Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 674

Chapter 672: Is No. 1,320 Tiandao here?

“Venerable Shenzang.” The First Emperor recognized the divine being’s origins.

“It’s me.” Venerable Shenzang smiled, and just as he was about to say they could talk about anything, he saw the First Emperor swinging his fist.

Facing the First Emperor’s charged blow, Venerable Shenzang didn’t dare to resist and immediately dodged.

Only then did he remember that the Immortal Emperor was behind him.

But it was too late. The First Emperor’s fist, brighter than the first ray of light at the creation of the universe, shattered the dying Immortal Emperor’s soul with a single blow, annihilating every last vestige of his essence. The Immortal Emperor didn’t even have a chance to scream. Even after the Immortal

Emperor’s death, the force of the fist had not yet dissipated, creating a massive hole in the Immortal Realm.

Venerable Shenzang’s face was utterly grim. He had come to save someone, but before he could even utter a word, someone had died before him, not to mention that this person was his spokesperson. It

was a disgrace.

The First Emperor didn’t care what Venerable Shenzang thought; he just struck.

“What good is the strength of a mere man?” Venerable Shenzang scoffed. The First Emperor was indeed powerful, incomprehensibly so, surpassing him in power.

But so what? Power wasn’t everything. The opponent’s use of power was crude, and in his eyes, as the Heavenly Dao, the First Emperor was full of flaws.

Venerable Shenzang was equally skilled in combat. Within the incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, he possessed the “Martial Arts of the Heavenly Dao.”

His power was the sum total of all the forces in the heavens and myriad realms. Within the rules, all power must be harnessed by him.

This included the power of the Dao Ancestor.

Despite the Dao Ancestor’s back-and-forth battles with him nine thousand years ago, the Dao Ancestor could never defeat him.

The stronger the Dao Ancestor, the stronger he would become.

Unless the Dao Ancestor achieved the unity of the three realms and transcended the Dao. After

the Dao Ancestor severed the Heavenly Ladder to Immortality, causing the Immortal Realm to lose control of the universe, he had permanently controlled his power to the peak state that preceded the severing of the Ladder.

Defeating him would be equivalent to defeating the universe, an impossible feat.

Bang—

the divine treasure master’s clone was still for a moment, and then he was hit hard by the First Emperor’s punch.

The First Emperor was surprised. Apart from his parallel world self, this was the first time he had encountered such a strong opponent.

“You are very good. The Immortal Emperor is dead. Since you are willing to become the original emperor, how about you take the position of the Lord of the Immortal Realm?”

The First Emperor sneered: “As long as you are here, what’s the point of me being the Lord of the Immortal Realm?”

Venerable Shenzang frowned. He saw the origin of the First Emperor: “When you became the Human Emperor in Jiuzhou, were you not also the spokesperson for the embryonic form of the Heavenly Dao? Why can’t

you become the spokesperson for the true Heavenly Dao like me when you came to the Immortal Realm?” “The earth veins have no feelings. They are just a collection of the wishes of all living beings. So what if I become the spokesperson

for a dead thing? It’s no different from sitting on the throne.” “If you didn’t have spiritual intelligence, it wouldn’t matter if I became the Immortal Emperor, but you already have spiritual intelligence, and you have changed from a dead thing to a living thing.”

Venerable Shenzang shook his head: “You are obsessed. There is no difference between dead and living things to me.”

The First Emperor asked back: “When you didn’t have spiritual intelligence, were you curious about me?”

Venerable Shenzang was speechless. What greeted him was the fist of the First Emperor.

Seeing his surrender was unsuccessful, Venerable Shenzang took matters into his own hands, unsheathing his Dao Sword and engaging the First Emperor.

If he couldn’t use them, he would destroy them. As

humans and immortals clashed, the starry sea raged, the stars like grains of sand, manipulated at will by the First Emperor and Venerable Shenzang.

The surviving immortals, possessing special survival methods or immense strength, had expected the outcome to be one-sided. Who could have imagined that the First Emperor would be evenly matched with Venerable Shenzang?

While Venerable Shenzang appeared to possess the upper hand, victory was not within his grasp.

Before the outcome could be decided, the immortals would be slain by the aftermath!

Immortal power and spiritual energy intertwined, plunging the entire immortal realm into chaos. Order collapsed, the heavens merged, and even the immortal realm itself showed signs of cracking.

The immortals trembled in fear, hiding here and there, none interested in watching the battle.

The Confucian sage and the Buddha descended from Daluo Heaven, horrified to see the rivers of blood flowing through the Immortal Realm, the slain Immortal Emperors, and the First Emperor engaged in battle with the Divine Treasures.

They had never imagined that the invincible Divine Treasures would find an opponent.

They chose to observe the battle, a battle of this magnitude beyond their reach.

“The Five Decays of the Celestial Being!”

The Divine Treasures forced the First Emperor into the Five Decays. His jet-black hair turned a wisp of white, and he instantly aged, as if reaching the end of his life.

“The Five Decays of the Celestial Being? That’s for dying wood. I still have plenty of life left!” The First Emperor’s blood surged like a dragon, his wrath soaring into the heavens, his white hair turning black once more.

The Dao Sword slashed, shattering the world and rebirthing it, its power wielding an all-consuming force.

Unfazed, the First Emperor met the Dao Sword with a luminous fist, sending it humming with blows. The forces of Cold Silence and Heat Silence had no effect on him.

“How could I lose twice to the same move?”

The two battled for a full fortnight, leaving the Immortal Realm shattered and devastated. Even the Immortal Realm Civil War nine thousand years ago hadn’t seen such a level of conflict. Remember, this was the Immortal Realm, the very edge of the universe, its strength far exceeding that of the ordinary world.

Even now, they were still unable to determine the winner.

Venerable Shenzang was secretly alarmed. Initially, he had the upper hand, but the opponent’s learning ability was terrifying. As the battle wore on, his moves became increasingly ineffective against the First Emperor, and he was even outmatched.

Suddenly, a voice reached Venerable Shenzang.

“Is Tiandao number 1,320 here?”

Venerable Shenzang didn’t answer. He knew it was Venerable Shenzang from the parallel world contacting him. They were identified by numbers, and now they were engaged in battle. He didn’t want to answer, but the other party repeated the same number several times. Venerable Shenzang, growing increasingly annoyed, was about to shout “Yes,”

but this distraction gave the First Emperor an opportunity to strike through Venerable Shenzang’s chest.

“How dare you be distracted when fighting me?”

Venerable Shenzang dared not lose his focus any longer. He sealed the voice of the parallel world’s Heavenly Dao and fought with all his might.

What the parallel world’s Heavenly Dao said was irrelevant; what mattered now was his battle with the First Emperor.

Venerable Shenzang fought with all his might, and the First Emperor responded with all his might. As the two clashed, the very river of time shook. Even so, Venerable Shenzang remained at a disadvantage, seeing no hope of defeating the First Emperor. He knew that if he continued to fight, he would be the only one to lose.

Venerable Shenzang took a deep breath. Though humiliating, there was nothing he could do.

“Spatial Impermanence!”

The space around the First Emperor distorted, making it impossible to distinguish east from west.

Venerable Shenzang unleashed his great spatial power once again: “Remove!” The

Immortal Realm vanished, and Venerable Shenzang led it away from the First Emperor, leaving him alone in the void.

Upon realizing the Immortal Realm had escaped, the First Emperor was enraged.

Unfortunately, the Immortal Realm would not retreat despite the First Emperor’s roar.

The First Emperor quickly calmed down and thought of another solution: “Since that’s the case, I will continue to complete the system tasks and collect the fragments of the Immortal Ladder.”

Although he was very reluctant, this was the only way now.

(End of this chapter)