CHAPTER 60:The Black Calamity of the Extreme Dao!

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On this day, the Seven Great Forbidden Realms of the Extreme Dao Emperors were born.

The entire One Leaf Shrouding the Heavens Universe turned into a sea of blood—the Underworld incarnate.

Countless star fields were transformed into death stars, and hundreds of millions of living beings were slaughtered by these Extreme Dao Emperors, their life essence harvested to extend the emperors' longevity.

Beacon fires burned. Wolf smoke rose. The earth was soaked in blood.

Screams, howls, roars, agony—

One after another, they echoed across the major star fields.

Amitabha Star Field.

The Emperor of Light and Darkness and the Emperor of Abandonment—two of the most formidable Supreme Dao Emperors—descended upon this realm.

With a mere wave of their hands, hundreds of millions of living beings were reduced to shriveled mummified corpses.

The torrential Blood Qi surged like a flood, swallowed greedily by the two emperors.

In that moment, a sinister flush crept across their previously pale faces.

And their cruel smiles deepened.

Countless monks and novice disciples in Lotus Position sat solemnly on the ground, watching in horror as the Emperor of Light and Darkness and the Emperor of Abandonment casually reaped lives.

Their eyes were sorrowful. Many were on the verge of tears.

"The two benefactors were once Great Emperors of the human race, just like us. Now that you wield the butcher's knife against your own people, do you feel no guilt in your hearts?"

"If you must kill, then strike Lao Na. Why slaughter innocent mortals?"

"The dignity of a human Great Emperor—was it worth trading for mere longevity? Have you forgotten who you once were? Forgotten your original heart?"

These monks and disciples shouted in defiance, their voices heavy with grief and fury.

One among them, a frail old monk with a white beard and white eyebrows, stepped forward, walking toward the two terrifying emperors.

"Benefactors, please stop. The old monk is willing to offer his life in exchange for the safety of the innocents."

His voice carried a resolute will to die as he sighed.

Bang!

The Abandoned Emperor raised his hand, and the old monk's head exploded like a crushed melon.

A faint stream of life essence flowed into his body with his breath.

"What are you, to presume to lecture this emperor?"

The Abandoned Emperor's tone was cold, detached.

He stood like a god above all, holding the authority of life and death, overlooking every being in this world.

To him, whether it was mortals in the Amitabha Star Region or monks who devoted their lives to the Dao, life and death were nothing but fleeting whims.

"Master!!!"

A young novice's eyes turned bloodshot. He let out a broken cry.

He glared at the Abandoned Emperor, his face twisted in grief, yet a miserable smile hung on his lips.

"My master once told me that a person must carry a sliver of kindness in life. He said you, the Extreme Dao Emperors, though stained with evil now, were once Great Emperors of our human race who fought for us!"

"He said merit is merit, demerit is demerit. No matter how corrupted you are now, if I ever met you, I should show respect and courtesy, and not act out of turn."

The little novice clenched his fists and shouted with burning eyes:

"No! You don't deserve respect! Not anymore! You are beasts now!"

"Don't you want to kill? Then come! Kill me! Hahahahaha!"

He laughed and cried at once, like a broken doll.

The temple he had called home had been crushed.

Most of the gentle senior brothers and sisters were now corpses.

Even the master who had raised him, taught him the truths of Buddhism, and guided him onto the path of cultivation—slain before his eyes.

The little novice had lost his mind completely.

The Abandoned Emperor narrowed his eyes slightly.

In that instant, fragments of past memories surfaced before him. The brutal battles on the path to Emperorhood. His lone march through the bloodstained heavens. He had once been hailed and honored by all, sung of in legends, praised by the world.

He had once...

Attained enlightenment.

For a long period of time, he protected all spirits and was worshipped by every living being across the heavens. He fulfilled his duty as a sovereign of the imperial path and earned the reverence of all races. But as time passed, he watched his closest comrades perish one after another. The woman he loved eventually succumbed to the passage of years. Grief and longing for eternal life overwhelmed his heart.

In time, that longing twisted his nature. He began traversing the Nine Heavens and the Nine Nether, waging war in both realms, seeking only to extend his life and to revive those who had left him. Eventually, his ideals were consumed, and he abandoned his former path entirely.

His heart grew colder and more merciless.

Compared to even the Yi race, he became more brutal, more ruthless.

"Hmph, naive child, what do you know!" Emperor Abandoned's eyes flashed with chilling light as he struck with his palm. In an instant, the little monk and the countless beings in this starfield were reduced to boiling blood qi, which he inhaled to nourish his decaying spirit.

Simultaneously, the Light and Dark Supreme Dao Emperor who traveled with him unleashed annihilation across the remaining life stars of the Amitabha Star Domain. The entire starfield was reduced to silence and death.

"Let's go. On to the next place." Emperor Guang An and Emperor Qi exchanged cruel smiles and stepped forward to leave.

Suddenly, the two paused, their faces frozen in surprise. The heavens' golden list was displaying a real-time broadcast of the catastrophe they had just unleashed.

"Oh? This scene is being shown in real time?" The Emperor of Light and Dark narrowed his eyes, then looked toward the list of all heavens and worlds with a sneer.

"Very well. Let all of existence witness the strength of our Supreme Dao Emperors."

Boom!

The two vanished, sweeping across the void toward the next starfield.

Similar scenes erupted throughout the world of Shrouding the Heavens.

The sea of blood surged and sank. Grief engulfed the heavens.

Every life star was slaughtered by those who once stood as the Great Emperors of the Human Race. Entire longevity clans were exterminated by beings in the Extreme Emperor Realm, their blood qi devoured to fuel the twisted immortality of these mad sovereigns.

On another starfield, a mere swipe of an Emperor's hand crushed the domain's rules and transformed hundreds of millions of beings into pools of meat and blood.

Fathers died before sons. Older brothers died before younger ones. Masters fell before disciples.

Endless tragedies unfolded.

When these Extreme Emperors realized that their horrific deeds were being broadcast across the heavens and realms, they only became more frenzied and bloodthirsty.

They wanted all worlds to witness how they offered the common people as a sacrifice for their so-called Immortal Ascension.

In just one day, the black catastrophe initiated by the seven forbidden zones swept through the entire universe and all connected realms.

The number of lives perished exceeded hundreds of millions.

The heavens rained blood. The Dao itself wept.

"Oh Heaven! Where is our Human Race's Great Emperor?"

"Do we not have any true emperors left?"

"This is unforgivable! If Emperor Wu Shi were still alive, would such arrogant beings be allowed to act with impunity?"

"Where is the Great Wilderness Emperor? Where is the Immortal Wu Shi?"

Countless human cultivators raised their heads and wept tears of blood, calling out to their ancestral protectors.

A powerful family's Quasi-Emperor rose to challenge the catastrophe, exploding himself in a final effort. He burned his cultivation base down to the void in desperation.

But without stepping into the realm of true Great Emperors and comprehending the Emperor's laws, it was meaningless.

The laws of the Extreme Dao were not complete, yet they were still far beyond what any Quasi-Emperor could counter.

"This life shall bear witness to the largest black catastrophe in the history of the Extreme Dao. We Sovereigns of the Extreme Dao have emerged together. Who dares stand against us?" The ancient Dapeng Emperor laughed wildly.

One after another, human Quasi-Emperors died in blood-soaked battles. Even Nie Jiuxiao of Central State fell defending humanity.

The savagery of this war defied words.

The Ji Clan sacrificed everything to activate the Void Mirror.

The Starry Sky Great Emperor, once equal to the strongest of humanity, was summoned by the collective prayers of all beings. He stepped out from his sarcophagus to stand against the coming darkness.

Yet under the siege of many Extreme Emperors, even he was defeated. In his final act, he sacrificed his immortal bones to halt the progress of the black disaster.

His bones shattered. The Immortal Mirror fractured. Even his body was reduced to half a corpse.

That half-body and shattered mirror drifted into the boundless void, gone forever.

Across the heavens and all realms, countless powerhouses stood in silence.

They too saw it all—every moment broadcasted live.

Though they had spilled blood themselves on their rise, even committed acts of genocide or planetary slaughter, none were like these emperors of Shrouding the Heavens who targeted their own kind out of selfish desire.

"Scum! In my world, I swear I'll kill every last one of them!" In the Central Immortal Domain, Wang Nixian with snow-white hair spoke coldly.

"Imperial Realm? They call this the Extreme Dao? Cowards who slaughter the weak? If I cross paths with them, I'll wipe them all out!" The Lord of Ten Thousand Demons sneered, eyes flashing with killing intent.

He wasn't certain if the Extreme Emperors were stronger than he was. But deep inside, he felt only disdain for them.

"Hmph! These Extreme Emperors have brought a catastrophe worse than even the Heavenly Emperor's reign! They deserve annihilation!" Emperor Yan Xiao Huohuo had arrived in the Three Thousand Great Worlds. Flames burned uncontrollably around him, warping the void with pure fury.

"Extreme Dao? Trash. If I were in that world, no one would dare act so arrogantly!" Yang Tianqi, the butcher of gods and Buddhas, growled.

His killing intent erupted like a tsunami, shaking the realm he resided in.

In a leaf-world within Shrouding the Heavens, countless barrages appeared—messages from Wang Nixian, Xiao Huohuo, the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons, Yang Tianqi, and others.

Naturally, the Extreme Emperors saw them all.

They merely laughed in contempt.

"No one in your world dares to be sovereign?" sneered the Lord of Samsara, the ancient Dapeng Emperor, and the Emperor of Light and Dark.

Did Yang Tianqi even have the power to reach them?

Could he even survive the passage?

Shaking their heads, the Extreme Emperors turned away from the screens. They continued slaughtering billions and absorbing life essence.

For them, Immortal Ascension began now.

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