In the Chaotic Imperial City, the power of space-time infused with the Great Sun principles materialized, transforming into a golden barrier that enveloped the entire city.

Within the imperial walls, hundreds of millions of cultivators stood solemn and tense, gazing toward the chaotic heavens. There, a black fortress shining with blinding light shattered the surrounding chaos as it hurtled toward them at astonishing speed.

Beyond the city, a towering figure five hundred thousand kilometers tall loomed over the void, its thousand arms spread wide. Around it, nine blood-red dragons, each ten million kilometers long, roared as their overwhelming power surged outward.

Each time the blood dragons crashed into the city's golden barrier, earth-shattering vibrations and explosions rippled through the heavens. The invisible principle power fractured space-time itself, and rings of blood-red shockwaves swept across hundreds of billions of kilometers, blotting out the sky and splitting the chaos apart.

The might released was nearly equal to that of a true emperor, yet it couldn't shake the resolve of humankind.

Within the imperial city, three million warriors clad in black, ferocious battle armor stood in perfect formation. Divided into units of ten thousand, they were stationed at all directions, merging with the city's barriers that sustained the great defensive array.

Lu Youyi, commander of the God-Slaughter Battle Formation, stood at the heart of the formation as he roared, "Palace Master Shi, you stop that primordial monarch! Leave that city to us! Nine Revolutions of Heaven, Slay Gods and Demons—kill!"

Nine true-spirit-level powerhouses led the legions, supported by dozens of ancient-titan-level and hundreds of titan-level warriors, each acting as a node in the array. Together, they activated the imperial city's core power through the God-Slaughter Battle Formation.

Boom!

Endless dark-red blood light soared skyward, gathering the might of millions of cultivators into a colossal black-armored demon god over a hundred thousand kilometers tall, wrapped in burning crimson flames. A moment later, a power comparable to that of a primordial overlord spread across the world.

Because most of its strength originated from the Chaotic City, the demon god's body was unaffected by the golden barrier and slowly extended half of its massive form beyond the heavens. In its grasp, a black demonic saber over two hundred thousand kilometers long burned fiercely as it cleaved toward the black fortress hurtling through the outer heavens.

Though the power of the Second Primordial Heaven couldn't truly threaten Bakibelens, a being who had already touched upon primordial-sovereign-level might, it was enough to intercept the Shadow War God Race's city and prevent a catastrophic collision.

Watching the black-armored demon god emerge from another direction of the city, Bakibelens's gaze turned cold. "It seems you mortals no longer place this king in your eyes."

As it spoke, the eighteen arms behind its massive body reached into the void and tore violently toward the distant demon god, millions of kilometers away.

Boom!

Chaos exploded. A black rift tore across tens of millions of kilometers, carrying unstoppable force as it ripped the demon god apart like fragile paper. In an instant, the demon god condensed from the God-Slaughter Battle Formation was obliterated, and the backlash struck Lu Youyi and the others, making them cough blood and suffer heavy injuries.

The difference in power between their realms was far too great. Because of Bakibelens's interference, the War Gods' main city had already arrived above the Chaotic City. The black fortress, a million kilometers in diameter and forged from a dead celestial body, was wreathed entirely in black flames. Within it, destructive energy surged so fiercely that even primordial monarchs would tremble before it.

"Humans, die!" Below the fortress, a ten-thousand-kilometer-tall obsidian giant roared, radiating a frenzied and reckless aura.

If that attack struck, the explosion would completely drain the true emperor's decree in Shi Feirou's hand, already half-spent after enduring Bakibelens's earlier assault. The destructive force would be enough to annihilate her, body and soul alike. As for the race's warriors and their vassal alien allies within the fortress, they had already been consumed as fuel the moment the city ignited.

Within the golden barrier, Shi Feirou looked up calmly at the black "star" descending from the heavens and the thousand-armed alien waiting beside it. Her expression remained utterly serene.

She held not only the True Radiant Sky Emperor's decree, but also one from the True Void Emperor. To ensure Chen Chu's seclusion would remain undisturbed, the human powerhouses had long entrusted Shi Feirou with numerous trump cards for precisely this kind of situation.

However, none of the others knew this. Every cultivator within the Chaotic City was filled with dread and tension as they stared at the heavens above.Hold it. You must hold it!

Just as Shi Feirou prepared to unleash another hidden weapon to delay the enemy, the depths of the Chaotic City suddenly erupted in a sea of blood-red light. That light, faster than time and brighter than radiance itself, engulfed the entire chaotic cosmos.

Boom!

Within the boundless blood light, an indescribable supreme presence descended. Around it surged visions of apocalyptic seas of blood, and the pressure it exuded shook the entire chaotic cosmos. The entire world froze beneath this power that transcended spacetime. Bakibelens, the War God fortress, and even the consciousness of every being fell into complete stillness.

Only true-spirit-level beings and above could barely move their thoughts. Shi Feirou, Lu Youyi, and Bakibelens all looked up in utter shock at the figure now standing amid the heavens. It was a man wearing a dark imperial robe. He appeared almost ordinary, yet to every being present, he felt vast enough to fill the universe itself.

Bakibelens, upon seeing Chen Chu's return, felt its faint unease explode into sheer terror. From the depths of its soul came an instinctive trembling born from its racial ability, an innate premonition more accurate than the sixth sense.

Since setting foot upon the transcendent path, never once had Bakibelens felt such overwhelming fear. Not even during the countless life-and-death crises it had faced in the past had it experienced terror as intense as this, not even one percent as much. The fear was suffocating, crushing, absolute.

I'm going to die! I'm going to die! Run! Move! Move now!Bakibelens howled inwardly, its powerful will erupting in a desperate attempt to shatter the pressure that sealed the heavens and suppressed its strength.

Yet against the gap of several major realms, all struggle was meaningless. That despair mirrored the terror once felt by alien true-spirit-level emperors from the civilizations it had destroyed in the Sea of Chaos—utterly powerless, utterly unable to resist.

However, before the returning Chen Chu could act, a repulsive force suddenly erupted from the entire chaotic cosmos, one that extended through the Supreme Chaos all the way to the Ancient Battlefield itself.

Boom!

The oppressive might Chen Chu had spread across the cosmos began to collapse from the backlash carrying the power of the Supreme Chaos. The shattered principles formed tidal waves that surged toward him from all directions. At the same time, an invisible supreme power descended around him, accompanied by a faint and indistinct message.

Leave, or be suppressed.

It was a primal warning from the Ancient Battlefield. This layer of the chaotic cosmos did not permit the appearance of lifeforms beyond the primordial sovereign level. Otherwise, the space-time tides released by their mere existence would tear apart the very foundation of this part of cosmos and destabilize the Ancient Battlefield itself.

This was precisely why beings like the True Radiant Sky Emperor and the alien primordial sovereigns such as Sigmund hadn't entered this chaotic cosmos in person, and why none of them dared attack the Chaotic City directly. None of them wished to be suppressed beneath the Ancient Battlefield.

Facing the warning from the will of the cosmos itself, Chen Chu's expression remained indifferent. His voice echoed across heaven and earth. "Whether I leave or not depends on me."

He ignored the will's warning, raised his right hand, and reached toward the frozen Bakibelens and the War Gods' city trapped within the blood-red light.

Boom!

Space-time split within Chen Chu's grasp. Across billions of kilometers, reality collapsed with a thunderous roar, forming a blood-red glowing sphere that he seized in his palm.

His defiance instantly provoked the chaotic cosmos's origin will to fury.

Crack! Crack!

Above the Chaotic City, a gray rift appeared, stretching across billions of kilometers like a colossal heavenly eye. In the next moment, a vast Heavenly Dao pressure descended. From the depths of that gray eye, streaks of black-purple lightning flared, releasing waves of annihilating energy so dreadful that the entire cosmos began to shatter.

As the heavenly punishment was about to fall, Chen Chu slowly raised his head, his gaze cold and steady. "Do you wish to match your divine gaze with mine?"

As he spoke, a pair of black-gold vertical pupils appeared in his eyes. At the same time, beneath the crumbling continent where only the Chaotic City still floated, another pair of black-gold eyes manifested, vast enough to blot out the stars. Within them churned an endless darkness, deep and ancient, as though they connected to a void spanning all worlds.

Sensing the devastating might hidden within those black-gold pupils, the Heavenly Dao's enormous gray eye wavered for the first time. The gathered lightning of divine punishment hesitated, refusing to fall.

The Heavenly Dao feared the power of the Void Death Pupils. It did not strike, yet it also did not expel him. However, the world surrounding Chen Chu began to break apart, unable to bear his existence. This was a collapse at the level of fundamental principles, spreading outward like a devouring black hole centered on Chen Chu himself.

"You are too fragile." With those calm words, Chen Chu stepped forward and plunged into the black hole of the disintegrating world. He crashed through the crystal wall of the cosmos and vanished into the depths of space.

As Chen Chu departed, the supreme pressure that had bound the world faded with him. Lu Youyi and the others instantly regained control of their bodies. Every true-spirit-level commander stared upward, faces filled with shock and disbelief.

That terrifying figure, whose aura has even surpassed a true emperor's... Was that the Divine Might City Lord? But how can that be possible? Before entering seclusion, the city lord was only at the true spirit level. Even with unmatched talent, several years of cultivation should at most have allowed him to break through to the primordial overlord level.

But what was that just now? He released a pressure strong enough to force the Heavenly Dao's will to retreat, and with a single motion, suppressed a primordial monarch whose might shook the heavens. T-Too terrifying!

It wasn't only the human powerhouses within the Chaotic City who were stunned. Even the alien primordial sovereigns watching the distant battle between the Radiant Emperor and Alquest in the chaotic cosmos' outer regions felt that suffocating pressure when Chen Chu descended.

Especially Sigmund, the heavenly god of the Golden Eternal Race. He immediately recognized the figure surrounded by blood-red light was Chen Chu, the one many had long suspected to be the reincarnation of Heng.

No, not suspected. He was the reincarnation of Emperor Heng of the ancient era. It all made sense now. His so-called seclusion these past years hadn't been for breakthrough, but to restore his former cultivation.

But it was too late. Everything was already too late.

From the moment Chen Chu returned until now, all of it had happened in the span of a breath. Before the aliens could even react, the entire Sea of Chaos had been dyed crimson by his boundless blood light.

Boom!

The chaos roared, and heaven and earth trembled. Under the weight of Chen Chu's terrifying pressure, which was nearly reaching that of the Seventh Primordial Heaven, the chaotic qi for light-years around surged violently, forming endless tsunamis that drowned all.

Sigmund and the others felt their bodies sink under the pressure, their surrounding Primordial Heavens shaking and compressing. Even the Radiant Emperor, locked in combat across dimensional layers with Alquest, instinctively unleashed power to push her opponent back as both turned in horror toward the center of the blood-red light.

There, within the surging Blood Sea Purgatory, a towering figure a million kilometers tall took form, wearing an imperial crown on its head. In that supreme being's hand was an entire world, and within it, the War Gods' main city exploded like fireworks.

Bakibelens had already been crushed to pieces. Around its shattered true form, space and time twisted and overlapped endlessly. Within those warped layers of time appeared countless fragments of reality, each one showing a different Bakibelens. One after another, its countless selves in past and future moments were erased, devoured by an unseen force.

The sight made Alquest and the other alien powerhouses turn pale, their expressions filled with disbelief. He had crossed chaotic spacetime itself, erasing both the past and the future. When the last of Bakibelens' figures vanished from those overlapping timelines, it meant that this once-immortal primordial monarch had fallen completely and forever.

Then, a stunned voice broke through the heavy silence. "Chen Chu, you've already reached the Sixth Primordial Heaven!"

Even the Radiant Emperor stood frozen in astonishment. Two years ago, she had known that Chen Chu had reached the peak of the Fourth Primordial Heaven, and completed seizing the past. Yet in just two years, he had not only surpassed the Fifth Primordial Heaven, but directly reached the Sixth. It felt surreal, dreamlike, impossible to believe.

Chen Chu nodded slightly. "Indeed. Due to certain fortuitous circumstances, my cultivation has advanced to the Sixth Primordial Heaven. But now isn't the time for conversation. Let's finish dealing with these guys first."

As he spoke, Chen Chu's gaze swept across Alquest, then over the other four alien powerhouses, before finally settling on Sigmund, who stood billions of kilometers away at the center of its golden world.

At once, Sigmund's expression changed. "Divine Might Supreme, our Eternal Golden Divine Race has always remained neutral. We hold no enmity with humanity and merely happened to pass through this region. If my presence displeases you, I will leave immediately."

Even as he spoke, Sigmund began to retreat, unwilling to linger for another instant.

The other aliens also felt the same fear rising within them. Humanity had become far too terrifying.That Chu Batian truly is the reincarnation of Heng. Fortunately, we hadn't acted rashly or revealed ourselves earlier.

Boom!

The space around Sigmund trembled violently as countless golden-black chains manifested, each spanning billions of kilometers, sealing off time and cutting through dimensions.

Without sound or warning, Chen Chu appeared before Sigmund, his cold gaze fixed on it. His deep, commanding voice echoed across the chaos. "Do you really think I would believe your words? Or did you believe I would not sense your earlier cooperation with the Shadow War God Race, to scour the heavens and earth for my true name?"

As he spoke, chaos roared behind him, and spacetime twisted. A vast azure altar spanning tens of billions of kilometers appeared beneath the void. Above it, space-time distorted and dimensions folded together, forming an immense black-and-blue vortex. From its depths, a monstrous, endless dragon head slowly emerged.

A savage roar shook all of chaos.

"From this day forth, the Eternal Golden Divine Race and the Shadow War God Race will both become nothing but the dust of history!"

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