Living in the deep palace

Su Chen ignored the angry roar of the supreme Heavenly King.

He stood alone with his hands behind his back, his white robes fluttering in the cosmic wind.

As long as the true fourth realm doesn't descend, or the mythical Heavenly Dao doesn't arrive.

He was fearless!

"Mythical Heavenly Dao, Immortal Ancestor of the Star Sea, you still don't understand me, you underestimate me too much."

"Four supreme heavenly kings, even a pseudo-fourth realm cultivator cannot spare my life!"

Su Chen murmured.

Compared to the vast, banner-waving army of the Supreme Divine Court, his figure was as insignificant as a speck of dust. However, the unique Daoist aura emanating from him, transcending worldly concerns and detached from the cycle of reincarnation, forcefully kept the terrifying military might that could crush eternity in front of him, forming an invisible chasm.

On this side of the insurmountable chasm lies Su Chen, a newly born legend.

On the other side of the insurmountable chasm lies the supreme divine court that upholds the Way of Heaven, and the decaying past.

On the "Lingxiao Battleship," the figures of the Four Heavenly Kings stood as majestic as mountains.

The standard divine armor they wore was forged from the first wisp of Geng metal energy at the beginning of the universe. The Dao runes flowing on it were closely connected with the Heavenly Dao Laws of the entire mythological era, making their every move seem to be acting on behalf of Heaven, full of unquestionable authority and holiness.

The Southern Heavenly King of Growth has the most fiery temper. The Azure Cloud Sword he wields emits "Divine Fire of Order" on its blade, powerful enough to incinerate the entire world.

Seeing that Su Chen was all alone and dared to face the Divine Court army, his face showed no fear at all, but rather an almost indifferent calmness. His anger erupted like a volcano.

"Bold thief!"

His eyes widened in fury, and his voice boomed like a multitude of thunderclaps, causing ripples to spread across the surrounding spacetime barriers.

"How dare you not kneel before the divine army that is on patrol on behalf of Heaven?! How dare you not bow before us, the Four Heavenly Kings?!"

"Do you know what a magnificent being you are facing?! What a supreme... authority you are challenging?!"

With a furious roar, the endless heavenly soldiers and generals behind him stepped forward in unison.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

The unified shouts converged into a pure torrent of will, containing the absolute iron law of "those who obey Heaven prosper, those who defy Heaven perish," and crushed fiercely towards Su Chen's Dao heart!

This is the most basic yet most effective tactic of the Divine Court—Heavenly Might Awes the Heart.

Under such a powerful and unwavering will, even a true fourth-realm being would have their Dao heart shaken, let alone a mere third-realm Golden Immortal!
However, Su Chen simply watched them quietly, and a faint trace of pity, as if looking at a group of noisy children, even appeared in his strange eyes, which were half chaos and half data.

"Great? Authoritative?"

Su Chen gently shook his head. His voice wasn't loud, but it clearly pierced through the deafening shouts, resounding in the ears of every Divine Court soldier.

"Do these false gods, stripped of their origins, confined in cages, and having lost even their true 'self,' deserve to speak of these two words?"

“You are nothing more than four of His stronger…watchdogs.”

Upon hearing this, the world fell into a deathly silence.

The deafening shouts abruptly ceased, and the holiness and majesty on the faces of all the heavenly soldiers and generals froze instantly, replaced by astonishment and disbelief.

Even the four supreme heavenly kings, whose majestic expressions were instantly replaced by boundless rage!

"What did you say?!"

"court death!!!"

"Below the Heavenly Dao and the Ten Venerables, we are truly the fourth realm! You are merely a mere third-realm Golden Immortal, how dare you insult us like this?!"

The Southern Growth King has completely gone berserk!
He had never suffered such a humiliating disgrace! He, a dignified pseudo-Fourth Realm Heavenly King, had guarded the Southern Gate of the Divine Court for countless epochs, and had never been compared to... a watchdog?!
"Kill! Extract this fiend's true spirit and burn it with Heavenly Fire for countless eons, so that he may never be reborn!"

At his command, the Azure Cloud Sword in his hand transformed into a streak of azure lightning that cleaved through the heavens and earth, carrying with it the divine fire of order that could incinerate all things. It was the first sword to strike down on Su Chen!

At the same time, the other three Heavenly Kings also made their move!
Although they were equally furious, their tacit understanding from fighting together for countless eras made their attacks perfectly coordinated!

Even if the Heavenly Dao issued a decree, causing the old demon of the Nine Netherworlds to perish along with his four subordinates, they would not dare to underestimate Su Chen.

The Four Heavenly Kings, all at the fourth level, were more than capable of sweeping away everything in their eyes. Even this traitor who had angered the Heavenly Dao, no matter how powerful he was, would be brought to justice!
The Eastern Heavenly King, holding a jade pipa carved from chaotic jade, lightly plucks it with his ten fingers.

"Zheng——!"

The sounds were not decadent, but the most powerful sounds in the universe, representing "order" and "suppression"!

Wherever the sound waves passed, the chaotic cosmic energy was smoothed out, and the shattered fragments of spacetime were reassembled, forming an absolute "domain of order" that forcibly brought all the "variables" around Su Chen under the control of the "Heavenly Dao"!

The Western Heavenly King, Virupaksha, held a crimson dragon formed from the laws of cause and effect coiled in his hand. The dragon opened its eyes and shot out two beams of golden divine light that saw through illusion, pointing directly at Su Chen's origin.

Under this divine light, all illusions and disguises will be exposed, and the "essence" of any existence will be clearly seen.

The Northern Heavenly King, Vaishravana, then brandished the Hunyuan Treasure Umbrella in his hand.

When the umbrella opened, its surface seemed to contain a complete universe, with the sun, moon, stars, mountains, and rivers all contained within it.

An immense suction force emanated from the umbrella, transforming into a massive spacetime vortex that threatened to completely draw Su Chen, body and soul, into it, and then refine him with the power of a universe!

Sword light, sound waves, divine light, vortex!
The combined attack of the four pseudo-fourth realm Heavenly Kings locked onto Su Chen from four dimensions simultaneously!
Power, laws, origin, and space—the four essential elements constituting the existence of a living being—were completely sealed off in that instant!

This was a decisive blow! A perfect punishment from Heaven, powerful enough to force any true fourth-realm being to temporarily retreat!

Faced with this devastating attack, Su Chen smiled.

"Well come."

He did not choose to confront them head-on, nor did he use his supreme supernatural power of making his words come true.

To rashly engage in a confrontation at the level of "rules" on the enemy's home turf, within the orderly realm shrouded by the laws of "Heaven," would be the most foolish act.

In his eyes, the torrent of data representing "information" began to flash and deduce wildly.

In less than a fraction of a second, he had completely discerned the attack trajectories, energy levels, law structures, and even the slightest flaws in the fluctuations of their Dao hearts of the four opponents!
The next instant, Su Chen's figure moved.

He possessed neither earth-shattering power nor extraordinary abilities. He simply strolled leisurely towards the confluence of the four destructive attacks, taking a single step.

This step happened to land precisely on the weakest and most unstable point created when the "orderly sound waves" of the Heavenly King Dhritarashtra and the "orderly divine fire" of the Heavenly King Virudhaka intertwined and collided!
It's like a master chess player casually placing a piece in the opponent's seemingly flawless game, a piece that can overturn the entire situation!
"boom!"

A soft, yet incredibly eerie muffled sound!
The original intention of Dhritarashtra's "order sound wave" is to suppress all "variables".

The "Order Fire" of the King of Growth is essentially a violent release of "energy".

The two should have coexisted perfectly and complemented each other under the harmony of the laws of nature.

But at this moment, because of Su Chen's perfectly timed "step", this perfect harmony was broken!

The suppressive power of the sound waves mistakenly acted upon the energy core of the divine fire! In turn, the violent energy of the divine fire impacted the stability of the sound waves' laws!
And so, to the astonishment of the Four Heavenly Kings...

The two great divine powers, which should have merged into a net that stretched across the heavens and the earth, actually... collided violently with each other, like two repelling magnets!
"Boom——!!!"

An energy explosion, ten times more terrifying than they had anticipated, detonated with a deafening roar at the center of the formation!

Both Dhritarashtra and Virudhaka groaned simultaneously, suffering a backlash from the clash of laws, their auras becoming disordered.

Su Chen, taking advantage of the explosion's cover, appeared before the Western Heavenly King like a ghost.

"Did you see clearly?"

"I suppose you can't see it clearly."

"After the fall of the Immortal Ancestor, not only will most of your newly born Fourth Realm cultivators have your origins stolen..."

“You have never even truly fought against a true fourth realm, so you are nothing more than pathetic creatures wielding the power of a weak fourth realm and controlling the techniques of a third realm.”

"This is why the mighty and supreme demon, Moro, was so easily defeated by me..."

"You are far inferior to the true fourth realm, the Great Luo Immortal and the Ancient God, so you are neither Great Luo nor Ancient God, but are called: Heavenly Kings..."

Su Chen's voice rang in his ears calmly.

The Heavenly King Guangmu was greatly alarmed!

His all-knowing causal dragon failed to detect Su Chen's movement trajectory at all!

The other party seemed to have appeared out of thin air!
Without a second thought, he was about to activate the divine dragon and use the "Eye of Truth" to completely imprison Su Chen!
However, Su Chen was faster than him!

Su Chen's right index and middle fingers were brought together, and there was no energy fluctuation at the fingertips, but a pure light of "information" lingered around them.

I define your "truth" as "falsehood".

With a flick of his finger, he struck the crimson dragon squarely between the eyebrows!

"hold head high……?"

The dragon, formed from the laws of cause and effect, let out a roar filled with confusion.

Immediately, its golden eyes, which should have been able to see through everything, began to become unfocused and empty.

It saw countless "possibilities" and countless "false" futures. Its "real" foundation, on which it depended, was completely... overturned by Su Chen using a more advanced "information" method!

The next moment, this majestic causal dragon... like a deflated balloon, disintegrated inch by inch in front of the horrified gaze of the Heavenly King Guangmu, turning into the most chaotic data stream and dissipating into the void!
"puff!"

With his natal Dharma form broken, the Heavenly King Guangmu was struck as if by lightning, spitting out a mouthful of divine blood, and his aura instantly weakened!

And this is not over yet!

At the same instant that he shattered the divine power of the Heavenly King Guangmu, Su Chen's figure blurred once again and appeared behind the Heavenly King Duowen of the North, who had raised the Chaos Treasure Umbrella and was preparing to take him into it for refinement.

"Your 'universe' is too small."

Su Chen's voice was like the whisper of a demon from the deepest hell, making the hairs on the body of the Heavenly King of Duowen stand on end instantly!

He suddenly turned around, and the Hunyuan Treasure Umbrella in his hand shone brightly. He pushed the power of the universe within the umbrella to its limit, transforming it into a jet-black pillar of light capable of swallowing galaxies, which slammed fiercely towards Su Chen!
Su Chen, however, neither dodged nor avoided.

He simply raised his left hand slowly and spread his five fingers.

In his palm, the chaos representing "Primordial Beginning" spun wildly, and a universe prototype, billions of times more real and billions of times more vast than the universe inside the Primordial Umbrella, flashed by!
"boom--!!!!!!!!"

The jet-black beam of light slammed solidly into Su Chen's palm.

However, the immense power of the universe, which was enough to completely refine even a Golden Immortal, was swallowed up the moment it came into contact with the "Primordial Universe" in Su Chen's palm, just like a stream flowing into the ocean. It didn't even make a ripple before it was completely devoured!
"No!"

Vaisravana exclaimed in disbelief!

For the first time, he felt that the connection between himself and the Hunyuan Treasure Umbrella had been forcibly severed by the other party!
Su Chen actually used his own Dao to forcibly "devour" the attack of a pseudo-fourth-realm treasure!

All of this happened in the blink of an eye!

From the moment Su Chen took his first step to the moment the four Heavenly Kings' supernatural powers were broken one by one and even backfired, the whole process was so smooth and fast that the heavenly soldiers and generals watching from afar had no time to react!

When they came to their senses, all they saw were the disheveled and exhausted figures of the four Heavenly Kings, and... that unharmed figure, still calmly floating in the void, dressed in white.

One against four!

Not only did they escape unscathed, they even... severely injured their opponent!

"This...how is this possible?!"

"The Four Heavenly Kings... they actually... they actually lost?!"

"These are four Supreme Heavenly Kings, beings of the Fourth Realm! Below ten ancient beings of the Fourth Realm, the Four Heavenly Kings are not weak at all..."

"How can it be!"

"One person crushed the Four Supreme Heavenly Kings?!"

At this moment, the Dao hearts of countless heavenly soldiers and generals nearly collapsed!

On the "Lingxiao Battleship", those Star Lords who had reached the peak of "Xuanyu Immortal" and the Divine Lords who had touched the threshold of "Golden Immortal" felt a chill run through their bodies, as if they had fallen into an ice cave!
They could see much more clearly than the ordinary heavenly soldiers!

Su Chen did not use any earth-shattering supernatural powers from beginning to end!
What he used was something they couldn't understand or see through at all... "Tao"!
It was a method that transcended "laws," directly addressing the "essence"—a method beyond comprehension and understanding! (End of Chapter)