Living in the deep palace

"No... I can't break through yet."

Su Chen forcibly suppressed the urge to break through.

"The laws of the Dao here are too damaged. If one breaks through to the Great Luo realm in the Void Domain, one's foundation will be flawed."

"If I want to break through, I must do so in the most perfect way by directly devouring an entire Great Thousand World!"

A hint of ambition flashed in Su Chen's eyes.

He poured all his excess energy into the Longevity Tree.

hum-

The Longevity Tree grew again, and the sixth branch—the Void Branch—was born, a fusion of the spatial divine power of the Nine-Headed Lion Ancestor.

At the same time, Su Chen's inner universe expanded from a ten-thousand-mile-long land of vitality to a million miles!

This is no longer a miniature space, but a true "miniature world"!
"The Realm of Immortality is complete."

Su Chen stood up and looked down at the Chaotic Ancient Abyss below.

Countless cultivators from the City of Immortality were seen cleaning up the battlefield, transforming it into a new branch city.

With the fall of the three overlords, the entire outer area of ​​the Ruins Domain, plus a part of its depths, has been incorporated into Su Chen's territory.

"Congratulations, Dao Ancestor! You have unified the Void Domain!!"

Lady Kugu led a million cultivators, kneeling on the ground, their voices shaking the heavens.

Su Chen watched this scene, but felt little joy.

Because he knew this was just the beginning.

The real enemy is still in the sky.

Boom!
at this time.

The sky over the entire Ruins suddenly trembled without warning.

It wasn't an ordinary tremor, but... the Great Dao was wailing!
Everyone instinctively looked up.

In the distant sky, the spatial rift that had previously healed opened up again.

But this time, there were no warships, no heavenly soldiers.

There is only one... foot.

An ordinary-looking foot, wearing cloth shoes, slowly emerged from the crack and stepped onto the void of the Ruins Domain.

Click——!
It was just this one step that landed.

The spatial barrier of the entire Ruins Domain was instantly covered with cracks!
An indescribable, terrifying pressure instantly enveloped the entire world.

That was an aura that surpassed the Great Luo, surpassed the laws, and even touched the source of the "Dao"!
The fifth realm!
The true eternal one!
"Ok?"

An aged and indifferent voice came from the heavens.

"Kamui is dead? The fleet is wiped out?"

"interesting."

"The insects in this lower realm have actually grown teeth."

"I'm curious."

"What exactly is it that a Great Immortal who came from the lower realm could make that old bastard Heavenly Emperor personally take action?"

As the sound faded, an elderly man dressed in hemp clothing with his hands behind his back slowly emerged from the crevice.

He looked ordinary, like an average farmer.

But in Su Chen's "Eye of Desolation," this old man... was a walking sun!

Every cell in his body contains a complete world!

The Heavenly Court, one of the Five Heavenly Kings—

Southern Heavenly King!
The Heavenly Kings are all Great Immortals at the Perfected Stage.

But now.

A fifth-realm expert has actually descended!
no doubt.

This is problematic! Either the Heavenly King has successfully broken through to the fifth realm, or a Heavenly Emperor, a fifth-realm expert, has used some means to descend in the body of a Great Luo Immortal.

"Su Chen."

The Southern Heavenly King lowered his gaze, meeting Su Chen's eyes across billions of miles of void.

"The farce must end."

"I have been ordered by the Heavenly Emperor to send you... on your way."

boom!
Su Chen's hair stood on end instantly, and the Longevity Tree within his body issued a frantic warning!
This is the strongest crisis he has faced since his rebirth!
It is also a mountain he must cross on his path to the fifth realm!
"The fifth realm..."

Su Chen took a deep breath, his fighting spirit not diminishing but increasing, and a crazy smile appeared on his lips.

"Old thing."

"do you know……"

"The older the meat, the more fragrant it is when you chew it!"

"and."

"You got the better deal. If it weren't for that old Heavenly Emperor bullying the weak, I could kill even you right now!"

"I've killed more than one person who reached the fifth realm!"

"Hahaha!"

Su Chen laughed wildly.

"Send me on my way?"

At this moment, he stood atop the city wall of Changsheng City. The fierce wind tousled his black hair, but it could not stir the two burning purple-gold flames in his eyes.

Above his head, where the cloth shoe had stepped, the void was cracked like a mirror.

An indescribable heaviness weighed on everyone's heart. It wasn't gravity; it was the weight of the "rules."

The fifth realm is eternity.

This means that one's "Dao" has been perfected, forming a self-contained cycle, endlessly regenerating. Before this realm, all the methods of the fourth realm are like using a wooden sword to cut through iron armor, appearing pale and powerless.

“Daozu…”

Lady Kugu knelt on the ground, blood flowing from her seven orifices.

The mere wisp of aura emanating from the Southern Heavenly King was enough to shatter the soul of this Golden Immortal.

"Is this... the insurmountable barrier?"

despair.

Real despair.

"The perspective of an ant."

High in the sky, the Southern Heavenly King stood with his hands behind his back, not even glancing at the City of Immortality below.

He simply lifted his right foot slightly, and then... put it down again.

"Stepping into the sky".

Boom-! ! !
There were no magical lights or shadows, only a muffled sound.

Followed by.

Outside the City of Immortality, the "Great Wall of White Bones," forged from the spine of the Dragon Emperor, a being at the peak of the fourth realm, suddenly let out a mournful cry.

Click! Click! Click!

Countless cracks spread across the pristine white keel.

next moment.

boom!
That dragon bone, which was strong enough to withstand a perfect Taiyi attack, was actually shattered by the aftershock of that kick!
Bone powder fell from the sky, like a pale, heavy snowfall.

"puff--"

Inside the city, tens of thousands of Changsheng Guards connected to the great formation's energy coughed up blood and collapsed to the ground, exhausted.

Just one kick.

The city fell, the battle lines were destroyed, and the army was decimated!

This is the majesty of the Fifth Realm!
"Vulnerable."

The Southern Heavenly King shook his head, his deeply lined old face filled with indifference.

"Su Chen, is this all you're relying on? Toys pieced together from scavenged trash?"

"If that's all there is to it, then you can die."

The Southern Heavenly King extended a withered finger and pointed it at Su Chen from afar.

"Order and Deprivation".

hum-

An invisible force of rules instantly descended upon Su Chen.

There was no pain from the attack.

But Su Chen was horrified to discover that the power within him... was disappearing!
It's not that they've been lost, it's that they've been "rejected"!

Under the guidance of that finger, the longevity star essence within his body began to disobey his commands, as if it never belonged to Su Chen, but to this world, to... the Heavenly Court!
"Under the whole world, is it not the king's land."

The Southern Heavenly King said calmly, "The path you cultivate and the energy you use are all below the Heavenly Dao. If I take them back, you will be nothing more than a mortal."

The purple-gold light emanating from Su Chen's body rapidly dimmed, and his ten-thousand-foot-tall Dharma form began to collapse and shrink. In the blink of an eye, he transformed from an overwhelming overlord into a mortal devoid of any aura.

"It's over..."

Lady Dry Bones closed her eyes in despair.

"Take away my path?"

However, at this moment.

Su Chen, who seemed to have become a mortal, suddenly raised his head. Instead of fear, he revealed an extremely strange smile.

"Old thing."

Are you sure you're not mistaken about something?

Su Chen slowly straightened his spine.

"My power has never been a gift from heaven and earth."

"My power... I stole it!"

boom!
The longevity tree that had been lying dormant on Su Chen's chest suddenly burst out with an unprecedented bronze light!
This light does not belong to the Five Elements, nor to Yin and Yang, nor to the order of the Heavenly Court!

It belongs only to "survival"! It belongs to "plunder"!
"Eternal Life - Defying Heaven's Might!"

With a roar, Su Chen caused the five Dao branches within his body—Star, Withering and Flourishing, Soul Capturing, Giant Spirit, and Divine Weapon—to tremble simultaneously!

Click!

The "deprivation" rule imposed on him by the Southern Heavenly King was actually... snapped!

"Ok?"

For the first time, a hint of surprise flashed in the Southern Heavenly King's cloudy old eyes.

"It can break free from the laws of the Fifth Realm? That tree... is indeed a forbidden object."

"However, it's still too weak."

The Southern Heavenly King flipped his palm, and a miniature golden palace appeared in his palm—his natal magic weapon, the Southern Heavenly Gate.

This is a top-grade acquired spiritual treasure!
The only pity is that it did not become an innate spiritual treasure as he advanced in his cultivation.

Innate spiritual treasure.

It's so hard!

"Suppression."

Rumble!
The miniature palace swelled in the wind and instantly transformed into a towering heavenly gate, 100,000 feet high, carrying a terrifying weight that could suppress all the heavens and myriad worlds, and crashed down on Su Chen's head!

This strike is enough to smash through the continental plate surrounding the entire Ruins Domain!

“Well done!!”

Instead of retreating, Su Chen advanced, his eyes blazing with purple light.

"So what if it's the Fifth Realm? So what if it's eternity?"

"In my eyes, you're just a... tough nut to crack!"

“Open it… for me!!”

Su Chen raised his hands to the sky, unleashing the [Giant Spirit Divine Power] and [Heavenly Emperor Bone] simultaneously, forcefully holding up the falling Southern Heavenly Gate!
squeak - squeak -

A sickening, tooth-grinding sound of bones grinding together rang out.

Su Chen's legs sank thousands of feet into the ground instantly, his skin cracked all over his body, and golden divine blood stained his green robe.

But he……

No kneeling!
He was like a nail, firmly driven into the earth, withstanding the annihilation from the Fifth Realm!
"blocked?!"

The Southern Heavenly King's eye twitched slightly.

Although he didn't use his full strength and it was just a casual strike, it was still a strike from the fifth realm! Even a half-step Great Luo should have been turned into mincemeat!

Su Chen's physical body... is actually this hard?

"Is this the power of the Giant Spirit Clan's bloodline combined with the remnants of the Heavenly Emperor...?"

The Southern Heavenly King's eyes blazed with murderous intent.

"If this child is not eliminated, he will surely become a great threat!"

"South Heavenly Gate, Ten Thousand Mountains!"

The Heavenly King of the South changed his hand seals.

boom!
The weight of the Southern Heavenly Gate pressing down on Su Chen's head instantly increased tenfold! It was as if ten thousand ancient divine mountains had been superimposed on each other!
"puff--!"

Su Chen coughed up a mouthful of blood, and the bones in his arms made a crisp cracking sound.

His body was bent over under the weight, and his knees were less than three inches from the ground!
"Still not working..."

Su Chen gritted his teeth, his vision blurred by the blood.

The difference in levels is too great.

That's a chasm in terms of life level, which can't be bridged by mere enthusiasm.

"but……"

At this moment, a crazed, sinister smile appeared on Su Chen's lips.

"Old man, you're... too close to me."

In order to suppress him, the Southern Heavenly King controlled the main body of the Southern Heavenly Gate to descend, and at this moment it was only a hundred feet away from Su Chen.

"Longevity - Sixth Branch - Great Void Shift!"

hum!
The Void Branch within Su Chen's body, which had remained unused until now, suddenly burst into flames!

He is burning his very essence!

Swish!
Su Chen's figure vanished into thin air under the absolute suppression of the South Heavenly Gate!
"What?!" The Southern Heavenly King was shocked, and his divine sense swept across the surroundings in an instant.

"Here it is!"

A cold voice suddenly rang out behind the Southern Heavenly King.

Covered in blood, Su Chen looked like a demon crawling out of hell, and rode directly on the back of the Southern Heavenly King!
His hands and feet, like an octopus, locked the Southern Heavenly King's body tightly!

"court death!!"

Enraged, the Southern Heavenly King unleashed the eternal immortal light of the fifth realm, attempting to blast Su Chen away.

But when this divine light struck Su Chen, it only caused his skin to bleed and his body to break, and it couldn't push him away even a fraction of an inch!

Because countless bronze roots grew from Su Chen's body, these roots ignored the defense of the immortal light and deeply burrowed into the flesh of the Southern Heavenly King!

"I told you, you are my food!"

"Longevity - Gluttony!!"

Su Chen opened his mouth, the gaping maw stretching to his ears, revealing a pitch-black void within, pointing directly at the Southern Heavenly King's carotid artery...

Take a big bite!
Click!

The protective divine light of the fifth realm shattered!

puff!

The Heavenly King's flesh and blood were torn apart!

Gulu!

Su Chen swallowed a mouthful of golden blood containing "eternal matter" and "the laws of the fifth realm"!
“Ahhhh——!!!”

The Southern Heavenly King let out his first scream in tens of thousands of years.

pain!
It's not physical pain, but the fear of having one's very essence stolen!

He felt as if his soul had been bitten by an ancient ferocious beast, and the eternal power within him was flowing wildly out of the wound!
"Get out of here!! Get out of here!!"

The Southern Heavenly King went mad. He frantically crashed into the void, even burning his lifespan, unleashing waves of destructive laws that bombarded Su Chen on his back.

Su Chen's body was blown apart on one side, revealing his bare bones.

But he just wouldn't budge!
"It smells so good..."

Su Chen was spitting out blood while greedily sucking it in.

The taste of that "eternal blood" was like a star exploding inside my body.

It's enormous! It's so advanced!

Su Chen's inner universe nearly collapsed under the impact of this energy.

But right on the verge of destruction.

The Tree of Immortality... has evolved!

The original six branches swayed wildly, and after absorbing that trace of "eternity" attribute, all the energy converged at the center of the trunk.

There, a hazy gray vortex appeared.

The seventh branch slowly emerged.

This branch has no fixed shape; it is like a flowing mist or a burning flame. It encompasses all things and assimilates all things.

The Seventh Branch of Immortality: The Chaos Branch!
Efficacy: Evolves chaos and forges all paths! This "stomach" was specifically created to digest the advanced energy of the "Fifth Realm"!
boom!
As the Chaos Branch took shape, the eternal energy within Su Chen's body, which was on the verge of going berserk, was instantly tamed, transformed into the purest nourishment, and began to frantically repair his physical body and enhance his cultivation...

He has reached the threshold of the [Great Luo Immortal] realm!

At this moment, the Dao Fruit has returned! (End of Chapter)