Living in the deep palace

hum!
Behind Su Chen, an enormous holographic wheel appeared.

One half of the roulette wheel is a deep, boundless chaos that seems capable of swallowing everything; the other half is a torrent of data that flashes with endless runes and can analyze everything.

This is the concrete manifestation of his "Way of the True Self"!
“Ahhhhhh——!!!”

"Su Chen!"

You killed me twice!

"I curse you, that sooner or later you will be drawn into the conflicts among the myriad realms and countless fifth-realm powerhouses outside the gate, and I will make you suffer the same fate as me!"

"You...don't even think about having a good ending!"

The remnant of the Immortal Ancestor let out a shrill scream as it crashed headlong into the terrifying roulette wheel of chaos and data, just like a moth drawn to a flame!
There was no earth-shattering energy collision, only the crushing and analysis of a higher level of "Tao" and "Li"!
The endless information contained within the lingering resentment, the insights into the Great Dao of the Universe, and the life essence belonging to the Fifth Realm Immortal Ancestor were instantly decomposed, deciphered, and reassembled by the torrent of data into the purest primordial energy and fragments of the Great Dao.

The madness, resentment, and other negative will inherent in that lingering regret were completely swallowed up, assimilated, and worn away by the chaotic vortex of the other half!

At this moment, Su Chen's sea of ​​consciousness seemed to transform into a boiling universe!

The memories of countless eras from the lingering remnant of the Immortal Ancestor surged in like a bursting dam of a galaxy!

He "saw" the birth of the universe and the origin of all things;

He "saw" the rise of the immortal path, with countless extraordinary talents emerging out of nowhere;

He "saw" the terrifying war that affected all the heavens and myriad realms, and saw how that immortal ancestor perished in the battle, leaving only a wisp of remnant spirit.
He "saw" how this lingering remnant merged with the will of Heaven in this universe, gradually evolving into the later "Mythical Heavenly Way," establishing a divine court that has ruled to this day...

This vast and boundless information is enough to overwhelm and destroy the primordial spirit of any fourth-realm powerhouse!
However, Su Chen's true spirit is a unique existence intertwined with chaos and data.

Chaos encompasses everything, data analyzes everything.

The two complemented each other, and surprisingly, they managed to withstand this torrent of information that was powerful enough to destroy the universe, and at an incredible speed, they refined it and transformed it into their own foundation and resources!
His aura began to rise at an alarming rate!
The Taiyi Golden Immortal Dao Fruit within his body, which was already incredibly solid, was now frantically absorbing the primordial power from the remnant will of the Immortal Ancestor, becoming even more dazzling, round, and with a restrained radiance.

The Dao patterns on the Dao Fruit emerged one after another, becoming complete.

The appearance of each Dao pattern represents his understanding of a certain Great Dao, which has reached the pinnacle of the Taiyi Golden Immortal mid-stage!
Time seemed to lose its meaning at this moment.

I don’t know how much time passed.

When the last gray mist representing the lingering will of the Immortal Ancestor within the Guiyuan Temple was completely devoured by the illusory wheel behind Su Chen, the entire world finally returned to a deathly silence.

Those hundreds of Golden Immortal Gods, long ago, when their Heavenly Dao status shattered, were all annihilated due to the collapse of their faith and the backlash of their Dao foundation. They were transformed into lifeless stone sculptures, forever frozen in this place.

The once vast Central Divine Court is now a deserted...dead city.

Su Chen slowly opened his eyes.

In those strange eyes, half chaos and half data, a trace of insight into the vicissitudes of countless ages flashed, but soon, they returned to their usual calm and profundity.

He could clearly feel that the magical power within his body was more than ten times stronger than before! His understanding of the Great Dao had also reached an unprecedented level!
His Taiyi Golden Immortal Dao Fruit has reached the peak of the middle realm. Its Dao patterns are perfect and its inner radiance is abundant. He only needs an opportunity to break through the realm and be reborn, stepping into the late realm that countless Golden Immortals dream of!
At that time, his combat power will experience another earth-shattering leap.

However, at the same time, he also clearly felt the complete disappearance of the "Summitor" status within his body.

That supreme authority—the power to command the stars beneath his feet, to have his words carry the weight of the law, and to punish on behalf of Heaven—had completely departed from him.

From now on, he can no longer determine the future or the fate of a person with a single word.

All he can rely on is his own solid cultivation and strength.

He won this divine battle and gained the long-awaited surge in cultivation, but he also paid a huge price for it, losing an ultimate trump card that could have turned the tide of the battle.

Su Chen slowly stood up and looked around the empty and desolate Guiyuan Temple. This place was once the pinnacle of power in the old mythology, but now it witnessed its demise.

He reached out, feeling the surging yet incredibly solid power within him, and a complex expression appeared on his face, a mixture of joy and regret.

"I guess you could say there were gains and losses."

"The Heavenly Dao of Myth has always wanted to kill me."

“If I hadn’t killed him, I would have died at his hands sooner or later. But now, by diminishing the status of the one who reached the top, I have destroyed him. This can be considered a good thing.”

He sighed softly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't linger. He took a step forward, and his figure disappeared into the temple that had lost its master.

……

……

Su Chen's figure completely disappeared from the Guiyuan Temple, as if he had never existed, leaving behind only an empty, deathly silent central divine court, and hundreds of golden immortal stone sculptures forever frozen in horror and madness.

Time, at the pinnacle of power in this universe, seems to have fallen into an eternal stagnation.

One day, two days...

January, February...

It wasn't until a full year later.

This forgotten, desolate place has finally welcomed new visitors.

Boom——! ! !
A massive rift, tearing through the core barrier of the universe, unfolded without warning in the chaotic void outside the Central Divine Court! Golden dragon flames burned at the edge of the rift, emanating a pressure powerful enough to terrify even an ordinary Golden Immortal of the Third Realm!

Immediately afterwards, a majestic figure wearing an imperial crown, a robe draped with ten thousand dragons, and eyes that seemed to reflect the endless cycle of starlight, stepped out of the crack first.

His every step caused ripples in the surrounding space and time, as if the entire universe was trembling slightly at his arrival.

It is none other than the Dragon Emperor of the East Sea!

Behind him, nine equally unfathomable figures, each with a different aura, followed closely behind, filing out one after another.

Some figures were shrouded in endless shadows, as if they were the embodiment of the end of all things;

Some are surrounded by blazing stars, like ancient gods who wield the fire of the universe;
There was also a phantom of a World Tree that spanned several dimensions, with the laws of life and time flowing through its branches and leaves... They were the Ten Ancient Venerables who, since the beginning of the ancient mythological era, had been rivals to the Heavenly Dao of Mythology, yet had always been suppressed...
They have immortals of the highest order, supreme demons, ancient Buddhas, and even ancient venerables of the Dao.

These ten terrifying beings, who stood at the very top of the pyramid of the mythological era, gathered here at this moment, their faces all bearing solemnity and... a hint of undisguised confusion.

“Strange… the aura of the Heavenly Dao seems to have… disappeared?” An ancient venerable being shrouded in chaotic energy emitted a deep, thunderous mental fluctuation.

"It's not just disappearing, it's as if it was wiped out from the very origins of the universe."

Another ancient Buddha, radiating divine light but with a demonic sun hovering behind his head, spoke with a voice filled with apprehension.
“In the past few days, the laws of the entire universe have become unusually ‘free’ and ‘active’. The bottlenecks in our realms that we have suppressed for countless epochs are showing signs of loosening.”

"I initially thought that Heaven was plotting some kind of conspiracy, but now it seems..."

He did not continue speaking, but all the ancient beings understood his meaning.

The Dragon Emperor of the East Sea remained silent, his majestic dragon eyes fixed on the eerily silent central divine court ahead, his unease growing stronger.

As an adversary who had fought against the divine order for the longest time, He knew better than anyone how terrifying that divine court was.

That place is the lair of the Heavenly Dao, the place where the rules of the universe are most strictly enforced and concentrated. Not to mention intruding, even getting close will be rejected and suppressed by the entire cosmic order.

Back then, the Fifth Realm Immortal Ancestor had just fallen, and the twelve beings of the same level joined forces to launch that "War Against Heaven".

In the end, they barely managed to reach the outskirts of the Divine Court before being forcefully driven back by the Heavenly Dao with its supreme authority and the power of the entire universe's origin. Two fellow Daoists even perished as a result.

Since then, they have completely given up on worldly affairs, choosing to live in seclusion, silently accumulating strength, and waiting for the cycle of one era after another.

But now, this forbidden place, which once caused them to suffer defeat and death, is as quiet as a tomb.

"Go in and have a look."

The Dragon Emperor of the East Sea suppressed the turmoil in his heart and said in a deep voice.

The ten beings exchanged glances, each seeing a resolute determination in the other's eyes. No matter what treacherous danger lay ahead, they were determined to find out today!
boom!
The terrifying aura of the ten fourth realms surged into the sky without reservation, transforming into a torrent powerful enough to tear the heavens and earth apart. It flew cautiously yet resolutely toward the Guiyuan Temple with its doors wide open.

However, the anticipated obstruction from countless layers of celestial laws did not materialize.

They entered the core forbidden area of ​​this divine court without any hindrance.

Then they saw it.

They saw hundreds of golden immortals, each with a different posture, but all of them had long since turned into stone sculptures.

I saw the supreme throne, now empty and marked with only mottled traces.

Furthermore, they saw... terrifying engravings on the ground in the center of the temple, crisscrossing and seemingly capable of severing even "concepts," still bearing the aura of gray scythes!
"This is……"

An ancient venerable being who was well-versed in the laws of cause and effect, whose eyes were like two long rivers of destiny, suddenly exclaimed in surprise the moment he saw those marks!
He rushed forward without regard for anything else, reaching out his fingers to touch the remaining Daoist essence.

laugh--!
Before His finger even got close, an invisible, all-powerful force of "ending" severed a small section of his finger bone! No blood flowed from the wound; there was only absolute nothingness, as if "existence" had been erased!
"The Scythe of Karma!!"

The ancient deity let out a horrified scream, staggering backward as if he had seen the most incredible and terrifying thing in the world!

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible! This forbidden artifact, woven from the ultimate causal laws of the universe, is the Heavenly Dao's ultimate trump card against us. Why would it be activated here?! Moreover... judging from the residual aura, it seems... it was aimed at the Heavenly Dao itself?!"

"The Scythe of Karma, the remnant will of the Immortal Ancestor swung it only twice back then, and once it severed a Great Luo Immortal of the fourth realm..."

Upon hearing this, the other nine, including the Dragon Emperor of the East Sea, were all struck dumb as if by lightning!
Did Heaven commit suicide with its ultimate weapon?
How absurd this idea is!

"No...that's not right!" The Dragon Emperor of the East Sea suddenly came to his senses, his gaze fixed on the empty throne and the faint, lingering aura of "logical paradox" and "historical discontinuity" surrounding it.

He slowly closed his dragon eyes, pushing his vast and boundless divine sense to its limit, attempting to reverse time and peek into everything that had happened here.

Blurry images and fragmented scenes began to appear in His mind.

He "saw" the gray scythe being held in the hand of a figure in white.

He "heard" that calm yet cold declaration, like a final judgment—

“I said, your ‘Divine Court’... was never established.”

“I said, your ‘followers’...have never heard of your ‘name’.”

“I say, your name of ‘Heavenly Way’… is, ‘usurpation’!”

boom! ! ! !

The mighty body of the Dragon Emperor of the East Sea trembled violently, and his eyes snapped open, filled with boundless turbulent waves and a subversive shock!

He saw it!

He witnessed that inconceivable battle, completely beyond His comprehension... a "war of the gods"!
That was not a clash of power, nor a collision of laws, but a one-sided "disassembly" of mythology and the Way of Heaven from the level of "concepts" and "logic"!
That figure in white, that thief of time, that whom they had always thought was just a troublesome junior from the future, a Taiyi Golden Immortal of the third realm...

Incredibly, in a way they never even dared to imagine, they literally "said" the Supreme Heavenly Dao, which had ruled the universe for countless epochs, to death!
"puff--"

A tremendous shock, stemming from the collapse of his worldview, caused the ancient Venerable Dragon Emperor of the East Sea to be so agitated that he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of golden dragon blood!

"Dragon Emperor!!"

The other nine were shocked and rushed forward.

The Dragon Emperor of the East Sea waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.

He simply stared blankly at the empty temple, muttering to himself, his voice filled with bitterness, self-mockery, and a hint of... a deep fear that even he himself was unaware of.

"We...we were wrong."

"We were all wrong..."

“Back then, the twelve of us joined forces and exerted all our strength, but we could only shake His ‘power.’ But that person… He directly uprooted His ‘root’!”

"He...he really did it...he did something that even the twelve of us good-for-nothings combined couldn't do..." (End of Chapter)