316: Chapter 316 Crushing the Divine Realm and Divine Feed

"Wash your necks clean, I've come to collect the rent."

These words, devoid of any aggression and even carrying a hint of common street slang, were uttered very casually by Zhou Wannian. Before the voice had completely dissipated on this abandoned ancient Ascension altar, his slender figure in the green robe had already become an illusory stream of light merging into the breeze, vanishing instantly from the edge of the altar.

No roar of tearing the void, no world-shaking escape light.

The Great Perfection Space Law of the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art revealed its terrifying level at this moment, far exceeding the understanding of the Heavenly Dao of the Taisu Origin World.

Zhou Wannian was not flying, but performing a kind of absolutely free "folded stroll" within the underlying logic of high-dimensional Space Laws. With every step he took, the purple-gold space barriers of the Taisu Origin World—sturdy enough to give even a half-step Creator a headache—would automatically and submissively cave inward, forcibly compressing the tens of millions of miles ahead to the soles of his feet.

Canglan Divine Domain.

This high-and-mighty residence of gods had ruled over the Taisu Origin World for countless eons.

It was not built on ordinary land, but floated atop the thirty-three layers of the purple-gold sea of clouds above the Nine Heavens. Countless bronze heavenly pillars, each over a million feet in diameter and inscribed with primordial divine patterns, acted like the backbone supporting heaven and earth, steadily holding this vast and boundless Divine Domain in the deepest part of the firmament.

Surrounding the Divine Domain was a world-protecting divine river ten million feet wide, composed entirely of liquid lightning Origin. Hundreds of millions of lightning divine soldier puppets floated in the river; any being daring to approach without a godhead token would be instantly blasted into nothingness by this river, leaving not even ashes behind.

In the very center of the Divine Domain, inside the Canglan Divine Palace—nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine stories high and crafted entirely from top-grade Primal Creation Divine Stones—the atmosphere was currently oppressive to the extreme.

The Divine Palace Hall.

Seated upon the supreme divine throne was a majestic man wearing a purple-gold Divine Dragon imperial robe and a Ping Tian crown. He was surrounded by nine sacred halos representing the most fundamental Laws of the Taisu Origin World; every breath he took could trigger tides of Spiritual Qi throughout the Divine Domain.

This man was the supreme Dominator of this world, the ultimate True God who ruled over the Luck of countless lower Major Thousand Worlds—the Canglan God King.

At this moment, the Canglan God King's majestic face, which looked as if carved by axes and chisels, was filled with dark fury.

Before the jade steps of the divine hall below him, dozens of high-ranking divine generals knelt trembling. In front of these generals floated a large, ripple-like Karma Divine Mirror.

Inside the divine mirror, the image had completely frozen into a screen of grey-white snow.

But in the breath before the image vanished, all of them had clearly seen the lightning divine general commander sent to guard the abandoned altar. He had been treated like a chicken, his godhead forcibly ripped from his Sea of Consciousness with ease, and then his entire Physical Body and Divine Soul were instantly crushed into fly ash by an indescribable power.

"Useless. All of you are useless."

The Canglan God King slammed his palm onto the armrest of the supreme divine throne, and a terrifying pressure sufficient to collapse this divine hall crashed down.

The dozens of high-ranking divine generals below all spat out a large mouthful of golden divine blood simultaneously. Their bodies were pinned firmly to the jade floor, and they didn't even have the courage to look up at Your Majesty the God King.

The Canglan God King's face was distorted, his voice exploding in the hall like the thunder of the Nine Heavens.

The Canglan God King roared in fury: "Who can tell this King where that ant from the Lower Realm without a godhead came from? Why could he crush my Divine Domain's lightning godhead with one hand? Why was there no warning from the primal heaven derivation disk?"

The hall was deathly silent; no divine general dared to court disaster at this time. Their hearts were equally filled with incomprehensible terror. A being without a godhead should, under the terrifying gravity Laws of the Taisu Origin World, be unable to even stand steadily. How could they possess the strength to kill a high-ranking divine general in an instant?

Just as the Canglan God King was preparing to go on a killing spree to vent his anger.

An extremely steady, casual voice that made one feel like a spring breeze yet possessed an absolute relaxation in its core, rang out without warning in this heavily guarded Canglan Divine Palace hall.

Zhou Wannian's voice rang out as if he were strolling in his own courtyard.

Zhou Wannian spoke indifferently: "No need to check that broken disk. I've already dismantled it to use as fertilizer. As for where I came from, naturally, I climbed all the way up along that dog chain you use to harvest the Luck of the Lower Realm."

"Who is it?"

The Canglan God King stood up abruptly, his eyes like two scorching suns shooting out piercing divine light as he stared fixedly at the empty void in the center of the hall.

"Buzz."

Along with an extremely slight ripple of space.

No violent astral winds, no roar of tearing Formations.

The handsome and easygoing youth, wearing a set of faded green robes with his hands casually behind his back, walked out as if from the hall's reflection, standing steadily in the center of the Canglan Divine Palace.

His spotless green robes formed a stark, even piercing contrast with this magnificent and terrifyingly pressurized divine hall.

"It's you! That ant from the Lower Realm!"

A high-ranking divine general kneeling on the ground looked up abruptly, screaming in terror when he saw the newcomer's face.

Everyone acted as if facing a great enemy, summoning their life-bound Divine Artifacts. Over a hundred terrifying Auras sufficient to destroy galaxies instantly locked onto Zhou Wannian in the center of the hall.

This was the core area of the Canglan Divine Domain. Outside was the ten-million-foot-wide world-protecting lightning divine river, hundreds of millions of lightning Puppets, and the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Demon-Subduing Grand Formation guarding the palace.

How did this Youth in Green Robe manage to appear silently directly before Your Majesty the God King without triggering any defenses?

Zhou Wannian ignored the divine generals who were like startled birds. He slightly raised his chin, his gaze deep as an ancient well, looking past the layers of jade steps to calmly watch the Canglan God King standing before the supreme divine throne.

Zhou Wannian looked at this supreme Dominator of the Taisu Origin World, his lips curling into an extremely casual smile.

Zhou Wannian's tone was steady, as if evaluating a crudely made handicraft. He softly commented: "Treating others' worlds as pigpens and raising living beings to provide for yourself... I thought that someone who could come up with such a method would be a peerless overlord who had understood the Great Dao to the limit. But seeing you today, you so-called Canglan God King are no different from that lightning divine general below; you're just a slightly fatter parasite. This body full of origin mother qi is used so messily by you; it's simply a waste of heavenly treasures."

These words, arrogant to the extreme and even comparing Your Majesty the God King to a fat parasite, completely ignited the entire Canglan Divine Palace.

"Impudent madman! How dare you insult Your Majesty the God King! Die!"

The four high-ranking divine generals closest to Zhou Wannian simultaneously erupted with space-tearing roars.

The four of them controlled the four extreme Divine Powers of Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire respectively. Four supreme Divine Artifacts flashing with different Law lights carried a terrifying momentum sufficient to punch a huge hole in the Taisu Origin World, hacking down towards Zhou Wannian from four directions.

Facing this lethal Formation capable of instakilling those in the half-step Eternal Realm.

Zhou Wannian still maintained a relaxed posture with his hands behind his back. He didn't even look at the four divine generals pouncing towards him.

He simply, quite normally, blew a breath of air toward the sky full of pouring Law divine light.

Zhou Wannian spoke a single word in a steady tone.

Zhou Wannian said indifferently: "Disperse."

Buzz.

The flawless inner universe rules of the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art descended without reservation into the hall of the Canglan Divine Palace at this moment.

The Great Perfection Five Elements Disintegration power transformed into an extremely gentle breeze of absolute purification that contained a level above all Taisu Laws.

An unbelievable scene of crushing power played out in the Divine Palace hall.

The four aggressive high-ranking divine generals, capable of sweeping through Star Domains, felt like they had slammed into a wall of sighs built from time and nothingness the moment they touched this breeze.

No ear-splitting energy explosion occurred, nor was any blinding light produced.

Starting from the tips of their four supposedly indestructible supreme Divine Artifacts that touched the breeze, that violent Law power was like ice and snow meeting extreme heat. Within a ten-thousandth of an instant, it was forcibly dismantled and stripped of all destructive power.

Immediately following.

That irresistible disintegration power spread up the Divine Artifacts like billions of greedy venomous snakes, instantly swallowing the bodies of those four divine generals.

"This... what power is this?"

The four divine generals' ferocious faces instantly froze, their eyes completely filled with endless despair and disbelief.

They attempted to mobilize the godheads within their bodies to communicate with the Taisu Origin World's Heavenly Dao for resistance, but they discovered to their absolute horror that their connection with the Taisu Heavenly Dao had been forcibly and cleanly severed by this breeze.

"Puff. Puff. Puff. Puff."

Four extremely slight muffled sounds echoed in the hall one after another.

These four high-ranking divine generals, who held extremely high status in the Canglan Divine Domain and had lived for countless eons.

Under this casual breath of air from Zhou Wannian, they couldn't even last half a breath's time. Together with the supreme Divine Artifacts in their hands, they were completely disintegrated into the most basic, extremely fine grey powder, scattering across the smooth-as-a-mirror jade floor.

An instakill.

A true, absolute instakill that crossed dimensional Laws.

The entire Canglan Divine Palace hall fell into a deathly, absolute silence in this instant.

The remaining divine generals who were originally prepared to swarm him were now all like they had been hit by a freezing spell, standing stiffly in place, their bodies trembling violently. The way they looked at Zhou Wannian was no longer with anger, but as if they were looking up at a true ultimate destroyer of the Universe who surpassed their cognitive limits and could not be described in words.

They couldn't understand what kind of dimensional power that was.

No fluctuations of magic power, no manifestation of Divine Abilities, just a light breath had completely wiped out four high-ranking True Gods. This was no longer a gap in power, but an insurmountable chasm in the level of life, like that between a human and an ant.

Atop the jade steps in the hall.

The Canglan God King's majestic face had also sunk to the extreme. In his eyes, which were like scorching suns, an undisguisable look of extreme solemnity and wariness appeared for the first time.

He could feel that the power that had just disintegrated the four Divine Generals did not come from any Heavenly Dao Law of this Taisu Origin World. It was a terrifying rule that was extremely perfect, self-consistent, and seemed to form an independent Major Thousand Worlds.

Canglan God King took a deep breath. He knew that the Youth in Green Robe before him was definitely not some ant from the Lower Realm, but an unknown dimensional monster that had very likely touched the legendary 'Creator' Realm.

He slowly clenched his fists, and the vast and boundless Taisu Origin within him surged wildly like a river bursting its banks. An ultimate pressure, enough to make this world tremble, rose from his body toward the sky.

Canglan God King looked down at Zhou Wannian from above, his voice echoing in the Divine Palace like a great bell.

Canglan God King questioned with a cold expression, "Who exactly are you? Even if you possess such strange inner universe Laws, this is still the home field of my Canglan Divine Domain. Do you really think that by breaking into the Divine Palace alone, you can provoke this supreme deity who has mastered the Taisu Heavenly Dao?"

Zhou Wannian stood in the center of the hall. Facing that terrifying God King pressure enough to crush a galaxy, his green robe didn't even show an extra wrinkle.

He slightly raised his chin, his deep eyes looking at the Canglan God King who was feigning composure, a blatant sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

Zhou Wannian spoke calmly, with an absolute confidence that came from holding the power of life and death over all things.

Zhou Wannian declared coldly, "I said, I'm just an idle person here to collect rent. You parasites have sucked blood under my Universe for so long, it's time to spit it out with interest. Since you, the biggest parasite, refuse to hand over your Godhead yourself, I will take it personally."

Before the words had even faded.

Zhou Wannian did not give Canglan God King any further chance for nonsense.

He took a very ordinary step and walked directly toward the jade steps that symbolized supreme power.

"Arrogant!"

Canglan God King was completely enraged. He let out a world-shaking roar and slammed his hands together in front of him.

"Taisu Nine Heavens, World-Destroying Divine Punishment. Suppress!"

With his command.

The dome of the entire Canglan Divine Palace shattered with a bang.

Nine terrifying pillars of thunder, each with a diameter exceeding a hundred thousand feet and displaying the colors of nine different ultimate Laws, poured down from the Nine Heavens. They completely ignored the Divine Palace's defensive Formation, carrying the supreme power to destroy everything and turn the Taisu Origin World into primitive Chaos, as they fiercely struck toward Zhou Wannian, who was ascending the steps.

This was the strongest trump card of Canglan God King as the Dominator of this world. He directly mobilized the core Heavenly Dao will of the Taisu Origin World and brought down this ultimate Divine Punishment enough to obliterate any half-step Creator.

The entire Divine Palace trembled violently under the pressure of this Divine Punishment. The surviving Divine Generals in the hall screamed as they were crushed to the ground, spitting blood.

However.

Facing such world-destroying thunder that could shatter the heavens and earth.

Zhou Wannian didn't even look up. He still maintained a relaxed posture with his hands behind his back, stepping onto the jade stairs with a very steady, unhurried pace.

He just very casually pulled his left hand out of his wide green sleeve, palm facing up, and made a simple outward pushing motion toward the nine descending world-destroying divine thunders.

Buzz.

At this moment, the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art erupted with a terrifying roar that transcended the Taisu Heavenly Dao.

Zhou Wannian's flawless inner universe phantom instantly expanded from his body with an unstoppable and overbearing posture.

One hundred and eight clusters of time dao patterns erupted with an extremely dazzling golden divine light. The power of Great Perfection Space Collapse and Five Elements Disintegration condensed above Zhou Wannian's palm into a translucent glazed giant hand about a hundred feet across.

This giant hand didn't seem large, but the mass and Law dimensions contained within it far exceeded the entire Canglan Divine Domain.

An unbelievable scene of desperate crushing was shockingly enacted within the Divine Palace hall.

The moment the nine pillars of world-destroying Divine Punishment thunder, carrying the Taisu Heavenly Dao will and claiming to be able to obliterate everything, fiercely collided with that translucent glazed giant hand.

No deafening energy explosion occurred.

It was like nine extremely fragile glass pillars being smashed onto an anvil cast from billions of tons of ancient divine iron.

"Crack, crack, crack."

A continuous series of crisp cracking sounds exploded in the sky.

From the very front of the contact with the giant hand, the destructive power of those nine peerlessly violent divine thunders was forcibly stripped away under the reverse flow of the Great Perfection time within Zhou Wannian's inner universe.

Immediately after.

The power of Great Perfection Five Elements Disintegration was like a prehistoric beast with its bloody mouth wide open, frantically devouring upward along the thunder pillars.

The thunderous power condensed from the Taisu Origin was like dry snow meeting a fierce fire; in a ten-thousandth of an instant, it was overbearingly dismantled and crushed, turning into a rain of the purest and most primitive golden energy light.

This glazed giant hand not only blocked the Divine Punishment but also, within half a breath, forcibly crushed and swallowed this violent energy enough to destroy Major Thousand Worlds into Zhou Wannian's inner universe.

The heavy grandmist mother earth let out a satisfied roar, and the chaos jianmu swayed its branches and leaves, greedily absorbing this massive Heavenly Dao Origin, turning it into nourishing fertilizer for its own Major Thousand Worlds.

"This... how is this possible? You can actually crush the Divine Punishment of the Taisu Heavenly Dao with your bare hands! What kind of monster world is hidden inside you?"

Canglan God King's majestic face was completely distorted, and his sun-like eyes were filled with unconcealable extreme horror and despair.

He had lived for countless eons and personally witnessed the birth and evolution of this Taisu Origin World. He had always thought that the Taisu Heavenly Dao he mastered was the pinnacle of the world. But he never imagined that today he would encounter a terrifying existence that could use his own internal Universe Laws to unilaterally crush and even directly devour the Taisu Heavenly Dao Origin.

Fear, an emotion he had forgotten for millions of eons, coiled around his Dao Heart like a cold poisonous snake.

He knew that today he had kicked an ultimate iron plate capable of smashing the entire Canglan Divine Domain to pieces. If he continued to tangle with him, his indestructible divine body, tempered through countless ages, would definitely end up like those Divine Generals.

Escape.

Without any hesitation, this Canglan God King, who enjoyed supreme status in the Taisu Origin World, slammed his hands together in front of his chest to form an extremely ancient and tragic hand seal.

Canglan God King roared with a distorted face and a hoarse voice, "Divine Path Sacrifice, Taisu Evasion Art. Break for me!"

He actually burned nearly half of the Eternal Divine Blood in his body without hesitation, using it as a price to forcibly tear open the space locked by Zhou Wannian's inner universe within the Divine Palace.

An extremely tiny silver crack instantly formed behind him.

Canglan God King turned into a silver light and plunged frantically into the crack without looking back. He wanted to escape from here, to the most secret forbidden land of the Taisu Origin World, even if it meant abandoning this Divine Domain he had managed for countless eons.

However.

Zhou Wannian, who had already reached the middle of the jade steps, looked at the fleeing Canglan God King with only a hint of faint mockery in his deep eyes.

Zhou Wannian spoke calmly, with an absolute dominance that controlled everything.

Zhou Wannian declared coldly, "I said, I'm here to collect rent. You want to pat your butt and leave before the rent is paid? It seems the rules of this Taisu Origin World really need to be redefined by me."

He didn't speed up his pace, nor did he sacrifice any Magic Treasure for pursuit.

He just very ordinarily took that left hand, which had just crushed the world-destroying Divine Punishment, and very casually made a simple grasping motion toward the spatial crack through which Canglan God King was escaping.

Buzz.

The perfectly self-consistent inner universe rules of the Great Five Elements Illusory World Art once again silently crossed the distance of space.

"No—"

In mid-air, the Canglan God King, who was about to completely disappear into the crack, let out a shrill scream of despair like a slaughtered pig.

His high-speed escape light, traded for by burning half of his divine blood, was frozen like amber in an instant under Zhou Wannian's grasp, coming to a dead stop at the edge of the crack.

Immediately after.

The power of Great Perfection Space Collapse and time deprivation, like a pair of invisible iron pincers, death-gripped his body.

"Crack."

Accompanied by a crisp sound that seemed to represent the complete breaking of some underlying rule of the Taisu Origin World.

Canglan God King's God King body, claimed to be indestructible through ten thousand tribulations, exploded in mid-air like crushed low-quality porcelain.

Countless fragments of flesh and blood emitting dazzling divine light splattered in the void, but before they could hit the ground, they were instantly turned into fly ash by the power of Great Perfection Five Elements Disintegration.

And in the center of that exploding blood mist.

A purple-gold, fist-sized diamond-shaped crystal, which seemed to contain a complete miniature Universe inside, was forcibly stripped out by Zhou Wannian's invisible force.

This was the supreme symbol of power for the Canglan Divine Domain and the purest source of power for this world.

The Supreme Godhead of the Canglan God King.

After leaving its master's body, this Godhead was still throbbing violently, emitting a terrifying high-dimensional pressure in an attempt to resist Zhou Wannian's confinement.

But in the face of the terrifying devouring power of Zhou Wannian's inner universe that encompassed all things, its resistance appeared so powerless and laughable.

"Whoosh."

This purple-gold Godhead, symbolizing the supreme Dominator of the Taisu Origin World, turned into a stream of light and flew directly into Zhou Wannian's open left palm.

Zhou Wannian held this still-struggling Supreme Godhead, feeling the massive origin mother qi within it—which was countless times purer than that of the previous Thunder Divine General Commander—and a satisfied, leisurely smile finally curled at the corner of his mouth.

Zhou Wannian muttered softly in a steady tone, "Though it's a bit large, it's still essentially a low-quality shackle. However, the energy contained within is barely qualified to be a supplement for my chaos jianmu."

He did not merge it into his body to communicate with any Heavenly Dao, but instead, very decisively and forcefully squeezed his five fingers inward.

"Bang."

That purple-gold Supreme Godhead, worshipped by billions of living beings in the Taisu Origin World and representing supreme power.

In Zhou Wannian's palm, it was very casually crushed into a cloud of extremely brilliant purple-gold powder.