Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Holding the Tai'a Sword in his hand, Lu Jun slashed forward.
The "King" sigil blazed across the River of Space-Time, carrying supreme killing intent as it cut through layer after layer of mist before descending upon the Antarctic Emperor.
Boom!
In a single instant, a glacier that had endured for ten thousand years shattered apart. The Elemental Deity was split into countless fragments.
The White Tiger King's Mark Immortal Metal possessed extraordinary properties. From the moment it was born, it stood above all metals as the sovereign of every metal. The special characteristics of the previous four divine metals were elevated to an entirely new level. Besides its ability to command all metals, its greatest power lay in the King's Mark itself.
It could mark an individual and evolve a set of laws specifically designed to counter that target.
During battle, Lu Jun could capture his opponent's aura. Once the Tai'a Sword memorized it, every attack unleashed against the Antarctic Emperor would receive several times its normal power. Among beings of the same realm, it could practically be considered the greatest weapon of slaughter.
Its only flaw was that the White Tiger King's Mark Metal could maintain only a single specialized countering rule at any given time.
Even so, the Tai'a Sword deserved to be called the greatest divine weapon of slaughter beneath the heavens.
To begin with, Lu Jun was already several times stronger than any one of the Three Roof Emperors individually. Combined with the Tai'a Sword's terrifying might, killing the Antarctic Emperor with a single strike was hardly an exaggeration.
Unfortunately, Roof Emperors were not so easy to kill.
Every one of them possessed their own method of resurrection.
Crack! Crack!
The countless crystalline ice fragments scattered throughout the River of Space-Time suddenly trembled. Resonating intensely with one another, they rapidly fused back together, reconstructing the complete glacier mountain that embodied the Antarctic Emperor.
Lu Jun remained expressionless.
The powers of Life and Death surged around him as he keenly sensed an almost imperceptible trace of decline lingering within the Antarctic Emperor.
That weakening had been infused into his killing strike through the Authority of Life and Death. Even a Roof Emperor could not completely negate it.
Its effects might not be obvious in the short term, but over a prolonged battle, every resurrection would consume another portion of the Emperor's Origin.
Sooner or later, it would inevitably perish.
The Authority of Life and Death was the perfect counter against enemies who wielded the power of immortality.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Deep within the River of Space-Time, the battle raged without end.
Catastrophic tides of destruction swept across the river as Lu Jun split into three incarnations, completely overwhelming the Three Roof Emperors.
Several times, he blasted them apart entirely.
Yet each time, the Sahara Emperor, the Antarctic Emperor, and the Ocean Emperor resurrected once more through their respective methods.
Lu Jun deeply understood just how troublesome the Three Roof Emperors truly were.
Even ordinary Emperors such as Khufu possessed astonishing vitality, let alone beings standing at the Roof Emperor level.
He abandoned the idea of ending the battle quickly.
His true body immediately retreated, disappearing into the endless layers of temporal mist.
Before the Three Roof Emperors could reach him, only his Future Self and Past Self stepped forward to meet them head-on.
Three against two.
Yet the ones at a disadvantage were still the Three Roof Emperors.
They remained completely tied down.
Elsewhere, Lu Jun swiftly sat cross-legged at the source of the River of Space-Time, refining the Space-Time Divine Eye at astonishing speed.
His aura continued rising.
It was not that he was becoming even more supreme.
Rather, an increasingly ethereal, transcendent presence surrounded him, as though he were preparing to step beyond existence itself.
Closing his eyes, Lu Jun silently sensed the transformation of both his physique and spiritual power.
His divine soul wandered through the Great Void, its perception extending endlessly outward.
It established connections with one dimensional realm after another, one world after another, while his Authorities permeated every corner of the countless universes.
Boom!
No one knew how much time had passed before the duration of both his Future Self and Past Self finally came to an end.
With their opponents gone, the Three Roof Emperors immediately charged toward the source of the River of Space-Time, determined to stop Lu Jun's ascension.
The Antarctic Emperor and the others could no longer remain calm.
Their emotions fluctuated violently, filled with deep fear and anxiety.
If Lu Jun successfully advanced, their fate would almost certainly be death.
Although everything that had happened seemed to take a long time, the unique environment of the River of Space-Time had distorted the flow of time.
In reality, only a little more than ten seconds had passed.
Seeing the endless waves of extreme cold, blazing heat, and boundless ocean rushing toward him, Lu Jun could only sigh helplessly.
He rose to his feet and fled in another direction while continuously unleashing one spell after another to hold back the Three Roof Emperors.
During the cooldown period of his Forbidden Curse: River of Space-Time, this was the most difficult phase for him.
Time and time again, overwhelming calamities descended upon him.
His body was shattered, only to be reconstructed again and again.
Fortunately, Lu Jun had cultivated both his Undying Blood and Undying Skeleton to the pinnacle.
With a single drop of blood, he could be reborn.
His existence remained eternally fixed.
Each resurrection made his aura even stronger than before.
This was destined to become a prolonged war of unprecedented scale.
Boom!!
In the end, Lu Jun endured the pressure exerted by the three Roof Emperors and completely refined the Space-Time Divine Eye, transcending the realm of the Roof Emperor and ascending into an indescribable state of existence.
Behind him, the nine Divine Thrones manifested one after another.
Each Divine Thrones presided over a magnificent world of its own, and within every vibrant realm stood nine divine palaces and temples arranged in the pattern of the center and the eight directions. Eighty-one divine temples chanted hymns in unison, their sacred voices echoing throughout the entire multiverse.
In that single instant, the Plane Authority Seal jointly established by the three Roof Emperors shattered.
The Antarctic Roof Emperor, the Sahara Roof Emperor, and the Ocean Emperor were all blasted backward.
Nine-colored divine radiance soared from Lu Jun's body into the heavens. The Magic Plane, the Summoning Plane, the Dark Plane, and even countless more distant planes trembled violently as they were bathed in his divine glory. Every plane resonated together, celebrating the birth of a Supreme True God within this multiverse. (According to the original side stories, the Versatile Mage setting is indeed a multiverse.)
Boom!
Even the entire River of Space-Time seemed incapable of bearing Lu Jun's overwhelming divine might.
With a deafening roar, it shattered inch by inch.
Lu Jun and the three Roof Emperors were expelled from the inner layer of the plane and returned to the Material World.
The apocalyptic devastation that had ravaged the Four Oceans and Seven Continents had not yet been resolved. The world was scarred beyond recognition, lying in complete ruin.
And then, the three Roof Emperors appeared once more.
Standing proudly above the heavens, Lu Jun overlooked the raging Four Oceans and the lands of the Seven Continents without the slightest trace of fear.
His Samsara Dual Pupils emerged.
Behind him, the Nine Cosmic Universes abruptly merged into one, transforming into boundless chaos. Within that chaos, an entirely new world was born, dividing itself into six distinct regions.
Endless streams of the power of time descended as the order of chaos continuously shifted and reversed.
Composite Divine Endowment - Six Paths of Reincarnation!
Lu Jun had actually created an entirely new world plane by himself.
Although it was only in its earliest form, it was already unimaginably terrifying.
The Six Paths of Reincarnation represented the culmination of every power he possessed.
The Six Paths embodied Curse, Psychic, Death, Summoning, and the other supreme authorities, while Reincarnation itself represented the combined supremacy of the Space and Chaos Elements.
The Hell Path was formed from Curse Magic.
The Hungry Ghost Path was formed from Death Magic.
The Beast Path was formed from Summoning Magic.
He made his move.
Within the Six Paths of Reincarnation, chaos evolved into six colossal black holes that intertwined and rotated together before descending to suppress everything beneath them.
The three Roof Emperors were instantly swallowed inside.
Boom!!
The six chaotic black holes resembled six colossal millstones, continuously revolving as they crushed the three Roof Emperors.
The Antarctic, Sahara, and Bermuda Ocean Roof Emperors shattered upon contact.
Each time they were pulverized by the six black-hole worlds and regenerated once more, their auras weakened further, while the interval between each resurrection grew noticeably longer.
Despair appeared across their faces.
Rage and unwillingness filled their hearts.
The Antarctic Glacier trembled violently.
The Sahara Desert churned endlessly.
The Bermuda Ocean boiled with fury.
It was as though they intended to perish together with their enemy.
But in the very next moment, countless strands of nine-colored divine brilliance descended from Lu Jun, suppressing the entire world.
Looking down upon the three of them, he said coldly.
"You overestimate yourselves."
Immediately afterward, the Antarctic Emperor's body of eternal glacier exploded apart.
The Sahara Emperor's chaotic elemental core completely dispersed.
The Bermuda Ocean Emperor's boundless ocean split into countless fragments.
Their broken bodies could no longer resist the irresistible pull of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
One after another, they were drawn into it.
Lu Jun sensed that three supreme existences had now been added to the Six Paths of Reincarnation behind him and finally let out a sigh of relief.
Before he even had time to organize his thoughts, however, a crystalline azure pearl suddenly flew out from the void and drifted directly toward him.
The final pearl of the Three Ocean Pearls that he had searched for so long, the Ocean-Covering Pearl had finally returned.
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