The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 304 The Ultimate Ground of the Soul River, The Supreme Showdown
Heaven descended, the River of Souls descended, connecting with the border, and continuously poured out silvery matter.

Such actions occurred in more than one place. The four corners of the entire heaven were invaded by the ancient land. The ancient underworld, the floating soil of the four corners, and the burial pit of the Heavenly Emperor all connected in one corner. The four outposts echoed each other, blocking the heavens like the four heavenly gates, and forming a terrifying array.

One after another, intricate cycles of reincarnation appeared, coiling above and connecting to an endless, distant land, from which more ominous substances were drawn.

A human-shaped outline is faintly visible, surrounded by red hair, but nothing else is clear; confronting him is another supreme being from the heavens, standing at the origin and end of time and space, weaving a new historical era.

Their struggle has extended into the past and future, and the battle raging on the Soul River battlefield below is even more intense.

The Dao Ancestor's matter boiled, and divine particles, like a sea, burned and illuminated the entire dark land. Wang Hongwu and his group stormed in, leading the Quasi-Immortal Emperors who had come to the aid of the heavens, and rampaged through the land, causing heavy losses to the ominous creatures.

In particular, he himself released three supreme Dao Ancestors and ten powerful Supreme Warriors to suppress the Soul River, which blocked a lot of the battle power. Shi Hao used his Transformation Freedom to pull out a group of figures. The two of them pushed forward and almost nothing could stop them. Even the Supreme Warriors had to retreat.

"Is it just two people, or two armies?" Deep within the Soul River, the high-ranking officials who received the news were dumbfounded. What did this mean? Did two people transform into a group of people and break through the Soul River battle line?
Even the most bizarre people don't have this technique!

"Stop him!" In the central region of the Soul River, voices rang out, including supreme roars and Dao Ancestors' howls, but in the end, blood spurted out and splashed everywhere, creating an extremely tragic scene.

Then more beings from the Soul River emerged, boundless and endless, a densely packed army. Many were mummies, some were pure spirits, and some were monsters covered in red hair. They were all rushing to the aid, and beings from the Calamity Land joined in.

"To act recklessly in the Soul River! You've really eaten the highest audacity!" Someone immediately shouted, and two supreme Dao Ancestors descended. One was surrounded by silver patterns and exhaled large amounts of soul light matter; he was a powerful figure from the Soul River. The other was withered, with strange bones protruding from his body, his hair was scarlet, and his body was covered with fierce red hair; he was a supreme figure who came from the Calamity Land.

The two were shocked and enraged. The River of Souls was connected to the Land of Calamity and had once been guarded by a supreme being! When did it become possible for someone to force their way in like this? This is too arrogant!
"Oh? Beings who have performed small sacrifices?" Wang Hongwu's gaze swept over the two, and he immediately saw dense causal lines on them, connecting them to the once-declining heavens, the years of the fallen emperors, and the lost ancient history.

With a pinch of his five fingers, he reached down into the void and extracted those years of imperial decline and minor sacrificial eras, condensing them into seeds of calamity that took root in their history. This was tantamount to reversing the minor sacrifices they had performed, turning himself into a sacrifice for the minor sacrifices.

"Turning the past and present upside down, weaving history with cause and effect?" The two supreme Dao Ancestors were horrified and fought with all their might. Their own paths of evolution unfolded, each carrying a dazzling luster. The collision of the three different paths made this area suddenly empty. Apart from them, even the most powerful armies were melted away.

The three entities are rich in Daoist substances and contain a sea of ​​divine particles, colliding violently, making it impossible for other creatures to approach.

On the other side, Shi Hao was also engaged in a fierce battle, fighting against the beings that emerged from the ultimate land of the Soul River, as well as the powerful figures who came to his aid from the Calamity Land; the First Emperor and the powerful beings of the heavens were also fighting bloody battles, and this clash instantly alarmed all parts of the Great Thousand World.

At this moment, countless heavens outside the city roared, the sky cracked, and blood dripped down from the heavens. Furthermore, a river of souls appeared, lying across the sky, shaking all living beings!

Everywhere, powerful figures gasped in shock, utterly horrified. Had the heavens collided with the calamity to this extent?
In the arena, three figures clashed. Wang Hongwu fought against two, defeating two supreme Dao Ancestors. With a single breath, the power of all the ancient heavens surged into his body, his entire body radiating the golden light of the Origin Mother. The heavens within his body also exerted their power, and with the unity of inside and outside, his physique soared to a terrifying level. With a punch, he directly shattered the attacks of the two supreme figures, causing their evolutionary paths to tremble.

The two men's expressions changed. At this level, the simpler the attack seemed, the more wary they became. This was because such an extremely simple attack contained immeasurable Dao and boundless power, which had long been rooted in their flesh, organs, and bones. For that person, no matter what Dao or peerless divine power, it would all be shattered with a single punch!
Every punch and kick was imbued with Dao, each strike heavy and boundless, causing the two supreme Dao Ancestors to retreat, their bodies stained with blood. Even their bodies, cleansed by ominous substances, could not compare to the opponent's physique. Wang Hongwu pressed forward relentlessly, punching through the chest of the Soul River Ancestor. With his hands pressing down, two millstones of myriad Dao appeared and began to rotate, blasting the generation's supreme expert to pieces!

The Soul River Dao Ancestor was horrified, but fortunately, this was the Soul River, which gave it enough confidence. In an instant, countless waves surged and endless soul matter boiled and rushed over, enveloping it and shifting its position to reshape its true form in the distance.

Another peak-level expert from the Calamity Land was not so lucky. Wang Hongwu punched him so hard that his head was smashed, and his escaping primordial spirit was forced into his chest cavity. Then, his entire body was picked up and covered with the light of the Mother Gold, and he was forged into a Mother Gold weapon! He then slashed at the peak-level expert from the Soul River who had reshaped his body.

With a loud bang, the Supreme Dao Ancestor of the Soul River was dizzy and flew backward. The scene before him terrified him. The Supreme Dao Ancestor from the Calamity Land had been turned into a weapon. His primordial spirit was sealed inside and was struggling. At this moment, Wang Hongwu held the head of the Supreme Dao Ancestor in one hand and the Mother Golden Spear, which was transformed from the headless body of the Supreme Dao Ancestor of the Calamity Land, in the other hand, scaring away the group of Supreme Beings.

"Even two top experts couldn't stop him. His strength is terrifying. Is it really only those reclusive, supremely skilled, and near-limitless Dao Ancestors who can contend with him?" The powerful figures of the Soul River frowned. Such figures are truly rare. They are all potential 'Priest Replacements'. Only the rulers of the four ancient lands have that level of ability. The rest are all in the Calamity Land.

"No more hesitation! Unleash the supreme legacy!" At the summit of the Soul River, without further hesitation, he burned the sacrificial text, connecting with the ultimate realm and summoning the great power from there!

Throughout countless ages, the Calamity Land has destroyed countless worlds, and the heavens have been annihilated time and time again. They have also killed many supreme beings. Although most of the artifacts left behind are broken, they have been used by them as tools against various realms.

At their prayers and calls, a strange and eerie aura suddenly permeated the final place of the River of Souls, making the place unimaginably terrifying.

In an instant, the heavens trembled, and all the worlds seemed about to fall and collapse!
All living beings felt it and couldn't help but tremble.

On the Soul River side, countless creatures knelt down, bowing and worshipping. There, a rusty bronze mace appeared, stained with blood, belonging to a supreme being.

The supreme legacy has been revealed!
The next moment, the bronze mace was swung, directly covering the entire space-time, annihilating everything from the past to the future. The supreme Dao patterns within Wang Hongwu's body lit up to protect him. He used his power to connect cause and effect, and the supreme head and body in his hand collapsed instantly. Faced with the power of the supreme weapon, the two supreme Dao Ancestors could not even put up a fight and died instantly.

And it is eternal silence!
Two more ominous powerhouses fell at the hands of their own kind. The Spring and Autumn Dao Ancestor in the distance immediately made his move. An ancient book flew out from his body, writing countless stories and creating countless myths. It was another supreme artifact from the heavens!
The Mythical Book flew up and clashed directly with the bronze mace. In the darkness, countless ominous substances were overturned and rushed out, so dense that they could not be dissolved. As a result, the River of Souls turned from its initial dark blue to pitch black, so dark that one could not see their own hand in front of their face and could not see anything at all.

Then the darkness dissipated, and before my eyes was a dazzling array of colorful lights. Within it, the river of time appeared, and it was actually flowing backward!

Countless rules and countless chains of divine order burned, extinguished, and returned to nothingness in that ocean-like atmosphere, like waves.

The entire Soul River was filled with a desolate atmosphere, all things in heaven and earth withered, and all vitality was completely drained. All of this was because two supreme artifacts were colliding!

"I'll handle this, you all go to the Ultimate Land!" Dao Ancestor Chunqiu roared, buying time for everyone. Wang Hongwu and the others immediately pressed forward, constantly advancing. His body instantly swelled up, layer upon layer of heavens and earth, transforming Wang Hongwu into a humanoid figure like a long river. There, eras and myriad worlds floated. One of his hands was as large as the Unity of All Realms at its peak, directly striking behind the River of Souls.

Boom! The giant hand swept across, forcefully shattering the place. The Soul River stopped flowing, steam rose up, and the calamity soil cracked, falling into the black abyss.

Emerging from within were countless crystalline soul jades, the most precious treasures that nourish the soul light. These rare and exquisite substances crystallized in the deepest part of the Soul River, requiring countless years of sedimentation to form, and were beneficial to all beings of the highest order!

Wang Hongwu grabbed everything with his large hand, using it to nourish his primordial spirit, and continued forward. At this time, the creatures of the Soul River's ultimate land were not idle either. They activated their defensive formations while calling for reinforcements from the other three ancient lands. It was clear that since they had suffered a heavy blow from the heavens, the pressure on the other three places was naturally less.

Soon, a path appeared silently, piercing through time and space, floating on the banks of the Soul River. In another direction, the ground trembled violently, and time and space became hazy. There, a passage emerged, vaguely connected to a blurry sinkhole! It seemed that the two ancient lands were about to descend. Upon seeing this, Wang Hongwu directly pressed forward. Layers of dreamlike colors intertwined around him appeared, forming a spectrum. Every inch of the light reflected solidified, reshaped, and transformed everything around him into pure mother gold.

He was eroding everything around him, turning all things into mother gold and swallowing them into his body. Under this influence, the blurry path of the ancient underworld actually collapsed and exploded. The road was completely shattered, and the hazy phantom of the Heavenly Emperor's Burial Pit disappeared.

Faced with this bizarre erosion, the gatekeepers of the two ancient sites were horrified and dared not open the passage again.

This was far too powerful, so domineering that it caused both ancient lands to retreat.

Finally, Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao, after a fierce battle, arrived at the ultimate land of the Soul River. This area was very strange. It was surrounded by cliffs and precipices, towering and boundless, but the middle was empty, like an abyss. Inside, a vast realm rotated, accompanied by a lifeless sea of ​​stars. The outermost part was surrounded by cliffs, and only the entrance was open.

It's like entering a deep mountain and creating a special abyss terrain, but this abyss is too special; it's an immeasurable universe, the other side of deep space, vast and boundless.

Of course, that's not the most appealing part. The real strangeness and horror lie in the stone walls surrounding this abyss universe, which are covered with countless holes and pitch-black voids, from which waterfalls of soul light flow.

Those are all soul matter, all soul light and water!

They are the precursors of the River of Souls. It was they that fell down, intertwined in the void, and gathered together to eventually form a river—the River of Souls.

"The Soul River is formed by extracting the souls of all the heavens and myriad worlds?" Shi Hao asked in surprise. Wang Hongwu went down to check directly. In the abyss, one universe after another was rotating, and many remnants were floating. Soul matter flowed on the cliffs. This was truly strange and bizarre, like a world carved out of the mountain wall.

As they ventured deeper into the abyss, they sensed increasingly different auras, as if an endless universe, with countless worlds, were buried here.

Those grains of cosmic dust were once magnificent worlds.

Looking back, everyone saw that the surrounding mountains resembled a honeycomb, densely packed, interconnected, and riddled with holes, with the matter of the Soul River flowing through them.

A refreshing medicinal fragrance wafted from within, indicating that there were more than just one or two kinds of medicinal herbs inside the mountain. The cave was bathed in divine light, and strange lotuses grew there, swaying with radiance. They all rushed to collect them, naturally leaving none for the Soul River.

As they fell, endless dust gradually rose up, and upon closer inspection, it was all dead worlds; this was somewhat terrifying, as countless worlds turned into dust and fell to the bottom of the abyss. Those soul substances, that soul river, were indeed gathered together from the bits and pieces extracted from these dead worlds.

At the bottom of the River of Souls, apart from a vast riverbank, lies a hazy chaos. Behind this chaotic world lies endless nothingness, without boundaries, without future, without past, as if it were a place detached from all the heavens, an indistinct and indistinct place.

Wang Hongwu and Shi Hao exchanged a glance. Their imperial powers were connected, and they looked forward. They vaguely saw a heavy black shadow, an endless oppression, emanating from the unknown, and rising up wisps of inexplicable aura.

That was no longer the River of Souls, but another area with the aura of the ancient underworld, and I could also sense a trace of the aura of the Heavenly Emperor's Burial Pit. It was very complex.

The Land of Calamity?! The two instantly made a guess: the four ancient lands were indeed connected to the Land of Calamity, no wonder they were so confident.

"To think we've been driven all the way here, it's a disgrace."

Within the ultimate realm, a sigh resounded as the Lord of the Soul River finally appeared, accompanied by a group of supreme beings and several Dao Ancestors. Yet, from the chaos, terrifying beings continued to emerge in droves.

They stared at Wang Hongwu and the others with cold expressions. They never expected that the Soul River would be the first area to be forced into the Ultimate Land. They attacked, and even used supreme artifacts, but they were helpless.

"Throughout the ages, in all the heavens and the heavens, in those broken worlds, there has never been a shortage of beings who have conquered the four ancient lands, but in the end, they all died, because in this ultimate land, we are eternally immortal, and our sacrificial texts will live on forever."

With a stomp of his foot, the Lord of the Soul River caused a massive altar to appear within the Ultimate Land, inscribed with various mysterious and profound sacrificial texts that resonated with the ominous substance within them, serving as the source of their ability to reappear continuously.

"The Supreme Being is watching over us! Tear them apart!" The Lord of the Soul River roared the next moment, leading his men to charge forward. It turned out that the Supreme Being was overseeing the battle.

Without much thought, everyone made their move. Wang Hongwu fixed his gaze on the Lord of the Soul River. This person gave him an aura similar to that of the Old Man of Annihilation, clearly indicating that he was also a person with profound background.

However, Shi Hao looked over and joined forces with Wang Hongwu in perfect harmony. With the Emperor's Law echoing each other, the cross line that spanned the past, present, and future reappeared. Wherever it passed, even the River of Souls trembled, as if it were about to be completely replaced by them. The Supreme Beings present were even more horrified, because the cross line had actually spread into their history and was even affecting themselves.

Chaos erupted in the arena. Even the Lord of the Soul River frowned as numerous blurry figures suddenly appeared, all identical to his subordinates, but without the ominous aura. Instead, they were attacking them!

"Are these two really going to break through the ultimate place?" He had a bad feeling and did not hesitate to report to the Supreme Being through the sacrificial text, conveying the changes here. He was not stupid. Knowing that there was a problem and still going to do it himself would be reckless. It was the truth to ask the Supreme Being to do it.

They are unpredictable, and their greatest strength lies in a group of people taking on one person at a time, as well as higher-level cultivators defeating lower-level ones, making them invincible.

The next moment, all the living beings in the ultimate land of the Soul River were shocked. The sacrificial texts that floated out of their bodies gathered together and actually turned into an ancient talisman.

Then the talisman emitted boundless light, illuminating all realms!

At this moment, the light of the sacrificial texts was everywhere, terrifying and boundless, and the talismans emitted voices, as if they were praying, as if billions of living beings were making wishes, praying, and calling for something to descend.

In an instant, a silent tremor suddenly resounded above the ultimate ground, and a terrifying aura permeated the air. In that shattered spacetime, the long river was in disarray, as if its course had been altered. Most terrifyingly, a rusty, withered skeletal hand reached out from there!

All the aura emanated from it, suppressing all realms, threatening to destroy all heavens, and regarding everything in the past and present as sacrifices. This withered bone hand was too terrifying, giving all the living beings present a horrifying feeling, because it transcended the realm of the Dao Ancestor and belonged to the true beings at the end of the road!
On its dry bones grew some long, sparse hairs, which made it look even more eerie. Covered on them was a mottled rust, like that of decaying bronze, and stained with a deep brown color.

There is supreme intervention!
(End of this chapter)