Chapter 541: Void Anomalies, Heaven and Earth Tremble

The Small World within his body shook violently, and the World Tree swayed wildly, its roots plunging into the endless Chaos and its branches and leaves piercing through the three thousand Great Daos.

The eight initial Inscriptions detached from the chaos bell, transforming into eight streaks of light that merged into his body.

The eight Origin powers of Qian Heaven, Kun Earth, Zhen Thunder, Xun Wind, Kan Water, Li Fire, Gen Mountain, and Dui Lake intertwined and fused wildly within his body.

Eventually, they transformed into a brand-new rune.

"Intercept!"

The moment this rune appeared, the entire Void Realm trembled.

A flash of madness crossed Zhou Chen's eyes.

He raised his right hand, and the "Intercept" rune at his fingertip spun frantically, releasing a terrifying pressure.

"Primordial Heaven-Intercepting Slash!"

Zhou Chen pointed his finger forward.

The "Intercept" rune transformed into a streak of light, meeting Han Li's time rune head-on.

The two runes, each containing the ultimate Great Dao, collided within the pure white Void Realm.

In an instant, all sound vanished.

The light vanished as well.

Before them was only absolute silence and a void capable of swallowing everything.

Centering on the point of collision, a tiny black dot rapidly expanded, frantically devouring everything around it.

The pure white Small World Han Li had constructed began to silently dissolve and disintegrate.

"Crack—"

A crisp sound rang out, not from the Void Realm, but from the firmament of the entire Spirit Realm.

Central Celestial Domain, Chaos Battlefield.

The surviving Cultivators were cleaning up the aftermath of the Eternal Night Demon Palace battlefield, mourning their fallen fellow disciples.

Suddenly, everyone felt a pang of palpitations and looked up in unison.

They saw that the sky, which had just regained its clarity, had split open without warning into a massive black crack that spanned the horizon.

"What is that?!" the Palace Master of the Grand Void Palace cried out in shock.

The void turbulence within the crack, carrying pure and despair-inducing Chaos Qi, poured down like a breached black heavenly river.

Bolts of Chaos God-Thunder, thicker than mountain ranges, roamed within it; occasionally, an aftershock would fall, reducing the ground below along with the corpses of tens of thousands of demon soldiers to nothingness.

"It's above the Immortal… Could this be a clash of power at the Dao Ancestor level?!"

An Immortal Emperor Old Ancestor of the Gu Family, who had lived for countless ages, spoke with a trembling voice, his face filled with disbelief.

Dao Ancestor—that was a Realm that only existed in the oldest myths.

How could the Spirit Realm possibly withstand a battle of this level?

"Quick! Form the array! Everyone, use all your strength to sustain the mountain-protecting array!"

The leaders of the various Holy Lands roared their orders.

However, their voices seemed pale and powerless in the face of the apocalyptic scene of the collapsing firmament.

The aftershocks of the battle had already completely escaped.

Han Li's Small World had shattered.

The figures of the two men reappeared within the cosmic void of the Spirit Realm.

But the battlefield where they fought was no longer limited to a single place.

One breath ago, they were still above the Chaos Battlefield, their clashing fists and palms sinking continental plates for hundreds of millions of miles around.

The next breath, their figures appeared at the end of the Ancient Starry Sky Road; the collision between Zhou Chen's chaos bell and Han Li's Law of time directly caused that ancient road, which had existed for countless eons, to snap in the middle, as countless star-bits exploded into cosmic dust.

"Hahaha! Exhilarating!"

Zhou Chen was covered in blood, and his Immortal Physique was riddled with marks eroded by the power of time, but he laughed aloud, his Battle Intent higher than ever before.

The chaos bell hovered above his head, with Xuanhuang Qi falling like a waterfall to protect his body.

The chaos lotus platform beneath his feet bloomed with immeasurable light of creation, constantly repairing his injured body.

He pushed the Innate Primordial Qi Origin Scripture to its limit; the Small World in his Dantian was roaring, and the energy of the World Tree flowed incessantly into his limbs and bones.

"Zhou Chen, I admit your Dao is very strong."

Han Li's figure appeared atop a star that was about to go out; his emerald Daoist robes fluttered, and he also looked somewhat disheveled.

He looked at Zhou Chen with undisguised admiration in his eyes.

"To have just entered the Immortal Realm and comprehend the Dao Principle of Interception, and to be able to contend with my Dao of time until now—in all of eternity, you are the first."

Han Li's attacks were simple yet unsolvable.

With a point of his finger, the time and space around Zhou Chen would freeze or even flow backward.

With a strike of his palm, the Divine Ability Zhou Chen unleashed would instantly experience ten thousand years of time, decaying and withering halfway through.

But Zhou Chen's Dao of "Interception" was even more overbearing.

You freeze time? Then I shall intercept your connection with the Law of time.

You accelerate decay? Then I shall intercept the Karma of years within your Divine Ability.

The battle between the two had completely transcended the competition of energy and Laws, becoming the purest struggle of the Great Dao.

Interception and Ebbing.

Severing and Eternity.

The entire Spirit Realm had become the chessboard for their slaughter.

Countless Small Worlds were constantly being born and destroyed like fragile bubbles in the aftershocks of this battle.

The Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice of the North Plains completely melted, and countless sealed Primeval Demon Remains regained their freedom, roaring at the sky.

In the South Border, the ley lines of the hundred thousand mountains flipped; sleeping ancient Monster Gods were startled awake, looking at the firmament in terror.

The East Territory, the West Desert… every corner of the Spirit Realm welcomed the apocalypse under this terrifying clash.

"Again!"

Zhou Chen let out a great roar and took the initiative to charge at Han Li.

He was fighting with true fire now, his mind free of all stray thoughts, leaving only the purest Battle Intent.

He could feel that with every collision with Han Li, his understanding of the Dao of Interception was deepening at an incredible speed.

Han Li was his best whetstone.

The two fought once more, from the depths of the sea of stars to the cracks between dimensions, and from the phantoms of past time to a corner of future ruins.

Zhou Chen's Immortal Physique was beaten into fragments time and again, only to be reorganized repeatedly under the creation light of the chaos lotus platform.

Cracks also appeared on Han Li's emerald Daoist robes, and a trace of golden blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

This was the first time he had been injured in a million years.

But the smile on his face grew even more intense.

"That's it… that's the feeling!"

Mad flames burned in Han Li's eyes. "A battle between equals, a fight on the brink of life and death! This is what it feels like to be alive!"

He shook his arms, and an illusory river appeared behind him.

It was a projection of the river of time.

"Zhou Chen, take my final move!"

Han Li pressed his palms together, and his entire aura merged with the projection of the river of time.

"Eternal… Silence!"

He gave a gentle push forward.

The projection of the river of time actually transformed into an invisible and intangible ripple, sweeping toward Zhou Chen.

This move had no earth-shattering momentum, yet it made Zhou Chen feel an unprecedented crisis of death.

He knew that once he was struck by this ripple, the traces of his existence would be completely erased from the beginning of time.

"Come then!"

A flash of resolve also appeared in Zhou Chen's eyes.

He stopped defending, letting the ripple surge toward him.

He closed his eyes, his Divine Sense sinking into the Small World of his Dantian, looking toward that World Tree that pierced through heaven and earth.

"Intercepting Heaven, Intercepting Earth, Intercepting all living beings…"

"Today, I shall intercept your Dao of time!"