Chapter 524

Chapter 524: Sky Returning to Heaven

“Whew…”

The Divine General on Earth gasped for breath, his anger barely contained. A small bug had somehow made its way into the Monarch’s tomb; even if it was just a grave for clothing and burial, it was still not to be offended. Did it really think it could just sleep here peacefully?

After a few heavy breaths, the Divine General forced himself to regain his composure, ready to drift off again.

A black streak flashed in the sky, and Earth’s Wind, Water, and Fire surged together, shattering the space and crossing an unknown distance, bringing forth a powerful presence.

A fierce killing intent erupted as a man clad in dragon-scale armor, with horns atop his head, roared!

He saw Ye Cang’s fate, completely dismembered and beyond saving, which made his face darken to the extreme.

“You ruined my grand plan!!!”

“Grand plan?”

The Divine General’s crimson vertical pupils glowed fiercely as he tightened his grip on the sword, swiftly sweeping it across, sealing the space with oppressive power.

The one in dragon-scale armor was unable to break free and could only cross his arms. A nearly tangible black dragon spiraled out, protecting him in front.

“Boom!”

The black dragon was extraordinarily massive, spanning several thousand meters in length, but to the Divine General’s Celestial Sword, it was merely a trivial matter, easily shattered.

“It’s you!”

The dragon-scale armor wielder struggled to rise, showing signs of injury, spitting out astonishingly powerful dark blood. This blood pooled on the ground, forming a lake; even its remnants contained power unimaginable to ordinary life.

“You are the one who intruded upon my Monarch’s tomb?!”

“You can only die a thousand times to atone!”

Time and space closed off.

The Manifest Realm was the unique domain of the king of the Manifest Realm; it was easy to enter but hard to leave!

The Divine General’s sword erupted with divine light, transforming in form, clearly entering the second release state. With the inherent power of a demon and this weapon of unknown rank, the might unleashed exceeded what the intruder had anticipated.

In truth, the dragon-scale armor wielder never expected to face a king of the Manifest Realm related to the Monarch; how could his offspring have the audacity to invade the core area of the God Mountain Forbidden Area?

The Divine General’s slumbering place enveloped a deadly aura that spread across five states; even a real person could not withstand it for long, let alone someone of just the law realms!

“True Dragon’s Nine Transformations!”

The dragon-scale armor wielder had no intention of sitting idly by and awaited his fate; he exerted all his strength to fight.

Then.

He was instantly killed, his body shattered by the Divine Sword, nailed outside Absolute Emperor Valley.

The Divine General moved the sword aside, revealing a mass of indistinguishable flesh and blood writhing in the magma, struggling to reorganize and revive.

A being with authority held immense differences; obtaining authority, wielding authority, developing authority, master authority, and opening the Fourth Heaven.

There were five total stages.

Although the dragon-scale armor wielder possessed the True Dragon’s Nine Transformations, a reverse path technique, he had only reached the second step, able to barely utilize authority.

This gap in power rendered all previous experience irrelevant; moreover, the Divine General’s demonic heritage was of the highest caliber among humans, nearly unmatched in strength, making it difficult for most powerful beings to contend without a top figure capable of opening the Fourth Heaven.

He did not die, and it was also because…

"Despair must be experienced ten thousand times to count as atonement."

The Divine General on Earth raised his sword once more.

Boom!

The Dragon-scale Armor Wielder had never felt so constraint before. As a respected being, he stood at the pinnacle of combat power among humans, and there were very few in the entire Red Heaven realm who could compare.

He had been too careless; he probably knew about the terrifying presence on the human side and would have avoided it cautiously.

But on the demon side, although he was aware of some forbidden areas, he rarely ventured there. This time, driven by rage, he acted without thinking.

As a result, he faced the Divine General on Earth!

Such a being could only be matched by the five major powers in the border region.

The gap between him and the Divine General was incalculable. Coming alone into the domain of this top-tier Manifest King meant certain death.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Amidst constant death, Ye Longhai’s consciousness crumbled, gradually falling from the Red Heaven, and his power began to twist and become corrupted.

In the entire Red Heaven realm, any bloodline related to him mutated, all being eroded by this source.

Unfortunately, the Ye clan had no second Honored Position; only a handful of Super Geniuses in the True Realm forcibly severed connections and reoriented themselves.

However, they remained severely weakened and could no longer aspire to the Honored Position.

It was evident that techniques left unused for ages could still be utilized; this was merely a trick to deceive Ye Cang, a common cultivator who did not understand the secrets of the three heavens.

Any cultivator with knowledge of the three heavens would never train with techniques of uncertain origins; if they attempted to practice twisted techniques, it would lead to their demise.

The Divine General swung his sword continuously, intending to exterminate their clan, his power resonating and searching for their bloodline.

Once he locked on, the curse of death would activate, leading to the complete annihilation of the Ye clan.

Yet, what the Divine General did not realize was that, although Ye Cang’s broken body had shattered, a flicker of green spirit light remained.

Amidst disassembly and assembly, it transformed continuously, as the Divine General dealt countless heavy strikes, utterly shattering the space. This vibration, however, offered the green spirit light a chance; it gradually seeped into Ye Longhai’s body, gaining control over it.

However, the Divine General’s relentless strikes kept interrupting the process of control, preventing the green spirit light from awakening; its consciousness remained hazy.

Despite this, it possessed a terrifying essence that could not be shattered, even under constant beating, instead becoming more condensed.

The Divine General did not take a moment’s rest, as if completing a ritual, killing Ye Longhai with flawless precision, over and over again, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times…

Until the 4215th strike—this seemingly ordinary number—the green spirit light reached a critical point, and consciousness suddenly revived.

It contained an incomprehensible amount of information, capable of overwhelming any cultivator’s soul, forming the consciousness of an unknown existence.

As awareness returned, although the body continued to shatter, consciousness could think without obstruction, and the Divine General’s power could not interfere with this awareness.

The consciousness observed everything before it and understood its predicament.

“I actually… failed…”

“After preparing for fifty thousand years, is this all I amount to?”

This awareness quietly regarded everything in front of it. Although it had not felt any emotional shifts since becoming a True Immortal, encountering this sudden situation made it feel absurd.

Looking inward, it gazed toward the dark sky: “Have you evolved again?”

“First Mystic Heaven, then Red Heaven, and now the World God, which hasn’t manifested for hundreds of thousands of years… have you evolved again?”

“World!”

Naturally, there was no answer.

In its final moments, it burned the power and authority of this body, trying to derive the source of its failure, wanting to understand where it had gone wrong!

But in the end, all it saw was an expansive void of darkness, illuminated by a massive fireball. A young figure turned sideways and blocked everything.

“Opening Heaven and Earth, another Mystic Heaven, ha ha… after ten thousand years, the outer universe will be recounted!”

The green spirit light soared into the sky, piercing through the three heavens and shooting straight into the outer universe.

The nighttime, created by the Royal Path of the Fourth Heaven, shattered explosively.

Long-hidden darkness regained its light, a moment undoubtedly joyful.

However, the Divine General’s figure suddenly halted, the great Divine Sword stopping abruptly in mid-air, despite the backlash causing tumult in its blood and energy.

After all…

The blue sky appeared!

The Divine General froze, lifting its head to see the ascending blue light, falling into a daze, remaining silent for a long time.