Chapter 3248: Reverse Battle Against the Heavens (4)

Qi Sha has arrived.

All barriers have been completely destroyed. After an epoch, Zhu Tian, E Mo Domain, Tian Mo Domain, and Sheng Mo Domain are no longer separated. The shattered universe has fully merged, bathed in apocalyptic lightning, bringing forth countless worlds.

"Ants, tremble!"

E Mo Huang Di sneered malevolently, his words like a death knell, as he stepped into Zhu Tian with Qi Sha.

One step could annihilate all living beings.

But that step did not land in Zhu Tian; instead, it entered an eternal dreamscape—or rather, in that instant, Ye Chen used eternal dream-building to pull him in.

"A mere dreamscape dares to trap me?"

E Mo Huang Di snorted coldly and instantly emerged from the dream.

However, he was not in Zhu Tian, but above Tai Shang Heaven.

This was the battlefield Ye Chen had chosen.

He had slain Tian Mo Huang Di.

He had merged with a generation of Sheng Mo.

Now, this was the third battle in the war against heaven.

"You've truly underestimated me."

E Mo Huang Di chuckled darkly, his words raining down as an infinite demonic land expanded. Within it, mountains of corpses were piled high, rivers of fresh blood flowed, and vengeful ghosts howled like curses. Besides that, seven black suns illuminated the apocalypse.

That was Qi Sha, carried by him.

Ye Chen said nothing. With one eternal sword, he slashed across millions of miles, forming a brilliant galaxy that embodied immortality and pierced through endless darkness, cleaving the demonic land.

"You cannot win."

E Mo Huang Di sneered, making Qi Sha tremble in unison as it unleashed a beam of heavenly dao light, forming a world-ending divine blade that struck Ye Chen, sending him flipping across the void and nearly splitting his sacred body.

He was incredibly strong.

By bearing Qi Sha, he had taken on the heavenly dao, surpassing both Tian Mo and Sheng Mo Huang Di. Ye Chen could strip away the heavenly dao from Tian Mo and Sheng Mo, but he was powerless against Qi Sha. That blade even made it difficult for his eternal bloodline to heal his sacred body.

"To defy the heavens is to never find transcendence."

E Mo Huang Di said indifferently, sweeping forth infinite demonic malice.

"Come."

Ye Chen roared, shaking the universe as he forcefully sustained his eternity and charged into the demonic land for the second time.

Boom! Bang! Boom!

The third great battle between desolate emperors unfolded.

Above Tai Shang Heaven, everything turned to destruction.

Looking up, one could not see the two figures, only a series of visions: eternity enacting all things, Qi Sha severing reincarnation, stars, blazing suns, mountains, rivers, forests, corpse mountains, blood seas—everything reflected the apocalyptic light, with no order or universe to speak of. Any rules, be it reincarnation, space, or time, were mere facades here. At the desolate emperor level, laws were illusions.

Kill!

As the desolate emperors clashed, so did the battles below. The E Mo forces had invaded Zhu Tian, like vast black oceans surging from Jiu You, flooding the stars, devouring continents. Endless darkness once again shrouded the world's light. Deep within the shadows, grotesque faces appeared, savage and bloodthirsty, their malice overwhelming, like death gods intent on slaughtering all living beings.

Boom!

The Female Emperor shattered the heavens with a single step, her sword cleaving through the darkness.

The commander of all beings from the previous epoch, now the foremost general of all beings in this one.

Fight!

The multitude of living beings charged forward, resisting fiercely.

Puff! Puff!

The two vast oceans collided, blooming with sprays of blood across the universe. Every starfield, every domain, every shattered continent ignited with war.

Lives were as worthless as grass.

Even emperors fell one by one into pools of blood.

Puff! Puff!

Ye Chen bled repeatedly. He had slain two desolate emperors, yet he could not overcome E Mo Huang Di. The opponent bore Qi Sha, making it impossible to isolate the heavenly dao's power. From the start, Ye Chen was at a disadvantage. His eternal sacred body was now covered in bloody gashes, his bones exposed and dripping.

"All beings are mere ants."

E Mo Huang Di grinned ferociously, summoning the seven black suns. Each one radiated demonic light, the power of the heavenly dao and destruction, extinguishing Ye Chen's bloodline and burning his eternity. His radiant sacred body crumbled inch by inch, once immortal but now turned to decay by Qi Sha. The sacred body was collapsing, the primordial spirit disintegrating. If the sacred body lineage were a civilization, that civilization was now perishing, even its immortality unable to reverse the tide.

Ye Chen remained silent, unable to escape.

He was like a prisoner nailed to a pillar of death, being slowly tortured by blades, with no sense of time. Who knew how many years he had been destroyed by Qi Sha.

In absolute desperation, decay could turn miraculous.

He cast aside distractions, clearing his mind to a state of pure clarity, one instant stretching into eternity. He looked back on his life, every step bearing the traces of the dao. It was as if he saw a silhouette, walking from desolate emperor step by step to quasi-desolate, and from quasi-desolate to Tian Di, moving against the river of time toward the original Heng Yue.

That was the starting point of his dao.

He closed his eyes and gazed in another direction, where another silhouette stood, ancient and weathered, also walking along the torrent of time toward the distant eternity.

Amid Qi Sha, that scene grew strangely eerie.

For every Ye Chen that was destroyed, another would be reborn.

E Mo Huang Di frowned.

This strange phenomenon even he could not comprehend, fueling his anger. As the peak desolate emperor, he could not fathom the dao of a novice desolate emperor.

"Perish for me!"

E Mo Huang Di roared, making Qi Sha erupt with demonic light, submerging the sacred body.

"Perished self."

"True self."

"Dao self."

Ye Chen ignored Qi Sha, murmuring to himself. He had long anticipated this enlightenment, and only today could he verify it. The dao knows no sequence; even if it comes late, it is not too late.

Boom!

He underwent nirvana and transformation. Perished self, true self, and dao self cycled in turn, like three versions of himself: one born in the past, moving against time; one seated in the present, as the eternal true self; one standing in the future, forging immortality through the dao.

One instant into eternity.

Eternity in a single thought.

He suddenly opened his eyes, the three selves merging as one, his eternal power radiating brilliantly once more.

Qi Sha was shaken back, its demonic light dimming significantly.

E Mo Huang Di was forced to retreat, in utter disbelief. Clearly, it was one Ye Chen, yet to him, it seemed like three. Was this the nirvana of desperation?

Ye Chen summoned the Immortal Sea.

His transformed eternity faintly countered the heavenly dao's power.

"Good, very good."

E Mo Huang Di bellowed furiously, striking to shatter the eternity.

Boom!

Ye Chen soared upward, his sword flipping E Mo Huang Di.

Puff!

Before the emperor could steady himself, the eternal war spear arrived, nailing him in the void. Strands of eternity turned to killing intent, slicing into E Mo Huang Di's body and nearly dismantling his demonic form.

Extinguish!

E Mo Huang Di roared in rage, using Qi Sha to shatter the war spear.

Boom!

Ye Chen advanced against the ages, wielding no heavenly forbidden arts, only a pair of golden fists that pierced the vast cosmos. One punch sent E Mo Huang Di spraying blood. Though it was one Ye Chen fighting, it was as if three were attacking. The force of that punch could destroy heavens and earth.

Ah!

E Mo Huang Di howled in fury, merging with the seven suns.

But it was futile.

After Ye Chen's eternal nirvana, his dao had surpassed E Mo Huang Di's. Even with Qi Sha, he could not suppress the sacred body. Any divine ability or forbidden art paled against Ye Chen's golden fists. The peak desolate emperor could barely stand, his indestructible demonic form shattered repeatedly, his blood bones scattering as light rain over Tai Shang Heaven.

Fight!

Ye Chen's defiance ignited the war intent of all beings to its peak.

E Mo Huang Di was defeated.

His demonic army was also routed, the forces of one domain driven back to E Mo Domain by Zhu Tian's cultivators. Even as figures fell into blood pools, they pressed on relentlessly, following the Female Emperor and slaughtering the demons without mercy.

Zhu Tian thundered with lightning.

The aura of extinction, soaked in dripping blood, enveloped the entire universe.

Everyone was fighting.

No one knew how many had fallen through the ages.

All for that light to shine upon the world once more.

Puff!

Above Tai Shang Heaven, a splendid blood flower bloomed into a chaotic demonic sea—E Mo Huang Di was bleeding, his half-demonic form obliterated by Ye Chen's punch. Every drop of demonic blood turned to rolling mists, shrouding the world's light.

Seal!

Ye Chen snorted coldly, manifesting the eternal cauldron to refine E Mo Huang Di.

"You cannot win."

E Mo Huang Di grinned savagely, transforming into a mass of chaos that even eternity could not penetrate. The churning chaos burst the eternal cauldron apart. A layer of destructive halo ignored all order, laws, and Ye Chen's dao, spreading infinitely across the seas and wilds, obliterating everything in its path.

Puff!

Ye Chen spat blood, sent flying and crashing down from Tai Shang Heaven.

"Has the sacred body fallen?"

The great war between Zhu Tian and E Mo halted.

All eyes turned upward.

In view, Ye Chen plummeted from Tai Shang Heaven, his golden glow utterly dimmed, his eternal armor exploding. Like a blood-stained meteor, he lost his final light, falling to the world.

"It is not that he has fallen, but the heavenly dao has descended."

The Female Emperor murmured softly, gazing quietly at the overarching chaos.

That was the heavens.

That was the Tian Dao.

It was formless and shapeless, the essence of rules, order, and chaos.

"What immense pressure."

The emperors' expressions turned grave, even quasi-desolate emperors unable to hide their soul-shaking dread.

Boom! Boom!

In the void above, a pitch-black vortex appeared.

E Mo Huang Di was swallowed into it.

Following him, one desolate demon after another was drawn in.

Ye Chen had witnessed this scene before.

It was the Tian Dao preparing to act personally, as he had seen in the original timeline.

The world lost its light.

The entire universe was shrouded in darkness by the Tian Dao.

Boom!

From the churning chaos, a hand descended, covering the skies and pressing down on the world. It was like a strike from the end of ages, sweeping through the cosmic expanse and disrupting the heavenly vastness. Wherever it passed, all rules and order became void.

It was the hand of extinction.

Intent on wiping out all living beings.

Fight!

Ye Chen rose against the heavens, activating his eternal hegematic body and raising his hands to support the sky.

But he could not hold it.

In an instant, his eternal visions collapsed.

Boom!

The Tian Dao's palm destroyed heavens and earth, forcing even the desolate emperor's sacred body to bend at the knees, inch by inch kneeling down. His blood-stained sacred form crumbled bit by bit. It was not that he lacked strength; the heavens were simply too terrifying. If he was at the initial desolate emperor level, then the Tian Dao was at its absolute peak—or perhaps, half a step beyond.

Boom! Bang!

Di Huang and Hong Yan moved, dragging their blood-drenched sacred bodies. He staggered, she stumbled, step by step ascending, their entire forms igniting in golden flames.

"No."

Ye Chen roared hoarsely, tears of blood streaming down.

"You must win."

Di Huang smiled gently, Hong Yan smiled radiantly, both offering their lives as sacrifices. Their blood-red bodies turned to origin essence, etching into Ye Chen's form. With their integration, a sacred mark exclusive to the sacred body supreme appeared on his brow.

Thus, the ancient sacred body lineage was left with only Ye Chen.

And he would be the most complete ancient sacred body in Zhu Tian's history.

Unfortunately, it was still not enough.

"There are still us."

The muddled red dust and the muddled six paths awakened in an instant, stepping into the heavens.

They were not supreme beings.

Yet the light they reflected was more dazzling than any supreme.

Three Ye Chens.

Three protagonists of time, reuniting after ten thousand years.

Not enough, still not enough.

"This day, we have waited an epoch."

The Female Emperor and Shen Zun, one on the left and one on the right, transformed into eternity, offering their lives.

Another mark was added to Ye Chen's brow.

It was the eternal sacred mark. His cultivation broke from initial level directly to mid-level.

Alas, still not enough.

"Ye Chen, we're here."

"My father is the greatest war god."

" Kid, you have to win."

Above the dim heavens, a rain of immortals fell, each drop a figure: Ye Chen's wives and children, the sacred body's dao manifestations, emperors, divine generals, Yan Luo, emperor's sons, Xie Yun, Xiao Yuan Huang, Kui Niu... one after another, they charged into the vast expanse, one after another destroying themselves into souls, transforming into the most brilliant light. All they left Ye Chen was faint smiles, wishing him success in the war against heaven.

It was a charge.

No war drums sounded, no horns blew.

Only the funeral songs of all beings.

Countless predecessors, countless successors, pressing forward, willing to shatter into pieces.

The will of all beings.

A true global sacrifice.

"No."

"The destiny of Zhu Tian endures forever."

"Fight!"

Ye Chen roared, and all beings shouted.

Boom!

The eternity of the sacred body burst forth with its most radiant light.

A global sacrifice.

Peak desolate emperor.

While the Tian Dao had absorbed the demons, the sacred body had fused with all beings.

Ah!

This roar was a soul-deep howl.

Fight!

The sacred body finally rose, forcibly upholding the hand of extinction. Like a beam of light, it pierced through the void chaos, charging to the ultimate peak of this universe.