Blood Locks Heaven and Earth, Chaos Opens the Floodgates

The moment the cold, void-like whispers from beyond the realm descended, the entire world underwent a complete transformation.

The sky, previously stained a grayish-white by Frieza's imperial aura, grew dark once more. Wisps of viscous, deathly gray-black mist seeped through the gaps in the high-altitude clouds. Unlike the violent, overbearing nature of an energy storm, this mist carried a silent, corrosive quality that permeated everything it touched. Wherever it passed, mountains and rivers lost their color, vegetation withered, the earth was stripped of its vitality, and even the dust suspended in the wind came to a complete standstill.

This was the Chaos Power from beyond the realm.

It did not belong to the laws of this universe, nor did it follow the martial energy systems; it existed solely to devour life force, erode the origin, and tear through the barriers of heaven and earth.

Every hair on Lin Chen's body stood on end, and a needle-like stinging pain pierced deep into his soul. The Chaos consciousness that had locked onto him was not frantic, yet it was omnipresent and inescapable, as if it had peered straight through his flesh, his bloodline, and his very soul.

He finally understood this conspiracy that had spanned ten thousand years in its entirety.

The Chaos Race had remained hidden and dormant for so long, not out of fear of the Saiyan race, nor out of concern for Frieza, the hegemon of the galaxy.

They were waiting.

They were waiting for the final, ancient origin bloodline of the Saiyan race to fully awaken, waiting for this unique anchor point of heaven and earth to take its final form.

Ordinary power and ordinary beings could never touch the core rules of the universal barrier, let alone serve as the cornerstone for a gateway between two worlds. Only a mutated bloodline that carried the will of the ancient Saiyan ancestors and sealed the origin of the race could forcibly pry open the barriers of this universe.

Ten thousand years ago, his ancestors had fought to the death to seal the spark of their bloodline, precisely to prevent this possibility. Yet, no one could have foreseen that as fate turned, ten thousand years later, his own desperate breakthrough and the full awakening of his bloodline would collide perfectly with the Chaos Race's long-planned ultimate layout.

He had become the only hope for saving his race, and simultaneously, the only key to unlocking the apocalypse of the universe.

So that's it... the whole thing was a trap.

Lin Chen sighed heavily in his heart, a bone-chilling coldness surging from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

Frieza's pursuit, the army's encirclement, the awakening of fate, the arrival of the prophecy—all these seemingly coincidental trials and desperate situations were merely a chess game meticulously orchestrated by the Chaos Race. They had used Frieza's hand to slaughter the remnants of the Saiyans, forcing the survivors to constantly break through their limits in desperate situations, bit by bit ripening the final origin anchor point.

Once the anchor point fully matured, it would be the moment the two worlds went to war and the galaxy collapsed.

High above, Frieza, who had previously been full of arrogance and lingering indignation, saw his expression undergo a violent shift for the first time.

He narrowed his crimson eyes slightly, his gaze piercing through layers of atmosphere to stare fixedly at the gray-black Chaos mist permeating outer space. As a top-tier, natural-born emperor of this universe, his perception of the laws of heaven and earth far exceeded that of ordinary martial artists.

At this moment, he clearly sensed that the surrounding spatial laws were being forcibly tampered with.

The energy veins, the order of heaven and earth, and the trajectory of this star system were being forcibly eroded, stripped away, and replaced by a strange, overbearing power that transcended this universe.

"Power from beyond the realm?"

Frieza whispered, his tone losing its absolute confidence for the first time, replaced by a hint of suspicion and shock.

He had dominated the North Galaxy for hundreds of years, conquering countless remote star systems and witnessing innumerable strange races and mysterious abilities, yet he had never encountered a power that could silently devour even the laws of space.

When Lin Chen had called him a pawn earlier, he had scoffed, dismissing it as the ramblings of an ant. But now, witnessing the formation of the Chaos Barrier with his own eyes, the arrogance he had held for ten thousand years suffered its first crack.

Could it be... that after a lifetime of conquest, annihilating the Saiyan race and ruling over thousands of star seas, he had truly been manipulated in the palm of someone else's hand?

The mere thought of it caused a towering rage to surge in the heart of the usually cold and aloof Frieza.

He could be defeated, he could be surpassed, he could be challenged, but he absolutely could not tolerate the idea that his life's work and conquests had been nothing more than a stepping stone for someone else.

"What filthy, unknown trash dares to lay a finger on this King's territory?"

The pale white energy around Frieza suddenly exploded with violence, and he released the full extent of his imperial pressure. A gale rose across the entire sky, and the gray clouds eroded by Chaos were instantly torn apart by the violent energy.

He no longer stared at Lin Chen, his crimson eyes fixed on the pitch-black deep space beyond the atmosphere, filled with murderous intent.

To him, Lin Chen was now a secondary threat.

Compared to a maturing Saiyan mutated bloodline, this extra-dimensional race capable of overturning the laws of the universe and calculating against him from the shadows was the truly fatal danger.

Floating to the side, the golden-haired, full-power Super Saiyan wore an expression of extreme gravity.

"The Chaos Barrier is complete. With Lin Chen's bloodline as the anchor, the entire Earth is locked into the core of the gateway," he said in a deep, rapid voice. "Now, none of the three of us can leave. Frieza's star territory, our bloodlines, and the lives on Earth have all become sacrifices to open the Chaos gate."

The apocalyptic scenes recorded in ancient texts from ten thousand years ago were unfolding before their eyes.

The black-haired Saiyan, Kallen, clenched his fists tightly, the purple aura around his body fluctuating violently, his eyes filled with regret and helplessness.

He had chased prophecies and pursued fate, believing he was saving his race, only to realize that his half-life of running had invisibly pushed forward the enemy's plan. If not for his investigation and the deliberate stimulation of the bloodline awakening, perhaps this day of catastrophe could have been delayed for countless ages.

"Now is not the time to dwell on the past!"

Lin Chen snapped back to reality, forcibly suppressing the chaos and heaviness in his heart.

The situation was shifting in the blink of an eye.

The three parties, who had previously been locked in a life-or-death struggle, were now forced onto the same dead end in the face of the apocalyptic catastrophe.

He, Kallen, and the golden-haired Super Saiyan were the locked bloodline anchors; Frieza was the invaded universal hegemon; and the entire Earth was the eye of the barrier formation.

They would either thrive together or perish together.

Once the Chaos Race opened the gateway, Earth would be the first to be destroyed, followed by the remaining Saiyan bloodlines, and finally, the entire galaxy would be swallowed by Chaos, turning Frieza's imperial hegemony into nothingness.

"Join forces."

Lin Chen raised his eyes, his gaze cutting through the chaotic air to look directly at Frieza high above, his tone firm and steady.

"Our grievances, the hatred between our races, and your imperial conquests—all of it must be set aside for now. With the Chaos invasion, we are all prey. Fighting alone, no one can stop the opening of the gateway between worlds."

In a single sentence, he laid bare the reality of the situation.

Frieza was arrogant and overbearing; he had never joined forces with anyone in his life, let alone fought side-by-side with the Saiyan remnants he had hunted for years.

He stared coldly at Lin Chen with his crimson eyes, the murderous intent in them still boiling, yet he hesitated to strike.

Reason told him that Lin Chen's words were not empty.

The Chaos fog continued to seep in, the vitality between heaven and earth was rapidly dying out, and the barriers of the outer space had already developed visible, fine cracks. Such cracks were not the result of explosive energy; they were a disintegration at the level of natural laws, an irreversible collapse.

If they continued to fight amongst themselves, they would all be completely drained by the barrier long before the Chaos Army arrived.

"Interesting."

After a moment of silence, a cold arc curled at the corner of Frieza's mouth.

"An ant seeks peace with this king and even wants to fight side-by-side? In ten thousand years, your Saiyan race has never been granted such an honor."

"We can join forces."

His tone shifted abruptly, his voice as cold as ice.

"But after this battle, Earth will be wiped clean, and the remaining Saiyan vermin will all face judgment. The favor of today's alliance cannot offset the sins of your race."

His attitude remained rigid; he had not yielded an inch of his bottom line.

Yet, he had tacitly agreed to the cooperation.

The situation reversed in an instant.

Deadly enemies who had sworn to destroy one another had, in the face of an apocalyptic catastrophe, forged the most fragile and dangerous of temporary alliances.

"Kallen, contain the Chaos fog in the airspace and stabilize the expansion rate of the barrier!"

"Senior, your combat power is the strongest; guard the cracks in the high-altitude barrier and prevent the extraterrestrial power from continuing to seep through!"

Lin Chen stopped wasting time, instantly assigning roles to all combatants, his voice resonant and firm.

"As the bloodline anchor, I will sit at the ground's focal point, using my own origin to reverse-suppress the barrier and curb the speed at which the gateway forms! Frieza, your energy is the most destructive; focus on the core cracks of the barrier and forcibly erase the Chaos rules!"

At this life-or-death juncture, he cast aside all personal emotions, coordinating the overall situation with the calmest of mindsets.

The others did not utter a single word of nonsense.

Kallen's purple aura surged, his full combat power of 8,700 points unfolding to create a sky-filling barrier of energy that tightly shrouded the entire mountain forest airspace, blocking the falling Chaos fog from eroding the earth.

The blonde Super Saiyan flashed, his golden form soaring into the sky to stand at the thinnest point of the atmosphere. The power of his full-power Super Saiyan state solidified the space layer by layer, forcibly stabilizing the ever-spreading cracks in the barrier.

Frieza moved slightly, appearing in the center of the high-altitude barrier in an instant. Pure white energy gathered in his palm, and without holding back, he struck the gray, dimming lines of the barrier with full force.

BOOM!

The heavens and earth shook violently.

On one side was the tyrannical, destructive energy of the Universe Emperor; on another, the stable defense of a full-power Super Saiyan; and on the third, the aerial blockade of a pure-blooded Saiyan.

With three top-tier combatants striking simultaneously, they forcibly suppressed the ever-expanding Chaos Barrier.

The situation was briefly stabilized.

Lin Chen took a deep breath, stepped into the center of the earth, and sat cross-legged.

He voluntarily released the seals on his bloodline, no longer suppressing the ancient origin. The scorching, primordial bloodline power flowed through his meridians throughout his body. The Super Saiyan aura, which had previously been only a prototype, fully expanded. His 6,500 combat power climbed steadily, and a faint glow of his bloodline shot into the sky, transforming into a golden pillar of light that anchored itself firmly into the earth's focal point.

Using himself as a lock and his bloodline as a seal, he reverse-suppressed the Chaos anchor!

Within his sea of consciousness, the will of the Ancestral Remnant Soul fully awakened, and an endless, ancient power merged with Lin Chen's aura.

"With my final bloodline, I reverse-seal the world's anchor and delay the opening of the Chaos gate!"

The low shout echoed through his mind. The golden pillar of bloodline light suddenly intensified, and the gray-black Chaos lines spreading across the ground were instantly forced back, suppressed, and dimmed.

The external crisis was temporarily held at bay, but the sense of crisis in Lin Chen's heart did not diminish; instead, it grew even more intense.

Because he clearly sensed that deep within the Chaos beyond the atmosphere, that void, unfamiliar consciousness felt no panic at all.

Their blocking, suppression, and reverse-sealing seemed to be entirely within the other party's expectations.

In fact... the other party was deliberately allowing them to stabilize the situation.

"Something is wrong... this is not right!"

Lin Chen's mind tightened, and cold sweat instantly soaked his back.

If the goal of the Chaos Race was merely to break open the gateway, then the four of them joining forces to suppress it had already greatly delayed their progress. The enemy should have been doing everything in their power to break the deadlock and interfere with their efforts.

Yet, the Chaos aura outside the sky continued to seep in at a leisurely pace, and that void consciousness continued to watch with cold indifference, showing not a hint of agitation.

What were they waiting for?

The next instant, the Ancestral Remnant Soul's urgent warning exploded in his sea of consciousness:

"Terrible! We have mistaken the core of the barrier!"

"The Chaos gateway does not need to be blown open all at once! Their true goal is to use the energy collision of us four top-tier combatants—using the Saiyan bloodline, Super Saiyan origin, Emperor energy, and pure-blooded battle qi as fuel—to reverse-burn the cosmic barrier!"

"Our joint suppression is not plugging the gap... it is helping them blast through the two worlds!"

Lin Chen's pupils constricted, his mind going blank.

All their suppression, blocking, and resistance had been part of the Chaos Race's calculations from the very beginning.

The violent collision and counter-impact of four distinct, top-tier powers capable of shaking the universe generated a rule-breaking explosive force far exceeding that of a single Chaos power.

Their desperate efforts to protect the world were, in fact, the final key to unlocking the apocalyptic catastrophe!

At this very moment, the space fissures that had been slowly spreading across the high heavens suddenly surged with frantic intensity!

Crack—!

A crisp, shattering sound echoed across the world as dense, spiderweb-like cracks instantly crawled across the entire firmament.

Within the pitch-black void of the outer reaches, a colossal dark maw spanning ten thousand miles slowly pried itself open.

Cold, deathly, and desolate, the aura of the Chaos Race poured into this universe like a bursting dam, surging in with reckless abandon.

Then, that void-like Chaos will, which overlooked all existence, resonated through heaven and earth once more with the indifference of the end times:

"Four sources complete... fuel solidified."

"This universe... is officially registered to Chaos."

Lin Chen looked up at the torn sky, watching the doomsday black hole slowly yawn open, his heart skipping a beat.

What filled him with even greater despair was his clear perception that deep within the black hole, countless dormant armies of the Chaos Race had already awakened.

And at the very forefront of that army, a terrifying Chaos King Shadow, far beyond anything he could have conceived, was slowly opening its eyes, locking onto Earth—and locking onto him, this... perfect sacrificial anchor.