Chapter 1651: Great Sacrifice For Whom

Huang and Ye sensed a tremor across all realms, the heavens, vast worlds, and endless universes. A faint mist seemed to swirl, altering the fundamental trends of the world and the patterns of past and present. Only beings of extreme power, comparable to or even surpassing the Progenitors, could be alerted and experience this terrifying sensation at that moment.

They both frowned, an ominous premonition stirring within them. Could the Eerie Progenitors’ words be true—that the original trajectory of past and present trends had inexplicably shifted, causing spacetime to become chaotic and the future to be altered?! What force was driving all of this? Was there some incomprehensibly powerful being at work in the shadows?!

Both Huang and Ye fell silent for a moment, secretly attempting to deduce the cause. However, they found that a wisp of faint mist drifted through all of past and present spacetime, rendering everything unpredictable.

"There is no such person, no such being!" Huang declared, certain that no single entity could be orchestrating all of this from behind the scenes. He possessed invincible confidence, having gazed across past, present, and future. No matter how powerful the enemy, if they dared to approach him alone, they would be annihilated by his sword embryo.

"Is this a backlash?" Ye Tian Di murmured. "Bringing back deceased old friends, reflecting them from ancient times into the present, from death to life—we must have incurred immeasurable karma. Not to mention constantly disrupting the river of time, rewriting the destinies of countless people, and overturning too much. Ultimately, this has triggered the most terrifying consequences: everything is unpredictable now. The vast worlds and endless universes are fiercely changing because of this, karma is chaotic, and the grand trends are inverted—is it backlashing against us? An inexplicable crisis has arrived, and the temporal trajectory we observed has been rewritten. What the Eerie Progenitors said might have been the original grand trend, the true future, but now it has been reshaped."

Ye Tian Di whispered, having perceived a terrible backlash. A wisp of faint mist now shrouded the vast universe, possessing infinite possibilities and transformations.

Not only Huang, but Ye had also resurrected many old friends in recent years, reflecting them from ancient times into the present. As for Huang, it went without saying: when all realms collapsed back then, with vast desolation and barren lands everywhere, only he remained under the entire starry sky. He alone resurrected an era that had already been buried, shouldering immeasurable karmic consequences!

Huang nodded, also believing that no individual being could orchestrate all of this. It could only be a backlash from the infinite worlds of past, present, and future.

The ten Progenitors were astonished. They had sensed something and felt even more fear. Would they truly have died? Would the entire Eerie race have been annihilated by someone?!

"This is not caused by a backlash," a Progenitor declared, unwilling to accept that Huang and Ye had stirred all of this. "Rather, there is a being… that can achieve all of this!"

"The Great Sacrifice," another Progenitor explained, "we are sacrificing to a being. It is the source of all power for our race. It knows no beginning, no end. Perhaps it has died, yet it still fills us with dread and reverence."

All races across the heavens were shocked. A Progenitor had actually uttered such words. For whom was the Great Sacrifice? There was actually a specific living entity! What… exactly was it? Across the vast world, could such an incomprehensible existence truly exist?!

Even the Path's End realm experts in the Land of Calamity trembled. Some things could not be pondered deeply, otherwise, they would be terrifying, causing them intense unease, even despair. They worried whether they themselves would one day become sacrifices.

"Initially, watching you struggle, fight, and rise was merely to temper our race and prevent complacency and idleness on the plateau," another Progenitor declared. "Now that we know you are variables, we must exterminate you with full force. Everything should end now!"

A Progenitor raised his voice, deciding to act and eliminate all future troubles. "Starting with the avatars," they announced, "we will trace them back to their true bodies and kill them!"

This was the purpose of the Eerie Progenitors' arrival. They possessed invincible secret methods and were confident they could find the true bodies; by sacrificing Huang and Ye before them, they could follow the karmic lines to utterly destroy their true forms!

Huang and Ye had long been prepared to act, moving even before them!

Huang, wielding his great sword with both hands, suddenly swung his sword embryo with a booming sound, launching his attack first! At this moment, a dazzling light was eternally imprinted between heaven and earth. No matter how many years passed, its indelible mark remained throughout the heavens, the earth, the mortal realm, and beyond.

The magnificent sword light swept across. Countless beings, whether in ancient times, the present, or the future, regardless of their spacetime, whether in the past or in the future towards which the river of time was destined, all living beings across the affected spacetime looked up in shock. They saw spacetime cleaved open by a blinding beam of light, the long river of time fractured, and only one eternal, terrifying sword light traversed heaven and earth, severing all of eternity!

In those ancient spacetimes—the Primeval Era, the Immortal Ancient Era, the Chaotic Ancient Era—the ancient people were stunned, gazing at the sky in profound shock. Especially the beings from the Chaotic Ancient Era, whom did they see? It was the Desolate Heavenly Emperor of their own era!

"Huang, you have appeared!" many people cried out sorrowfully. "Where have you been all these years? Are you fighting alone? We miss you, we want to help you!"

Next, cultivators from later historical periods suddenly looked up and saw the figure standing in the dazzling sword light, wielding his sword embryo alone and charging towards ten inscrutable dark figures. Everyone's scalp immediately tingled with dread! Was that… Huang? He had been absent from all ancient history, yet today he had appeared again, engaged in a decisive battle alone with unimaginable beings?!

As for the present world, the great river of time fractured; an instant became eternity, and time seemed to freeze at this moment. Everyone clenched their fists, rigid and unmoving, their pupils wide with shock, yet unable to perceive the magnificent figure within the sword light.

In the future, the entire grand trend of heaven and earth seemed to be altered by this single sword strike. Over countless ruins and within innumerable fragmented great universes, people of later generations looked up, watching that supreme sword strike, cleaved from ancient times. It crushed the river of time, severing the ages, causing fragments of time to scatter everywhere. That most dazzling sword light shone into the future, affecting the entire spacetime!

Accompanied by Huang's roar, the magnificent sword light severed past, present, and future!

Blood light simultaneously splattered from the ten Progenitors. Even as their bodies blurred and they activated invincible secret methods, there was nowhere to hide. Sword light permeated every inch of spacetime, and several of the ten dark figures were annihilated.

Huang, with a single sword stroke, cut through eternity, striking every opponent! Spacetime fractured and was altered because of him!

Ye also moved. He did not charge towards the ten Progenitors, knowing that Immortal Emperors were hard to kill, and Progenitors were even harder to destroy; even someone as powerful as Huang could not obliterate them.

Seizing the opportunity created by Huang cleaving through everything, severing eternity, and briefly suppressing the ten Progenitors, Ye's hands glowed with countless dense Dao patterns, interwoven within the shattered great world before him. He intended to send everyone else away—they were old friends, comrades, and more importantly, hope and seeds for the future!

All realms cracked, and spacetime burst open, creating a path. Those individuals were enveloped in a hazy light, destined to be sent afar, towards an eternally unknown land. Both he and Huang were locked on. He wanted to send away a group of seeds, who would be the dawn to tear through the darkness in the future. He hoped the descendants would be stronger than the ancestors who would fall in battle!

However, the long sky became unstable, the universe disintegrated, and many figures blocked the path, severely interfering with the stability of the escape route. The passage might explode. Path's End realm beings from the Eerie race appeared! Regardless of the era, the simultaneous emergence of several Path's End realm beings would be a grand event shocking all cosmic worlds, rarely recorded in ancient history! Yet now, the Immortal Emperors of the Eerie race emerged together, merely to block the path. Even if ten thousand ages flowed and countless eras passed, today would be remembered, for too many world-shaking, terrifying events had occurred.

Ten Immortal Emperors blocked the path, attacking in unison, intending to bury everyone within the passage. Any one of them was no match for Ye, but such interference with the passage was fatal. Ye let out a low roar, his fist light dazzling as it transformed into countless small cauldrons, like billions of Dao lotus flowers blooming, filling the heavens and earth to stabilize the escape route. He was determined to send everyone away. Because he and Huang were destined not to leave, having been targeted by the Progenitors, the future rested on these individuals.

But destruction was far easier than creation. With ten Emperors across the sky, it was an inherently invincible formation, and destroying a passage was truly not difficult.

Suddenly, an extremely brilliant light burst forth, and deafening Dao sounds reverberated ceaselessly. A woman in white suddenly descended from beyond the heavens. Her pure white hand glowed, and in an instant, she directly obliterated an Immortal Emperor. She spoke no words. Her grace was peerless, extraordinary and transcendent, yet her killing intent was boundless, and her strikes were exceptionally sharp! The White-Clothed Empress appeared so swiftly, like a lightning storm, speaking no words as she directly delivered killing blows.

*Puff!*

Then, another Immortal Emperor was obliterated by her bare hands! She appeared beautiful, transcendent beyond the mortal world, yet she brought with her immeasurable destruction. Calamitous light emanated from her body as her pure white hands continuously struck out. Immortal Emperors were immortal and eternally hard to extinguish, yet now they were still disintegrating, being utterly shattered by a peerless beauty!

At the same time, Ye's long hair danced wildly as he stepped forward, his glowing fist seals directly shattering several supreme experts blocking his path!

However, a sigh echoed, and a black wall, like an insurmountable demonic mountain, blocked the path and even severed the entire world. A despair-inducing wall stood before them, blocking their way. That was the sigh of the Progenitors. Several dark figures whose bodies had been cleaved by Huang reappeared from the void. The ten blurred figures of the beings appeared simultaneously, and together they took a step forward. Their methods and their ability to transcend the Great Dao were omnipresent. With just a slight interference from the ten Emperors, their sighs transformed into runes, severing the spacetime passage and causing all those who were being protected to fall out. If not for Huang, Ye, and the Empress taking action and doing their utmost to protect them, those individuals would have instantly disintegrated.