xymnovel Chapter 572 The Gray-Robed Man Makes His Move Again
Chapter 572 The Gray-Robed Man Makes His Move Again
Outside the void, the chaotic void was pitch black and so cold it could freeze a person to death.
The middle-aged man in the gray robe sat there, not moving an inch or opening his eyes for ten years.
Suddenly, the gray-robed man opened his eyes.
For a moment, the surrounding void darkened.
It's been ten years!
He could sense that the young man's aura grew stronger with each emergence from seclusion.
That kind of speed of progress—in all his years of life, the gray-robed man had only ever seen it in the monstrous talents of those divine families in the Origin Realm.
No, it's even faster than those monsters.
It felt like someone was pushing him from behind, like a hand was pouring something into his body.
Even across an entire world barrier, that aura still made his eyelids twitch.
The gray-robed man's expression grew increasingly grim.
He couldn't wait any longer, but he didn't dare to make a move.
That young man had such an intense aura, so strong it was almost impenetrable, like a protective armor wrapped around him; anyone who touched him would be doomed.
He understood this stuff; he had climbed all the way up through sheer luck back then.
Moreover, there is that illusory remnant soul, a half-step Great Emperor at the peak, whose actual combat strength is no less than that of a Great Emperor at the first level.
Even if he makes a move, he might not necessarily win.
Winning doesn't necessarily mean you can kill.
Killing someone doesn't guarantee a clean getaway.
A single remnant soul was enough to give him a run for his money, not to mention the young man's luck and unknown trump cards—
The gray-robed man looked down at the world below, his hands unconsciously clenching into fists.
His Daoist name is "Extinction of Life". He is a rogue cultivator from the Origin Realm, a first-level Great Emperor, and has attained the Dao of Destruction.
Emperor Annihilation was originally a member of a small family, whose entire clan was wiped out.
He escaped by sheer luck and wandered into a desolate region. There, he stumbled upon an ancient ruin and, by sheer luck, obtained the inheritance of the Great Dao of Annihilation.
He cultivated in the desolate region for tens of thousands of years, rising from a celestial being to a great emperor, from a minor cultivator to a powerful figure.
After miraculously attaining the status of a Great Emperor, the first thing he did was return to the Origin Realm and annihilate his enemies.
That enemy has an ancestor at the second level of the Great Emperor realm guarding them.
But in that battle, the Emperor of Annihilation relied on his inherited trump card to kill that ancestor, wiping out tens of thousands of people from that family.
From then on, the title of "Emperor of Annihilation" spread throughout the Origin Realm.
The price he paid was offending the imperial family behind his enemies, and he was hunted down for 30,000 years.
Unable to stay in the Primordial Realm, he fled to the Chaotic Void, wandering there in search of a great world he could refine.
Tianyuan Continent was the first one he found.
The size is just right—too small a world is useless for him to refine, and too big a world he dares not provoke.
This continent is heading towards destruction; the will of heaven and earth is decaying.
By refining this world, he can directly enter the third level of the Great Emperor realm.
Although the Three Heavens cannot guard against that imperial clan, they can deal with it more easily.
He was waiting patiently, but that young man was too strange.
It possesses the inheritance of a divine being, the Chaos Tower—a supreme treasure of all realms—and a remnant soul at the peak of the half-step Great Emperor realm follows closely behind.
The Emperor of Annihilation looked down at the Tianyuan Great World and remained silent for a long time.
Then raise your right hand, spreading your five fingers.
A hazy gray light condensed from his palm—a full-force strike.
He wanted to see what other tricks that young man had up his sleeve.
Is that phantom still there?
How long can the will of heaven and earth hold out?
The hazy light pierced through the void, through the crack, through the clouds, and headed straight for the Hehuan Palace.
The speed was so fast that it couldn't be detected by the naked eye; before the sound could even travel, the light had already arrived.
Darkness fell over Hehuan Valley.
The girls in the sea of flowers looked up, their smiles still lingering, when their pupils contracted.
"What—"
Before he could finish speaking, he collapsed to the ground, unable to move.
Lin Chen sat cross-legged in the Time-Space Palace with his eyes closed.
The gray light shone through the palace walls onto his face, but he didn't move.
He felt it; that hazy light, the aura of a first-level Great Emperor, pressed down on him like a mountain crashing down on his head.
But he didn't move, not because he could block it.
It was because Lin Chen knew someone would shield him.
Zhan Tian walked out of the Chaos Tower.
He stood at the entrance of the Hehuan Palace, his tattered armor riddled with cracks and gaps.
But his back was ramrod straight, his chin slightly raised, and his gaze pierced through the sky to look at the gray light.
Then he raised his hand and struck out with his palm.
A golden light shot out from the palm, colliding with the hazy gray light—
"boom--!!!!"
The entire sky trembled, as if it had been punched in the face, with cracks spreading outwards from the point of impact, and the wind of emptiness seeping out from the black fissures.
The Hehuan Valley below was hit hardest, as if an 8-magnitude earthquake had occurred.
Yan Ruyu appeared on the steps of the Hehuan Palace, looking at the devastated Hehuan Valley with a gloomy expression as she gazed at the sky.
The golden light and the gray light melted and canceled each other out.
One mountain peak after another exploded, sending rocks flying and dust billowing into the sky. The entire Hehuan Valley sank three inches.
Zhan Tian took a step back, his right foot landing on the ground. A crack appeared in the ground, spreading outwards like a spider web, from the entrance of the Hehuan Palace all the way to the edge of the flower sea.
Zhan Tian glanced at his somewhat illusory body, then looked up into the depths of the void, and his lips twitched slightly.
Then his body disappeared from the spot and returned to the Chaos Tower.
Outside the void.
Emperor Annihilation's face darkened to the bottom.
The ghostly figure was still there, like a loyal watchdog, guarding the young man's side.
This attack weakened his power by 70%, making him slightly weaker than he was ten years ago.
Although that place was decaying, it was still struggling and resisting.
Emperor Annihilation withdrew his hand and closed his eyes.
He refused to believe that the young man's breakthrough speed could outpace the speed at which the world was destroyed.
Even among the geniuses of the Origin Realm, very few have attained the Emperor level within a thousand years.
He could wait a thousand years.
Once the will of heaven and earth collapses, that young man and that phantom will be nothing but dust.