pjbooks Chapter 151 Humanity Has No Limits
Chapter 151 Humanity Has No Limits
Three hundred years ago, Kahn awoke from the origin of the void and sealed his true form beneath the hundredth layer of the void, leaving only a human body to walk between the Apostle Realm and the mortal world. He used that human body to fight Jiang Chen and the students of Qingyun Academy. He was repelled by Jiang Chen's five-colored light pillar, had his laws negated by the Dao Fruit of the Void Immortal Emperor, and had his origin of the void stripped away by the life force of the Life-Giving Immortal Emperor.
But that was only one in a billion of his true power.
"Three hundred years ago, I placed the seed of awakened power into a black ice flower and scattered it across the human continent." Kahn's voice came from the void, no longer the voice of that human body, but a deep resonance emanating from the depths of his being, like surging magma from the earth's core. "I wanted to see how much power humanity could unleash in despair. Three hundred years later, I saw it."
His true form slowly opened his eyes in the darkness.
Those were two enormous, pure golden eyeballs, each over a hundred feet in diameter. Countless fine runes flowed across the surface of the eyeballs, each rune representing an absolute law etched into the very origin of the void. The pupils at the center of the eyeballs were pure black, so black that even light could not escape, so black that even space itself was distorted into irregular spirals at the edge of the pupil's field of vision.
"Jiang Chen, you are very strong. Strong enough to repel my physical body with a five-colored pillar of light, strong enough to negate my God-Sealing Domain with the Dao Fruit of the Void Immortal Emperor, strong enough to strip away the Void Origin I borrowed with the life force of the Life-Giving Immortal Emperor."
His true form rose from the darkness.
"But your strength is the strength of humanity. Your Dao heart is the Dao heart of humanity. Your Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit is the legacy left by the Immortal Emperor of humanity 30,000 years ago."
His voice trailed off.
"And my strength is the strength of the void's origin. My Dao heart is the universe itself."
He raised his right hand—the right hand of that human body—and simultaneously lifted the transparent longsword. The light of the Eternal Seal on the blade shone at its brightest at that moment, and a dark golden beam of light exploded from the sword, hurtling towards Jiang Chen.
This time, it wasn't the kind of suppression of laws that required time to unfold like in the Godhood Domain, nor was it a single-target attack like the Watcher's Sword that needed to pierce the body to take effect—this was pure power that Kahn, after awakening his true form, directly mobilized from the depths of the void's origin, a power powerful enough to erase a planet from existence itself.
The beam of light was moving at an incredible speed.
Before Wang Kai could even utter the words "Brother Chen," the beam of light had already blasted right in front of Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen did not dodge. The Primordial Sword was held horizontally in front of him, five-colored light flowing wildly along its blade, condensing into a five-colored light shield in front of him. The surface of the light shield was swirling with the power of five Immortal Emperor Dao Fruits—the golden Zhou Tian Star Fire on the outermost layer, responsible for locking and attracting; the dark red Burning Annihilation Fire on the second layer, responsible for burning through and evaporating; the icy blue Ice Profound Power on the third layer, responsible for freezing and slowing down; the pure black Void Power on the fourth layer, responsible for negation and stripping; and the emerald green Life Force on the innermost layer, responsible for repair and reshaping.
Five layers of defense, five dimensions, and five kinds of Immortal Emperor Dao Fruits, under the harmonization of Jiang Chen's Dao Heart, constitute the most solid shield in the history of human civilization.
The dark golden beam of light collided with the five-colored light shield.
On the first level, the golden Zhou Tian Xing Dou Fire trembled violently under the impact of the dark golden pillar of light. The fine golden rays, like a spiderweb torn by a storm, snapped one by one from the edges, golden specks of light gushing from the breaks and scattering in the void. The locking force of the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Fire lasted less than half a breath before the dark golden pillar of light.
The second layer was replaced by the dark red flames of annihilation. These flames could burn through everything, including the laws themselves. But the dark golden pillar of light contained not the laws—it contained the primordial power of the void's origin, a power that transcended the realm of laws and was closer to the essence of the universe. The moment the flames came into contact with this power, they didn't burn through it; they were extinguished from within. The flames dimmed, contracted, and extinguished from the edges, and dark red specks of light drifted through the void like a silent, dark red snowfall.
The third layer saw the icy blue power of the Ice Profound Realm take over the defense. This power could freeze time, freeze space, and even freeze the very will of chaos. But the power of the Void Origin was not chaos, not time, not space—it was the source of all this. Under the impact of the dark golden pillar of light, the Ice Profound Realm began to shatter from its edges. Icy blue fragments flew through the void, each carrying the residual warmth of the Ice Profound Immortal Emperor's 30,000-year-old Dao Fruit, rapidly melting, evaporating, and turning to nothingness under the dark golden light.
On the fourth layer, pure black void power took over the defense. The essence of void power is "denial of existence," erasing everything it touches from existence itself. But the source of the dark golden pillar of light is the origin of the void—the origin of the void is "existence" itself. Void power can deny existence, but it cannot deny the source of existence. Under the impact of the dark golden pillar of light, the pure black light began to collapse from its center, and black fragments scattered in the void.
On the fifth layer, a vibrant green life force took over the defenses. The essence of this life force is "creating life," repairing, reshaping, and regenerating everything that has been destroyed. It is the innermost shield, and also the last one. Jiang Chen placed all his hopes on this layer—not to use the life force to resist the dark golden pillar of light, but to use it to repair the four breached layers of defense and buy time amidst the impact of the dark golden pillar of light.
The emerald green light flickered wildly under the impact of the dark golden pillar of light. It drew remnants of "existence" from the fragments of the power of nothingness, extracted fragments of "time" from the debris of the power of ice, collected the residue of "energy" from the embers of the flames of burning silence, and recovered the remains of "laws" from the light spots of the starlight of the heavens and earth—and then used these fragments to rebuild the defenses layer by layer in the gaps between the impacts of the dark golden pillar of light.
The first layer was rebuilt, then shattered. The second layer was rebuilt, then shattered. The third layer was rebuilt, then shattered. The fourth layer was rebuilt, then shattered. The fifth layer itself was also shattering—the Dao Fruit of the Immortal Emperor could only withstand one, two, or three repairs before the power of Kahn's true form, but it couldn't withstand countless repairs.
Jiang Chen sensed his limit. It wasn't that his Dao heart was collapsing, but rather that his physical body was being disintegrated at the cellular level in the face of Kahn's true power. His skin began to crack under the dark golden light, the cracks spreading from his arms to his shoulders, and from his shoulders to his chest. From each crack, bright red blood gushed out, scattering in the void and turning into blood droplets, which then evaporated in the dark golden light.
Wang Kai rushed forward.
The pure white light of the "Dao" sword shone to its fullest extent at this moment. The chaotic power that had been re-condensed from the remnant root of the Azure Cloud Sword on the blade emitted a piercing hiss the instant it collided with the dark golden pillar of light from Kahn's main body. The chaotic power and the power of the void's origin clashed fiercely at the point of impact—chaos can negate everything, but if the void's origin is negated, the void itself will collapse.
Wang Kai felt the backlash. The instant the chaotic power was rebounded by the void's origin, his right arm began to dissipate into white specks of light, starting from his fingertips. It wasn't burned, it wasn't corroded; it was negated from the very essence of existence.
"Wang Kai!" Shen Qingxue's voice came from behind, sharp and shrill.
She rushed forward. Her right fist, still warm from the residual power of ice magic, slammed into the side of the dark golden pillar of light. An icy blue light exploded on the surface of the pillar, forcibly shifting its trajectory by three inches. That three-inch shift pulled Wang Kai's right arm back from the brink of destruction—his fingertips were gone, but his hand remained, his wrist remained, and the bones, muscles, and blood vessels of his entire right arm were still intact.
Jiang Chen gripped the Primordial Sword and stood up from the ruins of the five-colored light shield.
His body was covered in cracks—from his arms to his shoulders, from his shoulders to his chest, from his chest to his abdomen, every inch of his skin was bleeding. His right hand still gripped the Primordial Sword, the five-colored light on the blade had dimmed to the point of being almost invisible, but the six stars on the hilt were still spinning, several times slower than usual, but still spinning.
He raised his head and looked at the enormous, dark golden body rising from the darkness in the void, at the human body above it, and at the eternal seal flowing on the blade of the transparent longsword in the body's hand.
"Kahn." His voice was very soft, as soft as the wind blowing across a dry riverbed, yet it caused all the dark golden light in the entire void to freeze at the same time.
"You say your strength is the strength of the void's origin. Your Dao heart is the universe itself." He took a step forward, and a blood-red ripple exploded in the void beneath his feet—the last trace left by the blood seeping from the cracks in his skin after evaporating in the void.
"But did you know? The universe itself also has its limits."
He raised the Primordial Sword, its tip aimed at the center of Kahn's brow—the enormous, pure golden eyeball, over a hundred feet in diameter, its surface shimmering with countless runes.
"But the human heart has no limits."
On the blade of the Primordial Sword, the sixth star lit up.