Chapter 750: The Gap

On this side of Zhutian Wanjie, the reinforcements that have been continuously arriving are now forming formations in the Void.

However, even though they have exhausted almost all of Zhutian Wanjie's essence, summoning every ancient monster hidden in spacetime fissures and epoch wreckage, and aside from the supreme beings that must go to other No Return Main Paths to take their stations, essentially everyone who could come has arrived, yet before the endless Dark Army opposite them, they still appear so thin, so insignificant.

The aura of despair, like a plague, spread rapidly among the Zhutian reinforcements.

At the forefront stand the only seven Ultimate Leap-level supreme beings of Zhutian Wanjie: Tai Shi, First Generation Universe Lord, Yin-Yang Great Emperor, Heavenly Demon Great Emperor, Divine Phoenix Great Emperor, Sword Heavenly Emperor, and Destiny Great Emperor.

They are the final shield of Zhutian Wanjie, the pillars that have guarded Zhutian Wanjie for countless epochs.

Behind them are Ye Shizu, Tianling Laozu, the Great Thousand Divine Universe Universe Lord, and dozens of other great beings; each of them is a supreme existence that shines across the heavens, a backbone of Zhutian Wanjie.

Further back are hundreds of Supreme Strong Ones, hailing from the various great worlds of Zhutian Wanjie, from the Undying Aristocratic Families, Ancient Imperial Dynasties, and Supreme sects; they are the pillars of their respective worlds, emperors, ancestors, and saints revered by myriad races. To protect Zhutian Wanjie, they have unflinchingly stepped onto this death‑without‑life No Return Road.

Yet even they now feel the bone‑deep despair.

Aside from the few Ultimate Leap beings such as Tai Shi and First Generation Universe Lord who can remain perfectly calm, the overwhelming majority of beings—even Supreme ones who have lived for countless epochs—feel a chill run through them as they gaze at the overwhelming Dark Army and the Nine Great Apocalypse Sequences towering atop the Nine Heavens; an uncontrollable wave of despair erupts madly from the depths of their hearts.

They finally understand why this road is called the No Return Road.

Because once you step here, there are only two paths: either slay the Darkness or die and have the Dao vanish; there is no third way.

Since the ages of eternity, countless sages who have gone before and after stepping here have almost all perished here, leaving not even a trace.

An ancient imperial dynasty's venerable ruler, who has lived for over ten million years, has cultivated to the pinnacle of Heavenly Dao Supreme, just one step away from Supreme Ultimate Great Perfection.

He has endured three Dark upheavals, personally slain countless Dark Creatures, witnessed countless lives and deaths, and his heart is already as solid as rock; his Dao heart is unbreakable.

Yet now, as he watches the scene before him, his hand gripping the life‑linked Supreme Weapon trembles slightly, his face as pallid as paper.

He can clearly feel that the number of Dark Clan's strong ones opposite them is three times or more than theirs, and each Dark Expert emerged from the Corpse Mountain Blood Sea; their Dao is killing and apocalypse, far more ruthless than those of us righteous cultivators.

In his mind, the tragic scenes of epochs completely annihilated by the Dark Clan, as recorded in ancient texts, involuntarily flash before him, a fear rooted deep in his bloodline steadily corroding his Dao heart.

Beside him, an elder ancestor from an Undying Aristocratic Family, possessing a death‑defying body rare since the ages, can re‑coalesce even if the Primordial is crushed.

Yet now, his gaze is heavy with solemnity, even tinged with an unmaskable fear.

His ancestor, who fell on this No Return Road, despite possessing an immortal body, was ultimately completely eradicated by the Dark Clan's strong ones, his immortal Primordial extinguished, body and spirit annihilated, not even a remnant soul returned.

Now, gazing at the endless Dark Army before him, he seems to see his ancestor's despair at death's edge, and also foresees his own impending end.

Even the veteran great beings of Supreme Ultimate Great Perfection rank now furrow their brows, their eyes filled with solemnity.

They can clearly sense the aura of the Nine Great Apocalypse Sequences; each far surpasses them, and even if they all unite, they may not be able to stop a single one, let alone all nine.

They know clearly that this battle is nine deaths to one life, or even, one could say, ten deaths to no life.

But they cannot retreat; if they do, the Zhutian Wanjie behind them, their clans, their descendants, the epochs they have guarded for ages, would be utterly annihilated, turned into the Darkness's dust.

Amid this endless despair and oppression, that Black Robe Figure still stands steadily in the Void.

【7】 Ye Wuque.

Ye Wuque.

The Black Robe rustles in the apocalyptic Fierce Gale; that gale, capable of easily tearing a Supreme flesh, blows upon him yet cannot even stir his garment's edge.

His figure stands as upright as a spear, like an eternal, immortal Divine Mountain; even surrounded by endless darkness, even facing the terrifying Nine Great Apocalypse Sequences, his form does not waver a fraction.

His eyes, deep as an ancient black hole, now stare fixedly at the Nine Great Apocalypse Sequences that stand arrogantly atop the heavens, as if to crush Zhutian Wanjie.

In his eyes there is no fear, only endless cold and a hint of ultimate enlightenment.

Only now does he finally understand why so many predecessors and sages, those supreme beings who once shone brilliantly across the heavens and were renowned far and wide, once they step onto this No Return Road, no matter how invincible, they still cannot escape the doomed fate of despair.

Senior Ao Kun, one of the most astonishingly talented Dragon Dao strong ones among the Dragon Clan for ages, whose Dragon Dao cultivation dazzles across the ages, has always been a top-tier existence within the Dragon Clan's millennia.

Such an invincible being, dazzling across the ages, fell on the No Return Road, collapsing upon the path seeking the ultimate.

Only the Jinse Dafen, a radiant golden tomb, remains.

Also the Fate Master of the Treading Fate Imperial Qilin clan.

One of the great achievers of the Fate Great Dao of Zhutian Wanjie.

His cultivation already allows him to glimpse the Fate River and alter Karmic Reincarnation.

Likewise, he fell into the hands of the Apocalypse Sequence deep within the No Return Road…

Also the sages of the Wind Clan, the ancestors of the Peerless Sacred Realm, the forebears of the Undying Aristocratic Families, the great emperors of the Ancient Imperial Dynasties, and the mighty great beings with illustrious battle records on ancient battlefields.

Each of them, in their own era, shone across the heavens, invincible, revered by myriad races, heroes who guarded a realm of heaven and earth.

They entered this death‑without‑life No Return Road one after another to protect Zhutian Wanjie and to secure a sliver of hope for future generations; in the end, all fell here, their names nearly erased by time, only a few records remaining in the ancient Zhutian texts, becoming legends to later peoples.