Living in the deep palace

Beyond the boundary, at the extreme point of the void.

Su Chen had just finished devouring the Shepherd Emperor and completely stabilized his cultivation at the early stage of the eighth realm.

He sat cross-legged in the void, his eyes slightly closed, like an ancient, indestructible god. Around him, ethereal flames would sometimes rise, and black lightning would sometimes flash, as the Gluttony Origin Law within him was resonating and assimilating deeply with the environment of this extraterrestrial realm.

"The eighth realm, indescribable..."

Su Chen's mind was clear.

"At this level, the accumulation of power is no longer the key. True strength lies in the stripping away and reshaping of the 'rules of the Great Dao'."

"Although the Shepherd Emperor of the Realm is powerful, he merely borrowed the authority bestowed upon him by the High Dimension Council. His Dao is borrowed. But my Dao is forged through battle, devoured, and belongs solely to me, Su Chen, as the ultimate origin of the Dao!"

Su Chen slowly opened his eyes, and in his pupils, it seemed as if billions of universes were being born and dying in a cycle.

Suddenly, his brows twitched slightly, and his deep gaze pierced through the void tens of millions of light-years ahead.

In his divine sense, the once lifeless void beyond the boundary suddenly began to boil violently. An immense, suffocating aura of killing intent, mixed with the soaring malevolent energy of countless gods and demons, was rapidly approaching the area where he was located at an incredible speed!

The aura was so powerful that it caused the already precarious cosmic bubbles along the way to collapse and disintegrate under its pressure, turning into dazzling cosmic fireworks.

"Oh? You're quite quick."

Su Chen showed no sign of panic; instead, he slowly stood up. He brushed off non-existent dust from his green robe, and the cold, arrogant smile that once again graced his face.

"It seems that those old fogies in the High Dimension Judgment Council are quite dissatisfied with me, this 'variable'."

Su Chen gripped the hilt of the [Origin Demon Blade] with his other hand, the tip of the blade pointing diagonally into the void below.

"However, we've come at the perfect time."

"I have just entered the eighth realm and am worried that I have nowhere to use my divine power of the Great Dao, and I do not have enough 'whetstones' to temper my Origin Killing Dao."

Su Chen took a step forward, his figure instantly rising to the very top of the void, like an unparalleled god of death waiting for his prey to come to him. The dark golden primordial divine power around him erupted, transforming into visible ripples that met the approaching terrifying pressure head-on without flinching!
"Since your High Dimensional Council wants to play games, then I will play along with you today!"

"I'll use your so-called army of judges as a sacrifice to my ultimate blade, to be the first stepping stone before I crush the gates of the Judgment Council!!!"

Half an incense stick later.

"boom--------!!!!!"

The void directly in front of Su Chen seemed to have been struck by a giant axe that split the heavens and earth, shattering open a terrifying gap that was tens of millions of miles wide!
Immediately afterwards, countless war fortresses gleaming with cold metallic luster surged out of the breach like a swarm of bees, instantly sealing off Su Chen's location from all sides!

Accompanied by earth-shattering war drums, the Void Judgment army of tens of millions, clad in dark silver armor, descended upon this Void Sea like a black cloud about to crush the city, carrying an overwhelming sense of oppression!
The four divine generals, riding colossal beasts that cleaved the heavens, marched out from the crowd. Four immense divine senses, locking onto dimensions and sealing off all directions, were like four peerless swords, firmly fixed on the azure figure surrounded by the army at the very center.

The Eastern God General pointed his thunderous halberd at Su Chen, his eyes filled with contempt and ruthlessness.

"Su Chen, the variable of the lower realm! You killed our Council's Supreme Emperor, a crime deserving of death! Today, we are here with the Void Judgment Army, ordered by the Grand Elder!"

"If you know what's good for you, surrender immediately, cripple your cultivation, and kneel to receive the imperial decree! You might be spared the torment of having your soul extracted and refined!"

"If you dare to resist..."

The Eastern General suddenly slammed his halberd down, and the millions of soldiers took a step forward in unison, causing the void to tremble!

"I will surely annihilate you, body and soul, and plunge you into an abyss of eternal damnation!!!"

Faced with the encirclement of millions of troops, and the death judgment of four divine generals.

At the very center of the encirclement, Su Chen held the Origin Demon Blade, looked up at the vast, densely packed high-dimensional army, like ants.

He neither refuted nor showed anger.

He merely gave a disdainful sneer, the sound amplified by the power of the eighth realm, like an ancient demonic chant, clearly reaching the ears of every single soldier in the millions.

"An ant trying to shake a tree is overestimating its own strength."

Su Chen slowly raised the Origin Demon Blade in his hand, and a dark golden devouring vortex began to swirl wildly on the blade.

"A bunch of clay chickens and earthen dogs, built up on scraps from higher dimensions handed out by others, dare to bark and howl in front of me?"

"Today, in this void, there is no surrender."

In Su Chen's eyes, a murderous intent surged like an abyss!
"The only solution is—to unleash a massacre!!!"

"kill!!!"

……

"kill!!!"

With a roar from the Eastern Judgement General, the killing intent of the millions of Void Judgement troops materialized into a tangible form. In the vast outer void, the once lifeless space began to churn violently, like a boiling ocean.

With tens of millions of elite warriors at the level of God-Kings and hundreds of thousands of commanders at the level of True Gods, led by four half-step eighth-realm God-Generals, their overwhelming momentum was enough to wipe a top-tier Great Thousand World off the map of the multiverse in an instant.

"Set up the formation! The Void Locking Heaven Formation!"

The four Judgment Gods simultaneously formed hand seals, and four pillars of primordial light, each a million miles thick, shot into the sky from their bodies, occupying the four cardinal directions: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise. At the same time, millions of soldiers raised their [Judgment Spears] high and thrust them into the void.

"Buzzing—"

Endless dark silver array patterns spread and intertwined wildly in the void, like an invisible giant net encompassing the stars of the heavens, sealing off all of Su Chen's escape routes in all directions, past and future. Within the great array, there was the unique "High-Dimensional Judgment Law" of the Judgment Council. This law could forcibly suppress the Dao origin of the beings within the array, weakening their cultivation by several levels.

"Boom!"

At this moment, the tens of thousands of illusory war fortresses surrounding the outermost perimeter also emitted a deafening roar. From countless dark cannon muzzles, destructive torrents of antimatter and causal rays were frantically accumulating energy, emitting a chilling white light of annihilation.

"You, a variable in the lower realm, were reduced to ashes by our council's Void Locking Sky Formation and a barrage of cannon fire. You have every reason to be proud!"

The Eastern Divine General stood atop the Primordial Void Sky-Splittering Beast, looking down at Su Chen in his azure robes at the center of the formation, his eyes flashing with cruelty and pleasure. "Annihilate!"

He swung his thunderous halberd down suddenly.

"boom--------!!!!!"

Heaven and earth fell silent, and all laws collapsed!
Tens of thousands of beams of destructive light, powerful enough to pierce the cosmic crystal wall, carrying the supreme killing intent of a massive army, transformed into a vast ocean of white light capable of engulfing everything, pouring down relentlessly towards Su Chen's location!

This attack lacked any fancy supernatural transformations; it was simply the purest and most extreme crushing force of energy and laws. Even those renowned peak seventh-realm experts, faced with this combined attack that brought together the entire Judgment Army's strength, could only perish on the spot, with not even a wisp of their remnant soul able to escape.

However, Su Chen, who was at the very center of that devastating ocean and locked on by endless killing intent, had an eerily calm expression.

He did not draw the Origin Demon Blade from his waist, nor did he manifest the Gluttony Dharma Form, which was tens of millions of feet long.

He stood silently in the void, his green robe fluttering in the raging, destructive winds. He slightly raised his eyes, gazing at the overwhelming ocean of white light that poured down from the sky. In his deep, abyss-like pupils, there was no fear, only an extreme indifference that seemed to have seen through the very essence of all things.

"By using formations, the power of all living beings is gathered, seemingly vast and boundless, but in reality, it is as loose as sand."

Su Chen's voice wasn't loud, but under a peculiar resonance of the Great Dao, it clearly pierced through the deafening roar of destruction and reached the ears of the four Judgment Gods.

"Is this the foundation of the High Dimensional Judgment Council? Is this the means by which you suppress all worlds?"

Su Chen slowly raised his right hand.

His movements were extremely slow, as slow as a mortal raising his hand to brush dust off his clothes. But precisely in this extremely slow movement, the absolute nothingness of the entire outer realm actually underwent a terrifying distortion and collapse along the trajectory of his raised hand!
An aura that defies description and transcends all known concepts of this multiverse slowly emanated from Su Chen's fingertips.

That is... [Eighth Realm - Indescribable]!
"You simply don't understand what true power is, what the true... ultimate path is!"

Su Chen gently pointed his right index finger out, facing the devastating ocean crashing down from the sky.

"The Origin of Taoism—"

"One finger, shattered stars."

"Buzz————————!!!!!"

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any dazzling collision of light and shadow.

The moment Su Chen pointed his finger, time stood still; space froze; even the killing intent formed by millions of troops and the causal destruction beams unleashed by tens of thousands of war fortresses were frozen in mid-air!

An invisible dark golden ripple gently spread outwards from Su Chen's fingertip.

Where the ripples passed.

That vast ocean of white light, capable of destroying the heavens and the earth, was like the first snow under the scorching sun. It melted away without a sound in an instant, completely returning to the most primitive void particles of the outer realm!
"what?!"

The cold smiles on the faces of the four judges instantly froze, replaced by a look of horror as if they had witnessed the ultimate terror of the universe!

However, this was just the beginning.

The dark golden ripples continued their momentum, easily piercing through the "Void Locking Heaven Formation," which was said to be able to trap even eighth-realm experts.

"Crack... Bang!!!"

The invisible giant net, woven from the essence of countless god-kings, crumbled and disintegrated the moment it came into contact with the ripples, just like fragile spider silk encountering a sharp blade!
The backlash from the broken formation erupted suddenly, and the millions of Void Judgment Army simultaneously spat out a mouthful of golden divine blood mixed with fragments of origin. The army formation was instantly thrown into chaos, and countless soldiers tumbled and fell in the void like kites with broken strings.

But this is still not the end!
The dark golden ripples continued to spread, sweeping over the tens of thousands of massive void war fortresses on the outer perimeter.

The indestructible war machines, forged from Taiyi Void Divine Iron, had their shimmering defensive array patterns extinguished the instant the ripples swept across them. Immediately afterwards, starting from the very core of the fortress, a terrifying force of "concept stripping" erupted.

"Swish—"

Under the desperate gaze of the four divine generals, the tens of thousands of massive war fortresses, along with the countless council soldiers stationed inside, didn't even have time to utter a scream before turning into a sky full of flying gray ash!
With a single finger, the formation shattered, the light vanished, and ten thousand fortresses turned to ashes!

This is the power of the Eighth Realm! This is Su Chen's [Origin Power], which transcends all reason!
His single finger strike was not merely a physical act of destruction, but a direct erasure of the concept of "existence" itself!
"No...this is impossible! This is absolutely impossible!!!"

The Eastern Divine General trembled violently, gripping his Thunder Halberd tightly until his knuckles turned a ghastly white from the force. His once lofty Dao heart had been cracked beyond recognition by Su Chen's single finger strike.

He couldn't understand how someone could so easily erase their devastating blow, powerful enough to suppress an ancient universe, with just a single finger!
This is no longer a difference in strength; it's a dimensional crushing! It's the most ruthless condescension of the superior over the inferior!
"Retreat immediately! This fiend has reached the eighth realm! We are far beyond our capabilities! Quickly send a message to the Divine Realm, requesting the Grand Elder to personally suppress it!!!"

The Western God General was the first to react. He let out a shrill roar, disregarding even the Primordial Void Sky-Splitting Beast beneath his feet. He directly burned the Great Dao Origin within his body, transforming into a streak of blood-red light, attempting to tear through the void and escape.

The two divine generals from the south and the north were also terrified, and they each used their strongest blood escape techniques to flee frantically in different directions.

As for the remaining millions of defeated soldiers, they had long lost all fighting spirit and were like ants whose nest had been disturbed, fleeing desperately into nothingness.

"escape?"

Su Chen slowly withdrew his right hand, looking at the fleeing army of judges, a chillingly sarcastic smile curling at the corner of his lips.

"Now that I have taken action, if I cannot even hold back a few stray dogs running around in panic, wouldn't it make people outside the realm laugh at my weak Dao?"

Su Chen didn't even move an inch.

He merely raised his eyelids slightly, and in his deep eyes, dark golden Origin God runes intertwined wildly.

"Suppress this being!"

"Boom!!!"

An invisible, vast absolute domain, large enough to cover tens of millions of light-years, descended with a roar centered on Su Chen!

[Eighth Realm: Origin Absolute Domain]!
Within this realm, Su Chen is the sole truth, the supreme ruler! Time, space, laws, cause and effect—everything must obey his will!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The three judges, who had already escaped millions of miles away and were about to disappear into the depths of nothingness, suddenly felt as if the surrounding void had turned into indestructible divine iron. Their prized Blood Escape Technique instantly failed, and they were thrown back as if they had crashed into an invisible barrier, coughing up blood.

The millions of fleeing remnants were completely crushed by this absolute suppressive force, forced to lie prostrate in the void. No matter how frantically they channeled their divine power, they couldn't budge even a finger! (End of Chapter)