Three more years passed. In a Void Far From the Central Continent.
The vast, deep void... a realm of absolute, original silence where even light struggled to travel... was no ordinary place for simple existence, much less for the hard work of advanced cultivation. Yet, for Shen Yi, who now sat cross-legged on a floating island of clean, compressed space, the crushing emptiness was the perfect, ultimate space for his final, unmatched rise.
He had spent the three years in detailed preparation, completely combining his huge range of mixed lightning energies and refining countless ancient, supreme treasures until they perfectly dissolved into his core. Now, his Nine-Star Dou Saint body... a peak that should have been the end of all cultivation... buzzed with a contained, restless energy that had no equal in the known universe. It was the explosive, concentrated energy of a man waiting only for the universe itself to acknowledge his final, unstoppable step.
With a final, determined breath that seemed to pull the void into itself, he opened his eyes. The violet-gold vortex in his eyes instantly expanded, and the terrifying energy he had been fiercely suppressing for years exploded without any warning.
RUMBLE!!!
The sound that followed was not the normal thunder of a heavenly test, but the painful scream of the void itself violently ripping apart. The endless black silk of space shivered, fractured, and violently unraveled, as if an invisible, supreme hand had torn the very fabric of reality. A blinding pillar of pure, concentrated light... a terrifying coming together of all elemental, time, and spiritual energies... shot from Shen Yi's form. It didn't reach for the heavens; it simply existed, pushing the very concept of heaven and all its rules away from him.
A deep, rhythmic, cosmic pulse began to beat across the infinite emptiness: the undeniable, booming heartbeat of a new Supreme being.
From thousands of light-years away, in countless hidden domains, a group of figures instantly froze mid-movement.
On the carefully guarded borders of the Gu Clan's ancient realm, the world's most powerful experts, including the clan's chief, Gu Yuan, stared wide-eyed at the sudden, impossible sight painted across the void.
"This... this is the rhythm of the Dou Supreme realm!" Chief Gu Yuan whispered, his voice cracking not just with shock, but with a deep, bitter envy as the impossible was finally understood before his own eyes.
On the other hand,
Within the deepest secret area of the Hun Clan's sacred temple, the current leader, Hun Tiandi, who had tirelessly chased the final step to godhood for a thousand agonizing years, roared in sudden, blinding, and overwhelming rage.
"Impossible! I am the one destined to ascend! Who dares to cross my path!?"
In a fit of destructive fury, he shattered the soul jade he was holding, his form dissolving into a torrent of destructive, black Dou Qi that violently tore through his ancestral realm and the void itself, racing with murderous intent toward the exact breakthrough point.
Back to the Breakthrough Point
As Shen Yi's pillar of light came together in a stable column, a flood of powerful, shadowy figures appeared around the spatial island. They were the leaders and strongest cultivators from all the ancient clans, their faces showing a mix of terror, shock, and utter disbelief at the world-shaking event they were seeing.
Before anyone could speak a single word, a massive, jagged tear... a scar of pure evil... opened directly above Shen Yi, and a figure violently burst out of it. It was Hun Tiandi, his face twisted into a mask of pure hate and complete desperation.
"You shall not pass!" Hun Tiandi shrieked, unleashing the ultimate attack of his stored power: a palm covered in the power of nothingness, a destructive, formless force meant to dissolve everything it touched, including the growing Supreme realm energy. "The path to the Supreme is mine!"
The nothingness palm quickly shot toward Shen Yi's head, mere moments away from a world-breaking impact.
Shen Yi, sitting calmly beneath the pillar of light, did not open his eyes. He didn't need to. He simply breathed out a single command.
Primordial Art! Temporal Shift!
The word wasn't a sound made by breath, but a cold command that instantly rewrote the immediate laws of reality around him.
Hun Tiandi's palm of nothingness, traveling at absolute, destructive speed, suddenly slowed. It didn't just crawl; it completely stopped. The motion, the speed, the very moment it existed in space and time, was simply held hostage by the absolute will of the rising Supreme.
Just as the Dou Supreme energy completely filled Shen Yi's core and rose to its final, divine stage, the column of light surrounding him reached its blinding peak. When he finally opened his eyes, they were no longer a mix of gold and violet, but a single, pure gray: calm, perfect mirrors reflecting the entire, silent universe.
One Star, Dou Supreme achieved.
The supreme power... the absolute, governing force of a True Dou Supreme Domain... flared out from him, silent, unhurried, and absolute.
Hun Tiandi's body, violently frozen mid-attack, was instantly covered. Not by fire, not by lightning, but by an absolute, cold realization of his own deep insignificance. Before he could even understand the horror, his physical body, his soul, and the power of his nothingness were completely erased from existence.
No scream followed. No ash scattered. There was just a sudden, final, and terrifying emptiness where the greatest cultivator of the Hun Clan had stood moments before.
Shen Yi slowly stood up, his simple black robe motionless in the non-existent wind of the void. He glanced with calm indifference at the spot where the great clan leader had just stood.
"You mistook ambition for destiny," he murmured, his voice now layered with the quiet, unquestionable certainty of eternity itself.
His gaze swept over the rest of the gathered ancient clan leaders. All of them instantly and completely bowed their heads in deep terror, recognizing the power that had just effortlessly wiped out their equal.
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