Lu Xuan seized the opportunity, his figure flashing like lightning. He thrust out a claw, piercing straight through its skull and crushing the core of its divine soul!
The first dark quasi-Immortal King had fallen!
The second battle: a bloody clash against the “Bone-Eroding Demon Venerable”!
This was a quasi-Immortal King formed from the bones and resentment of countless mighty beings, enlightened by the source of darkness.
Its defense was monstrously abnormal, nearly an undying body, and it could even command armies of white bones and the laws of death.
Lu Xuan fought it in the ruins of an ancient battlefield. The Bone-Eroding Demon Venerable summoned billions upon billions of skeletal troops, forming a great death array. Endless death rays and curse power poured down like a torrential storm.
Its true body hid deep within the sea of bones, constantly reconstituting its shattered form, clinging like a maggot in the bone.
Lu Xuan fell into a bitter battle.
Though his attacks could easily pulverize the skeletal army, and had even blown apart the Bone-Eroding Demon Venerable’s body many times, the other party could always reassemble swiftly, as if its power were inexhaustible.
The laws of death and the curses constantly corroded his War Immortal body. If not for Xi Huang’s source imprint and the Chaos Evolving Yang Scripture protecting him, he would have long since been unable to hold on.
This was a battle of attrition, a contest of endurance and foundation!
Lu Xuan fought until he was nearly mad, his battle intent boiling to the utmost.
He pushed the “Severing the Three Corpses” method to its limit, purifying curses with the Dao rhythm of the good corpse, strengthening his offensive with the will of the evil corpse, and stabilizing his heart with the self corpse to discern the enemy’s core.
At last, after seven days and seven nights of fierce battle, after reducing the entire ancient battlefield ruin to dust, he discovered the Bone-Eroding Demon Venerable’s core—a constantly beating dark bone core hidden within its chest cavity!
It was formed from the purest source of darkness and the undying obsession of an ancient mighty being!
“Found you!”
Ignoring the wounds covering his body, Lu Xuan burned a portion of his War Immortal essence blood, transforming into an incomparably dazzling blood-gold divine radiance.
Like a meteor piercing the sun, he ignored all the obstructing bones and death rays, concentrating all his power at his fingertip.
A Three Corpses Immortal-Slaughtering Finger containing the intent of “Annihilation,” “Judgment,” and “Return to Ruin” stabbed viciously toward that dark bone core!
“Puchi!”
His fingertip was like a red-hot branding iron, striking the bone core with perfect precision!
The Bone-Eroding Demon Venerable let out an earth-shaking roar. Its reconstituting body instantly froze. Cracks spread across the dark bone core, and in the end, with a bang, it shattered completely!
With its core destroyed, the Bone-Eroding Demon Venerable’s massive skeletal body lost its support and collapsed with a crash, turning into countless lifeless dry bones.
The second dark quasi-Immortal King had been executed!
Having slain two quasi-Immortal Kings in succession, Lu Xuan’s battle record shocked the entire border battlefield!
Even the veteran Immortal Kings on the Divine Kingdom’s side looked at him with solemnity and astonishment in their eyes.
For this youth to defy the odds and slay quasi-Immortal Kings with the body of a War Immortal—his potential was simply terrifying!
Lu Xuan’s name was no longer that of a rising star, but of a true seed of a giant, one who could stand alongside veteran powerhouses! There were even rumors that Xi Huang, who presided over the depths of the Divine Kingdom, had cast an even more expectant gaze upon him.
After successive bloody battles, though Lu Xuan was covered in wounds, his War Immortal path had grown ever more stable and condensed.
He could sense that his own power was steadily advancing toward the level of a quasi-Immortal King.
At the same time, after slaying the Bone-Eroding Demon Venerable, from the lingering information within its shattered dark bone core, he caught an extremely vague trace.
And yet, it was a clue that shook his mind and spirit violently—it seemed to point toward some ancient hall deep within the Realm Sea!
At the edge of the Realm Sea, Lu Xuan fought bathed in blood. The might of a War Immortal made dark True Immortals and quasi-Immortal Kings tremble at the mere mention of him.
He continued advancing toward the ancient hall in his perception, the blood-gold baleful aura surrounding him almost condensing into substance. Every step he took trod upon the corpses of countless dark creatures.
However, just as he was about to break through a certain crucial defensive line and vaguely glimpse the indistinct outline of that ancient palace deep within the Realm Sea—
“Buzzz—!!!”
An indescribable, terrifying pressure, as if originating from the end of the universe itself, erupted with a crash from the deepest part of the Realm Sea!
Not one, not ten, but dozens!
Every single pressure far surpassed a quasi-Immortal King, reaching the level of a true Immortal King giant. Several among them had even touched the domain of emperor light, no less formidable than Xi Huang!
Dozens of dark giants manifested at the same time!
Their figures blotted out the firmament above the Realm Sea. Some were vast as nebulae, some strange as shadows, some savage as ancient beasts...
Their forms differed, but all of them emanated the ultimate malice of depravity!
Their cold gazes swept across the battlefield, finally locking onto several of the strongest nodes in Xi Huang Divine Kingdom’s defensive line.
And... thorns like Lu Xuan, who were slaughtering dark creatures in a frenzy!
“The light of an ant dares compete in radiance with eternal darkness?”
A dark giant shaped like a rotting star unleashed a spiritual roar that shook the heavens.
“Blood food... fresh, powerful blood food...”
Another being shrouded in distorted light and shadow let out a greedy murmur.
No warning. No probing.
These dozens of dark giants attacked at the same time!
A rotting giant hand reached out, covering several star regions. Its palm lines were like abyssal ravines, containing the deathly still laws that could bury the heavens, grabbing toward a veteran Immortal King of the Divine Kingdom!
That Immortal King roared in fury, burning his source and manifesting a supreme dharma idol to resist. Yet at the instant of contact, the dharma idol shattered.
The Immortal King’s body became covered in cracks like porcelain, and in the end, amid a despairing roar, he was crushed apart. A rain of blood spilled across the Realm Sea!
A twisted shadow swept past. Wherever it went, spacetime froze and laws lost their effect. Several Divine Kingdom True Immortals who had formed a battle array, along with the stellar fortress they guarded,
were silently reduced to dust, as though they had never existed!
A bone spear wreathed in ominous black flames pierced through the sea of stars, ignoring distance, and directly pinned a Divine Kingdom Immortal King who was locked in fierce combat with a dark quasi-Immortal King to death in the void.
Immortal King blood dyed a vast stretch of the Realm Sea red!
Slaughter!
A one-sided slaughter!
Under the joint crushing force of dozens of dark giants, the defensive line Xi Huang Divine Kingdom had maintained for countless ages was as fragile as paper!
One powerful Immortal King after another fell like meteors, letting out unwilling and sorrowful roars.
Their Dao principles were collapsing. Their radiance was dimming.
As for True Immortal-level cultivators, they were reduced to flying ash in great swaths!
Lu Xuan bore the brunt of it. At least three giant-level waves of malice locked firmly onto him!
That terrifying pressure descended like billions of worlds crushing down, making his newly advanced War Immortal body groan under the burden. His bones felt as if they would split, and his divine soul wavered!
The battle intent he had taken pride in seemed so tiny and laughable before this absolute disparity in power!
He saw a familiar elder of the Golden Crow clan turn into blood mist beneath a dark giant claw. He saw a human Immortal King who had fought shoulder to shoulder with him swallowed by shadow.
He saw countless soldiers of the Divine Kingdom annihilated amid despair...
An unprecedented sense of powerlessness and towering rage intertwined and burned within his heart!
Could it be... that the ending of the Emperor Fall Era truly could not be changed?!
Was this glorious age destined to end in such a tragic manner?!