The Sky, Why Has It Turned Black?

On Original Star No. 02881, as the Golden Horn Behemoth chased Tianyang Venerable into the spatial vortex, a figure shrouded in black mist appeared in mid-air just moments later.

“I wasn’t mistaken.”

“Tianyang Venerable flew into this spatial vortex.” The figure in black mist nodded secretly. Tianyang Venerable, pursued by the Golden Horn Behemoth, had been flying at high speed, naturally appearing as a streak of light in the sky, which was coincidentally observed by this alien venerable in black mist.

“Fan Nuo Fortress Lord offered a bounty in the Thorn Ring Alliance for information on Tianyang Venerable. I didn’t expect to find him first, hmph hmph…”

His external avatar immediately sent a message to Fan Nuo Fortress Lord.

Fan Nuo Fortress Lord… was a super-existence in the Thorn Ring Alliance, considered one of the top-tier cosmic overlords, an extraordinary being comparable to the strongest World Tree. He was called a Fortress Lord because he possessed a ‘High-tier Supreme Treasure Flying Fortress.’ Hidden within it, he could even escape a Universe Master, if necessary. It should be noted that the Sirius Hall was merely a high-tier supreme treasure flying palace, only slightly better in quality, but clearly of the same tier of supreme treasure.

“A common supreme treasure?”

“Fan Nuo Fortress Lord is indeed generous to give me such a great reward just for tracking.”

The black-misted figure’s laughter was sinister as he followed directly into the spatial vortex.

“Hmm?”

After passing through the spatial vortex, the black-misted figure appeared in mid-air. He immediately saw the vast, sky-obscuring black light in the distance. Although tens of millions of kilometers away, the domain was so immense that he could clearly see it, which greatly astonished him: “The power seems extraordinary; it must be a domain-type supreme treasure!”

The black-misted figure dared not approach, fearing he would be trapped within.

“Rumble~~~” Suddenly, a dazzling golden river surged and roared across the distant horizon, crashing against the endless black light.

It was as if two oceans were colliding with each other.

The black light was continuously forced back, and the golden river’s power was no less than its own. The two great domains continuously clashed… yet they were clearly evenly matched.

“Another domain-type supreme treasure?” The black-misted figure was secretly shocked. “Few cosmic overlords possess domain-type supreme treasures, yet here are two! It seems two cosmic overlords are locked in battle… I wonder if Tianyang Venerable is among them?”

…

In a vast forest about a hundred million kilometers from the spatial vortex, the Golden Horn Behemoth and Tianyang Venerable faced each other from a distance. Endless black light waves and an endless golden river enveloped the forest, clashing repeatedly. The branches and flowers of the forest were directly destroyed and broken, but the main trunks still stood firm.

“Hmph.” Tianyang Venerable grew increasingly enraged, shouting, “Golden Horn Behemoth, are you truly determined to fight me?”

Tianyang Venerable actually didn’t want to fight. Releasing this domain-type supreme treasure was meant to drastically reduce the Golden Horn Behemoth’s flight speed, making it retreat in the face of difficulty. He hadn’t expected the Golden Horn Behemoth to also possess a domain-type supreme treasure.

“Tianyang Venerable, you should know that you cannot escape this battle,” the Golden Horn Behemoth said, looking from afar.

“Escape? Why would I escape? Do you think your meager abilities can do anything to me? Hmph… I actually didn’t want to fight you, not because I’m afraid, but purely because I didn’t want to. Fighting you is meaningless… so I used a domain-type supreme treasure to make you retreat. I thought my luck was pretty good, but I didn’t expect you to also possess a domain-type supreme treasure.” Tianyang Venerable sneered, “It seems you’ve had some fortuitous encounters in the past twenty thousand years.”

The Golden Horn Behemoth watched from afar.

Tianyang Venerable said coldly, “It seems a battle is inevitable.”

“Indeed,” the Golden Horn Behemoth rumbled.

“Then let’s begin, let’s finish this quickly.” Tianyang Venerable was completely enraged. Did this Golden Horn Behemoth really think it could defeat him? He had fought against top-tier cosmic overlords before; who was he afraid of?

“Come on!”

The Golden Horn Behemoth let out a low roar, its entire body covered in pitch-black armor, and the longest horn among the five encircling ones shone with dazzling sharpness.

“Hmph hmph…” The mechanical race overlord Tianyang Venerable held a black light shuttle in each of his eight arms, looking coldly at the Golden Horn Behemoth.

Boom!

Boom!

The two moved simultaneously. As they charged directly at each other, their vast domains also fiercely collided. The forefront of the endless black light condensed into rolling boulders, while nine successive exotic beasts appeared at the forefront of the endless golden river, desperately crashing into each other, trying to suppress the opponent.

“Damn Golden Horn Behemoth, don’t you understand that you can’t defeat me! And I can’t defeat you, yet you insist on chasing me, you foolish creature!!!” Tianyang Venerable’s divine power transmission echoed thunderously in Luo Feng’s ears, while the eight black light shuttles transformed into beautiful light.

“Eight!” Tianyang Venerable roared.

“Eight!”

Tianyang Venerable, appearing faintly sacred, yet with a hint of ferocity on his face, went all out, intending to severely punish this stubborn Golden Horn Behemoth.

“Roar~~~” A faint roar, as if resounding in his ears and mind, this ancient roar representing the ultimate law of the Beast God, made Tianyang Venerable pause slightly. Immediately after, the Golden Horn Behemoth charged forward headfirst, its longest horn like a spear, shimmering with endless dazzling golden light!

The sharp, icy golden light directly shattered the eight light shuttles.

“Bang!!!”

The Golden Horn Behemoth’s lowered head, with its longest horn, slammed into him.

“Rumble~~” Tianyang Venerable was completely stunned the moment he was hit. The power of this attack was absolutely the strongest he had ever resisted! Even the attack he suffered while escaping from Fan Nuo Fortress Lord was not as terrifying as this.

He didn’t know.

Although the Golden Horn Behemoth’s divine body was very close to Luo Feng’s human true body in size, one being 10081 times and the other approximately 9800 times. Their divine power purity was almost identical! Both used the Universe Master’s ultimate secret technique ‘Golden Light.’ The only difference was… the human true body used the high-tier supreme treasure weapon, Moon Slicer!

But the Golden Horn Behemoth used the strongest horn of the top-tier supreme treasure set, the ‘Beast God Armor,’ which was comparable in value to a pinnacle supreme treasure!

The power was much greater!

Tianyang Venerable was sent flying backward. He was astonished to find that his divine body had instantly lost 22%.

“How is this possible? No, impossible!” Tianyang Venerable couldn’t believe it.

…

“It’s actually a high-tier supreme treasure armor!” Luo Feng was also secretly surprised. Tianyang Venerable’s divine body wasn’t large, only about eight meters tall. If the Golden Horn Behemoth attacked with the top-tier supreme treasure set ‘Beast God Armor,’ he would have been dead if he had only common supreme treasure armor. However, Luo Feng could easily feel the resistance of the supreme treasure armor just now.

He estimated that it reduced the damage from a normal one ten-thousandth to one hundredth! This was definitely a high-tier supreme treasure armor!

“If it were a small divine body like Zhong Zhan Venerable’s, even with high-tier supreme treasure armor, the Golden Horn Behemoth’s attack would kill him in one move. But this Tianyang Venerable’s divine body is much larger,” Luo Feng thought.

…

“High-tier supreme treasure armor?” The Golden Horn Behemoth roared, “It seems you prepared it recently for the opening of this Original Star passage.”

Tianyang Venerable looked at the Golden Horn Behemoth with shock and anger. He couldn’t believe it… Indeed, the intelligence circulating in the universe said he used common supreme treasure armor, but that was old information. This time, he had indeed exchanged for a high-tier supreme treasure armor with his race to enter Original Star.

Last time, the Golden Horn Behemoth’s attack was weak, so there was no discernible difference between common supreme treasure armor and high-tier supreme treasure armor.

This time… the Golden Horn Behemoth clearly felt it.

“You, how could you?” Tianyang Venerable looked at the Golden Horn Behemoth with shock and anger. “How is this possible? Back then, you were clearly much weaker than me, but—”

“Don’t ask why. Dead men don’t need to ask.”

The Golden Horn Behemoth charged again directly.

“You want to kill me?”

Tianyang Venerable roared in fury, “Dream on!”

Escape!

Tianyang Venerable controlled the endless black light waves to block the Golden Horn Behemoth, while his wings vibrated, flying away at high speed!

The Golden Horn Behemoth, surrounded by the Nine Xia River, directly plunged into the endless black light waves, giving chase.

“Roar~~~” Complex golden secret patterns flowed across the Golden Horn Behemoth’s body, directly using itself as a weapon to unleash Golden Light, instantly boosting its speed. It transformed into a straight line, pouncing towards Tianyang Venerable.

“What?” Tianyang Venerable was startled and immediately changed direction. His specialty was flexible maneuvering.

“I’m good at that too,” the Golden Horn Behemoth said, flapping its wings to pursue.

One chased, one fled!

Both relied on constant changes in direction, almost dozens of times per second. As the chase continued…

The Golden Horn Behemoth was astonished to find that in terms of instant directional changes, it was actually inferior to Tianyang Venerable.

“That’s right, his black wings and my Xi Wu Wings come from the same source. I’ve cultivated in the secret technique diagram lineage for 180 million years, and after coming out, I quickly deciphered the method to unleash the Nine Xia River. However, the Xi Wu Wings are clearly much more complex; I still can’t unleash the third form.” Luo Feng understood that if those black wings also had a third form, perhaps the opponent was using that third form.

No wonder he couldn’t catch up, no matter how hard he chased.

…

“You can’t catch me, give up,” Tianyang Venerable transmitted. He was also extremely anxious. After all, the Golden Horn Behemoth, accelerating in a straight line as a golden light, was incredibly fast. Only by constantly changing direction flexibly could he buy time. He had already called for help from his race, but it would take time for mechanical race powerhouses to arrive.

Moreover, he had fought the Golden Horn Behemoth before and knew very well—

This was definitely a ‘top-tier cosmic overlord’ level of strength. Even if a Universe Master of the mechanical race personally descended, relying solely on ‘controlling space-time’ from a distance would be utterly ineffective against such an existence. They would have to truly fight each other…

“Give up?”

The Golden Horn Behemoth roared, “I didn’t want to use my strongest ultimate move, but you’re really good at escaping!”

“Strongest ultimate move?” Tianyang Venerable’s expression changed upon hearing the divine power transmission from behind. That terrifying ‘Golden Light’ technique was already incredible; could that not be his strongest ultimate move? This Golden Horn Behemoth, who was clearly much weaker than him back then, had become so strong in less than twenty thousand years.

“Rumble~~~” The Golden Horn Behemoth’s eyes were incredibly calm, as surging divine power poured out. As a Golden Horn Behemoth over ninety thousand kilometers long, its divine power had not even consumed one hundred-millionth of its total during the battle so far.

But at this moment, as it activated the move ‘I Am the Universe,’ divine power surged out…

The endless world was instantly completely enveloped!

…

The black-misted figure, who had been cautiously tracking from a hundred million kilometers away from the battle, suddenly looked around. He felt that his surroundings were hazy, filled with endless chaotic currents.

“What’s happening? The sky, why has it turned black?” The black-misted figure stared blankly at his surroundings.