1 Prologue
"So it comes to this…" An albino with amber eyes muttered while gazing up from his tower which looked like it connected Earth and Heaven. He is holding his arms crossed behind his back, and his pale body was covered from a valuable-looking white robe covered in golden decorations.
He looked like an angel descended from the Heaven, but the presence inside him was anything but angelic. Rather, it gave one the feeling of looking at a tyrant that won't hesitate twice to strike down anyone in his way.
Xiao Qiangwei was gazing at a boundless army that was standing at every corner of the dead star realm he was living in.
There were so many of them that five Royal Star Realms would not be enough to contain them.
Every single one was strategically placed around his Star Realm to better use their Profound Arts; and not just that, the enemy is holding 5 out of 7 Heavenly Profound Treasures to use against him.
There were 2 reasons for such a thing.
The first was the extreme unbalance of power between Xiao Qiangwei and the rest of the Primal Chaos Dimension. Because he, using his devilish luck, got the possession of treasures that everyone could just salivate at the thought.
The Heretic God's Divine Veins that he gained in the southern divine region gifted him with the ability to be unmatched between his peers, giving him immunity to six out of seven elements in this world. And even if he can be harmed by Light, the only one who could use it, the Dragon Queen, died under his hands to avoid for her to be a danger for him in the future.
It also gave him the chance of exponentially multiply his strength. He gets twice as strong as before with the first gate, thrice with the second, and so on until the 5th Gate, giving him a maximum of 720 times multiplier for his basic strength. And he can also use a powerful ability for each gate that he opened.
Then, when he reached the 10th Divine Master Realm at an extremely young age, he went to 'hunt' down the soul fragments of the True Gods in the rest of the Primal Chaos Dimension, starting from the Azure Dragon God.
After gaining his bone marrow, his physical prowess increased to ridiculous levels, there was almost no one in this world capable of piercing through his body.
Getting the approval of the Three Supreme Fire Attribute Beasts and the Three Supreme Water Attribute Beasts was also pretty easy, gifting him with their respective flames, water and ice.
And then the second reason for getting the entire southern Primal Chaos Dimension against him, the three pieces of the World-Defying Heaven Manual, which hides the secret of becoming a True God.
However, only Xiao Qiangwei knew the truth… The truth after such a powerful Cultivation Technique…
It was useless, and Xiao Qiangwei finally understood in his life what it means to 'Not Understand'. The secret of controlling the laws of Heaven and Earth, the secret of becoming a True God… It was out of his reach.
But it doesn't matter, because everyone else won't accept this and will try to fight him for everything he currently has; like now…
All of a sudden, a booming voice echoed in the entire Star Realm.
"Exalted Xiao Qiangwei, I will give you a last chance in honor of your strength. Give up the World-Defying Heaven Manual and cripple your Profound Veins, and we will spare you from death. I, the Dragon Monarch, can guarantee you that you will come out as a corpse if you decide to fight!"
...Right, the enemies were the representatives of the western, southern and eastern divine regions, followed from the other Royal Star Realms.
The Brahma Monarch God Realm, representative of the western divine region, is holding the Eternal Heaven Pearl and the World Piercer.
The Southsea Realm, representative of the southern divine region, is holding the Sky Poison Pearl.
And the Dragon God Realm, representative of the eastern divine region, is holding the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword and the Primordial Seal of Life and Death.
Indeed, it will be difficult even for Xiao Qiangwei to come out unscathered if they use these treasures properly. But in the end, they are still weakened due to the fact that there isn't anymore any Primordial Energy in the Primal Chaos Dimension supporting them.
However, in answer to the Dragon Monarch's request, Xiao Qiangwei simply flared up his own Profound Strength.
"I am Xiao Qiangwei! I started to cultivate at the young age of 10! I was classified as a genius at the young age of 15! I ascended to the Divine Profound Realm at the age of 20!
I reached the Divine Master at the age of 25 and was claimed to be the strongest genius! I broke through one level of the Divine Master Realm for each year, until I reached the apex at the age of 35!
In 5 years, I collected both the approval of the Dragon God and the Supreme Beasts of Fire and Water! And at 50 years, I collected all three the parts of the World-Defying Heaven Manual!
In 50 years of my life, I did everything that, even if you all worked together for the rest of your lifespans, were not able to do! And you, Long Bai, think that I will simply agree to your request?! I'll personally bring all of you in the underworld, even if I have to destroy my home!"
The Dragon Monarch remained silent at Xiao Qiangwei's words. In every word that Xiao Qiangwei said, Long Bai couldn't help but feel respect for him. After all, he even gained the approval of the Dragon God, a figure that he admired.
However, mixed with the respect there was a heavy hatred because of the death of Shen Xi, the Dragon Queen, that Xiao Qiangwei caused.
Long Bai took a deep breath and raised the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword
"Activate the Inverse Form: Space and Time Calamity!" After Long Bai gave the order, a white dome covered the entire Star Realm, powered by the World Piercer and the Eternal Heaven Pearl that belonged to the Brahma Heaven God Emperor.
When the dome was closed, all of a sudden Xiao Qiangwei could feel an extremely wide time dilation between him and his opponents.
Then Long Bai's sword and a seal that was pending around his neck started to glow. "Activation of the Battle Formation of Eternal Life!"
He and everyone else glowed in a pure white aura, before they were covered in a medieval-style armor made of boundless lifeforce, armed with every type of weapon.
"Kill him!" Long Bai ordered.
Feeling something wrong, Xiao Qiangwei immediately activated Rumbling Heaven and activated the Sealing Cloud Locking Sun, covering himself in a barrier made of powerful defensive Profound Energy.
As soon as he did that, around 10 cultivators seemingly teleported in front of him, and slammed their weapons on his barrier, causing a powerful shockwave to spread across the Star Realm.
Meanwhile, other cultivators ranging from the Divine Spirit Realm to the Divine Master Realm also appeared around him, strangely holding the same level of power that Long Bai is holding. And when they attacked his barrier, a much greater shockwave spread out.
The tower where Xiao Qiangwei lived was turned into a massive pile of dust, while Xiao Qiangwei landed on that pile of dust while deactivating the Sealing Cloud Locking Sun.
He looked around and changed his mind on his situation. This time he might be really dead…
Thanks to the Inverse Formation, speed wasn't anymore a matter to consider because now everyone except him can teleport around as they wish, while his reactive time was massively reduced to 1/1000 than before. However, thanks to Rumbling Heaven, that number greatly increased to 1/9, making him able to react properly to the attacks.
And then, thanks to the Battle Formation, the quadrillion of opponents that could be easily eliminated before, now they are as strong as Long Bai, the second strongest Divine Master around, after himself. And the weapons they were holding were also much more powerful than that level, enough to kill him.
It doesn't matter how one will see such a situation, he needs to escape!
Xiao Qiangwei took out his Void Illusion Stone from his pocket dimension and used it. However, nothing happened.
"Don't even think about escaping! With the Inverse Formation: Space and Time Calamity, every possible attempt on your part to use space and time at your advantage is gone!" Long Bai bellowed before he crashed right over Xiao Qiangwei while wielding the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword.
Xiao Qiangwei gritted his teeth and took out his favored weapon, a two-meters long sword with a purple blade, before he blocked Long Bai's strike.
Xiao Qiangwei felt his legs dig under the ground, but he managed to block that powerful attack. Then he activated Hell Monarch, further increasing his multiplier from 120 to 720. The reaction speed between him before and now is less than almost 3/4, and his strength surpassed that of everyone here.
He pushed away the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword with his Thunder Imperial Longsword, before he gave him a second strike right the next instant. But Long Bai vanished before he could land the attack.
Then Xiao Qiangwei flew in the sky with his Profound Strength and charged everything he had in the weapon.
He realized it quite soon… This isn't a matter of stamina anymore, this is a matter of ending everything as fast as possible. So he started to use Destroying Sky Decimating Earth on the entire Star Realm.
Xiao Qiangwei finished to charge the attack really fast and swung his blade down. "Destroying Sky Decimating Earth!!" He yelled.
A sword beam came out from his longsword and flew at a really fast speed towards the ground, where many cultivators were staying.
Probably realizing that that attack could wipe out the majority of their troops, the Brahma Heaven God Emperor used the Inverse Formation to switch Xiao Qiangwei's place with the lower troops.
Xiao Qiangwei was surprised at the sudden shift of space, and when he felt a massive power incoming towards him, he instinctively used the 4th style. Xiao Qiangwei looked up and swung one arm towards the Destroying Sky Decimating Earth.
"Moon Star Restoration!" All of a sudden, much to everyone's surprise, the Destroying Sky Decimating Earth changed direction and slammed on the troops that stood in the middle area of the dome.
Since the lower troops and the middle troops were mixed together, the resulting explosion caused much more damage than previously calculated, leaving the army with less than a trillion.
But they were still all at the 10th Divine Master Realm, and Xiao Qiangwei received heavy consequence for using both the 3rd and 4th style.
His Profound Energy was less than half, while his lifespan was drastically reduced. However, he could still fight.
Xiao Qiangwei looked up and saw the three leaders followed from a massive army of white soldiers that covered the sky. Knowing that he can't freely use the Destroying Sky Decimating Earth anymore, he directly went to fight them one by one.
Using the ground as a barrier to block attacks from below, he concentrated to what was around him and above. And then, all of a sudden, an acidic substance teleported close to him.
It was fortunate that Xiao Qiangwei was reactive enough to dodge that using his Profound Movement Technique, the Ascending Shooting Star, by ignoring acceleration and going at the highest peaks of his speed in a instant.
Looking back at the spot where the substance fell, he saw that it was melting the ground. The Xiao Qiangwei looked up and saw the Southsea God Emperor holding the Sky Poison Pearl pointed at him.
"Tch… Hey, Brahma Heaven God Emperor, when will you be able to use the Inverse Formation with precision?" The Southsea God Emperor, Nan Wansheng, complained.
"Just concentrate on the target. It's not even 5 minutes since I first used this formation. But soon I will be able to accomplish a perfect hit rate." The Brahma Heaven God Emperor, Qianye Fantian, calmly replied.
Xiao Qiangwei heard their words and immediately focused on Qianye Fantian. If he can make the Inverse Formation: Space and Time Calamity, then he will have a great speed advantage against everyone else.
So, he used the Ascending Shooting Star towards him while his longsword was filled with electricity.
Almost instantly, Xiao Qiangwei reached Qianye Fantian, who teleported behind Xiao Qiangwei and struck his back with his sword.
The attack penetrated through Xiao Qiangwei's flesh and stopped at the bone marrow, but it was still enough to destabilize his movements.
Qianye Fantian smirked and snapped his fingers, before countless attacks struck Xiao Qiangwei at the same time.
"AAHHHH!!" He screamed in pain before Long Bai went in front of him and bashed Xiao Qiangwei with the blunt side of his Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword, cracking some bones while sending him fly at the speed of light against the ground. Unlike before, that attack seemed like it was carrying the power of everyone Xiao Qiangwei killed, so the effect of getting hit from such attack would be devastating.
It was obvious that Xiao Qiangwei was set up in a trap and he fell in like a kid. Qianye Fantian held his smirk and pointed at Xiao Qiangwei. "ATTACK!!"
Everyone started to attack the air, and using the Inverse Formation, Qianye Fantian sent all the attacks right on Xiao Qiangwei, without a single one missing. It seems like his own mastery on the formation was also a lie, since he already achieved the perfect hit rate.
The attacks soon stopped, and the army looked down on Xiao Qiangwei's remains…
It happened in an instant… From the tyrannical figure that he represented before, now he was covered in his own blood and injuries.
In fact, the injuries on him were so severe that one could even see the marrow at naked eyes.
His abdomen was no more. There was only his bone marrow covered in nerves and veins, and the Heretic God's Profound Veins that connected the upper and lower body.
Such a person should be dying now, but much to everyone's surprise, he was still standing on his feet.
"...I understand, this is the true might of the Heavenly Profound Treasures…" Xiao Qiangwei muttered, ignoring the damage on his body.
Even if he was at the apex of the Primal Chaos Dimension, and had enough power to be able to match someone at the Divine Extinction Realm, he was immediately turned helpless.
The Battle Formation of Eternal Life filled everyone with a power matching the second strongest person in the Primal Chaos Dimension, and equipped them with weapons capable of harming him. Also, the more people you kill, the greater will be the power that the original owner of the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword will have.
The Inverse Formation: Space and Time Calamity turned every single attack thrown into an attack that will certainly land on him, ignoring attempts at dodging. In less than a second, the attack he received was no different from being attacked more than a hundred billion of times in a single instant.
In fact, it was still a great result that he was still alive. It would be different if he could use the last two Heretic God's gates, but he can't complain now…
The Thunder Imperial Longsword fell from his right hand before he took a deep breath, and screamed. "Even if I have to die, I will deny you this victory! I will annihilate you and all of your attempts with my own hands!"
And then, Xiao Qiangwei grasped the profound veins that were revealed on his abdomen and tightened his hold on them, filling them with the same berserk energy flowing inside him.
Xiao Qiangwei's muscles ruptured crazily with blood sprouting out from his profound entrances, and the Profound Energy around him turned into an intense and deep blood red that completely covered his body.
"UWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" Xiao Qiangwei's screams filled with determination to murder anyone that is currently inside the white dome echoed in every corner of the Star Realm.
Dread filled everyone's hearts as Xiao Qiangwei's Profound Strength increased to a level where they couldn't even calculate it.
The Other Shore Asura, the 5th style that Xiao Qiangwei currently used, would let one's Profound Strength skip to the next realm… WITHOUT. ANY. EXCEPTION!!
That meant only a single thing for someone who reached the peak of the Divine Master Realm…
The space and time started to shift, and the dome that belonged to the Inverse Formation: Space and Time Calamity, while the Battle Formation of Eternal Life seemed like it was feeling fear, and the spirits in the treasures started to tremble in fear.
It wasn't the power of the Heretic God that made the spirits in the Heavenly Profound Treasures shake in fear...
It was the determination that Xiao Qiangwei was holding, the determination of someone who already had a powerful ambition put in the corner like a cat.
It was obvious that one needed a great amount of willpower to become such a genius in 50 years, but no one imagined that there existed such a willpower that could shake Heaven and Earth in fear.
That, coupled with the world-breaking power that Xiao Qiangwei was currently having, it only filled everyone with dread.
*Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!* *Thump!*
Everyone's heart started to violently beat as everyone was caged inside an immeasurable amount of Profound Strength and Killing Intent.
The first one to move was the Southsea God Emperor, when all of a sudden he made appear a black bladed wheel carrying a heavy amount of darkness energy.
"Heeheeheeheeheeheehee…"
"Uuuuuuuuuuu… Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…"
"Hic, hic… Hic, hic, hic, hic…. Huhuhuhu… Huhuhahahahaha…"
All of a sudden, a terrifying voice suddenly started ringing out in the air. A mix of laughter and cries echoed in the dome, filling everyone's ears with the eerie and terrifying crying laughters of an infant.
The Long Bai and Qianye Fantian turned towards Nan Wansheng, who was holding the pitch-black bladed wheel in one hand and the Sky Poison Pearl in the other hand.
"...Southsea God Emperor, is that…" Long Bai opened his mouth in shock.
"Yes. This is the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations. I know what you are thinking, but now is not the time. I didn't want to use this due to reasons that will concern our future relationships, but if we want to get alive from here, I can't do anything else but this!"
Nan Wansheng placed the Sky Poison Pearl at the center of the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations and started to spin the wheel towards Xiao Qiangwei.
"World Destroying Poison: Life Extinguishing Myriad Tribulations!" A dark mist was pressurized out from the wheel's center and slammed on Xiao Qiangwei.
That was the poison that instantly killed Gods and Devils. Even the Heretic God easily died under that, but that was because there wasn't anywhere to repair in…
Unlike back then, Xiao Qiangwei had plenty of ground to move in, so he simply made a step forward and grasped Nan Wansheng's right arm.
Long Bai and Qianye Fantian needed a single moment to realize that Xiao Qiangwei was already at their side despite the previous distance of millions of kilometers between them.
Before Nan Wansheng knew it, he was turned into a blood mist. And the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations fused with the Sky Poison Pearl that was previously in his hands fell on the ground.
Xiao Qiangwei's Profound Strength bursted out, and the Inverse Formation: Space and Time Calamity was busted open.
In a second burst of his Profound Strength that was a step away from reaching the level of True Gods, the Battle Formation of Eternal Life disappeared. The armors and weapons that everyone was wearing turned into dust, and so did the power that everyone was previously carrying.
And then, with the remaining strength he had, Xiao Qiangwei raised one palm upwards and created a concentrated orb filled with the power of the current Destroying Sky Decimating Earth.
""NO!!"" Long Bai and Qianye Fantian yelled and tried to reach him. However, they didn't move a single inch before everything was blasted away, including Xiao Qiangwei himself.
