Mythical Era: My Evolution into a Celestial Beast

Nearly ten thousand kilometers away, a golden gate tens of thousands of meters tall manifested behind Chen Chu. The dark-golden dragon-shaped chains wrapped around it began to shatter one by one.

Boom!

The Heavenly Gate collapsed. Boundless streams of dark-golden vitality surged forth, flooding into Chen Chu's body. His figure instantly expanded to two thousand meters tall, his entire body radiating with dazzling dark-golden brilliance.

In that instant, a crushing force saturated the world. Space itself trembled, collapsing and rupturing all around him. The unchecked release of that aura shocked even Anstira and the other Heavenly Feathered chief gods.

It was the Dark Star World-Ending Dragon Emperor Form. Earlier, when Chen Chu had only opened the first Heavenly Gate, he had already utterly overwhelmed the previously evenly matched Great Demon King Hamdanman.

Now, behind him, another golden gate appeared, wrapped in two trembling chains of dark-golden dragon markings. Something monstrous seemed to be about to break through.

Boom!

The gate shattered. A dark-golden dragon-shaped phantom roared out, and its soul-shaking cry reverberated through the Eternal Divine Region. In a flash, Chen Chu's aura surged once more. He expanded to 2,500 meters tall, radiating with intense dark-golden light.

Infused by the World-Ending Dragon behind the second Heavenly Gate, Chen Chu's fundamental strength and defense were enhanced fourfold. The oppressive aura he released grew so dense that the void cracked and shattered beneath its weight. It could no longer bear him.

However, even that wasn't enough. Chen Chu let out a long howl as he lunged toward the demon god tens of thousands of kilometers away. Behind him, seven towering golden Heavenly Gates manifested one after another, each one more majestic than the last.

To become a demon god of an empire meant possessing terrifying power. Even if one couldn't fight across realms, within the same stage they were nearly unmatched, far beyond any so-called peak great demon king.

Each of the three empires' pinnacle great demon kings already wielded pseudo-world-level weapons. Needless to say, this demon god did as well. With such a weapon, even the weakest among them possessed combat strength at the middle stage of the demon god level. Chen Chu dared not hold back. He immediately prepared to enter his strongest form.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

As each Heavenly Gate burst apart, the dragon phantoms within—each bearing the might of the Dark Star World-Ending Dragon—roared out and flooded into Chen Chu.

In that instant, his aura skyrocketed without limit. His True Demon God Form ballooned into a ten-thousand-meter-tall figure.

His form retained its three faces and eight arms, and his entire body was now clad in a blindingly radiant dark-golden armor, nearly turned to pure light. His thousands-meter-long hair blazed with dark golden fire, making it appear as though it was forged from divine light itself.

The radiant glow bathed the heavens and earth in a hue of violet-gold. The azure-hued, dense aura filled the world with a weight so immense it felt like he alone held up the sky.

Such power stunned even the four divine kings and two demon gods engaged in battle in the distance, as well as Heavenly King Zhenwu. Anstira, Bordea, the other Heavenly Feathered chief gods, and figures like Heavenly King Jiuyou and Heavenly King Xuanwu all widened their eyes in disbelief.

To think someone at the beginning stage of the heavenly king level could unleash such explosive power on par with a beginning-stage demon god, and with a secret art this monstrous. Chen Chu's sheer dominance filled them with the unshakable feeling that he could truly slay a demon god.Is this really the strength of someone who's only just broken through to the heavenly king level?

For the first time, even the likes of Jiuyou began to doubt themselves.Am I... a fake heavenly king? How can the difference between two heavenly kings possibly be so vast?

Boom!

The moment Chen Chu moved, his body wrapped in dark-golden light bands formed from principle, the entire world trembled with him. With a single step, he crossed over ten thousand kilometers, and after just a few flashes, he appeared within ten thousand kilometers of the demon god.

Before him, an abyssal darkness spread across the sky like a devouring tide. In response, Chen Chu raised his halberd high. The colossal weapon, over twenty thousand meters long, surged with blazing dark-golden radiance.

Boom!

A halberd light a hundred thousand meters long split across the heavens. Everything dimmed; only the dazzling halberd light remained in the world. It shattered vast swathes of space, exploding into a raging tide of shockwaves. A black passage stretching over ten thousand kilometers tore through the air, crashing down toward the demon god.

The strike was so overwhelmingly powerful that even time seemed to lose meaning. In the very instant it was unleashed, the halberd light appeared directly above the demon god's head.

"Human, you're seeking death!" Ikosela roared in fury. His ten-thousand-meter-tall true form erupted with endless black light, forming a chain of abyssal principle coiled around his dark warhammer.

Simultaneously, twelve arms behind his back flared open, their surfaces glowing red with countless demonic runes. With a single clawed motion, he grasped the surrounding abyssal world. The dark world, spanning thousands of kilometers, trembled violently as four towering ten-thousand-meter tall abyssal phantoms materialized, exuding awe-inspiring pressure.

Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar!

The abyssal phantoms bellowed in unison, joining Ikosela's strike to meet the halberd crashing down from the heavens. Faced with Chen Chu, who had launched his ultimate move the moment they clashed, Ikosela dared not underestimate him. He immediately activated his bloodline divine ability: the Abyssal Dark Demon.

This ability, combining his abyssal principle with bloodline power, conjured four abyssal demon phantoms, each capable of delivering a blow on par with a beginning-stage demon god. Though each phantom would vanish after one strike and consume tremendous bloodline strength, their power was immense.

However, the moment the mountain-sized black warhammer, reinforced by the four abyssal phantoms, collided with the dark golden halberd, Ikosela's eyes widened in shock. An indescribably heavy force exploded from the halberd.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The four abyssal phantoms were instantly obliterated. The chains of principle around the warhammer shattered the next moment.

Boom!

Under the overwhelming force, the abyssal world exploded. Ikosela himself turned into a streak of black light, and smashed from the sky down to the earth tens of thousands of kilometers below.

In an instant, the ground within a ten-thousand-kilometer radius collapsed. Countless boulders, dirt, and black energy surged skyward, forming a tsunami of debris that reached hundreds of thousands of meters and flung outward in all directions. The energy released created countless cracks stretching for tens of thousands of kilometers, shaking the heavens.

At the moment of impact, the force also tore through the skies, leaving a vacuum passage tens of thousands of kilometers long and several hundred kilometers wide, an awe-inspiring sight. This was the sheer terror brought by shattering the Nine-Fold Heavenly Gate, bolstering an amplification of Chen Chu's foundational power by more than five hundred times.

In the chaos of destructive shockwaves, the void beneath Chen Chu's feet collapsed. With the help of his speed-based divine ability, he burst forward at nearly a thousand times the speed of sound.

Roar!

Several thousand kilometers deep beneath the earth, Ikosela, his arms bloodied and torn, let out a sky-shaking roar. Staring up at the descending Chen Chu, his eyes flared with savagery and wrath.

Bang! Bang!

Ikosela's two arms, still clutching his weapon, exploded, releasing a blood mist infused with principle that enveloped the dark warhammer. In an instant, the warhammer erupted with a brilliant blood-red glow. It seemed a separate world was emerging from the depths of the earth within that crimson light.

Ikosela roared again. Two more intact arms reached out, grabbing the blood-sacrificed dark warhammer. His form sank with the weight of the weapon. Activating the full world principle power contained within the dark warhammer placed even this demon god under strain, but that power was equally overwhelming.

From deep underground, a dark-red "planet" thousands of kilometers in diameter surged toward the sky. The pressure it generated compressed space into translucent layers, stacking upon one another. From afar, it looked like a massive moon hurtling toward the ground, with rippling rings of shockwaves trailing behind it.

High in the heavens, the descending halberd light, now a blazing streak of dark gold, came crashing down like divine retribution, cleaving toward the dark-red planet with apocalyptic might.

For a brief moment, the world fell silent. Then, the dark red planet shattered. A second later, another anguished roar escaped from Ikosela.

Boom!

A devastating force erupted outward. Space twisted, and the land exploded. Countless rocks, earth, and other matter melted under the blast and surged up as lava, spewing for thousands of kilometers.

This scene left Xuanwu, Luo Fei inside Mech No.1, and the others utterly shaken. The power Chen Chu had displayed at this moment was already on par with long-established supreme powerhouses like the Celestial King. This was the kind of strength that could support an entire race, and he had achieved all of this in just over a year.

As the saying went, "Strike while the enemy is weak." At this level of combat, there was no turn-based back-and-forth; the very instant he suppressed Ikosela with another blow, Chen Chu had already plunged into the depths of the earth. A battle even more terrifying erupted underground. The overwhelming power caused the ground over tens of thousands of kilometers to ripple like the surface of the sea.

In his Dark Star World-Ending Dragon Emperor Form, Chen Chu was like a true great demon god. Wielding the now pseudo-world-level Eight Desolations Creation Halberd, each strike was crushingly heavy. Space-time itself was shattered by the overwhelming gravitational force field. Whether it was the power of the abyssal world or the principle of darkness, all were destroyed.

The note in the attribute panel had stated, "When the enemy's raw physical strength is weaker than the wielder's, a world-collision impact will send them flying." With each strike, Ikosela was driven deeper underground, utterly suppressed with no chance to retaliate.

This Eternal Divine Region followed a "round heaven, square earth" structure[1]. The ground was unimaginably thick. By the time the two had descended ten thousand kilometers, the geothermal temperature had reached over 10,000°C, and the surroundings were filled with streams of molten, dark red material.

Of course, such heat was meaningless to two demon-god-level beings. What mattered more was the gravity; due to the foundational principles of the Eternal Divine Region, the pressure was so immense that even Ikosela's Abyssal Demonic Domain could only spread a mere thousand kilometers.

Suddenly, Ikosela's expression changed drastically, as he realized that Chen Chu was trying to force him deep underground to execute him. "Human, you want to kill me? Dream on!"

Fury and killing intent surged from Ikosela's chest. A human, whose cultivation was only at the beginning stage of the great demon king level, dared to attempt to slay him? That was the gravest insult.

Cultivation aura came from the fusion of divine soul and comprehended laws and principles. Though it could normally be concealed, in full battle it was inevitably revealed. This was the most direct way for cultivators to gauge an opponent's level.

Thus, even if Chen Chu's performance had suppressed a demon god, the level of power he exuded remained that of a beginning-stage great demon king, albeit with a hint of embryonic principle. What truly pushed his power to this level was his true form's monstrously solid foundation and the explosive strength granted by the Nine-Fold Heavenly Gate.

"Killing you is a piece of cake!" Chen Chu's cold voice echoed as the halberd in his hand surged with light. Behind him, a massive dark-golden planet materialized, shaking the depths of the earth. Countless superheated materials, along with the surrounding space, were reduced to nothingness.

Boom!

After that strike, imbued with immense gravitational force, Ikosela coughed blood. The four arms wielding his warhammer exploded, and his massive body was hurled another thousand kilometers deeper into the earth.

Surrounded by scorching material and the crushing pressure of the subterranean depths, the space here was both unstable and overwhelmingly dense. Many of Ikosela's bloodline divine abilities that tore through space couldn't even activate, filling him with despair.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

An even more brutal battle broke out deep underground. Having refined a pseudo-world-level weapon and activated the Dark Star World-Ending Dragon Emperor Form, which could only be used once in a short period, if Chen Chu failed to slay this demon god now, especially with the Mark of Temporal Reincarnation draining, he would suffer a tremendous loss.

To kill a demon god required more than power. One had to first shatter its true form, then wear down its divine soul and destroy its principle origin bit by bit. However, Chen Chu had another method.

Boom!

Two of Ikosela's heads exploded from the crushing force of the dark-golden halberd. Only one arm remained as he let out a pained, guttural scream. His true form was completely destroyed under Chen Chu's assault.

Just then, on the right side of Chen Chu's face, a pair of tightly shut eyes snapped open. A pair of vertical pupils, dark gold and vast enough to blot out the sky, emerged.

"No—!" The moment the Void Death Pupils opened, Ikosela's shattered form, along with his divine soul hidden within the flesh and blood, let out a panicked roar as he sensed an overwhelming aura of death.

Those eyes... could kill him!

1. This structure is the world view of the ancient Chinese. ☜