In the ten thousand years before the Great Calamity descended, under Ye Chen's leadership, the entire Origin Land entered an unprecedented era of cultivation.
All the ancient ruins and heritage sites within the Origin Land emerged one after another.
That was Ye Chen and the various Heavenly Venerates working together, aiming to create as many powerful experts as possible in the shortest time to resist the Great Calamity.
Although it was difficult for Great Venerables and Heavenly Venerates to be born, as long as there were enough cultivators, quantity could still transform into quality, adding a sliver of hope to the resistance against the Calamity.
Especially under Ye Chen's lead, the various Heavenly Venerates worked together to accelerate the flow of time within the Origin Land.
Although this consumed immense power, especially when covering such a boundless realm as the Origin Land, they still managed to accelerate time by ten thousandfold.
That is to say, ten thousand years could be stretched to a hundred million years.
Cultivation time increased by ten thousand times.
The Origin Land was plunged into an unprecedented cultivation era.
The number of powerful experts erupted like never before.
In the real flow of time, ten thousand years later...
BOOM—
On this day, a terrifying roar that shook past, present, and future suddenly resounded throughout the entire Origin Land, even reaching the endless Void.
Countless beings in the Origin Land and the innumerable super fragments floating in the endless Void looked up. They saw that beyond the unreachable Thirty-Three Heavens, an unprecedented radiance suddenly bloomed, as if the entire firmament was burning.
Accompanied by the boundless, terrifying roar, the world witnessed everything beyond the heavens falling into endless destruction.
Infinite radiance thoroughly illuminated the entire Origin Land.
The Great Calamity had descended, destroying everything!
"The Great Calamity is here!"
The various Heavenly Venerates of the Origin Land looked up, their expressions extremely grave.
After being worn down for over ten thousand years, the Heavenly Seals finally could hold no longer and completely collapsed.
Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, one towering, terrifying figure after another appeared, standing at the highest point, looking down upon the Origin Land below.
Three figures were especially fearsome, their auras even more terrifying than the Calamity Heavenly Venerates. They were the three Tribulation Venerable Kings!
"Everyone, let's go!"
Within the Chaos Heaven Mansion, Ye Chen stood up tall. As the current King of Heavenly Venerates, he was the first to charge into the sky.
The majestic aura of the King of Heavenly Venerates erupted.
At the same time, the Heavenly Emperor, the Desolate Heavenly Venerate, the Endless Heavenly Venerate, the Violet Extreme Heavenly Venerate, the Myriad Profound Heavenly Venerate, the Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate, the Asura Heavenly Venerate, the Ancient Nether Heavenly Venerate, the Undying Heavenly Venerate, along with the resurrected and returned Heavenly Ancestral Dragon, the Extreme Demon Heavenly Venerate, the Heaven-Mending Heavenly Venerate, the Samsara Heavenly Venerate, and other Supreme Heavenly Venerates all soared into the sky.
Including the Heavenly Venerates who had returned to their heavenly positions over these three epochs, there were a total of seventeen—half the number from the most glorious era!
The various Heavenly Venerates followed Ye Chen, charging to kill beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.
The three Tribulation Venerable Kings looked at Ye Chen, the current King of Heavenly Venerates, and said coldly, "Chaos King, what a pity. Even though you've become a King of Heavenly Venerates, you are destined to be the shortest-lived King of Heavenly Venerables in all history, falling after just over ten thousand years."
The great battle erupted directly.
The three Tribulation Venerable Kings wasted no words, directly charging to kill Ye Chen. In their hands appeared Primordial Ancient Weapons, all forged by them in past eras as weapons for Kings of Heavenly Venerables, radiating the most terrifying Heaven-Slaying power as they surrounded and attacked Ye Chen.
Facing the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, the current King of Heavenly Venerates, even the three Tribulation Venerable Kings admitted they could not defeat him one-on-one. After all, this was not their cycle of reincarnation, and they had witnessed the combat power of the Primordial Heavenly Venerate and the Pangu God during the Era of Heavens, when two Tribulation Venerable Kings had fallen.
Therefore, they decided to surround and kill Ye Chen.
Of course, only two Tribulation Venerable Kings charged at Ye Chen, while the third attacked the other Supreme Heavenly Venerates.
Only by doing so could they weaken one side while strengthening the other, killing all the current-era experts. Then, with all the Calamity Heavenly Venerates attacking together, even if Ye Chen was the current King of Heavenly Venerates, he would undoubtedly die.
Ye Chen dared not be careless. He let out a long roar, instantly adjusting his condition to its peak. Infinite Chaos light radiated, and his flesh body circulated the power of thirty-nine Eternal Heavenly Daos, appearing extraordinarily divine. He stepped upon the Chaos Great Cauldron, with the Cosmic Heaven Pagoda and the Seal Gate manifesting on either side, charging forward alone.
Moreover, he manipulated the Chaos Great Cauldron to smash toward the third Tribulation Venerable King who was trying to leave the battlefield.
The three Tribulation Venerable Kings were the most powerful. Currently, only he could face them. Otherwise, they could completely threaten the lives of the other Supreme Heavenly Venerates.
"You think you alone can deal with the three of us?" One of the Tribulation Venerable Kings was shrouded in darkness, like a Lord of Darkness, with horns on his head. He was the Senluo Venerable King.
The Senluo Venerable King was like a demon god, with ten thick, dark horns encircling his head like an imperial crown. Wings grew from his back, blotting out the sky and sun, terrifying and boundless. With a mere movement, he could stir up endless destructive tempests capable of easily tearing apart Taishangs.
He wielded a giant axe engraved with dark red patterns. His bloodthirsty crimson eyes looked at Ye Chen as he swung this Primordial Ancient Weapon to cleave at him.
With this axe strike, even a Supreme Heavenly Venerate would be split in two.
The Senluo Venerable King was a Tribulation Venerable King of unparalleled slaughter.
How could Ye Chen dare be careless? He swung his Chaos Heaven Fist to collide with it, creating metallic clangs that annihilated boundless territories.
Seeing this, the three Tribulation Venerable Kings were shocked and doubtful. That was a Primordial Ancient Weapon, wielded by a Tribulation Venerable King. Even if he was the current King of Heavenly Venerates, he shouldn't be this terrifying.
In the past, even the Primordial Heavenly Venerate and the Pangu God had been wounded.
"Be careful. This Chaos King's path of fleshly body attaining the Eternal Dao seems unusual," said the second Tribulation Venerable King, the Cangtian Venerable King. He had a human form, brimming with violet light.
Indeed, he possessed the Cangtian Tyrant Body and was the primordial ancestor of the Cangtian Tyrant Body clan. Even separated by cycles of reincarnation, his Cangtian Tyrant Body bloodline still manifested in this cycle. The Cangtian Overlord, a Taishang King, was a descendant of his bloodline.
Of course, the Cangtian Venerable King was too mysterious. Even the Calamity organization in the Origin Land did not know his identity, so they wouldn't know even if they killed him.
The Cangtian Venerable King's body was wreathed in violet light. He held a divine hammer—the Cangtian Hammer.
Now, the Cangtian Hammer smashed toward Ye Chen, destroying everything, capable of blasting apart a Supreme Heavenly Venerate.
"Although the third King of Heavenly Venerates in this cycle seems somewhat special, facing three alone, he is destined to die without a doubt."
The third Tribulation Venerable King was named the Light-Dark Venerable King, a fearsome Tribulation Venerable King who had initiated a chaotic cycle of reincarnation. He was a master of both the Light and Dark Daos, possessing ten pairs of heavenly wings—the ten wings on the left were dark, the ten on the right were light.
He wielded a dark war sword and a light shield.
Indeed, the Light-Dark Venerable King's Primordial Ancient Weapon was a matched sword and shield set.
The Senluo Venerable King, the Cangtian Venerable King, and the Light-Dark Venerable King—the three Tribulation Venerable Kings—all charged to kill Ye Chen.
BOOM—
From the very first exchange, heaven collapsed and earth split. The Thirty-Three Heavens directly crumbled.
This was a life-and-death battle between Kings of Heavenly Venerates, far surpassing that of ordinary Heavenly Venerates.
Soon, Ye Chen was wounded. No matter how powerful he was, facing three Tribulation Venerable Kings alone, he could not remain unscathed.
Because even though the Tribulation Venerable Kings were not from this cycle, they were still Kings of Heavenly Venerates and not much weaker.
In such an intense battle, he could face mortal danger at any moment.
Squelch—
Suddenly, blood light bloomed from the Light-Dark Venerable King's body. He looked at Ye Chen in shock. "Impossible! You've only been a King of Heavenly Venerates for a little over ten thousand years. You might not even have stabilized your Dao Fruit yet. How can you possess such combat power?"
This Tribulation Venerable King couldn't help but be astonished. Ten thousand years was too short. Although Ye Chen had become a King of Heavenly Venerates, his dual Heavenly Venerate Dao Fruits needed time to harmonize, and his own condition required endless ages to gradually adjust to its peak. It was impossible to achieve in a mere ten thousand years.
Even with ten-thousandfold time acceleration, reaching a hundred million years would be difficult.
Ye Chen's palm was stained with blood, containing ultimate mighty power. He had utilized the Pangu God's Ultimate of Power Eternal Heavenly Dao. "I must thank the three Calamity Heavenly Venerates from your side back then!"
Back then, it was three Primordial Saint Emperors and three Calamity Heavenly Venerates who surrounded and attacked Ye Chen. In the end, only two Primordial Saint Emperors survived; the others, including one Primordial Saint Emperor, had fallen.
Naturally, the three Calamity Heavenly Venerates met the same fate, becoming nourishment for Ye Chen. Over these hundred million years, he completely refined them, allowing him to adjust his own condition to its peak.
Now, he was no less than the two Kings of Heavenly Venerates from the past—the Primordial Heavenly Venerate and the Pangu God!
Moreover, Ye Chen's path of fleshly body attaining the Eternal Dao was even more special.
"So that's how it is. But even so, you are alone and cannot attend to everything!"
The three Tribulation Venerable Kings quickly turned cold again. In this world, few things could make existences like them show shock or change expression. Even Ye Chen refining three Calamity Heavenly Venerates was no exception.
An even more intense confrontation erupted immediately!
"Our battlefield is not here. Let's fight in the endless Void!"
Ye Chen spoke, using his world-shaking cultivation to forcibly drag the three Tribulation Venerable Kings away from the Origin Land into the endless Void.
Otherwise, with four Kings of Heavenly Venerates battling fiercely, even Heavenly Venerate-level figures could easily be wounded.
On the other Heavenly Venerate battlefield, there were a total of thirty-six Calamity Heavenly Venerates.
This number was far more terrifying than imagined, as it was the accumulation from past cycles of reincarnation, beyond imagination.
Back then, they were only able to seal the Great Calamity by relying on the advantage of being in this cycle of reincarnation.
But now, that advantage was gone.
The thirty-six Calamity Heavenly Venerates wielded two Primordial Ancient Weapons, attacking the various Heavenly Venerates.
Indeed, the Calamity Heavenly Venerate side possessed five Primordial Ancient Weapons because there had been five Tribulation Venerable Kings in the past.
But the sixteen Supreme Heavenly Venerates of the Origin Land also had two Primordial Ancient Weapons: the Chaos Heaven Seal and the Heaven-Cleaving Axe.
With over forty Heavenly Venerates engaged in fierce battle, the Thirty-Three Heavens completely collapsed.
But the various Heavenly Venerates intentionally released their heavenly might to protect the Origin Land below.
Otherwise, with so many Heavenly Venerates fighting, the Origin Land simply could not withstand it.
Even so, it was a devastating blow to the entire Origin Land.
The Origin Land could not endure such an intense ultimate heavenly war. Even with the multiple layers of separation provided by the Thirty-Three Heavens, the fallout reaching the Origin Land still caused boundless lands to crumble...
On the Origin Land.
Innumerable Calamity Executors descended from the sky—powerful experts from past cycles of reincarnation, as well as current-era experts, such as the former Primordial Divine Clan, who had now pledged allegiance to the Calamity side, becoming Calamity Executors.
They executed the Calamity on behalf of heaven, wreaking havoc across the Origin Land.
One Calamity Executor Great Venerable after another descended from the sky, killing in all directions.
Within the Origin Land, multiple Ancient Great Venerables led by the Kunxu Great Venerable soared into the sky to engage them in combat.
The Kunxu Great Venerable roared. He had refined his Heavenly Father's Heavenly Venerate body, making him one of the strongest among Great Venerables. Especially during the recent hundred million years of cultivation, he had refined the heavenly souls of a Calamity Heavenly Venerate several times, greatly increasing his strength. Now, he tore apart three Calamity Executor Great Venerables with his bare hands.
Without a doubt, his combat power was absolutely first-rate below the Heavenly Venerate level, far surpassing even the Tianluo Great Venerable of the past.
But attacked by six Calamity Executor Great Venerables, who also wielded three Heavenly Venerate-level forbidden killing weapons, he was wounded, half of his Heavenly Venerate body exploding.
The Violet Saint Great Venerable, an Ancient Great Venerable of the Violet Extreme Heaven Clan and a child of a Heavenly Venerate, radiated violet light across three hundred billion miles as he fought Calamity Executor Great Venerables. He forcefully blasted apart one Calamity Executor Great Venerable, but his own divine heart was pierced...
One Ancient Great Venerable after another fought bathed in blood. From the past until now, the number of Ancient Great Venerables was less than thirty. Even in the recent three epochs, with some Taishang Kings attempting to break through to Heavenly Venerate but failing, becoming Great Venerables, only about ten more were added.
The Calamity Executor side had even more Great Venerables, over half more, putting the Origin Land's forces in a passive position.
Below the Great Venerate level, the various experts also fought fiercely.
Eternal Heaven Clans and Heavenly Venerate-level forces like the Chaos Heaven Mansion, the Primordial Chaos Palace, the Thirty-Three Heavenly Palaces, the Desolate Heaven Clan, the Ancient Heavenly Court, and others led countless experts of the Origin Land in the most intense life-and-death struggle against the Calamity Executors.
The goddesses Zhao Jingruo, Yi Wu, Yu Qing, Chen'er, and A Beinu—the five main consorts of the Chaos Heaven Mansion—were all Taishang Kings, leading the countless experts of the Chaos Heaven Mansion to battle the Calamity Executors.
Without a doubt, the Chaos Heaven Mansion was far more powerful after over ten thousand years, with multiple Taishang Kings appearing. This was because the Calamity Heavenly Venerates and Calamity Executor Great Venerables suppressed by Ye Chen in the past had become great nourishment. In a short ten thousand years, they allowed the Chaos Heaven Mansion to produce countless experts, including many Taishang Kings.
The greater role was played by several cultivated Taishang Supremes, used to help them impact the Heavenly Venerate realm.
For example, the War God Emperor Qianxun, with Ye Chen's help, had refined four Calamity Executor Great Venerables and long since become a Taishang Supreme. But he ultimately did not become a Supreme Heavenly Venerate before the Great Calamity.
Because the time was too short. He had not completely refined the four Calamity Executor Great Venerables; one remained unrefined, so he did not achieve the intended accumulation.
Now, he also fiercely fought a Calamity Executor Great Venerable, displaying unprecedented terrifying combat power, growing stronger with each battle. In the end, he even killed a Calamity Executor Great Venerable, but he himself suffered severe injuries.
Yet Qianxun paid no heed to his own injuries, turning to battle other Calamity Executor Great Venerables.
Ye Junlin, hailed as the second Chaos Heavenly Emperor, had a true body of a Chaos True Dragon and had reached an unprecedented level of comprehension in the Chaos Great Dao.
Originally, over the past hundred million years, he had fiercely fought his way to the top five of the Taishang Ranking, becoming the strongest Taishang King.
Those stronger than him were the four Taishang Supremes.
BOOM—
At this moment, Ye Junlin broke through during battle, becoming a Taishang Supreme. In the blink of an eye, he blasted apart six Calamity Executor Taishangs and suppressed two Calamity Executor Taishang Kings, displaying the might of a Taishang Supreme.
Under normal circumstances, this would be a cause for joy, as it held the hope of impacting the Supreme Heavenly position.
But now, under the Great Calamity, there was no hope of becoming a Supreme Heavenly Venerate.
Yaya manifested her true form as the World Ancestral Tree, resonating with the World Ancestral Tree of the Space-Time Great Emperor, pulling countless Calamity Executors into a space-time domain and burying them within.
But several Calamity Executor Great Venerables also attacked from a distance, causing them to vomit blood and nearly explode.
Hun Wuji appeared. His expression was gloomy. Although he had been crippled and failed to truly reach the Heavenly Venerate realm, he was originally a Taishang Supreme. Even though he had not fully stepped into it, he was still stronger than ordinary Great Venerables. Chaos and space-time surged as he directly dragged three Calamity Executor Great Venerables over and blasted at them.
The residual waves killed countless Calamity Executors.
But more experts of the Origin Land were killed one by one in the great battle, falling forever.
A thick layer of blood-red color filled the vast heavens and earth.
...
In the endless Void, Ye Chen was covered in blood, staggering, his body riddled with wounds.
He alone had restrained the three Tribulation Venerable Kings, dragging them out of the Origin Land to battle fiercely in the endless Void, not letting them descend upon the Heavenly Venerate battlefield. Otherwise, the blow to the current-era Heavenly Venerates would be too great.
But precisely because of this, even someone as powerful as him had been blasted apart several times.
This was only thanks to the special nature of his physique, circulating the Eternal Heavenly Dao power of three fleshly body Heavenly Venerates for reinforcement, making his body more indestructible. Otherwise, the situation would undoubtedly be more tragic.
But similarly, with Ye Chen fighting desperately, he had also managed to blast apart the three Tribulation Venerable Kings.
The three Tribulation Venerable Kings had to admit that the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, the current-era King of Heavenly Venerates, was indeed powerful, actually restraining all three of them alone.
BOOM—
Ye Chen was wounded, his shoulder smashed into a bloody pulp by the Cangtian Venerable King's Cangtian Hammer. But at the same time, Ye Chen's fist pierced through his chest, violet light illuminating the endless Void.
But the Cangtian Venerable King's expression remained unchanged because the Light-Dark Venerable King struck at that moment. A sword swept past, silent and traceless, nearly severing Ye Chen's neck, blood spraying.
The Senluo Venerable King swung his giant axe, nearly cutting Ye Chen in half at the waist.
On the Heavenly Venerate battlefield, the various Heavenly Venerates naturally also saw the battle between Kings of Heavenly Venerates in the endless Void. Their hearts tightened because it was too tragic. The Chaos King alone faced three Tribulation Venerable Kings—that was a situation almost certainly leading to death.
How could it be like this?
Yet they were powerless to help because the numerous Calamity Heavenly Venerates completely delayed them. Moreover, in the continuous great battle, Supreme Heavenly Venerates began to fall.
BOOM—
Blood light boiled. In the midst of fierce battle, Ye Chen heard a mournful phoenix cry.
He turned his head to look and saw on the Heavenly Venerate battlefield, the Undying Heavenly Venerate's manifested Undying Phoenix true body exploding, its heavenly soul shattering, its true spirit disintegrating.
That sky-high parasol tree completely withered and died.
The Undying Heavenly Venerate had fallen!
This strongest Great Venerable was the first to fall!
The Undying Heavenly Venerate was still dead.
Ye Chen's eyes turned blood-red. He desperately wanted to go back and defy fate, but he sensed a great crisis—a giant axe cleaving down, aimed directly at his brow.
He instantly shifted sideways, narrowly avoiding it.
But the Cangtian Venerable King had anticipated this, striking horizontally with the Cangtian Hammer, causing Ye Chen's figure to tremble violently, then half his body exploded.
The Light-Dark Venerable King charged with his dark war sword...
Ye Chen suffered severe, terrifying wounds, blood scattering. He was utterly powerless to attend to his old friends on the Heavenly Venerate battlefield.
The slightest carelessness, and Ye Chen himself would fall into fatal danger.
"Undying!"
The various Heavenly Venerates grieved. Even if there had been grudges in the past, they now felt sorrow.
The Heavenly Emperor swung his Emperor Sword, splitting a Calamity Heavenly Venerate in two and annihilating its heavenly soul, but he himself was severely wounded. Another Calamity Heavenly Venerate charged over, using a Heavenly Venerate Ancient Weapon to shatter his Heavenly Venerate heart...
The Desolate Heavenly Venerate's body was indestructible, but under the siege of three Calamity Heavenly Venerates, even the most indestructible flesh body exploded many times.
The Endless Heavenly Venerate, said to master space-time, also exploded repeatedly under the attacks of Calamity Heavenly Venerates...
The battle situation was unprecedentedly tragic.
Ye Chen saw that the current-era Heavenly Venerates, whether they had past favors or grudges with him, were now fighting a life-and-death battle without regard for themselves to protect the Origin Land.
RUMBLE—
Heavenly might grew intense, destroying everything.
The Myriad Profound Heavenly Venerate was smashed to pieces. He exploded, revealing a faint smile.
This Supreme Heavenly Venerate, who had once held a grudge against Ye Chen, actively disintegrated his own Eternal Heavenly Dao, directly transforming into the Dao, enveloping two Calamity Heavenly Venerates to accompany him in death.
BOOM—
A Supreme Heavenly Venerate transforming into the Dao was unprecedentedly terrifying.
One-third of the entire Heavenly Venerate battlefield directly turned into nothingness, something even Supreme Heavenly Venerates and Calamity Heavenly Venerates dared not touch.
That was the Heavenly Venerate-level power of transforming into the Dao!
The Ten Directions Heavenly Venerate sealed one heavenly domain, attempting to seal five Calamity Heavenly Venerates alone. This was undoubtedly impossible. His goal was to delay more Calamity Heavenly Venerates, allowing the other Supreme Heavenly Venerates more power to kill them. But he himself was pierced with numerous holes in his Heavenly Venerate body and heavenly soul by the power of the five Calamity Heavenly Venerates releasing the Ten Directions Absolute Domain, heading toward destruction.
In the end, he too burned himself, laughing heartily as he charged into the midst of the five Calamity Heavenly Venerables. With a tremendous explosion, he ultimately dragged two Calamity Heavenly Venerables to their graves...
The Asura Heavenly Venerate, this Slaughter Heavenly Venerate, pointed his war sword at a Calamity Heavenly Venerate, instantly piercing through one. He did not hesitate even as half of his own Heavenly Venerate body was shattered, determined to crush the Calamity Heavenly Venerate's origin, and then continued the bloody battle...
On the Heavenly Venerate battlefield, one contemporary Heavenly Venerate after another was willing to sacrifice themselves, dragging Calamity Heavenly Venerates to their doom.
The Calamity Heavenly Venerates were both shocked and furious. Although they had greater numbers, in one-on-one combat, their combat power was not as formidable as that of the contemporary Heavenly Venerates.
Although several Supreme Heavenly Venerates of the Origin Land had fallen, many Calamity Heavenly Venerates had also perished alongside them, their losses exceeding those of the Origin Land side by half.
The contemporary Heavenly Venerates were simply too powerful.
However, of the seventeen Supreme Heavenly Venerates, only eight now remained; half had fallen.
As for the Calamity Heavenly Venerates, twenty-one still remained. Although fifteen had fallen, they still held a significant advantage.
Especially since the two Innate Saint Emperors were still contemporary Supreme Heavenly Venerates, their advantage was considerable.
"Only eight contemporary Heavenly Venerates left. Let's finish them!"
"Who said there are only eight Heavenly Venerates left?"
Suddenly, two vast auras of Heavenly Might appeared over the Origin Land.
"More Fellow Daoists have returned to their Heavenly positions!"
The crowd looked over and saw two youths of extraordinary bearing appear, like immortals descended to the mortal realm.
Those from the Primordial World, especially old acquaintances from the Chaos Heaven Mansion of the Pangu Universe, were greatly astonished. "Yuan Yao God King!"
"Zhao Chen!"
Indeed, these two individuals, whom Ye Chen had always found unfathomable and impossible to see through in the past, had now appeared, both revealed as Supreme Heavenly Venerates.
Undoubtedly, they were reincarnations of Heavenly Venerates. No wonder they could evade the deductions of Ye Chen, a Supreme Heavenly Venerate. It was no surprise, as they had now officially returned to their Heavenly positions!
"Heavenly Venerate Yuan Yao!"
"Heavenly Venerate Ziwei!"
The Heavenly Venerates spoke up, their faces showing joy.
"We have returned to our Heavenly positions. Now, we follow the Chaos King to battle the Great Calamity!"
The two Supreme Heavenly Venerates spoke. Their bearing was transcendent, yet their attitude was now resolute. Soaring into the sky, they casually slew countless Calamity Executors before entering the Heavenly Venerate battlefield of the Thirty-Three Heavens to engage in a life-and-death struggle with the Calamity Heavenly Venerates.
...
In the Origin Land, although countless experts soared into the sky to fight and resist the Calamity Executors, the number of Calamity Executors still far exceeded imagination, outnumbering the experts of the Origin Land side.
The Origin Land side relied only on the advantages of this cycle of reincarnation and their desperate, life-risking struggle.
As time passed, one renowned expert after another gradually withered and fell.
Violet light exploded.
That was the Great Venerable Zi Sheng. In the end, he could no longer endure and perished.
This caused great sorrow among the experts of the Violet Extreme Celestial Clan, who desperately charged at the Calamity Executors.
Not long after, Great Venerable Zhen Yuan was also blasted apart by two Calamity Executor Great Venerables. With a bitter smile, he left behind these words: "Chaos King, you are the King of Heavenly Venerables whom I personally witnessed rise. You must win—"
This former overlord of the Taishang realm from the Primordial World, one of the five Taishang overlords, a Great Venerable of antiquity, had passed away forever...
Boom—
Far away in the endless Void, Ye Chen suddenly heard a mournful dragon roar. Then, he saw a Primordial Dragon spanning heaven and earth break its life, its aura completely extinguished as it plummeted downward.
The Primordial Dragon vanished, transforming into a figure of peerless beauty—it was A Beinu.
Even in death, she was smiling, looking towards Ye Chen's location as if she only wished to see her husband one last time before the end.
"Ah!"
Ye Chen let out a heart-wrenching roar. That was his wife, slain.
He desperately wanted to turn back to the Origin Land immediately to save A Beinu.
Even if her true spirit was annihilated, with the peerless methods of a King of Heavenly Venerables, there should still be hope.
However, Senluo Venerable King swung his giant axe in a killing strike, causing Ye Chen's figure to stagger. A wound deep enough to reveal bone appeared on his body. Senluo Venerable King said indifferently, "Chaos King, why are you so sorrowful? Who is this to you? Your wife? She's just a woman. You can have as many as you want, as long as you are willing to join our Great Calamity and become a Tribulation Venerable King!"
Guang'an Venerable King used the two Eternal Heavenly Daos of Light and Darkness to sever everything, blocking his path, and said coldly, "Chaos King, if you continue to obstruct me, you can only watch as all of them perish before your eyes.
Ye Chen was furious. He desperately wanted to break through, his might incomparably terrifying as he unleashed the most dreadful King of Heavenly Venerables divine ability to bombard them.
But unfortunately, it was difficult to break through the blockade of the three Tribulation Venerable Kings.
They were all cold and indifferent, their corresponding emotions long since worn away over endless eons, unable to comprehend Ye Chen's feelings.
But to them, the more agitated Ye Chen's emotions, the more easily he would reveal flaws, ultimately becoming a casualty under their hands.
In the endless Void, Ye Chen battled the three Tribulation Venerable Kings, the fight locked in a stalemate.
He was filled with boundless rage, desperately wanting to rescue those close to him, but he was powerless to attend to them.
He was completely detained here by the three Tribulation Venerable Kings.
Boom—
Blood light splattered. Another aura that made Ye Chen's heart palpitate was extinguished—it was Yi Wu, her figure withering away like an immortal.
Before the end, she looked gently towards Ye Chen, just as she had in the distant past.
"Mother Yi Wu!"
Qianxun, Ye Junlin, Yaya, Ye Fei, Ye Jing, and the other children all cried out in grief, witnessing such a gentle mother slain before their eyes. They were filled with boundless fury.
Yet, there was nothing they could do.
Zhao Jingruo was like a peerless female emperor, holding a war sword that chilled the heavens. With a single sword strike, she beheaded five Taishang.
But her own face was also deathly pale.
In a prolonged confrontation, even a powerful Taishang King could not slay five Calamity Executor Taishangs with a single sword strike—it came at an astonishing price.
A Calamity Executor Great Venerable seized the opportunity, charging forward and slapping his palm onto Zhao Jingruo's brow, directly shattering her True Spirit.
She, too, fell.
"Ah!"
Ye Chen roared in fury, and Qian Xun also bellowed in rage, hating his own powerlessness to stop it. He spared no cost, charging towards the Heavenly Venerate realm.
He summoned an endless Heavenly Venerate Tribulation, seeking to forcibly attain the Supreme Heavenly Position to kill more Calamity Executors.
But how could the Calamity side allow him to break through? A full seven Calamity Executor Great Venerables charged at him. Even though other Ancient Great Venerables tried to block them, Qian Xun was still pulverized, his body shattered.
Ye Junlin was also forcibly undergoing tribulation, seeking to prove his Supreme Heavenly Position.
However, he too suffered terrifying blows, his body covered in blood and grievously wounded.
Yet, many came forward voluntarily to protect Ye Junlin and Qian Xun as they charged towards the Supreme Heavenly Position. Figures like Wanzhan, Taiwu, and Gai Jiu Tian—once the strongest scions of opposing Heavenly Venerates—now set aside their enmities, guarding them at the cost of their lives.
Among them, Wanzhan was slain by a Calamity Executor Great Venerable. Taiwu and Gai Jiu Tian also withered and fell. The Lord of the Defying Heaven Sword also shed his blood.
Ye Chen's heart was filled with grief, yet he was powerless. He fought desperately, sparing no cost, burning his own being as he battled the three Tribulation Venerable Kings to a stalemate, unable to achieve a decisive victory.
"Act quickly, kill the Chaos King!"
Similarly, the three Tribulation Venerable Kings sensed Ye Chen's tenacity and sought to kill him in the shortest time possible.
The battle between the four was drawing closer to the distant Origin Land.
"The Origin Land?"
"Isn't this the birthplace of Pangu, rumored to be the starting point of everything, including the Origin Land itself?"
The three Tribulation Venerable Kings showed surprise and suspicion.
But they did not pay it excessive heed, for the Great God Pangu had already fallen. The Origin Land was merely an extremely vast, flawed world, not worth mentioning.
*Hum—*
Suddenly, the Origin Land trembled violently.
From within, a burly figure emerged, as if he were the sole existence between heaven and earth.
He merely beckoned with his hand, and the Heaven-Splitting Axe vanished from the Heavenly Venerate battlefield in an instant, appearing in his grasp the next moment.
"King Pangu!"
"Didn't you die?"
The three Tribulation Venerable Kings were greatly shocked. He had clearly perished, so why did he appear here?
Had he returned to the Heavenly Position?
The Great God Pangu did not speak. Swinging the Heaven-Splitting Axe, he directly cleaved at the Cangtian Venerable King. The power of the Eternal Heavenly Dao, reputed to be the ultimate limit of strength, struck Cangtian Venerable King like a thunderbolt, forcing his figure to retreat step by step.
"King Pangu has returned!"
On the Heavenly Venerate battlefield, the various Heavenly Venerables were both shocked and overjoyed. King Pangu was once hailed as the strongest Heavenly Venerate of power, capable of shattering ten thousand techniques with sheer force.
However, one Supreme Heavenly Venerate looked at the Great God Pangu with a gloomy expression, even carrying a trace of dread. "Impossible! King Pangu's origin was shattered by me back then. He cannot possibly still be alive!"
"No, the true King Pangu has already fallen. Don't forget, back when he left the Origin Land, it was our plan. We bestowed that fellow with a forbidden great weapon and, pooling the origin power of us three Tribulation Venerable Kings from that time, launched a forbidden strike from behind, completely shattering King Pangu's own origin. Knowing he could no longer remain a King of Heavenly Venerables, King Pangu of that era actively reopened the Origin Land, ultimately exhausting his strength and perishing. His King of Heavenly Venerables Dao Fruit is no more. This is merely the final vestige of power from the King of Heavenly Venerables Dao Fruit he left behind." The Senluo Venerable King spoke, having discerned everything about this Pangu before him. He too swung his great axe in a cleaving strike, causing heaven to crumble and earth to split, an utterly terrifying sight.
The Guang'an Venerable King also discerned it, frowning as he said, "Even if a King of Heavenly Venerables perishes, his own Dao Fruit will not completely vanish. Perfect—if we seize it, we can advance a step further!"
The three Tribulation Venerable Kings all harbored other thoughts regarding this figure of the Great God Pangu.
The Great God Pangu looked at the three Tribulation Venerable Kings and said, "This one has indeed decayed and perished, but he has inherited everything of this one."
These words, however, were spoken for Ye Chen to hear.
*Boom—*
Suddenly, the figure of the Great God Pangu exploded, charging towards Ye Chen.
An indescribable, supreme, and boundless power abruptly descended upon Ye Chen, so terrifying it made Ye Chen feel as if heaven and earth were fragile andnot worth a single blow / utterly weak.
In an instant, Ye Chen's power surged by a great margin. He knew this was the King of Heavenly Venerables Dao Fruit of the ultimate limit of strength from the Great God Pangu.
He never expected the Great God Pangu would bestow it upon him in this manner.
Although he had also mastered the Heavenly Dao of the ultimate limit of strength, it was only one strand. The Great God Pangu's Heavenly Dao of the ultimate limit of strength was a complete, perfected Dao Fruit.
And what was even more astonishing was that even if a Supreme Heavenly Venerate wanted to transfer a Heavenly Venerate Dao Fruit, it could not be so simple. The only possibility was that the Great God Pangu had long since left a contingency upon him, which was why the Eternal Heavenly Dao of the ultimate limit of strength could so easily enter his body.
Ye Chen did not dare to be negligent in the slightest. Simultaneously, he grabbed the Heaven-Splitting Axe, unleashed the ultimate limit of strength, and cleaved towards the Cangtian Venerable King.
With a deafening roar, he blasted apart the head of the Cangtian Venerable King.
Ye Chen's power had skyrocketed in an instant, forcing the three Tribulation Venerable Kings to stagger backward several steps, a truly fearsome sight.
"Not good! The Chaos King has inherited King Pangu's Dao Fruit of the ultimate limit of strength. That means he now possesses three Heavenly Venerate Dao Fruits!"
The three Tribulation Venerable Kings paled. Originally, possessing dual Heavenly Venerate Dao Fruits made one a King of Heavenly Venerables. So now, didn't the Chaos King possess three Heavenly Venerate Dao Fruits?
How utterly terrifying that would be.
Ye Chen grabbed the headless body of the Cangtian Venerable King and directly suppressed it within his own body.
He used the Tenfold Sealing Gates to suppress it, using his own essence blood as the power source to restrain the Cangtian Venerable King. He then ignited the Chaos Heaven Flame to refine the Cangtian Venerable King, seeking to utterly annihilate him.
Only in this way did Ye Chen have hope of victory.
But how could the Senluo Venerable King and the Guang'an Venerable King allow this? They both attacked, determined to rescue the Cangtian Venerable King no matter what.
An even more terrifying battle between Kings of Heavenly Venerables erupted once more. And this time, Ye Chen had to face the three Tribulation Venerable Kings, both inside and out, alone.