Mythical Era: My Evolution into a Celestial Beast

Ten thousand kilometers above in the warped sky, Xiao Tianyi's Great Suns descended, blazing with a dazzling light and a world-ending aura that shook time and space. Below, having fused with the ten-thousand-meter-deep abyss, Zuo Mo surged to the skies wielding his halberd, creating an overwhelming demonic force

Boom!

As Zuo Mo shot toward the descending suns, a tide of darkness swept across the region. At the forefront was his halberd, which stretched over a hundred thousand meters long.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Zuo Mo's domineering halberd smashed the rotating suns into pieces. However, the shattered suns quickly turned into rings of golden light that swept across more than ten thousand kilometers, shaking the tenth plane with earth-shattering, endlessly echoing rumbles.

Amid the blinding explosions, Xiao Tianyi's long hair whipped wildly. At some point, he had donned a layer of jade-colored battle armor, with chaotic currents churning around him.

Watching Zuo Mo's halberd tear through time and space and blast apart his ten Great Suns, Xiao Tianyi calmly extended his right hand and softly said, "Infinite Yin-Yang Cycle."

Boom!

A surge of willpower erupted from Xiao Tianyi, enveloping the entire world and condensing into ten silver moons. The moment they began to spin, the Yin and Yang of the entire plane was thrown off balance[1], causing the sunlight to freeze in place.

Before the stunned gazes of the Heavenly Feathered cultivators who stood watch outside the plane, time itself ground to a halt, then began to reverse. In an instant, the scattered sunlight recondensed into ten Great Suns again.

Xiao Tianyi's Great Suns now orbited around Zuo Mo's revealed true form, a ten-thousand-meter tall figure hanging above the abyss. As time rewound, the suns blazed even more brilliantly than before.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

As the suns detonated, the tenth plane quaked madly. The explosion burst outward like a golden shockwave, expanding in a perfect sphere that swept across the region. Under the might of this powerful force, even Zuo Mo's earth-devouring abyss was obliterated, leaving behind a vast chasm over ten thousand kilometers wide. Towering peaks that stood thousands of meters tall collapsed and crumbled in every direction.

"So this is a move you're proud of? Pathetic. Too weak." At the heart of the explosion, where heat dissolved everything and even the laws of heaven and earth disintegrated under the sheer force of annihilation, a towering figure over ten thousand meters tall stood unshaken within the storm of chaotic energy.

Colored in black and gold, wielding a war halberd, with three heads and ten arms, this figure radiated an aura of pure, brutal darkness. Aside from a few shattered scales, Zuo Mo's presence had only grown more tyrannical. That devastating strike, which nearly tore the tenth plane apart, barely scratched him.

Boom!

A black-and-gold halberd, as huge as a mountain, pierced through heaven and earth. Countless dark-red lightning bolts from the abyss coiled around it, shattering Xiao Tianyi's celestial phenomena above the sky.

The overwhelming force froze even time and space. In almost an instant, the halberd appeared directly before Xiao Tianyi.

At the same time, the black stone tower held up behind Zuo Mo by his arms trembled violently. Carved stone eyes suddenly snapped open on the nine-tiered tower, each revealing eerie, black eyes that looked like windows to a hellish abyss.

A crushing, unfathomable power descended across time and space under their gaze, sealing the layers of spacetime around Xiao Tianyi. This strike could not be dodged, nor defied.

Boom!

Struck by Zuo Mo's all-conquering halberd, Xiao Tianyi was instantly obliterated. The devastating and unstoppable force shattered the surroundings for thousands of kilometers. Even after Xiao Tianyi was obliterated, the concentrated power remained. Instead of fading, it split open a rift over ten thousand kilometers long across the sky of the tenth plane, as if the world itself had been split in half by a blade.

As that towering, black and gold demon king stood above the sky, overlooking all directions, the chief gods of the Heavenly Feathered Race in the golden interdimensional world outside the plane narrowed their eyes.

Within a radiant temple, Erdeya solemnly said, "This Purgatory Grand Marshal vanished for a time... and though he has yet to break through to the divine king level, his power is already there."

Before Zuo Mo absorbed his sacred-form counterpart and entered seclusion, he rampaged across the battlefield with overwhelming force, but he could only hold his own against a divine king for a few dozen exchanges before withdrawing unharmed.

Now, however, the power he revealed had not only reached the level of a divine king, but had already surpassed divine kings who had only recently stepped into the ancient realm. Immediately, powerful divine soul wills spread between the halls of the chief gods, as voices rang out.

"This demon must die. If war breaks out and he goes unchecked, the consequences will be unmanageable."

"That young cultivator from the human race is strong, but is clearly no match for him. If we are to kill this demon, it seems we must act ourselves."

"When the time comes, it is best for you three to strike together. Find an opening to imprison him, then let the Lord of Holy Light finish him. That is the only way we have a chance."

In that instant, over twenty chief gods of the Heavenly Feathered Race made their decision. Their gazes turned icy as they looked upon the dark-golden demon king whose demonic force towered over the tenth plane.

Among them, the three beings entrusted with the mission, Falkora and two others, were the strongest of the revived chief gods, each possessing peak-stage cultivation. Yet despite their immense power and the divine, majestic auras they radiated from their thrones in the temple, they still gave the impression of candles flickering in the wind.

As for the one they referred to as the Lord of Holy Light, his aura was likewise at the peak of the chief god level, yet it carried a boundless, awe-inspiring majesty, like that of a true divine king. Behind this chief god in golden divine robes stood another figure of equal rank. It was Anstira, who had also reached the level of a chief god.

"Your strength is just as I expected. It is, indeed, formidable." A calm voice echoed through the heavens and earth. Within the chaotic void turbulence that Zuo Mo had shattered with a single blow, strands of golden light emerged from nothingness, coalescing into a massive golden eye. Xiao Tianyi, draped in a jade-colored battle robe, reformed from nothing into existence within it, his aura still at its peak.

Upon witnessing this, Zuo Mo's gaze remained cold, without the slightest hint of surprise. If this human form of Xiao Tianyi could be slain so easily, that would have been the real anomaly.

Unlike the true demons who forged their true forms through the condensing of bloodlines, the true strength of humans lay in their comprehension of the laws of heaven and earth. Xiao Tianyi, who was once a genius that stunned an entire era more than a decade ago, possessed a powerful gift for comprehension, not only of laws, but also of the force of will unique to humans.

Earlier, the spectacle of the ten Great Suns spanning the heavens, with the sun and moon intertwining like Yin and Yang, was a manifestation of Xiao Tianyi's fusion of solar and lunar will with the high-level laws of extreme Yang and extreme Yin.

There was no need for more words. After a brief moment of confrontation, the demonic qi within Zuo Mo erupted once more. The black stone tower in his hands stirred, and the rows of black eyes carved into its surface opened again.

This time, beneath the phantom of the massive golden eye spanning ten thousand meters, countless solid black gazes emerged from the void in every direction, all converging on Xiao Tianyi.

As the gazes crossed and converged, they gave rise to the phantom of a colossal black tower, tens of thousands of meters tall. Though illusory in nature and lacking any true form, it sealed layer upon layer of dimensional rifts.

Boom!

The moment the stone tower sealed off spacetime, the ten-thousand-meter-tall black-and-gold demon king let out a furious roar. The black light on Zuo Mo's halberd exploded, unleashing a sea of dark-red lightning that flooded the heavens and earth with overwhelming destructive power. Everything it swept through was shattered into ashes; laws disintegrated, and existence collapsed.

However, this move no longer posed a threat to Xiao Tianyi. The very moment the tower's eyes locked him in place again, a sun and moon reappeared behind him.

Xiao Tianyi's Great Sun, a hundred kilometers wide and blazing with scorching brilliance, spun on one side. On the other, his cold and ghostly moon turned with equal speed. The two celestial forces revolved a million times per second, as if on the verge of colliding. Space collapsed and time twisted. Even the Sky-Earth Seal, along with the phantom of the black stone tower reflected in the golden eye, was utterly shattered.

As Zuo Mo's black tower was torn apart, his halberd appeared before Xiao Tianyi, but awaiting this blow was the violently merging rotation of the sun and moon.

The very moment Xiao Tianyi's supreme will fused two high-level laws to manifest the union of sun and moon, a murky star appeared, filled with destructive power on par with a supreme-level Destruction Principle.

Boom!

An even greater explosion erupted than from the previous strike. The entire plane shook more violently from the force of this dreadful power, letting out a collapsing roar as if it could no longer bear the strain.

At the edge of the plane, golden sequence chains emerged one after another, forming the phantom of a massive golden divine tree. It forcibly suppressed the impact that was about to cause the plane to collapse.

"Kill!" A furious shout rang out through heaven and earth as the trembling plane quaked. Ten Great Suns appeared once more, radiating dazzling light as they suddenly merged together and formed a dark red sun.

Seeing this, Zuo Mo let out a thunderous roar. The halberd in his hand unleashed beams of halberd light, each stretching a hundred thousand meters long. Empowered by the abyss beneath his feet, they radiated terrifying might.

In an instant, the battle exploded with even greater intensity. The entire plane trembled more violently, and under the blinding radiance of their immense power, almost no one could make out Zuo Mo and Xiao Tianyi's figures.

Their speed had surpassed the limits of time and perception. In the span of a second, they exchanged tens of thousands of blows. The shockwaves of their power nearly caused the laws of heaven and earth in the plane to collapse.

In Xiao Tianyi's hands, the power of the sun and moon had been refined to its peak. Under the moonlight, he instantly appeared tens of thousands of miles away, his speed surpassing the flow of time itself.

When the ten suns swept across the sky, it scorched the heavens and boiled the seas, dissolving countless waves of demonic qi. The earth melted beneath its heat, slowly turning the entire plane into a fiery inferno.

When the sun and moon shone together, they could even reverse the flow of time and space. This power was even more terrifying than the principles mastered by many ordinary ancient-level beings. Each time, it allowed Xiao Tianyi to evade fatal attacks. Though he was only at the late stage of the heavenly king level, his combat power was already comparable to that of an ordinary supreme being.

Although Xiao Tianyi was incredibly powerful, Zuo Mo, who had manifested the true form of the Abyssal Purgatory Great Demon King, was even more terrifying. Standing atop the abyss and wielding a halberd, he swept his weapon in all directions.

No matter how powerful Xiao Tianyi's attacks were, they were all shattered by Zuo Mo's halberd. Even the fusion of sun and moon, which transformed into a Great Sun of destruction, was destroyed. The formless abyssal force entwined around Zuo Mo's halberd rivaled the power of principles, stirring the entire plane into violent tremors.

This scene caused even Heavenly King Zhenwu and the others to show somewhat grave expressions. This genius, who had betrayed the Federation and fallen into demonization by joining the Purgatory Empire, possessed a terrifying level of power. His overwhelming and domineering presence instantly reminded them of Chen Chu.

His weapon was also a halberd, and his true form as a demon king was equally formidable. He possessed overwhelming strength, sweeping through all directions without resistance.

Although the battle between the two shook heaven and earth, the expressions of Zhenwu and the others grew increasingly grim. The truth was, Xiao Tianyi had been at a disadvantage the entire time.

Both of them had astonishing talent and overwhelming combat power that surpassed their current realms, but there was a minor realm gap in their cultivation. At that moment, that seemingly small difference was being magnified.

Zuo Mo, at the peak of the great demon king level, had nearly completed the refinement of the avatar he had split out. Using the black and gold spine that carried it as a vessel, he fused the power of his abyssal bloodline with the power of the golden eye to condense the body of a demon god.

Disregarding his cross-realm combat power, Zuo Mo's cultivation alone already placed him halfway into the demon god level. He had already attained the body of a demon god.

Because of this, Xiao Tianyi's attacks couldn't shake him at all. Despite the terrifying spectacle of his attacks, he had been suppressed since the beginning of the battle. Still, even while being suppressed, Xiao Tianyi's eyes seemed capable of seeing through fate and glimpsing the future. Time and again, he managed to evade Zuo Mo's halberd.

Thus, the battle remained brilliantly intense. While the celestial beings, chief gods, and Heavenly King Xuanwu watched with solemn expressions, they also continued to study and analyze the fight, pondering: If they were the ones facing Zuo Mo, with his overwhelming demonic force, how would they respond to that unmatched power?

For most of them, the conclusion they reached amounted to one thing—run. Under that halberd, even mythical-level powerhouses would have their true forms shattered with a single strike, their divine souls torn apart and severely wounded. Just three strikes would be enough to completely annihilate them.

Even an ordinary chief god who encountered Zuo Mo at that moment would only be able to withstand a few more strikes before their true form gets shattered, their origin erased, and they completely fall.

Even the three peak chief gods who had recently awakened felt that, one-on-one, they wouldn't be able to take a single blow from this great demon king. The abyssal darkness within his power was simply too strong.

"...Wait, why is that human girl still there!?"

1. In classic Chinese culture, Yin and Yang represent two opposite but complementary forces or energies in the universe. Throwing Yin and Yang off balance here can imply that principles or laws of the universe have been overturned, or dark and light forces are mixed unnaturally ☜