Battle Through the Heavens: Marry Cao Ying, Reward is Devouring Ancestral Symbol

Chapter 388 Breaking Through to Dou Di, Opening the Heavenly Gate AgainInside the Quiet Room.

Shen Wen sat cross-legged, the faint golden light surrounding his body having dimmed considerably.

He had refined about seventy to eighty percent of the energy from that emperor pill prototype.

But the remaining twenty percent was like a stubborn rock, firmly entrenched within his body, refusing to be refined no matter what.

He tried various methods.

The devouring ancestral talisman was pushed to its full capacity, but it failed.

The Flame Ancestral Symbol was used to incinerate it, but it failed.

The life and death ancestral talisman was used to harmonize it, but it failed.

The Supreme Alchemy Art was activated once more, yet it still failed.

That power seemed completely incompatible with his Origin; no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t fully absorb it.

Shen Wen’s brow furrowed deeply.

He sensed the residual power within him and fell silent for a moment.

Right then, a familiar mechanical voice echoed in his mind—

[Ding! Detected that the Mistress Cao Ying’s favorability toward the Master has increased. Current favorability: 100%!]

[Reward: plane embryo]

[Do you wish to receive the reward?]

Shen Wen’s thought flickered: Receive.

In the next instant, a gentle light illuminated his Sea of Consciousness.

The light was pale green, resembling an embryo, floating quietly in the center of his Sea of Consciousness.

It emitted an ancient and vast aura, merging with this world as if it were the world itself.

The plane embryo.

The Origin of the Fighting Qi Continent.

Shen Wen’s pupils contracted slightly.

He sensed it.

The power entrenched in his body that he couldn’t refine was now resonating with the plane embryo.

The faint golden light began to loosen, being drawn, absorbed, and transformed strand by strand by the plane embryo.

Then, a brand-new power surged back from the plane embryo, flooding into his limbs and bones.

That power was purer and more vast than the emperor pill prototype, carrying a pressure that originated from the world’s Origin.

Shen Wen’s aura began to climb.

Peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng.

Half-step Dou Di.

And then—

An invisible barrier was shattered.

That barrier wasn’t Qi, nor was it a Soul; it was something more fundamental. It was the restriction placed upon living beings by this world, a shackle jointly set by the ancient Dou Dis.

Now, before the power of the plane embryo, that shackle shattered like paper.

Shen Wen opened his eyes.

Northwest.

The news of the Ancient Emperor Cave’s emergence spread through the entire Central Plains like a plague.

Everyone was rushing toward the Northwest.

The Gu Clan, Yan Clan, Medicine Clan, and Lei Clan had all sent out their elites.

The Hun Clan moved in full force, with Hun Tiandi leading the team personally and the Void Swallowing Flame following close behind.

Everyone knew that the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s Legacy was within that Immortal Cave.

Whoever obtained it would be the next Dou Di.

Xiao Yan stood before the entrance of the Immortal Cave, his face pale.

He had only recently consumed the Purification Lotus Demon Flame, and the power within him hadn’t fully stabilized yet.

But with the Ancient Emperor Cave’s emergence, he had no choice but to come.

Xiao Xun Er stood by his side, the golden Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame flickering in her palm, her expression grave.

In the distance, Hun Tiandi’s figure stepped out from the Void Realm.

He stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze falling on Xiao Yan, a slight smirk playing on his lips.

”Xiao Yan, hand over the Burning Technique. This seat can spare your life.”

His voice wasn’t loud, yet it reached everyone’s ears clearly.

Xiao Yan didn’t speak; he only tightened his fists.

Hun Tiandi smiled.

He raised his hand, about to strike—

A figure stepped out from the Void Realm.

A black robe, standing with his hands behind his back.

Shen Wen.

He stood in front of Xiao Yan, looking at Hun Tiandi with a calm expression.

Hun Tiandi’s brow furrowed slightly.

He couldn’t sense Shen Wen’s cultivation level.

”You...”

Before he could finish, Shen Wen raised his hand.

He struck out with a palm.

The palm print was silent, without any Qi fluctuations or heavenly phenomena.

It was just an ordinary palm strike.

But Hun Tiandi’s expression changed.

He wanted to dodge.

But the power locking onto him was as vast as the heavens, and he couldn’t break free at all.

He could only watch helplessly as that palm drew closer and closer—

Then, it landed on him.

There was no roar, no explosion.

Hun Tiandi’s figure dissipated silently into the air, like dust blown away by the wind.

He didn’t even have time to scream.

A deathly silence fell over the square.

Everyone stared blankly at the scene, their mouths open, unable to make a sound.

Hun Tiandi.

A Peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng, the Hun Clan Chief, a being standing at the very pinnacle of the Fighting Qi Continent.

Just like that, he was gone?

With one palm strike?

Shen Wen withdrew his hand, his expression calm, as if he had just swatted a mosquito.

He turned his head and looked at the Void Swallowing Flame.

That mass of pitch-black flame flickered violently, then suddenly turned around and fled frantically toward the horizon as a streak of black light.

Shen Wen glanced at it but didn’t pursue.

He looked up at the sky.

The power of his Emperor Realm Soul surged out like a tide, piercing through the clouds, the Void Realm, and the Seals jointly placed by the ancient Dou Dis.

He saw it.

The Seals were layered and dense, enveloping the entire Fighting Qi Continent.

They were both a protection and a shackle.

Shen Wen took a deep breath.

Eight ancestral talisman phantoms lit up behind him simultaneously—crimson, dark blue, pitch black, silver-gray, deep purple, black and white, gold-purple, and greenish-gold—eight lights intertwining.

Dragon-Phoenix Power surged from within him, a purple-gold light flowing around his body.

The Nine Secrets were unleashed together, and the Ten Great Fierce Beast Arts resonated.

The great desolation monument, the dark holy scythe, the heavenly disk of annihilation, and the Universe Mysterious Heaven Temple—four divine objects flew out at once.

At this moment, all his power converged in his right hand.

He raised his hand and punched toward the sky.

Heavenly Emperor Fist.

The fist print was silent, yet it carried a power capable of destroying heaven and earth.

It passed through the clouds, the Void Realm, and those layered Seals—

Boom—

A massive roar echoed across the sky of the entire Fighting Qi Continent.

The Seal shattered.

Countless cracks spread from the point of impact, like a shattered mirror, covering the entire sky.

Then, the Seal collapsed with a crash.

Countless tiny specks of light drifted down from the sky, like a sky full of stars falling into the mortal world.

An unfamiliar aura surged in from beyond the broken Seal.

The aura was fresh and vast, carrying a flavor entirely different from that of the Fighting Qi Continent.

Source Qi.

Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun looked up simultaneously, sensing the incoming aura, their eyes filled with shock.

The world had changed.

Shen Wen withdrew his hand and stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the sky as it began to heal.

Behind him, the women stepped out from the Void Realm.

Cao Ying held Shen Yunlong, Cai Lin led Shen Yinian, and Xiao Yi Xian, Tang Huo’er, Qing Lin, Dan Chen, and Zi Yan stood behind him in turn.

Shen Yinian looked up, her round purple eyes watching the falling specks of light in the sky as she giggled.

”Daddy is so amazing.”

Shen Wen looked down and rubbed her head.

Then he turned around, looking at the collapsing Ancient Emperor Cave, the dazed crowd, and this newly reborn world.

”Let’s go.”

He spoke in a calm tone.

”Let’s go home.”

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The news of Hun Tiandi’s fall spread across the entire Fighting Qi Continent within just half a day.

Some cheered, some wept, but most were silent in shock.

That colossus that had stood at the pinnacle of the Fighting Qi Continent for thousands of years, that name that had struck terror into countless Souls, had vanished just like that.

With one palm strike.

Without even a sound.

But the Hun Clan still existed.

Though Hun Tiandi was dead, the clan members in the Soul Realm remained.

The Void Swallowing Flame was still there.

The hidden agents controlled by the Hun Clan, the Formations set up over centuries, and the foundation accumulated over millennia were all still there.

Shen Wen didn’t give anyone time to react.

He returned to Pill City and sat down in the Flower Hall, a beast-skin map spread out before him.

Cao Ying sat by his side, holding a cinnabar pen, marking red dots on the map one by one.

”The entrance to the Soul Realm is here.” Her pen tip pointed to a wasteland in the far north of the Central Plains. ”Intelligence from the Gu Clan says the interior of the Soul Realm is already in total chaos.

With Hun Tiandi dead, none of those Elders will submit to the others, and they are currently fighting for power.”

Shen Wen glanced at it and nodded.

”What about the Void Swallowing Flame?”

”It escaped.” Cao Ying put down her pen, her brow slightly furrowed. ”It last appeared in the eastern part of the Central Plains, and then its trail was lost. It is a transformed Heavenly Flame, after all; if it wants to hide, it won’t be easy to find.”

Shen Wen leaned back in his chair, his fingers lightly tapping the armrest.

For now, he didn’t plan to pursue the Void Swallowing Flame.

Though that thing was a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, without Hun Tiandi’s protection, it was nothing more than a stray dog.

Once he uprooted the Hun Clan, he would take his time to deal with it.

”Send out the order.” He spoke in a flat tone. ”The Pill Tower, Void Ancient Dragon, and Nine Serene Earth Nether Python will act simultaneously. Within the Soul Realm, leave no one alive.”

Cao Ying glanced at him, said nothing more, and rose to deliver the order.