Chapter 569 Nine Great Dao Kings!

He glanced at the World Honored One, whose power was being forcibly extracted and whose Golden Body was growing increasingly dim. Then, he looked at the figure in the profound robe, locking his eyes on the golden Origin Power belonging to the World Honored One that was continuously gathering in the figure’s hand.

The last trace of hesitation in his eyes vanished completely, replaced by a resolute composure ready to risk everything.

“Qi Yun… my good grand-disciple… you truly… gave me, your grandmaster, a monumental surprise!” True Monarch Shen Yi sighed heavily toward the sky.

Before his voice could fade, True Monarch Shen Yi and Feng Xi True Monarch simultaneously made a move that caused all the True Monarchs, and even the several Dao Kings who were guiding the River of Heaven and Earth Years, to look at them in shock!

Holding nothing back, the two of them simultaneously ignited everything within themselves!

SPLASH!

As if sensing these two calls laden with a special connection, the Chaos Color River of Heaven and Earth Years, which carried the eons of time, violently surged with two massive waves!

Amidst the waves, the phantoms of two “tributaries”—seemingly detached yet connected to the main current and exuding unique Dao Rhyme—could be faintly seen. Drawn by the blood-red rainbow, they began to violently tremble!

One tributary took on a pure and profound silver hue. Inside, countless crystalline threads seemed to shuttle and weave, forming scrolls of destiny complex beyond measure, deducing infinite possibilities.

The other tributary displayed a dazzling color of interwoven red and gold. It looked as though it were formed by the convergence of eternally burning flames and the imperishable light of ancient stars. Blazing and glorious, it emanated a paradoxical aura capable of incinerating all things while simultaneously nurturing new life.

These two “tributaries” were exactly what Shen Yi and Feng Xi had forcefully stripped from themselves using a Secret Skill back when they severed their Dao Fruits and fell from their Realms. To leave a way out and avoid being completely detected and rejected by Profound Yellow, they had entrusted them into the River of Heaven and Earth Years, letting them drift and hide along the flow of time—these were their former, complete Dao King Statuses!

“Return!!!”

Shen Yi and Feng Xi shouted sternly once more, terrifying glints erupting from their eyes!

BOOM! BOOM!

Under the frenzied call of their original masters, the two “tributaries,” which had been silent and hidden for an untold number of eons, finally broke free from part of the constraints of the River of Heaven and Earth Years. They transformed into two pillars of light too dazzling to look at directly—one silver, one red-gold. Crashing down from the Chaos Color long river, they respectively poured into the crowns of True Monarch Shen Yi and Feng Xi True Monarch!

BOOM!!!

An indescribably terrifying imposing aura, like a volcano that had slumbered for eons, explosively erupted from their bodies and soared into the sky!

Around True Monarch Shen Yi, the silver threads of the Great Dao, which had originally been mere wisps, now frantically expanded and coalesced. In an instant, they morphed into the phantom of a silver river of destiny that spanned the void, its beginning and end entirely unknown!

Reflected within the river were the trajectories of destiny for countless living beings, countless worlds, and countless possibilities. Every drop of water was the epitome of a lifetime.

His aura climbed steadily higher, instantly shattering the shackles of a True Monarch. He recovered to a profoundly mysterious Realm, one that was Above the True Monarch, yet slightly different from that of Dao Kings like the World Honored One!

His head full of gray hair turned snow-white in a flash, fluttering without any wind. Within his eyes, endless light and shadows of destiny were born and destroyed, cold and merciless.

Feng Xi True Monarch was completely swallowed by the red-gold flames of nirvana!

A clear, majestic cry of a phoenix rang out from the flames. Her figure blurred and elongated within the firelight, ultimately transforming into an ancient Divine Phoenix with a wingspan that obscured the sky. Her entire body burned with red-gold fire, and her tail feathers flowed with the brilliance of stars!

The eyes of the Divine Phoenix opened and closed like two burning suns. Wherever her gaze fell, the void was scorched to the point of twisting and collapsing.

She, too, had recovered to her former level of a Dao King. Her aura was blazing and domineering, carrying both the destruction to incinerate all things and the vitality of nirvanic rebirth!

At this moment, the two former Dao Kings returned to their thrones!

“Shen Yi! Feng Xi!” From the pitch-black rift, the voice of the Ultimate Dao King carried a trace of astonishment and realization. “You indeed left a backup plan! Entrusting your Dao Fruits to the River of Heaven and Earth Years and hiding them along the current—what a great scheme! What great boldness!”

“Cut the nonsense!” True Monarch Shen Yi, now the embodiment of the silver river of destiny, spoke with an icy voice devoid of any emotion. He was like a completely different person from his former deep and solemn self.

“Only nine Dao Kings can truly invoke a portion of the might of the River of Heaven and Earth Years to scour the present world!”

Nine!

A full nine existences who stood at the absolute pinnacle of this realm, wielding supreme Great Daos!

The phantom of the River of Heaven and Earth Years, spanning across the Celestial Vault of Profound Yellow, finally underwent a qualitative change!

RUSH!!!!!!!

It was no longer a blurry water curtain, nor a faint phantom!

A vast, Chaos Color long river truly composed of the waters of time—its width an unknown hundreds of millions of miles, its length stretching endlessly into unknown pasts and futures—descended with a deafening rumble like a behemoth of Primordial Chaos awakening from an eon-long slumber!

Its massive volume almost completely eclipsed all of Profound Yellow!

Within the long river, waves surged and rolled, with every wave serving as the microcosm of an era. The river waters rushed forward, sounding like the weeping of billions of Divine Demons, like the primal echo of Heaven and Earth’s creation, and like the mournful wail of all things ending!

The terrifying mighty power of time formed a tangible tide. Covering the sky and earth, it swept down irresistibly toward the Profound Yellow Origin Realm below, toward the Chaos Color pillar of light, and toward the profound-robed figure standing beneath it!

This was the true might of Heaven and Earth! It was the crushing weight of eons of time!

It was absolutely not something any individual power could contend against!

“Qi Yun! Even if you have usurped Profound Yellow and temporarily gained the primary seat, in the face of such mighty power of Heaven and Earth, you are nothing but an ant trying to shake a mountain!

“Today, we shall use this River of Heaven and Earth Years to wash away a usurper like you, returning Profound Yellow to purity!”

Shen Yi’s icy voice resounded. His power, along with those of Feng Xi Daoist King and the other seven Dao Kings—nine streams of supreme power fused into one—collectively commanded this guided River of Heaven and Earth Years, focusing the vast majority of its scouring force squarely onto Qi Yun!

Facing this torrent of time capable of annihilating Grand Thousand worlds and scouring the Dao Fruits of all ages, Qi Yun finally retracted his loosely clenched right hand, which had been extracting the World Honored One’s power.

The pressure on the World Honored One lightened, and that terrifying sensation of being stripped away temporarily disappeared. However, the dimness of his Golden Body and the cracks on his Buddhist Fruit did not recover. Instead, due to the forceful interruption, he suffered a severe backlash. He let out a muffled groan, his aura withering significantly.

Qi Yun slowly turned around. Finally, for the first time, he looked directly at the Chaos Color long river that spanned Heaven and Earth, surging downward.

He remained as calm as ever. His profound robe fluttered wildly in the winds of time, his hair dancing in the air. He raised his head, gazing at the incoming Chaos Color river waters formed from the convergence of endless fragments of time. In his eyes, the annihilation of stars, the reincarnation of heavenly realms, and the rise and fall of civilizations were reflected…

Then, in the split second before that destructive torrent of time could swallow him whole, he raised his hand once more.

This time, it was not a downward press, nor a loose grip. Instead, he brought his fingers together like a sword and pointed toward the ground beneath his feet—the land of Profound Yellow that had endured countless great wars, covered in devastation, yet still existing tenaciously. He pointed at this motherland that had birthed him, raised him, nurtured myriad living beings, and carried the Dao orthodoxies of the eons.

He made a light swipe.

From his mouth, he uttered a few words. His voice was not loud, but it instantly overpowered the roaring of the river of time. It rang clearly in the hearts of every living creature, echoing across every inch of land and every stretch of sky in the Profound Yellow Origin Realm:

“Profound Yellow.

“Heed my command.”