C1520 Smashing the Divine Throne
In the Outland Starry Sky lies the birthplace of the Asura Clan—the Dark Domain.
Known throughout the vast expanse of the cosmos as a mysterious and forbidden territory, the Dark Domain is shrouded in eternal darkness and bone-chilling cold. No other energies or auras exist there.
Legend has it that only members of the Asura Clan can fully adapt to the Dark Domain, survive within it, and see each other.
Such an unforgiving environment compelled the original Asuras to migrate for the continuation of their lineage.
Thus, the Asura Clan became divided into two groups.
Those born in the Dark Domain were known as Asuras of the Dark Domain, while those from the outside... simply as Asuras.
Nevertheless, it was the select few Asuras of the Dark Domain who truly held sway over the clan.
Only those from the outside with exceptional talents and bloodlines were given the opportunity to be recruited, to undergo the baptism of the Dark Domain.
The successful ones earned the prestigious title of Asura of the Dark Domain.
For a warrior of the Asura Clan, the prefix "of the Dark Domain" signified a world of difference. It indicated greater strength, valor, potential, and a more revered status.
Consequently, numerous Asuras from the outside world aspired to the honor of entering the Dark Domain for their trials.
Elena was among them.
She now stood in the frigid wilderness with several peers, having just slain a colossal Frost Beast, deliberating over the division of their spoils.
In a land perpetually engulfed by darkness and extreme cold, only the Asura Clan remained unaffected, still able to perceive one another.
The pitch-black darkness seemed to bestow a special favor upon them, unlocking a unique divine power deep within their blood and eyes, shielding them from its effects.
"Look over there!"
A towering Asura warrior, perched atop a razor-sharp, silvery mountain peak, gestured toward the horizon.
There, a multitude of dazzling stars burst forth!
Like a swiftly flowing celestial river, the myriad of stars carried an aura of mystery and enchantment, an incredible sight to behold in the Dark Domain, where light should not exist.
When had stars ever graced this place?
As the thought crossed his mind, the stars coalesced into a resplendent Milky Way, transforming into a gleaming blade that followed the trajectory of the constellations, slicing through the void.
Above the dazzling Milky Way, a pinpoint of light, no larger than a grain of rice, suddenly expanded a billionfold!
It transformed into a little girl, crystal clear and radiant as if she had harnessed all the light in the world!
At that moment, the little girl's stature was comparable to the sun and moon, larger than most Domain Boundaries. Yet, due to the vast distance, she still appeared delicate.
The instant the wondrous little girl materialized, she illuminated the entire Dark Domain.
She also sharpened the Milky Way, crafted from thousands of stars, making it seem as though its power had surged dramatically in a mere moment.
From a hundred million miles away in the dark Outland Starry Sky, the little girl brandished her staff, sending millions of broad pillars of light hurtling towards a specific location.
Simultaneously.
Deep within the Dark Domain, a desolate area erupted with myriad golden glows.
Within these golden glows, the bloodline laws of the Asura King Sabonis rapidly took shape, forming countless golden light rivers.
A vast dark sea, sprawling over billions of acres and capable of enveloping several Realms, roiled in the void.
This dark sea, devoid of Frost Energy, was filled with a dark energy that struck terror into the hearts and souls of all beings.
The ultimate, most unadulterated darkness contained no elements.
It was neither cold nor hot, nor did it harbor any evil.
The Milky Way, composed of thousands of stars, and the millions of thick light beams, along with tens of thousands of golden glows carrying the laws of stars, light, and gold, abruptly pierced through the enigmatic darkness.
The churning dark sea was instantly riddled with countless holes.
Moments later.
The enigmatic dark sea began to siphon the dark energy of the Dark Domain. The direction in which Elena and the others gazed was rapidly losing its profound darkness.
It wasn't dispersed by the starlight, the little girl's radiance, or the golden glow.
Rather, it was being devoured by the sea of darkness!
"Tan Xiaotian! You have crossed the line!"
The Asura King Sabonis, speaking in the human tongue, unleashed his fury. At last, he ascended his Golden Chariot, revealing his towering Golden Asura form, thousands of feet tall.
"The Dark Domain, where darkness and sheer cold coexist, has eluded me. I've delved into numerous dark secrets of the starry sky, yet the Dark Domain has always been beyond my reach. This has been my life's greatest regret. If I don't seize this opportunity, while you are gravely wounded, Alonso is dead, and the Optimus Sword has broken free, when else could I venture into the Dark Domain?"
A deep male voice rose from the sea of darkness.
"Cadorath, Barol, as leaders of the Bright Clan and the Star Race, you've actually sided with Sabonis. If I'm not mistaken, Sabonis and Grec have always been at odds with you, haven't they?"
Whoosh!
The sea of darkness surged, consuming other dark energies without regard for the two formidable beings below.
As it passed, the so-called Extreme Cold Dark Domain was unveiled, leaving only the Frost Energy intact.
"Cadorath!"
"Barol!"
Elena and the Asura warriors exclaimed in horror.
They realized that Cadorath and Barol were merely illuminating the Dark Domain with their light and dazzling stars.
They were simply dispelling the darkness.
Once they withdrew their power and the light dimmed, the darkness would return to swallow the area once more.
The sea of darkness, however, was different.
It extracted the darkness in its path, and once it departed, the darkness did not return to flood the area.
For the darkness had been dissolved.
"Hao Ran, the Demon Lord Tan Xiaotian!"
"Tan Xiaotian has invaded the Dark Domain!"
Upon hearing this name, the souls of all the Asura warriors, including those honing their skills in the Dark Domain, shuddered.
"In your Hao Ran, there's a saying, 'Shared glory, shared loss.'"
After departing from the sea of darkness, Barol, transformed into a radiant galaxy, became a multitude of bright stars.
Each star was a fusion of his refined star cores and blood essence, varying in size from mountainous celestial stones to grains of rice, all of which he could freely retract into his body.
"Alonso is dead, and the Asura Clan has been weakened. Sabonis has paid a sufficient price," Barol reflected.
"If the humans of the Vast Expanse can set aside their differences and unite against a common foe, then so can we." Cadorath, appearing as a little girl, shone like a massive beacon as she moved toward Tan Xiaotian. "You are the sworn enemy of our Bright Clan. How could I possibly let you have your way?"
"Really? Do you think you can stop me?"
Tan Xiaotian's deep voice emanated from the sea of darkness, betraying no hint of distress.
He ventured deep into the Dark Domain alone, confronting the Asura King Sabonis, the second most powerful being in the starry sky, Cadorath, and Barol of the Star Race, yet he dared to remain.
"Since I've come here, I am determined to understand this uncharted darkness. Once I grasp the hidden laws and principles of this place, I will claim this Dark Domain as my private domain. When I take my place at the Cold Abyss Entrance in the Firefly Starfield, I will relocate it here."
"Having seized your Asura Clan's ancestral lands and taken the Dark Domain, I will reforge its laws in my image. The Vast Expanse will gain another divine throne! Since I have conquered this realm, the newly added supreme seat naturally belongs to the Devil Palace."
Tan Xiaotian spoke unabashedly of his conquest.
"The prosperity of a race and the ascent and transformation of a Life Race must follow this path."
"Hasn't your Asura Clan achieved its status in the starry sky and acquired so many Starfields in the same way? Sabonis, Alonso, didn't you also rise through such means?"
With those words, the sea of darkness continued to consume the Dark Domain.
The three Peak experts from beyond relentlessly pursued, steadily eroding the darkness that embodied Tan Xiaotian.
Yet Tan Xiaotian managed to rapidly replenish his strength through the Dark Domain's shadows.
Throughout this ordeal, he occasionally deciphered divine chains of pure black order, inscribing them into his essence of darkness.
The Dark Domain has always been a no-go zone for all beings, eternally shrouded in darkness and extreme cold.
Tan Xiaotian had coveted this place for more than a day or two; he had awaited this chance for countless years.
At last, he seized the moment when Sabonis was gravely wounded, Alonso had perished, and just before the Optimus Sword broke free, he struck with a single blow, severing Sabonis's connection to the Dark Domain's laws, stripping him of his dominion over the land.
He could no longer wield the Dark Domain's shadows and bitter cold at will.
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"Am I to support Cao Yi?"
Yu Yuan furrowed his brow, clutching the Dragon Slash Platform as he gazed at the Devil Palace, yet he could not discern the divine battle between Youyu and Zhu Yuan.
"No one knows whom he has in mind," Tianzang explained.
"We'll just have to watch and wait."
Jiang Miaojie spoke with palpable excitement.
Regardless of whether they were willing, everyone could only await the outcome of this divine battle.
In the blink of an eye, seven days had passed.
Above the Fallen Star Eyes, it was visible to the naked eye that the area presided over by Zhu Zhen in the Devil Palace was suffused with dense spiritual energy.
Zhu Zhen, being human, drew his power from this spiritual energy, unlike Youyu, who did not depend on it.
Clearly, Zhu Zhen's physical form and his Dharma had sustained severe damage.
Across the Profound Sky Continent, numerous peak experts from the Heavenly Source Continent were closely monitoring the battle, all eager for the final verdict.
Another day passed, and Yu Yuan, gripping the Dragon Slash Platform, scrutinized it once more.
Whoosh!
His soul consciousness, amplified hundreds of times by the Dragon Slash Platform, transformed into a faint cloud that materialized above the palace.
Once formed, this wisp of soul consciousness seemed to be drawn by an unseen force.
The Yin God within him instantly appeared within this cloud-like soul consciousness and merged with it.
"Youyu..." he whispered, and suddenly, the Yin God plummeted uncontrollably, shattering through layers of confinement and seals to hover above the confluence of two intertwining rivers.
Below the Yin God, the Devil Palace's cultivators had either departed or perished.
Above the Yin God, not a single one remained alive.
A colossal, iron-gray Magic Mountain, thousands of feet tall, loomed over the land as if it had stood for millennia, unyielding.
Carved upon the Magic Mountain were innumerable demonic symbols, bizarre patterns, chapters of ancient Devil Spells, and profound marks of Demonic Formations.
The Magic Mountain appeared to be the Dharma Idol that Zhu Zhen had once crafted.
The original palace had transformed into iron-gray shells, resembling a unique suit of armor draped over the Magic Mountain.
But now, these shells were peeling away.
Each shell that fell to the ground shattered, releasing dense spiritual energy that seeped into the earth.
Crack!
The iron-gray shells and the stones of the Magic Mountain continued to fracture.
Zhu Zhen seemed to be falling apart.
Yu Yuan's Yin God observed intently and saw the emaciated Youyu, holding the miniaturized Spectral Palace, had reached Zhu Zhen's spiritual sea.
The expansive sea of consciousness shimmered with infinite divine radiance. A towering pillar, white as amber, stood majestically, etched with lines of cosmic laws. Many were tied to the refining of Asuras, reincarnation, and the strengthening of the body. Yu Yuan, with the aid of the Spectral Palace, had already shattered these inscriptions.
This amber-like pillar once seemed to bridge heaven and earth, spanning the entirety of the cosmos. But now...
As the Spectral Palace struck the monumental pillar, the Magic Mountain that Zhu Zhenxuan had become teetered on the brink of collapse. A myriad of glowing fireflies, spiritual energy, and crystallized blood burst into oblivion.
Yu Yuan sensed the Dao Laws that Zhu Zhenxuan had mastered crumbling away, vanishing into the fabric of this realm. The enigmatic pillar suddenly transformed into a translucent altar, spinning and casting bolts of law lightning.
"It's tangible!"
Yu Yuan was jolted by the realization.
The towering pillar and the altar-like entity within Zhu Zhenxuan's sea of consciousness were not mere figments of imagination. They were a real and wondrous material substance—the Divine Throne!
A spark of soul light detonated within his Yin God, and he suddenly understood that the object shattered by the Spectral Palace was the Divine Throne Zhu Zhenxuan had forged!
To create a Primordial Spirit, one must condense the fortunes of the universe and seize its primal essence, initially refining it into a liquid state. Gradually, it would be refined further into a solid crystal, thus crafting the Divine Throne for the main soul to undergo metamorphosis.
Within the Divine Throne, the comprehended Divine Path would be imprinted. Once the main soul fused with the Divine Throne, it would evolve into the Primordial Spirit.
What Youyu was doing at this moment was shattering the Primordial Spirit Crystal that Zhu Zhenxuan had fused with the Divine Throne.
Once shattered, it reverted to the origin of the vast expanse. Without external interference, the original essence would disperse into a gaseous state and rejoin the vast expanse.
Later, when another sought to claim the Divine Throne, they would gather and refine it anew.
Youyu had intentionally allowed Yu Yuan's Yin God to witness this process firsthand. By breaking the Divine Throne, which resembled a crystal, he erased the imprints of the Great Dao within, causing the fragments of the Divine Throne to dissolve back into the primordial essence, merging with the spiritual energy and vanishing into the universe.
In the future, the process of forging the Divine Throne could simply be reversed.
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