Translator: CinderTL
The giant of light, formed by over a hundred ninth-tier divine emperors, crumbled like bamboo scorched by flames under Li Chunjun's sword.
Often, he didn't even need to shatter the giant's defenses.
After all, the sword light he unleashed was never a mere physical attack.
When the Heaven-Opening Sword clashed with the Quasi-Immortal Artifact wielded by the giant of light, it inevitably triggered law resonance and great dao reverberation.
Amidst this deafening chaos, the giant of light's structure faltered, revealing cracks and fissures.
And wherever these gaps appeared, the Sword Qi swirling around the Heaven-Opening Sword would seep into them, wreaking havoc on the divine emperors who formed the giant and channeled their combined power into it, leaving behind a trail of blood and carnage.
In mere moments, twenty percent of the hundred-plus divine emperors had already fallen.
Moreover, as the casualties mounted, the giant of light's structure deteriorated even faster.
The remaining divine emperors' death rate accelerated exponentially.
At this rate, the annihilation of their entire force seemed inevitable.
"We can't hold out any longer!"
"Where are Darkness and Blood Peak? Why haven't they arrived yet?!"
"Even if we hold on, we won't last. At most ten breaths, and I'll be completely shattered! Now, our only hope lies in seeking aid from the great God Above Gods!"
The two Creation Gods exchanged thoughts and quickly reached a decision.
In the next moment, their Heart-Minds surged, and through the World Will, they swiftly sent a signal resembling a "call for help" to every corner of the Great World of the Gods.
Simultaneously, they fully activated the Great World of the Gods' World Will, unleashing a terrifyingly powerful pressure from the heavens.
Alas...
Having clashed with the World Will of the True Dragon Great World and possessing a profound understanding of the void great dao, Li Chunjun activated his Void Dao Physique, effortlessly evading the Great World of the Gods' World Will's lock-on and suppression.
Though he was relentlessly shattering the giant of light formed by the two Creation Gods with his sword strikes, the World Will remained unable to target his body and unleash Divine Punishment.
Moreover...
Despite the Creation Gods having sent their "call for help" long ago, the Avatar of the God Above Gods had yet to descend.
This outcome immediately made the two Creation Gods realize something.
Pain flashed in their eyes, tinged with despair, but mostly with a sense of relief.
"The great God Above Gods needs our help!" one Creation God declared. "He requires us to continue fighting this invader to uncover the truth of how his Dao operates!"
The other Creation God remained silent, his expression somber.
He seemed reluctant, unwilling to accept their fate.
But this emotion lasted only a moment before his mind settled into a state of calm acceptance.
"For countless years, we have failed to meet the expectations of the great God Above Gods, never taking that final step," he said slowly. "Now, it is time to return everything His Majesty has bestowed upon us and leave hope for those who come after us!"
As he spoke, his powerful Mind Power not only conveyed his emotions but also resonated with the other Divine Emperors.
In that instant, the Divine Emperors seemed to grasp their impending doom.
Though some resisted the idea of facing death with composure, reason told them that in this situation, their desire to survive was futile.
Once they shed their Giant of Light forms, the Dao Unification Realm human invader's Sword Qi alone could tear their "divine bodies" to shreds.
Therefore...
They had no choice.
Rather than clinging to a precarious existence that would inevitably end in death, they would embrace martyrdom, burning with their final radiance.
"Since the great God Above Gods requires us to continue our duties, let us fight to the very end!"
"Everything we possess was bestowed upon us by the great God Above Gods. Now is the time to return it all, to merge back into the eternal embrace!"
"For the God Above Gods! For the Divine Race!"
One by one, the Divine Emperors steeled their hearts and spontaneously began to burn their Qi and Mind Power.
All seventy-four Divine Emperors stood firm, none wavering.
They faced Li Chunjun's swirling sword qi storm with unwavering courage, confronting the descending destruction and death.
This scene...
Moved Li Chunjun slightly.
These Foreign Races...
Were not entirely without merit.
However, their current ferocity suited his purposes perfectly.
After a dozen breaths, the battle concluded.
Only then did the shattered heaven-piercing divine pillar crash heavily to the ground.
Crashing onto...
A landscape utterly devastated: towns and living beings annihilated, mountains and rivers leveled, forests and plains scorched black by flames.
After slaying the last creation god, Li Chunjun slightly raised his head.
He could sense the Great World of the Gods' perception of him growing increasingly intense.
This intensity...
"Hatred, curses, sin, karma..."
He quickly understood the source of this heightened awareness.
For countless years, the Divine Race had continuously refined this world, gradually shaping it in their image. The World Will, which should have remained neutral, without any subjective bias, had become aligned with the Divine Race.
Now that he had annihilated two creation gods, over a hundred Divine Emperors, and countless ordinary divine beings and Believers, the World Will, having developed its own biases, naturally regarded him as an enemy and an invader.
Of course, the World Will alone posed little threat.
The true power behind a Great Thousand Worlds lay in the great dao light net.
And the power of the great dao light net...
Even dao unification cultivators struggled to withstand it!
The reason Dao Unification Realm cultivators cannot forcibly enter the Great Thousand Worlds is because doing so would trigger a backlash from the great dao light net.
Such a backlash, if not handled with extreme caution, could even lead to the cultivator's demise.
Currently, Li Chunjun was being rejected by the World Will of the Great World of the Gods. If this continued, the World Will's rejection would reach a critical threshold, triggering the entire great dao light net to repel him. At that point, he would become an enemy of the Great World of the Gods' great dao light net, subject to its devastating backlash.
"So, this is the God Above Gods' true objective," Li Chunjun realized.
The God Above Gods had never manifested an Avatar, partly because he couldn't discern a method to counter Li Chunjun's Void Power.
Another reason was to leverage the World Will to mobilize the power of the great dao light net against him.
Once the great dao light net began repelling and suppressing him, Li Chunjun was certain the God Above Gods, seeing an opportunity, would strike without hesitation, harnessing the great dao light net's power for a fatal blow.
"In the God Above Gods' eyes, my destruction of these Divine Emperors and creation gods weakens his power, preventing his repeated resurrections. Conversely, he's using their deaths to create opportunities for the World Will to activate the great dao light net."
The war between those who had achieved Dao Unification had spread to every corner of existence.
It was far more complex than simply destroying a Supreme Sage's Dharma Aspect to deliver a fatal blow.
Alas...
"The great dao light net? This is merely an external manifestation of the Great Unification Realm. If controlled by someone, it would be akin to a living Great Unification Realm expert. But how could a naturally maintained great dao light net, which sustains the Great World's operation, possibly counter the void great dao that embodies the essence of the Great Unification Realm?"
Li Chunjun's expression remained calm, as if completely unaware of the God Above Gods' scheme, as he continued his journey toward the second pillar of god.
Without the aid of Star Gates, traversing from one heaven-piercing divine pillar to another consumed considerable time. By the time he arrived, the Divine Race had fully mobilized.
The number of Quasi-Tenth-Tier experts had surged to six, while the number of Divine Emperors, equivalent to Supreme Sages, had exceeded four hundred.
Moreover, these six Quasi-Tenth-Tier experts and over four hundred Divine Emperors had already formed a massive formation, fully armed and ready for battle.
When Li Chunjun rode the void tide to the outer perimeter of the heaven-piercing divine pillar, the four hundred-plus top-tier experts had already assembled. Empowered by the World Will of the Great World of the Gods, their combined might coalesced into a colossal figure even more majestic and immense than the Giant of Light they had previously formed.
Due to their sheer numbers, the aura radiating from this colossal figure far surpassed the Grand Void Ancestral Dragon Dharma Aspect created by the Nine Quasi-Tenth-Tier experts, including the Lord of Ephemeral, in the True Dragon Great World. It rivaled even the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's Avatar in power.
The giant's luminous wings shimmered as its vast, sea-like Qi surged forth, colliding with the void tide Li Chunjun had unleashed.
The clash of these two forces in mid-air reverberated across the heavens and earth, causing the entire Great World of the Gods to tremble slightly.
At the epicenter of the collision, the void seemed to collapse, visible void rifts tearing open and rapidly spreading in all directions, accompanied by an unprecedented storm of destruction.
Fueled by six Quasi-Tenth-Tier experts and over four hundred Divine Emperors, this single strike barely managed to halt Li Chunjun's surging void tide.
"Impressive," Li Chunjun remarked.
Li Chunjun let out a genuine sigh of admiration.
Simultaneously, he sensed the terrifying will that blanketed the entire Heavenly Vault, and its increasingly pronounced hostility toward him.
His gaze finally settled on the void rift formed by the collision of two immense forces.
"Because I shattered the Great World of the Gods, the World Will's animosity toward me has intensified by an order of magnitude."
He wouldn't make excuses like "it takes two to tango," blaming the Quasi-Tenth-Tier and Divine Emperors for mobilizing the World Will against him.
However...
The combined might of six Quasi-Tenth-Tier experts and over four hundred Divine Emperors was indeed formidable enough to defeat any Avatar descended from a Dao Unification Realm being.
Even a true Dao Unification Realm entity facing such a scenario would have only two options: either spend eons gradually eroding the Great World of the Gods through various means until its complete destruction, or mobilize a force far surpassing the combined might of six Quasi-Tenth-Tier experts and four hundred Divine Emperors to enter the Great World of the Gods and crush them.
At the very least, they would need to infiltrate the world with their ideology, reverse-refining the Great World of the Gods to sever the World Will's blessings upon the Divine Race.
This approach would inevitably prolong the battle to an excruciating length.
"The power a Great World can contain has its limits. Even when Dao Unification Realm experts and Supreme Sovereigns clash within a Great World, their power is still constrained!" Li Chunjun paused, his voice hardening. "But this doesn't apply to me!"
A common truth among Dao Unification Realm experts: Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated.
Yet none of them could ever fathom Li Chunjun's true trump card.
Six Quasi-Tenth-Tier experts, over four hundred Divine Emperors...
Level 45... That should be enough!
(End of the Chapter)
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