Chapter 2885: The Calamity of the Human Realm

Boom! Rumble!

Taigu Road trembled with thunderous roars, as Emperor Dao lightning devastated the heavens and earth.

The entire Zhutian shook, with the whole starry sky quivering.

Ming Di's guess was correct—it was indeed due to the Emperor Tribulation, disrupting the balance of Taigu Road and causing it to collapse once more, tearing open numerous fissures in the process.

Kill!

Fight!

Roars echoed through the starry sky, shaking the universe.

Ye Chen was in battle, as were the peak Quasi-Emperors and the cultivators of Zhutian. Soldiers clashed against soldiers, generals against generals, fighting with frenzied madness until death claimed them all.

Boom! Bang! Boom!

Amid the rumbling, even more cracks burst open, with dark waterfalls cascading from the fissures into the heavens.

These were not waterfalls, but torrents of black demonic energy, carrying hordes of E Mo demons. Their numbers were so vast that even the peak powerhouses felt their scalps tingle. It wasn't just one area—countless parts of the starry sky were affected, filled with a dense, oppressive blackness.

Kill!

The E Mo demons arrived, their expressions mirroring that of the E Mo Emperor—first stunned, then twisted into ferocious grins. They joined forces with the Tian Mo army, assaulting the Zhutian cultivators.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The scene was utterly tragic for Zhutian, with blood flowers blooming incessantly, merging into vast splashes. From high above the heavens, the E Mo and Tian Mo armies appeared as an endless black ocean, driving Zhutian forces into continuous retreat.

The two emperors, Tian and Ming, could no longer stay idle, gazing up at the vast sky. This was already too much—if more came, Zhutian truly wouldn't hold. The hordes of Tian Mo and E Mo soldiers were overwhelming.

Unfortunately, things went against their wishes.

As they watched, cracks exploded across multiple regions of the starry sky, each hundreds of thousands of zhang wide. Innumerable E Mo and Tian Mo soldiers poured out from within, forming yet more vast oceans.

Kill!

The Tian Mo and E Mo that had been hiding in the black holes also charged out, having waited through countless years and evaded Zhutian's repeated hunts, all for this day.

The two sides seemed to have a tacit understanding, dividing into four fronts.

The first front engaged in slaughter across the starry sky.

The second army invaded the Xuan Huang Star Sea, their black warships shrouded in towering demonic energy, as massive as mountains, churning up waves thousands of zhang high.

Fight!

On the opposing side, the Xuan Huang warships were already lined up.

Boom! Bang! Boom!

One side attacked, the other defended, clashing fiercely on the star sea.

Kill!

The third army assaulted the You Ming Continent.

Fight!

The Zhutian forces guarding You Ming had taken their positions on the city walls, from elders to the young, rising to resist.

Kill!

The fourth army surrounded Da Chu.

"If you want to fight, then come."

The Da Chu cultivators showed no fear, all clad in armor as they ascended the city walls, vowing to defend their borders to the death.

"How could this be?"

Witnessing the endless tide of enemies, Ren Wang's face turned deathly pale.

They had thought they could handle just the Tian Mo clan, but now the situation was spiraling out of control. With three Tian Mo Emperors and seven E Mo Emperors, plus countless Tian Mo and E Mo armies, it was an unimaginable force.

Boom!

Another boom echoed, like a leaky house battered by relentless rain—the depths of the starry sky cracked open again, and a blood-stained figure tumbled out.

The eighth E Mo Emperor had arrived.

Fight!

Shouts rang out as Xuanyuan Dizi, Xuan Gu Dizi, You Ming Dizi, Tian Que Dizi, Wuji Dizi, Zhu Tian Dizi, Yu Kong Dizi, and Qing Di's son—all clad in blood-soaked armor—converged from all directions to attack.

They were vastly different from before, each bearing the divine soul of an emperor. They had sacrificed their life essence to summon these souls, belonging to their imperial fathers and infused with fragments of Emperor Dao power.

That sight made Ming Di's heart ache fiercely.

In this battle, regardless of whether the emperor's sons could slay an emperor, they were doomed to die. Having sacrificed their essence souls, this would be their final fight. Through them, he seemed to see the shadows of past emperors, many of whom were his old friends.

Boom!

You Ming Continent fell, its city walls breached by the demon army, leaving mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

Boom!

Da Chu was also overrun, as the Tian Mo and E Mo armies surged from the north into Cang Yuan, toppling palaces and shattering mountains wherever they went. The once-beautiful landscape was now scarred and desolate.

Boom!

Xuan Huang was breached too, with the Tian Mo and E Mo armies invading the Xuan Huang Continent like endless black oceans, devouring inch by inch of the land.

In that instant, five beams of extreme light shot into the sky.

The five forbidden zones of Xuan Huang unsealed simultaneously.

As the overwhelming demonic energy engulfed all light in the world, the five Tian Wang of the forbidden zones changed their expressions. Was this an invasion? How could there be so many emperors?

Boom!

Even as they watched, another crack opened.

The ninth E Mo Emperor descended, crashing into the central state of Xuan Huang and flattening an immortal mountain.

"Tian Wang..."

Tian Zhu had already donned his armor, his eyes blood-red as he looked toward Tian Xu Tian Wang. Not just him—the elders and youths of the five forbidden zones had all put on armor, gripped their war spears, and gazed at their respective Tian Wang.

"Damn it, that's enough. Kill for me!"

In the end, the command came.

The five Tian Wang of the forbidden zones charged out, weapons in hand and imperial artifacts at the ready, straight for the ninth E Mo Emperor. Behind them followed countless others, mostly ancient Quasi-Emperors who had been sealed for years, their auras reigniting in an instant, filled with hatred and vengeance.

"Guard the forbidden zones."

As the Tian Wang left, they issued orders to the five young emperors of the forbidden zones. The elders had mostly gone to fight, leaving only the younger generation to hold the line.

Boom! Rumble!

War erupted in Xuan Huang, with countless demon armies pouring in and the Xuan Huang cultivators rising to resist. Vast oceans collided, turning lives into mere weeds, staining the skies with blood.

"Enough, enough."

Ming Di's eyes were now threaded with blood vessels.

This lineup had reached the limit of the human realm.

Yet, more emperors still descended.

Boom! Bang!

Accompanied by two thunderous booms, two cracks opened simultaneously.

From them emerged two Tian Mo Emperors.

Boom!

In the same moment, an ancient realm materialized in the world, with countless armored cultivators charging out, surrounded by immortal energy and radiant immortal light.

It was the Xian Clan, assaulting the first Tian Mo Emperor.

Boom!

Following that, Wu Lei City appeared in the starry sky.

All the women in the city, including Wu Lei herself, attacked the second Tian Mo Emperor. But Wu Lei headed toward Da Chu, toward Tianxuan Gate.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

Her departure made the Lingxiao Hall tremble violently.

Inside the hall, Ruoxi’s delicate body shuddered slightly, as did Chu Xuan and Chu Ling’s. The three had merged bodies multiple times, separating each time only to suffer injury. By now, they were covered in blood and had yet to leave the Lingxiao Hall.

Boom! Bang! Boom!

Bloody warfare engulfed the myriad domains of Zhutian. Every star domain, every stretch of starry sky, every star—battles raged everywhere. Figures fell from the heavens, corpses piled into mountains, and blood flowed like rivers, turning the human realm into a hell of crimson.

The faces of the two emperors, Tian and Ming, had also paled.

Nine E Mo Great Emperors and five Tian Mo Great Emperors—fourteen emperors in total, along with uncountable Tian Mo and E Mo soldiers. What a colossal force!

This war might be the largest invasion from the outer realms since the ancient Heavenly Court battles. Excluding Ruoxi, Zhutian and the human realm had exhausted all their foundations.

That Emperor Tribulation was truly a catastrophe!

Boom! Rumble!

Suddenly, thunder resounded once more.

"Emperor Tribulation."

The two emperors turned their gazes toward a section of the starry sky.

Tianhuang.

Yes, it was Tianhuang.

As they looked, a blood-stained figure stumbled out of the void—or more precisely, from the chaotic currents of time and space, her form still unsteady.

She was Dong Shen Yao Chi.

She had emerged from the time-space turbulence. Ye Chen hadn't found her because she had entered a dream—not just her mind, but her entire being.

The two emperors watched her because streaks of Emperor Dao lightning tore across her body, the prelude to an Emperor Tribulation. The rumbles came before the lightning.

Triggering the tribulation now was like adding frost to snow for Zhutian—it was already a catastrophe, and revealing their position would invite even more invasions.

"She advanced to Quasi-Emperor perfection not long ago, yet she's already touched the Emperor Dao barrier."

Ming Di furrowed his brow.

"She comprehended the laws of time and space."

Daozu narrowed his eyes slightly, able to see from across the human and nether realms the time-space laws entwining Ji Ning Shuang.

This might be the turning point, allowing a newly advanced Quasi-Emperor to brush against the Emperor Dao barrier. Those centuries in the turbulence were more than mere opportunities for her—they were heaven-defying fortunes.

Unfortunately, the timing was wrong.

"She's only a little over a thousand years old."

"That aura of hers carries far more than a thousand years."

Daozu saw it more clearly. That girl, who cultivated the Dao of All Things and also the Dao of Dreams, had likely entered dreams in the turbulence and lived through an unimaginably long period.

Though it was a dream's illusion, that sense of antiquity had carried over to reality. Her true age was just over a thousand, but adding the dream years, she was at least three thousand. The weight of time she bore was irreplaceable.

Thus, with Yao Chi's talent—not inferior to Ye Chen's—reaching the Emperor Dao barrier at three thousand years wasn't surprising. If Ye Chen lived to three thousand, failing to achieve greatness would defy heaven's will.

The same logic applied to Yao Chi.

In Tianhuang, Ji Ning Shuang finally steadied herself.

The two emperors' guesses were right—she had indeed comprehended the laws of time and space in the turbulence and lived through an extraordinarily long period in her dreams, long enough for a sudden opportunity to let her glimpse the distant Emperor Dao gate.

Thud!

Ji Ning Shuang spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, her steps staggering as she struggled to stay upright. Her face was pale, her expression pained, and her aura unstable.

"Someone is forcing her to undergo the tribulation."

Daozu said leisurely, already closing his eyes slightly.

In the next instant, he abruptly opened them, seeking out a broken sword in the darkness—a seven-colored broken sword.

"Zhuxian Jian."

Daozu snorted coldly. The Emperor Tribulation could be suppressed, but Ji Ning Shuang couldn't hold it back because someone was meddling in the shadows.

That someone was Zhuxian Jian, who had used some forbidden technique to force her tribulation.

Its goal was clear: to use Ji Ning Shuang's Emperor Tribulation to expose Zhutian's position and lure more Tian Mo.

It wasn't giving Zhutian any chance to turn the tide.

Ah!

Ji Ning Shuang's expression grew even more agonized, groaning in pain.

She didn't want to undergo the tribulation, especially not at this critical moment.

Yet, an invisible force in the void was compelling her. It felt like standing on a cliff with someone pushing from behind, forcing her into the abyss.

As she tried to suppress it, that force pushed harder. The clash of powers overwhelmed her mind.

From that moment, her once-clear eyes gradually lost their clarity, becoming vacant. Her expression shifted from pain to dullness, turning her into a lifeless puppet.

"Damn it."

Ming Di snarled. He could see that Ji Ning Shuang had fallen into a daze, her mind devoid of awareness.

Boom!

As he spoke, a thunderclap echoed from the vast sky. In her dazed state, the suppression of the Emperor Tribulation was broken, and the divine tribulation was about to descend. Even if she were clear-headed, she couldn't hold it back now.

"No signs of the Emperor's unusual phenomena emerging."

"If she undergoes the tribulation, she's certain to die."