Chapter 1707: The Ancient God Rendered Great Merit to the Human Race!

The Ancient God's Ancestor's Dharma body was covered in bloodstains, standing tall between heaven and earth.

The funeral bell seemed to have already tolled.

From a slow single toll gradually growing urgent, the ruler of the Ancient God world cluster for hundreds of thousands of years, the one who had once established the great merit of saving the world's human race, was walking toward his own end.

"Haha!"

"Hahahaha…"

The Ancient God suddenly burst into wild laughter.

The bloodstains on his body surged with fresh blood, an endless stream, dripping down from the sky, forming a sea of blood mist that spread outward in all directions, and even the light of the Law-Destroying Sun could not wear it away.

Clang~

Jiang Ding slowly drew the long sword at his waist.

He asked, "Fellow Daoist, what are you laughing at?"

A being who once rendered great merit to the human race, even if he had fallen in his final days, deserved a measure of respect, not to be allowed to die in obscurity.

Let his merits and his sins both be remembered, and then be slain.

"This old ancestor is laughing,"

"Laughing at you, you damned Jiang Ding Zi, who has neither virtue nor talent, far inferior to this old ancestor."

The Ancient God Ancestor laughed wildly: "This old ancestor rose from being a human slave of the Savage Tiger Tribe, with no master, no elders to shelter him, no inheritance from sages, and no backing from the human race's greater cause. Looking around heaven and earth, there was not a single place from which to borrow strength."

"And yet!"

"This old ancestor still rose against the tide, step by step swallowing the alien races on all sides, and with the strength of one alone established the Ancient God Domain world cluster belonging to the human race!"

"How could this old ancestor's great deeds be something a whelp like you could compare to?"

"This old ancestor rendered great merit to the human race!"

"This old ancestor rendered great merit, so what of devouring a few infants? What right do you, whelp, have to proclaim yourself righteous and stand before this old ancestor!"

The Ancient God Ancestor spoke with wild arrogance.

Boom!

On the other side, the sun rose.

Accompanied by the descent of countless Sun-Origin Magnetic Destruction Divine Light ship cannons, the terrifying Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Sword Intent and the countless ship cannons seemed to merge into one, becoming a tide-like sword force that slashed down upon the entire Ancient God's Six Paths of Reincarnation. The Heaven-Earth Six Paths Five-Element-Destroying Sword tore through every obstruction and shattered the Ancient God's Reincarnation.

Boom!

The Ancient God Ancestor's massive Dharma body was blasted back once more, slamming fiercely into the cosmic star river, exploding into countless splatters of blood.

When he revived again, a wound deep enough to expose bone had already appeared on his chest, one that could not be healed no matter what, having damaged his very essence. Even bridging with unknown Ancient God flesh was the same — he could not truly be immortal.

"Senior rendered great merit to the human race, and that is worthy of respect."

"Senior devoured billions upon billions of infants, slaughtered trillions of our citizens — that is a death sentence, soul destroyed and never to reincarnate for eternity."

Amid the clang of steel, Jiang Ding drew his sword once more. The terrifying Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Sword Intent suppressed the four directions, forbidding all laws. He said calmly, "Merits should be praised, wrongs should be punished on the spot."

"This is the law of the human world, the Dao of the human world. There has never been any merit that can forever press down upon the heads of the human race's masses."

"The Heavenly Dao of the human race, vast and mighty, flows together with time into infinity."

"There has never been anyone who, because of past merit, could forever stand upon the heads of heaven and earth's masses of the human race!"

"This is the Dao of the human race!"

"The Dao that is neither good nor evil!"

Amid the clang of resolute words and the repeated thunder of ship cannons, the Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Sword Soul commanded the laws of heaven and earth, forbidding all dharma, sending out ring after ring of ripples spreading in all directions, turning the world's spiritual energy into something inert, and the spiritual foundation of the Xian Dao Shi Gao Jie was shaken.

This stretch of cosmic starry sky gradually solidified, beginning to transform into a two-dimensional painting.

A vast fear, a cold, bone-chilling premonition that made the soul tremble, appeared within the Ancient God Ancestor's soul. The soul that had weathered countless wars and countless hardships hundreds of thousands of years ago was sending a warning.

This being, this sword cultivator, had completely exceeded all reason.

He alone might already be able to suppress and slay him, and now with the added might of the nine deep-space fleets of the Eastern Extreme Demon Sect, even that last hope of life was blocked out. No hope of light could be seen; the cosmic star river sank into utter darkness.

"Pages full of absurd words!"

"The Dao of the human race is that the mighty who rendered great merit rule the world, taking whatever they wish!"

"Those ant-like beings of the human race muddle through their entire lives. Without this old ancestor, they — they and their ancestors for generations — would have had no chance of ever being born!"

"Their lives were originally this old ancestor's!"

The Ancient God Ancestor roared, his gaze scarlet and frenzied: "Even you, you mongrel bastard — without the living space for the human race in the Ancient God world cluster that this old ancestor opened up, when you first arrived at Jiao Jiao Mingyu, you would have already clashed head-on with an alien race's Celestial-grade power, and death would have been certain. There would have been no possibility of survival at all!"

"The life of you whelp is also this old ancestor's!"

"Now, return this old ancestor's life to this old ancestor!"

At some unknown moment, the essence blood on the Ancient God Ancestor's body had begun to burn. His pupils were ice-cold as he suddenly formed a hand seal.

Boom!

In this heaven and earth shrouded by the Law-Destroying light, where cosmic space and laws were gradually solidifying into a two-dimensional painting, accompanied by a terrifying rumbling sound, an indescribable, terrifying existence broke through from the deepest layer of space and descended upon the world.

Streaks of frenzied might tore apart the gradually solidifying painting, interrupting the process of three-dimensional space transforming into two-dimensional space.

"Your life?"

Jiang Ding's gaze turned cold as he looked toward the center of the star river.

The center.

Behind the Ancient God Ancestor, at some unknown moment, a terrifying hand the size of a star had risen, blotting out the sky.

This hand was covered in rotting flesh, with bare white bone exposed in many places. Countless ages had accumulated upon this hand, and after enduring the wear of who knows how many millions of years, it was long since incomplete.

Even so, one could still see that this hand had been forcibly torn off by some terrifying power, broken at the wrist.

Now, this terrifying hand — this unknown hand from beyond the Celestial — truly appeared in the world. The mere natural diffusion of its might shattered the Great Sun Immortal-Mortal Sword Soul's domain of forbidding all laws of the heavens.

"…Unwilling…"

"…Immortal… the Immortal beyond the nine heavens…"

Amidst this terrifying pressure, a severely fragmented voice emerged, thick with unwillingness and sorrow, its remnants still lingering after hundreds of millions of years of erosion; one dare not imagine what this palm had once endured.

This intense emotion appeared for an instant, then vanished, as if the boundless universe and starry sky would not permit its existence.

"Die!"

The Ancient God Ancestor traced a spell formation and pointed sharply at the youth in green robes.

In an instant, the heavens and earth darkened, the universe shifted, and everything transformed.

The unknown, fragmented palm suddenly expanded infinitely, as if becoming an entire world; the ground turned into pitch-black flesh and blood, while surrounding clouds and mist grew hazy, obscuring all sight in a gloomy, dim haze.

Only in the distance, towering within the clouds of the Nine Heavens, stood five black pillars of flesh like celestial columns!

"I..."

"Am I now inside the palm?!"

Jiang Ding realized this possibility and felt a shock in his heart.