Chapter 894: Chapter 894

With Li Pin urging them on, the group had arrived ahead of schedule at Abyssal Rift No.3, located within human territory.

However, upon reaching the outskirts of the Rift, Li Pin stopped. He didn't go any farther. Instead, he waved at Miao Zhuan, Ji Shun, and the others. "Take the rest of the people on the flying vessel to You Ying Palace."

Miao Zhuan and Ji Shun were taken aback. "You're not entering the Abyssal Rift?"

"I'll decide based on the situation," Li Pin replied.

Hearing this, the two more or less figured out what he had in mind.

He probably wanted to use this opportunity to test himself against the enemy. If he could win in a direct fight, he would. If not, he'd fall back into the Rift and use its terrain to turn things around.

The Heavenly Emperors nodded. "Be careful."

Ji Shun added, "Your Majesty, we have complete faith in you, but if it truly becomes impossible to win, please prioritize the bigger picture. Retreat to You Ying Palace. Even if it costs us our lives, we'll make sure you remain safe."

"I know," Li Pin said with a smile. "Go on."

Ji Shun, Miao Zhuan, and the others nodded, then quickly left with Wang Fuyun and the rest, heading toward You Ying Palace.

As for Li Pin, he stayed at the edge of Abyssal Rift No.3, quietly waiting.

To some extent, Ji Shun and the others had guessed right. Li Pin really did come here to test his limits against the Astral Lord Council.

What they didn't know was... if the person behind the Astral Lord Council wanted the fight inside the Rift, he'd go in. If they performed better outside, he'd stay outside. He would go along with whatever they chose.

"All I hope is that you won't be too weak. Don't let me down," Li Pin murmured.

Meanwhile, Divine Emperor You Ying stood quietly outside You Ying Palace. When she saw only Miao Zhuan, Ji Shun, and a few others had arrived. A hint of surprise flashed across her face.

Heavenly Emperor Ling Hua, in charge of managing the affairs of You Ying Palace, looked slightly startled. "Don't tell me... Divine Emperor Origin intends to—"

"That's right," You Ying said. "He plans to face the five Divine Emperors of the Astral Lord Council head-on, outside the Abyssal Rift."

Her eyes shimmered faintly as she spoke.

Ling Hua found it hard to believe. "He's going to fight all five by himself? One of them, Divine Emperor Qiu Yu, has supposedly mastered an entirely new power, making him even stronger than an ordinary Divine Emperor. And in this situation, Lord Origin still..."

"If he dares to do this, he must have his reasons," said You Ying, looking out toward the edge of the Abyssal Rift. Thɪs chapter is updated by novelFɪre.net

Her thoughts drifted to a peerless prodigy from her own era, Ling Yunxiao.

Back then, he too had been proud, arrogant, and looked down on everyone. But in the end... he died young, surrounded and killed by the Bloodblade Squad of the Divine Race.

Li Pin... if the reports from the Myriad Astral God Hall were true, then he might be even more exceptional than Ling Yunxiao. No, there was no "might" about it.

With the dazzling results he achieved during the Ten Thousand Tribes Dominion War, sweeping through the competition and earning the title of top-tier cosmic overlord, he has already proved his unparalleled strength, something Ling Yunxia never accomplished.

Not to mention, Li Pin has restored the Myriad Astral God Hall and killed two Divine Emperors. In comparison, Ling Yunxiao fell short.

Now, Li Pin has chosen to face the five Divine Emperors of the Astral Lord Council alone, just like Ling Yunxiao had once ignored all warnings and stepped beyond the borders of the Human Race, only to be ambushed and killed.

The only question now was... could he break that fate?

Can he turn the impossible into reality, defeat the Astral Lord Council, and truly establish himself as the strongest in the Astral World?

"Let's see if you're really that powerful... powerful enough to make even someone like Emperor Xi, arrogant as he is, willingly submit and follow you."

Outside Abyssal Rift No. 3.

Li Pin didn't wait long. Several dozen days later, he opened his eyes.

Almost as soon as he did, a massive warship tore through the Astral World. It moved through the core layer at astonishing speed and emerged in front of the rule-shrouded Abyssal Rift.

Sensing Li Pin waiting at the entrance, the ship gradually slowed and came to a stop a few thousand meters from him.

Moments later, five figures appeared on the deck, arriving simultaneously.

They were the five Divine Emperors of the Astral Lord Council—Qiu Yu, Mo Xing, Zhong Yan, Yang Guang, and Tian Yu.

"You've come," Li Pin said, looking past them and scanning the inside of the warship.

But from three Heavenly Emperors skilled in spatial arts, piloting the ship, he sensed no one else aboard.

He turned his gaze back to the group. "Just the five of you?"

"You actually waited here instead of retreating deeper into the rift?" Qiu Yu stepped forward, his voice low. "I must say, Origin, you're bold."

"I've heard that more than once. The last to say it was Jin'que, the traitor from the Human Race and one of your Council's elders.

"Before him, it was You Xu, the Void Clan's supreme talent, who became a Sacred Monarch in less than one era. But both of them died by my sword shortly after saying those words. So I have every reason to think that you're just leaving behind your final words."

"Final words?" At the mention of his clan, the Void Clan's Divine Emperor, Yang Guang, stepped forward. "You really think you can take on all five of us alone?"

"It's not him alone. It's him and You Ying against the five of us," Tian Yu said, his tone turning serious.

He glanced at Qiu Yu, a flicker of doubt in his expression.

He had long felt that You Ying's defection to the Council had been too hasty. And now... with Li Pin showing up here, everything made sense.

He looked back at Li Pin. "Where's You Ying? Tell her to come out. There's no point hiding. Even if it's two against five, the result will be the same."

"Two against five?" Li Pin furrowed his brows slightly. He glanced at Tian Yu. "You are arrogant."

"Arrogant?" Divine Emperor Tian Yu's expression turned cold. "Us?"

"Why would it take the two of us just to deal with you?"

"You mean you alone is enough?" Tian Yu's gaze grew sharper, his tone even icier. "You think you can take on all of us by yourself?"

Li Pin responded, "Just how blind with arrogance have you become...?"

Behind him, the Six Paths Divine Wheel Divine Emperor Yuanjie once used appeared and began to spin. On its rings, forces of matter, energy, time, space, and faint traces of reincarnation and karma flowed slowly, gradually taking form.

Li Pin stepped forward.

He had slain Yuan Jie, then killed Xuan Huang. After that, he even wiped out everything Zhu Zhao had built. The momentum he had gathered through those battles condensed around him, growing stronger with each step, pressing down on Tian Yu, Qiu Yu, and the others.

"Who gave you the courage to think that just the five of you could stand against me!?"

Tian Yu's face darkened. "Just five...?"

Li Pin's words were practically dripping with disdain. Every one of them recognized Li Pin's strength. They even admitted that in a one-on-one fight, none of them could guarantee victory. But now... they had five Divine Emperors on their side!

And yet, even with You Ying nearby, ready to join the fight, Li Pin still looked as if he intended to take them all on by himself.

He actually dared to call them arrogant? Who was truly the arrogant one here?

Yang Guang couldn't hold back any longer. "Looks like he's completely let his victory over the Hall go to his head. He's lost all sense of reality."

He glanced at the others. "Shall we give him a wake-up call?"

Qiu Yu looked at him, calm and composed. "He has the strength to backup his arrogance."

Then, after a pause, he added, "At the very least, in a one-on-one fight, he could kill any one of us."

Yang Guang frowned, clearly unsure what that meant. "So—"

Just then, Li Pin spoke again, "Go ahead. Show your hidden cards. Otherwise... all of you will die here today."

Qiu Yu chuckled. "Did it never occur to you... that you're not the only one holding power beyond a Divine Emperor?"

A glowing bead appeared in his palm, releasing ripples outward.

These ripples weren't space or time-based. They resembled something closer to the laws of the Abyssal Rifts.

As they spread, they rapidly dissolved the surrounding influence of the universal laws. In their place came a new power, one completely separate from the framework of this universe.

The moment Li Pin sensed it, his expression shifted. "Dao Realm...!"

This power is similar to the Dao Realm!

Unlike the Dao Realm he had grasped himself, this one came from the bead. It was as if someone had sealed the Dao Realm power inside it, allowing it to release a portion of its might.

More than that, this Dao leaned toward the Transcendent path.

When it appeared, it didn't clash with the universe's existing laws. Instead, it blended in smoothly, like it had been designed with perfect knowledge of the universe's inner workings, merging into the laws and becoming part of them.

If Sacred Monarchs and Heavenly Emperors had merely understood matter, energy, time, and space... then right now, with this bead, Qiu Yu had temporarily become the one who ruled over those laws.

"Can you feel it?" he said with a faint smile. "Sacred Monarchs, Heavenly Emperors, Highlords, even so-called Supremes... all they do is fuse themselves with the laws. But us? Our path... is to command them."

He looked straight at Li Pin, completely confident. "Now, I'll give you one last chance. Join our Astral Lord Council. Help us open a new era for the Astral World... and the entire universe."

His voice dropped, turning ice cold, "Or stay stubborn, and be crushed into dust, swept into the trash heap of history!"