Chapter 557: Chaos Star Domain, I Have the Final Say!

Chapter 557: The Chaotic Star Domain, I Call the Shots!

Qi Yuan looked at the two Ancestral Gods, their faces full of confusion, and spoke casually.

"Your experience is still too limited."

"Have you ever heard of wave-particle duality?"

"In a world called Blue Star, many ordinary men and women have mastered this skill."

"I can be a Yin God, a Realm Lord, or even a Zifu... why can't they coexist?"

Just like the Tang Niu inequality, accepting a gift does not equal consent.

I am a Realm Lord, but that doesn't mean I am only a Realm Lord; I can also be a Zifu!

You cannot define me!

Shangguan Qingteng and Shangguan Qingmiao were even more bewildered.

Had Qi Yuan gone mad from cultivating his brain?

At this moment, that was the only explanation.

But they had no time to dwell on it, as a vast and surging aura swept through at that instant.

Above the sky, fifteen majestic figures descended, each radiating a terrifying presence.

When they saw those fifteen, Shangguan Qingteng and Shangguan Qingmiao's expressions tightened.

Yang Gods!

The Yang Gods of the Black Heaven and Black Earth had arrived!

Fifteen Yang Gods hung high in the air, their might overwhelming, stirring the myriad realms.

A battle of this scale, aside from the front lines of the Void Sea, was rare even in the Grand Star Domain.

"Where is Qi Yuan? Come out and die!"

A majestic, unquestionable voice rang out at that moment.

Yet in the next breath, before the people of Kuijin Realm could react, a lazy voice drowned them out.

"Those who obstruct my path to becoming mortal shall be killed without mercy!"

A cleaver suddenly spanned the heavens.

"From today onward, in the Chaotic Star Domain... I call the shots!"

The unremarkable cleaver swung down. The earth did not crack, the mountains did not shatter, and even the wind did not ripple.

But then... the fifteen majestic Yang Gods shattered in an instant.

They fell.

Their bodies reformed, but what awaited them was still the same relentless slash.

Qi Yuan glanced at the fifteen Yang Gods, a look of disdain in his eyes: "Too pathetic, carrying so little Abyssal Source that they can be killed within an incense stick's time."

The cleaver hung in the sky, chopping down again and again, slaying the fifteen Yang Gods.

If these fifteen Yang Gods had enough Abyssal Source to keep reviving, this cleaver could hang there for three thousand years, endlessly killing the resurrecting Yang Gods until they were utterly annihilated.

This place would then become a forbidden zone, or a cosmic wonder, worthy of the world's awe.

Beside him, Shangguan Qingteng and Shangguan Qingmiao's pupils sharply contracted.

What were they seeing?

What was this?

He... was truly a Realm Lord.

How could it be?

"How can you be this strong?" Shangguan Qingmiao blurted out instinctively.

In the Divine Wood Universe, no Realm Lord could possibly exist.

To become a Realm Lord, one must sacrifice all the Chosen Ones.

Could it be... from another universe?

Even more impossible.

His mind was in turmoil, utterly unable to comprehend.

"Why am I so strong?" Qi Yuan paused, then said, "Because I understand The Art of War, I excel at using strength to crush weakness, so I am invincible in battle."

"???" Shangguan Qingteng and Shangguan Qingmiao inexplicably felt the air grow cold.

Of course, this chill in the air was no illusion.

Because after Qi Yuan finished his cold joke, he deliberately made the air cold to match the mood.

Paying no further heed to the two Shangguans, Qi Yuan said flatly, "All who block my path to becoming mortal shall be killed without mercy!"

At the same time, Qi Yuan's form became ethereal and insubstantial.

In the Chaotic Star Domain, hundreds of thousands of worlds overlapped, some hidden within motes of dust.

Then, suddenly, from among the tens of thousands of worlds, a great Dao voice resounded.

"From today onward, in the Chaotic Star Domain, I call the shots!"

The vast voice spread across the land, and every living being in the Chaotic Star Domain heard this thunderous proclamation at that moment.

Many people and Armament Masters were baffled, and even the members of the Thornblood were astonished.

"Who is so bold?"

A Yang God of the Black Heaven and Black Earth soared into the sky, his form like a streak of light.

Yet what awaited him was a colossal hand.

The hand came from nowhere, blotting out the sky, with space and time seeming to flow through it.

That Yang God of the Black Heaven and Black Earth turned ashen, his aura instantly severed, then he revived, only to be extinguished again.

Such events unfolded across all realms of the Chaotic Star Domain.

On that day, in tens of thousands of worlds, colossal hands descended, slaughtering all beings.

Every Abyssal Spirit, every Abyssal God, was ruthlessly suppressed and killed.

Even the Yang Gods, who could revive infinitely through their Abyssal Source, were slain by Qi Yuan.

Countless people looked up at the sky, their faces filled with shock or awe.

"What is that?"

They did not understand.

But they knew that from this day forth, the heavens of the Chaotic Star Domain had changed.

Green Mountain Realm, the world where the game began.

A colossal hand descended.

All the spectral beings crumbled and shattered like withered branches.

"How dare you snatch my drone—courting death!"

Qi Yuan's palm struck down a Heaven-tier spectral being, reducing it to ashes in an instant.

In less than a breath, the spectral beings that had ravaged the Green Mountain Realm were all slain, utterly annihilated.

Countless people looked up at the sky, their eyes filled with fear and awe.

"What kind of majestic being is this?"

"Someone from beyond the heavens?"

"A divine descent?"

"Brother-in-law? That voice—could it be my brother-in-law?" someone exclaimed in joy, grinning like a fool.

Others were astonished, for that domineering voice from the heavens was all too familiar.

Meanwhile, within the imperial city, a petite and exquisite beauty heard the voice from above, her eyes flashing with ecstasy: "Old Cai?"

Having become the Realm Lord, any voice that concerned him reached Qi Yuan's ears, no matter how many thousands of miles away he was.

When he heard "Old Cai," he couldn't help but curl his lips.

But in the end, being a man of refinement, he chose to ignore it.

His gaze seemed to pierce through time and space, landing on Shen Lingfeng in Fengshan County.

"Tell my mother-in-law that Lingxuan is with me now, safe and sound."

Shen Lingfeng's eyes blazed with joy: "It really is you, brother-in-law!"

"Oh, and also tell my mother-in-law that I am no longer the insignificant live-in son-in-law I once was. I won't be drawing her bathwater anymore."

"Got it, brother-in-law!" Shen Lingfeng was thrilled.

At the same time, within the Shen residence, the family head and his wife gazed at the giant hand in the sky. Like everyone else, they felt nothing but fear of the unknown.

Yet, a strange sensation stirred in Madam Shen's heart: "Husband, don't you think... that voice sounds familiar?"

"You mean... hush, don't provoke such a majestic being!" the Shen family head hurriedly urged.

Such a being defied ordinary logic.

Hearing this, Madam Shen wisely fell silent, though doubt lingered in her mind.

Just then, Shen Lingfeng burst in.

"Father, Mother... it's brother-in-law!"

At these words, Madam Shen immediately understood that her impulsive son had also recognized the voice as Qi Yuan's.

She quickly said, "Don't talk nonsense—that's not your brother-in-law!"

"It is brother-in-law! It really is!" Shen Lingfeng exclaimed joyfully. "Brother-in-law just told me that the voice from the heavens is his!"

"What?"

"How can that be!" Madam Shen and the family head stood frozen, their faces etched with shock.

Could it truly be Qi Yuan?

"Brother-in-law also said he's no longer the insignificant live-in son-in-law he used to be, and he won't be drawing your bathwater anymore!"

"..."

Meanwhile, a manifestation descended, landing at Sunset Cliff and eventually entering the Divine Tree Abyss.

Qi Yuan's incarnation gazed at the magnificent, desolate Divine Tree Abyss, a strange look in his eyes.

"Blind girl?"

He called out softly.

This voice, imbued with the Realm Lord's understanding of the laws, could reach every corner and awaken even a comatose soul.

But, as before, no one answered him.

The incarnation swept his gaze across everything, and finally, a hint of helplessness flickered in his eyes.

"I never thought that even as a Realm Lord, I couldn't pierce through the truth."

At the Realm Lord level, the laws of the universe were at his command.

Nothing in the cosmos could hide from him.

Yet in the Divine Tree Abyss, all that Qi Yuan's eyes beheld was the unknown.

Fractured strands of color, overlapping digital gibberish—chaotic, lawless, like primordial chaos.

He reached out a hand to touch, but all he grasped was emptiness.

Qi Yuan closed his eyes and listened intently.

"Since my eyes can't see, what about my ears?"

He recalled the soundless sound.

It did not exist in the world, as if no one could hear it.

Only his unique ability might faintly catch a trace.

Clad in a white robe, he stood still in the Divine Tree Abyss.

For a long time.

He murmured, "I hear the voice of the clouds, the voice of the rain, and the thunder of the silent roar."

Qi Yuan opened his eyes, his gaze turning bleak.

For some reason, a sense of powerlessness welled up within him.

Suddenly, Qi Yuan turned his hand over.

A leaf fell into his sight.

This leaf, obtained from the Strange Domain, was the celestial essence used to forge fragments of the Radiant Divine Artifact.

He stared at the leaf, lost in thought.

...

The Radiant Assembly.

Jade towers and jeweled pavilions, like a celestial palace.

"That Wu Dong... what a waste, dying in the Divine Tree Universe."

The woman was tall and slender, her eyes shimmering as if holding stars.

She hailed from the Radiant Universe, the second strongest among its Heaven-Stepping Five Steps.

"Hey, Feng Ti's clone, is that Qi Yuan really that powerful?" the tall woman asked, looking at Feng Ti.

The Feng Ti before her was not the real one, merely a replica—a copy of the Heaven-Stepping Five Steps Feng Ti.

Thus, the tall woman called him a clone.

Feng Ti’s eyes were deep and profound: “If you wish to know, challenge him yourself and find out.”

Of that past event, he had no memory.

Yet even he, who bore nine lives, had been slain—this meant that Qi Yuan’s strength absolutely surpassed his, and by no small margin.

“If not for having to hold back those worthless Black Earth scum, I would have long gone to challenge that so-called Qi Yuan. You… have truly disgraced our Radiant Universe,” said the tall woman.

At their level, having lived for so many years, they had long followed their hearts, abided by their nature, and let their thoughts flow freely.

“You are afraid,” said Feng Ti. “Wu Dong fell inexplicably, and even the Time Realm Lord could not save him.”

“Have you gone stupid from cultivation? Wu Dong’s death is certainly linked to Black Heaven. How… could you think a native of the Divine Wood Universe…”

The tall woman’s words cut off abruptly.

A vast, hoarse voice rang out within the Radiant Divine Palace.

“All members, prepare at once. Withdraw from the Chaotic Star Domain.”

The tall woman’s face showed confusion: “Old man, what’s wrong? Have Black Heaven and Black Earth broken through the Void Sea defenses and invaded the Chaotic Star Domain?”

Her status was noble, so she could naturally question the master of this Radiant Assembly branch.

“A Realm Lord has appeared in the Chaotic Star Domain. If we remain here, death is our only path,” replied the master of this Radiant Assembly branch.

“A Realm Lord… how is that possible? Did Black Heaven and Black Earth’s Realm Lord attack? Is Yuan dead?” The tall woman’s face was filled with shock and disbelief.

Though her talent was extraordinary, the Realm Lord was still a being she could only look up to.

With a single thought, a Realm Lord could effortlessly annihilate her.

“It is not a Realm Lord of Black Heaven. The Divine Wood Universe has birthed a Realm Lord.”

“Impossible!” The tall woman’s first reaction was doubt.

This shattered her understanding.

“This matter has been confirmed by the Windcloud Realm Lord. A Realm Lord has indeed appeared in the Chaotic Star Domain, named Qi Yuan.

He… Feng Ti has met him before. Once, when Feng Ti went to the Green Mountain Realm, he was slain by him.”

“Confirmed by the Windcloud Realm Lord? Wait… slain Feng Ti?” A sense of absurdity surged in the tall woman’s heart.

The one she had wanted to challenge… was a Realm Lord?

And the Divine Wood Universe… how could a Realm Lord appear there?

All of this was too bizarre, too beyond comprehension.

“Leave this place at once, or else… even if a Realm Lord acts, they cannot save us!”

The tall woman did not hesitate. She knew that now, fleeing was paramount.

If she delayed, she might not even make it.

That was a Realm Lord. In some ordinary universes, a Realm Lord might be the strongest being in the entire cosmos.

…

Sanmu Realm Lord hung his head, his face grim.

“Feng Ti, stop cultivating. There’s a big matter.”

Feng Ti awoke from his cultivation, looked at Sanmu Realm Lord, and said helplessly, “Sanmu old man, what now?”

He had been cultivating properly, aiming to break through to the third layer of Yang God, the Realm Lord realm.

Yet this Sanmu old man kept coming to him time and again.

“Remember the person I told you about last time? The one who defeated… your clone.”

“Mm, a native of the Divine Wood Universe,” Feng Ti said flatly. “He could be considered a prodigy.”

“Far more than… a prodigy.”

“Did your disciple lose?” A glint of schadenfreude appeared in Feng Ti’s calm eyes.

“Far more than… lost. He died. Not only that, I sought the Time Realm Lord’s aid, but could not retrieve his True Spirit,” Sanmu Realm Lord said bitterly.

“No wonder you came to me. This matter… is indeed strange,” said Feng Ti.

“That is but a trifle. The most important thing is that person… named Qi Yuan, has now broken through to the Realm Lord realm.”

“How is that possible?” Shock filled Feng Ti’s eyes.

At the same time, the special True Spirit coiled within Feng Ti’s body trembled violently.

Feng Ti’s divine light shifted, and he sensed something: “Such a great matter… would likely interest the Dao Lord. It has nothing to do with someone like me, who hasn’t even reached the third layer of Yang God.”

Feng Ti waved his sleeve, as if seeing the guest out.

Sanmu Realm Lord left, cursing under his breath.

In Feng Ti’s ear, a voice of surprise sounded.

“Strange… why do I not know that the Divine Wood Universe has gained a Realm Lord?”

“Is this… very special?”

“Very special, very special, strange,” the voice said, ethereal. “The more special and strange, the more it signifies danger. Feng Ti… come with me and leave Radiant.”

“Staying in Radiant, you will never step into the Realm Lord realm.”

“You have been fixed at the second layer of Yang God.”

“Just as the destruction of the Divine Wood Universe… has been fixed.”

(The chapter ends)