Demonic beasts and Chaos Beasts alike are known for their physical prowess.
"Roar."
The Chaos Beast attacked.
Its mountain-like body, bearing torrential power, descended.
Boom.
Chaos collapsed.
Everything before their eyes was disintegrating.
Only Chen Fan remained motionless.
The swirling winds and changing clouds around him could not shake that mountain-like figure.
"Hiss."
The River of Life and Death flowed.
The power of life and death coursed through heaven and earth, striking the Chaos Beast's mountain-like body.
Vitality was severed.
Death energy, meanwhile, relentlessly eroded the Chaos Beast's flesh.
"Emperor of Life and Death?" the Chaos Beast cried in horror.
In an instant, the Chaos Beast's body shrank by a whole segment.
The death energy, invading its flesh, its vital essence and laws, everything was crumbling.
"Heh heh."
Chen Fan wore a faint smile.
Only realizing it now?
It's too late.
Didn't you look down on the Second Tier Emperors of the Human Race?
And now?
"Kill."
The laws of life and death transformed into two sky-shattering long swords.
One for life, one for death.
Puff.
The two long swords, plunging into the Chaos Beast's body, relentlessly annihilated all energy and essence within.
"No..."
The Chaos Beast roared.
Its Chaos laws, under the invasion of the power of life and death, were actually collapsing.
"Open for me!"
The Chaos Beast panicked.
With a roar, a world-shattering wave spread outwards.
The wave was the power of rules.
With a deafening boom, chaos collapsed, and the life and death swords within its body shattered inch by inch.
"Swish."
The colossal Chaos Beast turned and fled.
The might of an Emperor of Life and Death struck it with terror.
Under normal circumstances, Emperors who mastered the dual great laws could fight across a whole realm.
The physical body that the Chaos Beast prided itself on offered no resistance whatsoever before the swords of life and death.
"Trying to leave now?"
Chen Fan smiled faintly, "Too late."
Indeed, it was too late.
Having initiated the attack, did it expect to escape without consequences? That was unacceptable...
Therefore...
"Kill."
Life and death spread, tearing through chaos.
Speed reached its absolute peak.
A vast river appeared, accompanied by endless roaring sounds, engulfing the Chaos Beast.
The mountain-like form continuously collapsed.
The invasion of life and death energy made the Chaos Beast feel the chill of death.
"No, spare me..."
The Chaos Beast was terrified, filled with boundless dread.
The power of rules, under the erosion of the River of Life and Death, kept collapsing.
"The Millstone of Life and Death."
The River of Life and Death transformed into a millstone.
Life above, death below.
Creak.
The millstone turned, grinding life and death.
"No."
The Chaos Beast despaired.
It was going to die.
The Millstone of Life and Death ground its flesh to dust, grinding its rules to pieces.
"Spare me."
The Chaos Beast was truly afraid.
Death was too terrifying.
It had lived for countless eons in chaos.
The longer it lived, the more it feared death.
"Bang bang bang."
Its flesh continuously shattered.
Blood splattered, flowing down ceaselessly.
It was like a mountain collapsing.
"Spare me, Emperor of Life and Death, I was wrong..."
Heh heh.
Spare you?
Was that possible?
You attacked me first, and now you want me to spare you?
"If I were weak, would I not have become your meal by now?" Chen Fan retorted.
"..." The Chaos Beast.
Was that so?
Yes.
If Chen Fan were not an Emperor of Life and Death, he would have already become the Chaos Beast's meal.
Not only that, if possible, it wouldn't even spare the Immortal Realm, but directly devour it to replenish its Imperial Palace.
The world was within its body.
As the Chaos Beast remained silent, Chen Fan spoke again, "Therefore, you can go and die..."
"No, spare me, I am willing to submit."
"Not needed."
Boom!
The mountain-like body instantly collapsed.
The fragmented flesh was constantly refined by the River of Life and Death, turning into rule essence, and devoured by the forces of life and death.
Not only that...
Bang.
A thunderous roar echoed.
A colossal Imperial Palace appeared. After the Chaos Beast's body collapsed, the Imperial Palace hidden within its body revealed itself.
The Chaos Beast was not yet dead, so the Imperial Palace had not completely disintegrated.
But it was close.
"Ah..."
The Chaos Beast shrieked.
Its Dao had collapsed.
And with it, the Imperial Palace.
Rumble.
The collapse of the Imperial Palace caused a storm even greater than that of the Chaos Beast's physical body.
The Imperial Palace, appearing only a thousand meters across, seemed to stir the entire chaos during its disintegration.
The Imperial Palace was infinitely vast.
Innumerable beings within perished along with its collapse.
Chen Fan's expression was icy. He could feel the demise of the beings within the Imperial Palace, and even see it.
But he did nothing.
He simply stood there, quietly watching the collapsing world.
"Come."
The River of Life and Death surged, instantly plundering all the essence from the shattered world.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Chen Fan's expression shifted.
From the broken Imperial Palace, a trace of the aura of Great Annihilation appeared.
The fragmentation of the Mad Realm that day had revealed two wisps of the aura of Great Annihilation.
Who would have thought that the collapse of the Chaos Beast's Imperial Palace would also manifest a trace of the aura of Great Annihilation?
The River of Life and Death swept through, instantly plundering the aura of Great Annihilation, which fell into Chen Fan's hands.
"Hmm?"
As the aura of Great Annihilation entered his grasp, Chen Fan's eyes lit up, "This is... the power of death?"
Was this aura of Great Annihilation the limit of death?
The aura was similar to the death dao within the River of Life and Death, but it was more profound, as if representing the very end of death.
"Good stuff."
Without hesitation, he poured this trace of Great Annihilation's aura into his dao of death.
In an instant...
"Boom."
The dao of death instantly expanded, directly suppressing the power of life.
The balance of life and death was about to be broken.
"Not good, come back."
He quickly pulled the aura of Great Annihilation out.
Cold sweat beaded on his forehead.
"That was close."
The balanced dao of life and death had nearly collapsed, "I was careless."
It seemed that balance was necessary.
This trace of Great Annihilation's aura was too potent, requiring an equally powerful force of life to counter it.
"Buzz."
At this moment, all the essence from the Chaos Beast's shattered Imperial Palace was plundered by the River of Life and Death.
A Second Tier Emperor Chaos Beast had died just like that.
The disturbance was significant, but there were too few beings in the chaos for anyone to notice.
Chaos hid many Imperial Palaces.
Perhaps a stone, or a strand of hair, could be an Imperial Palace, though... they were incredibly difficult to discover.
His gaze swept around, and within sight, there were no traces of any life forms.
As for Imperial Palaces...
Were there other Imperial Palaces around the Immortal Realm?
Perhaps, perhaps not.
"Who knows?"
Shaking his head slightly, Chen Fan looked towards the Immortal Realm. The Immortal Realm was not a mere stone, but a large stone sphere, its aura contained, making it equally difficult to detect.
"Continue cultivating."
He sank back into his cultivation state.
Drawing again from the power of life and death within chaos.
Returning now would be pointless; he had no intention of going back until he reached the Third Tier.
"Buzz."
Chaos was once again drawn in.
...
While Chen Fan cultivated, in his Imperial Palace of Life and Death.
Rumble.
It was truly chaotic.
The entire essence of a Second Tier Emperor's world was being fed back to the Imperial Palace of Life and Death.