Chapter 700: Ten Realms of Destruction

Ye Wushuang was defeated!

The voice of the Celestial Dao resounded throughout the Celestial Dome and across the Grand Emperor Domain. It reached the ears of every living being, announcing the final outcome to all!

In that instant, the people’s faces turned pale, their hearts plunged into fear and turmoil. To defy the heavens, to strike against the heavens... in the end, one could never overcome Heaven itself!

So, the end of the world was next.

Everyone knew in their hearts that with Ye Wushuang’s defeat, the wrath of Heaven would soon descend upon them all.

But they blamed no one. The world-ending calamity was always meant to come, sooner or later.

"How can a mortal possibly triumph over Heaven? Alas..."

「In the Grand Emperor Domain.」 Countless people sighed, standing forlorn upon the land. They gazed up at the ravaged firmament, the very place that had borne witness to this monumental act of defiance against Heaven.

High above the Celestial Dome, upon hearing the Celestial Dao’s words, the bodies of Ye Xuan, Ye Rou, Yang Qing’er, and the others trembled violently. Their gazes shot toward the deepest reaches of the Celestial Dome.

All eyes were fixed on the Abyss of Extremity, finding the outcome impossible to accept.

The battle here was nearly over, yet in the Abyss of Extremity, Ye Wushuang had been defeated after all.

"Hahaha! Ye Wushuang is dead! So what if you slaughter everyone in the Celestial Dome? The Grand Emperor Domain will still be annihilated! Just you wait for the wrath of Heaven!"

A Celestial Dome Pseudo-Saint threw his head back and laughed.

"He’s not dead! He’s not!"

Tears streamed down Yang Qing’er’s face as she struck out with her palm, aiming to kill the Pseudo-Saint. Simultaneously, the Donghuang Bell above Dii Qingxue’s head and the War Fortress both attacked, blasting the Pseudo-Saint to smithereens!

The other experts of the Celestial Dome flinched at the sight.

"Wipe out the Celestial Dome! Leave no one alive!"

King Yama spoke. He unleashed the Gate of Hell and the Life and Death Seal in unison, annihilating the Celestial Avatar. Then, joining forces with the Slaying Monarch Ancestor, he slew two Saint Elders before traversing the void toward the Abyss of Extremity.

The Lingxiao Army and the Giant Spirit Warriors also began a frenzied slaughter of the Celestial Dome’s forces, charging toward the Abyss of Extremity.

Yang Qing’er, Dii Qingxue, and the other women also raced toward the Abyss of Extremity.

「Meanwhile, in the depths of the Star Universe.」 A series of light curtain barriers pulsed with endless, swimming Great Dao Marks. They were utterly unshakeable, like countless worlds forming a shield before the Celestial Dao.

"Ye Wushuang, my Hundred Dao Body Protection is a ward of the Great Dao itself. How could your paltry, ordinary energy attacks ever match the might of the Great Dao? You are merely at the Yun Dao Level. How could you possibly resist a Peak Saint?"

The Celestial Dao stared at Ye Wushuang, waiting for his power to wane. It knew that while Ye Wushuang’s techniques could forcibly amplify his strength, they were bound by a time limit.

Once that time was up, Ye Wushuang would be his for the slaughter!

’The Yun Dao Level!’

Ye Wushuang let out a self-deprecating laugh. His opponent was a Great Saint, a terrifyingly powerful expert. But if he couldn’t even defeat him, how could he ever speak of being invincible?

"Kid, you have to run! This guy is backed by the power of the Grand Emperor Domain, supported by the strength of an entire realm. You’re only at the Yun Dao Level; you can’t beat him. Wait until you reach the Saint Sage realm. Coming back to kill him then will be a piece of cake."

The Dragon Cat added, seizing the chance. It had originally hoped Ye Wushuang could finish off the Celestial Dao, but it never imagined the Celestial Dao would be this terrifying. With the cultivation of a Peak Saint and the power of a Great Saint, it could kill an ordinary Saint with ease, to say nothing of Ye Wushuang, whose realm was far too low.

’Run? If I run, what happens to my father? What happens to the Ye Family? What about Qingxue, Qing’er, and Wulei? What about the Lingxiao Army, Feng Jue, and Jian Bufan?’

Ye Wushuang murmured to himself, the thought of escape never once crossing his mind.

"But you’ve used up all your trump cards. You’ve already done everything you can," the Dragon Cat said.

’Used up? Are they really all used up?’

Ye Wushuang asked himself. ’No. There’s still one more chance. How could I possibly give up? If I can’t even defeat a trifling thing like the heavens, what makes me worthy to walk the Path of Invincibility? Fleeing is impossible!’

As he muttered to himself, his crimson eyes suddenly sharpened, becoming piercing and profound!

BOOM! His prone body shot to its feet. The Battle Intent and sharp aura radiating from him blazed, and within his eyes, entire worlds were born and then annihilated.

"How can ordinary energy possibly shake the Great Dao? You were right. I’ve been thinking about this all wrong. Completely and utterly wrong."

Ye Wushuang stared at the Celestial Dao and said something baffling, causing the Celestial Dao’s gaze to narrow. ’Has Ye Wushuang gone mad?’

"The first two forms of the World-Destroying Slash use energy to condense the World-Destroying Saber Intent for an attack. The Saber Intent itself uses energy as a vessel. Both World Destruction and Three Realms Slaughter are, fundamentally, attacks of energy."

"But Ten Realms of Destruction is different. It transcends the bounds of energy and has been elevated to the true level of World Destruction—the level of the Great Dao itself. It uses the Great Dao as a blade to slash the Great Dao. Whether it’s one realm or ten, a single slash unleashes the Ten Realms of Destruction, and even the Great Dao itself will crumble!"

"I doubt even the Breaking Realm Demon Monarch who created the World-Destroying Slash ever considered this. It must be why he never mastered the final form: using the Great Dao as a blade to slash the Great Dao, to destroy the Ten Realms."

"So that’s how it is. To think I would be the one to comprehend it. This technique... it’s real!"

Lost in his own thoughts, Ye Wushuang stared at the Celestial Dao and suddenly burst out laughing. "Celestial Dao, I never thought you’d end up helping me!"

Helped Ye Wushuang!

Hearing Ye Wushuang’s words, the Celestial Dao became infuriated. Its endless rage was tinged with a sharp sense of irony, as if it had personally helped Ye Wushuang achieve this epiphany!

However, after hearing Ye Wushuang’s monologue, it realized something was wrong. It was no longer going to wait for his power to wane; it had to kill him now!

It condensed a Great Dao Killing Sword from Supreme Dao Principles and slashed at Ye Wushuang!

Ye Wushuang drew his Dragon Blood Battle Saber and charged forward once more. He swept his blade horizontally, cleaving toward the Great Dao Killing Sword. The surface of the Dragon Blood Battle Saber was now densely covered in the power of the Great Dao itself!

This time, however, the Great Dao was attached to the very edge of his blade. When it clashed with the Great Dao Killing Sword, the Celestial Dao watched in disbelief as the Dao Marks on its own sword were severed!

The Slaying Sword was sliced in two, its Great Dao annihilated along with it!

"Just as I thought! I haven’t lost yet!"

This small test was enough. Ye Wushuang was finally certain!

"You’ve lost! You can’t break my defense! The one who dies will be you, I swear it!" the Celestial Dao roared, frantically unleashing one Great Dao Killing Sword after another.

"So what if you have the Hundred Dao Body Protection? I’ll shatter it with a single slash!"

Ye Wushuang stared at the defense, which resembled the barrier of a world. His pupils constricted as he roared, "World-Destroying Slash, Third Form—Ten Realms of Destruction!"

The moment the words left his lips, Ye Wushuang’s aura contracted inward. The Dao Principles hidden within his Divine Soul and Holy Bone transformed into an endless stream of the Great Dao, which then erupted from his body!

Ten world-shattering beams of saber light slashed out in ten directions. They resembled ten boundless, blood-red curtains of heaven, threatening to sunder the world and annihilate even the Great Dao itself.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Beneath the blood-red curtains, the Hundred Dao Body Protection was sliced apart and shattered, layer by layer!

"Impossible! The Hundred Dao Body Protection is empowered by one hundred different Great Daos from the Grand Emperor Domain! How could you possibly be capable of slashing the Great Dao itself!"

The Celestial Dao was aghast. It was a Rule Spirit, a being born from the Great Dao itself. If Ye Wushuang could sever the Great Dao, then he could kill it.

"This slash is for the Breaking Realm Demon Monarch!"

In the instant of the Celestial Dao’s disbelief, Ye Wushuang’s figure shot forward. He brought his blade down in a horizontal slash, an attack infused not just with energy, but with the pure, killing power of the Great Dao!

PFFT!

The Celestial Dao was sent flying by the blow. Its body, formed of Rules, struggled to heal. Its very Great Dao had been fractured.

"No! No one can kill me!"

The Celestial Dao roared in madness, but it was answered by several more slashes in quick succession. Its body suffered permanent wounds that it simply could not heal. The stench of death once again crawled into its heart.

"Ye Wushuang, if you kill me, the Grand Emperor Path will fall into chaos and the Heaven and Earth Rules will cease to exist! When that happens, everyone in the Grand Emperor Domain will be unable to attain a complete Great Dao! They will never break through to the Saint Realm for the rest of their lives! Because of this, the Grand Emperor Domain will collapse, the Celestial Dome will collapse, and even this entire Star Universe will be destroyed! When that time comes, no one will survive! No one!"

But at this moment, why would Ye Wushuang listen? He unleashed Ten Realms of Destruction once more. The blood-red curtains of heaven swept across all ten directions, annihilating everything in their path as they enveloped the Celestial Dao.

"Hahaha! If I die, all of creation will be buried with me! Ye Wushuang, your family, your lovers, and your friends will all die! Everyone will be buried alongside me!"

Seeing that Ye Wushuang was determined to kill it, the Celestial Dao’s savage laughter echoed from within the blood-red saber curtain. In that instant, the Star Universe collapsed, and an endless, destructive gale swept Ye Wushuang’s body into the chaos...