Chapter 1345: Battle That Shook the World

The Princess blocked the path to the Eighth Heaven, holding the Corpse Ancestor outside the world barrier. At this moment, with the Corpse Ancestor’s will manifesting in the Great Thousand Worlds, the essence, Qi, and spirit origins within the Corpse Ancestor could no longer be suppressed and began to leak into the Great Thousand Worlds.

“You scoundrel, get out of my way! Beware or I will have you cut to pieces,” the Corpse Ancestor’s eyes were filled with ferocity. He roared angrily, and the next moment he soared into the air, countless runes flickering on his coffin, striking towards the barrier of the Eighth Heaven.

Facing the Corpse Ancestor’s attack, the Princess held the Celestial Measuring Ruler in her hand, a hint of solemnity in her eyes: “Although I am not your match, I can still hold you off for three to five days. But can you last three to five days? I’m afraid you won’t even last a day and will fall within the will of the Great Thousand Worlds.”

In an instant, the two engaged in combat across the world barrier, and a terrifying energy erupted, sweeping towards Kyoto.

“Protect the Solitary King!” The Human King of Great Victory stood in the Kyoto Royal Palace, looking at the terrifying shockwave erupting in the void, exclaiming in fright and hastily shouted.

But this power had reached the Daluo level; on what basis could the Great Victory royal family block it?

The three twelfth-tier Divine Spirits and the innate spiritual treasures of the Great Victory royal family soared into the sky, dazzling in brilliant light, rushing like moths to a flame towards the shockwave bursting in the void. Even if they couldn’t hold it, they must try!

The Great Victory royal family’s experts seemed about to fall within the void’s shockwave, but the next moment, they saw the terrifying shockwave from the Corpse Ancestor constantly dissipating. The divine power within was diluted by the Great Thousand Worlds, and when it finally reached Kyoto, the shockwave was only of twelfth-tier intensity. Several experts simultaneously acted, dissolving that terrifying fluctuation.

“The essence Qi in the Great Thousand Worlds is too thin. The Corpse Ancestor’s divine techniques, once away from the body, are infinitely thinned out, plundered, and neutralized by the world, unable to unleash the power that a Daluo level should have,” Zhang Chen shook his head inside the cell cart.

At this moment, the essence Qi in Kyoto was unprecedentedly rich. As the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi within the Corpse Ancestor continued to leak out, the Corpse Ancestor seemed to turn into a source, exuding vast origin essence. If the original concentration of Heaven and Earth energy in Kyoto’s air was just mist, then with the leakage of the Corpse Ancestor’s origin Qi, the energy concentration suddenly transformed into flowing water.

Such a rich concentration of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi caused the Nine Revolutions Profound Skill within Zhang Chen to fluctuate, wanting to plunder the energy in the air for a breakthrough, startling Zhang Chen to quickly use the Sealing Rune, sticking it onto himself to suppress himself.

The energy between Heaven and Earth was too rich, so rich that it was about to pour into people’s bodies, forcibly driving their cultivation to break through.

Zhang Chen, as a twelfth-tier expert, was already like this, let alone the multitude of low-cultivation individuals in Kyoto? For them, the effect would only be better.

One could see streaks of Qi Mechanism surging into the sky in Kyoto. With the infusion of pure, rich Heaven and Earth energy, whether bloodline practitioners or cultivators, their cultivation was self-driven to break through.

The crowd was immersed in the rich Daluo Yuanqi essence, with cultivation continuously rising uncontrollably.

Beside Zhang Chen, Dugu Qiu’s pores shook, his Yang God nourished by that vast essence Qi, with his cultivation continuously rising. His muscles and bones constantly transformed, turning into jade bones.

At this moment, the people of Kyoto were in a feast of cultivation breakthroughs, but Zhang Chen’s face instead showed a smirk of schadenfreude, not at all enraged by the others attaining the opportunity: “The elite of the Great Victory royal family are all in Kyoto. If these old fellows make breakthroughs with the influx of Heaven and Earth energy, they will be done for, they are doomed!”

Zhang Chen’s eyes scanned Kyoto, looking at the dense Qi Mechanisms surging upwards, and he secretly sneered, merely suppressing his own cultivation with all his might.

Meanwhile, with the clash of two Daluo-level experts, terrifying laws fluctuated across the entire Great Thousand Worlds. The eyes of all the world’s experts were drawn to the gathering scene, with terror and shock at the terrifying ones who acted.

At this moment, the great sun in the sky was inverted and hidden by that terrifying energy, turning day into night. Countless stars shone with boundless radiance, twisted and dragged by a mysterious power, forming a river of stars that flowed towards the barrier of the Spiritual World to attack.

“Is this a Daluo expert? Inverting Yin and Yang, taking stars, and picking the moon, their means are unfathomable, terrifying to the extreme,” Zhang Chen murmured in horror.

This battle’s fluctuations erupted in Kyoto but affected the entire world. The laws of the Great Thousand Worlds were being pried open, the world’s energy order constantly twisted.

“Fool! What a fool! How dare that nitwit act like this within the Great Thousand Worlds!” The Queen Mother’s angry voice rang in Zhang Chen’s ear.

Zhang Chen was baffled by the Queen Mother’s furious rant. It was merely a Daluo-level clash, was it necessary for the Queen Mother to be so incensed?

The next moment, the explanation from the Queen Mother of the West came to Zhang Chen’s ears: “Zhang Chen, you need to be prepared, the changes between Heaven and Earth may accelerate soon, a more dire era is approaching, and even strong twelfth-tier cultivators will be implicated, unable to comfortably exist between Heaven and Earth.”

“What?” Zhang Chen was instantly alarmed upon hearing this, his eyes showing a touch of horror: “Is this true? Why is it happening this way?”

“The power erupted by the Corpse Ancestor shook the laws of the Great Thousand Worlds, causing changes in the ocean of laws in the Great Thousand Worlds, enhancing the changes on the barrier’s grand arrays of this world, driving the operation of the grand arrays. Soon, the Era of the End of Magic is really coming; you still need to prepare early,” the Queen Mother of the West said solemnly.

Zhang Chen’s complexion changed upon hearing this, his eyes showing a touch of horror, had he dug his own grave after all?

He was a twelfth-tier cultivator. If this world could not accommodate twelfth-tier, wouldn’t he also be unlucky at that time? Would he have to cripple his cultivation early?

Zhang Chen’s complexion changed again, losing his previous composure and calmness, his gaze showing a touch of horror.

At this moment, Heaven and Earth were dim; the Corpse Ancestor inverted Yin and Yang, rotating the star rivers, causing chaos in the laws of the Great Thousand Worlds, yet also offering countless cultivators opportunities for breakthroughs.

The laws of Heaven and Earth, originally hidden in the void, transformed into chains of order circulating through the Great Thousand Worlds, sealing the path to breakthroughs for all beings. Now, a Daluo expert shook the ocean of Origin Laws between Heaven and Earth, which would cause flaws in the previously immovable laws of Heaven and Earth, making breakthroughs easier for all beings. Countless cultivators seized the opportunity to break through realms, and even Zhang Chen noticed three twelfth-tier Qi mechanisms spreading out within Kyoto, evidently someone was seizing the moment to aggressively break through realms, aiming directly to surpass the twelfth tier.

“This is a feast for the masses but also a great pitfall,” Zhang Chen withdrew his gaze, turning to look at Dugu Qiu nearby, who in just a moment had broken through the tenth tier, leveraging the dense energy circulating Heaven and Earth to advance towards the eleventh tier.

“Godfather, you must not break through, quickly stop!” Zhang Chen, seeing Dugu Qiu about to charge into the eleventh tier, hurriedly spoke to stop him.

Dugu Qiu looked at Zhang Chen with a surprised expression: “Now, Heaven and Earth have greatly changed, the chains of the law have opened, it is the perfect opportunity for us to break through. How could you stop me? With such abundant Heaven and Earth energy, I can single-handedly break through to the eleventh tier, even breach the twelfth tier barrier to enter that legendary realm.”

After breaking through the ninth-tier Yang God, the tenth tier, eleventh tier, twelfth tier correspond to the Three Calamities, tempering immortal skin and jade bones. In terms of the Immortal Dao, there is fundamentally no concept of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth tiers, only a ‘Three Calamities’ realm. If there is enough energy, single-handedly breaking into that legendary realm is not difficult.

“Do I still need to set a trap for you? I have detected changes in Heaven and Earth; breaking through further is a curse, not a blessing. Godfather, you must reconsider,” Zhang Chen advised Dugu Qiu.

Dugu Qiu looked seriously at Zhang Chen, recalling Zhang Chen’s past methods; ultimately, reason prevailed, suppressing his inner greed. Then, Dugu Qiu gathered his Qi mechanism and quickly suppressed his cultivation: “What have you discovered?”

“After this change in Heaven and Earth ends, you should know,” Zhang Chen solemnly told Dugu Qiu: “Do not continue breaking through, or I’m afraid things will turn bad.”

Dugu Qiu’s expression turned solemn, sweeping his gaze over all of Kyoto, sensing the soaring Qi reaching the sky, revealing a touch of horror in his eyes: “Countless are seizing the moment to break through, yet you ask me to stop, although I do not know what you sensed, I still believe you.”

Upon hearing Dugu Qiu’s words, Zhang Chen nodded to Dugu Qiu: “You’ve made the right choice.”

While the two were speaking, the team escorting the prison cart had already fallen into complete chaos. Dugu Qiu turned to Zhang Chen: “Really don’t need me to help you escape? Now is the perfect time for you to break free.”

“You don’t know, the catastrophe of Kyoto has just begun, and after this catastrophe, the Great Victory Dynasty will probably not have the capability to trouble me. At that time, not only will the royal family not trouble me, they will even spare no effort to win me over.”

Is the Corpse Ancestor a good person?

Of course, the Corpse Ancestor is not a good person.

Failing to enter the Spiritual World, staying in the Great Thousand Worlds, his origin will continuously deplete; he will certainly voraciously consume the soul and flesh of all beings in Kyoto to replenish his declining speed. At that time, besides fighting to their last stand, the Great Victory Dynasty awaits only extinction.

Zhang Chen had long accounted for this, whether it be the Corpse Ancestor or the Great Victory royal family, all within his calculations.

However, the Corpse Ancestor’s plummeting power was much faster than Zhang Chen expected—at least tenfold faster. The chaos in Kyoto lasted just an hour before Zhang Chen noticed the Corpse Ancestor’s aura had dropped.