Chapter 1711: Abyss Lord - Taiyi!

Chapter 1711: The Sovereign of the Void - Taiyi!

The Heavenly Punishment God-King was stunned by Zhou Zhou's audacious idea.

Could it be that Zhou Zhou, with only himself, intended to challenge one hundred beings whose wills had transcended all limits?

And even more astonishing—his 100 so-called "Root Walkers" beneath him, daring to confront a thousand beings at the peak of willful transcendence, undertaking something no one among them, not even together, had the courage to attempt?

Even now, having ascended to the highest lordship?

This was sheer madness—unparalleled audacity!

At this very moment,

the supreme willful transcendents of the highest cosmos had learned of Zhou Zhou’s ascension to the title of Supreme Lord.

They were stunned, yet they also felt it was utterly natural.

If Zhou Zhou couldn't become the Supreme Lord, who could?

Heavenly Punishment Sovereign? The Spring-Autumn Law Master? Or perhaps the weakest yet most rapidly advancing, the Wàn Xié Demon Sovereign?

None of them!

Each of them stands in a world apart from the Celestial People Sovereign—unbearably distant.

Should any one of them ascend to the Supreme Sovereign, the other masters of Unfathomable Will would inevitably raise objections.

Yet only when Zhou Zhou becomes Supreme Sovereign do all such powerful beings remain silent.

For they truly revere this Celestial People Sovereign!

They revere him so deeply that even if some of them are backed by the loyalists of the other three aspiring Supreme Sovereigns, they still cannot, with a guilty conscience, utter a single word declaring that Zhou Zhou is unfit to be the true Supreme Sovereign.

And now, he has already received the recognition of Supreme Will and has truly ascended to the rank of Supreme Sovereign.

There is no longer any reason to challenge him.

It is time to celebrate!

The thoughts struck them in unison.

They swarmed forward, showering Zhou Zhan with their congratulations.

Even a few of the Supreme Will realm powerhouses, locked in the fury of combat, spared a fraction of their focus to send a voice transmission, offering their respects to the newly ascended Supreme Lord.

Zhou Zhan responded to each with a faint smile, then suddenly spoke: "My friends, now is hardly the hour for celebration."

"Allow this Emperor and his generals to dispose of these pests first."

With that final word.

Zhou Zhan offered no further explanation.

Leading his one hundred Root Walkers, he soared directly toward the absolute epicenter of the battlefield.

The onlookers froze, a long moment passing before the realization struck, leaving them utterly shaken by the sheer audacity of Zhou Zhan venturing into the heart of the fray with a mere hundred subordinates in tow.

They hurriedly pressed for his intentions, and the God King of Heavenly Punishment made no secret of it, revealing the design Zhou Zhan had confided in him.

The powerful experts were shaken once more.

Yet, a collective curiosity burned within them, wondering how Zhou Zhan, accompanied by a mere hundred subordinates, intended to vanquish the gathered hosts of the Falsehood Clan—every last one of their Supreme Will and Will Transcendent masters.

...

The Twilight Battlefield.

The very heart of the conflict.

The moment Zhou Zhan descended, he instantly drew the gaze of every warrior from both the Falsehood Clan and the Supreme Great Universe.

"It is the Saint King of Common People!"

"He is our true quarry!"

"This man is the destined leader of the Supreme Great Universe and the future sovereign of the Ultimate Void Great Universe alike. He must die by our hands. Erase him, and our conquest of the Ultimate Void Great Universe will be vastly simplified!"

"Haha! A mere mid-tier Supreme Will Realm expert, relying on nothing but secret arts to temporarily bolster his strength, dares to venture into the epicenter of this war? Watch me claim his head and seek the rewards of my superiors!"

The powerhouses of the Falsehood Clan rapidly exchanged frantic words.

Then, a flock of three to four hundred supreme absolute will realm masters, flanked by over twenty will-transcendent entities, abandoned their immediate foes and surged en masse toward Zhou Zhan.

Yet before Zhou Zhan could even raise a hand, the one hundred Root Walkers standing at his back stepped forward.

They converged as one, weaving a collective incantation that swiftly manifested a pallid, ash-gray character in their midst: "Wedge."

It was the Immortal-grade troop talent—The Wedge of Finality!

Harnessing the power of the immortal root to forge the strength of the immortal end, it summoned the day of doom for any designated lifeform within its domain, consigning their existence to finality.

"Let the lives of all supreme absolute will realm powerhouses of the Falsehood Clan here reach their finality!"

"Wedge of Finality, activate!"

They cried out in thunderous unison.

As the words had barely settled,

a sudden burst of bright gray-white light erupted from the cuneiform script.

This gray-white radiance expanded rapidly like a spreading domain aura, spreading outward in all directions.

Every one of the transcendent will beings caught within the glow shrieked and turned to ash, vanishing into the air.

The other transcendent will beings and those beyond the realm of will, witnessing this, all felt a deep chill run down their spines.

What kind of power is this?!

How could transcendent will beings—so powerful—fall so helplessly, without a single resistance?!

Even the most elite among the wills beyond transcendence could not achieve such a silent, effortless annihilation of a single transcendent will being. But to erase so many of them at once—this was beyond comprehension.

"Damn it!"

"Whatever you're doing, stop it right now!"

A primordial being of the delusional race roared with transcendent will.

Then it prepared to strike—against these 100 root wanderers.

"Ah."

"Your opponent is me."

"Not my root wanderers."

At that moment,

a calm, smiling voice from Zhou Zhan echoed.

The next second,

Zhou Zhan immediately activated the King.

A force of 150,000 transcendent-will beings surged into him, instantly elevating his power from the mid-tier of supreme will transcendence to the apex of will transcendence.

Then, as if there were no end to it, it surged upward once more—only to finally halt, barely.

Immediately thereafter, He unleashed the Will Technique of "All Under Heaven Belongs to the Sovereign."

In an instant, His domain expanded to encompass the entire battlefield.

"Listen," He said.

"Any member of the Delusory Race who employs a Concept Divine Power within my domain shall have that power halved in effect. Weak Concept Divine Powers may even completely fail."

The words had barely settled when countless members of the Delusory Race suddenly found themselves in terror—discovering that their Concept Divine Powers had been drastically weakened, some even vanishing entirely.

Their strength plummeted instantly.

And the champions from the Supreme Cosmic Realm and the Sunlit Holy Nation, facing them, seized upon this golden opportunity with ruthless precision, launching counterattacks against the arrogant and overconfident Delusory Race, finally regaining the upper hand in the battle.

The Heavenly Punishment God King, who had been closely observing the battlefield, and the other champions from the Supreme Cosmic Realm, now all joined the fray, uniting to confront the vast army of the Delusory Race.

When He saw that Zhou Zhan had merely extended his hand once, and yet had reversed the battlefield's disadvantage, their expressions were a mix of shock and astonishment.

Especially Tian Cheng God King, who felt deeply that he had made an utterly correct choice.

With regard to his own relinquishment of the first reserve status of Supreme Lord, allowing Zhou Zhou to ascend to the position of Supreme Lord, he now harbored not a single trace of regret.

"I absolutely cannot do this."

"Only the King of the People's Sanctity, my former younger brother, can achieve this."

"Under the leadership of the King of the People's Sanctity, the Supreme Great Universe will surely surpass the peak era under the former Supreme Will, reaching an even greater pinnacle!"

This was exactly what Tian Cheng God King thought within his heart.

The other powerful beings also thought the same.

Meanwhile.

On the battlefield.

At this moment, Zhou Zhan had no time to concern himself with his own performance, nor with the profound shock he had caused among the great beings like Tian Cheng God King.

His gaze had now settled firmly upon the hundred will-transcendent elite warriors.

Immediately after he had proclaimed, "The entire world is the sovereign's domain,"

even among these hundred will-transcendent warriors of the Deluded Clan, half of them had experienced a significant weakening of their conceptual powers.

Though none had completely lost their abilities, this still represented a devastating blow to their strength.

The hundred will-transcendent warriors stared at Zhou Zhan with growing dread and resentment.

"A mere mid-tier Supreme Realm cultivator—capable of such power?"

"What will become of us when you fully mature?"

One of the Deluded Clan's will-transcendent warriors coldly remarked.

"Let's go together!"

"Kill him at all costs!"

"Even if we die, the Great Delusion Origin and the Sovereign of the Void Abyss will resurrect us all!"

The elite warriors of the Delusion Race surged forward, their wills unified.

"Want to kill me?"

"See if you have the strength!"

Zhou Zhan smiled faintly.

Then he raised his right hand, palm facing them.

"Universal Law Star Palm!"

He murmured softly.

Boom!

At this very moment.

The one hundred powerhouses of Will Transcendence level present suddenly discovered they had somehow arrived in a place filled with a sky full of stars.

They looked up at the starry sky in sheer horror.

Only to find that every single star in this stellar expanse gave them a feeling of extreme danger.

As if in the next second they would plummet from the heavens and smash them to smithereens.

And right at this juncture.

Zhou Zhan's voice drifted over.

"Feel what it is like to be besieged by one hundred and fifty thousand powerhouses of Will Transcendence level, shall you?"

The crowd of Will Transcendence level powerhouses from the Illusionary Clan had not yet understood what Zhou Zhan meant by these words.

But in the next split second.

They saw with terror the stars above their heads beginning to tremble faintly.

Then the tremors grew stronger, swelling like a structure on the brink of collapse.

Finally...

Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom...

Fifteen thousand stars fell from the sky, crashing down with devastating force upon the 100 Will-Transcendent-tier beings of the Deluded Race.

At first, they scrambled to defend themselves.

But soon, they could not hold.

For each impact of those fifteen thousand stars was equivalent to a full-force strike from a Will-Transcendent-tier warrior!

Though these 100 Will-Transcendent-tier beings might withstand the combined assault of two or three hundred such warriors, when the number surpassed them by tenfold or hundredfold, they were utterly helpless—no defense, no resistance, no hope.

Thus, within less than a few seconds.

These one hundred will-transcendent-level warriors fell entirely beneath the onslaught of the stars raining down from the sky.

Zhou Zhan saw this and, with a calm expression, raised his hand.

The remaining eighty percent of the stars still drifting through the heavens vanished silently.

His demeanor remained utterly still, showing not a single spark of exhilaration at having slain one hundred will-transcendent-level warriors.

It is much like a man who possesses fifteen thousand dollars in disposable cash—

if you ask him to spend one hundred dollars on a meal, he will naturally feel no great excitement.

"Right now,"

"I possess the full strength and techniques of all one hundred will-transcendent-level warriors!"

"Ordinary will-transcendent-level warriors can no longer stand as my adversaries."

"Only beings at the level of Huang Tian's Master, Da Hong's Supreme Emperor, or the Supreme Will can be my adversaries."

Zhou Zhan spoke softly.

Then, a thought suddenly arose in his mind.

Let Zhou Shixi attack the entire Huang Tian Cosmos tomorrow.

No more waiting.

Even if Huang Tian's Master personally descended, Zhou Shixi, with his own strength alone, would surely be able to defeat him.

At that moment,

Zhou Zhan had already dissolved the surrounding domains, and the 100 fallen transcendental-level warriors of the Unreal Clan now appeared above the battlefield.

When they saw the corpses of these 100 top-tier warriors, both the forces of the Supreme Cosmos and the Unreal Clan fell silent, stunned beyond words.

How could it be—had it only been so short a time since the Mortal Sovereign had wiped out all the transcendental-level warriors?

There stood a supreme-tier being of the Delusion Clan, gazing coldly at Zhou Zhan in the sky, and suddenly realizing something, murmuring softly:

"Intelligence is incorrect."

"The Imperial Sovereign of the People is not merely a candidate for the Supreme Lordship."

"He has grown to match the level of Supreme Will itself."

"A second being of Supreme Will has emerged within the Supreme Great Cosmos!"

The entire arena erupted in shock.

All the powerful beings had come to realize this.

And they had come to realize—

This was a true Supreme Lord!

A genuine inheritor of Supreme Will!

In terms of power, status, authority, and prestige, they perfectly embodied the image of the Supreme Lord as envisioned by them.

At this very moment,

the morale of the forces from the Supreme Great Cosmos surged tenfold!

Meanwhile, the morale of the Voidborn race plummeted to its lowest ebb.

Even members of the Voidborn began fleeing toward the entrance point into the Supreme Great Cosmos, seeking mere survival.

As the mightiest beings of the Supreme Great Cosmos prepared to launch a pursuit,

the hundreds of Voidborn warriors who had initially fled suddenly turned gray, their bodies fading into ash, dissolving into the air.

Zhou Zhan's brow furrowed, his gaze filled with suspicion.

For he now felt an uncommon chill—something deeply unsettling.

As if a powerful being watched over him in silence.

No, not surveillance!

Zhou Zhan turned his gaze toward the distant horizon.

There, in the unknown moment, a single black eye had appeared—within the hidden rear of the Veilborn race.

It revealed only that one eye, yet it was vast enough to overshadow the heavens, as if the entire sky of the Dusk Lands had been swallowed beneath its dark gaze.

Zhou Zhan’s skin tightened across his entire body.

For he sensed it—this eye, vast and all-consuming, had ignored the countless warriors arrayed upon the battlefield, and instead, fixed solely upon him.

Yet within his heart, calm remained. His outward demeanor remained as composed as ever.

"I originally thought it was the Supreme Will."

"Then it is you."

“Hahaha……”

A light, mysterious laugh echoed through the heavens and earth.

"Who are you?"

Zhou Zhan looked up, asking.

"I am Taiyi."

"The sole being in the realm of illusion who stands equal to the source of illusion itself."

"All members of the Illusory Clan would rather refer to me by another name."

"The Master of the Void Depths."

"The People."

"You are my only adversary, and I am your only adversary!"

"Do not dare to dream of escaping your destiny!"

"For I believe that your resolve to attain eternity and immortality is surely no lesser than my own!"

"And this, precisely, is why we are destined to be each other's nemesis!"

"Ah, yes."

"You have been searching for this all along, haven't you."

"Since you fancy it, it is yours."

With those words spoken.

Two streaks of flowing light shot from the distance, arriving before Zhou Zhan with breathtaking speed, where they hovered right before His eyes.

Zhou Zhan gazed upon these two objects.

They were none other than...

The last two fragments of the Delusion Holy Seal!

With them, Zhou Zhan would possess the complete Delusion Holy Seal,

but.

Zhou Zhan did not feel the slightest joy.

"Taiyi..."

His face was deeply serious.