Chapter 653: Eighth Heaven's Limit
Chapter 653: Eighth Heaven's Limit
In the vast and boundless star canopy, on a small ordinary star spanning only tens of thousands of miles in size.
Swish!
Chen Yao's figure emerged from the void, stumbling slightly. Despite being protected by a gentle force, the long-distance void teleportation still caused her, a True God of the Fifth Heaven, to feel a momentary discomfort.
This was the effect of the rapid changes in the void during the teleportation.
However, this discomfort lasted only an instant before disappearing. Chen Yao, already a True God of the Fifth Heaven, was far from ordinary. She glanced around in mild surprise, realizing she hadn't been directly sent back to the Great Xuan World.
But when she saw a figure standing not far away, with his back to her, hands behind his back, gazing up at the star canopy, her surprise vanished. She walked forward with a smile, holding up her hand as if presenting something, and took out the star fate stone.
"Father, look!"
Chen Mu slowly turned around, but instead of looking at the star fate stone Chen Yao was offering, he gazed past her at the void behind her, his eyes fixed on the vast sky. In a calm tone, he uttered a single word.
"Scram."
Boom!
The seemingly casual word carried an unimaginable power as it fell, resonating with the void across billions of miles, causing the vast and infinite universe to shatter!
An indescribable terror rippled through the void, freezing Chen Yao, who was holding the star fate stone, in her tracks. Even as a peak True God of the Fifth Heaven, she felt an overwhelming sense of insignificance, as if the entire world was exploding in her ears.
As a True God, she didn't need to turn around to know what was happening behind her.
She witnessed the billions of miles of star canopy shattering and collapsing, accompanied by an endless, mighty divine aura shaking the four directions. Layer upon layer of the void exploded, until the seventh layer broke, revealing a figure in a desperate state. This figure was enveloped by the overwhelming void power, and its face showed a hint of terrified shock.
It was a Divine Lord, a Seventh Heaven Divine Lord!
However, before this Seventh Heaven Divine Lord could utter a word, the mighty divine aura completely engulfed his figure, crushing his divine body with overwhelming force. Despite his desperate resistance, he couldn't withstand the surging void power, and in an instant, he disintegrated into dust within the shattered void!
The eighth layer of the void also exploded under this unleashed power, turning billions of miles of the star canopy into a shattered ruin. Yet, despite the close-range burst of terrifying power, it didn't affect the small star beneath Chen Mu and Chen Yao at all. The entire star remained undisturbed, quietly spinning in the void.
Finally.
The divine aura that filled the void gradually faded, and the shattered void ceased its further disintegration.
Deep within the fragmented void, an extremely faint remnant shadow flashed and fled into the distance. It was barely recognizable as the previous Seventh Heaven Divine Lord, but his aura was so weak that he seemed almost inferior to Chen Yao. He dared not utter a word and vanished in an instant.
Chen Mu watched this scene with an indifferent gaze, making no further moves. From start to finish, he stood firmly in place, not even lifting a finger.
"Father... Father, what just happened?"
Although Chen Yao hadn't been affected by the terrifying power that filled the void, the sheer magnitude of the force so close to her made her feel incredibly insignificant. Her body was almost immobile until the power completely dissipated, and she finally regained some composure. She turned to look at the star canopy behind her.
Chen Mu finally withdrew his gaze, looking down at her. He gently took the star fate stone from her hand and spoke in a relaxed tone, "A Divine Lord followed your trail... Hmm, you were indeed lucky this time to encounter a dual-pulse star fate stone. It's quite valuable, so it's not surprising that a Divine Lord was drawn to it."
Chen Yao felt a chill run down her spine, realizing that a Divine Lord had been tracking her. She wondered when this had started.
As if reading her thoughts, Chen Mu casually tossed the star fate stone in his hand as if it were an insignificant toy, "When you used my 'Inter-Realm Teleportation Talisman,' or perhaps a little earlier, my talisman was activated, and even a Divine Lord couldn't stop it. However, he sensed that your teleportation distance wasn't far, so he immediately followed your aura."
Compared to Chen Yao, the distance she had teleported using the Inter-Realm Teleportation Talisman to the Great Xuan World was indeed far. But for a Divine Lord, it wasn't considered a significant distance.
Although the other party had sensed the power of a Divine Lord through the inter-realm transmission talisman, when it came to a valuable Dual-Pulse Star Fate Stone, he naturally wouldn't let it go easily, even if it meant facing off against other Divine Lords.
However, the person he encountered was Chen Mu.
If it were just a dispute among the younger generation, as long as it didn't involve a life-threatening crisis, Chen Mu wouldn't overly shelter Chen Yue, Chen Yao, and the others. After all, jade must be carved and polished to become a treasure, and to progress further on the path to immortality, one must endure hardships.
In the past, he had always been in peril, and without sufficient assurance to protect Chen Yue and Chen Yao, he couldn't ensure their safety in the vast universe. Therefore, he had never allowed Chen Yue and Chen Yao to leave the Great Xuan World.
But now, things were different.
His Divine Energy Incarnation had fallen into the Endless Abyss, and although it was trapped, it also gained a period of stable cultivation.
After seven whole epochs of secluded cultivation, Chen Mu was now far stronger than when he first entered the Endless Abyss. He had already comprehended the power of the Tri-Harmony Integration of the four Void Lineages, and he had also cultivated four Divine Lord Tyrant-level divine techniques!
At present, he had surpassed Vanggu Divine Lord, transcended the Eighth Heaven Overlord, and reached the limits of the Eighth Heaven!
Eighth Heaven Overlord! This was the pinnacle of power among the Eighth Heaven, an invincible level even among Divine Lord Tyrants. In all of Southern Huashan Void Seat, and even in Heaven's Edge Throne, there were no more than a handful of people who had reached this level, and even in a vast void seat, they stood at the pinnacle of power.
The previous Seventh Heaven Divine Lord didn't stand a chance against Chen Mu. Chen Mu was confident that he could not only destroy the other's Divine Energy Incarnation but also use void techniques to kill all of his avatars, ensuring his complete annihilation. However, since they didn't have any deep-seated grudge, and the other party was only after the Star Fate Stone, Chen Mu didn't take his life. He even left the other's Divine Energy Incarnation with a glimmer of life; otherwise, it would have been completely obliterated.
Now, his Interface Avatar could safely return to the Vanggu Void, unafraid of any force. He could even single-handedly destroy the Ancestral Demon Realm and scatter the demon race!
But with such strength and foundation, Chen Mu wasn't in a hurry.
Destroying the Ancestral Demon Realm was easy, and crushing the demon race was also simple, but completely eradicating the entire demon race was another matter. While ordinary beings were one thing, Divine Lords were not so easily killed.
Of course,
With his current strength, Chen Mu was confident that he could use void techniques to strike and annihilate all the avatars of a typical Seventh Heaven Divine Lord, completely crushing them.
However, if it were a Seventh Heaven Peak or an Eighth Heaven Divine Lord, while destroying their Divine Energy Incarnation was easy, eradicating all their avatars through void techniques would be challenging. It would often require tracing karmic cause and effect and eliminating them one by one.
It was too troublesome.
Chen Mu sought a more permanent solution.
He was now just one step away from the Ninth Heaven, and the path to comprehending the Four Mystic Arts Fusion was laid out before him. Once he stepped into the Ninth Heaven, annihilating the demon race would be as easy as turning his hand!
Even the Demon Progenitor and Ming Fan Divine Lord would find it difficult to escape his grasp!
The Divine Energy Incarnations of these two had fallen into the Endless Abyss along with Chen Mu, most likely in the Lava Cavern region. However, Chen Mu hadn't heard any news of them so far, and as Eighth Heaven Divine Lords, they wouldn't be easily defeated. After several long epochs, Chen Mu speculated that they had likely found a foothold in the Lava Caverns and joined a certain faction.
With his current strength, if he encountered the Demon Progenitor and Ming Fan Divine Lord again, he was confident he could suppress and annihilate their Divine Energy Incarnations. But if they had joined a faction as powerful as the Flame Sun Sect, it wouldn't be easy to eliminate them.
Take the current Flame Sun Sect, for example.
If an external Eighth Heaven Divine Lord specifically targeted a Seventh Heaven Divine Lord of the Flame Sun Sect, the sect would undoubtedly intervene. The same would apply in reverse; if Chen Mu wanted to kill the Demon Progenitor and Ming Fan Divine Lord, he would face opposition from the faction they had joined.
However, if Chen Mu broke through the bottleneck of the Ninth Heaven and mastered the Four Mystic Arts Fusion, stepping into the Ninth Heaven, it would be a different story!
Ninth Heaven Divine Lord! In the Lava Caverns, this was a status that commanded respect.
No faction would willingly oppose a Ninth Heaven Divine Lord. Even a powerful sect like the Flame Sun Sect, with thousands of Seventh Heaven and hundreds of Eighth Heaven Divine Lords, wouldn't dare to provoke a Ninth Heaven Divine Lord.
Not to mention, in the Endless Abyss, if a Ninth Heaven Divine Lord were to engage in a prolonged conflict with a faction, it could attract a massive influx of Abyss Beasts, even forming an Abyss Beast Tide! While the Ninth Heaven Divine Lord could escape unscathed, any faction facing such a tide would suffer heavy losses.
In the vast expanse of the Boundless Star River, a faint and dim shadow swiftly traversed the void, its eyes still reflecting a hint of terror.
"That level of power... A Void Lineage's Eighth Heaven Overlord?"
"Who is he?"
"Where did such a terrifying figure come from in the Boundless Star River?"
The white shadow was the Divine Lord who had previously attempted to seize the starry destiny stone. He had heard the news about the appearance of the Dual-Pulse Stellar Destiny Stone and, as he was already in the Boundless Star River, rushed over at the first opportunity. However, he was slightly late, and by the time he arrived, Chen Yao had already used the Transcendent Transmission Talisman to escape through the void.
He sensed the unusual fluctuations in the void and realized that it was the power of a Divine Lord. He guessed that there was a Divine Lord backing Chen Yao, but the value of the Dual-Pulse Stellar Destiny Stone was worth fighting for. Moreover, he noticed that Chen Yao's teleportation distance wasn't very far, and she was still within the Boundless Star River, so he immediately pursued her by following the void's energy pathways.
But to his surprise, he encountered a terrifying figure! A Void Lineage's Divine Lord Tyrant, at least at the Eighth Heaven Overlord level, was a rare existence even in the entire Heaven's Edge Throne. Even now, a hint of terror lingered in his heart.
(End of Chapter)
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