"Praise be to the High Firmament Zhonghuang Utmost Saint, Xuanshu Creation Great Heavenly Venerable!"
Immortal voices of praise, like tide and wave, rolled through the vast deep void.
Wherever the Great Heavenly Venerable's gaze reached, lotuses bloomed from the void and immortal light paved a road. All filth retreated, scattered, and melted away.
"Great Heavenly Venerable—"
"An immortal! A celestial immortal!"
"Is this the supreme immortal sovereign of myth and legend?"
"Immortals and gods have come to save the world!"
"O supremely great and majestic being, we pray you will aid Divine Huang, and slay every evil god—"
Upon Shengxing, though not one of them could see the scene in the other universe, at this very moment the Great Heavenly Venerable's image was imprinted in every mind. In their ears they seemed to hear the living beings of the Earth Immortal Realm praying to him, voice upon voice. That aura, supremely bright and supremely holy, filled their hearts with awe and reverence.
But in the deep void, the three evil gods who had only just appeared, their might enough to shake the star rivers, looked upon the Great Heavenly Venerable seated amid the layered clouds, and upon the vast rainbow bridge of divine light. Their auras stalled all at once. Alarm bells rang wildly within them.
Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!
The Scarlet Sun reacted first. Its bloody radiance flashed bright, then dim, and it made to flee toward the farthest reach.
The Night Mother was not the same. The madness on her peerlessly beautiful face grew wilder still. Countless dark rays burst from the scepter raised in her hand. The Mother of Myriad Waters' body swelled in an instant. Countless energy tentacles danced madly and became a raging tide sweeping the sea of stars.
Dark rays and the raging tide of energy interwove, and crashed headlong into that boundless rainbow bridge!
"Hua~"
Seven-Colored Divine Light, like an ocean of stars, drowned every attack in the blink of an eye. Vast and overwhelming, it pressed down upon the Night Mother and the Mother of Myriad Waters. The former's face went white. The latter's tentacles shuddered.
At the same time, the sea of divine light surged onward, overtook the fleeing Scarlet Sun, struck it down, and trapped it within the boundless sea of light.
In only the first exchange, the three evil gods were clearly no match, and had taken serious wounds.
This was no surprise. A Dao-integration incarnation was, after all, of the pseudo-Daluo realm. Although it struck across endless time and space, and the loss of power was enormous, surpassing three Golden Immortals was not difficult. These three ninth-rank beings were all half-mad, and the Scarlet Sun offered no resistance at all, bent only on escape. It would have been strange had they not lost.
Only if four or five evil gods joined hands might there have been a chance of fighting the Dao-integration incarnation, far away in the Earth Immortal Realm, to a draw. The problem was that the Feast Lord and the Weaver Lord had been cut off by Huang Tian—
"Weng~~"
Across endless time and space, the Great Heavenly Venerable moved a single thought.
In that instant!
Crimson, yellow, azure, white, and black, the Five-Colored Divine Light stretched out and condensed solid, becoming five chains of the void that hemmed the three evil gods in, layer upon layer.
Seeing this, the Scarlet Sun suddenly erupted all over with immeasurable bloody radiance, holding the chains back from binding it. The Night Mother and the Mother of Myriad Waters each used their own means, trying to resist the chains' restraint.
Just then, the remaining two lights of yin and yang circled and crossed above their heads.
In the next moment, a Taiji Diagram, encompassing infinite supreme principles and setting forth the birth and extinction of all things, manifested in towering majesty!
The moment the diagram appeared, the starry void for billions upon billions of li all around froze entirely. The Taiji Diagram rotated slowly. Bearing a Dao aura that could suppress every quarter, it descended toward the three evil gods.
Before the diagram arrived, that vast and irresistible force of suppression was already upon them.
The Scarlet Sun was pinned in the void, its bloody light guttering like a candle in the wind. The Night Mother struggled with all her might, and black light burst from her scepter. The Mother of Myriad Waters raised a still more violent surge. Yet all of it was like clay oxen entering the sea, erased without a trace by the Dao aura radiating from the Taiji Diagram.
"Boom!"
The Taiji Diagram finally pressed down. The figures of the three evil gods were swallowed completely into the diagram, becoming three tiny specks of ink upon it, slowly ground by the yin-yang fish. For a time, they could not move a fraction.
It had all happened too fast. From the Seven-Colored Divine Light sweeping the void to the Taiji Diagram suppressing the three gods, it was no more than the space of a breath.
The Feast Lord and the Weaver Lord, still locked in struggle with Huang Tian, saw this and were utterly horrified.
Half-mad though they were, they were no fools. Faced with a crisis of life and death, they knew to flee!
"Bang!"
Seeing the tip of his blood spear gripped fast in Huang Tian's hand, impossible to wrench free, the Feast Lord immediately and decisively detonated the spear. A filthy sea of blood blasted open. His figure lunged, and he merged into that sea of blood.
The Weaver Lord likewise lost all will to keep fighting. Spider silk sprayed madly from its abdomen, billions upon billions of strands, weaving swiftly before it and in an instant constructing thousands upon thousands of layered spatial labyrinths. Its enormous body shrank sharply, and in one motion it drilled into the labyrinth's deepest point.
"Thinking of leaving now? Too late!"
Huang Tian shouted coldly, set his fist, platinum light flashing upon it to the utmost, and smashed it into the sea of blood!
"Pff~"
The churning sea of blood abruptly congealed. The Feast Lord, trying to borrow that sea to work an escape art and flee for his life, was smashed bodily out of it.
At the same time, Huang Tian pressed the fingers of his right hand together like a sword and slashed once at the Weaver Lord's layer upon layer of spatial labyrinths.
A keen blade of platinum light then flew from his hand. One blade became ten, ten a hundred, a hundred a thousand, a thousand ten thousand—in a snap of the fingers, millions of light-blades crossed the void and cut through the labyrinth's barriers!
Every labyrinth was sliced open at once, bursting like foam, and revealed the Weaver Lord's true body within, frightened out of its wits.
Almost at the same moment, the Great Heavenly Venerable, standing far beyond the cosmic membrane, suddenly raised his right hand. Radiance flowed in his palm. His five fingers bent slightly, pinching the light tight and gathering it, until at last it condensed into a seven-colored dharma seal, flowing with seven-colored brilliance!
Dao patterns circulated upon the seal, as though countless worlds were born and perished within it in endless cycles.
He lifted his eyes toward the Feast Lord and gave a light toss.
The dharma seal crossed the remote void, spun once, and smashed down upon the Feast Lord's head!
"Boom!!"
The seal stamped solidly onto his head. His entire divine body stiffened violently. His aura withered at speed. Blood sprayed wildly. Every drop was immeasurably heavy. Falling through the void, they sent out ripple upon ripple.
One drop happened to splash onto a barren star in the distance. That planet instantly quaked, earth and mountains heaving. Continents collapsed. Tsunamis raged. Where the blood fell, it bloomed into a dark-red river, the water thick and viscous, giving off wave after wave of stench.
A grievous wound!
A single blow had left the Feast Lord almost entirely without the power to resist. His divine body teetered on collapse. His soul was lightless.
"A fine chance!"
Huang Tian's eyes lit up. Both fists shot out together, bearing incomparable force, and slammed hard into that divine body!
"Die!!"
Dong!!
The Feast Lord's body shuddered wildly, and then exploded with a bang!
Foul blood sprayed without restraint. Great writhing chunks of viscera, and sinew and bone, were flung in every direction.
A whole expanse of starry void was instantly shrouded in a filthy rain of blood and flesh. Some planets, struck by flesh that bore an evil god's power, shuddered violently. And the flesh that landed upon them seemed still to hold a spark of life, madly devouring everything around it.
Soil and rock, seawater, fish and insects—all of it was swallowed by the flesh. The more it ate, the larger it grew, swiftly rising from a height of more than ten meters to a hundred.
"Gurgle, crunch~"
One bite tore out a deep pit, and the body grew another fraction. It was plain to see that, given only a very little longer, this planet would be gnawed utterly clean!
"Nothing but a dying struggle—"
Platinum light blazed around Huang Tian, dense as flame, burning fiercely and lighting the deep void. The moment that light shone upon the Feast Lord's scattered flesh, all of it froze still, then collapsed without strength, turned into pools of pus, and made no further sound.
The Feast Lord had fallen!
【Potential points: 2,000,000】
Looking at the potential points he had gained, Huang Tian was satisfied. He turned toward the Weaver Lord, and saw that the earlier seven-colored dharma seal already hung high above its head and was falling fast.
"Hiss, hiss~"
The Weaver Lord was scared out of its very soul. All eight eyes were full of fear. Baleful light flickered wildly across its carapace. With all its strength it sprayed a frost-white breath, trying to freeze the dharma seal and slow its fall.
But it was all in vain.
The seal trembled lightly. Seven-Colored Divine Light flowed, and that breath, enough to freeze an entire galaxy, turned to nothing. Then the seal continued downward and smashed onto the Weaver Lord's head.
"Dong!"
Its body shook violently. Dense cracks spread across its carapace. Eerie blue blood poured out like a waterfall. It let out a shriek. Its aura plummeted. Its limbs twitched.
Seeing this, Huang Tian took one step and appeared before it. Two enormous hands reached out. One pressed down on the Weaver Lord's skull. The other seized its torso.
"Split!"
Amid the roar, both arms brought immeasurable divine strength to bear and ripped savagely to either side!
"Crack—boom!"
The Weaver Lord's incomparably solid divine body was torn in two by main force!
An eerie firework burst open in the void.
Divine blood poured as though the Heavenly River had overturned, spilling toward the endless starry void. Wherever it passed, the stars dimmed, and an entire star domain was stained with an ominous air.
Split in two, the divine corpse hung quietly in the deep void as Huang Tian let go, like two enormous pale dead stars.
The Weaver Lord had fallen!
【Potential points: 3,750,000】
Only worth 1,750,000 potential points? Quite a bit less than the Feast Lord—
Just as Huang Tian was sighing inwardly, the three evil gods the Taiji Diagram had temporarily suppressed finally joined their strength and broke the seal!
"Rumble!"
The Taiji Diagram shook violently. Three savage figures forced their way out!
Yet although they had broken the seal, all of them were in wretched condition. The Scarlet Sun's radiance was dim and unstable. The Night Mother's brows were tightly knit on her peerlessly beautiful face, which was several shades paler. The Mother of Myriad Waters' body was incomplete, most of its energy lost, and it was growing ever more transparent.
Besides their auras having plummeted, their minds seemed even less clear. The moment they burst from the seal, they attacked with their full strength, without the slightest hesitation.
At worst, they would sink the universe!!
The three gods had gone completely mad. The Scarlet Sun ignited bloody flames and, with a momentum that could burn the star rivers to nothing, charged at Huang Tian!
The Night Mother raised her scepter high. It shattered all at once into blades of darkness that filled the sky and devoured everything, sweeping in. The Mother of Myriad Waters' body swelled as though hundreds of millions of stars had exploded, releasing surging energy and setting off a cosmic tide!
Facing the three gods' desperate counterattack, Huang Tian showed no fear at all. Instead he let out a long roar and went to meet them.
"Every last one of you, obediently become provisions for my path!!"
His feet trod the star rivers. Platinum divine light around him shot into the heavens, and he crashed fiercely into the three evil gods!
Fist-imprints collided with the blood sun. Divine fire burned the darkness. Tremendous force tore at the raging tide—
How many times more brutal was this than the earlier tangle with the Feast Lord and the Weaver Lord? A hundred times, and more!
Every blow reversed the star rivers and made the void wail. The aftermath swept away the dust of nebulae across countless light-years!
In no more than a snap of the fingers, the two sides had exchanged hundreds of millions of blows. And then that seven-colored dharma seal appeared once more, without a sound!
It appeared at the highest point of the battlefield, spinning lightly. Then it suddenly bloomed with endless colored light and pressed downward—like the Heavenly Emperor affixing his divine seal and decreeing the mountains and rivers, as though the Great Dao had manifested its mark and settled every quarter!
Strand upon strand of Seven-Colored Divine Light hung down from the seal. Beneath that light, the boiling battlefield abruptly went still!
Whether it was the Scarlet Sun's bloody radiance, the Night Mother's dark blades of light, or the raging tide of energy raised by the Mother of Myriad Waters, all of it froze.
Panic rose in the three evil gods. They mustered all their divine power, trying to break free—but breaking free would take them at least half a breath!
In half a breath, far too much could be done!
Huang Tian did not hesitate. One fist slammed straight into the Mother of Myriad Waters' body. Immeasurable platinum light erupted from within it and drowned it completely!
Then Huang Tian stepped to the Scarlet Sun's front. In a single instant, he smashed down ten million punches!
Fist-shadows flickered across the sky, pouring down like a rainstorm. The Scarlet Sun's body shuddered violently. Its bloody radiance grew darker and darker, until it went out.
At last Huang Tian came before the Night Mother and cocked his right fist. A thread of allure suddenly flickered through her originally mad eyes, and a pleading look showed, set against that pale, peerlessly beautiful face—
"Truly, even I cannot help but pity her—"
Bang!!
The punch drove in and smashed squarely into that tragic, gorgeous face. Blood flew. White bone showed.
Dong! Dong! Dong!!!
To the dull sound of fists meeting flesh, her gauze of starlight shattered, and the Night Mother's body was beaten into crumbling ruin.
Whoosh~
Half a breath passed. The dharma seal's divine light drew back, and Huang Tian finally stopped.
Gazing at the three incomparably enormous corpses floating in the vast void, the corner of his mouth lifted slightly, because—
【Potential points: 10,580,000】
These potential points are absolutely enough for me to step into the realm of a ninth-rank Golden Immortal!
Just as he was rejoicing, the Great Heavenly Venerable, far away in the Earth Immortal Realm, suddenly raised a hand and, toward the corpses of the evil gods in the void, unleashed the divine ability "Good Fortune from the Great Void"!
In an instant, the bodies of the five evil gods were wrapped and reshaped by an invisible power of creation.
The Scarlet Sun's remains became countless suns radiating a gentle light. The Night Mother became a magnificent nebula suffusing the deep void. The Mother of Myriad Waters evolved into a brilliant star river spanning several hundred thousand light-years, stars glittering within it, rich with the grace of water and filled with a pure aura.
The remains of the Feast Lord and the Weaver Lord were scattered upon these newly born planets. Boundless green unfurled across the vast earth. Forests grew lush, stretching out of sight. All manner of living beings were born, living and multiplying in the seas and upon the land—
In only a short while, a vast and magnificent star river, transformed from the remains of the evil gods, was born amid this devastated starry void.
It turned quietly, its starlight brilliant, with no trace left of the terrifying slaughter that had taken place here.
After wielding this mighty power of creation, the Great Heavenly Venerable gave Huang Tian a slight nod. Then, like ripples across water, his figure vanished into the boundless rosy clouds and could be seen no more.
Huang Tian stood with his hands clasped behind him beside this newborn star river. He sensed the joy of this universe's Heavenly Dao, and its gratitude and closeness toward him.
He smiled faintly, then looked at the potential points he had gained from this battle.
"Add points! All of them!!!"
Chapter 222