A dragon's roar reverberated across heaven and earth. Over twenty thousand kilometers away from the demon god battlefield, an overwhelming aura descended, so powerful that even Divine King Tarodell and Demon God Sigitiko felt danger approaching.

On the massive summoning altar that spanned a hundred kilometers, blue light surged and space-time twisted violently. The sudden change startled all of the supreme powerhouses of the human alliance, as well as the demon gods. They broke away from their opponents and turned to look in that direction.

From within the deep blue summoning array, a colossal beast slowly rose. Its enormous body rolled like mountain ridges. Golden-black peaks jutted from its back, and it was clad in jagged, thick scales. It resembled a dragon, but not quite, radiating a mix of majesty and ferocity.

Its body measured just over seven thousand meters in length, still smaller than the true forms of most ordinary demon gods. Yet the moment the Golden-Winged Divine King and the others laid eyes on it, it was as if they were gazing into an endless sky. A vast and majestic pressure filled the heavens, blotting out the sun.

All of the demon gods instinctively revealed fear in their eyes. Deorus, Kaodes, and Livedes, the Ancestral Court's demon god, were visibly shaken. The ancient aura radiating from the golden-black beast filled them with disbelief. "That's Chu Batian's summoned beast... but how is this possible?"

Just one day-cycle ago, when Chen Chu attacked the Purgatory Empire's rear lines, he had summoned this very beast. Back then, it had gravely wounded Kaodes while Deorus was being held back by the Time Dragon.

At that time, however, the beast was only at the beginning stage of the titan level. Now, in just one day-cycle, it had become an ancient titan, and its aura had grown even more powerful.

Beside the beast, standing at the edge of the space-time summoning altar, was Chen Chu, his black hair whipping in the wind. His presence stunned the demon gods once more.

Had he not just been killed by their ambush? Eight demon gods had worked together, sacrificing five forbidden weapons in a deadly strike. His true form and divine soul had been obliterated. Even his life aura had vanished. The dispersal of his principle and the shattering of his divine soul had been unmistakably real. It couldn't have been faked. So how had he returned?

While the demon gods were reeling in shock, Qian Tian and the others were also momentarily dazed. Then, a breath of relief escaped their lips. There had been no way to know for sure. Chen Chu's "fall" had fooled not only the demon gods, but even his own allies. They had thought something had truly gone wrong.

Just then, a translucent stream appeared behind Chen Chu. From within the stream, another version of Chen Chu slowly emerged from nothing. Compared to the earlier formation of his temporal true form, this version was weaker. Its aura was fragile and fragmented, giving the impression of something damaged and incomplete.

Even so, Deorus and the others were startled again. The demonic dragon Kaodes roared with fury. "That's a time-based divine ability. It's similar to how Deorus summons true forms from the past and future. No wonder. What we destroyed earlier was Chu Batian's temporal true form, not his main body."

Earlier, when Chen Chu sensed the strong malice in the demon gods' gazes and received a warning from the Insightful Eye, he had used the power of principles to twist space around him, masking his movements and swapping places with his temporal true form.

The destruction of the temporal true form and the disappearance of its soul aura didn't matter. As long as the time mark remained, Chen Chu could spend time energy to reconstruct it.

On the other hand, the combined strike from eight demon gods, along with the explosion of five forbidden weapons, had been unimaginably powerful. Even the time mark had been damaged. Though he had reformed his temporal true form, its aura had fallen from the middle stage of the heavenly king level down to the peak of the mythical level.

However, that was already enough. A Chen Chu at the peak of the mythical level, combined with the Dark Star World-Ending Form of the Nine-Fold Heavenly Gate, could barely hold off a beginning-stage demon god.

All of this—the descent of the Destructive Dragon Emperor, Chen Chu's reappearance, and the reconstruction of his damaged temporal true form—had occurred in an instant, so fast that the demon gods had no time to react.

Roar!

The summoned Dragon Emperor raised its head and howled, as crimson radiance burst forth from its body. Under the power of the Dark-Red Law, its form rapidly expanded. In the blink of an eye, it became a red colossal beast over twenty thousand meters long.

Its already terrifying aura, comparable to the peak of the ancient titan level, now grew even more suffocating. The weight of it seemed to darken the entire world. Even Sigitiko's face changed dramatically; it had only ever felt this level of power from two great demon gods, but this still wasn't the end.

Boom!

A layer of pitch-black, flame-like power erupted from the Dragon Emperor's body, igniting into a blazing inferno.

Under those black flames, which disintegrated all things and collapsed the principles of heaven and earth, the Dragon Emperor's body expanded once more, reaching thirty thousand meters in length. Its muscles bulged and forced its scales outward.

It looked like a world-ending beast clad in armor of pure savagery. Golden-red lightning crackled across its massive form as black flames roared all around it. The aura it released made all living beings tremble in fear, surpassing even divine kings and demon gods.

Heaven and earth shook across hundreds of thousands of kilometers. All color drained from the world, and heaven and earth seemed to dissolve back into chaos. The scene was utterly terrifying.

However, that wasn't the end, either. Before Deorus and the other demon gods could even react, the Dark-Red World descended behind the Dragon Emperor, now in its Endbringer Form.

Boom!

Endless crimson radiance burst from the Dragon Emperor. Its aura surged once more. Sharp bone spikes emerged from every joint, wrapped in a blood-red glow and radiating a brutal, grotesque power. In an instant, a destructive aura that heralded the end of all things spread outward—an aura that seemed to lead the world toward final annihilation.

From the void came indistinct whispers in unknown tongues. "End..." "Destruction..." "Extinction of all beings..."

Within this range of several hundred thousand kilometers, every lifeform, including both the Purgatory legions and the human coalition forces, all the way up to the heavenly kings and great demon kings, shuddered beneath that aura.

Behind the human army, Lin Yu raised her head in horror. Gazing at the sky filled with dark-red radiance, her voice trembled. "Sis... What is this power? It's terrifying."

"I- I don't know," Lin Xue answered. Her face was pale, and her legs shook under the invisible pressure that stirred such dread in her heart.

Even Li Daoyi, whose strength now rivaled that of a mythical king, stood frozen on the ground, trying hard to stay upright, rather than collapse. After all, he had just declared that he would dominate the battlefield. There was no way he could fall to the ground now, especially not in front of Ji Wuji, who was already lying face-down.

Except for those at the supreme level, who commanded principles, and those at the heavenly king level, who had condensed a complete law-bound world within themselves, no one remained in the sky. Even the over one hundred million Purgatory troops and the demonized flying beasts had all disappeared from the air.

In the face of a true-spirit-level existence, no creature below the titan level was qualified to fly. Even those like Gabriel could barely remain aloft. The aura of the Chaotic End was simply too overwhelming. Even separated by tens of thousands of kilometers, the invisible pressure it emitted was unbearable to even a heavenly king.

While those below were still reeling, high in the sky, the Heavenly Feathered divine kings and others were also filled with shock.

"A true spirit..."

"How is this possible?"

Even Qian Tian and the rest were stunned, deeply shaken by the power the Dragon Emperor now displayed. They had all witnessed the breath attack from before, but none of them had expected that this mutated beast, which had left the Blue Planet only half a year ago, had already become an ancient titan. Now, it had even surpassed those limits, attaining the level of a civilization emperor.

As for Deorus and the other demon gods, their expressions turned grave with shock, and their first instinct was to retreat.

At the very moment the Dragon Emperor entered its strongest form, Chen Chu's voice resounded through heaven and earth. "Sirs, give me ten minutes. Hold them back with everything you have."

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