The Delusion Heart Colossus emitted a will filled with unwillingness yet boundless terror. He was the first to tear through the void, dragging his ruined body as he fled toward the rift in the Boundary Sea!
The Nirvana Colossus and Heavenly Halberd Colossus didn’t dare pause for even a moment, burning their last source essence as they followed close behind!
With the hegemons defeated and fleeing, the Darkness army collapsed like a landslide!
Lu Xuan watched the three fleeing colossi but did not pursue.
He slowly withdrew that embryonic Chaos Solar Universe, his face slightly pale.
That single strike had nearly drained him of all power and spirit. He had even borrowed part of his opponents' strength to accomplish this world-shaking feat.
At this moment, he too had reached the end of his rope.
But he still straightened his spine, standing in the void like an immortal monument.
His gaze swept across the collapsing enemy forces, then toward his allies who were covered in wounds yet burned with high fighting spirit. His voice spread across the battlefield:
“The Darkness has retreated; the Other Realm must be exterminated!”
“Everyone, follow me… purge the remaining evil!”
The moment of counterattack had finally, thoroughly arrived!
Under Lu Xuan’s clinching strike, the Ancient Realm Defensive War had welcomed its final turning point!
Just as Lu Xuan used supreme divine might to heavily wound the three great Darkness colossi and secure victory—
At another critical battlefield—where Wu Zhong Immortal King fought alone against Chi Wang and Wu Shang—a decisive turning point had also arrived!
Originally, relying on his superb mastery of the Dao of Spacetime, though fighting one against two, Wu Zhong Immortal King had firmly kept Chi Wang and Wu Shang restrained.
He prevented them from breaking free to support other battlefields, and from causing greater destruction to the Ancient Realm.
Alternating between the two great divine abilities of Spacetime Stagnation and Myriad Transformations Returning to Silence, he caused Chi Wang’s overbearing Darkness source light and Wu Shang’s Nirvana Dao Domain—which was immune to myriad laws—to suffer repeated setbacks.
It was as if they had fallen into an invisible yet resilient spacetime spiderweb.
However, restraint was ultimately just restraint. Wu Zhong Immortal King himself was also enduring immense pressure.
He needed to divert attention to maintain spacetime perception of the entire Ancient Realm battlefield and provide localized support.
He had to remain constantly vigilant of that sealed Primordial Gate. The consumption of his magical power and spirit was immense.
But when Lu Xuan’s world-shaking strike of chaotic world-splitting erupted, and the terrifying scene of the three great Darkness colossi fleeing defeat with blood tears reached them—
Chi Wang and Wu Shang’s minds instantly suffered an unprecedented impact!
“Impossible!!”
Chi Wang let out a roar of shock and fury. He sensed that the auras of those three Darkness colossi—which even made his heart tremble—were rapidly declining and fleeing like candles flickering in the wind.
This completely exceeded the scope of his understanding!
How could that Golden Crow brat possibly be this strong?!
On Wu Shang’s normally imperturbable face, intense ripples appeared for the first time.
His Dao heart, which was immune to myriad laws, now also produced a trace of flaw due to this sudden upheaval!
The level of power Lu Xuan displayed made him feel a true threat!
And right at this optimal moment when these two were shaken in spirit and showed a moment of distraction—
Wu Zhong Immortal King, who had been waiting like the calmest of hunters, moved!
He had been waiting for precisely this moment!
“Spacetime… Severed Flow!”
Brilliant light exploded from Wu Zhong Immortal King’s eyes, his hands suddenly clapping together before his chest!
It was not an attack, but rather forcing the flow of time within the tiny region where Chi Wang and Wu Shang stood to accelerate a thousandfold, ten-thousandfold!
A single instant outside was to them as if countless long years had passed!
This was not simple acceleration, but a severed spacetime flow carrying the power of eroding years!
“Not good!”
Chi Wang and Wu Shang’s expressions changed drastically, instantly feeling their longevity and source essence being frantically consumed!
Their protective divine abilities rapidly dimmed under the accelerated time, their very thoughts seeming to solidify within the endless passage of years!
“Returning to Silence… Boundless!”
Wu Zhong Immortal King’s second divine ability followed immediately!
He activated the true essence of time. Rather than spreading across a wide area, he condensed all the power of returning to silence into two needles of annihilation, refined to the extreme.
Ignoring Chi Wang and Wu Shang’s protective demonic auras and Dao Domains, they directly pierced toward their Great Dao cores!
Under the acceleration of the Severed Spacetime Flow, the speed of these two needles of annihilation surpassed thought itself!
“Pff!”
“Pff!”
Two soft sounds.
The blazing Darkness source light around Chi Wang suddenly dimmed, and the sound of shattering came from his core.
He let out a pained grunt, his aura instantly withering by more than half.
A deep Nirvana Dao wound had already been branded upon his source essence!
And Wu Shang fared even worse!
His Nirvana Dao Domain—famous for being immune to myriad laws—under the dual effects of spacetime acceleration and the needles of annihilation, was actually forcibly drilled open with a minute, nearly undetectable hole!
Nirvana power penetrated within. Although most of it was still neutralized by his Dao Domain’s properties, a trace still eroded into his primal spirit.
For the first time, an expression of pain appeared on his eternally unchanging face, his surrounding aura falling into chaos.
His myriad-law-immune divine ability showed obvious flaws!
“Wu Zhong! You!”
Chi Wang was both shocked and furious. He hadn’t expected Wu Zhong Immortal King had been hiding his strength all along, waiting for this thunderbolt strike!
“The Dao of Spacetime can actually be used like this…”
Wu Shang’s gaze toward Wu Zhong Immortal King was filled with dread.
The opponent’s control over spacetime had already reached a level unfathomable to gods and ghosts!
Wu Zhong Immortal King’s face was slightly pale. Consecutively unleashing two great forbidden arts had taken a tremendous toll on him.
But he still stood tall in the void, his gaze ice-cold as he watched the two wounded Other Realm colossi.
“The Other Realm’s destiny is exhausted. Do you still wish to resist futilely?”
His voice was like a final judgment.
Chi Wang and Wu Shang exchanged glances, both seeing retreat in the other’s eyes.
The Darkness colossi had been defeated and fled, the army had collapsed, and the two of them had suffered Dao wounds. If they continued fighting, they would likely truly perish here!
“Retreat!”
Chi Wang acted decisively, no longer caring about face at all. Burning his remaining source essence, he transformed into a mournful dark blood-light.
He forcibly smashed through the spacetime barrier Wu Zhong Immortal King had set down, fleeing desperately toward the direction of the Other Realm!
Wu Shang also didn’t dare linger, contracting his Nirvana Dao Domain to protect his body, his figure merging into the void and instantly fleeing thousands of li away.
Wu Zhong Immortal King watched the direction in which the two fled but did not pursue.
He deeply understood the principle of not pursuing cornered enemies, and besides, his current condition was not at its peak.
Being able to heavily wound these two great enemies and force them back was already a tremendous victory.
He slowly exhaled a turbid breath, his gaze sweeping across the entire Ancient Realm battlefield.
With the Darkness colossi defeated and fleeing, and the Other Realm colossi having escaped, the remaining Darkness creatures and Other Realm troops had completely lost their will to fight.
Scattering and fleeing like headless flies, they were wantonly hunted down and purged by the Ancient Realm, Immortal Domain, coalition forces, and that Ten Suns Golden Crow Grand Formation that was like a moving heavenly calamity.
The dawn of victory had finally thoroughly illuminated this land that had suffered countless hardships.
Wu Zhong Immortal King’s figure seemed somewhat weary, yet carried a trace of relieved comfort.
He gazed into the distant void at that figure whose aura fluctuated yet still stood like a pillar of the sea—Lu Xuan.
“This battle… I am deeply indebted to you, Fellow Daoist Lu Xuan.”