Perfection: The Eastern Emperor Bell manifests, I am the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor

Chapter 105 Ancient Artifact Destroyed, Realm Annihilated

He knew all too well that conventional methods, even gathering all the remaining forces from other realms, would only be a joke in the face of Lu Xuan in his current state.

To reverse this inevitable defeat, or rather, to drag the culprit who destroyed this alien land down with them, the only option is to resort to the last and most forbidden method.

His gaze fell on the rotten wooden box in front of him, and a complex and inscrutable light flashed in his eyes, containing awe, fanaticism, and a deep sense of apprehension.

He then made no further hesitation.

With a gentle flick of his withered fingers, a pillar of ancient incense, entirely black as if condensed from countless worlds' resentment and the source of darkness, appeared at his fingertips—the World Annihilation Ancient Incense!
This incense is not a weapon of attack, but a coordinate, a beacon!
Once ignited, its unique fragrance and energy waves will penetrate the endless sea of ​​boundaries, directly attracting and guiding those terrifying creatures that roam the deepest parts of the sea of ​​boundaries, completely corrupted by darkness, and left only with the instinct to devour!
This is like drinking poison to quench thirst, like trying to get something from a tiger, but it is also the only chance to turn things around in despair, or rather... a chance to perish together!

"For immortal glory...for the eternity of darkness..."

Kundi murmured to himself, a wisp of dark flame emerging from his fingertips, gently igniting the Ancient Incense of Extinction.

"laugh--"

The ancient incense was lit, but instead of the usual wisps of smoke rising, it transformed into an invisible and intangible yet eerie fluctuation that made the souls of all living beings in the entire alien realm and even the surrounding border sea area tremble. It spread rapidly like water ripples and disappeared into the endless depths of the border sea.

After finishing this task, Kundi seemed to have exhausted most of his strength, and his body became even more hunched over.

But the resolve in his eyes burned even brighter. He stretched out his hands, with utmost solemnity and a martyr-like fervor, and placed them on the rotten wooden box.

"With my blood! With my soul! With my immortal imperial body and Dao fruit as a sacrifice!"

"We respectfully request... the power of the progenitor to descend!"

"boom--!!!"

Kundi let out his final and most magnificent roar!
His entire body burst into flames instantly—an extreme burning of imperial laws, origin, and divine soul!

The immense and vast energy, like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, surged wildly into that seemingly ordinary rotten wooden box!

The rotten wooden box shook violently, and the seemingly decayed wood grain on its surface suddenly lit up, emitting an extreme darkness that devoured all light!

A terrifying aura, far surpassing that of the Emperor Light Immortal King and even causing Lu Xuan, who had just annihilated the Blade King and Qu Zhong, to raise an eyebrow, began to emanate from the box!

"Click..."

The lid of the box opened by itself, leaving a small gap.

It was just a crack!
Endless black light burst forth from it, illuminating the heavens and eclipsing the sun and moon!

In the heart of that dense, impenetrable darkness, the outline of an imperial crown could be vaguely seen slowly coalescing and emerging!
The imperial crown was ancient and majestic, exuding an unparalleled aura that seemed to reign supreme over all heavens and overlook all worlds, yet it was permeated with the purest, most primordial, and coldest dark matter!
It seems to be the source of all darkness, a symbol of the end!
The moment the imperial crown appeared, the remaining laws of the entire alien realm completely collapsed, and the speed at which all things withered accelerated a thousandfold!
All living beings, including the Immortal Realm Allied Forces, felt a fear and suffocation stemming from their very life instincts, as if they had encountered their natural enemy, the true "Emperor"!
Kundi sacrificed everything he had, finally triggering a projection of a portion of the power belonging to an unknown dark emperor that had been dormant within the ancient artifact of origin—this phantom of the imperial crown!
Its only goal is to lock onto Lu Xuan and deliver a fatal blow!
The illusory image of the imperial crown rotated slightly, as if a pair of cold eyes were staring at Lu Xuan through the endless void.

The next moment, a dark beam of light, whose color was indescribable, ignored time and space and shot out from the center of the Emperor's Crown, aiming straight at Lu Xuan's brow!
This attack has truly reached the realm of a quasi-Immortal Emperor!
It was Kundi's final funeral song, prepared for Lu Xuan at the cost of everything he had!
Faced with this sudden, deadly attack imbued with true imperial might, Lu Xuan's gaze became incredibly solemn for the first time.

He could sense that this attack could no longer be easily erased as before.

The Chaos Battle Immortal Dao Fruit and the Emperor's Fall Battle Immortal Dao Fruit resonated and circulated within his body at an unprecedented speed! Chaotic energy and dark gold battle intent surged around him, preparing to take the attack from the Dark Emperor from afar!
The final chapter of the alien world was drawn back in such a tragic and terrifying way!

The moment the phantom of the imperial crown condensed, all things wailed, and the heavens seemed to be thrown into an eternal ice prison!
The dark beam of light shining through the crack in the box was not a pure energy impact; it was more like a manifestation of the concept of "end." Wherever it passed, laws ceased to exist, cause and effect were severed, and even spacetime itself presented a state of "death," turning into an absolute void.

This attack locked onto Lu Xuan's past, present, and future, sealing off all his possibilities of evasion.

Bearing the venomous resentment of Kundi's sacrifice and the supreme majesty of the Dark Emperor, he vowed to eradicate it completely from its source!
Faced with this attack that truly touched the Emperor Realm, Lu Xuan's eyes showed extreme solemnity, but he remained calm.

Within his body, the Chaos Dao Fruit and the Battle Immortal Dao Fruit resonated and merged at an unprecedented frequency!
"Chaos... Return to Nothingness!"

"Battle Immortal... Unyielding!"

He let out a shout that shook the entire world!

With his left hand forming the Chaos Seal, he drew upon the vast chaotic energy around him, transforming it into a bottomless, all-consuming vortex of Guixu, which met the dark beam of light, intending to devour and decompose it!
With his right hand gripping the Battle Immortal Fist, the dark golden battle intent solidified into a tangible form. The tragic phenomena of the Emperor's Fall era conquering all the heavens appeared on the fist, carrying a will to defy the heavens and never yield, and he unleashed it fiercely!
The Void of Return and the Dark Beam collided first!
"laugh--!"

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a chilling, eerie sound that seemed to dissolve everything.

The power of Chaos Return to Nothingness frantically eroded the Emperor-level laws contained in the dark beam, but the dark beam was too condensed and terrifying. The Return to Nothingness vortex was blackened, eroded, and disintegrated at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Ultimately, it was a hasty response, and it involved Emperor-level power invoked remotely. Although Lu Xuan's Chaos Dao Fruit was strong, it was difficult to completely counteract it.

But at that very moment, the dark golden fist energy, imbued with an indomitable fighting spirit, arrived!

"Boom!!!"

The fist's energy slammed solidly into the already dimmed beam of dark light!
This time, a deafening roar erupted that pierced through the entire sea!
The dark golden power of the War Immortal and the Dark Emperor's Law frantically annihilated each other, unleashing a devastating storm that completely obliterated the remaining alien landscapes and even shattered countless stars in the distant Boundary Sea!
Lu Xuan's body trembled violently. On his fist, dark golden divine light and chaotic energy intertwined and flickered. The power contained in that dark beam of light far exceeded his imagination, and he actually felt a long-lost pain and pressure as if his imperial body was about to break!
The void beneath his feet continued to collapse, and his body was slid backward by the beam of light. Each step he took created huge ripples in the sea of ​​boundaries, as if he were bearing the weight of the entire universe.

"He blocked it?! He actually blocked the attack from the Primordial Emperor's Crown?!"

The surviving alien creatures, witnessing this scene, saw their nascent, twisted hope shattered once more, plunging them into even deeper despair.

"Emperor Lu!" The hearts of everyone in the Immortal Realm Allied Forces were in their throats. However, the illusory image of the imperial crown seemed to fluctuate slightly due to the failure of its first attack, and the dark light on it gathered again, clearly preparing to launch a second attack! And its aura was even more terrifying than before!
Lu Xuan's eyes sharpened. He knew he could no longer passively respond! The power of this imperial crown phantom originated from the depths of the ancient artifact. Kundi's sacrifice was merely the trigger. If its source was not severed or suppressed, it would likely continue to flow endlessly!

He forcibly steadied himself, ignoring the excruciating pain from his fists and the still-eroding Dark Emperor's Law, and slammed his palms together!

"Om-!"

Above his head, the Chaos Dao Fruit, representing the laws of the present world and the laws of the primordial world, and the Battle Immortal Dao Fruit, representing the Battle Immortal Path of the Emperor's Fall Era, began to actively and deeply merge for the first time in a true sense!
It is not a simple addition of forces, but a complementarity and sublimation of the fundamental principles!

Chaos encompasses all things and evolves all laws; this is the foundation.

The warrior's will is as strong as iron, and his attacks are unparalleled; this is his sharp edge.

At this moment, under the pressure of a life-or-death crisis and stimulated by the confrontation with true Emperor-level power, these two Dao Fruits, which had already reached the pinnacle of the King Realm but whose paths were completely different, found the ultimate point of resonance!
The chaotic energy was no longer just gray, but was tinged with a dark gold, sharp edge of battle intent!

The Dark Gold Battle Intent is no longer just pure gold, but incorporates the vastness and evolutionary characteristics of chaos!
A completely new and overwhelming aura, surpassing any previous moment, erupted from Lu Xuan's body!
His aura became incredibly ancient and vast at this moment, carrying with it a sharp edge capable of conquering all heavens and shattering countless worlds! He was like an unparalleled war god born from chaos!

He slowly raised his right hand, pointing his fingers like a sword.

The fingertips are no longer a single chaotic light or battle immortal light, but a strange radiance that perfectly blends chaos and battle intent, presenting a "true color of chaos"!

"My path is chaos, and also the path of the War Immortal!"

"Today, I will use your imperial blood to forge the foundation of my imperial path!"

"cut!"

He unleashed a sword strike at the phantom of the imperial crown that was once again gathering dark beams of light, and at the ancient artifact of origin beneath it!
This sword strike is no longer the sharpness that divides the world's barriers, nor is it the nothingness that obliterates the Immortal King. Instead, it contains the supreme truth of the creation, evolution, and conquest of chaos!

Where the sword light passed, it seemed as if a miniature chaotic universe was being created and destroyed, in which endless gods and demons were fighting. In the end, everything returned to silence, and then a new life was born!
This sword light of chaotic true color collided violently with the second, even thicker and more terrifying dark beam emitted by the phantom of the Emperor's Crown in the core of the alien realm!
"boom----------------!!!!!!!"

This collision transcended the realm of sound; it was the ultimate clash of the very origins of the Great Dao!
Indescribable light and darkness erupted and vanished there!
The entire alien realm, this dark world that has existed for countless epochs, let out its final lament in the aftershocks of this clash that surpassed the limits of the King Realm, and began a complete, structural... Great Collapse!

The stars extinguished, the earth turned to ashes, and the chains of law broke inch by inch!

Countless surviving alien creatures, along with those peering sea explorers who couldn't escape in time, vanished like dust in this destructive storm!

With Lu Xuan's deliberate protection, the Immortal Realm Allied Forces retreated rapidly, but they were still shaken by the terrifying shockwave, their blood churning, and they stared in horror at the center that looked like the end of the world.

The light dissipated.

The scene appeared.

The phantom of the imperial crown, summoned by Kundi through the sacrifice of everything, became incredibly dim and cracked. Finally, it let out a mournful cry of resentment, shattered completely, and dissipated into pure dark essence.

The ancient artifact beneath it—the rotten wooden box—also had countless cracks on its surface. The lid was tightly closed, and its light was restrained, as if it had suffered a severe blow. Its aura was extremely weak. It fell from the sky and was suppressed and stored away by Lu Xuan's sleeve.

Lu Xuan still stood in the collapsing alien void, his body surrounded by chaotic true light. Although his aura was somewhat disordered, his eyes were brighter and deeper than ever before!
He withstood the attack from a Quasi-Immortal Emperor and, with the new power from the initial fusion of the two Dao Fruits, defeated it head-on!

Although he hasn't actually taken that step yet, he feels that the barrier that has troubled him for hundreds of thousands of years has already loosened! The gate to becoming a Quasi-Immortal Emperor has opened a clear crack for him!

The alien realm, with the suppression of the ancient artifacts and the complete collapse of its core, is declared... destroyed!
The seas fell silent, and all realms trembled!
Lu Xuan, with his unparalleled achievements of destroying a dark realm and fighting against and defeating an emperor-level power, proclaimed to the heavens his indisputable hegemon status and... his firm steps on the path to godhood!
However, just as the alien realm completely collapsed and the energy storm had not yet fully subsided—

“Woo—ah—!”

"Hiss—!"

From the depths of the Boundary Sea, in the direction drawn by the Boundary Annihilation Ancient Fragrance, came countless terrifying roars and howls that made one's scalp tingle and one's soul tremble!

The sound came from afar, carrying a chaotic, violent, and all-consuming madness, sweeping in like a tsunami!

Immediately afterwards, under the horrified gazes of the Immortal Realm Allied Forces and all the remaining observers, dozens of huge gaps were forcibly torn open in the void of the boundary sea in that area!
One after another, figures of different shapes, yet all exuding a dense dark substance, as large as stars, and with a ferocious aura, struggled and broke through!

Some are shaped like giant Kun (a mythical fish), with dark scales and armor, capable of swallowing starlight with a single open mouth.

Some resembled demonic spiders, with eight legs tearing through the air, weaving a giant web of corrosive laws.

Even more so are those that resemble stitched-together monsters made from countless broken worlds, their bodies writhing with wailing vengeful spirits.

There are also dark knights who retain some human form, but whose eyes are bloodshot and who are driven only by the instinct to kill...

Their auras varied in strength, with the weakest comparable to a supreme immortal king, while the best among them had reached the level of giants. There were even two or three whose dark laws permeated their bodies so intensely that they resonated with the sea of ​​realms, already touching the edge of the Emperor's Light!
The number is more than thirty!

These are the dark creatures that the Ancient Fragrance of Extinction attracted, which roam the deepest part of the Boundary Sea!
They are terrifying beings completely corrupted by darkness, who have lost their sense of self and are left with only a primal desire to devour. They are the most feared scavengers in the Boundary Sea!

Their appearance was not to save the alien world, but rather they were attracted by the incense stick and the rich flesh, energy, and aura of destruction of this place, and came to... feed!
(End of this chapter)