Mythical Era: My Evolution into a Celestial Beast

Roar!

On the battlefield, Mech No.1 let out a brutal roar. Twin beams of blue-white light shot from its eyes like lasers, slicing through the heavens. Wherever they passed, space fractured layer by layer.

"The Azure Demonic Banner, return all things to the void!" A great demon king, towering a kilometer high, spread his eight arms. In each hand he wielded a thousand-meter-long black banner, shimmering with powerful demonic runes that formed sequence chains.

At the same time, three hundred kilometers away, four demon kings each held two dark demonic banners as well. The twelve flags resonated, forming a massive demonic array covering a five-hundred-kilometer radius.

Within the array, endless waves of demonic qi surged. Under the chaining runes, layer after layer of illusory demonic walls emerged, suppressing No.1.

Though the blue-white beams it fired were terrifying enough to blast an ordinary great demon king away in a single shot, they scattered after piercing through over a hundred layers of demonic walls.

No.1 roared in rage at this cowardly enemy tactic of restraining it with a space-bound demonic array instead of meeting it head-on. Inside its cockpit, red warning lights flashed furiously on the control panels.

[Warning: Soul Synchronization has exceeded 100%. No.1 is attempting to enter berserk mode. Engage?]

[Warning: Entering berserk form will result in dual erosion of consciousness and body. Risk of full assimilation. Proceed with caution.]

Staring calmly at the flashing crimson screen and the rampaging impulses coming from No.1, Luo Fei's gaze remained tranquil. This time, however, she chose to refuse.

Roar!

No.1 let out an even more savage roar. Violent waves of assimilation surged at Luo Fei on the spiritual level, as it attempted to seize autonomous control.

Whether in the air or on the ground, both sides were waiting. The Purgatory Demon Clan's high-level forces knew that two pinnacle great demon kings, each leading an army, were en route. If even one of them arrived, they could devour the entire human expeditionary force.

Meanwhile, the human side was also waiting for either Chen Chu or Heavenly King Zhenwu to finish their battles. Zhenwu, known as the strongest beneath the Federation's supreme powerhouses, was terrifyingly formidable. He could go toe-to-toe with even middle-stage demon gods and possibly injure them.

There was no need to say anything about Chen Chu. Even at the mythical level, he had survived sieges from demon gods. Now that he had advanced to the heavenly king level, his strength was bound to be monstrous. Everyone had full confidence in them.

Boom!

The sky collapsed, torn open by a rift over a hundred kilometers long. From within that crack, a figure descended. It was two thousand meters tall, shrouded in dark-golden radiance.

Three faces, eight arms. In his hands, he held a black-golden halberd and a black battle axe. Behind him, his long black hair whipped like a storm. Framed by spinning golden light wheels, he exuded an indescribable terror.

The instant Chen Chu appeared, an overwhelming pressure swept across the battlefield like a tidal wave, solidifying transcendent energy across a range of thousands of kilometers. Everyone felt their bodies sink under the weight.

"It's the Divine Might King!"

"Hahaha... those damned Purgatory bastards are finished!"

"Kill them all!"

"Unload every last round! Don't hold back!"

The instant Chen Chu appeared, everyone's spirits surged. Even No.1, still trapped within the spatial demonic array, let out a roar, revealing a trace of joy.

High in the sky, Heavenly King Xuanwu, who had transformed into a ten-thousand-meter-long Black Tortoise, burst into laughter. "Hahaha... as expected, you finished that guy off so quickly!" With that laugh, he charged once more at the great demon king he was facing.

Boom!

The massive tortoise shell, as heavy as a mountain, collided head-on with a colossal dark-red warhammer. A thousand kilometers of space collapsed in an instant, and the void shattered layer after layer.

The resulting shockwave swept across thousands of kilometers, but when it neared the ground, it was weakened layer by layer by the purple halo and thick clouds of demonic fog.

Amid the explosive storm, Xuanwu roared, "Chen Chu! I'll keep this one busy. Go help Jiuyou!"

"Alright." Chen Chu glanced at Xuanwu, who was still holding out, and then plummeted straight down, appearing in the skies above the demonic array restraining No.1. His gaze fell coldly on the rows of towering black banners below.

In an instant, the great demon king and demon kings overseeing the battle turned pale.

Boom!

The thousand-meter-long, incomplete black axe flared with brilliance. Its sharp, rending force tore through space-time, carving open a pitch-black rift stretching for hundreds of kilometers.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

All of the black banners exploded from the strike, space collapsed, and under the domineering force, the four demon kings and one great demon king all spewed blood.

Roar!

Freed at last, No.1 let out a violent roar. The ground beneath its feet crumbled as it instantly appeared in front of a demon king two hundred kilometers away. Both arms shot out.

Overwhelming power caused the demon king's five-hundred-meter-tall true form, along with the space around him, to compress and collapse, like a flat two-dimensional painting. In that demon king's eyes, No.1's form expanded wildly, reaching ten thousand meters in a blink, like a terrifying monster that could devour the heavens and earth.

"Lord Kasadila, save me!" the demon king cried out in terror.

At that moment, however, Kasadila, the great demon king, was already overwhelmed. As the demonic array collapsed and he was blasted away, he turned into a streak of black flame and fled toward the sky.

The remaining three demon kings also fled in panic the moment Chen Chu appeared, not even daring to look back.

That human who had suddenly descended was simply too terrifying. Even the invisible aura he radiated made them feel instinctive dread, their souls trembling, as if they were standing before a true demon god.

"You think you can escape?" A deep, cold voice rang in their ears, and Chen Chu shifted slightly. A world-shaking power exploded from his body as one of his rear arms, holding a golden-white sun, extended toward Kasadila.

Space twisted. Though Kasadila had already fled over eight hundred kilometers away, radiant light surged above his head. A golden-white stellar sphere ten kilometers wide appeared, radiating blinding brilliance.

Boom!

The demon god combat skill, World-Ending Sun, erupted like a true star, expanding rapidly at the moment of detonation and unleashing boundless scorching energy that annihilated everything around it. The dark world surrounding Kasadila shattered instantly. His true body followed, vaporized beneath the expanding golden-white sun.

That devastating strike obliterated everything within a thousand-kilometer radius. The unleashed energy formed rings of burning shockwaves, sweeping across several thousand kilometers and scattering the once-suffocating demonic cloud cover.

Fortunately, the explosion occurred more than a thousand kilometers from the main battlefield, so the immense shockwaves, though visually overwhelming, caused little harm to ordinary troops.

At the very moment the great demon king was blasted apart, one of the arms behind Chen Chu holding the Lightning God Spear erupted with lightning. A streak of purple lightning crackled across the heavens.

Boom!

Four hundred kilometers away, a demon king attempting to escape through a spatial rift was instantly torn apart.

At the same time, Chen Chu's figure flickered, stepping through space in another direction. One of his unarmed hands formed a seal, and an indescribable force began to gather. Instantly, the two demon kings below him revealed expressions of both madness and despair.

Under the domineering force that descended like a heavenly river overturned, space itself collapsed into substance, forming a black fist imprint over a hundred kilometers wide with clearly visible finger markings. Beneath this overwhelming power, the demon kings' true bodies were instantly shattered. The fist imprint continued its descent without losing momentum.

Boom!

The ground sank violently under the devastating impact, forming a massive crater several hundred kilometers wide. The residual force erupted outward, launching soil and rock like a tsunami in every direction and shaking the world.

"Luo Fei, I'll leave the rest to you." With that calm voice, Chen Chu had already vanished.

Only a blink of an eye had passed from his appearance to the moment the great demon king and three demon kings were crushed and grievously wounded, so fast that no one had time to react.

Roar!

No.1 bit off half of the true form of the demon king it held in its grasp. Dark-red blood sprayed everywhere, dyeing its entire body. Then with another bite, it swallowed the rest.

A Blood Moon slowly rose into the sky, signifying that demon king's complete demise. Within the illumination of that Blood Moon, No.1 stood bloodstained on the earth, its glowing blue-white eyes staring into the distance.

There, in the shattered void ravaged by Heavenly Purple Lightning, the recondensed true form of a demon king was bound and suppressed by countless tendrils of violet lightning, unable to move.

"N-No, don't eat me!" the demon king cried out in terror as the towering black-and-red mech strode toward it. As a mythical-level powerhouse, it didn't fear dying in battle. But being torn apart and devoured alive by an unknown monster was a fate it couldn't accept.

At the bottom of the massive crater, the other two demon kings crushed by the fist imprint now lay weak and despondent, staring helplessly upward. A powerful will was condensing upon their bodies, forming a translucent fist imprint. The invisible Law of Power radiating from it suppressed the dark energy within them.

Even the true form of the great demon king, reconstituted after vaporization by burning his origin, was now sealed within golden-white flames. It hovered as a blazing fireball thousands of meters wide.

"Jiuyou, watch out!" Over three thousand kilometers away in the sky, Chen Chu's voice rang out as a dark-golden halberd thousands of meters long tore through the void and descended from the heavens.

Its crushing force shattered the local laws of heaven and earth. Both Heavenly King Jiuyou and the middle-stage great demon king he was battling turned pale.

"Damn it, Chen Chu, I'm still here!" Jiuyou exclaimed in shock. A burst of dazzling purple light erupted from his body, transforming into a massive twelfth-grade purple lotus.

The violet lotus platform exploded, not with a thunderous roar, but with a spreading silence. Like spilled ink, it dyed everything purple—space, transcendent energy, laws, even the great demon king. In that instant, all soul and consciousness fell into a momentary stillness.

As the purple lotus exploded, Jiuyou followed the path of soul law and vanished, evading the slowly descending dark-golden halberd from above.

Bang!

The purple-colored space and the great demon king within were obliterated in an instant. A black tunnel over two thousand kilometers long opened up, and the invisible impact dispersed the clouds ahead, forming a vacuum corridor over ten thousand kilometers long.

Boom!

Just as Chen Chu shattered that great demon king's true form with a single halberd strike, leaving him barely alive so that No.1 could devour him, a terrifying power erupted in the distant sky, followed by Xuanwu's furious roar. "Trying to flee? Stay right there!"

It was the pinnacle great demon king. Sensing the pressure radiating from Chen Chu, along with the disappearance of Hamdanman's aura in the distant sky, he decisively detonated a forbidden weapon, blasting Xuanwu away as he retreated.

Roar!

The ten-thousand-meter-long Black Tortoise bellowed. Space beneath its feet solidified, heavy as a continent. A hazy yellow landmass descended, sealing off a space of several thousand kilometers.

The pinnacle great demon king only glanced coldly at Heavenly King Xuanwu and the distant Chen Chu, then vanished under the influence of a mysterious force. The instant that force descended, Chen Chu snapped his gaze toward it, eyes narrowing. "Hell coordinates? No, this isn't a hell coordinate. It must be a similar abyssal force that pulled him away."

As beings attuned to abyssal power, many highly talented demon kings could summon abyssal forces with formidable strength to descend. Each pinnacle great demon king had even refined their own abyssal world through such power, and the next step beyond that was to become a demon god of the abyss.

However, this was the first time Chen Chu had seen one escape with something like a hell-coordinate-style transmission, reaching the Supreme Abyss. It was now clear that this pinnacle great demon king he had overlooked was incredibly powerful. Perhaps his talent even surpassed Hamdanman's. The next time they met, Chen Chu would not give him any chance to flee.

While he pondered this, Xuanwu, who had allowed that great demon king to escape, was visibly frustrated. His massive body plummeted from the sky, landing heavily on the earth and charging into the Purgatory legions below. He was determined to end things quickly.

With the demon kings and great demon kings either slain or driven off, the remaining Purgatory forces had no will to resist. In the face of No.1, and with Xuanwu and Jiuyou joining the fray, they broke into full retreat, scattering in all directions in a frenzy and leaving behind countless corpses.

With that, the ambush battle came to an end.