221: The fisherman benefits

The enormous commotion, like a giant rock thrown into stagnant water, instantly spread throughout the entire Myriad Ages Evergreen Realm!

The surviving Prodigies in the outer, middle, and even the most peripheral regions of the core zone all looked up in shock.

The sky was no longer its familiar azure, but resembled a tattered cloth riddled with pitch-black cracks. Violent spatial gales howled in, sweeping up mountains of rocks and ancient trees.

What made their livers and guts split was that, at the center of the core zone, which had transformed into a Chaos storm, two terrifying Dharma Idols, towering to the heavens, were locked in a furious battle!

The residual power from their clashes could tear apart the boundary realm, leaving behind One after another, menacing spatial rifts!

One jade-green giant, its immortal light shattered, every swing of its palm triggered the wails of the remaining World Power, like an ancient forest roaring in anger, yet its light was dim and covered in cracks.

The other, a ferocious Blood Demon Dharma Idol with Three Heads and Six Arms, standing on blood-red lotuses, exuded monstrous ferocity, with a surging sea of blood.

As its six arms wildly danced, they invoked the defiling Blood Fiend Law, frantically eroding the jade-green Dharma Idol and this World.

However, this Blood Demon Dharma Idol was also not at its Peak; the dense blood light forming its body fluctuated violently, showing signs of collapse.

"That...what is that?!" A Cultivator's voice trembled, almost collapsing.

"Quasi-Immortal?! No...is this a true Immortal Rank mighty being fighting?!"

"The Myriad Ages Evergreen Realm...is doomed! Run!"

Panic spread like a plague.

Countless Prodigies no longer cared about Opportunities, only regretting that their parents hadn't given them two more legs, frantically activating their Magic Treasures, rushing towards the shattered cracks in the sky, attempting to escape this purgatory before destruction descended.

Spatial turbulence raged violently; a moment of carelessness would lead to being swept in. Those with weaker Physical Bodies or without powerful Magic Treasures for protection were instantly ground into a bloody mist, leaving only a few desperate wails.

Only a small number of strong Cultivators, either protected by treasures or who had timely activated realm-breaking talismans, managed to leave.

Xiao Zhuo was also startled!

He was currently adding Attribute Points to Cultivate the Heaven-Grade chapter of the Primordial Chaos Golden Scripture in the White Mist Space when the world-destroying fluctuations directly triggered panel spirit no. 1's alarm!

It forcibly woke him up.

At this moment, his mind was greatly shaken, and his Qi and blood surged.

"What's going on?!" Xiao Zhuo stood up abruptly, his expression extremely solemn.

Instantly, he noticed something amiss: the Myriad Ages Evergreen Realm's Origin was damaged, its realm barrier shattered, and the World Power that suppressed the Divine Sense of all outsiders was rapidly receding like a tide!

Even without stepping out of his Immortal Cave, his powerful Divine Sense, like a rampant Dragon freed from its shackles, frantically probed towards the source of the destructive fluctuations!

Boom—!

What his Divine Sense perceived made him gasp!

A Shattered Realm! A destructive storm! And the two figures battling at the center of the storm! Their aura was enough to make his Soul tremble! He was incredibly familiar with the aura of one of them, while the other was using the Evergreen Immortal Power he had once studied—their identity was self-evident!

Just the edge of the battle's aftershocks, swept by his Divine Sense, made his Sea of Consciousness feel as if it were being pierced by billions of steel needles!

"True Immortal Rank...or even stronger power! These are the projections of Evergreen True Immortal and Blood Heaven! They are contending for...that weapon?!" Xiao Zhuo instantly captured the blood-patterned wooden divine weapon at the center of the storm, which still emitted a terrifying glow amidst the destructive energy!

A strong desire and tremor, stemming from the instinct of life itself, instantly seized his heart!

Just as his mind was violently shaken, his Comprehension Ability, which had surged after drinking more than ten enlightenment tea leaves, was triggered! The profound Dao rhythm leaked during the clash of the two great powerhouses was captured by him, and inspiration flashed!

Crack!

It was as if an invisible Bottleneck had been forcefully broken through!

An unprecedentedly vast aura surged from within Xiao Zhuo's Main Body, instantly tearing through the Immortal Cave's Restriction!

Xiao Zhuo had already spent over three million Attribute Points to raise his Cultivation to Mahayana Peak. Now, observing the Dao rhythm of the two great powerhouses, he naturally and smoothly stepped into the Quasi-Immortal realm!

His magic power, Divine Sense, and Physical Body instantly surged several times over, and he had a clear path forward for his own Cultivation!

"Hmm? It seems there's an Opportunity to pick up a bargain!" Xiao Zhuo calmed his slightly agitated emotions from the Breakthrough and looked at the two giants.

The two terrifying projections both seemed to have reached their limits!

Without the slightest hesitation! Xiao Zhuo's eyes burst with an unprecedentedly resolute light!

"Universe God Step! A short distance, yet worlds apart!"

He let out a low cry, and his figure instantly blurred, as if melting into the fabric of space.

The vast magic power brought by his recent Breakthrough to Quasi-Immortal was unreservedly poured into his legs! He took a step!

Om!

Space rippled and folded beneath his feet like water!

Only a faint afterimage remained in his original spot, his true self having disregarded spatial distance, rushing directly towards the core battlefield at an inconceivable speed!

Fast! Extremely fast! Even the violent spatial fragments seemed to slow down!

Perhaps because Xiao Zhuo was too weak, neither of the two great powerhouses paid any attention to his approach; their eyes were solely on each other.

"Hahaha!! Evergreen! You would even drain the Origin of this Small World to suppress me! But alas, you are still futile!" The Blood Heaven Dharma Idol let out a wild laugh, and the vast sea of blood forming his body suddenly collapsed inward!

It turned out that the Evergreen Immortal Venerable's projection, in order to regain the disadvantage, had disregarded the survival of the Small World, forcibly draining its remaining Origin Power. For a short time, it broke through the Blood Demon Realm's Heavenly Dao blockade, forcibly raising its projection power to the Profound Immortal level, which then suppressed Blood Heaven, but still failed to kill him.

Blood Heaven saw through everything. Amidst his wild laughter, cracks densely covered his projection, and a Blood Fiend storm, far surpassing anything before it in defilement, destruction, and annihilation of all spirits, exploded like a destructive singularity at the beginning of the Universe!

Blood Heaven self-destructed his projection!

A destructive Blood Fiend storm swept forth!

The first to bear the brunt was the Evergreen Immortal Venerable's jade-green Dharma Idol. Its already cracked Dharma Idol body was instantly eroded by large patches of defiled blood, and its light rapidly dimmed!

The World Origin Power that had been extracted to resist the pressure of the Middle Thousand Worlds' Law was largely corroded, and the jade-green Dharma Idol's aura plummeted back to the Heavenly Immortal level, and was still rapidly declining!

That blood-wooden divine weapon was also violently flung away by the impact of the self-detonation!

"Pfft!" The Blood Heaven Dharma Idol completely disintegrated in a dazzling blood-red light, leaving only a lingering echo of triumphant arrogance in the Void Realm: "Haha! My Main Body is in the Demon Realm! With your projection Clone destroyed, how will you contend with me?! This weapon, I am determined to obtain!"

"Junior...you...deserve to die!" The Evergreen Immortal Venerable's projection suffered heavy damage, its immortal light scattered, and its blurred face twisted with anger and shock.

He desperately tried to gather power to retrieve the divine weapon that had been blasted away, but the power forming his projection was rapidly draining away with the complete collapse of the Myriad Ages Evergreen Realm!

The riddled Small World was no longer able to resist the Blood Demon Realm's Law suppression for him.

His figure, like a candle in the wind, flickered unsteadily, beginning to slowly dissipate and become transparent.

The divine weapon, which he had barely managed to grasp, was instantly swept away by the spatial turbulence!

The Evergreen Immortal Venerable's eyes were about to split, but he could only watch helplessly as his projection completely disintegrated into scattered immortal light.

Now!

Xiao Zhuo's heart almost burst through his chest! He endured the terrifying pressure that his Quasi-Immortal body experienced at close range, with blood oozing from his seven orifices!

Universe God Step! Again!

Whoosh!

His figure transformed into an elusive streak of light, disregarding the raging spatial fragments and violent energy, heading straight for the divine weapon whose light flickered unsteadily!

Fast! Faster!

His hand shot out fiercely! He pushed the Space Law and Universe God Step to their limits!

He grabbed it!

The moment his fingertips touched the hilt, a violent will, intertwined with ice-cold and scorching heat, like billions of poisoned steel needles, fiercely pierced into his mind!

A dark green torrent of life and a crimson desire for destruction frantically impacted his mind!

"Hmph!" He grunted, blood spilling from his nose and mouth, but his eyes burst with ecstatic light!

However, at the exact same moment he grasped the divine weapon.

Rumble rumble rumble—!!!

The Myriad Ages Evergreen Realm, its Origin completely scattered and thoroughly pierced through by the two great powerhouses, finally reached its end!

The entire space, like shattered glass, let out one last desperate wail, then collapsed inward with a roar!

Endless spatial turbulence, like a breached torrent of Chaos, instantly swallowed everything!

Xiao Zhuo only felt a terrifying force, enough to crush stars, sweeping over him from all directions!

He clung tightly to the fiercely trembling, attempting to backfire, ominous weapon. The protective light shield he had fully condensed shattered like thin paper in the turbulence!

"Pfft!" His vision went black, his entire skeleton emitted dense cracking sounds, and his consciousness instantly sank into darkness.

In the last moment before completely losing consciousness, he only felt himself and the scorching divine weapon, engulfed by the violent Chaos turbulence, like a withered leaf in a raging sea, completely thrown out of that Shattered Realm, plunging into a deeper, more silent, seemingly void of time and space, boundless darkness.