Chapter 42 His Majesty Actually Takes Action Personally

Meanwhile, inside the heaven-reaching tower.

This place was like an independent Small World, complete with mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and stars.

In front of the ancient palace suspended above the sea of clouds, Wang Aotian and his group stared at the tightly closed palace doors, their expressions extremely ugly.

"Damn it!"

Wang Aotian punched the nearby cliff wall, his eyes bloodshot as he stared at the palace, his voice filled with rage.

"Still a step too late, beaten by that bitch Lin Qingyue!"

The core Opportunity of this heaven-reaching tower was rumored to contain insights into the Dao left behind by ancient experts. For this trip to the heaven-reaching tower, the Wang family had expended countless efforts, even going as far as using secret techniques to deduce the approximate location of this palace.

Yet who would have thought that despite their haste, they were still one step too late.

Above the palace doors, the mark of the Piaomiao Palace shimmered with a cold radiance, indicating that someone had already arrived first.

"Big Brother, calm down."

A Cultivator nearby hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him, "Although Lin Qingyue went in first, the core Legacy is not so easy to obtain. Perhaps she is currently trapped by the Restrictions inside. When she comes out, we can then..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a sudden change occurred!

Rumble—! The entire Small World, along with the ground, began to tremble violently!

In the sky, the sun, moon, and stars were tottering, and the sea of clouds churned as if the apocalypse had arrived.

"What is happening?!"

"Is it an earthquake? No! The entire heaven-reaching tower is shaking!"

All the Prodigies present were horrified, stumbling about and unable to stand steady.

Wang Aotian suddenly looked up, horrified as he felt the terrifying tremor originating from the core of the entire world, and an extremely absurd thought instantly rose from the bottom of his heart.

"Not good!"

"This aura... is someone actually refining the heaven-reaching tower?!"

Once these words were spoken, the surrounding crowd fell into a stupor.

Refining the heaven-reaching tower? What a joke!

This was a divine object rumored to have been left behind by an expert from the Upper Realm, an ancient supreme treasure. Let alone juniors like them, even a Quasi-True Immortal at the Peak of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage could not hope to shake it in the slightest!

Who was it? Who on earth possessed such heaven-defying means!?

...

Meanwhile, in another strange space within the tower.

There was no heaven or earth here, no sun or moon, only endless churning currents of Chaos.

Lin Qingyue stopped her steps within the Chaos.

She had just entered the palace and had not yet had time to explore the Opportunity within before she was teleported to this place by an irresistible force.

Just then, the deep blue longsword at her waist, a half-step Immortal Artifact, began to tremble violently, emitting bursts of clear sword chimes.

Lin Qingyue frowned slightly, looking up at the sky of this space.

Sensing the Chaos, she whispered softly, "This aura..."

...

Meanwhile, at the Peak of Qingyun.

The Divine Envoy smiled.

He looked down condescendingly at the young man in white who was refining the divine tower before him.

His golden eyes were filled with mockery, as if looking at a clown.

"Do you think Her Majesty's divine object is something you can easily covet?"

As his voice fell, he no longer held anything back.

The Divine Envoy slowly spread his hands.

Boom—!!!

The aura of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor erupted recklessly!

Wind and clouds swirled!

The Laws of heaven and earth in the entire Eastern State were instantly torn apart in the face of this power!

The golden wheel behind the Divine Envoy, representing the might of a Quasi-Emperor, began to spin crazily, and every wisp of golden light it emitted contained terrifying power sufficient to level mountains and rivers!

All the Cultivators present were completely terrified.

They knelt on the ground, their bodies beneath this Divine Might, blood staining the entire square and gathering into streams.

Yet they could not feel pain, only feeling that their minds had been swallowed by endless fear, and could only bleed while whispering with hoarse throats.

"A god has descended... A god has descended..."

Experts of the Tribulation Transcendence Stage like the Five Saints of Zhongzhou and the Old Ancestor Qingxuan were now pale as paper, their summoned Lifebound Treasures wailing incessantly under the Emperor's might, covered in cracks.

Is this the true strength of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor?

A mere full eruption of aura was enough to overturn the entire Lower Realm!

At the very moment when all things were about to return to oblivion.

Gu Heng suddenly opened his eyes, a strange light flashing within them.

Facing the world-destroying might of the Quasi-Emperor, he still wore a calm and indifferent smile on his face.

He slowly spread his hand.

Palm facing upward.

Suddenly.

Time in this world seemed to freeze for an instant.

Immediately after.

Under the gaze of hundreds of thousands of stunned eyes, the heaven-reaching giant tower that pierced through heaven and earth suddenly erupted with billions of feet of chaotic divine light!

The divine light flashed and vanished.

The unimaginably massive tower began to shrink rapidly.

A billion-fold!

In just an instant, it had shrunk a billion times!

A small glazed tower, like a piece of art, appeared in Gu Heng's palm.

Countless profound runes surged in layers on the tower body like a galaxy, surrounding this small tower and slowly rotating.

The Divine Envoy's world-destroying Quasi-Emperor aura instantly broke free from the time freeze and swept towards Gu Heng.

However, this power, which was enough to level the entire Eastern State, was silently annihilated by a negligible wisp of chaotic aura emitted by the small glazed tower the moment it brushed past Gu Heng.

In the end, it merely lifted a corner of his snow-white robe.

"Boom crack—"

The sky was suddenly torn apart.

A brilliant golden light, countless times stronger than any before, spilled down from the Nine Heavens, enveloping Gu Heng completely.

The golden light was so sacred that it reflected him like a god, making one dare not look directly at him.

Gu Heng bathed in the golden light and chuckled again.

He looked at the furious Divine Envoy in the sky, his tone relaxed and comfortable.

"Divine Envoy, right? If fate wills it, we will meet again."

As his voice fell.

His figure, along with the small glazed tower, disappeared into thin air, wrapped in that endless golden light, without a trace.

As if he had never appeared.

The entire world fell into dead silence.

In the sky,

The Divine Envoy remained in the posture of spreading his hands, frozen in place, a look of bewilderment flowing in his golden eyes.

The heaven-reaching tower... was refined?

Right under his nose?

In front of him, a Quasi-Immortal Emperor?

The Divine Envoy's brain completely shut down.

The Divine Envoy hovered dully in the sky, his golden pupils reflecting the empty Void Realm, his mind a blank slate.

An unprecedented humiliation!

He, a dignified Quasi-Immortal Emperor, had descended to the Lower Realm under the decree of Her Majesty the Empress, thinking it would be an easy task to capture his target and intimidate the ants.

But what was the result?

Her Majesty the Empress's divine object was lightly refined by an ant from the Lower Realm right in front of him, and then packed away!

If this were to reach the Immortal Domain, what face would he have to stand in the Law Enforcement Hall? He would surely become the eternal laughingstock of the entire Immortal Domain, and even the Divine Domain!

"Ahhh—!"

Endless humiliation overwhelmed his reason.

The Divine Envoy roared at the sky, and the terrifying Quasi-Emperor might gushed out, shattering the sky for hundreds of thousands of miles into pieces!

He could not accept this fact!

Who on earth was that person?

How could the Lower Realm give birth to such a terrifying existence?!

...

Meanwhile, in the Divine Domain.

Above the Ninety-Nine Heavens, in a vast and boundless palace, a galaxy flowed across the dome.

Hundreds of gods from the heavens, with auras like abysses, knelt on the ground with extreme respect, not daring to even raise their heads.

Their gazes were cast with awe towards the deepest part of the great hall.

There, the curtains hung low.

Behind the curtains, a figure in deep red sat upright.

One could not see the face, nor the figure, only that splash of red, intense to the extreme, like an Other Shore Flower blooming in the void.

Suddenly.

The figure seemed to perceive something.

A jade finger landed lightly on the desk.

The fingertip traced leisurely along the desk.

Wherever it passed, the Void Realm twisted, and the Laws of Time spread outwards like ripples.

The next instant.

"Dong—"

The entire Divine Domain trembled instantly.

In an instant!

A vast long river poured down from the Ninety-Nine Heavens!

The long river ignored the boundaries of space, and in just an instant, it covered the sky of the Three Thousand Great Worlds!

The river water surged, washing away the ages. In every spray of foam, the rise and fall of an era, the birth and destruction of a civilization were reflected.

This was... the River of Time!

...

Three Thousand Worlds.

Countless living beings looked up, staring at the long river that spanned across the ages in the sky, an indescribable awe surging from the depths of their Souls.

Mortals knelt and kowtowed, thinking a god had descended.

Cultivators were horrified, desperately trying to deduce the heavenly secrets, but only saw a patch of Chaos.

Old monsters who had been in seclusion for tens of thousands of years woke up from their cultivation, looked at the sky, and their pupils contracted violently—

"This is... which supreme existence is manipulating time?"

...

Eastern State, Qingyun Sect.

The Divine Envoy, who was roaring frantically, suddenly paused.

He looked up in horror, only to see the originally shattered sky suddenly covered by a vast long river whose beginning was unknown.

The scrolls of history flowed endlessly in the sky.

He saw the Desolate Ancient Era, where ten thousand races fought for supremacy and blood stained the blue sky; he saw the Ancient Era, where saints arose and established traditions; he saw the rise of the Human Race, overcoming thorns and thistles, eventually reigning over the world...

Scenes of history that only existed in ancient texts were now flowing past his eyes, incredibly real.

The Divine Envoy was completely stunned by the scene before him; he stared blankly at the long river, his whole body icy cold, and even his Divine Soul was trembling.

This is... Her Majesty's supreme power!

He knelt down abruptly in the Void Realm; he could feel that in the most distant and ancient upstream of the River of Time, there seemed to be a gaze, crossing through the ages of time, slowly descending!

The Divine Envoy's thinking shut down at this moment.

"Yo... Your Majesty..."

"Actually... acted personally?"