Since the establishment of the Heavenly Court, fourteen cultivators have crossed the tenth sea of truth, ascended the Mountain of Truth, and become Truth Emissaries.
Of course, including Zhang Ruochen makes fifteen.
However, Zhang Ruochen did not become a Truth Emissary on the Mountain of Truth but obtained the Heart of Truth instead.
Without doubt, these fifteen represent the strongest sequence of the new generation from the Heavenly Court’s myriad realms and ancient civilisation factions over the last hundred thousand years. Even if there are other outstanding talents who do not cultivate the Path of Truth or have no interest in Truth profound meanings, their number is likely small.
Every Truth Emissary is a candidate for the next Master of the Temple of Truth.
Lord Jiaoyu, at the Great Perfection of the upper god realm, dares to title himself “god lord” with confidence stemming from this.
At this moment, two stunningly brilliant Truth Emissaries confront each other in the void. Their domains clash, forming two overwhelming clouds of divine qi.
Lord Jiaoyu treated Feng Xi and Zhang Ruochen with utmost arrogance, originally sitting in the grand hall waiting for them to pay respects. But upon Yu Taizhen’s arrival, he became extremely cautious, rushing out of the hall immediately.
Only true powerhouses can earn his respect.
“Yu Taizhen, if you want to determine a victor, this lord is ready to oblige anytime. The Truth profound meanings on you are precisely what this lord must seize in the future to assault the position of Lord of Truth.”
Yu Taizhen said, “Enough talk. Just answer: will you go to the starry battlefield or not?”
Lord Jiaoyu had an important mission in the Tianchu Civilisation this time. He said gravely, “A large-scale divine war could erupt at any unknown time. Going to the starry battlefield now, even if facing hell realm gods, we cannot kill them. Better to first enter Doushuai City and complete the proper business…”
Lord Jiaoyu’s words abruptly halted. His face showed shock as he looked towards the direction of the Asura Star Pillar Realm.
Not only him, but the other gods present—Yu Taizhen, Zhang Ruochen, Feng Qi, and the Nine-Tailed Heart Fox—all turned their gazes there simultaneously.
They all sensed an utterly terrifying aura.
Not divine might, not killing intent, but…
Countless divine fluctuations, accompanied by overwhelming killing qi.
Standing in the great world of Tianchu Civilisation, one could not see the full view of the Asura Star Pillar Realm, only surging masses of sky-obscuring dark light clouds.
Blood qi, ghostly qi, death evil qi, Asura baleful qi…
If standing at the starry gate, one could see the entire Asura Star Pillar Realm glowing brilliantly. Countless light points, accompanying those dark light clouds, charged straight towards the great world of Tianchu Civilisation.
Some light points shone brighter than constant stars: gods urging divine qi to emit radiance.
Yan Wen exclaimed in shock, “It’s a hell divine tide! The divine tide has erupted again!”
“Dong!”
“Dong!”
…
A heavenly bell manifested from the void.
The bell’s body was as huge as a planet, ringing with deep chimes.
The bell’s sound propagated at a speed eerily close to light, rapidly spreading across the entire great world of Tianchu Civilisation, then extending into the starry sky, reaching the Juling Civilisation, Yanyang Civilisation…
In less than a quarter hour, all arrays of the starry defence line activated.
Array inscriptions like billions of spider threads enveloped the nine civilisations and thousands upon thousands of planets. Dense divine inscriptions appeared in space, their power condensing into a heavenly barrier a billion miles thick.
This heavenly barrier was inscribed by Heavenly Court gods over a century, with Zhutian, Taishang, and Immeasurables participating.
From the vast lands of Tianchu Civilisation, pillars of light shot up, connecting heaven and earth, forming a world-protecting grand array.
One after another powerful divine auras rose from various places on the land, piercing the world-protecting array, charging towards the Asura Star Pillar Realm.
These gods, whether cultivating or healing wounds, all set aside their tasks without hesitation, killing towards the void.
Their momentum grew ever stronger.
Zhang Ruochen was moved. “So many great god-level existences stationed in the Tianchu Civilisation?”
Feng Qi also looked shocked. “No matter how powerful the Asura Star Pillar Realm, the hell realm cannot breach the entire starry defence line at once. They must proceed step by step, first destroying the Hanhai Civilisation to open a gap, then sequentially destroying other ancient civilisations to dismantle the defence line.”
“Their next target is precisely the Tianchu Civilisation.”
“To defend the Tianchu Civilisation, countless gods from the Heavenly Court universe have rushed here. Gathering of great gods is no surprise.”
Yan Wen asked, “This is the second hell divine tide this year! And by the scale, unprecedented. Do they intend to breach the Tianchu Civilisation in one strike?”
The so-called “hell divine tide” is an offensive launched under the leadership of large numbers of hell realm gods.
To qualify as a divine tide, the number of True Gods must exceed three hundred. Including false gods, the total gods reach over a thousand.
Since the war between Heavenly Court and hell erupted a century ago, only five hell divine tides have occurred in total.
A second divine tide in one year completely caught the Heavenly Court gods off guard.
The purpose of hell realm launching divine tides is to destroy Heavenly Court’s arrays in the starry sky and divine inscriptions carved by gods, clearing a smoother path for the Asura Star Pillar Realm’s advance.
In the distant distance, from a blood qi divine cloud, tens of millions of saint artefacts flew out, like a torrent striking an array node of a divine array.
Among the saint artefact torrent were multiple supreme saint artefacts.
From the great world of Tianchu Civilisation, that array node appeared as a thumb-sized blazing light point. But when destroyed and flying backwards, it turned into burning planet fragments, each thousands of miles long.
That was a planet!
Moments before, hundreds of thousands of saint realm troops stationed there, operating the array and guarding the starry defence line.
In an instant, these saint realm cultivators and the planet were utterly annihilated, leaving no remains. Even a false god guarding the planet fell directly.
Such array nodes in the starry sky outside Tianchu Civilisation numbered hundreds, large and small.
In less than a quarter hour, over twenty array nodes were destroyed. The battle was unprecedentedly fierce. Blood stained the starry sky. Large amounts of corpse fragments, carried by cosmic gales, flew over the Tianchu Civilisation.
Yan Wen’s throat went dry, eyes horrified. “Something’s wrong! Even caught off guard by the hell realm, how can the starry divine arrays, so powerful, be destroyed so easily? Is this divine tide even more terrifying than the last?”
“Dong!”
“Dong!”
…
The planet-sized heavenly bell rang again, continuously.
The Master of the Temple of Truth stepped out from the black hall, gazing towards the Asura Star Pillar Realm, expression gravely solemn. She murmured to herself, “So impatient already, launching a general assault on the Tianchu Civilisation?”
Doushuai City lies on the shores of Yunlai Sea. A beam of extreme brightness shot skyward from the city, piercing the clouds.
A mirror rose into the sky, drawing divine clouds from all directions, emitting azure light illuminating heaven and earth.
After flying into the starry sky, the mirror grew tens of thousands of miles large, like an azure sun, colliding into a vast baleful qi yin cloud in the hell divine tide.
The entire starry battlefield shuddered violently.
“Divine artefact, Azure Heaven Mirror!”
Feng Qi’s eyes widened. “The Azure Heaven Mirror is the foremost divine artefact of the Tianchu Civilisation, held by the old Tianzhu. Even the old Tianzhu cannot remain guarding the great world and is forced to act. Has the situation become this critical?”
The old Tianzhu of Tianchu Civilisation is one of the oldest gods among the ancient civilisation factions, having lived ten Yuan Hui.
His cultivation strength ranks just below the Zhutian.
From the Yanyang Civilisation direction, four light seals crossed the void, flying towards Tianchu Civilisation.
Each light seal shone millions of times brighter than constant stars, with astonishing heat, instantly raising the frigid temperature of the starry battlefield to hotter than magma.
Even Lord Jiaoyu now felt his scalp numb, arrogance gone from his eyes. “Heaven-level figures acting! It’s the Four Yang Heavenly Lord…”
The Heavenly Court confers twenty Zhutian. The ancient civilisation faction has four, and the Four Yang Heavenly Lord of Yanyang Civilisation is one.
As Lord Jiaoyu spoke, the four sky light seals charged through array nodes, colliding with the hell divine tide.
A suffocating force suddenly enveloped everyone’s hearts.
Zhang Ruochen looked up, seeing the sky filled with burning clouds, radiant for billions of miles. The entire starry sky burned, extending towards the Asura Star Pillar Realm.
The aura from the burning clouds matched the Four Yang Heavenly Lord.
The Nine-Tailed Heart Fox’s eyes filled with awe. “It’s Tianhuang Yunxia. Shang Tian has acted!”
A middle-aged man in golden armour, dragon robe, wearing a purple-gold imperial crown, shattered space with one step. Myriad dragons galloped beneath his feet as he charged with overwhelming momentum out of the starry divine array into the battlefield.
Yu Taizhen exclaimed in admiration, “This is a true god lord: Emperor Ancestor God Lord.”
Emperor Ancestor God Lord is the foremost of the three god lords in the third-ranked imperial dao great world of the Northern Universe, an Immeasurable Realm divine overlord with endless legends.
A Heaven-level figure once said that among the future twenty Zhutian of the Heavenly Court, he must have a place.
One after another legendary divine overlords appeared!
The patriarch of the Golden Winged Great Peng clan spread wings ninety million miles wide. Stars before it seemed diminutive.
A Buddhist venerable displayed great divine ability. White heavenly rivers flew from his brows.
…
Not only these Immeasurable Realm overlords, but gods stationed in the other eight civilisations, leaving defensive forces, all rushed to Tianchu Civilisation, charging into the starry battlefield. They fought hell realm gods until heaven and earth overturned.
Feng Qi sighed deeply, “Pity! Once the divine arrays fully activate, only great gods can pass. Otherwise, even knowing my cultivation low, this god would charge into the battlefield to fight shoulder-to-shoulder with the old Tianzhu. Even death… would be worth it!”
“Never has such a terrifying divine tide erupted. How many powerhouses has the hell realm sent this time?” Yan Wen’s face paled, voice trembling.
“Boom!”
The starry battlefield battle was soul-shaking. Space shattered.
A spatial fissure charged into the starry divine array, destroying dozens of array nodes consecutively.
The array damaged, impacted by divine force, the internal spatial structure of Tianchu great world cracked. Ravines split the land. The sky collapsed. Strands of dark qi seeped from void space along the fissures.
Faintly, ghostly howls, Asura killing cries, Rakshasa wails echoed from the cracks.
