The Chaos Heavenly Emperor stood at the center of the shattered sea of stars. His imperial robes were drenched in blood, though it was impossible to tell how much of it belonged to his enemies and how much to his former comrades.
Dozens of Immortal Emperors stood across different starfields. The Great Daos behind them stretched across the heavens, each one powerful enough to crush countless immortal realms.
An Immortal Emperor was a being who had reached the very end of the Great Dao.
With a casual step, they could cross several galaxies. Raising a hand to tear apart a minor world was no more difficult than crushing a sheet of paper.
Now, dozens of Immortal Emperors released their imperial might at once. The entire Old Immortal Realm began to sink beneath that overwhelming force.
Countless stars had yet to reach the battlefield before they were already unable to withstand the pressure. One after another, they exploded in the distance.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor merely stood there. The collapsing void around him automatically restored itself, while the Chaos Dao formed an invisible canopy that kept all the imperial might outside.
“Move aside.”
His voice was not loud, yet it passed through every starfield. Even the dark-red mist surging beyond the Immortal Realm briefly fell still.
The saber-wielding Immortal Emperor at the very front did not retreat. Instead, he took a step forward. The minor world beneath his feet shattered completely the instant his imperial body landed.
“You’ve been corrupted by the Outer Gods.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor glanced at him. “Who told you that?”
“Everyone saw it.”
The saber-wielding Immortal Emperor raised his imperial weapon, pointing its edge toward the Chaos Dao behind the Chaos Heavenly Emperor.
“The Immortal Realm has already been reduced to this state, yet you still refuse to surrender the authority of the Heavenly Emperor.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor offered no explanation.
Because he could see that, deep within the Immortal Emperor’s eyes, a thread of dark-red light had already taken root.
The man could still think. He still remembered everything about himself. But his perception had been imperceptibly altered by the Outer Gods.
In his eyes, the Chaos Heavenly Emperor was the true cause of the Immortal Realm’s destruction. As long as he was killed, all problems would naturally disappear.
Another Immortal Emperor walked over from the end of the star river. With every step he took, a nearby sun was crushed and extinguished by his imperial might.
“Surrender the Chaos Immortal Body.”
That Immortal Emperor made no attempt to conceal his intentions. His gaze remained fixed on the Chaos Heavenly Emperor’s physical body.
“As long as we possess the Immortal Body, we can truly withstand the Outer Gods.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor looked at him. “So you came to kill me first?”
“For the sake of the Immortal Realm, we have no choice.”
The Immortal Emperor’s answer was perfectly calm, as though besieging the Heavenly Emperor who had once led them in resisting the Outer Gods were the most natural thing in the world.
Bai Qianshuang and Luo Xi stood outside the memory. After witnessing this scene, neither of them spoke.
Not all of these Immortal Emperors were under control.
Some had had their perceptions altered by the Outer Gods. Some feared that the Chaos Heavenly Emperor would become the vessel of another Outer God. Others simply wanted to seize the Chaos Immortal Body amid the chaos.
Different motives had ultimately led to the same conclusion.
Kill the Chaos Heavenly Emperor.
The saber-wielding Immortal Emperor attacked first. The instant his imperial saber cleaved downward, the entire star river split in two beneath its radiance.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor raised two fingers. They transformed into an intangible Great Dao that directly caught the imperial saber, a weapon powerful enough to split open a great world.
“You didn’t use your saber like this in the past.”
The saber-wielding Immortal Emperor’s expression changed. Before he could pull back his imperial weapon, the Chaos Heavenly Emperor gently snapped the blade in two.
The sound of the imperial weapon breaking echoed throughout the Immortal Realm. At the same time, countless cracks appeared in the saber-wielding Immortal Emperor’s fundamental Great Dao.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor took a step forward and placed his right hand against the man’s chest. Not a single phenomenon of the Great Dao appeared.
Yet the hundreds of minor worlds behind that Immortal Emperor collapsed simultaneously, while his imperial body began to crumble piece by piece from the chest outward.
The Chaos Immortal Body could indeed withstand the Outer Gods.
But only if it still belonged to the Chaos Heavenly Emperor.
The other Immortal Emperors did not retreat because of this. Dozens of imperial arts descended almost simultaneously, completely covering the entire starfield where the Chaos Heavenly Emperor stood.
Sword light severed time.
Divine fire burned the Great Dao.
Thunder descended from the very top of the Immortal Realm, piercing straight through nine great worlds below.
Countless living beings did not even see how the battle had begun before the worlds they inhabited vanished completely in the aftermath of the Immortal Emperors’ clash.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor raised his right hand. The boundless chaos around him rapidly contracted, forcibly compressing all the imperial arts into his palm.
The combined power released by dozens of Immortal Emperors ultimately became nothing more than a dark sphere the size of a fist.
He casually tossed the sphere beyond the Immortal Realm.
The next moment, dozens of galaxies vanished simultaneously in the distance. Even space itself was blasted into an irreparable void.
“Heavenly Emperor, stop!”
Luo Xi hurried over from afar. Her imperial sword tore through the blockade between several Immortal Emperors and landed directly beside the Chaos Heavenly Emperor.
Several Immortal Emperors who had not betrayed him followed behind her, but they were pitifully few compared with the forces opposing them.
“Where’s Luo Xuan?” the Chaos Heavenly Emperor asked without turning around. His gaze remained fixed on the familiar figures surrounding him.
“She’s dead, but her soul has been sent into reincarnation…”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor fell silent for a long while.
It was as though he let out a soundless sigh.
“Thank you, Jiuhua…”
Luo Xi looked toward the many Immortal Emperors surrounding them.
“Have these people gone mad?”
“No.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor’s answer left her slightly stunned.
“They’re all perfectly clear-headed.”
And that was precisely what made the scene before them even more terrifying.
The Outer Gods did not need to turn Immortal Emperors into mindless puppets who knew only how to kill. They merely needed to alter the way those Immortal Emperors judged things.
The corrupted Immortal Emperors could still think. They could still use every technique at their disposal. They still believed that everything they were doing was the correct choice.
In the distance, a female Immortal Emperor suddenly raised her hand. Countless stars were pulled directly from the star river and condensed in her palm into a burning imperial spear.
“Empress Jiuhua has joined forces with the Chaos Heavenly Emperor.”
She looked at the others, her voice cold.
“Luo Xuan Empress was killed by them.”
Luo Xi’s expression changed slightly.
She had only just rescued Luo Xuan Empress’s soul, yet in these people’s mouths, it had already become a story in which she and the Chaos Heavenly Emperor had joined forces to kill Luo Xuan.
Farther away, a heavily wounded Immortal Emperor suddenly spoke.
“I saw Empress Jiuhua stab through Luo Xuan’s imperial body from behind with my own eyes.”
What he said was indeed true.
But under the perception altered by the Outer Gods, that sword had become proof of her betrayal of the Immortal Realm.
“Do you see now?”
The female Immortal Emperor raised her burning spear. When its tip descended, more than a hundred stars along its path ignited simultaneously in imperial flames.
“They’ve already begun slaughtering Immortal Emperors.”
Luo Xi laughed in anger.
“You surrounded the Heavenly Emperor and attacked him for half a day, yet you’re calling us the ones slaughtering Immortal Emperors?”
“Don’t argue with her.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor raised his hand and blocked the imperial spear. With a forceful clench of his five fingers, he crushed the entire spear, along with the star river behind it.
The female Immortal Emperor suffered the backlash. Her imperial body instantly split open with several cracks, yet she still believed that the Chaos Heavenly Emperor was destroying the Immortal Realm.
“They won’t listen.”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor looked at them all. His expression remained almost unchanged.
“Since you’ve come, then none of you need to leave.”
At that moment, the Chaos Dao completely unfolded.
A colossal palm formed from chaos descended from the void, large enough to cover several seas of stars. Broken worlds even flowed between its palm lines.
Dozens of Immortal Emperors attacked at the same time to resist it. Imperial weapons and Great Daos collided with the enormous palm, and the entire Immortal Realm trembled violently beneath the impact.
Several Immortal Emperors at the very front were the first to reach their limits. Their imperial bodies were crushed beneath the Chaos Palm, while their divine souls began to collapse under the assault of the Great Dao!
One Immortal Emperor roared as he burned his origin. His body rapidly expanded into a Dharma form as enormous as a great world, and he forcibly braced the Chaos Palm with both hands.
“We are saving the Immortal Realm!”
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor looked at him. “You can’t even save yourselves.”
The palm pressed down once more.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
