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Chapter 433: Player of the Fourth Scourge (Part 13)

The Golden Lion Emperor Venerable felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. He sensed that everything about him had nowhere to hide.

The inescapable net they had so confidently believed in, the seamless and meticulous plan, were nothing more than a self-congratulatory farce.

The Golden Lion Emperor Venerable had completely lost his earlier arrogance. At this moment, he had only one thought.

Demonstrate loyalty and thereby survive.

"Great one, I have been wronged... All of this was merely an excuse I used to stabilize the other rebirths... I never once intended to act against the great one!"

Su Chen remained unmoved, leaving the Golden Lion Emperor Venerable's heart ice-cold.

"If the great one does not believe me, I can dig out this heart for the great one to see. I am utterly loyal to the great one!"

"..."

Watching the Golden Lion Emperor Venerable, whose desire to live was extremely strong as he chattered on, Su Chen waved a hand.

This caused the Golden Lion Emperor Venerable to close his eyes in despair.

It's over!

Hmm?

He seemed not to have died.

"Open your mind."

The Golden Lion Emperor Venerable obediently opened his mind.

He felt... every secret from childhood to the present was laid bare. The sensation left him deeply uncomfortable, yet for the sake of his life he had no choice but to adapt.

"A restriction has already been planted within your divine sense. If you wish to resist... you should know the consequences."

The Golden Lion Emperor Venerable felt extremely aggrieved, yet realizing that this seemed better than death, he swallowed that grievance once more.

Thus, an invisible crisis was resolved through the full surrender of the Rebirth Alliance.

Su Chen could once again develop in peace.

...

Within the Rebirth Alliance.

After the unremitting efforts of everyone present, the Golden Lion Emperor Venerable looked at the other rebirths.

Today was the day they would launch their plan!

Looking at the crowd, the Golden Lion Emperor Venerable sneered coldly in his heart.

"Stupid fools. This seat has long since become the great one's man."

At that moment, Xu Fei looked at the others with disdain. "With the likes of you lot wanting to act against Master, little do you know the plan has long since been known to Master. Once you make a move, I will become Master's greatest contributor!"

The other rebirths also had flickering gazes as they harbored their own schemes. All of this somehow formed a strange atmosphere.

"Make a move... the Federation people have already been drawn away."

"The Heart of Destruction has long been prepared."

"At this moment, that person should have entered the 'Mandate of Heaven' world and has no means of resistance."

"..."

Everyone looked at one another.

They stared blankly.

The stalemate did not last long before someone burst in. It was Xiao Yaozi.

Xiao Yaozi looked at the crowd and said, "Master has said there is no need for you to gather here any longer. You may leave."

The moment Xiao Yaozi's words fell, the crowd clasped their fists one after another and responded, "We obey the order."

"..."

Xiao Yaozi swept his gaze across everyone and then left.

After Xiao Yaozi departed, successive voices rose from the spot.

"You... you are also that great one's man?"

"I long ago sought refuge under that great one."

"Traitors! You bunch of traitors!"

"Xu Fei, don't think I didn't see it just now. You were the fastest to bend!"

"We are all on the same side. Don't harm the harmony. I never expected that everyone here, like this young master, possesses such foresight."

"..."

Everyone suddenly realized. So they were all on the same side.

That was fine then.

There was no need to fear exposure.

Yet... at that moment, the gazes of the others all fell upon the Golden Lion Emperor Venerable.

"In truth... I have long since been Master's man. I even bear Master's blessing."

Seeing the situation, the Golden Lion Emperor Venerable no longer concealed it.

"Fortunately, I made the correct decision..."

The Golden Lion Emperor Venerable cursed inwardly. These fellows actually possessed so little backbone. They had agreed to join forces against the great demon lord.

Had he not knelt quickly enough, he would long since have been sold out by these people!

...

Regarding the fact that the entire Rebirth Alliance consisted of their own people, Su Chen could not be bothered to concern himself with their actions.

At present, Su Chen continuously farmed bosses and leveled up.

His level soared rapidly.

One-Tribulation Ruler... Two-Tribulation Ruler... Ten-Tribulation Ruler...

A thousand years had already passed since he stepped into the core region of the Federation.

In a mere thousand years, relying on the resources of those rebirths and continuously slaying numerous bosses, Su Chen's level in that short span surpassed the accumulation of others over tens of millions of years. His cultivation stepped into the Twenty-Tribulation Ruler.

Such a leveling speed was simply shocking.

This was also the charm of the Fourth Scourge... As long as one possessed sufficient talent and strength, one could traverse in an extremely short time the path that others took millions or even tens of millions of years to complete. Of course, there was a price: the lack of a Dao Heart matching one's strength. This caused the powerhouses of the Fourth Scourge, aside from a rare few, to be far weaker than powerhouses of the same level who cultivated step by step across the heavens.

Even the rebirths lacked the firm conviction to compare with Su Chen. They could not even generate the thought of resistance... In their consciousness, Su Chen was simply too powerful, powerful beyond the possibility of victory.

Yet now, even if the rebirths generated thoughts of resistance, it was already too late.

Su Chen gazed upon this ancient divine realm. It was a divine realm the Federation had failed to conquer despite gnawing at it for a million years. Within it resided numerous powerhouses... those powerhouses were the so-called game bosses among the Players of the Fourth Scourge.

In this world, within a towering floating palace, a sacred figure opened his eyes.

"Could it be that the batch of extraterritorial heavenly demons from a hundred thousand years ago is about to make a comeback?"

Shi Nian recalled the great war of a hundred thousand years ago... The powerhouses of the Eternal Void Divine Realm had suffered countless casualties and still had not recovered.

Had it not been for his ability... perhaps the Eternal Void Divine Realm would have been completely destroyed in that war. Even so, an enormous price had been paid.

Before Shi Nian could think further, the endless living beings of the entire Eternal Void Divine Realm suddenly heard the sound of something shattering.

In the next moment, a storm swept across the entire Eternal Void Divine Realm!

"How could the divine realm barrier be broken so quickly?"

Shi Nian's eyes widened... Previously, when the extraterritorial heavenly demons invaded, they should have opened a small passage first and then probed step by step.

Why had the divine realm barrier suddenly shattered?

Chapter 434: Player of the Fourth Scourge (Part 14)

The divine realm barrier shattered. From the ruptured opening a figure calmly stepped forth and entered this great world.

"Only one person?"

As blurry figures flickered into view one after another, the disturbance Su Chen had caused clearly drew the attention of the powerhouses of this divine realm.

Thirteen figures appeared in this world without exception, all of them living beings at the Emperor Venerable level.

"It seems this trip will yield a fine harvest."

Aside from the great boss there were also many lesser bosses.

This left Su Chen quite satisfied. Raising two or three levels would pose no problem.

Su Chen was pleasantly surprised by the number of bosses in this divine realm. At that moment the ancient powerhouses of the Eternal Void Divine Realm were also sizing him up.

"Only one person yet he still dares to trespass into our Eternal Void Divine Realm."

"His cultivation... he has only recently stepped into the Emperor Venerable realm. Truly great boldness. Perhaps we can extract some secrets concerning the extraterritorial heavenly demons from his mouth!"

"..."

The powerhouses of the Eternal Void Divine Realm examined Su Chen.

Yet they seemed to feel something indescribable, as if something was off.

At that moment the body of an Emperor Venerable powerhouse whose true form was hidden beyond endless space suddenly exploded. The brilliant aura as radiant as the sun dimmed and fell.

This scene caught everyone completely off guard... They had not even clearly seen how this extraterritorial heavenly demon had struck!

Su Chen casually annihilated an Emperor Venerable level living being, transforming it into warm experience. He looked toward the remaining people as if regarding a flock of lambs awaiting slaughter.

One after another the supreme existences of the Eternal Void Divine Realm were casually slaughtered.

No matter how peerless your elegance, how ancient your legend, how dominant you were within a single domain,

at this moment no method, no experience, and no realm held the slightest use.

That casual strike was enough to suppress any technique.

Even the Divine Venerable Shi Nian, whose fame spanned the Eternal Void Divine Realm and who was hailed as the strongest across past and present,

was casually erased by a single finger.

After dealing with all the Emperor Venerable powerhouses, Su Chen prepared to leave this realm.

Just as he was about to depart,

he suddenly stopped and let out a soft sound of surprise.

...

Shi Nian opened his eyes.

He had returned to the Palace of Time before his death.

At that moment Shi Nian gasped heavily for breath... How many years had it been since he last felt such powerlessness?

He had actually been erased by a single finger!

"Just who is that person?"

Many doubts filled Shi Nian's heart.

"No... I must find a way to break the situation in a short time. Otherwise the Eternal Void Divine Realm will certainly be destroyed once more!"

Shi Nian was not surprised that he could be reborn to the timeline before his death, for this was precisely his cheat.

Shi Nian's life experiences within the Eternal Void Divine Realm could be called legendary. Beginning from a declining small clan, he had broken through every obstacle. It was as if his fortune rivaled the heavens; every treasure and opportunity was foreseen by him in advance. Step by step he rose until he became the strongest of the Eternal Void Divine Realm. In the war against the extraterritorial heavenly demons a hundred thousand years ago, he had closed the passage of the extraterritorial heavenly demons at the critical moment and led the living beings of the Eternal Void Divine Realm to victory.

In the eyes of outsiders Shi Nian was the one favored by heaven's mandate, the child of the era.

Only Shi Nian himself knew how many times he had truly died... He was not the child of heaven's mandate. The reason he had step by step become the one jointly revered by the Eternal Void Divine Realm was that he had walked that path with countless lives!

Now he had died once more and seemed to have encountered an unprecedented enemy.

Recovering from the brief sense of powerlessness, even though the enemy possessed strength capable of instantly killing him, Shi Nian did not give up.

After all, he had risen step by step from the lowest depths.

An invincible Dao heart tempered through hundreds of millions of lives and deaths.

Shi Nian rallied himself once more. He decided to join forces with the other powerhouses of the Eternal Void Divine Realm ahead of time and lay down an all-encompassing grand formation, inviting the guest into the urn!

In a short time Shi Nian united the remaining Emperor Venerable powerhouses of the Eternal Void Divine Realm and laid down endless killing arrays.

Such formations would bring death even if Shi Nian himself charged into them. That day arrived as expected. The barrier of the Eternal Void Divine Realm shattered with a roar. Yet this time endless terrifying grand formations awaited.

The endless grand formations shattered one after another.

The youth who emerged from the killing arrays did not even have a single wrinkle or disorder in his clothes.

Shi Nian died.

...

"No... that person is simply too terrifying. Relying solely on the strength of the Eternal Void Divine Realm is completely impossible to contend with him!"

Shi Nian awakened once more. He gasped heavily for breath, causing countless worlds to tremble and leaving the many powerhouses of the Eternal Void Divine Realm at a loss, believing someone must have offended this supreme existence.

Yet at present Shi Nian had no mood to explain to those people. His mind sought a method to break the deadlock.

Shi Nian thought of his old friends and acquaintances in other divine realms.

...

After annihilating the Emperor Venerables of the Eternal Void Divine Realm, Su Chen stopped in his tracks.

The aura upon his body suddenly surged violently, rising continuously to the peak of Emperor Venerable, that is, Twenty-Nine-Tribulation Ruler.

Su Chen's expression turned peculiar.

"The past timeline belonging to this thread has been altered by someone. Capable of rebirth, and not merely once. Bearing the destiny of a certain True Immortal who commands time. What a fortunate fellow."

Su Chen had not expected that in this world there would actually be a lucky one chosen by a True Immortal destiny.

Su Chen extended a finger that vanished into the void. Faintly a golden thread was gently stirred.

At that moment an unknown change occurred within the Eternal Void Divine Realm.

...

Shi Nian awakened once more.

This time his eyes held additional traces of fear and despair.

Even after mobilizing all his connections and gathering numerous friends, he still could not escape the fate of being successively slain, taking his friends with him in death.

Unsolvable... this was a nearly unsolvable dead end.

"No... I cannot simply give up like this."

Shi Nian thought of how he had step by step walked through so many seemingly unsolvable situations.

Now he would certainly find a solution.

Ideals were beautiful; reality was cruel.

Shi Nian opened his eyes once again. He no longer knew how many times he had failed.

He remained completely unable to contend with that man.

For the first time Shi Nian's heart wavered. He wanted to leave this world. He wanted to escape this nightmare.

Yet when Shi Nian, holding this thought, stepped out of the Eternal Void Divine Realm, a single finger crashed down.

Shi Nian opened his eyes once more. Refusing to believe it, he attempted to charge out of the Eternal Void Divine Realm. Yet he was still pressed to death by a single finger.

Again and again... until eternal cycle.

...

Within the Eternal Void Divine Realm Su Chen withdrew his hand.

"A mere incomplete True Immortal destiny, and you still wish to alter the future right under my eyes?"

Su Chen directly forced Shi Nian to correct the timeline. The despair brought by repeated rebirths would only cause Shi Nian to abandon resistance.

Then... vanish completely!

At that moment a prompt appeared before Su Chen.

[Congratulations, Player Xiao Chen. You have obtained the Time-type True Immortal Destiny (Incomplete).]

This message represented Shi Nian's complete failure.

"As expected, it is an incomplete destiny, already dimmed to the point of nearly vanishing, forcing it to choose an inheritor."

"It seems the appearance of so many rebirths in this world is inseparable from the death of this True Immortal."

Obtaining a large amount of experience out of thin air, with his cultivation now approaching Emperor Venerable, and even acquiring an incomplete True Immortal destiny, left Su Chen quite satisfied with this trip.

Su Chen returned to the Federation world.

At that moment the Federation world itself had grown turbulent and restless.

"Master, you have finally returned!"

The many rebirths saw Su Chen as if they had seen their savior.