Chapter 793
Refining Medicine with Gods
At the summit of the Thirty-Three Heavens, deep within the Void Star Sea.
Amidst a perpetual auspicious purple cloud, a solitary ancient palace, exuding the fragrance of timeless elixir, floats suspended—the [Doushuai Divine Palace].
This is the most sacred alchemy ground in the divine realm. For countless eons, the divine realm has gathered innate spiritual roots and immortal divine medicines from all the heavens and myriad realms, all converging here, where the most senior figure in the divine realm, the [Tai Xuan Dao Ancestor], begins the refining process. Legend has it that the "Nine-Turn Limitless Golden Elixir," which can bring gods back from the dead and restore flesh to bones, originated from this palace.
However, today, this sacred place of cultivation, which even the gods and kings of past dynasties had to give way to, has been greeted by a blood-soaked god of death in green robes who has arrived stepping through the air on the corpses of countless gods and Buddhas.
"Bang--------!!!!"
A deafening roar shattered the void.
The heavy palace gate of the Doushuai Divine Palace, made of innate Dao gold and ten-thousand-year-old sandalwood, was kicked into pieces by Su Chen before even the array light screen could light up!
The purple-gold plaque of the "Doushuai Divine Palace," which had been hanging for countless epochs and symbolized the orthodox alchemy of the divine realm, was instantly shattered into dust by the violent primordial energy.
"What kind of monster dares to trespass into my sacred alchemy grounds!"
From deep within the palace, a hoarse, angry shout rang out. Immediately afterward, an old man with a white beard, dressed in a Taoist robe with the Eight Trigrams of Tai Chi and holding a whisk, rushed out in a panic, accompanied by a dozen or so child prodigies carrying gourds of elixirs.
This person is none other than the Tai Xuan Dao Ancestor, who is in charge of the alchemy of the divine realm, and whose cultivation has reached the early stage of the sixth realm!
However, when the Grand Ancestor Tai Xuan saw the man in the green robe outside the door, whose body was covered in a chaotic, glazed color and who looked like an unparalleled ferocious beast, his face, which had originally carried a bit of the demeanor of a superior man, instantly turned ashen, and even the hand holding the whisk trembled violently.
"You...you're that Devouring Demon who descended from the mortal realm?! You've taken His Majesty the God-King..."
"Shut your beak."
Su Chen didn't even bother to look at the old Taoist priest. He stepped over the broken pieces of wood scattered on the ground and strode into the main hall of the Tushita Palace.
He sniffed the air intently, and his eyes, reflecting the divine radiance of the sun and moon, locked onto the towering Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Divine Furnace, which burned with the divine fire of the Six Ding and Six Jia, standing ten thousand feet tall in the very center of the hall.
"I've eaten a lot of hearty dishes all the way here, and my stomach is just missing some dessert to fill the gaps."
Su Chen licked the remaining starlight from the corner of his mouth, his eyes glowing with a gluttonous red light like two burning flames of karma. He strode to the Eight Trigrams Divine Furnace, ignoring the intense heat that could melt a sixth-realm True God, and reached out his right hand to grab the heavy, purple-gold lid of the furnace.
"I've heard that your dilapidated furnace contains the most supreme Nine-Turn Golden Elixir from the Divine Realm? Give it to me—open it!!!"
"Crack!"
With a sickening metallic scraping sound, the furnace lid, which had been covered for countless millennia, was forcefully flung off by Su Chen with one hand, crashing heavily through the dome of the Tushita Palace!
"Whoosh—!"
The elixir energy accumulated within the furnace over millions of years transformed into a seven-colored auspicious cloud that soared into the sky.
However, when Su Chen peered into the bottom of the furnace, the fervor and anticipation on his face froze instantly.
The bottom of the furnace was completely empty!
Forget about the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, there wasn't even a single dreg of the waste pills used to feed cranes! It was spotless, as if a dog had licked it clean!
The temperature within the entire Doushuai Palace plummeted to freezing point in that instant. A terrifying killing intent that shattered even the soul of the Taixuan Dao Ancestor erupted from Su Chen's seemingly frail green robe!
"empty?"
Su Chen slowly turned around, his eyes now completely transformed into an extreme black hole capable of devouring everything. He stared intently at the Tai Xuan Dao Ancestor, his voice so soft it sent chills down one's spine.
"I have fought my way from the South Heavenly Gate all the way to the top of the Thirty-Three Heavens, and I am here with great joy to find a dessert."
"You dare... try to fool me with an empty pot?!"
Tai Xuan Dao Ancestor was so frightened that his knees buckled and he knelt on the ground, kowtowing frantically, even knocking his Dao crown off.
"Your Majesty, please calm your anger! Your Majesty, please calm your anger!! It's not that I'm hiding it away, but that the Nine-Turn Golden Pill was taken away by His Majesty the God-King of Judgment a month ago, who said he wanted to use it to restore the original essence of the finger you bit off!!"
"Now, apart from some unformed medicinal liquids, there is truly not a single finished pill left in this Tushita Palace!"
"The God-King took it?"
Upon hearing this, Su Chen was so angry that he laughed, and the sound of his laughter caused the stone pillars of the Tushita Palace to crack inch by inch.
"What a damned old dog of a judge! Even on his deathbed, he still wants to ruin my dessert!"
"but……"
Su Chen's gaze suddenly became like two peerless, bone-scraping daggers, scrutinizing the kneeling Tai Xuan Dao Ancestor from head to toe. From his white beard, he looked down into the Dao Ancestor's heart within him, pulsating with a rich wood elemental essence.
This scrutinizing gaze upon the ingredients made the Tai Xuan Dao Ancestor feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and an unprecedented omen of death flashed wildly above his head.
"Since there's no more medicine to take in this Tushita Palace..."
Su Chen took a step forward and instantly appeared in front of the Tai Xuan Dao Ancestor. His large hand, covered with chaotic dragon scales, grabbed the back of the alchemy ancestor's neck like an eagle catching a chick, and lifted him into the air!
"Then you, old Taoist, have been absorbing the essence of elixirs for years, accumulating the medicinal properties of millions of years within your body. This body must have been thoroughly seasoned long ago, right?"
"No!! God, spare me!! My skin is thick and my flesh is sour and unpalatable!! I am willing to refine pills for God for eternity and be a fire-tending boy!!!" Tai Xuan Dao Zu screamed miserably, struggling desperately, but he could not shake Su Chen's terrifying divine power at the peak of the sixth realm.
"You talk too much nonsense!"
Su Chen snorted coldly, a hint of extreme cruelty flashing in his eyes.
"Since there are no pills available, today I will use you, this old alchemist, to fill the gap! Using gods to refine medicine is quite to my liking!"
With a swift motion, Su Chen hurled the Tai Xuan Dao Ancestor like a boulder from a catapult into the [Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Divine Furnace], which was still burning with divine fire!
"boom!"
"Aaaaaaahh ...
As Tai Xuan Daozu fell to the bottom of the furnace, the Six Ding and Six Jia Divine Fire instantly ignited his Daoist robes and divine body. He was a Daoist who attained enlightenment through the Wood element, and under the scorching heat of this extreme divine fire, he let out a chilling and agonizing wail.
"Fire alone is not enough!"
Su Chen formed a hand seal with one hand, and the illusory image of the Longevity Tree appeared behind him. He directly activated the [Origin·Gluttony Fire] within his body, transforming it into a dark red fire dragon that roared into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, intertwining with the primordial fire of the divine furnace!
Not only that, Su Chen also poured all the piles of ancient divine medicine residues and immortal vine roots in the Doushuai Palace into the furnace without even looking at them, as ingredients to refine this "Dao Ancestor's Great Pill"!
"Refine it for me!!!"
Under Su Chen's brute force that surpassed the limits of the Heavenly Dao, the Purple Gold Eight Trigrams Divine Furnace started operating wildly!
Inside the furnace, the screams of the Supreme Profound Dao Ancestor grew weaker and weaker. His flesh, bones, and even the sixth-realm Dao Ancestor's soul were forcibly mixed, compressed, and purified with the remnants of those divine medicines under the simmering of the Origin Fire!
In the short time it takes for an incense stick to burn.
As the flames inside the divine furnace gradually died down, an extraordinary fragrance, hundreds or thousands of times richer than before, wafted out from the furnace opening.
Su Chen reached out and grabbed.
A [Tai Xuan Divine Pill], about the size of a fist, with purple and gold Dao patterns flowing throughout, and the faint image of the Tai Xuan Dao Ancestor's pained face floating within it, fell into his palm. "It's a bit old, but its potency is far superior to any Nine-Turn Golden Pill!"
Without any hesitation, Su Chen tilted his head back as if swallowing a peerless immortal peach, and threw the giant pill, which was made by a sixth-realm Dao Ancestor, into the abyss's maw!
"Crack!"
With one bite, the aroma of the medicine filled the air, and the immense medicinal power exploded wildly throughout Su Chen's body like a bursting river!
"Not bad! It's a little undercooked and a bit sticky, but it's perfect for moistening my throat after eating the Stars!"
Su Chen swallowed the elixir, stretched comfortably, and his bones crackled like popping beans.
He turned and walked out of the Tushita Palace, standing at the highest point of the thirty-three heavens, looking down at the supreme divine stove that he had folded into something, and the countless gods and Buddhas at the bottom of the stove, who were being boiled to death by thunder and fire.
"Now that we've finished our dessert, it seems it's time to wrap up this feast in the divine realm."
Just as Su Chen was about to leap down from the heavens and devour the "stew of gods" completely.
"hold head high--------!!!!"
A roar of nine dragons, which shook the remaining fortune of the entire divine realm and exuded endless imperial majesty, suddenly soared into the sky from the ruins of the still-uncollapsed [Sacred Heavenly Court] at the other end of the divine realm!
……
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"Heretical demon!! You destroyed my Heavenly Court and slaughtered my immortals! Do you really think that no one in this divine realm can subdue you?!"
Accompanied by this furious roar, which sounded like the heavens weeping blood, countless streams of bright yellow imperial aura, symbolizing the absolute orthodoxy of the divine realm, erupted from the collapsed ruins!
Immediately afterwards, a majestic figure wearing a twelve-tasseled crown and a nine-chapter robe, seated on the Nine Dragons Supreme Emperor Throne pulled by nine ancient five-clawed golden dragons, crushed through layers of void and, carrying the last remaining essence of the divine realm, crashed down in front of Su Chen!
[The Jade Emperor]!
If the God-King of Judgment is the highest military force and judge of the God Realm, then this Jade Emperor is the legitimate Heavenly Emperor who nominally rules over the Thirty-Three Heavens and is favored by the Heavenly Dao of the God Realm! His cultivation has also reached the unfathomable mid-stage of the Sixth Realm!
In his hand, he tightly gripped the Heavenly Dao Emperor Sword, a weapon that embodied the cycle of birth and death of all things and represented the will of the divine realm. Wherever the sword's edge pointed, all laws retreated, and even the chaotic blood energy emanating from Su Chen's body was faintly repelled by a trace of the Heavenly Dao's rules.
"Finally, a big guy has emerged to lead the way."
Su Chen looked at the majestic Emperor Haotian sitting on the dragon throne, but instead of showing any fear, he used the sword bone he had just used to pick his teeth to pick his fingernails, a sneer of extreme contempt flashing in his eyes.
"I thought the Heavenly Emperor of the God Realm was some kind of tough guy, but it turns out he's just a coward."
"What? Seeing your ministers and their families being stewed into a pot of rotten meat by me, you, as their master, can no longer hide it and are preparing to personally join the pot and add a piece of 'Heavenly Emperor Fatty Beef' to my stew?"
"presumptuous!!!"
The Jade Emperor was furious. As the representative of the Heavenly Dao, he had never suffered such a humiliating insult of being treated like livestock!
"I was born in accordance with the will of Heaven and bear the destiny of the divine realm! You, a variable who climbed up from the mortal realm, defy the will of Heaven. Today, I will punish you on behalf of Heaven and completely obliterate your mortal body!!"
"Acting on behalf of Heaven to punish?"
Su Chen seemed to have heard the funniest joke in all the heavens and myriad realms. He laughed wildly, and the arrogance and domineering nature of his laughter even made the nine ancient golden dragons pulling the chariot in front of the Jade Emperor tremble in fear.
"You puppet controlled by the strings of Heaven are nothing but an empty shell, putting on airs!"
"If you are truly the ruler of this world, where were you when I was shattered into thirty-three layers of heaven?! Where were you when I devoured that old dog of judgment?!"
Su Chen abruptly stopped smiling, his gluttonous red light in his eyes like a sharp blade, fixed on the face of the Jade Emperor.
"Using the remaining power of the Heavenly Dao to bark and howl before me? You spineless, pampered piece of dead meat are not even as good as a sea cucumber in the Chaos Sea!"
"Since you keep claiming to act on behalf of Heaven to punish evil, then today, I will first tear you, this false emperor, apart, and then devour that damned Heavenly Dao behind you!!!"
"How dare you speak so arrogantly! Prepare to die!!!"
The Jade Emperor was utterly enraged. He abruptly rose from his dragon throne, raising the Heavenly Dao Emperor Sword high with both hands. At that moment, all the remaining Heavenly Dao laws of the entire God Realm converged on the sword, transforming into a golden sword beam stretching for billions of miles, carrying supreme divine might capable of severing countless eons, and cleaved down towards Su Chen's head!
"The Sword of Heavenly Dao—[Annihilation of All Realms]!!!"
This sword strike was the ultimate attack of the Jade Emperor, and also the final counterattack of the Heavenly Dao's will in the Divine Realm! Before the sword light even arrived, the space around Su Chen had already been completely annihilated into nothingness, and any law had lost its effect in the face of the power of the Heavenly Dao!
However, faced with this peerless sword strike that embodies divine punishment.
Su Chen's body was like an unshakeable ancient divine mountain, advancing instead of retreating!
He didn't dodge, nor did he summon the Longevity Tree. Instead, he clenched his right fist tightly! The Origin God Body at the peak of the sixth realm within him erupted with a terrifying force equivalent to the simultaneous birth of ten thousand universes!
"The Heavenly Dao? These iron fists of mine are specifically designed to strike the Heavenly Dao!!!"
"Smash to me!!!"
Su Chen unleashed a punch, devoid of any fancy light or shadow, only pure physical violence at its peak! The chaotic purple-gold blood energy wrapped around his fist transformed into a roaring ancestral dragon defying the heavens, crashing fiercely into the heavenly sword light!
"Thump—!!!!!"
Fists and swords clashed!
A terrifyingly loud bang that silenced the entire universe exploded.
Under the horrified gaze of the Jade Emperor, whose Dao heart had completely collapsed, his Heavenly Dao Emperor Sword, hailed as representing the will of Heaven and indestructible, emitted a mournful cry the instant it touched Su Chen's fist!
"Crack... Bang!!!"
That indestructible Heavenly Dao Sword Light was shattered by Su Chen's punch! The Emperor Sword itself, forged from innate Dao Gold, also shattered from the tip of the sword like fragile glass, turning into a sky full of golden scrap metal!
Barehanded, I shattered the Heavenly Dao!
"Pfft—How is this possible?! Your physical body... can actually transcend the rules of Heaven?!"
With his natal imperial sword destroyed, the Jade Emperor suffered an unprecedented backlash, spitting out a mouthful of divine blood. He collapsed back onto the Nine Dragons Supreme Throne like a kite with a broken string.
"The rules of Heaven?"
Su Chen sneered, stepped over the shattered sword shadows, and appeared in front of Emperor Haotian like a ghost!
"They're nothing but scrap metal that binds the weak!"
"Stab!"
Without uttering a single word, Su Chen's large hands, covered in chaotic dragon scales, suddenly shot out like two iron hooks tearing through the sky, firmly gripping the shoulders of the Jade Emperor!
Their ten fingers dug deep into the magnificent nine-chapter robe, piercing the collarbone of this Heavenly Emperor of the Divine Realm! (End of Chapter)