Chapter 217

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Protagonist:

Jiang Xuan

"A Great Peng rises with the wind in a single day, soaring straight up ninety thousand miles."

At the pinnacle of the Heavenly Vault, wind and clouds gather and shift; a Great Peng chick with its whole body burning with golden flames beats its wings out of the endless chaos, piercing the primordial mist, the universe trembling, Qian Kun shaking.

At the moment of its birth, auspicious colors numbered a thousand strands, rosy clouds ten thousand zhang; it received Heaven's gracious favor, its demonic Dao laws unrivaled through ancient and modern times, born bearing the spiritual essence of heaven and earth, all manner of demon race sacred laws and forbidden secret arts naturally perfected within its bloodline, its demonic power vast and boundless, able to swallow mountains and seas, able to contain stars.

The Great Peng King unleashed a shocking ultimate demonic art — "Heavenly Vault Reverse Feather"; time reversed, tracing back to the moment of its birth, past scenes reappeared, the Heavenly Vault cracked, chaotic qi surged.

It was the demon race Overlord appointed by Heaven; this "Heavenly Vault Reverse Feather" demonic art possessed infinite power, once unleashed heaven and earth changed color, wind and clouds surged, all things withered in an instant, all manner of Dao rhymes of the universe chimed in unison.

Boom!

The Star River rushed, endless stars surged and gathered like a torrent, law divine marks and order chains crisscrossed, extending across the Long River of Time.

Behind the Great Peng King, a Peng silhouette covering heaven and obscuring the sun emerged; its spread wings could cover Qian Kun, its whole body's golden flames materialized like armor draped on its form, its sharp beak hooked, gaze piercing, seemingly able to pierce through the Three Realms and Five Elements.

The two instantly merged; the Great Peng King's twin claws tightly gripped a pair of Golden Maces blazing with dazzling light; runes flickered on the mace bodies, shadows of Ancient Ferocious Beasts roared, carrying the power to destroy heaven and extinguish earth, smashing down with all might toward the chaotic Void below.

Boom!

Heaven collapsed and earth caved, time and space shattered; the universe was forcibly smashed into a region of nothingness.

Shocking Showdown

The universe instantly lost color; ten thousand ancient years seemed to be collapsing; whether the Flying Immortal Star or other star domains everywhere, all experts witnessing this scene were all horrified and pale.

That attack was too fierce, too powerful; so powerful it made one feel there was fundamentally no way to resist.

Ye Fan exerted full power, unleashing all methods; visions emerged one after another behind him; secret arts operated to the limit; the place he occupied became a brilliant golden ocean; Immortal King and Heavenly Emperor silhouettes descended, fusing with him, blasting forward.

In a flash, everything was drowned by endless light; blazing radiance boundless; suns, moons, and star rivers exploded one after another; the Universe Wasteland fell into a state of great destruction; endless light became the sole existence in this chaos.

"God said let there be light"

This scene was like the moment of creation! Chaos violently exploded; the great universe trembled; within the boundless sea of light, two human figures slowly manifested.

The Great Peng King stood proudly; behind him a pair of giant feathered wings gently fanned; every feather seemed forged from divine gold, flashing with cold luster.

His two hands tightly gripped that Golden Mace; the mace body was stained with blood. At this moment Ye Fan's body swayed on the verge of collapse, covered in blood; the Golden Mace had nearly pierced through his body; sacred blood sprinkled the starry sky, winding like rivers, dyeing red this vast universe.

The Great Peng King's figure stood tall; his whole body exuded a powerful pressure; facing the heavily wounded Ye Fan, his dense hair danced wildly in the wind, like a Heavenly God who brooked no equal.

However, at this moment the depths of the Great Peng King's eyes held a trace of hard-to-detect dimness. One hand held the mace pointing at Ye Fan; the other hand was also dripping blood, tightly gripping Ye Fan's palm.

The two great experts just stood facing each other like this; in this shattered universe starry sky, only their silhouettes and that heavy breathing sound remained.

Tragic Conclusion

Though Ye Fan suffered heavy wounds, his body nearly shattered, that hand yet cut into the Great Peng King's brow like lightning, directly entering his sea of consciousness; there fresh blood gushed, that glaring red exceptionally shocking in this universe starry sky.

His palm burst with brilliant light; that was boundless divine ability burning blazingly, seeming to want to incinerate all obstacles to ash.

The Great Peng King's Immortal Platform began to disintegrate under this power; crack after crack sounded continuously; the Dao fruit he had bitterly cultivated for a lifetime also slowly dissipated; his originally dim eyes grew even more lifeless; at this moment he was actually so powerless, as if this long life would draw its final period right now.

"Ah!"

The Great Peng King let out a final loud roar; his originally dim eyes suddenly widened in fury; he spat out a mouthful of Innate Essence, which instantly turned into a vast white qi wave, carrying the momentum to destroy heaven and extinguish earth, surging toward Ye Fan.

Simultaneously, the Golden Mace tightly gripped in his hand violently trembled; carrying endless killing intent, wanting to hack the heavily wounded Ye Fan to death alive; wherever the mace body passed, cold light tore the vast universe sea; space was sliced into pitch-black cracks.

"Open!"

Ye Fan likewise roared; his voice like a great bell; Dao sounds vast; he actually shattered that surging Innate Essence alive.

He violently thrust his right hand forward; only a muffled puff sounded; the Great Peng King's skull instantly exploded; blood flowers rushed up three thousand zhang like gorgeous fireworks, dyeing red a large expanse of starry sky.

Not only that; Ye Fan's body blazed with treasure light; the sound of sacred scriptures incessant; his other hand rapidly turned into the Heavenly Emperor Fist; carrying supreme great power, he smashed down forcefully.

Crack!

Ye Fan employed his body's ultimate power; the Golden Mace ultimately could not withstand it; instantly shattered into pieces flashing with black-gold luster, stained with Ye Fan's fresh blood, scattered in the boundless universe.

"Puff!"

The Great Peng King's body could no longer endure such impact; the whole exploded, turning into a ball of blood mist, then further transforming into the world's most terrifying Great Emperor Blood Rain, drifting toward the Eight Wastelands of the universe.

This battle, though merely a few brief moves, was fierce to the extreme; every move contained the power to destroy heaven and extinguish earth.

Ye Fan suffered extremely heavy injuries; after all, at the Great Emperor realm, who would be much weaker than whom; once fighting desperately, all are World Invincible existences.

Ye Fan said not a word; sat in meditation on the spot; circulated his cultivation method to heal. His hands moved rapidly; he unleashed a supreme secret art; he pulled back all the blood light of the Great Peng King that was about to rush toward all parts of the universe, letting that blood light drown him.

This is Royal Blood Divine Essence; it can be called the world's strongest immortal treasure; it has miraculous effect on healing.

Ye Fan bathed in that blood light; his whole body emitted a strange light; the wounds on his body also rapidly healed.

Finally, his figure rose straight; his whole body's aura completely calmed; his eyes cold and stern, like cold stars flashing. He stowed the shattered Golden Mace; strode out of this desolate universe region; once more sped toward the North Dipper Star Domain.

That final strike just now; heaven collapsed and earth split; the entire universe trembled; all cultivators were terrified to the core; a terrifying pressure of doomsday arriving, Heavenly Dao collapsing, spread out.

Ye Fan appeared; the dust settled; clearly this great battle had ended; and he had successfully slain the Great Peng King!

"Holy Body slays a demon race Ancient Supreme!"

"The era of Forbidden Zones has ended; never expected the Heavenly Emperor has a helper; the Holy Body can also fight and kill a Supreme!"

The whole world shocked; the North Dipper Star Domain even more fell into unprecedented shock. That illustrious Great Peng King, the Ancient Supreme who returned to life, was thus completely annihilated.

The powerful strength and supreme majesty displayed by Ye Fan in his Holy Body form made everyone sigh in amazement, hot blood surging. Such great merit and achievement, enough to be inscribed in history.

"The Great Peng King is dead!"

This roar, like rolling thunder, resounded through the North Dipper Star Domain; the Eastern Wasteland Land trembled; all people in the world cheered and rejoiced, celebrating this great victory.

Fairy Grandma, Spirit Emperor, Corpse Emperor were silent; as if meeting this Holy Body for the first time.

"Alright, it's your turn!" Jiang Xuan said flatly; thoughts flowing; the Zhu Xian Sword Array stirred heaven and earth like a world-destroying millstone.

"Hahaha..." The Spirit Emperor let out a miserable tragic laugh; each laugh accompanied by coughing up large mouthfuls of blood; the Zhu Xian Sword Array nearly destroyed his heart and spirit; his appearance as if he would cough up his lungs too; laughing until tears uncontrollably spilled from his eyes; he rasped: "I bitterly waited ten thousand ancient years; how could I have expected such an ending? What a Golden Age indeed!"

His laughter grew ever more deranged, nearly screaming his lungs out: "This golden prosperous era? Utterly absurd! In my view, this is bound to be the most tragic lifetime of all!"

The Spirit Emperor roared in grief, wanting to charge at Jiang Xuan.

Jiang Xuan's expression was stern, calm and waveless, still as water; his every gesture displayed an invincible posture, his offense fierce, every move lethal.

"Formation, rise!"

Like heaven collapsing and earth splitting, the vast boundless Mythical Battlefield could not withstand it either, instantly shattering into pieces, ravines crisscrossing, never again to regain its former wholeness and majesty.

Jiang Xuan bathed in Supreme Blood, incomparably cold, his gaze sweeping across the battlefield; he was like a demon god, disheveled hair stuck with bloodstains, walking forward step by step.

The battlefield fell into a deathly stillness; the once unrivaled Four Great Supremes now all lay dead on the spot, not a single one surviving. A pungent bloody aura permeated every inch of space; crimson blood splattered wantonly, dyeing this Mythical Battlefield a shocking scarlet.

"Heavenly Emperor Jiang Xuan is invincible."

"He... perhaps can truly reach the earth-shaking, history-illuminating realm of the Huangtian Emperor and the Di Zun!"

At this moment, they keenly perceived Jiang Xuan's unfathomable power, simply chilling to the bone.

"This great war can be considered at an end; Jiang Xuan, what should our next move be?"

Ye Fan spoke, his eyes flashing with blazing light. Personally participating in such a magnificent great war this time left him stirred to the core, boiling battle intent still surging ceaselessly in his blood.

"The fires of war have not yet been extinguished." Jiang Xuan's face was calm as water, his gaze deep as he stared at the Beidou Land, saying: "Since we have already intervened, we must follow the momentum and level one or two Life Forbidden Zones, thoroughly severing future troubles!"

Beneath the Heavenly Vault, the once magnificent Mythical Battlefield now lay shattered and fragmented, ruined walls and broken ramparts, permeated with deathly stillness and desolation.

Throughout the endless years of the past, there had never appeared such a tragic era; in a split second, four Supreme powerhouses who stood at the peak crashed down, mottled bloodstains crisscrossing, clanking bones scattered in all directions.

Jiang Xuan's figure stood tall and erect, towering at the pinnacle of the clouds, his whole body emitting a bone-chilling aura.

His features were stern, his eyes deep as an abyss, gazing at the endless void of the myriad ancient heavens; a head of black hair danced wildly in the wind, unrestrained and flamboyant, fully displaying an invincible hegemonic aura.

The tragedy of this battle was earth-shaking and ghost-weeping; Jiang Xuan alone, single-handedly fighting the strong, actually personally beheaded the high-and-mighty Supreme powerhouses; his towering bearing and profound strength made every peak powerhouse who witnessed this battle feel awe in their hearts, as if engraved in the depths of their souls, impossible to erase.

Undoubtedly, relying on Jiang Xuan's strength alone, he is enough to become a heart-disease for those mysterious and terrifying Life Forbidden Zones, making them tremble in the endless darkness, anxious day and night.

For ten thousand ages, there has never been such a situation of wind-and-cloud upheaval. In this life, numerous peerless heroes capable of leaving their names in history have emerged together, yet Jiang Xuan is like the most dazzling blazing sun among the brilliant stars, radiance ten thousand zhang, incomparable.

He is like an unprecedented variable suddenly rising in the long river of fate, breaking all established rules and balances, standing proudly in the world with a near-invincible posture.

This heart-pounding great battle, its tragic extent beyond imagination; the Emperors who once dominated the Ancient Times likewise fell bleeding in this battle, their glorious lives thus dimly closing.

The scene was deathly silent, as if time itself had frozen; everyone was immersed in the shocking aftermath of this great battle, no one daring to utter a word. Everyone's heart was a mix of five flavors, myriad emotions. After all, those were Emperors of the Ancient Times; once upon a time, they were peerless in elegance, ruling Qian Kun, suppressing the universe and cosmos with supreme greatness, intimidating the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, truly a posture of 'in heaven and on earth, I alone am honored'.

They too were once young, high-spirited, harboring hot blood and heroic passion, guarding the myriad living beings of the world; their achievements' brilliance penetrated past, present, and future; the magnificent scene of that time, no one under heaven could contend with them.

Yet years are ruthless, rolling all glory and brilliance into the depths of history's vortex.

They struggled arduously through the long years, on the long road seeking longevity bitterly struggling, yet ultimately unable to resist fate's erosion. Past lofty ambitions gradually wore away, finally walking toward life's end in decline and loneliness.

These powerhouses who once stood at the world's peak — their fate is so tragic and lamentable. They once shone dazzlingly like brilliant stars, emerging from the endless blood sea of slaughter on the Emperor Road, becoming the most outstanding existences of all ages, yet now they meet such a bleak end, like flowers withering, leaving only residual fragrance.

"Years like a blade cut down Heaven's Pride, on the longevity road sighing at the enchanting; blood and bone's opening chapter, a lifetime's tragic scroll!" Jiang Xuan sighed lightly.

This sigh, like a sharp Sword Qi, instantly sliced through the deathly silence at the scene, striking straight to the depths of everyone's souls. In a split second, all felt a resonance, as if standing alongside Jiang Xuan by the long river of years, personally witnessing the rise and fall, glory and disgrace of Emperors and Kings.

That is a historical scroll soaked in blood, full of mottled tear stains, containing how much bitterness of unfulfilled ambitions, suffering of life-and-death struggles, glory of ruling the world, and honor of leaving names in history — yet now all in this one sigh quietly turned to historical dust, scattering with the wind, leaving only later generations amid these shattered mountains and rivers to reminisce the past, sighing at years' ruthlessness, fate's impermanence.

Jiang Xuan's expression stern as frost, he strode forward in great steps; Xuanhuang Mother Qi constructed the Dao crossing space, Ye Fan followed closely behind; this trip, they were going to completely flatten the Life Forbidden Zones, by no means empty talk.

The universe's myriad spirits seeing this, all had shocking waves surge in their hearts. Such conduct, from ancient times to now, has never existed; what magnitude of heroic spirit, what firm determination, to be so resolute and decisive!

"Kill!" The Big Black Dog raised its head and barked wildly, sound waves rolling, as if to pierce the clouds.

These years, he followed Ye Fan, several times targeted by Forbidden Zone Children, turning into the blazing anger burning in its eyes now, making it think of it day and night; now returned, it would surely avenge past humiliation.

"This life only war, with this body of mine, for later generations clear all thorns, remove all calamities!"

Roar like thunder, reverberating between heaven and earth, as if to shake cracks into this universe's Heavenly Vault, letting all things in the world know their determination and courage.

The Seven Great Life Forbidden Zones, in the past like gods sitting high on the nine heavens, mysterious and inviolable. No one dared show them the slightest disrespect, let alone conquer them; that was a taboo matter not even dared to think of.

In a split second, the whole heaven and earth seemed to boil over, an uproar. Everyone's mood was like a taut bowstring, both so tense they could barely breathe, and filled with fear of the unknown ending;

All gazes, like substance, focused on Jiang Xuan and the others, witnessing this heaven-shaking showdown that might change history's course.

"Truly a variable! This life may perhaps witness the rise of the strongest in history, changing heaven and earth!"

North Dipper Star Domain, imperial Qi steaming, like a giant dragon dormant for ages about to awaken. Killing aura crisscrossing, disturbing the ancient ages' tranquility.

Taichu Ancient Mine, Shang Cang, Xian Ling, Shen Xu and the other Four Great Forbidden Lands, like slumbering giant beasts, sensed the external disturbance, one after another releasing powerful profound Qi, like invisible giant hands intertwining and colliding in the air.

Swords drawn, bows bent, chilling to the bone!

"Heavenly Emperor Jiang Xuan, you act so aggressively, pressing hard; do you truly think us deceivable? Simply ignorant of heaven's height and earth's depth!"

A furious roar seemed to come from the Jiuyou Hell, carrying endless anger and majesty, exploding between heaven and earth.

"Hmph! It is not that I intentionally bully; rather you lot, lingering on your last breath, have wreaked havoc in this world for long, knowing no restraint. This universe is the universe of all living beings; how can it tolerate you treating it as private property, acting arbitrarily!" (Chapter End)