Chapter 820: The Dan Tian Emperor!

"Void Lord, just now you teamed up with the Eerie Old Rogue to strike me, and it was quite exhilarating, wasn't it? Now, it's my turn!"

As the words fell, the scarred body of the Honghuang Longzu suddenly erupted in an extremely brilliant golden divine radiance!

It was the light of all the remaining Honghuang Primordial source burning within him!

His dragon wings unfurled, covering the sky; his Dragon Claw tore the Space‑Time River, his Dragon Tail swept across the endless Star Domain, and he charged at the Void Lord with reckless ferocity!

The Void Lord's eyes narrowed, and Void Power suddenly surged to its limit, meeting the Honghuang Longzu's full‑force counterattack.

He also knew that in a one‑on‑one situation, suppressing the Honghuang Longzu as before was now impossible.

The appearance of the Painter Lord not only directly shared the battle strength of the Eerie Lord, but also freed the Honghuang Longzu from the desperate one‑against‑two predicament, allowing him to devote himself wholly to countering him.

And the other Half‑step Transcendents, upon sensing the Painter Lord's arrival, all showed changes in expression.

The Ominous Lord's expression was rather unpleasant.

The gray‑white Unfortunate Origin swirling around him never ceased, and in his gray‑white eyes, which contained billions of Space‑Time Rivers, murderous intent intertwined with resentment.

He gritted his teeth and said, "So the old thing Painter Lord finally shows up. This old thing has been in seclusion for so long that even I thought he had already merged with the Dao and vanished. Why does he choose this critical moment to appear? Just one step away—just one step and we could have completely exterminated the Honghuang Longzu, eliminating a major internal threat!"

He paused, his voice even colder: "It's a pity we didn't kill the Honghuang Longzu. Let that old dragon catch his breath; if we try to kill him again, the price will not be the same as before."

His tone was filled with the frustration of a failed effort.

Among the Half‑step Transcendents of the Zhutian Wanjie, the Honghuang Longzu's defense was considered the strongest; the toughness of his dragon body and the tenacity of his life force were renowned throughout the Half‑step Transcendence tier.

Just now, taking advantage of the Eerie Lord's alliance with the Void Lord and the support of the Reincarnation Lord and the Soul Lord, we finally forced him into a desperate corner, about to achieve great success, but the Painter Lord's arrival directly spoiled the favorable situation.

Meanwhile, the Dust Emperor, Ye Zhetian, Ye Beichen and other Half‑step Transcendents from the Zhutian Wanjie side, upon sensing the Painter Lord's familiar and overwhelming Painter Dao aura, each broke into a smile.

That smile was full of relief at the safe return of an old friend and excitement over the turning tide of the battle.

"Painter Lord, fellow cultivator." The Dust Emperor's teal robe fluttered, and the Red Dust Dao Diagram slowly unfolded around him; the towering Red Dust phenomenon clashed continuously with the End Times Lord's End Eye, yet a long‑missing smile tugged at his mouth. "He finally appears. This old fellow has been in seclusion so long I thought he truly intended to retire from worldly affairs. Good, good indeed—still the same temperament as back then, striking with a sweeping Tiandao painting the moment he acts, not a fraction altered."

"With the Painter Lord here, the Honghuang Longzu's life is saved."

Ye Zhetian said gravely, as the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron slowly rotated above his head, its golden divine radiance firmly countering the Ominous Lord's Ominous Light.

His gaze toward the direction of the Painter Lord's arrival carried a hint of relief.

The Honghuang Longzu's crisis was the heaviest stone pressing on his heart.

Now that stone has finally been moved by the Painter Lord.

However, just when everyone thought the Zhutian Wanjie's support had ended, that the battle would shift from five‑versus‑eight to six‑versus‑eight—still slightly disadvantaged but at least barely sustainable—another foundation emerged from the Zhutian Wanjie side!

A middle‑aged man clad in a dark Dao robe, his foot on the Space‑Time River, stepped out slowly.

The Space‑Time River beneath his feet flowed like a gentle stream; the surging temporal waves calmed themselves before touching his robes.

Each step he took stirred pale‑golden alchemical ripples in the Space‑Time River.

Those ripples spread, and the surrounding void fragments shattered by the battle's aftershocks began to slowly heal under the alchemical ripples' influence.

The temporal segments tainted by Ominous Power, rotted by End Times Power, and eroded by Calamity Power also began to shed their filth in the alchemical ripples, regaining vitality.

The figure was tall and gentle, with a jade‑like face, and his brows bore the composure and serenity characteristic of a great Alchemical Grandmaster.

Around him there were no world‑shattering terrifying phenomena, no universe‑shaking domineering aura, only a faint, soothing medicinal fragrance.

Where this medicinal scent drifted, broken laws repaired, extinguished life revived, and the myriad wounds of the Zhutian Wanjie strongmen on the battlefield began to heal rapidly under its influence.

Hovering above his head was an ancient, massive alchemical furnace, its body a deep lapis hue, engraved with countless alchemical runes.

Some runes corresponded to the refining methods of various divine elixirs of the Zhutian Wanjie, others recorded the tempering techniques of myriad Tiandao across heaven and earth, while others were even more mysterious, seemingly involving the supreme alchemical principle that treats the world as a furnace, myriad paths as medicine, and epochs as fire.

The furnace blazed with fierce flames, not ordinary fire but the "Ten Thousand Path Alchemical Fire" that Dan Tian Di condensed from the alchemical source over endless epochs—this fire can transmute all things of heaven and earth into elixirs, forge fragments of Tiandao into medicine, and even "refine" others' killing techniques into nutrients that nourish one's own source!

This middle‑aged man was the supreme pillar of the alchemical lineage of the Zhutian Wanjie, the first master of ancient alchemy… Dan Tian Di!

"What? Could that be… Dan Tian Di?!"

An Ancient Supreme of the Zhutian Wanjie let out a shocked cry, his voice filled with incredulous elation.

He had lived for countless epochs and had once been fortunate enough during the Ancient Era to glimpse Dan Tian Di from afar.

At that time Dan Tian Di was using supreme alchemy to heal a gravely injured Half‑step Transcendent; with a single furnace of elixir he forcibly pulled that near‑dead supreme being back from the brink of death.

And now, this legendary figure has also descended!

"Dan Tian Di has also descended! By the heavens—Dan Tian Di! Didn't he disappear from the world back in the late Ancient Era? And now he's here too!"

Before the beings of the Zhutian Wanjie could recover from the ecstatic shock of Dan Tian Di's arrival, a second figure, following closely, also stepped onto the Space‑Time River.