Divine Emperor of Death

Chapter 4834  Breakthrough - Empyrean Stage!

Davis had his eyes closed, his focus fully on his cultivation.

Even if he maintained his senses outside, he didnʼt think he could do anything against Absolute Primarchs. Just their breath might blow him or corrode him away to nothingness.

He spent all his effort in breaking through, hurriedly absorbing the annihilative heavenly yang wisps and seamlessly incorporating them into his dantian effortlessly due to his ridiculously high prowess.

Until the Empyrean Stage, the Immortal Vessel and the Immortal Soul Vessel were different spaces. The Immortal Vessel contained the Essence Gathering Cultivation, the lower dantian, and the Body Tempering Cultivation- middle dantian. These two were interconnected in the Immortal Vessel.

The Immortal Soul Vessel contained the Soul Forging Cultivation- upper dantian.

But in the Empyrean Stage, the two spaces were going to be fused together, becoming the Empyrean Vessel.

With the solid foundation coming loose in the process of breaking through, numerous changes began occurring in his body and soul.

Davis used this chance to firmly cement annihilative heavenly yang to his newly forming Empyrean Vessel, creating three layers of bedrock that supported the clash of chaos-destruction, obliteration, and reincarnation.

The clash might have shattered him from the sheer power of the three dantians, but it stabilized.

At the same time, he attacked the bottleneck continuously, his energy soaring to breakthrough to the Empyrean Stage.

ʼIʼve done what I could do so far to research and circulate energy for the three types of systems correctly. Numerous mental simulations… numerous rectifications. If it went wrong, flaws might appear, but the chances of not entering the Empyrean Stage are very low...ʼ

Davis was filled with confidence.

His energy boiled within, creating world-reverberating shockwaves of terrifying undulations outside that were far above the Empyrean Stage. With this one attempt, he would be able to stand against an Early Stage Exalt instantly if he succeeded, after all.

Davisʼs aura kept surging continuously.

It did not flare outward wildly; instead, it compressed inward as it let out fine shockwaves, folding into itself again and again until it reached a terrifying density.

The heavenly water reacted.

It surged harder, no longer merely cleansing but feeding, pouring vitality into his physique at an accelerating pace. His body grew heavier yet still kept swallowing energy like a black hole.

It wanted more and more energy, even forcefully sucking the remnant desolate heaven and earth energy that tried to flee.

At the same time, the desolate heavenly death wisps were absorbed into his soul. Within his soul, there was Nadia basking in his surging soul force, and Eldia stealing some desolate heavenly lightning from his life ring to munch on.

Davisʼs eyes remained closed, but the heavens trembled incessantly, urging Heavenʼs Warriors to come faster.

However, Davis was already done.

With a final circulation, his energy surged upward, smashing against the last barrier with terrifying force.

*BOOOM!~*

The skies roared.

Shockwaves rippled outward, warping space across the Southern Abyssal Sea, sending tremors through the Six-Headed Hydra Upper Realm. Lightning and flames raged across the skies.

The heavenly water and desolate heavenly death wisps were fully gobbled by his thirsty body and soul, leaving nothing behind other than the few wisps in the life ring.

His body was frighteningly strong, and his soul grew more powerful silently, like a lake that hadnʼt had anything disturb it yet.

”Father succeeded!”

Lucian echoed from the life ring, his fist reaching to the skies in joy. However, he scratched his head in embarrassment since he couldnʼt go through his tribulation here. It seems like he was forgotten. However, on second thought, he guessed he could be one-shotted by the Venerable Knights outside.

It would be too dangerous.

Quickly, he noticed something strange.

His father still wasnʼt moving.

Despite his ascension to the Empyrean Stage, Davis still had his eyes closed, his neck even hanging. Abruptly, he threw his head up as his sapphire eyes glowed.

He saw numerous visions.

His life as Davis Loret and his life as Tian Long, all the way back to the tiny soul he separated from Myria.

ʼThis is… Soul Severance, an attempt to consolidate oneʼs Soul Quintessence.ʼ

Davis recalled that once one reached the Empyrean Stage, they could access their previous livesʼ memories and accept their previous incarnation as themselves. Most Empyreans, Autarchs, and other similar stage experts decided not to do it since it would harm their souls and introduce numerous mental problems unless they had the Will to suppress it.

Their life would become a mess, with past relationships being merely one factor.

However, Davis had only lived two lives.

He easily accepted his previous incarnations and consolidated his Soul Quintessence.

*Bzzz!~*

His soul strengthened even more, exuding a tumultuous aura. The reincarnation wheel appeared behind him, creating lightning and thunder in its wake. Ghosts that had died in this region to torture and other grievous methods slowly awakened in a subconscious response to the reincarnator wheelʼs presence.

Then, they all submitted, their knees hitting the ground before their heads.

A black-white shockwave spread throughout the region, cleansing these vengeful ghosts and allowing them to return to the reincarnation cycle to be ground to dust and finally rest because their subsequent incarnations would already be continuing the Truesoulʼs life cycle.

At this moment, Davis abruptly felt an intense sensation of alarm.

His eyes shot wide open as he turned to look in the direction Illuminaʼs clones left.

A piercing verdant arrow ripped through space. He could barely catch a glimpse of it, fearing that it had already penetrated him. He felt powerless against it despite having such power, but he still felt calm, as though he was still affected by the Twelve-Winged Seraphim Ancestorʼs harmony technique.

*Bang!~*

Abruptly, a person appeared in front of him.

Illumina struck the arrow down with her claws, a terrifying wind blade explosion filling the space as it sent her retreating a few steps. Instantly, her arm was ground to dust up to her shoulder, but she grinned with a pained expression, knowing that she had defended her master successfully, as she even negated the impact of the arrow.

Blood poured down in copious amounts from her severed arm. She took a step forward and pointed her other hand into the distance.

”Today, even if I have to exchange my life, I will make sure my master leaves this place alive!”

*Bzzz!~*

At this moment, terrifying undulations reverberated across the heaven and earth. Although the tribulation clouds have yet to fully recede, remaining in the world like a watchful eye, they didnʼt interfere.

But the first Venerable Knight had laid their gaze here.

They looked more dazzling than a Celestial Fairy, but their face was bloodied with numerous injuries adorning their body.

Venerable Knight Lussandra shot towards Davis as the ethereal verdant wings now appeared crimson. Her pupils were strangely spinning as though she was using an ocular technique. At the same time, she also didnʼt hesitate to sacrifice her blood-soul essence to gain a tremendous boost, but still suppressed herself to stay in the layer limit.

The destructive property of her Wind Laws was strengthened immensely.

She drew an arrow out of thin air again as she nocked it over the crimson-verdant bow.

*Wrupp!~*

She unleashed a second arrow. It sounded like she released an arrow that was bigger than a siege arrow, the sound of it alone causing space to crack and break around her. At the same time, the two Illumina clones she escaped from slashed her back, ripping her waist and shoulder to shreds.

No one could see the arrow that was shot from hundreds of billions of kilometers.

It arrived nearly instantly.

Illumina only heard one sentence in her mind.

”Put up a barrier.”

With a wave of his hand, Davis used the Temporal Voidplane Ring and threw the Primarch of the Laughing Hexamaniacs directly before him.

”What-!? Courting dea-!”

That Primarchʼs furious voice barely echoed before he exploded into a blood mist, not even seeing what hit him.

The arrow then hit the nether barrier, destroying it before Illumina took a claw at it, filled with nether shadow energy, successfully destroying it. Her body withstood the impact as she retreated and fell into Davisʼs embrace.

At this moment, both Davis and Venerable Knight Lussandra felt the feedback. The moment they felt like they glimpsed at each other, the Blood Soul Contract they shared shattered, and the consequence attacked Venerable Knight Lussandra because she attacked Davis before a year was up after he reached the Upper Realms.

However, that Blood Soul Contract was useless since its prowess was so low.

But gravely injured by Illuminaʼs clones, Venerable Knight Lussandra had no choice but to dodge.

Davis stared at her with some cold amusement before he glanced at his Illuminaʼs severed arm and said.

”Everyone, gather around. Letʼs leave.”