184: Shocking conspiracy, the emperor's body is stolen

The Pavilion Master Tianji's cold and crazed words swept through the entire altar space like a chilling wind from the Nine Netherworld! The horrifying content of his words caused Xiao Chen, who had just slaughtered his powerful enemies and was riding high on momentum, to tremble in his heart, and his thousand-zhang Dharma Idol paused slightly!

"Borrow Soul Heaven Emperor's body... absorb the souls of all living beings... to forge a Destiny Emperor Body?!" Xiao Chen's pupils constricted to needlepoints, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind instantly! The Pavilion Master Tianji... had, from the very beginning, regarded Soul Heaven Emperor as a pawn and a sacrifice! What he coveted was not to assist Soul Heaven Emperor in becoming an Emperor, but to seize the Emperor Realm foundation that Soul Heaven Emperor was about to achieve, merging the Origin Qi Origin of tens of thousands of blood sacrificers and the power of destiny, to forge a Destiny Emperor Body for himself that transcended the laws of this realm!

What immense ambition! What vicious methods!

"You... you are the true mastermind!" Xiao Chen's voice was piercingly cold, filled with towering rage. He recalled the Remnant Will of the Ancestor's warning, and the various bizarre actions of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, and everything suddenly became clear! The Pavilion Master Tianji, this manipulator hidden behind the mists of destiny, his true purpose was far more terrifying than Soul Heaven Emperor's!

"It's too late to understand now!" The Pavilion Master Tianji let out a low laugh, his hands rapidly changing incantation gestures! The huge illusory image of the Fate Compass floating above the altar burst forth with dazzling light! Countless black and white destiny threads, like living venomous snakes, furiously coiled around and pierced into the intensely pulsating dark heart!

"Buzz—!!!"

The dark heart vibrated violently! Emitting a painful and angry hum! On the surface of the heart, the distorted and ferocious illusory face of Soul Heaven Emperor appeared! He seemed to be struggling, roaring! But the destiny threads were like the toughest shackles, firmly binding his awakening will, and forcibly extracting the majestic Emperor Qi and blood sacrifice energy gathered within the heart!

"No—!!! Heavenly Secret... how dare you... betray this Emperor!!!" Soul Heaven Emperor's roar erupted from the heart, filled with unbelievable shock, rage, and brutality! He clearly hadn't expected that his most trusted "ally" would deliver the most fatal blow at the last moment!

"Betrayal? Heh heh... From beginning to end, you were merely... a relatively important chess piece on this Seat's chessboard." The Pavilion Master Tianji's voice was indifferent and emotionless, "Your greed, your ambition, your path to emperorship... everything was within this Seat's calculations. Now, it is time for you... to contribute your final value!"

"Destiny... Grafting! Emperor Foundation... Transfer!"

The Pavilion Master Tianji roared, and the Fate Compass spun to its extreme! The extracted Emperor Qi and energy, mixed with the Origin Qi Origin of tens of thousands of blood sacrificers, transformed into a dazzling yet strangely ominous black and white light pillar, which violently poured into the Pavilion Master Tianji's own hazy starlight body!

"Ah—!!!"

The Pavilion Master Tianji let out a long cry, a mix of pain and pleasure! His body, under the infusion of this vast energy, began to undergo earth-shattering changes! The hazy starlight gradually solidified, and distorted destiny threads intertwined and coiled around his body, constructing a new body that was both real and illusory, as if condensed from the very laws of destiny! The aura emanating from him surged wildly, instantly breaking through the Dou Sheng boundary and furiously charging towards the ethereal Emperor Realm!

"Bastard! Stop right there!" Xiao Chen's eyes were splitting with rage! He absolutely could not let the Pavilion Master Tianji succeed! Once he successfully stole the Emperor Foundation and forged a Destiny Emperor Body, his strength would far surpass the newly awakened Soul Heaven Emperor! At that time, the entire continent would completely become his plaything, manipulated by destiny, with no peace forever!

"Chaos Creation! Break!"

Xiao Chen's thousand-zhang Dharma Idol roared, throwing both fists! The left fist evolved chaos, suppressing space-time! The right fist opened up the universe, striking directly at the core! Two chaotic fist imprints, powerful enough to shatter stars, tore through the sea of blood, ignoring spatial distance, and fiercely slammed towards the Pavilion Master Tianji, who was undergoing a critical transformation, and the dark heart entangled by destiny threads!

He wanted to interrupt both rituals simultaneously!

"Hmph! Overestimating yourself!" The Pavilion Master Tianji snorted coldly, not even looking back, merely waving a hand! The massive illusory image of the Fate Compass split off a portion of its light, transforming into a Destiny Shield woven from countless threads of karma, blocking in front of him!

"Thump! Thump!"

The chaotic fist imprints violently crashed onto the Destiny Shield! There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a strange annihilation at the level of laws! The will to create and the power of chaos contained within the fist imprints fiercely eroded and canceled out the karmic laws on the Destiny Shield! In the end, the fist imprints slowly dissipated, and the Destiny Shield also became much more ethereal!

"What?!" Xiao Chen's heart sank! The Pavilion Master Tianji's hasty defense had so easily blocked his full-power strike! His control over the power of destiny had reached an inconceivable level! Moreover, most of his energy was clearly still focused on stealing the Emperor Foundation!

"I can't let him succeed!" Xiao Chen's eyes were wild, pushing the power of the Chaos Sacred Realm to its limit! The vertical eye on the Dharma Idol's forehead opened again!

"Origin Qi as the guide, Chaos to the Void! Annihilation Divine Light!"

A grey, seemingly all-returning-to-origin beam of light silently shot towards the Pavilion Master Tianji! This strike contained a trace of the essence of the Origin Qi Origin, specifically countering all laws and energy structures!

"Hmm? The power of Origin Qi?" The Pavilion Master Tianji finally showed a slight change in expression, forced to divert a portion of his attention to control the Fate Compass, condensing more karmic threads, weaving them into a net to meet the Annihilation Divine Light!

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!!!"

The Annihilation Divine Light collided with the karmic net, emitting a grating sound! The karmic net fluctuated violently, countless threads breaking, but it still managed to barely block the divine light!

And it was precisely in this fleeting moment of confrontation!

"Roar—!!!"

At the top of the altar, the dark heart underwent another anomaly! Soul Heaven Emperor's consciousness, stimulated by the extreme rage of betrayal and the crisis of life and death, actually erupted with a power that transcended its limits!

"Heavenly Secret!!! This Emperor... even if I die... I will drag you down with me!!! Netherworld... Explode!!!"

The dark heart suddenly expanded! The vast Emperor Qi and Soul Heaven Emperor's Origin Qi Origin gathered within it were no longer being extracted by the Pavilion Master Tianji, but were actively ignited by Soul Heaven Emperor, preparing to... self-destruct!!!

A world-destroying energy fluctuation furiously overflowed from the heart! The entire altar space began to collapse! The sea of blood evaporated! The bone altar cracked!

"What?! Soul Heaven Emperor! Are you insane?!" The Pavilion Master Tianji for the first time let out a roar filled with shock and rage! Soul Heaven Emperor's self-destruction would completely destroy his plan to steal the Emperor Foundation! It might even severely wound his nascent Destiny Body!

"Madman! They're all madmen!" Xiao Chen's face also changed dramatically! The self-destruction of a Half-Emperor was powerful enough to annihilate everything in this space! He had to evacuate immediately!

However, at this critical moment!

"Buzz—!"

Deep within Xiao Chen's Qi Sea, the newly formed origin qi seed suddenly vibrated violently! An incredibly strong desire and guidance entered his soul!

The direction... pointed directly at the dark heart that was about to self-destruct! No, more precisely, it was that wisp of unowned Origin Qi deep within the heart, which Soul Heaven Emperor had refined most of, but not yet fully integrated!

"That is... Origin Qi?!" Xiao Chen understood instantly! The reason Soul Heaven Emperor was able to touch the Emperor Realm, besides the blood sacrifice and ancient heritage, was crucially because he had somehow obtained and refined a wisp of Origin Qi! And this wisp of Origin Qi, at this moment, was about to dissipate with Soul Heaven Emperor's self-destruction!

"Seize it! I must seize it!" A crazy thought exploded in Xiao Chen's mind! This wisp of Origin Qi was crucial to him! Perhaps it was the key for him to contend against the Pavilion Master Tianji, and even to break through to the Emperor Realm in the future!

No pain, no gain! Life and death on the line!

A look of desperate resolve flashed in Xiao Chen's eyes! Not only did he not retreat, but he instead controlled his thousand-zhang Dharma Idol, transforming into an ultimate chaotic stream of light, recklessly... charging towards the dark heart that was about to explode!!!

"You're seeking death!!!" The Pavilion Master Tianji roared!

"Ant! Die with me!!!" Soul Heaven Emperor roared frantically!

The energy of destruction was about to... completely erupt!!!