Chapter 831
Alone in the Forbidden Zone, Slaying the Paradoxical Beast with a Sword!
Beyond the boundary lies the Eternal Heavenly Court, the Supreme Emperor's Palace.
When Su Chen's words, "Target—Great Void Sea," resounded like thunder in the hall, even the Hun Tian Demon Lord and the Skeleton Lord, who were already accustomed to mountains of corpses and seas of blood and whose nerves were as tough as iron, couldn't help but gasp and their souls trembled violently.
The Great Void Ocean!
For beings in the lower realms, the land beyond the realms is already an indescribable ultimate fear; but for those ancient realm lords of the land beyond the realms, and even the former High Dimensional Judgment Council, the Great Void Sea is the true and absolute forbidden zone for all time!
"Your Majesty, please reconsider!"
The Demon Lord of Chaos fell heavily to one knee with a thud. His indestructible high-dimensional demon body was now trembling slightly with fear.
"When I was clearing out the ruins of the Primordial God Realm, I consulted the ancient secret manual left by the Grand Elder. That Great Void Sea is not a sea at all, but rather the logical ruins and conceptual tombs left behind after the destruction of the last, or even the previous, multiverses!"
"There is no passage of time, no spatial coordinates, and not even the most basic law of 'cause and effect' exists there! Even a powerful being of the eighth realm would have their true spirit scattered by the annihilating winds there in an instant, and be lost in endless paradoxes!"
The Soul Lord's eyes flared with soul fire as he prostrated himself and kowtowed, saying, "Your Majesty is the ruler of all realms, and a son of a noble family should not sit under a dangerous roof. The Eternal Heavenly Court has just been established, and all realms are still in the early stages of stability. If Your Majesty rashly goes to such a dangerous place, once... once something happens, this great foundation may be destroyed in an instant. I beg Your Majesty to reconsider!"
Faced with the desperate pleas of his two trusted generals, Su Chen sat high on the Origin Emperor's Throne, his expression showing not the slightest ripple.
He certainly knew how dangerous the Great Void Sea was.
After devouring the Great Elder's Great Thousand Dao Core, he knew better than anyone else in the world what kind of ultimate terror lurked in that absolute darkness. Floating there were not meteorites, but the remnants of the dead universe; roaming there were not ferocious beasts, but prehistoric monsters born from pure "logical errors".
But so what?
"Foundation?"
Su Chen slowly stood up, his green robe fluttering in the windless hall. An aura of late-stage eighth realm power, surpassing all the heavens and myriad realms, filled the entire imperial palace as if it were a tangible force.
"How many foundations have I shattered along the way? In my eyes, the so-called Lord of All Realms and the Eternal Heavenly Court are nothing more than stepping stones to a higher realm."
Su Chen descended the jade steps and stood before the Demon Lord of Chaos and the Corpse Venerable. In his deep, abyss-like eyes burned an extreme fervor that felt both utterly unfamiliar and awe-inspiring to the two.
"The late stage of the eighth realm is the absolute peak in this outer realm. But for the legendary 'ninth realm - Return to Truth', I am only standing at the foot of the mountain."
"The origin of this multiverse has already been drained by one-third of my power. Staying here, even if I were to go into seclusion for another era, my cultivation would not advance by the slightest. My path is to fight against heaven and earth, to plunder all things, and to devour all the unknown!"
"No matter how dangerous the Great Void Sea is, in my eyes it is nothing more than a 'hunting ground' that hides a higher level of origin."
Hearing Su Chen's domineering and arrogant words, which regarded the ancient forbidden zone as a hunting ground, the Demon Lord of Chaos and the Corpse Lord were completely speechless. They finally understood that the master before them had already transcended the limits of this universe in terms of his mind and spirit, and had gone to a dimension that they could not even look up to.
"This subordinate...understands."
The Demon Lord of Chaos kowtowed deeply, his voice filled with unwavering fervor: "Since Your Majesty has made up your mind, I will now go and gather the Immortal Demon Army! I am willing to be Your Majesty's vanguard, even if I die in the gales of the Great Void Sea, I will pave a bloody path for Your Majesty!"
"No need."
Su Chen waved his sleeve and refused outright.
"The laws of the Great Void Sea are too chaotic. Your high-dimensional demonic bodies of the seventh realm cannot even last a single breath there. These millions of demonic troops are the foundation I left for you to suppress all realms. Taking them there will only be a pointless death."
"I will be traveling alone on this journey."
Having said that, Su Chen pointed his fingers like a sword and lightly drew a line across his brow.
"Tick."
Three drops of [Eighth Realm Late Stage Origin Blood Essence], a deep, dark gold color containing enough power to shatter multiple universes, flew out from between his brows.
"These three drops of primordial essence blood are the transformation of the Dao fruit of this deity."
Su Chen flicked his finger, and two drops of his essence blood instantly entered the bodies of the Hun Tian Demon Lord and the Skeleton Lord.
"Boom! Boom!"
The two were violently shaken, and their internal energy surged wildly like a volcanic eruption. Their cultivation, which was originally at the beginning of the seventh realm, was forcibly boosted by this drop of essence blood, and they actually broke through the bottleneck and stood firmly at the terrifying level of the late seventh realm!
"Thank you, Lord, for bestowing your blood!!!" The two trembled with excitement as they felt the overwhelming power within them.
The remaining drop of essence blood, under Su Chen's divine control, transformed into a dark gold qi sword that floated at the highest point of the Longevity Emperor Palace!
"The Origin Sword Qi, formed from this last drop of essence blood, will be preserved as a treasure for the Heavenly Court to protect the realm. Its power is enough to instantly kill someone at the half-step eighth realm."
Su Chen raised his head, his gaze piercing through the dome of the Heavenly Court, looking towards the endless sea of stars.
"In my absence, if any ancient universe dares to harbor rebellious intentions, or if any extraterrestrial demons cause trouble, you may draw this sword and, for my sake—annihilate their realm and sever their lineage!"
"This humble general humbly obeys the Heavenly Emperor's decree! As long as I live in Heaven, I swear to defend the Eternal Heavenly Court to the death!!!"
Amidst their earth-shattering vows.
Su Chen didn't say another word. He turned around, and without even a flicker, his figure vanished from the Longevity Imperial Palace, as if he had never existed, completely melting into the indescribable void.
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Beyond the borders, at the far north.
This is an absolute dead zone. Even the cosmic remnants, drained of their essence and reduced to dust, dare not drift here. This is because the laws governing space here have been torn to shreds by an extremely chaotic and violent force.
At the end of this void, there stands a wall.
A massive, gray-black wall, not made of stone or divine metal, but of densely packed, visible "causal faults" and "dimensional crystal walls"—the [End of the Era Boundary Wall].
This wall separated Su Chen's "present-day multiverse system" from the "Great Void Sea" that represented endless destruction and the unknown.
"Om-"
A barely perceptible ripple spread through the void.
Su Chen, dressed in a green robe, appeared before the End Wall that stretched for countless billions of light-years, with his hands behind his back.
Standing here, even with his supreme Dao Heart at the late eighth realm, he could clearly feel the terrifying aura of annihilation emanating from the other side of the boundary wall—an aura powerful enough to make one's soul tremble. It was a completely unreasonable sense of "annihilation." It was as if, the moment he crossed this wall, everything that the multiple universes had given him—his physical body, soul, cultivation, and life—would be instantly stripped away.
"No wonder the Grand Elder, despite possessing the cultivation of a half-step ninth realm, preferred to hide in the Primordial Divine Realm and eke out a living rather than dare to step out of the way. Such an environment is indeed not something that ordinary cultivators can withstand."
Su Chen stretched out his right hand, covered with dark gold dragon scales, and gently pressed it against the gray-black barrier of the end.
"Hiss hiss hiss—"
The laws of annihilation attached to the boundary wall immediately pounced like hungry wolves, attempting to corrode Su Chen's palm. However, the Origin Divine Fire within Su Chen's body only flashed slightly before burning these laws into nothingness.
"However, I am not like the cowardly Elder, a mere skeleton in a tomb."
A cold glint flashed in Su Chen's eyes as he abruptly drew the [Origin Demon Blade] from his waist.
"Since there is no road, then I will carve one out of the ground!"
"The Ultimate Origin Path—Open it for me!!!"
Su Chen gripped the sword with both hands, channeling the late-stage eighth realm essence within his body into the blade like a raging sea. A dark golden sword beam, tens of millions of feet long, carrying his unparalleled domineering intent to shatter all obstacles, slashed fiercely down at the final barrier before him!
"Crack—!!!!"
A terrifying tearing sound, loud enough to deafen millions of universes simultaneously, exploded at the edge of the outer realm!
The barrier that had blocked countless eras and was said to be unbreakable for all eternity was cleaved open by Su Chen's peak strike, creating a massive gap that stretched for a million miles!
The gate is open!
"Boom! B ...
The moment the boundary was breached, a grayish-white [Great Void Sea Annihilation Gale], mixed with countless resentments of cosmic destruction and fragments of logic, poured wildly into the outer realm like a bursting dam!
Wherever this gale passed, the absolute nothingness of the outer realm was torn apart a second time, as if it were made of paper. Even the slightest aftershock caused an irreversible collapse of space tens of millions of light-years away.
Faced with this terrifying storm that could instantly kill someone at the half-step eighth realm.
Instead of retreating, Su Chen let out a wild laugh, his body engulfed in towering black flames of origin. Braving the desolate gale that could blow stars to dust, he stepped into the gap!
"Great Void Sea, I have arrived!!!"
……
The moment of crossing the boundary of the end.
The world before Su Chen's eyes was completely turned upside down!
There is no up or down, no left or right, no past, and no future.
Before one's eyes lay a gray ocean that appeared as a viscous gel. But this seawater was not composed of any substance at all; rather, it was a "conceptual fluid" formed by the mixture of countless broken laws of the Great Dao, incomplete physical formulas, and the dead will of the cosmic Dao.
As Su Chen found himself in the midst of it, he immediately felt an extremely terrifying force of assimilation pressing in from all directions.
His vision told him there was a mountain ahead; but his divine sense detected that it was an abyss; and when he reached out to touch it, he found that it was just a mass representing "coldness".
"Chaos, disorder, paradox... is this the essence of the Great Void Sea?"
Su Chen frowned, realizing that the eighth-realm high-dimensional laws within his body were being severely suppressed here. He tried to use his teleportation ability, but found that instead of moving forward, he was forced back to his original position.
"Even the concept of direction has been distorted. Here, conventional supernatural powers and laws are completely ineffective."
Su Chen quickly calmed down. He knew that the Great Void Sea was a forbidden zone because it denied all logic of the present universe.
"Since external rules are unreliable, then we should anchor ourselves using internal rules!"
"Inner Universe, open!"
Su Chen let out a low shout, and the vast inner universe within his body, which had evolved into an eternal great world, began to operate with a roar. An extremely pure [Origin Rule] unique to Su Chen, like an indestructible barrier, tightly enveloped him.
"Om-"
With the anchor of his inner universe, Su Chen finally stabilized himself in this chaotic ocean and regained absolute control over his own "existence".
Braving the murky, flowing seawater, he held a long sword and began to slowly move forward in this unknown sea.
I don't know how much time has passed. Here, the passage of time is meaningless; it may be a moment, or it may be an era.
Just as Su Chen cleaved through a chaotic reef formed by the concept of "aging".
Suddenly, alarm bells went off in his head!
An extremely dangerous and deadly killing intent, enough to threaten his late-stage eighth realm physical body, suddenly and unexpectedly came from his "upper left"—or rather, from his perceived upper left!
"Huh? There's something alive?!"
Su Chen turned his head sharply and saw a terrifying black shadow, so large it was comparable to hundreds of galaxies and whose shape was completely indescribable, rapidly approaching him in the dark, flowing seawater at a speed that defied the laws of physics!
It had no eyes, no torso, and looked like a deformed mass of flesh haphazardly pieced together from countless broken lenses. And within those lenses, contradictory images flickered constantly: flames freezing, water burning, the dead laughing maniacally, and the living rotting.
"This is... a prehistoric monster conceived in the Great Void Sea?"
Su Chen's eyes narrowed, and his divine sense swept over the dark figure, only to receive a response that sent chills down his spine.
The feedback result is: [The target does not exist].
"It's clearly visible to the naked eye, and I can even sense the deadly killing intent, but my divine sense determines that it doesn't exist?"
The records in the Grand Elder's Secret Manual flashed through Su Chen's mind in an instant.
"Born from the fusion of logical fallacies and remnants of the Heavenly Dao from the previous era, a monster that denies all truths of the present world—the [Chaos Paradox Beast]!"
This is an existence countless times more terrifying than the high-dimensional giants of the Primordial God Realm! They do not cultivate laws, nor do they understand supernatural powers; their very existence is a massive bug. Their method of attacking enemies is not through brute force, but by directly erasing their existence through "logical paradoxes"!
"Roar—(A silent roar)"
The paradoxical behemoth emitted a strange fluctuation that, though silent, resonated deep within Su Chen's true spirit.
Immediately afterwards, its enormous body suddenly writhed and released a strange gray-white beam of light directly at Su Chen.
The beam of light was not fast and even seemed harmless.
But at this moment, Su Chen felt an unprecedented life-or-death crisis! Because he discovered that the beam of light was not targeting his physical body, but rather the [source of cause and effect] from which he was "born in the lower realm"!
If struck by this beam of light, it wouldn't harm Su Chen's current body; instead, it would directly alter the logic, making it seem as if "Su Chen" had never been born in the past! (End of Chapter)