At the very moment Chen Chu touched the stele, the entire world flared into blinding white light, turning night into day.

A colossal white divine tree phantom emerged within the light, vast enough to cover the entire world. Its branches reached far into the outer heavens and into the starry void, with galaxies hanging like fruit.

The roots of the white divine tree phantom pierced deep into the ground, coiling around the massive demonic body of the Lord of the Abyss, something only Chen Chu could see.

This tree was the same World Tree left behind when Heng had vanished in the past. It had never been destroyed, but been transformed into pure principles that had merged with the world itself, linking the galaxy arrays and suppressing the entire world.

At the same time, it had formed the unique power system network of this world.

A cold and emotionless voice rang out slowly from within the stele, echoing through heaven and earth.

"Identity verification in progress..."

"Current lifeform: human. First command confirmed."

"Detecting fate's aura..."

"Fate mark confirmed. Identity verified. Access authorization granted..."

Hum!

The radiant phantom of the lush World Tree grew dazzlingly bright. The vast and boundless power of principles descended, crushing the very space around Chen Chu before flooding into his body.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The surge of principle power was so immense that it roared like a tsunami, shaking heaven and earth. At the same time, with the verification complete, Chen Chu no longer needed to suppress himself. A deep, resonant chime echoed from within him.

Clang!

Boom!

In that instant, a terrifying aura belonging to the late stage of the true spirit level, yet rivaling the might of a primordial being, erupted from Chen Chu's body. The overwhelming aura shook the imperial capital, the entire Camor Empire, and even the entire continent and world. The transcendent energy of heaven and earth went into chaos as the very fabric of reality trembled.

The sudden upheaval left countless beings across the world in shock, staring in horror at the vast white divine tree phantom covering the heavens as they felt the supreme pressure that transcended all principles.

Even the demonic beings on the other two continents trembled under that world-encompassing primordial might.

Meanwhile, deep within the underground maze, the Underground Palace of Evil Gods, two suppressed presences stirred. Boroedo and Mbolak, who had been holding back their power to prevent further loss, suddenly opened their eyes.

Sensing the faint quakes coming from the surface and that terrifying aura piercing through space and time, Boroedo's tone turned heavy. "This aura... It seems like Brother Chu Batian. Has he revealed himself?"

"It's him." Mbolak, shrouded in shadows, sounded slightly surprised. "But he didn't trigger the world's principles. There's no sign of him being suppressed?"

Boroedo quickly realized this as well, and a grin crept across its face. "As expected of a powerhouse from the Eternal World. His means are indeed far superior to ours.

Mbolak, encased in black war armor, nodded. A faint, grim smile appeared on its face. "Brother Chu must have discovered something. That's why he unleashed his full strength. It shouldn't be long before he frees us from here."

While the two Hell Apostles waited expectantly for Chen Chu to rescue them, he began to slowly turn ethereal before Amitya and the others before vanishing completely.

The black stele and the World Tree phantom disappeared with him.

Soon, calm returned to the world. The divine tree that had blanketed the heavens and the oppressive primordial aura that had made all life tremble was gone, as if the grand phenomenon had been nothing but an illusion.

But everyone knew it was no illusion. Still, no one could tell what kind of change that vision would bring to this world, not Amitya, who struggled to stay standing, nor Estelle, who lay weakly on the ground.

The purple-haired girl in particular stood dazed and bewildered. She had never imagined that Chen Chu was not a called divine illusory beast, nor a beast king that had taken human form, but a human powerhouse so unimaginably strong that words could not describe him.

No wonder he had once told her that he was not an illusory beast.

***

So much origin.

Within the depths of the white World Tree, where the very principles of the world had taken shape, Chen Chu was stunned by the vast ocean of tangible white energy surrounding him. It was all origin.

The essence born from the suppression and dissolution of a semi-Seventh-Primordial-Heaven Lord of the Abyss's divine soul will had returned to its source and transformed into the world's origin.

Moreover, the evil gods who had invaded this world for countless years, most of them at the true spirit level or even semi-primordial level, had been drained dry. The world had even plundered energy from the agents of supreme planes. After hundreds of thousands of years of accumulation, the origin within the World Tree had grown into an ocean.

If this origin were to be converted into origin points, and then into creation power or primordial qi, it would be enough for Chen Chu and the Dragon Emperor to condense the Fourth Primordial Heaven.

Of course, only Chen Chu could directly use the world's origin to ascend to the primordial level. The existence of origin points was even more extraordinary than his life-bound or super innate abilities. It did not directly raise his strength but elevated his supportive functions to their absolute peak.

Chen Chu, who now possessed partial authority over the Heavenly Dao, began to devour without hesitation.

Boom!

The world's origin roiled violently. Endless energy surged toward him as he transformed into a black hole. He was converting it into his personal origin points at a terrifying rate. The origin points in his attribute panel flickered from ten thousand, to twenty thousand, and fifty thousand...

Boom!

Chen Chu's true form suddenly expanded, revealing his forty-thousand-meter-tall True Primordial Demon God Form. He had three faces, ten arms, and was draped in an imperial robe with an imperial crown.

Having enough origin points did not mean his realm would rise instantly. True ascension required cultivation. His true form's life stage had to evolve. His divine abilities, innate abilities, and supreme principles had to transform and fuse into primordial principles and supreme divine abilities.

Then, Chen Chu's inner voice resonated.

Burn all attribute points. Enter the epiphany state.

Whoosh!

Over twenty million attribute points ignited at once, releasing a blinding light that turned into a layer of pure white flames enveloping his body that remained distinct from the world's origin flame itself.

But even that was not enough. Chen Chu's voice rang out again within his mind.

Convert five hundred thousand origin points into primordial qi. Another five hundred thousand into creation power.

In the colossal beast body, convert one million points of primordial and creation power...

***

Aooo!

Beyond the black world, in the Sea of Chaos, a black-and-red colossal beast had grown to over sixty thousand kilometers in length as it roared. An even more overwhelming aura had erupted from its body. The endlessly rising, terrifying pressure made the Silver Colossal Dragon perched on the beast's head tremble and stare blankly.

Ao Tian is too strong, too freakish.

A moment later, the Silver Dragon's face had broken into a humanlike, malicious grin, because the Little Purple Dragon was not here. Whenever the Dragon Emperor broke through, the breakthrough aura and the life aura it released always raised the bloodline of the Little Purple Dragon sitting on its head. It even sometimes pushed its level upward.

This time, the Dragon Emperor had not jut broken through to the primordial level, it was already close to breaking through to the Second Primordial Heaven. If the Little Purple Dragon had been present to absorb the vast life aura the Dragon Emperor released, it might have leapt a full realm and become a true-spirit-level colossal beast.

This chance will belong solely to the great Saixitia!

The Silver Dragon's face displayed a gleeful, feral smile. It lay down joyfully and used its will to stir its bloodline power, forming an icy, twisted spatial vortex that absorbed the surrounding primordial energy. This energy was released by the Dragon Emperor's body as it broke through a realm, similar to the heat emitted by a burning fireball.

If the Silver Dragon did not absorb the dissipated vitality, it would disperse and return to the heavens and earth. Under normal circumstances, when a primordial colossal beast broke through, it would form an absolute domain around it that would be tens of millions of kilometers wide. No other colossal beast or living thing could step into the Primordial Heaven.

However, the Silver Dragon could remain here because it was protected by the Dragon Emperor's principles. As it devoured the pure energy of the primordial breakthrough, the Silver Dragon, which had only recently ascended to the true spirit level, experienced a violent surge of power. Its body grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Silver Dragon nestled ever closer to the Dragon Emperor as it evolved. Its scales remained silver, though it became more immense and ferocious. At the same time, as Chen Chu voraciously absorbed vast quantities of origin power, the foundations that formed the black world's suppressing principles began to loosen, and the forces that had once sealed the evil gods and the Abyssal Lord became noticeably less rigid.

The pair of eyes that had been covered in black flames and had watched over the void from the darkness opened once more, and excitement glinted within them.

It had waited hundreds of thousands of years. The seal had finally loosened. Once it escaped and reunited with its true demonic form to reach its peak power again, it would slaughter every human in this world and in other times and spaces to avenge itself.

***

At the same time, as Chen Chu was closed off in seclusion and breaking through, a burly man with a golden beard and a peak ancient-titan-level aura was streaking through the sky over Chaotic Imperial City. He twisted his neck from time to time, as if still unaccustomed to this body.

He landed in the center of the imperial city, then began to move like an ordinary human through the streets. When his reflection appeared in a mirror hanging by the city gate, the golden-bearded man seemed like any normal human.

The golden-bearded man glanced up and down the bustling street, then found a corner and sat cross-legged. He tossed out a scrap of gray cloth and arranged a few rare treasures and materials suited to a divine king's station.

After briefly disguising himself, the golden-bearded man looked up, bored, and fixed his gaze on the ornate palace towering in the sky. His eyes flickered.

That's the place where that human is in seclusion. He's at the semi-primordial level, comparable to the strength of a primordial star, and yet those others put out two chaotic treasures as a bounty.

Either that human is stronger than the intelligence says, and perhaps even approaches a primordial overlord in strength, or this peak civilization known as humans has a hidden backing so terrifying that even those who posted the bounty did not dare to show their hands openly.

The golden-bearded man's eyes curled into a cold smile at the thought. Neither possibility bothered him. He stood at the peak of the Third Primordial Heaven, and could face a true emperor and walk away whole. Even if that human freak had the strength of a primordial overlord, he could easily suppress and kill him.

If the latter were true, there would be no need to worry at all. Killing someone and leaving was simple for a wanderer like him. Even if the human civilization's hidden backers were terrifying, could they find him once he had left their neighborhood of civilizations?

All he needed was for the human to leave seclusion, then have his main body outside create a disturbance to lure the human away from the imperial city. That would be the human's death.

He looked up at the palace shining in the sky and allowed the cold smile in his eyes to deepen.

While an alien powerhouse who had reached the peak of the primordial monarch level was infiltrating Chaotic Imperial City, news spread at an astonishing speed among the surrounding human and peak civilizations.

The current guardian of Chaotic Imperial City, Chen Chu, was also known by another name: Chu Batian.

His cultivation had still been at the peak of the titan level a few day-cycles ago. He had slain a genius of the Eternal Golden Divine Race who had Eternal Heavenly God blood and had also been at the peak of the titan level.

A day-cycle later, he had reached peak ancient-titan-level and slain an ancient overlord of the Shadow War God Race in the depths of the Ancient Arena, a freak who had possessed a primordial bloodline.

Now, three day-cycles later, that human had advanced to the semi-primordial level and possessed primordial-star-level strength while guarding an imperial city. He had also managed to ambush and eliminate the guardians from the Eternal Golden Race, the Shadow War God Race, and the Silver-Winged Heavenly Ant Race when a chaotic treasure had appeared.

Such terrifying growth and battle prowess had instantly shaken the nine surrounding peak civilizations and dozens of top-level civilizations and elites. Many people thought the reports must be exaggerated. It sounded impossible.

Normally, this kind of dramatic rise would occur if a peak civilization put all of its resources behind a freak.

Yet it was expected that divine abilities, combat strength, life-bound armor and weapons, and principle comprehension would all advance with one's cultivation. A raw rise in realm without those developments seemed false. How could someone be that heaven-defying?

While true-spirit-level and ancient-titan-level elites sneered at the rumors, the true emperors and above of those peak civilizations all received a "delivery" through various channels. It was a divine object carrying information that shocked them all.

Soon a current of unrest began to flow within several of the nine peak civilizations, ultimately converging at an unknown void.

In the chaotic void where chaotic shockwaves roared, six towering figures stood under a hazy light. Their forms could not be seen clearly, nor could the breath of their races be precisely sensed.

One of the vague silhouettes stirred slightly and a low, cold voice rang out across the Sea of Chaos.

"Six of the nine peak civilizations have sent envoys. It seems everyone has long been displeased with this newly risen, domineering human race."

No sooner had that towering figure finished speaking than a hoarse voice answered from the opposite side.

"Stop talking nonsense. Our presence here has already expressed our stance. But we need you to show sincere proof that convinces us. For example, reveal whether you come from the Shadow War God Race or the Purple-Maned King Hou Race.

"Also confirm that Chu Batian is truly the one who returned after breaking through to the Seventh Primordial Heaven and that he is in a special state of rebuilding. Only then will we consider working together to lock down his position and extinguish him."

The other three towering figures nodded slightly.

"Agreed."

"I have the same thought."

The eyes of the figure who had spoken first narrowed. Clearly they did not wish to go to war with humans on all fronts. They had only planned on uniting to kill Chu Batian.

That did not align with the internal agreement of their races to use this opportunity to exterminate the human race.

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