Honghuang Taihuang

Although the Five Heavenly Emperors were extremely powerful, the Five Emperors Era was too far removed from the present. In the hearts of all beings in the Zhexuan Great World, the reputations of Tianyao Zichen and Yanhuang Daozhu surpassed those of the Five Heavenly Emperors.

Even the Lord of the Night Demon, who blocked the path of the Ochre Profound Heavenly Emperor, was considered weaker than the Heavenly Demon Zi Chen and the Lord of the Flame Emperor in the eyes of all living beings.

Taiwei has not made a move in the past thousand years. His own karma has been settled, after all, too much time has passed, and he does not have much karmic entanglement left.

Taiwei and the other powerful beings who sat cross-legged in the sky had surveyed the entire Zhexuan Great World and calculated the cultivation and combat power of these powerful beings. The sheer number of powerful beings in the Zhexuan Great World was so overwhelming that even Taiwei was somewhat dazzled.

Although the number of Great Luo Dao Lords in the Primordial World is still less than that of the Great Luo Dao Lords, the Great Zhe Xuan World has top-tier powerhouses born in accordance with the mandate of heaven in every era. These powerhouses are not weaker than the many Great Luo Dao Lords in the Primordial World in terms of their foundation, realm, methods, and supernatural powers.

When Li Zi killed Li Ling, Tai Wei frowned. This time, Li Zi's cultivation level had reached the peak that Tai Wei remembered. On the surface, it looked like Li Zi killed Li Ling, but in reality, Li Zi only took back Li Ling's avatar.

Taiwei was somewhat surprised that Li Zishi had recovered to his peak condition. Even without the remains in the hands of the Five Heavenly Emperors, Li Zishi was still able to recover to his peak condition. It seems that this Zhe Xuan Heavenly Emperor had left quite a few backup plans.

Besides the first Heavenly Emperor of the Ochre Profound Great World, Heavenly Demon Zi Chen and Yan Huang Dao Lord were indeed very strong, attracting Taiwei's attention.

As top-tier powerhouses who nearly overturned the righteous and evil forces of the Zhexuan Great World in the past, Yao Zichen and Yanhuang Daozhu are even stronger than the Five Emperors of the past in terms of cultivation and combat power. Even though the Five Heavenly Emperors are now guided by the Great Tribulation and have taken another step closer, it is hard to say who will win if they really fight.

Previously, the Crimson Emperor Zhu Ye was unable to do anything to the Flame Emperor Dao Lord, and of course, the Flame Emperor Dao Lord was also unable to harm the Crimson Emperor Zhu Ye.

Taiwei could not quite see clearly the powerful being Ye Mo Tianzi, who had once fought against Zhe Xuan Tiandi. Naturally, the cultivation and combat strength of this Lord of the Sky Giant Spirit was not weak.

Taiwei sensed an extremely pure death aura emanating from the other party. This Lord of the Night Demon seemed to be related to the Netherworld Nine Springs, which controlled all life and death in the Great Heaven and Earth of Zhexuan.

Unlike others who are reborn through reincarnation, this Night Demon Emperor seems to have survived from the beginning of time until now. Not only has he not weakened in the slightest, but he is even more terrifying than he was in the first era.

The Heavenly Demon Ancestor Li Zi, the Heavenly Demon Zi Chen, the Flame Emperor Dao Lord, the Night Demon Emperor, and the other four Heavenly Emperors—these are the main rivals in Taiwei's eyes for the future competition for the Heavenly Dao Grand Sacrifice.

Of course, in this era, the Great World of Ochre Profound also has several top-level experts at the peak of the Heavenly Emperor Realm. Xuanji, the leader of the Ten Righteous Sects and the head of the Heavenly God Sect, is an extraordinary leader of the Righteous Sect who is said to be proficient in 80,000 True Methods.

Not long ago, Xuan Kui forced back Bai Di Dao Zhen, who wanted to settle the karmic debt. If Xuan Kui has such strength, then the Demon Lord Tian Ya Zi, who has been entangled with Xuan Kui for millions of years, is naturally no easy opponent either. The cultivation levels of these two are no weaker than the Five Heavenly Emperors, and they can be called the chosen ones of this era.

Many powerful beings fought and slaughtered each other in the Great World of Ochre and Profound, vying for the fortune of heaven and earth. If they wanted to enter the Heavenly Realm, they could only use their own fortune to pry open the Heavenly Gate. If they did not enter the Heavenly Realm, they would not be able to escape the calamity of the reopening of the era.

Taiwei was originally the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Pole, possessing boundless fortune. In addition, with the fortune he gained from destroying the True Dragon Clan and the Purple Strike Dao Sect, entering the Heavenly Realm was no longer a challenge for Taiwei.

The so-called "Heaven Above Heaven" is actually the Heavenly Netherworld, which is close to the origin of the Heavenly Dao in the Primordial World. However, the Heavenly Netherworld in the Primordial World is just a concept, while the Heaven Above Heaven in the Ochre Profound World is a real celestial domain.

Entering this Heaven Above Heaven allows one to directly confront the origin of the Heavenly Dao of the Great World of Ochre and Profound, and to improve one's cultivation level at a speed that ordinary people cannot imagine. Only those with great fortune can enter the Heaven Above Heaven, which is why many powerful beings constantly take action to settle karmic debts and enhance their own fortune.

This era will settle all past causes and effects. When the cataclysm erupts, the Netherworld of the Nether Sea will engulf the world with the resentment of the dead that has accumulated over millions of years in the Nether Sea.

As long as one has not attained the highest heavenly status, one cannot escape the extreme deathly aura of the Netherworld. Therefore, many powerful beings must enter the Heavenly Realm before the Netherworld engulfs the world to avoid this catastrophe that will destroy all things.

Taiwei currently has enough fortune to enter the Heavenly Realm, which is why he did not choose to take action. However, the fortune of other Night Demon Emperors, Heavenly Demon Zichen, and others is still insufficient. They can only actively destroy the major forces of the Zhexuan Great World to enhance their own fortune.

As the forces of the righteous and demonic paths of the Great Heaven and Earth of Zhexuan continued to be destroyed, some top-level experts found that their luck was still insufficient. Therefore, the top-level experts who were originally on guard against each other began to shift their attention to other top-level experts who they did not want to provoke.

First, the Night Demon Emperor used the Night Demon Heavenly Palace to guide the Nine Springs of the Dark Sea, spending ten thousand years to completely obliterate Yin Yi, one of the Five Heavenly Emperors.

Afterwards, the Lord of Yanhuang used the twelve top-level true fires of heaven and earth that he had mastered to evolve the Twelve Shocking Divine Annihilation Formation, which forcibly refined and killed Bai Di Daozhen, one of the Five Heavenly Emperors.

The Yellow Emperor Taitong also mysteriously disappeared a thousand years after the White Emperor's fall. Other powerful beings did not know what happened, but Taiwei and the Red Emperor Zhu Ye, whose origins were faintly connected, understood that the Yellow Emperor Taitong had been killed by Zhe Xuan.

The Five Heavenly Emperors have only been reborn for tens of thousands of years, and three of them have already died in succession. Only Zhu Ye, the Crimson Emperor, and Xuanji, the leader of the righteous path, survived the attack by the Heavenly Demon Zichen.

Taiwei gazed at the declining fortunes of the Southern Crimson Emperor Zhu Ye and shook his head.

The Five Heavenly Emperors would be considered invincible in any era of the Great World of Ochre and Profound, but only in this great calamity, with so many powerful figures emerging, is a single Heavenly Emperor no match for these people who have dominated an entire era and overwhelmed the world.

A soft hum came from the Eastern Emperor Sword, and Taiwei stood up from the sea of ​​clouds, looking at a figure that was faintly visible in the sea of ​​clouds opposite him.

"You're not going to fight Li Zi, but instead coming to me. Doesn't that seem a bit like putting the cart before the horse?"

The figure in the sea of ​​clouds passed through the swirling clouds and slowly arrived a hundred feet away from Taiwei. He was wearing a hundred beast demon armor and the Azure Heaven Demon Blade at his waist emitted an extremely fierce sword cry.

"Your Majesty, you are mistaken. Li Zi is the source of my demonic path. Before I have fully mastered all my demonic arts, how could I be a match for that Heavenly Demon Ancestor? That is why I have come here today, hoping to borrow Your Majesty's essence of creation to refine my thirteen demonic arts."

The Demon Lord Tianya Zi looked at Taiwei, a cold expression appearing on his fair and handsome face. The Azure Emperor represents the Jia and Yi Wood of the East, and can be called the source of creation of the Zhexuan Great World.

Tianya Zi's demonic arts are extremely yin and evil. Only if he can be refined a second time by the essence of creation will he have the confidence to fuse all his demonic arts into one and fight against the Heavenly Demon Ancestor Li Zi.

"You are considered one of the most fortunate people of this era. If it weren't for the terrifying Heavenly Calamity this time, you might have been able to advance further at the end of this era and become an existence no weaker than Li Zi."

Taiwei looked at Tianya Zi in front of him, shook his head and said, "The Five Heavenly Emperors have been around for a long time. To this day, the Black Emperor Yin Yi is dead, the Yellow Emperor Tai Tong is dead, the White Emperor Dao Zhen is dead, and the Red Emperor Zhu Ye is seriously injured and dying. Among the Five Heavenly Emperors, I am the only one who has not suffered any injuries so far, and no powerful being has taken away my fortune. Do you know why?"

Tianya Zi looked at Taiwei, his expression changed slightly. He sensed the universe with his primordial spirit and found that his primordial spirit and Dao heart had been entangled by wisps of tribulation energy at some point.

"Because they understand that they are no match for me now."

The moment Taiwei finished speaking, several cold snorts echoed from the void. Upon hearing this, Taiwei raised an eyebrow, and a vast and boundless sword light swept across the surroundings, annihilating the covetous divine thoughts of these powerful beings.

"Does the Azure Emperor mean that I am no match for you either?"

Tianya Zi's tone was gloomy, and the Azure Demon Blade at his waist had already transformed into a streak of black lightning in an instant, striking towards Taiwei.

"Pretty much. A great calamity is coming. Those who truly possess great fortune have already figured out who the real protagonists of this great calamity are. The fact that you took the initiative to find me already indicates that, under the will of Heaven, it is time for you to leave the stage."

With a flick of his sword finger, a powerful and condensed sword beam shattered the dark blade light. As the Taiwei Sword Finger fell, countless stars shimmered and shone, and countless sword beams tore apart all the thousands of beast shadows that roared and charged out from Tianya Zi's body.

With a sword pointing downwards, Tianya Zi let out a long roar, and the Azure Heaven Demon Blade, carrying the absolute majesty of the Heavenly Dao, tore through the waterfall of sword light in front of him.

Thirteen demonic arts erupted continuously within his body, and Tianya Zi's aura surged. Each strike of the Azure Heaven Demon Blade was imbued with the true meaning of a different demonic manual.

Beastly shadows loomed, evil aura soared to the sky, blood splattered everywhere, and corpses littered the ground. Tianya Zi truly lived up to his reputation as a top existence of this era. Whether in terms of foundation or combat power, Tianya Zi had already reached the peak of the Heavenly Emperor realm.

If he could fuse the thirteen top-tier demonic arts into one, perhaps Tianya Zi could truly challenge the Heavenly Demon Ancestor Li Zi. Unfortunately, Tianya Zi did not know that with the progress of the calamity, the peak of the Heavenly Emperor realm was no longer the most powerful being, and he had chosen the wrong opponent.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth evolved into a magnificent force that blocked the way. Tianya Zi's face turned pale as the thirteen beams of azure light were crushed by this unimaginable power.

With a single sword strike, the Hundred Beasts Demon Armor on Tianya Zi's body shattered with a deafening roar, and Tianya Zi's figure transformed into a long rainbow, piercing through the layers of clouds.

Taiwei looked indifferently at Tianya Zi, who was splattering countless drops of blood. Sword intent flowed in his eyes, and the myriad phenomena were slowly separated under Taiwei's sword gaze. Tianya Zi had just suppressed the rampant sword light in his body when he was injured in mind and soul by the magnificent sword intent carried in Taiwei's gaze.

As the sword finger cleaved down, a magnificent azure lightning coiled around Taiwei's finger. Before the sword finger, powerful enough to cleave through all things in the world, even fell, it had already torn apart the Hundred Beast Demon Armor on Tianyazi's body.

Bare-chested, Tianya Zi's handsome face twisted into a ferocious grimace. He couldn't believe that there was such a vast gap between himself and a true top-tier expert.

Strands of blood spread across Tianya Zi's body as he unleashed his most powerful strike at Taiwei, having burned his own essence.

With a graceful and breathtaking display, it resembled the profound mystery of the Great Dao as interpreted by the Heavenly Dao, or a sliver of radiant light refined from the sun and moon above the nine heavens. Tianya Zi's strike was extremely stunning and dazzling in appearance, completely unlike the sword light wielded by a demon lord.

However, deep within this blade of light, a domineering and demonic nature, capable of ruling and destroying everything, was constantly expanding, as if it were about to engulf the universe. One positive and one negative, one internal and one external, the profound meaning revealed by this blade made Taiwei's mind skip a beat.

With just this one strike, if Tianya Zi's cultivation can advance further, he will have the opportunity to step into the Heavenly Realm.

"Unfortunately, this was a fatal strike that you had to burn your life essence to unleash; it's too late."

Taiwei stared at the dark blade light that cleaved through everything before him, and the Donghuang Sword at his waist trembled slightly.

"Your strike was enough to make me draw my sword."

Clang!

A wisp of sword cry appeared in the Zhexuan Great World. When it first appeared, the sound of the sword cry was like a babbling brook, clear and melodious. Then the sword cry became more and more high-pitched and intense, like the sound of thousands of troops charging. In the end, the sound of the sword resounded throughout the entire Zhexuan Great World, shaking the heavens and the sky.

Countless powerful cultivators looked up and saw a celestial river descending into the mortal realm. Countless sword lights crisscrossed and rose and fell in the celestial river. Amidst the soaring of thousands of sword energies, all the swords in the Zhexuan Great World sang and danced at this moment, as if paying homage to this celestial river sword light.

Many powerful beings stared blankly at this sword, their minds completely captivated by its magnificence. Whether it was the Heavenly Demon Ancestor Li Zi, the Heavenly Demon Zi Chen, or the Flame Emperor Dao Lord, they all felt that all the divine abilities and techniques they possessed seemed so weak and insignificant in the face of this sword.

Faced with this all-encompassing and dazzling sword strike, they couldn't think of any way to counter it.

"What a stunning sword strike!"

The Heavenly Demon Ancestor Li Zi, also known as the Ochre Profound Heavenly Emperor, watched the ultimate sword light slowly disappear in the sky for a long time before he came back to his senses.

"Besides me, there is probably no one in this world who can rival you."

Above the sea of ​​clouds, the Eastern Emperor Sword had been returned to its magnificent scabbard. The vast sea of ​​clouds, centered on Taiwei, was cleaved in two.

At the end of the sword mark, Tianya Zi knelt down amidst the constantly tearing and annihilating clouds, his eyes dim. This Demon Lord had all his life force severed by Taiwei's sword strike.

The moment Tianya Zi died, his destiny instantly split in two. Nearly 80% of the destiny fell to Taiwei, while the remaining 20% ​​fell to Li Zi, the source of the demonic path. (End of Chapter)