76: A stunning reversal!

The clash between two peerless powerhouses caused the heavens and earth to change color.

Emperor Scorching Sun's twin blades unleashed Holy Light Purification and Karmic Fire Blazing, two opposing forces merging to produce a hundredfold power!

White Ember gave a sinister smile, and his Corrupted Spear erupted with tens of thousands of black lightning bolts.

These lightning bolts were no ordinary energy; they were condensed from countless corrupted Souls.

When the black lightning collided with the twin blades, the resulting energy storm instantly tore the clouds within a ten-mile radius to shreds.

Their battle had already surpassed the scope of the Tribulation Crossing Realm; even an Ascension Realm expert would likely be no more powerful!

The most intense clash occurred at a height of a thousand meters.

Scorching Sun's twin blades crossed, Holy Light and Karmic Fire completely fused, forming a brilliant golden-red pillar of light that shot straight into the sky;

White Ember, on the other hand, hurled his Corrupted Spear, its shaft continuously expanding during flight, eventually transforming into a dark Dragon that blotted out the sky.

Boom!

The two forces collided, and the resulting shockwave temporarily deafened all creatures within a hundred-mile radius, with spiderweb-like cracks even appearing in the space at the center of the explosion.

Finally, both exhausted their last shred of power.

Scorching Sun's Great Sun Golden Body shattered, and White Ember's Corrupted Body also began to disintegrate.

As they fell from ten thousand meters in the sky, they were still using their last bit of strength to attack each other.

The Karmic Fire Blade thrown by Scorching Sun severed White Ember's right arm at the shoulder, while the Corrupted Bone Spike shot by White Ember pierced through Scorching Sun's chest.

When they both slammed heavily to the ground, the entire battlefield shook, and the raised dust formed a small mushroom cloud.

White Ember looked at the heavily injured Scorching Sun with triumph: "You lost! I still have two powerful sons; no one in the world is their match!"

White Ember gave orders to his two sons: "White Blade! White Sword, kill Scorching Sun! Hurry! Haha, victory belongs to us."

Scorching Sun looked at the approaching White Blade and White Sword, preparing to fight to the death. He had heard of White Ember's two sons; at only fourteen years old, they had already reached the Deity Transformation Realm, truly Geniuses among Geniuses.

However, fate, at this moment, seemed to have played the cruelest joke.

White Ember discovered in horror that the two peerless divine weapons he had personally forged, the zanpakutō and the Soul-Slaying Sword, were not stabbing Scorching Sun, but were instead precisely inserted into his own back. Pfft, black blood spurted out.

White Blade's blade was as steady as a rock, and White Sword's sword was as fast as lightning. They cooperated flawlessly, as perfectly as they had in countless training sessions—only this time, their target was the father who had given them life.

"You, you two! You two fools, what are you doing! I am your father!!" White Ember's roar was mixed with unbelievable pain. He felt the corruption core in his back being stripped away; it was the source of all his power, the crystallization of his lifelong Cultivation.

"Father, I'm sorry." White Blade's voice was eerily calm, yet his actions showed no hesitation. "Mother told us to do this; we cannot disobey Mother's orders."

White Ember turned to Dawn Moon, who was watching the battle from afar, the fury in his eyes becoming tangible: "Dawn Moon? Are you mad? I've exhausted myself, preparing for battle for so many years to help you get revenge. Now that I'm about to kill Scorching Sun, you stab me in the back!!"

Dawn Moon's laughter was as melodious as a nightingale, but her delicate face was now twisted like a demon's: "Haha, don't be angry, my great husband. All of this is the result of your evil deeds. You forced me and threatened me to become your wife back then; you should have expected this day would come." Her voice suddenly lowered, turning into a snake-like hiss, "Do you think I've endured your touch all these years? It's because I was waiting for this moment, hahaha!"

White Ember staggered backward, the weakness from having his corruption core taken away making him feel the approach of death for the first time: "Madwoman! You madwoman!" His roar echoed across the battlefield, but it could no longer summon back the two sons into whom he had poured all his heart and Soul.

White Blade and White Sword stood expressionlessly beside their mother, their weapons still dripping with their father's blood.

Dawn Moon clutched the pulsating corruption core as if it were a priceless treasure.

White Ember fell to the ground, watching this woman, with whom he had shared a bed for sixteen years, raise the crystal core. All the Corrupted Legion members uniformly turned to kneel before her.

"White Ember! Attempting to surrender!! Betraying the Empire! Seize him!"

"Yes!" The Imperial Guard Commander, Light Fortress, had finally waited for this day and apprehended the powerless White Ember.

Only at this moment did White Ember realize, absurdly, that without the corruption core, he was just an ordinary person who was nothing!

Everything he had was bestowed upon him by the heavens. For so many years, he had not Cultivated any Cultivation Technique to strengthen himself, but had merely enjoyed the Corruption ability bestowed upon him by Lu Chen.

Lu Chen couldn't help but shake his head upon seeing this.

White Ember, you truly disgrace the Chosen One!

A simp who ends up with nothing. What's so good about women? For the sake of a woman, he ended up with this betrayal by his wife.

How pathetic!

【Chosen One White Ember, his fate has taken a major turn, story excitement coefficient +20%】

Check White Ember.

【Ability: Corruption, stripped】

【Realm: None, Cultivation coefficient 0】

【Excitement coefficient: 34.5】

【Chosen One coefficient: 20】

【Estimated settlement energy: 5450】

The only thing worth being happy about was that the excitement coefficient had increased significantly; what a dramatic turn of events.

If White Ember could turn the tide from this unwinnable situation, the excitement coefficient would surely increase by at least 100%!

Looking forward to White Ember's comeback against the odds.

Scorching Sun took advantage of the internal strife to retreat with his remaining forces, but how could Dawn Moon possibly let go of her father's killer?

Using the corruption core, she controlled the Corrupted Legion to pursue relentlessly, eventually cornering Scorching Sun in the central square of the Sunday Imperial City.

Scorching Sun, with nowhere to go, begged for mercy: "Don't kill me, I'll tell you a shocking secret, actually your father didn't..."

"Pfft!"

Nine glowing tail stings shot out from behind Dawn Moon like venomous snakes, precisely piercing Scorching Sun's vital points.

One of the tail stings directly pierced his throat, forever sealing his unfinished words in a spray of blood.

Scorching Sun's pupils dilated, looking at Dawn Moon's cold and beautiful face with disbelief.

"You... are ten thousand times more ruthless than your father!!" He struggled to raise his finger, but it froze in mid-air.

As the tail stings were withdrawn, this once formidable Sun Emperor collapsed to the ground like a broken puppet, golden blood spreading across the black paving stones of the square.

Dawn Moon elegantly retracted her tail stings and slowly walked towards Scorching Sun's corpse under the gaze of thousands.

She deliberately made this execution process full of ritual, every movement carefully designed.

Dawn Moon needed a perfect revenge script, she needed her people to witness her heroic act of "avenging her father," even if she had already guessed that her father might not be dead, she would not allow Scorching Sun to say it, as it would only ruin her persona.

The citizens of the Imperial City cheered.

Dawn Moon made her proclamation: "This is the fate of traitors! Twenty years of blood debt, finally repaid today!"

Her voice, amplified by Corruption energy, echoed through the skies: "From today onward, the Sunday Empire shall be completely destroyed, and I, Dawn Moon! will inherit my father Morning Light's unfinished great cause, unifying the entire continent. This is not usurpation, it is destiny! It is justice!"

The entire Imperial City erupted, millions of citizens knelt on the ground, shouting "Empress Dawn Moon!!"

Dawn Moon officially ascended the throne! She unified the Sunday and Dark Radiance Empires, renaming the country as Sun Moon, historically known as Empress Sun Moon.

Suddenly, Light Fortress walked over, looking flustered, and whispered in her ear: "Your Majesty, your father has been found!!"