Lord of Ashes
Chapter 33

Wu Tian's Death

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Destruction Spring's current inclination was still toward the Evil Tide Civilization's side.

However, the Decayed Civilization also seemed to be attempting to sway Destruction Spring.

Enlightenment Prophet and the others still refused to give up, trying to win over Destruction Spring, a creature with extremely radical thoughts.

Yet Destruction Spring did not seem so easy to sway.

Besides, Destruction Spring was no fool. It also knew the current situation on the Dimensional Battlefield.

Joining the Decayed Civilization at a time like this—wasn't that something only a fool would do?

Destruction Spring was no fool, but in this world, fools were the one thing never in short supply.

Even with the Decayed Civilization at an enormous disadvantage, there were still a very small number of Decay Time-Space Dominators on the Dimensional Battlefield who chose to join the Decayed Civilization camp at this critical juncture.

As for what exactly was going through those Dominators' minds—

Even the Evil Tide Civilization found it baffling.

But that did not hinder their continued advance.

The tide of the times could not be defied.

Faced with the Evil Tide Civilization's immense advantage in the Dimensional Hegemony, the addition of a handful of Decay Time-Space Dominators clearly could not shake the final outcome of this Dimensional Hegemony.

Unless another extreme existence like Saine emerged and joined the Decayed Civilization's side.

But clearly, that possibility was vanishingly small.

Existences like Saine were even rarer than Supremes in the Star Realm.

While Saine had been tinkering with his Truth experiments in the laboratory during this period,

the war on the Dimensional Battlefield's front lines had remained fierce.

The Decayed Civilization had not given up struggling.

Aurora's flight from the battlefield had merely been a decision he made alone.

In truth, the overwhelming majority of the Decayed Civilization's high-ranking Dominators still had plenty of backbone!

Powerhouses like Mandara and Aurora had been recruited by Enlightenment Prophet from who knew where in his early years, so their loyalty was open to question.

Meanwhile, more than two-thirds of the Dominators under Fallen Emperor and God of Destruction had been born from the Decayed Civilization itself.

Once the Dimensional Hegemony was lost, the flames of war would very likely spread to the Home Starfield of Decay Time-Space.

These Decayed Dominators had all begun fighting for their lives.

In truth, the number of Level-9 combatants did not have a profound impact on the outcome of the Dimensional Hegemony.

Darkness God, Demon Fall Supreme, Gray Mist Level-9, and the others did not intervene excessively in the Dominator War on the Dimensional Battlefield. Even Saine's God of Machines, after appearing for a time and displaying Level-9 Mid-Stage combat power, soon "disappeared" again.

Only the already fallen Mandara, along with that vast Half-Level-9 crater, bore witness to the overwhelming might of Saine's God of Machines.

"We still have a chance!" Serpent Empress Cassio Peiya said this to the Decay-Type Dominators under her command.

A chance—yes, according to probability theory, so long as the Decayed Civilization had not completely declared defeat in the Dimensional Hegemony, their chances on this Dimensional Battlefield would not be 0%.

It was merely that, compared to tens of thousands of years ago, when the Dimensional Hegemony had just begun, the Decayed Civilization's current circumstances could no longer be mentioned in the same breath as before.

About five hundred years after Mandara's fall, another high-ranking Dominator of the Decayed Civilization perished.

This time, it was the Level-8 Peak Dominator, Faceless Beast.

The fall of Faceless Beast Dominator was accompanied by the loss of the Decayed Civilization's Civilization Supreme Treasure, the "Fangs Mask."

Those who killed Faceless Beast Dominator were Kai Huang Demon Ancestor and others from the Evil Tide Civilization. These Evil Tide powerhouses had also received assistance from Destruction Giant Ape Wukong, Han Li, Celestial Venerable Han, and powerhouses from the Immortal Domain's Buddhism Sect.

Faceless Beast fell on the western front of the Dimensional Battlefield.

This battle that claimed a Level-8 Peak Dominator could likewise be regarded as one of the aftereffects of the fall of the Half-Level-9 powerhouse Mandara!

Enlightenment Prophet's forces on the Dimensional Battlefield had now suffered a severe weakening.

The only Level-8 Peak direct subordinates he could still mobilize were Autumn and Dim Radiance Prophet.

Beyond that, the Western Front Battlefield also contained portions of the legions from the top-level civilizations of Decay Time-Space: Tianhai Realm Civilization, Wanqiong World Civilization, and Gekdraman Civilization.

But compared to the elite legions of the Decayed Civilization, the elite quality and fighting will of those legions fell far short.

The reason Faceless Beast Dominator fell, rather than Meteor Seahorse of Sky-Sea World, Tianhong Eagle Dominator of Wanquiong World, or Dracula True Ancestor of Gekdraman Civilization,

was not because those Level-8 Peak Dominators from foreign civilizations were stronger, but because they ran faster!

Furthermore, Faceless Beast Dominator's rather straightforward and simple mind was also a major factor behind the destruction of both it and its Faceless Beast Legion.

The Evil Tide Civilization army's killing of Faceless Beast Dominator and annihilation of the Faceless Beast Legion on the Dimensional Battlefield counted as yet another victory in this Dimensional Hegemony.

It was a battle enough to stir the hearts of the people.

But immediately afterward, a battle report from a war zone somewhere in the central-eastern region of the Dimensional Battlefield poured a basin of cold water over the Evil Tide Civilization.

The Evil Tide Civilization had suffered tremendous losses in that war zone.

It was not that some Devil Ancestor-level powerhouse had fallen.

Rather, Wu Tian Demon Emperor, the Evil Tide Civilization's "star of tomorrow," once personally designated by Undying Supreme as possessing "Supreme Potential," had actually died on that battlefield!

The one who killed Wu Tian was Rui Tuo Cui Pu, a Level-8 Late-Stage Dominator of the Decayed Civilization. Within the Decayed Civilization, this fellow bore the title "Bloody Clockwork."

For a Heaven's Chosen like Wu Tian Demon Emperor, the Dimensional Battlefield was undoubtedly a platform to temper themselves and grow stronger without end.

At first, no one had imagined that Wu Tian would die here.

Even before fighting Rui Tuo Cui Pu, Wu Tian had already reached the Level-8 Mid-Stage realm at an utterly astonishing rate of growth.

But a genius who had not yet grown was not peak combat power in the first place.

Even if Undying Supreme had personally designated him as possessing "Supreme Potential," he was not a Supreme.

Until his death, Wu Tian Demon Emperor had been nothing more than a Level-8 Mid-Stage Demon Emperor.

He had not created a miracle by killing Bloody Clockwork Rui Tuo Cui Pu with the strength of a Level-8 Mid-Stage combatant.

Instead, after Bloody Clockwork gave everything to kill Wu Tian Demon Emperor and retreated to the Decayed Civilization's rear, it broke through to the Level-8 Peak realm not long afterward...

Although Bloody Clockwork had killed Wu Tian Demon Emperor, the Evil Tide Civilization's "future star," its subsequent reinforcements arrived in time, preventing it from taking all of Wu Tian Demon Emperor's corpse as Spoils of War.

As an old hand on the Dimensional Battlefield, Master Naige'er had previously been holed up in a corner of the battlefield conducting experiments. Yet after Wu Tian Demon Emperor fell, he arrived at Wu Tian Demon Emperor's place of death almost at the same time as the other Evil Tide Dominators.

Master Naige'er was extremely interested in the corpse of Wu Tian, the Level-8 Dominator hailed as possessing "Supreme Potential."

Facing Wu Tian Demon Emperor's corpse, which Bloody Clockwork had already chopped into eight pieces, Naige'er gestured with his lips toward the Dominator Crater below and said, "I'll give you two Life Potions that can restore the Omnipotent Soul. How about his corpse goes to me?"

The one standing before Naige'er at this moment was the Evil Tide Civilization's Six-Winged Demon Ancestor.

Seeing that Wu Tian Demon Emperor, whom Undying Supreme had valued so highly, had already fallen, Six-Winged Demon Ancestor's expression was extremely grim.

Seeing Six-Winged Demon Ancestor's expression so grim, Master Naige'er initially thought the price he had offered was insufficient.

He immediately gave a sinister chuckle. "Three?"

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