Chapter 460 - 407: A Great Commotion (Middle)

CLANG!!

Within the endless, blazing divine light,

a pair of large, flawless white hands reached out.

They caught the sword slash from Emperor Hong Shi, and with a delicate flick of a finger, transformed it into endless threads of destiny. The threads broke free from their constraints and returned to the fabric of reality.

"Come on, little one. Try again."

Under countless shocked gazes,

the divine light of Freedom blazed across the All Heavens and Myriad Realms.

The upper half of the white-clad child’s body was infinitely vast, towering into the Sea of Chaos, while his lower half sat cross-legged upon the Burial Realm. He looked at Emperor Hong Shi with a wide grin.

The Great Freedom Celestial Demon!

The pupils of the Primordial Giants from All Heavens contracted, instantly recognizing this Three Tribulation Master.

’No, that’s not right!’

’It’s just a remnant of Dao Essence from the Divine Format.’

’It can’t last long!’

But!

Even if it was just a remnant of Dao Essence!

The moment the Great Freedom Celestial Demon appeared, its divine light brought endless corruption wherever it shone. The desires and obsessions in the hearts of countless living beings erupted!

"Seal the Celestial Domains!"

Not daring to underestimate the Demon Nature of this Three Tribulation Master, the Primordial Giants across the All Heavens Domains took action, sealing their respective Celestial Domains to block out the divine light of Freedom!

"A mere remnant of Dao Essence thinks it can stop me?!"

Emperor Hong Shi was completely domineering. She showed no fear despite the Great Freedom Celestial Demon’s identity and raised the Celestial Destiny Killing Sword once more!

Because...

Inside the Burial Realm,

the Extreme Dao Bell was rapidly charging!

The energy it gathered was far more transcendent than before. It was clearly dead set on killing Ye Xuan!

"Xuan’er!"

"Wretch, you dare!"

The Master of Sword Abyss and the Silent Domain Master!

Ye Xuan’s grandfather and biological father, two Primordial Giants, attacked simultaneously, launching a sword strike at the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon King.

"Suppress!!"

The other giants of the Daluo Celestial Domain also took action again, defying the Celestial Punishment to suppress the Burial Realm, which was at its breaking point. They were buying time for Emperor Hong Shi and the others to strike.

"Oh my, how audacious!"

Seeing that Emperor Hong Shi was ignoring him, the white-clad child grew displeased. Immeasurable divine light of Great Freedom stirred up a Chaos Storm, and he once again reached out and pointed a finger at the torrent of Celestial Mandate.

"Don’t be insolent!"

"A Three Tribulations being could slay you, let alone one of the Five Tribulations!"

"Break!"

But at that very moment,

the Primordial Giants of All Heavens also attacked simultaneously.

The Endless Chaos Sea churned with a hundred million towering waves, and the All Heavens and Myriad Realms trembled, seemingly on the verge of collapse.

The living beings within could not observe the battlefield.

They could only sense that beyond the heavens, unbelievably majestic beings were mobilizing the torrents of Hongyuan’s myriad Daos, clashing in a spectacular collision!

"Come, come, come! I’ll beat you all to death!"

The Great Freedom Celestial Demon showed no fear.

Even though he was just a remnant of Dao Essence!

He still displayed the invincible might of the foremost of the Three Tribulations. Rising up, he entered the Sea of Chaos completely, a single god challenging all the Primordial Giants of All Heavens!

BOOM~

At this moment, the Extreme Dao Bell finished charging once again, its mouth churning with endless, destructive Energy. But just as Wu Dao was about to strike it, and just as Emperor Hong Shi and the other giants prepared to stop him regardless of the consequences—

BUZZ~

Within the Luotian Sword Realm,

suddenly, a supreme Dao Essence that encompassed everything transformed into a sword light and ascended!

It covered the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, affecting all phenomena of the Great Dao, before forming into a majestic face that overshadowed the Daluo Celestial Domain. The face opened its eyes, gazing dispassionately down upon the Burial Realm.

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

In that instant,

the alarm bell in Wu Dao’s Heart Lake nearly shattered!

Under that gaze, he once again felt that infinite fear originating from the Dao Root Source!

The disparity in life itself!

It was unimaginably vast!

At this moment,

he felt as if he had become a piece of information within a book!

And the owner of that supreme gaze was the writer outside the book, capable of deciding everything within it, altering and erasing at will with a single thought, a single stroke of the pen!

Incomprehensible and indescribable!

It was as if countless dimensional planes separated the two of them. What he saw was merely what he was able to see; he was fundamentally unable to perceive its true nature!

RUMBLE—

The instant that incredible aura arose,

the Dao System also erupted with an endless force of repulsion. The Celestial Punishment went from formless to corporeal, and countless indescribable Chaos Divine Thunders materialized outside the domain!

It seemed...

...that as long as that majestic existence dared to move,

...the Great Dao would immediately descend an unimaginable Great Tribulation to annihilate it!

Celestial Punishment!

It was the Great Dao’s "antivirus program," meant to maintain the normal operation of the All Heavens Domains. Beings at the Emperor Realm were already constrained and suppressed by it, let alone an existence that transcended the Emperor Realm!

This was also why Wu Dao dared to make a move!

No matter how ferocious and powerful the Primordial Giants were in the Sea of Chaos, once their Power entered a Celestial Domain, they had to restrain and suppress it unless they wanted mutual destruction.

If they attacked with their full strength,

they would absolutely pay a heavy price!

’Luotian Sword Master...’

In his nearly frozen thoughts,

Wu Dao guessed the identity of this majestic being, whose Dao Essence encompassed all things and whose very scale was as inconceivable as the Great Dao itself.

To be precise,

it should be the Near-Path Seeker body that the Luotian Sword Master had left within the Dao—the absolute apex of the Primordial Peak. For anyone who had not reached that realm, contending with it within the Dao was nearly impossible!

Unless...

It was a One Tribulation Master!

Like the Slaughter Emperor or the Great Freedom Celestial Demon—the undisputed foremost beings of their All Tribulations!

"Heh! You actually dared to come out. Aren’t you afraid the karma of the Great Dao will affect your Dao body?"

The surprised voice of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon rang out from the Chaos beyond the heavens.

At the same time,

that supreme, all-suppressing aura...

...was also forced by the Great Dao into the Chaos beyond the domain, where it transformed into an incredible Daluo Sword Light that shot through Chaos, slashing toward the Great Freedom Celestial Demon!

Clearly,

the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon King could no longer run rampant!

A mere remnant of Dao Essence.

No matter how unrivaled he was in single combat within the Dao during his lifetime,

it was impossible to hold off all the Primordial Giants of All Heavens while simultaneously fighting a Near-Path Seeker!

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

As expected!

With the Great Freedom Celestial Demon suppressed,

the Primordial Giants of All Heavens, led by Emperor Hong Shi, all struck at the Burial Realm once more!

The Luotian Sword Realm wanted to save Ye Xuan.

The giants from the other Celestial Domains, however, coveted the Extreme Dao Bell and the Free Divine Format.

In an instant,

an endless, overwhelming pressure...

...transformed into torrents that pierced the Great Dao and came crashing down. Wu Dao could only rely on the Extreme Dao Bell to defend himself, completely unable to muster any power to fight back.

It seemed he could only wait for death!

"Come out!!"

But even in such a desperate situation, Wu Dao remained terrifyingly calm. He activated the Slaughter Emperor’s Dao Pattern within the Extreme Dao Bell and said indifferently,

"I know you’re in there. If you don’t come out, I’ll immediately throw the Extreme Dao Bell out. Who do you think will die first?"

Inside the Extreme Dao Bell,

there was an exclusive Dao Essence imprint of the Slaughter Emperor.

If it fell into the hands of the giants from other Celestial Domains, they had countless ways to dig him out, and his grand return would become a complete joke!

RUMBLE—

In the roiling, turbulent Land of Chaos and Unknown,

"Sigh, what an ungrateful brat!"

The Slaughter Emperor’s face twitched, and he let out a low sigh.

His mood for watching the show was instantly shattered.

He had never imagined,

...that Wu Dao could actually perceive the trace of Dao Essence he had left inside the bell.

He had left that trace of Dao Essence...

...only to make it easier to reclaim the Extreme Dao Bell in the future. He never thought it would become a bargaining chip in Wu Dao’s hands.

’How did he find out?’

The Slaughter Emperor couldn’t figure it out for the life of him.

Naturally, he couldn’t have imagined...

...that Wu Dao had long since thoroughly studied the magnetic field of his Divine Communication Technique.

Whatever tricks were inside the bell,

Wu Dao couldn’t use them, but he could see them!

Otherwise, he would not have so easily kept the Extreme Dao Bell in his possession.

"Heh, fine. Let’s see how much they’ve improved then."

After this emotional sigh, the Slaughter Emperor wasn’t annoyed. On the contrary, he was even more pleased with Wu Dao. With a sadistic smile, the bloody light around him contracted and vanished into the roiling Chaos.

BUZZ—

The next instant!

A scarlet particle of light drifted out from within the Extreme Dao Bell!

In a hundred-millionth of a second!

That Particle expanded from a mote of dust into an infinite cosmos. A supremely blazing, ominous blood-red light, like the twilight of the apocalypse for All Heavens, shone across the vast domain of Chaos!

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

The torrents of the Great Dao launched by the Primordial Giants of All Heavens!...

...crashed as if against the Heaven-Supporting Divine Pillar, a great dam. They were forcefully stopped outside the Burial Realm, unable to advance a single inch!

In the silence,

at the end of the twilight, blood-red light that filled the Great Dao of All Heavens,

a majestic Demon God with wild, blood-colored hair stood tall. He slowly raised his head, revealing a savage grin to the Primordial Giants of All Heavens.

BOOM!

A sea of blood, hundreds of millions of miles wide, erupted from behind him!

Vast and boundless.

Within it, Gods and Demons wailed and Primordial Giants bled!

In an instant, it submerged the All Heavens and Myriad Realms, burying the order of the myriad Daos. The light of Extreme Dao slaughter stained the vast Chaos domain red, bearing down on countless living beings!

The great Hongyuan!

A tyrannical, lawless aura raged and surged, as if it had returned to the era of the Five Tribulations—that dark and bloody age brought about by a single man!

"Slaughter Emperor!"

"He’s back! He’s back!"

"The Great Freedom Celestial Demon, the Slaughter Emperor... two Tribulation Masters have returned!"

"Is this the beginning of the Six Tribulations?!"

The moment the Slaughter Emperor appeared!

All Heavens shook, and all spirits were terrified!

The shock surpassed even that of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon’s appearance, unleashing endless fear upon Hongyuan. Countless old masters were shaken to their very cores!

There was no other reason!

It was simply because he was the Slaughter Emperor!

The foremost forbidden Demon God of the Five Tribulations, who had single-handedly initiated a tribulation, washed several worlds in blood, and orchestrated endless slaughter, coming just a hair’s breadth from plunging Hongyuan into eternal damnation!

"Hong Tu!!!"

In the Qingming World!

A roar, maddened with hatred, shattered the dead silence. The voice called out the Slaughter Emperor’s true name and charged into the Sea of Chaos, filled with profound resentment!

"Kill!!"

At the same time,

a giant within the Profound Yellow Supporting Light also roared!

Among the All Heavens,

the inhabitants of the three worlds of Qingming, Fu Guang, and Profound Yellow—from the most ancient beings to the newest generation—all wished they could devour the Slaughter Emperor alive!

During the Five Tribulations,

the Slaughter Emperor had washed these three worlds in blood.

This caused the fortune of the three worlds to collapse. Hundreds of thousands of years later, they had been reduced to mere vassals, forced to live at the mercy of the Celestial Court!

One could only imagine...

...the extent of the hatred the giants of these three worlds felt for the Slaughter Emperor. Destroying one Divine Wilderness—or even a thousand, or ten thousand—would not be enough to repay the debt in the slightest!

"Hahaha! The frantic barking of defeated dogs! Scram!"

The Slaughter Emperor’s arrogant, wild laughter resounded throughout the Sea of Chaos. He clearly held the giants of the three Celestial Domains in complete contempt!

BOOM!!

It was as if the mass of infinite space-time was being compressed!

Everything was refuted and buried!

Amidst his rampant laughter!

The sea of blood in the Slaughter Emperor’s eyes was like an abyss. His right arm shot up, plowing through Chaos as he clenched his fist, shattering the myriad Daos. He unleashed the Extreme Heaven-Refuting Fist once again, smashing it toward the sword light that was suppressing the Great Freedom Celestial Demon.

"Luotian! Do you recognize this fist? Back in the day, it made you kneel and howl in agony! Hahaha!!"

THUD!

The punch landed!

Like a giant boulder plunging into a pond!

The vast, boundless Sea of Chaos churned with endless waves, drowning all divine light and furious roars, yet the Slaughter Emperor’s final words still echoed through the All Heavens!

The Luotian Sword Emperor!

A Five Tribulations Daoist!

Had once knelt and howled in agony under the Slaughter Emperor’s fist!

The first reaction of all living beings in the heavens was disbelief!

Back then, the Luotian Sword Emperor had only achieved his Attainment Dao by slaying the Slaughter Emperor and seizing the great fortune of the Five Tribulations!

How could he possibly have been no match for the Slaughter Emperor?