Chapter 645: Battle Yishi Again
Chu Hao set out once again, continuing his search for the Great Emperor Yishi.
He had no desire for power or ambition, and he showed no interest in the vast Purple Embryo Realm. With the sudden death of a Realm Master, the Purple Embryo Realm was bound to enter an era of contention among heroes, just like the previous situation in the Great Sorrow Realm.
A large-scale war was unlikely, but minor frictions in private were inevitable. In a few years, undoubtedly, a genius would rise to become the new Realm Master, leading the martial arts world.
Chu Hao deployed his Wings of Space and embarked on a long journey across the starry sky.
Even though he had reached the limit of a Realm Master, he could only match the speed of an ordinary Great Emperor. And Great Emperor Yishi had mastered the Thunder Series Main Laws, which also enhanced his speed, making him only second to those Great Emperors who mastered the Space Main Laws.
From here to the Tuoluo Realm, where Great Emperor Yishi resided, he had to cross hundreds of realms. And the distance between realms was so vast that even Chu Hao needed hundreds of years to traverse it.
However, Chu Hao had also mastered the Time Law!
By accelerating the flow of time for himself, his speed began to surge, becoming comparable to that of Great Emperors who mastered the Space Main Laws.
Before he knew it, a century had passed. Chu Hao was still in the midst of his long flight across the Star Universe, but suddenly, his body shook and his speed abruptly increased.
The Heaven Devouring Beast avatar had finally broken through!
Before this breakthrough, Chu Hao's main body had surpassed the Heaven Devouring Beast avatar in realm. But because he had been at the Realm Master bottleneck for too long, the avatar had once again overtaken him.
He had finally mastered a Main Law.
So this was a Main Law, one of the eight branches derived from the great natural laws of heaven and earth.
A strong sense of realization welled up in Chu Hao's heart. It seemed as if the door to becoming a Great Emperor had suddenly opened to him, and terrifying power burst forth from within him, wrapped in Unlimited Divine Light, as if he was about to transform and ascend.
He quickly suppressed this urge. If he were to attempt breaking through to the Great Emperor Realm now, the absence of Spiritual Energy here would mean that his own Origin would be depleted halfway through the attempt, resulting in his death.
The leap required the support of a Superior Star.
Conveniently, the planet where Great Emperor Yishi was located was definitely a Superior Star. Once he defeated Yishi, he would directly breakthrough to Great Emperor on that planet, then return to Sky Martial Star, bring Su Wanyue and the others into the Star Sea, and then aim for the Heavenly Emperor, all of them leaving this cosmic pond together.
With the mastery of the Space Main Laws, Chu Hao's speed naturally skyrocketed.
Now, who could compete with him in speed?
The Space Law had reached Perfection, and the Time Law had reached the Subordinate level. With these two combined, except for those who had achieved Perfection in both time and space, he was absolutely invincible.
Twenty-two years later, he had crossed countless Star Domains and finally arrived at the Tuoluo Realm.
Finding Great Emperor Yishi was very simple, as there was only one Superior Star here.
Tuoluo Star was also a large realm. It wasn't this vast originally, but with the emergence of Great Emperor Yishi, he had swept through the nearby twenty-two realms to form what was now this super-large realm.
Even for a Realm Master, crossing such an area would require hundreds of years, but for Chu Hao, it was a matter of months.
With one step, he arrived on Juyang Star, which was the main star of the Tuoluo Realm, the only Superior Star.
"Yishi, I've come for you!" Chu Hao released his aura without restraint, his pressure as a Peak Realm Master instantly enveloping the entire planet.
What, someone dares to challenge Great Emperor Yishi?
Every Martial Artist on the planet was astonished. In their minds, Great Emperor Yishi was a supreme deity, an invincible existence whom even a Great Emperor could only be suppressed by.
Who was this, tired of living?
"Hmm?" Great Emperor Yishi's Divine Sense immediately transmitted over, thunderous and majestic with supreme divine authority, "Who art thou?"
"So forgetful, are we?" Chu Hao said coldly as he swept out a Laws Divine Chain with his right hand toward a corner of the planet.
Hum, a holy Divine Light soared into the sky, scattering the Laws Divine Chain.
"It's you, this lowly ant!" Great Emperor Yishi evidently remembered him, his Divine Sense had been as gentle as a spring breeze before, but now it had turned incredibly cold, filled with a terrifying intent to kill.
He was a paradox, on the one hand, shining with divine light like a compassionate Buddha, and on the other hand, he was bloodthirsty like a crazed demon, the extreme aspects of his personality merging strangely into one.
"Heh, who was it that fled with their tail between their legs ten thousand years ago?" Chu Hao laughed.
Great Emperor Yishi appeared, standing in the vastness of space, with a colossal ethereal shadow extending behind him, visible to everyone in the entire galaxy.
At this moment, he had transformed into a demon, and the shadow was a black Evil God with a fierce face, full of murderous aura.
"Foolish Human Race, seeking your own death!" he said coldly, his gaze sharp.
"Oh, you couldn't kill me ten thousand years ago, nor can you now!" Chu Hao spoke calmly, "However, thirty years cycle through changes of fortune, and I am no longer as I was before."
"Nonsense!" said Great Emperor Yishi coldly. The shadow behind him suddenly swung a palm, pressing towards Chu Hao.
The apparition was entirely composed of Laws, and therefore, although it was just a simple palm strike, its power was boundless, and not even a Peak Realm Master could possibly withstand it.
Everyone's heart trembled at the sight, for this was a strike from a Great Emperor. With such a blow coming down, could it not shatter the entire planet?
Chu Hao soared into the sky, his right hand forming a sword with his fingers, and he met that massive hand head-on.
The Infinite Chaos Sword Diagram unfolded, deriving a universe of chaos.
With a hum, the palm struck the Sword Diagram, and a blinding flash of light, brighter than the sun, burst forth, forcing everyone's eyes to involuntarily shut. When they opened them again, they saw that both the Sword Diagram and the massive hand were still there.
Blocked, it was actually blocked!
The crowd felt a tingling on their scalps, as Chu Hao had managed to fend off Great Emperor Yishi's attack.
Is this member of the Human Race... a monster?
That is Yishi after all, a supreme genius who stepped into the Great Emperor Realm in just ten million years!
Now another seven million years had passed—who knew how many times stronger this Great Emperor had become?
Could a second monstrous being be emerging?
Great Emperor Yishi looked at Chu Hao, his talent on the martial path extraordinarily stunning yet his patience was terribly poor, making him extremely easy to anger. At this moment, one of his eyes was flickering with black light while the other had turned gold, giving him a bizarre appearance.
"You have progressed quickly," he said. His right hand stretched out, and the apparition in the sky mimicked the movement. Whoosh, both pointed a finger at Chu Hao simultaneously, with Golden Light filling the entire Star Universe, "But before me, you are still on a path to death."
Boom, a finger jabbed downward, the firmament collapsed, and distant stars shattered to pieces, even the sun seemed dim and lightless.
Chu Hao raised his hand to seal and block. Hum, the Infinite Chaos Sword Diagram still unfolded, stopping the finger.
He smiled faintly and said, "You are still the same as you were ten thousand years ago, but I am no longer the person I was ten thousand years ago. Did you think I came here to die?"
"Isn't that so?" Great Emperor Yishi replied proudly.
He was the foremost emperor since ancient times, no other Great Emperor could be his match, much less Chu Hao who had not yet entered the Great Emperor Realm.
"Kill!" He transformed his pointing finger into a fist and again hurled it at Chu Hao.
Chu Hao plunged into the starry sky to exchange blows with Great Emperor Yishi.
Two Great Emperor level powerhouses, what a terrifying existence, a single palm strike could shatter stars. However, under Chu Hao's deliberate control, the aftermath of the battle was transferred by the Space Law to a desolate region, preventing significant casualties.
Great Emperor Yishi, on the other hand, didn't care at all. What if this was his Star Domain? Right now, all he wanted was to kill.
He was like a wild demon, splitting his body in two, becoming two people.
Chu Hao had seen this move ten thousand years ago; a body completely transformed by Laws, merging with the Heavenly Dao. If he mastered all eight Laws, he would represent this universe, truly invincible.
Chu Hao circulated the Space Law to battle Great Emperor Yishi.
The Space Law, second only to the Time Law and Chu Hao had derived this Law to the level of Main Laws, naturally transcending the Gold Series or Thunder Series Main Laws. If it weren't for him only extracting the Law from the Heaven Devouring Beast, and Great Emperor Yishi fully transforming his body through Laws Transformation, he might have been able to suppress Great Emperor Yishi.
Chu Hao gradually gained the upper hand. After all, the Mutual Generation and Overcoming of the Laws of Five Elements were enough to allow him to counteract a Main Law, and with the addition of the Space Main Laws, he was even stronger!
The clash of Great Emperor level competitors naturally meant no one dared to approach and watch, but those who reached the Domain Lord level could just about make out the situation from afar and were invariably astonished.
Great Emperor Yishi was actually at a disadvantage!
How could this be possible!
That was Yishi, the strongest Great Emperor in history.
Chu Hao continued his relentless assault and said, "Yishi, if this is all the strength you have, I am going to slay an emperor today!"
"Hmph!" Though Great Emperor Yishi was at a disadvantage, he was not flustered. Being at a disadvantage and being defeated were vastly different things. Had not Great Emperor Yishi also been stronger than Nether Tree Great Emperor before? Yet they had still fought for two years before Nether Tree Great Emperor came close to defeat.
Similarly, it was not something that Chu Hao could accomplish in a short time to defeat him, let alone kill him.
But the ant he could have squashed with a slap in the past was now suppressing him?
It drove him to a frenzied fury, a murderous aura rose from the top of his head, transforming into a black Demonic Sword that shot up into the heavens, and then it slashed down at Chu Hao.
Chu Hao unleashed the Space Law, and the Demonic Sword instantly missed its mark, appearing in the distant reaches of space.
"Lock!" He fully activated the Space Law, transforming it into a prison of heaven and earth, trapping both Yishis within it. Bang, bang, bang, the Infinite Chaos exploded madly within this space, inflicting tons of damage on Great Emperor Yishi.
Both Yishis roared; although they had become Laws, becoming part of the universe, and thus were nearly impervious to harm, the problem was that the Infinite Chaos was too terrifying, deriving a Minor World that stood independent of this universe.
Since it did not belong to this universe, it was naturally unaffected.