Star Odyssey

Chapter 3256: Burial Garden Reappears

Divine energy continued to pour into the corpse kings, granting them greater power than ever. This strength came from True God sacrificing his own divine energy, which weakened him. However, since the man himself could not leave the Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm, whether he was weakened or not was irrelevant to the battle.

Yuan Qi struck out with his bell while letting out a maniacal laugh. "Old Mu, this is the day the Immemorial Citadel will be destroyed! You are all finished! Hahaha!"

Mister Mu remained unphased, though his flute’s melody intensified.

True God stared into the depths of the Immemorial Citadel. "Tai Chu, are you still not going to act? Tai Hong is about to die."

Tai Chu stared at the black Mother Tree. He could not move. If he did, the sequence strings would be released, and the Aeternals would be able to easily destroy many of them. Losing that stability would cause the megaverse to expand, but since the megaverse had set boundaries, expansion was impossible, and the pressure would cause the megaverse to collapse and restart.

This was the Aeternals’ ultimate goal.

The sequence strings could not be destroyed. The people of the megaverse could not be annihilated.

Inside the Immemorial Citadel, Zhong Tou's forehead was bleeding. "I'm getting old, so old. Still, we’re all going to die anyways, so it doesn't matter.

"Brothers, let's charge out one last time! Let’s fight one final battle before the Immemorial Citadel falls!

"Old Six, I bet that you’ll live longer than me! I'm going out first."

"When the six of us first swore brotherhood, we swore to live and die together. Third Brother, don't you dare break that promise."

"We six siblings are all from different eras, and even different races, but we made it this far together, which has made it all worth it. Just seeing those slitted red eyes makes me sick! Charge!"

"Charge!"

Six men charged forth from the Immemorial Citadel, never to return.

Zhong Tou was left speechless. "Couldn’t you all at least wait for this old man?"

"Zhong Tou, shall we go together?" a melodious voice asked.

Zhong Tou looked over at a distant corner of the city. An elegant woman of unparalleled beauty stood there. She clutched her shoulder while holding a broken sword. She slowly walked forward, her grave injuries clearly visible.

Zhong Tou chuckled. "It would be my honor to die alongside the Ice Phoenix Fairy."

The woman was a Celestial Ice Phoenix, and she had been a gatemaster of one of the Heavens Sect’s Twelve Heavenly Gates from the Fourth Mainland. She had since risen to become a Sequence Progenitor.

When the Fourth Mainland had shattered, she had not been on the Mainland. Later, she had followed the big tree to the Immemorial Citadel during the battle at the Third Mainland’s Turtledove River. She had continued fighting here ever since.

"Let’s go." The woman’s expression was frigid, and her breathtaking beauty was completely cold. She raised her broken sword, which glinted with multiple colors, as she charged at the Ossis Ark itself.

Zhong Tou’s face betrayed his great excitement. "It's finally my turn to die! Hahaha!"

The Immemorial Citadel continued to break apart as divine energy surged from up above. The dark-red energy crashed down in an attempt to drown the entire city.

More corpse kings stepped out from the Ossis Ark.

This entire region of outer space had turned red.

At this moment, the void trembled. A figure silently emerged. They stood before the Ossis Ark. Compared to the massive bone boat, this figure seemed like an ant.

Right at this moment, two corpse kings happened to step out from the Ossis Ark.

Both had been granted incredible power through bone grafting, and they were each powerful enough to fight against the Immemorial Citadel’s greatest powerhouses.

As soon as they saw the figure, the two corpse kings attacked without any hesitation. One carried seven swords on its back, all of which were unleashed instantly. These blades had already cut down several of the Immemorial Citadel’s most powerful individuals.

The figure before the corpse kings just raised a hand. There was only a single palm strike.

Not only were the two corpse kings utterly obliterated, but the attack also struck the Ossis Ark, sending a tremor through the enormous boat. Step by step, the figure pushed the Ossis Ark out of the Immemorial Citadel and away from the city. All the while, any corpse king that tried to stop this from happening was destroyed.

Forgotten Ruins God turned her head, and her pupils shrank. “Xia Shang!”

Countless eyes from both the Aeternals and the Immemorial Citadel fell upon the figure who had just shoved the Ossis Ark out of the city.

That figure was none other than Progenitor Chen: Xia Shang.

There was a brief moment of silence. No one had expected Xia Shang to suddenly appear on this battlefield.

Ku Jie, who was locked in battle with Tian En, started laughing. "Xia Shang, so you didn’t die after all."

Xia Shang stood on the shattered walls of the Immemorial Citadel. He stared into the distance, looking straight at True God. "Because of you, I’ve stayed in Burial Garden for too long. This battle has finally come."

The void warped behind the man, and the eerie sound of suona horns rang out as the Dead Regiment appeared, bringing with them a bizarre aura.

The Dead Regiment was the embodiment of battle itself. Early on in Lu Yin’s cultivation, Burial Garden’s Tombkeeper had only been a Semi-Progenitor, while the four captains of the Dead Regiment had revealed power levels of just over a million. However, all of them had lived since the Heavens Sect era.

Throughout the eons, Burial Garden had entombed many powerful individuals.

Those who willingly entered had volunteered to be buried, while the unwilling had been carried away by the Dead Regiment.

The appearance of Burial Garden indicated a doomed battle, but they also represented rebirth and humanity’s future.

Burial Garden had always been waiting for the final battle, and that battle had finally arrived. Progenitor Chen had honored his vow and never left Burial Garden until this moment. He had finally emerged to join the fight.

If the Immemorial Citadel fell, humanity would have no future. This battle would also be Burial Garden’s last stand.

One after another, wandering corpses emerged from Burial Garden. Each of them represented powerful individuals from multiple eras. There were descendants of Ce Wangtian, a one-legged old monster, Elder Tong, Gu Guai, and even the wandering corpses of monstrous individuals, such as the Eastern Mountains Tea King.

Wandering corpses were also a part of Burial Garden’s strength, and they would fight in this final battle for both Burial Garden and for humanity.

Numerous powerful individuals rose from underground in Burial Garden. Their eyes were vacant, but pure will and determination moved their bodies. They charged at the Aeternals. These were people from all generations who had chosen to enter Burial Garden.

The shocking scene shook both the humans and the Aeternals.

Ce Wangtian stared blankly at one of the people who had appeared. "Xiao'er?"

Big Sis was panting as she looked at a little girl. She was Elder Tong. Progenitor Yōu Ming’s Impious Sutra was a collection of many people’s techniques, but Elder Tong’s technique had laid the foundation for everything. Big Sis had not expected Elder Tong to have entered Burial Garden.

"Is that the Eastern Mountains Tea King? That wretched beast."

"That’s Blind God! He’s the disciple of the Third Mainland’s Progenitor Blind."

Progenitor Ku looked over from his fierce battle with Tian En. He saw someone familiar emerge from Burial Garden. The person was formed from a strange power, but their face was very familiar. "Big Brother Fu."[1]

Many people were recognized. It was as though time had folded in on itself. Both ancient and modern powerhouses were all converging onto the battlefield to face their fated enemy.

Inside of Burial Garden, in a city a short distance from the Yellow Springs, stood the peak of Mt. Microcosms. In that city were Unseen Light, Shang Qing, and many others. They watched the changes that took place throughout Burial Garden, and they could even sense the incredible battle taking place outside, though it felt distant to them.

Chu Yi sighed. "Even Burial Garden has appeared. I wonder if the future will end up buried in that garden, or if there will be no need for that insurance."

Ancient God stated in a grim voice, "The final outcome won’t change."

On the citadel’s shattered walls, Progenitor Chen's gaze swept the battlefield before locking onto Wang Xiaoyu’s.

The woman met Xia Shang’s eyes.

The two stared at each other in silence.

A cyan sword slashed out from one point on the battlefield, the attack encompassing the entire Immemorial Citadel. Progenitor Xi had attacked.

The power of her Qingluo Intent had appeared once again. It was a force powerful enough to suppress the entire battlefield.

Progenitor Chen moved forward with Inverse Step, moving parallel to time as he threw a palm strike at Progenitor Xi.

This attack froze the void, and the Immemorial Citadel’s flames, which had been suppressed by the streams of divine energy, surged into the Progenitor’s palm, making his hand as dazzling as a sun. His attack shattered Progenitor Xi’s cyan sword slash and struck the woman herself.

The impact caused an indescribable heat to instantly consume Progenitor Xi’s body, and she vanished into nothingness.

Forgotten Ruins God, Arrow God, and everyone else was terribly shocked. How was this possible?

Atop the black Mother Tree, True God's expression fell. Xia Shang... he was a genius combatant unmatched throughout all of history. No one else could compare to the man’s talent for battle.

If Lu Yin was the most talented cultivator in history, then Xia Shang was the most talented fighter in history.

The man was too perfectly suited for the battlefield. He had once possessed the strength to suppress the Seven Skygods, and after so many years hidden in Burial Garden, Progenitor Chen had created a battle technique that intimidated even Yong Heng. That palm strike far exceeded what Xia Shang had been capable of in the past with the sequence particles that he had possessed.

Forgotten Ruins God was horrified. Xia Shang had changed his sequence particles. He had somehow managed to destroy the law of the universe that he had comprehended and then comprehended another one. What a madman.

Once someone comprehended the laws of the universe, it was practically impossible to completely destroy their sequence particles.

Even Lu Yuan, whose sequence particles were not focused on combat, could not easily destroy his own.

However, during the Daosource Sect era, at the height of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas, Progenitor Chen, Xia Shang, had re-cultivated sequence particles more than once. People had assumed that, after his eight clones were all killed, his sequence particles had become fixed, but they were proven wrong.

Who else would be so insane?

What law of the universe had the man mastered this time? How had he managed to obliterate Progenitor Xi with a single palm?

Progenitor Xi was an Ortuser, which meant that the laws of the universe should not have been able to get close to her, even if her strength had fallen significantly.

Progenitor Chen’s one attack managed to instantly silence the Immemorial Citadel’s entire battlefield. The power of that palm strike was overwhelming.

Whenever Kong Tianzhao faced Progenitor Xi, he had been suppressed and overpowered by the woman, so he was well aware of her strength. Even if she was incapable of fully unleashing the might of an Ortuser, it should have been impossible for her to die to a single attack.

The swordsman looked at Xia Shang’s hand. That attack had used the Immemorial Citadel’s flames. Xia Shang had somehow borrowed the power of the city.

Kong Tianzhao was absolutely correct. Xia Shang could not have killed Progenitor Xi with one strike without using that borrowed power. But what of it? It was still something that he was capable of doing.

Progenitor Chen raised his hand again. It grew as bright as a blazing star, and the flames beneath the Immemorial Citadel formed a maelstrom that swept toward the man.

He raised his hand up high. "Yong Heng, I created this for you. Only this eternal flame can incinerate you."

True God praised the Progenitor. "Xia Shang, you truly are the greatest fighter in history, but that’s still not enough.

"Not even Burial Garden's arrival will be able to change things.

"I’ve been waiting for all of you to finally appear, both Burial Garden and the Immemorial Citadel. If I don’t deal with all of you, there will always be a threat."

True God then looked away, shifting his gaze until he faced both the Immemorial Citadel and Burial Garden. He gently tapped the void. "True God’s Eternal Decree."

All three of True God’s ultimate techniques had appeared: Natural Art, Dominion, and at this moment, Eternal Decree, the last of the man’s ultimate techniques, was being used. It was a technique that had been created specifically for this final battle.

No one had ever seen the technique before. It had not appeared, even during the battle that had destroyed the ancient Heavens Sect.

As True God lightly tapped on space, beams of light started to appear. They slowly grew and expanded, warping until they took on human shapes. Finally, what unfolded terrified everyone from the Immemorial Citadel.

"Is this the Immemorial Citadel? It’s been a long time. I see so many familiar faces."

"Thanks to our lord for allowing us to appear once more!"

"We haven’t been resurrected; all that’s happened is the immortal seeds that were left behind have sprouted. We’ll all wither away again."

"But this allows us to shine one last time and witness humanity’s extinction."

"Kakaka, where’s that kid, Lu Yin? Is he still not qualified to come to the Immemorial Citadel? Oh, right, Hui Wen. My lord, Hui Wen has been hiding within Aeternus this whole time."

"My consciousness... Lu Yin, return my consciousness!"

"Where’s Hongyan Mavis? Where’s Lu Yin? Where is he?"

The battlefield fell dead silent as everyone stared in shock at the figures who had appeared from True God’s tap.

Everyone, no matter who they were, was stunned by what they saw.

1. Just as a reminder, but this is the Rune Progenitor. ☜