"World Tree!"
When the infinitely magnificent Eternal Divine Tree, propping up the universe of stars, appeared, the ancient ones, even seeing it for the first time, had its name surface in their minds.
It, was the world.
It, encompassed all.
The Yiduo La World Tree symbolized realms such as life, the world, and time, but it was not a sentient being. Originally, it could only instinctively emanate power.
But Fang Liu Yi appeared. She was both an individual, the strongest innate being, and an extension of the World Tree. She could perfectly wield the power of the World Tree.
Tens of thousands of small worlds bloomed with radiant splendor.
On its crown, hung one after another fruit, swirling with seven-colored halos. Those were also worlds. Worlds that had existed for a long time, and had already bred complete civilizations.
—Outer Worlds!
During the Third Catastrophe Tide, Xin Huo not only migrated the oases of various regions but also secretly controlled countless outer worlds and transplanted them onto the World Tree.
Such transplantation not only did not deplete the origin of the outer worlds but even allowed those outer worlds to gradually ascend to higher worlds.
This was the might of the World Tree.
With its own power, it supported billions of worlds.
Even, after the World Tree's ascension, Fang You could, from the depths of the void, locate the outer worlds hidden in the depths of the starry sky. He found these worlds faster than the Evil God faction and formulated contracts with the world consciousness of some higher worlds, transplanting them to the World Tree as well.
The transplantation of outer worlds and higher worlds continuously propelled the might of the World Tree to new heights.
World fruits on the World Tree, Xin Huo beneath the World Tree.
Campfires were lit, and the winds of the world blew. The white tide protected the myriad households behind it, fearlessly facing the encroaching tide of shadows.
Swish—
There was no roar that shattered the entire great domain, nor an extremely dazzling tide of laws.
It was just that all the ancient ones had fallen to the ground, an indescribable pressure enveloped them like a chasm, the laws before them were being annihilated with a bang, and the mountains and rivers, the strange gray mist, were wiped away as if a blackboard drawn with chalk was instantly erased.
Only the fragmented space remained, with remnants of land within, and on these land fragments, some crumbling ruins not yet completely erased, allowing one to vaguely discern the appearance of this great domain in the past.
The great domain was gone.
The entire Dong Gui Realm's Flaming Heart Great Domain vanished into nothingness in an instant. Several surrounding great domains were shattered by more than half, like a large piece of cake bitten off by a giant.
Yet, the Frontline Fortress No. 1, located in the Flaming Heart Great Domain, still existed.
This oasis, and the oases behind it, were like islands floating in shattered space. Between them, fragmented land masses could be seen, and further back, the land masses became more numerous and complete.
This was the protection from the oasis walls.
Even if the great domain was destroyed, the oasis could still exist safely.
Outside Fortress No. 1, the ancient ones stepped onto the remaining land, gazing at the shattered great domain, their jaws agape. But what shocked them, excited them, and made them ecstatic was…
"The spreading shadows have been halted?!"
In the shattered space, the shadows were still very evident, visible to the naked eye.
But they were no longer spreading.
In the collision, the World Tree had arrested their advance.
"Evil Gods are not insurmountable!"
"We have the assistance of the World Tree, we have countless worlds as our backing!"
"Fight! Fight! Fight!"
Before, even with Liu Feng, An Jian You, and others leading the charge, many ancient ones still trembled and dared not act.
But now, without any need for mobilization, the ancient ones were ignited.
They were initially fearless, then fearful, then gritted their teeth to fight back, but still trembled.
Until this moment, the song of courage finally sounded.
The power of the mind erupted.
"Fight!"
"Hold back this Evil God!"
The ancient ones attacked one after another.
In the distance, above the gray mist, after the Shadow of Obscurity escaped, the Twisted Black River exerted absolute suppression over the Mother of Desire.
Fang You saw a strange, peach-pink ancient tree. This ancient tree was wailing, and blood flowed from its wounds, transforming into vast rivers of gray and black.
The Mother of Desire was clearly unable to hold on for much longer.
And part of the Twisted Black River's power was also spreading towards the Shadow of Obscurity.
"Hold back this Evil God?"
"No."
Fang You looked directly at the broken shadow space, golden flames burning fiercely in his eyes.
"We are going to slay the god!"
"The plan has changed slightly, but now is the best opportunity to kill the Evil God—the Shadow of Obscurity."
He was mad, yet calm.
On the front lines, An Jian You, Chi Yan, Hei Dao, and others unleashed their attacks, holding back almost nothing.
And the main force here was Fang Liu Yi, supported by the World Tree.
The brilliance of the world flickered.
"Praise of Life!"
"Flower of the World!"
"Realm of Life!"
In the dark space, filled with death and shadows, pure white lotus flowers bloomed one by one.
Each flower was a world.
They bloomed within layers of shadow space, transforming death into vitality, continuously weakening the power of the Evil God, the Shadow of Obscurity.
Perhaps due to severe injuries sustained from the Twisted Black River earlier, the Shadow of Obscurity could not suppress these silently blooming snow lotuses. Even the shadow ancient ones it had replicated became visibly weaker.
However, even so, the dark shadows still swallowed ancient ones.
This made many highly motivated ancient ones shiver.
The Evil God might have weakened, but it did not mean they were capable of resisting. Those truly capable of resisting the Evil God were the magnificent World Tree.
How could the power of living beings compare to gods?
The reason they called themselves ancient ones, not ancient gods, was precisely this—before the Evil Gods, they were not worthy of calling themselves gods.
"No!"
One person, like a sword, flew towards the tide of shadows. He faced the most terrifying and profound darkness, his sword humming, his hand trembling, and the ultimate sword will gradually ascended.
"The power of an Evil God is not necessarily insurmountable."
"We living beings can also cleave the might of Evil Gods."
I, Liu Feng, became a disciple of the teacher and cultivated for hundreds of years. Today, I achieve ultimate sublimation!
One sword after another shattered, and countless sword intents converged in his hand and heart.
The sword will that had been brewing in his chest for hundreds of years erupted.
The blazing sun, the avatar of the Great Sun Divine Venerable, dimmed.
The world-destroying fire continuously poured out by Yi Luo Xi lost its color.
Even that incomparably magnificent divine tree, encompassing thousands upon thousands of worlds, only slightly inferior to the Evil God, lost much of its brilliance at this moment.
In heaven and earth, only one sword remained.
The ultimate sword that integrated the lifetime learning of a sword master.
With the sword's出, heaven and earth lost their color, and the golden sword light slashed through the fragmented shadow space, layer after layer, piercing through them.
People seemed to hear the crisp sound of mirrors shattering.
People seemed to hear the roar of the unnamable.
People seemed to hear the increasingly weakened low groan.
"The power of an Evil God is not necessarily unattainable by living beings."
"Even with a mortal body, as long as one's lifelong wish is poured into an ultimate sword strike, one CAN! SLAY! GODS!"
Swish—
Layer after layer of shadow space collapsed.
Like continental fragments falling, they struck the hearts of the ancient ones, stirring up colossal waves.
What a terrifying sword!
Even though Dean Liu Feng, who unleashed this sword, had graying temples and his aura was constantly declining, the ancient ones still dared not look directly at him.
They were not qualified to look directly at one who had reached the level of an Evil God!
Even if only for a moment.
"The Shadow of Obscurity, has it fallen?"
"Did this sword truly slay a god?"
Billions of shadow spaces completely shattered.
The golden sword light struck the core of the Shadow of Obscurity and pierced through it.
But in the next instant, the concepts of darkness, shadow, death, and negative emotions re-gathered, manifesting thousands upon thousands of shadow spaces.
The tide surged again.
The ancient ones' moods were like a roller coaster, reaching their peak and then plunging to the bottom.
Only a very few showed disappointment, but it was within expectations.
"That sword was the ultimate of the sword dao, containing the supreme authority of the sword, but it still failed. As expected, the power of living beings cannot slay gods."
This was something that the Moon Lord, the Great Sun Divine Venerable, and a few others had speculated.
However, seeing such a result still brought disappointment and frustration.
This sword was already the pinnacle of the mortal form, yet it still failed. Evil Gods cannot be slain by beings other than Evil Gods.
Liu Feng was not disappointed.
This was within his expectations. His mission was complete.
"The rest is up to you."
...
"Evil Gods possess some of the qualifications of the eleventh realm of transcendence. Their existence surpasses time and space and is not bound by history."
"The authority and various killing moves wielded by those in the tenth realm of origin might injure Evil Gods, but they can absolutely not slay them."
This was the intelligence Fang You had obtained from fragmented history and the battle of Kande La slaying gods.
The statement 'absolutely cannot slay gods' was too absolute. In his opinion, nothing was impossible. If it couldn't be done, it was simply because the power was not strong enough.
But to slay an Evil God with a mortal body was indeed difficult.
No matter how severely an Evil God was injured, its divine status still crushed those living beings within the universe.
"However, it's not entirely without a chance."
"No matter how strong the authority, it is only the extreme of one main path. The world is vast and can encompass everything."
All things are contained within the world.
A world can be weak, destroyable by a high-level being.
But a world can also be strong. The Ghost Realm is also a world.
When the 'quantity' of world power reaches a certain level, its 'quality' becomes terrifying.
Fang Liu Yi, who was poised for action, her green hair floated upwards against gravity. The space around her had already solidified, and time flowed around her divine body.
She clasped her hands together and lifted them upwards, slowly opening her palms, like a blooming flower.
At the same time, in the depths of the shadow space, a bud of a pure white World Flower also appeared, slowly opening.
As it bloomed an inch, the shadow space brightened slightly.
However, this blooming process was extremely difficult, a struggle.
World Tree vs. severely injured Shadow of Obscurity.
Swish—
Another suffocating pressure surged.
That infinitely long, infinitely vast black river grew in the sight of the ancient ones, pouring countless filthy waters onto the earth.
Turbid, decaying, dark.
The power of the Twisted Black River was spreading.
He even temporarily abandoned suppressing the Mother of Desire for this. After all, the Shadow of Obscurity's injuries were already more severe than the Mother of Desire's. He had peeled away layer after layer of the Shadow of Obscurity's shell, all the way to its core.
"He's coming!!"
"He's coming!!!"
An Jian You, Yi Luo Xi, Xi Di Na, Hei Dao…
Great Sun Divine Venerable, Moon Lord, Lord of Stars…
The core powerhouses and ancient ones of Xin Huo attacked. Facing the Shadow of Obscurity, the power of all living beings could create some ripples, but facing the Evil God, the Twisted Black River, their power was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot!
They could not hinder it in the slightest!
An Jian You exchanged glances with Yi Luo Xi, Chi Yan, and Hei Dao.
They had prepared their trump cards, just like Liu Feng.
'Should I use it?'
On the chaotic front lines, the shattered space smoothed out to form a path.
A figure emerged from within.
White robe, wearing gloves, one hand behind his back, the other held in front.
In his hand, the light of the Authority Gems began to flow.
Authority of Time, Authority of Thunder, Authority of Light, Authority of Fate, Authority of Wood, Authority of Space…
Gem after gem appeared.
At the same time,
"Authority of Sword, bearing."
"Authority of Gold, bearing."
"Authority of Space, bearing."
"Authority of Wood, bearing."
"Authority of Time..."
Authorities are unique, but in reality, there are almost no conflicts at the Origin Realm. This is because few people can wield Origin Authority, and even if they can, they only wield a minuscule portion.
Even his mentor, Fang, had not achieved high mastery in many Origin Authorities, only wielding fifteen to twenty percent, and a few were stuck at the fifty percent mark.
But, I have fifty percent of the authority, you have twenty percent, he has ten percent…
He could possess eighty percent of the authority.
The power of authority surged.
Fang You gazed into the distance, at the black river he was completely familiar with.
"We meet again after many years."
"The unspeakable Twisted Black River…"
Suppressing the almost boiling sea of belief, Fang You reached out and unleashed his normal state—prepared—serious—full power strike.
This strike gathered the power of hundreds of years of cultivation from himself and An Jian You and others.
Authority· Myriad Light Wheels!
Divine light even more dazzling than Liu Feng's ultimate sword strike bloomed before the oasis walls.
The ancient ones seemed to see the epitome of all supreme techniques.
Tree of Life, Gate of Infinity, Nirvana Sacred Fire…
The man who created myriad techniques!
He was indeed stronger.
The strongest beneath Evil Gods!
He briefly blocked the spread of the Twisted Black River's power.
At the same time, the sacred World Flower finally bloomed at the end of the shadow space.
As if a switch was flipped, the already cracked ten thousand layers of shadow space finally began to collapse, and the collapse accelerated uncontrollably, becoming faster and faster.
Until it completely disappeared.
One second, two seconds, three seconds…
The concept of obscurity did not reappear.
It had been truly erased!
"We, killed an Evil God?!"
An ancient one murmured.
An ancient one was excited.
Fang You suddenly felt uneasy.
Ding—
A heavenly sound, like a bell, resounded.
Fang You's expression changed. History flashed before his eyes.
The god-slayer was the Twisted Black River!
Three hundred instants ago.
He had altered the timeline!