The Protagonists' Chat Group: Beyond the Boundaries — Chapter 422

Chapter 422: Ye Tiandi and Chu Tiandi Meet

“Attack the Strange Highland!”

Shi Jian issued the ultimate order for the final counterattack against the Strange Highland.

The immense Ten Thousand Dharma Hall army waved their banners and charged toward the Strange Clan’s territory with irresistible might.

Now, their combined forces were unprecedentedly strong—a force never before seen in the history of the Heavens.

Shi Jian’s Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength had achieved yet another powerful Breakthrough; although his established Realm was technically still Immortal Emperor, his Battle Intent had already reached the absolute Sacrificial Dao-Grade.

Shi Hao stood with one foot firmly in the Sacrificial Dao Realm, just one final, ultimate, defining battle away from a complete Breakthrough to the true transcendence.

Besides the two of them, they also commanded six powerful Immortal Emperors: three veteran Emperors from Above the Heavens, and additionally, Liu Shen (Willow Deity), Stone King, and the resurrected Di Gu Ge.

Liu Shen was already a Quasi-Immortal Emperor when she originally crossed the Boundary Sea. Her entry into the Immortal Emperor Realm was now stable and complete.

The Stone King was the ultimate ‘lying down’ winner. Because of the Great Bloodline Technique and his deep connection to Shi Hao and Shi Jian, the profound feedback force from their many Breakthroughs directly carried him along, elevating his Realm without effort.

As for Di Gu Ge, his corrupt dark matter had been absorbed by Shi Jian and subsequently purified. He had now recovered his sanity and joined their cause, serving as a powerful, recovered Immortal Emperor.

Adding them up, there were six Immortal Emperors. There were even more Quasi-Immortal Emperors now among their ranks.

The list included The Witch, Shi Yi, the Ten Crown King, the Butcher, the Counterfeit Medicine Seller, the Chicken Raiser (Female Burial King), and also Shi Hao’s younger sister, Shi Xi.

Shi Jian had cleared instances too quickly back then. After he brought Shi Hao to Ascend to the Upper Realm, Shi Hao’s parents in the Lower Realm had another daughter, Shi Xi.

Shi Xi’s Aptitude was also extraordinary. After being brought to the Immortal Realm, her Cultivation Technique progressed even faster.

Coupled with Shi Hao’s doting affection for his sister, Shi Xi had also long since broken through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm.

There were even more Immortal Kings. Shi Jian even used the Civilization Disc, spending a huge amount of energy to instantly create a large number of Immortal King-Ranked biochemical beasts.

While their underlying mechanisms couldn’t compare to true Immortal Kings, their sheer numerical strength was a decisive factor. The vast army marched towards the Strange Clan.

The Strange Clan had not expected anyone to dare to actively attack them. How many countless years had it been?

Besides the last time with Hua Fen Di, no one had ever been able to reach the rear of the Strange Clan. They had always been the ones to attack others.

But now, Shi Jian had forcefully led people to kill their way in.

The area was a world filled with the choking Aura of death. Black city walls, as tall and majestic as mountains, stood between heaven and earth, carrying a suffocating, ancient Aura.

This was not the Strange Highland itself, but the Dark Realm—the corrupted territory controlled by the Strange Clan. The true core of this place was the Strange Highland.

Shi Jian led his people to charge in from the periphery, their advance utterly unstoppable.

This place was filled with a chilling, dead silence. Dark matter permeated everywhere between heaven and earth—a characteristic of Strange Matter at its extreme concentration. The great suns in the sky were blood-red, visually dripping corrupted blood.

The entire world was saturated with strangeness and decay.

“Hmph!” Shi Hao’s powerful Bloodline Qi soared into the sky, instantly dispersing all the thick black mist. The golden-yellow Bloodline Qi offset the effects of the blood-light in the sky.

“Kill!” Shi Jian did not waste words, only issuing this simple, absolute command.

In this Dark Realm, there were Strange Clan beings everywhere. However, there weren’t many strong ones among them; they served as cannon fodder.

Since they blocked the way, they naturally had to be cleared out.

The Strange Clan noticed the invasion, and a group of grotesque Vicious Beasts charged towards the Ten Thousand Dharma Hall’s people. There were many kinds of Vicious Beasts, and on the back of each one rode a black-armored knight wearing a hideous mask.

A bloody Aura assailed them. They howled and charged into the dense lines.

The people of the Ten Thousand Dharma Hall naturally showed no mercy and launched their counterattacks.

All who followed Shi Jian and Shi Hao into the Dark Realm were elites. These Strange beings were naturally no match. The Ten Thousand Dharma Hall army advanced like a meat grinder, sweeping everything before them. Blood dyed the entire desolate land red.

The Timelines Converge

Just as Shi Jian and Shi Hao attacked the Dark Realm, in another parallel plane that had been drawn close by their immense power, Ye Fan also led the Heavenly Court army into the Dark Realm…

The situation they faced was similar to what Shi Jian and the others encountered: there were Strange Clan members present, but there were no true strong ones among them.

“Human pets, all follow this Emperor!” Ye Fan was stationed at the rear, while Black Emperor (The dog), stepping on the ‘Movement’ secret technique, acted like a person, leading the Heavenly Court army at the very front.

He was shouting provocatively, embracing his role as a supreme demonic dog. Other great demons, once their strength reached a certain level, would transform into human form, but this dead dog was different. It was determined to collect human pets, so it absolutely refused to transform.

“What’s your status, blocking this Daoist’s way…” Duan De (The Tomb Robber), grumbling loudly, pushed past the people in front, also charging at the very front of Ye Fan’s forces.

They also steadily advanced through the darkness.

The three timelines—Shi Hao’s original, Ye Fan’s original, and Shi Jian’s integrated one—had finally converged. Destiny would eventually return to its original, singular direction.

So, after Shi Jian and Shi Hao launched their full assault, Ye Fan also launched his full assault.

Then someone would inevitably ask: Streamer, Streamer. Three timelines converge. What about the remaining one?

It’s there, little brother, it’s there! The war correspondent (Chu Tiandi) was already ready.

Now it was just an appetizer, not yet worthy of his personal record. When the real great battle began, the war correspondent would definitely not be absent from the scene.

…

Both sides pushed forward, directly entering the Strange Clan’s heartland, which was near the Strange Highland.

The Strange Highland possessed a profound conceptual uniqueness. Now that everyone had arrived here, the timelines converged, and the two forces collided at the very first moment.

Both sides were immensely imposing, and the moment they met, they were wary of each other.

But very quickly, both sides recognized each other’s ultimate power and the familiar faces.

“Shi Hao? It really is you, kid! How did you become so strong, you little monster!” The first to speak was Black Emperor.

Given this dog’s outrageous personality, it was clear he had provoked Shi Hao quite a bit in the past. If he hadn’t knelt fast enough, he would probably have been stewed into a big dog meat soup by Shi Hao long ago.

“Black Emperor? You’ve become an Immortal King! Stewing you into dog meat soup would definitely be more nourishing now!” Shi Hao also recognized them; many people on the other side were familiar to him.

When he achieved Immortal Ascension, the “Shrouding the Heavens” instance he experienced was another timeline derived from his world. This could be considered profound fate.

He rose in the Shrouding the Heavens world, eventually breaking the Dao and transforming into an Immortal, then leaving the instance world and returning to Perfection.

Now, the timelines converged, and he met these people again.

Black Emperor felt a chill of fear hearing Shi Hao say that. Back then, he was ignorant and arrogant, trying to take Shi Hao as a human pet. Then he was almost stewed.

This one really meant it when he said ‘stew’. Back then, as he rose, Shi Hao was incredibly fierce, stewing countless Vicious Beasts and birds.

He disappeared after becoming an Immortal. Everyone searched for his whereabouts for a long time. Finally, they found some fragmented ancient records.

After multiple verifications, they came to a conclusion that wasn’t quite a conclusion: Shi Hao was the legendary Arrogant Heaven Emperor.

However, everyone wasn’t sure. That Arrogant Heaven Emperor had a dark past, rising fiercely and eating everything along the way.

It was rumored that almost all non-humanoid beings were eaten by him. This was exactly like Shi Hao.

And some other details also matched, but some core things didn’t match. According to the information they found, that Arrogant Heaven Emperor had a brother, but there was animosity between them. Shi Hao also had a brother (Shi Jian), but he highly praised his brother, utterly unlike the dark lore.

That’s why their conclusion wasn’t quite a conclusion. However, after receiving a critical reminder from Hua Fen Di in Soul River and finally meeting now…

The “Shrouding the Heavens” group finally dared to confirm. Shi Hao was the legendary Arrogant Heaven Emperor who had once risen in their world.

“Brother Hao, long time no see!” Ye Fan was very excited after confirming that this person was the Shi Hao he knew.

“Little Fanfan, long time no see…” Shi Hao responded with a genuine, heartfelt smile.

When he and Ye Fan first met, Ye Fan had just come out of the Ancient Forbidden Land, eaten a spiritual fruit, his body transformed, and he became a child. By chance, he was “adopted” by Shi Hao and protected.

An Immortal Emperor being called that by someone in front of his subordinates—Ye Fan didn’t feel the slightest embarrassment. Instead, he was a little excited.

During his experiences before becoming an Immortal, Shi Hao had too profound an impact on him. He had just entered the cultivation world and met Shi Hao, this “big brother,” who provided resources, Cultivation Techniques, guidance, and backing. Who wouldn’t be deeply affected by that?

Shi Hao’s significance to Ye Fan was like Shi Jian’s significance to Shi Hao—he was everything at the beginning of his Cultivation.

After everyone became Immortal and entered the Immortal Realm, Shi Hao disappeared. Ye Fan once desperately searched for him for a period, missing his strong, guiding presence.

Later, whenever he was badly beaten by the Strange Clan, Ye Fan missed Shi Hao terribly. Because of Shi Hao’s protection, Ye Fan’s early path to rise was a little smoother than his original fate.

However, as smooth as it was in the beginning, it was as tragic later on.

In the original novel, Ye Fan endured many hardships before becoming an Immortal. When he entered the Immortal Realm, he was already qualified to be called Ye Tiandi—the true Ye Tiandi, who walked upon the heavens through the baptism of blood and water.

Even that version of Ye Tiandi, after encountering the Strange Clan, was beaten so badly he cried out. Not to mention this Ye Tiandi, who was initially carried by Shi Hao.

When this Ye Fan entered the Immortal Realm, he couldn’t really be called Ye Tiandi yet. He was initially spoiled by Shi Hao.

His Battle Intent had risen, but his Heart-Nature hadn’t been fully tempered.

But, after enduring much more brutal beatings from the Strange Clan than in the original novel, this current Ye Fan had also become the true, hardened Ye Tiandi!

He should have originally emerged from the greatest dark turmoil in history. After leveling up, he would then face the Strange Clan’s outpost… Growing up along the way.

However, due to Shi Hao’s intervention, he had taken it easy in the early stages. The dark turmoil was easily overcome.

But he suffered even more brutal beatings from the Strange Clan. Who understands the feeling of powerlessness when encountering a big boss right after leaving the Novice Village?

Who understands the feeling of powerlessness when you’ve been ‘lying down’ your whole life and suddenly have to step up and be the main damage dealer?

Rising amidst hardships, Ye Fan also experienced countless bloody battles and death struggles. His will—was it any weaker than Shi Hao’s? No.

Now, both of them felt the terrifying Aura of the Strange Ancestor’s revival. They did not fear. Instead, their Battle Intent boiled with intense anticipation.

“It would be complete with a ‘Chu’ surname…”

“A meeting of the Three Great Heaven Emperors!” Shi Jian watched the two, Arrogant and Ye, reminisce with great interest.

Don’t tell me, don’t tell me. These two really did look a bit alike—a very strange feeling. Their facial features were different, but they just looked very similar. Their temperaments were clearly different, but they just looked similar.

An unreasonable, predestined resemblance—the power of the Red-Haired Monster (the true core of the dark turmoil).

“This is the brother I once mentioned to you—Shi Jian!”

“Brother, this is the younger brother I took in ‘Shrouding the Heavens’—Ye Fan!” Shi Hao introduced them to each other.

“Ye Fan, I know you… you are indeed not bad!” Shi Jian nodded, expressing his affirmation to Ye Fan.

Ye Fan also looked at him curiously. He couldn’t see through him, couldn’t see through him at all. Was this the origin of all variables?

Just as he was about to speak, his brows suddenly twitched with immense focus. Shi Jian also narrowed his eyes: “It seems reminiscing will have to wait for now… the truly troublesome things have finally arrived!”

The few of them simultaneously looked in the direction of the Strange Highland. They could clearly feel an extremely terrifying Aura awakening there—the ultimate darkness.

Not just them. The people of the Ten Thousand Dharma Hall and the Heavenly Court also felt this Aura. It was a primordial fear that came from the depths of the Soul—a fear that came from the very level of life itself.

“Have the Strange Ancestors finally appeared?” Shi Hao’s body trembled slightly. This was a kind of longing—a longing to fight the strongest opponents in the cosmos.

Ye Fan was the same. The experiences of the two great Heaven Emperors differed from the original novel, but they were only stronger than in the original.

Shi Jian’s Battle Intent also boiled over. When he first Transmigrated, all he wanted was to ‘lie down’. In the early stages, he gave Shi Hao some small favors and protected him.

Later, he planned to let the Arrogant Heaven Emperor protect him in return. As a result, a Chat Group appeared, and it directly sent him soaring to the peak.

Ye, Arrogant, and Chu all appeared. Yet, he was still the main damage dealer. Cheating was indeed exhilarating.

…

Above the Strange Highland, countless mists swirled, and the sky was dark. Death and silence were eternal here.

An ominous Aura permeated the air. A terrifying Strange power enveloped this place. This was the Strange Highland—the ancestral land of all Strange beings!

Now, above the Strange Highland, chilling, ancient syllables resounded—the sound of an ancient deity awakening.

In the deepest part of that Disaster Earth, a terrifying Aura was awakening—the final confrontation was about to begin.