488: Chapter 488 The Heavenly Emperor (53)

The remains moved.

A palm struck down.

Boom.

The ground in the center of the treasure hall collapsed instantly, and everything within a hundred-foot radius was ground to dust by that withered giant palm.

The hundreds of Prodigies standing in 그 area didn't even have time to scream before their Physical Bodies turned into blood mist.

The smell of blood instantly filled the entire treasure hall.

"Run!"

"The hall doors! Charge for the hall doors!"

Tens of thousands of Prodigies scattered like a startled herd of beasts.

Divine Abilities flew wildly, Laws interlaced, and the sounds of trampling, screaming, and explosions merged into one.

But the hall doors had long been sealed by a Restriction.

There was no escape.

The remains slowly descended from the Void Realm, imperial robes fluttering, with eerie green flames flickering in its eye sockets.

It showed no expression.

It raised its right foot and took a step out.

The shockwave knocked dozens of Prodigies in front of it to the ground, their bones and sinews shattered.

It extended its left hand and closed its five fingers.

Five Law chains appeared out of thin air in the Void Realm, grinding a group of Prodigies into minced meat.

It threw a punch.

Space itself was punched through, and another dozens of lives vanished.

It killed everyone it saw.

The method of attack was simple to the extreme—pure physical crushing.

A punch, a palm, a foot.

No Divine Abilities, only the most primitive violence.

Yet even so, not a single person could block one of its strikes.

This was the Physical Body of a Heavenly Emperor.

Even if only a remnant shell remained, and even if it could only exert ten percent of its combat power, it was still a Heavenly Emperor.

In the blink of an eye, over a thousand people died.

...

Ye Yun retreated rapidly amidst the chaos, hiding himself behind a collapsed stone pillar.

His Heavenly Eye and Heart Heavy Pupils both operated at full capacity simultaneously.

After three breaths, he saw through the situation.

Although the movements of the remains were terrifying, they were not fluid.

This set of remains was not acting on its own but was being remotely controlled by an external force.

Ye Yun was all too familiar with that force.

Eeriness.

He tried to trace the source of the power, but the opponent was hidden too deeply, and under the interference of the Restriction, it was intermittent, making it impossible to lock onto the location.

He could only confirm one thing—the controller was inside the tomb, or extremely close by.

Ye Yun's gaze swept over the scattering Prodigies, and his heart sank to the bottom.

The top Prodigies from the five great celestial domains of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces were almost all gathered here.

Wiped out in one go.

Once everyone here died in the treasure hall, the entire younger generation of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces would suffer a talent gap spanning several eras.

This was the severing of an era.

...

Another palm swept across.

The withered hand of the remains, carrying eerie green flames, struck toward the eastern side of the treasure hall.

There, exactly where the Heavenly Martial Saintess was located.

The Saintess's face was pale.

She had been eroded by Xiao Qianjue's Saber Intent for an entire day; her Divine Soul was teetering, and her strength had dropped to its lowest point.

She saw that palm falling down.

She knew she couldn't dodge it.

A hand grabbed her wrist and gave a powerful yank, flinging her entire person away.

The giant palm of the remains struck the spot where she had just been standing; the ground exploded, and gravel flew everywhere.

Ye Yun withstood that aftershock in his Star Suppressing form, his platinum divine radiance flickering violently, and golden blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

But he stood his ground.

"Find a corner to hide in, don't run around."

The Saintess bit her lip and nodded forcefully.

...

The slaughter continued.

The death toll surpassed ten thousand.

Finally, the leading figures of the various major forces stepped forward.

The East Sovereign's left eye erupted with silver-gray Holy Light, and he held an extreme dao saint weapon in his hand, activating it to its full potential.

Wuji Sword Son drew that pitch-black imitation Emperor Weapon, and sword light surged explosively.

The leading figures of the Southern Heavenly Court, Western Heavenly Court, and Northern Heavenly Court also took out their trump card treasures one after another.

extreme dao saint weapons, imitation Emperor Weapons, Quasi-Emperor Decrees.

Over a hundred treasures were activated simultaneously, constructing a temporary defensive line in front of the remains.

Boom, boom, boom.

Amidst the continuous booming sounds, the energy released by those treasures finally managed to barely block the offensive of the remains.

Its footsteps stopped for a moment.

The Prodigies gained a brief moment to breathe.

But everyone knew they couldn't hold out for long.

The energy of those treasures was being consumed rapidly, and the remains had only paused for a moment before raising its foot again.

"The Restriction! Break the Restriction!"

A female leading figure from the Western Heavenly Court shouted.

"Don't fight it head-on! Concentrate our power to break the treasure hall's Restriction; only by escaping is there a way to live!"

The leading figure of the Northern Heavenly Court, Ao Kun, stepped forward.

He was one of the people with the highest cultivation present, at the Peak of the Venerable Realm.

In his hand, he held an extreme dao saint weapon halberd that emitted a dense saintly aura.

"This is an extreme dao saint weapon personally refined by a Great Emperor Giant of my Northern Heavenly Court; it is enough to tear through an Emperor-level Restriction."

He walked to the hall doors and raised the halberd high.

Imperial Might erupted.

Boom.

The halberd struck the hall doors with full force.

The hall doors trembled violently, and a spiderweb-like patch of cracks spread across the Restriction.

But they were only cracks.

In the next breath, they repaired themselves automatically, and the hall doors remained unmoved.

His face turned pale.

"Impossible..."

Behind him, a massive shadow loomed over him.

The energy fluctuations activated by the saint weapon were too great, attracting the attention of the remains.

He looked back.

A withered giant palm had already struck down.

Boom.

The Northern Heavenly Court's leading figure, along with thirteen Prodigies beside him, were blown apart, dying on the spot.

That extreme dao saint weapon was sent flying, smashing into the hall wall with a mournful cry, shattering into three pieces.

The last shred of order within the treasure hall completely collapsed at this moment.

Some Prodigies suffered mental breakdowns, sitting paralyzed in pools of blood and weeping loudly.

"North Sea Heavenly Emperor! You eternal sinner!"

"In life, you caused the deaths of a hundred emperors, and in death, you still want to sever the era of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces!"

"Is this the Legacy you left behind? Your Legacy is to kill all of us?"

Desperate curses rose one after another.

The remains had no reaction.

It simply repeated its murderous actions.

Then.

In a corner seen by no one, in an instant noticed by none.

The eye sockets of the remains flickered for a moment.

A drop of golden liquid slid from the edge of its hollow eye socket, down its withered cheek, and fell onto the blood-stained ground.

Silent and soundless.

This scene was extremely brief, lasting less than a tenth of a breath.

But Ye Yun's Heart Heavy Pupils captured it.

That was not a reaction of the eerie power.

It was pure.

Desolate.

Sorrowful.

The North Sea Heavenly Emperor's remnant thought had not completely vanished.

It was crying.

...

Ye Yun stood behind some ruins, his fists clenched tight.

It couldn't go on like this.

The remains were being manipulated, but the North Sea Heavenly Emperor's remnant thought had not thoroughly perished.

That teardrop was proof.

If he could awaken that sliver of remnant thought, allowing the North Sea Heavenly Emperor's residual will to engage in internal combat with the eerie power, there would be a chance.

How to awaken it?

Ye Yun thought of the Heavenly Eye's pupil technique—Wanxiang.

Wanxiang could see through the Origin of all Laws and deduce the evolution of all Laws.

This was the supreme pupil technique left behind by the Ye Family's Ancestor Heavenly Emperor, and it was also the Legacy unsealed after the Remnant Eye of the Heavenly Emperor was activated.

He wanted to use Wanxiang to simulate and cast an illusion-type Divine Ability, acting directly on the remains' residual consciousness to project a sequence of images to it.

What to project?

Ye Yun heard those curses.

"In life, you caused the deaths of a hundred emperors, and in death, you still want to sever the era of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces!"

The death of the hundred emperors.

That was the North Sea Heavenly Emperor's greatest pain in life, his deepest regret, and his most unshakeable obsession.

If he used Wanxiang to show it the scene of this moment—the junior Prodigies being slaughtered by its body, a reenactment of the tragedy of the fallen hundred emperors from back then.

Perhaps it could touch the pain in its deepest depths, stimulate its remnant thought, and let it fight the eerie power from within.

Ye Yun no longer hesitated.

His figure charged out from behind cover, treading on the Void Realm, heading straight for the remains.

"Ye Yun! You're crazy!"

The East Sovereign's voice came from afar.

The remains sensed his approach and threw a punch.

"Sacred Flame!"

Ye Yun switched forms, red-gold divine flames enveloping his entire body as he took the aftershock of this punch head-on.

Blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

He didn't stop.

The remains' second punch fell.

"Buzhou!"

He switched forms again, activating his earth-attribute sacred bone; mountain-pattern Dao traces appeared on his body's surface, and his physical defense surged several times over.

He withstood the second punch head-on.

The sound of his sternum cracking exploded inside him, and golden blood gushed from his mouth, nostrils, and ears simultaneously.

He didn't stop.

Finally, he rushed in front of the remains.

Close enough to see every crack on that withered face.

Close enough to feel that sliver of golden warmth, so weak it almost didn't exist, behind the eerie green flames.

Heavenly Eye, open.

"Wanxiang."

An invisible light of Divine Thought shot out from Ye Yun's Heavenly Eye, plunging straight into the center of the remains' brow.

However, nothing happened.

The movements of the remains didn't slow down in the slightest.

The eerie green flames still flickered, and the control of the eerie power remained solid.

Wanxiang had no effect whatsoever on the Heavenly Emperor-level remains.

The gap in level was too great.

A pupil technique of the Venerable Realm attempting to interfere with a Heavenly Emperor-level consciousness was no different from an ant trying to shake a giant tree.

The remains' fist was raised again, aimed at Ye Yun, who was right in front of it.

This time, it wasn't an aftershock.

It was a direct strike.

Ye Yun's pupils contracted.

He knew he couldn't block it.

"It seems I can only use Immortality and Indestructibility."

Buzz.

A weak ripple came from deep within the brow of the remains.

Ye Yun was stunned.

His Wanxiang Divine Thought light had not been rejected.

It had been accepted.

It wasn't that Ye Yun's power had broken through the Heavenly Emperor-level barrier.

Rather, it was that sliver of residual golden consciousness inside the remains that had actively opened a gap.

The remains' already raised fist paused in mid-air for an instant.

The eerie green flames flickered violently, as if something was struggling intensely inside.

That wasn't Ye Yun's doing.

It was the North Sea Heavenly Emperor himself.

He heard it.

He felt it.

Amidst the curses of countless juniors, amidst the blood and corpses covering the ground, the remnant thought of the Heavenly Emperor called an eternal sinner made a choice with its last strength.

It chose to accept.