The Might of Daluo, Who Says My Physical Body Isn't as Good as Yours

The Taowu roared, its claws wrapped in Chaos Sha as it struck back, tearing space itself with their force.

Just then.

"Xuanyuan Controlling Water Flag, suppress!"

Guiyuan moved his mind, and a burst of black light exploded from within him. The small black flag grew with the wind, transforming into a sky-covering water curtain that descended!

Within the water curtain, endless ocean phantoms emerged, waves surging, space inverted. A powerful binding force like quicksand suddenly halted the Taowu's movements!

"Yuantu! Abi!"

Styx gave a cold shout at the same time. The twin swords at his back fully revealed themselves for the first time.

Blood-colored sword light shot into the sky, carrying a pure killing intent that slaughtered all life without tainting karma. Like two venomous dragons, they struck viciously and ruthlessly at the Taowu's joints and old wounds!

From the first exchange, the three fought in perfect sync, unleashing their spiritual treasures and divine abilities together, instantly suppressing the already heavily wounded Taowu!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Xuanming's iron fists landed solidly on the Taowu's bloody holes, ice Sha Qi eroding madly.

Styx's killing swords left deep, bone-exposing bloody gashes across its body, the Ferocious Beast's origin constantly being worn away by Sword Qi.

The Taowu howled in agony, madness and desperation flashing through its crimson giant eyes.

"Roar—!"

It let out that same mournful howl to summon its kin once more.

Across Changbai Mountain, the remaining Taowu Ferocious Beasts' bodies exploded without warning, one after another, transforming into streams of pure blood Sha that surged recklessly into the Taowu King!

Its aura erupted like a volcano, skyrocketing!

The bloody hole in its chest temporarily closed under surging black light, and a trace of power unique to the Daluo level was forcibly awakened.

Though still unstable, it carried a qualitative pressure that surpassed Taiyi!

"Careful! It's going all out!" Guiyuan warned urgently.

The next moment.

The Taowu's crimson giant eyes locked onto the three, and its giant claws swung out again.

But this time, the method of attack was completely different!

Before the claw wind even arrived, a terrifying, intangible force had already descended!

Guiyuan felt the "present" he occupied being squeezed by an invisible power.

Moreover, a killing intent traced back from the "past," and a shadow of destruction loomed down from the "future"!

Past! Present! Future!

Three dimensions of time, all under attack at once!

Power, in this moment, underwent a qualitative change!

"So that's it!" Guiyuan's heart shook violently, instantly understanding why Xuanming had been defeated so quickly back then.

Taiyi's power, no matter how strong, had its limits. Like numbers, it could be a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, even a million, but it was ultimately "finite."

But Daluo, even if only touching a sliver of its nature, carried the possibility of "infinity" because its power waded into the river of time.

The Taowu's attack now was stacking power from three points in time to erupt in a single "instant"!

This was no longer a contest of pure strength, but a crushing of levels!

Even if this Taowu was mortally wounded and couldn't unleash the full nature of Daluo, this "instant" stacking was far beyond what an ordinary Taiyi could withstand!

"Xuanyuan Controlling Water Flag! Calm the seas and contain the rivers!" Guiyuan snorted, madly pouring his mana into the black flag above his head.

The water curtain swelled, the ocean within churning, trying to stabilize the chaotic time and space and forcibly drag the attacks from different dimensions into the "present"!

At the same time, Sha Qi surged from his body, and thirty-three beams of black light shot out from within!

Blades, spears, swords, halberds, bells, pagodas, mirrors, banners... phantoms of thirty-three Ferocious Beast supreme treasures emerged.

Carrying the Sha Qi of refining all malice and the intent of calamity, they descended like thirty-three ancient demon mountains, crashing down toward the Taowu!

"Get the hell down!!!"

Boom—!

Treasure light and Sha Qi intertwined, time and space twisted.

"Boom—!"

The thirty-three Ferocious Beast supreme treasures fell like meteors, slamming heavily into the giant claw the Taowu had swung.

The fierce collision of Sha against Sha produced a teeth-grinding tearing sound.

The Taowu cried out in pain, its massive body staggering back two steps from the immense force.

At the same time, most of the power from its furious strike was shared by Guiyuan's treasures and Styx's red lotus.

After this repulsion, though Xuanming's blood and Qi churned, and dozens of fine wounds burst open on her True Form of the Ancestral Wu, splattering drops of blood, her aura suddenly dropped a notch, but it was far from the instant severe injury she had suffered last time.

It was still within the limits her physical body could withstand.

The Karma Red Lotus beneath Styx's feet shimmered with flowing light, dispersing the recoil force. His face paled slightly as he stared at the increasingly frenzied Taowu at the center of the Sha Qi, his gaze heavy as water.

"ROAR—!!!"

Seeing that his successive strikes had failed to crush these three "insects," the Taowu's rage completely shattered its reason.

It raised its head and let out a third roar, but this one was different from before—no longer merely a wave of sound, but something that stirred a chaotic, twisted power of origin!

Hum!

An invisible ripple erupted outward from its core!

Styx's expression shifted dramatically. "The great Dao of this place... is in chaos!" he exclaimed in shock.

He realized with horror that his connection to the Great Dao of Slaughter had become blurred, as if forcibly severed by a layer of chaotic mist!

Xuanming also let out a muffled groan. The bloodline laws she relied on to control the icy rain Sha Qi now felt like they were trapped in quicksand, sluggish in operation and greatly diminished in power.

"Chaos"—the Great Dao of Hundun—had manifested its might!

It disrupted all laws, threw Qiankun into disarray!

Just as the three's Dao techniques were suppressed, the Taowu's massive claw tore through the chaotic void once more, carrying the chaotic currents that annihilated order, and struck with even greater ferocity!

"Karma Fire, go!"

Styx forcibly mustered his power. The crimson lotus flames beneath him surged into a towering sea of fire that crashed into the giant claw. The Karma Red Lotus fire clashed violently with the chaotic Sha Qi, sizzling and crackling.

Guiyuan also shook the Xuanyaun Controlling Water Flag fiercely. Black light blazed as he tried to forcibly regulate the water element within this chaos-shrouded realm, stabilizing a sliver of order.

"BOOM!"

Another thunderous crash erupted, and turbulent currents raged.

Caught off guard and with their Daos suppressed, the three were once again sent flying.

Xuanming fared the worst.

Eighty percent of her strength relied on her physical body and bloodline laws. Now that the Dao was suppressed by chaos, she had lost four or five tenths of her power. Relying solely on her flesh to endure, she suffered even greater injury.

Cracks spread across the True Form of the Ancestral Wu. She spat out a mouthful of blood, and her aura visibly withered.

Styx steadied himself atop the red lotus.

Watching the Taowu, now brimming with Sha Qi and frantically absorbing power to recover, his expression shifted rapidly. "This beast is vicious, and its Dao is too troublesome! How about we retreat for now?"

"No need!"

"I'll take the lead!"

Guiyuan's voice was cold and hard.

Xuanming wiped the blood from her lips, her voice weak. "Without me blocking head-on... your body isn't as tough as mine. Relying solely on your Innate Sacred forms, you can't withstand more than a few of its claws!"

Guiyuan, upon hearing this, cast her a faint glance and said calmly:

"Who says my body is inferior to yours?"

The words had barely fallen.

"HUMM!!!"

A presence far more ancient, far more vast, far more weighty than the True Form of the Ancestral Wu—or even the Taowu King himself—erupted from Guiyuan like a slumbering giant beast suddenly awakening!