592: Chapter 592 Devouring the Heavenly Tribulation, the Immortal Emperor is Enraged

Shen Yuanmo's wrist flipped over nonchalantly.

Just such a simple movement, one that couldn't even be considered an attack stance.

On the blade of the great evolution immortal slaying sword, that void crack that seemed capable of devouring eternal time suddenly brightened for an instant.

Dao Slash.

There was no earth-shattering sword light, no phenomenon that caused the clouds and winds to change color.

A wisp of light, darker than the deepest depths of the star sea, silently overflowed from the tip of the sword.

Like a breeze brushing across the water's surface, it swept past Immortal King Xuanming's brow.

Immortal King Xuanming's mouth was still open; the final notes of his roared "you will all be buried with me."

Were still frozen in his throat, having no time to dissipate.

His body was perfectly intact, the blood on his Immortal King robes was still warm, and his disheveled black hair still danced wildly in the tribulation wind.

But his eyes—those eyes that had once commanded tens of millions of the immortal army—the light within them had gone out.

In that instant, Immortal King Xuanming felt no pain.

He only saw an indescribable, incomprehensible crack appear out of thin air.

Instantly devouring his indestructible Immortal King true spirit, which had been tempered through countless ages.

There was no struggle, no resistance, not even time for fear.

His true spirit, his Dao Fruit, under the chewing of that crack...

Were crushed, devoured, and finally returned to eternal nothingness.

"Thud."

Immortal King Xuanming's body remained in a kneeling position, like a Soul-less statue, as it slowly toppled forward.

Falling into the cold Void Realm, it made a very, very soft muffled sound.

Shen Yuanmo returned his sword to its scabbard, the blade ringing clearly.

From beginning to end, he didn't spare Immortal King Xuanming another glance.

The moment Immortal King Xuanming fell, all the remaining Nine Netherworld immortal army in the star sea...

Simultaneously felt an emptiness and collapse originating from the level of the Divine Soul.

The commander's life tablet shattered, and the core anchor point of the Formation perished along with it.

The Nine Netherworld Heavens-Slaying Array, already riddled with holes due to backlash, completely lost its final cohesive pivot.

The cultivation of the millions of remaining troops was like a punctured balloon, frantically drained and stripped away by the Formation's backlash power.

One by one, the fierce soldiers of the immortal army who once dominated the star sea were reduced to cripples who couldn't even muster mana.

And the tribulation cloud spanning hundreds of millions of miles overhead, which had accumulated endless fury, was waiting for this very moment.

Without the protection of the Formation, the millions of the immortal army were exposed nakedly to the full power of the Immortal King Heavenly Tribulation.

"No—!"

When the first bolt of tribulation lightning as thick as a bucket fell, a shrill scream could still pierce the star sea.

The second and third bolts of tribulation lightning followed closely behind.

After that, only the continuous sound of shattering remained in this Star Domain.

The explosive sounds of Physical Bodies evaporating under the lightning, and the rustling sounds of Divine Souls turning into tribulation ash under the strangulation of the Heavenly Tribulation's will.

Fluorescent light rose into the sky, like a grand and mournful rain of fireflies.

Every speck of light had once been a True Immortal.

It was very brilliant.

And very cruel.

Shen Yuanmo stood in the center of the thunderstorm and slowly raised his head.

The tribulation cloud churned frantically.

Within a range of hundreds of millions of miles, one Lightning Tribulation more violent than the last was being accumulated.

His Breakthrough had already triggered a Heavenly Tribulation unique in all ages.

After the Formation energy of the tens of millions of Nine Netherworld troops was judged by the rules of the Universe to be his assistance...

The thickness and intensity of the tribulation cloud exploded by several times over.

Deep in the center overhead, that purple-black cloud core that made one's Divine Soul tremble...

Was brewing the final and most terrifying strike.

Shen Yuanmo stared at that slowly rotating cloud core.

He could even feel the power of nihility within it, enough to instantly turn even an Immortal King at Perfection to ashes.

He did not dodge or hide; instead, he licked his somewhat dry lips.

"Chaos Return to Origin, devour!"

A low shout erupted from his chest, and the chaos dao embryo within his Dantian suddenly opened its eyes.

Scenes of the birth and death of the Universe were reflected in its eyes as they began to rotate frantically.

A Chaos Domain spanning tens of millions of feet surged out of his body like a mountain-collapsing tsunami.

It was not a passive defense gathered to protect his body, but an active strike.

It expanded rapidly in all directions—expanding, and expanding again!

Wherever the Domain passed, the Origin scattered in the Void Realm after the immortal army fell...

Tens of millions of True Immortal Origins, as well as the countless falling lightning bolts, were swept into the Chaos Domain without a single leak.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

One after another, bolts of tribulation lightning capable of heavily wounding an ordinary Immortal King struck down.

They hit the surface of the Chaos Domain, but could not even trigger a single ripple.

The Chaos air vortex inside the Domain was like the most terrifying millstone in the world, stripping, decomposing, and devouring the power of the Lightning Tribulation layer by layer.

Violent mana, shattered rule imprints, and fragments of the Universe's will mixed within...

All were swallowed into the belly of the chaos dao embryo, turning into pure Chaos Qi.

Inside the Chaos Dao Palace, the ship spirit looked at the monitoring light screen, where the numbers were jumping so frantically that the monitoring Formation almost collapsed, and fell into a long-lasting shock.

"Warning! My lord's mana reserves are exploding at a rate of five percent per breath... no, seven percent... per breath!"

"The stability of your cultivation has exceeded the standard for Immortal King Beichen's Breakthrough at the same level in the Dao Palace database by 120 times!"

"Warning! Some data has exceeded the computational limit... My lord, the great power you are displaying has transcended the common logic of an Immortal King!"

The ship spirit cut off its own voice halfway through.

Because it realized that any language seemed pale and powerless before the current Shen Yuanmo.

The sense of floatiness brought by the sudden surge in power when Shen Yuanmo first broke through to the Immortal King realm...

Was rapidly consolidated, filled, crushed, and then reshaped under the violent infusion of endless Lightning Tribulation power.

The Chaos mana flowing in his Meridians became thicker and heavier.

Every wisp carried a domineering and sharp texture tempered by ten thousand bolts of lightning.

The dao embryo stood steadily in the center of the Dantian, its entire Chaos-colored body surfacing with dense and complex dark gold patterns.

That was the sign that the Immortal King-level mana circuits were completely formed and approaching Perfection.

Shen Yuanmo's cultivation surged upward from the bottom of the Immortal King Early Stage with unstoppable force.

Mid Early Stage... late Early Stage...

Finally, with the force of a hot knife through butter, it approached the Bottleneck of the peak of the Early Stage!

Shen Yuanmo frowned slightly.

"Still not enough."

As if sensing his dissatisfaction, the final purple-black cloud core in the tribulation cloud finally lost all patience.

Annihilation Purple Lightning.

In an instant, the light of the entire Star Domain was completely drained.

All color, temperature, and even the sound of the rules operating...

Were forcibly erased in this instant, falling into a deathly silence.

Then, a beam of pure purple, like the gaze of divine punishment from the Nine Heavens above, fell straight down from the firmament.

Facing this strike that would make even an Immortal Emperor look twice, Shen Yuanmo didn't even bother to draw the great evolution immortal slaying sword.

He reached for his waist, and the netherworld sky-covering seal flew out at his command.

This half-step Emperor Weapon, from which he had just erased the Nine Nether Emperor Runes and re-branded with the Chaos Returning to Origin Profundity...

Was now flowing with deep dark gold patterns, emitting a majestic aura of the same source and lineage as Shen Yuanmo.

"Go up and crush it."

The four words were plain, yet carried an unquestionable will.

The netherworld sky-covering seal let out an excited hum.

Its size expanded to a terrifying, sky-covering extent in the blink of an eye.

Like a black continent, with its base facing upward, it was wrapped in endless netherworld Death Qi.

It boldly charged toward the sky, meeting that Annihilation Purple Lightning head-on!

Boom—!!!

The black seal body collided fiercely with the Annihilation Purple Lightning.

The full power of the half-step Emperor Weapon was released without reservation, as netherworld Death Qi and Annihilation Divine Lightning frantically clashed and annihilated each other.

The body of the netherworld sky-covering seal trembled violently, and the newly branded Chaos patterns on it shone brightly.

However, several new cracks visible to the naked eye also appeared!

"Hmm?"

Shen Yuanmo's eyes narrowed, and his Immortal King mana poured into the netherworld sky-covering seal like a burst heavenly river!

With the support of its master, the majesty of the netherworld sky-covering seal rose again.

Finally, with a crisp "crack," the core of the tribulation cloud shattered.

The tribulation cloud spanning hundreds of millions of miles collapsed outward from the center like a punctured balloon.

The remaining lightning that had no time to fall turned into a sky full of rule fragments, drifting down like snow.

Shen Yuanmo opened his Chaos Domain and accepted this final dessert in its entirety.

The netherworld sky-covering seal floated back to its master's hand with several deepened cracks, its dark gold patterns flickering.

It was injured, but its Origin was undamaged; it only needed to be nurtured to recover.

Shen Yuanmo took it back into his body and looked down at his hands.

The Chaos Immortal Body glowed with unprecedented vitality under the tempering of the aftermath of the final Annihilation Purple Lightning.

Dark gold divine light flowed under every inch of his skin.

Bones, Meridians, flesh, and every cell were filled with Immortal King-level mana condensed to the extreme.

Surging Qi and blood sank into his Dantian, producing a perfect resonance with the chaos dao embryo.

That sense of floatiness from standing on the clouds completely disappeared.

In its place was the stability and weight of feet that could crush the star river.

His Foundation was as solid as an eternal divine mountain, and his mana was as abundant as an infinite star sea.

He was only one layer of window paper away from the peak of the Early Stage, within arm's reach.

The thunderstorm dissipated.

The Star Domain returned to a heart-palpitating silence.

Within a radius of hundreds of millions of miles, there was not a single living thing besides the Chaos Dao Palace and Shen Yuanmo.

Shen Yuanmo retracted his dharma image and Domain, standing in the Void Realm with his hands behind his back.

The star sea after the tribulation was empty and silent; even a speck of dust had been cleaned away by the great power of the Heavenly Tribulation.

The tens of millions of the Jiuyou Immortal Dynasty's army, the tens of thousands of Star-Slaying Class warships...

And that noble royal commander at the Immortal King Perfection stage...

Had completely turned into the tribulation ash of history in this forgotten, remote corner.

...

Jiuyou Immortal Dynasty.

In the capital, in the deepest part of the Nine Heavens Palace, the eternal Netherworld Divine Fire flickered.

In the Hall of Eternal Darkness where the Immortal Emperor was in secluded cultivation.

A suspended eternal unquenchable lamp flickered violently, almost going out.

Upon the dark throne, the eyes of the Nine Nether Immortal Emperor, which had been closed for hundreds of millions of years, suddenly snapped open in the darkness.

In the void before him, a soul jade bound to Immortal King Xuanming's natal true spirit...

Was making fine "crack, crack" sounds.

That was Immortal King Xuanming's life slip; it remained whole if he lived and shattered if he died.

Powder fell from the void.

It formed a thin layer on the mirror-like obsidian floor, a ghastly and eye-piercing white.

The Nine Nether Immortal Emperor's gaze fell on that pile of powder and did not move for a long time.

Three breaths.

Five breaths.

After ten breaths, he slowly closed his eyes.

An indescribable and terrifying pressure diffused from the center of the hall.

Soundless, colorless, and formless, yet carrying a coldness and rage enough to freeze the Soul.

Above the capital, the cloudless sky of eternal daylight...

Split open without warning into a massive, bottomless black crack running from east to west, as if the heavens were weeping and wailing.

The Nine Nether Immortal Emperor opened his eyes again.

"The karmic connection between the netherworld sky-covering seal and We has been severed."

His voice was very light, as if talking to himself, yet it clearly reached outside the hall.

The twelve Immortal King-level guards waiting outside the hall...

All knelt down in horror the moment they heard these words, their massive Immortal King bodies prostrate on the ground.

Their foreheads were pressed tightly against the cold gold bricks, and even their breathing had stopped.

"Our nephew is dead; Our tens of millions of the immortal army are gone."

"Even the half-step Emperor Weapon We bestowed has been taken by someone."

With every word he spoke, the tremors in the capital intensified.

In the darkness, the Nine Nether Immortal Emperor slowly rose from his throne.

In those emotionless vertical pupils, a literal fire of rage that could burn through the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths was ignited.

"Pass the decree."

Those three words caused the hall doors to burst open, and endless imperial majesty poured out from within.

"Summon the Twelve Kings of Nine Nether! Immediately activate the Imperial Dynasty War Decree!"

"We want that person's name, his Origin, and the coordinates of the world he is in!"

"Within three months, We want to see all of this placed before Us!"

"For those who offend the majesty of Our Nine Nether, We will not only have him die, but We will also completely erase the world behind him from this Great Universe!"