Chapter 1307, Nine Path as One
âHeavenly Sovereign, heâs now trapped behind the barrier. He wonât escape!â
âIgnore him. So long as heâs trapped, he canât be a threat to me.â The Heavenly Sovereign looked heavily at Sword Heart, âWeâll now go to war with the old fools of the human path. Letâs deal with them and then find that heartless younger brother of mine, humph.â
The Heavenly Sovereign vanished and Sword Heart went after him.
An hour later, on a flat expanse with no man in sight for miles and miles, ten figures waited.
The Heavenly Sovereign arrived, ignoring all but the man in white, âYounger brother, I thought your emotion center was broken and you donât care about anything. How come you still side with humanity?â
âEmotions might be gone, but the heart remains, the senses remain.â
The man in white took a deep breath, âI am now blocked from feeling the true love of the world, but having once walked the path of emotional Heavenly Daos, I could never forsake the world.â
âIs this why you never formed the destructive path?â
âIt can be so.â The man in white nodded.
The Heavenly Sovereign smirked, âWhat a blunder. I always took you for being dead inside, not minding anything or anyone, but not once did you give up the world. Whatâs even more surprising is to find you so shrewd, fooling me without the slightest tell.â
âWhen I heard of your plan, I was about to advise against it, but then this idea hit me. I know you too well to try to change your mind when youâre dead set on something. So before I reveal my stance, I thought of playing a little useful trick.â
âYou leaked my plan to those fools and hinted that Iâd leave a record of my void path behind, colluding with the beasts to steal it. It was to find a weakness, wasnât it?â
The Heavenly Sovereignâs lip shook in anger, âToo bad, but the three beasts are trapped. You wonât get the chance to find anything about my power. Once Iâm through with you, Iâll take my time finding the right way to the destruction path.â
The Sovereignsâ hearts sank. The Heavenly Sovereignâs power was beyond anything they imagined, sealing the three sacred beasts like nothing.
Only a one-eyed man stepped forward, shouting, âHeavenly Sovereign, youâre too full of yourself! Your Divine Eye of the Void lost to me once already!â
âWell if it isnât Heaven Sealing Sea Ao. You didnât go to steal with the others, helping these guys instead? Do you plan on sealing my eyes again?â
The Heavenly Sovereign mocked, âTime changes everything, especially if it is as long as a thousand years. As you are now, without your eyes, you still plan on sealing mine? Ha!â
Sea Ao raged, giving a glare to Sword Heart, âTie Jianxin, our friendship for decades was for nothing. I helped you train your sword by gathering what you needed. Why did you turn your sword on me?â
Sword Heart lowered his head.
A huge sound echoed and Heaven Sealing Sea Ao shuddered. His body shook hard as purple lighting flared in his direction and made him spew blood.
The Heavenly Sovereignâs right eye shone in two golden rings while his left eye pulsed purple. He smirked, âThe Berserk Purple Lightning sure is amazing, complementing my Divine Eye of the Void. Ha-ha-ha, Berserk Void Annihilation!â
The purple lightning wrecked havoc on Sea Aoâs body as he struggled to fight it.
âLightning Field, True World!â
The Heavenly Sovereignâs right eye shined with twelve halos. A boom shook the skies and purple flickered, resulting in Sea Ao vanishing.
The others gasped in shock, with an old man in black crying, âHeavenly Sovereign, what did you do to Sea Ao?â
Zhuo Fanâs eyes shook as he turned to the old man. He was one and the same with the one in the image.
The Heavenly Sovereign shocked Zhuo Fan with his next action.
âNine Serenities, I only sent him where he belongs. Iâll deal with those beasts once Iâm through with you bastards.â
The Heavenly Sovereign chuckled in disdain, âDid losing your pet get you all shy? So human Sovereigns need dogs to be threatening.â
They all were grave and furious, while their hearts sank in despair.
In a blink, they were unable to even react as the Heavenly Sovereign got rid of Heaven Sealing Sea Ao.
[The Heavenly Daos is stronger than the human pathâŚ]
With morale at an all time low, the man in white stepped forward, âWeâre standing here today not because of the strength of the Heavenly Sovereign, but the path within our hearts that we will never betray!â
Nine Serenities and the others grew determined.
[Weâre human path cultivators and weâre not about to stand and watch it die! It matters not the strength of the enemy.]
It was something they had to do.
âIs this why youâre going against me?â The Heavenly Sovereign stared at his younger brother, âEven without your emotion center, you still walk the path of emotional Heavenly Daos and refuse to form the supreme destructive path.â
The man in white nodded, âThe world chose me to carry the destructive path, but I believe in choosing my own path, the one in my heart, not destruction. Just how the Emotion Sovereign cut out romantic love, and opened herself to the worldâs peak emotion, I broke my emotion center and the world felt dead to me, without love or any emotion. It was also why my emotion is noble and I decided to go against heaven and have humanity stay on top.â
âSince youâve decided, thereâs nothing more to talk about. Our paths are different. Thereâs nothing to discuss about conflicting paths, even as brothers.â
The Heavenly Sovereign sighed inside and charged, âAs Heavenâs Will wished the worldâs end, I shall carry its duty in destroying the human pathâs Sovereigns. This world doesnât want you!â
The other side flew to meet him, determined to go through with this, âNo matter what you think as the purported Heavenâs Will, the human path will survive. Heavenly Sovereign, youâll have to go through us to remake the world!â
Explosions echoed all around, shaking the sky and crumbling the earth. The ten Sovereigns met with such force that the space warped and broke apart to reveal black holes. It lasted three months and killed every creature in the radius of millions of miles.
Once the world stopped shaking, there were no stars, moon or sun, only endless darkness. The space law couldnât keep up with their relentless onslaught.
Sword Heart and the human Sovereigns were wounded and tired, panting hard and bleeding.
Only the Heavenly Sovereignâs eyes were just as hard, despite the slight soreness.
âIt seems Heaven wins in the end. The human path falls, ha-ha-haâŚâ
The Heavenly Sovereignâs eye shined in eleven golden halos, âCleanse!â
A huge golden eye appeared in the black sky, unleashing a deadly aura. The others looked bleak, with Child Sovereign saying, âWe couldnât beat him, we lostâŚâ
A ripple spread through them and they just crumbled, gone from this world. All that remained were prismatic motes, their souls, sighing at the end of the world.
A sudden wind picked up that pulled the souls to the side, shielding them behind the man in white so that Cleanse wouldnât hurt them. Even Sword Heartâs path flew to his side.
âWhatâs happening?â
The Heavenly Sovereign looked oddly at Sword Heart, who was just as baffled, âI donât know. My path is out of my control.â
The man in white smiled, âWe both touched upon the Sovereign Stage, but I have no Sovereign path, weaker than you. But luckily, I comprehended two things when I felt the destructive path. Firstly, before the world turns to hell, thereâs destruction and cleansing. Secondly, that the holder of this path can offer themselves so that the world gets another chance. I have always believe the world that nurtured all creation wouldnât be so heartless.â
The man in white released black energy that wrapped around him and ate him alive.
While the nine Sovereign paths fused, becoming a huge prismatic palm and shooting at the huge eye in the skyâŚ