Chapter 30: A Hundred and Eight Thousand Li Away!

Outside the Heavenly Realm, the Candle Dragon's icy gaze shrouded the entire Galaxy.

He gazed at the ruined Galaxy wrecks and spoke coldly.

"Lu Chen, you ultimately still lost!"

"No matter how astonishing your abilities through the ages, you now lack the power to turn the tide!"

"What does it matter if you sealed me for thirty years?"

"It merely lets the human race linger a little longer!"

"The Heavenly Realm Grand Formation is shattered, your disciples and descendants have exhausted their lifeforce—I don't believe you still have any means to stop me!"

Beyond the Galaxy, on that massive dragon's head, a ferocious smile appeared.

"Wanting to stop you isn't that hard, is it?"

A clear, cold voice rang out; ripples spread across the Galaxy's border, condensing into Lu Chen's figure.

He locked eyes with the Candle Dragon.

"Hehehe, even now you're still bluffing."

"I thought you had some trump cards, but it's just loud talk."

The Candle Dragon's voice was full of disdain; if it were still trapped in the Galaxy, bound by those chains, it would still have a few misgivings about Lu Chen.

But now, having broken free of the chains, in strength he alone can match Lu Chen's All-Heavens Star Battle Grand Formation.

Moreover, many demons have already slaughtered their way into the Heavenly Realm ruins.

He simply couldn't imagine what else the opponent could have to win this! As for the earlier fear and unease, that was merely himself being bewildered by Lu Chen's performance.

A mere human whose divine power has withered, whose body was patched by the heavenly way, and who only attained immortality postnatally—what is there to fear? Thus he smiled.

"Lu Chen, I truly admire you—still able to keep your composure in such a plight!"

"But that's fine."

"I want to see, after the Galaxy shatters and I swallow the ancestral land into my belly, whether you can still remain so calm."

By this point, killing intent suddenly surged in the Candle Dragon's eyes.

He shouted softly.

"Trample the Heavenly Realm!"

The Candle Dragon's voice spread throughout the Galaxy, inside and out.

Even the human race far away on the Blue Star heard it clearly.

At this moment, the faces of the Great Xia Humanity turned ashen, despair reaching its utmost.

The Heavenly Realm Grand Formation shattered, a hundred thousand immortals fell in formation, countless heroes clung to life—it seemed the human race had no hope left! Meanwhile, billions of Western humans began to gloat, sneering and jeering.

"Hahaha, I said it before—how could Great Xia possibly stand against the Divine Race Army!"

"They brought it on themselves—if they had believed in God from the start, they wouldn't have ended up like this!"

"Wanting to go to war with us is laughable—you'll perish before you even get a chance to strike!"

Within Great Xia, no one spoke anymore—only silence, a long silence.

All resentment and anger, as the countless demons approached in the vision, turned into deep despair and helplessness.

Countless clouds of sand rose, black waves surged, rushing toward the last standing hero of Great Xia.

Seeing that youth about to be smashed to bits, swallowed by the endless demons.

Above the cosmic firmament, the man in a green robe suddenly sighed.

"Tens of thousands of years have passed—I never expected we'd reunite in this way."

"Monkey, monkey, you say heaven and earth, sun and moon, primordial chaos all have an end, only our mana is boundless—I thought that was a joke, but I never imagined the aura of the gods would be almost entirely unblocked only by you."

"Now the Heavenly Realm is in crisis, the human race is in crisis—you are this Heavenly Realm's Great Sage Equal to Heaven, how can you not care?"

Lu Chen held out the rust-covered golden hoop from his sleeve and flung it toward the ruins. Hum—

The golden hoop trembled lightly in the void; several beams of light shattered the rust, revealing a myriad-zhang golden radiance!

In this moment, it seemed as if the heavens and earth had broken through some shackles and seals!

Above the Blue Star, violent divine power surged; a blinding golden pillar of light shot up from the depths of the great sea, soaring straight to the Nine Heavens Galaxy above! "No, impossible, impossible!"

"I clearly used great divine abilities to completely sever your connection with the gods—how could you still awaken them?"

Zhu Jiuyin felt the revived divine aura, his whole body trembling.

His vision was further obscured by that soaring divine light, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Lu Chen gazed at the figure gradually coalescing in the light pillar and spoke softly.

"The gods may be dead, but their obsessions remain."

"Your divine ability is indeed terrifying, severing the gods' return path, yet it cannot shroud the human race's vow-power."

"I have imparted the Great Xia Humanity's immortal methods, so they may inherit the abilities of the ancient true immortals—just to give this obsession a place to go, a trail to follow."

"Especially between life and death, when those myriad immortal methods are suddenly enlightened, it is as if a candle is lit along the gods' dark return path."

"The Great Xia Humanity's immortals, though they come one after another, pass the torch unextinguished—this is a principle you demons will never understand."

"Holding this belief, even if the beings beneath the Heavenly Realm have only a breath left, they can still rise to meet death, their flame enduring for eons!"

Though Lu Chen's voice was soft, it seemed to weigh a thousand jun, striking heavily in the hearts of billions of Great Xia people! At this moment, the billions of Great Xia's children lifted their heads anew, drawing a little strength from despair.

"Not bad—my Great Xia civilization has never been severed, wasn't in the past, isn't now, and won't be in the future!"

"To set the heart of Heaven and Earth, to establish the livelihood of the people, to continue the learning of the sages, to open an era of peace for all ages!"

"The difference between my Great Xia civilization and the Western foreign tribes lies precisely here: every era has countless sages who bear the beings on their shoulders!"

"If the gods cannot find their way back, then please let us light a candle for the forebear sages!"

"Today I summon Sun Dasheng, merely because the demon mist has returned!"

The billions of Great Xia's people knelt before the golden pillar of light in the heavens.

Countless wishes gathered from the human world; above the void, that fallen golden hoop kept trembling and buzzing!

Finally, the golden hoop hovered in midair, floating within that pillar of light.

A huge monkey phantom exactly enveloped the youth.

He gazed at the floating golden hoop before him; a great wind suddenly rose, tossing his disheveled hair.

A voice sounded in his mind.

"Wearing this golden hoop will allow you to summon the boundless-powerful Great Sage Equal to Heaven."

"And, the price?"

"There will be no more Li Yunsheng in the world; your body and soul will vanish into smoke."

The youth fell silent for a moment, gazing at the sky-full of demons, then slowly removed the golden hoop from the void.

"Going forth, eighty thousand li—what harm if there is no return date!"

He gave a faint smile, letting the golden hoop on his head fall! In the next instant, the divine light of the golden hoop, which had slept for ten thousand years, burst forth, and terrifying divine power surged.

The youth's body turned into specks of golden light and dissipated; a defiant great demon, wielding a divine iron and clad in dark-gold mail armor, stepped out from the golden pillar of light.

Dang—

The Sea-Stabilizing Divine Needle fell to the ground, and the entire heavenly realm ruins trembled.

That defiant monkey, alone, faced the sky-full of demons and slowly said.

"One hundred thousand demons—long time no see such a scene!"

(End of chapter)