"A Step to the Ends of the Earth"!
His speed surged to the absolute limit at this moment! It was no longer the evasion of anomalous footwork, but transformed into a straight, flowing light carrying an indomitable momentum.
Ignoring several spatial splitting blades attacking from the side, and taking part of the damage head-on, he still forcefully charged toward that stone pillar close at hand!
Rip! Rip!
Two splitting blades instantly tore through his thigh and flank, fresh blood sprayed wildly, and the blinding pain almost caused him to faint!
Yet he clenched his teeth tightly, and with the help of this impact force, his speed actually grew a fraction faster!
Simultaneously, the Guardian's full-strength, fatal strike—one sufficient to instantly gravely injure even a Martial Grandmaster powerhouse—had already transformed into a pitch-black beam of destruction, tearing through space and arriving in an instant, targeting straight for his back!
Fast! Fast! Fast!
Xiao Han's eyes held only that stone pillar, and at the center of the pillar, the critical rune seen within the mural that served as the core of energy circulation!
Right now!
At the critical juncture when the Guardian's beam of destruction was about to touch his back, Xiao Han finally rushed before the stone pillar!
He abruptly twisted his torso, gathering all of his strength, all of his willpower, and all of his hope together onto his right fist!
The Annihilation True Intent of the Annihilation Divine Fist fused once more in a berserk manner with the purest power of the Shadow Dominator of the Eternal Night Monarch! Atop the fist edge, chaotic light shone, emitting a terrifying aura of destruction!
"Break for this daddy...!!!"
A roar echoed through the entire sacrificial hall!
Carrying Xiao Han's complete strength, his right fist struck fiercely without the slightest hesitation against the glowing core rune on the stone pillar!
Boom!!!
A muffled impact sound rang out, as though striking some resilient yet fragile node.
Time seemed to freeze for yet another instant.
Crack... Crackle...
A distinct shattering sound came from inside the stone pillar!
One saw that core rune struck by Xiao Han's fist rapidly dim in light, followed closely by spiderweb-like cracks spreading swiftly to engulf the entire rune!
Hum—!
The entire stone pillar suddenly vibrated violently, as though losing some core support, and the internal energy circulation instantly became completely chaotic!
Almost at the same time, "Hoo-ah—!!!" The Guardian let out an even more shrill and painful screech, its massive shadow body suddenly stiffening, and the berserk energy fluctuations around its body instantly weakened by a fraction as though a punctured balloon!
That beam of destruction about to strike Xiao Han's back also saw its power drastically reduced, its trajectory even shifting slightly!
Effective! Truly effective!
Xiao Han felt wild joy in his heart!
Yet before he could rejoice for even a second, an even more terrifying backlash force erupted violently from the violently vibrating stone pillar and that shattered core rune!
This force was not aimed at the Guardian, but precisely and immutably locked onto the "chief culprit" who destroyed the rune—Xiao Han!
That was a chaotic, berserk, and ruin-filled primordial torrent of energy, akin to the punishment of the entire ruin's array formation against the intruder!
"Holy shit!"
Xiao Han's expression changed drastically. He tried to withdraw and retreat, only to discover himself seemingly firmly attached to the front of the stone pillar by an invisible force, utterly unable to move at all!
Watching as that berserk energy torrent was about to completely swallow him up, while from behind, the Guardian's attack—though reduced in power yet still fatal—followed closely behind!
Wolves before, tigers behind!
Xiao Han fell once again into an unprecedented desperate situation!
"Holy shit!"
Xiao Han's expression changed drastically. The backlash energy torrent surging forth from the stone pillar's shattered rune was berserk and chaotic, carrying a primordial aura of destruction as if it were the punishment of the entire ancient ruin upon being angered, instantly locking onto him firmly.
An invisible force pinned him tightly against the vibrating stone pillar, making it completely impossible to pull away.
Simultaneously, that pitch-black beam of destruction from behind—its power diminished somewhat yet still lethal—also carried the Guardian's final madness and malice, tearing through space and whistling over.
Brutal energy backlash ahead, the Guardian's life-or-death pursuit behind!
A true desperate situation! More thorough and suffocating than any previous time!
Flee? Where could he flee? "A Step to the Ends of the Earth" practically lost its effect under this dual lock and spatial turbulence. Resist head-on? No matter which side's attack it was, given his current state of exhausted oil and withered lamp, the end result would be instantly turning into dust.
Damn it, I overdid it... A trace of bitterness flashed through Xiao Han's mind, immediately replaced by an even stronger fierce tenacity.
A dead end? Then let's see who dies first!
The Guardian's power was weakened due to the destruction of the rune stone pillar; this was a fact! The core crystal on its chest still bore cracks; this was also a fact! That it abandoned all defense at this moment and condensed all its strength into this single strike was likewise a fact!
This meant... it was also at its most vulnerable time now!
He would gamble!
Xiao Han's eyes erupted with a terrifying radiance, a kind of madness born from grasping survival out of certain death!
He abruptly halted the futile attempt to break free from the stone pillar's suction, instead gathering his remaining strength once more in a desperate all-in into his right fist!
He did not strike toward the beam of destruction behind him, nor did he futilely defend against the energy torrent before him!
His target was singular—the black crystal on the Guardian's chest, covered in cracks and flickering with uncertain light!
"Shatter for this daddy...!!!"
A roar hoarse to the extreme shook the entire crumbling sacrificial hall!
Behind him, the phantom shadow of the Chaos Green Lotus flared brilliantly in light, no longer soft green life light, but condensing into a jade-green nearly substantive awl that stabbed fiercely into Xiao Han's back.
The boundless source of life and cleansing power, akin to a breached floodgate, poured forcefully into his body teetering on the verge of collapse! This was an overdraft, a burning!
Before him, the phantom shadow of the Eternal Night Monarch completely merged into his right fist, and the dominance of the Shadow Dominator reached its peak resonance with the ruin space.
The space around his fist edge began to distort and collapse, as though a miniature black hole was generating!
The fragmentary profound truths of the "Annihilation Divine Fist" were driven at this moment to an unprecedented extreme by way of burning his life and soul!
Annihilate! Swallow! Purge!
The three source powers were no longer barely fused as before, but forced under life-and-death pressure into a single strand in a nearly destructive manner!
Atop the fist edge, that chaotic hue grew rich to the extreme, no longer merely light, but transformed into a viscous... chaotic fluid seemingly capable of swallowing everything!
Right now!
Xiao Han punched out fiercely!
There was no earth-shattering momentum, and even the sound of breaking through the air was faint to the extreme.
Yet wherever this fist passed, whether it was the berserk energy torrent from the stone pillar's backlash or the annihilation aura escaping from the edge of the Guardian's incoming beam of destruction, everything dissolved upon contact!
As if encountering their natural nemesis, they were easily disassembled, swallowed, and annihilated by that chaotic fist intent!
The Guardian's smooth facial features surfaced for the first time with an emotional fluctuation resembling "terror"! It seemed to want to deflect the attack, to retreat, to defend!
Yet it was too late!