Taixuan Sacred Emperor
The piercing scream was instantly drowned out by the dull sound of bones cracking.
The Millstone spun, and the pure Death Formation Core unleashed a terrifying suction force.
Under the crushing force of the Life-and-Death Dao Resonance, the massive, fleshy body of the Primordial Mirage Demon crumbled inch by inch into the most primordial gray-white essence.
Along with its vast Divine Thoughts accumulated over millennia, it all transformed into streams of mottled light, which were pulled into Chen Fan's body like a whale swallowing the sea.
Above the Divine Kingdom's celestial canopy, the Sea of Death Fiend Qi surged with towering waves, expanding outwards by another three miles.
Chen Fan didn't even blink, and casually slung the Broken Saber over his shoulder.
For this Primordial Era demon that takes pleasure in tormenting Divine Souls and devouring cultivators, crushing it after searching its memories is the most reasonable ending.
He raised his bare foot and stomped down hard.
Bang!
The Ten-Thousand-Year Black Jade steps at the end of the main hall shattered with a crash, and the thirty-six broken restrictions covering the Void were pulverized like paper under the absolute pressure of the God-Demon Bodies.
Chen Fan transformed into a streak of gray-white Stream of Light that tore through the darkness, ignoring the empty ruins along the way, and against the backdrop of Ten Thousand Dao bone-chilling corpse frosts, he crashed straight into the ninth floor of the Black Tower.
Boom!
A heavy gas explosion resounded inside the nine-story hall.
The moment the foot landed, a strong, almost tangible, stench of blood assaulted the senses.
There are no pillars, doors, or windows here.
Inside the grand hall, which spans a thousand feet in diameter, lies a colossal pool of blood composed of countless pale Great Vehicle skulls.
The viscous blood and marrow in the pool boiled and churned. Void-Soaring Sword Venerable's broken flying sword, Reverend Heavenly Balance's tattered whisk, and the Bone-Corroding Demon Venerable's white bone prayer beads all floated and dissolved in the blood waves.
Ten Thousand Dao blood-red chains, inscribed with Primordial Runes, emerged from the bottom of the pool, tightly binding a heart-shaped flesh-and-blood embryo, about ten feet tall, that was pulsating violently.
Thump!
Thump!
The dull thumping of a heartbeat echoed in the deathly silent hall; with each beat, the Great Vehicle Mahayana blood in the blood pool dried up a little more.
Seemingly sensing the intrusion of the uninvited guest, the churning pool of blood suddenly stopped.
Call--!
The chilling aura within the entire hall suddenly increased a hundredfold.
Above the fleshy embryo, the aura of the Nine Netherworlds Nether Dragons roared and gathered, transforming into a towering imperial figure clad in a tattered, nine-clawed, dark gold imperial robe and wearing a Twelve-Tassel Imperial Crown.
His face was withered, and two pale green flames flickered deep within his empty eyes.
Taixuan Sacred Emperor.
This ancient supreme being, who had once ruled thousands of Great Thousand Worlds, slowly lowered his head, his cold gaze falling on the young man at the edge of the hall.
"That useless Mirage Demon couldn't even stop a Mortal Body junior."
A grand, hoarse voice echoed through the Void, carrying undisguised disgust and contempt. "Destroying the first layer of the array foundation and disturbing this emperor's reshaping of his imperial body, you deserve to have your soul extracted and burned as a celestial lamp for ten thousand years..."
However, before he could finish speaking...
The imperial figure of the Taixuan Sacred Emperor suddenly froze.
The originally indifferent and empty green flame suddenly swelled three feet as if a bucket of volatile oil had been poured on it!
His Divine Sense pierced through Chen Fan's seemingly ordinary white clothes, saw through the weak disguise of the seemingly Early Great Vehicle, and locked onto the tendons and blood vessels within the boy's body that were like a true dragon lying dormant.
"This... this is?!"
The voice of the ancient supreme being trembled uncontrollably at this moment, filled with extreme madness and greed:
"Qi and Blood transform into Yin-Yang, the physical body locks in chaos... the bone age is no more than sixteen, yet the Divine Soul is perfectly pure and immaculate?!"
"Free from the impurities of the laws of heaven and earth, pure divine and demonic Origin Source! Unprecedented throughout the ages! Unprecedented throughout the ages!"
The Taixuan Sacred Emperor Xuan laughed wildly, causing the entire inverted black tower to shake violently and the blood pool to surge with towering waves.
"Haha! Heaven hasn't forsaken me, Tai Xuan! Heaven hasn't forsaken me, Tai Xuan!"
"I had thought I could only piece together a tattered body from these few rotten pieces of Lingxu's Great Vehicle flesh to prolong my life, but I never expected that Heaven would send me such a Supreme Dao Embryo!"
The emperor's shadow crashed down, and nine Imperial Dao Black Dragons rose from the blood pool, blocking all escape routes from the main hall.
Looking down from a high vantage point, overlooking the ants.
The withered face of the Taixuan Sacred Emperor was twisted with extreme excitement as he stretched out a gigantic hand, thousands of feet long and shrouded in the sky, formed from pure Divine Soul and Death Fiend Qi, and fiercely grabbed down at Chen Fan's crown!
"Youngster, offer up your physical body and become part of my Immortal Path. It is a glory that you mortals can never attain!"
The immense Divine Soul pressure of a half-step True Immortal erupted completely, transforming into a devastating storm of Dao Principles, enough to instantly destroy the Niwan Palace of any Great Vehicle peak expert.
Facing the enormous, all-encompassing hand that was grabbing at him, Chen Fan stood by the blood pool, his expression remaining completely unchanged.
He simply and slowly rolled up the coarse cloth sleeve of his right arm.
Then, he drew the broken Broken Saber, mostly rusted, from his waist.
"Piecing together a living corpse from several rotting Great Vehicle bodies..."
Chen Fan slowly raised his eyes. In the depths of his originally clear black and white pupils, two infinite Millstones, one black and one white, began to spin wildly. His 167 million talent foundation was fully awakened without reservation in this instant!
The terrifying Martial God's Will forth like a bursting dam, sweeping across the heavens!
"You dare to covet my body?"
Click!
Chen Fan took a step forward with his sword held horizontally, and the Void at the top of the entire inverted black tower collapsed inch by inch the moment he stepped down!
The air in the hall seemed to freeze in an instant.
The colossal hand that the Taixuan Sacred Emperor extended to tear through the Void, the aura of the Nine Netherworlds Nether Dragon mixed with endless Death Fiend Qi, pressed down on Chen Fan's crown with the force to overturn the Firmament.
However, just as the ghastly green ghostly hand approached within three feet of the boy's head, it abruptly stopped in mid-air.
No matter how frantically the half-step True Immortal level divine Divine Thought urged, the thousand-foot giant hand could not advance even an inch further.
What blocks it is neither protective qi nor Great Vehicle Spirit Treasure.
Instead, it was a silent, rotating gray-white divine halo.
A divine halo rose from behind Chen Fan's head. As the black and white, Yin-Yang and yang energies circulated, all the laws of heaven and earth on the ninth floor of the Black Tower were reversed, transforming into an absolutely exclusive vacuum domain.
"How is that possible?!"
The Taixuan Sacred Emperor's furious roar exploded above the blood pool, and the two pale green flames in his empty eye sockets trembled violently.
His Divine Soul power spanned an entire era, fusing the essence of countless Great Vehicle masters' flesh and blood. In this lower space of the Cangwu Realm, he should be the absolute ruler.
But the boy before them showed no resistance or struggle whatsoever, only a calm indifference as if looking down upon insects.
"Divine Soul that's only half a True Immortal isn't even worthy of sharpening my blade in the Great Wilderness."
A cold smile curved Chen Fan's lips as he held his sword horizontally forward, his wrist trembling slightly.
There was no dazzling spiritual light, nor any complex Sword Qi whistling.
The broken Broken Saber, mostly rusted, traced a faint arc in the Void.
Laugh!
A soft tearing sound ripped through the deathly silence.
The gigantic hand, stretching thousands of feet and entangled with Vengeful Souls for millennia, was cleanly severed at the wrist!
"Roar!!"
A bloodcurdling roar erupted from deep within the throat of the Taixuan Sacred Emperor.