The cold divine sense of a Supreme pierced layer upon layer of spatial barriers, crushing down over the entire world without obstruction.
It was the will of a supreme being from the highest reaches of the Heavens. It held no emotion, only absolute judgment and indifference. Compared with the Seven-Colored Judgment Divine Light that had descended earlier, the pressure brought by this divine sense was a wholly different kind of despair.
A remote rules-based purge still left room to maneuver. But once a Supreme's true body crossed dimensions and descended, it would be a massacre in the truest sense of the word—a slaughter from a higher dimension.
The entire ruined Earth fell silent in an instant. The howling wind stopped, the drifting clouds froze, and even the currents of origin energy surging beneath the earth came to a complete halt. Every surviving life-form on the planet felt a suffocating grip tighten around their souls, as though a single thought from the other side could erase their very existence from the river of time.
"At last, they couldn't hold back."
The Golden Super Saiyan stood atop the void. His golden hair was pressed tightly against his shoulders by the unseen pressure of the Supreme. The weariness accumulated in his eyes vanished, leaving only a fierce will to fight.
Billions of years.
The Supremes of the Heavens had always remained high above the dimensions, treating this universe as a pasture for raising livestock. They had never set foot in this low-dimensional world they disdained. With the contract in hand, harvesting required no effort; they could simply sit back and enjoy the fruits of eternity from on high.
But today, the sleeping Realm Overlord had awakened, and the Prison Cage showed signs of slipping out of control. They could no longer watch from a distance with composure.
Allowing a universe that had escaped its fate to grow and rise was an absolutely unacceptable threat to the Heavens.
"The Seven Supremes intend to enter the game themselves and bring the eternal chess match to a complete end." Kallen clenched both fists. The pure-blooded Saiyan battle blood in his body surged wildly, and purple battle aura shot into the sky, barely resisting the supreme pressure permeating the world. "In the ancient war, our ancestors exhausted the power of the entire universe and still couldn't withstand the tide of the Heavens. Now the Main God's soul is incomplete, the universe's origin is nearly depleted, and our situation is even worse than it was in ancient times."
In the ancient era, the universe had been at its peak. Its ranks had teemed with prodigies and countless great predecessors, and they had still been able to fight.
After billions of years of erosion, its origin was now exhausted, its foundations damaged, and its top combatants had been absent for ages. Only the four of them remained to struggle on, along with the phantom of a gravely wounded Main God, sleeping with less than a tenth of his strength.
The difference between the two sides was like heaven and earth.
Frieza hovered in midair, layers of pale Emperor Energy exploding around him as he forcibly tore through the Supreme's will pressing in from every direction. At last, the overlord who had ruled the galaxy and never known defeat shed all his usual contempt. His face was filled with the utmost gravity.
"Their true bodies crossing dimensions means the Heavens have dropped all pretense. They're no longer maintaining the so-called rules of harvesting under the contract." His crimson eyes fixed on the depths of the dimensional rift, and his voice was cold enough to pierce bone. "They don't care whether this universe's origin remains intact or whether their nourishment is completely exhausted. They only want to pull up the roots and erase every variable."
Once the true bodies of the Seven Supremes descended, the so-called Eternal Sacrifice Contract would be null and void.
No erosion. No harvesting. Only pure destruction.
Meanwhile, at the center of the sky.
The hazy phantom of the Realm Overlord shuddered violently. The Origin Barrier it had spread wide and held firm was now riddled with countless tiny cracks under the pressure of the Supreme's will crossing dimensions. With every shudder, the outline of the phantom dimmed a little more. It was clearly bearing an unimaginable burden.
Its soul was already shattered and its origin greatly depleted. Resisting the Chaos King and the judgment of the rules of the Heavens had already been its limit. Now it also had to withstand the overwhelming force of a Supreme crossing dimensions, and its losses were multiplying.
"They dare not wait long."
The Main God's distant, ancient voice echoed across the world, clear with insight into schemes that had stretched across the ages.
"The contract is weakening, the Chaos Shackles are breaking apart, and the order of the multiverse is already in disarray. If they delay any longer, the Chaos Clan will completely break free and range across the Heavens, damaging the territory and foundations of the Supremes. Rather than sit by and let the calamity spread, they would rather descend in person while I have yet to fully recover and this universe's foundations are exhausted, resolving both crises at once."
The Supremes of the Heavens had schemed with ruthless precision.
With a single move, they could eliminate the universe's rebellion while also nipping the Chaos calamity in the bud, resolving two threats at once.
The Chaos King's enormous shadow drifted slowly through the dark mist. Its hollow eyes turned toward the dimensional rift, yet it showed no intention of stopping the Supremes of the Heavens. Instead, it watched with a trace of mocking amusement.
"Just in time."
Its hoarse, low laughter rang across the sky as the origin of Chaos gathered wildly around it. The power released from its seal grew more terrifying by the moment.
"The Supremes of the Heavens have crossed dimensions in person. They'll surely do everything they can to suppress this universe. While you're busy fending them off, it'll be the perfect time for Chaos to break free of its restraints, accumulate power, and sweep across the multiverse."
It didn't care about the Supremes' arrival.
The more fiercely the Heavens and the universe fought, the greater their losses. And the smoother the Chaos Clan's rise would be.
The most vicious truth behind the eternal chess match was now laid bare: the Heavens, Chaos, and this universe formed a three-way balance, each constraining the others. No matter which side made the first move, the one that ultimately profited would always be one of the other two.
Lin Chen stood at the center of the formation in the earth. His ancient golden bloodline throbbed wildly, and every vein and meridian stung faintly under the supreme pressure.
He paid no attention to the confrontation in the sky. All his thoughts sank into the fragmented memories that had abruptly appeared in his mind.
At the instant the Supreme's divine sense appeared, a crack split open in the ancient secrets sealed away in his mind. A forbidden past, buried by the Main God and all the great predecessors of the ancient era, slowly emerged.
Toward the end of the decisive battle in ancient times, the Heavens bore down upon them, Chaos betrayed them, and the defenses of the universe collapsed completely.
Knowing that the tide had turned against them, the ancient powerhouses had not placed all their hopes in the Sacrifice Contract and the Main God's slumber.
They had long foreseen this day, billions of years in the future: the weakening contract, the Supremes' judgment, and the seemingly inescapable deadlock of Chaos breaking free.
So a group of the greatest sages pooled every last bit of their remaining origin power. In the dimensional gap of the universe, they opened a Void Secret Realm independent of the rules of the Heavens and the system of Chaos.
It was the entire universe's final trump card, the last spark of hope left behind by the ancient era.
And the reason his mind had stirred just now, the source of the disorder in the earth's origin, was this ancient secret realm, sealed away for billions of years. The pressure of the Supreme crossing dimensions had triggered its unsealing!
"So that's it... So the ancient sages had already paved every path we might need."
Lin Chen's mind reeled. Understanding and excitement flashed through his eyes.
The world knew only that the ancient era had been defeated and forced into signing a contract, and that the Main God had fallen asleep. No one knew there was another secret realm, one that bore the universe's ultimate hope, sealed away in the deepest reaches of time.
Within the secret realm lay the remnants of the ancient sages who had fallen in battle, the foundations of an origin power free from the rules of both the Heavens and Chaos, and, hidden in the fragments of those memories, an unknown treasure interwoven with black and white that could shift the balance of the multiverse!
"The secret realm is in the dimensional layers of the universe, at the deepest point of the earth's origin, connected to the foundation of this planet."
Lin Chen swiftly pieced together the fragments of memory in his mind. Ancient golden light flowed from his fingertips and spread along the veins of the earth beneath his feet.
Strands of ancient, pure origin power—untainted by any Sacrificial Brand and untouched by the aura of Chaos—rose slowly along the earth's veins and flowed into his soul through his blood and meridians.
Under the wash of this pure power from ancient times, the shackles of origin suppressed by the eternal contract began to loosen and fall away, inch by inch.
He could clearly feel his combat power's limit, his bloodline's potential, and the scope of his soul all rising at a visible speed.
He wasn't the only one.
At the same moment, most of the shackles on Kallen's Saiyan bloodline shattered. The transcendence barrier that had troubled the Saiyan race for billions of years began to give way, and his purple battle aura condensed into a purity it had never reached before.
The Emperor Seal on Frieza's body completely crumbled. The ultimate potential of his Innate Emperor Body fully awakened, and his pale energy shed its restless edge, growing weighty and domineering as it linked heaven and earth.
Golden light surged around the Golden Super Saiyan. The power he had accumulated over countless ages was fully unsealed, and for the first time, he sensed a gap in the dimensional barrier that the rules had locked shut—a gap he could touch.
The Main God's faint voice came at just the right moment. "The seal on the Ancient Secret Realm relies on the universe's foundations and the rules balancing the Heavens. In ordinary times, it can never be disturbed. Only when a Supreme crosses dimensions and the two calamities threaten at once, at the moment of utter despair, can the seal be unlocked automatically."
"This is the only opportunity the sages left for the last Fate Defier, and the only way to break the deadlock."
Billions of years of endurance. Billions of years of planning.
From the moment the ancient era was defeated, everything had been unfolding toward this day.
Obey fate, and the secret realm would remain sealed forever. All living beings would offer sacrifices in peace, slowly fading away.
Defy destiny, and when calamity arrived, the secret realm would be unsealed in the face of despair, granting them their last chance to turn the tide.
There was no absolute dead end, only a spark of life that had endured for ages without ever going out.
"The secret realm has opened, but the seal hasn't completely broken." The Main God's voice was grave. "The Supreme's power crossing dimensions is moving too quickly. They won't give us time to calmly claim the secret realm's opportunities. Once their true bodies reach the ground, if the secret realm still isn't fully unsealed, we'll still lose everything."
Before the words had even faded—
Crack—!
The dimensional barrier in the sky suddenly split open, forming an enormous black rift that stretched across the entire sky!
The spatial rift boomed into existence, a hundred or even a thousand times wider than before. Blinding seven-colored radiance poured from its depths, and the Supreme's crushing pressure enveloped the entire Earth.
What had been merely a divine sense and rules descending from afar had now become a real passage between dimensions.
A towering, indistinct figure clad in seven-colored robes stepped through the dimensional barrier and slowly emerged.
It was only a projection of a clone, not a Supreme's true body, yet it already possessed enough terrifying power to overwhelm everything in this world.
"The first Supreme clone has crossed dimensions and descended!"
Kallen's expression changed. His battle aura instantly tightened to its limit.
Frieza's pupils contracted. He gathered all his imperial power before him, not daring to slacken for an instant.
The Golden Super Saiyan rose into the sky. Golden origin power blanketed the heavens as he prepared for a fight to the death.
Seeing this, the Chaos King's shadow slowly retreated, deliberately distancing itself from the battle. It watched the fight between the Supremes of the Heavens and the universe's Fate Defiers, ready to reap the benefits.
Above them, the Supreme clone in seven-colored robes gazed down at the earth. Its eyes were cold as they passed over the Main God's phantom and Lin Chen and the others, finally settling on the faint tremors deep beneath the ground.
It keenly sensed the aura of the ancient secret realm as it was being unsealed. For the first time, a trace of cold killing intent and wariness appeared in its indifferent divine eyes.
"Ancient remnants. A hidden trump card?"
Its icy voice rang across the universe, carrying unquestionable authority.
"After hiding for billions of years, you still think you can defy heaven and turn the tide. How laughable. Today, I shall flatten this world, crush what remains of the secret realm, slaughter every rebel, and put a complete end to the lingering existence of this Eternal Cage!"
Rumble!
At its words, the seven-colored radiance filling the sky suddenly gathered into a gigantic palm that covered ten thousand miles of sky. Supreme rules of the Heavens flowed across its print as it slammed down toward the ground, bearing the force to crush everything and settle the scores of eternity!
This palm would shatter the origin, destroy the secret realm, kill the Fate Defiers, and annihilate the universe!
Everything in the world was locked in place. There was no way to dodge or flee.
Lin Chen looked up at the descending palm of annihilation, his mind stretched taut to the limit.
But in the instant everyone thought the final blow was about to fall, the unsealing of the secret realm beneath the earth suddenly accelerated.
A strange beam of light interwoven with black and white shot skyward from the deepest point at the planet's core. It forcibly pierced through the earth, tore open the void, and slammed straight into the descending Supreme palm!
The final fragment of ancient memory in Lin Chen's mind was now complete.
At last, he learned the true identity of the secret realm's treasure and saw clearly the ancient sages' ultimate trump card, buried beneath the depths of despair—
But the instant the complete truth emerged, Lin Chen's face abruptly turned deathly pale.
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