"Bang!"
Accompanied by a sonic boom that shattered the seabed rock!
Duanlang sent flying by a straight punch from [Shadow Duanlang], crashing into the depths of the sea!
This is what makes the Hall of Yama so formidable!
The created Shadow will always have a base stat that is 5% stronger than the original!
If it were just a matter of pure physical combat and head-on confrontation, Duanlang would certainly be no match for Shadow.
But...
Shadow is just Shadow.
It can only perfectly replicate the initial power of the target [at the moment they are pulled into the domain].
However, it does not possess the [evolutionary and adaptability] of its original form!
In other words...
Once the state of the main body undergoes a qualitative change, the initiative in the battle will be instantly reversed!
"Clang!"
A loud, resounding axe-like cry echoed across the seabed!
Suddenly, the giant axe in Duan Lang's hand, which had been Duanlang away, burst forth with a blinding black light.
Its size increased dramatically in the seawater!
Jiangnan's eyes narrowed slightly, instantly discerning the other party's intentions.
Want to evolve explosively? No way!
"Bang!"
He snapped his fingers with his left hand and made a loose fist with his right!
He uttered a cold shout.
"A moment is eternity!"
"The universe is the end!"
Buzz!
[Cosmos Black Ice] and [Momentary Eternity] descend simultaneously!
Centered on Jiangnan, everything around it is stripped of color, transformed into a black and white painting!
Time has been forcibly stopped!
In this desolate, gray space, only the raging Purple Firmament Divine Thunder on Jiangnan's body continued to surge wildly.
He flashed and instantly appeared above Duanlang.
Endless Purple Firmament Divine Thunder surged wildly into his right leg, compressed to its extreme, like a blinding purple sun!
The next second, colors returned, and time began to flow again!
"Boom!!!"
Jiangnan delivered a thunderous Knight kick, powerful enough to shatter mountains, and struck Duanlang in the chest!
The violent purple lightning exploded, Duanlang was kicked away, crashing into and shattering more than a dozen huge reefs and mountains on the seabed!
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Jiangnan Nan grabbed the giant axe that had slipped from his hand, intending to take it for himself.
However, this peerless and deadly weapon already possessed a spirit!
The moment Jiangnan grasped it, the giant axe erupted with a violent Black Mist, and the blade twisted.
It actually turned around and slashed at Jiangnan's arm!
"Court death."
Jiangnan snorted coldly and immediately let go, creating distance between them.
At the same time, he waved his right hand, and [Cosmos Black Ice] gushed out.
The giant axe, which was still trying to grow larger and cause trouble, was frozen inside a whole block of black Profound Ice!
Just then...
"Whoosh!"
A shadow, like the passing of death, silently swept across the seabed.
It's Zhang Lingqi!
He transformed into the [Executioner], wielding a scythe, and taking advantage of the moment when Duanlang was stunned as he was smashed into the rock wall, he aimed straight for his opponent's neck!
The sickle's edge was only ten centimeters away from Duanlang's throat!
However!
Duanlang, who should have been severely injured and embedded in the rock wall, actually stood up at a 90° zero-frame angle!
"Smack!"
A giant hand shrouded in Black Mist grasped the hilt of the Death God's Scythe's scythe!
Zhang Lingqi's pupils suddenly contracted!
That's an incredibly fast reaction time!
Immediately afterwards, Duanlang exerted his strength and forcibly snatched the sickle.
He swiftly swung his hand and delivered a vicious decapitation strike to Zhang Lingqi's neck!
"Whoosh!"
The sickle slashed across Zhang Lingqi's neck, but it was as if it had slashed through thin air; it missed completely!
Zhang Lingqi sneered inwardly.
It's useless.
He now possesses the deathly body of Executioner, immune to physical attacks!
Then, Zhang Lingqi delivered a powerful punch to Duanlang's face!
"Bang!"
However...
Not even a white mark was left.
Zhang Lingqi's physical immunity did not turn him into a massless ghost.
Rather, it's because he can freely control which part of his body reveals his true form; otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to hold a sickle.
However, his own attack power was clearly like scratching a gua sha (a Chinese idiom meaning to exert force or exert physical strength) when facing Quasi-God- level physical body.
Duanlang, facing a counterattack, glared fiercely and raised his right leg high, bringing it down towards Zhang Lingqi!
Zhang Lingqi Intangibility his Qi to dodge.
"Boom!"
This high kick missed its target, but instead carved out a rift valley several kilometers long on the seabed rock!
"My damage is too low, I can't even break through his defense..."
Zhang Lingqi gritted his teeth inwardly, then retreated rapidly, sneering, "But... there's still this!"
The words had barely left his mouth.
[Shadow Duanlang] wielded the Shadow Giant Axe, aiming straight for Duanlang's head!
Duan Lang had already spotted the Shadow Duanlang corner of his eye. He raised the Death God's Scythe he had just seized, ready to confront it head-on.
However, Zhang Lingqi suddenly grabbed from a distance.
"Snap."
The Death God's Scythe in Duanlang's hand turned into a wisp of black smoke and dissipated, then reformed in Zhang Lingqi's hand.
"Sorry, this is mine, you can't use it."
Having lost his weapon, Duan Lang had no choice but to cross his arms and use his bare body to withstand the Duanlang from the Shadow's earth-shattering axe!
"When!"
The Shadow Axe slammed Duanlang on Duan Lang's ancient, gilded armor, creating Circle that spread across the seabed!
The two sides were unexpectedly locked in a brief stalemate at this moment!
And several kilometers away.
Inside the wreckage of the Machine God, now only its torso remained, Berris Duanlang at Duan Lang's life signs, which showed no signs of decline, on the radar screen.
"I can't break through... I can't break through at all! This old monster's defense is simply unreasonable!"
And right in the center of her Main Control Panel.
The red flashing notification for unlocking [Supernova Mode] is still active.
Berris glanced at the pitiful [0.001%] on the Progress Bar.
Recalling the shameful, excruciating pain from being violently struck during the neural connection, I felt completely awful.
"To unlock this broken mode..."
"Are we really going to let that Thunder Living Person shock Berris ten thousand times?!"
"Ugh... 100,000 times... it'll break, won't it? It'll definitely get electrocuted and break!!"
Berris's cheeks instantly turned bright red, her mind filled with grotesque and disturbing images.
"No, no, absolutely not!"
"I'd rather I just explode along with the mech than have Berris experience that kind of social death in public!"
She shook her head, forcibly banishing those strange thoughts.
Even if we don't use that model, Berris absolutely shouldn't be a burden, just watching from the sidelines!
Berris tapped her hands on the control panel.
"First Unit's chest restraint armor, fully deployed!"
"Shoulder-mounted nuclear cannons, ready!"
Berris grabbed the communicator and yelled at the three people in front of her.
"Hey! You three, get out of my way!!!"
With a girl's cry, the chest and shoulders of the wrecked Machine God's body split open!
Countless missiles were launched simultaneously from the seawater, locking onto the distant Duanlang!
"Fire all missiles!"
"Boom boom boom boom!"
Hundreds upon hundreds of high-explosive nuclear missiles, trailing blue flames, hurtled towards Duanlang!
Duan Lang, who was busy bracing himself against the Shadow's giant axe with his bare hands and had no time to Duanlang, was immediately engulfed by this terrifying net of heavy firepower!
A series of massive explosions erupted on the seabed!
The shockwave evaporated the surrounding seawater, creating a huge vacuum!
"Well done!"
Using the shockwave from the explosion, Zhang Lingqi took the opportunity to retreat rapidly.
"Now's the time! The opening is wide open!"
Jiangnan's eyes were piercing, and he clenched his right fist suddenly.
"With this ashes, I send you back to the abyss; Hellfire the heavens, all laws become emptiness!!!"
Blazing white flames rise from the deep sea.
In Jiangnan's hands, it coalesced into a blazing, pure white holy Hellfire!
"Die!"
Jiangnan, stepping on purple lightning, cleaved the sea with a single slash, aiming his blade at the opening in the Duanlang!
Sensing this terrifying crisis that threatened his life, Duanlang roared and Shadow Duanlang in front of him away!
At the same time, he suddenly waved his hand, trying to recall his giant axe.
However, the giant axe was frozen by the [Cosmos Black Ice], and even time was stopped, making it completely unable to move!
There was no way to avoid it; Duanlang had no choice but to grit his teeth and face the challenge head-on!
"Clang!"
The white, Hellfire struck Duanlang's gilded armor squarely!
Jiangnan frowned.
This strike failed to sever the seemingly tattered armor!
What material is this armor made of?
Even the Divine Phoenix Karma Fire couldn't burn through it?!
But then...
A familiar smell of blood drifted into Jiangnan's nostrils along with the deep-sea currents.
That's the smell of blood.
And...
That's the smell of his own blood!!
But Jiangnan knew very well that the blood definitely did not come from his own body!
He suddenly stared intently.
All that could be Duanlang was a shallow wound on Duan Lang's gilded armor, cleaved by a slashing blade.
Dark golden blood is gushing out!
Why...
His blood will flow from inside the opponent's armor?!
Could it be...?
Jiangnan suddenly realized something terrifying!
And in that split second...
The blood of the Dragon God, flowing from the armor, mingled with the churning seawater...
It actually flowed back towards Duanlang, and ultimately...
Not a single drop escaped his lips!
Duanlang suddenly opened his mouth, letting seawater and Dragon Blood pour into his throat!
The next second.
"Roar!!!"
A dragon's roar exploded within Duanlang's body!!!
The immense pressure contained in that dragon's roar nearly tore Jiangnan's eardrums apart.
He drew his sword and retreated rapidly, creating a distance of a thousand meters!
"This is..."
Du Linyuan, watching from a distance, frowned deeply.
Then, something chilling happened.
Suddenly, Duanlang's aged eyes, which had been devoid of any consciousness, slowly opened.
And within the whites of those eyes, a dark golden vertical pupil was clearly reflected!
Duanlang turned his neck and slowly swept his gaze over Jiangnan, Zhang Lingqi, and Du Linyuan in the distance.
Finally, a smile, full of arrogance, curled at the corners of his mouth.
Immediately, his two aged lips parted slightly and he uttered a whisper.
"Who do you think you are, daring to disturb this great general's Zhong Deng his dream..."
"So it's... my good apprentice."
"And... Your Excellency the Third Prince..."
"And a little brat, who knows where he crawled out of the gutter."
His voice was old, and because it traveled through the deep sea, it sounded very faint.
No one could hear what he was saying.
But...
Du Linyuan understood!
More accurately, he understood the look in Duanlang's eyes when he looked at him!
It was a gaze that saw through all his pretenses and looked directly into the very essence of his soul!
"He... he's back..."
Du Linyuan clutched his head, a sharp pain shooting through his brain!
Countless memories about the Barbaric Realm, memories sealed away a thousand years ago!
Meanwhile, in Jiangnan, at the center of the battlefield, no one cared what madman was going on.
If he wasn't mistaken, the so-called indestructible gilded armor on Duanlang's body...
Perhaps it was forged or created with his blood from back then!
In that case, let's defeat magic with magic!
Jiangnan's eyes sharpened, and he immediately prepared to use the same technique, [Dragon God Emperor Armor], to clash head-on with his opponent!
"For war..."
However, only the first three words of the incantation had been uttered.
Jiangnan's expression suddenly changed, and he cut off the Word Spirit!
"Buzzing"
The [Qilin X-Type Reactor Core] on his chest.
And the residual energy of Gabetan's [Annihilation Ray] deep within his body.
A dangerous rejection alarm has been sounded!
The essence of [Dragon God Emperor Armor] is to fully activate the Dragon God blood within his body to transform it into battle armor.
But right now, his body is a powder keg!
You could even call it a mountain of shit code!
The Qilin Core and the Annihilation Energy are struggling to maintain a balance.
They absolutely will not allow a third, violent force to intervene!
If the Imperial Armor is forcibly activated, this body will disintegrate and explode on the spot!
Seeing Jiangnan's abruptly stopped movement, a mocking glint Duanlang in Duan Lang's dark golden vertical pupils.
"Hehehe... Compared to when you were alive, you've really weakened by more than a little bit, my foolish disciple."
Duanlang mocked himself, his voice booming through the sea.
"You can't even use the toy that that good-for-nothing Ancestor Dragon Emperor casually made for you back then?"
"Fine... since you've forgotten."
"Then let this great general teach you..."
"How exactly do I use this toy that can transform into so many different things?!"
The moment the words left his mouth.
Duanlang Lang's aura suddenly solidified!
He spread his arms, letting the raging undercurrent wash over his body.
He uttered that incantation.
"Born to fight, until death!"
"Adapt to everything, evolve for all life!"
"Myriad Scale Armor, Impervious to All Laws!"
"Tear through illusion and see the truth!"
"Where I am... is forbidden!"
Rumble!!!
With each syllable uttered, the entire [Prayer Deep Pool] trembled violently!
"Smash these shackles of hypocrisy!"
"Tremble, you wailing beings!"
"I am both the raging wave sweeping across humanity and the demon that will destroy this world!"
Duanlang's aged eye was completely swallowed by the demonic light. He raised his head and let out a roar.
"Awaken, Dragon God's bloodline! Offer your heart for my path to becoming a Demon God!!!"
Boom!!!
As soon as he finished speaking, the gilded armor on Duanlang's body transformed into a dark blue color, like the extreme ice of the deep sea!
Accompanied by the sound of bones popping.
Countless sharp, menacing barbs and dragon scales sprouted from the dark blue armor surface.
The blood belonging to the Dragon God became an aid to his descent into demonic possession!
At this moment, Duanlang is elegant and aloof, but more than that...
Arrogance!
"Pfft!"
Duanlang's right arm swelled, and his dark blue armor ripped open.
A dragon's claw, covered in sharp scales, suddenly emerged!
The demonic claw reached for Gabetan and seized its severed head.
"I will keep my promise and lend you my power first!"
The words were finished.
He had actually begun absorbing Gabetan's power.
"Whoosh!"
Gabetan's head was buzzing.
It looks like he's in a lot of pain!
The group simply watched, refraining from making any rash moves.
Jiangnan understands this best: Dragon God Emperor Armor has an invincible frame rate when leveling up.
Going up to interrupt now would be no different than feeding the enemy kills.
The boomerang hit him back; now he can only wait!
"Crack... Bang!!!"
The distant [Cosmos Black Ice] shattered with a deafening roar!
The frozen giant axe, upon sensing the demonic power of its master, broke free from the shackles of time.
It transformed into black lightning and fell into the claws of that demonic dragon!
"Phew~ that feeling I haven't had in so long."
He raised the giant axe and looked down at the group below.
"So... round two begins."