Chapter 693: Shattered, the True Form of the Heavenly Emperor

Inside the Qiankun Diagram, Zhang Jian actively activated several innate divine prohibitions' spiritual light, forming a matrix-style spellcasting.

The boundless chaotic qi trembled and surged, instantly transforming into a massive vortex that continuously rushed toward the Primordial Ancestor of Destruction.

As if the boundless chaos was swallowing heaven, earth, and all laws.

But Zhang Jian knew this could at most sustain for a single breath; the opponent would inevitably break through this secret technique.

At the same time, a tremendous boom echoed from above, and countless crystal walls formed from earth crystals shattered in a terrifying green light.

The green light burst forth, as if a grand, heaven-splitting power had been unleashed, rushing toward Zhang Jian.

Above the void, the Mother Goddess of the Life Divine Tree was surrounded by boundless emerald divine light flowing around her, her deep eyes reflecting endless divinity and compassion, yet her divine Dao techniques held no mercy—wherever her tree roots passed, time, space, and even the boundless vitality of heaven and earth were utterly plundered.

Zhang Jian gazed at the terrifying green light descending from above; at this moment, distracted, suppressing the Qiankun Diagram was not an easy move.

A thought stirred—he caused a blue lotus to bloom atop his head, a third-grade lotus blossoming and resting upon his crown.

Boom—boom—boom!

Yet he saw that the countless green lights striking the lotus merely caused layers of invisible azure ripples to appear around it.

But the countless green lights, having failed in that strike, transformed into countless green light vines that ensnared Zhang Jian's entire body.

The countless green lights surged like a flood, trapping Zhang Jian, and carried a strange power that devoured and absorbed cultivation.

At this moment, Zhang Jian's expression also slightly changed.

This was the true terror of this Life Tree Mother.

At this moment, he felt tightly bound, yet his expression remained calm.

Such wood-attribute entangling power was astonishing, but he fortunately possessed a supreme treasure that countered wood attributes.

Deep within his brow, the Wuji Great Brightness Cloud appeared, and within it, a wood-attribute supreme treasure flowed out, emitting formless jade-colored light that caused part of the green light fluctuations to show a hint of stagnation.

His figure instantly transformed into a strand of innate divine light, piercing through.

A divine innate talisman appeared deep within his brow.

It was a lower-grade innate spiritual treasure—the Innate Wood Source Divine Talisman.

Yet this treasure also gave Zhang Jian greater initiative at the critical moment.

At this moment, in the surrounding void, several Star Monarchs guarded before the Star Altar, not participating in the great battle to avoid hindering, but seeing Zhang Jian repeatedly produce two innate spiritual treasures, they too felt somewhat numb.

This Taiji Immortal Court's Earth Emperor God's family background was simply too rich!

At this moment, emerging from the green light, Zhang Jian's expression remained unchanged; deep in his palm, the Innate Four Symbols Divine Needles had already been quietly gripped, and he now softly spoke to the two Primordial Ancestors.

"It's already too late—only two breaths remain. His Majesty Ziwei, one of the Six Emperors of my Heavenly Court, is about to descend. The fall of the Spirit Realm is imminent. Why, O Two Dao Lords, persist in this futile effort? Better to submit early to my Heavenly Court, and perhaps still preserve the dignity of the Primordial Ancestors, honoring them!"

As his words fell, the Life Tree Mother cast her icy gaze upon the Star Altar.

Above the Star Altar, the true form of the Ziwei Tian Emperor gradually coalesced, boundless heavenly Dao backlash continuously thundered around him, transforming into heavenly thunderlight, yet could not harm him in the slightest.

At this moment, the Ziwei Tian Emperor also turned his distant gaze toward her.

This calm gaze caused alarm bells to ring loudly in the Life Tree Mother's heart, and she felt a terrifying sensation arise.

If this Ziwei Emperor were to manifest his true form, she feared she could not withstand even a single encounter.

But the Life Tree Mother also knew then that the Earth God was likely nearing his limit, hence her words to disturb his mind—if she focused on this Earth God now, she might very well slay him!

Whether by relying on the Spirit Realm's decline to slay this Earth God, or by abandoning entanglement with him and destroying that altar.

In truth, the Life Tree Mother leaned toward the former.

She had seen the four treasures manifested in the palm of this Earth God.

As one of the oldest among the primordial gods of this realm, she did not possess such wealth—if she seized his riches, even leaving the Spirit Realm, she would still have hope of attaining the Great Dao.

But if the Ziwei Emperor were to manifest, even if she slew this Earth God and seized his treasures, she would likely still not escape the Spirit Realm.

Various thoughts flashed through the Life Tree Mother's mind; she had already made her decision—the urgent priority was still to prevent the Ziwei Tian Emperor from descending.

Her body surged with countless emerald flowing lights, which instantly shot toward the Star Altar.

Above the Star Altar, the faces of the many Star Monarch guards changed color, as if facing a great enemy.

"Zhou Tian Pan!"

As the Tian Liang Star Monarch's expression shifted, a starlight appeared above his head, instantly transforming into a massive star disk resting atop his crown; other Star Monarchs similarly had starlight appear around them, shooting into the Zhou Tian Star Disk, evolving into a miniature Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array.

Boom—boom—boom!

Countless green lights fell from the heavens like rain striking banana leaves.

This Zhou Tian Star Disk was not the main body of an innate spiritual treasure; at this moment, it barely held before the entire disk shattered, and several Star Monarchs were flung backward by the green light impact.

Just one encounter had already laid them down.

One by one, their faces turned ash-gray, surrounded by layers of terrifying green light.

Only the Tian Liang Star Monarch could still barely recondense the Zhou Tian Star Disk, struggling to maintain it on the ground, yet his face was also shocked.

It was not that they were too weak, but that the Paramount Dao Lords were too terrifying.

Their cultivation nearly possessed the power to reopen heaven and earth.

Yet after breaking through the minor Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array formed by several Star Monarchs, part of the green light surged like a flood onto the Star Altar, but around the altar, layers of Xuanhuang qi emerged, gradually forming a massive Xuanhuang-colored fetal membrane that absorbed most of the green light.

However, after absorbing these green lights, the Xuanhuang Fetal Membrane Great Array became riddled with holes, and part of the altar's wall suffered damage.

But it still held.

At this moment, the true form of the Ziwei Emperor had already taken shape, and the distance from the purple star above his head to fully脱离 the Star Gate was now within a hair's breadth.

But the Life Tree Mother felt that within a single breath, she could already destroy the altar a hundred million times!

Zhang Jian also saw the Life Tree Mother's movement, yet he paid it no heed.

When the Life Tree Mother chose to attack the Star Altar, he knew he had avoided the risk of loss.

The altar he himself refined—he knew its quality; this could not be broken in just one or two breaths.

At this moment, the Destroyer God within the Qiankun Diagram had already escaped.

This was not the Life Tree Mother, who could still consider the bigger picture; she burst forth from within the Qiankun Diagram and rushed straight toward Zhang Jian.

But Zhang Jian was also prepared in advance; the Innate Four Symbols Divine Needles in his hand shot out instantly, piercing his true form, causing him to emit a cold, mocking laugh, yet he disregarded it and transformed into a stream of light, charging toward Zhang Jian.

The destructive divine light descended, as if tearing open the heavens.

The billions of miles of the Southern Ming Divine Continent, under this terrifying divine power, seemed to have mountains collapsing and the earth splitting.

Zhang Jian's expression changed slightly; a third-grade green lotus reappeared deep in his brow, the Infinite Innate Green Lotus Creation Immortal Light manifested, with green lotuses continuously blooming and blocking above his head.

Under that destructive divine light, however, the illusory lotus petals atop the green lotus above his head withered point by point at great speed, leaving only the lotus base in an instant; under that terrifying destructive divine power, it seemed the Infinite Heaven and Earth had fallen into great annihilation, even the endless regenerative capacity of the Innate Creation Green Lotus was hindered, on the verge of being shattered.

Zhang Jian's expression also fluctuated somewhat.

The cultivation of this God of Destruction is truly formidable, yet he still cannot break through the defense of the Innate Creation Green Lotus.

As Zhang Jian focused, the Innate Four Symbols Divine Needles converged from the other side of the void, the spirits of the Innate Four Symbols gathering instantly into a beam of Four Symbols Divine Light, shooting from one side to harass the God of Destruction.

In Hui Tu's frenzied eyes, a hint of clarity flickered faintly.

He had just endured that divine needle strike head-on; the spirits of the Innate Four Symbols manifested destructive power within his Dao body, wreaking havoc; if he were struck again, his combat strength would likely be reduced by more than half.

As he focused, the Ten Directions Annihilation around his body coalesced into a stream of light blocking before him, at a tricky angle deflecting the Innate Four Symbols Divine Needles, yet his body was surrounded by a terrifying wheel of dark red, gray-extinguished radiance, from which Infinite Destructive Divine Power burst forth.

"Let's see how long you can endure!"

In the depths of Hui Tu's eyes, a dark gold divine radiance with a hint of delay flickered; instantly, the Infinite Destructive Divine Radiance appeared in the depths of the void, and in that moment, it would seal the place where Zhang Jian stood, while a terrifying force seemed to want to drag him in, shifting space.

Zhang Jian frowned slightly; obviously, this God of Destruction also knew this place could not suppress him, so he intended to bring him into an unknown spacetime.

By then, without the Purple Micro Emperor Lord, facing a mad Dao Sovereign alone would be no match.

Naturally, we cannot let him have his way.

Regarding mastery of the Great Spacetime Dao Law, he is certainly not inferior.

Another treasure deep in his brow faintly emitted a vast, radiant light; the Supreme Great Radiance shone forth, instantly breaking the countless chains of dark red destructive light binding him, the Cosmic Diagram enveloping his true form, and in an instant, he shifted through the Infinite Void, escaping from within.

Hui Tu's frenzied eyes also narrowed slightly at this moment.

At this point, I did not expect the Earth God to still have a trump card.

Boom—!

At the same time, countless green streams of light above the heavens condensed into one, forming a Azure-Green Heaven-Opening Divine Sword, which fiercely chopped down upon the Altar of the Stars.

That blazing, terrifying edge, as if one sword could tear apart the billions of miles of land of the Southern Ming Divine Continent, destroying the entire Altar of the Stars.

The Star Lords gazing upon this scene had their expressions drastically change.

But after waiting for the terrifying sword light to fade, the Star Lords turned from worry to joy.

Only to see the shattered, fragmented Altar of the Stars rapidly reassembling, like broken clay, kneaded and still able to form, with an inner layer of postnatal divine prohibition spirit light circulating.

Above the heavens, the Mother of the Life Tree gazed upon this scene, yet her expression changed dramatically.

Did they actually refine the altar into a postnatal spiritual treasure?

This result was something the Mother of the Life Tree never anticipated.

The altar is merely a temporary construct, mostly hastily forged, impossible to carry personally, for it requires materials from this side's heavenly realm to be forged, in order to gain authorization from the Heavenly Dao defense system.

A one-time magical treasure—is it worth spending such a cost?

At this moment, a vast divine power burst forth from beneath the Gate of the Stars, that vast divine power dispersing outward, centered on the Southern Ming Divine Continent, causing all spacetime, fate, the Five Elements, and even all mighty forces to experience a brief delay.

And almost in the next instant, above the heavens, the Mother of the Life Tree's expression changed, and an exquisitely splendid divine sword flashed past from the void.

She could not resist at all; in an instant, purple light severed her true form, making her emit a cry of extreme pain.

Though the lament lasted only a brief moment, one saw the Dao Fruit of the Other Shore deep in her brow, the Pure Purple Rank, already collapsed, her true spirit imprint turned to ash.

This terrifying Mother of the Life Tree was actually slain in a single encounter!

With a casual sword, he slew the Mother of the Life Tree, erasing her true spirit imprint in this realm completely; at this moment, the Purple Micro Emperor Lord raised one palm, deep in his palm as if covering the sky and blocking the sun; the God of Destruction's expression changed, and in an instant, he felt unable to move his body, his expression one of utter shock.

Yet in that instant, it transformed into a terrifying dark red radiant sun, violently expanding outward.

This time, he was not attempting to attack the Purple Micro Emperor Lord, but rather stepping into destruction himself.