blueteamnovel Chapter 417: Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning
Chapter 417: Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning
"Let’s go then," Hundun said.With a single flap of its wings.
The surroundings dissolved into Primordial Chaos.
Space lost its meaning.
Direction blurred.
Even the concept of distance became unreliable.
The entire army of the Heaven and Earth Council surged forward.
To Yu Xuan, it felt as if reality itself had been folded.
One moment, they were far from the battlefield.
The next.
They were inside it.
Millions upon millions of entities clashed in every direction.
There was no clear battlefield.
No frontlines.
No boundaries.
Only endless Battle.
Each collision shattered the surroundings.
Fragments of space broke apart like glass.
Concepts twisted and collapsed under the force of their attacks.
Yu Xuan felt a chill run down his spine.
If not for the protection surrounding him.
He would have been erased instantly.
Even so, the pressure alone made it difficult to breathe.
Explosions of power erupted everywhere.
Ancient beings tore through enemies like storms.
Monsters retaliated with equally terrifying force.
And yet.
There was no end.
The battlefield stretched infinitely.
An unending tide of destruction.
Through it all, Hundun moved forward.
Unstoppable.
Untouched.
The chaotic battlefield seemed to part before it, as if even destruction itself made way.
The army followed.
Clearing a path.
Carving a route through annihilation.
Hundun’s voice echoed once more.
"Stay focused kid, and make sure you kill it."
Yu Xuan clenched his fists.
He understood.
He was not here to fight this war.
He was here.
To end it.
***
An old man stood calmly within the void.
He had a thin mustache, a long and well-kept goatee, and an air of authority so profound that it pressed invisibly upon the surroundings.
He was the Jade Emperor.
His gaze swept across the battlefield.
Countless monstrous entities surged like an endless tide.
Among them.
He recognized a few.
Or rather...
He recognized the abominations they are.
"Are you seeking death again... l-sielo-sa-nal?" the Jade Emperor said calmly.
His voice was neither loud nor forceful.
Yet it carried across the battlefield with absolute clarity.
Before him stood a grotesque entity.
It did not have a fixed form.
Its body twisted constantly.
At times resembling fragments of a shattered Heaven, at others collapsing into ruin before rebuilding itself again.
It was as if destruction itself had taken shape.
"Jade Emperor..."
The response came from everywhere.
Thousands of voices echoed simultaneously.
Some sounded like children.
Some like ancient men and women.
Some were not even voices.
But mere intentions given sound.
Even the breaking of space itself seemed to whisper his name.
"Do you who embody virtue, kindness, and wisdom, reject our pleas for freedom?"
The voices overlapped, weaving together into something insidious.
They did not merely speak.
They attempted to invade.
To influence.
To distort the will of the one before them.
But the Jade Emperor remained unmoved.
"Again with this nonsense," he said, his tone turning colder.
"You who defy the natural order of Heaven and Earth... and do not even belong here have no place within these Heavens."
As his words fell.
A radiant object materialized in his hand.
The Jade Scepter.
Its presence alone caused the surrounding space to stabilize, as if reality itself acknowledged his authority.
The battlefield around him quieted for a fraction of a moment.
"Evil Vanquishing Divine Light," the Jade Emperor murmured.
The scepter shined as a blinding, sacred brilliance erupted outward, illuminating the void and purging the surrounding darkness.
OHHVWHHH—!
The abomination, I-sielo-sa-nal screamed.
Its distorted form trembled violently before it shattered the light itself, as though tearing apart something tangible.
Darkness surged back in.
And then.
The Jade Emperor saw inside it, what this abomination carried within itself.
Trillions upon trillions of beings or various races.
All alive.
All conscious.
All suffering.
Their bodies became twisted as their original form was nowhere to be found.
Their wills were broken but they were still made to suffer such eternal torment.
Their existence prolonged only to serve as a source of endless torment and entertainment.
A grotesque theater of agony, even seeing such made one’s spine chill.
"Tell me..."
The voices returned, layered and warped.
"How does it feel... to see your fellow beings from the Heavens reduced to this? How many trillions of years do you think they have endured? Do you feel pity for them?"
The voice paused as if wanting a reaction but seeing none it continued.
"What happened, why are you quite all of a sudden? Everything is allowed in war right?"
The Jade Emperor’s expression remained calm outwardly.
But, after witnessing such scenes countless times.
He could not remain indifferent.
Anger surfaced within his mind.
These creatures.
Who treated sentient life as nothing more than entertainment.
Could never be forgiven.
"Freedom?" he said, his voice low.
"What a pathetic excuse, you don’t seek freedom. You only seek indulgence to manifest the depravity of your twisted mind into reality."
He exhaled slowly, suppressing the surge of fury within him.
This battle.
Might be their last.
And if so.
He would make this being experience death.
At least once.
"Remember this, I-sielo-sa-nal," he said, his voice turning sharp.
"I hate you and as long as I exist, I will hunt and destroy beings like you, no matter where you hide within the Heavens."
The surrounding space trembled.
A massive golden tablet manifested above him.
Inscribed with ancient, authoritative words.
Mandate of Heaven.
The surroundings dimmed.
Even nearby supreme beings instinctively distanced themselves, their expressions turning solemn.
They understood what was about to unfold.
The Jade Emperor raised his scepter.
The surroundings shifted.
The battlefield faded.
Replaced by a grand, sacred domain.
The Pure Jade Heaven.
A figure seemed to emerge faintly behind him, vast and formless, embodying an ancient, primordial authority.
After all.
He was Yùhuáng, the Jade Emperor.
The Supreme Celestial Emperor.
And successor to one of the Three Pure Ones (Three Absolute Celestials).
The Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning, Yuanshi Tianzun.
Then.
He spoke.
"Heaven’s Mandate."
In that moment.
He began to enforce the Will of the Heavens itself.