24: Chapter 24 Despair! Ten Supreme Beings Emerge!

In a distant Star Domain.

Immortal Emperor watched as Chu Tianjiao, who had restored his youth, along with Emperor Yuhua and Xiao Shitou, broke into the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginning, and his face could not help but show confusion.

"Emperor Jiaoheng, are you truly about to Dao-ize?" Chu Tianjiao's behavior left him somewhat bewildered.

After thinking for a while, Immortal Emperor shook his head.

"No matter what, let me see next if you are truly going to Dao-ize. If that is really the case..."

A cold light flashed in his eyes.

"...then let me borrow your Imperial Blood."

Immortal Emperor revealed a cold sneer.

Afterward, he left directly and set off toward the Big Dipper Astral Region.

...

Inside the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginning, the strongest battle in history had erupted.

Facing three Supremes, Chu Tianjiao did not fall behind; every strike tore the Void Realm, and the Chaos Qi surged like a tsunami, neutralizing the combined attacks of the three Supremes one by one.

His armor was stained with blood, yet he fought with increasing valor, his eyes burning with monstrous Battle Intent.

"Emperor Jiaoheng! Before you die, do you still wish to dance!" one Supreme roared, the Ancient Imperial Weapon in his hand blooming with immeasurable light as a destructive beam shot straight toward the center of Chu Tianjiao's brows.

"Hmph! A bunch of rats in the gutter, even if I die, I will drag a few down with me!" Chu Tianjiao blocked with his blade horizontally, his fist colliding with the Ancient Imperial Weapon and erupting with a deafening roar.

He used the force to retreat three steps, then threw another punch with his backhand, forcing that Supreme to retract his move and defend.

On the other side, Xiao Shitou held off two Supremes.

Golden blood Qi like a Dragon surrounded him, his Sacred Body manifestation fully unfurled, waves crashed against the sky in his golden Sea of Bitterness, and the phantom image of the Immortal King Descending to the Nine Heavens flickered in and out of existence.

The two Supremes attacked like a tide; one unleashed the Dark Law, swallowing the light of the starry sky, while the other commanded lightning, with billions of thunderbolts pouring down like a waterfall.

Although Xiao Shitou did not fall behind, in order not to expose his full strength, he could only barely cope, and several wounds had already appeared on his body, his Sacred Blood spilling into the starry sky.

Emperor Yuhua fought three Supremes alone, his expression incomparably grave.

He had only recently achieved Dao, and although he possessed the Imperial Fruit Position, facing these old monsters who had once suppressed an era, he truly understood what a gap in foundation meant.

The three Supremes cooperated tacitly; one attacked, one constrained, and one waited for an opportunity to ambush, leaving Emperor Yuhua struggling to cope.

"The terror of these Supremes exceeded his imagination."

Emperor Yuhua was shocked in his heart. He had anticipated a large number of Supremes, but thought there would only be five or six.

But after entering the depths of the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginning, he discovered he was wrong, and egregiously so—

"There are a full seventeen Supremes inside this Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginning!"

Seventeen!!!

What shocked him even more was that the strength of these Supremes was far greater than he had anticipated.

Facing the siege of three Supremes, he had actually fallen behind! Every clash shook his blood and Qi, and the Flying Immortal light on the yuhua divine map dimmed by a few shades.

He was an Emperor! A flawless Emperor! An invincible Emperor of the current age!

A sense of shame and crisis welled up in his heart simultaneously.

The Imperial War was terrifying!

The entire Big Dipper Astral Region was trembling, and the Holy Lands and living beings on the Emperor Burial Star were shivering.

Countless people knelt on the ground, praying toward the sky. The Eastern Wasteland, Southern Ridge, Western Desert, Northern Plains, Central Plains... all living beings in the five great regions felt those world-destroying fluctuations.

"Emperor Jiaoheng!"

"Emperor Yuhua!"

"Please... you must win..."

Old men wept holding their grandchildren, Cultivators burned incense and prayed before mountain gates, and Yao Beasts prostrated on the ground emitting mournful cries. Everyone knew that if this battle was lost, the darkest turmoil in history would arrive.

The battle was exceptionally intense, and blood was soon shed.

Chu Tianjiao unleashed the Tyrant Blade Heart Scripture, condensing a blade with the Great Dao Law, and with one strike severed the arm of a Supreme; Imperial Blood spilled, each drop crushing mountains.

That Supreme screamed and retreated, Imperial Dao Law surging at the wound, attempting to repair it, but it was suppressed to death by the Chaos Qi.

"The venue here is too small; you surely don't want us to have a decisive battle inside the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginning, right? How about a battle outside the stars!" Chu Tianjiao suddenly spoke, his voice spreading throughout the ancient mine.

The Chaos Qi around him retracted, his blade pointed diagonally at the ground, but that world-dominating Aura was even stronger.

All the Supremes were silent for a moment.

"Good."

They did not refuse.

Fighting inside the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginning, while able to utilize the forbidden area formations, could also destroy their slumbering lairs.

A battle outside the stars would allow them to let loose more freely.

Chu Tianjiao took a step out, his figure dissipating like foam, and he appeared in the endless starry sky. Xiao Shitou followed closely behind, golden blood Qi cutting through the sky. Emperor Yuhua gritted his teeth and followed.

The next moment—

The Holy Lands and countless living beings on the Emperor Burial Star saw a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives.

From the Ancient Mine of Primordial Beginning, ten Supremes walked out!

Ten terrifying Auras soared into the sky, each one causing the myriad Daos to wail and the stars to lose their color.

Some were shrouded in black mist, some wore armor, and some transformed into giant beast forms, but without exception, they all exuded a pressure that caused despair.

"Ten... ten Supremes! Is this the start of the Dark Turmoil?"

A Holy Land Elder slumped to the ground, tears streaming down his old face.

"Emperor Jiaoheng! Emperor Yuhua! You must return triumphantly!"

Countless living beings were weeping. Ten Supremes emerging simultaneously; this was an unprecedented dark scene.

If Emperor Jiaoheng and Emperor Yuhua could not stop them, the myriad races would face a catastrophe.

In the Southern Region of the Eastern Wasteland, the other few among the seven forbidden life areas—Undying Mountain, God Ruins, Reincarnation Sea, Immortal Mausoleum, Shangcang, Burial Heaven Island—also had Supreme Divine Thoughts probing out, watching this battle that would decide the pattern of the next tens of thousands of years.

"Chu Tianjiao... is he finally reaching his end?"

"Ten Supremes besieging him, plus that traitor Yuhua watching like a tiger preying on its prey... he will die today."

"What a pity, a Chaos Body..."

The Supremes' Divine Thoughts intertwined in the Void Realm; there was regret, there was rejoicing, and there was also deep wariness.

Outside the stars, a desolate Star Domain.

Chu Tianjiao, Xiao Shitou, and Emperor Yuhua stood in confrontation with the ten Supremes.

Stars beneath their feet were as small as gravel, and the Void Realm, unable to withstand so many Imperial-level Auras, was constantly cracking and reforming.

"You must really want me dead, right?" Chu Tianjiao suddenly smiled, that smile carrying a trace of exhaustion, but more of a calmness that saw through life and death, "But it is a pity, I am living very well. Although I had a small problem with my cultivation in this life..."

He paused, his voice suddenly raised:

"But I will drag a few down with me at the end, and then—"

"I will live out my fourth life!"

Once these words were spoken, the starry sky fell silent.

Emperor Yuhua's pupils constricted sharply, his heart almost stopping.

Live out a fourth life!

These five words exploded in his mind like thunder. If Chu Tianjiao were allowed to live out a fourth life, then what did that make him, an Emperor? Was he to be suppressed by Chu Tianjiao for a lifetime?

No... absolutely not!

Emperor Yuhua struggled violently internally. Dark thoughts sprouted like poisonous snakes: If... if he were to fall completely...

"No, no! Emperor Jiaoheng has protected the myriad races for nearly fifty thousand years, his Karma is immeasurable; how could I do such a thing!"

"But if I don't do this, wouldn't my status as an Emperor be in name only? Do you want to be suppressed by Emperor Jiaoheng for a lifetime?"

Two voices argued in his mind.

In the end, the dark side overcame reason.

After becoming an Emperor, the pride in Yuhua's heart swelled to the extreme.

He considered himself the only Dominator of this era and would never allow anyone to be above him.

Especially an old monster like Chu Tianjiao who had lived for tens of thousands of years; if he lived out a fourth life, he would never have a day to rise.

"By then, the world will only remember Emperor Jiaoheng! Not me, Emperor Yuhua!"

This thought took root like a curse.

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Emperor Yuhua's eyes, but he quickly concealed it, still maintaining a grave posture of facing the enemy.