The ancient battlefield of the Realm Sea was steeped in killing intent.
Powerhouses from both sides faced off across the void, their gazes colliding like tangible things, scattering invisible sparks.
Lu Yan stepped forward. Dark-golden True Solar Fire erupted with a boom, casting him in the image of a flame war god who had walked out from the primordial age.
His gaze was sharp as a hawk’s, locking firmly onto the quasi-Immortal King of the foreign lands clad in deathly pale bone armor.
The opponent’s aura, heavy and solid as a mountain, made the Flames of Destruction within him instinctively stir with excitement and challenge.
“Golden Crow Clan, Lu Yan!”
His voice rang like thunder as he declared his name, battle intent surging straight into the heavens.
The bone-armored quasi-king slowly raised his head. Within his eye sockets burned two leaping wisps of幽蓝 soul fire, and his voice was dry and hoarse, like bones grinding together.
“Court of Bones, Talon.”
His words were terse. With a grasp of his massive bone claw, a savage bone hammer, polished from the spine of some unknown colossal beast, appeared in his hand. Corrosive dark baleful qi coiled around its head.
There were no further words. The battle erupted in an instant!
Lu Yan struck first. Knowing full well that his opponent’s defenses were astonishing, he sought to end the fight quickly.
His figure transformed into a dark-golden bolt of lightning that tore through space, and he threw out a punch!
At the edge of his fist, dark-golden flames were compressed to the utmost. They were no longer blazing light, but carried the will of destruction that could burn all things to nothing and shatter the laws themselves.
It was the qualitative transformation his True Solar Fire had undergone after he had first severed his Evil Corpse—the Great Sun Annihilation Fist!
Where the fist wind passed, space was not melted away, but directly annihilated, forming a straight black channel of nothingness that shot toward Talon’s chest!
The soul fire in Talon’s eye sockets leaped violently. He sensed the terrifying destructive power contained in that punch.
Not daring to be careless, he gave a low roar. The bone armor around him burst forth with deathly pale light, and countless phantom resentful souls howled within it, forming the illusion of a massive skeletal shield in front of him.
At the same time, he swung his bone hammer, drawing upon the boundless death qi and baleful qi deposited in the Realm Sea. They turned into a roaring Nether River bone dragon that smashed toward Lu Yan from the flank!
“Boom—!!!”
The annihilating force of the fist slammed viciously into the skeletal shield!
The shield’s phantom, powerful enough to withstand a strike from an ordinary Immortal King, actually hissed sharply like ice and snow thrown into the blazing sun. In an instant, more than half of it was corroded and dissolved!
Dark-golden Flames of Destruction clung to the shield, burning madly, trying to incinerate it completely!
At the same time, the Nether River bone dragon had already pounced upon him.
Lu Yan did not even glance at it. He struck out with a backhanded palm, as though a miniature black sun of destruction rested in his palm, colliding head-on with the bone dragon!
“Bang!”
An energy storm exploded. The Nether River bone dragon let out a soundless wail, breaking apart inch by inch from head to tail before turning back into death qi and baleful qi and dissipating.
Lu Yan’s figure merely swayed slightly before becoming steady as Mount Tai once more.
In their first exchange, Lu Yan had clearly gained the upper hand!
His destructive flames seemed to have an extremely strong suppressive effect against Talon’s laws of death!
Atop the Imperial City, the spirits of the Immortal Realm cultivators rose.
Approval appeared in King Pan’s eyes. “Young friend Lu Yan’s flame has already transcended simple True Solar Fire. It contains a trace of true destructive origin. Its power is astonishing!”
In the foreign lands’ camp, the Red King gave a cold snort, but said nothing more.
Wushang’s gaze remained calm, as if he had expected this all along.
On the battlefield, Talon had suffered a small loss. His soul fire flickered; he was clearly truly enraged.
He suddenly planted the bone hammer in his hand into the void, formed seals with both hands, and began chanting an ancient and obscure incantation.
“Myriad Bones Nether Domain, open!”
Rumble!
With him as the center, deathly pale light rapidly spread, instantly enveloping a vast portion of the ancient battlefield!
Within the light, the scene changed drastically. It was no longer the emptiness of the Realm Sea, but a boundless world of bones!
Beneath their feet lay a land paved with countless white bones. Overhead hung twisted clouds of resentful souls. The air was permeated with suffocating laws of death and decay.
This was his domain! Within this domain, his defensive power, recovery ability, and control over the laws of death would all be greatly enhanced!
“In my Nether Domain, your flames will eventually be extinguished!”
Talon’s voice echoed throughout the entire bone realm. With a sweep of his massive bone claw, countless skeletons on the ground soared into the sky.
They transformed into white-bone battle spears wreathed in curses and death qi, pouring down toward Lu Yan like a torrential storm!
Every battle spear contained terrifying power capable of piercing stars and defiling an immortal body!
Standing within the Nether Domain, Lu Yan immediately felt his body grow heavy, as though countless invisible shackles had been placed upon him. Even the burning of his dark-golden flames became somewhat sluggish.
He gave a cold snort. “A mere ghostly domain dares obstruct the path of my Golden Crow?”
He held nothing back. Behind him, the illusory form of the Evil Corpse he had initially separated flickered in and out of view, bringing with it an even purer, more extreme will of destruction!
“Golden Crow Heaven-Rending Wings!”
Behind him, a pair of massive wings completely condensed from dark-golden Flames of Destruction suddenly unfurled!
At the edges of the wings, space was easily torn apart like cloth!
With a beat of his wings, his figure instantly blurred, transforming into countless dazzling dark-golden afterimages.
He shuttled through the dense rain of bone spears. Those battle spears containing deathly curses were actually unable to lock onto his true body!
On the rare occasion that a battle spear struck an afterimage, it was directly vaporized by the destructive flames coiling around the dark-golden wings!
“Found you!”
A fierce glint flashed in Lu Yan’s eyes. His true body abruptly appeared above Talon’s head, and his wings folded together.
Like two heaven-slaying blades, they carried a will that could tear through everything and slashed down mercilessly!
Great Sun Judgment Art!
This was a divine ability that combined the Flames of Destruction with extreme speed. Its power surpassed even the Annihilation Fist!
Talon sensed a fatal threat. With a furious roar, he fused the bone hammer with his own bone armor.
His entire body seemed to transform into an immortal bone shield engraved with countless faces of agony. On the surface of the shield,幽蓝 soul fire burned to its utmost as he forcefully withstood this judgment strike!
“Clang—!!!!!”
It was like the ringing of a great bell, and like the thunderous sound of stars collapsing!
A terrifying shockwave spread outward in a ring, instantly clearing away massive quantities of bones within the Nether Domain!
The dark-golden wings and the immortal bone shield pressed firmly against one another. The Flames of Destruction and the deathly soul fire frantically corroded and annihilated each other!
Talon’s enormous skeletal body trembled violently. Fine cracks began to appear on the shield, and the soul fire dimmed somewhat.
He was horrified. The opponent’s strength, and the destructiveness of his flames, far exceeded his expectations!
Lu Yan pressed his advantage without mercy. The Evil Corpse phantom behind him roared, and even more destructive power poured into his wings. The dark-golden flames surged once more, attempting to burn this bone shield and Talon behind it completely to ashes in one stroke!
Just as Talon was about to be unable to hold on…
At the very instant Talon’s immortal bone shield was about to shatter, the two clusters of幽蓝 soul fire in his eye sockets suddenly erupted with a resolute light!
“With my bones, I sacrifice to the Nether Antiquity! I beseech the ancestor’s power—defile the sacred flame!”
He actually shattered several core pieces of bone armor on his chest outright!
Those bone fragments did not scatter. Instead, they transformed into the purest dark death qi and merged into the shield before him.
The anguished faces on the shield abruptly became vivid, letting out shrill, piercing howls.
An even more ancient dark power awakened from deep within the shield!
This power carried a trace of… the origin aura of an Immortal King!
Clearly, it was a life-saving trump card bestowed by some ancient progenitor of the foreign lands!