Living in the deep palace

"I said."

His voice carried an unquestionable sense of final judgment.

"You shouldn't exist."

Buzz—! ! ! !

What you say is what the law says!

Although he no longer holds a position of Heavenly Dao, he can no longer borrow the authority of the entire universe.

However, with his powerful Taiyi Golden Immortal origin, he could still forcibly erase the other party at the level of rules.

Although it may seem like words can become law, it is not; rather, it is the absolute power that eliminates the weak.

Although the pseudo-fourth realm is powerful, being the strongest tier below the twenty Venerables, it is still weak in front of Su Chen.

this moment.

Click... click click...

Under the horrified gaze of the Heavenly King of the Sea, the once indestructible barrier of stellar remains began to crumble inch by inch, like a weathered sand sculpture, turning into the most primordial cosmic dust and drifting away.

Next came the enormous Dharma form of the Remnant Star Heavenly King!

Every star fragment that makes up his body is losing its luster, its mass, and its very essence of "existence" at a visible speed, eventually turning into nothingness!
“Ahhhhhh——!!!”

The Remnant Star King let out the most shrill and terrified scream of his life! He could clearly feel that he was being "erased"!
This is not death, but a “return to zero” that is billions of times more terrifying than death!
His history, his attainments, and all traces of him are being forcibly erased from this universe!
He couldn't even self-destruct! Because the concept of "destruction" itself needs to be based on "existence"!

In just three breaths.

A pseudo-fourth-realm powerhouse who once dominated the Guixu Starfield, the Remnant Star Heavenly King, along with his enormous Dharma form, was wiped clean and vanished without a trace in the void of the universe, as if he had never existed.

Deathly silence.

The Shattered Star Abyss fell silent instantly.

Only the enormous Dharma image of the Heavenly King of the Sea remained, frozen in place, its eighteen bony arms trembling unconsciously, its huge dragon eyes filled with boundless fear and chaos.

What did he see?
An "ant" in his eyes, in a way he couldn't understand or even imagine, managed to... "talk" away a powerful opponent of similar strength who was on par with him!

This is not supernatural power! This is not a law! This is not even any kind of power he could comprehend!
This... is a miracle! It's the devil's whisper!
"Damn it!"

"I remember now, this terrifying rule of direct annihilation, you are the new Heavenly Dao who killed the Mythical Heavenly Dao 1,500 years ago—Time Heavenly Venerable!"

"impossible."

"The Dragon Emperor clearly said that in that battle back then, your Heavenly Dao status should have perished along with the old Heavenly Dao. How could you possibly still use the method of Heavenly Dao obliteration!"

The Heavenly King of the Sea had fear in his eyes.

Time God!
This is none other than the Celestial Venerable Shi!

Even if the Ten Ancient Venerables and the Ten Heavenly Venerables were here, they would probably feel three parts fear and seven parts apprehension towards the Heavenly Venerable Shi before them.

This is not someone a pseudo-fourth realm cultivator like him could possibly provoke.

Damn it!

If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have revealed their whereabouts...

"escape!!"

This thought flashed through the mind of the Heavenly King of the Sea like lightning, instantly occupying all his thoughts!

He didn't even dare to look at Su Chen again. The enormous dragon avatar instantly disintegrated, turning into a stream of black light. At the cost of burning its own essence, it frantically fled into the depths of the Shattered Star Abyss!

He had never been so terrified!

Even when facing the Ten Heavenly Venerables, he still had the courage to put up a fight. But facing this mysterious man in green before him, he couldn't even muster the slightest thought of resistance!
Time God, Time God!
He is the only being who possesses a fourth-realm title while only being in the third realm...

however.

He wanted to escape, but Su Chen wouldn't let him.

"Did I let you go?"

The calm voice, like a death knell, rang out again behind the Heavenly King of the Sea.

Jiaohai Tianwang felt a chill rush from his tailbone to the top of his head. He turned around abruptly and saw that the figure in green robes had appeared behind him at some point, no more than a hundred meters away.

Su Chen maintained his calm expression as he slowly raised his right hand and unleashed a punch at the horrified Jiao Hai Tian Wang.

This punch was nothing special.

Without the fluctuations of laws, without the convergence of energy, it was just like an ordinary person throwing a perfectly ordinary punch.

However, in the eyes of the Heavenly King of the Sea, this punch was even more terrifying than the strange technique of "words becoming law" just now!
Because he "saw" that as the punch was delivered, all the "concepts" in front of Su Chen's fist were collapsing inward!

Time, space, cause and effect, fate... everything is compressed into an infinitely small "point"!

This punch was not delivered with power, but with "absolute nothingness"!
"No—! Dragon Emperor, save me!!!"

The Heavenly King of the Sea let out a desperate roar. All the power and all the essence within him erupted without reservation at this moment, transforming into an incomparably thick black dragon scale shield that blocked his way.

However, all this is in vain.

Su Chen's fist easily pierced through that "absolute nothingness," striking first and landing on the black giant shield.

There were no earth-shattering explosions.

The giant dragon-scale shield, which embodied the lifelong cultivation of the Heavenly King of the Flood Sea, shattered silently, like a mirage.

Immediately afterwards, that seemingly ordinary fist was imprinted on the chest of the Dragon Sea Heavenly King.

puff!

The body of the Heavenly King of the Sea, which was comparable to immortal divine metal, was instantly blasted open with a huge blood hole. Countless dragon blood containing the origin of his Great Dao sprayed out like a celestial river bursting its banks!

His Dao Fruit was shattered in that instant by an irresistible force!

"what……"

The Heavenly King of the Flood Sea let out a painful groan, his aura rapidly declining like an avalanche. From the peak of the pseudo-fourth realm, he plummeted all the way down to the initial stage of the Golden Immortal realm, and continued to decline.

soon.

The Heavenly King of the Sea collapsed to the ground, his face ashen.

"You...you've ruined my cultivation..."

"Now I'm only left with the mortal realm..."

His face was filled with despair.

Su Chen did not kill him.

Instead, with a single punch, he crippled all of his cultivation, shattered his Dao foundation, and turned him from a high and mighty Heavenly King into a cripple who was even worse than an ordinary True Immortal.

For a powerful figure like the Heavenly King of the Sea, this ending was more painful than death.

"At least I spared your life, didn't I?"

"Tell the Dragon Emperor."

"I, Su Chen, am still alive..."

Su Chen slowly withdrew his fist, looking at the Jiaohai Heavenly King, who was slumped in the void like a lump of mud, with unfocused eyes, without any pity on his face.

The reason he spared his life was simply to use him to send a message to the so-called Ten Ancient Venerables and Ten Heavenly Venerables: He has returned.

"Yes."

"Time Celestial Venerable".

The Heavenly King of the Sea bowed his head, not daring to show the slightest resentment.

because.

This is the Celestial Venerable Shi.

A figure who is on par with the Ten Ancient Venerables and the Ten Heavenly Venerables.

He is neither worthy nor dares to harbor resentment.

Having done all this, Su Chen no longer glanced at the Heavenly King of the Flood Dragon Sea; instead, his gaze turned to the deeper reaches of the Shattered Star Abyss.

Although the battle just now was strange and swift, the fall and severe injuries of the two pseudo-fourth-realm experts had given him a clear assessment of his current strength.

Without needing a Heavenly Dao rank, relying on his own Taiyi Path and understanding of the origin of the Great Dao, killing a pseudo-fourth realm cultivator is still a piece of cake.

It was even easier than when he first arrived and annihilated that pseudo-fourth-realm supreme demon.

So... what about the true fourth realm?

A cold fighting spirit flashed in Su Chen's eyes.

He took a step forward, his figure disappearing into the deep darkness, flying towards the Chaos Star Marrow Mine.

He could sense that a more powerful and complete aura was being awakened by the battle taking place there.

That should be his real...prey!
……

……

Su Chen's figure merged into the void, silently making its way towards the core area of ​​the surging energy-filled Shattered Star Abyss.

After crippling the Jiaohai Heavenly King, he did not leave, because he knew that the two pseudo-fourth realm Heavenly Kings were fighting fiercely here, and the Chaos Star Marrow Mine they were fighting over was by no means an ordinary item.

When he arrived at his destination, the scene before him surprised him slightly.

The anticipated earth-shattering battle has subsided, replaced by a deathly silence and standoff.

On the remnant of a massive planet that had been cut in half, two distinct and enormous fleets faced each other from a distance, their tension palpable.

Thousands of menacing warships, like a group of lurking steel behemoths, had their cannons gleaming with a dangerous, eerie light.

Tens of thousands of cultivators, whose cultivation was at least at the True Immortal realm, formed a battle formation and stood solemnly on the deck of the warship. Their powerful auras converged, forming two terrifying pressures that almost froze the starry sky.

The flag of one fleet is embroidered with a menacing black dragon, which is the "Black Water Dragon Guard," the direct subordinate force of the Dragon King of the East Sea, under the command of the Dragon Emperor of the East Sea.

The warships of the other fleet were more ancient, with countless star patterns engraved on their hulls. They were clearly the "Shattered Star Legion" of the Myriad Laws Immortal Alliance and the Remnant Star Heavenly King.

However, these two opposing forces, which should have been mortal enemies, are now strangely maintaining their restraint.

All their cannons and all their killing intent were not directed at each other, but rather aimed at the core of the planetary remnant in their center.

There, an unimaginably massive mineral vein, like a sleeping ancient crystal dragon, runs through the entire star core.

Its entire body exhibits a dreamlike, chaotic color, as if it were formed from the purest origin of the universe. Streams of light occasionally flash across the surface of the vein, each flash releasing pure energy powerful enough to drive even a Golden Immortal mad.

But within this alluring energy lies a faint, yet unsettling, pulse of life.

It was a savage, ancient, terrifying heartbeat, brimming with hunger and primal desire, slowly emanating from the deepest part of the mine.

"It seems they've also noticed the anomaly of this thing." Su Chen, hidden behind a meteorite, calmly observed everything.

He could clearly sense that the so-called "Chaotic Star Marrow Vein" was not an inanimate object at all.

It is a giant "egg," or "cocoon," that is nurturing an incredibly terrifying life.

The Heavenly King of the Flood Sea and the Heavenly King of the Remnant Star probably already realized this, but they were blinded by greed and thought they could use their pseudo-fourth realm strength to forcibly suppress and plunder this great opportunity.

Their fall and devastating injuries undoubtedly shattered the last balance in this region.

With the suppression of the auras of two pseudo-fourth-realm powerhouses gone, the "heartbeat" deep within the mine began to grow faster and louder.

"The auras of the two pseudo-fourth realm cultivators have disappeared?"

A faint fluctuation of consciousness emanated from within the cocoon.

The fluctuation was too weak.

For a while.

Only Su Chen sensed it, which made him narrow his eyes slightly.

What is this thing?
It seems really strong.

……

……

Boom!Boom!Boom!
At this moment, the cocoon began to beat rapidly, like a living heart. With each heartbeat, the entire planetary debris trembled violently, as if a world-destroying beast was about to break free of its cage!

"What's going on? Why hasn't the Heavenly King returned yet?"

"Logically speaking."

"The Dragon Emperor has no intention of starting a war with the Ten Heavenly Venerables. He should return after this battle is over..."

On the flagship of the Blackwater Dragon Guard, a dragon commander at the peak of the Golden Immortal realm showed an anxious expression on his face.

"The Legion Commander has also lost contact... Oh no! The life force fluctuations in the ore vein are spiraling out of control!"

"Now how to do?"

On the side of the Shattered Star Legion, powerful figures also exclaimed in surprise.

Panic spread like a plague among the two fleets.

They finally realized that they might have been drawn into a terrifying vortex far beyond their imagination.

At that moment, the enormous Chaos Star Marrow Mine suddenly erupted with billions of Chaos Divine Lights!
Click——! ! !
The crystal layer covering the surface of the mineral vein shattered inch by inch, like an eggshell! An indescribable, primordial, and ferocious aura, originating from the very beginning of the universe, swept across the entire starry sky like a flood bursting its banks!

Faced with this aura, both the Blackwater Dragon Guards and the Shattered Star Legion cultivators felt as if their souls were being gripped by an invisible hand, making even breathing extremely difficult.

Their Dao hearts and their immortal essence trembled and wailed uncontrollably before this primal and ferocious power!
Boom boom boom——!!!!

The planetary debris exploded completely!

A terrifying shadow, so large it obscured the starlight, slowly rose from the ruins.

That is not any known life form.

It has no fixed shape; it is more like a "living mountain range" haphazardly pieced together from twisted, chaotic rocks and pulsating astral crystals.

It had no limbs, no eyes, but in the very center of that "mountain range" there was an enormous vertical crack.

That is its "mouth".

Within the gigantic maw, there was no tongue, no teeth, only a slowly rotating, terrifying vortex composed of countless star fragments and spatial debris, seemingly connected to an eternally hungry, bottomless abyss.

This ancient life form, having just escaped its confinement, followed its most primal instincts, opening its gigantic maw capable of devouring heaven and earth, and suddenly inhaling at the nearest Star Shattered Legion fleet!
call--!!!!

An irresistible and terrifying suction force instantly enveloped several star fields!
Space, in the face of this suction force, is as fragile as paper, easily twisted and stretched!
The hundreds of sturdy warships of the Shattered Star Legion, along with tens of thousands of cultivators on board, didn't even have time to utter a scream before they were swept away like dust from a tornado, helplessly flying towards the gaping maw of the abyss! (End of Chapter)