After exhausting every ounce of his strength, even at the cost of suffering immense backlash, to heavily wound the Shadow Chancellor and kill the Flesh and Blood High Priest and Bone Reaper, Li Wuyang was already in an utterly terrible state. His Dao Embryo shook violently, cracks spreading across it as though it could collapse at any moment. The power conflict caused by forcibly merging Chaos Devouring and Nirvana Annihilation raged within him, and pale golden blood seeped from all seven of his orifices—a sign that his Dao Foundation Origin had been damaged.
Yet, spurred on by Xuan Maiden's sacrifice, his will had become unyielding to the extreme. He clenched his teeth hard, suppressing the metallic sweetness rising in his throat. His bloodshot Chaos eyes, like those of a vicious beast, remained fixed on the array-core star nucleus ahead, covered in spiderweb-like cracks and dimmed in light, yet still stubbornly operating as it attempted to gather the death ray once more.
He could not waste the opportunity Xuan Nü had bought with her life!
"Be completely annihilated!"
Li Wuyang let out a hoarse roar, recklessly driving all his remaining power and even drawing once more upon a strand of Origin Power within the Chaos Origin Core that was on the verge of going berserk. He raised his violently trembling right hand and spread his fingers. Chaos Qi and Nirvana Fire forcibly intertwined once again in his palm. Though extremely unstable, they still condensed into a gray-white blade of light several times smaller, yet more concentrated, radiating an aura of finality—his last attack!
However, just as he prepared to hurl this strike containing all his will and power at the array-core star nucleus—
A sudden change occurred!
The Primordial Stone Coffin below, which had been quietly floating all this time and