Chapter 838
Returning to the True Self and Manifesting Divinity
The Heavenly Court of Immortality, the Supreme Imperial Palace.
The wind outside the boundary has stopped.
It wasn't that the airflow stopped moving in a physical sense, but rather that the "time" and "space" that constitute the underlying logic of this multiverse fell into absolute stillness and submission at this moment because of a certain figure sitting on the imperial throne.
The Demon Lord of Chaos and the Corpse Lord stood below the jade steps, maintaining an extremely respectful posture, but their souls were trembling violently.
Just now, they only felt a blur before their eyes. There were no spatial ripples, no roars of the Great Dao laws, not even the slightest trace of their aura was leaked. Their lord, who had gone alone to the depths of the Great Void Sea to seek a breakthrough opportunity, appeared out of thin air on the Origin Emperor Throne forged from Chaos Divine Iron.
Too ordinary.
At this moment, Su Chen no longer possessed the domineering aura that once threatened to tear apart galaxies and crush eternity. His green robe was spotless, his skin was translucent, and his deep eyes were calm and serene. If he weren't seated on the throne symbolizing the highest power in all realms, anyone would mistake him for a mere mortal scholar with no cultivation.
However, it was precisely this "ordinariness" that made the Demon Lord of Chaos and the Skeleton Lord feel an unprecedented ultimate terror!
Because in their late-stage seventh realm divine sense perception, there was no one on the Emperor's throne at all!
It was a void, a blank space, a blind spot that even the laws of Heaven could not define! They could clearly see Su Chen sitting there with their naked eyes, but their very origins of the Great Dao were frantically warning them: It cannot be looked at directly, it cannot be described, it cannot be fathomed!
"Lord...Lord?"
The Demon Lord of Chaos swallowed hard, his voice hoarse with extreme awe. He didn't even dare to raise his head to look directly at Su Chen's face, fearing that his true spirit would collapse under the incomprehensible dimensional suppression.
"What, you don't recognize me after such a short time apart?"
Su Chen smiled slightly, a smile as gentle as jade, yet carrying an absolute transcendence that seemed to have seen through all the illusions of life and death in the world.
This was accompanied by a soft laugh from him.
"boom------------!!!!!"
The entire Eternal Heavenly Court, and even the hundreds of millions of worlds below it, underwent the most incredible ultimate transformation in history at this moment!
The power of the Ninth Realm - Return to Truth does not require deliberate use of supernatural abilities. Su Chen's very existence is the highest truth of this multiverse. His emotions, his breath, are the driving force behind the evolution of all things!
Su Chen exhaled a breath that transformed into a stream of purplish-gold [Primordial True Qi].
This surge of true energy instantly swept across the entire Eternal Heavenly Court. The white jade plaza, originally refined from primordial stars, underwent a dramatic transformation the moment it came into contact with the primordial true energy. It went from being a top-grade immortal stone to "Immortal Origin Gold," a substance that even eighth-realm experts found difficult to destroy!
The 999 star-river moats surrounding the Heavenly Court transformed into liquid laws of the Great Dao; the high-dimensional divine herbs planted in the Heavenly Court's imperial garden emitted joyful celestial sounds, and actually gained sentience, transforming into plant spirits with the cultivation of a fifth-realm God King!
"What...what incredible power is this?!"
The Hun Tian Demon Lord and the Skeleton Lord, who were standing below the jade steps, were the first to be hit!
The "Return to the True Dao" aura emanating from Su Chen was like an unprecedented rain of supreme creation, generously showering upon their divine bodies.
"Click...click click..."
The Dark Devouring Armor that the Demon Lord of Chaos was so proud of was shattered under the erosion of the Dao. In its place grew a dense layer of [Primordial Demon Scales] with a chaotic luster from the depths of his bone marrow! The bottleneck of the late seventh realm that had troubled him for so long was broken through in an instant as if it were made of paper!
[Half-step into the Eighth Realm]!
Even the heavenly tribulation did not descend, because in this world, Su Chen was the only heaven, and no tribulation dared to descend before him!
Beside him, the Skeleton Lord also underwent an ultimate transformation. Nourished by the Daoist essence of returning to the true nature, his ancient crystal demonic bones actually began to sprout flesh and blood! It was an ultimate demonic body purely woven from the laws of "death" and "rebirth." In his empty eye sockets, the eerie green soul fire transformed into two deep, chaotic demonic eyes.
"Boom! Boom!"
As the two stepped into the threshold of the eighth stage of the half-step realm, an unprecedentedly powerful force surged and roared within their bodies.
Outside the Heavenly Court, the tens of millions of immortal demons, and even the hundreds of millions of beings kneeling in various realms and worshipping the Heavenly Court, all felt their cultivation levels surge wildly at this moment!
"When one attains enlightenment, all realms ascend to immortality..."
As the Demon Lord of Chaos felt the earth-shattering changes within his body, he looked at the lazy and casual figure on the imperial throne, his knees buckled, and he kowtowed heavily to the ground, his voice filled with endless fervor and utter devotion.
"Congratulations to His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor on reaching the pinnacle! Transcending eternity!!"
"Homage to His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor!!" The Skeleton Lord also prostrated himself, his whole body trembling with excitement.
They knew that their lord had transcended the limits of what cultivators could comprehend and reached that unknowable realm that existed only in deduction and imagination!
Su Chen sat on the imperial throne, resting his chin on one hand, his deep gaze piercing through the dome of the imperial palace.
"Get up."
Su Chen's voice was calm, yet it carried the supreme power of law, lifting the two of them up from the ground.
"At the end of the Great Void Sea, there is no supreme god, nor an invincible creator."
Su Chen looked at the two of them, his tone carrying a hint of mockery, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.
"That so-called first cause of all things is nothing more than a rigid, mechanical underlying logic. I have already torn it apart and completely devoured it."
"hiss--"
Upon hearing this, even the Hun Tian Demon Lord and the Skeleton Lord, who had just broken through to the eighth level of the half-step realm, couldn't help but gasp.
It tore apart the First Cause? It devoured the Creator?!
If these words had come from anyone else, they would have dismissed them as the ravings of a madman. But coming from Su Chen, they sent a profound and soul-stirring shock and tremor through them.
"My lord... what level have you reached now?" The Demon Lord of Chaos swallowed hard and asked with great courage.
"What level of attainment?"
Su Chen slightly raised his eyes, and a chaotic, ethereal light that had transcended the cycle of birth and death flowed in his eyes.
“In the past, when I entered the eighth realm, it was called ‘Indescribable’. That was when the power and laws were piled up to the limit that this universe could bear. At that time, although I could destroy all worlds with a single strike, I was still ultimately in the ‘cage’ of this world.”
Su Chen slowly extended his right hand, gently clenching his five fingers in the air.
"Buzz!"
With this handshake.
Before the horrified eyes of the Demon Lord of Chaos and the Skeleton Lord, they were shocked to discover that the space and time around them, and even the demonic laws within their bodies, had instantly transformed into a bunch of visible, shimmering "lines"!
"And now, I am this cage itself. Or rather, this multiverse has become part of my inner universe."
Su Chen released his hand, and the lines instantly returned to normal space and laws.
"This is the ninth realm—[Return to Truth]."
"All paths lead to one, and one leads to truth. With a single thought, I can cause all laws to wither; with a single word, I can restart the universe. There are no fancy supernatural powers, because within this world, my will is the most fundamental physical rule."
Upon hearing Su Chen's explanation, the Demon Lord of Chaos and the Skeleton Lord were speechless for a long time.
This is no longer cultivation; this is true "omniscience and omnipotence," the absolute "god" of this multiverse system!
“However…” In Su Chen’s eyes, there was no sense of satisfaction from achieving “omniscience and omnipotence”. Instead, a more intense and unrestrained extreme battle intent flashed.
"This multiverse, though vast and boundless, is ultimately too fragile for my current self."
Su Chen stood up.
His mere presence caused the entire Eternal Heavenly Court to tremble slightly.
"Now that I have replaced the First Cause, I cannot tolerate my territory being so loose and scattered like sand!"
"Hun Tian, Hai Zun! Issue this imperial decree to seal off the Heavenly Court and protect the souls of the demon army!"
Su Chen's order was suddenly issued.
The Demon Lord of Chaos and the Skeleton Lord were shocked and immediately obeyed the order. They pushed their half-step eighth-realm cultivation to the limit and, in conjunction with the Heavenly Court's great formation, tightly protected the tens of millions of immortal demon soldiers within it.
next moment.
Su Chen stepped out of the Imperial Palace and instantly arrived at the top of the Eternal Heaven Court, which is the highest point of this multiverse system!
He looked down at the countless worlds below, like grains of sand in the Ganges, at the dark, viscous, liquid ruins of the Great Void Sea, and at the vast, boundless void beyond the boundary.
"The old era was constructed by the rigid logic of the First Cause, and the universe was created and destroyed like bubbles, disordered and wasteful."
Su Chen suddenly formed an extremely ancient Origin Seal with both hands in front of his chest!
"Today, I will use the power of the Ninth Realm of Returning to Truth to reshape this multiverse!"
"Divine Power—[Origin of Creation: The Great Crucible of Myriad Realms]!!!"
"Boom boom boom boom boom ————————!!!!!"
With Su Chen's command.
This multiverse, which has experienced countless eras of birth and death, is now undergoing the grandest and most terrifying ultimate reshuffling in history!
Under the horrified gazes of countless cosmic lords and avatars of the Heavenly Dao.
In the absolute void beyond the boundary, a blazing dark golden [Origin Return to Truth Divine Fire] suddenly ignited!
The paradoxical behemoths that roamed the Great Void Sea, and the epochal graveyard that buried prehistoric civilizations, had no room to struggle the moment they came into contact with this divine fire. They were directly refined into the purest chaotic primordial energy!
Followed by.
Those hundreds of millions of cosmic bubbles, regardless of size or strength, were drawn together by Su Chen's irresistible supreme will, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, and frantically converged directly below where the Eternal Heavenly Court was located!
"No! Your Majesty the Heavenly Emperor! Our universe is about to be crushed!"
"Is this going to destroy the world?!"
Countless living beings are wailing, and countless laws of nature are trembling.
But Su Chen's eyes remained cold and unmoved.
"No destruction, no construction; destruction precedes construction!"
"Give it to me—Merge!!!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Under Su Chen's irreversible dimensional manipulation, hundreds of millions of cosmic bubbles collided together!
However, they did not explode. Instead, under the extreme tempering of the Origin Divine Fire, the dross was removed and the essence was taken. Their core origin and the laws of heaven were forcibly fused together by Su Chen with an extremely perfect logic!
This is a super fusion that surpasses anyone's imagination!
It lasted for a full forty-nine days.
As the dark golden Origin True Flame gradually extinguished.
The multiverse system that was originally composed of countless scattered cosmic bubbles has completely disappeared.
Instead.
It is a [Super Supreme Dimension] that floats in the endless primordial chaos, so vast that even light would need to travel for billions of epochs to cross its edge!
This plane is entirely constructed from the purest high-dimensional divine soil. The sky is no longer a dark cosmic backdrop, but a long river flowing with the laws of the three thousand Great Daos; the sun, moon, and stars all evolved from the original core of the Great Thousand World.
In this supreme plane, the spiritual energy is so dense that it has even condensed into solid source crystals. Mortals from the lower realms can instantly be transformed and ascend to immortality simply by breathing in this air!
At the very center and highest point of this plane, a towering pillar radiating an aura of eternal suppression pierces the chaotic heavens. That is none other than the [Supreme Eternal Heavenly Court], personally erected by Su Chen!
This ultimate continent, reshaped by Su Chen with his supreme power, was named by him as the [True Origin Immortal Realm]!
"This...this is the true unification of all realms! This is the supreme immortal realm!"
Those realm lords who were originally terrified now stood on the indestructible divine land of the True Origin Longevity Realm, feeling the Great Dao Laws around them that were many times more advanced than before. They were all so excited that tears welled up in their eyes, and they frantically kowtowed in the direction of the Heavenly Court to express their gratitude.
Cultivating in such an environment, they even have a chance to touch the threshold of the eighth realm, which they never even dared to dream of before!
……
Above the Heavenly Court.
Su Chen looked at the perfect masterpiece he had created and nodded slightly.
By melting the originally loose cosmic bubble into a unique supreme plane, not only was internal friction completely eliminated, but the overall defensive power and foundation of this world also increased by more than ten thousand times!
From that moment on, his inner universe became completely bound to this mortal plane, sharing weal and woe, and living on forever!
"The foundation is solid."
Su Chen stood with his hands behind his back in the sky.
Now that he has completely transformed this "pond," it's time to go and see the scenery outside the pond.
Su Chen slowly raised his head.
His pair of abyssal divine eyes, which had reached the ultimate realm of returning to truth and could see through all illusions, pierced through the sky of the True Origin Longevity Realm and through the barrier of the Great Void Sea that he had just refined, gazing into the distance at that "non-existent high place"!
"Om——"
When Su Chen's gaze truly broke through the limit of this multiverse concept.
The scene before him suddenly became clear!
A vast scroll, so grand that even Su Chen, who had just entered the ninth realm, felt his breath catch slightly, was displayed before his eyes without reservation!
In his line of sight.
The vast [True Origin Longevity Realm] that he had just rebuilt, along with the remnants of the Great Void Sea that he had devoured, was actually... just an extremely tiny "transparent droplet" emitting a faint glow in this grand picture!
And around this single "water droplet," there are countless other similar "water droplets"! (End of Chapter)