Chapter 1428, The Eternal Strike

Translator:  Ashish

Translation Checker: Silvain

 

*Boooom… Boooom…. Boooom…* An ever more terrifying power surged upward, shaking an entire realm.

 

*Crack….* In the next moment, sounds akin to shattering of glass echoed. The Heavenly Court’s secret realm failed to last even a single breath before collapsing outright.

 

Visible to the naked eye, everything, absolutely everything, returned to chaos.

 

Only the silver-white halo that had risen at some unknown moment grew ever more radiant, so radiant that it pierced through the world’s barrier itself, radiating outward into the starry expanse.

 

And along with it came a Heaven-shaking aura.

 

“What… is that?”

 

Sudden alarm spread as countless powerhouses across the Western Sector jolted awake, gazing toward the indistinct depths of the cosmos.

 

What met their eyes was an incomparably brilliant silver radiance blooming forth.

 

And at that very moment…

 

*Boooooooooom…* With a sky-splitting roar, the Imperial Artifact of the Divine Titan Clan, the Crown of Titan God, abruptly awakened on itself, its expression changing drastically.

 

“How is this possible? An Imperial Artifact… willing to shatter itself?!”

 

…

 

Amid voices filled with disbelief, even the Crown of Titan God was shaken to the core.

 

And not just it.

 

In far more distant galaxies, powerful forces like the Angel Clan, the Demon Court also sensed the sudden appearance of that world-shaking aura.

 

That single aura threw the starry skies into disorder, plunged the world into chaos, and left countless experts trembling in fear.

 

Even farther still, the Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan, existences of unfathomable terror, were likewise alarmed.

 

“What on earth has happened?”

 

“That aura… it’s the Heavenly Court’s Imperial Artifact, the Vajra Ring!”

 

One cry after another rang out as the experts of the Dragon and Phoenix Clans turned pale.

 

Such a terrifying aura was far beyond comprehension.

 

It was as though the entire starry firmament could no longer bear it.

 

*Crackle…* A thunderous sound echoed as lightning hissed through the cosmos…

 

…

 

And among all who sensed this aura, none felt it more deeply than Yu Zi Yu himself.

 

For once, a rare solemnity appeared on his face as his gaze locked firmly onto the distant silver-white halo that had already shattered an entire realm.

 

It was dazzling, its aura vast beyond measure.

 

It was truly Heaven-shaking.

 

Even the stars scattered across the cosmos, one after another, seemed to halt their rotation at this moment, frozen in place.

 

“You understand what you’re doing… don’t you?” With an unprecedented gravity in his voice, Yu Zi Yu held his breath.

 

“What…are you afraid now?” Came a biting cold reply from the distance.

 

At this moment, the Imperial Artifact’s True Spirit had surged to its absolute peak.

 

*Boooooom…* And with it, an even more terrifying aura shot straight into the Heavens.

 

Looking closely, one could see a silver-white pillar of light tearing through the shattered remains of the realm, surging into the starry skies.

 

*Booooom…Booooom…* Amid deafening thunder, a colossal vortex spanning dozens of star systems suddenly appeared.

 

The vortex was silver-white, and blazing with blinding radiance.

 

And beneath that vast whirlpool, the silver halo continued to revolve.

 

Faintly, one could even see the humanoid form born of the Imperial Artifact beginning to burn.

 

Strand after strand of silver flame traced its outline as a power beyond mortal comprehension began to circulate.

 

“Your strength… is far too terrifying. And your potential… even more so.” With a heavy sigh, the voice of the Vajra Ring’s True Spirit became incredibly cold.

 

It sounded as if it belonged to an ancient wraith that had lingered for ten thousand years, its voice made one’s heart tremble.

 

Old, sinister, and steeped in a twisted aura that felt like falling into an endless abyss.

 

However, none of this diminished its terror.

 

At this moment, Yu Zi Yu felt small, as small as an ant.

 

“As long as you live… the Heavenly Court can never return! Never!” As that scalp-numbing voice echoed, the distant halo suddenly flared with blinding brilliance.

 

*Boooooom…* An exceedingly fearsome silver radiance drowned the vast Starry Sky. It swallowed dozens, no… hundreds of star systems whole.

 

That dazzling light was so intense that it was clearly visible from even neighboring galaxies.

 

“So this… is the reason you’re willing to shatter yourself just to unleash an Eternal Strike…”

 

He held his breath and focused his mind.

 

Even Yu Zi Yu’s body began to tremble at this moment.

 

It was not fear.

 

It was battle intent, an unprecedented, blazing battle intent that set his entire gaze aflame.

 

*Boooom… Boooom… Boooom…* Tumultuous roars shook the starry expanse.

 

As it looked up, the Vajra Ring saw a majestic divine tree so vast that it blotted out the Heavens, rising up from nothingness.

 

Its branches were like divine chains, stretching endlessly through the cosmos, reaching toward infinity. Its roots roared like True Dragons, while its colossal trunk stood rooted amid swirling nebulae…

 

It used to be thought that the World Tree’s canopy covering an entire star system was already unimaginably massive.

 

But now, gazing upon this divine tree rising before it, it finally understood what true ‘vastness’ meant.

 

It stretched beyond the limits of sight!

 

Stars themselves had become its fruits!

 

It was ever expanding, ever growing.

 

It was vast beyond any conceivable end!

 

“Your talent and innate brilliance… truly inspire awe.” Staring deeply at the divine tree’s True Form, so immense that even it could not perceive its entirety, the true spirit of the Vajra Ring fell silent.

 

[Across all ages, past and present, he is indeed number one. Even in the eras yet to come, it would be hard to find another who can match him. But…unfortunately…He should never have become an enemy of the Heavenly Court. Even more so, he should not have mastered One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones. So…]

 

“Let’s end it. Let’s end it all, let it become an ancient legend.”

 

As it made its decision…

 

*Crack…* It was as though something had shattered completely.

 

And in the very next instant, an endless torrent of energy erupted forth.

 

*Wooooooooom…* Erasing the stars in an instant, the torrent of energy swallowed the entire Starry Sky.

 

What made faces blanch in horror was that the silver-white energy torrent did not cease.

 

Instead, it condensed into an incomparably terrifying pillar of light, shooting straight toward Yu Zi Yu’s True Body.

 

To call it ‘shooting’ was misleading, it was more like instantaneous teleportation.

 

In the blink of an eye, Yu Zi Yu felt a piercing pain tear through him.

 

*Ahhhh…* A sudden cry of agony echoed as the towering divine tree that spanned the cosmos began to disintegrate.

 

Despite his branches spreading and growing continuously, numbering in tens of millions, displaying the most resplendent form of the Willow Deity Art…

 

Despite the Grand Divine Ability, One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, continuing to empower him, his strength swelling without pause…

 

In the face of this unprecedented attack, Yu Zi Yu still felt his body crumbling.

 

In a daze, even his physical form, which had reached Seventh Order in physical evolution, could no longer withstand it.

 

“So this… is the Eternal Strike…” Drawing in a sharp gasp, Yu Zi Yu finally gained a deeper understanding of what ‘Eternity’ truly meant.

 

However, what he failed to notice was that behind him, everything was being erased.

 

The silver torrent was not merely annihilating his body, it was shaking the very starry expanse itself.

 

Countless stars were snuffed out at this very moment.

 

The Eternal Strike was an attack so powerful that it would be etched into the very fabric of the cosmos.

 

Even the weakest Eternal could shatter an entire galaxy with a single palm, let alone those Eternals who had far surpassed the ordinary.