The starry sky in the direction of Moyan Star revealed a majestic and prosperous vision of the Great Shang Divine Dynasty, like a true great world unfolding there, vast and magnificent.
The power of the Great Shang Divine Seal was utterly terrifying. The entire might of the divine dynasty seemed to press down upon Moyan Star from above.
All the gods of Hell Realm held their breath, hearts trembling with shock.
Moreover, the Blood Dragon War Halberd had shattered, fragments flying outward. Every god of Hell Realm felt an oppressive weight. Could this generation’s untamed war god truly fall today?
No one thought Blood Absolute War God was weak. He had simply encountered a terrifying opponent, the Son of Heaven, a divine realm titan who had cultivated for nearly six hundred thousand years.
The prestige of Duotian Divine Emperor was simply too overwhelming!
An immortal blood clan god, eyes filled with worry yet feigning ease, said, “Rest assured! A figure like Blood Absolute War God, even if he cannot defeat Duotian Divine Emperor, can still escape without difficulty.”
Lord Lan sneered, “Escape? I am afraid it will not be so easy. The Great Shang Divine Seal is a sub-divine supreme sacred artefact. Even if Blood Absolute War God fled a million li into the starry void, it could still slay him with a single strike.”
Boom!
Wave after wave of light surged from that distant starry region around Moyan Star.
Ordinary great saints and false gods were struck by the shockwaves like small boats on water, hurled thousands of li away. Only true gods could steady themselves and remain unaffected.
“Too powerful. Xinghuan Heaven is more than ten billion li from Moyan Star, yet across such immense distance, with my great saint cultivation, I feel as though my body is about to tear apart. How devastating must the destructive force be at the very centre of this divine collision?”
“Hmph! This is a clash between peak great gods. If it occurred inside a great world, the entire world would be destroyed. That is precisely why the Twelve Divine Maiden Mansions wish to construct a divine city! A divine city can protect a great world. Even the power of a divine venerable could not destroy it.”
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Moyan Star was immensely vast, containing terrifying energy that rendered the surrounding space extraordinarily stable.
Yet even so, the divine power unleashed by Huang Tian and Duotian Divine Emperor still tore space apart and threw the rules of heaven and earth into chaos.
Divine blood flowed from Duotian Divine Emperor’s body. He had been wounded everywhere by the stone axe. Roaring in fury, he cried, “Huang Tian, who gave you the courage to be so unyielding? If this emperor reveals the identity of those Reverse God Clan members, you know full well what fate awaits them. Even if you care nothing for Yu Baiwei, surely you care about your daughter’s life or death?”
“You still fail to understand. Today, you are already in a situation of certain death,” Huang Tian replied.
Duotian Divine Emperor’s eyes narrowed, then he laughed loudly, “You truly underestimate this emperor if you think breaking through to the Tai Xu realm allows you to rival me. Three Corpses!”
Duotian Divine Emperor spread his arms. Countless rule divine patterns poured from his body.
To his left and right, two divine shadows identical to himself appeared. The shadows gradually solidified until they became fully corporeal.
Three Duotian Divine Emperors, each with equally formidable auras, now stood opposite Huang Tian.
All cultivators under heaven knew that cultivating the Three Corpses Refining Dao could produce three equally powerful divine bodies, a technique that could only be called heaven-defying.
Yet Huang Tian knew that cultivators of this method, after becoming gods, not only progressed more slowly than others and consumed far more resources, but every use of Three Corpses Separation exacted a tremendous price.
The higher one’s cultivation, the greater the cost.
If Three Corpses Separation could truly be used freely, this technique would long ago have topped the Tai Yi Divine Techniques List, and Duotian Divine Emperor would not have waited until now to employ it.
The three Duotian Divine Emperors attacked together, surrounding Huang Tian from three different directions.
Boom! Boom! Boom…
Duotian Divine Emperor seized the upper hand, forcing Huang Tian into pure defence.
One of the Duotian Divine Emperors said, “This emperor knows you have placed your hopes on that drunkard, believing he can protect those Reverse God Clan members. Let me tell you the truth. A hundred thousand years ago, the drunkard was defeated by Heavenly Father and driven out of Xinghuan Heaven. Otherwise, how could our Shang Clan have gained the chance to control the Twelve Divine Maiden Mansions?”
Another Duotian Divine Emperor added, “Here is another secret. Whether it be Yu Baiwei or the remnants of the Reverse God Clan, Heavenly Father deliberately allowed the Grand Elder to shelter them. In reality, they were kept to keep the drunkard in check. No matter how high one’s cultivation or how strong one’s combat power, once a person has something they care about, they have a weakness. You are no different!”
“Huang Tian, if you stand down now and kneel in submission, this emperor can pretend nothing ever happened.”
“Very well! If you kneel and submit to me, I will grant you a whole corpse,” Huang Tian replied.
“Still stubborn? Today I shall show you this emperor’s true strength.”
The first Duotian Divine Emperor raised the Great Shang Divine Seal. The seal resembled an ancient divine city, and the spiritual shadows of every past divine emperor of the Great Shang Dynasty manifested upon it.
“ Heavenly Desolation Primordial Calamity!”
The second Duotian Divine Emperor unleashed the Eight Heavenly Desolation Techniques. His hands clenched tight, every fingerprint transforming into a bolt of lightning.
This was a Cosmos-level divine technique!
When performed by a Tai Xu realm great god, its power was unimaginably immense.
Wings of angelic light sprouted from the back of the third Duotian Divine Emperor, his body radiating sacred brilliance. The profound truths of the Path of Light were released, and the rules of light throughout heaven and earth continuously gathered toward him.
Each of the three Duotian Divine Emperors was like a heaven-supporting giant, the pinnacle of combat power beneath the Immeasurable Realm.
Zhang Ruochen, standing within Huang Tian’s divine realm world, felt somewhat breathless under the pressure of Duotian Divine Emperor’s aura.
Above, Huang Tian’s divine realm world was pierced and scorched by the power of light.
“Truly worthy of a divine dynasty’s emperor. His foundation is profound indeed,” Zhang Ruochen thought, yet he remained completely confident in Huang Tian. As one of the rare peerless heroes throughout history, Huang Tian was certain to have trump cards.
Huang Tian’s voice reached Zhang Ruochen’s ears, “Next, gather your mind and carefully comprehend the Path of Life and the Path of Death. Such an opportunity comes only once.”
In the next instant, the divine realm world cracked open beneath Zhang Ruochen’s feet and split in two.
One half brimmed with vibrant life, the other shrouded in deathly stillness.
Zhang Ruochen, tiny as a speck of dust, sat cross-legged in the void between the two divine realm worlds. Astonishingly, two Huang Tians appeared, each ten thousand zhang tall, standing within their respective worlds.
One Huang Tian resembled an unrivalled demon god, wielding a stone axe, his body petrified, standing above a sea of deathly energy.
The other Huang Tian was like a buddha, his body glowing with pure white light. Behind him, the energy of life condensed into a heaven-reaching divine tree, its branches lush and dense, seemingly capable of propping up the entire universe.
Though the divine realm worlds had separated, their connection remained unbroken. Rules of death and rules of life both surged toward Zhang Ruochen, turning him into the nexus of life and death, positioned at the extreme of both life force and death force.
Powerful tearing forces acted upon Zhang Ruochen’s body, causing the Buddha Ancestor Relic to shine brightly while the Seven Ancestors’ Sanskrit script flowed around him.
“So this is Huang Tian’s second sacred intent? The Sacred Intent of Life and Death,” Zhang Ruochen realised inwardly.
Duotian Divine Emperor declared, “Even if you split into life and death, you are still far from enough!”
“Is that so?”
The Death Huang Tian raised his giant axe. Instantly, all the death rules throughout the starry sky gathered toward it.
One swing cleaved downward, colliding with the incoming Great Shang Divine Seal and directly tearing apart the vision of the divine dynasty. Every divine emperor shadow upon the seal shattered.
From within the seal came the wails of billions of beings.
Too powerful!
The falling death axe seemed capable of splitting the heavens or ending the world.
Unless the Immeasurable Realm intervened, who could withstand it?
On the other side, the Cosmos-level divine technique “Heavenly Desolation Primordial Calamity” summoned tens of thousands of lightning bolts that struck toward the Life Huang Tian, only to be neutralised by the heaven-reaching divine tree.
Though the divine tree suffered severe damage, it ultimately held.
“So this is the power of the Eight Heavenly Desolation Techniques? Shang Tian’s ultimate arts amount to no more than this.”
The Life Huang Tian swung the heaven-reaching divine tree. Divine light filled the sky, life rules forming tidal surges that swept one Duotian Divine Emperor away, sending him crashing toward Moyan Star.
Any path, when cultivated to its extremity, can possess unrivalled power.
The Duotian Divine Emperor with angelic wings, his face somewhat contorted, said, “You hid yourself well. To think you are actually a Lord of the Path of Life.”
“Now that you know, it is already too late!”
The Life Huang Tian swung the heaven-reaching divine tree once more. It collided with the light rules unleashed by Duotian Divine Emperor. The two forces cancelled each other out, transforming into dazzling waves of light that spread in all directions.
Zhang Ruochen understood that in this battle, Huang Tian sought not only to kill Duotian Divine Emperor but also to help him comprehend life and death, completely reversing the balance between them.
He was doing two things at once!
This also proved that, in Huang Tian’s heart, he utterly looked down upon Duotian Divine Emperor. Even knowing Duotian might detonate his divine source and that he himself might not escape death, Huang Tian simply could not regard him as an opponent worth going all out against.
Deep in his heart, Huang Tian possessed the same arrogance as Blood Absolute War God.
Sitting between the two Huang Tians, Zhang Ruochen seemed to transform into a thousand-armed buddha, continuously tracing life rules. He sought to make the power of life within the Taiji circle completely overpower death.
“I must succeed!”
Zhang Ruochen repeated this phrase in his heart.
After manifesting the Sacred Intent of Life and Death and splitting into two, Huang Tian reversed the disadvantage. All three Duotian Divine Emperors were struck down onto Moyan Star, each drenched in blood.
One had been cleaved by the stone axe and left with only half a head.
Another had been struck by the heaven-reaching divine tree, losing vast amounts of life force. His divine body aged, his aura weakened.
A Lord of Life can not only grant life to all things but also take it away.
Duotian Divine Emperor had never imagined that Huang Tian had mastered so many profound truths of life and death. Combined with the Divine Dao of Life and Death evolved from his Sacred Intent of Life and Death, his combat strength was enough to make even great gods feel despair.
Duotian Divine Emperor said, “This emperor admits he underestimated you. Had I known you were a Lord of the Path of Life, I would have killed you four thousand years ago!”
“Everyone has regrets. Unfortunately, there is no medicine in the world to cure regret,” Huang Tian replied.
“Do not get smug! Even if your combat strength surpasses this emperor’s, killing this emperor is absolutely impossible. As long as this emperor escapes back to Paradise Realm, the next one to pay the price will be you. Your daughter will be the first to die because of your arrogance today.”
The three Duotian Divine Emperors simultaneously flew outward, fleeing in three different directions.
The one with angelic wings who commanded the profound truths of light was the fastest, seemingly able to keep pace with light itself.
