The Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor hovered above the Mo Yan Star. The star beneath him was so colossal and crimson that the closer one approached, the more it resembled an ocean of divine fire.
An ordinary Supplement-Heaven divinity would never dare come near such a star.
Yet at this moment, the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s entire body was covered in rule divine patterns that seemed fused with the Mo Yan Star itself. With a sweep of his arm, flames roared skyward from the star, intertwining into a blazing divine dragon that charged straight at Huang Tian.
The fluctuations erupting from the Mo Yan Star affected the entire star domain. Were it not for the protective arrays and Heavenly Venerable divine inscriptions, the living beings of Xinghuan Heaven would have perished in droves.
Roar!
Huang Tian let out a long howl. The Blood Absolute War Halberd thrust forward, colliding with the flaming divine dragon.
Bang! Bang! Bang…
Dozens of explosions rang out in succession. Like a spear piercing bamboo, the Blood Absolute War Halberd shattered the flaming dragon into countless fireballs that plummeted back toward the Mo Yan Star.
The halberd’s tip, blazing with extreme brilliance, pierced straight through the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s divine realm world. All his defensive measures were as fragile as paper.
Pfft!
Under the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s shocked gaze, the Blood Absolute War Halberd stabbed into his arm and pinned it to his shoulder.
In the next instant, the arm flew off, divine blood spraying across the starry void. The colossal divine body rapidly retreated toward the Mo Yan Star.
Huang Tian pressed his advantage, wielding the halberd like a staff and bringing it down directly upon his foe’s head.
Though called a staff, the Blood Absolute War Halberd was like a heavenly pillar. Countless rule divine patterns swirled around it, warping space and dimming the star’s light.
The one-armed Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s eyes flashed with ferocity. Divine light surged from his chest as an ancient seal flew out.
The seal expanded to the size of a city. From within came the sound of thousands of troops and horses, as though billions of beings were chanting in worship.
The Fivefold Seas beneath Huang Tian’s feet instantly collapsed under the seal’s erupting power. Lightning annihilated, blood seas dried, darkness dissipated.
A trace of astonishment flickered in the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s pupils.
Boom!
The ancient seal collided with the Blood Absolute War Halberd. A cracking sound rang out.
The indestructible, peerlessly sharp Blood Absolute War Halberd actually cracked after a single blow. A fragment of the blade flew off like a shuttle of light, grazing past Huang Tian’s cheek.
The divine-dragon weapon spirit inside the halberd, comparable to a true god, let out a miserable cry and was utterly destroyed.
Yet the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor showed no joy. Instead he was shocked and enraged. He roared, “You are not Blood Absolute!”
Of course it could not be the Blood Absolute War God.
How could the real Blood Absolute’s Fivefold Seas be broken so easily?
Though Huang Tian had forged the Blood Absolute War Halberd using materials nearly identical to the Blood Dragon War Halberd, it was not a weapon he entrusted his life to. How could it reach the same grade?
“If I were Blood Absolute, you might still have a chance to live today. Unfortunately, you will die.”
A stone axe thousands of miles long rose from behind Huang Tian.
This axe had accompanied him since birth. Mountain and river veins crisscrossed its surface, resonating with heavenly rules. It floated within an ocean of primordial chaos qi.
The Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s severed arm had already regenerated. “I should have guessed it was you!”
“Enough talk. Today we settle life and death. No turning back.”
Huang Tian seized the stone axe and swung.
“Since you seek death, I shall grant it.”
The Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor had dominated his region for hundreds of thousands of years. As a titan of the Divine Realm, how could he take a junior seriously?
He raised the ancient seal. Supreme inscriptions filled the sky, meeting the descending stone axe.
“One axe cleaves the path of heaven and earth; once Qian and Kun depart, there is no return.”
The instant Huang Tian swung, the Truth Boundary Form of “Boundless Universe” manifested, transforming into an endless sea of stars. All truth rules converged into the axe.
The axe cleaved downward, splitting space into a long trail of light that extended all the way to the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s feet.
When stone axe met ancient seal, it rang like a divine bell, the sound shaking the heavens.
The Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s radiant divine body shuddered violently. He was hurled back hundreds of miles, completely overpowered.
“Great Evolution complete, I am Heaven itself; all gods and Buddhas sing dirges in the sky.”
Huang Tian’s battle intent soared. Like a peerless demonic sovereign striding across the starry sea, he brought the second axe down. It sent the ancient seal flying and cleaved into the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s shoulder, splitting nearly half his divine body.
The Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor let out a muffled groan. “You… you have actually stepped into the Grand Void Realm! How can your cultivation speed be this fast?”
No wonder he was shocked. Many who reached the Grand Truth Realm and became great gods were cosmic-cycle representatives of their eras. None lacked talent, foundation, or comprehension.
Even if only one cosmic-cycle representative appeared every thousand years, a full cosmic cycle would produce over a hundred.
Yet in the eyes of many divinities, “cosmic-cycle representative” did not refer to geniuses but to great gods. Only great gods could truly represent their cosmic cycle.
Cosmic-cycle representatives at the Great Saint stage were merely acknowledgements of talent and potential, recognising their high likelihood of becoming great gods.
Even the lords of Heaven’s top strong realms were merely great gods.
Yet for these peerlessly gifted great gods, cultivation remained excruciatingly difficult. Breaking through a single realm in one cosmic cycle was already considered world-shaking, showing potential to become a God-Reverend.
The Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor himself had once been unrivalled in his generation, crushing all opponents at the same level. He believed his talent peerless and that he could become a God-Reverend.
Now Huang Tian had cultivated for only one cosmic cycle yet had broken through Taiyi, Taibai, and Taixu—three major realms. How could the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor, who had cultivated nearly six hundred thousand years across four cosmic cycles, not be stunned?
Even if you were a cosmic-cycle genius at the Saint stage, your cultivation speed should slow down. How could it be this terrifyingly fast?
Watching the battle from close range inside Huang Tian’s divine realm world, Zhang Ruochen had seen clearly.
When Huang Tian spoke of mutual destruction, he did not mean his combat strength was inferior to the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s. He meant he was determined to kill the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor, even if it meant being unable to stop him from detonating his divine source.
In pure combat strength, Huang Tian now likely surpassed the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor.
Unfortunately, Huang Tian could wait no longer. If he waited until he became a king or reverend before killing the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor, mutual destruction would be impossible.
But his obsession ran too deep. Without killing the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor, how could he reach the Immeasurable Realm?
Moreover, after four thousand years, the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor and the Shang Clan had touched his bottom line by coming to Xinghuan Heaven again. How could he not kill?
Furthermore, having broken into the Grand Void Realm and now holding the chance to slay the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor, how could Huang Tian fear death and choose to flee? He had already waited four thousand years—how much longer must he wait?
As he said, “Today we settle life and death. No turning back.”
…
Above Xinghuan Heaven’s atmosphere floated ring after ring of blazing suns, each one a divinity.
The divine power fluctuations erupting from the Mo Yan Star overturned seas and skies, shaking the entire star domain. The divine radiance from the two peerless great gods outshone even the Mo Yan Star. Even Truth Envoys like Shang Hong and Yu Taizhen could not clearly see how they fought.
Yu Chenjing asked, “Tenth Uncle, who has the upper hand now?”
“No need to ask. Of course it is the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor. An ancient god who has cultivated six hundred thousand years—how can Blood Absolute compare? In the battle at Tiannan, if Emperor Luo Yan and the immortal vampire patriarch had not intervened, he would already have been destroyed in body and spirit.”
The speaker was not Yu Taizhen but Lan Jun, a high-position god of the Cha Realm standing beside Shang Hong.
Yu Taizhen stared fixedly toward the Mo Yan Star. Truth light radiated from his eyes. “I cannot see clearly! Their cultivation is too high. The heavenly rules around the Mo Yan Star have been thrown into chaos. Eyes cannot perceive.”
“But you are a Truth Envoy! Even in a clash between God-Reverends you can glimpse something,” Yu Chenjing said.
Yu Taizhen replied, “Something is indeed strange. That region is completely unobservable. Even the escaping divine power is being sucked into void space by countless spatial rifts.”
Countless spatial cracks filled the space between Xinghuan Heaven and the Mo Yan Star, remnants of Huang Tian and the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s earlier long-distance duel that had yet to heal.
Yu Taizhen continued, “One thing is certain: the Blood Absolute War God is truly terrifying. Even if his combat strength is still inferior to the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor’s, the gap cannot be large. He should have the ability to escape alive!”
Lan Jun gave a cold laugh. “Yu Taizhen, have you forgotten that the Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor cultivates the Three Corpses Refinement Path and wields the Great Shang Divine Dynasty’s national treasure, the Great Shang Divine Seal? The Blood Absolute War God is impulsive and lacks reverence, thinking he can run rampant because he is in Hell’s territory. Today he has met an enemy who can suppress him. He is doomed to pay a terrible price.”
Shang Hong’s eyes narrowed. “The Great Shang Divine Seal has activated!”
The entire starry sky rang with the roars of thousands of troops and the chants of billions of beings in worship.
Gazing toward the Mo Yan Star from afar, one could see a divine dynasty landscape millions of miles long appear in that space: armies, cultivators, commoners, cities, mountains, rivers… all manifesting like a projection.
This scene had actually occurred earlier.
They were simply too far away to have seen it until now.
Swish!
A beam of bloodlight shot from the direction of the Mo Yan Star.
Shang Hong’s sleeve swept out. Vast starlight wrapped around the beam, and a fragment of a war halberd appeared in his hand.
Shang Hong revealed a triumphant smile. Raising the fragment high, he looked toward Hell’s divinities and laughed. “The Blood Absolute War God’s Blood Dragon War Halberd has been shattered by the Great Shang Divine Seal. Today marks the fall of a generation’s war god. I said long ago that killing the Goddess in Rainbow Robes and opposing Shangqiu would exact a price in blood and tears.”
Lan Jun declared, “The Great Shang Divine Seal condenses the soul of the entire Great Shang Divine Dynasty’s armies, the nation’s fortune qi, and the spiritual blessings of past divine emperors. In future it will evolve into a divine artefact. It is more than enough to slay the Blood Absolute War God. The Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor is peerless under heaven, his might spanning the ages!”
If the Blood Absolute War God could truly be killed in one battle, it would be a devastating blow to Hell.
Some Heaven divinities grew feverish with excitement and shouted, “The Heaven-Seizing Divine Emperor is peerless under heaven, his might spanning the ages!”
