I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 936 The end of the hero
Black Impermanence's cultivation was ultimately too high, and he was no longer accepted by this era. As he used his magic power, the source of his essence was draining away faster and faster. Facing three twelfth-order gods and Dugu Qiu, he found it increasingly difficult to cope.

Finally, at a certain moment, Black Impermanence was caught off guard and blasted away, smashing a distant artificial hill. He stood up from the mud, covered in dust and dirt, looking at the sky with grief and indignation. His voice was filled with blood and tragic grandeur: "Truly, a dragon stranded in shallow waters is mocked by shrimp, a tiger fallen into the plains is bullied by dogs. It's not that I, the ancestor, am inferior to you, but that this era cannot tolerate me. If I were in the same era as you, I could slap you mere ants to death with a single slap!"

"Protect our ancestors!"

The eyes of countless members of the Zhang family immediately turned red. Zhang Gaqi took the lead and rushed towards Hei Wuchang, wanting to protect him behind him. However, one of the gods pointed at the void, and all the Zhang family members froze in place.

Each level represents a new realm; below the twelfth level, all are but ants.

"You have quite the arrogance. If we lived in the same era, we might not be inferior to you! In this degenerate age, we can still attain the Yang God realm. If it were a time of flourishing cultivation, we could suppress you in the blink of an eye." Dugu Qiu retorted, unconvinced.

"You're just a mere Yang God, a mere starting point in the great world of cultivation. What's there to be proud of?" Black Impermanence's eyes were filled with coldness. "Remember this: one day I will return! As long as heaven and earth do not perish, I will have the opportunity to be reborn in the endless river of time and space."

"Even if I truly disappear from this era, I, your ancestor, will show you what a Great Luo is! I will show you what the dignity of the strong truly means!" Seeing that he could not resist the forces of heaven and earth, Hei Wuchang simply chose to ascend to the ultimate realm, making a final desperate attempt.

Black Impermanence knew that his source energy was about to be exhausted. He had already lost 99% of his source energy in the underworld, and now, after this fierce battle, his source energy was not far from being completely depleted. This was the general trend of heaven and earth. Although he had a high realm, he ultimately did not have the strength to defy the heavens and could not reverse the overall situation.

Now that he knew his fate, he absolutely could not let these younger generations look down on him!

The next moment, Hei Wuchang reached the pinnacle of his power, his internal energy surged, and he frantically devoured the energy between heaven and earth. A terrifying aura rose from his body and swept outwards in all directions.

"not good!"

The three twelfth-tier deities and Dugu Qiu's expressions changed drastically. Faced with Hei Wuchang's ultimate sublimation, an overwhelming pressure swept over them. Under that pressure, they felt like ants, teetering on the brink of collapse in the storm.

"Quickly join forces and unleash the Judgment!" Dugu Qiu shouted frantically, sensing the impending danger of death.

The three twelfth-tier deities quickly flashed to Dugu Qiu's side, pouring their divine power into the Judgment. At this moment, with the support of the four supreme experts, the Judgment's energy began to recover, and a terrifying heavenly might rippled within it.

"Let me show you the power of a Grand Luo Immortal! You think you can stop me with just a Primordial Spiritual Treasure? You're dreaming!" Black Impermanence sneered, and in the next moment, the power unique to Grand Luo Immortals attacked Dugu Qiu and the three twelfth-order gods opposite him: "If you want to kill me, even if I don't survive, you won't survive either!"

Zhang Chen looked at the Black Impermanence who had reached the pinnacle of his cultivation and became vigilant. He gripped the Measuring Ruler in his sleeve tightly, not daring to be careless in the slightest. He never expected that the Black Impermanence was actually a powerful expert at the Great Luo realm in his previous life. If he had known that the Black Impermanence was a Great Luo realm being, he would not have dared to provoke him.

At the same time, he was also relieved that the three twelfth-tier gods had jumped out and attracted the attention of Hei Wuchang. The final blow that Hei Wuchang unleashed after sublimating his life was not aimed at him, but at the three twelfth-tier gods and Dugu Qiu. Otherwise, Zhang Chen would have been in trouble. He might have had to forcefully break through to the twelfth tier today to survive this attack.

Black Impermanence ignited the energy within his bones, unleashing a final strike. He had considered attacking Zhang Chen and killing him to vent his anger, but whenever this thought arose in his mind, an inexplicable terror surged through him, causing his soul to tremble.

You must know that he is a Great Luo Immortal, and his final attack can unleash the power of a Great Luo level. Yet, when facing an ant who has not yet achieved immortality, he actually trembles in his heart. How could there not be something strange about this?
He had a gut feeling that if he fought Zhang Chen, he would really die! And it would be the kind of death that would be completely erased from the river of fate, never to be resurrected.

He was a powerful expert at the Great Luo level, and his intuition was never wrong.

Although he has ascended and died in this time and space, he still has a chance to be resurrected in the future. But if he attacks Zhang Chen, then he will truly be completely dead, his true spirit will be erased from time and space, and he will never be able to be resurrected.

Zhang Chen was terrified and secretly became on guard. Even the Heavenly Punishment Eye in his primordial spirit began to tremble slightly, as if it was about to open and release divine lightning.

A being at the Great Luo level! Zhang Chen was genuinely a little flustered.

As countless thoughts raced through Zhang Chen's mind, Black Impermanence's attack landed, aimed at the three twelfth-tier deities. The three deities, along with Dugu Qiu, unleashed their Judgment, thrusting it towards Black Impermanence. The Judgment crackled with lightning, which now turned azure, dyeing the entire capital city a vibrant blue. Black Impermanence's attack, a wailing lament, contained a power that shook the very soul, seemingly intent on seizing the very souls of all living beings.

The world was half black and half blue. The black place seemed to be the abyss of hell, with hundreds of ghosts walking at night, devouring the life essence of the living beings in the capital. The blue world was surrounded by lightning, with a vast heavenly might flowing through it.

"Bang~"

As the two sides clashed, the heavens and earth trembled. It was as if a major earthquake had struck Kyoto. Countless houses collapsed, and countless feng shui formations were instantly broken. A hole was torn in Kyoto's feng shui formation, and the dragon veins beneath the earth emitted mournful cries.

The innate spiritual treasure, Judgment, let out a mournful cry and shattered into countless pieces, flying in all directions. The three deities who were directly hit instantly had their physical bodies explode. Dugu Qiu, who was behind the three deities, also had no time to react, and his physical body turned into nothingness. Fortunately, at the critical moment, the Judgment absorbed the power from the Great Luo expert in his place. Then, Dugu Qiu's physical body exploded, and his Yang God was shattered into pieces, but in an instant, his Yang God was reborn. However, at this time, Dugu Qiu's Yang God was extremely dim, leaving only a phantom shadow.

Those three twelfth-order gods were also reborn once again. The greatness of the power of gods lies in this: as long as the power of faith does not perish, gods will not die. However, although they were reborn, their strength could not be restored in a short time.

Black Impermanence's eyes swept over the crowd, revealing a hint of helplessness and determination. He knew he was definitely not going to survive today, so he might as well leave a sliver of hope for the future.

In an instant, his physical body disintegrated into tens of thousands of black threads. These black threads pierced through the void and entered the bodies of the Zhang family disciples. All those with Zhang family blood received the care of Black Impermanence.

Of course, Zhang Chen is an exception!

Zhang Chen was not envious of the good fortune that belonged to the Zhang family members.

In his divine eyes, he could see that Black Impermanence had broken down his own Great Luo Fate and passed on his remaining primordial spirit essence to the Zhang family's descendants in the form of bloodline. As long as the Zhang family's descendants did not perish, their bloodline would eventually reproduce and there would be a thread of essence to be passed on, giving them a chance to defy the heavens and return.

Black Impermanence dispersed on his own, and Zhang Chen neither rescued nor stopped him. This fellow had tried to possess him in the underworld before, so how could Zhang Chen help him? It would be good enough if he didn't take action and killed him.

Meanwhile, those Zhang family disciples who had acquired the Black Impermanence bloodline were experiencing fluctuations in their bloodline power, and their strength was rapidly increasing. That was a source of power belonging to the Great Luo level; even obtaining only a trace of it would bring incredible benefits and good fortune to the Zhang family disciples.

Even the flow of immortal power, infusing into the blood and soul of the Zhang family disciples, greatly reduced the suppression of the dragon energy in the void on the Zhang family members, and a trace of supernatural power flowed around their bodies.

"How is this possible! How could they break through the suppression of the dragon energy and unleash their supernatural power? Even if the supernatural power they could unleash was weak, it was still extraordinary." A twelfth-level deity, seeing the Zhang family members break through the suppression and a mysterious fluctuation emanating from their bodies, revealed an expression of disbelief.

Seeing the changes in the Zhang family disciple before them, the three deities revealed a murderous intent in their eyes, and their divine power surged, showing a slight will to take action and eliminate the threat completely.

"Gentlemen! The Zhang family is one of the eight great families, a matter of great importance. We must not act rashly. Moreover, although they have activated their mysterious power, under the suppression of the dragon energy, the strength they unleash is only enough to affect ordinary people. It has no effect on those who have cultivated martial arts qi and blood. You must not act rashly. If the Zhang family is destroyed, all eight great families will be in danger, and the Great Victory Dynasty could split in an instant." Dugu Qiu spoke, advising the three divine beings, secretly transmitting his voice:

"Besides, who knows what other tricks the Zhang family has up their sleeve? If they provoke an unpredictable crisis, we'll all be doomed. The Zhang family deserves to be destroyed, and so do the eight great families, but before we've thoroughly investigated their strengths, the Great Victory Royal Family must not make a move. His Majesty has already devised a plan to make the eight great families fight like dogs, so you must not act rashly and ruin His Majesty's plan."

Dugu Qiu stepped forward to dissuade the three deities, not because the Great Victory King was truly certain of victory, but because he felt that Zhang Chen was a member of the Zhang family, and there must be close relatives of Zhang Chen among this group, who could not be allowed to be killed by the three twelfth-tier deities.

Moreover, the direct descendants of the Zhang family should not be killed! Once the Zhang family is destroyed, everyone in the eight major families will be terrified, and the Great Victory Dynasty will likely be engulfed in flames and fall apart in an instant.

Upon hearing this, the three deities gave a cold snort, offering no rebuttal or further explanation. Instead, they vanished into the void in a flash.

Because what Dugu Qiu said made sense. Although the strength of the eight great families was terrifying, it was not the most terrifying thing about them. What was most terrifying about the eight great families was their ubiquitous reach and their enormous power that could affect everything if they did something.

(End of this chapter)