Chapter 2416: The Fall of the Celestial Emperor!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Just when everyone was about to be annihilated by Heaven’s attack, a familiar voice rang out.
“Heaven, you celebrate too early! I also prepared a gift for you!
“Whether you call yourself the Celestial Emperor or the God King, you are but a drop in the ocean. You consider the multitudes of living beings as ants, but to the ancient universe, are you also not just an ant?
“Do you remember what I used to undo your Celestial Palace? I wonder what would happen if the expansion of the universe, the power of the Great Dao that brings life to all things, collided with that energy of the Great Dao that causes all things to contract and collapse to final oblivion. Could the energy unleashed at that moment match your Celestial Emperor Oblivion?”
Wang Chong spoke slowly, his voice echoing through the universe. Logically speaking, the time that Wang Chong had taken to speak should have been enough time for Heaven’s attack to fall, but time seemed to be completely ineffective on Wang Chong.
Bang!
Wang Chong immediately took action, his original body and Divine Embryo 1 beginning to move. A point of light burst forth, and with an astonishing speed, one created two, two created three, and three created all things, the innumerable stars and the cosmos… In the end, it created the Celestial Palace.
The ultimate ‘one’!
This was the supreme Dao of the universe, and it was the basis on which Heaven had created the Celestial Palace in the hopes of controlling the cycle of the world and creating his own divine kingdom.
Whether one was at the Subtle, Grotto Heaven, or Divine Martial realm, this was a supreme Dao that all people had to obey.
As Wang Chong recreated the Celestial Palace, the power of the Great Dao ran through this part of the universe, and intense ripples of energy spread out, even affecting Heaven’s attack.
As if he had realized something, the Celestial Emperor grimaced.
And this was only the beginning…
Buzz!
Wang Chong’s Divine Embryo 2 and Divine Embryo 3 also made their move, energy flooding out of them. Another ‘Celestial Palace’ quickly took form, but this Celestial Palace had an entirely different aura. It had a similar outer appearance, but its construction was completely the opposite. Moreover, it was brimming with a dark aura that smelled of death and oblivion.
The ultimate ‘zero’!
These two Celestial Palaces represented exact opposites. One represented limitless vitality and the power of life, while the other represented death and destruction.
All things had a life and a death, a wax and a wane, just like how every human would eventually grow old and die.
This was true for all things, so it was naturally true for the universe. These were two extreme and opposite energies.
The Celestial Emperor had only comprehended the power of life through the chaotic storms of the universe, but Wang Chong had comprehended both the powers of life and death.
Though the Celestial Palace incident was long over, its effects had been far-reaching.
In these last three years, Wang Chong had been in secluded cultivation, and he had comprehended this ultimate power. No one understood more than Wang Chong what these two extreme and opposite powers represented. The thunderstorms created by nature which countless martial artists feared were a product of these opposites coming together.
But when the ultimate zero and ultimate one, these two extreme opposites, came together, not even Wang Chong could imagine the result.
Bang!
After creating these two Celestial Palaces with all his strength, Wang Chong instantly ‘merged’ these two Celestial Palaces together and then pushed them up at Heaven.
Rumble!
The fabric of space groaned as the two Celestial Palaces rapidly few toward Heaven.
On one side was an enormous pillar of destructive energy with a diameter of ten-some li, energy terrifying enough to make anyone pale. On the other end were the two miniaturized Celestial Palaces, each one the size of a house. The contrast was incredibly stark.
It appeared, at least for now, that Wang Chong’s attack had no hope of matching Heaven.
But the ultimate result left everyone surprised.
Rumble! The two Celestial Palaces were like giant whales, rushing forward while swallowing all energy in their path. The remnant energies from their battles, those omnipresent dimensional shards, and those terrifying spacetime storms, even Heaven’s own energy, were all swallowed up. This was the power of the ultimate Dao, and the power of the universe.
Nothing that was within the universe could escape the ultimate zero and ultimate one.
Rumble! A few moments later, the two Celestial Palaces had swelled to several hundred times their original size, shooting upward like two planets. These two Celestial Palaces radiated a vast and heavy energy, on par with that enormous beam of destructive energy in the heavens.
Even Heaven felt apprehensive upon seeing that all-consuming momentum.
But a moment later, Heaven regained his composure.
“It’s useless. Time stands above all things. Even if you’ve comprehended the so-called Dao of the universe, you cannot contend against time!”
Heaven instantly detonated the two pearls of time energy on his hand as his cold voice rang out.
That destructive pillar of energy was already moving incredibly fast, but with the power of time, it instantly accelerated, descending upon Wang Chong like a boundless tsunami. He would not give Wang Chong any opportunity. No matter what, Wang Chong had to die. This no longer had anything to do with the prophecy. Wang Chong was only at the half-step Divine Martial realm, but he had already been able to think about a technique like this, one that could threaten the Divine Martial realm. If he were allowed to break through, even Heaven would be forced to bow his head.
“Is that so?”
Wang Chong coldly laughed. Heaven was undoubtedly powerful, and his talents surpassed all other existences in the world, but the fact that he resided in this specific world limited the extent of what he could experience.
The power of time was above the laws of Grotto Heaven and all other laws of the world. This was correct, but it was not as impregnable as Heaven believed.
When speed reached a certain limit, nearing the speed of light, it could also enter the domain of time. At that point, matter and time could interchange, and when matter was annihilated, the immense energy was the purest kind of energy that could even distort time. In another world, this was known as the mass-energy equivalence.
Bang!
A moment later, the two Celestial Palaces, the ultimate one and the ultimate zero, fused together through Wang Chong’s will and collided with the descending pillar of destructive energy.
BOOM!
The unimaginable impact of these two energies colliding shook the universe.
“Doomsday Insignias! You!”
Heaven’s shocked and angered voice came from the center of the explosion.
At the moment of the explosion, Heaven sensed two familiar energies from those opposite Celestial Palaces. These were clearly the Doomsday Insignias Heaven had been working so hard to find before he had broken out of his seal.
A Doomsday Insignia would only appear at the destruction of the world. They contained the most critical and most precious foundational energy of that world.
To put it simply, that foundational energy was the mother of all things, the most primordial one.
Wang Chong had used the two Doomsday Insignias as the core, transforming them into pure energy. This was an idea that anyone else would have found difficult to come up with.
Bang!
A split-second later, the two Celestial Palaces erupted with more than one hundred times their previous strength, their surging energy like an all-devouring storm, and even the dazzling light of Heaven’s Celestial Emperor Oblivion was drowned out.
“Careful!”
Wang Chong rapidly retreated while also taking out his halo divine tool to protect everyone.
Though this was Wang Chong’s move, Wang Chong was simply imitating the foundation of the universe and using the process as his technique. However, he had no control over its explosive force.
This was a pure destructive power that surpassed everything.
Crack!
When that destructive energy that could tear apart the universe erupted, it instantly obliterated Wang Chong’s halo divine tool. In a dazzling light, a spiderweb of cracks appeared, and then with a bang, the entire halo exploded apart.
This divine tool was the product of innumerable precious resources and had been built over an extremely long time. But now, it had been utterly destroyed, countless fragments exploding in every direction.
“Ah!”
At almost the same time, there was a bitter and painful scream.
Wang Chong had only been affected by the secondary shockwave of the explosion, but Heaven was taking the brunt of the explosion.
The divine form of the Celestial Emperor was instantly obliterated by that golden tsunami of energy. Heaven’s enormous aura that had filled the universe, that made any martial artist feel tiny and insignificant, also took a severe blow, shrinking by several levels and becoming extremely weak.
And these were far from the only effects of that terrifying explosion.
The void had already been filled with numerous spacetime storms and spacetime shards, but the energy released by the collision of the ultimate one and zero had swept the universe clean. Everything for several thousand li around was ‘tranquil’, all of the chaotic energies suppressed.
Buzz!
Ten-some li away, in a flash of light, everyone appeared. As they looked at that shocking sight, even the calm Unity Supreme was shaken, let alone the others.
Luo Supreme was the first to speak. “What ultimate technique is this? How could it be this powerful?”
Everyone looked at Wang Chong in shock.
The Celestial Emperor Form!
This was Heaven’s strongest form, his greatest avatar. Yet Wang Chong, despite being only at the half-step Divine Martial realm, in a situation where it should have been impossible, had defeated Heaven. This was something that none of them had imagined before this battle.
But most astonishing of all was the bizarreness of Wang Chong’s move.
Normally, supremely powerful techniques would result in extremely powerful auras. This was because stronger techniques would trigger a corresponding resonance from the surrounding fabric of space.
But Wang Chong was entirely different. When Wang Chong made this attack, he did not produce any sort of impressive aura, but in the end, his attack had been even stronger than Heaven’s Celestial Emperor Oblivion. It was an unthinkable technique that none of them could have ever imagined.
Wang Chong gave an understanding smile. There were some things that were impossible to explain, particularly when it came to things from another world.
“Seniors, I will explain in the future, but our most urgent task is to end this battle,” Wang Chong said.
But barely moments after he had spoken, a voice cold with fury came from overhead.
“You ants, did you really think you could kill Us? Wang Chong, you destroyed my avatar. We will not forgive you!”
The voice rumbled like thunder, and lightning flashed. Countless dark clouds converged, and in the middle of the lightning and dark clouds, a familiar figure appeared.
Heaven!
Even Wang Chong grimaced at this moment.
That explosion had swept through the universe, destroying Wang Chong’s halo divine tool and shaking the fabric of space. All of them had seen that energy obliterate Heaven’s attack, and all the gods had gone up in smoke. This was a power that could annihilate the universe, the Great Dao that surpassed all. No one had imagined that Heaven, who had been at the center of the explosion, would still manage to survive, and even still had the ability to attack.
“This time, I will make all you pay the price!”
Heaven’s hair was a mess and his breathing was ragged, and even that Celestial Emperor Armor he had forged eons ago was in tatters. But he was still alive, his eyes as brilliant as lightning and burning with hatred.
Heaven was powerful, and he was also arrogant.
Ten Grotto Heaven realm experts might have been a supreme force in the eyes of mortals, but in front of Heaven, they were just clay dogs. In the past, he had been the Celestial Emperor that sat atop the world, possessing the cultivation of the Divine Martial realm that all people could only revere. Yet he had been forced into a corner by ten ants. This was an enormous humiliation.
“Let Us see how many attacks you can take from Us with your strength!”
Heaven’s hatred-filled voice rang out like a bell as he made his attack.
“Celestial Emperor’s Wrath!”
Bang!
The forms of the Celestial Emperor began to appear in the void, each Celestial Emperor holding a sword made of shadows, and the Sword Qis of these swords were locked onto his foes and the space around them.
The damage done to Heaven by Wang Chong’s ultimate zero and ultimate one had been far greater than he had anticipated. That Heaven had not used his Celestial Emperor avatar meant that the damage done to his soul and flesh had been so great that he could no longer use it. But he was still more than capable of using Celestial Emperor’s Wrath.
Everyone paled at the sight of all the mighty Celestial Emperors that had appeared around them.
Heaven was right. At their peak, they were completely capable of dealing with Celestial Emperor’s Wrath. But now, all of them had exhausted much of their Stellar Energy.
They had gone all-out to weaken Heaven, draining their energy reserves.
“It’s over. We underestimated him. I didn’t think he would be this powerful.”
Luo Supreme looked at Heaven with an expression of defeat on his face.
They had all believed that Wang Chong had won that clash, but to their surprise, Heaven was very difficult to kill. At this moment, none of them had the ability to contend against Heaven.
Li Xuantu looked up and said, “Too powerful! We can’t stop it.”
Though the shadow swords had yet to come down, their terrifying energies were already exerting an enormous pressure on them. Li Xuantu had no doubt that when Heaven unleashed his Celestial Emperor’s Wrath, all of them would die.
“Our only hope is to scatter and do our best to escape this part of the universe!”
Unity Supreme looked up at the sky and said, “It’s too late! Once Celestial Emperor’s Wrath is activated, there’s no other method than to directly contend against it!”
He had the greatest understanding of Heaven, even above Luo Supreme’s.
“After a life of nearly ten thousand years, it seems that the day of my end has come!” Unity Supreme calmly said. He had lived countless years and had long since grown indifferent to death. If this battle resulted in defeat, he would leave without too many regrets.
Bang!
A few moments later, the pressure on their bodies multiplied, and the mighty figures of the Celestial Emperors raised their shadow swords and took aim.
Life or death would be decided in a single moment!
“Master, Village Chief, seniors, please lend me your power!” Wang Chong suddenly said, his eyes shining with resolve.
This battle had gone far beyond his expectations, but Wang Chong could sense that Heaven was at the ends of his strength. This was probably the weakest he had been in countless epochs.
“It’s not time to speak of defeat yet! Please trust in me and help me one last time!”
Wang Chong’s body was seething with fighting intent. He was never one to easily give up, whether in this life or his last.
Buzz!
Wang Chong’s reaction left everyone surprised. After glancing at him, they nodded and immediately placed their hands on his body, and their energies began to flow into him.
At the final moment, they had all chosen to trust Wang Chong without reservation.
The Child of Prophecy!
Wang Chong had performed far too many miracles. None of them had ever believed that they could reach this point in a battle with Heaven.
If there was one person in the world that could defeat Heaven, it was him.
Bang!
All the Celestial Emperor illusions attacked in unison, the shadow swords slashing down simultaneously at Wang Chong’s group.
At this moment, Wang Chong lunged forward and made his own attack.
Rumble! The fabric of space trembled, millions of parallel dimensions vibrating and resonating together. Even the distant Turkic steppe trembled.
A powerful sword intent penetrated through the dimensions, erupting from Wang Chong’s body. All of the energy in the universe began to converge on Wang Chong, even the energy of the earth veins from the distant continent, breaking through the spacetime barriers to surge into his body.
“Son of Heaven’s Sword!”
Using everyone’s combined energy as the juncture, he had gathered together all the energy in the void and the energy of the earth veins into a dazzling beam of Sword Qi. This golden Sword Qi was thousands of kilometers long. With one strike, it cleaved apart spacetime, spanning from past to present and making all the stars dim. Even the Celestial Emperor illusions appeared dim and lightless at this moment.
“Li Taiyi!”
Heaven’s shocked voice rang out. He had never imagined that Wang Chong would use the attack of the now-deceased Sage Emperor of the Great Tang.
This sword was comparable to Li Taiyi’s, and with everyone’s gathered energy and Master Guangcheng’s energy, it even surpassed it in some aspects.
“Aaahh!”
With miserable screams, the Celestial Emperor illusions were obliterated.
The vast storm of destructive energy turned everything to dust.
The power of this sword surpassed all, even penetrating through Heaven’s body, a flood of golden Sword Qi engulfing him.
Bang!
As everyone watched, Heaven’s body became a fireball and was blasted hundreds of thousands of li away by the sword. In the end, he became like a meteor, drawn by the power of gravity to plummet back down to the earth.
As he descended, Heaven’s powerful aura began to gutter like a candle before ultimately winking out of existence!
After taking on the group’s combined assault, taking on Wang Chong’s ultimate one and ultimate zero, and finally taking Li Taiyi’s Son of Heaven’s Sword, Heaven’s aura had disappeared from this world at last.
“Is it over?”
Everyone gazed at that plummeting fireball, somewhat at a loss.
In this epoch, a final period had been placed on the legend of Heaven.
“Is Heaven really dead?”
Li Xuantu looked at Wang Chong, his breathing weak.
“We’ll know once we go and look,” Wang Chong said.
There were far too many legends regarding Heaven, and his power surpassed spacetime. He had left an undefeatable impression on all of them, and until they saw it with their own eyes, not even Wang Chong would dare to say that he was truly dead.
But Heaven had been struck by that sword, and there was no doubt that the Xuanyuan Sword had cleaved him in two.
Buzz!
Without another word, Wang Chong opened a spacetime passage and led everyone back to the continent, back to the Turkic steppe, where the fate of the world was being decided.
Wang Chong descended amidst a hellish battlefield of fire, smoke, shattered weapons, and maimed corpses.
Bang!
“The Supreme King! It’s the Supreme King!”
“We’ve won!”
The moment Wang Chong appeared, the human soldiers erupted with frenzied cheers.
On the other end, the morale of the Celestial Army and the men in black plunged, all of them staring in fear at that figure in the air.
Their greatest hope in this battle was Heaven, but Wang Chong was back while Heaven was nowhere in sight. The result was obvious.
Roooar!
With a thunderous roar, a Doomsday Behemoth close to Wang Chong unleashed gouts of molten flame at Wang Chong.
Bang!
Wang Chong was calm, not even glancing at it as he thrust out a palm. The massive Doomsday Behemoth immediately let out a miserable roar, and then explosions occurred all across its body as its massive form toppled over.
“Run!”
All of the Celestial Army soldiers and men in black instantly fled for their lives, their lines collapsing as all their courage evaporated.