Chapter 539: [All Heavens Signal]

Chapter 539: Chapter 468: [All Heavens Signal]

The World Fate Arena has opened!

The ultimate collision of Dao Fortune between Hongyuan and the Mountain and Sea!

The Mountain and Sea is terrifying enough.

Among the Ten Celestial Passes, the first through the eighth have all been eroded by the Mountain and Sea’s Dao Fortune. World Fate Arenas have appeared, forcing another gamble of destiny with Hongyuan!

If the Mountain and Sea wins a decisive victory,

the Dao Fortune of the Mountain and Sea Dao will swell to an unprecedented level. Shanhai Pass might fall across vast swathes of its territory—or even be lost completely!

By the same token,

if Hongyuan is victorious,

it can reclaim its territory and drive out the Mountain and Sea.

It might even be possible to launch a counterattack into the Mountain and Sea realm itself!

“The World Fate Arena… Only the absolute best from the All Heavens Pass will have the chance to fight. For the victor, their Dao will advance; for the vanquished, their Dao will recede. Every single person who steps onto that stage will be gambling with the Dao Fortune of their entire world!”

“That’s right. Once you step onto the stage, you either fight to the very end or die trying. Fleeing also counts as a loss!”

“If one of our combatants dies or is defeated, the World Fate Arena advances, and we lose territory. The consequences are too dire!”

…

The appearance of the World Fate Arenas severed the battlefields across the All Heavens Pass. Until the arenas were fully constructed, the two realms could no longer engage each other, and grave discussions filled every Celestial Pass.

The World Fate Arena was like a Great Wall, separating the Mountain and Sea from Hongyuan.

Once the war begins, the top experts from each of the All Heavens Pass—those who carry their world’s great destiny—must take the stage to fight. The conflict will transform from massive army clashes into a series of one-on-one duels.

If Hongyuan loses on any front,

that section of the arena’s “Great Wall” will push forward, and the lost territory will be enveloped and occupied by the Mountain and Sea Dao.

The reverse is also true.

Over at the Ten Celestial Passes,

top Primordial Giants have deduced that this World Fate Arena will last for a full month—a month-long war of attrition with no rest!

Therefore,

the selection of combatants must be handled with extreme care. They needed warriors strong enough to remain undefeated, to slaughter the opposition until no one else dared to take the stage!

“Little Martial Ancestor, Fenji, the Light and Dark Divine Venerable, the Nine Tribulations Sword Master, the Chaos Child, the Profound Yellow Lady… For the Seven Days Pass, the defense must be led by the Quasi-Great Emperors at the top of the Emperor’s List!”

“Everyone at the top of the Emperor’s List can fight a Great Emperor! While they can’t use external power that exceeds their realm, they are still considered champions among their peers!”

“Be that as it may, they only rose to prominence after the decline of the previous generation’s top contenders on the Emperor’s List. And that last generation… *sigh*.”

Within the Seven Days Pass, all the major Territorial Battlefields were discussing the candidates for defending the arenas.

This was a clash of Dao Fortune, a contest of the younger generation’s cultivation. They shouldered the future of both worlds, and each one was a bearer of great destiny.

Death or defeat for any of them would be a devastating blow to their side.

That’s right.

In Shanhai Pass,

anyone below the rank of an All Heavens Great Emperor was considered part of the “younger generation”—the bearers of great destiny. This was why the World Fate Arena affected the first eight Celestial Passes.

As for the All Heavens Great Emperors and Primordial Emperors,

they were the Celestial Pillars of both realms, the older generation.

They were fully matured and had already begun to forge their own paths along the Great Dao of civilization. They were no longer considered part of the unripened younger generation.

The Great Emperors would defend the arenas in the Eight Celestial Passes.

So naturally, the Quasi-Emperors would defend the Seven Days Pass.

Following that pattern, the defenders would scale down from the Six Celestial Passes to the One Day Pass. At the lowest level, the Dharma Realm Battlefield of the One Day Pass, the arenas would be defended by Celestial Prides of the Creation Realm.

On both sides of the conflict,

the Mountain and Sea side would undoubtedly send out the strongest Little Ancestors from the Four Great Primordial Races at each respective realm!

On Hongyuan’s side,

the defenders would be, at a minimum, from the Daoist Child echelon.

In the battle three years ago,

victory below the Six Celestial Passes had been bought with a mountain of corpses. Only that, combined with Hongyuan’s terrifying suppressive power, had prevented them from losing territory.

As for the passes above the sixth,

the losses had been greater the higher the pass. The Emperor’s List in the Seven Days Pass had been completely reshuffled three years prior; only a few monsters of the same caliber as Little Martial Ancestor survived to become Great Emperors.

The outcome had been so tragic that now, with the opening of the World Fate Arena, a sense of lingering fear and despair permeated the Seven Days Pass. It was difficult for anyone to feel confident of victory.

“It’s a shame about the Primordial Heavenly King. He hasn’t reached the peak of the Quasi-Emperor realm. Otherwise, if that madman were to enter the arena… what a pity, what a pity.”

Amid the bleak atmosphere, someone recalled Wu Dao, the Primordial Heavenly King, and couldn’t help but sigh at his unfortunate timing.

He had been at Shanhai Pass for less than a year.

He was made a King, a Heaven-Sealing King, and a Military Lord!

A one-hundred-percent completion rate on Abyss Tasks!

During the war between the two realms,

the defensive lines he guarded never fell.

He was always the last one to retreat!

He had slaughtered countless Quasi-Ancestral Kings from the Mountain and Sea Emperor Clan and had even emerged unscathed from a joint scheme by Great Emperors from the Mountain and Sea and the Rising Dragon Celestial Dynasty.

A King of Monsters like him.

If he had grown to become a peak Quasi-Emperor,

he might not have been able to sweep every arena, but he would have surely prevented Hongyuan from suffering too humiliating a defeat.

Unfortunately,

before the Primordial Heavenly King went into seclusion,

his combat power was only equivalent to somewhere above the twentieth layer of a Quasi-Emperor.

He had to rely on external artifacts just to fight the Peak Quasi-Ancestor King of the Mountain and Sea Kunpeng Race.

The arenas between the two realms prohibit external power.

In the Seven Days Pass, one cannot use external power beyond the Quasi-Emperor sequence. Even if the Primordial Heavenly King were to take the stage, he couldn’t possibly hold his ground. The gap is just too large.

Not to mention,

the ones taking the stage for the Mountain and Sea will definitely all be Little Ancestors from the Four Great Primordial Races. They are also peak Quasi-Emperors, and without any external power…

A single Little Ancestor!

Can take on a whole group of Emperor’s Sons from the Di Race!

The Primordial Heavenly King has only been in seclusion for two months.

On the Path of Transcendence,

the higher one climbs, the more difficult it becomes.

Each new layer is like a mortal attempting to ascend to the heavens.

To leap ten layers and reach the peak domain of a Quasi-Emperor in such a short time is impossible, no matter how outrageously fast he used to progress!

Thus,

after briefly mentioning Wu Dao,

most people sighed with regret and turned their attention back to Little Martial Ancestor and the others at the top of the Emperor’s List, analyzing the opponents they were likely to face.

Meanwhile,

below the Seven Days Pass,

Hongyuan’s military command was also working intensely to select its defenders for the arenas.

‘Dammit, why now of all times!’

「Dragon-slaying Battlefield.」

Wuchen sighed, bitterly frustrated.

This was a clash of Dao Fortune between two worlds. If he could defeat an opponent on the arena, he would be anointed by the great destiny of his civilization and his power would advance by leaps and bounds in a short amount of time.