Chapter 601: 逆天改命，奇迹的命运在我手中！

At this moment, not only the fifty-seven Celestial Emperors from the Human-Celestial Path, but also eight Celestial Emperors from the Mortal Path and the Animal Path arrived. Elders, Treants, Skeletons—ancient Celestial Emperors from a bygone era had all come.

These eight Celestial Emperors from other realms walked with steady, solemn steps, as if approaching death itself. With each stride, their blood felt as if it were freezing. Fear, suppression, shock. What kind of emotions would one feel when facing the Ruler of the Underworld, who governed the cycle of reincarnation? Was it an ancient Venerable Emperor who controlled their very existence, life and death? The Reincarnation Lord who, all alone, blocked the entire Immortal Path?

"I have not become a god, and there are no gods in this world."

That single statement was enough to shake their very souls. They had never imagined that such a day would come... For them, facing the Venerable Emperor directly was like confronting destiny itself.

Tap, tap. Their steps were slow, their minds racing. The streets were shattered, buildings stretched on, and as the contemporary Great Emperors approached, they finally caught a clear glimpse of the true form of the veiled being. His face was handsome, scholarly, and casually elegant. Dressed in a fitting black robe, he exuded an ethereal, noble, and distinguished aura.

"Is this the ancient Venerable Emperor?" The Emperors gazed with incredulity. He appeared too young and naive, as if time had barely touched him.

Emperor Yun ignored the Celestial Emperors from other paths. He merely swept his gaze around and coldly commanded, "Four initial-stage Celestial Emperors, retreat to the rear and set up formations." Instantly, the four retreated. They knew their aptitude was ordinary, and reaching the Celestial Emperor stage was already their limit. Within sub-realms, the disparity remained significant. An initial-stage Celestial Emperor could typically not withstand more than five moves from a peak Celestial Emperor. Facing such an ancient being, they would likely be shaken to death if they did not retreat.

However, initial-stage Celestial Emperors were ultimately few. Most Celestial Emperors had advanced at least to the mid-stage over the years. "Twenty-six mid-stage Celestial Emperors, form the outer perimeter array." Cloud Sovereign chuckled, then suddenly turned, "Combine your respective talents and battle strategies."

"The remaining twenty-five peak Celestial Emperors, fight alongside us!"

With a furious roar, the attack was launched! All kinds of brilliance erupted.

"I never interfere with the world's operations; life and death have their own fixed course. If you wish to confront me, I will not be angered. It is human nature to seek a higher path." Xu Zhi showed no tension, fully embodying his role. Yet, he spoke casually, as if addressing a group of unimportant passersby, "Have you all arrived? Are you, then, everyone currently in this world?"

Emperor Yun remained silent, ascending into the air. Cloud Sovereign's hands unleashed a violent burst of mist. "Reincarnation Lord, prepare to die!!"

Massive waves surged and spread. Terrifying aura immediately mixed in. Petals of Buddha's light blossomed, and wisps of aura burned. Various secret techniques from Buddhist and Taoist schools were unleashed, their power astonishing. Many Celestial Emperors, though from an old era and nearing death, had still cultivated significant levels in the two major systems. Most impressively, Emperor Yun and Cloud Sovereign not only possessed astonishing talents but had also broken through to the Seventh-Tier Buddhist Celestial Emperor and Seventh-Tier Taoist Celestial Emperor, cultivating all three systems simultaneously. Their combat power was incredibly formidable, having completely entered the Saint realm!

Boom! The entire concentrated attack aura descended. The massive and vast walls of Cloud City in the Cloud Heaven Realm immediately shattered under the impact. The largest imperial city in the entire Human-Celestial Realm violently collapsed in the collision.

Xu Zhi remained floating in place, utterly unmoving. Their boundless power seemed to vanish into the sea, leaving no trace.

"Generally... one person fighting ten ordinary Celestial Emperors is considered a beginner Great Saint." Xu Zhi's voice was calm. "Fighting twenty ordinary Celestial Emperors makes one a mid-level Great Saint. Fighting thirty ordinary Celestial Emperors makes one a high-level Great Saint, and fighting fifty ordinary Celestial Emperors makes one a perfected Saint." His leisurely voice pierced deeply into their hearts.

A closer look revealed that Cloud Sovereign and Emperor Yun only possessed the combat power of mid-level Great Saints, with individual powers of twenty-one and twenty-three respectively. The rest of the ordinary Celestial Emperors mostly had a power of one. All combined, they amounted to little more than one hundred ordinary Celestial Emperors, with Cloud Sovereign and Emperor Yun accounting for half of that power. At most, it was equivalent to the combat power of two perfected Saints!

"No, it's not calculated that way..." Emperor Yun roared, his long hair fluttering, and the coldness in his eyes surged. "Our scattered numbers don't form a cohesive whole. A hundred of us combined, at most, might barely equate to one perfected Saint. No, not even one perfected Saint..."

Boom! They couldn't help but unleash another hundred-person combined attack. Streams of colorful radiance, divine flames, and terrifying auras flowed, striking the central figure of the Reincarnation Lord. The attacks, surprisingly, vanished again. It was as if the attacks had reached another dimension, never getting close to his true form.

Whoosh! The radiance dissipated. A massive pit, like a chasm, appeared across the entire Cloud Heaven Realm. The entire city had vanished, yet only the Reincarnation Lord remained floating within it.

"What kind of ability is this?"

"Is our disparity truly so vast?"

"Not even a single strand of hair was harmed!"

Even Emperor Yun and Cloud Sovereign's expressions changed drastically. Such combat power was unimaginable. Even with everyone attacking in unison, they couldn't inflict the slightest harm.

"Are you all finished?" Xu Zhi flashed a hint of disappointment, contemplating inwardly, sorting through the gains and losses. "No matter how many of you there are, you're merely small fry... unable to even breach my defenses."

"Mirror Reversal."

Xu Zhi silently recited the move of Emperor Da Huanxi. As a technique from a bygone era, it had long since been learned and mastered.

"Crack!" Space seemed to crack from the shock. Their very attacks, now seemingly solid, swiftly counterattacked. The entire land was enveloped by a multi-colored orb of light, which shot violently in all directions. Heaven and earth changed color.

"Our attacks?"

"Absorbed... and reflected attacks?"

Emperor Yun's expression changed drastically. He fully understood the horror of this technique, but it was already too late... The next second, the entire world was engulfed.

Whoosh— The light illuminated the Cloud Heaven Realm for over ten seconds, a terrifying and brutal pressure sweeping across the land. The light dissipated. The land was utterly silent. Intense, highly concentrated radiation melted the entire land into crystals, leaving cracked, dark red stones everywhere.

Standing amidst the shattered land, everyone had vanished. Only Xu Zhi remained, standing quietly.

"Too weak. Quantity can never surpass quality through accumulation... It's like the qualitative transformation and condensation of energy at a higher realm, allowing an ant-sized deity to easily kill a massive Celestial Emperor." Xu Zhi slowly exhaled a turbid breath.

These two were comparable to Emperor Qi and Dao Changsheng from back then, but their combined efforts could no longer affect him at all. Because eras had come and gone, he had simply grown too powerful... He no longer even knew how strong he truly was... Just one of Emperor Da Huanxi's moves was already irresistible.

And what was truly terrifying about Emperor Da Huanxi? Any amount of encirclement was ineffective, and lower-realm attacks would even have their energy absorbed by him. That's why, in that parallel lava era, even though the Three Pillar Gods calculated countless timelines, they couldn't find a way to defeat Emperor Da Huanxi. To defeat Emperor Da Huanxi's "Mirror Body," there could be no clever tricks; one had to meet force with force and overpower him with sheer strength and realm.

"Just a trip to the teahouse, and unexpectedly a war broke out from nowhere, completely catching me off guard..." Xu Zhi was about to turn away, treating it as a trivial matter, when his brow suddenly twitched. As if peering into another realm, he slightly frowned and muttered, "Not dead, spatial teleportation..."

"Well, well, Emperor Yun, your wisdom borders on demonic. Indeed, you're no less shrewd than the Lord of You Mountain. You wish to create a miracle as well? To reverse the impossible!?" Xu Zhi said with a half-smile, stepping forward and vanishing from his spot. "Not only did you test me, but you also used my counterattack to feign death and buy time?"

Space tore open. "I can't go on..." Emperor Feng stumbled, collapsing to the ground. This was his spatial talent. But this time, transporting everyone at once had cost him all his life force.

"Emperor Feng..." Emperor Yun's expression was calm as he looked down at Emperor Feng's departure—his former rival, now his subordinate. He whispered softly beside Emperor Feng, "We will win. The Lord of You Mountain opened a stage, then entrusted the authority of miracles to my hands, the lives of everyone to my hands! The destiny of the entire world!! To my hands!"

"That would be wonderful..." Emperor Feng's consciousness blurred as he slowly closed his eyes, a blissful smile on his lips. In his long life, he knew Emperor Yun had never broken a promise, nor had he ever lost... and this time would be no different.

Emperor Feng departed. Emperor Yun remained silent, choked with emotion. Only he knew, at that moment, that this was the first time in his long, heroic life ruling the Human-Celestial Realm that he had made a guarantee he wasn't certain of.

"Still, that terrifying monster is truly powerful..." Emperor Yun breathed heavily, then let out a low, grim chuckle. Recalling the recent scene, he felt a profound helplessness. "Some kind of special ability, that renders any group attack ineffective as long as the opponent is below a certain realm?"

"My fault, I should have guessed." His gaze turned savage, and he sneered, "In ancient times, the encirclement and slaughter of Great Emperors by an entire era would surely involve hundreds, even thousands, of supreme experts... But countless of them failed, which means encirclement, fighting many against few, is utterly useless."

"Heh heh heh, we still have a chance, to create an impossible miracle, a low-probability event? This was already part of my plan... He detected our feigned death and is rushing over, it will take five seconds! The five seconds Emperor Feng bought for us..." Emperor Yun couldn't help but laugh, looking at the fierce explosions thundering in the distance.

Boom! The swirling rings of fierce light and immense sound, heavily shattering, rolled towards them, about to engulf this land. But precisely because of such terrifying energy, it could conceal their traces here.

"No probability? Then increase the probability! No possibility? Then increase the possibility!"

"As for miracles, how can you know you can't achieve them if you don't try?"

"We all possess various talents..."

"Soul Seizing Emperor!" Emperor Yun spoke coldly.

An ancient Celestial Emperor slowly stepped forward. He was one of the initial-stage Celestial Emperors, his combat power extremely weak, and his talent could be described as useless. Yet, Emperor Yun had put great effort into cultivating these four individuals with extremely low aptitude into Celestial Emperors, precisely because their talents were exceptionally bizarre.

The Soul Seizing Emperor took a deep breath, understanding the implications. "Emperor Feng's body is too strong. I can only seize his soul for a maximum of three hours, then I will surely die!"

"That's enough!"

"Emperor Feng's spatial talent is too crucial for us!"

"Today, we Human-Celestials will surely fight a bloody battle!"

The Soul Seizing Emperor seized the soul.

"Form Emperor!" Emperor Yun split his lips in a wild laugh.

Click, click, click! A strange scene unfolded. Except for Emperor Yun, all Celestial Emperors' bodies drastically shrank, transforming into tiny insects. As their bodies shrunk, their energy was highly compressed. These super-miniature Celestial Emperors breathed as if with roaring winds, piercing straight through the clouds!

"A talent, Form Emperor? Compressed structure?" Xu Zhi observed from afar, rapidly approaching step by step. He raised an eyebrow. While shrinking one's body might seem trivial, it was an incredibly powerful talent, capable of compressing internal energy. The Human-Celestial Path truly produced all sorts of monstrous talents. There were no strongest, only strangest.

"This is the Emperor Yun of old." Xu Zhi's gaze finally grew somewhat solemn. "Back then, he schemed against the entire Xiao Nation, causing Zhang Xiao, the strongest warrior of his generation, to surrender without a fight and commit suicide... Such a figure, such a cunning hero!" It wasn't that he couldn't outmaneuver the Lord of You Mountain; rather, he had been in self-imposed slumber, preventing him from engaging in the struggle.

"Fusion Emperor!" Emperor Yun raised his hands high and shouted. A circle of crimson light pulsed in the sky.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!! One by one, the shrunken Celestial Emperors ascended, as if teleporting, merging into the colossal Emperor Yun's skin like mud, creating unsettling ripples. On the entire land, only Emperor Yun remained.

"Soul Link!" Emperor Yun roared, his voice overriding the distant sound of explosions. A tremendous roar sounded. It was as if Emperor Yun and all the miniature Celestial Emperors within him were completely linked, becoming his heart, stomach, kidneys, and other similar organs. An invisible, terrifying aura branched out and sprouted.

"With the combination of three talents, we are now one. So, let us begin." Emperor Yun slowly ascended, his voice cold, as various voices suddenly echoed from within him.

"Life Burn.""Power Triplication.""Mental Barrier.""Thorn Retribution.""Impact Absorption.""Mist Body.""Strong Taoist Magic Immunity.""Shadow Avatar."

Suddenly, Emperor Yun raised his head, his eyes blood-red.

"Fusion!"

"Talent Synthesis!"

All kinds of talents erupted wildly, muscles bulged, bones resonated. The strongest talents of the entire world converged, totaling sixty-five varieties. At this moment, it was as if some ancient being had descended. Essential, colossal forces seemed to fill the heavens and earth, the world trembled, and countless terrifying powers collided and merged repeatedly.

"Second Light Form!!" He roared!

Rumble, rumble, rumble! A terrifying aura burst forth. His entire body completely evolved. His skin shed its flesh, transforming into a hazy silver light-and-shadow war god, like a projection from a higher dimension. His whole body shimmered with flawless, iridescent light, and scalding, fiery red lava dripped from him like dewdrops.

"Is that... Emperor Yun!!?"

In the distance, a group was moving, carrying the entire Cloud Heaven Realm. Zhang Xiao looked up, watching the terrifying phantom of Emperor Yun shroud the land. His throat was parched, filled with intense fear. Just a glance at him felt like a terrifying meteor striking one's brain; he was inscrutable, impossible to look at directly. Terrifying vibrations pulsed and surged in their minds.

What kind of magnificent ultimate being was this? A Celestial Emperor? How could a mere Celestial Emperor be so powerful? The strongest non-human combat power Celestial Emperor in history?

"Emperor Yun has gathered sixty-five talents from all Human-Celestial Emperors to initiate the final battle," Shangguan Man said hoarsely, clutching a little girl's hand, forcing down her fear. From afar, she looked up, "Child, remember this: this is the last dignity of this era of pure talents, the pride of an entire epoch..." She choked, "It is also the final resistance of an entire era..."

A crisp wind blew. Gold illuminated the bamboo forest, reflecting a radiant splendor. Within the Wuwei Sumeru Temple, Xu Yingluo quietly chanted scriptures with all the temple's devotees. She had not, and could not, peer into what was happening in the Human-Celestial Path.

"We can do nothing."

"Only pray."

Her expression was calm and peaceful, still leading the chanting, yet her palms were drenched in sweat, gripping her prayer beads so tightly that they bore indentations. This world could not be without a future.

Deep within the forbidden zone. Somewhere, where a mysterious ancient Bodhi tree had migrated to an unknown location, a voice slowly echoed, "I just experienced it... Mortals, there is only one way to write a miracle."

"In the ultimate dead end and a clash of raw courage, to fight to the death—that can write the anthem of history, the future of bravery."

"If you don't try, how will you know you can't create a miracle?"

The tree's branches slowly swayed, strangely mysterious, with sacred streams of light swirling around them. Dao fruits hung from its boughs. "You should know... those who create miracles are often miracles themselves."

The sky swirled into a vortex. The earth was bathed in a dark red halo, and the distant sound of explosion continued to spread and reverberate, carrying energy seemingly capable of destroying the world.

Suddenly, a figure of light approached. The nonchalant young man in black robes let out a soft "hmm," apparently noticing that only one Celestial Emperor remained here, and his expression grew serious.

Emperor Yun felt fear and apprehension. Fear was instinctive; even for him, a formidable Great Emperor of his era, there was no exception, for he had just witnessed a terrifying divine power that surpassed his own countless times over. Within the Celestial Emperor realm, no one could imagine the heights this being had reached. Only Emperor Yun truly knew the terrifying pressure that came from genuinely facing the ancient Venerable Emperor at this moment, the eternal taboo who had severed the Immortal Path!!

But gradually, calmness replaced his trembling heart, and a fierce courage began to sprout within him. "Having reached this point, there is only one path left. This is the power given to me by the world... the courage of those Celestial Emperors..."

Ugh ah....!!! He fiercely tilted his head back and roared at the sky. A terrifying sound wave seemed to wash over the entire land like a shockwave, shattering and destroying everything. Emperor Yun parted his lips. Layers upon layers of voices, as if ten thousand people were roaring, majestic and tragic, "Spare nothing—life, dignity, pride! Abandon everything that can be abandoned! Go and defeat him! Defeat that incredible being!"

Emperor Yun reached out and grabbed. In the air, a long spear of brilliant, icy silver, formed from coalescing mist, clasped into his hand.

"Miracles!! So-called... miracles! Created by me!! Today, the old era writes its final chapter! Today, we shall battle the ancient Immortal Path!!" he roared loudly, his crimson eyes suddenly gleaming with a martyr's frenzy.

"Yes! The destiny of miracles is in my hands." He leaped silently towards the sky. "I shall... advance relentlessly!"

Boom! In an instant, a silver lightning bolt illuminated heaven and earth. Wielding an icy, gleaming long spear, he thrust it into the chest of that being. Endless brilliance cascaded down, as if etching his form into the eternal murals of history!