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Chapter 626: The Divine Level
🕑 Added 2025-08-25 13:00:18 +0000 UTCThe moment the Concealed Emperor entered the Vast Void, his body radiated a blinding light that even caused Tianyi to lose his vision for a split second. In that minuscule moment, the Concealed Emperor transformed into pure light and escaped.
Tianyi wasn’t surprised by this. Had he forced the Concealed Emperor into the True Nothingness, the latter would have definitely resisted. Although it seemed anger had clouded his mind, Tianyi still retained some sense and a bottom line. That didn’t mean it would last, though.
The two had appeared near the edge of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System. The only realms close to them were unranked realms without any life. Even if they were destroyed, it would not bring much Karmic Sin and would even grant some realm essence.
Though that didn’t matter to Tianyi or the Concealed Emperor. Tianyi wanted to vent.
He raised his hands, and invisible ripples spread in the surrounding area. Spacetime condensed. Even if true immortals appeared they would move as if they were trapped in molasses. Compared to the Primordial Realm, the gravity had increased by tens of thousands of times. And it was still increasing at a rapid pace. If true immortals could only slow before, now they couldn’t even move at all. Only immortal monarchs could move now.
However, this had no effect on the Concealed Emperor. His figure had disappeared, and only light remained in the empty void.
Tianyi frowned and clenched his fist. Nothing seemed to have changed, but space twisted as if a giant black hole had appeared. When mass reached a certain point, even light could not escape its gravity. Yet, the radiance in this remote area defied this natural law.
“Still not enough?” Tianyi waved his sleeves, and countless Stellar Silences flew out from within his sleeves. After countless years, he had altered it so that it would not conflict with Constellation Cessation. Now, Stellar Silence was a move formed to unleash a large number of attacks in a short amount of time. Before ending, they would transform into miniature black holes that would destroy all things around them and disappear completely afterward.
Because Tianyi already created an illusionary black hole through spacetime, the attractive force from the Stellar Silences did not disappear but merged with the illusionary spacetime black hole. With each Stellar Silence, the gravity grew stronger until the remote area resembled its own mini-system. Although it had not separated from the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System, it was completely possible to separate and form a pseudo-system if the right conditions permitted it.
This did nothing for Tianyi’s goal. He wanted to force the Concealed Emperor to show himself.
His frown did not lessen as he discovered that the radiance did not change at all. Tianyi waved his hand, and the gravity disappeared. His level three conduit could not increase the gravity without breaking the limit of the Heavenly Dao and incurring punishment.
Tianyi flipped his palm, and a miniature solar system with eight planets appeared. He did not throw it and allowed the miniature sun and planets to expand, engulfing him within.
If an immortal saw the solar system, they would not be able to distinguish if it was fake or real. Except for its planetary shape raising questions, it was completely possible for life to prosper on three of the eight planets.
Alas, this was Tianyi’s technique and not a true solar system. The orbital speed of the planets sped up. The one closest to the solar star moved the fastest. Suddenly, its trajectory shifted and circled the sun with increasing speed, coming closer with each cycle.
Finally, it sank into the solar star. Upon absorbing the first planet, the star grew from one million kilometers to two million kilometers. Then the second planet followed the first planet’s fate, allowing the star to grow to four million kilometers. Then the third, fourth, fifth, and all the way to the eighth planet fell into the star, causing it to grow to a massive two hundred and fifty-six million kilometers.
The divine light engulfed by the massive star was directly absorbed, and it continued to emit a special fluctuation that slowly attracted the light. Tianyi could feel his understanding of the Law of Light and the Law of Darkness advancing. As long as he took time to digest it, his mastery would improve by at least one level within a year, but he was in no mood.
Although the Constellation Cessation Star was two hundred and fifty-six million kilometers large, its influence spanned over a billion kilometers. Although the Vast Void was considered empty, there were still many tiny debris accumulated over the long years. Most of them were worthless and could only be used as fertilizers or to slightly increase the resources of a realm, but under the influence of the Constellation Cessation, these debris disappeared from the world.
The closer to the sun, the more powerful the erasure. Even the divine radiance dimmed slightly under this deletion. Still, Tianyi frowned. The speed was slow. If the Concealed Emperor did not just stay there and defend, he would unlikely be able to do anything to the divine light.
‘In that case,’ Tianyi’s eyes spewed a wrathful red. Although he had the title of immortal sovereign, he only used the true qi of primordial chaos to power his moves. He didn’t even use essence-qi. But now, he directly skipped over essence-qi and used divine essence.
After many years, each heaven in the Nine Heavens System in his inner universe produced essence and not qi. By merging them, he could produce divine essence of chaos, but because of a restriction or his own inadequacy, it was not divine essence of primordial chaos. Even so, it was more than enough to increase the power of his technique by a hundredfold.
Of course, it was not just an increase in pure power, but mystery too. Powered by divine essence, the Constellation Cessation seemed to have some sort of limiter removed, and its power increased once more. The divine light could no longer resist the pull and flew into the gigantic star.
“Grand Elder Nine Heavens is indeed heaven-defying. Your mastery has only touched upon the Divine Realm, but you can already use divine essence,” the Concealed Emperor’s voice echoed. After he spoke, the divine light disappeared. Even some of the light already absorbed inside the star vanished, as if it had been erased in the past.
Tianyi turned around and saw a figure over a billion kilometers away. He lowered his palm, and the Constellation Cessation exploded. The released light all converged into a singular laser aimed at the divinity. When the laser died down, it only revealed the Concealed Emperor with a raised palm. Smoke wafted away from the palm, but it showed no other injury except for being a little red.
That didn’t matter. Tianyi teleported in front of him, arm raised above his head. In his hand was a sword seemingly forged from the starry night. In response, a sword of light appeared in the Concealed Emperor’s hand, which he raised to meet Tianyi’s slash.
Sparks flew as the two’s arms blurred from the speed of swinging their swords against each other. Gradually, Tianyi’s swings became faster and faster. Correspondingly, his gaze grew in lethality, but the Concealed Emperor had a mild expression as he calmly blocked Tianyi’s slashes.
No matter how much Tianyi slashed, it felt like he was slicing at air or punching cotton. There was no visible feedback. Rather than venting, he felt like a cloud. ‘Dammit, dammit! Why am I so weak?! I can’t even force him to take me seriously! Stronger, faster! I want to punch that damn smugass face!’
The power of Tianyi’s swings became faster and more powerful. Although they did not cause the Concealed Emperor any damage, the latter could feel Tianyi’s rapid improvement. Tianyi’s swings no longer emitted any force, nor did they blur, but that only made them more dangerous. His control over spacetime had improved, which made his slashes hard to defend against.
Although it was more strenuous, it was nothing to a top divinity like the Concealed Emperor. Tianyi also knew this, so he abandoned his sword. The starry night sword dispersed into divine essence of chaos. During the process, Tianyi attacked the Concealed Emperor with claw strikes, palm slaps, and other hand techniques.
They weren’t simple hand techniques, either. Tianyi used claws that could rip spacetime apart, palm slaps that could compress all things, punches that could erase anything they touched, and many more. ‘Not enough, too scattered! I’ve learned too many laws, causing my power to be spread. What’s important is not width, but depth!’
Tianyi’s attacks changed. All his attacks became spacetime methods. He did not focus on his rising mastery or comprehension. He did not care. All Tianyi wanted was one thing.
The Concealed Emperor couldn’t help but show a surprised expression, then it turned helpless. “Really.”
Tianyi only intensified his attacks. He leapt back and slashed his arms. Blades of spacetime sliced toward the Concealed Emperor, who dodged. He no longer stayed in one place and moved constantly. Although it seemed like the spacetime blades had vanished, he could sense that if he entered the trajectory where the blade had passed, the attack would immediately act upon him from the past.
His attacks continued. Ripples spread from his body that inhibited the passage of time and froze space. However, that wasn’t all. Once spacetime became disordered, two more Tianyis appeared. They were Tianyi’s Past Reflections. He did not change their history but used his own. Because of his anger, they did not care about their origin and attacked the Concealed Emperor.
Tianyi even tried to create a portal on the Concealed Emperor’s body, splitting his body parts into two halves, but the Concealed Emperor stabilized spacetime and prevented Tianyi’s teleportation from working. When that failed, Tianyi continued to invent new tricks on the spot, using them one after another.
However, Tianyi wasn’t satisfied. His attacks could not harm the Concealed Emperor at all. Silver and gold flashes filled his eyes. He was searching the past and future to find an event that could injure the Concealed Emperor. Originally, he wanted to attack the Concealed Emperor in the past so it would reflect in the present, but he discovered that he couldn’t lock onto the Concealed Emperor’s past or present. At least, his current mastery wouldn’t allow him to do so.
Finally, he found one. It was quite a familiar feeling. Tianyi raised his hand and pointed it at the Concealed Emperor, but nothing happened. He gritted his teeth. ‘Appear! I don’t believe I can’t materialize a mere fragment!’
Divine essence exploded from Tianyi’s body, but nothing happened. Despite this, the Concealed Emperor did not lower his guard. Although he felt no threat, he saw the obvious exertion displayed by Tianyi.
“Bend to my will, dammit!” Tianyi shouted.
At this time, the Concealed Emperor felt a terrible palpitation in his chest. Without hesitation, he turned into light once more.
Immediately after, Tianyi’s body exuded a terrifying aura of destruction. Anyone who felt it would see the image of apocalypse in their mind. He raised his hand and slashed out. A phantom sword of plain design appeared. Anyone who had seen this phantom divine sword would have recognized it as the Immortal Slaying Sword.
The sword impaled the scattering light that the Concealed Emperor had turned into. After it passed, the light gathered and condensed into the Concealed Emperor once more. “I never thought you would actually replicate Yanxu’s dying slash. But it’s enough. You should stop before the price becomes heavier.”
As the Concealed Emperor said, Tianyi was not without injuries. He could feel a slight pang in his head, and his level-three conduits had cracked all over it, but Tianyi showed no signs of backing down. Instead, he attacked once more.
“Hm?” The Concealed Emperor couldn’t help but show a surprised expression as he blocked Tianyi’s next attack. After blocking several more attacks, he couldn’t help but ask, “You?”
Tianyi did not answer. Even though his body was full of cracks and he did not use Divinity Yanxu’s final attack, his momentum continued to increase. Now, he no longer used the divine essence of chaos, but the divine essence of spacetime. Theoretically, the divine essence of chaos was more powerful than the divine essence of spacetime, but it was not the end-all and be-all. In terms of pure spacetime techniques, the divine essence of spacetime was far more suitable.
The exquisiteness and mystery of Tianyi’s attacks increased to the point that the Concealed Emperor felt like he wasn’t facing a half-divinity, but an actual divinity. No, he was facing a divinity. Ever since Tianyi entered the Immortal Realm, no one could sense him until he released his energy. From the moment he formed the inner universe, he already had the qualifications for the Divine Realm. What separated him from the Divine Realm had never been his energy, but his comprehension of the worldly laws.
At this moment, the Concealed Emperor could confidently see that Tianyi had taken that step. He had reached the divine level in the Law of Spacetime.
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