Chapter 565: The Taixu Emperor Sovereign

The arrow was released, ignoring spatial distance, as if from the instant it was shot it was destined to hit its target!

The arrow's shaft cut through the void, leaving an eternal, pitch‑black trail that utterly extinguished both light and law!

Xuan Yuanzi Xi's pupils contracted to needle‑points; he sensed an unprecedented threat of death!

This arrow not only contained the ultimate Yin‑Yang annihilation power, but also seemed to lock onto all his causality, fate, even the imprint of his life! No escape! No avoidance!

"Taixu… returns to nothing!" Xuan Yuanzi Xi let out a desperate, unwilling roar, burning all remaining Primordial, attempting to consume this arrow.

However—

"Pfft—!"

A faint yet unmistakably clear piercing sound rang out.

That Chaos Yin‑Yang Arrow, like a hot knife cutting butter, passed unimpeded through the last glimmer of Xuan Yuanzi Xi's death‑bound radiance, and then… with pinpoint precision, pierced his brow!

The arrowhead emerged from the back of his skull, trailing a dim light mixed with fragments of his shattered soul.

Time seemed to stand still at that instant.

The terrified, unwilling, venomous expression on Xuan Yuanzi Xi's face solidified completely.

The spark in his eyes was like a candle in the wind, quickly extinguished.

His already illusory Taixu True Body, like shattered crystal, began at the brow‑hole, cracking inch by inch, disintegrating into the finest specks of light dust, drifting into the void.

Together with his burning Remnant Soul, it was utterly shredded and erased by the arrow's ultimate Yin‑Yang annihilation power!

Xuan Yuanzi Xi, this Young Master of the Xuan Yuan Clan from the Honghuang World, the son of the Taixu Emperor Sovereign and famed across the heavens, was, before countless gazes, mercilessly… exterminated by Ye Wuque with absolute superiority! Body and soul annihilated, not a trace left!

Silence.

A death‑like stillness enveloped the entire void surrounding Central Emperor Island.

All beings watching the battle, regardless of race or strength, now widened their eyes, opened their mouths, faces filled with extreme horror, disbelief, and a bone‑deep shock!

"My… heavens…" a Half‑Decay Realm cultivator swallowed saliva with difficulty, voice hoarse, "Xuan Yuanzi Xi… was just… easily exterminated by Ye Wuque?!"

"How… how is this possible?! Xuan Yuanzi Xi is a Half‑Step Marquis Eternal! His Taixu True Body is extraordinarily profound, rumored to dissolve all laws! How could… how could he not even withstand a single punch from Ye Wuque?!"

"Ye Wuque's strength… what terrifying realm has he reached?! Could he already truly possess the combat power of a Marquis Immortal?!"

"Terrifying indeed! Truly a monster among monsters! A taboo within a taboo!"

A roar burst like a tsunami! All beings were deeply shaken by Ye Wuque's crushing, near‑overwhelming victory! It far exceeded their expectations! They had thought it a prolonged clash of dragons and tigers, never imagining such a one‑sided annihilation!

Even the proud, self‑important Emperor Fiend Descendants and Ancient Freaks now showed drastic expression changes, their gazes heavy with gravity!

Amid the golden light, Ao Huanggu of the Golden Emperor Dragon Clan, whose ever‑indifferent golden vertical pupils now slightly narrowed, stared tightly at the void where the Black Robe Figure, slowly retracting his Emperor Form Dharma Image, breathing steadied, yet seemingly gathering an invincible momentum, stood. He said nothing, but the faintly rippling Dragon Might around him revealed his inner unrest.

Where the sword aura was sharp, Jian Guchen of the Nine‑Leaf Emperor Sword Vine Clan, a flash of keen, sword‑like cold light crossed his icy eyes, his fingers unconsciously brushed the sword hilt at his waist. Ye Wuque's displayed power gave him a sense of the solemnity a sword cultivator feels when confronting a supreme edge.

"Brother Ye…" Chen Shimei of the Reverse Chaos Heavenly Demon, his previously carefree smirk long gone, replaced by a helpless wry smile, shook his head and sighed lightly, "Your strength… we may not even deserve the right to look upon it…" He boasted unparalleled talent, speed and bizarre divine arts, yet before Ye Wuque's absolute power and destructive killing move, he felt deeply powerless.

In the area of the Golden‑Winged Great Peng Clan, Jin Lieyu wore a horrified, dazed expression, clearly still reeling from the shock of Xuan Yuanzi Xi's instant death. He instinctively glanced at the nearby "Little Ancestor" Hun Tianqiong, hoping this clan's hope, the Ancient Freak, might utter some harsh words or show battle intent…

However, what he saw was Hun Tianqiong's defiant face now filled with unprecedented solemnity, suspicion, and… a barely perceptible hint of horror!

Hun Tianqiong stared intently at Ye Wuque, especially when Ye Wuque finally unleashed the Yin‑Yang Supreme Arrow, that terrifying aura that locked causality and fate, erasing everything, made his soul shiver! He thought, if he faced that arrow… the outcome would likely not be much better than Xuan Yuanzi Xi's!

"This one… cannot be opposed! At least for now… cannot!" A thought slithered into Hun Tianqiong's mind like a poisonous snake. What is the clan's honor? What is the Golden‑Winged Great Peng's dignity? In the face of absolute power disparity and death threat, all must yield!

"Go!" Hun Tianqiong barked sharply, turning without hesitation, his wings flared, gathering a golden fierce gale, and sped away from Ye Wuque faster than he arrived, not looking back, becoming a golden speck on the horizon in an instant, then vanished!

"Li… Little Ancestor?!" Jin Lieyu was utterly stunned, staring at the direction where Hun Tianqiong disappeared, his face full of bewilderment, emptiness, and abandoned panic, "Little Ancestor said he would avenge our clan, why… why did he run away?!"

This scene, also witnessed by many beings, instantly sparked low chuckles and discussion.

The Golden‑Winged Great Peng Clan, today could be said to have lost face: first Jin Lieyu and others were brushed aside by Ye Wuque, then the Ancient Freak Hun Tianqiong fled without a fight, a disgrace of disgrace.

All beings who saw Ye Wuque's defying performance, whether enemy or friend, now held only one thought—this one is no longer a creature of the pond! Its momentum is set, unstoppable!

……

At the very instant Xuan Yuanzi Xi was exterminated by Ye Wuque, his body and soul annihilated,

far beyond the endless spacetime, in a vast boundless, Dao‑rhythmic, seemingly perched atop the pinnacle of the heavens—a core of the multiversal realm, one of the supreme sanctuaries of the Honghuang World, deep within the Xuan Yuan Clan's ancestral land.

Within a palace that seemed formed from endless Taixu Pure Qi, the Eternal Dao Palace.

"Roar—!!!!!!!"

A roar like the first world‑ending thunder when Chaos first opened, laden with endless fury, murderous intent, and a hint of… heart‑piercing terror, erupted from the deepest part of the palace, shaking the entire Xuan Yuan ancestral land, even rattling the laws of parts of the Honghuang World!

Countless strong Xuan Yuan Clan members and descendants were terrified by this sudden Emperor Sovereign's wrath, their guts ripped, crawling on the ground, trembling.

Deep within the palace, the endless Taixu Pure Qi surged madly, coalescing into a towering void‑shadow that seemed able to support all heavens and ten thousand realms, yet vague, with only its eye region burning with an icy flame that could scorch eternity!

It was Xuan Yuan Taixu, the father of Xuan Yuanzi Xi and one of the Nine Great Imperial Lords of the Honghuang World—the Taixu Emperor Sovereign.

He felt the instant his child's Soul Lamp extinguished, True Spirit erased!

That blood‑line‑severed pain, intertwined with boundless rage and murderous intent, nearly stirred the sea‑level waves within his heart that had been still for endless ages!

"Ye… Zheng… Ruo!!!"

Xuan Yuan Taixu's roar echoed through the palace, each word seeming able to shatter stars.

"Ye… Wu… Que!!!"

His voice was ice‑cold to the extreme, as if it could freeze time and space:

"Good! Very good!"

"You… all… very good!!!"

"Kill my child… this hatred, cannot be shared with the heavens!"