Volume 1, Chapter 228 – What He Saw

Boom…

The instant the Demon-Suppressing Token shattered, the sky suddenly collapsed, and a supreme force descended upon the universe, crossing space itself as though distance did not exist.

The phantom of a crystalline scroll slowly emerged.

Dazzling light shone from the scroll, and upon it one could vaguely see countless mountains and lands, with auspicious clouds rising and sinking, all containing a terrifying will.

The crystalline scroll slowly unfolded and opened its first page.

On that opening page was a blood-colored wilderness, the human race still primitive and ignorant, their spiritual awareness only just awakening…

Page after page turned, revealing a corner of the vast iceberg of history since the primordial age.

Suppressing the Ancient Gods, slaughtering demons and sweeping away devils, conquering Lingyang, letting the human path alone flourish…

Its evolution all the way to the present was one of heaven-shaking slaughter.

Beyond those scenes of history, countless figures could vaguely be seen flickering past.

There were invincible Sovereigns whose power could swallow ten thousand li like a tiger and whose might overshadowed the Vast Land of Shenzhou; peerless Human Emperors who could pluck stars and seize moons, suppressing an entire Domain; and countless iron-blooded war generals whose killing aura was so overwhelming it shook the world…

The girl who had just withdrawn a short distance away changed expression violently upon seeing this and cried out in shock,

“The Human Race Chronicle?!”

The Human Race Chronicle was the foremost treasure that suppressed and stabilized the fortune of the human race. As a Great Venerable of the demon race, the girl stood far above ordinary Heaven Demons in status, so naturally she had heard of it.

But hearing of it a hundred times could never compare to seeing it once. Even though what appeared now was only a phantom of the Human Race Chronicle, it still radiated an aura that made her tremble with fear.

A terrifying pressure that could sweep across the eight wastes and six directions descended upon the universe. The circular blade in the air seemed to feel fear; it trembled and slowly began to retreat.

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Shi Lan raised her head slightly, looking at the Human Race Chronicle in the sky, a trace of complexity rising in her eyes. So this was the treasure that could bring the dead back to life…

Countless streams of clear light fell and enveloped Qi Ruiyu.

Standing upon the void, Qi Ruiyu’s surging aura became calm and still in an instant. In his eyes, time itself seemed to be slowing down.

An unprecedentedly powerful force filled his body, as though with a mere lift of his hand he could punch through this entire world.

He had thought two breaths of time would be very short, but now it seemed there were many things he could do…

“Withdraw for now!”

Looking at Qi Ruiyu bathed in clear light, his aura growing ever more terrifying, the girl gave a sharp shout and accelerated her retreat. She had no desire to test for herself the power of a guardian treasure of the human race.

The other great demons followed close behind.

Zhu Xiyang, retreating with the demons, secretly let out a breath. She had already spotted Bai Weiyang within the army formation below. If this battle could be avoided, that would naturally be for the best.

Bang!

The clear light dispersed. Qi Ruiyu raised an arm and reached out with his palm. A giant hand appeared and in an instant shattered space itself as it seized toward the trembling circular blade in the sky.

Qi Ruiyu’s original intention had only been to send the people below away, but the mighty power now filling his body changed his mind.

He wanted to eliminate the trouble at its root, suppress this Demon Emperor holy weapon, and at the same time kill all these great demons as well!

The circular blade trembled and showed not the slightest intention of resisting. It tore open space and fled into the spatial rift.

Yet the giant hand came too quickly. Though it moved later, it arrived first, reaching into the void and hauling the circular blade back out before clenching tight with sudden force.

Bzzz!

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The circular blade shuddered violently and struggled frantically, yet it could not break free.

Seeing this, the blue-robed girl did not stop retreating. Without even turning her head, she continued fleeing toward the rear of the beast tide.

Crack. Crack!

Two crisp sounds rang out almost at the same time. The circular blade suddenly split, and a crack likewise appeared across Qi Ruiyu’s body.

In that instant, one breath of time had already passed.

His body could not withstand the vast power of the Human Race Chronicle and had already begun to come apart.

A trace of regret flashed through Qi Ruiyu’s heart. He decisively released the giant hand and struck a stream of divine power into the illusory giant gate behind him, widening the spatial passage countless times over.

Then he thrust out his arm. The earth beneath the army formation below was lifted by an invisible force, and a full million people were slowly sent into the spatial passage.

The other Demon-Suppressing Marshals all wore dark expressions, but none of them made any move. They merely opened their own small worlds in silence, burning world-force to maintain the stability of the spatial passage.

Their battle merit was likewise enough to exchange for the power of the Human Race Chronicle, but their bodies simply could not endure it.

Qi Ruiyu had gathered the blood and qi of the entire army and stepped into the pseudo-Emperor realm, yet even so, after enduring for only one breath, his body had already begun to break apart. If they tried to imitate him, it would be meaningless. The power of the Human Race Chronicle would crush them into dust in an instant.

Not just anyone could bear this heavy force that carried the weight of human history.

The moment the circular blade escaped, it was like a frightened bird. Without pausing for even an instant, it tore through space again.

“Go support the holy weapon! He cannot hold on much longer!”

The blue-robed girl’s divine sense swept over what was happening behind her. Seeing the cracks that had appeared across Qi Ruiyu’s body, she immediately turned around and counterattacked.

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Pff!

Qi Ruiyu’s body swayed. It was covered in cracks, and blood poured from him.

Two breaths of time had passed. The power of the Human Race Chronicle was beginning to dissipate.

At this moment, the mass of earth bearing the million-strong army had only just passed halfway into the spatial passage.

“Human Race Chronicle, if you truly possess spirit, then grant me one more breath!”

Blood poured from Qi Ruiyu’s seven orifices. His bloodshot eyes stared fixedly at the phantom scroll in the sky that was about to vanish as he threw back his head and roared.

Behind him, his small world emerged and began to collapse of its own accord. World-force turned into rolling streams of essence, sustaining his broken body.

Imperial Palace, ancient tower pavilion.

Qi Ruiyu’s words rang through the pavilion, every word forceful and resonant.

Holding the scroll in his hands, the refined man did not hesitate in the slightest and preserved the phantom of the Human Race Chronicle.

Boundless power descended once again.

Qi Ruiyu’s spine bent for a moment, then quickly straightened again. With one strike, he sent the mass of earth carrying the army formation completely into the spatial passage.

Then he turned around and pressed down with one palm toward the many great demons rushing back!

The blue-robed girl had calculated the timing precisely and had been certain that Qi Ruiyu no longer had much strength left to resist. She had never imagined such a sudden reversal.

That terrifying palm seal, containing the power to overturn the heavens, was already above her head. There was no way to evade it.

Under the pressure of mortal danger, the great demons all went mad at once, driving their demonic power of the laws, burning their small worlds, and counterattacking in near frenzy.

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Bang-crack!

The blue-robed girl had the highest cultivation and had rushed back the fastest, so she bore the brunt of it. Her body cracked apart instantly, and essence blood sprayed across the sky before the palm force smashed her nearly ten thousand zhang into the ground, leaving her grievously wounded and on the brink of death!

The counterattack of the great demons was almost entirely futile. Every fluctuation of demonic law-power they unleashed was erased by that palm seal, and they were suppressed one after another!

Boom!

The palm seal crashed into the earth. Within ten thousand li, mountains and rivers shattered. A visible wave of soil surged across the ground and swept through the eight directions. Countless demon beasts were blasted into blood mist by the aftermath of that strike.

The great demons were slammed deep into the earth, and half of them had their life extinguished by that single palm, their ten-thousand-year cultivation destroyed in one blow!

After unleashing a strike that was almost capable of collapsing heaven and earth, more than half of Qi Ruiyu’s body crumbled away. His essence blood was exhausted, and the aura of death permeated him.

Though his body was already on the verge of total annihilation, his eyes were astonishingly bright as he gazed up at the sky.

The azure sky had vanished from his sight. What he saw instead was a vast river of stars.

“So it was not a wasted journey after all…”

Qi Ruiyu tugged at the corner of his mouth, his eyes full of joy. To witness such a sight meant that his life had not been lived in vain.

As he looked at that star-filled sea above, the joy in Qi Ruiyu’s eyes gradually faded into silence.

He knew that in the depths of that vast sea, there was a world-shaking battle ten thousand times more terrifying than the one here, and those on that battlefield were all the supreme peaks of the present age…

“Sovereign… when will you return…”

With a faint, lingering sigh, Qi Ruiyu’s body crumbled into ashes and dissolved between heaven and earth.