The Great Han King had turned traitor!
At this moment, no one dared to believe it. It was impossible to fathom. Even King Dazhou was racked with agonizing grief.
He refused to accept that all of this was real!
"Tianyuan, stop him!"
King Dazhou roared. The man who had always remained calm was now completely consumed by fury.
"I told you long ago it was him, yet you refused to believe me!"
At that exact instant, the void violently trembled. The river of time that traversed the Human Realm violently quaked as someone severed it in the endless void with a single divine character!
"Time Reversal!"
With a soft cry, several divine characters emerged. The Great Han King, who was just about to step into the Human Realm, experienced a slight shift in expression!
The very next moment, he was forced backward a stretch, sent tumbling back out from the boundary of the Human Realm as time reversed. His expression twisted completely.
"Zhou Tianyuan!"
The Great Han King's brow furrowed slightly. Behind him, a powerhouse emerged, wearing a golden mask. Cupping his hands toward the empty void, he gave a faint smile. "Fellow Daoists of the Heaven Hunting Pavilion, my apologies for the trouble. Zhu Tianfang and I were merely borrowing the seats of two divisions for a time. We return them to you now!"
He chuckled, while deep within the boundless void, several Invincibles inside the Heaven Hunting Pavilion's headquarters literally picked up the entire main hall and fled.
Fuck your mother!
The Head of the Xuan Division was Zhou Tianyuan, and the Head of the Yellow Division was Zhu Tianfang! To hell with your whole family!
Why didn't the two of you just drop dead already?!
The Head of the Xuan Division!
Zhou Tianyuan—the legendary Junior King Zhou who was rumored to have perished.
Right now, Zhou Tianyuan sneered as he watched the Great Han King being swept back by the reversed river of time. Coldly, he said, "Back then, I suspected that you were the traitor, but my elder brother refused to believe it. Fine. I have proven everything to him! I was right after all, and my elder brother was wrong! Liu Jin, you wish to enter the Human Realm? Have you asked for my permission?"
The Great Han King gazed at him as he tumbled back through the river of time, sighing softly. "To think that you have reached such a level! Your mastery over the laws of time surpasses even Wang Hu's!"
Junior King Zhou sneered. "I prepared against this move of yours long ago! In the Human Realm, not a soul suspected you; no one believed you were the traitor. But I believed it! It was you all along!"
"Did I ever display any hint of betrayal?" the Great Han King said calmly. "Before this, had I ever done anything?"
"Heh!" Junior King Zhou scoffed coldly. "Truly nothing? Long ago, generals in the military defected. Was that not your doing? Back then, I already noticed anomalies. Sure enough, you were preparing for this betrayal all along!"
The Great Han King said no more. With a thunderous boom, his foot shattered the temporal boundary, and he surged forward with the flow once more. At the same time, pillars of light pierced through the Human Realm.
Within the Human Realm.
The Head of the Yellow Division gave a low cry as a river of time opened. He too sought to summon his true body.
At the same time, a majestic voice echoed across the all-heavens and myriad worlds: "Mo He, Tiandang... guide your true bodies to descend upon the Human Realm!"
The immense voice echoed across heaven and earth, reverberating throughout the myriad realms.
Among the six Invincibles who had descended upon the Human Realm, Lade had no other embodiments, King Minghe had fallen in battle, the Dragon King had his two-life embodiment destroyed, and the other three Invincibles were merely three-life embodiments. Now, the emperors of each race issued their commands, instructing them to summon their true bodies!
Not only that, but in the boundless void, more than a dozen Invincibles struck out at once, locked in fierce combat with King Daming and the others as they fought their way toward the Human Realm!
Their goal: to slaughter every expert gathered within the Human Realm today!
Especially the Multiple Divine Characters faction!
Kill these people before they attained Invincibility, and seize the Tombstone of Civilization.
Now, the Great Han King's defection had caught them by surprise as well.
A powerhouse roared, "Surround and slay Zhou Tianyuan! Lend the Great Han King a hand!"
In an instant, seven or eight Invincibles lunged toward King Dazhou and Junior King Zhou, giving them no room to intervene.
Not only that, but the Great Han King's son, Liu Wushen—the prefectural lord who shared the same given name as King Daxia—wore a complicated expression as he roared, "Father, are you truly going to betray the human race?! Do you not even care about your own son anymore?!"
With a furious shout, he fished out his three-life embodiments at once: past, future, and present appeared simultaneously!
With profound grief, he cried, "Your son shall attain the Dao today! Father, are you heading to the Human Realm to slaughter them, or will you come save me?!"
The Great Han King's footsteps faltered. He looked back, his expression full of conflicting emotions.
Liu Wushen shouted in sorrow and outrage, "My father is a hero—an unparalleled grand hero! He is no traitor! No, Father, are you going to abandon the Liu family, abandon the Great Han Prefecture?! All because of some uncertain future you caught a glimpse of?! Father, I am attaining the Dao! If you go, you can watch your son be slain right here today..."
Just as he said this, three myriad-race Invincibles nearby who were about to attack suddenly paused. Having received a transmission, the three exchanged looks, smiled, and turned away!
Liu Wushen's face shifted, and he flew into a sudden rage. "Bastards! Scoundrels! Come kill me!"
He forcefully merged his three bodies, chasing after the three Invincibles while roaring furiously, "Come kill me! Father, they are trying to kill me—do you truly not care about any of this anymore?!"
Someone chuckled faintly. "Great Han King, rest assured. We will not harm Liu Wushen..."
The Great Han King frowned and said coldly, "Cease your blather! What I do is for the human race; I have not stooped to colluding with beasts like you!"
"Hahaha, of course, of course! Great Han King, if the Multiple Divine Characters faction is not destroyed, the annihilation of the human race is a foregone conclusion. A war of the myriad races is bound to erupt, and the human race's Multiple Divine Characters faction is the fuse... What you saw could not be wrong!"
The Great Han King let out a soft sigh, stepped into the river of time once more, and strode toward the Human Realm.
Behind him, Liu Wushen roared like a madman, "No, don't! Father, they are doing this on purpose! Everything they say is a lie! If you go to the Human Realm, they will surely kill me! Father... you are the hero in my heart, not a traitor! You're not!"
Rumble!
At that moment, his three bodies merged into one. Brilliant rays of light exploded from him, and countless wisps of origin qi converged from all directions.
Liu Wushen was about to attain the Dao!
He was about to become the very first person to successfully attain the Dao today!
Yet what felt bizarre was that not a single human came to protect him, and among the myriad races... not a soul moved to kill him. Instead, he was chasing after three myriad-race Invincibles, while those three were desperately retreating, staying far away as if avoiding a plague.
They were terrified that the Great Han King might misunderstand!
Don't misunderstand—no one is trying to kill your son! Even if your son attains the Dao, it doesn't matter. Go on, hurry to the Human Realm and wipe out Wan Tiansheng and the rest!
At this moment, massive numbers of Invincibles appeared.
Some flew toward the river of time opened by the Head of the Yellow Division, stopping his true body from descending.
Others attacked King Dazhou and Junior King Zhou to keep them from pursuing the Great Han King.
Meanwhile, the human Invincibles who had previously been protecting Qin Zhen and the others abandoned their guard duties and charged toward the Great Han King, only to be blocked by even more foreign Invincibles.
Zhou Polong, Zhou Potian, and Qin Zhen fled together. Zhou Polong glanced around. Not a single Invincible was left nearby; they had all run off to hunt down King Dazhou and Junior King Zhou. He gave a low shout: "Attain the Dao!"
Qin Zhen froze. "Right now?"
"Hurry!"
Nonsense, if not now, then when?!
Liu Wushen was practically done attaining the Dao, and nobody was paying him any mind.
This was probably a historic first for a human attaining the Dao!
Everyone was focused on that side. Compared to killing these few, ensuring the Great Han King descended upon the Human Realm to wipe out those targets was far more important!
Chaos!
At this moment, Zhou Polong and the others scattered, immediately beginning to dredge up their three-life embodiments to merge and attain the Dao.
Someone tried to intercept them, but over in the distance, Junior King Zhou roared, "Time Reversal!"
Rumble!
The Great Han King was forced back once more. He shouted in fury, "Zhou Tianyuan, you have a death wish!"
"Great Han King, we will help you hold him off!"
At this moment, four Invincibles who were just about to intercept Zhou Polong and the others split up—two spun around and flew toward that battlefield, while the remaining two pursued the fleeing trio!
Not far off, Liu Wushen roared like a madman, "Father, must you stubbornly persist in your delusion?! Do you want me to detonate myself right here?! If you truly betray our race, I will definitely kill you! I will kill you to cleanse the honor of the Liu family!"
...
The heavens were thrown into utter turmoil!
The original layout had fallen apart.
Over by Xia Longwu, Invincibles glanced in that direction. King Daqin's face was livid. He struggled repeatedly against the impulse to charge out, gritting his teeth in fury. "It was him! It was actually him!"
"Bastard!"
"Damn him!"
"Liu Jin, why?!"
King Daqin roared. King Daxia's expression was just as grim. Grinding his teeth, he said, "To think it was him! Longwu, forget about attaining the Dao for now. Old Qin and I are going to kill him!"
"Understood!"
Xia Longwu nodded. The two powerhouses immediately began breaking out!
"Tianzhu, Wang Hu, Jintian—the three of you escort Xia Longwu out! We can forgo attaining the Dao today, but until Liu Jin is dead, we will not rest!"
The two supreme Invincibles gave thunderous shouts as they fought their way outward.
Their killing intent shook the heavens!
At this moment, the Invincibles surrounding them felt a chill in their hearts. What terrifying killing intent!
The human race had gone mad!
The Great Han King was ranked among the top ten strongest experts of the human race and was a top-five titan of the Quest Realm. To put it bluntly, after King Dazhou and King Daming, one could argue that the Great Han King held the third spot.
Of course, experts like King Dashang had strength comparable to his.
Regardless, among the ranks of the Invincibles, the Great Han King was of the oldest seniority and highest echelon of power. Even in a direct clash with King Daxia, he would not necessarily lose.
"Hold them back!"
Someone barked coldly, moving to block the two top-tier human Invincibles!
Just then, another human Invincible bellowed, "Everyone, attain the Dao! Draw their attention and fend for yourselves! If they don't kill you, we gain another Invincible, and once you succeed, come back and slaughter them! If they come for you... run! Slay Liu Jin, or we are not worthy of being called men!"
A swarm of human Invincibles stopped shielding the quasi-Invincibles and charged toward that battlefield!
More and more Invincibles converged there!
Under the tug-of-war between the Great Han King and the Zhou brothers, the temporal passage stretched wider and wider. The Great Han King's face remained cold and calm. "If you keep pulling back and forth, the passage will widen massively, allowing the Eternals of every race to step directly inside. Have you considered that?"
As soon as these words fell, the eyes of several surrounding myriad-race Invincibles flickered with interest.
Indeed, through this tug-of-war, the river of time had become extraordinarily vast.
King Dazhou's face darkened, and he raged, "You intend to collude with the myriad races?! How dare you! If you merely believed the human race had no hope, that would be one thing. But if you collude with them, even in death, I will grind your bones to dust and scatter your ashes!"
More and more Invincibles converged upon the area. Meanwhile, the quasi-Invincibles who were preparing to attain the Dao looked furious as well. They scattered in all directions; some began their Dao attainment immediately, while others fled, seeking secluded locations to begin.
Utter chaos reigned!
At that moment, the fleeing Xia Longwu gritted his teeth and roared, "Attaining the Dao! Let the myriad races come and kill me!"
Boom!
The river of time unfurled. One, two, plus himself—three Xia Longwus appeared in an instant, forcefully merging! Xia Longwu bellowed, "I am about to attain the Dao! If I succeed, I will slaughter the myriad races! Come and kill me if you dare!"
At these words, an Invincible of the god race shouted, "Forget the others—kill Xia Longwu! The rest of you, go assist the Great Han King!"
"Sever the temporal passage for Zhu Tianfang's true body!"
With centralized coordination, those Invincibles stopped paying attention to the other humans and converged on three locations. The first was Xia Longwu's location.
The second was King Dazhou's side.
The third was the temporal passage opened by Zhu Tianfang.
As for people like Liu Wushen attaining the Dao, hardly anyone cared anymore. To be sure, he was not entirely ignored, but only an extremely small number pursued him, and none of them were top powerhouses—just ordinary Invincibles.
Just as the myriad races engaged in frantic combat across the boundless void and the All-Heavens Battlefield, a furious roar shook the heavens and the earth.
Brilliant rays of multicolored light illuminated several thousand li!
Liu Wushen looked like a madman. "I succeeded! I succeeded! Father, must you really do this?! Must you truly betray us?! Where will the billions of living beings of the Great Han Prefecture go?! Father, how am I supposed to carry on?! Are you forcing me to become a traitor as well?!"
Rumble!
The aura radiating from his body surged furiously, growing increasingly powerful. He flew toward the Great Han King, raging, "Father, you cannot do this!"
The Great Han King gave a cold snort, stomping heavily to crush the river of time, and said coldly, "Must you all stand in my way?! I told you, I have not betrayed the human race! I only wish to prevent an all-out war! The Multiple Divine Characters faction must be destroyed!"
"Once I kill those people, you may deal with me however you see fit; I will not resist. If that is unacceptable, I will drag several myriad-race Invincibles to the grave with me! I have no desire to betray the human race; I only wish for the human race to survive!"
He shouted angrily, "Brother Zhou, can even you not understand me?!"
King Dazhou gave a low shout, his divine characters shaking the surroundings. Junior King Zhou's divine characters manifested, and one astonishingly powerful character abruptly detonated! The Great Han King threw a punch, producing a deafening crash that caused the temporal passage to shudder violently. A myriad-race Invincible shouted, "Help him maintain the passage!"
In an instant, seven or eight Invincibles moved simultaneously, helping to stabilize the temporal passage.
At this moment, several Invincibles fought inside the passage, while outside, the myriad-race Invincibles were actually working to keep the passage stable.
Behind them, Liu Wushen, trailing several thousand li of multicolored light that illuminated the all-heavens, charged over in a frenzy, roaring and howling relentlessly!
...
Meanwhile, within the Human Realm.
Nanyuan.
The Great Han King's future embodiment, Zhang Qi, frowned slightly. Instead of continuing his attack, he turned toward the temporal passage, barking coldly, "Who can stop me from summoning my true body?!"
With that, the future embodiment charged into the temporal passage!
Inside the ruins, Su Yu was equally consumed by incandescent rage. The Great Han King... how could it be him?!
Impossible!
He had even learned the Great Han King's "Power" divine character! How could this man have betrayed the human race?!
He had previously guessed there might be a second traitor, having seen an Invincible with tattoos appear—the earlier King Fenhai had seemed devoid of such marks. But even if there were a second traitor, it shouldn't have been the Great Han King.
The Great Han Prefecture was among the top ten strongest prefectures in the Human Realm!
And its people were renowned warriors!
How could this be?!
Right now, several Invincibles were summoning their true bodies. The Head of the Yellow Division was doing the same, but was being obstructed. He roared, "Second Brother, attain the Dao! Hurry up and attain the Dao, fast!"
Zhu Tiandao gritted his teeth. "Fine! Then I'll just attain the Dao right here in the Human Realm! Don't blame me for sucking the Great Xia Prefecture dry of its origin qi!"
The next moment, the Pavilion of a Hundred Dao manifested—this was his future embodiment.
The river of time opened, and in an instant, another Zhu Tiandao appeared.
His opponent, the immortal king, was currently summoning his own true body and paid him no heed!
Right now, the main forces of the myriad races, as well as those of the human race, were congregating around the Great Han King. In the boundless void, more than a dozen Invincibles besieging King Daming and the others were merely entangling them rather than fighting to the death.
Why risk their lives?
Keeping them pinned down was enough!
Several Invincibles were in the process of guiding their true bodies. Once those true bodies arrived, Zhu Tianfang's true body would be unable to make it, and relying solely on a three-life embodiment would fall far short.
Meanwhile, Xuanjia let out a roar and began fusing his three-life embodiments!
The Primal Cult Master and the others also prepared to attain the Dao.
Furious roars rang out continuously!
"Attain the Dao!"
"Attain the Dao!"
One quasi-Invincible after another bellowed. The quasi-Invincibles of the myriad races felt utterly helpless. Attaining the Dao required carriers; where would they get them? Furthermore, this was the Human Realm. Attaining the Dao here?
What a joke!
Doing so here was suicide!
...
Inside the ruins, Su Yu sent someone flying with a punch, his fury boundless as the death qi poured in even faster.
He wanted to slaughter every single one of these bastards!
At this stage, stalling these few people was pointless.
He would kill them all, head to the All-Heavens Battlefield, find the stone sculpture, and have it take action. He could no longer afford to waste time here.
Boom!
"Die!"
Su Yu roared, slamming his fist down with a colossal crash that echoed across heaven and earth. Zhouhun of the Tianyuan race was pulverized by the blow. Though Zhouhun did not perish immediately, the little fur ball flickered into view the next instant, instantly devouring his sea of will!
Having just consumed a Sun Moon divine character, the little fur ball had finished digesting it. It seemed to have advanced into the Shanhai Realm, as a cloud of heaven origin qi appeared to be descending from the sky, though with heaven origin qi flooding the ruins everywhere, Su Yu paid it no mind.
With the little fur ball devouring the sea of will, a massive explosion went off, as though something had detonated!
It burst apart!
"Su Yu..."
A shrill roar rang out as the ninth-stage Sun Moon protector guarding Zhouhun, who had been locked in relentless combat with Qin Hao, charged over in a frenzy!
Zhouhun had been slain!
Rank eighteen on the Heaven Ranking!
This was the very first Heaven Ranking genius to die thus far. Su Yu did not care in the slightest. His death qi boiled, and his anger soared to the heavens. The Great Han King's betrayal had shocked everyone to the core, filling them with boundless rage.
How could you?!
You were a founder of a prefecture! You were an existence who protected hundreds of millions of living beings! How could you do this?!
His death qi leaked outward profusely!
Right at this moment, the Castellan Token on his person trembled slightly. The token resided inside his sea of will, and he faintly heard a voice say, "Control yourself. The death qi is too thick!"
"..."
Su Yu was startled. What was going on?
A transmission from the stone sculpture?
Was it that powerful, able to send transmissions across the all-heavens?
It could even see that his death qi was too thick?
...
In the void.
The stone sculpture looked all around. He was merely a piece of stone; resting here without moving, no one paid him any attention. He was effectively a living dead—one who had existed in this state for countless years. So long as he remained stationary, even a Half-Emperor would struggle to detect him.
His gaze seemed to pierce through the all-heavens. He saw the Great Han King and the others locked in battle; he saw King Daming and his group fighting outside the realm barrier; then he looked at the Human Realm, at Nanyuan, at the rapidly recovering Wan Tiansheng, and at the human powerhouses attaining the Dao in every direction...
Something felt off!
Liu Wushen had been the first to attain the Dao, and he had done so with unimaginable ease. Not only that, but the myriad races weren't even trying to kill him now. Two Invincibles were merely tangling with him, playing house, terrified that killing him would drive the Great Han King mad and cause him to abandon descending upon the Human Realm.
Everywhere else, human powerhouses were frantically seeking Dao attainment.
Some were besieged, some were not, and some already had a strong chance of success.
"Bizarre..."
The stone sculpture muttered, finding the whole situation increasingly peculiar.
He looked again at the Great Han King within the temporal passage, whose three bodies had merged and was now fighting King Dazhou and Junior King Zhou...
Then he looked down at Wan Tiansheng, who had slaughtered two Invincibles. Why didn't you take a little extra time just now to swat him dead? Leaving him alive is so dangerous!
Why give Wan Tiansheng time to recover instead of finishing him off?
Around the Great Han King and the others, at least twenty human Invincibles had gathered, and the myriad races had even more—nearly forty. A two-to-one ratio. Yet at this moment, both sides were fighting around the temporal passage: the humans sought to sever it, while the myriad races defended it.
Protecting something was far harder than destroying it!
Even with forty myriad-race Invincibles, maintaining the passage cost an enormous amount of energy.
...
The stone sculpture found it rather odd.
At this moment, across the major realms.
Ancient existences extended their willpower through their respective realm passages to observe the battle, powerful wills blanketing the surroundings.
In the Fiend Realm.
The Fiend Emperor watched for a while, his brow furrowing slightly as he calculated something.
...
In the God Realm.
The God Emperor was also pinching his fingers in divination, but the outcome was shrouded in mist. He immediately frowned. Was this battle beneficial or detrimental in the end?
...
In the Immortal Realm.
The ancient immortal king remained silent. He could not see anything, because the moment his willpower extended outward... it vanished!
This was not the first time!
Over the past centuries, this had happened multiple times.
Every time, unless his true body personally stepped outside the Immortal Realm, this situation occurred. He was practically severed from contact with the outside world.
As an ancient immortal king, his willpower was extraordinarily formidable; extending it through the passage to survey the all-heavens should have been effortless. Yet over these years, every time it reached out, it disappeared!
Vanish into thin air!
Without leaving a single trace!
He pinched his fingers in calculation, frowning deeply in inexplicable irritation.
How many years had it been?
What had been going on recently?
...
Outside the Immortal Realm's boundary.
A massive, furry ball hovered in the void, its mouth gaping wide as it swallowed the extended willpower in a single gulp. Delicious!
For over three hundred years, it had eaten this more than a dozen times, and it was still so fragrant!
As for three hundred years... to it, that was merely the blink of an eye.
To eat so many tasty treats in such a short time was delightful!
As for going inside to eat... sorry, not going in.
It would just eat out here!
Going inside was too dangerous!
That Tiangu was still very formidable—perhaps the most formidable in the myriad realms right now. Well, hard to say, but eating out here was plenty good.
Just as it was thinking this, another figure appeared. No, a ball shadow.
"Hubby, you came too?"
The original big fur ball looked at the newcomer and greeted him casually, as if she had merely stepped out to buy groceries and forgotten to go home.
The big fur ball seemed a bit dazed. It bobbed its body. "You've been waiting here to eat Tiangu?"
"Yes, it smells so good!"
The big fur ball pondered for a moment. "Tiangu isn't tasty; he's too hard to eat. How about we eat this instead?"
The big fur ball suddenly extended a pair of clumsy little hands and pointed at a temporal passage—the one the immortal king of the immortal race was using to summon his true body. How about eating him?
The seas of will of the immortal race were exceptionally fragrant!
They lived long, so the flavor was rich and aged.
Coincidentally, this one was still in the middle of summoning, and the temporal passage was conspicuous.
The female ball considered this. "If we eat this, what about Tiangu?"
"Leave him for later. If he comes out, we eat him! If he doesn't, we'll just block the door and eat. The immortals taste great!"
The big fur ball offered a suggestion: "Eat a few more, and he'll come out!"
The female ball bobbed its body. That made sense; hubby was smart after all!
The two balls vanished instantly and reappeared inside the temporal passage.
At that moment, the immortal king's two-life embodiment was rushing toward the Human Realm in fused form.
Suddenly, he felt a slight palpitation.
What was wrong?
Was the Human Realm perilous?
It was perilous, but now that he was descending upon the Human Realm with his three bodies fused, what danger could there be?
Just as the thought crossed his mind, a voice sounded by his ear: "Hubby, one for you, one for me. He has two bodies!"
"Okay!"
The moment the words fell, each ball took one... and then... there was no 'then'!
For two fur balls, did dealing with an immortal king whose fusion consisted of only two embodiments pose any difficulty?
None at all!
Not the slightest difficulty!
Just like that, it was gone!
The two embodiments remained, but their seas of will and divine characters had vanished. The carriers remained, and the physical bodies remained, but... everything else was gone.
The person hadn't even died!
There was no myriad-li phenomenon, none at all, because his future embodiment was still intact. The two fur balls vanished in an instant. It was quite delicious; the female ball was delighted. Her hubby was truly formidable and smart—the moment he arrived, they got a great meal!
...
Meanwhile, in the Human Realm.
The immortal king was still guiding his true body. He had already sensed it—it was close, almost here, arriving soon!
He was overjoyed!
This time, he would slay Zhu Tiandao and seize the Tombstone of Civilization! He would be the very first Invincible to descend with his three-life embodiment completely intact!
King Fenhai was dead.
Wan Tiansheng, who could kill Invincibles, was crippled.
As for Xuanjia and the others, Xuanjia had yet to attain the Dao, and the Head of the Yellow Division was being obstructed in his summoning.
He was the first!
He would be the strongest presence here!
Just as he was thinking this, his face changed drastically. Suddenly, his future embodiment began to shudder violently, rocking uncontrollably as cracks formed across it.
Opposite him, Zhu Tiandao cursed, "Shameless bastard, stop trying to bait me! I haven't attained the Dao yet!"
This shameless immortal king!
He was actually feigning heavy injury to bait him into attacking! You bastard, do you think I don't know your three-life embodiment is about to arrive?!
Yet at that exact instant, the three-life embodiment arrived!
No, it was a carrier, and a corpse completely devoid of aura.
The corpse of the present body, and the carrier of the past body.
The two fur balls didn't care about such trinkets; they only cared about food.
Zhu Tiandao froze. What was the meaning of this?
Sending over a corpse and a carrier—what kind of trick was this?
He was utterly stunned!
Meanwhile, the immortal king coughed up blood continuously, his expression blank with shock. Truly, in all his thousands of years of life, this was the first time he felt so helpless, so utterly shattered.
Where was my three-life embodiment?!
Where were my present and past bodies?!
Did... did something go wrong with the summoning?!
Impossible!
Why had this happened?!
He had no chance to ask, because though Zhu Tiandao was dumbfounded, he was instantly overjoyed to the point of exploding. This... holy shit!
What kind of ghost story was this?!
An immortal king's three-life embodiment had suddenly been annihilated, and now his future embodiment was suffering severe backlash, reduced to a rootless weed. This guy was done for!
...
As Zhu Tiandao prepared to slay the immortal king, the Great Han King and the others engaged in a massive battle in the void.
Inside the ruins, Su Yu was incomparably surprised. Through the Castellan Token, he transmitted, "Lord Stone Sculpture?"
Are you kidding me? Sending a transmission across the all-heavens?!
Holy crap!
Was this Castellan Token really that powerful?!
"Stop drawing in death qi!"
This time, Su Yu confirmed he hadn't misheard. Overjoyed, he hurried to say, "Lord, I need to head to the All-Heavens Battlefield immediately! Dozens of Invincibles are hunting me down! I beg you to descend and avenge your subordinate!"
"Where are dozens of Invincibles hunting you down?"
In midair, the stone sculpture looked around. Nonsense—there weren't even dozens of Invincibles in the entire Human Realm.
"Lord, it's true! I'll be in the All-Heavens Battlefield right away..."
"Oh, I'm not in the All-Heavens Battlefield."
"Then I can go to the ancient city..."
"Not in the ancient city either."
Su Yu paused. An unbelievable thought rose in his heart, and he asked with difficulty, "Lord, are you... in the Human Realm?"
Distracted for an instant, he took a punch from Zhan Wushuang that sent him flying backward, but he didn't care.
The stone sculpture transmitted back, "Hit him! He hit you, can't you hit him back?"
"Lord... you're in the Human Realm?!"
Su Yu was instantly wild with joy!
"Lord, please sever that temporal passage—the Great Han King's passage! Once he descends, we're all dead..."
At that moment, the stone sculpture looked at the passage.
He looked for a moment, then another, and another...
So sturdy!
It was terrifyingly stable!
Sever my ass!
There are dozens of Invincibles protecting that passage!
A single Invincible, or even a Half-Emperor, wouldn't be able to cut it.
In that case, once the Great Han King descended, the castellan was dead?
The stone sculpture thought: No, I'm right here. Su Yu won't die. As for the others... who cares!
Even so, the stone sculpture transmitted, "What's the rush! You won't die!"
"But Lord, once he descends, everyone else will be beaten to death by him! Lord... I beg of you, help out! In the future, I'll shoulder more death qi for you..."
Xinghong couldn't be bothered with him. Looking back toward the passage, as if seeing through the all-heavens, he murmured, "Huh, another one is about to succeed..."
The human race's second newly ascended Invincible was close to success.
It was none other than Zhou Polong.
He was almost there!
Right now, an Invincible had moved to intercept him, only to be briefly trapped by one of his divine characters.
Interesting!
Normally, when hunting down such a genius, more than one Invincible would be deployed. This time... many had run off elsewhere. Over by Xia Longwu, nearly twenty Invincibles were gathering.
As for the Head of the Yellow Division's side, four or five had gathered, while in the boundless void outside the Human Realm, over a dozen had converged.
Nearly eighty Invincibles of the myriad races were hunting down humans!
In truth, even more: there were a few inside the Human Realm, and during the skirmishes with Su Yu, more than a dozen powerhouses had projected powerful strength here. All told, it was nearly a hundred!
A mobilization of a hundred Invincibles—this was the first time in hundreds of years.
Yet... it wasn't having much effect.
The humans attempting to attain the Dao faced remarkably little obstruction.
Everyone's attention had been drawn away by the Great Han King!
The stone sculpture watched for a while, still perplexed, sensing that something was amiss. The God Half-Emperor, the Fiend Half-Emperor, and several other Half-Emperors all felt something was off. Was attaining the Dao proving a bit too easy for the humans?
Should they mobilize more Invincibles to surround and slay them?
Furthermore, too many Invincibles had gathered around the Great Han King.
Counting the humans, sixty to seventy were engaged in battle over there.
A single Great Han King, because they wanted to help him descend upon the Human Realm, had tied down dozens of Invincibles.
At this moment, the stone sculpture wondered: Where was the ancient immortal king, Tiangu? Why hadn't he investigated or spoken... Oh, that one went over there. Nothing bad happened, right? Hopefully not!
Thinking this, he looked elsewhere, his gaze suddenly falling upon the Head of the Yellow Division, Zhu Tianfang. He stared blankly for a second. Right now, Zhu Tianfang was summoning his true body, but... he was so far from the Great Han King's temporal passage.
It was as if he were deathly afraid of touching it and disturbing the Great Han King's passage.
The stone sculpture shook his head, feeling somewhat muddled. Could it be that guarding the sacred city for so many years has made me dull? Why do some things feel indecipherable, yet sit right on the tip of my tongue?
However, right now, he knew only one thing: with multicolored light illuminating heaven and earth, the human race's second Invincible was about to be born!
It was far easier than ever before!
At this moment, not just the stone sculpture, but others vaguely sensed that something was amiss. Two human Invincibles being born—wasn't that too fast?
It was abnormally fast!
Attaining the Dao shouldn't be this fast; normally, doing so in less than several days was difficult!
The stone sculpture shook his head again, thoroughly puzzled.
Perhaps my big brother could see through this.
These humans had scheme after scheme, trick after trick, making his head spin. If you're not satisfied, just fight! In the past, the human race had been exceptionally fierce fighters, but today, they brought out scheme after scheme, popping up one after another.
Pondering this, the stone sculpture transmitted to Su Yu: "It won't be that fast, what's your rush? The Great Han King is fighting King Dazhou and the others outside the realm, embroiling sixty or seventy Eternals. King Dazhou is so furious he's about to spit blood..."
Su Yu was taken aback. King Dazhou spitting blood? That old turtle could spit blood?
Even if King Daqin rebelled, King Dazhou would probably endure it.
Now that the Great Han King had rebelled, it hurt him this much?
Were they that close?
Su Yu was bewildered too. Sixty or seventy Invincibles... King Dazhou and the Great Han King were fighting, tangling up so many powerhouses. Was this a human civil war while the myriad races watched the show?
"Your human race has gained two Invincibles. Yo, that fellow named Zhou Polong is fierce the moment he attained the Dao—he sent that myriad-race Eternal flying... Yo, that Zhou Potian looks close too. The Zhou family is truly something!"
The stone sculpture seemed to be watching a drama, reporting updates to Su Yu.
Meanwhile, Su Yu was repeatedly stunned.
In just this short while, three new Invincibles were about to emerge?!
How was that possible!
Attaining the Dao was exceedingly perilous and slow, requiring one to wait for Invincibles to fight and die to obtain carriers—otherwise, where would so many carriers come from?!
What he didn't know was that Junior King Zhou—the Head of the Xuan Division—served within the Heaven Hunting Pavilion!
While carriers were scarce elsewhere, the Heaven Hunting Pavilion... had quite a few!
As for Liu Wushen, he too possessed two carriers. Nobody had stopped to ponder this yet, chalking it up to good luck.
...
In the boundless void.
The Great Han King flew into a rage, beating Junior King Zhou until he coughed up blood and forcing King Dazhou into continuous retreat!
He wanted to enter the Human Realm!
"Time Reversal!"
With a furious roar, Junior King Zhou, like an unkillable cockroach, reversed the river of time once more. The Great Han King was beside himself with rage. "You seek death!"
"Father, no! Don't kill him... stop fighting..."
In the distance, Liu Wushen roared at the top of his lungs, "No, Father! If you descend upon the Human Realm, it will be destroyed! Don't..."
"I will not destroy the Human Realm! I will only kill those of the Multiple Divine Characters faction!"
The Great Han King spoke coldly. Liu Wushen cried out in agony, "Father, do not add mistake upon mistake..."
He was racked with profound grief!
He wished he could die on the spot just to make his father turn back.
The Great Han King fought his way to the entrance of the Human Realm once more, only for Junior King Zhou to roar again: "Time Reversal!"
"..."
The Great Han King was dragged back yet again. Utterly furious, he bellowed, "Eternals of the myriad races, assist me in killing them! You forced my hand! This is not enough—send more!"
Chapter 491