Chapter 671: Is Heavenly Dao No. 1320 Here or Not?
“Divine Vault Sovereign.” The First Emperor recognized the divine being’s origins.
“It is I.” The Divine Vault Sovereign smiled, about to say that they could discuss things properly, when he saw the First Emperor’s fist swinging over.
Facing the First Emperor’s charged strike, the Divine Vault Sovereign did not dare to take it head-on and immediately dodged.
Only after he dodged did he remember that the Immortal Emperor was behind him.
But it was too late. The radiance of the First Emperor’s fist was more dazzling than the first light that split heaven and earth. With one punch, he blasted the dying Immortal Emperor into scattered smoke and dust, leaving not a single drop of his origin. The Immortal Emperor didn’t even have a chance to cry out.
After the Immortal Emperor died, the force of the punch had not yet dissipated. It directly punched a massive hole through the Immortal Realm.
The Divine Vault Sovereign’s expression turned extremely ugly. He had come out to save someone, hadn’t even spoken two sentences, and the person died right in front of him. Not to mention, this person was his spokesperson.
This was far too disrespectful.
The First Emperor didn’t care at all what the Divine Vault Sovereign thought. He just fought.
“What use is brute strength alone?” The Divine Vault Sovereign mocked. The First Emperor was indeed strong, strong to an incomprehensible degree, strong enough to surpass him on the level of pure power.
But so what? Power wasn’t everything. The other party’s method of using power was extremely crude. In the eyes of him, the Heavenly Dao, the First Emperor was full of openings.
The Divine Vault Sovereign was also skilled in combat. Among the Heavenly Dao incarnations, there was the “Martial Dao of Heaven.”
His power was the sum total of all power in the myriad heavens and worlds. Within the rules, all power was for him to command.
This included the power of the Dao Ancestor.
Don’t look at how the Dao Ancestor fought him back and forth nine thousand years ago. In reality, the Dao Ancestor could never defeat him.
The stronger the Dao Ancestor became, the stronger he became.
Unless the Dao Ancestor achieved the unification of the three lifetimes, transcending the Dao.
When the Dao Ancestor severed the Celestial Ascension Ladder, causing the Immortal Realm to lose control over the myriad heavens and worlds, he simply froze his power at the peak state it was in when the Celestial Ascension Ladder was severed.
To defeat him was equivalent to defeating the myriad heavens and worlds. This was an impossible thing.
*BAM—*
The Divine Vault Sovereign was distracted for a moment and solidly took a punch from the First Emperor.
The First Emperor was surprised. Aside from his parallel world self, this was the first time he had encountered such a solid opponent.
“You are quite good. The Immortal Emperor is dead. Since you are willing to become the First Emperor, how about entrusting the position of master of the Immortal Realm to you?”
The First Emperor sneered. “With you here, what meaning is there for Us to be the master of the Immortal Realm?”
The Divine Vault Sovereign frowned. He saw the First Emperor’s origins. “When you became the Human Sovereign in the Nine Provinces, weren’t you also the spokesperson for the embryonic form of the Heavenly Dao? Why, upon coming to the Immortal Realm, can you not become the spokesperson for me, the true Heavenly Dao?”
“The Earth Vein has no emotions; it is merely an aggregate of the collective wish energy of all living beings. What does it matter if We become the spokesperson for an inanimate object? It’s no different from sitting on the imperial throne.”
“If you had not developed sentience, Us becoming the Immortal Emperor would be fine. But you have already gained sentience, transforming from an inanimate object into a living being.”
The Divine Vault Sovereign shook his head. “You are attached to appearances. To me, there is no difference between inanimate and living things.”
The First Emperor retorted, “Before you developed sentience, would you also have felt curious about Us?”
The Divine Vault Sovereign was left speechless. What greeted him was the First Emperor’s fist.
Seeing that subjugation was not working, the Divine Vault Sovereign also got serious. He drew the Dao Sword and engaged the First Emperor in combat.
If he could not be used by him, then he would be destroyed.
As man and immortal fought, the sea of stars boiled, and the stars were like grains of sand, casually manipulated by the First Emperor and the Divine Vault Sovereign.
The surviving immortals all had special means of preserving their lives or possessed formidable strength. They had originally thought that with the Divine Vault Sovereign taking action, the situation would be one-sided. Who could have imagined that the First Emperor would actually fight the Divine Vault Sovereign to a standstill?
Although it appeared the Divine Vault Sovereign had superior skill and held the advantage, it was not yet to the degree of achieving direct victory.
Before the outcome was decided, these immortals would be killed by the aftershocks of the battle!
Immortal power and spiritual energy intertwined. The entire Immortal Realm was thrown into chaos. Order collapsed, the layered heavens merged, and even the Immortal Realm itself showed signs of splitting.
The host of immortals trembled with fear, hiding east and west. No one had the heart to spectate.
The Confucius Sage and the Buddha descended from the Great Brahma Heaven. Seeing the Immortal Realm awash in a river of blood, the Immortal Emperor dead, and the First Emperor battling the Divine Vault Sovereign, they were greatly shocked.
They never imagined that the undefeatable Divine Vault Sovereign actually had a rival.
They chose to observe the battle. A conflict of this level was not something they could intervene in.
“Five Decays of Heavenly Beings!”
The Divine Vault Sovereign forcibly subjected the First Emperor to the Five Decays. The First Emperor’s jet-black hair turned into a head of stark white hair. In an instant, he aged, as if reaching the end of his life.
“Five Decays of Heavenly Beings? That is for dying, rotten wood. Our lifespan is still plentiful!” Within the First Emperor’s body, blood energy surged like dragons, his aura charging into the firmament. His white hair turned black once more.
The Dao Sword cleaved down. Worlds were destroyed and born anew, and the power generated within annihilated everything.
The First Emperor was utterly unafraid. His fist seal radiated light, meeting the Dao Sword head-on, striking it until it buzzed and hummed. The power generated from cold and heat death had no effect on him.
“How could We lose to the same move twice?”
The two fought for a full half month. The Immortal Realm was shattered and in ruins, scarred everywhere. Even the internal war in the Immortal Realm nine thousand years ago had not reached this extent. Remember, this was the Immortal Realm, the end point of the myriad heavens and worlds, its hardness far exceeding that of ordinary worlds.
Even after fighting until now, they still could not determine a victor.
The Divine Vault Sovereign was secretly alarmed. At first, he held all the advantages, but the other party’s learning ability was terrifying. As the battle dragged on, his techniques gradually became useless against the First Emperor. He was even about to be suppressed by the First Emperor instead.
Suddenly, a voice reached the Divine Vault Sovereign’s ear.
“Is Heavenly Dao number one thousand three hundred and twenty present?”
The Divine Vault Sovereign did not answer. He knew this was the Divine Vault Sovereign from a parallel world contacting him. They used numbers to distinguish each other. He was in the middle of a fight and didn’t want to answer. The other party repeated it several times. The Divine Vault Sovereign, thoroughly annoyed by the noise, was just about to shout ‘present.’
It was precisely this moment of distraction that the First Emperor seized the opportunity to punch through the Divine Vault Sovereign’s chest.
“Daring to be distracted while fighting Us?”
The Divine Vault Sovereign dared not be distracted again. He sealed off the voice of the parallel world’s Heavenly Dao and fought with all his might.
What the parallel world’s Heavenly Dao said was unimportant. What was important now was the battle with the First Emperor.
The Divine Vault Sovereign fought with all his strength, and the First Emperor responded in kind. As the two battled, even the River of Time trembled. Even so, the Divine Vault Sovereign still stood at a disadvantage, seeing no hope of defeating the First Emperor. He understood that if they continued fighting, the one to lose could only be himself.
The Divine Vault Sovereign took a deep breath. Although this was very shameful, there was no other way.
“Space is Impermanent!”
The space around the First Emperor became chaotic and disordered, making it difficult to distinguish directions.
The Divine Vault Sovereign once again unleashed a grand spatial divine ability. “Transposition!”
The Immortal Realm disappeared. The Divine Vault Sovereign fled with the Immortal Realm, leaving the First Emperor alone in the void.
Realizing the Immortal Realm had escaped, the First Emperor was furious.
Unfortunately, the Immortal Realm would not turn back because of the First Emperor’s roars.
The First Emperor quickly calmed down and thought of another method. “Since it is so, We shall continue doing system tasks, collecting the fragments of the Celestial Ascension Ladder.”
Although he was extremely unwilling, now there was only this one method.