Even for Ye Qingzhou, facing this sword meant a certain death.

The gap between a Martial Saint and a Martial God is even greater than the gap between mortals and a Martial Saint!

Ye Qingzhou was suppressed in place by Susanoo's vast Divine Thought, unable to move, even as he frantically burned the Power of Thought Ability from the Cangyuan Realm, using Xiangshu Thinking to calculate a way to survival, seeking that sliver of vitality.

Yet no matter how he calculated, the probability of his survival was zero!

"Die."

With one slash, the sky was split in two, whether dense volcanic ash or thick cloud layers, everything was cleaved in half, revealing a vast expanse of dazzling starry sky.

This was a sword capable of tearing through the earth and slicing through the heavens!

Fourth Gear!

Pulse Shockburst Mode!

Mental Imagery!

Taiyi Wuxiang!

Sword Skill!

Five Emperors Dragon Sword Art!

Facing the crisis of life and death, Ye Qingzhou desperately merged his supreme skills, simultaneously using the Five-Scalped Emperor Armor, while expending vast amounts of Power of Thought Ability, driving the Black Emperor Armor he wore to its strongest state.

Unfortunately, none of this was useful, in front of Susanoo's Divine Sword capable of cutting through space, the power of a Martial Saint was too insignificant, unable to resist the fate of death he faced.

Only a God can oppose a God.

Suddenly, a dark golden fist shadow appeared behind Ye Qingzhou, brushing past his ear and striking the Celestial Feather Slash, shielding him from this deadly sword.

Crack~

At the collision of sword and fist, the space shattered like fragile glass, creating cracks from where Ye Qingzhou vaguely heard malicious roars, as if a group of evil beings sought to break in from without, to descend upon Blue Star, to harvest myriad beings.

Thankfully, a force rapidly repaired the space cracks, making the fissures vanish in an instant.

"Absolute Earth and Heaven?"

Ye Qingzhou instantly understood this force might be the defense formation set up by Zhuangxu, one of the Five Emperors, to block the interference of Outer Gods upon the Blue Star humans.

Even after thousands of years, the sky barrier constructed by Absolute Earth and Heaven still protected the countless beings of Blue Star, allowing the flame of human civilization to not be extinguished or broken.

As the dust settled, the former nearly four-thousand-meter Endless Mountain had completely vanished, leveled to the ground in the aftermath of the clash between two Emperor Realm Martial Gods.

A vast expanse of boiling magma formed a crimson 'lake,' where fiery flames continuously rose from the fiery-red and viscous 'lake water.'

Every bubble burst would eject a large amount of molten material, permeating a pungent sulfur smell.

Two towering figures stood at the center of the magma lake.

"Are you... Chiyou!?"

Susanoo was appalled, evidently recognizing his opponent's identity.

Ye Qingzhou heard and looked at the 'Niu Taijie' before him, within the time limit of the Celestial Eye, Niu Taijie was enveloped in a dark red overwhelming Evil Qi, with essence, Qi, and spirit fused into one, seemingly possessing endless power.

"Susanoo, you three cowardly turtles have finally come out of your hole?"

Chiyou manipulated Niu Taijie's bloodline body, slightly flexing his limbs, then grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, his words brimming with Killing Intent: "More than eighty years ago, you three bastards sought revival, ordering a westward conquest, occupying half of my Dongji Kingdom's territory, slaughtering millions of my Dongji citizens, this hatred and enmity shall be repaid with your despicable lives."

Divine Martial Tyrant Fist!

Chiyou unleashed a punch, Cosmic Light reversed, the universe shattered, amidst the fist shadows filling the heavens and earth, images emerged of the Human Race opening up the wilderness, waging conquest and slaughter, survival of the fittest.

And behind Him, an indomitable iron will suddenly surged forth, as if capable of altering heaven and earth, with an irresistible and inexorable momentum.

War is merely a means for the Human Race to conquer adversity and seek survival, proven by the continuation of civilization, the Path of Conquest derived therefrom traverses antiquity, growing ever stronger across endless epic spans.

Chiyou, the Commander of Dongji Kingdom, although having perished, the Path of Conquest he passed among the Military Family has never ceased; thus, this punch he unleashed is infused with thousands of years of fighting spirit and ambition from countless citizens of Dongji Kingdom battling heaven and earth.

Even Gods must succumb before the united fighting will of mortals.

Clang~

Susanoo held the sword guard to block, yet Chiyou's punch still sent him flying twenty kilometers, crashing into the city of Shizuoka, creating a massive pit three kilometers in diameter.

"Chiyou!"

"How dare you!"

Amaterasu and Yuedu arrived together, the siblings naturally couldn't stand by and watch Susanoo's defeat, so they made their moves.

Divine light and moonlight, one Yang and one Yin, shone simultaneously on Chiyou.

Amaterasu Divine Flame!

Moonlight Radiance!

The two divine powers originated from the same source but each followed opposite paths, now combined together, harmonized to the extreme, mutually generating and countering, infinite and endless.

"The glow of a firefly, daring to compare with the sun and the moon; compared to Emperor Jun's Ten Sun in the sky, your petty tricks are but candlelight."

Chiyou's expression was disdainful, as he raised his arms, muscles chiseled like knife and ax, with a glossy surface, on his bronze skin, thick blue veins crawled like black dragons over his arms.

"Break for me!"

Chiyou's ten fingers fiercely pierced into the raging divine flame and radiance, then his arms suddenly exerted force, relying on brute strength to forcibly tear apart the Yin Yang convergence of the fusion of two emperors' powers.

Crack~

Sun and moon, once again split into two, losing their original attributes of mutual generation and infinite endlessness, Amaterasu and Yuedu's combined move was instantly broken.

Boom rumble~

With Chiyou tearing apart the sun and moon's divine power, crust shaking beneath his feet, the already heavily damaged Shizuoka and Yamanashi were further reduced to ruins, with over a hundred thousand dead and millions displaced, cries of anguish and grief filled the air.

Yet the despair of the Chuyun People did not end there.

The war of the gods continued.

Amaterasu's stunning beauty, in the radiant golden glow, dreamlike and illusory, she maintained a lofty pose, like a sun among humans.

"Hmm, I dare not compare myself to the Feather Race Celestial Emperor, yet Chiyou, you are not in peak condition either. Even if your prowess is boundless, the mortal body you rely on has its limits. Do you really think you can flaunt your power on our home ground?"

The handsome and graceful Yuedu stood by Amaterasu's side: "Chiyou, why care about the life and death of mortals? They are like weeds in the field; no matter how many die, come spring, the plains will be filled again."

"Heh~"

Chiyou sneered, his tone contemptuous: "I am the War Emperor of the Central Plains, not the three noble sons of Chuyun; I don't understand your doggerel."

"You!"

Yuedu turned furious.

He, the noble one among the Three Noble Children of Chuyun, was belittled by Chiyou, his intense anger twisted his features.

Even as an Emperor Realm Martial God, absorbing excessive negative emotions from mortals leads to irreversible corrosion of the spirit, making one increasingly capricious, akin to the chaotic and uncontrollable disasters in the land of Chuyun.

Amaterasu and Yuedu, angry, struck; even Susanoo wielded the Celestial Feather Slash, charging at Chiyou again, the four Emperor Realm Martial Gods used the land of Chuyun as their arena, initiating a world-shaking battle of the gods.

Turmoil intensified the chaos, chaos spawned fear, ultimately, the boiling energy of negative emotions, within the veil formed by Absolute Earth and Heaven, opened two gaps.

Two gaps wide enough for Emperor Realm powerhouses to pass through!

The Famine Knight and War Knight descended together upon Blue Star.

"I smell death's scent."

The Famine Knight's stomach let out a rumbling growl, his endless appetite kept him eternally hungry, never satisfied, forever impatient.

Hunger is the source of his power.

Beside him stood the War Knight, with a cyberpunk style, dressed in mechanical armor, full of a sci-fi vibe: "To summon the advent of death, merely killing millions or tens of millions isn't enough; it must be like the last two world wars, creating billions of casualties in a short time."

"Last time, we revived Emperor Venerable's partial power, helping the Blood God seize half of Sun God Ra's Proud Aspect, but the Cold War ended too quickly, and the Dongji People once again thwarted our plan to annihilate humanity. But this time, we won't repeat our mistakes."

"Indeed, as long as we sacrifice the entire population of Chuyun, death will descend, and then we'll sound the horn of doom again. Emperor Venerable will surely revive and will play the elegy of the final calamity for this world!"