Chapter 344

Even if they matched a Great Emperor, how long could that make them last?

It might not even match the expenditure of their coming into the world to fight.

At once, the fighting spirit in everyone's hearts vanished.

Boom!

In the starry sky, the great battle still raged on.

The two fought in earnest, their speed pushed to the extreme; apart from the Ancient Emperors and Heavenly Sovereigns within the forbidden zones, no one in the universe could make out their forms.

However, the chat group was an exception.

The chat group's livestream system, wielding supreme divine might, broadcast their battle with perfect clarity.

Ye Hei: "Worthy of a powerhouse of the Imperial Dao realm — truly hard to deal with. No wonder he was so difficult to fight in the original work. The Time Domain is indeed a supreme domain."

Su Xiao: "Indeed. Can Taixuan-gege pull it off? In a war of attrition, a Sage King definitely can't outlast someone in the Imperial Dao realm."

Han Paopao: "The Dao Sovereign should have nothing to fear. Haven't you noticed the Dao Sovereign hasn't even used his One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones divine ability yet?"

Su Xiao: "That's true too! The Dao Sovereign still has so many divine abilities he hasn't shown!"

"Got you!"

Just then, the situation in the void changed drastically — the starry sky froze, and a streak of cyan light streaked down at the utmost speed.

That was the law and Dao of the Spacetime Domain.

Zhang Taixuan unleashed a peerless divine ability — the Art of Spacetime Stasis — slowing the time of the entire starry sky to an inconceivable degree.

Meanwhile, the Star Measuring Ruler, carrying the Chaos Seal, was imbued with time acceleration.

One slowing, one accelerating — the Star Measuring Ruler's speed reached an absolute extreme, producing a sensation of time flowing backward.

Boom!

The Star Measuring Ruler descended, striking the Carefree Heavenly Sovereign.

And it struck the Carefree Heavenly Sovereign as he had been one ten-thousandth of a second ago.

Though both were well-versed in the Spacetime Domain, it was obvious that the Carefree Heavenly Sovereign's time forbidden art was merely a byproduct of the Xing Zi Mi.

Zhang Taixuan's wondrous Spacetime art, on the other hand, had been comprehended from the River of Spacetime — by comparison, he had the upper hand.

"No!"

As if utterly unaware of the reason, the Carefree Heavenly Sovereign let out a furious roar as his body was blasted into a cloud of blood mist by the Chaos Seal in an instant.

The blood mist churned, time reversed, and he was about to revive once more.

Those who mastered the Time Domain were the hardest to kill — Zhang Taixuan had anticipated this. He cast the Spacetime Stasis divine ability once again; purple flames surged atop the Star Measuring Ruler, and blossoms of fire rained down, radiating an aura that could destroy all things.

The Primordial Dao Fire had only a spark remaining, and its might was not so terrifying.

But for a powerhouse of the Imperial Dao realm whose body had been battered, the Primordial Dao Fire was truly terrifying!

This kind of flame burned not only flesh and magic power, but even the divine soul was set alight.

"Taixuan, this Sovereign concedes!"

Seeing Zhang Taixuan cast time forbidden arts one after another to finish him off, rendering his time secret arts unable to function, the Carefree Heavenly Sovereign grew anxious.

Having cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years, he had done so to become an immortal — not to squabble with others.

So he immediately caved in and went soft.

"Concede now?" Zhang Taixuan sneered. "If I had lost, would conceding today have saved my life?"

As he spoke, a Flame Emperor Seal was launched.

The Flame Emperor Seal emerged, and ten thousand flames followed in its wake, pushing the power of the Law of Fire to its absolute extreme, as if a sovereign of flame manifested within the seal.

Almost at the same instant, the Flame Emperor Seal descended upon the blood mist — a wretched scream rang out, and the blood mist was refined into flying ash.

"This… the Heavenly Sovereign has fallen!"

An elder Great Sage who witnessed it turned pale with terror.

The next moment, a foul wind swept through the universe, and a downpour of blood began to fall.

When a powerhouse of the Imperial Dao realm fell, heaven and earth mourned, and all the world shared in the grief.

"Yun Gen has fallen!"

"Who would have thought — an old friend of several hundred thousand years, fallen today at the hands of a Sage King. Hmph, Sage King indeed — I don't believe it for a second. He must be one of those who attained the Dao, returning after re-cultivating!"

"That True Dragon Seal looks somewhat familiar — could it be the True Dragon Great Emperor re-cultivating?"

"Impossible. The True Dragon Great Emperor long ago marched upon the Immortal Road and perished. We once broke into the Immortal Road and saw his seated-decay emperor corpse. What could he possibly use to revive?"

"Enough, enough. The momentum of Taixuan has already formed. If we step forward again, we may not gain any advantage. Better to quietly await the Immortal Road."

Divine thoughts wove through the void, and a follow-up strategy was quickly agreed upon.

The next moment, the various forbidden zones fell silent.

"A powerhouse of the Imperial Dao realm is indeed extraordinary." Zhang Taixuan retracted the Star Measuring Ruler, sighed within, and looked inward at his body — only to find that his magic power was nearly exhausted.

"But even if a few more come out, I can still fight for a while. The magic power of the Three Pure Ones avatars hasn't been touched yet!"

The Three Pure Ones avatars were refined from the world's origin and the bodies of supreme sacred spirits — not evolved from magic power. Like independent individuals, they could cultivate on their own and store magic power.

At a time like this, the advantage of this method of cultivation over magic-power evolution became apparent: it did not leave one unable to cast divine abilities once the cultivator's magic power ran dry.

Gathering his focus, Zhang Taixuan activated the Nine-Breath Qi-Absorbing divine ability. The next moment, immeasurable river-stars dimmed as countless vital energies were drawn into his belly and transformed into magic power, fully displaying his invincible might.

In only a moment, his magic power had recovered to its peak state.

Gazing at the starry sky, he swept out a hand — instantly, the shattered stars were smelted together into individual galaxies.

However, after the great battle just now, many great stars had vanished forever, and the galaxies had far fewer stars.

Seeing this, Zhang Taixuan drew out the Star Measuring Ruler and swept it once, modifying the galaxies' constants.

At once, the galaxies stabilized.

Immediately after, another beam of Creation Light was launched, and the forcibly kneaded planets were restored to their original appearance.

Fortunately, the place he had chosen to undergo his tribulation was the edge of the cosmos, with no civilized planets around.

Though this great battle was fought fiercely, it did not cause any unnecessary casualties.

"Oh, right, there's still one treasure I haven't taken."

Just as he was about to leave, Zhang Taixuan suddenly reached out and grabbed at the void. A Xianlei Green Gold Bottle covered in cracks flew out from the void and landed in his hand — it was precisely the Imperial Weapon Jiu of the Carefree Heavenly Sovereign.