377: Chapter 377 The Birth and Death of All Paths

Chu Changsheng stood before the phantom of the World Tree, his white robes unstained by the slightest speck of dust amidst the overwhelming pressure, his sleeves fluttering gently, as if an exiled immortal had descended to the mortal realm.

Not a single shred of power leaked from his body, yet he was even more intimidating to behold than the colossal tree that connected heaven and earth.

He lifted his eyes slightly; his pitch-black pupils were calm and ripple-free, yet they seemed to contain the stars of the heavens and the birth and death of the Myriad Dao.

His gaze slowly swept over the three Demon Venerables, whose faces were pale, whose auras were chaotic, and whose Yao power was running wild. This calm, ripple-free voice now carried the Dao sound of the primordial Chaos, bearing the supreme majesty of judging the heavens, slowly echoing above the deathly silent Demon Burial Plain:

"Now..." "Do you still think you have me in the bag?"

Chu Changsheng's voice was light and faint, like drifting clouds passing over the Nine Heavens, yet it carried the supreme majesty of looking down upon the universe and surveying all living things.

Every word and every sentence sounded like primordial divine thunder, crashing directly into the depths of the Divine Souls of the three Demon Venerables—Demon Venerable Shi Ri, Demon Venerable Tun Yue, and Demon Venerable Sui Xing—shaking their Yao souls until they trembled violently, and the monstrous Yao power surging around them nearly collapsed!

The hearts of the three Demon Venerables were no longer filled with mere shock, but with a suffocating, primal fear that sprouted from the deepest depths of their soul seas and spread wildly along their Yao meridians—it was the instinctive trembling felt when facing the suppression of absolute power, where even the thought of resistance was crushed!

The moment that World Tree phantom, hanging with five Ten Fiend Dao Fruits, slowly solidified and fully manifested behind Chu Changsheng, the three Demon Venerables felt as if they had been struck by a ten-thousand-ton divine thunderbolt, and they instantly realized:

The Human Race Cultivator before them, who appeared to have just entered the Void Realm, was by no means the "blood-food Dao Fruit" they had imagined, which could be easily devoured to nourish their own Foundation!

This was a supreme existence that transcended the Yao Race's thousands of years of understanding, capable of overturning the landscape of the Northern Region and uprooting the very Foundation of the Yao Race's rule!

World Tree Foundation! This was the supreme Foundation that existed only in the ancient legends of the Chaos era, revered as a deity by the ancestors of the Yao Race and regarded as the Origin of heaven and earth!

It symbolized the endless Origin of life, symbolized the ultimate Dao where all Daos return to one, and even more, it symbolized the supreme possibility of transcending the Three Realms within reach!

And the five Ten Fiend Dao Fruits hanging from its branches transformed this Heaven-Defying potential directly into terrifying combat power capable of suppressing peers and fighting against those of higher ranks!

"This child... must not be left alive!" "No—he must be strangled in the Demon Burial Plain immediately, at all costs!" "Once he fully matures, the Yao Race will perish! The Northern Region will surely change hands!"

With the same thought arising, all fear faded from the eyes of the three Demon Venerables, leaving only monstrous ferocity and the determination to burn their bridges—there was no more probing, no more hesitation!

"Roar——!!!" Demon Venerable Shi Ri was the first to erupt with a violent roar that tore through the firmament. From within that massive, dark body that blotted out the sky, a token of the Demon Venerable—jet-black, engraved with ancient Yao scripts, and suffused with world-ending destruction and ominous Death Qi—was fiercely sacrificed. Under the wild infusion of Yao power, the token shattered upon command!

"Hum——!" Demon Venerable Tun Yue followed closely behind. A drop of cold, bone-chilling moon-essence blood shot out from her fingertip, piercing through the air. The instant the essence blood merged into the token, the jade-white, moon-white token was activated with a boom, its clear brilliance surging and tearing through the sky!

"Open for me!" Demon Venerable Sui Xing was violent to the extreme. He smashed his thick Yao fist hard against his chest, and a mouthful of dark golden heart-essence blood sprayed out, dyeing the dark golden token in his hand red. He exerted force with his five fingers, and the token exploded with a boom—golden light shot into the sky, piercing directly into the galaxy!

The instant the three tokens shattered, three streams of light with different colors—black as the ink of the Nine Serenities, white as the frost of the Guanghan Palace, and golden as the blazing sun—each carrying the limit power of a half-step Void Immortal and branded with an ancient Yao Race contract mark, suddenly tore through the air!

They ignored space barriers, transcended the conventional Laws of light speed, and shot towards the deepest part of the Yao Race's territory with the momentum of tearing heaven and earth—this was the Forbidden Ground known as the source of all Yao, gathering the ferocious evils of eternity, a place no one had dared to set foot in for millions of years: the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons!

Everything happened in the blink of an eye, so fast that the Human Race experts below, who had not yet recovered from the shock of the World Tree, only had time to glimpse three streams of light cutting across the sky before they vanished into the end of the Yao Race's territory in an instant.

Almost the very next instant after the streams of light dissipated— "Boom!!!"

A vast, ancient will, indescribable in its grandeur, terror, and antiquity, suddenly awakened from the Nine Serenities abyss that had been dormant for eternity, and descended with a boom from the direction of the unreachable Cave of Ten Thousand Demons!

This will did not attack directly, but with inconceivable speed, it penetrated billions of miles of space barriers, ignored the obstruction of the Laws of heaven and earth, and in an instant, it locked firmly onto Chu Changsheng above the Demon Burial Plain, and the World Tree phantom behind him that connected heaven and earth!

Following this, the sky above the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons twisted violently, and a vast, boundless, and lifelike Void Realm illusion mirror unfolded with a boom—like a heavenly mirror spanning heaven and earth, clearly reflecting everything on the Demon Burial Plain:

Chu Changsheng in his snow-white robes and outstanding bearing; the World Tree phantom behind him, standing tall and reaching the sky, with lush branches and leaves, hanging with five Ten Fiend Dao Fruits; as well as the hideous faces of the three Demon Venerables, who were horrified yet fierce and resolute.

The illusion mirror was so clear that every detail was visible: Chu Changsheng's indifferent, unworldly temperament untainted by the mortal world; the chaotic, primordial Dao Rhyme of the World Tree that nourished the Myriad Dao; and even the ancient fierce roars faintly emanating from within the five Ten Fiend Dao Fruits that shook the Divine Soul—all were transmitted without the slightest loss to the depths of the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons!

"Hmm?!" "This is... the World Tree?! And the aura of the Ten Fiend Origin?!" "Chaos Dao Rhyme... it is the true World Tree Foundation!"

Several shocked shouts—some as old as eternal bedrock, some as resounding as thunder from the Nine Heavens, some as cold as a viper flicking its tongue, and some as violent as a prehistoric Vicious Beast—exploded from the deepest depths of the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons across endless space and time—each one wrapped in unbelievable shock and extreme madness!

The next moment— "Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom..." Nine consecutive world-ending roars exploded from the depths of the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons!

That Forbidden Ground, which was covered year-round by eternal Yao evil and Chaos Qi, and which even the light of the sun, moon, and stars could not penetrate, suddenly erupted with ten terrifying beams of light that reached the heavens and the earth!

Each beam of light had a completely different color and aura—red as burning sky flames, cyan as space-tearing gales, black as the endless abyss, white as eternal frost... yet all contained the pure Void Immortal pressure that made the Laws of heaven and earth retreat and all living things bow down in submission!

That was the truly complete aura of a Void Immortal, surpassing that of a half-step Void Immortal!

Ten Void Immortal auras shot into the sky simultaneously, stirring up the winds and clouds across billions of miles of the Yao Race's territory, causing the firmament to collapse and the earth to tremble wildly!

Countless members of the Yao Race, regardless of their cultivation level, all prostrated themselves in trembling fear, their Yao souls tightly suppressed by the supreme pressure, their very courage to look up stripped away—completely unaware of what kind of world-ending event had occurred.

Within the beams of light, ten figures shrouded in the radiance of endless Laws, their forms blurred yet their power monstrous, slowly solidified.

Their gazes penetrated the Void Realm illusion mirror, like ten heavenly eyes that saw through eternity, locking firmly and with absolute precision onto Chu Changsheng in the mirror, and the World Tree phantom behind him that symbolized supreme Opportunity!

Greed! That was unmasked, extreme greed capable of burning heaven and earth!

This gaze was so hot it was maddening, as if they wanted to swallow Chu Changsheng alive, gnawing away even his Foundation and Dao Fruit—a hundred, a thousand times more intense than the covetousness of the three Demon Venerables earlier!

World Tree Foundation! The legendary supreme Foundation, the secret key to transcending the Three Realms, the supreme Opportunity that billions of Cultivators dreamed of!

Ten Fiend Dao Fruits! A full five of them! Enough to make any Void Immortal go crazy for them, enough to forge the strongest Foundation for being invincible among peers and fighting against those of higher ranks!

The two actually gathered together on the body of a newly ascended Human Race Void Immortal... this was no longer an Opportunity, but a Heaven-Defying treasure that could drive the top echelons of the Yao Race collectively mad, one they would sacrifice everything to seize!

"How dare you, brat! To actually dare to steal such an Opportunity of the Origin of heaven and earth!"

An old voice, like the roar of ten thousand beasts, exploded, its monstrous rage and irrepressible greed causing the Void Realm illusion mirror to tremble slightly.

"Such supreme Opportunity rightfully belongs to our Yao Race! Seize his Foundation, refine his Dao Fruit—our Yao Race will surely flourish across the Three Realms and dominate the Primeval Era!"

Another voice, as cold as a viper flicking its tongue, rang out, its killing intent condensed into substance, cutting dense, pitch-black cracks into the void.

"Kill! Descend across realms immediately! This child must not be allowed to escape! Even if it costs everything, he must be suppressed and killed in the Demon Burial Plain!"

Yet another violent, destructive roar, wrapped in world-ending will, shook the entire Yao Race territory, causing heaven and earth to wail and tremble.

Ten Yao Race Void Immortals! This was the ultimate Foundation that the Yao Race had used to suppress eternity, a supreme power that would not easily appear in the world! At this moment, they were all alarmed by the World Tree Foundation and Ten Fiend Dao Fruits displayed by Chu Changsheng!

The ten Void Immortal wills converged above the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons, instantly reaching a consensus—at all costs, cross realms to kill Chu Changsheng and seize all the Opportunity on him!

The terrifying Void Immortal will was like an invisible tsunami. Even transmitted across endless space-time and the Void Realm illusion mirror, it made all living things on the Demon Burial Plain fall into an ice cellar, their Divine Souls nearly frozen!

The air completely solidified, and breathing became a luxury—only the suffocating, supreme pressure remained between heaven and earth.

Dozens of Human Race experts turned pale as paper, their bodies icy cold, their blood nearly stagnant, with only despair remaining in their eyes.

Ten... a full ten Yao Race Void Immortals! This was the scene of the apocalypse! The spark of hope that had just been ignited by Chu Changsheng's display of strength seemed as if it would be completely crushed by this monstrous Yao Immortal power the very next moment!

Seeing this, the three Demon Venerables finally revealed hideous, triumphant grins on their faces, looking at Chu Changsheng as if they were looking at a corpse that had already perished—as if they had already foreseen the tragic state of Chu Changsheng being torn to pieces by the ten Yao Immortals, with his Foundation and Dao Fruits all seized.

However—facing the terrifying killing intent and greedy gaze from the highest echelons of the Yao Race, facing the supreme pressure of the ten Void Immortals locking onto him from across space—Chu Changsheng's expression remained as calm as before.

He did not even lift his eyes to glance at the Void Realm illusion mirror above the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons, and did not pay any heed to those ten mad gazes that wished they could swallow him alive—as if these ten Yao Race Void Immortals were nothing more than ten insignificant ants.

He only slightly lifted his right hand, spread his five fingers, and gently slashed at the void in front of him.

"It seems the fish I've attracted are... a few more than expected." His voice remained calm, yet it hid a trace of imperceptible disappointment—this tone was as if he had only intended to catch a few trash fish, but unexpectedly attracted a group of noisy little shrimp, which was extremely boring.