After discussing a few details, Qian Tian solemnly said, "Chen Chu, your situation will likely be extremely dangerous. Be careful out there."

"Mhm, I understand." Chen Chu nodded.

He was well aware. In the battle where he slew Deorus and other demon gods, all of his trump cards had been exposed, aside from the hell coordinate and his repaired ability to summon the Dragon Emperor. Given the threat he posed, the Purgatory demon gods would certainly attempt another coordinated assassination, just like before.

Qian Tian turned to Heavenly King Zhenwu and asked, "Zhenwu, how is the accumulation of principle power within the stele? Still not ready to break through?"

Zhenwu slowly shook his head. "It has about two-thirds of what it needs. If this war drags on long enough, I should be able to complete the accumulation."

"Still that much left?" Qian Tian nodded with some regret.

Speaking of this, Zhenwu wryly smiled. "Can't be helped. The Heavenly Feathered Battlefield ended too quickly. The stele barely absorbed any principle power over there."

Unlike Chen Chu and the others, who cultivated through orthodox paths, everything about Zhenwu was tied to the True Martial Divine Stele. As one of the human race's foundational weapons, the Divine Stele represented the principle of the true martial path. It had already grown powerful enough to rival principles and could even clash head-on with middle-stage ancient-titan-level demon gods.

However, there was still a vast difference between rivaling principles and actually becoming one. The true martial path was a power born of war, created by the human race. Its core principle was battle itself, carving a path through thorns and brambles to forge hope and a future for humanity.

As such, it required vast battlefields, absorbing the power of principles dispersed into the world during combat between demon-god-level beings, power infused with the will to fight and the madness of war.

Once that power accumulated to a certain level, Zhenwu would be able to break through his shackles with overwhelming force, fusing completely with the Divine Stele and reaching the supreme level. At the same time, the Divine Stele, as a foundational weapon, would see a massive surge in power.

Originally, when Zhenwu was dispatched to support the Heavenly Feathered Battlefield, his goal had been to rely on the prolonged combat between more than ten demon-god-level beings to absorb the scattered principle powers and complete his accumulation.

However, due to Chen Chu's overwhelming dominance over the great demon kings, Tyretis and the other demon gods had decided to launch their war of annihilation ahead of schedule. After a decisive battle that wiped out two demon empires, everything had now entered its final war phase.

Thinking of this, even Zhenwu couldn't help but feel a little bitter. By his estimate, if given just one more year, he could have smoothly reached the supreme level, becoming the fourth human to manage the race's foundation.

At that point, his strength would have surged to a level not inferior to Qian Tian, but ever since that freak Chen Chu had risen, not only had the human alliance's long-term plans been upended, but the intensity of attacks from the Purgatory Empires had also gone completely off script...

Uhh... Why are you looking at me like that?Seeing Zhenwu's resentful gaze, Chen Chu was a little baffled.

After a moment of thought, Chen Chu said, "Sirs, I'll leave the rest to you. I still have some time, so I'll go make a few preparations."

"Leave it to us," Qian Tian responded. Though none of them knew what Chen Chu intended to prepare, neither Qian Tian nor the others asked further.

Twisting through space, Chen Chu quickly traveled over a hundred thousand kilometers to the edge of a frozen forbidden zone stretching ten thousand kilometers, then raised his left hand as a faint blue glow radiated from the back of it.

***

Far away, hundreds of millions of kilometers under the dark sky, a black-and-red meteor of destruction suddenly paused mid-flight.

Beside the nineteen-thousand-meter-long golden-black colossal beast, the Silver Colossal Dragon growled in confusion,Ao Tian, why did you stop?

The Destructive Dragon Emperor had just said they needed to speed up. Why had it suddenly stopped so soon?

Within the black-and-red World Domain, several other mythical-level and titan-level colossal beasts looked over curiously, unsure why their great and invincible king had halted.

The Dragon Emperor slowly rumbled,I need to make some bombs.

Bombs? What are those?The nearby Golden-Blue Colossal Dragon's eyes lit up with curiosity. Behind them, seven ancient-titan-level colossal beasts also stopped in succession.

The Dragon Emperor didn't answer. Instead, it turned toward the thick golden-black dorsal fins along its back, fixing its gaze on one that was a kilometer long and over a hundred meters thick at its base.

Amid surging shockwaves like crashing mountains and seas, the Dragon Emperor slowly extended its right claw and gripped the fin like a small mountain. Its muscles swelled abruptly.

Boom!

That dorsal fin quaked, and with a thunderous crack, the Dragon Emperor snapped it off with a shattering sound like billions of hydrogen bombs detonating at once. The force of the break was so immense it ripped open a massive spatial rift. Gales howled, and the atmosphere quaked.

The ancient titans instinctively shrank their necks at the sight. Too savage. It didn't just tear apart enemy beasts, it treated itself the same way. For ancient titans, whose souls and true forms had already fused, those dorsal fins were no different from their own limbs. Tearing off a dorsal fin was like tearing off a claw.

The Silver Dragon roared,The great Saixitia knows what's going on. That human is asking Ao Tian for help again.

The Golden-Blue Dragon nodded.Obvious enough.

They'd seen this kind of scene before, only this time, the Dragon Emperor wasn't crafting an orbital weapon.

Roar!

The Dragon Emperor let out a deep growl. At once, its body surged with searing power, and golden-white flames poured from its claw into the broken dorsal fin.

Soon, the dorsal fin began to radiate a dazzling glow, transforming into a golden-white sphere of light. The high-temperature destructive aura instinctively drove all surrounding beasts back. Even the Silver and Golden-Blue Dragons retreated several thousand kilometers.

By the time they withdrew, the space around the Dragon Emperor had completely disintegrated, leaving behind only a golden-white sun with a diameter of several hundred kilometers. The energy radiating from it caused the seven ancient titans to tremble involuntarily.

A purple halo spread across the sun's surface, and its aura grew even more violent, as if it would explode at any second and annihilate everything.

Roar!

The Dragon Emperor howled. Golden-red lightning burst from its body, tightly encasing the sun.

Boom!

The sun's radiance flared, expanding severalfold in an instant. However, rather than exploding, it was slowly compressed by the power of the Chaotic End Principle. Roughly ten minutes later, a golden-red crystal about a hundred meters in diameter appeared in the Dragon Emperor's claw.

Its surface was covered in golden-red principle patterns, and within it, a liquid-like golden-white essence flowed slowly, radiating ripples strong enough to shake the heavens.

This was the bomb the Dragon Emperor had crafted. It had used fifty percent of the origin of its Sky-Scorching Golden Flames, fused with ten percent of its Corrosion's origin, and condensed it using a dorsal fin as the vessel.

Once detonated with the sealed Chaotic End principle, its destructive power would rival a full-powered strike from a beginning-stage true spirit, one that ranked among the stronger tier.

This was a trump card prepared for Chen Chu. To avoid alarming the enemy into a reckless counterattack, the Dragon Emperor couldn't be summoned for now, but that didn't mean it couldn't do something else.

Just as the other colossal beasts thought everything was over, the Dragon Emperor turned once more and grabbed a second dorsal fin with its left claw.

Boom!

The heavens and earth trembled again from the monstrous shockwave. This time, the dorsal fin was slightly smaller. Gripping it like a mountain, the Dragon Emperor's left claw surged with streaks of purple-black thunderbolts.

This time, the Dragon Emperor infused it with the power of True Destructive Lightning, again blended with ten percent of Corrosion's origin and sealed using Chaotic End Principle.

When the thunderous glow that lit up the sky faded, a second crystal, one hundred meters long and purple-black, appeared in its claw. Inside it, a bolt of lightning, compressed to the extreme, jumped and sparked wildly.

Ao Tian, are you seriously making another bomb?The Silver Dragon widened its eyes when the Dragon Emperor turned to grab yet another dorsal fin. Such bombs consumed not only origin, but also parts of its true form. Even for the Dragon Emperor, the toll was significant.

Just one more,The Dragon Emperor rumbled slowly and snapped off a third dorsal fin. A large patch of its back was now bald.

This time, it infused the dorsal fin with the pure origin of Corrosion. The recently mended space around it collapsed in silence under waves of purple light, forming countless dense black holes.

The scene was so terrifying that even the colossal beasts of the Dragon Palace felt a chill down their spines. They were shaken not only by the destruction, but also by how many innate abilities the Dragon Emperor had mastered.

As all of the beasts looked on with breathless gazes, the third bomb was completed about ten minutes later. A purple crystal, a hundred meters thick, hovered in the Dragon Emperor's claw. By now, the Dragon Emperor's aura had clearly grown weaker, but it didn't matter.

Boom!

The three pairs of red crystalline horns on either side of the Dragon Emperor's head burst into flames. Golden flames leapt and danced, activating the deeply engraved silver spatial runes one by one.

At the same time, beneath its feet, a summoning altar over a hundred thousand meters wide emerged, glowing with ghostly blue light. The silver glow on its golden-red horns blazed, and in coordination with the spatial passage runes, a silver-blue portal appeared ahead, expanding rapidly as it spun.

The spatial passage soon reached a diameter of a kilometer, becoming a deep and vast gateway, through which the silhouette of a black-haired young man could be clearly seen standing on the other side.

That's the human.Several thousand kilometers away, the Time Dragon growled, immediately recognizing Chen Chu. Back then, the two had fought side by side. Yet now, it had already broken through to the ancient titan level, and that human...How is that possible?

Sensing the immense pressure silently emanating from Chen Chu and the aura of someone who had also reached the ancient titan level, the Time Dragon couldn't help but stare in disbelief.

Beside it, the Azure-White Colossal Dragon turned its head and looked at the stunned Time Dragon with confusion.What's wrong? You know that human?

The Time Dragon took a deep breath and suppressed its shock, then growled,Know him? That human... is just like Thunder Fiery. A complete freak.

Back when they parted ways, that human had only been at the late stage of the mythical level. Judging by the time, only a single day-cycle had passed since then.

A single day-cycle. How could anyone become this monstrous? The Time Dragon felt an inexplicable sense of futility, like all of its effort had been wasted.As if one terrifyingly gifted beast like Thunder Fiery isn't enough, now even that human's talent has proved just as exaggerated.

The Dragon Emperor, unaware of the Time Dragon's astonishment, slowly gathered the three bombs before it and suddenly tossed them into the spatial summoning passage.

Boom!

The moment the three dorsal-fin bombs, each carrying the force of a true spirit's strike, entered the portal, the entire passage distorted and shook violently. Then came a loud crack as it collapsed completely. The resulting shockwave triggered a space-time implosion, like a black tide devouring everything nearby.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the Forbidden Zone Battlefield, a spatial storm capable of devastating ten thousand kilometers erupted and swept through the region, annihilating all in its path. The energy ripples were so powerful that even Qian Tian and the others, over a hundred thousand kilometers away, turned to look.

Chen Chu stood calmly at the heart of the storm, gazing at the three dorsal-fin crystals now hovering in front of him. A faint smile crossed his face as golden rhombic ripples shimmered around him, blocking the shockwaves caused by the spatial collapse.

Whoosh!

As Chen Chu used soul power of the same origin, the three-hundred-meter-long dorsal-fin crystals shrank to about forty centimeters and landed neatly on his left shoulder, slanting across his robe like luxurious pauldrons of gold, purple, and dark red. No one would have guessed that these three pauldrons held the power to destroy the world.

As Chen Chu continued preparing for the coming extinction war, the other three races grew restless as well when they received news of the Purgatory Empires' full mobilization. Even the divine kings among them wore grim expressions.

The forces gathered by the Purgatory Empires for this battle were overwhelming. There were nearly twenty demon gods, along with billions of elite legionnaires, demon kings, and great demon kings. Could they really win? Could they hold out long enough for that colossal beast legion to arrive?

Among the four races, the weakest—the Alliance of Gods—stood uncertain. A chief god from an alien race with tiger markings on its face looked up at Tarodell seated on the throne, his expression puzzled. "Your Majesty, are we truly going to fight and die here for the human race?"

As one of the chief gods who had rejected the humans from the start, Nadorei could not understand why Tarodell had chosen to ally with them, let alone why it had committed all of its forces to a death match against the Purgatory Demon Clan. Only the three chief gods knew that Tarodell had even descended in its true form, personally stepping out of the Alliance of Gods to appear here.

Seated high upon the divine throne, Tarodell cast an indifferent glance down at the three chief gods and the twenty-plus divine beings, then mildly said, "Since we have allied with the human race, we must face the threat of the Purgatory Clan with everything we have."

None of the chief gods below truly believed it was that simple, but since Tarodell offered no further explanation, they dared not ask. They only bowed respectfully before transforming into rays of divine light, flying out of the temple toward their respective posts.

Across the heavens and earth, endless waves of dark demonic qi surged, spreading at an astonishing speed and devouring everything in their path. Above the night sky, beside the bright silver moon, an even larger blood-red moon slowly emerged. Crimson moonlight flooded the mythical world, radiating an ominous and oppressive aura.

This blood-red light seeped into the dark demonic qi, falling upon the Purgatory true demons and the demonized aliens. Immediately, a layer of red light surfaced within their eyes, making them even more bloodthirsty and violent.

Even among the human forces, every cultivator who had been standing ready felt an inexplicable restlessness, a growing urge to fight, to kill, to slaughter everything in sight.

Behind the entrance to the forbidden zone, ten thousand kilometers above the sky, layer upon layer of heavenly palaces manifested. Upon them stood the silhouettes of supreme powerhouses and divine kings of the alliance, including Chen Chu.

Staring at the enormous, ominous moon in the sky, Chen Chu narrowed his eyes slightly.The Blood Moon has descended. Did the stars that hang high above the sky also sense the brutal war that is about to erupt here? Or has this moon simply risen again on this very day-cycle by coincidence?

Lost in thought, Chen Chu withdrew his gaze and looked forward. There, endless waves of demonic qi were already approaching the outer edges of the forbidden zone, just tens of thousands of kilometers away.

Within the rolling black clouds, the figures of eighteen demon gods loomed faintly. Around them stood the massive forms of countless great demon kings, and beyond that, the land was blanketed by the boundless Purgatory legions, radiating a black, suffocating tide of pressure.

Qian Tian gave a solemn reminder. "Everyone, act according to the plan."

Those stationed in the fifth tier of the Nine-Heaven Palace,, including the Golden-Winged Divine King and others, slowly nodded.

As tension quietly spread across the battlefield, the sky-darkening demonic qi soon swallowed the forbidden zone's entrance and surged endlessly toward the battlefield's interior. Tyretis and the other demon gods wasted no time. Without speaking a single word, they struck first with overwhelming force.

"Kill!"

The extinction war fully erupted.

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