Mythical Era: My Evolution into a Celestial Beast

This terrifying spectacle could be seen even three million kilometers beyond the borders of the Purgatory Empire, through clouds and haze, by Qian Tian and the others.

Immediately, several ancient-titan-level auras surged into the heavens. Qian Tian, the Primordial King, the Celestial king, the divine kings of the Heavenly Feathered Race, and others all ascended, standing tens of thousands of kilometers high with solemn expressions.

The Primordial King exclaimed in shock, "What's happening? Who is summoning the abyss on such a scale? Could it be... the Primordial Ancestor has awakened?"

Boom!

The massive phantom of the abyssal plane that spanned billions of kilometers trembled. No one could see it, but in the void beneath the plane, space twisted and a dark-red balance slowly formed. The moment it condensed, space-time rippled. From the darkness, a massive black scale appeared and dropped onto one side of the balance.

Simultaneously, a dark-red micro-world a kilometer across appeared along with coagulated dark-golden blood. In a pair of invisible hands, two characters written in human language—"Chen Chu"—were placed on the opposite end of the scale.

Hum!

As the balance completed, a power that warped space-time crossed millions of kilometers and arrived behind the Expansion Division, over two hundred thousand kilometers away. There, a white-gold glowing sphere had already expanded to over eight thousand kilometers. Within, a silhouette had begun to emerge, radiating a pressure that shook heaven and earth.

The moment that name-linked force descended, the figure inside the white-gold sphere suddenly looked up. A pair of towering vertical pupils, black-gold and vast as the sky, appeared in its eyes.

"This force involves balance and causality... and... it doesn't seem dangerous." As Chen Chu murmured thoughtfully, space-time around him twisted, and his figure vanished without a sound. In that moment, the surging transcendent energy of the world stilled.

Boom!

In a world filled with dark-red light and flowing molten lava, the earth quaked violently. A figure ten thousand meters tall fell from the sky, shattering the ground when it landed. Lava and stone erupted skyward, and the abyssal demonic qi that filled the heavens exploded into violent shockwaves that swept across ten thousand kilometers.

Chen Chu had now reached the supreme level. His aura was terrifying, with white-gold lightning-like radiance circling his body. These lightning bolts, the manifestation of supreme principle, were unimaginably powerful. Wherever they passed, the void shattered like a mirror, leaving golden-red scars that lingered long after.

Despite his breakthrough to the supreme level, Chen Chu's true form hadn't changed much. He still bore three faces and ten arms. Six of the arms behind him gripped artifacts like the Golden Sun and the Death Millstone.

The most notable change was the Eight Desolations Halberd in his hands. Now enhanced to the world level, it stretched over twenty thousand meters. Its shaft was wrapped in mysterious black-red runes and emitted a heavy aura.

Even without being activated, its latent power distorted the surrounding space. It formed a crushing force field that kept the surging abyssal demonic qi at bay, creating a vacuum domain over a thousand kilometers wide.

Before Chen Chu could examine the Supreme Abyss and compare it to the Supreme Hell, another brutal, ancient-titan-level aura suddenly descended.

Boom!

The ground ten thousand kilometers away shattered once more, and amid the rising smoke, a vicious, crazed roar of agony erupted, making the entire world violently tremble. A dazzling streak of dark-red light shot out, appearing instantly with a speed that transcended time itself.

Boom!

Above Chen Chu's head, a red mountain resembling a colossal silkworm, spanning ten thousand kilometers in diameter, descended.

Atop the mountain stood an alien divine king over thirty thousand meters tall, its body entirely covered in hair. It descended with crushing force, bearing a power that collapsed both space and eternity.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The indescribable force shattered space on a massive scale, unleashing wave after wave of destructive tides that were enough to annihilate the world.

"Seeking death!" Locked onto by principles, Chen Chu let out a long howl. An even more violent power burst forth from him, and the halberd in his hands blazed with radiant light.

Boom!

A halberd light that spanned heaven and earth surged skyward, infused with the pure power of total destruction, and struck the divine mountain.

Boom!

For a moment, the world fell silent.

Crack! Crack!

At the base of the divine mountain, which carried the foundation of an entire civilization, massive rifts spread outward from the point of impact like a web. In a blink, they covered the entire mountain.

Boom!

The mountain, as massive as a continental plate, exploded. The force of the blast tore the land itself apart, releasing rings of crimson shockwaves that scorched the heavens and earth. Amid the apocalyptic explosion, a beam of light surged into the sky. A phantom of halberd light over a hundred thousand meters long swept through the void and struck the alien divine king head-on.

Burning its origin and true form, the divine king roared in rage and madness, crossing its arms as radiant crimson light burst forth. Bathed in that crystalline red light, the fractured space across thousands of kilometers solidified into thick spatial crystals, forming a gleaming wall of defense.

Boom!

Space twisted, and the golden-red spatial crystals shattered in an instant. As the halberd light crushed space, it didn't slow. With a speed beyond description, it blasted directly into the divine king. Principles shattered, and half of its true form exploded on the spot.

Roar!

With a mad, pain-filled howl, the divine king plummeted from the sky in a streak of light, crashing violently into the collapsing abyss below.

Boom!

A thirty-thousand-kilometer stretch of earth collapsed. Mountain-sized debris flew into the air, mixing with searing lava that erupted in all directions. The immense power fluctuations immediately drew the attention of powerful demonic creatures in the abyss.

Roar!

Within the expanding ring of crimson light, the divine king, with its true form torn and incomplete, howled toward the heavens. Dark-red flames surged skyward from its body, and its overwhelming power burst outward, forming broken chains of white principles across a radius of several thousand kilometers. They dispersed continuously, like drifting ice crystals, glowing with white light as they dissolved into space.

As the space carrying matter and heaven and earth itself began to disappear, even the world-shattering energy of the explosion weakened, vanishing into invisible voids. The bizarre and formidable nature of this power made even Chen Chu pause momentarily.

Standing high above the sky, Chen Chu looked down with a cold gaze like that of an ancient god. His majestic voice echoed across the heavens. "The power to erase space... It's strong, but this alone isn't enough."

Chen Chu radiated brilliant white-golden light, illuminating the world. A peerless, domineering, and utterly pure force erupted from him.

Boom!

The abyssal world shook even more violently. From the void came a deep hum, like a chant of supreme gravity, praising the descent of this supreme power.

Sensing the horrifying aura in the azure sky, the divine king roared again. The world behind it shook as countless massive red boulders appeared amid distorted space. They were the remains of the divine mountain that Chen Chu had destroyed earlier.

Now, these mountains surged into the divine king as though it were a bottomless abyss. Its aura exploded, its body expanded, muscles bulged, and in an instant, it transformed into a monstrous, mutated being over one hundred thousand meters tall.

Roar!

The alien divine king roared once more and charged into the sky, swinging arms like twin mountain ranges. Its tyrannical power twisted space as it fiercely clashed against the Eight Desolations Halberd, which seemed capable of severing the heavens.

Boom!

Even though the divine king had fused with a civilization's racial weapon, however, it was still no match for the overpowering might of the supreme principle. Space collapsed, its arms shattered, and half its true form was blasted apart once more.

In that instant, Chen Chu sharply sensed space tremble. A formless force swept toward him, riding the wave of spatial fluctuations. Before it could reach him, it was blocked by the Absolute Barrier's power naturally emanating from him. Even so, the space-time summoning mark on the back of his left hand trembled slightly, and the space-related rune structure flickered.

"It's targeting my space-time summoning mark." Chen Chu narrowed his eyes. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind as he instantly understood the enemy's intent.

They had used the Supreme Abyss's power to draw him into this place. The purpose of sending a divine king warrior wasn't to kill him, but to destroy the summoning mark. Clearly, they already knew that assassinating him was unlikely to succeed. What Chen Chu still didn't know was how they had pinpointed his location so precisely.

If they can target me at will and drag me into the Supreme Abyss, wouldn't that mean the Purgatory Clan can kill anyone they pleased? Or is this technique heavily limited?

As Chen Chu's thoughts drifted for a moment, the divine king below, ignoring its shattered body, let out a frenzied, agonized roar and instantly tore through space to reappear before him.

"Seeking death."

Boom!

Chen Chu swept his halberd, coiled with the Supreme Power Principle, in a wide arc. Everything was obliterated. The pure, unrivaled power shattered the world's principles and disintegrated space-time, forming a dark rift across the void.

The divine king charging forward was too slow to react. It was severed at the waist, and a shower of blood rained from the sky as it crashed deep into the earth.

Having fully broken through to the supreme level, Chen Chu's normal combat strength now rivaled the late stage of the ancient titan level. Among others at that level, he was already among the strongest. With the added power of the world-level Eight Desolations Halberd, every move he made reverberated with supreme might, shaking the world.

Immediately after that initial strike, Chen Chu stepped through time, gripped his halberd with two hands, and instantly unleashed a hundred thousand strikes. The force of the blows merged and stacked, nearly blasting apart the entire world. A black stream of destructive chaos, thousands of kilometers thick, tore through the land.

Boom!

Heaven and earth crumbled under the vast flood of annihilation. Tens of thousands of kilometers of terrain were completely obliterated, leaving behind a bottomless void. The divine king's true form was utterly destroyed by that blow, dissolving into countless red lights mixed with specks of white that scattered across tens of thousands of kilometers.

Under normal circumstances, even for a demon god at the late stage of the ancient titan level, such injuries would be fatal. Though not necessarily enough to result in death, even if its divine soul and will remained, it would be heavily wounded and unfit for battle.

Yet at that moment, in the place where the alien divine king had exploded, a massive black demon scale appeared. Around it coiled an invisible aura so powerful that even Chen Chu felt his heart tighten.

Although Tyretis was confident, Constantine had chosen not to risk failure and had directly consumed two true demon's scales containing the Primordial Ancestor's origin. The moment that scale appeared, Chen Chu, whose aura was overwhelming the heavens, vanished instantly.

Roar!

Around the kilometer-wide black scale, the burning phantom of the alien divine king reappeared, its aura even more powerful than before. However, its eyes had turned pitch black and cold, radiating pain and madness. It scanned the surroundings, but couldn't locate a single trace of Chen Chu's presence.

This disappearance wasn't physical, but conceptual. Chen Chu's presence and all traces of his existence had vanished entirely, as if he had never existed in this world at all.

This outcome startled Tyretis, who had taken control of the divine king through its demon soul. It hadn't expected Chen Chu to possess such a mysterious concealment ability, in addition to wielding supreme and domineering principle power.

In the depths of the Supreme Abyss, merged with the void itself, Chen Chu stared through the seams of spatial rifts with cold eyes, fixating on that true demon's scale emitting true spirit level fluctuations.

This unexpected turn had disrupted his original plan to quietly break through to the supreme level. It was now obvious that, after this battle, news of his breakthrough could no longer be hidden from the Purgatory Demon Clan, nor could his true strength. Thinking of this, Chen Chu inhaled deeply.

Truly, a man's plan could not beat the heavens' plan. They never keep up with change.

Boom!

Behind the alien divine king's phantom, the void collapsed. A figure radiating golden-white light appeared, with a massive golden gate entwined with dragon chains materializing behind it.

"Chu Batian, die!" As Chen Chu reappeared, the alien divine king burned everything and charged into the black scale. As the scale exploded, it triggered a power within; a boundless black hand formed, stretching across tens of thousands of kilometers.

At the same time, the Heavenly Gate behind Chen Chu shattered, and an endless dark-golden aura surged forth, condensing into a world-ending dragon shadow that poured into him. In that instant, a vast, thunderous vitality erupted from within him, piercing the clouds and sky.

Chen Chu blazed with divine radiance. His mere presence distorted and crushed everything around him, reducing the surroundings to chaos. Within that dazzling light, the coiling shadow of a massive dragon could be seen, emanating an aura of dominance capable of ruling the wilds and devouring gods and demons alike.

"I am power."

Boom!

Amid that chant, infinite dark-golden brilliance erupted, illuminating the abyss and dispelling everything in its path. Even the world-shattering strike of the descending true demon's palm exploded apart, including the scale it contained.

However, under that fragment of true demon power, the dark-golden figure also fell from the sky. Smashing through layer upon layer of space, it burst through the temporary boundary of the abyssal plane and reappeared as a beam of light over two hundred thousand kilometers behind the Expansion Division.

Instantly, the terrain within tens of thousands of kilometers collapsed. Mountains crumbled and the earth split open. The destructive force swept outward like waves of dark-red energy. Countless towering trees burned to ash, and countless mutated and colossal beasts were vaporized before they could even cry out.

At the heart of the apocalyptic blast, scorching dark-red light melted space itself, as endless dark-golden light surged into the sky. Amid the howling void, a ten-thousand-meter-tall figure stood, halberd in hand. His black hair billowed behind him as he exuded a tyrannical aura. On the back of his left hand, the once-complete blue altar rune had been shattered. Only a few remnants of blue rune sequences remained.

That strike had been incredibly powerful, enough to break through the Absolute Barrier surrounding Chen Chu. At the instant of impact, a domineering force that could erase space had swept across him. Though it couldn't shake his principle-condensed true form, it had erased the spatial portion of the space-time mark, destroying the space-time summoning altar.

However, when Chen Chu lowered his head slightly and looked at the ruined summoning art on the back of his hand, his expression remained calm. The secret art was broken? At worst, he would just cultivate it again. With attribute points available to enhance the process, how long would it take him to reconstruct the secret art? One minute? Ten minutes?