Chapter 304: Amethyst Giant

The Yuan Shuo Secret Realm contains countless treasures, and it is also fraught with danger—not only the realm's own hazards, but also the scramble among numerous factions.

A palace soaring through the void.

Seated cross‑legged inside is a human‑race Universe Venerable about three meters tall, namely Xiao Yu, who has restored a human body and can alter his appearance.

At Xiao Yu's current level, changing his form is easy, but he still cannot alter his Soul Breath or Life Breath.

"Arrived at the Yuan Shuo Secret Realm," Xiao Yu thought.

The flying palace Tianhua Hall folds into his Divine Body; Xiao Yu directly Instant Teleports into the Yuan Shuo Secret Realm, each Instant Teleport covering a different distance, trying to avoid crowds and hazardous zones.

Xiao Yu appears at the most perilous outer region of the Yuan Shuo Secret Realm—a stretch of Endless Flame Land about 30,000 light‑years in diameter—where blue flames occasionally give rise to strands of purple fire, forming vortexes; those purple flames are the Heavenly Gang Purple Fire.

The purple Heavenly Gang Purple Fire is scorching beyond measure, capable of melting even a black hole; a High-level Cosmic Respecter once fell into it, and his Divine Body vanished instantly, turning to ash.

The danger here is extreme; even the Universe Overlord refuses to enter.

Xiao Yu came here specifically to harvest the Heavenly Gang Purple Fire and forge an Ultimate Treasure; how could he lack premium flames?

The Venerable's Divine Armor envelops his whole body; Xiao Yu flies into the flames, and an intense heat hits his face. After the Divine Armor's maximum attenuation, the searing fire feels like a summer breeze.

Whoosh!

The deeper he approaches the heart of the Endless Flame Land, the more numerous and dense the Heavenly Gang Purple Fire vortexes become; occasional shockwaves arise in the flames, each vortex so concentrated it behaves like solid matter before suddenly exploding.

The Bright Moon Bottle ravenously devours the flames, causing quite a commotion.

This Top-level Treasure, designed to bear fire, will continuously generate Heavenly Gang Purple Fire once the Bright Moon Bottle absorbs a strand of it, and the temperature of the produced fire can rise by several thousand times.

After the Bright Moon Bottle consumes the Heavenly Gang Purple Fire, it creates endless Heavenly Gang Purple Fire, yet it still requires energy—either by the bottle itself ingesting Universe Primordial Energy or by Xiao Yu supplying it.

"Who is spying on me?" Xiao Yu warned, and a Heaven‑Crushing Blade materialized in his hand, its black aura flickering—an rift formed after space was torn.

In an instant, within a range of a hundred billion kilometers around Xiao Yu, the flames vanished like a void; Xiao Yu kept advancing through the void wrapped by the Endless Flame, while the Bright Moon Bottle continued its frantic consumption.

"Perfect timing!" a purple bottle appeared in Xiao Yu's hand; it is the Top-level Special Treasure 'Bright Moon Bottle' he previously forged.

Whoosh!

Lines of Heavenly Gang Purple Fire sprang from the endless blue flames surrounding Xiao Yu, then encircled him, nine vortexes of the fire charging toward him.

The Endless Flame, together with those purple fire vortexes, was sucked into the Bright Moon Bottle.

The Bright Moon Bottle in Xiao Yu's hand expanded rapidly, instantly becoming a colossal bottle over a hundred million kilometers tall, and a tremendous suction emanated from its mouth.

Simultaneously, the High-level Domain Treasure 'Illusory Cold Nine Heavens' unfolded around Xiao Yu across billions of kilometers, creating a zone where extreme heat and extreme cold intertwine.

To conserve Divine Power, and with the surrounding flames consumed, Xiao Yu can explore the Endless Flame Land more effectively.

After a long while without any discovery, Xiao Yu continued deeper.

In the blue flames, a massive figure swept by, staring from afar at the human Venerable clustered in the blue‑purple void.

Xiao Yu kept flying toward the depths, maintaining Illusory Cold Nine Heavens and having already activated a Space Seal; cautiously, he sensed a powerful being watching him.

Suddenly!

"Boom!"

A burst of sound.

A massive silhouette instantly materialized from the Endless Flame, appearing at the edge of Illusory Cold Nine Heavens, then charging straight into the domain.

"Boom—rumble!" The resistance of Illusory Cold Nine Heavens is immense, yet it cannot hinder the colossal figure.

Only then did Xiao Yu see clearly: it was a purple crystal stone giant, a million kilometers tall, wielding six enormous arms, each clutching a massive red hammer.

"What is this?" Xiao Yu had scant data on the Yuan Shuo Secret Realm, none mentioning the purple crystal stone giant; instantly, Xiao Yu analyzed the giant's approximate strength.

The purple crystal stone giant can breach Illusory Cold Nine Heavens; its power reaches top‑overlord level. From its aura, it is a Universe Venerable, definitely a special lifeform, with a life‑gene tier exceeding five thousand times.

The six divine hammers in its hands are all High-level Treasures.

After millennia of refining treasures, Xiao Yu's appraisal of artifacts is master‑level.

"Get out!"

"Get out!"

The purple crystal stone giant roared, charging toward Xiao Yu within the extreme heat‑cold domain.

"Who are you? I mean no offense!" Xiao Yu replied, his three‑meter stature instantly swelling to over ninety thousand kilometers, and his Heaven‑Crushing Blade stretching into a hundred‑thousand‑kilometer‑long giant blade, its black aura intensifying, while the surrounding Illusory Cold Nine Heavens domain automatically receded.

"Human, you trespassed the Purple Sky Territory, die!" the Amethyst Giant roared, charging.

The Illusory Cold Nine Heavens, with a radius of 300 million kilometers, was traversed by the Amethyst Giant in mere moments.

"Step back." Xiao Yu roared, instantly transforming into a rainbow‑colored beam; his massive Heaven‑Crushing Blade, emanating the Open Heaven momentum, traced a bizarre path through spacetime, slashing at the purple crystal stone giant.

Frost!

Annihilation!

The 'Open Heaven' unleashed by the Heaven‑Crushing Blade, amplified a hundredfold, acted like an Instant Teleport, striking the Amethyst Giant directly.

Ten thousand years ago, 'Open Heaven' had already reached the ultimate tier; after further millennia of refinement and incorporation of the Chaos Law that Xiao Yu comprehended, its power increased by several thousand to tens of thousands times. By Xiao Yu's estimate, it at least attains the Lord of the Universe peak‑tier secret technique, perhaps even the Lord of the Universe ultimate tier.

"Damn it!" the Amethyst Giant let out a frenzied roar; golden secret patterns suddenly surfaced across its purple crystal body, covering its entire chest and back. In an instant, the surrounding space began tearing and spiraling, making Xiao Yu feel as if a black hole had materialized out of nowhere.

Accompanying the mad roar, the six divine hammers in the Amethyst Giant's hands hammered at Xiao Yu in succession; each hammer, driven by a Special Secret Technique and fused with the Innate Secret Method, formed a visible black spatial vortex, bombarding Xiao Yu.

The 'Open Heaven' strike upon the Amethyst Giant's Divine Body reached the Cosmic Sovereign Tier, far surpassing the defensive limit of the High-level Treasure armor; the armor only blocked the lower portion of the blade's light before breaking, and 90% of the giant's million‑kilometer Divine Body was erased by the blade's light.

The six black spatial vortex attacks of the Amethyst Giant did not reach the Universe Overlord level; after the Venerable's Divine Armor's maximum attenuation, they retained only one‑millionth of their power, insufficient to disturb Xiao Yu's Divine Body, whose foundational strength is at the Cosmic Sovereign Tier.

(End of Chapter)