Evan Chu was stunned—the outcome left him shaken!
Holden Hong is dead? Just like that—so easily, so completely, wiped out without a single trace left behind?
Looking at the Seven-Star Golden Tower he’d summoned from his Chaos World, even Evan Chu himself felt a chill run down his spine. Too terrifying!
Why? Evan Chu could clearly sense that the Seven-Star Golden Tower itself didn’t possess any attack power at all—it was just a cultivation aid.
So why, when he saw Holden Hong unleash those bizarre methods, did he instinctively summon the Seven-Star Golden Tower?
In fact, if not for that final clash, Holden Hong could have fought Evan Chu for thousands more rounds. Even Holden himself never expected that revealing his greatest trump card would only hasten his own destruction!
That kind of pseudo-transcendent law, beyond the Heavenly Dao, is mysterious in its own way—but in truth, Holden Hong’s bizarre power was actually very low-tier, especially before the Seven-Star Golden Tower, where it was nothing but an ant.
And when Holden Hong flaunted his ant-like power to show off, the Seven-Star Golden Tower naturally couldn’t tolerate it. How could a king allow a clown to run wild before him? So the tower erupted with power—it simply refused to let such an ant exist and keep acting arrogant.
So rather than saying Evan Chu killed Holden Hong, it’s more accurate to say the Seven-Star Golden Tower killed Holden Hong.
The Blood-Light Domain became a space of death—Holden Hong’s final grave. You have to admit, after fusing the terrifying talents and aptitudes of all eight Frostbane Trial World seeds, he really was a monster!
Honestly, across the entire Five Sacred Lands, no one could produce a foundation stronger than Holden Hong—except Evan Chu. Holden was the only one in the whole Star-River Dominion who ever touched power beyond the constraints of the Heavenly Dao. Even the Ninefold Sacred Emperor back in the day probably never reached this point!
But in the end, just like the East-Star Prefecture Master said, all of Holden Hong’s scheming and effort ended up paving the way for Evan Chu.
Holden Hong could slaughter other Frostbane Trial World seeds and devour their talent and aptitude—so Evan Chu could do the same. With their origins linked, the law power of the Frostbane Base Star-Region protecting him, and the faith of millions of subjects behind him, Evan Chu had already become the one true deity of this entire Star-River Dominion.
After the battle ended, Evan Chu’s Sacred Dragon Emperor body faded away, Lynton Chu returned to the Chaos Trial World, and Evan’s true body fell silent, dropping into a coma.
Of course, it wasn’t because he was badly injured. The moment the battle ended, Evan Chu fell into a strange trance—at that instant, his soul and body stopped belonging to him, refusing his commands. No matter what he wanted to do, he couldn’t move; all he could do was let different forces pull him in every direction.
Two of those forces were very familiar: first, the Ninefold Profound-Meaning Power from the Seven-Star Golden Tower; second, the newly awakened Sacred Dragon Emperor bloodline. The third was completely unfamiliar.
But after a closer look, it felt strangely familiar too. That force wasn’t anyone else’s—it was the power Holden Hong had wielded just before!
In other words, after Holden Hong died, all the talent and aptitude the tower had swallowed—including Holden’s own—rushed straight into Evan Chu’s soul-origin!
Evan Chu realized that, in that moment, the curse of the Five Sacred Lands lost its effect on him!
And that’s not all—Holden Hong’s centuries of accumulated foundation, the tower’s further eruption, and the Sacred Dragon Emperor bloodline’s completion, all three powers converged to produce changes even Evan Chu couldn’t comprehend…