443: Chapter 443 Kicking Down the Temple Gate! The Ancient God Awakens in Terror

Above the Nine Heavens, deep within the Void Realm.

The spatial passage forcibly torn open by the zhu xian sword embryo was like a black giant dragon swimming against the current, piercing straight through this area that was originally an absolute forbidden Domain.

Xu Chen stood with his hands behind his back atop the dragon head of the Nine-Colored Purple-Gold Divine Carriage, his Twelve-Tasseled Imperial Crown remaining steady amidst the violent spatial turbulence.

Beside him.

Li Cangyue licked her red lips in excitement, her crimson eyes staring fixedly at the end of the passage; the blood and Qi within her body belonging to the Forbidden Taboo Demon Emperor had already begun to boil uncontrollably.

Meanwhile, Shen Xi stood quietly on the other side.

She looked at the grand architecture ahead that was becoming increasingly clear, a flicker of complexity crossing her dark-golden eyes, which quickly returned to calm after she felt the warm fetal movement in her belly.

“We've arrived.”

Xu Chen calmly uttered those two words.

Nine pure-blooded True Dragons let out a long roar that pierced through the star-rivers, and the divine carriage came to a steady halt in the Void Realm.

Following behind were Su Qingge, Wu Mingkong, and his other wives, as well as the Myriad Realms Allied Army numbering in the tens of millions, spreading out behind the divine carriage like a receding tide into a massive fan-shaped battle formation that blotted out the sky.

Ten thousand zhang directly in front of them.

Stood a Bronze Divine Temple so massive it was suffocating.

The temple was surrounded by thick currents of Chaos Qi, and billions of primordial order divine chains held it firmly fixed at the very Peak of the Void Realm like a spiderweb. This place was the core of the entire All Heavens and Myriad Realms' operation, the place where all rules originated.

And at the very front of the temple stood two White Jade Divine Gates, each a hundred thousand zhang tall.

Upon the divine gates, the sun, moon, stars, and the primordial Universe were carved using the purest Heavenly Dao Origin Laws. Every flow of light radiated a vast Divine Might that made all living beings feel an urge to prostrate themselves in worship.

This was not just a gate; it was the inviolable face of the Heavenly Dao.

Normally, even if experts of the Emperor Realm caught just a glimpse, they would be forced to lower their heads by the pressure contained within the gates.

“Husband, the strongest defensive Laws of this era are attached to those divine gates.”

Shen Xi parted her vermilion lips and spoke to remind him: “Even a full-strength strike from the Peak of the Emperor Realm would be like a clay ox entering the sea. To break through...”

“Rules are set by the living; whether they can be broken or not, one must try to find out.”

Before Shen Xi could finish.

Xu Chen had already leaped down from the dragon carriage.

His cultivation at the threshold of the Emperor Realm was completely restrained within his Hongmeng Origin Body, which had been double-tempered by ten thousand Lightning Tribulations and the Devilish Qi of the Return to Ruins.

Xu Chen walked through the air, seemingly taking a leisurely stroll, but in reality, with every step he took, the Nine Heavens' Void Realm beneath his feet would collapse in large areas like fragile ice.

Alone, he arrived before the two White Jade Divine Gates that radiated dazzling light of the Law.

Before these hundred-thousand-zhang-tall divine gates, Xu Chen's figure was so small he wasn't even as significant as a speck of dust.

“Heaven-Defying One, halt!”

The White Jade Divine Gates seemed to sense the approach of danger.

The sun, moon, and stars carved on the gates suddenly erupted with piercing divine light, transforming into two ten-thousand-zhang phantom figures holding Divine Punishment Axes, which swung down toward Xu Chen with the majesty of judging all things.

“Get the hell back!”

Xu Chen let out a wild roar.

He twisted his waist and hips, his right leg like a purple-gold divine dragon sweeping through a thousand armies, carrying enough violent physical strength to kick apart a great world as he slammed it fiercely into the very center of the two White Jade Divine Gates!

“BOOM—RUMBLE—!!!”

An indescribable, earth-shattering explosion erupted deep within the Nine Heavens' Void Realm.

The two divine punishment phantoms that had just condensed were shattered inch by inch by the counter-shock of this kick before they could even touch the corner of Xu Chen's robe, turning into a sky full of light rain.

Immediately following that.

Under the shocked gazes of the Myriad Realms Allied Army and the women of the harem.

Those two White Jade Divine Gates, which were said to gather the strongest defensive Laws of the era and symbolized the absolute majesty of the Heavenly Dao, began to spread dense, terrifying cracks outward from the point where Xu Chen had kicked.

The sun, moon, and star array patterns carved on the gates let out shrill wails and then shattered one after another.

“Crack... Bang!”

After holding out for less than half a breath.

The hundred-thousand-zhang-tall White Jade Divine Gates exploded violently under Xu Chen's unreasonable, pure physical crushing power!

Countless white jade fragments, each weighing billions of jun, fell toward the interior of the temple like a downward meteor shower, kicking up a sky full of dust.

“Exhilarating!”

Li Cangyue watched from the dragon carriage with her blood boiling; if she hadn't remembered Xu Chen's instruction to protect her pregnancy, she would have wanted to rush up right now and join Xu Chen in tearing the place down.

Su Qingge and the others also exchanged smiles.

Xu Chen withdrew his right leg and patted away non-existent dust from his hem.

He stepped over the white jade fragments radiating a holy aura and swaggered across the temple threshold, entering this forbidden zone that represented the highest power in the Universe.

“Old man, I've already torn down your door; are you still in there pretending to sleep?”

Xu Chen's mocking voice, laced with the pressure of the Emperor Realm threshold, was like a series of sharp swords piercing through the thick Chaos Qi inside the temple, heading straight for its deepest parts.

In the center of the temple was a Core Divine Domain isolated into an independent space.

Following Xu Chen's entry and that blatant provocation.

The entire Heavenly Temple began to shake violently. The primordial order divine chains surrounding the temple let out sounds of overburdened cracking.

“Buzz—”

An ancient, decaying, yet terrifying will capable of reversing the star-rivers slowly awakened on the altar at the temple's core.

This was the manifestation of the Heavenly Dao.

It was the Primordial Divine Venerable who had existed since the birth of this Universe and had dominated the rise and fall of countless eras.

He had been asleep for far, far too long.

So long that he thought as long as he occasionally sent down a few lightning punishments and harvested a few waves of Luck, the All Heavens and Myriad Realms would forever be like a submissive flock of sheep, prostrate at his feet.

“Ant...”

A raspy, hollow divine voice that seemed to be pieced together from countless voices echoed throughout the temple.

Deep within the divine Domain.

A massive phantom whose face could not be seen, its entire body wrapped in thick Heavenly Dao Origin, slowly stood up.

His figure was too massive, his head touching the temple's ceiling and his feet treading upon the rolling Chaos. Just the action of standing up caused those old monsters of the Myriad Realms following behind Xu Chen to feel a spell of difficulty breathing and their legs growing weak.

This was an absolute suppression originating from the level of life itself.

The Primordial Divine Venerable's pupil-less eyes pierced through the layers of mist, locking onto Xu Chen standing in the ruins.

In his heart, at this moment, there was not only the rage of being woken up.

There was also a trace of terror that even he was unwilling to admit.

The power that had just kicked the divine gate to pieces was actually completely outside the Dao Laws of this Universe.

That aura of pure destruction intertwined with creation was even more unsettling than the Forbidden Taboo Demon Emperor who had been suppressed by him in the Return to Ruins in the previous era.

“You... what kind of thing are you?”

In the Primordial Divine Venerable's voice, a flicker of emotional fluctuation appeared for the first time.

The Heavenly Dao was originally heartless, but when facing an unknown variable truly capable of threatening its own existence, that high-and-mighty composure finally showed a crack.

“I am your Grandpa Xu.”

Looking at that divine shadow towering into the clouds, Xu Chen didn't have the slightest bit of reverence; instead, the mockery at the corner of his mouth became even more obvious.

“Stop putting on airs up there. You Old thing have occupied the Luck of this Universe for so many years; today, it's time to move out.”

Xu Chen raised the zhu xian sword embryo in his hand, pointing it from afar at the Primordial Divine Venerable's brow.

“The rules of my Xu Family, from today onwards, will take over these All Heavens and Myriad Realms.”

“If you are sensible, roll down yourself and hand over the Origin; this Emperor might still grant you an intact corpse.”

“Presumptuous!!!”

The Primordial Divine Venerable was completely enraged.

In tens of millions of years, when had there ever been such an arrogant and wild living being who dared to stand in his temple and point at his nose, telling him to hand over the Origin?

“Heaven-Defying person, you shall suffer the tribulations of ten thousand lifetimes!”

The Divine Venerable's massive arms suddenly swung in the void.

On the altar at the core of the temple, a golden pillar of light erupted toward the sky.