Living in the deep palace

"Gu... gu..."

Beside the Holy Son, on the armrest of the throne, crouched a magnificent yet eerie phoenix.

It was entirely black, as if it were constructed from the purest plutonium, and its burning phoenix flames were not the nirvana of life, but the end of decay.

Pluto Phoenix!

It is also a terrifying ferocious beast at the Great Perfection of the Fourth Realm! It is the guardian of this Star Refining Array!
The moment Su Chen's gaze fell upon him, the Holy Son slowly opened his golden eyes.

He didn't look at the twenty fourth-realm Jianmu Venerables behind Su Chen. In his golden eyes, those twenty Venerables were nothing more than ants.

His gaze pierced through the void, crossed the Great Dao, and met Su Chen's chaotic Dao eyes head-on!

boom--!
The intangible Dao collides with the Dao in the void! The double helix of order and decay crashes into the all-encompassing Jianmu Great Luo Dao!

The entire Ancient Path Starfield trembled violently under their gaze!
"You came."

The Holy Son spoke. His voice was no longer that of any individual, but a chorus of the billions of sacrificed beings and trillions of vengeful spirits within the Star Refining Array!
"Su Chen."

Are you satisfied with the funeral that Father God (Lord of the Underworld Lotus) prepared for you?

A hint of human amusement flashed in his golden eyes. He already knew that Su Chen had swept through the entire Nether Lotus Territory.

"A Great Golden Immortal..." The Holy Son slowly stood up. "What an unexpected and wonderful gift."

He greedily inhaled the aura of Su Chen's Great Luo Dao Fruit.

“My Star Refining Array was already 99% complete. It only lacked the final catalyst, an anchor point strong enough to suppress the current world's fortune... I thought the Father God would bestow upon him a trace of the Fifth Realm's essence. But I never expected…”

The Holy Son's golden eyes suddenly erupted with boundless greed!

"You, Su Chen! You newly born Great Luo Golden Immortal! You, the host of Jianmu! You are the most perfect sacrifice! As long as I devour your Great Luo Dao Fruit! My great formation will be perfected instantly! At that time! I will be the only 'god' in this present star sea and the Void Domain!"

"I also have the opportunity to inherit everything from you and seize the profound knowledge and fortune you have accumulated as a Great Immortal!"

The Holy Son's arrogant words echoed across this millstone of flesh and blood.

The chorus of countless vengeful spirits transformed into the most terrifying demonic sound, assaulting the Dao hearts of the twenty Venerable Jianmu.

"What a terrifying pressure!"

The Heavenly Venerable of a Hundred Flowers' face paled slightly. "He's clearly only at the Great Perfection of the Fourth Realm! Why does he feel even more terrifying than the Blood Sea Demon Lord, who's only half a step into the Fifth Realm?!"

"It's a formation!"

The ancient Venerable Tianyi's aged eyes were filled with solemnity. "He is not a cultivator! He is the spirit of the array! He is the embodiment of this Ancient Dao Star Refining Array! Every inch of the ground beneath his feet is providing him with power!"

“My lord…” The Dragon Emperor of the East Sea looked at Su Chen.

Su Chen's expression remained calm. He merely glanced at the Holy Son indifferently.

"You talk too much."

He turned his head and looked at the twenty Venerables behind him, whose fighting spirit was rising.

“My Jianmu divine lineage has just been born. Your true Dao seeds also need to be tempered.”

Su Chen's gaze swept around the blood and flesh millstone. Amidst the surging sea of ​​blood and vengeful spirits, terrifying demonic figures were slowly emerging.

“Those nutrients,” Su Chen said calmly, “are bestowed upon you as a baptism for new life.”

"What?!" Upon hearing this, the Holy Son seemed to have heard the funniest joke. "Hahaha... Hahahaha! Su Chen! Do you really think that just because you swept away those trash, you're qualified to bestow gifts upon me?! Do you think my guards are comparable to those trash?!"

The Holy Son's golden eyes suddenly flashed with brilliance!
"All demons, heed my command! The pilgrimage begins!"

"Roar—!" "Roar—!" "Roar—!"

Within that blood-soaked, flesh-and-blood millstone of vengeful spirits, terrifying demons of various forms, yet all possessing the same aura of the fourth realm, suddenly rose to their feet!
One thousand, five thousand, ten thousand!
A full ten thousand fourth-realm demons!

This is the true meaning of the pilgrimage of all demons! This is the true foundation accumulated by the Nether Lotus Territory over countless eras!
They are the crystallization of this Star Refining Array! They are the array demon envoys born from the billions of vengeful souls and the demonic energy of the Void Domain!
Although the vast majority of them were only at the early stage of the Fourth Realm, ... in front of those ten thousand demon envoys stood three hundred demon generals at the middle stage of the Fourth Realm! And thirty demon kings at the late stage of the Fourth Realm!
"This...this..." Even the Dragon Emperor of the East Sea was momentarily stunned when he saw this formation.

Ten thousand beings at the fourth realm?! Are you kidding me?! This power is enough to sweep through ten mythical eras!

"Despair?" The Holy Son revealed a cruel smile. "Su Chen, your twenty against my ten thousand... this is the difference between an ant and a god!"

However, after the initial shock, the twenty Venerables behind Su Chen did not show despair in their eyes, but instead burst forth with endless fanaticism!
"Ten thousand fourth-realm beings?" Wan Jun Tianzun flexed his wrists, feeling the true power bestowed upon him by the Jianmu tree, the supreme foundation of his Great Luo retinue...

"Hahaha! Okay! Okay!"

"This is what we call nourishment! This is what we deserve to be our whetstone!"

"My Lord!" The Celestial Venerable Wan Jun suddenly knelt on one knee, his voice shaking the universe! "Wan Jun! I request to fight!"

"Our Lord!" The Dragon Emperor of the East Sea, the Ancient Venerable of Heavenly One, the Heavenly Venerable of a Hundred Flowers... twenty Venerables knelt on one knee in unison! "We! We request to fight!"

Their path is no longer a dream! Their master is already a Great Luo Immortal! What is there to fear from a mere ten thousand inferior array demon envoys?!

The saint's smile froze.

"A bunch of lunatics!"

A satisfied smile finally appeared on Su Chen's face. He slowly raised his hand.

"allow."

"Go! Let this world witness the power of Jianmu's rebirth!"

"Follow me!!!"

"kill--!"

boom!
At this moment, the twenty beams of divine light from the Jianmu tree ceased to be concealed or hidden! They transformed into twenty azure meteors, charging headlong into the ten thousand fourth-realm demon legions!

"You're courting death!" the Holy Son roared in fury! "Crush them!"

Roar!
Ten thousand demons surged forth! The thirty demon kings at the late stage of the fourth realm took the lead, meeting the twenty blue meteors head-on!
"boom--!"

The war broke out instantly!

"Jianmu · Wanjun Dao · True Annihilation!" Wanjun Tianzun was the first to be hit, and he threw a punch! His dream Dao would be suppressed by 99% in this place, but his newly born Jianmu Dao, under the blessing of Da Luo, was actually amplified tenfold!
boom!
A demon king in the late fourth realm, along with his Void Domain Demon Body, was instantly blasted apart by a single punch from the Heavenly Venerable Wan Jun!
"What?!" The demon generals behind the demon king stopped in their tracks in shock!

"This is the true power?!" Even the Heavenly Venerable Wan Jun was stunned.

"No!" The Heavenly Venerable of the Great Evolution exclaimed, his eyes flashing with divine insight. "This is a crushing defeat in quality! They are inferior products created by array formations! We, on the other hand, are divinely created bodies personally reshaped by the Great Luo!"

"Hahaha! Kill!"

"Jianmu, Imperial Dragon's Might, Divine Water Purification!" The Dragon Emperor of the East Sea swung his dragon body, and what he spewed out was no longer ordinary water, but the divine water of Jianmu containing the essence of life!
"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!" Wherever the divine water passed, hundreds and thousands of demon envoys were instantly purified and evaporated as if they were being scorched by holy light!
"Jianmu, Hundred Flowers Dao, Great Luo Funeral!" The Hundred Flowers Celestial Venerable raised her delicate hand. What scattered were no longer withered petals, but true Dao flowers containing the essence of the Great Luo Dao!
The Dao Flower touched his body, and the Dao Fruit of a demon general in the middle stage of the fourth realm withered instantly!
Twenty to ten thousand.

This was supposed to be a one-sided victory. But now, it truly has become a one-sided victory!

However, it was the ten thousand demon soldiers who were crushed!
The twenty Venerable Jianmu were like twenty killing gods, rampaging through the Ten Thousand Demon Legion as if it were empty land! Their Dao foundation at the early stage of the True Fourth Realm was enhanced by the aura of Su Chen, a Great Luo Immortal, making them capable of killing anyone at the late stage!
"Trash! A bunch of trash!"

The Holy Son sat high on his divine throne, his golden eyes revealing fury for the first time! His proud Ten Thousand Demon Legion, the foundation of his Star Refining Array, was being ruthlessly harvested by those twenty people like wheat!
He couldn't understand it! Why was there such a huge difference between them, even though they were both at the fourth realm?!

"Su Chen!"

The voice of the Holy Son, a chorus of countless vengeful spirits, was tinged with a hint of individual rage at this moment!
"You deserve to die!"

boom!
The Holy Son finally rose from his throne!
The moment he stood up, the Netherworld Phoenix, at the Great Perfection of the Fourth Realm, let out a shrill cry and transformed into light, actively merging into the Holy Son's body!
boom--!
A terrifying pressure, far exceeding the Great Perfection of the Fourth Realm and even surpassing the Blood Sea Demon Lord who was half a step into the Fifth Realm, suddenly erupted!
Within those golden eyes, the golden light of order and the black light of decay intertwined in a spiral at this moment!

"This...this aura?!"

The twenty Venerables who were slaughtering the Ten Thousand Demons Legion froze in their tracks, staring in horror at the divine throne!
"His oppressive aura... is actually approaching that of my lord?!" Tianyi Ancient Venerable exclaimed in shock.

"No." A hint of solemnity flashed in Su Chen's chaotic Dao eyes. "He is still in the fourth realm."

"but……"

“He’s not a cultivator,” Su Chen said, emphasizing each word. “He is the array! He is the core of this Ancient Dao Star Refining Array!”

The Holy Son smiled. A godlike indifference appeared on his handsome face.

"Su Chen, you guessed right. I am this great formation! I am the greatest masterpiece of Father God (Lord of the Underworld Lotus)! I am the perfect fusion of the decay of the Void Realm and the order of this world!"

boom!
Beneath the Holy Son's feet, the millstone of flesh and blood spun wildly! A pure, decaying black demonic energy rose from the rift in the Void Domain! A divine, holy golden light of order was forcibly extracted from the Great Dao of the Present World!

Black and gold! Decay and order! Ruins and the present world!
These two supreme laws, which should be irreconcilable below the fifth realm, transformed into a double-helix giant pillar piercing through heaven and earth, centered on the Holy Son's perfect body!
"Domain of the Underworld: Double Helix!"

Om-!
The double-spiral pillar suddenly expanded! In an instant, it enveloped Su Chen and the twenty Venerables!
"Crack...knock..."

"Not good!" The Celestial Venerable Wan Jun was horrified to discover that his Jianmu Wan Jun Dao was being suppressed within this double helix domain!

"My new life is being rotten!"

"My path is being imprisoned by order?!"

"This...this is the domain of the Fifth Realm?!"

"Do not."

Su Chen stood at the center of the domain, and his Great Luo Dao power erupted, protecting all the Jianmu Venerables behind him.

"This is not the Fifth Realm." Su Chen's Chaotic Dao Eye stared intently at the Holy Son. "This is a pseudo-Fifth Realm! He is a fourth-realm artifact, yet he carries the laws of the fifth realm! Within this Star Refining Array, he is an invincible fourth-realm being!"

"Su Chen! You have excellent judgment!" The chorus of billions of vengeful spirits from the Holy Son transformed into divine judgment at this moment!
"I am the Father God's (Lord of the Underworld Lotus) representative in this mortal world! I am the sole master of this Underworld Lotus Territory!"

"And you... Su Chen!"

The Holy Son's golden eyes suddenly locked onto Su Chen!
"Your Great Luo's Jianmu Dao is full of the Dao of Life... while I..."

The Holy Son slowly raised his hand, and the golden and black double helix laws gathered in his palm!
"I control order, and I control decay! I am both life and death! In my domain, life must decay! Even the Great Luo must submit!"

"Prepare to die, you Taiyi Seed!"

"Pillar of the World - Appearance of the Underworld - Entropy Judgment!"

boom--!
The golden and black double helixes merged into one at that moment, transforming into a gray pillar of light that defies description!

This is not the ash of decay! This is the ash of the end, born from the fusion of the gold of order and the black of decay!
It is the judgment of order! It is the end of decay!
This strike has already surpassed the limits of the fourth realm! Its power even surpasses the World-Destroying Eye of the Holy Lord of the Underworld Lotus! Because this strike is a deadly attack unleashed by the Holy Son within this Star Refining Array!
"My Lord!!!"

The Dragon Emperor of the East Sea, the Ancient Venerable Tianyi, and twenty other Jianmu Venerables all felt their true spirits freeze before this gray pillar of light! Their Dao Seeds, at the fourth level of the True Realm, began to wither under the pressure of this gray pillar of light!

Entropy of order. The end of the present world.

Faced with this Holy Son's pseudo-fifth realm attack, which risked the very essence of the Star Refining Array!
Su Chen stood before the twenty Venerables, and under the destructive pressure of the gray pillar of light, he smiled.

"Order and decay..." Su Chen slowly raised his head. His chaotic Dao Eyes showed not fear, but rather a hint of pity. "Holy Son, do you know what a Great Luo is?"

"You're about to die! And you still dare to play tricks!" The Holy Son's golden eyes were filled with divine indifference! "Become my sacrifice!"

The gray beam of entropy light crashed down!

"Da Luo..." Su Chen's ethereal voice at this moment even drowned out the chorus of billions of vengeful spirits! "...For all-encompassing!"

"Your so-called order, your so-called decay, are all within me!"

boom--!
Amidst the stunned silence of the twenty Venerables, Su Chen ceased his restraint!
His supreme power as a mid-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal, and his Great Luo Dao of Jianmu, which fused with the ten great origins, descended without reservation at this moment!

"Jianmu Divine Might - World Axis!"

Om-!
Behind Su Chen, the illusory image of the Jianmu Divine Tree suddenly solidified!

No! That is no longer a tree! It is a world axis that pierces through nothingness, is rooted in chaos, and whose canopy supports all the heavens and myriad realms!
The instant this central axis of the Jianmu tree appeared! The Holy Son's proud Netherworld Double Helix Domain...

Click!

Broken!

"No...impossible!"

For the first time, the Holy Son's godlike indifference crumbled! Incredible fear was revealed in his golden eyes!

"My domain...my order...my decay...why...why are they worshipping?!" (End of Chapter)