The Fall of the Five Supremes

Gu Changge looked at them indifferently, his eyes devoid of the slightest ripple. He showed neither the pride of a victor nor pity for the dying.

To him, these five people were nothing more than obstacles to be cleared, mere clues for uncovering the truth.

Gu Changge spoke no more. Forming his fingers into a sword, he slashed at the five Supreme Beings from afar.

Om—

An invisible suction force materialized out of thin air. It did not extract their life essence; instead, it precisely locked onto the Immortal Qi within their bodies—an energy that did not belong to this realm and carried an alien aura!

The five Supreme Beings felt in horror that the Immortal Qi supporting their vigorous vitality and delaying their decay was being forcefully stripped from the depths of their Dao Foundations, as if pulled by invisible threads!

Five halos of different colors, all exuding an extraordinary aura, were forced out from the top of their heads and suspended in mid-air.

Having lost the support of this Immortal Qi, the auras of the five Supreme Beings instantly withered like deflated balloons!

Their faces became old and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye. Their skin filled with wrinkles, their eyes dimmed, and their vitality dried up. They completely reverted to the decaying, near-death state that self-severed Supreme Beings were supposed to be in!

They could not even maintain basic levitation. Slumping to the ground, they gasped heavily for air, their eyes filled with despair.

Gu Changge reached out and beckoned, drawing the five clusters of Immortal Qi into his palm. He probed them slightly with his divine sense.

Hmph.

He gave a cold snort and lightly rubbed his fingertips together. The five clusters of Immortal Qi that the Supreme Beings treated as priceless treasures instantly collapsed and annihilated like inferior smoke, vanishing without a trace.

Impure and mottled. They are nothing but defective products that have been diluted and mixed with a few Immortal Realm laws.

A trace of disdain flashed through Gu Changge's eyes.

To think that such inferior items could buy you off to betray the very world that nurtured you. How pathetic and detestable.

Your sins cannot be absolved even by a hundred deaths. However, your memories still hold some value.

His voice was flat, yet it sounded like a final judgment.

After speaking, Great Dao runes circulated within Gu Changge's eyes once more, far more profound and vast than before.

His gaze seemed to materialize into substance, acting like two divine chains of order that pierced directly into the deepest depths of the five Supreme Beings' spiritual seas between their brows!

Arghhhh—!

A sensation of soul-tearing agony, ten million times more painful than physical destruction, instantly swept through the remaining consciousness of the five Supreme Beings!

Their divine souls felt as though they were being pierced, ground, and dissected upon billions of sharp needles!

Gu Changge forcibly flipped through all the memory fragments of their long lives:

Rising from humble beginnings, contending among ten thousand races, rising alongside other geniuses, fighting bloody battles all the way, finally proving the Dao to become an Emperor, ruling the universe in dazzling glory...

Then reaching the end of their lifespans, unwilling to pass away in meditation, severing themselves in the restricted areas, lying dormant through the ages, wandering between slumber and awakening, witnessing the changing of epochs, and their mindsets gradually twisting from looking down upon all living beings to becoming distorted, greedy, and desperately clinging to life...

Finally, the turning point that changed everything: the mysterious cross-realm teleportation array, the alluring Immortal Qi, the promises from the Immortal Realm...

How they went from hesitation to firm resolve, how they secretly laid out arrays to siphon the world's origin at various key nodes throughout the Xuanhuang Great World.

How they obtained Immortal Qi to prolong their lives through repeated transactions, and how, in their thirst for longevity and the path to immortality, they gradually grew numb, selectively ignoring the decay of heaven and earth caused by the loss of this realm's origin...

Countless images, sounds, emotions, and conspiracies...

Like a breached dam, they were forcibly extracted, sorted, and read by Gu Changge with supreme mighty power.

Especially the details regarding the cross-realm teleportation array, the methods of communication, the layout of the array formations, and the vague information they sensed about the Immortal Realm... All of it was clearly peeled away and imprinted into Gu Changge's mind.

This process was a torture more cruel than death by a thousand cuts for the five Supreme Beings.

All their secrets, all their pride, all their darkness, and all their schemes were laid bare under the sun, leaving them with absolutely no dignity.

A few breaths later, the Great Dao runes flowing in Gu Changge's eyes slowly settled. He had obtained all the information he wanted.

As for the five Supreme Beings, their eyes were completely dim. Their divine souls were already fragmented, leaving only the most foundational specks of soul light flickering weakly like candles in the wind.

Gu Changge did not spare them another glance, merely spitting out four words indifferently:

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

He lightly flicked his sleeve.

There were no earth-shattering explosions, nor any brilliant lights.

The five Supreme Beings who had once stood at the pinnacle of the universe and looked down upon the ages—their emperor bodies, their shattered divine souls, and all traces of their existence—completely dissipated between heaven and earth under this understated flick.

Along with the clamor, conspiracies, and sins they brought, everything returned to eternal nothingness.

Om—!!!

An indescribable wail originating from the origin of the universe suddenly rang out!

It was not a sound, but a violent tremor of the myriad Dao laws! It was as if a vital pillar supporting heaven and earth had suddenly collapsed!

Immediately after, anomalies suddenly arose in the vast starry sky!

Boundless blood clouds surged out of thin air, converging into an ocean!

These were no ordinary clouds, but formations condensed from fragments of Great Dao laws and the sorrowful Dao rhythm dissipating from the fall of Emperor Realm experts!

The Emperor's Fall Blood Rain!

A pattering, dark red rain of blood drifted down from the blood clouds. Every drop of rain was incomparably heavy, crushing the void and containing endless sorrow and an aura of destruction!

This was heaven and earth weeping for the fall of Supreme Beings; it was the laws mourning the demise of Great Emperors!

Wherever the blood rain passed, the stars dimmed, and all living things shared in the sorrow!

This was the grandest funeral anomaly between heaven and earth, triggered only when Great Emperor-level existences completely perished!

However—

Just as the sky full of blood clouds had gathered, and the Emperor's Fall Blood Rain was about to pour down, at the exact moment the entire universe was immersed in this sorrowful atmosphere—

Noisy.

Gu Changge furrowed his brows slightly, seemingly quite impatient with this heavenly anomaly.

He did not even look at the terrifying blood clouds shrouding the sea of stars. He merely raised his hand casually and gave a gentle wave toward the firmament.

As if shooing away an annoying fly.

Disperse.

A single word was spat out, and his words became the law!

An invisible and intangible will, one that stood above the myriad Daos, instantly permeated the air!

The universe's laws, which had been wailing and trembling, were instantly smoothed out by an invisible giant hand, returning to silence!

The terrifying blood clouds enveloping endless star domains and containing monstrous sorrow melted and disintegrated in an instant, like ice and snow thrown into a blazing sun, vanishing without a trace!

The impending Emperor's Fall Blood Rain, capable of crushing stars, evaporated directly as if it had never appeared!

Between heaven and earth, clarity and silence were instantly restored.

All the anomalies, all the wails, and all the sorrow were forcibly interrupted and completely erased under Gu Changge's understated wave!

Even heaven and earth were stripped of the right to weep for these five Supreme Beings!

The entire core of the Tianhuang Restricted Area instantly plunged into a deathly silence.

Only Gu Changge remained, his white clothes whiter than snow, standing quietly in the void, along with Little Black and Little White, who watched in awe from a distance.

Gu Changge cast his gaze deep into the void, as if piercing through endless space to see the array flags that had been laid down, and the unseen mastermind from the "Immortal Realm" that might be lurking in the shadows.

"Immortal... Realm..."

He murmured to himself, the profound depths of his eyes surpassing even the starry sky.