We agreed to go to Taishan Sect and you will pull the coffin for me.

Chapter 396 The Final Battle, the Sacrifice to the Dao

Countless powerful beings looked up in awe, and all living beings in the myriad realms felt their scalps tingle. The strongest beings in the long river of time felt despair.

Not only did the progenitors make their move, but they also discovered the time and space they reflected.

This means that the grand scheme orchestrated by the Desolate Emperor under such harsh conditions, at great cost, to protect the heavens above, isolate the universe from the heavens, reflect the ancient time and space, and attempt to revive the Pollen Empress, has now all come to naught.

In countless future eras, it is unknown whether another Desolate Emperor will appear, or whether the Ancestor will give him another chance.

Reflecting on the ancient time and space, the ancient celestial beings, including the Willow God, the Burial Master, the Butcher, Master Meng, the Heavenly Horned Ant, the Double Pupil, and other familiar figures, reappear.

Many of the legendary titles they left behind continued even into the era of Shrouding the Heavens. For example, the ancient sage Emperor Shun of Earth, with his double pupils, should have possessed unparalleled supernatural powers, but his evolutionary path was erased by the Great Sacrifice, leaving him with only an empty shell.

At this moment, everyone in the space-time sphere felt a chill in their hearts, as if they had returned to the moment when the heavens were overthrown at the end of the era.

"too early."

Willow Goddess sighed, "We haven't truly been resurrected yet."

To be precise, only a few of the Immortal Emperors were resurrected and broke through to the Immortal Emperor level through arduous cultivation. The rest are still illusory and cannot leave this reflected space-time, otherwise they will all turn into nothingness.

Meanwhile, in the Boundary Sea, Ye Fan and the others were surprised to see so many ancient beings, and they admired the Desolate Emperor for his ability to think of how to defeat his enemies and take the lead in launching this massive plan despite the difficult years he had endured alone.

Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned. Even Ye Fan found it absurd. Destroying the chief priest would inevitably cause a strong reaction from the Calamity Land. They were all prepared to sacrifice themselves, but they didn't expect that just the fall of a strange Immortal Emperor would lead to the emergence of all ten ancestors, and the hidden icebergs would all surface.

At this moment, everyone felt a sense of foreboding and realized that it was time to say goodbye to those around them, as they might never see each other again. Even though they were all top-tier experts, the thought of the future made them feel suffocated.

Lu Heng's gaze fell on Liu Shen, the Burial Master, and the Butcher. They had indeed broken through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level at the end of the era, and it seemed that they had even become powerful beings at the end of the road. Liu Shen, in particular, had participated in the blood battle with the Old Man of Annihilation, and after being annihilated, she was resurrected and went even further.

He could sense that the other party had reached the peak of the Immortal Emperor realm, no weaker than himself, and could perform a Dao sacrifice at any time. He couldn't help but recall the future of the original timeline, when Huang had repeatedly attacked the Calamity Land and even perished. It was Liu Shen who personally carried out his corpse. If he didn't have extraordinary strength, how could he have done that?

"But this accident went too far."

Lu Heng turned his attention to the distant Evil Land, which seemed to belong to a different time and space. He sighed and thought that only the power above the sacrificial path could explain it. The interference with time and space was too great. Had they finally discovered him as an unexpected factor?
Rumble!
At the end of all heavens and time, ten terrifying figures let out cold sneers, and one of them moved.

All living beings trembled and coughed up blood. Their vision became distorted, and an indescribable and bizarre existence suddenly approached from the distant beyond, taking over the entire world. Time and space seemed to overlap, making people extremely uncomfortable.

Immediately afterwards, a colossal black shadow descended, its supreme power spreading outwards. Wherever it touched, space and time cracked, the rules of heaven and earth exploded, the chains of divine order broke, and the Dao patterns rapidly extinguished before dissipating.

As the eerie progenitor descended, countless black cracks appeared in the heavens and the primordial realms, reflecting the vastness of time and space. Some were intertwined with blood-red lightning, while others were accompanied by torrential black rain that blotted out the sky, unable to bear such immense power.

All the powerful individuals also underwent terrible changes.

Their bodies blurred, their evolutionary path "manifested," and their great path appeared riddled with cracks, on the verge of collapse!

Many living beings have undergone this terrifying change; whether powerful or weak, their Dao will collapse!
Furthermore, strange changes occurred to varying degrees in everyone. Some people's wounds began to bleed black blood, some people's bodies grew red hair, and some people exhaled gray mist... An ominous atmosphere eroded everyone, all because that unfathomable being was descending!

Lu Heng's mind was shaken. He felt his own secret realm technique collapsing. The five secret realms within his body were erased from time and space. The 'existence' of his primordial spirit and physical body lost its foundation, like a castle in the air collapsing.

Along with the sixth secret realm, the Great Luo Dao Court, which he had created outside himself, it was also violently shaking and collapsing. The five great immortal palaces were teetering on the brink of collapse, with cracks appearing on their surfaces.

It's terrifying. The existence of the Sacrificial Dao is so powerful that it has created a huge gap between it and the Immortal Emperor. It didn't deliberately target anyone; it was just an unintentional release of its great power that caused the world to perish and the Great Dao to collapse, with ominous and treacherous changes occurring.

Deep within the endless chaotic sea, Huang Kuang fought the three progenitors in a frenzied battle. Suddenly, he roared and forcefully erected the ceiling of the secret realm technique.

In an instant, the powerful beings of the primordial heavens felt their own collapse and stagnation.

Ye Fan roared, "Things have come to this point, there is no other way but to fight!"

The four Immortal Emperors of the contemporary era, the three Immortal Emperors of the ancient era, and even the two crippled emperors above the heavens, all made their move.

Nine Immortal Emperors in total.

The eerie progenitor said coldly, "I never imagined that the sheep raised in captivity would grow so fat and become ferocious beasts. So many grand sacrifices have failed to erase the variables of time and space."

Kill! He made his move, a massive, dark hand descended, covering the nine Immortal Emperors and all possible time and space. The Great Dao rules burned, order returned to eternal silence, all things began to wither, and countless universes dimmed, about to disintegrate and explode.

Lu Heng resolutely charged forward, taking the lead in front of everyone, opening up the Great Luo Dao Court to bear the greatest impact.

His gaze was ruthless and resolute, right at that moment.

Boom!
With a single blow from the progenitor, the nine Immortal Emperors were severely injured, falling and being reborn dozens of times. They all flew backward, their forms transparent and dim, barely able to be reflected in time and space.

Lu Heng, who was the first to be affected, was instantly annihilated. His true body was reduced to ashes in the pitch-black flames, and his Great Dao, the Path of Evolution, and even spacetime were all burned away. The most terrifying energy surged through countless ages.
Seeing that Lu Heng was about to be completely annihilated, he comprehended this unique state. In the countless timelines he had deduced, he had been destroyed by the Ancestor many times, and had long since grasped a sliver of hope for survival.

drink!
Suddenly, a deafening roar resonated throughout the world, causing the heavens to tremble. Time and space reversed, and the boundless Great Dao burned, its brilliant light illuminating the past and present.

The flames of the Great Dao that Lu Heng was about to extinguish burned even more fiercely and shone brightly once more.

His fading, blurred figure reappeared, his aura becoming incredibly powerful, shaking the heavens and myriad realms.

Lu Heng emerged bathed in boundless light, his supreme power protecting the three realms of primordial heavens and other dimensions, fiercely resisting the strange and ominous force that was attacking him.

Advance to the rank of priest!

At this moment, Lu Heng felt incredibly powerful, having mastered the power of sacrificial rituals. Not only could he kill Immortal Emperors and repeatedly obliterate their spacetime origins until they could no longer be reflected, but he could also sacrifice his opponent's evolutionary path, turning it into nourishment for his cultivation.

(End of this chapter)