Chapter 894
The Fall of the Emperor and the Devastation of Heaven
"Now, your destiny is in my hands."
Su Chen's deep, cold voice, which exuded an extreme demonic aura that seemed to trample all the heavens and myriad worlds underfoot, resounded like a death knell from the deepest part of the Ruins of Return, echoing within the true spirit of the Immortal Emperor Lingxiao.
The vast emptiness was deathly still, and the Milky Way was silent.
The once mighty Lingxiao Immortal Emperor, who made countless worlds tremble and countless immortal sects bow down, was now like a rag doll, with Su Chen's single arm piercing through his chest, and he was suspended high in the void.
The purplish-gold immortal blood of the twelfth realm of perfection dripped down Su Chen's arm, which was covered with dark gold void demonic patterns. Each drop of immortal blood that fell into the void was like a supernova exploding, creating spatial black holes with a radius of millions of miles, but they were instantly smoothed out by the extreme imperial might emanating from Su Chen.
The Immortal Emperor's once majestic face, hidden by his twelve-tasseled purple-gold crown, was now distorted beyond recognition. He lowered his head with difficulty, staring intently at Su Chen's right hand, which was embedded in his chest.
There, his crystal-clear [Great Perfection Immortal Emperor Dao Heart], engraved with the laws of countless epochs of the Immortal Dynasty, was being tightly gripped by Su Chen's five fingers. The extreme pain and emptiness of having his life essence squeezed made the Immortal Emperor's breathing become hoarse like a broken bellows.
"You...you dare..."
The Immortal Emperor's lips trembled violently, and his eyes, which were originally as bright as the purple-gold sun, were now filled with horrifying bloodshot veins.
"I am... favored by the laws of the Great Void... the embodiment of the destiny of the Celestial Dynasty..."
"If you kill me... the Heavenly Dao of the Lingxiao Immortal Dynasty's countless territories... will surely turn against you! You... you cannot bear such a great karmic consequence..."
Even at this desperate and hopeless moment, this supreme overlord still tried to use the illusory "Heavenly Dao and Cause and Effect" to oppress Su Chen.
However, all he received in response was Su Chen's extremely contemptuous sneer, as if he were looking at an inanimate object.
"The law of cause and effect?"
Su Chen tilted his head slightly, his green robe fluttering in the turbulent currents of the void. In his deep, boundless black eyes, a supreme abyssal fire capable of burning away eternity suddenly ignited.
“Old man, you seem to have misunderstood something.”
Su Chen's right hand slowly, little by little, rotated inside the Immortal Emperor's chest.
"Pfft! Sizzle—"
Accompanied by the horrifying sounds of flesh being torn apart, the Immortal Emperor let out an extremely shrill scream, his whole body convulsing wildly as if electrocuted.
"The path I walk is called the Ultimate Path! What is the Ultimate Path?"
Su Chen's voice suddenly rose, like ten thousand chaotic divine thunderbolts that split the heavens and the earth, exploding in the ears of the Immortal Emperor, above the heads of the tens of thousands of surviving heavenly soldiers below, and in the ancient divine thoughts that were hiding in the shadows of the void.
"Strip away the Heavenly Rules, and forge all paths!"
"If Heaven obstructs me, I will crush it! If the Dao turns against me, I will stuff it and the Great Dao into the furnace and refine it into ashes!"
"Trying to suppress me with the Heavenly Dao of your mere celestial dynasty? You're blind as a bat!!!"
Accompanied by Su Chen's thunderous roar.
"Buzz————————!!!!!"
The immortal inner universe within Su Chen's body, which had fused with the [Void Creation Source Essence], suddenly erupted with an absolute devouring power that surpassed the multiverse system!
This force traveled along Su Chen's arm and directly entered Lingxiao Immortal Emperor's limbs and bones!
"No!!! What are you doing?! My immortal essence! My destiny!!!"
The Celestial Emperor finally experienced true, ultimate terror!
He was horrified to discover that the twelve perfect laws of the Great Perfection realm, which he had cultivated for countless epochs, were being frantically drawn out and stripped away from his body like a river bursting its banks, flowing along the dark golden demonic hand that pierced through his chest!
What made him even more desperate was that the [Purple-Gold Heavenly Mandate Ancestral Dragon Qi], which represented the legitimate rule of the Lingxiao Immortal Dynasty and was lurking deep in his spine, also let out a shrill cry and was locked up by an irresistible dimensional power!
"Since you are so reluctant to give up your destiny of the Immortal Dynasty, then today, I will forcibly pull this so-called destiny out of your very bones!"
Su Chen's eyes widened in fury, and the extreme demonic patterns all over his body erupted with terrifying divine light that pierced the heavens!
"【Extreme Path Abyss Demon - Capturing Heaven and Extracting Marrow】!!!"
"Get out here, you son of a bitch!!!"
Su Chen's right arm suddenly erupted with a heaven-defying force powerful enough to sever the axis of the Great Thousand World. His five fingers gripped the [Great Perfection Immortal Emperor Dao Heart] tightly, along with the [Purple-Gold Heavenly Fate Ancestral Dragon Qi] wrapped around the Dao Heart, and violently pulled it outward!
"Sizzle————————!!!!"
This was a terrifying, tearing sound that deafened the entire Great Void Realm!
Under the horrified and utterly shattered gazes of all living beings present!
The immortal body of Lingxiao Immortal Emperor, which was said to be indestructible and even difficult to cut by extreme weapons, was actually torn open by Su Chen's unreasonable tug, leaving a huge gash that stretched from his chest to his abdomen!
"Aa ...
The Celestial Emperor let out the most mournful and desperate wail of gods and demons in his life!
Large swathes of purple-gold immortal bones were broken off, and the purple-gold immortal blood poured down like an apocalyptic rain of blood!
And in Su Chen's right hand, which he slowly withdrew.
He was suddenly grasping a Supreme Immortal Emperor's Dao Heart, which radiated the ultimate creation light of the Twelfth Realm Great Perfection, like the most brilliant star in the heavens!
What's even more chilling is that below that Dao Heart, there is also a purple-gold divine dragon phantom that is tens of thousands of feet long and struggles and roars like a living creature!
That is the [Immortal Dynasty Mandate] that the Lingxiao Immortal Dynasty has inherited for tens of millions of eras and maintained the operation of billions of star fields!
"The Mandate of Heaven... has been drawn out?!"
In the distance, several powerful cultivators from the Void Realm who were hiding behind the broken meteorite were so frightened by this scene that they crushed their magical artifacts on the spot, their legs went weak, and they knelt down in the cold void.
"The Immortal Emperor's Dao Fruit was taken away, his destiny forcibly stripped away... The heavens of this vast void have utterly collapsed!!!"
Having lost his Dao Heart and destiny, the Lingxiao Immortal Emperor's massive and majestic body hung on Su Chen's arm like a withered tree branch. His life force was draining away at a frantic pace, and his once arrogant golden eyes were now completely dim, filled with endless desolation and disbelief.
He never imagined that he, the mighty overlord of the Boundary Sea, who personally led the expedition, would end up with his heart ripped out by someone's bare hands and his destiny stripped away!
"You...you demon..."
The Immortal Emperor's lips parted slightly as he uttered his last few words.
"demon?"
Su Chen glanced at him coldly, then his arm jerked suddenly.
"Bang--------!!!!!"
A violent and unparalleled ultimate destructive power instantly erupted within the Immortal Emperor's mangled body!
This overlord, who had ruled the Lingxiao Ancient Immortal Dynasty for countless years and was at the peak of the twelfth realm, had his immortal body, along with his remaining divine soul and true spirit, shatter into a cloud of purple-gold blood mist spanning millions of miles under Su Chen's shock!
Soul and spirit utterly destroyed! Forever and ever!
Quiet.
Deathly silence!
At this moment, the storm on the battlefield of the Void Starry Sky seemed to stand still.
Below, the remaining tens of thousands of Lingxiao Heavenly Soldiers, as well as the nine Primordial Chaos Ancestral Dragons that had lost their master's control, were all frozen in place like clay sculptures or wooden statues.
They stared blankly at the slowly dissipating purple-gold blood mist, and at the green-robed man standing amidst the blood rain, holding the Immortal Emperor's Dao Heart and the Mandate of Heaven in his hand.
"His Majesty...has passed away..."
One of the immortal generals suddenly collapsed to his knees in the void with a thud, his divine light completely fading, and two streams of bloody tears rolled down his cheeks.
With this kneeling.
"Thump! Thump! Thump!"
Tens of thousands of celestial soldiers knelt down in unison. They did not flee, nor did they resist, for in the face of absolute dimensional crushing and the collapse of faith, any action seemed so pale and powerless. Utter despair and extreme terror, like a tangible, gray-black torrent, surged wildly into Su Chen's inner universe, nourishing his ultimate origin.
And at this very moment.
It is billions of light-years away.
At the heart of that vast, boundless territory, shrouded in purple mist, lies the ancient Lingxiao Immortal Dynasty.
"Boom boom boom boom boom ————————!!!!!"
Without any warning, an unprecedented cataclysmic earthquake suddenly erupted across the entire Immortal Dynasty's territory, which spanned countless great worlds!
The Lingxiao Palace, suspended high in the heavens, with its pure gold dome symbolizing supreme imperial power, suddenly shattered!
"Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!..."
The chaotic death knell that suppressed the fortune of the celestial dynasty once again emitted a mournful and incomparably shrill cry! This time, however, the bell no longer tolled nine times, but rather a continuous, endless chorus of mournful sounds, as if it were weeping blood and drying up!
Not only that.
Within the territory of the Immortal Dynasty, hundreds of millions of statues of Immortal Kings and golden bodies of Immortal Emperors simultaneously gushed crimson blood from their eye sockets!
Above the sky, the once brilliant Milky Way dimmed instantly, and a crimson rain of blood, spanning millions of great worlds, poured down!
Heaven and earth grieve together! Heaven itself weeps blood!
"The imperial star has fallen!!! Destiny has collapsed!!!"
"Your Majesty...His Majesty has passed away!!!"
Within the Immortal Dynasty, countless ancient immortals, lords, and generals who had been in seclusion broke out of their seclusion. They looked at the blood-weeping heavens and felt the immortal fortune within their bodies rapidly flowing away as their destiny was severed. One by one, they let out heart-wrenching, desperate cries.
The Lingxiao Ancient Immortal Dynasty, a colossal entity that has stood atop the Taixu Realm Sea for countless epochs, has ushered in its darkest and most irreversible final twilight at the moment of the Immortal Emperor's fall!
……
And at the heart of this high-dimensional tsunami that shook the entire world's oceans.
On the battlefield of the stars.
Su Chen stood before the Supreme Throne, coldly observing the dazzling [Immortal Emperor's Dao Heart] in his hand and the [Purple-Gold Heavenly Fate Ancestral Dragon] that was being tightly gripped.
"Such violent energy, such abundant fortune."
Su Chen's Adam's apple bobbed slightly, but he forcibly suppressed his instinct to devour it immediately.
This is, after all, the culmination of a lifetime's Dao fruit at the Great Perfection of the Twelfth Realm, containing too much karma from the Immortal Dynasty and impure thoughts of the Heavenly Dao. If one were to swallow it whole, although it could be forcibly suppressed, it would inevitably impure one's pure, ultimate, void origin.
"Since it's the main course, it naturally needs to be meticulously prepared."
Su Chen waved his sleeve, like a creator god who ruled over all heavens, his words carrying the weight of heavenly authority:
"【Ultimate Inner Universe - Creation Furnace】!"
"Show yourself, Your Majesty!!!"
"Buzz————————!!!!!"
With Su Chen's command, the void space behind him distorted violently.
A supreme, dark golden furnace, a hundred times larger than the one used to refine the ancient god of the sky, burning with colorless and transparent [Void Creation Source Fire], and with the totem of the return of all things to zero engraved on its walls, suddenly descended between heaven and earth!
As soon as this furnace appeared, the remaining immortal laws and fragments of the Star Array around it were like iron filings attracted by a magnet, frantically sucked into the bottom of the furnace and instantly turned into ashes!
"Get the furnace going!"
Su Chen waved his hand.
"boom!"
The dark golden lid of the cauldron suddenly shot into the sky.
Without any hesitation, Su Chen threw the Immortal Emperor Dao Heart at the Great Perfection of the Twelfth Realm, along with the Purple-Gold Heavenly Fate Ancestral Dragon, into the [Extreme Dao Creation Furnace]!
Not only that, he flipped his left hand over.
The national treasure [Lingxiao Zhentian Seal], which had been swallowed by the Star Abyss and had its Immortal Dynasty imprint erased, was also thrown in without hesitation by him!
The Great Perfection Dao Fruit is the core! The Celestial Dynasty's Mandate is the guide! The national treasure is the material!
Such extravagant alchemy techniques, enough to drive the entire Taixu Realm Sea mad, are something only Su Chen has ever dared to do throughout history!
"The old bald monk's relic is merely an appetizer. Today, I will use your entire fortune as an Immortal Emperor to brew a truly supreme elixir, helping me break through the late-stage barrier of the twelfth realm!"
Su Chen stood atop the furnace, his hands suddenly forming an extreme magic seal, and pressed down fiercely!
"Refine it for me!!!"
"Huff—!!!"
Inside the furnace, the colorless [Void Creation Source Fire] suddenly surged by tens of millions of feet!
This terrifying source fire, capable of erasing even the concept of existence, instantly enveloped the Immortal Emperor's Dao Heart and the Ancestral Dragon of Destiny.
"Hiss hiss hiss—"
The furnace emitted a chilling sound of laws melting away. The karma accumulated by the Immortal Emperor over countless eons, and the miscellaneous thoughts and resentment accumulated by the Immortal Dynasty over millions of eras, had no chance to resist the burning of the extreme source fire. They all turned into black smoke and were discharged from the gaps in the lid.
What remains is the ultimate essence of creation, which has been continuously refined, compressed, and sublimated!
below.
The millions of immortal demons looked at the Emperor standing atop the void furnace, their fervor transforming into tangible flames.
"The Emperor is invincible! Unrivaled in the ultimate path!!!"
The Demon Lord of Chaos raised the Demon Dragon Halberd of Annihilation high and let out a hoarse roar.
"The Emperor is invincible! Revered by all realms!!!"
The tens of millions of demons shouted in unison, their voices sweeping across the void like a tsunami, terrifying the remaining tens of thousands of heavenly soldiers so much that they lay on the ground trembling.
Time flew by during this extreme refining process.
Three full days passed.
For the past three days, this ancient starry path has been completely transformed into an absolute forbidden zone for the Immortal Demon Army. No ethereal being dares to approach within billions of light-years of this place.
"when--------!!!!!"
At dusk on the third day (based on the changing light and shadow of the void).
Suddenly, a clear and grand bell-like sound, as if from the Big Bang, rang out from within the Ultimate Creation Furnace!
An extremely rich and unique fragrance, so intense that it even caused the surrounding void to spontaneously generate images of mountains, trees, stars, and the universe, burst forth from the cracks in the furnace!
"It's done!" (End of Chapter)