Chapter 864
Troops March into the Wilderness
The primordial continent of all heavens, the ruins of the Tianlan Imperial City.
Dark purple primordial blood mist swirled in the air, and tens of millions of immortal demons, like a group of tireless black Asuras, were carrying out a carpet-like frenzied plunder of this once glorious and magnificent imperial city.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
One after another, secret treasure troves buried deep underground were forcibly blasted open. The [Primordial Origin Gold], [Primordial Immortal Marrow], and mountains of [True Realm Law Divine Pills] that the Tianlan Domain had plundered over countless eras were transported by the Longevity Demon Army, flowing like dazzling galaxies into the open [Origin Inner Universe] behind Su Chen.
"My lord! The Tianlan Domain is incredibly rich in resources!"
The Demon Lord of Chaos, carrying a massive crystal pillar formed from the entire Primordial Origin Vein, slammed it heavily onto the white jade plaza in front of Su Chen, his eyes filled with undisguised fervor and shock.
"If this grade of source stone were in the Great Luo Source Sea of the past, even a piece the size of a fingernail would be enough to trigger a bloody battle among several top-tier source courts. But here, it's just a second-rate product used to pave the floor of the treasure vault!"
The Skeleton Lord also stepped out of the void, holding more than a dozen sealed purple-gold jade boxes in his hands, each containing a supreme divine medicine treasured by the Lord of Tianlan Domain.
Su Chen sat upright on the purple-gold throne that was stained red with blood, his chin resting on one hand. His eyes were as calm as a still pond when it came to these treasures that could drive any ascendant crazy.
"This is nothing more than scraps from the very edge of the original continent."
With a thought, Su Chen activated the [Devouring Heaven Divine Wheel] behind his head, swallowing the mountain of Primordial Treasures in front of him into his inner universe.
"Rumble, rumble—"
Within the inner universe, the Great Luo Source Sea Mother Spring, nourished by this massive amount of resources, gushed forth increasingly concentrated innate primordial energy. The Heavenly Dao Laws of the Longevity Origin Realm were undergoing a profound leap, and the overall strength of the millions of Longevity Demon Army, nurtured by the inner universe, had been thoroughly stabilized at the [Primordial Chaos Realm] level!
The Demon Lord of Chaos and the Skeleton Lord, with the purest reward, have already stepped one foot into the threshold of the [Primordial True Realm]!
If word got out that the speed at which the entire army was advancing was enough to make the ancient lineages of the Primordial Continent of Heavens question their very existence!
"The Tianlan Domain has been completely devoured by me."
Su Chen slowly stood up, his abyss-like black eyes piercing through the gloomy ruins above the imperial city, gazing straight north. There lay the endless, destructive [Primordial Thunder Sea], and beyond that sea lay the true behemoth that ruled this vast territory—[Desolate Heaven Divine Continent]!
"Hun Tian, Hai Zun".
"Your subordinate is here!" the two roared in unison, their fighting spirit soaring to the heavens.
"Excavate the foundation of this Tianlan Imperial City for me, and melt it, along with the ruins and formations throughout the city, into the [Eternal Life War Fortress]!"
Su Chen flicked his green robe, and an unparalleled arrogant and domineering aura burst forth.
"Now that the sword has been drawn, there's no reason to back down. If the Desolate Heaven Divine Continent wants to arbitrarily set the rules, then I, the Venerable One, will personally teach them what the rules of the Ultimate Path are!"
"The army marches on! Destination—the Desolate Divine Land!"
"Today, I will flatten this Primordial Thunder Sea, and let this primordial continent of all heavens hear the world-destroying thunderous roar of my Eternal Heavenly Court!!!"
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at the same time.
In the heart of the continent of origin of all heavens, lies the [Desolate Heaven Divine Continent].
If Tianlan Domain is a vast city, then Huangtian Divine Continent is a truly boundless and extremely vast supreme divine kingdom!
This vast land of China floats atop the thirty-three layers of primordial celestial energy. Within this land, mountains resemble dragons, spiritual energy rains down, and countless magnificent divine cities dot the landscape like stars. At the very heart of this land stands a towering, purple-gold temple that seems to reach into an unnamed dimension—the [Supreme Pavilion of the Desolate Heaven]!
This is the Daoist temple of the [Primordial Supreme Realm] expert, the Desolate Heaven God Lord, who rules over a thousand subordinate domains and possesses supreme authority!
Inside a side hall next to the Supreme Pavilion—the [Heavenly Mandate Divine Office].
"Snap!!!"
A piercing cracking sound shattered the millennia-long tranquility within the divine realm.
High above the dome, among the array of jade tablets representing the life imprints of thousands of subordinate domain lords of the Desolate Heaven Divine Continent, a purple-gold jade tablet engraved with the words "Tianlan" suddenly exploded into dust!
The elder in charge of guarding the Heavenly Mandate Divine Division shuddered, his eyes widening to their limit, and cold sweat poured out like a waterfall.
"Heavens...the Lord of Tianlan Domain...has fallen?!"
The elder steward scrambled out of the Divine Court, his piercing scream instantly shattering the tranquility of the Desolate Heavenly Continent: "Something terrible has happened! The Heavenly Lan Domain Lord's Soul Tablet is shattered! The Heavenly Lan Domain... has been destroyed!!!"
In less than half an incense stick's time.
Inside the War God Hall below the Desolate Heaven Supreme Pavilion, an extremely terrifying killing intent, causing the surrounding space to collapse inch by inch, suddenly erupted!
Seated atop the main throne in the grand hall was a burly giant clad in heavy armor shrouded in dark gold dragon scales, his entire body enveloped in destructive lightning. His eyes, like two black suns, radiated an unparalleled ferocity befitting the peak of the Primordial True Realm, even faintly touching the threshold of the Supreme Realm!
This person is none other than the number one war god under the Desolate Heaven Divine Continent, the supreme commander who commands billions of Divine Continent Imperial Guards—[War Desolate God Venerable]!
"That good-for-nothing Tianlan actually died on his own turf?"
The voice of the War God was like thunder rolling from the heavens, causing the blood and qi of dozens of True Realm generals in the hall to surge.
"Reporting to Your Majesty!" An intelligence commander knelt on one knee and reported in a trembling voice, "According to the incomplete images transmitted by our spies on the outskirts of the Tianlan Domain... the one who destroyed the Tianlan Domain was a heretic who forcibly cleaved open the Gate of Limitless from the 'Great Luo Origin Sea' in the lower realm and ascended to the top!"
"This man calls himself 'Su Chen, the Tyrant of the Extreme Path.' Not only did he single-handedly storm into the Origin Continent, but in just half a day, he also tore apart the Heavenly Blue Divine General with his bare hands, shattered the Heavenly Blue True King Seal with a single strike, and... devoured the Heavenly Blue Domain Lord alive!"
Upon hearing this, the entire Hall of the God of War fell into a deathly silence.
All the generals looked incredulous.
A peasant from the lower realm ascended to heaven and devoured a Primordial True Realm Domain Lord the moment he landed?! This absurd thing is as unbelievable as an ant eating an elephant!
"Swallow the Primordial Chaos Realm whole?"
Enraged, the War God laughed. He slammed his hand on the armrest of his chair, and the throne, made of supreme immortal gold, instantly turned into dust!
"What a tyrannical ruler! What a heretic from the lower realms!"
"To kill a domain lord appointed by my Divine Continent is a severe slap in the face to my Desolate Heaven Divine Continent! This is a provocation against the supreme authority of the Divine Lord!"
The War God slowly stood up, his terrifying Dharma form, tens of millions of feet tall, looming behind him, and a tyrannical killing intent capable of annihilating all worlds soared into the sky.
"Since this mortal insect doesn't want to live anymore, then I will grant his wish!"
"Issue my command!"
"Dispatch the Desolate Annihilation Legion! Assemble one billion Imperial Guards and one hundred and twenty Primordial True Realm Generals!"
"Deploy the 'Sky-Shattering Divine Ship' fleet!"
The War God suddenly drew his dark gold greatsword from his waist, pointing it south.
"I, the Supreme Being, will personally lead the charge, traversing the Primordial Thunder Sea, to crush this arrogant and ignorant insect into mincemeat! I will extract his soul, burn it like a celestial lamp for ten thousand epochs, as a warning to others!!!"
"By the divine decree! Suppress the heretics! Uphold the might of our divine land!!!" Dozens of True Realm generals roared in unison inside the hall.
With a command from the War God, the terrifying war machine of the Desolate Heaven Divine Continent, which had been silent for countless years, finally revealed its ferocious fangs, enough to tear apart the primordial continent of all heavens!
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The primordial continent of all heavens, the [Primordial Thunder Sea].
This is a natural barrier that lies between the peripheral territories of Tianlan Domain and the heartland of the Desolate Divine Continent.
This sea of lightning is not composed of water, but rather an endless ocean woven from pure [Destructive Primordial Purple Lightning]. Within this sea of lightning, every leaping arc of electricity is enough to easily obliterate a powerful being at the Great Perfection of the Ninth Realm of Returning to Truth. Even a strong individual at the Initial Realm of Primordial Chaos would need an Extreme Dao Source Artifact to traverse this sea of lightning, facing a near-certain death.
However, at this moment...
On the edge of this raging, incomparably destructive sea of lightning.
"Boom boom boom boom boom ————————!!!!!"
With a deafening mechanical roar, a huge rift was violently torn open at the edge of the purple-gold sea of lightning!
A colossal [Eternal War Fortress], so massive it blotted out the sky, forged entirely from countless ruined divine cities and warships, exuding a thick stench of blood and dark golden demonic light, plunged headlong into this sea of deathly lightning like a fearless primordial beast!
Crack! Boom!!!
The endless Primordial Purple Lightning seemed to be completely enraged by this invader, transforming into tens of millions of raging lightning dragons as thick as galaxies, which frantically struck down towards the war fortress!
"Form the formation! Control the lightning!"
Atop the fortress, millions of immortal demon soldiers roared in unison. Under the command of the Hun Tian Demon Lord and the Skeleton Lord, the millions of demon soldiers gathered their primal power into one place, erecting a black and white [Origin Devouring Heaven Array] above the fortress!
The primordial purple lightning, powerful enough to destroy the heavens and the earth, did not explode the moment it struck the black and white array patterns. Instead, it was forcibly twisted and decomposed by the array, like a mud ox entering the sea. It then transformed into strands of pure lightning essence, which were forcibly poured into the power center of the war fortress!
Use the enemy's spear to attack the enemy's shield!
This longevity war fortress was not only undamaged in the sea of thunder, but its speed increased, like a red-hot dagger cutting through the heart of the sea of thunder!
And at the very top of the fortress.
Su Chen, dressed in a green robe, stood with his hands behind his back. Despite the countless bolts of lightning raging around him, he remained unmoved.
His deep, divine eyes pierced through layers of thunderclouds, coldly gazing at the sea of thunder directly ahead.
"Master, the energy fluctuations in the sea of thunder ahead are showing abnormal dimensional distortions. It seems that an extremely large fleet is making a spatial jump towards us!"
Within the inner universe, the array spirit of the Great Luo Source Sea Mother Spring issued a faint alarm.
"Has it finally arrived?"
Su Chen not only did not order a slowdown, but his sinister grin became even more arrogant.
"The reaction speed of the Desolate Heaven Divine Continent is not too slow."
"Since they've come to deliver takeout... oh no, to deliver their foundation, then I, the Venerable One, will prepare the grandest welcome ceremony for them!"
Su Chen slowly drew the [Origin Demon Blade] from his waist. This extreme weapon, which had absorbed the blood of the Lord of Tianlan Domain, had now completely transformed into a Primordial Dao Artifact with a dark purple hue. On its blade, there were even faint wisps of the "First Cause" Annihilation Law that made this sea of lightning tremble.
"All troops, listen to my command!"
Su Chen's voice was like a thunderclap that pierced through the clouds and tore through the fabric, drowning out all the surrounding roars.
"The prey has arrived! Ready—dinner is served!!!"
"boom------------!!!!!"
Just as Su Chen finished speaking...
The Primordial Thunder Sea directly in front of the war fortress suddenly shattered like a mirror!
Countless dazzling dark golden divine lights surged out from the spatial rift, instantly forcing back all the surrounding lightning.
Immediately afterwards, a terrifyingly large fleet, so large it inspired despair, appeared as if divine soldiers had descended from the heavens, forcefully blocking the path of the Eternal War Fortress!
Tens of thousands of "Sky-Shattering Divine Ships," each hundreds of millions of feet long, blotted out the sky!
A billion elite imperial guards, clad in desolate battle armor, exuded a murderous aura that soared to the heavens!
One hundred and twenty peerless generals, radiating the aura of the [Primordial True Realm], stood arrayed across the starry sky!
At the very center of the fleet, atop the purple-gold flagship that resembled a moving continent.
The terrifying Dharma form of the War God, towering tens of millions of feet tall, stood proudly at the bow of the ship. He rested his hands on a dark gold greatsword, and his eyes, like black holes, were fixed on the "Eternal War Fortress" in front of him, which appeared somewhat rudimentary in comparison.
The two armies faced off in the depths of the primordial thunder sea, filled with destructive lightning!
The murderous aura in the air even caused the surrounding purple lightning to come to a standstill.
"So you are that arrogant heretic who crawled out of a puddle in the lower realm?"
The voice of the War God, mixed with the supreme pressure of the peak of the Primordial True Realm, crashed down on the Eternal War Fortress like a materialized tsunami.
He looked at Su Chen, who was as insignificant as a speck of dust at the very top of the fortress, his eyes filled with contempt and disdain.
"I originally thought that the person who dared to kill my Divine Continent Domain Lord must be some kind of holy being. After all this time, he is nothing more than an ant still covered in the earthy smell of the lower realm."
"What? Rushing here to die? Or do you think that with your dilapidated fortress and this rabble of lower realms, you can stand against the billion heavenly soldiers of my Desolate Heaven Divine Continent?!"
The War God suddenly raised the dark gold greatsword in his hand, pointing it directly at Su Chen.
"Kneel down! Shatter your inner universe! Perhaps I, in my greatness, might spare your subordinates a whole corpse!"
Arrogant! Overbearing! Invincible!
In the eyes of the War God, his force of 120 generals at the Primordial True Realm, plus 1 billion Divine Continent Imperial Guards, was more than enough to sweep through ten Tianlan Domains. Crushing a nouveau riche from the lower realm would be as easy as turning one's hand.
Faced with the raging barks of the War God.
Not a single one of the millions of immortal demon soldiers showed any fear. They simply gripped their demonic weapons tightly, staring at the billion-strong army opposite them as if they were a group of dead men.
And Su Chen.
He stood atop the fortress, sword in one hand, too lazy to even manifest his Dharma form to compete with his opponent in size.
He tilted his head, picked at his ear, and then blew a mocking breath in the direction of the War God.
"Don't the people of the Desolate Heaven Divine Continent use their brains when they go out?" (End of Chapter)