# Chapter 2695: Through the Ages, All Eras Return to One
Over twenty-five trillion Sacred Dao Rules.
This was a terrifying number. Among the countless beings in the world, and the myriad heroes across the realms as numerous as sand and gravel, very few could cultivate their cultivation to such a level, and all of them were called unparalleled geniuses.
However, compared to Yin Yuanchen's forty trillion Sacred Dao Rules, it was still several levels weaker.
Compared to Eon-level representative figures like Nan Sheng and Shang Zihong, it was also far behind.
"How could it only be twenty-five trillion Sacred Dao Rules? Could Zhang Ruochen still be hiding his strength?"
"Perhaps he only recently broke through to the Supreme Realm and hasn't yet reached the pinnacle."
"With Zhang Ruochen's cultivation only at this level, yet he can briefly contend with Yin Yuanchen—it's truly astonishing. This era has gained another world-shaking figure who commands the wind and rain."
"At their top-tier level, any weakness at all will lead to defeat. Moreover, the gap in realm is hard to bridge. Zhang Ruochen is still somewhat shallow in his scheming—not yet invincible, yet daring to act as if he were. Today will most likely end in a miserable defeat."
"Miserable defeat? Would Yin Yuanchen, Shang Zihong, and Nan Sheng only let him be defeated?"
"Yes, defeat means death."
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While the Great Saint-level powerhouses were discussing animatedly, Yan Wushen's tiger-like eyes widened, and his fists clenched tightly. "Impossible, how can this be?"
At this moment, the same words were spoken by Que, Bore, Donghua Emperor, Yan Yu, Zhen Yuan, and Shang Zihong.
Their gazes, brilliant like eternal divine lamps, were all fixed on Zhang Ruochen.
Just now, the moment Zhang Ruochen released his Sacred Dao Rules, they had already seen clearly—Zhang Ruochen had not cultivated a Supreme Dharma Body and was not at the Supreme Realm.
How shocking was this?
If he wasn't at the Supreme Realm, how could he have cultivated over twenty-five trillion Sacred Dao Rules?
They all believed that the Eon Number of twelve quadrillion nine hundred sixty trillion was the limit of the Ten Thousand Deaths One Life Realm, a threshold that only cultivators who had perfected a second-rank Sacred Intent could possibly cross.
Yan Wushen was far stronger than them. He believed the limit of the Ten Thousand Deaths One Life Realm was twenty trillion Sacred Dao Rules. To break through this barrier, he had sat in meditation in the Dark Abyss for sixteen hundred years.
After breaking through, Yan Wushen thought himself the number one through the ages, believing that even his former rival Zhang Ruochen had been left behind.
But now, the number of Sacred Dao Rules Zhang Ruochen released was like a bucket of cold water poured over Yan Wushen's head, making his entire body tremble, unable to calm down for a long time.
It was as if Zhang Ruochen's sword had already pierced his heart.
If Yan Wushen was like this, what about the others?
Above the sea, the gods of the Hell Realm gathered within the Divine Realm World of the Judgment Arbiter, discussing how to deal with Zhang Ruochen.
But even they fell silent at this moment.
The top-tier powerhouses within the Divine Realm had long seen through Zhang Ruochen's true situation and remained calm and composed.
But more gods could not believe this fact. Their minds shook, and like Saint Realm cultivators, like mortals, they argued fiercely.
"Impossible! The Eon Number is the limit of the Ten Thousand Deaths One Life Realm. How could Zhang Ruochen, this junior, have reached such a level of Sacred Dao Rules?"
"Yan Wushen counts as a first-rate stunning figure—stealing the Dao from heaven, cultivating the Six Paths Reincarnation—and his limit in the Ten Thousand Deaths One Life Realm was only twenty trillion."
"Rustle!"
"Whoosh!"
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At the edge of the sky, a vast blood cloud rolled in like a tsunami, like a divine wind.
From within the blood cloud came a familiar wild laugh, reaching everyone's ears: "You mediocre ones, when you were at the Saint Realm, few of you could even touch the level of Eon-level representatives. How could you possibly understand the height my grandson has reached?"
"The Eon Number is the limit of Eon-level geniuses."
"My grandson is an unparalleled genius through the ages. His limit should be two Eon Numbers."
Xue Jue War God had arrived!
He stood atop a vast blood cloud, his bearing majestic and domineering, his face filled with an arrogant, insufferable smile—almost beside himself with glee.
The several gods who had proposed to the Judgment Arbiter to punish Zhang Ruochen showed strange expressions in their eyes.
Why had Xue Jue War God suddenly come to the Wuding Divine Sea?
If it were only Xue Hou in the Wuding Divine Sea, with her status and strength as a new god, she could not sway the Judgment Arbiter's will at all.
But Xue Jue War God was different. Not only was his cultivation terrifyingly powerful, but he also held the position of Great Clan Leader of the Blood Heaven Tribe and the title of one of the Undying Blood Clan's Thirteen War Gods. Using the excuse of disrupting the Ten Realms Battle to punish Zhang Ruochen was now impossible.
Xue Jue War God cast his gaze toward Wu Qingzong and said loudly: "Weren't you very arrogant? Claiming that your descendant is unparalleled through the ages, cultivating the Six Paths Reincarnation, achieving a first-rank Sacred Intent, and destined to become an Esoteric Lord of Profound Meaning, enfeoffed as a king and honored as a venerable. Heh heh, now it seems he's not yet invincible."
"So-called first-rank Sacred Intent is most likely just a fake first-rank."
"What is true first-rank Sacred Intent? What is unparalleled through the ages? You have to look at this descendant who carries the bloodline of my Blood Absolute Family. Haha!"
Wu Qingzong remained calm and composed, wanting very much to retort: I never said those words; you made them up yourself.
Yuan was one of the Hell Realm's ten Eon-level representative figures and the child Ghost Lord was most proud of.
For this reason, Ghost Lord had personally come to oversee the Ten Realms Battle.
Ghost Lord couldn't stand Xue Jue War God's arrogance and said: "I can see it—he's a descendant of your Blood Absolute Family, otherwise he wouldn't be so lawlessly arrogant. But no matter how formidable that brat is, he's still only at the Ten Thousand Deaths One Life Realm. Be careful he doesn't die young here."
These words struck Xue Jue War God's heart. He too felt Zhang Ruochen was taking too great a risk. Setting aside other cultivators, just Yin Yuanchen alone was not someone a Ten Thousand Deaths One Life Realm cultivator could defeat.
But he also understood why Zhang Ruochen was doing this.
Because Zhang Ruochen had not yet broken through the limit of two Eon Numbers.
Since he was in the Ten Thousand Deaths One Life Realm, only in a death-defying situation could he continuously stimulate his potential and reach a higher level. Either become stronger, or die.
Since Zhang Ruochen wanted to gamble, he would fully support him.
Luo Yan Great Emperor sat on equal footing with the Judgment Arbiter but had not spoken a word.
In truth, if the Judgment Arbiter truly wanted to punish Zhang Ruochen, he would certainly step in to stop it. But since Xue Jue War God, that madman, had personally come, as a Great Emperor, he naturally had to maintain his dignity and simply watch the show.
Just then, his gaze lowered to the battlefield below the sea surface, and he let out a surprised exclamation.
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"Through the ages, all eras return to one."
Zhang Ruochen shouted loudly and manifested his Dao Domain.
Since breaking into the Thousand Questions Realm on the River of Time and cultivating his Dao Domain, this was the first time Zhang Ruochen had manifested a complete Dao Domain in combat.
The All Eras Return to One Dao Domain.
This was the complete embodiment of Zhang Ruochen's entire cultivation. Within the Dao Domain were fused the boundless universe Truth Realm Form, the Space True Domain, and the Virtual Time Domain.
A winding River of Time appeared within the Dao Domain.
Yin Yuanchen, standing atop the Sky-Connecting Divine Tree, sensed his own Dao Domain being impacted—time, space, and the rules of heaven and earth were all being twisted and changed.
He could wait no longer; he had to attack.
Yin Yuanchen transformed into a beam of divine light and flew toward Zhang Ruochen. The Wu Shen Sword in his hand drew upon the power of his entire Dao Domain as he swung it down.
A Death Kingdom manifested, presenting eerie scenes of dragon corpses, ghost cities, bone mountains, yin rivers, and so on.
The distant onlookers, affected by the aura of the Death Kingdom, were filled with fear and fled rapidly.
Zhang Ruochen met the attack, using the Mountain-Hiding Demon Mirror to protect himself, drawing upon the various rules within his Dao Domain, and slashed diagonally with his sword.
As this sword strike was executed, not only did a phantom of the River of Time appear, but also images from various eras emerged: Immovable Bright King Great Venerable holding up twenty-seven heavens, Heavenly Demon spinning thirty-six divine steles, Sword Ancestor sitting cross-legged on a mountain peak, the Undying Blood Clan's Ancestor standing in the starry sky...
So-called "all eras return to one" was not a static Dao Domain, but the gathering of everything from every era, past and present, within it.
Influenced by time, Zhang Ruochen's sword strike appeared slow, yet it was actually extremely fast. This very contrast nearly made Shang Zihong and Nan Sheng, who were watching, vomit blood.
Yin Yuanchen felt even more uncomfortable, being pulled by Zhang Ruochen's Dao Domain into the Primordial Wilderness one moment, then appearing in the ancient prosperous era the next, and then falling into the abyss of the Dark Ancient Era.
Within Zhang Ruochen's Dao Domain, the power of space and time changed unpredictably, and the boundless universe realm form constantly battered his Dao Domain.
"Shua!"
The peerless sword strike Yin Yuanchen unleashed failed to injure Zhang Ruochen.
But Zhang Ruochen's diagonal slash grazed the edge of Yin Yuanchen's forehead, leaving a deep bloody wound and exposing white skull bone.
Just as Yin Yuanchen was about to counterattack, his body felt light, and he was pulled beneath Immovable Bright King Great Venerable. As his gaze met the Great Venerable's eyes, his mind was instantly shaken.
"Shua!"
Zhang Ruochen slashed at Yin Yuanchen's right waist. Awakened, Yin Yuanchen swung his sword to block.
Even so, a deep mark appeared on the armor at Yin Yuanchen's right waist, and his body was sent flying diagonally by the impact force.
Zhang Ruochen swung his sword again, time imprints dancing around the blade like fireflies.
Those onlookers from the Heavenly Court and Hell Realm who were not powerful enough could hardly intuitively feel the terror of time power, nor could they understand why Zhang Ruochen's Dao Domain, formed from only twenty-five trillion Sacred Dao Rules, could suppress Yin Yuanchen's Dao Domain.
All they saw was Yin Yuanchen being sent flying by Zhang Ruochen time and again, his armor nearly shattered, blood flowing endlessly from his face.
Yin Yuanchen was being beaten without any ability to fight back.
"Yin Yuanchen can't even defeat Zhang Ruochen? The Eon-level genius doesn't live up to his reputation!" many cultivators said mockingly.
But only those cultivators at the Half-God peak level and above remained silent, shocked beyond measure. They could see the extraordinary nature of Zhang Ruochen's Dao Domain and were deeply shaken.
Because they knew that if they were in Yin Yuanchen's position, they probably couldn't even block a single sword strike from Zhang Ruochen.
That Yin Yuanchen could hold out this long and dodge every fatal blow was already remarkable.
"How did he do it? This is simply impossible!" Yan Yu's eyes were deep, filled with confusion and shock.
Yan Huangtu had never seen his second brother so out of control (shītài).
Yan Yu said: "The highest level other cultivators' Dao Domains can reach is to manifest a single world or a rudimentary universe. Zhang Ruochen's Dao Domain contains the cosmic scenes of every era from ancient times to the present, as if countless universes are being presented. It can be called 'years and months,' or 'through the ages,' with all the changes of heaven and earth contained within."
"A Dao Domain manifests the cultivator's inner vision. Fifth Brother, tell me—how big is Zhang Ruochen's heart? Is it ambition, or wild ambition?"
Yan Huangtu shook his head and said: "I don't know! I only know that being able to cultivate such a Dao Domain, even if it's still just a rudimentary form, is already extremely shocking, beyond what we can understand, even beyond the meaning of a Dao Domain's existence. Perhaps only the gods can understand its significance and mystery."
Suddenly, Yan Yu said something that surprised Yan Huangtu: "I want to fight too!"
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One more chapter tonight!