Chapter 203: Rat Tail's Remedy, One Sentence to Persuade a Celestial Emperor to Death!

Chapter 203: Rat Tail's Remedy, One Sentence to Persuade a Celestial Emperor to Death!

The Grand Apotheosis Ritual began, and the eerie forces descended, plunging all realms into darkness.

The sky shattered, the earth split, and blood stained the heavens, a scene of unspeakable horror.

Even the realms themselves could not remain untouched, having been targeted early on. Several Dao Ancestors of the Sinister Race arrived together.

However, Shaohua, along with Heng Ren, Ye Fan, and Wu Shi, swiftly exterminated and cremated them, drawing the attention of a bizarre Celestial Emperor from beyond the realms.

Fortunately, Shaohua had already reached the pinnacle of her path. Her previous delay in breaking through was solely to buy more time for the realms.

If she truly ascended to Celestial Emperor, the disturbance would inevitably be detected by the Sinister Race. Taking that step would shake the heavens and might even rouse the monstrous entity at the edge of The Plateau.

Upon achieving the Path's End and becoming an emperor, she immediately unleashed her power, forcefully slaying the Black Shadow Celestial Emperor who had descended, delivering a powerful warning.

However, beings who had ascended to the Final Path were not so easily slain.

After being slain, the Black Shadow Celestial Emperor instantly reappeared at the same spot.

Shaohua's gaze was icy cold, her lips tightly pursed. She formed a seal with her jade-like hands and struck like a thunderbolt, delivering another powerful blow.

Between her fingers, a dazzling array of fifteen colors of divine light intertwined, radiating boundless power. The moment it landed, it crushed the ages and once again suppressed the Black Shadow Celestial Emperor.

She was incredibly strong, far beyond the norm. Having just ascended to the Path's End, she could already overpower an eerie Celestial Emperor.

This was because when she entered the Celestial Emperor realm, not only did her two Dao Fruits reach their pinnacle, but they also collided and merged.

This was similar to when she had accumulated a deep foundation as a Mundane Immortal and advanced to the Zenith of Immortality, directly leaping to become an Immortal King giant.

With both Dao Fruits simultaneously reaching the Path's End and then merging, Shaohua's breakthrough was accompanied by a transformation in her Dao, causing her cultivation to skyrocket, making her a giant among Celestial Emperors.

Just as Immortal Kings can be categorized as ordinary, supreme, giants, and Supreme Sovereigns, Celestial Emperors can also be divided into several tiers.

At this level of cultivation, it is difficult to define precise minor realms. Throughout history, very few have reached this level.

Forcing a ranking based on strength is not ideal, but some are indeed stronger, and some are weaker, which is a fact.

If forced to categorize Celestial Emperors by strength, Shaohua might prefer a certain Emperor Bone's terminology.

She could refer to ordinary, supreme, giants, and Supreme Sovereigns for her own kind, but for those eerie Celestial Emperors, calling them rats and cats would be more fitting.

Of course, Shaohua's ability to overpower an eerie Celestial Emperor might also be due to the fact that her opponent was not particularly outstanding, just an ordinary, albeit large, rat.

Even without the merger of her two Dao Fruits, she was confident she could still overwhelm him with just one.

The Black Shadow Celestial Emperor, having been obliterated twice in a row, found it hard to believe. He was still in a daze.

Who was he? A being who had roamed countless realms for ages, rarely suffering any setbacks. Today, he was being pressed by a woman who had just ascended to the Celestial Emperor realm, which was simply inconceivable.

"How dare you harm me! Unforgivable!"

The Black Shadow Celestial Emperor couldn't help but let out a long howl, only to be punched to pieces by Shaohua once again.

"Only a big rat, what are you howling for?" Shaohua sneered, forcibly stuffing part of his essence into the Chronofurnace in her hand.

She clenched her fist, and in an instant, it was refined!

When the Black Shadow Celestial Emperor reappeared, he was missing an arm, his form incomplete, permanently losing a portion of his essence.

This filled him with shock and trembling.

A Celestial Emperor's Dao body is indestructible, and their Soul Essence is eternal. Even if killed, they can continually reappear in the world.

As long as someone remembers and thinks of them, they can always return from the heavens.

However, Celestial Emperors are not truly immortal and indestructible. There are certain places in the world that can destroy a Celestial Emperor, and if a being of the same realm pays a great enough price, they can erase all traces, causing eternal silence.

Losing a part of one's true body and Soul Essence is a significant loss.

Although it is easy to regenerate blood and reshape the body, the lost Dao essence and Soul Essence cannot be recovered.

At the Celestial Emperor realm, every drop of blood is extremely precious, and every thread of Soul Essence is particularly brilliant and rare, unable to bear the loss.

The Black Shadow Celestial Emperor felt deeply humiliated and angry. He was a being of the Final Path, yet he was now so helpless, his heart burning with resentment and sorrow.

Who says that beings who look down on all realms from their lofty heights never feel fear?

In certain situations, their minds can also shatter. The Black Shadow Celestial Emperor was experiencing this now.

That woman was truly formidable to the extreme, capable of slaying him with her bare hands, then grabbing his essence and Soul Essence fragments and forcing them into that bizarre furnace. It was too terrifying!

What kind of being was he, to be cremated like a mortal?

Moreover, he wasn't even dead yet, and he was already being burned, which seemed somewhat inappropriate!

He recalled the methods he had used in the past to exterminate other evolutionary civilizations, trying various approaches, not just killing for the sake of it, as it was too boring.

Now, he was experiencing a different kind of ordeal himself.

Of course, he had no regrets, but he did feel that he might truly fall here today, filling his heart with hatred for Shaohua.

"Damn it, you are definitely not a newly ascended Celestial Emperor. Who are you, using these realms as bait to lure me here?" the Black Shadow Celestial Emperor roared.

"Enough noise!" Shaohua frowned, slapping his head into pieces and then shoving it into the Chronofurnace.

"Hmph, don't think that relying on this bizarre furnace will kill me. I am immortal and will return!" The Black Shadow Celestial Emperor's head reappeared in the Chronofurnace, angrily roaring, truly panicking.

In the Sinister Race's top ten Celestial Emperors, his strength was among the weakest. Otherwise, why would he be sent to clean up the mess for his clan's Dao Ancestors?

If he were stronger, he could have joined the campaign against the heavens; if he were even stronger, he could have stayed in the ancestral land, never needing to act.

"Without this furnace, I could still erase you", Shaohua said, pointing out the error in his words.

If the Black Shadow Celestial Emperor was an ordinary being, just a big rat, she felt she could fight a fierce tiger and pin it down.

Yes, rats and cats, and above them, tigers and tyrannosaurs, were indeed Celestial Emperor giants.

The Chronofurnace burned fiercely, and the yin-yang ancestral substances she had collected earlier poured down, serving as fuel for the furnace.

As for Voidblaze and Eonflare, they were contained within the civilization's fire of her other Dao Fruit.

She brought them forth again and placed them directly in the furnace, with the Four Poles Wastes also prepared in abundance, continuously pouring in.

The so-called difficulty in burying the heavens is to bury the Four Poles Wastes, cut the two Yin and Yang woods, summon the Voidblaze, and harness the Eonflare to burn it!

The Chronofurnace can incinerate Ancestor Dao-level beings, one burn and they’re dead. However, using it to burn an Immortal Emperor is a bit more troublesome, but still much faster than personally refining and erasing them.

Unless she was willing to pay a huge price, she couldn’t quickly and thoroughly suppress an Immortal Emperor.

"I advise you to take Rat Tail's Remedy, don’t struggle, and find peace. Since you believe you can return, why not let go of your obsession and end yourself?" Shaohua advised, trying to persuade or deceive.

"..."

The Black Shadow Celestial Emperor was overwhelmed with grief and anger. Was this even human talk?

What a wicked woman, not only did she shatter him and stuff him into the furnace to burn, but she also wanted him to commit suicide. Who was the Sinister Race, who was the ominous monster?

"Why aren’t you talking? Are you already dead?" Shaohua blinked and shook the furnace, looking quite innocent.

But her actions didn’t stop. She was ruthless and fierce, continuously breaking down the Black Shadow Celestial Emperor’s external body and stuffing it into the furnace.

"Sis, she’s fierce!" Wu Shi, watching from afar, widened his eyes and stammered out these words.

Was this still his gentle, kind, beautiful, and graceful sister? Why did she suddenly seem a bit heartless?

"That’s the battle between Immortal Emperors, truly terrifying!" Ye Fan exclaimed, his eyes burning with battle spirit.

Heng Ren remained silent, as cold as ever, her beautiful eyes focused on the green figure, wishing she could immediately ascend to the path’s end and fight alongside her.

She had learned some information about the Sinister Race from Shaohua, knowing that there were ten Immortal Emperors in the Sinister Race.

Apart from the Black Shadow Celestial Emperor who descended upon the realms and the mysterious Immortal Emperor who ascended the dark altar to host the Grand Apotheosis Ritual, there were still eight Final Path Ascendants!

Perhaps the Upper Heaven could share some of the pressure, but the remaining burden was still unbearable. How many could Shaohua withstand, and for how long?

She didn’t know and didn’t want to think about it.

Ultimately, her strength was still lacking, she hadn’t fully traversed the path, and there was still a gap.

"Spit!"

The Black Shadow Celestial Emperor split in half, cleaved by Shaohua, blood spurting out.

"Bang!"

When he reappeared, Shaohua punched through his body, breaking it into several pieces.

No matter how fiercely the Black Shadow Celestial Emperor’s remnants struggled and fought to the death, they ultimately splattered in the chaos, being blown apart again and again.

Even when he tried to “cut his tail to survive,” he was always pulled back by that wicked woman’s bizarre methods, unable to escape or run away.

Before long, the Black Shadow Celestial Emperor’s body and spirit reformed in the Chronofurnace, but he was much dimmer, his form blurred.

"Ah!" He finally couldn’t hold back, feeling his destruction imminent, and let out a piercing scream.

"So you’re not dead yet. Since you refuse to end yourself, I’ll have to continue the incineration and persuasion", Shaohua sighed, pressing the furnace tightly and fully activating the Chronofurnace to burn and cremate him.

"You think you can kill me? Truly foolish. When I return, I will avenge this humiliation, swearing to drink your blood and eat your flesh!"

The Black Shadow Celestial Emperor struggled fiercely, but finding it useless, he roared in anger, unwilling to endure further torment, and really ended himself!

His idea was good; after all, he could revive in the Plateau’s ancestral land and then call a few fellow cultivators to avenge his honor. Why suffer here?

"Ah, you really did it?"

Shaohua was somewhat taken aback, not expecting this guy to be so easily persuaded that he actually ended himself on the spot.

But you’re dying in the Chronofurnace, and you’re committing suicide in front of her. Are you sure you’ll be able to revive in the Plateau?

Shaohua didn’t overly rely on the Chronofurnace and immediately unleashed a powerful energy, its fluctuations spanning the ages.

From the past, present, and future, sacred and brilliant light rained down, and sparks of fire flickered, completely erasing the Black Shadow Celestial Emperor, preventing his revival in the Plateau!

"Perhaps I’m the true persuader of the Celestial Emperor", Shaohua couldn’t help but chuckle, glancing back at the realms, then reined in her smile and walked toward the Sacrificial Sea.

The great battle was far from over; this was just the beginning. She couldn’t leave the battlefield on her homeland.

Borrowing the path of the Upper Heaven, she saw an even more intense battle erupting there, with five Immortal Emperors of the Sinister Race gathered.

Correspondingly, above the Upper Heaven, there were also five Final Path Ascendants.

They were the accumulation of generations of powerhouses, from different historical periods, some who had once died and were resurrected through the Upper Heaven’s ancient reflection, aided by other Immortal Emperors, to be reborn in the present. They could be considered the strongest of their respective races.

However, the ominous land was unfathomably deep, and they themselves didn’t feel confident in withstanding it.

Everyone was heavy-hearted, even the supreme powerhouses felt suffocated, bidding farewell to those around them.

This farewell might be forever, and they might never see each other again.

The enemies were too strong, with unimaginable power. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have fallen in the past.

To put it nicely, it was a gathering of generations of powerhouses to fight their former great enemies.

To put it bluntly, it was a group of failures banding together for warmth.

"Boom!!!"

Blood-red lightning filled the heavens and earth, gray mist spread, and terrifying figures appeared, descending upon the Upper Heaven.

The void cracked, the rules of heaven and earth exploded, the order divine chains broke, and the dao patterns quickly dimmed and dissipated.

The entire sky collapsed, with countless ghastly and terrifying cracks appearing, darkness and ominousness emerging, eroding all living beings.

Many people underwent bizarre changes, inexplicably suffering calamities. Some grew red hair on their skin, others exhaled gray mist.

How terrifying it was, even before their arrival, the heavens split, and just the overwhelming aura brought such changes, threatening the extinction of all races.

If not for the Upper Heaven’s multiple Immortal Emperors, who intervened to block the supreme divine might and resist the highest pressure and ominous erosion, other living beings would have had no chance of survival.

"What must come will come, there’s no avoiding it, no escaping it." Someone sighed deeply.

More people silently observed the invading enemies.

"The Upper Heaven is merely a prison we’ve kept, and now it’s time to harvest." A mysterious Immortal Emperor spoke.

"Hehehe, the Grand Apotheosis Ritual wasn’t supposed to be this early. Blame the one who revived too many people."

"That desolate one, before dying, reflected upon the realms, but what good did that do? Perfect for a sacrifice!"

The Grand Apotheosis Ritual couldn’t be satisfied with mere mortals in numbers; it required a large number of powerful evolutionary beings.

The mysterious Immortal Emperor spoke of some secrets without concern. The woman from the Pollen Road had already been erased in the Plateau, and the desolate one had been jointly strangled by the Ancestors. In the vast world, who could stop their steps?

(End of Chapter)

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