pjbooks Chapter 148 Five is enough.
Chapter 148 Five is enough.
Jiang Chen's four-colored beams of light are beginning to erode his dark gold beams of light from the edges.
"The Dao Fruit of the Void Immortal Emperor..." Kahn's voice was deep. "Thirty thousand years ago, he tried to use the Dao Fruit of 'Nothingness' to strip away the chaotic will of the Demon Ancestor, but he failed. Today, thirty thousand years later, his Dao Fruit is in your hands. Use it to strip away my God-Sealing Domain."
His grip on the Watcher's Sword tightened slightly, and amber light surged from the blade, attempting to re-coalesce the eroded parts. But each attempt to re-coalesce was rejected again by the power of nothingness.
"Interesting." Kahn's smile deepened. "Your Dao Heart has indeed merged with the Dao Fruit of the Void Immortal Emperor. But how much void can your Dao Heart bear?"
He raised his left hand, fingers spread, palm facing Jiang Chen. Amber light condensed in his palm, transforming into a fist-sized, jet-black sphere. Fine, dark gold patterns flowed across the sphere's surface, their rhythm resonating with Kahn's heartbeat.
"Gods' Domain - Judgment of Nothingness"
The black sphere flew from his palm toward Jiang Chen. It was not fast, in fact, it was very slow—slow enough that Wang Kai could see its trajectory, slow enough that Shen Qingxue could sense every dark gold pattern flowing across its surface, and slow enough that Bing Li could feel the destructive power contained within it, enough to wipe the entire void from existence itself.
But it cannot be avoided.
The moment the black sphere touched Jiang Chen's chest, he felt his consciousness being pulled into an endless void. There was no light, no sound, no time, no space, nothing perceptible. Only the void itself, and himself.
"Jiang Chen." Kahn's voice came from the void, deep and calm, "Your Dao Heart was forged through a thousand years of slaughter, a thousand years of solitude, and a thousand years of loss. But the Dao Fruit of the Void Immortal Emperor was tempered in thirty thousand years of nothingness. Is your thousand years enough compared to his thirty thousand?"
Jiang Chen stood in the void, his right hand still gripping the Primordial Sword, but the four-colored light on the blade had dimmed. He felt his Dao heart being eroded by the void.
His consciousness began to fade.
He recalled himself a thousand years ago when he first entered the world of cultivation—the boy kneeling in a pool of blood, unable to even stand up. He remembered Qingyunzi's back as he was possessed, the grass growing on Su Wanniang's grave, the shattered ring on the remains of the Primordial Immortal Emperor, the Burning Heaven Immortal Emperor's last words before dissipating, "Burn for me," and the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor's words when he opened his eyes after 30,000 years of slumber: "You've come."
He remembered the message Wang Kai sent on Awakening Day—"Dude, say something!! Don't do anything rash!" He remembered Shen Qingxue's words when she stood in front of him during the Apostle's Descent incident in the capital: "As long as you stand there, there is hope for this world." He remembered the backs of 1,100 students queuing in the ice flower storm on the long street outside the main gate of Qingyun Academy.
His Dao heart shone brightly at that moment.
It wasn't illuminated by the Dao Fruit of the Void Immortal Emperor, but by the light emanating from his own Dao Heart. The light was very weak, almost invisible, yet it undeniably existed. It pierced through the darkness of the void, through the suppression of Kahn's Godhood Domain, and through three thousand years of time, exploding across the entire void.
"Kahn." Jiang Chen's voice came from the void, calm yet firm. "The Dao Fruit that the Void Immortal Emperor refined over 30,000 years is indeed older than mine over 1,000 years. But you know, the Dao Heart isn't measured by time, is it? The strength of the Dao Heart is measured by 'what one wants to protect'."
The nothingness shattered.
Jiang Chen emerged from the void, and on the blade of the Primordial Sword, a fifth kind of light was awakening. It was a bright green light, the Dao Fruit of the fifth Immortal Emperor—his Dao title "Life and Life".
Thirty thousand years ago, a hundred Immortal Emperors besieged the Demon Ancestor. The Immortal Emperor of Life's mission was not to fight, but to protect. He used his Dao Fruit of "Life" to erect a life shield covering thousands of miles in the sky above the battlefield, enveloping all the wounded Immortal Emperors in the shield, using the power of life to heal them, prolong their lives, and reshape their physical bodies.
He held out for three days and three nights in that battle. When the Demon Ancestor's final blow shattered the shield, the Immortal Emperor's Dao Fruit was broken, but his physical body remained, his remnant soul remained, and his will to "live" slept for thirty thousand years in the Primordial Sword.
At that moment, just as Jiang Chen's Dao Heart was being eroded to its limit by the void, the Dao Fruit of the Immortal Emperor of Life awakened.
Emerald green light surged from the blade of the Primordial Sword, enveloping all the Qingyun Academy students in the void. The charred skin on Wang Kai's right arm, burned by dark golden flames, rapidly healed under the emerald green light, the new skin white with a rosy hue, even more resilient than before. The bone density defect on Shen Qingxue's right shoulder, left by the sniper rifle wound from the Dark Night Organization, was repaired, reshaped, and strengthened layer by layer under the penetration of the emerald green light. The unstable golden core in Bing Li's dantian began to solidify from its edges under the nourishment of the emerald green light; the cracks on the surface of the golden core healed layer by layer, finally transforming into a flawless, ice-blue perfect golden core.
Zhao Tieshan's left prosthetic leg made a clicking sound in the emerald green light.
Zhang Ziming knelt on the ground, his hands pressed into the void, and earthen-yellow spiritual power surged from his palms into the "ground" beneath his feet. Under the blessing of emerald green light, the earthen wall he conjured was no longer a simple defensive barrier, but a living, self-repairing wall that automatically adjusted its thickness according to the intensity of enemy attacks.
At that moment, all 1,100 students simultaneously felt the surging life force within their bodies.
Kahn gazed at the emerald light that covered the entire void, a genuine solemnity appearing in his amber pupils for the first time. "The Dao Fruit of the Immortal Emperor of Life… Thirty thousand years ago, he used the power of 'Life' to erect a life shield for the entire battlefield. Thirty thousand years later, his Dao Fruit is in your hands, to be used to protect your students."
His voice deepened. "Jiang Chen, just how many Immortal Emperors' Dao Fruits are dormant within your Primordial Sword?"
Jiang Chen gripped the Primordial Sword, five lights slowly swirling on its blade—golden Zhou Tian Starfire, dark red Burning Silence Fire, icy blue Ice Profound Power, pure black Void Power, and emerald green Life-Giving Power. He looked at Kahn, a slight smile playing on his lips.
"Six," he said. "The Dao Fruits of the five Immortal Emperors—Taichu, Fentian, Bingxuan, Xuwu, and Shengsheng—have already awakened. The sixth one is still asleep."
He took a step forward, and a circle of five-colored ripples exploded in the void beneath his feet.
"But five is enough."
Five-colored light simultaneously shone on the blade of the Primordial Sword, transforming into a five-colored pillar of light that stretched across the heavens and earth, hurtling towards Kahn.