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Chapter 211: The Emperor's Fate (Part 26)

Su Chen's perfected Flying Immortal Dao Body suppressed the starry sky. At this moment, the power of the Flying Immortal manifested in a way that was unmatched through the ages, fearless against anything.

The two figures clashed. Their battle was impossible to observe clearly. Everywhere they passed, everything turned to dust.

"Quasi-Emperor at the peak… He has actually reached this level and can fight a Supreme to the death!"

Countless existences were shocked.

"This is bad… We have been focusing all our vigilance on the demonic woman and overlooked the Ye Clan!"

Some powerhouses who aspired to become Emperor felt a great tremor in their hearts. The strength Su Chen displayed was no weaker than that of the demonic woman back then.

"Could it be that the human race is about to produce another Great Emperor?"

In the starry sky, a powerhouse from an ancient race sighed softly.

Su Chen and the Holy Light Supreme fought fiercely, battling all the way to a desolate ancient realm. The sky collapsed and the earth cracked. A Quasi-Emperor body contending against a Supreme finally made the Holy Light Supreme put aside his contempt. "No wonder Shitian died at your hands. With strength like yours, if you become Emperor, you will undoubtedly be another troublesome Emperor."

Killing intent surged in the Holy Light Supreme's eyes. He had already offended Su Chen completely. If Su Chen attained the Emperor realm, a reckoning would naturally follow. Only one of them could survive this battle.

Su Chen's immortal light shook the four directions as he stood tall within the great realm. Today, he would use the Holy Light Supreme as a stepping stone to achieve the ultimate leap.

This great battle lasted for several years.

As an unparalleled aura rose and suppressed the Daos of the heavens,

"The Ye Clan's heir actually forced a Great Emperor to reach his ultimate sublimation!"

The Holy Light Supreme burned the last of his blood and Qi for one final battle.

A long time later, a figure stood Supreme over the starry sky. Although he looked rather disheveled, with the Hundred Battles Golden Armor shattered and the Flying Immortal Pagoda in his hand dimmed, the light of the Flying Immortal had never burned more vigorously.

Even after reaching his ultimate sublimation, the Holy Light Supreme had failed to kill Su Chen. At the final moment, Su Chen had escaped.

A Quasi-Emperor had fought a Supreme to exhaustion and still survived.

The news was too shocking.

That figure strode through the starry sky, his aura growing increasingly powerful. It was clear he was about to achieve the ultimate leap. This filled countless heavenly prodigies and monstrous geniuses with unwillingness.

Terrifying auras assaulted from all directions, attempting to stop Su Chen from taking that final step. The appearance of another Great Emperor from the human race touched too many interests. Even the Supremes from the forbidden zones came to kill him.

The entire world had become his enemy. Yet there were also figures who stood in front to block the powerful foes for him.

The Jade Pool Sacred Maiden, the Black Dragon Crown Prince, Ji Changkong, Ye Da, Ye San, and many powerhouses from the Myriad Laws Hall fought fiercely in the starry sky.

A Supreme charged over and attacked Ji Changkong directly. At that moment, a sword of destruction pierced through everything.

A powerful aura crossed over from the Azure Nether Dao Domain.

"Falling Emperor Mountain! I am here to assassinate the Ye Clan Emperor Son. Why are you blocking me?"

A Supreme recognized the newcomer.

"Him… you cannot kill."

Nangong Yunshu pointed at Ji Changkong.

The Supreme said, "You may take him away."

Nangong Yunshu replied, "You cannot kill Ye Chen either. The myriad beings of this era need an Emperor!"

The opposing Supreme's face darkened.

How could he not see that the woman before him was simply toying with him?

A great battle erupted!

Another Supreme arrived.

An ancient emperor of the demon race was determined to stop Su Chen from reaching the peak.

At that moment, an ancient fist imprint shot forward and sent the Supreme flying. Although it caused no injury, the blow was extremely humiliating.

A pair of giant hands tore open the vault of heaven, and a figure who looked down upon all living beings stepped out.

"I, Wang Yunfei, owed you a life. After this matter, we are even."

Su Chen saw Wang Yunfei block a Supreme, and the two immediately erupted into battle. Wang Yunfei had nearly broken through his limits. He knew that Wang Yunfei was referring to the time in the Ancient Emperor Realm when he had helped block the demonic woman's killing strike.

No one knew how many people would survive this battle.

Gradually, human Dao lineages from all directions joined the fray. If the human race could produce yet another Great Emperor, they would rightfully become the foremost among the myriad races. Five consecutive generations of human Great Emperors!

Su Chen's great tribulation… had arrived.

"The great tribulation of this life is even stronger!"

The Emperor Tribulation!

In his previous life, Su Chen had faced only three Emperor tribulations. In this life, there were a full five.

The tribulation manifested young Great Emperors. Their Emperor techniques swept across the sky as they charged toward Su Chen. Both the Flying Immortal Pagoda and the Hundred Battles Golden Armor were shaken away by his aura. The weapon spirits within them awakened from their stupor and witnessed the scene.

"He… is about to become Emperor!"

The two Emperor weapons bore witness. In the distance, the battle grew increasingly brutal. Countless powerhouses fell, shattering star rivers.

"We must not let anyone disturb Young Master's ascension!"

The Hundred Battles Golden Armor and the Flying Immortal Pagoda reignited their power, manifesting their weapon spirits to help Su Chen block any invading enemies.

Meanwhile, inside the Emperor Tribulation, Su Chen faced formidable opponents. In his previous life, he had only confronted three young Great Emperor projections. This time… he faced five, and these five projections were far stronger than those in his last life.

Su Chen had refined the Mysterious Yellow Origin Qi and the Flying Immortal Dao Gold into a single flying sword. The sword flowed with grandeur and splendor, slaying everything in its path.

At this moment, the flying sword accompanied Su Chen as he slashed at his enemies and fought in all directions, bathing in blood within the thunder tribulation.

With his Flying Immortal Dao Body and Myriad Laws Heavenly Eyes both perfected, his combat strength was enough to sweep through everything in an era without Great Emperors.

However, his opponents were projections of Great Emperors from their own tribulations, imprinted upon heaven and earth. They crossed time and space to battle him. Although these projections were not as powerful as the real Emperors during their tribulations, they could not be underestimated. Each one had perfected their Emperor techniques and possessed unmatched combat strength.

Su Chen coughed up blood. His Flying Immortal Dao Body had already touched the long river of time, yet the five Great Emperor projections refused to let him go. They chased him into the river of time, reversing its power.

"Not enough…"

Su Chen wanted to perfect his own path. Relying solely on the Flying Immortal Emperor Scripture and the Hundred Battles Emperor Scripture was insufficient. He broke through his limits and fused everything he had learned in this life, his previous life, and the life before that into one. At this moment, boundless light radiated from his body as he merged countless auras into a single final breath.

The Myriad Laws Emperor Scripture!

For Su Chen, this invincible path was still only in its embryonic form. Even so, it was already enough.

The moment the Myriad Laws Emperor Scripture appeared, Su Chen felt his physique changing. His Flying Immortal Dao Body evolved, but the change was positive and made him even stronger. Inside the long river of time, facing the pursuing enemies, Su Chen no longer held back or evaded.

The battle was both slow and fast. Su Chen blasted apart one Great Emperor projection, withstood a joint strike from the remaining four, then killed another. Even as his body shattered and suffered indelible Dao injuries, Su Chen did not stop. He feared death no more than a desperate gambler.

Such bearing shook even the remaining three Great Emperor projections. Though they lacked consciousness, they were suppressed by his unyielding spirit.

Outside, all parties halted their fighting at this moment.

Because… a new Great Dao was slowly rising. It suppressed the heavens, suppressed the myriad Daos, and descended upon the eternal starry sky like a supreme.

Some rejoiced, others grieved.

Someone had become Emperor! The Ye Clan's heir had successfully overcome the Emperor Tribulation!

Chapter 212: The Emperor's Fate (Part 27)

Su Chen slew the remaining three Great Emperor projections. At that moment, his physical body was broken and his origin was nearly exhausted. Yet the instant he overcame the Emperor Tribulation, the entire universe roared. He felt… the whole universe lay under his control. Boundless authority appeared in his hands, and countless memories flooded into his mind.

What was a Great Emperor? Naturally, he was the Supreme of this universe. All living beings within it were his subjects. That was what it meant to be Emperor.

"Run!"

At that moment, the Supremes of the forbidden zones chose to flee back to their respective zones in unison, abandoning their opponents without hesitation. The powerhouses of the foreign races did the same. They were terrified… terrified of facing the reckoning of a newly ascended Great Emperor.

Upon attaining the Emperor realm, many inherited memories surged into Su Chen's mind—memories of a mission passed down through the ages. However, Su Chen paid them no attention. He had no need to. He was now the lord of the universe. Whether he became a tyrant, a wise ruler, or a hegemon depended entirely on his own will.

The human race had suffered devastating losses in the battle. Countless powerhouses had died. The Myriad Laws Hall was no exception. Su Chen saw a few familiar faces left. Ye Da had been killed, slaughtered by a Supreme whose body still carried traces of Ye Da's lingering aura. Ye San was heavily wounded, the Black Dragon Crown Prince lay on the verge of death, and the Jade Pool Sacred Maiden had nearly been devoured.

Ji Changkong was nailed to a star, yet he still had a faint breath left.

The battle had been far too brutal.

Nangong Yunshu and Wang Yunfei ultimately stopped short of alternative Dao attainment. When the battle ended, the two dragged their broken bodies away.

Su Chen then turned his gaze toward the Ye Clan. The clan had suffered immense casualties—scarcely one in ten had survived. The ancestral altar was covered in blood and the remnants of extinguished souls.

The surviving members of the Ye Clan wore joyful smiles on their faces, yet tears of grief filled their eyes.

They had sacrificed themselves, summoning the residual soul of the Hundred Battles Great Emperor from the past to block the enemies. The price had been too great. Too many had died, and most of the Ye Clan's ancestral land had been destroyed.

When Su Chen saw Ye Liuli unconscious with severe Dao injuries, his brows furrowed and anger burned in his eyes. Both the Hundred Battles Golden Armor and the Flying Immortal Pagoda had fallen into deep slumber, heavily damaged. The weapon spirits within the Emperor Weapons had nearly been erased.

"Wait for me… I will return soon."

After leaving those words, Su Chen took a single step and crossed countless distances, following a particular aura.

The owner of that aura sensed Su Chen approaching and cried out in terror, "Great Emperor of this era, spare me! If you let me go, I swear never to act against the Ye Clan again. In the future, I will even protect the Ye Clan…"

Before he could finish speaking, the Flying Immortal flashed. An Emperor sword slashed down and obliterated his body, not even giving him the chance to reach ultimate sublimation.

This was… what it meant to be 'Emperor'!

"First one."

Su Chen's eyes were cold and sharp, like lightning that pierced the darkness of the universe.

The fall of a Supreme could not be hidden from the others.

"Useless trash. He died without even making a final struggle!"

A Supreme cursed angrily. One of their own had died too suddenly, without even the chance to reawaken his own Dao, and had been slain by the new Emperor.

They had once been Emperors themselves and understood the gap between their current state and a true Emperor… but that gap should not have been so vast that the victim could not even awaken his Dao for one last desperate fight.

"Is it you?"

The moment the Supreme finished cursing, he saw the figure appearing ahead. His expression changed drastically. In the next instant… he lost consciousness.

Fast… far too fast!

Su Chen had attained the Dao through the Flying Immortal Dao Body. Although the path he walked was not limited to speed alone, he still possessed the most terrifying velocity. With the mental state forged over multiple lifetimes, even with the power of a Great Emperor, he felt neither discomfort nor arrogance—only calm indifference.

"Second one!"

The Supremes who had tried to stop Su Chen from becoming Emperor were not limited to just two.

When the second Supreme was slain, the rest finally sensed that something was wrong.

Su Chen tracked down the third Supreme—the one from the demon race.

This time, the demon Supreme wasted no words. He immediately summoned his former Great Dao and transformed into a supreme demon Emperor. It was a great demon covered in silver fur. Without any hesitation, it charged straight at Su Chen.

"Even if you reach ultimate sublimation, it will only buy you a few extra breaths."

Su Chen gripped his Emperor sword. His killing intent overwhelmed everything. A few breaths later, he left the spot. A full-powered demon Emperor was indeed powerful, but it could not threaten him. Those few breaths of Emperor-level strength were not enough to kill a newly ascended Great Emperor in his prime.

The Emperor Sword was now stained with the blood of three Supremes. The Flying Immortal Qi on the blade grew even sharper, its edge fully revealed, turning it into the ultimate killing weapon.

In just a few breaths, the remaining Supremes had all retreated into their respective forbidden zones.

Killing intent surged in Su Chen's eyes. He did not stop. He followed one particular aura and charged directly into a forbidden zone.

"Contemporary Great Emperor, you actually dare to invade a forbidden zone!"

The pursued Supreme could hardly believe it. Su Chen stepped on the myriad Daos and stormed into the zone, clearly intent on slaying him.

At that moment, the Supreme burst into laughter.

"Do you know why no Great Emperor throughout the ages has ever dared to step inside? They only wait for us to emerge!"

Su Chen felt it instantly. The power he wielded over the universe vanished. Without the blessing of the universe's authority, he no longer possessed the overwhelming might that stood above all things.

"So that's how it is."

Su Chen looked rather intrigued. There was no trace of panic on his face. Instead, he began to study his surroundings. This place had been cut off from the universe by the Supremes, forming an independent world where the flow of time moved slowly. This was why the forbidden zone Supremes could live through lifetime after lifetime. They only needed a small amount of blood and Qi to survive ten thousand years.

Here, one could not draw upon the Great Emperor's authority. In other words, even a Great Emperor could fall inside a forbidden zone.

"Even without the authority's blessing, do you really think you can kill this Emperor?"

Su Chen spoke calmly. The power of the Flying Immortal circulated as the Great Dao rose beneath his feet. Even without the Emperor's authority, he was still a true invincible being.

"You have grown old… and decayed… Continuing to linger in this world is nothing more than a parasite clinging desperately to life."

Su Chen's words struck the forbidden zone Supreme's heart like a sharp sword, enraging him. "What do you understand? How could you possibly understand our ambitions? You are merely the chosen one of this era's heaven and earth. Once abandoned, you will end up just like us!

"We do not need the recognition of heaven and earth. We seek to transcend everything and become immortals! You don't understand… but it doesn't matter. Today, you will die here!"

Within the forbidden zone, another terrifying aura awakened.

Two Supremes…

Su Chen held his Emperor sword. In an instant, the two powerhouses clashed, causing the small world to tremble and crack continuously.

The small world shook violently, nearly collapsing. Supremes hiding in other forbidden zones watched from afar, utterly shocked.