"Join you? How about you join me instead!"

Qi Yuan looked at Realm Master Wukong before him, his expression calm.

Ahead, the dense "gazes" each represented a powerful Yang God.

The number of Yang Gods here far exceeded that of the Six Heavens of the Immortal Realm.

Realm Master Wukong wore a strange smile: "Once, I was just like you... but in the end, I became a shadow within the Black Heaven."

"What is the Black Heaven?" Qi Yuan asked.

"Do you see those three thrones? If you can pass through us and reach those three thrones, perhaps you will understand what the Black Heaven truly is!" Realm Master Wukong''s voice was eerie.

Countless eyes turned to Qi Yuan at this moment.

These gazes were cold, emotionless, fanatical, and obsessive.

Qi Yuan sensed that countless black threads were spreading in the darkness, representing chaos and disorder.

He had a premonition that if these black threads touched him, he would become like Realm Master Wukong, assimilated by the Black Heaven, becoming one of the Black Earth.

However, the blazing white light emitted by the Human Enlightenment Divine Light kept these black threads at bay.

This also spared Qi Yuan from assimilation.

Qi Yuan looked toward the three thrones.

All the Yang Gods were like fireflies, twinkling like stars, while the three thrones seated deep in the darkness were like scorching suns hanging high in the sky.

[The Three Illusions of Black Heaven, the third layer of Yang Gods, the Creation Realm, are thrones born from the Black Earth. They possess no wisdom, no true spirit.]

Creation Realm?

Qi Yuan felt an inexplicable pressure.

The third layer of Yang Gods, from the Realm of All Things to the Creation Realm, was a threshold.

The Creation Realm meant the ability to create life and worlds.

However, to reach the Three Illusions of Black Heaven, he would first have to pass through... the dense crowd of Yang Gods before him.

"Surrender, lay down your resistance, you cannot win," Realm Master Wukong said, his voice devoid of emotion.

Qi Yuan''s right eyelid twitched violently, signaling that this battle would be extremely perilous.

"Even if you have a one-in-a-million chance to defeat us and reach the three thrones, how will you fight against them?"

"Even if you defeat the three thrones, how will you fight against the Black Heaven?"

At this moment, countless Yang Gods spoke in unison, their voices vast, mechanical, and cold.

Just the sound alone caused Qi Yuan''s powerful soul to instinctively dim.

If it were any other Realm Master, their soul would likely tremble.

"A battle like this... I''ve never fought before. Ever since I condensed the Stellar Golden Core, it''s always been me surrounding others. I never thought that today, I would be the one surrounded!"

Qi Yuan, holding the Human Enlightenment Divine Light, was also emotionless, exuding a sacred and imposing aura.

He scanned the dense crowd of Yang Gods and Realm Masters, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes.

"Let me see... where my limits truly lie!"

Devouring Primordial Body!

Death Radiance!

Absolute Adaptation!

Tyrannical Power!

At this moment, Qi Yuan unleashed his strongest form in this world.

With Absolute Adaptation, Qi Yuan was like a tiger entering a lion''s den, beginning his slaughter.

"Those who stand in my way, die!"

He still had some wisdom. Under the enhancement of Death Radiance, he did not resist the attacks from the Realm Masters but instead endured them.

His attacks were directed at the weaker ones.

Qi Yuan showed no fear, and the Yang Gods of the Black Heaven and Black Earth had no retreat.

Facing Qi Yuan''s attacks, three first-layer Yang Gods and two second-layer Yang Gods immediately took action.

Crack!

In just a breath, the bodies of five mighty Yang Gods shattered.

A flood of experience poured in, slightly boosting Qi Yuan''s strength.

The Devouring Primordial Body also played its role, devouring these five Yang Gods.

"Kill!"

A lightning rule from a Realm Master of the Realm of All Things struck Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan''s body stiffened, his blood trembling, the pain indescribable.

"You can''t kill me, I will only grow stronger!"

Qi Yuan accelerated to his limit, swiftly avoiding these Realm Masters of the Realm of All Things, focusing on hunting ordinary Yang Gods.

At this moment, Qi Yuan only hoped that his Death Radiance and Absolute Adaptation were powerful enough to allow him to kill enough Yang Gods to elevate his strength to a terrifying level.

Only then might he have a sliver of a chance to turn the tide.

"Kill!"

Qi Yuan traded injuries for kills, slaying three more Yang Gods.

Now, ordinary Yang Gods were as fragile as paper in his eyes.

Only Realm Master stage Yang Gods posed a significant threat to him.

Countless attacks landed on Qi Yuan, and if not for Death Radiance and Absolute Adaptation, he would have died long ago.

After all, the number of Realm Masters here was unimaginable.

The number of Realm Masters in the Zhou Universe was less than a tenth of those in the Black Heaven and Black Earth.

So, he wasn''t facing the terrifying power of one universe, but... more than ten universes!

The slaughter continued.

The battle raged on.

Blood flowed endlessly.

"What is the eighth Human Enlightenment Divine Light? What is it missing?"

"Is there some condition we''re not meeting?"

All the Ancestral Gods discussed fervently but couldn''t come to a conclusion.

Their knowledge of the Human Enlightenment Divine Light came from the Yang God of the Heavenly Clan.

And that Yang God didn''t know much about the Human Enlightenment Divine Light either.

Yuan''s expression changed, and he finally gritted his teeth: "I will go seek an audience with the Void Realm Master."

At that moment, a majestic, illusory figure descended.

He stood in the sky, yet was directly in front of everyone, no matter where they were.

No matter his position, he was always directly ahead.

"The Human Enlightenment Divine Light... is not an ordinary Divine Light treasure."

"The Divine Light treasure is a treasure of rules."

"But the Human Enlightenment Divine Light... is forged from the primordial rules that construct the universe."

"Using the Void Paradise, I have analyzed the Divine Wood for ten thousand years. The Divine Wood Universe is composed of eight primordial rules: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, thunder, rain, and cloud.

Now, seven Human Enlightenment Divine Lights have been gathered, only water is missing."

"Once you find the final water, the eighth Human Enlightenment Divine Light will be forged."

"With eight Human Enlightenment Divine Lights gathered, perhaps... there will be a sliver of hope."

All the Ancestral Gods were solemn.

Yuan stepped forward: "May I ask, Void Realm Master, where is the water?"

The Void Realm Master''s voice was ethereal: "I do not know."

Everyone looked at each other in confusion.

The water representing the primordial rule... where was it? How could it be captured, and how could it be forged into the eighth Human Enlightenment Divine Light? They had no idea.

"Realm Master, how much longer can Lord Qi Yuan hold on in the Black Heaven?" Yuan asked again.

Everyone''s hearts clenched.

They also wanted to know how Lord Qi Yuan was faring.

The battle in the Black Heaven must be incredibly perilous and brutal.

The Void Realm Master looked up, gazing toward the Void Sea.

His eyes fell on the ever-expanding bubble, and a rare look of emotion crossed his face.

"Even I, if I entered the Black Heaven, would be assimilated in an instant. For him to hold on this long... is a miracle."

"I see... his true spirit is dim, less than one ten-thousandth remaining. Perhaps... it could be extinguished in an instant," the Void Realm Master sighed.

In the Creation Realm, he had lived through 10,8327 epochs.

He had experienced over ten thousand universe resets and destructions.

Someone as unique as Qi Yuan, he had never seen before.

"At any moment?" The other Ancestral Gods were filled with despair.

This meant that Qi Yuan could fall at any moment, perishing there.

If the eighth Human Enlightenment Divine Light wasn''t forged and combined with the other seven before Qi Yuan fell, then... even if the eighth was forged, it would be useless.

"Void Realm Master, what is the Black Heaven?" Yuan asked.

The Void Realm Master narrowed his eyes, his voice profound: "Where the Black Heaven exists, beneath it, no one can imagine its existence."

This statement was simple.

In the world where the Black Heaven exists, people cannot imagine what the Black Heaven is.

It''s like having a dog in front of you, but your consciousness is locked, so you only know it''s Wangcai, not that it''s a dog.

The Black Heaven is such an existence.

"So, no matter how we think, we can''t know what the Black Heaven is?" Yuan was frustrated.

This feeling of being locked in consciousness was unpleasant.

Generally, the reason why mysteries are powerful is that they are mysterious and unknowable.

Once all information is known, the mystery can be overcome.

But now, this mystery has a consciousness lock.

This means that where the mystery exists, no one can know the mystery.

The Void Realm Master extended three fingers: "I can take three worlds'' worth of beings away from the Divine Wood."

The Divine Wood Universe had long been infiltrated by the Black Heaven.

Even a being like the Void Realm Master, who was just one step away from breaking through to a higher level, could only protect three worlds'' worth of beings.

"Thank you, Void Realm Master!" Yuan bowed solemnly.

At least, even if the Divine Wood Universe perished, some beings... would have a place to live.

...

In the Black Heaven.

The three thrones sat in the sky, their gazes mechanical, emotionless.

Below, the battle was especially brutal.

This slaughter was like a mill grinding flesh.

The original Qi Yuan was now almost completely dissolved, no longer resembling a human.

The seven Human Enlightenment Divine Lights had transformed into rings of rules, encircling him.

He was now a blood-red light, like a red hole draped in seven rings of light, devouring everything before him, everything in the world.

The three thrones observed Qi Yuan, their expressions calm.

"His essence... is strange."

"No being in the world can devour the Black Earth."

"He is somewhat similar to the Black Heaven."

"He... is about to reach the Creation Realm."