Seeing his chance to break through the Emperor realm and truly reach the Origin about to disappear, Shang Shi naturally refused to let matters rest.
If he failed this time, Shang Shi would never again be able to reach the Origin.
He would also suffer a drastic fall in cultivation from losing his demonic vessel, so he unleashed Elder Antiquity's upheaval.
He wanted to forcibly merge with Zhao Su.
But by then, Zhao Su could no longer be considered Shang Shi's demonic vessel, thanks to the Great Freedom Origin Art.
He had already cultivated a complete divine soul of his own.
Moreover, upon reaching the Emperor realm, he had completely severed the portion of his soul connected to Shang Shi.
He used the Great Freedom Origin Art to reconstruct an entirely new, complete divine soul.
Naturally, Shang Shi would not allow Zhao Su to succeed.
To allow Zhao Su to complete the divine soul reconstruction of the Great Freedom Origin Art, Zhao Su's father intervened.
He held off Shang Shi single-handedly and even gravely wounded him, but suffered severe injuries himself and sealed himself within the Chaos Pool in the Chaos Starry Sky.
Yet Zhao Su's father, Zhao Ru, had still underestimated Shang Shi.
Ten thousand years later, Shang Shi returned, intent on forcibly refining Zhao Su, who had already become an Emperor.
This was the final battle of Elder Antiquity's upheaval.
The battle that shattered Elder Antiquity into countless continents.
It was also the battle in which two-thirds of Elder Antiquity's eighteen great God Kings fell.
At the final moment, Zhao Su's mother, Cheng Feng, did as Zhao Ru had ten thousand years earlier, suffering grievous injuries to drive Shang Shi away once more.
But at the very last instant, Shang Shi still managed to merge a wisp of