Chapter 834
A Tragic Song of the Era: Tearing Apart the Prehistoric Remnants!
"Whoosh————————————!!!!!"
That was an ultimate blade of light that defied description!
It lacked the dazzling, multicolored divine light, and the elaborate and intricate phenomena of the Great Dao. What it possessed was something so pure, so utterly pure, that it seemed intent on erasing this "graveyard of ages" along with the underlying logic of the Great Void Sea—the [Great Thousand Return to Nothingness]!
The dark golden blade tore through the grayish-white death mist, carrying the supreme power of Su Chen who had just stepped into the peak of the eighth realm, as well as the "ninth realm - return to truth" aura that he had suddenly comprehended from the Tongtian Stone Tablet. Like the first ray of world-destroying light that split the heavens and the earth, it fiercely struck the prehistoric elder who had just crawled out of his grave!
"How dare you!!!"
The prehistoric elder, draped in tattered hemp shroud—who called himself "Lord of the Withered Profound Abyss"—had two terrifyingly murky corpse flames erupting from his empty eye sockets.
He never expected that this young man from the lower realm, who was nothing more than a perfect "container" for possession in his eyes, would not show any awe or fear after realizing that he, a prehistoric powerhouse at the half-step ninth realm, had awakened. Instead, he acted like an ancient ferocious wolf that had smelled blood, and drew his sword to slash without hesitation!
Such arrogance and ruthless decisiveness would have been unprecedented even in the brilliant era of the previous age!
"Youngster! You have no idea what a great being you are facing! A mere peak eighth realm cultivator dares to raise his sword against the Lord of the Abyss Sea from the last era? An ant trying to shake a tree!"
The Lord of Ku Xuanyuan let out a piercing, cold laugh, like a broken bellows being pulled apart.
His hunched body made no move to dodge. His withered, gray-green demonic claw, dripping with foul-smelling corpse fluid, directly met Su Chen's blade light that could annihilate countless ages, and fiercely grabbed from afar!
"Supernatural Power—[Prehistoric Burial Soil: Burying Ten Thousand Paths]!!!"
Boom!!!
With the grab of the Lord of the Dry Profound Abyss, the absolute void in front of Su Chen collapsed instantly!
Endless grayish-white decaying soil surged forth from the void. This soil was no ordinary matter, but rather the remnants of the weathered world cores of countless great worlds when the previous multiverse era was destroyed! Each grain of soil was as heavy as a galaxy, containing an extreme death energy powerful enough to instantly decay the Heavenly Dao of the present world!
The endless burial soil transformed in mid-air into a gigantic gray-white hand that blotted out the sky and stretched for tens of millions of miles, which firmly grasped Su Chen's dark golden Origin Blade Light in its palm!
"Crunch... crunch crunch..."
An extremely piercing screeching sound exploded in the air above the Epoch Graveyard.
Su Chen's supreme blade light, powerful enough to cleave the Primordial Divine Realm in two with a single strike, began to dim and decay at a visible speed the moment it touched the prehistoric burial ground. The primordial laws flowing along the blade's edge were like slumped in quagmire before this absolute concept of death from the previous era, struggling to move forward.
"Do you see that? This is the chasm of dimensions! This is the crushing power of an era!"
The hollow eye sockets of the Lord of the Ku Xuan Abyss revealed a deep greed and disdain, and his withered lips opened and closed, emitting a chilling demonic sound.
"Your path is too young. Before this burial ground of mine, which has witnessed the great destruction of an era, your proud life and power are nothing but dust scattered by the wind. Now, give up resistance and let my true spirit enter your body. I will carry your name to ascend to the supreme ninth heaven!"
"The dimensional chasm? The crushing power of an era?"
Suppressed by the overwhelming burial soil, Su Chen listened to the lofty sermon of the Lord of the Ku Xuan Abyss. Instead of showing any despair, a mocking sneer bloomed on his cold and arrogant face.
"Old man, you've been buried underground for too long, your brain must be rotting and stinking, right?"
Su Chen gripped the hilt of the Origin Demon Blade tightly with both hands. His dark gold dragon scales burst into dazzling sparks under the pressure of the burial soil, but his straight spine, as straight as a javelin, did not bend even slightly!
"If you were in your prime, this prehistoric burial soil technique might have made me back down."
"But now you are nothing more than a stray dog, terrified by the purge of the era, clinging to life by absorbing the remnants of Dao essence from the bones of the dead! The source of your half-step ninth realm has long since withered away like a stagnant mud pit!"
Su Chen suddenly raised his head, and in his eyes, which were like deep abysses, a raging black flame of origin suddenly ignited!
"You think you can bury this glorious sun of the present world with a pile of ashes from the last era?!"
"Break for me!!!"
"boom------------!!!!!"
With a roar that shattered the Great Void Sea, Su Chen unleashed the entire Origin Inner Universe within his body, which had just fully evolved into the Eternal Great Thousand World!
An unparalleled power, encompassing the origins of millions of universes in the present world and fused with the Dao Seed of the Paradox of Nothingness, surged wildly into the Origin Demon Blade through his arms!
The originally dim dark gold blade light underwent an extreme transformation in an instant after being infused with the Origin Black Flame!
It was no longer a pure slash, but transformed into an ultimate black hole capable of devouring all heavens and refining all things!
"Hiss hiss hiss hiss—"
In the horrified perception of the Lord of the Desolate Abyss, his prehistoric burial soil, which was said to be impervious to all laws and capable of decaying everything, began to melt away like snow under the scorching sun when it came into contact with the blade burning with black flames!
No! It's not melting!
It was swallowed up!
"What kind of domineering Great Dao is this?! It can even forcibly devour and assimilate the death energy of an era?!" The corpse fire in the empty eye sockets of the Lord of the Withered Profound Abyss flickered violently, and for the first time, an indescribable shock rose in his heart.
"I gladly accept your burial soil!"
Su Chen's wild laughter pierced through the void.
"Snap!!!"
The colossal, sky-covering hand of burial earth was forcibly torn apart from the palm by Su Chen's blade of light, which had transformed into a black hole!
The blade's momentum burst forth, undiminished, carrying an even more terrifying destructive pressure infused with the deathly aura of the burial ground, aimed directly at the head of the Lord of the Withered Profound Abyss!
"This junior is arrogant!"
Lord Ku Xuanyuan was filled with shock and anger. As a prehistoric powerhouse who was halfway to the ninth realm, even if he was a tiger fallen into the plains, he would never allow a mere ant in the eighth realm to provoke him like this.
"Since you refuse to listen to reason and are forced to drink the penalty cup, then I will first shatter your physical body, extract your true spirit, and then slowly repair it!"
Ku Xuanyuan clasped his hands together in front of his chest.
"Divine Power—[Great Annihilation: Death Knell of the Era]!"
"when--------!!!!!"
A bell tolling a million times older and purer than the Chaos Death Bell previously tolled by the Heaven-Slaying Alliance erupted from the body of the Lord of the Withered Profound Abyss.
This bell has no physical form; it is formed from the ultimate despair of countless beings when the previous era was utterly destroyed. The instant the bell rang, the time, space, and even the material laws that constitute Su Chen's physical body all showed extremely serious signs of "collapse"!
This is a kind of "concept stripping" that transcends physical attacks!
The dark gold dragon scales on Su Chen's body began to crack densely, and his internal organs felt as if they were being ripped apart by billions of heavenly blades. Even the operation of his inner universe paused slightly under the tolling of the death knell.
"Is this the true power of the half-step ninth realm? To directly erase the opponent from the very concept of existence..."
A sip of golden divine blood spilled from Su Chen's mouth, but the fighting spirit in his eyes grew even more frenzied.
"That felt great! That felt so good!"
"If I can't even kill a half-dead old monster like you, how can I possibly ascend to the Ninth Heaven?!"
Faced with the all-pervasive sonic waves of the Epochal Death Knell, Su Chen actually released his left hand from the hilt of the sword, letting the Origin Demon Blade contend with the sonic waves in mid-air.
He straightened his cracked chest and formed an extremely ancient hand seal in front of his chest, seemingly devoid of any magical power.
"You used the despair of the previous era to ring the bell."
"Then I, the true self, will use the vitality of the multiple universes of this world and my supreme domineering will to send you to your burial!"
Su Chen's eyes snapped open in fury, and two beams of dazzling Origin Divine Light pierced through the void.
"Divine Power—[Origin Creation·Seal of the Creation and Extinction of Myriad Realms]!!!" "Rumble!!!!"
Behind Su Chen, a colossal, immeasurable phantom of an eternal world suddenly materialized!
Within it, countless galaxies revolve, billions of beings thrive and multiply, and the Three Thousand Great Daos roar and operate! This is Su Chen's inner universe! It is the absolute Dao Fruit he condensed after devouring the High-Dimensional Council and the origins of all worlds in the present world!
Su Chen, holding up the illusory image of this inner universe with one hand, like a creator god supporting all the heavens and myriad worlds, slammed down a powerful and unreserved seal on the Lord of the Withered Profound Abyss who was tolling the death knell!
"What?! You actually manifested your inner universe externally to fight your enemies?! You're insane! You're a complete and utter madman!!!"
As the supreme Dharma seal, carrying the weight of the entire multiverse of the present world, crashed down, the withered, lifeless face of the Lord of the Ku Xuan Abyss finally revealed an expression of extreme terror.
Manifesting one's inner universe to fight an enemy is, in the eyes of any high-level cultivator, a suicidal act of mutual destruction! Because once the inner universe is damaged, the cultivator's foundation will completely collapse, resulting in anything from qi deviation to death.
But Su Chen is just such an unreasonable madman!
His origin path is to live towards death, and his absolute confidence is built up in endless destruction and devouring!
"Give me the town!!!"
Su Chen roared like thunder.
"Bang------------!!!!!"
The [Seal of the Creation and Demise of Myriad Realms], carrying the boundless vitality and primordial weight of the present world, collided solidly with the sound waves of the [Epochal Death Bell], representing the endless despair of prehistoric times, in the deepest part of this Epochal Graveyard!
This is a clash between the present and the prehistoric world!
This is a clash between new life and decay!
The viscous, fluid seawater of the Great Void Sea was forcibly pushed apart by hundreds of millions of light-years during this unprecedented collision, forming an absolute vacuum zone.
The towering "Heaven-Reaching Stone Tablet" shimmered with strange light under the terrifying shockwave, as if witnessing a destiny-bound duel spanning eras.
"Click...click click..."
After a stalemate lasting ten breaths.
To his horror, the Lord of Ku Xuanyuan discovered that his proud death knell sound wave, which had once protected a trace of his true spirit during the Great Calamity of the Epoch, was actually beginning to retreat step by step and shatter inch by inch under the crushing force of Su Chen's reckless "Seal of the Creation and Destruction of Myriad Realms"!
"Impossible! How could my prehistoric foundation possibly lose to a mere eighth-realm cultivator in the present world?!" The Lord of the Withered Profound Abyss screamed shrilly as he desperately squeezed out the last bit of potential from his decaying body, attempting to block the arrival of the magic seal.
Nothing is impossible!
Su Chen, like a blood-soaked demon god, stepped out from the storm of energy and instantly arrived above the head of the Lord of the Withered Profound Abyss.
"You lost because you shouldn't have lived!"
"Your era has long since ended. In this world today, I am the only true being!"
With a flick of his right hand, Su Chen instantly brought the Origin Demon Blade, which had been knocked away, back into his hand.
He leaped high into the air, gripping the sword with both hands. At that moment, the illusory image of the primordial inner universe within his body was completely absorbed into the blade, transforming into an absolute black light that was so profound that it could devour even light and sight.
"Go to hell, you old bastard!"
"【Origin End - Severing the Path】!!!"
"Shh!"
With a single slash, the blade fell.
There was no grand spectacle, only a chilling stillness of all things returning to silence.
The withered head of the Lord of the Ku Xuan Abyss suddenly rose, and the black blade light that had mercilessly slashed down was reflected in his empty eye sockets. Finally, a trace of extreme fear of utter death flashed in his eyes.
"No! I am not reconciled! I want to live again—"
"Pfft!"
Su Chen's blade sliced through the top of Ku Xuan Yuan Zhu's head without any resistance, just like cutting through a piece of rotten wood!
That tattered linen shroud turned to ashes in an instant.
The body of the Lord of the Ku Xuan Abyss, which had undergone decay and tempering for an era, was half-step into the ninth realm. It was cleaved in two by Su Chen's extreme sword light, which was imbued with the full power of his inner universe!
"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"
With its physical body destroyed, a ball of true spirit light, radiating an extreme grayness yet containing a vast prehistoric origin, screamed as it shot into the sky from the two halves of the body, attempting to escape into the depths of the Great Void Sea.
"Trying to escape? I've gone to so much trouble, if I can't even leave behind your Dao Fruit, wouldn't all my efforts have been in vain!"
Su Chen snorted coldly, his left hand transforming into a colossal dragon-capturing claw that blotted out the sky, and he fiercely grabbed at the frantically fleeing true spirit from afar.
"【Origin Devouring - Drawing a Circle as a Prison】!"
"Buzz!"
The surrounding void instantly solidified, transforming into an airtight, dark golden cage that tightly trapped the true spirit of the Lord of the Withered Profound Abyss within.
Su Chen stepped out and stood before the cage. He looked at the prehistoric spirit that was frantically crashing and uttering vicious curses within the cage, his eyes gleaming with undisguised greed and fervor.
"Su Chen! You dare to devour me?! My true spirit contains the deepest curse and death energy of the last era. If you dare to devour it, you will suffer the divine punishment of the era and be doomed forever!!!" Lord Ku Xuanyuan roared in despair.
"A curse? Divine retribution?"
Su Chen laughed contemptuously. He slowly opened his mouth, and the Gluttony God Ring behind his head erupted with terrifying tearing power.
"Within my inner universe, I am the heavens!"
"Give it to me—swallow it!!!"
"boom!"
The dark golden vortex of devouring energy instantly engulfed the true spirit of the Lord of the Withered Profound Abyss. Amidst the prehistoric monster's extremely shrill screams filled with endless regret, this Lord of the Abyss, who had lived for an entire era and attempted to seize Su Chen's body to reclaim the pinnacle, was mercilessly swallowed whole by Su Chen!
"Gudu!"
After swallowing this prehistoric true spirit that was halfway to the ninth realm.
Su Chen felt a terrifying source, ten or even a hundred times larger than the Dao Seed of the Chaos Beast he had previously devoured, explode within his body!
This is not merely power; it is the deepest understanding of "existence and nothingness" from an ancient being who has witnessed the rise and fall of eras. (End of Chapter)