That was the aura of a Great Emperor. Or rather, the aura of one who had reached the absolute pinnacle of the Emperor Dao.

In the very instant he attained the Dao, he slew a flawless Supreme. That Supreme had bathed in Emperor blood in the past. Even in his ordinary state, he could rival an ordinary Great Emperor. He had harvested countless lives and remained at his peak at all times. Yet now, he had been killed with a single slash.

This was the power of one who had attained the Dao through the nine-layered Emperor tribulation. Throughout history, not every era would birth such a being. That single slash ushered in a new epoch.

Su Chen did not stop. A Supreme who had instantly revived and recovered his former Extreme Dao Emperor-level combat strength roared in fury. Like the unrivaled Great Emperors of old, he charged toward Su Chen across the starry sky.

"Admirable courage."

The Emperor Dao reigned over the cosmos. In the eyes of all living beings, only one figure existed. The once-dominant Supreme appeared utterly insignificant before him.

How could the light of a firefly compete with the bright moon? Those former supreme powerhouses were now nothing more than fireflies.

Su Chen's Dao crushed everything before it. There was still an insurmountable gulf between Emperors. He needed only two moves to kill a Supreme whose strength rivaled that of an ordinary Great Emperor—one to crush him, and one to end his life.

The Supremes who had dominated the universe for hundreds of thousands of years finally felt fear. An existence that killed Emperors as easily as stepping on ants was simply too terrifying.

Some of the oldest Supremes looked on with utter despair.

"Another supreme Emperor has appeared… Will the great war of the past repeat itself?"

In less than the time it took for an incense stick to burn, Su Chen had slain no fewer than twenty Supremes. On this day, countless star domains across the universe turned blood-red. Blood flowed through billions of star regions in a magnificent and horrifying spectacle. Even the most distant star domains experienced blood rain that day.

Su Chen watched the surviving Supremes scatter and flee back into the forbidden zones. He did not pursue them to complete annihilation. Twenty-three Supreme corpses were more than enough for his cultivation for a long time.

As the Supremes of the forbidden zones retreated, Su Chen achieved Nirvana, immortality, and eternal life.

In this life, he titled himself the Undying Nether Emperor. He declared the end of the Dark Era and the arrival of the Emperor Dao Era. All living beings hailed the Undying Nether Emperor. They built ancient statues across countless star domains and prayed to the first Emperor who had ended the age of darkness. Cultivation became much easier in the world.

Su Chen established the Undying Divine Court and ruled over all races. In less than ten thousand years, powerhouses emerged in droves and the myriad races flourished.

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Su Chen sat within the Undying Divine Court. Over the past ten thousand years, he had been continuously refining the Supreme corpses he had harvested in that great battle. The daos and laws of ancient Emperors and Great Emperors all became his nourishment.

"Someone wants to challenge me?"

Ten thousand years later, Su Chen opened his eyes. A single gleam from his gaze shattered countless spaces and stirred chaotic clouds.

Outside the Undying Divine Court, a supreme figure stood proudly.

It was a flawless Great Emperor.

Two Great Emperors had appeared in the same era. The situation where Emperors never met other Emperors had been broken.

"So that's how it is…"

Su Chen understood. He had killed too many Supremes. From the beginning to the end of the Dark Era, more than forty Supremes had fallen in just over a hundred thousand years. Nearly half the Supremes in the forbidden zones had perished.

Although Su Chen had refined many of their corpses, the remaining energy had returned to the heavens and earth. The forbidden zones he had pacified had also reintegrated into the universe, perfecting the rules of the world.

A second Great Emperor had been born.

However, this Great Emperor seemed rather arrogant and ignorant of his own limits.

Su Chen's expression turned strange.

All the powerhouses of the Undying Divine Court had come out, only to be completely defeated by this Great Emperor.

The young Great Emperor looked down upon the Undying Divine Court. His Emperor voice echoed across countless star domains.

"Undying Nether Emperor, this Emperor knows you are still alive! Come out and fight!"

The Emperor's might blanketed the starry sky.

Above the universe, a crack tore open. A nether blade swept across thousands of star domains and billions of light years. Within the shattered void, Emperor blood spilled and dyed the heavens red. The myriad realms mourned.

A Great Emperor had died just like that.

Su Chen casually grabbed the fresh Great Emperor corpse. He had only just finished refining the Supreme corpses, and now another fresh Great Emperor had delivered himself to his doorstep. How considerate.

This was a Great Emperor who had passed three tribulations. For an ordinary Great Emperor to charge straight at his door, Su Chen could only say his courage was commendable.

After his eighth Nirvana, Su Chen realized that the energy required for the ninth Nirvana was terrifyingly vast. More than twenty Supremes had only provided about one-tenth of what he needed.

After refining the new Great Emperor, Su Chen relaxed his suppression on the world and waited for new Emperors to be born.

In the past, the Myriad Laws Emperor Court had exhausted all its foundations during the dark turmoil. When Su Chen arrived at its former location, the once-mighty court had been reduced to a small sect. Its strongest member was only at the Void Refining realm.

"Young sir, this is the Myriad Laws Sect. To join us, you must first have your talent tested," a young disciple of the sect blocked Su Chen's path.

Su Chen shook his head.

"I am not here to join the Myriad Laws Sect. I am here to make a deal."

The young disciple was about to ask what kind of deal when he blinked. The black-robed youth had vanished.

"Strange… was that an illusion?"

The young disciple felt as though he had seen someone, yet no matter how hard he tried, he could not recall the person's exact appearance.

A moment later, he muttered in confusion, "Why am I standing here anyway?"

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Su Chen's strength had grown far too great. Beings of low cultivation no longer even had the qualification to remember him. He had become a taboo existence.

At that moment, the current Sect Master of the Myriad Laws Sect was chatting and laughing warmly with a young man. He did not know who the youth was, yet his mind automatically registered him as a friend who had come from afar.

The youth was Su Chen.

"Thinking back to those years… our Myriad Laws Sect was once an Emperor-level orthodoxy that dominated the starry sky and stood at the peak of all powers," the old Sect Master said with tears in his eyes. "Unfortunately, when the Dark Era arrived, our ancestors fought and died in the stars to protect the sect. After endless turmoil, only this small branch remains. The cultivation methods, divine abilities, and resources left behind by the Emperor Court were all plundered by other forces."

The old Sect Master's voice grew heavy with shame. "The descendants are unworthy. We have failed to restore the supreme glory of the Emperor Court. I have let down our ancestors…"

"You have already done very well," Su Chen said gently. "I believe the ancestors of past generations will not blame you."

The old Sect Master smiled.