Chapter 3814: Ancient God Path Interception
The universe is infinitely vast, so vast that even the Twenty Heavens find it difficult to cross. They must rely on space wormholes and space teleportation arrays, undergoing multiple spatial jumps, to traverse the starry sky.
Besides this, there is another path—the Ancient God Path!
The Ancient God Path was built by successive generations of deities using the tributaries of the Santu River and spatial meridians, connecting the various regions of the Heavenly Court Universe and the Hell Realm.
Only the strongest among deities can enter it.
However, after three hundred thousand years of war, the Ancient God Paths of the Heavenly Court Universe and the Hell Realm have either been destroyed or are in a state of concealment and closure.
Void Heaven sat by the side of the Ancient God Path, white hair hanging down from both sides of his face. Beside him was a tributary of the Santu River.
The river water was turbid, filled with floating corpses, emitting a foul stench.
Yet, he seemed completely oblivious. One hand gripped the hilt of the Seven Star Divine Sword, the other pressed against the blade, rubbing it back and forth to sharpen the edge, producing a grating sound.
Jiusi Yitianhuang walked along the Ancient God Path from afar, stopping a few steps away from Void Heaven. "It seems you anticipated I would pass this way."
Void Heaven continued focusing on sharpening his sword. "From the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain to Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm, taking this Ancient God Path is the shortest route.
Actually, I originally planned to go to the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain and, while you were away, wipe out the entire Darkness Temple."
Jiusi Yitianhuang said, "You think I wouldn't rush back because of the life-and-death of the Darkness Temple cultivators, so you changed your mind?"
Void Heaven shook his head. "You want to perfect the Nine Lives Nine Deaths Yin-Yang Dao, which requires devouring the billions of cultivators under the Darkness Temple's banner, especially the deities among them. How could you not care?"
"Since you know that, why didn't you do it?"
Jiusi Yitianhuang asked curiously.
Void Heaven thought for a moment, then let out a long sigh. "After all, I have cultivated the Sword Dao, and it seems the Sword Dao has advanced ahead of the Path of Nothingness!"
"So what?"
"Cultivating the Path of Nothingness naturally allows one to choose to avoid the sharp edge. But cultivating the Sword Dao means facing difficulties head-on; the heart must be fearless."
Void Heaven continued, "Going to the Dark Great Triangle Star Domain would undoubtedly be a sign of inner lack of confidence, avoiding the strong to strike the weak. That is not the mindset for cultivating the Sword Dao!"
"Since you've raised the sword, you should face hardships directly, not returning until the sky is broken. Only by encountering the strong can one perhaps become stronger."
Jiusi Yitianhuang said, "Unfortunately, I have already reached the Heavenly Venerable rank. You are no match for me. Forcing yourself to block me will inevitably result in your sword breaking and your death."
These words contained a soul-capturing power.
Void Heaven's expression remained unchanged. He sneered, "You're not a Half-Ancestor, so why such a big tone? If you're really that formidable, how was your Demon Heart taken by Kong Yinxue?"
"If you're really that formidable, how were the remnant souls of your sixth life taken by two little girls?"
Jiusi Yitianhuang's eyes deepened significantly.
But soon, his mind calmed again. He looked at the Seven Star Divine Sword in Void Heaven's hand. "You never used a sword before. Are you truly abandoning the Path of Nothingness? Do you intend to use the Sword Dao to break through to the Heavenly Venerable rank?"
"What a pity. In your achievements on the Path of Nothingness, few in history can compare with you."
"If you devoted yourself entirely to the Path of Nothingness, who at the same cultivation level could be your opponent?"
Jiusi Yitianhuang tried to shake Void Heaven's Dao Heart with words.
Because he knew that cultivating the Sword Dao had been the most painful thing for Void Heaven over the past hundreds of thousands of years.
Once the Dao Heart wavered, he was confident he could severely wound Void Heaven in a short time and then quickly rush to Luozu Cloud Mountain Realm.
Conversely, if he were pinned down here by Void Heaven, it might delay the important matter.
Void Heaven looked at him. "I'm actually very curious about one thing: are you male or female? Was your sixth life truly the ancient Moon God?"
"Do you think mocking me with gender can stir my emotions?"
Jiusi Yitianhuang smiled faintly. "Do you know that the Great Demon God has eight heads: male head, female head, goat head, snake head, Buddha head, skull head, dharma seal head, and ten-eyed head. Eight heads, eight forms. Is male or female really that important?"
Void Heaven said, "As far as I know, your sixth life married Xinghuan Heavenly Venerable. Coincidentally, Xinghuan Heavenly Venerable is right here. Were you slept with by him?"
"Soul Slave! Come out quickly and see your wife!"
"Roar!"
The Old Corpse Ghost let out a loud roar, revealing a massive and ferocious head from the water of the Santu River tributary, with crushed bones still hanging from its mouth.
Yu Hun had once used the Corpse Transformation Forbidden Art to refine the corpse of Xinghuan Heavenly Venerable into his body, becoming the current Old Corpse Ghost.
Calling the Old Corpse Ghost Xinghuan Heavenly Venerable wasn't entirely wrong.
The insult was too great. Jiusi Yitianhuang's eyes darkened, and his hand reached out to grab Void Heaven, who was a few steps away.
His five fingers were as sharp as swords, and dark energy shrouded the world, corroding everything.
But those few steps contained the order of nothingness.
Taking advantage of Jiusi Yitianhuang's emotional instability and rash attack, Void Heaven pulled him into the Void World, entering his own home ground.
"Fight! Today, I, this Heavenly Lord, will defy the Heavenly Venerable rank and see just how capable you, Jiusi Yitianhuang, really are!"
Void Heaven's hair and beard flew wildly. The Seven Star Divine Sword in his hand was ready to strike, the blade burning with flames.
Endless sword qi had already manifested from the void, converging into a torrent, directly attacking Jiusi Yitianhuang.
...
When Shang Tian's attention shifted from A Fuya to Zhang Ruochen, he saw a silver-white radiance appear in Zhang Ruochen's hand.
"Hua!"
Countless Suddhodana White Silver Trees flew out.
"Petty trick... Eh..."
Shang Tian used the power of order to scatter the Suddhodana White Silver Trees that were about to form a formation, but found that the order power was dispersed by Ancestor Rules.
It was the Paradise Realm!
The Paradise Realm was originally an Ancestor Realm, containing countless Ancestor Rules.
The Paradise Realm continued to expand, propping up a small world within Shang Tian's Divine Realm World.
The Suddhodana White Silver Trees were scattered within this small world, forming a formation on their own.
It was still the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, but compared to the previous Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, its power had fundamentally improved.
The former Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, although set up by the Sixth Patriarch and Yinxue Tian, had deteriorated over time. The lost formation inscriptions could not be repaired by Niezang Venerable's spiritual power, greatly reducing its power.
Moreover, in terms of formation mastery, the Sixth Patriarch and Yinxue Tian could not compare with Tai Shang.
Zhang Ruochen stood within the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest, beside the yellow-brown Gui Chi.
The Gui Chi, seized from Wan Venerable, was a time divine artifact, refined from all the matter of a great world. Standing tall and massive in the forest, it gave an unshakable feeling.
This was the formation eye of the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation!
Even with Shang Tian's cultivation, he immediately retreated, not daring to fall into the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest.
No joke, with Formation Master Tai Shang plus the Ancestor Realm "Paradise Realm," even an Indestructible Infinite initial stage expert wouldn't dare to test it lightly.
Zhang Ruochen held the Eternal Spear in one hand and pressed the other on the Gui Chi. His divine voice transmitted out of the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest. "In terms of pure strength, I admit I'm no match. I have no choice but to rely on the formation and seek advice from Void Heaven."
"Bang!"
A palm struck the Gui Chi.
Formation inscriptions so profound that even Zhang Ruochen found them hard to comprehend spread out from the Gui Chi, thousands upon thousands, enveloping the entire Ten Thousand Buddha Forest.
Each Suddhodana White Silver Tree, with trunks in the form of Buddhas, rapidly moved outward, encroaching upon Shang Tian's Divine Realm World.
Shang Tian quickly retreated, pondering countermeasures.
"That old man Huaying seems to have fully recovered! Hmph!"
Shang Tian was confident he could break the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation, but not the Paradise Realm.
He knew that continuing like this was no solution; his Divine Realm World would be swallowed by the Paradise Realm.
"Withdraw!"
Shang Tian retracted his Divine Realm World into his body, and he and Zhang Ruochen reappeared above the Longevity Blood Tree Forest on White Pale Star.
Zhang Ruochen had been waiting for this moment. He poured all his spiritual power and divine qi into the Gui Chi.
"Ao!"
A dragon roar came from the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest.
From within the divine formation, a golden dragon formed from time imprint light points and Buddha power flew out of the forest, charging straight at Shang Tian.
"Heavenly Desolate Seal!"
Shang Tian's blood qi surged like a heavenly river, divine glow filling the sky behind him, qi piercing the clouds. A divine seal struck toward the golden dragon.
"Boom!"
The golden dragon broke through the Heavenly Desolate Seal, struck Shang Tian's chest, flew out from his back, and gradually dissipated into specks of light.
Drops of blood dripped from Shang Tian's mouth, and his robust body seemed to stoop much more.
Seeing this, Chi Kongle, Yan Ying'er, and Xia Yu all let out a long breath.
"Imperial Dust!"
Blood Butcher's blood vessels bulged all over his body, trembling with excitement.
Senior Brother was too strong, severely wounding even Shang Tian. This was an emperor.
This was the combat power a man should have, laughing at the world and asking how many could be his enemy?
Within the Ten Thousand Buddha Forest, Zhang Ruochen's face was slightly flushed, and he dared not relax his vigilance.
Just now, to activate Grandmaster's formation, he had consumed a significant amount of divine qi and spiritual power.
What worried Zhang Ruochen more was that, although his side had gained an absolute advantage, severely wounding Shang Tian and killing several Heavenly Realm Knights, Qingyun Que, who had reformed his physical body, and the remaining Heavenly Realm Knights showed no signs of retreating.
This was very abnormal!
Could they still have some hidden card?
"Haha!"
Shang Tian laughed loudly, the laughter growing louder. His stooped demonic body slowly straightened.
Then, surging demonic qi burst from his body, his spirit and qi quickly recovered, shedding the decline of lost lifespan. Even his injuries healed in an extremely short time.
"What's going on? Shang Tian was clearly severely wounded, why..." Xia Yu said.
A Fuya calmly said, "During the North Marsh Great Wall battle, Shang Tian killed several Chaos Ancient Demons. He must have refined their demonic substance, demon blood, and divine sources into a liquid medicine stored in his body. So now, his injuries heal quickly, and his demonic nature has greatly increased."
"However, I think he still shouldn't be a match for Zhang Ruochen."
Yan Ying'er giggled. "That's good! Father is Imperial Dust, the most dazzling young taboo of this era."
"But..."
A Fuya looked at Qingyun Que and those Heavenly Realm Knights. "The real strong one should be showing up now, right?"
"Hua!"
A divine lamp bloomed in the thick blood clouds above White Pale Star.
Vaguely, an aged figure could be seen standing beside the divine lamp.
Zhang Ruochen looked up, a deep expression in his eyes. He murmured, "Kui Huang!"
All previous doubts were now completely clear.
After all, if it were just to kill Ice Emperor, having Shang Tian and the Demon Corpse to suppress the situation was more than enough. Kui Huang didn't need to come personally.
Seeing him appear, the invisible pressure in Zhang Ruochen's heart instead dissipated.
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