Chapter 843
The Battle of Returning to Truth
The Great Luo Source Sea, the Burial Heaven Source Realm.
When Su Chen's arrogant and provocative words, which regarded the Abyss Emperor of a Realm as mere prey, fell, this supercontinent, floating in the purple-gold source sea and so vast as to be immeasurable, experienced its most desolate moment since its birth—one-thousandth of a breath.
Then.
"Boom boom boom boom boom ————————!!!!!"
Two supreme auras, representing the Ninth Realm: Return to Truth, collided violently above the gray sky!
This is no ordinary clash of magical power, nor a simple battle of the laws of the Dao. The Ninth Realm, called Returning to Truth, is where I am the truth, I am the world! This clash between beings is a frenzied struggle between two completely different "underlying logics" and "cosmic concepts"!
"Click...click click..."
At the very center of the clash between the two, the originally indestructible crystal wall of the Burial Heaven Origin Realm, which had been deposited over countless eras, began to collapse and shatter like fragile glass.
Inky black rifts, like spiderwebs, spread in all directions, tearing apart a vast territory spanning billions of light-years in the blink of an eye. Below, the land flowing with crimson magma was utterly crushed by this invisible force, entire chunks sinking into the ground. Countless native creatures of the Burial Heaven Origin Realm, unable to escape in time, were wiped out without even a scream, their very existence erased by the interwoven Daoist aura.
"Our lord is fighting Emperor Nayuan! Retreat immediately!!!"
At the edge of the dimensional rift far behind the battlefield, the Demon Lord of Chaos and the Corpse Lord were terrified. Although they had just broken through to the eighth level of the fifth realm, they still felt like two ants in a storm in the face of this ultimate clash of the ninth realm.
"All troops, form ranks! Unleash the 'True Source Protection Talisman' and defend the barrier to the death!"
The Demon Lord of Chaos roared madly, and millions of immortal demon soldiers spat out their life essence blood, activating the Return to Truth Divine Talisman bestowed upon them by Su Chen before their departure. A layer of light radiating chaotic colors barely held up, protecting the demon army within, like a small boat in a raging sea, violently tossed about in the aftershocks of destruction.
Meanwhile, in the sky above, the true decisive battle has already begun!
"A mere newcomer to the Transcendent Realm from a lowly plane dares to act so presumptuously in my Origin Realm! Today I will show you the true power of the Great Luo Origin Sea!"
The Dark Crimson Demon Emperor, towering billions of feet tall, unleashed a roar that shattered an era. From his ancient demonic eyes, as red as blazing blood-red suns, two beams of tangible destructive light shot out.
"Divine Power—[Burial Heaven Origin Path: Return of All Realms to Corruption]!!!"
With a roar from the Emperor of the Underworld, he suddenly spread his arms wide.
In an instant, the entire sky of the Burial Heaven Origin Realm changed color completely! The originally gray sky transformed into a dark red sea of blood, churning with a thick, stench and extreme deathly aura. Within this sea of blood, countless remnants of universes that had once been destroyed and devoured by the Netherworld Erosion Emperor floated.
"Splash—"
A sea of blood was overturned!
That was no ordinary blood, but rather the [Return to the Netherworld Corrosion Water], formed from the pure "concept of decay." This water does not harm the flesh, nor destroy divine weapons; it corrodes only one thing—the enemy's "definition of existence"!
Anyone who is contaminated by this water of erosion will have their cultivation techniques, the Dao they comprehend, and even their past history forcibly altered to "decay," ultimately leading to their complete logical demise.
"This is the source of your pride and joy, the essence of the sea? It's nothing but playing with some rotten corpses that are not worthy of being discussed."
Faced with that overwhelming, decaying sea of blood, enough to engulf multiple universes.
Su Chen stood amidst the raging wind and flames, his green robe fluttering in the wind, yet his figure remained as still as an ancient divine mountain.
He did not back down, nor did he summon any defensive magic weapons. He simply slowly raised the [Origin Demon Blade] in his hand.
"Your truth is rotten."
"The truth of this being is—the devouring of everything!"
Su Chen slightly closed his eyes, and the [Origin Return to Truth] within his body surged wildly into the blade like a bursting dam. The originally dark golden blade light completely transformed into an [Absolute Black] that could devour even light, sight, and cause and effect.
"【Origin of the Ultimate Path - One Slash Turns to Ruins】!"
"Whoosh————————————!!!!!"
Su Chen gripped the sword with both hands and, from bottom to top, met the cascading dark red sea of blood with a single, unadorned slash!
This strike lacked the earth-shattering roar of sword energy; instead, it possessed an extreme coldness that signified the annihilation of all things.
The moment that jet-black blade of light was unleashed, it swelled against the wind and transformed into an ultimate black hole rift stretching across the heavens and earth for hundreds of millions of miles!
"Hiss hiss hiss—"
When the Netherworld Water, which was said to be able to corrupt all concepts, struck Su Chen's pitch-black blade light...
A chilling scene unfolded!
The water of erosion not only failed to corrode Su Chen's sword light, but instead, like a lamb willingly offered to a tiger's mouth, it was frantically devoured and torn apart by that pitch-black crack! Su Chen's Origin Dao, in an extremely tyrannical, domineering, and completely unreasonable way, forcibly analyzed the "corruption concept" of the Netherworld Emperor and transformed it into the purest energy, feeding it back into Su Chen's inner universe!
"what?!"
The enormous demonic shadow of the Netherworld Emperor paused slightly, a look of extreme shock flashing in its blood-red eyes.
"You...you actually managed to devour my Dao of Returning to Truth?! How is this possible! You're just a newbie who's barely entered the ninth realm, how could your Dao possibly contain my Netherworld Erosion Origin, which has been accumulating for countless epochs?!"
In Emperor Ming Shiyuan's understanding, battles between those at the Ninth Realm were like two blocks of ice of different materials colliding; the one with the harder material and larger volume would crush the other. But he had never seen a block of ice that could melt and absorb its opponent like a raging fire!
This kind of Dao attribute is simply unheard of!
"As I have said, I have swallowed the first cause of all things!"
With a single slash, Su Chen cleaved through the sea of blood, his figure transforming into a chaotic meteor shooting upwards against the heavens, instantly closing the distance between himself and the Netherworld Emperor.
"Your foundation, in my eyes, is nothing more than slightly outdated nourishment!"
"Now, take this slash from me!"
"【Origin - Annihilation of Eternity】!"
Su Chen was in mid-air, his figure and the sword light becoming one, transforming into a pitch-black heavenly sword that tore apart all the laws of the Burial Heaven Origin Realm, heading straight for the massive head of the Netherworld Emperor!
This strike sealed off all of Emperor Ming Shi Yuan's timelines and spatial coordinates. There was no way to avoid it, no way to escape it!
"Arrogant brat! Do you really think I'm afraid of you?!"
Emperor Ming Shi Yuan laughed in fury. After all, he was an ancient overlord who had dominated a region of the Great Luo Yuan Sea, and had experienced countless life-and-death battles. Although Su Chen's Dao attribute struck him as strange, he absolutely did not believe that he would lose in strength to a newly ascended transcendent being.
"【Burial Heaven Extreme Path - Abyss God Calamity Bone Spear】! Draw it for me!!!"
Emperor Ming Shi Yuan roared and suddenly reached into the void.
"Clang————————!!!!!" Accompanied by an unparalleled sharp sound that seemed to pierce one's soul, a terrifying spear, entirely white, wreathed in endless eerie green ghost fire, and millions of feet long, was forcibly pulled out of the void!
This spear is a supreme Dao artifact forged by Emperor Ming Shi Yuan after he killed a Chaos Demon Dragon of the Origin Sea in the early stage of the Ninth Realm. He extracted its complete spine and refined it in the Netherfire of the Burial Heaven Origin Realm for three whole eras!
As soon as the spear was drawn, the entire void of the Burial Heaven Origin Realm groaned in agony, unable to bear the weight any longer. At the tip of the spear, a terrifying, chilling light gleamed, capable of piercing through multiple universes and freezing all concepts.
"Die!!!"
Emperor Ming Shi Yuan gripped his spear tightly with both hands, and his towering demonic body, hundreds of millions of feet tall, unleashed a world-destroying power. Facing the pitch-black heavenly blade that Su Chen was slashing down, he thrust out his spear fiercely!
A clash of titans!
The True Blade's Edge clashes with the Divine Spear of Calamity!
"Boom boom boom boom boom ————————!!!!!"
The sword and the spear clashed solidly together hundreds of millions of feet above the Burial Heaven Origin Realm!
This is a true catastrophe! A cataclysmic collision capable of instantly reducing lower-dimensional universes to ashes!
At the point where the two collide.
Time, space, laws, causality, even light and sound, were instantly compressed into absolute nothingness. Immediately following, a black-and-white ultimate destructive shockwave, moving at a speed exceeding the capacity of thought, spread wildly in all directions!
"Crack, crack, crack..."
The sky of the Burial Heaven Origin Realm was forcibly shaved off by this shockwave!
The vast, boundless continent below was ravaged by the shockwave, as if it had been plowed clean. Millions of black mountain ranges were leveled, and the "Crimson Star Ring" encircling the continent was pulverized.
Even the commanders of the Burial Heaven Origin Realm's garrison, hundreds of millions of miles away from the center of the battle, whose physical bodies and souls were instantly vaporized the moment this shockwave swept over them, leaving them no room for resistance whatsoever.
The aftershocks of just one collision caused the Burial Heaven Origin Realm to lose more than 10 billion lives!
The Demon Lord of Chaos and his companions, protected by the army, would likely have been annihilated long ago if not for the Returning to Truth Divine Talisman bestowed by Su Chen. Even so, they were still shaken to the point of bleeding from all seven orifices and their souls trembled.
"So powerful... Is this the hand-to-hand combat of the Ninth Realm...?" The Demon Lord of Chaos wiped the blood from the corner of his eye and stared intently at the sky.
High in the sky.
The eye of the destructive storm.
Su Chen and Emperor Ming Shi Yuan remained locked in a stance of clashing swords and spears.
The massive demonic body of the Netherworld Emperor trembled slightly. The tiger's mouth of his hands, which were gripping the Divine Spear of Calamity, had actually cracked open, revealing deep, bone-revealing wounds. Hot, dark red divine blood dripped continuously down the spear shaft.
His eyes finally revealed an undisguised horror!
"How is this possible... How could your power... be greater than mine?!"
Emperor Ming Shi Yuan felt as if he had not struck a blade, but an entire perfectly functioning, extremely heavy multiverse! The force rebounding from the Origin Demon Blade not only negated all his attacks, but was also frantically tearing apart his physical defenses!
"Your broken bones are surprisingly tough."
Su Chen gripped the sword with both hands. Although his green robe was torn in the raging wind, the fighting spirit in his dark eyes shone brighter and brighter, like a burning superstar!
"However, to compete with me in terms of inner strength and brute force? Old mudfish, you've chosen the wrong opponent!"
Su Chen's lips curled into a cruel, sinister smile.
"The profound depths of the First Cause are beyond the comprehension of a frog in a well like you, confined to your own little corner!"
"Suppress it for me!!!"
"boom!!!"
The Origin Inner Universe within Su Chen's body, which merged the origin of all worlds and the prehistoric Dao Fruit, was pushed to its limit of twelve percent at this moment!
A terrifying force, ten times more violent and heavier than before, poured into the Origin Demon Blade like a celestial river cascading down Su Chen's arms!
"Crunch... crunch crunch..."
A teeth-grinding scraping sound rang out.
In the despairing gaze of Emperor Ming Shi Yuan.
His prized weapon, the [Bone-Breaking Divine Spear], forged from the spine of a ninth-realm demonic dragon, began to bend little by little under the crushing force of Su Chen's incomprehensible and terrifying brute strength!
Followed by.
"Snap!!!"
A crisp cracking sound, like a death knell, resounded deep within the true spirit of the Netherworld Emperor!
That indestructible Dao artifact was actually cleaved in two by Su Chen with a single stroke!
"puff--"
With his natal artifact destroyed, Emperor Ming Shi Yuan suffered an extremely severe backlash. He spat out a mouthful of dark red primordial blood, and his massive body was as if it had been struck by a galaxy. He retreated tens of millions of miles in the void, each step leaving a huge spatial black hole in the air.
"No! This is impossible! I am the Supreme Abyss Emperor of the Great Luo Origin Sea! How could I be defeated by a mere recruit from a lowly plane?!"
Emperor Ming Shiyuan, disheveled and seemingly insane, could not accept this cruel reality. Instead of conquesting this newly ascended transcendent being with an air of superiority, he was instead outmaneuvered by the newcomer, who crossed realms and, right before his remaining army, cleaved their weapons in two with a single strike, leaving him utterly humiliated!
What a disgrace! This is an unbearable shame branded upon the Daoist path of returning to one's true nature!
"defeat?"
Su Chen, carrying a blood-dripping longsword, strolled through the void as if taking a leisurely walk. His speed seemed slow, but with each step, he relentlessly blocked the retreat of the Netherworld Emperor. The oppressive feeling, like a cat playing with a mouse, was enough to drive anyone mad.
"Old mudfish, your definition of failure is too simplistic."
"In my dictionary, there is no such thing as defeat, only—devour!"
Su Chen's figure instantly transformed into a phantom.
"Shh!"
In the next instant, he appeared directly above Emperor Ming Shi Yuan. His hands gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, and the Origin Returning True Divine Fire burned wildly on the blade, transforming into a world-destroying fire blade tens of millions of feet long!
"It's over. Turn into fertilizer for the original body!"
"【Origin of the Ultimate Path - The Slash that Unifies All Realms】!!!"
With a single slash, it seemed to cleave the entire Burial Heaven Origin Realm in two!
Faced with this unavoidable, deadly strike, the Dark Erosion Emperor, who was in a violent retreat, suddenly had an unprecedented madness and determination flash in his eyes!
"You brat! You forced me to do this!"
"Do you really think that the Burial Heaven Origin Realm only has these few tricks up its sleeve?!"
Emperor Ming Shi Yuan suddenly steadied himself. Instead of dodging the falling blade light, he spread his arms and let out an extremely shrill and eerie roar!
"【Origin Realm Sacrifice - Burying the Polar Night】!!!" (End of Chapter)