Chapter 374: Chapter 199: Slaying the 7th-Order, Invincible in the World
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
The clang of the great cauldron echoed through the endless void, reaching the ears of every person present with stark clarity.
At this moment, it was as if all other sounds had vanished. Only the clang of the great cauldron remained between Heaven and Earth.
Every Celestial Venerable of the Human Race stared at the scene before them, utterly stunned.
In the instant the Tai Chi Diagram appeared, every last member of the Six-winged Divine Race and Six-winged Demon Race had been completely swept away.
They were utterly powerless to resist.
Even the peerlessly powerful Arthas and Siming Jue had been instantly suppressed!
This was simply beyond their comprehension.
’Such overwhelming power... I doubt even the Ancient Divine-Demons from beyond the heavens could accomplish this!’
"It’s Lord Wang!"
"Has Lord Wang refined the Celestial Observation Cauldron?!"
"Excellent! After hundreds of thousands of years, the time has finally come for the Human Race to rise!"
After a brief, stunned silence, an overwhelming tide of excitement surged through the hearts of the Celestial Venerables.
They had abandoned everything, risked life and limb, and traveled from every corner of the land to face the Divine-Demon Descendants in a final battle. Their entire gamble rested on Wang Xiao’s ability to refine the Celestial Observation Cauldron.
He would lead the Human Race to stand against the Divine-Demon Races, allowing them to finally stand tall and proud in this world.
No longer would they have to suffer the Divine Race’s enslavement or the Demon Race’s aggression!
To be sure, as Celestial Venerables, they possessed supreme power and status.
Wealth and Supreme Treasures were all within their easy grasp.
But they knew that all of it was merely an illusion, like the moon’s reflection in water or a flower in a mirror.
It was all a pittance bestowed upon them by the Divine-Demon Races.
If, one day, either of the Divine-Demon Races succeeded in refining the Celestial Observation Cauldron, an unknown fate would await the Human Race.
However, one thing was certain: the Human Race would be doomed, with no hope of ever rising again.
This was why they were willing to risk life and limb to slaughter the gods and exterminate the demons!
They fought not only for themselves, but for the very survival of the countless millions of the Human Race!
"The Celestial Observation Cauldron... has it really been refined?!"
"How is that possible? How could that Wang Xiao have accomplished such a feat?!"
"It’s over... Even Arthas and Siming Jue, working together, were suppressed in an instant!"
The Celestial Venerables from the Demon-slaying Bureau and the Demon Extermination Bureau, as well as the Demon Race Celestial Venerables of the Ten Thousand Beasts Alliance, all wore expressions of utter disbelief.
The members of the Six-winged Divine Race and Six-winged Demon Race, who were normally so arrogant and invincible, had been annihilated in a single moment!
Even the strongest of the Divine-Demon Descendants, Arthas and Siming Jue, had been suppressed!
They dared not imagine what would have happened if that attack had been aimed at them.
In all likelihood, they would have been instantly turned to ash, just like the members of the Six-winged Divine Race and Six-winged Demon Race!
Feeling the overwhelming aura that permeated the air, the Celestial Venerables of the Demon-slaying Bureau and the Demon Extermination Bureau, along with Ao Sheng and the other Demon Race Celestial Venerables, didn’t dare to move a muscle.
Every one of them was frozen in fear.
Just as the Celestial Venerables of the Human Race were exulting in their victory...
BOOM!
From beneath the black cauldron...
...a muffled sound rang out.
The muffled sound grew rapidly, and in a mere fraction of a second, it completely drowned out the tolling of the cauldron!
「The next moment.」
RUMBLE—
An overwhelming power, vaster than the seas and loftier than the heavens, erupted violently from beneath the cauldron.
It was a power that seemed too great for Heaven and Earth themselves to bear.
The moment it appeared, the world itself began to crack and crumble.
Space itself began to collapse ceaselessly, as if it were a sponge being squeezed dry!
The surroundings plunged into the utter darkness of a Mixed Cave!
All the Celestial Venerables caught within found to their horror that their own Grotto Heavens were beginning to show signs of collapse.
It was as if the weight of an entire world was crushing down upon them!
"What’s happening? What is this power?!"
"It’s Arthas and Siming Jue! They’re not dead!"
"Impossible! It can’t be them! This power... it’s beyond anything a Celestial Venerable could possess!"
The Human Race Celestial Venerables stared in horror at the cauldron below.
「The next moment.」
BOOM!
To their shock, the cauldron that had been suppressing Arthas and Siming Jue violently shattered.
Immediately, two figures—one gleaming with golden light, the other with black radiance—emerged from within the shattered cauldron.
They looked identical to Arthas and Siming Jue.
However, the aura flowing from them was completely different.
The mere leakage of a single wisp of this aura was enough to shatter a Celestial Venerable!
"I never imagined that after hundreds of thousands of years, the Human Race could still produce such a peerlessly brilliant individual. Hah... they truly are a race favored by Heaven and Earth."
The voice of ’Siming Jue’ echoed between Heaven and Earth.
Every word he uttered caused immense fluctuations in the fabric of Heaven and Earth.
Upon hearing his voice, the Celestial Venerables found themselves unable to control their bodies, no longer able to remain standing in the air.
In an instant, they began to fall like rain.
It was as if the very rules of this world had been rewritten.
Faces filled with alarm, all the Celestial Venerables immediately summoned their Celestial Venerable Spiritual Treasures, barely managing to regain control of their bodies and avoid plummeting to their deaths.
They were horrified. ’Just a single sentence rewrote the rules of the world around them... what kind of power is this?!’
’The person before us is definitely not Siming Jue!’
"To suppress the strongest descendants of our Divine-Demon Races in a single move... such strength might even rival that of Yu in his prime!"
’Arthas’ spoke, his voice a low rumble.
Waves of thick darkness radiated from his body.
He seemed to have become a black hole, devouring all the surrounding light, air, and spiritual energy.
"Siming Tian," ’Arthas’ said calmly, "our true bodies are not here. If we wish to suppress him, we must join forces, just as we did all those years ago."
"Sajia," Siming Tian said, looking at the being who had possessed ’Arthas’s’ body, "you have wandered the cosmos for all these years. Have you found the way back?"
