447: Chapter 447 A Deadly Situation! The Godly Venerable Detonates the Origin of the Heavenly Dao, A Mutual Destruction

The Ancient Divine Venerable's venomous and crazed roar exploded in the deepest reaches of the Nine Heavens' Void Realm.

Accompanied by this roar that sounded like a sentence from fate,

the massive ancient altar floating in the Central Divine Domain was instantly covered in shocking, blood-colored cracks.

Immediately after, the Ancient Divine Venerable's ten-thousand-zhang-tall phantom shadow began to burn and dissolve at a terrifying speed, like a wax figure thrown into a furnace.

He did not choose self-preservation, but instead used this Incarnation of the Heavenly Dao's manifestation as the fuse to ignite the entire Universe's powder keg.

“Buzz—!”

A strange vibrating hum echoed through the heavens.

This was not the transmission of sound, but the collective wail of all the Dao Laws in the myriad worlds before their collapse.

At the center of the altar's collapse, a pure white light sphere appeared; it was only the size of a fist, yet it erupted with a blinding light that could sear the eyes of all living beings.

This light sphere was the Heavenly Dao Origin Core that had governed the operations of this entire Universe for countless eons.

At this moment, this core was crazily collapsing in on itself in a way that defied logic. The surrounding Void Realm was no longer just shattering; it was being directly vaporized into the most primitive nothingness by this collapsing force.

The white jade floor tiles and bronze pillars, which were so sturdy that even Great Emperor Divine Weapons could hardly leave a mark, vanished into thin air without even a puff of smoke the moment they touched the pure white light.

The countdown to destruction had officially begun.

“Crazy old man, you're flipping the table because you can't win?”

The purple-gold divine light in Xu Chen's eyes flickered violently.

The Great Perfection of the Hongmeng Heaven-Swallowing Art granted him perception beyond that of ordinary people.

He could clearly perceive that inside that fist-sized pure white light sphere was a terrifying energy sufficient to instantly flatten thousands of great worlds.

This was no longer a simple attack technique.

This was a Universe-level self-destruct sequence. Once this energy was allowed to fully explode, let alone this Heavenly Temple, the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, the Ancient Starry Path, and even the Xu Family below would all be turned to ash in this massive explosion.

All living beings would have to be buried with this Old thing.

“Wanting to take my women and children down with you? In your dreams!”

Xu Chen gave a wild shout. Instead of retreating, he stomped his feet in the Void Realm, and like a reverse-flying meteorite, he charged head-on toward the crazily collapsing pure white light sphere.

At this moment, Xu Chen squeezed his absolute critical point cultivation at the Peak of the Emperor Realm to the limit without reservation.

“Swallow for me!”

Xu Chen's arms suddenly spread wide.

The purple-gold cosmic black hole on his chest manifested once again, expanding to a scale of tens of thousands of zhang in the blink of an eye, like an ancient beast with its bloody maw wide open, attempting to swallow the detonating Heavenly Dao core in one gulp.

“Rumble—”

The moment the devouring black hole collided with the collapsing light sphere,

the two Laws representing the pinnacle of the Universe's power engaged in the most primitive and brutal slaughter.

Blinding radiance and deep darkness crazily intertwined and tore at each other in the center of the palace.

Xu Chen let out a muffled groan, a rare look of solemnity appearing on his handsome and resolute face.

It was too immense!

Inside this Heavenly Dao Origin Core was the accumulated Luck and Dao fruits harvested by the Heavenly Temple over countless eons.

Normally, the energy it emitted was manageable, but now that it was being forcibly compressed and detonated, the instantaneous energy density had far exceeded the physical limits that the Emperor Realm could withstand.

“Crack...”

Xu Chen's Hongmeng Creation Origin Body, which was impervious to all techniques, actually emitted the sound of grinding bones under the aftershocks of the collision.

On the surface of his skin, which was comparable to divine iron, fine cracks of blood began to break open. Strands of Emperor Origin blood, shimmering with purple-gold luster, were vaporized into blood mist by the terrifying heat of destruction as soon as they seeped out.

“Block it! I must block it!”

Xu Chen gritted his teeth hard, let out a roar from his throat like that of a wounded beast.

The blood and Qi in his body burned crazily like boiling magma, continuously pouring into the purple-gold black hole in front of his chest.

He could not retreat.

He couldn't even retreat half a step!

Because behind him, less than a hundred thousand miles away at the exit of the void passage, was the Nine-Colored Purple-Gold Divine Carriage.

On that divine carriage were the ancestors of his Xu Family, the confidantes who had walked with him all this way, and even more importantly, Shen Xi and Li Cangyue, who had just conceived new life and were currently powerless.

Once he avoided this frontal impact, that world-destroying torrent of explosion would unhinderedly shatter the fragile ancient killing Formation behind him and completely erase all his bonds.

This was a man's bottom line.

Even if the sky fell, he would have to use his own spine to hold it up!

The periphery of the palace.

The women of the harem, protected in the rear by the ancient killing Formation and the Sky-Slaying Sword Formation, could also truly feel that despairing aura of world destruction at this moment.

Large areas of the Formation's edges began to melt.

The terrifying heat passing through the Formation turned the heavy armor on the hundred thousand Pojun Imperial Guards red-hot. Those old monsters of the myriad worlds with slightly weaker cultivation were even more oppressed, bleeding from their seven orifices and slumping in the Void Realm, unable to even move a finger.

“Husband!”

Su Qingge clenched her fists tightly, her nails sinking deep into her palms, even drawing blood.

This always dignified and steady main wife watched the tall back of the man ahead, who was covered in blood and standing firm at the front of the destructive light sphere, her eyes filling with tears.

She desperately activated the void Laws in her body, wanting to rush forward to fight alongside Xu Chen.

The repulsive force emitted from the explosion's core was simply too terrifying. Even with the support of the heaven-avoiding pill, her Emperor-level Laws would be directly annihilated the moment they approached the core area.

“Let me go! That's my master! I'm going to help him!”

Li Cangyue was like she'd gone mad, trying to rush out of the Dragon Carriage's protective circle regardless of everything.

Her black hair danced wildly, the yandere nature and madness in her eyes completely ignited. She would rather be blown to ashes along with Xu Chen than stand here watching her man face death alone.

“Are you crazy! You still have his child in your belly!”

Wu Mingkong and Luo Hongyi, one on each side, tightly grabbed Li Cangyue's arms, forcibly pinning the irrational Devil Emperor against the Dragon Carriage's railing.

“Let go of me! I'm going to swallow that fire!” Li Cangyue struggled violently, her shrill cries filled with endless despair.

Just as the harem was in chaos, doing their best to maintain the rear defensive Formation,

Shen Xi, who had been standing at the very front of the Dragon Carriage, was surprisingly quiet.

She quietly watched the black-clothed figure ahead, standing firm in the light of destruction.

The once majestic Heaven-Equalizing Crown and Robe were now tattered from the explosion. Xu Chen's back was covered in cracks deep enough to see bone, and Emperor blood dyed the Void Realm around him red.

But he still stood like an insurmountable mountain, arms spread wide, using that purple-gold black hole to tightly wrap around the detonating Heavenly Dao core, blocking all the destructive aftershocks in front of himself.

In Shen Xi's dark golden eyes, Xu Chen's blood-soaked figure was reflected.

She once thought that the love in this world was just an excuse for Mortals to hide their weakness. That so-called 'regardless of everything' would turn into ugly selfishness and escape in the face of absolute life-and-death crisis.

This was the absolute truth deduced by the Heavenly Dao.

Until this moment, this man, with his scar-covered body, blocked the torrent of destruction and, with his actual actions, completely shattered that cold and heartless truth in her cognition.

“Supreme Forgetfulness of Emotions... It turns out, this was the real mistake.”

Shen Xi reached out her slightly cold hand and gently stroked her slightly bulging lower abdomen.

She could feel the Primordial Divine Fetus in her womb, nurtured by two extreme powers, emitting uneasy palpitations due to the destructive pressure from outside. That was the continuation of her and this man's shared Bloodline.

It was the only real warmth she had gained in the long, boring years.

“Crack... Boom!”

The stalemate on the battlefield ahead finally reached the critical point that broke the balance.

The collapse of the Heavenly Dao Origin Core reached its limit.

The pure white light sphere, originally only the size of a fist, expanded ten million times in an instant!

A terrifying torrent of energy sufficient to destroy an eon, which even the Hongmeng Heaven-Swallowing Art could not fully digest, was like a bursting starry river, directly blowing apart the edges of the purple-gold black hole in front of Xu Chen's chest.

“Puff—”

The strong backlash power caused Xu Chen to tilt his head back and spray out a large mouthful of purple-gold Life Emperor Blood.

His body was like a withered leaf in the wind, pushed back thousands of zhang by this violent expansion force. The Void Realm beneath his feet was plowed into two bottomless spatial trenches.

“Die! Everyone die for me!”

Deep within the core light sphere, the malicious and gleeful remnant will of the Ancient Divine Venerable echoed.

The light of destruction had completely lost control, sweeping toward Xu Chen, the Dragon Carriage, and the army behind him in an unstoppable manner.

Wherever the light passed, time stopped and space was annihilated.

Even a critical-point powerhouse like Xu Chen, in the gap where old wounds had not healed and new strength had not yet risen, could not help but have a deep haze flash in his eyes when facing this kind of Universe-level self-detonation.

He forced a breath, preparing to detonate all the Hongmeng Origin in his body; even if it meant being heavily injured and falling in Realm, he would build one last blood-and-flesh line of defense in front of the divine carriage.

At the critical moment when Xu Chen was about to make a life-or-death struggle,

a breeze with a faint cold fragrance brushed past him from behind without warning.

Then, under the unbelievable gaze of everyone,

a figure wearing a purple Flowing Immortal Dress, like a silver moth throwing itself into a fire without hesitation, resolutely moved past Xu Chen's broad shoulders.

She faced the pure white light of destruction that could melt all things,

and spread her arms.