Chapter 6646 Copying the Heaven Whale
Fortunately, Long Chen had left behind a marker. When he returned to the whale necropolis, everything remained exactly as before.
But this time, there was no need to use Army Breaker to open the path. Long Chen tore through space with his bare hand, clearly perceiving the spatial traces left behind when he had once led the Lei family branch out of this place.
The Lei family was known as the spear and shield of the violet blood race. This time, in the heaven region’s battlefield, it was their bravery that allowed the violet blood race to withstand overwhelming foes, preventing catastrophic casualties.
Of the Lei family’s heavenly geniuses, a portion had gone to Sovereign Mountain, but another portion stayed by Heavenly Maple Valley. They chose to stand with Luo Ningshuang no matter what.
Although Sovereign Mountain had better resources, they owed their lives to Luo Ningshuang. Loyalty outweighed opportunity. Thus, they would rather stay and help her than go on to Sovereign Mountain.
Back then, if Luo Ningshuang had not forced some of them to go to Sovereign Mountain because she didn’t want Sovereign Mountain to lose face, hardly anyone would have left.
Long Chen continued to tear through space, and they soon arrived at a spatial channel. Back then, he had heard a call from this location. Someone had interfered, launching a spiritual attack against him.
This time, he did not rush in.
He had Xue Ying stand guard while he formed hand seals and released his violet blood energy.
In just a moment, the surrounding area turned into a violet sea. A colossal figure emerged within it.
Xue Ying gasped, instinctively retreating. This was a lifeform bigger than any she had ever seen in her lifetime.
It was a giant whale.
Revealed by the radiance of Long Chen’s violet blood, the heaven whale manifested before them. Yet this was not its true body—only a mere projection.
Long Chen had once witnessed it with his father’s help: a vast silhouette crossing the cosmos before plunging into the world of the nine heavens, biting into the Primal Chaos World.
That vision differed entirely from what he had later seen through the eyes of the Primal Chaos Dragon Sovereign.
Now, Long Chen was using the same method as his father, but with his violet blood. He managed to call out the heaven whale’s figure as well.
When it appeared, Long Chen’s soul was drawn before it. Compared to the heaven whale, he felt no larger than a speck of dust.
Suddenly, a heavy current struck him, and an incredibly distant voice rang out in his mind.
That was the heaven whale’s murmur. It had transcended time and space to enter Long Chen’s soul.
Deep as a bell, yet hazy like a dream, the murmur tugged at Long Chen’s soul, as though trying to pull him back into that ancient era.
Long Chen didn’t know what the whale was trying to express, but he couldn’t detect the slightest hint of fear or resentment toward its death. Its voice sounded more like a gentle goodbye to this world.
Long Chen softly said, “One whale falls, giving rise to countless lives. You offered your final warmth to the Primal Chaos World? Were you the one who saved it as it was about to crumble?”
Another distant cry answered him, one filled with warmth. Its tone could wash away all sorrow.
Long Chen didn’t even know whether it could hear him. Was it talking to him, or was this a lingering echo through spacetime?
“Two sides of the Dao,” he murmured. “You spent your life swallowing countless lifeforms, and then you returned everything to this world. You left behind warmth. In that case... leave your wild side to me.”
It was unclear whether he was speaking to the heaven whale... or to himself.
Long Chen’s hand seals changed.
Countless stars bloomed throughout the violet sea, descending slowly until they blanketed the heaven whale’s body.
The heaven whale cried out once more. Countless runes lit up on its body, and the stars responded in kind, flashing.
Then, the heaven whale vanished.
What remained behind was its star-forged framework—an outline of its vast form. It was vaguely possible to see the runes that had just appeared on the heaven whale’s body.
Those runes had been copied. They now evolved upon the stars themselves.
“Lord Long Chen...” Xue Ying whispered, covering her mouth as her heart raced.
Even a mere projection of the heaven whale was heavy enough that it could blow apart the entire cosmos. If Long Chen could condense its form into a divine ability, its power would probably rival the divine ability Xue Ying had stolen from the Star Divine Pavilion.
However, after several flickers, the stars dimmed and slowly faded.
“Is it a failure?” Xue Ying asked, stunned.
Long Chen opened his eyes and smiled. “It’s not. The heaven whale’s runes have been carved into my astral energy. I simply lack the astral power to go further—for now.”
Long Chen clenched his fists.
Had the heaven whale waited here all this time... for him?
Just then, the space in the distance started to crumble.
Xue Ying jumped. “This world is collapsing!”
Long Chen nodded.
Since the heaven whale’s will was gone, the whale necropolis was falling apart. That was all within Long Chen’s expectations.
Long Chen went up to the black gate. Last time, Luo Ningshuang had been unable to break it even with Army Breaker. Then, Long Zhantian had stated that breaking it would likely require the power of a Divine Sovereign.
“Violet blood Infinity-One—God Slaying Cross!” Long Chen shouted.
As the Earth Dao essence rune flashed on Long Chen’s forehead, he slammed a palm on this gate.
BANG!
That spatial gate shuddered violently. It twisted wildly but did not shatter.
In the next instant, a cross-shaped divine rune burst from Long Chen’s palm, piercing straight through the gate.
It was a two-stage strike.
The power of his palm destabilized the spatial gate, and then the cross-shaped divine rune pierced it.
Just like that, Long Chen had achieved the greatest effect with minimal power. It was a trick he had learned from the Heavenly Constellation Ancestor’s law power. Mastering this attack required an extremely high level of understanding of the laws.
As a result, this was not a wild blow. It was perfectly condensed.
The instant the gate collapsed, Long Chen grabbed Xue Ying’s hand and jumped into the spatial gate.
They vanished into the spatial gate just as it fused shut behind them. Though opened with force, it suffered virtually no damage.
When the two emerged from the channel, a dense mass of figures stood waiting before them.
Long Chen could not help but smile.
“Are the Primal Chaos World’s experts all this welcoming?”