The Martial Ancestor's Peak Battle

The one who came was the Martial Ancestor himself. His build was tall and powerful, his hair as black as ink, his eyes deep and bright. At this moment, he had fully recovered to his peak state. His young, vigorous body gleamed with a bronze precious radiance, containing infinite divine power. The Martial Ancestor stood there quietly, like an unclimbable mountain, towering and majestic, as if inviting the gaze of all.

The Martial Ancestor looked like a young man in his twenties. His eyes were sharp as lightning, and no longer bore the strange appearance he had as a corpse fiend. Facing three Supreme Ancestral Gods, he showed no fear, nor did he speak any words. He stepped through the void and arrived before them in an instant.

"Boom!"

The three Supreme Ancestral Gods had eyes as cold as ice caves. Six divine rainbows shot from their pupils, carrying unimaginable destructive power. Six black holes materialized, shattering the heavens and engulfing the Martial Ancestor. With a rumbling noise, this terrifying aura shook the heavens and penetrated all worlds.

"Boom!"

All six black holes collapsed. The Martial Ancestor emerged unscathed, his palm blade like a rainbow, cleaving toward the three Supreme Ancestral Gods. The moment he struck, the Eternal Unknown seemed to undergo a great collapse. Time and space instantly became chaotic, and everything shattered. His combat power was overwhelming, rampaging in all directions. Everything tangible was annihilated.

Powerful as the three Supreme Ancestral Gods were, they had to project their immortal bodies into the void to evade this devastating force.

The Martial Ancestor was the supreme fighter of the martial path. His attacks were simple and direct, with no flourish. One blow shattered the heavens.

"Boom!"

One of the Supreme Ancestral Gods manifested and extended a great hand to seize the Martial Ancestor. This was absolute dominance—to treat a Ninth Heaven peak Martial Ancestor in such a manner was hard to imagine how powerful he truly was. The Martial Ancestor did not dodge or evade. A hand a thousand zhang across met the Supreme Ancestral God's strike head-on.

"Clang!"

The earth-shaking sound cleansed the soul. The Eternal Unknown instantly turned into chaos. All things ceased to exist. Such was the power of two palm strikes colliding!

"Creation of Heaven and Earth!" The second Supreme Ancestral God cried out. With a thunderous roar, chaos shattered and the void reappeared. They possessed supreme power.

"Deathly Soul-Seizing!" The third Supreme Ancestral God roared. Dazzling divine light blazed, drowning the Martial Ancestor. The Eternal Unknown blazed with scorching light. The power of destruction imprisoned everything. The Martial Ancestor's body was set ablaze. The third Supreme Ancestral God's divine art locked him in a circle. With a thunderous explosion, the Martial Ancestor's body turned to ash in an instant.

But the three Supreme Ancestral Gods naturally did not believe the Martial Ancestor had perished. How could a peak martial figure of the Ninth Heaven be killed so easily?

"Boom!"

At that moment, the ninety-nine stone steps behind them trembled violently. "That was nothing but a phantom body!" The three Supreme Ancestral Gods all understood this result. The true Martial Ancestor had ascended to the first step of the ninety-nine stone steps.

The ninety-nine stone steps were each as vast as a towering mountain. They stood in front like ninety-nine great mountains, their end utterly beyond sight. A towering figure had stepped onto the first mountain-like stone step, and the entire ninety-nine steps shook with him.

Seeing this, the three Supreme Ancestral Gods showed no surprise. They sat down with great composure, turning nearly to stone, motionless like three petrified statues. But a mysterious fluctuation spread from them toward the end of the ninety-nine steps.

"Retreat!" Suddenly, an aged voice urgently called to the Martial Ancestor. "The old antique of the Heavenly Tribe…" The three Supreme Ancestral Gods extended their divine sense, searching for this formidable enemy.

The Martial Ancestor did not retreat. Instead, he charged upward. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The ninety-nine stone steps now seemed like a resurrected demon king. They came to life, radiating a yellow misty light and shaking violently. Moreover, from the end of the ninety-nine steps surged a force even more terrifying, like a flood crashing down.

With thirteen consecutive leaps—thirteen stone steps—the Martial Ancestor met a terrible attack. Powerful as a martial artist of his realm, his body split apart. The martial body was the most resilient of all. The Martial Ancestor, known as the supreme martial figure, had an unimaginably solid divine body. Yet on the stone steps, it was still shattered.

With a flash, the Martial Ancestor's divine body re-formed. Then a primordial spirit appeared beside him. It was the soul of a Supreme Ancestral God, letting out a piercing shriek before instantly shattering and turning to ashes. It had died in his place.

The three Supreme Ancestral Gods all sat cross-legged, as if silently praying. A sacred and solemn wave of strange energy spread toward the end of the stone steps. It was hard to imagine what lay at that end.

"Roar!" The Heavenly Tribe elder let out a great roar. His body, a hundred billion zhang tall, manifested and attacked the three Supreme Ancestral Gods.

"Boom!" The three Supreme Ancestral Gods each struck a beam of divine light, killing toward the Heavenly Tribe elder. Time and space reversed, drowning him. "This man is troublesome… He must be killed." Watching the hundred-billion-zhang figure gradually being ground away, the cold, emotionless voices of the three Supreme Ancestral Gods echoed. "Pity that my world's supreme treasure is lost in that rebellious family, else this Heavenly Tribe elder would be helpless even at his peak."

"Boom!" At that moment, on the ninety-nine stone steps, the Martial Ancestor had already leaped to the thirty-seventh step. Once again, his body could not bear the destructive force and split apart.

"Hmph," one of the three Supreme Ancestral Gods snorted coldly. "Let him head toward destruction." With that, the three turned to stone again, motionless.

Suddenly, a strange sound rumbled through this eternal space, like a tide surging or ten thousand horses neighing. The bodies of the three Supreme Ancestral Gods all shook violently, suffering unimaginable force. They were hit by a terrifying attack.

With a cracking sound, the three Supreme Ancestral Gods burst with divine radiance, but they could not stop it. Their bodies cracked like porcelain, covered in fissures from which divine blood seeped.

"Roar!" For the first time, the three Supreme Ancestral Gods showed shock and fury. They all howled at the heavens, shaking the heavens and all worlds. Everyone heard this terrible roar. "He is striking us in the past!" The three knew the Heavenly Tribe elder's power was extraordinary, but this still shocked them. The elder had traveled alone into the past, across the ages, to kill their past incarnations. This was truly astonishing.

It was not impossible for an Ancestral God to travel back to the primordial age, but changing the past was impossible. Those who could go back generally used it to find present-day enemies in that time and kill them. It was nothing like the elder directly attacking the past incarnations of the three Supreme Ancestral Gods. This was terrifying.

The three Supreme Ancestral Gods shook. Their divine bodies cracked, divine blood staining the sky. "He has also walked to that step, one step before ours, but did not choose that path." Their low voices shook the heavens.

At that moment, one of the Supreme Ancestral Gods had eyes as hollow as an abyss, unfathomable. He fell utterly quiet, as if his life force had drained away. Like an ancient well without ripples, withered as a fossil. His divine thought crossed the ages, rushing back to kill the Heavenly Tribe elder!

The divine thrones of the three Supreme Ancestral Gods shook, and the cracks on their divine bodies grew more numerous. They were clearly suffering unimaginable attacks.

With a final great boom, their bodies stopped trembling. The withered Supreme Ancestral God suddenly opened his eyes. At the same time, the Heavenly Tribe elder manifested in another stretch of void, his whole body streaming with blood, bathed in gore. "Even if he forces his way back to destroy the enemy's foundations, he must pay a corresponding price." The voices of the three Supreme Ancestral Gods were cold, and killing intent enveloped the elder.

At the same time, the ninety-nine stone steps rumbled again. The Martial Ancestor charged to the forty-ninth step, but there he could advance no further. His martial body could not bear it; one more step would bring eternal destruction. That was his feeling. He could only stop. Half the journey remained on the ninety-nine stone steps.

"Roar!" The Martial Ancestor howled at the heavens, his black hair standing on end with regret, but he had to retreat. This assault was not fully prepared; all because the Otherworld Stone-Man had emerged, forcing him to act prematurely. Now was not the time for vain sacrifice. The Martial Ancestor turned decisively, his eyes sharp as lightning bolts, aiming at the three Supreme Ancestral Gods.

Sensing that the Heavenly Tribe elder's condition was dire, the Martial Ancestor transformed into a divine rainbow and dove down. The elder had bought him some time but now fell into danger. The killing intent of the three Supreme Ancestral Gods imprisoned him, about to grind him away.

"Boom!" The light of the Oracle Bone Diagram flashed around the Martial Ancestor. He broke through the obstruction of the lower forty-nine stone steps and dove instantly to the three Supreme Ancestral Gods. His bronze great hand struck directly down! Such was the supreme martial artist—at his realm, attacks were simple and direct, but the power was terrifying to the extreme.

With a thunderous crash, the heavens shattered. The Heavenly Tribe elder's imprisonment was broken open. "Kill you a second time!" The three Supreme Ancestral Gods, with emotionless eyes, shot ten million beams of light to envelop the Martial Ancestor. Ten million divine rainbows, a billion beams of light! A terrifying thing happened: those divine lights transformed into billions of stars, sealing the Martial Ancestor inside. This was actually a real great universe, refined and gathered within their bodies long ago, now become a world-prison. A real great cosmos sealed the Martial Ancestor!

But the result was shocking. "Boom!" A sound shook all worlds. In that eternal universe, the Martial Ancestor pressed down with one palm, and the entire great universe instantly collapsed. All starlight extinguished. The world-prison turned to ashes. This universe was completely destroyed. The Martial Ancestor broke free directly and reappeared in this eternal void.

The true decisive confrontation began.

One of the seated Supreme Ancestral Gods rose and arrived instantly before the Martial Ancestor, confronting him with martial arts. His palm fingers were as white as jade, crystalline, almost transparent. But these strange and beautiful fingers contained unimaginable power, even cutting through this eternal space. The Martial Ancestor stood proud, his right hand like a blade, chopping forward.

"Boom!" This was the genuine collision of Ninth Heaven peak powerhouses! The terrifying fluctuations of the Ninth Heaven peak surged out like a flood, spreading to all worlds. Many stars shook, and all realms felt this terrible aura.

In the eternal void, that Supreme Ancestral God's jade-like fingers were viciously broken, white bone stumps exposed, blood staining the sky. His entire arm went limp. The Martial Ancestor, in full stride, continued cleaving forward with unstoppable momentum. The supreme martial figure—in pure combat power, even a Supreme Ancestral God was slightly inferior.

The wounded Supreme Ancestral God felt his prestige was damaged. For the first time, he lost his composure, letting out a low, furious roar. "Seven Chapters of the Divine Hymn: Death's Lament!" The divine hymn shook the world, chaos manifesting and collapsing! A strange force enveloped this place, trapping even the Martial Ancestor.

At the same time, a divine pagoda emerged from the damaged palm of the Supreme Ancestral God, slowly rising and pressing down toward the Martial Ancestor.

The Otherworld Stone-Man rebelled, shaking heaven and earth! But in this moment, the rampaging Stone-Man was nearly destroyed, his body shattered, leaving only a massive head. Yet even so, he still held the stone knife in his mouth, traversing the heavens to fight against the Otherworld powers.

As for the Dead City Xiao Chen had been driving, it finally gave out. At this moment, it was shattered by six Ancestral Gods. With a thunderous crash, the ancient demon city fell to the earth, becoming nourishment for the city below. "Kill them! Refine them!" The Otherworld Ancestral Gods roared. All the powers fought with red eyes, but they no longer panicked, because the city below was nearly completely repaired.

The Stone-Man in the divine city looked down on the world, about to take the final step! Yellow light shimmered on his stone body, hazy and indistinct. He was about to become an eternal legend.

"Boom!" Five Ancestral Gods struck at Xiao Chen. The broken formation diagram materialized and blocked the terrifying divine light, but Xiao Chen suffered a violent shock. In this moment, no matter how strong he was, he could not contend. This was the Otherworld, surrounded by Ancestral Gods. Without the protection of the Dead City, his fall was only a matter of time.

Just then, the stone skull in the sky suddenly shattered the void and swallowed Xiao Chen in one gulp, protecting him inside. At the same time, a sound grander than any emerged from the stone skull, audible across all worlds! This vast sound crossed the barriers of great worlds, shaking every starry sky.

A Yellow Clay Altar sat at the center of the stone skull, directing everything! It had borrowed the corpse to steal the soul—taking the shell of the Stone-Man from within the Dead City! Three Otherworld Ancestral Gods nearby were immediately caught by the grand celestial sound. They instantly shattered into divine blood that scattered into the void.

The Eight Origin Sounds! Six sounds could match the Six Paths of Reincarnation. When all eight sounded together, heaven and earth were thrown into chaos, their power beyond imagination. Even the Stone-Man in the divine city below, about to take his final step, trembled.