Chapter 1648: When the World Loses Dawn

Countless people gazed upwards, while beings of all races felt their scalps prickle, utterly shocked, and then nearly collapsed to the ground. What a sight it was! A pair of massive hands, covered in thick fur, had actually torn open a great world?!

Those inside the world felt as if the sky was falling and the earth collapsing, as if the end of the world had arrived. Meanwhile, the mighty beings outside the world felt a chill from head to toe, their clothes drenched in cold sweat. They would never forget the catastrophe of that year, the tragic scene when the apocalypse came and all heavens overturned. On that day, the earth was stained red with blood, many races vanished forever, mountains and rivers shattered, children lost their parents, and old evolutionaries went to their deaths heroically. It was truly tragic. Were the terrible old events about to repeat themselves today?

Chu Feng stood on a high ground, opening his Super Fiery Golden Eyes. He saw the world beyond the domain, even glimpsing some of the beings within it. In the world torn open by those giant hands stained with black blood, there were... familiar figures?!

"The Dog King?!" Chu Feng was stunned. "Hadn't that dog died back then?" In an instant, his soul light flickered violently, and blood surged through his body like a mighty river. He was truly stimulated and strained with all his might to see that world clearly. Boom! Finally, behind him, Dao Ancestor matter evaporated. He felt the woman's recovery, granting him a portion of transcendent power. Chu Feng exerted himself to the fullest, activating his Fiery Golden Eyes, finally seeing clearly inside the great world that had been torn open. Among those people, the Dog King was truly there!

In the final battle back then, Chu Feng had personally witnessed it being blown apart, flesh splattering and soul light exploding. Yet now, he saw it alive and kicking. Moreover, its current state was even better; it was actually a Dao Ancestor level being! At this moment, it roared, its massive black body standing towering, seemingly intent on contending with heaven and defying fate.

"Doggy, you tricked me?!" Chu Feng held a snow-white conch, which the Dog King had given him years ago. Even across infinite distances, they could communicate. Evidently, the Dog King hadn't noticed him, but it heard Chu Feng's low growl in its ear.

"I was also deceived back then, believing all my old friends were dead, leaving only me and that rotten Daoist, our vitality withered, old and close to death," the Dog King replied. "Who knew that was just a wisp of my true spirit and a portion of my flesh and blood, formed until I died in battle? Only when that part of my true spirit returned to my main body did I realize that my 'self' in the Yang world had also been misled. I deceived myself, and this part of my true spirit hates it!" What kind of logic was that? The Dog King had deceived many, and even itself?!

"During my time in the Yang world, I wandered alone, feeling utterly desolate, unable to find anyone from my era. The entire world was desolate and shattered. I thought all my old friends were buried in the past, leaving only me. Yet, it turned out that a bunch of old scoundrels were still alive! Tell me, how would I feel after my 'true spirit' from the Yang world returned? Furious! After returning to this world, I wanted to cremate them all, those old zombies!" The Dog King was indignant; back then, it was furious. After a portion of its true spirit returned, it couldn't stand the shock and wanted to beat all those old geezers to death!

The massive hands that tore open that world blurred, faded, and then vanished, but everyone felt a deep sense of oppression, sensing an invisible, supreme pressure. Chu Feng saw more people. He saw the Corpse Immortal, truly worthy of his title as an unparalleled Dao Ancestor, just one step away from becoming an Immortal Emperor, but unable to break through. He also saw the man known to have dominated the world for ten generations. He had died in battle in the Yang world, but in this current world, he was a peerless Dao Ancestor, still alive! Besides them, there were also the Heavenly Horned Ant, Patriarch Meng, the Silkworm Emperor, and others. Some had been guided away, while others had their true spirits return after dying in battle. Furthermore, Chu Feng also saw Gu Qing from afar, whose life seed had been revived in that world.

What surprised Chu Feng most was a golden figure: the strongest Saint Emperor in the history of the Battle Saint Ape clan, who had once manifested as a remnant soul during the Soul River battle—Emperor Ye Tian's sworn brother. Hadn't he died? His remnant soul, because his child was imprisoned as a corpse slave, had manifested in the Soul River, shattering heaven and earth, and then his remnant soul had faded away. Chu Feng was astonished. This Saint Emperor, whose entire body was covered in golden fur, was alive?! Moreover, he also saw the young Saint Ape, whose vitality surged to the heavens, extremely powerful, and also unharmed.

Amidst the extremely tense and oppressive atmosphere, someone else was conversing with the Dog King. The powerful Battle Saint Ape sighed, "You feel your true spirit in the Yang world was deceived, and that you were alone in a desolate world. But you must understand, while you were wandering, heartbroken, we too were suffering in this world, perhaps not even fully revived at that time." He revealed a startling truth: the beings of this world back then... had all died in battle! Desolate, in ancient times, reflected everyone, resurrecting an entire era! Those who recovered from annihilation didn't immediately become active. Instead, they required long periods of recuperation and transformation to fully return. Only now, after arduous cultivation spanning many eras, had they truly come alive.

"I am like you, even more tragic. A portion of my remnant spirit and flesh, forming a self, was lost in the Underworld, becoming a prisoner in a black dungeon," said the man who had dominated for ten generations. After the ultimate battle in the Yang world, similar to the Dog King, his Yang world body died in battle, and a portion of his true spirit returned to this world, merging with his main body. Similarly, other ancient supreme experts like the Heavenly Horned Ant and the Red Dragon, whose true bodies had now recovered, were all Dao Ancestor level.

Although the Dog King couldn't fully let go of its resentment over the years, it wasn't holding a grudge, especially now that a great enemy was at their doorstep. The fact that this world had been found meant that their final main bodies might also die in battle! Many harbored ominous premonitions. After today's battle, many would part ways forever, never to be seen again in the mortal world! The current situation was dire. The most terrifying era had arrived, and war was about to erupt again. Was this a continuation of the last one? Perhaps today was the ultimate battle of the apocalypse. Everything would finally draw to a close! But how strong were the enemies? It was unknown for now; only a pair of hands had been seen tearing open this world and then vanishing. After this battle, would they still exist in the world? Everyone now realized they would be saying goodbye to those around them, perhaps never seeing each other again. Thinking of the future, even as supreme experts, they felt a suffocating sensation. They were an accumulation of powerful beings from various historical periods, reflected and resurrected from ancient times by Desolate. One could say they were the ultimate gathering and reunion of the strongest from all races! But the Calamity Earth was unfathomable. Could they withstand it? Even with the gathering of powerful beings from throughout history, they remained silent, for the enemy was unimaginably strong; otherwise, they wouldn't have all died in battle back then!

A chilling sigh, as if from hell, echoed through the air, shaking the bodies of many beings in this world and causing blood to trickle from their orifices. The more powerful the creature, the more directly it was affected, feeling an even greater terror. For instance, the Dog King, Corpse Immortal, Heavenly Horned Ant, and others who had been missing for a long time, like Jiu Dao Yi, developed cracks on their bodies, bleeding continuously.

Boom! Dense crimson lightning appeared in the heavens and earth, and black rain poured down. Then, a terrifying figure emerged, descending into this great world. It was clear that this world was already fragmented, with ruins scattered across its vast lands. This was an ancient world crippled in previous battles. Now, it faced a malevolent enemy once more, as a strange being descended. As the colossal dark figure's true form approached, the void cracked, the rules of heaven and earth shattered, the chains of order snapped, and Dao patterns quickly extinguished and dispersed. The entire firmament was collapsing; this great world could not withstand the aura of that being and was on the verge of complete disintegration!

Furthermore, as this person descended and countless black fissures appeared in the great world, all the powerful beings also underwent terrifying changes. Their bodies blurred, their evolutionary paths "manifested," and their Grand Dao developed countless cracks, on the verge of collapsing! Many beings, regardless of their strength, experienced this horrifying transformation; their Dao was about to collapse! Moreover, each person exhibited strange changes to varying degrees: some's wounds began to seep black blood, red fur sprouted on others' skin, and some exhaled grey mist when they breathed... Ominousness corroded everyone, all because that unfathomable being was descending! Everyone's body was in excruciating pain, and their hearts trembled. The opponent hadn't even attacked them directly, yet already the heavens and earth were rending, their Dao was on the verge of collapsing, and ominousness had corroded everyone. How terrifying was this? The mere approach of one being was enough to shatter a great world and cause all races to perish.

Bang! In this world, many evolutionaries in mid-air directly exploded into vast clouds of blood mist, utterly unable to withstand such supreme pressure and ominous corrosion. Boom! At the edge of the void, someone sensed something, opened their eyes, and their gaze pulverized the ominous corrosion. Dao patterns bloomed, thread by thread, repairing the cracked great world. Next, a great cauldron, forged from vital blood, manifested beneath the sky. With three legs and two ears, it wielded peerless power to suppress ancient and future times, severing the River of Time as it moved to confront the descending being. The vital blood cauldron resisted the creature, surging heavenward and forcing it back towards the outer domain! At the same time, the great cauldron exuded wisps of vital blood filled with infinite life energy, permeating the air and causing all the evolutionaries who had just exploded to re-coalesce and come back to life.

"An Ancestor of the Eerie Race?" A voice emanated from the vital blood cauldron, piercing the firmament with invincible power, holding back the descending creature and blocking it in the outer domain. In the world below, everyone's faces turned pale. The enemy was... an Ancestor from the Calamity Earth?! More terrifying than even peak-level beings who had reached the end of their path.

"You truly have reached this stage. If we hadn't found your foundational world, you wouldn't have revealed power comparable to mine, would you?" The Ancestor of the Eerie Race spoke, standing in the outer domain, covered in long fur, even its face, and stained with black blood. Its form was exceedingly monstrous. Around it, the Grand Dao shattered, and the divine chains of order across all heavens broke. It was like a source of destruction; ominous power permeated, corroding all things, and even the River of Time trembled, steering clear of it. At the same time, a figure appeared, retrieving the vital blood cauldron. It stood opposite the Eerie Ancestor, calm and confident, unafraid of the Ancestor that had emerged from the Calamity Earth.

"Emperor Ye Tian!" Many exclaimed, their expressions agitated. He also resided in this world, comprehending his invincible path here?

"If we let you continue, you will threaten us. You have lain dormant for a long time, but alas, in the end, it will all be for naught!" Upon truly facing him, the Eerie Ancestor became further convinced that this opponent named Ye was extremely powerful, comparable to itself.

"You came alone, stepping forward by yourself, are you here to die?!" Emperor Ye Tian's words were calm, but even as he spoke, he struck. His fist print was vast and incomparably dominant, causing the desolate universe behind his opponent to shatter and the Great Thousand Worlds to tremble and wail. Boom! Boundless waves surged between the two, as the River of Time swept, and countless rules tore apart, like an endless eruption of volcanoes. The Eerie Ancestor recoiled, its hands, covered in thick fur, cracked open, continuously gushing black blood. Then, its hands and forearms suddenly exploded, and the destruction began to spread towards its body. Terrified, the Ancestor decisively and swiftly severed its own arms, detaching them from its body to halt the horrifying spread of this power! Black blood dripped down, while the River of Time churned with colossal waves from its splash, and temporal fragments flew everywhere. The scene was utterly terrifying! Emperor Ye Tian remained unharmed, his vital blood surging, standing there like an eternally enduring, majestic mountain, blocking the opponent.

Without a sound, another dark figure appeared in the outer domain, enveloped in grey mist. Its emaciated body crushed space-time, causing all surrounding Dao patterns to extinguish and the rules of order to explode! "Another Ancestor?!" Even the Dog King's fur stood on end. Corpse Immortal's heart also trembled. This was an existence even more terrifying than peak-level beings, and two of them had descended. Whoosh! A brilliant sword light appeared in an instant, severing the River of Time and bringing all things in heaven and earth to a standstill. In the vast world, only that invincible sword remained! It pierced through the darkness, unleashing endless brilliant radiance, illuminating ancient times, the present, and the future, omnipresent. It also shone an immortal light of hope in people's hearts, like a serene lighthouse seen in the depths of despair, or a sliver of life's dawn reborn in an infinite universe that had grown dim and desolate. Pfft! The newly appeared Ancestor's head flew off diagonally, then exploded, and its body disintegrated in the sword light, turning into shattered bones and ominous blood mist. Whoosh! The sword light rose again! Even though the other Ancestor reacted and used peerless power to counter, its newly regenerated arm still flew off and transformed into black blood light in the void. The sword light rotated again, cleaving through eternal space-time. The armless Ancestor had nowhere to evade. With a bang, its entire body was split open by a great sword and shattered on the spot.

"Do two of you dare to come? Are you here to die?" A majestic figure appeared. It was Desolate, holding a blood-dripping sword embryo, suspended in the sky. Alas, Ancestors were ultimately immortal, eternally existing. The two figures reappeared; they were extremely difficult to kill. Even if a peak-level being was killed, if conditions allowed and someone in the world still remembered them, they could be resurrected and return to the present. Not to mention the Eerie Ancestors, sources of ominousness, whose cultivation had advanced even further! However, Desolate's sword light was extraordinarily terrifying. With a twist of the sword embryo, billions of rays of light erupted, rendering eternity, immortality, and invulnerability to all calamities ineffective. The sword light severed eternity, shattered immortality, and transformed into the greatest calamity, enveloping the two Ancestors. A single sword stroke cut through past, present, and future. The radiant sword light, continuously vibrant, the most dazzling sacred radiance of all time, illuminated various great worlds, trapping the two Ancestors in a cage of swords, intent on utterly annihilating them!

"This..." In the distance, Eerie Immortal Emperors appeared. Upon seeing this scene, their scalps prickled. Could that sword-wielding man truly slay an Ancestor? They were convinced that if Desolate were given enough time, the two Ancestors would most likely suffer a bitter defeat!

Thump! A war spear pierced through the air, carving through heaven and earth, striking Desolate's sword, aiming to break the sword cage and free the two trapped Ancestors. Emperor Ye Tian moved. The great cauldron, formed from vital blood, swept across like a world-splitting axe, blocking the war spear that had pierced heaven and earth. With a violent tremor, the spear's tip exploded with a bang. Then, Emperor Ye Tian unleashed a fist print, directly charging forward himself, intending to annihilate the spear-wielder. Bang! Indeed, the Emperor's Fist was unparalleled. As he swung his fist, the colossal fist print caused the surrounding universes to rumble, undulate, and resonate with its power. A blinding fist light streaked across, its fist intent grand and invincible, illuminating the Great Thousand Worlds, and actually... blew that Ancestor apart! Blood mist surged, and that Ancestor reassembled its true form in the distance, its gaze cold. It said, "You are stronger than estimated, truly a variable. Today, all traces of you must be erased!"

Suddenly, with a crash, the heavens and earth fractured, Grand Dao rules ignited, order returned to eternal silence, and all things began to wither. Countless universes dimmed, on the verge of disintegration and explosion. Then, seven figures descended simultaneously, spread across all directions. They cast spells at the same time and stepped forward, rescuing the three Ancestors who had arrived before them. The entire heaven and earth fell silent; there was no sound in all worlds. Under the unfathomable power of the ten dark figures, all beings in the various universes trembled, irresistibly wanting to prostrate themselves. All ten figures exuded an ancient aura, powerful beyond measure. They were... all Ancestors!

Even the incomparably brave Heavenly Horned Ant, the arrogant Ten-Crowned King, and the fiercely war-ready Battle Saint Ape... all felt their hair stand on end at this moment. Their hearts were heavy, filled with gloom, feeling as though the entire world had turned grey. How could they possibly fight this?! With the ten great Ancestors descending together, even if all races in the world and heroes from countless brilliant eras, ancient and modern, were resurrected and manifested in this era, they would struggle to stop them. No one had ever imagined that ten Ancestors would emerge from the depths of the Eerie Calamity Earth! All along, Desolate had been confronting three Ancestor-level beings alone, and it was speculated that perhaps two more were lurking at the end of that plateau, making a total of only five. In any case, people dared not imagine that there would be ten great Ancestors! With ten Ancestors emerging from the Calamity Earth simultaneously, who could resist? They would simply sweep through, crushing all opponents. In the end, the Great Thousand Worlds would be destroyed, and all beings would turn to ash!

Ten blurry figures stood in the outer domain. Without even moving, they caused all worlds to feel as though they would explode. The Three Thousand Great Daos and countless rules were dimming, on the verge of extinguishing! One evolutionary path after another was developing irreparable cracks. In the vast world, no one could stop it. All Grand Daos were about to collapse! Countless universes trembled and wailed. With the collective emergence of the Eerie Ancestors, all great worlds were cracking, potentially tearing apart completely and collapsing. The ten figures remained motionless, yet they seemed poised to crush past, present, and future. Their silhouettes cast the darkest of shadows across the vast heavens and earth, forming an ultimate dark space-time. They also projected onto the hearts of beings across all realms, creating an extremely negative, dark region that caused all races to feel immensely oppressed, involuntarily wanting to sacrifice their souls. At this moment, the sun rose in the great world behind them, but there was no light. It was blocked by the ten colossal figures, leaving only darkness. The world lost its dawn, and hope vanished.