Chapter 182: The Death of Zhou Kai, Master of Heaven and Earth!

Endless roaring sounds became the theme of this Void region; no one knew exactly how long the roaring in that Void region had echoed.

The world only knew, only knew that for the past hundred days, intense tremors had been coming from the Beidi of the entire Human Race territory.

Fortunately, most of the living beings in the Human Race territory were of the Human Race, and they also knew that it was the Human Race's Supreme, the Red Lotus Demon Venerable, battling the Kirin Emperor, Zhou Kai.

Even the news of the Red Lotus Demon Venerable breaking through to the Heavenly Human Realm had been transmitted throughout the entire Human Race territory.

Everyone was hoping, hoping that the Human Race's Red Lotus Demon Venerable would be the one to survive the War of Contending for Heaven.

And in that Void region, those ancient Supremes who had once stepped into it had all long since fallen; not only had their energy not reached the peak of perfection, but it was also just as the Supreme Changyu had previously predicted.

Those ancient Supremes who stepped into the Void region almost completely perished right after attempting to break through.

Heaven and Earth's blockade against them had not been lifted, and they even sensed that something was wrong the moment they broke through.

It was just a pity that they realized it too late, so late that they had no chance to turn things around at all.

They could only watch helplessly, watch as they completely transformed into the principles between Heaven and Earth, and subsequently, into this Void.

Their only use was probably just to make the Heaven and Earth principles of this Void region increasingly perfect, and then become nourishment for Gu Jiangming and Zhou Kai after their breakthroughs.

But for Gu Jiangming and Zhou Kai, as the Heaven and Earth principles from the fallen ancient Supremes continuously poured into this Heaven and Earth Void, their foundations became even more profound.

Even now, Gu Jiangming and Zhou Kai had already traveled quite a distance within the Heavenly Human Realm.

On the battlefield, the slaughter between Gu Jiangming and Zhou Kai had reached a white-hot stage; whether it was Zhou Kai or Gu Jiangming, they had almost only each other in their eyes.

Even though Gu Jiangming's Merit Karma Fire was extremely formidable, while the Merit Karma Fire was strong, Zhou Kai's physical body was not inferior either.

Added to that, using Merit Karma Fire against the Heavenly Human Realm Zhou Kai was, in the end, still lacking a bit of heat.

After all, not only did the Kirin naturally control fire, but Zhou Kai had also continuously integrated Gu Jiangming's principles during the battle, which greatly increased Zhou Kai's tolerance for the Merit Karma Fire.

At this point, whether it was Gu Jiangming or Zhou Kai, they were actually both just wearing each other down.

They were attempting to exhaust the other's physical strength, or exhaust the other's will.

Having cultivated to their stage, neither of them had any weaknesses in their Essence Refining, Qi, or spirit; if one had to name a weakness, it was probably that neither Zhou Kai nor Gu Jiangming had yet had the chance to transform their divine abilities.

Divine abilities not having finished transforming meant that they were fundamentally unable to completely annihilate each other.

But both Gu Jiangming and Zhou Kai knew that if they could not resolve each other today, then as time passed and as they both mastered Heavenly Human means, it would be even more impossible for them to annihilate each other.

Heaven has no two suns, a country has no two masters; for one era, the existence of one name is already enough!

This slaughter was destined to continue; in this bitter battle, no one knew into whose hands the victory would fall until the very last moment.

On the contrary, Zhou Kai, in the center of the battlefield, had already developed a slight ominous premonition in his heart.

This slaughter was originally supposed to be a contest of foundations between him and Gu Jiangming; compared to Gu Jiangming's rise, Zhou Kai had lived for nearly ten thousand years in earnest.

In a contest of foundations, Zhou Kai did not feel he would lose no matter what.

But as time passed, Zhou Kai also realized with astonishment, realized that Gu Jiangming's progress seemed to have no upper limit? If one said that after breaking through to the Heavenly Human Realm, Zhou Kai and Gu Jiangming had both achieved ninety-one points.

Then in these hundred days of slaughter, Zhou Kai had at best only raised his score from ninety-one to ninety-three, and even that was due to those ancient Supremes, and even the dissipation of principles on Gu Jiangming's body, plus Zhou Kai's original foundation.

And Gu Jiangming, his foundation was indeed not as deep as Zhou Kai's, but Gu Jiangming's improvement was actually faster than his own.

In a mere hundred days, Gu Jiangming went from being slightly inferior to him at the start, to now being able to slightly surpass him! What made Zhou Kai feel somewhat horrified was that Gu Jiangming's improvement seemed to have no upper limit at all? It was as if, as if Gu Jiangming had once stepped into the Heavenly Human Realm, and was now merely regaining the strength of the Heavenly Human Realm! Zhou Kai had a feeling in his heart that if he continued to fight Gu Jiangming, Gu Jiangming might truly be able to climb his cultivation directly to the perfection of the Heavenly Human Realm on the battlefield! In fact, this feeling of Zhou Kai's was not wrong, or rather, Zhou Kai had guessed a fraction of the truth.

Gu Jiangming had once, after the Four Thousand Bureau, infinitely raised his field of vision, raising his vision to a level that was almost inconceivable.

And as Gu Jiangming stepped into the Heavenly Human Realm, he was naturally able to slowly adapt to, and even take control of, the Four Thousand Bureau.

Zhou Kai's gaze had always been fixed on him; he had not sensed, sensed that this Void region was clearly already being slowly governed by the Four Thousand Bureau.

The Four Thousand Bureau was itself a new Heaven and Earth order; in this era, Gu Jiangming's strength was insufficient to support the Four Thousand Bureau, so he could only treat the Four Thousand Bureau as a tool for his Breaking Limits Realm.

But the appearance of this Void region allowed Gu Jiangming to perceive a new possibility! He could completely utilize this Void region to inject the order of the Four Thousand Bureau into it, subsequently turning this Void region into a Small World completely under his control! If Gu Jiangming's idea could be realized, he would possess a Heaven and Earth belonging solely to himself; even if this Heaven and Earth could not support others in breaking through to the Heavenly Human Realm, helping others break through to the Supreme Realm would not be a difficult task.

After all, after all, eight ancient Supremes had already fallen in this Void region.

The principles of these ancient Supremes did not dissipate, but were only contained by this Void, and even became a part of the Void.

This was what Gu Jiangming thought, and also what Gu Jiangming did.

Two months into the battle, Gu Jiangming was already attempting to set the order and rules of the Four Thousand Bureau as the fundamental rules of this Void territory.

This was also the reason why Zhou Kai felt that Gu Jiangming's improvement was completely contrary to common sense.

Gu Jiangming had the support of an entire Small World behind him, while for Zhou Kai, every bit of foundation he used meant consuming that much more.

As time passed, the battle between Zhou Kai and Gu Jiangming became increasingly clear.

Even those many Heaven and Earth Enlightenment, and even Half-Step Supreme, who were still watching the battle, could see at this time, see that in this War of Contending for Heaven, Zhou Kai had already fallen into a disadvantage!

"Is a new era coming?"

"An era belonging solely to the Human Race?"

Those Heaven and Earth Enlightenment, those Half-Step Supreme, their expressions at this moment were truly complex to the extreme. If time were turned back a hundred years, they could never have imagined, imagined that among the Human Race, who were once almost treated only as rations on this land, such an inconceivable existence would be born.

A Heavenly Human, a living Heavenly Human.

No matter what race this Heavenly Human originated from, as long as this Heavenly Human existed, then within the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations of Heaven and Earth, there would be an era belonging solely to that person!

The ancient Dragon Race era, the ancient Kirin era, were all like this.

After the last Heavenly Human fell, the era became the Endless Era; Endless means the end, without a name.

And after this long Endless Era, seeing that another Heavenly Human was about to walk out, walking toward the era belonging solely to him! What made them most helpless was that these Heaven and Earth Enlightenment, and even Half-Step Supreme, even if they had ten thousand kinds of helplessness in their hearts, upon looking back, they discovered that they could only passively accept this new era, belonging solely to the Human Race.

In this battle, neither Gu Jiangming nor Zhou Kai had actively attacked those ancient Supremes.

Yet the number of fallen ancient Supremes had reached the terrifying count of eight.

Those eight ancient Supremes did not bring even the slightest trouble to those two, as if after living for such a long time, their mission was to celebrate the new Heavenly Human Era with their own lives! "Boom—!!!"

After three hundred and sixty-five sun and moon cycles, the entire Void region had been completely controlled by the Four Thousand Bureau.

Even though Zhou Kai had discovered something wrong a long time ago, when this Void region completely turned into Gu Jiangming's shape, Zhou Kai's eyes still could not help but flash with a look of despair.

"This battle, it is not the fault of the battle, it is truly Heaven's mandate!"

When Gu Jiangming's body once again radiated that harmonious and unobstructed perfect aura, Zhou Kai, at the final moment of his life, also transformed into human form.

Clearly his own life was continuously slipping away, and his own principles were being worn down by the Heaven and Earth before him, but at this moment, other than a trace of helplessness in his eyes, Zhou Kai did not have much sorrow.

He had already achieved his wish; in his life, he had truly climbed to the Heavenly Human Realm.

This battle was not because he was insufficiently prepared, nor was it because his natural talent was lacking; it was truly because Gu Jiangming, who stood before him, harbored a tremendous secret.

It was clearly a Void Small World forcibly carved out, yet this Void Small World had instead been refined by the other party.

The "Heavenly Mandate" in Zhou Kai's mouth was not the so-called will of Heaven and Earth, but the Heavenly Mandate of this Void Small World! At this moment, Gu Jiangming also ceased his movements; he simply watched Zhou Kai before him quietly, watching the helplessness and lingering unwillingness in Zhou Kai's eyes slowly fade away.

Even Gu Jiangming had to admit that Zhou Kai indeed possessed his own personal Charm.

Although this fellow's breath was as thin as a gossamer thread at this moment, if Zhou Kai were truly that kind of deranged person, he could have completely disintegrated his own Dao and brought a heap of trouble to Gu Jiangming.

Yet Zhou Kai did not do so; he simply felt his own Dao being worn away in this Void Heaven and Earth, quietly feeling his life reach its final end.

"Go and take a look for me, see exactly what kind of realm that Immortal is in!"

At the final moment of his life, Zhou Kai's body, which had originally been as firm as a rock, was constantly withering; Zhou Kai looked at Gu Jiangming before him, and there was not much hatred in the depths of his eyes, only a touch of melancholy.

He simply stared with this melancholy gaze, looked at Gu Jiangming before him, and slowly left behind his final words!

As Zhou Kai's voice drifted away in the Void Small World, Zhou Kai's body also began to turn into fly ash at this moment...

In this Void Small World, only Gu Jiangming stood quietly in the center of Heaven and Earth, in the center of this world interwoven with the rules and order of the Four Thousand Bureau.

"There will be such an opportunity..."

"But, it will not be this era!"

Gu Jiangming watched Zhou Kai fall, looked at the ground where Zhou Kai had originally stood, and slowly let out such a sigh.

【Thirty years of lying dormant, your cultivation has reached the limit that Heaven and Earth can accommodate!】

【You wish to truly break through to the Heavenly Human Realm in this era, and among the Qilin Race outside the Human North Territory, there is also an opponent who has waited for you for a long time, equally longing to break through to the Heavenly Human Realm.】

【You began to collide your Qi by unspoken agreement, and you began to impact the Heavenly Human Realm by unspoken agreement.】

【Your Qi alone was enough to disintegrate a Small World; after you and Zhou Kai fought, Heaven and Earth became Void, you did not belong within the rules, you carved out new rules, and you both ascended to the Heavenly Human Realm.】

【While you and Zhou Kai were contending for Heaven, the ancient existences between this Heaven and Earth also appeared one by one.】

【There were ancient Supreme beings who wanted to learn the method you and Zhou Kai used to break through, to similarly break through to the Heavenly Human Realm, but unfortunately, the world did not allow it, and Heaven and Earth did not agree!】

【As soon as they began to break through, they felt that the blockade of Heaven and Earth still remained.】

【But their breakthrough could not be stopped; everything they possessed disintegrated, and the Dao they carried began to manifest.】

【The Void zone was originally just a place of breakthrough opened by the tacit understanding between you and Zhou Kai; with the integration of the Dao of eight ancient Supreme beings, this Small World, which should have returned to Heaven and Earth, began to instinctively absorb the Dao left behind after the ancient Supreme beings fell.】

【This was an incredible coincidence; the original Void began to evolve into a Small World possessing imperfect Dao.】

【You keenly perceived this point; you were in a nascent world, and you expanded your Four Thousand Bureau, integrating your Four Thousand Bureau into this embryonic world that could collapse at any moment.】

【The fall of the ancient Supreme beings and the support of the Four Thousand Bureau made this world, which was born from the battle of the strong, no longer so easy to collapse.】

【You became the master of a Small World, and you received the blessing of a Small World!】

【Under the blessing of the Small World, you defeated your nemesis, Zhou Kai!】

【At the final moment of Zhou Kai's fall, he perceived your thoughts, and he chose to use his own Heavenly Human Realm to fulfill you, to fulfill this Small World.】

【You carved out a Small World, and you became, the Heavenly Lord!】

(End of this chapter)