Chapter 464: Heavenly Palace! Unleash! The Universe

‘Hum…’

The vast void crack suddenly trembled slightly, and within its depths, another crack emerged.

From afar, the void crack now resembled a monstrous, sinister eye, with the inner crack like a pupil.

A tiny speck of light appeared within the small crack, then rapidly approached the larger one.

The instant it burst forth, terrifying void energy erupted, causing the entire cosmic space to violently shudder, as if barely able to bear the strain.

‘Old man, why aren’t Itachi coming out to reason with them now?’

Chu Yang smirked, recalling how Kiran had appeared to counsel him when he had previously damaged cosmic space.

Now, as the void creatures threatened to collapse the entire space, Kiran remained nowhere to be seen.

So even the high-dimensional space principal knows how to play favorites?

Seven figures emerged, wreathed in purple-black light; they were not humanoid, their appearances grotesque beyond measure, with thick hind limbs but slender forelimbs.

Seeing their sharp mouthparts, hardened carapaces, and glowing tiny eyes, Chu Yang’s SAN value plummeted violently.

As they charged forward, their forelimbs flailed continuously, accelerating ever faster, even breaking free from the constraints of space and time.

Chu Yang narrowed his eyes, spread his arms, and a sound of dragon roars and elephant bellows rang out.

Immediately behind him, a towering hundred-zhang shadow appeared, bearing a divine elephant, its upper body entwined with a ferocious dragon.

The shadow seemed to have stepped from the abyss—a asura—but its face radiated solemn majesty, naturally awe-inspiring, like a golden Buddha.

Great Dragon-Elephant Law!

This was a divine art Chu Yang created by combining his Ultimate Gene with Buddhist and demonic cultivation techniques, rooted in the Dragon-Elephant Mingwang Decree!

At least in Chu Yang’s view, the Great Dragon-Elephant Law deserved the title of divine art!

Chu Yang raised his hand and made a phantom clap gesture; the shadow behind him moved in unison, its arms entwined with a ferocious dragon, while the divine elephant leaped upward, its massive hand sweeping out like a mountain.

Where the palm passed, cosmic space shattered inch by inch; the armored creatures constantly shifting between the void and the main universe froze as if turned to stone.

‘Boom!!!’

The palm descended, and the cosmic space erupted in a thunderous roar—the seven void creatures, utterly defenseless, were instantly shattered into fragments by the blow!

Thin strands of purple-black energy leaked out, and the void crack emitted a sucking force, as if trying to reclaim the energy.

But Karl acted faster—his former grimoire pages fluttered and directly absorbed the purple-black energy.

Chu Yang blinked, then chuckled: ‘Hmph… a hired hand trying to turn the tables?’

This Karl guy wanted him and the void creatures to fight like the snipe and the clam, so he could reap the benefits!

Chu Yang had always gone to great lengths to make others work for him—today, he was the one being used as hired labor!

Meanwhile, all life across the universe trembled with dread.

Where the void creatures passed, even cosmic space could not withstand the strain—their power was unimaginable.

Yet Chu Yang had simply swatted all seven to death with one palm, still chatting calmly.

This sight stirred fierce passion in many, especially Earthlings, whose fanaticism could not be contained; the entire planet was engulfed in a deafening roar that surged into the cosmos!

Everyone was shouting Chu Yang’s name!

At this moment, no borders, no nationalities mattered—they knew only that the single warrior standing against the void, protecting the entire universe, was their own kin!

…………

Before the void crack.

Karl, gazing at the utterly annihilated Shadow World, took a deep breath: ‘Chu Yang, Itachi’re alone—how many void creatures can Itachi possibly hold back?’

‘Try me!’

Chu Yang lightly stepped forward, and the sun and moon rose from his sides; the Three Sacred Spirits appeared, his left hand holding [Fengdu], his right [Tianque], his aura soaring to its peak.

Simultaneously, a long spear wreathed in holy light slowly coalesced above the entire void crack.

Judgment!

Another divine art forged from the Ultimate Gene, without blending any other techniques—purely an embodiment of ultimate algorithms.

Chu Yang had no interest in studying algorithms, but he could copy homework—he directly borrowed the core algorithms of the Solari and Angel civilizations, then refined them with Pangu’s input.

Judgment combined the traits of solar flares and Heavenly Blade Judgment, yet its power far surpassed the sum of both by countless times!

At the same time, the void crack began to violently tremble, and countless beams of light surged forth.

Tens of thousands of massive void creatures emerged—resembling ladybugs, yet sized like starships—charging straight at Chu Yang.

Where they passed, cosmic space instantly turned to dust; entire regions became void in an instant!

Invasion!

The void’s full-scale invasion!

And those colossal ‘bugs’? They were the vanguard of the void’s incursion into the main universe!

Chu Yang suddenly clenched his hand—the Judgment Holy Spear descended, unleashing a terrifying shockwave that engulfed a vast area, shattering thousands of bugs.

What followed, however, further revealed the void’s eerie nature.

After the massive bugs shattered, they dissolved into clusters of purple-black energy—but the energy remained intact, then gave birth to more bugs!

These new bugs were less than one percent the size of the original ladybugs, but their numbers were overwhelming.

What had been tens of thousands of bugs became hundreds of thousands in the blink of an eye!

‘Just cannon fodder…’

Chu Yang narrowed his eyes, then turned and said: ‘This is a cataclysm for the entire known universe—I will hold back all void creatures exceeding the Fourth-the Root Divine Body tier!’

‘I will also suppress the void crack!’

‘The remaining void creatures—Itachi handle them yourselves!’

‘All members of the War Council, immediately form a united army and purge all void creatures across the known universe!’

As his words ended, Pangu’s computational cluster went into overdrive, its processing power peaking—countless spatial wormholes appeared, swallowing the bugs whole.

The bugs would be randomly teleported to various regions of the known universe; Chu Yang had already sensed several powerful auras rapidly approaching through the stars.

He had no time to deal with these cannon fodder—besides, the bugs posed little threat to the universe’s major civilizations.

Once all the bugs were teleported away, the previously collapsed cosmic space began to reassemble, slowly healing.

This was a struggle between the main universe and the void—both Chu Yang and the void creatures were external forces.

When external forces vanished, the main universe would begin competing with the void for territory.

Chu Yang did not know whether this was an invisible cosmic rule or the will of the Dao, but he had no time to ponder it.

Three beams of light burst from the void crack, leaving behind perfectly smooth, straight cuts in the space they passed through.

They even ignored Karl’s control, nearly slicing him in half.

Fortunately, Karl detected the danger in time and dodged, barely escaping.

The shadow formed by Chu Yang’s Great Dragon-Elephant Law surged forward, directly confronting one of the three figures.

It was a colossal insect, with four limbs and two long, spear-like, netted tentacles; beside its razor-sharp mouthparts stood a pair of spines, terrifying beyond description.

Even the Great Dragon-Elephant Form appeared small before it.

The Great Dragon-Elephant Form struck with a palm—dragon and elephant roared in unison, a fearsome aura—but it left only a dent on the insect’s carapace, failing to pierce its defense at all!

‘Doubi Emperor!’

Chu Yang’s eyes narrowed—the insect’s power was certainly comparable to a Dou Qi World’s Dou Emperor!

Moreover, the other two were equally strong.

These three void creatures were clearly not the strongest in the void, yet they surpassed Fifth-the Root Divine Bodies—no wonder Karl called the void the Ultimate Fear!

Chu Yang knew that without him, once the void descended, the entire known universe would become a hell.

Facing three void creatures equal to Dou Emperors, their tactics unpredictable, even Chu Yang felt mounting pressure.

Fortunately, the Great Dragon-Elephant Form could hold off one insect—Chu Yang only needed to strike swiftly and defeat them one by one.

He turned his gaze to the other two— one was even more horrific: its torso was a giant eye, swirling with purple light, surrounded by a writhing tentacle.

Chu Yang felt his SAN value was nearly gone…

The last one was relatively normal—its body wasn’t monstrously huge, nor was its appearance overly grotesque.

But the creature resembled a mantis, with membranous wings on its back, forelimbs like razor blades gleaming with chilling light, its mouth filled with dense rows of teeth, its carapace dark yellow.

Yet after leaving the void crack, the mantis’s carapace began to fade, gradually turning transparent.

Watching the void mantis suddenly vanish while the void giant eye concentrated energy wildly, Chu Yang frowned.

‘Troublesome…’

He muttered, and the Three Sacred Spirits merged into his body—[Tianque] blazed with white light, transforming into an imperial decree.

The Lingxiao Palace appeared behind Chu Yang; his body was wrapped in a dragon robe, the sun and moon on his head replaced by Ziwei and Beidou.

He hurled [Fengdu]—the heavens flooded with Yellow Springs; a ghostly gate opened behind the void giant eye, countless spectral hands reaching out to drag it inside.

The energy condensed in the giant eye dispersed, emitting a grating, piercing shriek, then it lashed out with its tentacles, battling the ghostly hands.

As the ghost gate held the void giant eye, Chu Yang, radiating supreme imperial authority, held the imperial decree aloft—his voice echoed from the heavens, like a great bronze bell.

‘Kneel!’

This roar shattered the newly reformed space once more; the previously invisible void mantis suddenly reappeared, its carapace cracking with fissures.

But the void mantis did not retreat—it struck back, flapping its wings and instantly appearing before Chu Yang!

Its twin razor blades slashed toward Chu Yang’s head!

Void creatures possessed no higher intelligence or complex thought—they knew only to hunt, devour, and evolve.

Thus, Chu Yang’s imperial aura could not intimidate them—this was ignorance-born fearlessness…

In Chu Yang’s eyes, star rivers swirled, threads of fury rising.

Watching all this from afar, Karl suddenly felt a thought arise in his mind…

How dare a mere ant defy the majesty of the Emperor!

The thought startled him—he actually perceived Chu Yang as an absolute Emperor, and for a fleeting instant, felt an urge to prostrate himself in worship?

In fact, not just Karl, but every living being in the known universe watching the livestream felt the same sensation.

Some with weaker wills even knelt down on the spot before the virtual projection, their entire bodies trembling.

Feeling the faith power within the Ascension Talisman surge once more, Chu Yang paused, then immediately understood the reason.

This was an unexpected blessing!

“Heavenly Dao, tell me—what is Haotian?”

Chu Yang slowly raised his head, his voice like thunder.

The imperial decree in his hand blazed with golden light; the two ancient characters engraved upon it transformed into a dragon and phoenix, shattering both forelimbs of the Void Mantis!

Those two ancient characters were unmistakably “Haotian!”

[Heavenly Palace] Final Release—Haotian!

The Void Mantis seemed to feel no pain; it emitted a piercing screech, then launched a barrage of needle-like teeth from its mouth, aimed straight at Chu Yang’s face.

But the dragon and phoenix formed by the characters “Haotian” shattered every tooth, then let out a resonant cry—whereupon the Void Mantis’s body instantly disintegrated!

A tiny black hole formed above Chu Yang, and soon the entire universe began to warp—as if the Heavenly Dao, displeased with Chu Yang’s question, had unleashed punishment.

“The Big Bang Kiran spoke of—was that your doing?”

Chu Yang narrowed his eyes. “So the origin of all is the black hole, and the origin of the black hole is the Heavenly Dao...”

“But since I am here, your attempt to reset the universe this way is unrealistic!”

As he spoke, Chu Yang raised his right hand and gently pointed his index finger at the rapidly expanding black hole.

The next instant, the black hole began to violently tremble, as if destabilizing.

And at its center, a single white point suddenly appeared!

This sight resembled the turning of despair into hope, yet also seemed to contain ultimate destructive power.

Singularity!

This was a divine art Chu Yang created by combining the Infinity Stones with the Ultimate Gene, plus the power of Ziwei and Beidou while in the Haotian state.

Yet this divine art could not be used in the Qi cultivation world, for the singularity required a black hole to form, and black holes existed only within a complete cosmic system.

But that did not matter, for Chu Yang created the Singularity art solely to confront the Void.

The black hole continued to tremble violently, but this time not from instability—rather, as if two invisible forces were battling for control over it.

Seeing the stalemate, the other side’s Void Eye had already shattered the Ghost Gate, and the Void Giant Insect was driving the Great Dragon Elephant Body into retreat.

Chu Yang sneered, suddenly turned, and as dragons and phoenixes heralded his presence, stepped into the Lingxiao Palace.

Arriving deep within the hall, Chu Yang slowly sat upon the throne. The entire Lingxiao Palace began to violently shake; a terrifying aura of imperial authority pierced through cosmic space, as if reaching into another world.

Chu Yang gazed at the black hole above, his imperial might overwhelming. “Within the Lingxiao Palace, I am Haotian!”

“Weak Heavenly Dao, how dare Itachi challenge Haotian?” (End of Chapter)