Chapter 833
The Cemetery of the Ages and the Prehistoric Remnants
The years in the depths of the Great Void Sea cannot be measured by ordinary time.
Su Chen traveled alone for an unknown amount of time in this desolate and dangerous region.
Along the way, he witnessed too many terrifying phenomena that even the High Dimension Council could not have imagined.
He encountered a strange waterway that stretched across the void, called the "River of Reversed Time".
The river flows from the future to the past.
In the river, countless Time-Devouring Leeches, some tens of thousands of feet long, dwell.
These disgusting monsters feed on the "future destiny" of higher-dimensional beings.
Faced with this overwhelming horde of monsters capable of instantly turning even a seventh-realm expert into a hopeless undead, Su Chen merely drew his Origin Demon Blade and unleashed a newly comprehended move: [Origin Ultimate Path - One Slash to Sever Eternity].
The peerless blade light, interwoven with dark gold and gray-black, directly severed the River of Time in half, slaughtering hundreds of millions of Soul-Devouring Leeches and refining all the time residue contained within them.
He also encountered a Void-Shattering Primordial Whale whose size was comparable to a galaxy cluster.
This behemoth feeds on the cores of the dead universe, and the sturdiness of its body even surpasses the absolute boundary of the Primordial God Realm.
That time, Su Chen did not use any supernatural powers, nor did he use his longsword.
He directly manifested the Gluttony Origin Demon God Dharma Form, which was hundreds of millions of feet tall, and engaged in the most primitive and bloody hand-to-hand combat with that ancient whale in the Void Sea!
He snapped off the ancient whale's fangs, which were powerful enough to shatter dimensions, and smashed its indestructible skull inch by inch with his fists. Finally, amidst a spray of high-dimensional whale blood, he tore the behemoth in two and seized the 'Void Core' within its body, which had been nurtured for countless epochs!
Slaughter, devouring, enlightenment.
In this vast void, Su Chen was like a tireless ultimate predator.
He relentlessly searched for the prehistoric monsters hidden in the flowing seawater, slaying them and seizing the conceptual seeds and incomplete laws within them.
His inner universe became more and more complete, and the contradictory feeling of "nothingness" and "existence" gradually reached a strange balance within him.
Until one day.
After Su Chen cleaved through a void storm formed by the concept of "absolute stillness," his steps abruptly halted in the void.
Ahead, the viscous, grayish liquid seawater of the Great Void Sea seemed to be forcibly pushed aside by some unimaginable terrifying force.
In Su Chen's perception of the Great Dao, a colossal shadow appeared, so large that it made him feel his breath catch slightly!
It was neither some kind of monstrous, unseen beast nor some kind of conceptual storm.
Instead... it's a continent!
A prehistoric supercontinent floating in the deepest part of the Great Void Sea, its area even exceeding the sum of the current multiverse systems where the Eternal Heavenly Court is located!
"This……"
"Where is this place?"
Even with his extensive experience, Su Chen couldn't help but be slightly taken aback.
Followed by.
His figure rapidly rose higher, looking down at the suddenly appearing continent.
When he saw the composition of this continent, even with his Dao heart that had weathered countless storms, he couldn't help but tremble slightly.
The soil of this continent is not ordinary sand and gravel at all, but is a mixture of countless completely crushed cosmic cores, remnants of the Heavenly Dao, and various unnamed high-dimensional divine gold powders!
Scattered across this continent are massive, white bones, as large as mountains.
The weakest of the remaining auras on these bones had actually reached the level of half-step eighth realm!
There are also many enormous skeletons, and the Daoist principles flowing through them are even more profound and ancient than those of the former Grand Elder of the High Dimension Council!
There is no sign of life here.
The air was filled with an extremely decaying atmosphere of "all laws perish and eras are destroyed".
"Epoch Cemetery..."
"interesting."
"There are actually places like this..."
These four words unconsciously surfaced in Su Chen's mind.
This is the ultimate graveyard formed by the fall of countless supreme beings and the accumulation of countless cosmic debris during the last or even the previous multiverse era when it faced great destruction!
"No wonder those paradoxical monsters wandering in the Great Void Sea deliberately avoid this direction. It turns out that such earth-shattering relics are hidden deep within."
An unprecedentedly fervent light erupted in Su Chen's eyes.
To others, this place is a graveyard filled with death and curses.
But for him, a peak eighth-realm expert who entered the Dao through "devouring" and "plundering", this continent that buried countless prehistoric great beings' Dao fruits was simply a treasure trove tailor-made for him to break through to the ninth realm!
Now that we've encountered this place, we can't leave empty-handed.
It's time to go and see the scenery here.
perhaps.
It can bring a different kind of reward.
next moment.
"Shh!"
Su Chen transformed into a streak of light, piercing through the barrier formed by dense death energy on the outer edge of the continent without hesitation, and landed steadily on the gray-white earth of this epochal graveyard.
"Click".
The moment his feet touched solid ground, Su Chen heard a crisp sound beneath his feet.
He looked down and saw that he had stepped on and crushed a fragment of a jade slip buried in the dust.
Judging from the faint Daoist aura emanating from that fragment, if this jade slip were placed in the present world, it would definitely be an unparalleled cultivation technique capable of triggering a bloody war across countless realms. However, here, it was trampled on like mud.
Ignoring the surrounding ruins, Su Chen raised his head and fixed his gaze directly on the very center of this Epochal Graveyard.
There, a faint yet extremely pure energy, subtly resembling the "Ninth Realm: Return to Truth," was constantly calling upon the Great Dao Origin within his body.
"Go and see."
Holding the Origin Demon Blade, Su Chen's steps appeared slow, but in reality, each step covered a distance of tens of millions of miles.
The further you go into the center of the continent, the larger and more terrifying the scattered prehistoric remains become.
Some of the skeletons even retain the desperate posture of someone who roared to the sky and fought against some indescribable calamity in life.
It took several hours to walk there.
Su Chen finally arrived at the core of this Epoch Graveyard.
The sight before him caused a flash of extreme shock to appear in his usually calm eyes.
Here, there are no skeletal remains, nor the shattered core of the universe.
There is only one monument.
A stone tablet, its entire surface displaying a chaotic hue, towering into the boundless void beyond the boundary, its end seemingly unseen—the [Heaven-Reaching Stone Tablet]!
There were no characters known in the present universe carved on this stone tablet. But when Su Chen's gaze fell on the strange, winding Dao patterns on the tablet, which seemed to have formed naturally at the beginning of time, his true spirit uncontrollably emitted a violent roar!
"That's really impressive."
"This is... a trace left by the First Cause from the previous era, or even at the very beginning of the multiverse?!"
Su Chen's breathing became slightly rapid.
He could sense that what was recorded on this towering stone tablet was not some specific supernatural power or technique, but rather the most essential and ultimate truth about "existence and nothingness," "birth and death and reincarnation"!
Su Chen walked slowly to the front of the stone tablet. He stretched out his right hand, which was covered with gray-black Dao patterns, and with a hint of awe and fervor for the unknown Dao, slowly placed it on the cold, chaotic surface of the tablet.
"boom--------!!!!!"
The instant my palm touched the stone tablet.
Su Chen's consciousness was instantly pulled into an incredibly vast illusion that transcended the concept of time and space.
He saw the prosperity of the previous era: countless lineages even more magnificent than the Eternal Heavenly Court stood tall, and countless powerful beings at the eighth realm or even half-step into the ninth realm shone like stars.
But then, he saw the “end.”
There are no enemies, and there is no war.
But at a certain moment, the underlying logic of the multiverse reached its end. A pure and irresistible "Great Reckoning Force" was born from nothingness.
Stars fell, and the laws of nature collapsed.
Those once-arrogant high-dimensional giants, before that force of reckoning, were like fragile ants, turning to ashes in despair. The universe was kneaded, shattered, and ultimately transformed into this desolate graveyard of eras.
"To create everything, one must first possess the ability to reduce everything to nothingness."
"Is this the true essence of the Ninth Realm...?"
Su Chen murmured to himself in the illusion. At this moment, the Origin Source within his body, which was at the peak of the eighth realm, began to resonate deeply with the Heavenly Stele at an extremely mysterious frequency!
At this moment, a crack finally appeared in his realm barrier, leading to the ninth realm!
however.
Just as Su Chen was completely immersed in this supreme enlightenment, his defenses dropped to their lowest level.
"Click...click click..."
Deep beneath this prehistoric continent, where countless ages have passed in silence.
Along with the resonance of the Heavenly Stone Tablet, an extremely ancient and decaying, yet powerful enough to make this entire Great Void Sea tremble, terrifying aura, awakened without warning!
"Boom!!!"
The entire epochal cemetery was struck by a violent earthquake. The mountains of prehistoric skeletons were reduced to dust by the tremors.
In front of the towering stone tablet, the gray-white ground beneath Su Chen's feet suddenly exploded!
"Splash—"
A terrifying demonic hand, as thin as a rake, with an extremely disgusting gray-green skin, fingernails several meters long, and dripping with foul-smelling corpse fluid capable of corroding higher-dimensional laws, suddenly emerged from the ground like a deadly claw reaching out from the deepest part of hell, grabbing the edge of the Tongtian Stone Tablet!
Followed by.
A hoarse, drafty, ancient sound, as if two pieces of old, broken iron were rubbing together, emanated from the bottomless underground fissure.
The sound did not travel through the vocal cords, but instead transformed directly into a strange mental fluctuation, piercing deep into Su Chen's true spirit.
"Perfect...too perfect..."
"A nascent body that has not been tainted by the decaying aura of an entire era..."
"A peerless foundation that encompasses all laws and devours nothingness..."
"Heavens, in the end, have smiled upon me. After lingering in this dark and sunless tomb for an entire era, finally... a supreme vessel has appeared, one that can bear my true spirit, allowing me to live again and transcend the end!"
"Hahahaha!"
"Heaven has been kind to me!"
Accompanied by those chillingly greedy murmurs.
A hunched figure, draped in tattered gray-white linen shrouds and exuding an extreme stench of decay and death, slowly crawled out from the ground.
His face was completely withered, and there were no eyeballs in his eye sockets, only two burning, murky corpse flames filled with endless greed and malice.
He stood hunched over, less than a hundred feet behind Su Chen. The pressure emanating from him, though filled with decay and decline, was indeed higher than Su Chen's peak eighth realm in terms of cultivation level!
That was none other than a [Half-Step Ninth Realm Prehistoric Remnant] who had miraculously survived the Great Cataclysm of the previous era and had lived to this day!
"The younger generation from the lower realms."
The prehistoric old man stared intently at Su Chen's back as he walked away, a terrifying smile spreading across his face, revealing a mouthful of black and yellow fangs.
"Release your true spirit and actively erase your consciousness."
"To become the physical body that allows me, the Lord of the Abyss, to return to the mortal world is an unparalleled blessing that you, a lowly being, have cultivated for ten lifetimes!"
"As a reward, I will ascend to the pinnacle of all realms in your name!"
Faced with this sudden and terrifying change, and the threat of possession by an old monster who had survived for at least an era and was at the half-step ninth realm.
Su Chen, who had just awakened from his enlightenment from the stone tablet, showed no sign of panic.
He didn't even turn around immediately.
Su Chen slowly withdrew his hand from the Tongtian Stone Tablet. In the palm of his right hand, which was covered with dark gray Dao patterns, a dark golden Origin Blade Light was quietly gathering.
"good fortune?"
Su Chen turned his head slightly, his green robe fluttering in the eerie winds whipping up in the Epoch Graveyard.
A cruel, arrogant, and domineering smile, more sinister than any prehistoric remnant, slowly crept onto his lips.
"A lonely ghost, eliminated by the previous era and only daring to hide in graves and scramble for food with the bones of the dead, dares to speak so arrogantly about creation in front of me?"
Su Chen suddenly turned around!
"boom!!!"
The primordial divine power of the eighth realm, which he had just grasped a trace of the true meaning of the ninth realm and was surging to its extreme, erupted like a super volcano that had been suppressed for billions of years!
Su Chen gripped the hilt of the Origin Demon Blade with his right hand, drawing the blade and pointing it directly at the bewildered prehistoric elder!
"You old, useless piece of trash!"
"Since you're already rotten in the previous era, you shouldn't crawl out and disgust people anymore!"
"Today, I will use your prehistoric Dao Fruit, which is at the half-step ninth realm, to sacrifice to my Ultimate Blade, making it the final stepping stone for me to step into that supreme realm!!!"
"Go back to hell!!!"
"Whoosh————————————!!!!!"
Without the slightest hesitation, without a single wasted word.
With both hands gripping the sword, Su Chen unleashed a powerful [Origin Ultimate Path - Great Thousand Return to Ruins] strike at the prehistoric elder, carrying the supreme domineering intent to cleave through multiple universes and sever countless ages!
Two generations of unparalleled villains clashed violently in the deepest part of this epochal graveyard! (End of Chapter)