Chapter 514 447: [Book of Death!]

"Jin Yang, how dare you!"

The surviving Peak Quasi-Emperors of the Qingming World roared, their faces drained of color as they desperately fled toward the edge of the cosmos.

The Profound Celestial Infinite Seal!

The foremost suppression-type Divine Technique in all the heavens!

And what's more, its array had been personally inscribed by a Great Emperor!

If it were activated, the crushing power from countless Azure Heaven Domains would instantly reduce the Grand Cosmos to ruins. Quasi-Emperors would stand no chance of survival!

"Hmph! Scram, now!"

Jin Yang hadn't lost his senses and gone on a killing spree. He sat cross-legged within the Profound Celestial space of the Infinite Seal, a terrifying, murderous light flaring in his eyes. He mobilized a vast, endless suppressive power and directed it at Wu Dao atop the Emperor's Tomb!

OMMM—BANG BANG BANG!!

In that instant!

Wu Dao felt it clearly—a weight as if he were shouldering countless heavens. The spine of his ten-armed Asura Emperor Shadow began to buckle. Great cracks appeared in its liquefied form, rendering it completely immobile!

'Damn that old butcher!'

Inside the Holy Spirit Emperor's Plate.

Wu Dao—in his Evil Lotus State—stared coldly at Jin Yang within the Profound Celestial space. He had the sudden urge to unleash the Extreme Dao Bell, sweep away everything, and grind it all to dust.

But he suppressed the impulse.

After the great battle in the Chaos three years ago, the constraints of Hongyuan's Celestial Punishment had grown to an appalling degree. If he dared to unleash the Extreme Dao Bell, both he and the bell would be instantly obliterated by it!

He estimated that only after the Great Tribulation truly began, when Tribulation Qi threw the Dao into disarray, would the Celestial Punishment lose its restrictive power.

As for now...

Forget a Primordial Emperor Weapon; even a regular Emperor's Weapon was unusable within Hongyuan!

'Forget it. I've gotten enough out of this for one day.'

As his thoughts raced, Wu Dao decided to quit while he was ahead. The world didn't revolve around him, after all; it was impossible for him to claim every single benefit for himself.

He'd acquired the Asura Battle Banner and the Chaos Mother Liquid, killed numerous Quasi-Emperors from the Human World and the Qingming World, and pocketed a host of Quasi-Emperor Weapons... It was definitely a good haul.

As for the Nether River, he'd done everything he could and still failed to claim it. Perhaps it just wasn't meant to be. Forcing the issue would be courting death!

"Old bastard, how dare you!!"

But just then, the situation took another unexpected turn!

Ming Ao, whose body had been destroyed countless times, had bloodshot eyes. He, too, was suppressed by the Infinite Seal. Sensing that Jin Yang was about to flip the table and ruin everything for everyone, he let out a demonic, frenzied roar:

"Open the Death Coffin! Kill that old bastard!"

'Death Coffin?!'

A chill ran through Wu Dao's heart.

His gaze shifted to four Peak Quasi-Emperors from the Human World. They hadn't joined the battle from the start. Instead, they sat bizarrely cross-legged at the edge of the cosmos, completely focused, chanting scriptures as if making a sacrifice.

CLANG CLANG CLANG—

With just that one glance!

Wu Dao's Heart Lake Alarm Bell began to clang frantically. He felt an unprecedented aura of death that was also somehow familiar!

'It's that source-level terror again!'

It was just like the forbidden existence within the Dragon Hunting Tower!

'The Human World commands Dao Level Power, too?'

"This is bad! Suppress them!"

Within the Profound Celestial space, Jin Yang's eyelids twitched violently, and his blood ran cold. He felt as if an invisible hand had gripped his very life. Without a second thought, he directed the Profound Celestial Infinite Seal to suppress the chanting Quasi-Emperors!

But he was too late.

CLANG—

A sound like Divine Gold striking space boomed out, unbelievably clear. Not even the Profound Celestial Infinite Seal could suppress it. In an instant, the sound echoed through the surrounding cosmic clusters, reaching as far as the Nether Ancient Dao State, the Qingming World, and all the Heavens and Myriad Realms!

Time and space seemed to freeze at this moment.

As all sides watched in horror, one of the chanting Quasi-Emperors from the Human World suddenly withered and shriveled, as if some ominous entity had instantly drained all of his Life Force.

What appeared was a coffin!

It was a coffin, blacker than the deepest layer of the Abyss, wrapped in a single, dark page of scripture covered in a dense script of ominous, forbidden curses!

The scripture recited itself!

Its words became a demonic dirge of death that shook all the Heavens and Myriad Realms!

A pitch-black light radiated from the Fallen God Cosmos, spreading out in all directions to touch everything in existence. All who were tainted by it felt an endless aura of death envelop them, as if their lives had reached their end!

'The Book of Death!!'

「Atop Qing Mountain.」

The moment Wu Dao saw the dark scripture page wrapped around the coffin, the last trace of wishful thinking in his heart vanished. He had never imagined that the Human World would go so far as to use the Book of Death for the Nether River!

Celestial Treasures existed in the world, each one embodying a concept!

It was no secret that the Human World possessed the Book of Death, a top-tier conceptual Celestial Treasure.

The Book of Death embodied the concept of Death itself. It was like the Balance of Life and Death, or the Book of Life and Death!

It recorded the life information of every living being across all the heavens and possessed an irrationally powerful curse-killing ability, along with all sorts of other mysterious and unfathomable powers.

Rumor had it...

if a sufficient price was paid, the Book of Death could even kill a Great Emperor with a curse from across the cosmos!

Likewise,

with enough sacrifices,

the Book of Death could resurrect beings an infinite number of times!

More importantly—

That source-level terror! Wu Dao had only ever felt it from the aura of the forbidden existence in the Dragon Hunting Tower and from the Dao-body of the Luotian Sword Master of Daluo World.

This proved that the Human World's Celestial Treasure, the Book of Death, had grown to a level infinitely Near Dao. It might even be... an unrecorded Dao Artifact, unknown to all the heavens!

'A single page of the Book of Death wrapping a coffin! And they even sacrificed numerous Peak Quasi-Emperors! Then the existence being resurrected in this coffin... It couldn't be...'

BUZZZZ—

The moment that thought crossed his mind, the Asura Battle Banner under Wu Dao's control began to vibrate frantically, threatening to break free from his grasp!

The Emperor Corpse Evil Qi from his ten-armed Asura Shadow also began to dissipate, surging toward the black coffin at the center of the cosmos, which was spewing an endless light of death!

'Be suppressed!'

Wu Dao's gaze sharpened. The Extreme Dao Bell trembled slightly, drawing in the Asura Battle Banner and suppressing it.

Then,

"Nangong, hurry up and die!"

He abruptly threw Nangong Li, whom he had been carrying with him, out of the Holy Spirit Emperor's Plate. 'The Human World may have the Celestial Treasure Book of Death, but my Primordial Sect has the Heaven and Earth Profound Sect! A path to the heavens, a gate into the earth! It guarantees a way out of any desperate situation! Its conceptual Mighty Power is no weaker than the Book of Death's; it just hasn't fully matured yet.'

"I am willing to... AHHH!!"

BOOM!!

Once again, the disposable Nangong Li didn't even have time to finish pledging his loyalty before he was ground into a bloody mist by the Asura Emperor's Emperor Corpse Evil Qi, letting out a wretched, inhuman scream.