Mythical Era: My Evolution into a Celestial Beast-Chapter 671: Ancient Emperor, Unification of Divine Soul and True Form (III)

Chapter 671: Ancient Emperor, Unification of Divine Soul and True Form (III)

Above the sky, the heavenly eye, which had been on the verge of vanishing, suddenly trembled. The rift expanded violently, stretching into a thousand-kilometer-long abyss, and from its depths, an even more terrifying force emerged.

As the eye quaked, every single cultivator below stared wide-eyed in disbelief at Chen Chu’s true soul form.

At that moment, even Heavenly King Jiuyou and the Primordial King, a legendary figure, showed visible shock on their faces.

Jiuyou's eyes widened, his expression filled with astonishment as he gazed at the true soul form wearing an imperial crown. "Impossible... This kid's soul has already condensed into a true form?!

"And it's three hundred meters tall! To condense a true soul form of this size, the foundational soul strength required is at least a hundred times that of an ordinary cultivator at the same level!"

Even a heavenly-king-level powerhouse like Jiuyou momentarily lost his composure. As for the Bright Blade King, he was so stunned that he couldn't even form proper words, repeatedly muttering, "Monster... freak... impossible..."

"No wonder he was able to complete the path to divinity and inherit the legacy of the ancient emperor. His foundational soul is beyond reason... His true talent isn't his physical awakening—it's his soul." At that moment, Heavenly King Jiuyou finally understood why Chen Chu’s abilities were so insane.

It was because his foundational soul was unimaginably strong, exceeding all known limits. With such an overwhelming soul, his comprehension abilities and cultivation speed were beyond measure.

While everyone was still in shock over the sudden appearance of his true soul form, Chen Chu frowned slightly. Because his soul was too strong, his divine soul's transformation was progressing too slowly.

Realizing this, Chen Chu raised his gaze toward the sky. In the depths of the abyss, the silhouette of the ancient emperor emerged once more, and the palace complex in the void became even clearer.

With it came an even greater imperial might, one that faintly surpassed the limits of the mythical level.

The vague figure of the ancient emperor slowly lifted its right hand and, in a seemingly casual motion, flipped its palm downward.

Boom!

The heavens and earth trembled, and a colossal hand, spanning a kilometer in diameter, descended from the sky. Every line of its palm was perfectly defined, its sheer force stirring the atmosphere into chaotic turbulence, sending white shockwaves rippling outward in all directions.

Under this one palm from the ancient emperor, the very laws of heaven and earth collapsed instantly. All energy was suppressed and erased, all powers were neutralized, and even the omnipresent transcendent energy ceased to exist.

Even within Chen Chu's body, the four high-level laws and his pupils were forcibly sealed, leaving him unable to mobilize any power.

This was the authority of an emperor—a will so absolute that it could suppress all creation in a single thought, leaving no room for defiance.

"So this is the End of Dharma[1]." Chen Chu exhaled slowly. His six muscular arms flexed, and at that moment, a world-shaking force surged from within him. freёwebnoѵel.com

His greatest strength had never been the laws. It was never true martial arts. It was his physical body—a body stronger than even a mythical colossal beast of the same level.

Facing the heaven-obscuring hand, Chen Chu let out a dragon-like roar. Every meridian and acupoint in his body ignited with surging vitality, and in an instant, an unmatched, domineering power erupted from within.

The world trembled. Everything around Chen Chu twisted; even light itself was devoured, forming a thousand-meter-wide region of absolute darkness.

Within this space, all things were distorted. An unparalleled pressure, no weaker than the imperial might of the ancient emperor, spread outward.

With the Destructive Dragon Emperor’s breakthrough to the late mythical level, and with the feedback into Chen Chu’s physical body, he had grown even more terrifying. Now, with the Vacuum Supremacy divine ability enhancing his power, he had reached a new pinnacle.

Boom!

Chen Chu’s six arms converged, gripping his halberd tightly as his figure transformed into a streak of black light, soaring toward the heavens.

Boom!

With a single strike from his seven-hundred-meter-long halberd, wrapped in black lightning, the descending imperial hand exploded.

Even the surrounding space was reduced to pure chaos. The unstoppable force of the halberd continued onward, expanding into an unstoppable black radiance—a ten-thousand-meter-long halberd light piercing through the heavens and earth.

The aura of power was so overwhelming that the entire world trembled. Even the floating islands dozens of kilometers below shuddered from the aftershock.

All onlookers fell into stunned silence. They stared in sheer disbelief, gazing at the figure standing in the darkness, halberd in hand, unchallenged.

A Ninth Heavenly Realm cultivator exhaled deeply, his voice trembling with disbelief. "Are we sure this is just a breakthrough to mythical king and not a breakthrough to heavenly king?"

In the depths of the chaotic shockwaves left by the explosion in the sky, a golden light emerged, condensing into a hundred-meter-long golden dragon, which then soared into Chen Chu’s body.

Boom!

Flames formed by Chen Chu’s four high-level law origins exploded outward, blazing uncontrollably as if they were infinite.

With such an immense amount of origin burning, his true soul form, which had been standing majestically behind him, underwent transformation at an astonishing speed—dozens of times faster than before.

In the ecstatic, awe-filled, and disbelieving gazes of everyone present, the true soul form, clad in imperial robes, completed its transformation and began to fuse with Chen Chu’s three-faced, six-armed true form.

Watching this scene, the Primordial King took a deep breath. "A foundation for the heavenly king level in a single step... With the talent he has displayed today, it may not be long before he truly breaks through to the heavenly king level.

"And with the inheritance of the ancient civilization’s emperor, even the path to the supreme level will have no obstacles for him. As long as he has enough time..."

At this point, the Primordial King paused.

At that moment, even he felt that Chen Chu’s potential went beyond the supreme level—there was a faint possibility that he could break through the final shackles and take that legendary step to become a civilization's emperor.

Realizing this, the Primordial King’s expression grew serious. "It seems I need to find Old Qian and Celestial to refine some more forbidden weapons for this kid."

After the Abyssal Battlefield War, Chen Chu only had two life-saving forbidden weapons left—one with a teleportation function and the other capable of preventing death once, but only against non-mythical level threats.

In other words, at that moment, Chen Chu had only one law-based forbidden weapon remaining.

Originally, when the First Councilor and the others had prepared forbidden weapons for Chen Chu, they had considered every possible scenario—such as a Celestial Star Ring to block a demon god’s direct strike, a True King Beast Seal to counter curses, and both teleportation and death-substitution artifacts.

But who could have predicted that Chen Chu’s growth would be so rapid—advancing to the mythical level in just one year?

And now, his potential was even more staggering than they had originally anticipated. At first, they had only believed him capable of reaching the supreme level, as becoming a civilization's emperor was far too distant and unrealistic.

Yet, after witnessing his tribulation breakthrough, the Primordial King felt that as long as Chen Chu could continue his growth, even if humanity failed to withstand the second mythical surge and the Blue Planet was devoured, there would still be hope.

According to orthodox cultivation paths, a supreme powerhouse normally required the existence of their original world to take the final step.

However, Chen Chu, having inherited the ancient emperor’s legacy, did not need that—because he already held the key to becoming a civilization's emperor.

Therefore, even if refining a law-based forbidden weapon required great cost, and even if it meant cutting off a portion of his own law power and temporarily weakening himself, the Primordial King believed it was worth it. Chen Chu must not fall.

Everyone below was still in shock, watching as his divine soul and true form slowly fused, his aura growing even greater. They thought that his breakthrough was finally coming to an end, but then, behind Chen Chu, four light wheels suddenly appeared.

Boom!

A vast Earth World manifested behind him, colliding with reality, and in an instant, it covered the entire sky, forming a three-hundred-kilometer-wide suspended landmass in the sky that cast an enormous shadow over the world.

Following the appearance of the Earth World, another world of flames emerged—a burning world descending upon the land. Then, from the depths of the Heavenly Flame World, the Windstorm World filled with raging black astral winds materialized. Finally, in the heart of it all, the Lightning Prison World rumbled with endless lightning.

Earth. Fire. Wind. Lightning!

1. The Decline of the Dharma, or Ages of the Dharma, refers to traditional Buddhist accounts of how the Buddhist religion and the Buddha's teaching (Dharma) is believed to decline throughout history. It constitutes a key aspect of Buddhist eschatology and provides a cyclical model of history, beginning with a virtuous age where spiritual practice is very fruitful and ending with an age of strife, in which Buddhism is eventually totally forgotten. However, it's presented in this context as a term with a different meaning. ☜