Chapter 877: Chapter 877

Li Pin chuckled lightly. "An ambush? Excellent."

Not the slightest surprise showed on his face.

In contrast, Divine Emperor Xi’s gaze turned colder. "A Unique Lifeform, Divine Emperor Xuan Huang. A traitor of the Intelligent Lifeform Race, Deep Blue. Zhu Zhao, I knew from the moment you joined the Astral Lord Council that you had thrown away every last shred of principle.

"But I didn't think you'd go this far, bringing them straight into the human core, the Myriad Astral God Hall. Clearly, you've been preparing for this moment all along. These methods were meant for me, weren't they? But by chance, you're now using them on Origin."

Zhu Zhao coldly said, "You killed Jin'que. What makes you any better than us? He was humanity's brightest prodigy in a thousand years, with every chance to claim the twelfth seat of the Supreme Council. When you killed him, did you ever think about the so-called greater good of our race? In the end, it's just the same story. Winners become rulers, losers become criminals. At this point, the only thing left is to settle this. Victory decides everything. The victor writes history. The loser loses all."

"Well said," Xuan Huang said nonchalantly. "Cultivation and evolution are deeply personal. To reach greater heights, you step over everything beneath you, using it as a ladder. That includes others, and even entire races. I have no patience for those who talk about sacrificing personal gain for the so-called good of their people. That goes against the very nature of life."

"Then let's begin," Divine Emperor Xi sneered as he rose into the air. "Show me what you've really got, you so-called Uniquel Lifeform."

But before he could make a move, Li Pin stepped in front of him.

"Stand down, Emperor Xi," Li Pin said flatly.

Divine Emperor Xi froze, then looked up at him. "Origin, you—"

"Two Divine Emperors, one peak Intelligent Lifeform. Good. It's the perfect chance for me to test the limits of my power," Li Pin said. "You wanted to see the path I carved out, didn't you? Originally, even if the three of them teamed up and dragged the fight out over a long time, I could have taken them down one by one. But... I don't like battles that rely on grinding out a win over time."

He glanced at Divine Emperor Xi. "You'll see for yourself. The path that convinced your disciple Gu You, as well as Tai Yi, Divine Martial, Dong Xu, and even the Supreme Council to fully support my cultivation demands... what kind of path it truly is."

Then he turned to face Divine Emperor Zhu Zhao and Divine Emperor Xuan Huang. "Let's find out which path can really lead to the end—the right way."

"You want to fight all three of us alone? Two Divine Emperors, and a peak intelligent lifeform empowered by the Grand Celestial Constellation Cycle Formation?" Xuan Huang sneered. "What arrogance."

"The last person to speak to me like that was Jin'que," Li Pin replied. "He has already turned to dust. I hope you last a bit longer."

Xuan Huang roared, "You're courting death!"

In the next instant, he expanded violently, transforming into a black phoenix several thousand meters long. Endless black flames roared about him like waves of dark power. Just revealing his True Form unleashed a crushing pressure.

In that form, he looked like a beast of the ancient world, cutting through the air. His body became his strongest weapon as he charged straight at Li Pin.

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With that charge, space and time twisted and faltered, as if they had lost all effect.

At the same time, Zhu Zhao launched his attack. A black sun burst into radiance behind him. But every ray of light turned into a dark tendril, piercing through the air, weaving together as they stabbed toward Li Pin's Divine Body.

Deep Blue, controller of the Grand Celestial Constellation Cycle Formation, immediately activated massive computing power. With perfect precision, he coordinated the power of the six Heavenly Emperors and over three hundred Sacred Monarchs and Tyrants to create a visible binding field, with Li Pin at its very center.

He was not a Divine Emperor, but his control over the formation allowed him to wield power rivaling one.

Li Pin laughed as he soared upward into the air. "Show your skills! Good! Good! Good!"

The Six Paths Wheel emitted radiant light, rising slowly. With the Ruoxi Sword tight in his grasp, Li Pin seemed ready to uphold an entire world.

But faced with this scene, Divine Emperor Xi could no longer sit still. "Zhu Zhao, Origin said he would face the three of you alone, and you actually attacked him together? Have you no shame? I'm ashamed to have stood with you all these years."

His expression turned cold as he shot into the air. The star sand from the Starstream River spiraled around him, surging forward like a true river of starlight, trying to block Zhu Zhao's advance.

"Emperor Xi, stand down!" said Li Pin.

The Six Paths Wheel behind him unleashed the powers of matter, energy, time, and space, along with the embryonic form of reincarnation and karma. He pressed his hand downward, and the power from the wheel surged out. It crashed into the Starstream River and threw it into disarray, forcibly halting its advance toward Divine Emperor Zhu Zhao.

Li Pin then drew his sword again, sword light cutting through the air.

Despite the unprecedented suppression from the Grand Celestial Constellation Cycle Formation Deep Blue controlled, the Eternal Swordlight kept bursting forth, growing stronger with each strike. It forcefully broke through the pressure of the formation and collided head-on with the black tendrils fired from Zhu Zhao's black sun.

Under the blinding radiance, the Eternal Swordlight and the countless black tendrils clashed and melted into each other at an unimaginable speed.

The sword light was like silk, and these collisions happened tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions of times in an instant.

By the time Zhu Zhao blocked the Eternal Swordlight, Divine Emperor Xuan Haung had already crossed the air and appeared right before Li Pin.

"Facing the three of us alone? What gave you the courage!?"

With a soul-shaking roar, the massive form of Divine Emperor Xuan Haung crashed down from above, wrapped in terrifying demonic flames. Like an avalanche and tidal wave combined, it was about to incinerate Li Pin in a single strike.

"Not good!" Divine Emperor Xi's eyes flashed with urgency as he unleashed his inner spirit power, "Fall back, now!"

The Starstream River struggled violently, releasing an even purer and clearer moonlight. It tried to break free from the suppression of the Six Paths Wheel and block Divine Emperor Xuan Huang, stopping him from landing a devastating blow to Li Pin.

When Divine Emperors clash, if even one of them takes a single wound, the outcome of the battle is already decided. The only question is how much longer it'll last.

"Calm down," Li Pin said, pressing his hand down again.

An even denser surge of matter, energy, time, and space flowed through the Six Paths Wheel, suppressing the restless Starstream River again.

Even while momentarily distracted, the power Li Pin unleashed, clearly stronger than Divine Emperor Xi himself, left him shaken and filled with a deep sense of shame.

After all... not long ago, he had confidently declared that as long as he was strong enough, he could represent the rules themselves.

But now... Li Pin bore the Grand Celestial Constellation Cycle Formation on his shoulders. With one hand, he swung his sword at Divine Emperor Zhu Zhao, who had just outperformed Xi, and still managed to draw enough power to suppress him.

This kind of strength... is simply unrivaled in the world.

Li Pin's voice echoed.

"Watch closely, Emperor Xi."

As the terrifying demonic flames drew near, almost within reach, Li Pin calmly uttered two words.

In the next instant, a burst of pure, clear white light suddenly erupted from him. The demonic flames surrounding the charging Divine Emperor Xuan Huang melted like snow under the blazing sun, vanishing at astonishing speed.

Even more terrifying was what followed. As the flames disappeared, the white light shone onto Xuan Huang. His Divine Body visibly shrank before everyone's eyes.

And as he shrank, everyone clearly saw the changes on his face. From shock... to alarm... then to sheer terror. "What is this thing?!"

Just moments ago, Divine Emperor Xuan Haung had been defiant and full of courage, roaring wildly and unleashing the full power of a Divine Emperor, as if trying desperately to break free from the purifying light.

But with the fourth level of the Phantom Space Technique perfected, Li Pin had already seen through all changes in matter, energy, time, and space. Any power caught within these changes couldn't resist the cleansing, stripping, and dismantling of the Great Dao Radiance.

The violently struggling Divine Emperor Xuan Huang was no exception.

The Great Dao Radiance's emergence caused the Grand Celestial Constellation Cycle Formation to seemingly halt. It was like a finely tuned machine had jammed. Like an incompatible part was forced inside, nearly stopping the formation's operation.

There was no denying that the peak-level Intelligent Lifeform, Deep Blue, had managed to unleash a combat force rivaling any Divine Emperor once it combined with the formation's power. So much so that the Great Dao Radiance, which could have torn the formation apart, was forced to be concealed under their combined strength.

Of course, this also had to do with Li Pin focusing the full power of the Great Dao Radiance on Divine Emperor Xuan Huang.

As the Great Dao Radiance relentlessly washed over him, Xuan Huang's power was stripped, melted, and dismantled at an incredible speed. His enormous body shrank visibly.

Six hundred meters, three hundred meters, one hundred meters, thirty meters, ten meters, three meters, one meter...

Finally, under the shocked and bewildered gazes of Divine Emperor Zhu Zhao and Divine Emperor Xi, Xuan Huang... was forcibly stripped of all power by the Great Dao Radiance.

His life structure was altered by the light's internal laws, shrinking down to a black crow no bigger than a palm, held in Li Pin's hand.