Sacrificing Themselves to Defy Heaven

"The true final battle begins now!"

Dugu Baitian gazed at the Heavenly Dao, now completely sealed within the Origin World. Every trace of emotion faded from his eyes, leaving only profound gravity.

Before this, the odds of all living beings defeating the Heavenly Dao had been no better than one in a hundred, perhaps even one in a thousand.

But now, the Heavenly Dao had been forcibly dragged into Chen Nan's Origin World, its fundamental connection to the myriad worlds severed. Without the power of heaven and earth behind it, their chance of victory had finally risen from a faint hope to roughly one in ten.

The odds were still poor, but in such desperate straits, even that hard-won chance was a way forward.

The Demon Lord stood in the void, his fighting spirit blazing as he fixed his gaze on the Heavenly Dao ahead.

Chen Zhan's deep shout rang across the battlefield: "Hold nothing back! Pour out every last bit of your power and settle this battle once and for all!"

The Demon Lord, Dugu Baitian, and the Ghost Lord nodded with him. Their voices shook the sky: "Recall our soul fragments! Make our souls whole!"

Three fragments of their souls, hidden away for countless ages, emerged from each of their four mighty bodies. The fragments intertwined, merged, and returned.

This was the forbidden soul-nurturing art Dugu Baitian and Chen Zhan had devised in the Gods and Devils Cemetery. By nurturing one another's divided souls and blending their soul fragments, they had tempered their power layer by layer and strengthened the foundations of their souls.

The instant every fragment returned, the four men's auras surged. Their strength climbed, broke through its limits, and finally settled firmly at the Defying Heaven King Tier.

By the standards of the Primordial Wilderness,