"They were born with purple blood, their bodies were powerful to the extreme, and their personalities were peerlessly domineering."
"They were the fated nemesis of the Ancient Sacred Body!"
"Their name was the Heavenly Tyrant Body!"
Boom!
As the words "Heavenly Tyrant Body" fell, a wildly violent tide of purple blood qi instantly filled the entire illusion!
A figure like a fiendish god stood in the starry sky, purple blood flowing all over his body.
He threw a punch, and several meteors before him were reduced to dust.
"They possessed the Nine Great Tyrant Bell Divine Forms. Every strike carried the power to destroy heaven and earth."
"In ages past, the Heavenly Tyrant Body had even personally slain a fully developed Ancient Sacred Body, forging an invincible reputation atop the Sacred Body's bones and blood!"
At this, gasps rang out throughout the hall.
Even the Ancient Sacred Body, so tragic and mighty that it could challenge a Great Emperor, had a fated nemesis?
It had even been slain?
The waters of the Shrouding the Heavens Universe were far too deep!
Looking at the crowd, whose expressions had been stunned into numbness, Su Chen's smile grew even broader.
Then he slowly closed his folding fan and swept his gaze across the hall.
"Whether it's the Ancient Sacred Body, the Heavenly Tyrant Body, the Divine King Body, or the Innate Dao Fetus..."
"Though all are exceedingly powerful, they ultimately remain within the laws of the Great Dao."
"But in the vast and ancient history of Shrouding the Heavens, there was one truly supreme physique, standing above all others!"
"Perhaps not even one would appear in several million years."
"Yet once one emerged, it was destined to suppress an entire era, sweeping through all time with no equal!"
At this, Xue Qinghe's breathing quickened. Unable to hold back, he pressed, "May I ask, sir, what physique could possibly stand above all other special physiques?"
At the question, Su Chen's gaze sharpened. He spoke the three words slowly, one by one:
"Chaos Body!"
As his voice fell, the surrounding illusion of the starry sky collapsed in an instant, transforming into a hazy gray chaos, where heaven and earth could no longer be distinguished!
"Born able to embrace all things, the Chaos Body can dispel all techniques."
"Any attack that lands on them is instantly assimilated and absorbed by the chaotic qi."
"But what's most terrifying is..."
"In that world, generally only one person could attain the Great Emperor's Dao in each era. A Great Emperor's laws would suppress the entire universe, preventing those who came after from attaining the Dao."
"But the Chaos Body was different!"
"Even if an invincible Great Emperor already ruled the age, the Chaos Body could ignore the suppression of the Great Dao and force its way to becoming a Great Emperor against the heavens!"
"This is supreme divine might that even the Heavenly Dao cannot stop!"
At this, Su Chen brought the clapper in his hand down hard.
Smack!
"What a load of nonsense, Twin Martial Souls! And what 'number one Tool Spirit under heaven'!"
"Before the Chaos Body, they aren't even fit to polish its shoes!"
Su Chen's merciless ridicule ground the reputations of both the Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect into the dirt.
For a moment, several Spirit Hall experts and Clear Sky Sect spies hiding in the hall turned livid with rage, their teeth grinding audibly.
Everyone in the hall had been thoroughly shaken by these bizarre and absurdly powerful physiques. Their entire worldview had crumbled.
Poison Douluo Dugu Bo's old face had turned bright red.
Now he didn't even dare think of using poison. Who knew what ridiculous resistances these abnormal physiques might have?
"How terrifying..."
"In that world, are ordinary people without such physiques doomed to spend their entire lives as ants?"
In a corner, a commoner Spirit Master muttered in despair.
At those words, Su Chen, who had been wearing a haughty expression, fell into an unusual silence.
After a moment, he slowly raised his head and gazed into the distance, his eyes distant.
"Physiques are indeed a gift from heaven."
"But do you know that, in all these ages, the most peerlessly gifted powerhouse—the one who slew the myriad races of the heavens until they trembled and split open the immortal road through the ages with a single sword..."
"She was neither an Ancient Sacred Body nor a Chaos Body."
"In fact, her talent was worse than that of anyone here."
"She was merely an ordinary mortal with no qualification to cultivate, a little girl who survived by scavenging in the mortal world."
At his words, the air throughout the Listening Rain Pavilion froze in an instant.
"A little girl who scavenged?"
At this, the people in the hall looked at one another.
On Douluo Continent, even those with merely half a level of Innate Soul Power were considered useless. What chance could an ordinary mortal with no qualification to cultivate possibly have?
"Mr. Su, are you making fun of us?"
A noble Spirit Master in the hall couldn't help speaking up. "How could a little beggar, someone even lower than an ordinary mortal, possibly be stronger than the Divine King Body or the Chaos Body?"
"Exactly! That makes no sense at all!"
Hearing the doubts from below, Su Chen wasn't surprised in the least.
He put away his folding fan, and his gaze suddenly grew unfathomably deep.
"Common sense?"
"In her presence, what this world calls common sense exists only to be crushed underfoot!"
As Su Chen's words fell, the illusion before them shifted once again.
It showed a little girl wearing tattered straw sandals, with patched clothes and a filthy face.
She had no parents, only an older brother who depended on her as she depended on him.
Yet these two siblings, so humble they seemed sunk into the dust, suffered the cruelest fate imaginable.
Her older brother was forcibly taken away by an exalted immortal sect. In the end, he died a tragic death in a foreign land, leaving behind only a Ghost Face Mask stained with blood.
"Her talent was abysmal, and every immortal sect turned her away."
"Everyone told her, 'You're only an ordinary mortal. You're destined to spend your whole life as an ant.'"
At this, Su Chen's voice sank very low.
"But she refused to accept it."
"She didn't seek to become an immortal. She only wanted to wait in this mortal world for her brother to return!"
"With no resources, no cultivation arts, and no special physique..."
"She created them herself!"
In the illusion, the frail little girl put on the Ghost Face Mask, its expression neither crying nor smiling.
"She created the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Art, a cultivation art that shook the ages!"
"If an ordinary mortal couldn't cultivate, then she would devour those so-called special physiques!"
"What Divine King Body? What Heavenly Tyrant Body? If they dared stand in her way, they would all become nourishment for her demonic art!"
At this, Dugu Bo's eyes nearly popped out of his head.
Devour special physiques?!
How could such a domineering and evil cultivation art exist in this world?
In the illusion, the woman wearing the Ghost Face Mask stepped over the corpses of countless prodigies, fighting her way to the peak of the universe.
"One Thought Blooms, Monarch Over the World!"
Su Chen's voice exploded through the hall like thunder.
The woman in the vision gently raised her hand.
Petals drifted down from the sky. Each one was crystal-clear, yet contained terrifying power capable of extinguishing stars!
The peerless Primordial Imperial Clan, the exalted ancestors of the sacred lands—all were reduced to swaths of blood mist beneath this single thought of flowers blooming!
"With nothing but an ordinary mortal's body, she slew every sovereign, fought across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, and ultimately forced her way to the Great Emperor's Dao!"
"The world revered her as the Ruthless Empress!"
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