched hut shone on his blue robe, casting a cool glow.
Fifteen hundred years of accumulation allowed him to completely digest the memories and power of the Immortal Ancestor's lingering will, and also brought his own state to an unprecedented peak.
His Taiyi Golden Immortal Dao Fruit was completely perfect in the middle stage, and he was only one step away from stepping into the late stage.
Originally, he thought he had a long time to slowly cultivate and consolidate the new Dao civilization.
But the ultimate threat, "Skeleton Lord," hidden deep within the world, is like a poisonous thorn, forcing him to take immediate action.
To fight against a fifth-realm powerhouse who has been suppressed for countless epochs and has accumulated endless resentment, even if the opponent may only have a wisp of remnant soul left, is by no means an easy task.
He must possess greater power.
"The fourth realm..." Su Chen's gaze seemed to pierce through the roof, looking towards the distant depths of the starry sky, where the twenty supreme rulers of the new era... were the best resources.
He no longer had any hesitation.
For him, the comfortable life outside the city was over.
It is time for this world, which has forgotten him, to remember the taboo title of "Time Celestial Venerable".
"Without the Heavenly Dao rank, relying solely on the peak of the Taiyi Golden Immortal mid-stage, I wonder if I can kill a true fourth-stage cultivator..."
A thought flashed through his mind.
Having lost his status as the "summiter," he could no longer make his words law and decide life and death with a single sentence.
That is the power of the entire universe's authority, a crushing force in terms of "authority".
Now, all he can rely on is his 'Taiyi Path', honed through countless trials, and his extraordinary understanding of the essence of the Great Dao after merging with the memories of the Immortal Ancestor.
This is undoubtedly a gamble.
But he had no other choice.
Su Chen took one last look at the thatched hut that had been with him for 1,500 years. Without a trace of lingering affection, he took a step out and his figure disappeared from the spot, as if he had never existed.
He didn't disturb anyone in the City of Inquiry, nor did he bid farewell to Feng Canyun. His seed had grown, and no longer needed protection.
He was about to embark on a bloody path filled with killing and plunder.
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The Guixu Star Region is the most chaotic and barren of the fourteen star seas.
In the old mythological era, this place was a place where the Heavenly Dao exiled criminals and heretics, a chaotic wasteland filled with shattered spacetime currents and perilous dangers.
In the new era, this place became a buffer zone where the forces of the Ten Ancient Venerables and the Ten Heavenly Venerables intersected, a lawless land where no one cared.
Countless desperate outlaws, space pirates, and small factions unwilling to submit, struggling to survive between the two forces, gathered here, making this already chaotic starfield even darker and bloodier.
At this moment, on the edge of the Guixu Starfield, in a vast meteorite belt known as the "Shattered Star Abyss," an earth-shattering battle is unfolding.
Two towering Dharma images stood in the cold void of the universe. With each collision, tens of thousands of huge meteorites around them were reduced to dust, and the violent energy shockwaves even distorted light and tore space apart.
One of the Dharma images was covered in dark blue-black dragon scales, with two horns on its head and eighteen ferocious bony arms extending from its back. With each swing, it stirred up a torrent of black evil water that corroded everything.
This was none other than the infamous pseudo-Fourth Realm Heavenly King, a figure under the command of the East Sea Dragon Emperor—the Jiaohai Heavenly King.
His opponent was a humanoid dharma form composed of countless fragments of broken stars, with eyes that were two lifeless stars burning with pale white flames, and an aura of decay and end surrounding him.
He is a fierce general under the newly promoted "Star River Celestial Venerable", with the title of "Remnant Star Celestial King".
Two pseudo-fourth-realm powerhouses have been locked in a fierce battle for seven days and seven nights over ownership of a newly discovered "Chaotic Star Marrow" mine deep within the Shattered Star Abyss.
"Jiao Hai! Do you really intend to fight to the death with my Myriad Laws Immortal Alliance for the sake of your master?!"
"Don't forget, this place was occupied by our Myriad Laws Immortal Alliance first."
"You should at least try to be reasonable!"
"Does this mean they don't take our Myriad Laws Immortal Alliance seriously? We also have a Supreme Ruler behind us..."
"The era of the Ten Ancient Sovereigns dominating the world is long gone!"
The Remnant Star King let out a series of roars that sounded like stars rubbing against each other. One of his "eyeballs," a star, had been half-extinguished by the Fiery Water of the Flood Dragon Sea King in the previous collision, and his aura was slightly unstable.
"Hahaha! What a joke!" Jiao Hai Tian Wang laughed wildly, "This starry sea ultimately belongs to us ancient venerables!"
"You are nothing but descendants who have gained power by chance after the fall of the Heavenly Dao, yet you dare to contend with us?"
"If you know what's good for you and retreat, I might spare your life. Otherwise, today will be the day you perish!"
"There are only ten ancient Venerables in the world, not ten new Venerables, understand?"
"Got it? Then get out of here!"
The Heavenly King of the Sea let out a cold laugh.
"Insanity!"
The Remnant Star Heavenly King was furious. The two of them once again unleashed their life's cultivation, transforming into two destructive torrents that collided violently.
Rumble——! ! !
An energy storm powerful enough to instantly obliterate an ordinary Golden Immortal swept outwards in all directions.
At the edge of this chaotic battlefield, a figure in a green robe appeared silently, hovering quietly behind a huge meteorite.
He concealed all his presence, like an ordinary speck of cosmic dust, attracting no one's attention.
It was Su Chen who had come from afar.
He looked at the two pseudo-fourth-realm Heavenly Kings fighting fiercely in the distance, his eyes calm as still water, without the slightest ripple.
In his eyes, these two supreme heavenly kings, who were considered ancestors in the outside world, had their great laws full of traces of being carved, and their foundations were mixed and impure. They were obviously the aftereffects of being suppressed by the heavenly way in the old era and forcibly seeking a breakthrough.
Their power, though seemingly vast, lacks the "completeness" of the true Fourth Realm, which is harmonious, self-contained, and perfectly integrated.
"The perfect testing ground," Su Chen thought to himself.
He originally intended to continue observing and assess the gap between his current strength and those of these pseudo-fourth realm cultivators.
However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred.
After another fierce collision, the Heavenly King of the Sea of the Flood Dragon feinted and then suddenly retreated, using the force of the explosion to rush back towards Su Chen's location, seemingly wanting to temporarily leave the battlefield and regroup.
At that very moment, his extremely vigilant divine sense swept over the area where Su Chen was hiding.
"Ok?"
The Heavenly King of the Sea suddenly stopped, his huge dragon eyes instantly locking onto Su Chen, a hint of cruelty and tyranny flashing across them.
"How dare a mere ant spy on my battle?"
His voice, like a thunderclap from the heavens, exploded in Su Chen's mind. In his eyes, Su Chen's aura, which he had concealed to the extreme, was no different from that of an ordinary True Immortal.
On a battlefield of this caliber, for a True Immortal to be spying on it is simply courting death.
On the other side, the Remnant Star Heavenly King also noticed the abnormality here. His divine sense swept over as well, and when he found that it was just a "minor character", a mocking sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Jiaohai, it seems your reputation is nothing more than that. Even such a small fry dares to provoke you."
The Heavenly King of the Sea's face darkened, feeling that his authority had been challenged.
He couldn't be bothered to figure out Su Chen's intentions; he only had one thought in his mind—to crush this eyesore of an insect!
"die!"
He didn't even use his Dharma form; he simply raised a bone arm and pointed it in Su Chen's direction from afar.
A jet-black stream of malevolent water instantly condensed into a sharp ice spike, ignoring the distance in space, and appeared in front of Su Chen's brow in an instant!
He used less than one ten-thousandth of his power in this attack, but in his view, killing a True Immortal was more than enough, and even a bit of an overreaction.
However, faced with this fatal blow that could pierce through stars and annihilate immortal souls, Su Chen didn't even lift an eyelid.
A hint of boredom even appeared on his face.
Just a moment before the icy water spikes were about to touch his skin.
Su Chen moved.
He made no defensive move, nor did he unleash any earth-shattering aura.
He simply raised his right hand slowly, extended his index finger, and gently touched the oncoming ice spike.
There was no sound, no light, and no collision of any energy.
A strange scene happened.
The Fiery Water Ice Spike, formed from the laws of a pseudo-fourth-realm expert, vanished the moment it touched Su Chen's fingertip, like a punctured phantom, silently disappearing from its tip...
It wasn't melting, it wasn't breaking, but rather it was completely and utterly erased from the very concept of "existence".
It was as if it had never been formed.
"what?!"
"Not a true immortal, but a golden immortal?"
"How is this possible! How could it have escaped my senses? Could it be a late-stage Golden Immortal...?"
The arrogant expression on Jiaohai Tianwang's face instantly froze!
Instead, there was a sense of horror and disbelief, as if they had seen a ghost!
He clearly felt that the connection between the power of law he had unleashed and himself had been forcibly "erased" by an incomprehensible and more fundamental force!
How can this be? !
"This……"
"Why does this kid look so familiar..."
Where have I seen you before?
The mockery on the face of the distant Remnant Star King also froze, and for the first time, a solemn expression appeared in the eyes of those two burning stars.
However, this is just the beginning.
After wiping out the attack, Su Chen slowly raised his gaze for the first time, looking at the enormous dragon dharma image.
His gaze was calm, yet carried a cold indifference that looked down upon all living beings, as if he were looking at a script whose ending had already been written.
"You're too noisy."
He spoke softly, his voice not loud, yet it clearly reached the ears of the two Heavenly Kings.
The moment he finished speaking, Su Chen's figure vanished from the spot.
In the next instant, he appeared like a ghost before the enormous Dharma image of the Remnant Star Heavenly King, composed of countless fragments of stars.
"Let's start with you."
"Didn't you enjoy stirring things up just now?"
"Now, pay the price for what you just said."
Su Chen's voice seemed to resonate directly within the soul of the Remnant Star King.
"Do not--!"
The Remnant Star King instantly felt an unprecedented crisis of death!
He let out a deafening roar, and the billions of star fragments that made up his Dharma form instantly burst out with a tragic white light, forming an indestructible "Star Bone Barrier." At the same time, his true body also tried to escape from the Dharma form.
However, it was too late.
Su Chen slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers spread, and gently clenched it towards the enormous star-shaped dharma image. (End of this chapter)