Chapter 543: Final Madness, Dao Bestowed Upon Zhou Chen

Why was Zhou Chen able to repeatedly break destiny, growing from a Mortal to a level where he could stand shoulder to shoulder with him?

Because his Dao, at its core, was the nemesis of the Great Dao of "Fate"!

A crazy and resolute thought flashed through Han Li's mind.

He glanced at the world-destroying giant hand about to crush them, then at Zhou Chen beside him, who, though startled, remained calm, his eyes still burning with unyielding spirit.

He smiled.

A smile of utter relief.

"It's been a million years; I haven't just waited for an opponent…"

"I've also waited for… this son-of-a-bitch fate! It was worth it…"

"Zhou Chen!"

Just a moment before the world-destroying giant hand descended, Han Li suddenly let out a roar.

His voice was no longer calm or weathered, but filled with a desperate madness and resolve.

"Go to my era, defeat me, take my Origin, and come back to kill this son of a bitch!"

Before his words finished, Han Li's body began to burn.

It wasn't flames, but his very existence, his million years of cultivation, and his Great Dao of "Time"—which had already touched the threshold of a Dao Ancestor—all turned into fuel at this moment!

An indescribable, terrifying power erupted from within him.

"Ye Chen, you son of a bitch!"

Han Li's laughter echoed through the Void Realm, filled with disdain and mockery.

"You think you control everything? You think all living beings are your chess pieces?"

"Today, I'm quitting the game!"

He suddenly turned and grabbed Zhou Chen.

The self-combusting power, capable of incinerating the heavens, became incredibly gentle the moment it touched Zhou Chen, like a warm current frantically surging into his body.

Zhou Chen felt his Divine Soul, Physical Body, and Dantian Small World being forcibly imprinted with a trace of the Great Dao of "Time" dao principle by an irresistible, great power.

"My Immortal Dao principle is yours now!"

Han Li's body was becoming transparent at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Using the last of his strength, he roared into Zhou Chen's ear:

"Take it, find it!"

"Remember!"

"Go back to the era when I was at my most spirited and arrogant!"

His eyes, burning with their final light, stared intently at Zhou Chen.

"Find me! And then… defeat me!"

"Don't let me down!"

"You must let this high-and-mighty Heavenly Dao see, let this piece of trash that manipulates fate know…"

"That even ants can overturn the heavens!"

Han Li's voice was like a brand, deeply engraved into the depths of Zhou Chen's Soul.

With his final moments of life, he pointed out the only way to survive for Zhou Chen.

The Void Realm behind him was torn open into a deep vortex under the frantic burning of time power.

On the other side of the vortex was the surging, ceaselessly flowing river of time!

"Go!"

Using his last bit of strength, Han Li violently pushed Zhou Chen toward the vortex.

"No!"

Zhou Chen's eyes nearly split from grief, but his body was already completely enveloped by time power, flying backward uncontrollably.

In his heart, Zhou Chen had completely accepted Han Li as a brother.

High in the heavens, Ye Chen's eternally cold and unchanging face finally showed a violent ripple for the first time.

Even rage!

He hadn't expected that the "fruit" he had nurtured for a million years would choose to burn itself at the final moment of maturity, giving all its nutrients to another ant.

"Courting death!"

Ye Chen roared, and the giant eye that shrouded heaven and earth instantly locked onto Zhou Chen, who was about to be sucked into the river of time.

A Divine Light of Extinction containing the power of fate shot out from the Eye of the Heavenly Dao, targeting Zhou Chen!

This strike was enough to completely erase Zhou Chen from the level of Karma!

"Don't even think about it!"

Han Li's now-ethereal figure resolutely blocked the divine light.

He spread his arms for the last time, like a monument, facing the attack that could annihilate everything.

At this moment, he used his life as the price to forcibly warp time for an instant.

The speed of the Divine Light of Extinction was delayed by a mere 0.01 of a moment.

In that negligible instant, Zhou Chen's body was completely swallowed by the time vortex, vanishing from this space-time.

In the next moment, the divine light pierced through Han Li's ethereal body.

There was no explosion, no sound.

Han Li's figure, like a sand painting blown away by the wind, dissipated bit by bit into nothingness.

Just before he completely vanished, he glanced in the direction where Zhou Chen had disappeared, a trace of gratified, genuine smile appearing on his face.

After a million years of loneliness, he had finally found something more meaningful than eternal life and a Breakthrough.

In the deathly silent Void Realm, only Ye Chen remained.

He slowly withdrew the world-destroying giant hand, and for the first time, an emotion called "anger" surfaced on his peerlessly handsome face.

The duck in his hand had flown away.

A variable that had escaped his control had fled into the forbidden zone of time.

Ye Chen's gaze seemed to pierce through endless space-time, staring fixedly at the healing time rift, his voice cold enough to freeze the entire Spirit Realm.

"Do you think you can escape…"

The world spun.

Zhou Chen felt like he had been thrown into a washing machine, a high-powered one at that.

Around him were colorful space-time turbulences, and countless fragments of images flashed past his eyes like a revolving lantern.

There was the birth of the Universe, the extinction of stars, the rise and fall of civilizations, and the tragic songs of gods and demons.

Han Li's vast and majestic Great Dao of "Time" Origin was crudely undergoing a forced Fusion with the "Severance" Dao within him.

Two completely different, even opposing supreme Daos clashed wildly inside him, tearing at his Physical Body and Divine Soul.

His Immortal Celestial Physique was constantly shattering and reconstructing.

His Dantian Small World sometimes expanded rapidly, evolving all things, and sometimes collapsed instantly, returning to Chaos.

The leaves of the World Tree cycled frantically between withering and rebirth.

[Warning! Warning! Unknown Immortal Dao principle detected undergoing forced Fusion!]

[Host Divine Soul damaged by 90%… Physical Body collapsed by 70%…]

[System core struck by space-time turbulence… Restarting…]

[Warning! Time coordinates disordered… Recalibrating…]

[Restart failed…]

[Restarting…]

The System's cold and intermittent notification tones rang out in Zhou Chen's chaotic mind.

He gritted his teeth, holding onto the last shred of clarity.

He couldn't pass out.

Once unconscious, his Divine Soul would be completely torn to shreds in this terrifying dao principle storm.

"Han Li…"

A flash of blood-red appeared in Zhou Chen's eyes.

"Ye Chen… one day, I will personally take your dog life!"

Zhou Chen forcibly circulated the Innate Primordial Qi Origin Scripture, guiding the two Great Dao powers to reach a delicate balance within his body.

He didn't know how much time had passed.

Maybe a moment, maybe ten thousand years.

The pain that tore everything apart finally subsided slowly.

Zhou Chen's vision went black, and he completely lost consciousness.