Chapter 254: with translation of chapter title

The void battlefield outside the Boundary Wall.

Thunder Emperor, Wind Marquis, Martial Venerable, and Li Hentian four people simultaneously felt that tremendous, unbelievable will surge coming from inside Sanqian Zhou.

World Tree!

Li Hentian's pupils contracted sharply.

He knew from the remnant soul memories of the Zhenyuan Immortal King that the young man named Gu Yuan could control the World Tree, but he never imagined the other could do this to such an extent!

He forcibly drew upon the will of dozens of prefectures!

Is this kid crazy? Isn't he afraid his soul will be blown apart?

Thunder Emperor also halted his attack.

His thunder pool hovered in midair, his face so dark it seemed water could drip from it.

He's accelerating! He's forcibly stripping away those prefectures!

The storm transformed by the Wind Marquis also stalled for an instant.

The four of them are fighting desperately here to hold back Gu Cangsheng—what are they aiming for?

Their goal is to preserve Sanqian Zhou and seize the Chaos Spirit Stone fragments.

But now, their home is about to be looted clean!

Even if they really grind Gu Cangsheng to death here today, Sanqian Zhou has lost over forty prefectures—who will bear that responsibility?

Back in the Immortal Realm, the Supreme Immortal King will not spare them first!

I'll go!

Thunder Emperor volunteered.

The other two kings, seeing this, silently cursed.

This damn thing!

Four against one, they can barely suppress Gu Cangsheng.

Now it's three against one, the pressure surges; seized by this old madman, it's not impossible to leave one dead on the spot.

You three, hold him! I'll go and come back quickly!

After saying that, Thunder Emperor turned into a purplish-black bolt of lightning, bypassing Gu Cangsheng and racing straight toward Zhongzhou in Sanqian Zhou.

He is confident.

Even a mere junior of the Ten Realms, even if he can temporarily guide the will of the world, it is still an external force.

Before him, this Peak Immortal King, it's not worth a single blow!

One move.

Only one move is needed to turn him and that phantom of the World Tree into calamity ash together!

Moreover, he can even take away the World Tree, this supreme treasure!

If he could take just one step……

Become a half-step Giant Immortal King……

Then……

However, at the very moment he set off.

A somewhat weathered voice, filled with endless killing intent, rang in his ear.

Thunder Emperor, your opponent is me!

A gray-black figure blocked his path.

Myriad Medicine Divine Lord!

He drives that damaged Twilight Immortal King's fleshly body, his eyes burning with vengeful fire.

Get lost!

Thunder Emperor roared in anger, not even glancing at him, and threw a punch.

A cripple who hasn't even reached Peak Immortal King dares to block his way?

But, just at this moment.

A seven-colored glow rose from behind Myriad Medicine Divine Lord and poured into his body.

Gu Yuan activated 【Borrow Strength】!

What he borrowed was not the power of Myriad Medicine Divine Lord.

But the will of the world gathered from forty-three prefectures!

Myriad Medicine Divine Lord's aura surged in this instant to a degree even he himself found terrifying!

He felt as if he had returned to his peak—no, even surpassed it!

He instinctively unleashed this force together with the uncontrollable Apocalyptic Dao origin within him.

The gray-black apocalyptic flame, the vast vital creative power, and that foreign world's will twisted together into a contradictory and terrifying torrent of force.

Boom——!

Thunder Emperor's fist force collided with this force.

He was shaken back half a step.

That half step.

A figure of extreme speed appeared before him.

Gu Yuan!

He actually stepped onto the battlefield himself!

In Gu Yuan's hand he held the broken axe of Gu Zhan.

On the axe blade coiled a wisp of gray-black……Apocalyptic Dao origin!

"Pfft!"

The Broken Axe, under the Thunder Emperor's incredulous gaze, sliced through his protective Thunder Shield and struck his destiny Thunder Pool!

The Thunder Pool shattered.

It wasn't split apart.

It was a corner corroded away by that strand of gray‑black Doomsday Path origin.

That strand of origin comes from the Twilight Immortal King, who, like the Thunder Emperor, is an Immortal King; its embedded decay law lethally counters any Immortal King artifact.

The Thunder Emperor's destiny Thunder Pool, though a Jue Dian Immortal King artifact and unbreakable, is ultimately a thing.

Being a thing, it undergoes birth and death, and thus an end.

The Doomsday Path accelerates that ending.

A missing corner appeared, and the Thunder Pool liquid, condensed from liquid thunder, instantly burst forth like a broken dam.

The purplish‑black liquid radiated a terrifying aura of destruction in the void; each drop could erase a true immortal.

But Gu Yuan and his companions had been waiting for this moment.

The World Tree's roots reached out from the void, forming a giant multicolored net that captured all the Thunder Pool liquid before it could scatter!

"Gather!"

Gu Yuan let out a low shout; the multicolored net suddenly contracted, forcibly dragging back dozens of priceless drops of Thunder Pool liquid.

The entire process unfolded in the blink of an eye.

From Wan Yao Divine Lord's initial block, to Gu Yuan's leveraged surprise attack, to splitting the Thunder Pool and collecting its liquid, it was seamless—so swift that even the distant Wind Empress and Martial Honored One couldn't react.

"Ah—!"

The Thunder Emperor let out a roar that shook the universe.

It wasn't due to pain.

It was humiliation!

A terrible disgrace!

His illustrious Jue Dian Immortal King, ranked nineteenth on the Celestial Realm Immortal King list, was damaged by a junior of the Tenth Realm, in front of three peers, who broke his destiny artifact and seized his primordial essence!

"You're asking for death!"

The Thunder Emperor went completely mad.

The purplish‑black thunder surrounding him solidified into a ferocious thunder battle armor; the thunder orbs in his eyes burst with dazzling light, and a fist slammed toward the nearby Gu Yuan.

The punch, imbued with his full strength, crushed the void inch by inch.

Just as this world‑shattering punch was about to devour Gu Yuan, a gray‑black figure forced its way in, staunchly blocking him.

It was Wan Yao Divine Lord!

His previous strike had already drained almost all his power; now the Twilight Immortal King's shattered body was riddled with ferocious cracks, golden blood gushing from his seven orifices.

Yet his eyes showed an unyielding resolve; he squeezed the remaining life‑creating force into an emerald law shield, which stubbornly withstood the raging purplish‑black thunder.

Boom!

When thunder struck the shield, Wan Yao Divine Lord's body shivered violently, and spider‑web cracks spread across the shield's surface.

"Young Master…"

Wan Yao Divine Lord's divine thought, tinged with unmistakable weakness and urgency, raced into Gu Yuan's sea of consciousness,

"I… can't hold it any longer!"

"Thank you for your effort, Senior Wan Yao."

Gu Yuan's expression remained as calm as water; his deep eyes showed no panic.

He watched Wan Yao Divine Lord's wavering silhouette and replied softly.

"From now on… watch me."

"Thunder Emperor, hold back."

Gu Yuan slowly said, "The good show has only just begun."

He raised his hand.

The phantom of Ten Thousand Temporal Lights flickered in his palm.