433: Those who betray God, the spirits of the divine shrine!

Shen Nian stepped through the Universe, his voice possessing supreme power, echoing throughout the boundless Universe.

Yet, only silence responded to him...

"Let's see where you can hide!" Shen Nian frowned, his aura changing drastically. Stepping upon the Chaos Dao, he strode toward the depths of the Universe. A single step covered an unimaginable distance; the speed of an Eighth-Turn Dao Venerable was indescribable. With every lift of his foot, the sun, moon, and galaxy flowed backward, as if he were stepping upon time itself.

In the blink of an eye!

Shen Nian arrived at the end of the Universe.

"This place..." Shen Nian indifferently scanned his surroundings, his brows slightly raised.

There was no vitality here. The pitch-black darkness, where one could not even see their own hand, was like a dormant giant beast, opening its bloodthirsty maw to devour this world.

The darkness was so thick that it felt tangible, perceptible. It oppressed every inch of space, making one's breathing heavy and difficult.

Here, time seemed to have lost its meaning; there was no alternation between day and night, no traces of the passage of years. Everything was frozen within this eternal darkness.

It was deathly silent, with nothing but pitch-black darkness, and now Shen Nian had intruded alone.

What was most terrifying was that the Laws of the Dao here had changed. If other Dao Venerables came here, while they might not lose all their cultivation, they would encounter great trouble because the Dao here was the Divine Dao!

Otherwise, their very Dao bodies might shatter!

But Shen Nian was fearless. Besides the Chaos Dao of this Universe, he also possessed the Ancient Dao that transcended this Universe. No matter how the Laws and Dao changed, he remained completely unaffected.

At this moment, Shen Nian was dressed in white robes. The white was as pure as snow, and against the backdrop of the darkness, it appeared even more pristine and flawless, like the brightest star in the night sky.

His entire body radiated Chaos divine light. That light was gentle yet contained endless power, blooming wantonly in the darkness and illuminating the path ahead of him.

As the divine light flickered, mysterious runes and patterns were faintly visible, appearing and disappearing. If any living being could gaze upon this land of silence and destruction, they would surely see him walking alone through this endless darkness.

Not long after.

An indescribably magnificent palace appeared before Shen Nian's eyes. This palace radiated eternal light, and its scale was unimaginably vast; the entire Fourth Star was not even a fraction of its size in comparison.

Shen Nian slightly tilted his head, his gaze extending from the base of the palace upward. The towering roof seemed to connect to the end of the Universe, and the incomparably vast hall seemed capable of containing countless worlds.

On the walls of the palace were carved mysterious and complex patterns. Each pattern flickered with strange light, and these patterns intertwined to form breathtaking images—some resembling mountains and rivers, some like the sun, moon, and stars, and others like mysterious creatures, as if it were a microcosm of all things in the Universe.

Only with Shen Nian's Realm could one see the Universe within it at a glance.

Divine Court!

These two words were as dazzling as the great sun, floating in mid-air at the very peak of the entire Divine Palace. It was shocking to behold. What kind of supreme power was that? Two words left in the void by sheer strength, existing for countless epochs, eternal and undying!

Shen Nian only glanced at the two words "Divine Court" and did not hesitate in the slightest. The Chaos divine light around his body flashed slightly, and like a white stream of light, he lightly passed through the massive palace gates and stepped into the Divine Court.

As soon as he entered, a thick scent of decay and blood rushed toward him.

Inside the Divine Court, what should have been a glorious and splendid Holy Land filled with Divine Artifacts was now like a silent ruin. On both sides of the path, countless withered Divine Treasures lay scattered in disarray.

These Divine Treasures must have once been radiant and infinitely powerful. Each one could potentially possess the power to change the world and were treasures that countless cultivators dreamed of.

Yet now, they had lost their former luster, becoming dim, withered, and shriveled, as if all their life force had been drained away, leaving only dilapidated shells.

Some Divine Treasures were covered in cracks, as if they had experienced countless brutal battles; others were corroded beyond recognition, emitting a nauseating aura.

Along the way, he saw endless withered Divine Treasures and corpses covering the ground. Those were all Ancient Realm cultivators, and there were also quite a few... Dao Venerable Realm Gods and Demons!!

"The aura of the Ancient Dao..."

"These must have been slain by the first generation of demon sealing..."

"And there is something else..."

"It is rumored that back then, Senior Ancient Origin came to slaughter them alone, but in reality, there was another person. Who was it?"

Shen Nian whispered softly. He discovered that besides the aura of the Ancient Dao and the Gods and Demons, there was another very strange power here, containing both the aura of the Gods and the Human Race Dao.

But one thing was certain: this person was a helper of Ancient Origin!

It was impossible to reverse the scenes here; the past and future had long been wiped clean. Otherwise, Shen Nian would have already traced it back to the source.

Very quickly.

Shen Nian arrived at the front of the palace. The scene that met his eyes caused his footsteps to come to an abrupt halt.

In front of the palace gates, half a divine skeleton was hung high. Although only half of the skeletal body remained, it still radiated an indescribable majesty and sense of oppression.

This was a former God. Even though only half a remnant skeleton remained now, the divine radiance it contained had not completely dissipated, only adding a touch of vicissitudes and desolation.

Upon the divine skeleton, dense swarms of blood worms were wriggling frantically.

These blood worms had tiny bodies but exuded an eerie luster. Each one seemed like a demon crawling out from the depths of Hell, greedily gnawing on the divine skeleton.

Their mouthparts opened and closed incessantly, emitting a hair-raising "rustling" sound. With every bite, wisps of Divine Power were drawn out from the divine skeleton and merged into their tiny bodies.

As the blood worms corroded it, shocking indentations gradually appeared on the divine skeleton, and its originally smooth surface became riddled with holes.

However, just as the divine skeleton was about to be completely devoured by the blood worms, an inexplicable Divine Power descended suddenly, as if from the depths of the Universe.

This Divine Power was vigorous and majestic. Under the nourishment of this Divine Power, the wounds on the divine skeleton gnawed open by the blood worms began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The broken joints reconnected, and the damaged surface returned to smoothness, as if the previous corrosion had never occurred.

But this was merely a brief moment of peace.

Very soon, the blood worms launched their attack again, frantically gnawing on the divine skeleton once more. This cycle repeated, with every corrosion and repair seemingly destined to last until the end of time.

Even Shen Nian was stunned for a moment. To have such torture continue eternally, even after the corpse had died—what kind of deep hatred must this be?

He was also somewhat shocked; could a Divine Body really be this terrifying?

These Innate Gods and Demons were almost immortal and indestructible. The Origin Qi in the Universe would endlessly repair their bodies. They were truly blessed by heaven; even those in the same Realm would find it very difficult to defeat them...

The reason Shen Nian was so sensitive to the aura of the Gods was that on his way here, he had given Shen Yuhuo a thorough, comprehensive examination.

"The God Betrayer, Shen Muling—the Divine Body suffers eternal torment, the Divine Soul falls into endless Reincarnation..."