Ultimate Skill

"Cough."

Su Heng wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked at the Hundred Ape Marquis with a solemn expression.

The auxiliary plant life on his body was the Mo Yun Vine, which was at the early stage of the Marquis level. Plant life was known for its defense, but even so, the opponent's previous attack had still dealt him considerable damage!

The opponent's strength was likely not just at the high stage of the Marquis level, but close to the peak!

"Even with auxiliary plant protection, you're still doomed!" The Hundred Ape Marquis grinned, a hint of greed flashing in his eyes.

If before, he had only hated humans because of his disciples.

Then now, he was surprised by the considerable wealth Su Heng had displayed.

Cultivating a plant life at the Marquis level would be a strain even for him.

After all, cultivating a Marquis-level plant life would cost at least tens of millions of Primal Chaos Units, which was already a quarter of a high-stage Marquis's net worth!

Even if he could bear to cultivate such a plant life, the success rate when the plant life broke through to immortality was not too high. Once the breakthrough failed, all the invested resources would be wasted!

With such great risk, how could he possibly cultivate a plant life that was weaker than his own strength?

Wouldn't it be better to use that wealth to exchange for secret techniques and resources to improve his strength?

But!

Before him, a mere Domain Lord level junior actually possessed a Marquis-level plant life that even he would be willing to cultivate.

This meant that the wealth the other party possessed was likely even greater than his own!

As long as he could kill the opponent, he could even purchase secret techniques he had never dared to dream of, or opportunities to train in certain secret realms!

With this thought, the Hundred Ape Marquis roared, and his figure suddenly flashed through the void. The next moment, he had closed the distance between himself and Su Heng.

"Hong Tian!"

At the same time, the long staff in his hand once again unleashed an attack imbued with immense divine power.

"Mo Yun, lend your power to the Forest Divine Weapon!"

Facing an attack with overwhelming pressure, Su Heng dared not be negligent. He quickly communicated with the Mo Yun Vine attached to him using his consciousness.

At the same time, he released half of the projection of his inner world, condensing a full ten million kilometers of world power onto the divine weapon he held tightly.

He had contended with high-stage Marquis level opponents before!

A flash of madness appeared on Su Heng's face, and then he swung the long sword in his hand, unleashing wave after wave of sword light towards the Hundred Ape King.

"Wanwu Jiemie!"

In the universe, there were countless secret techniques and ultimate skills. Through countless years of evolution, these ultimate skills had slowly evolved into four tiers.

The first was ordinary secret techniques, which were generally ultimate skills created and used by genius Domain Lords or Marquis level Immortals.

The second was top-tier secret techniques, which were generally ultimate skills created and used by King level beings.

The third was peak secret techniques, which were generally ultimate skills used and created by Universe Venerables or genius King level beings.

The fourth was ultimate secret techniques, which were secret techniques used and created by top Universe Overlords and Universe Masters!

Of course, these four tiers were only a general categorization. Within the same tier, there were still significant differences.

For example, the move 'Wanwu Jiemie' that Su Heng was currently using was an ordinary ultimate skill he had created over tens of thousands of years, but its true level was already close to that of a top-tier ultimate skill!

Even an Immortal at the King level would not dare to underestimate this secret technique!

"What!"

Feeling these waves of sword light strike his divine power, the Hundred Ape Marquis's face was filled with shock.

In battles between Immortals, the first thing to consider was the divine power contained within the divine body, which was the foundation of everything!

If the difference in divine bodies was not significant, then it would come down to the comprehension and application of laws, which was the difference in secret techniques and ultimate skills!

The Hundred Ape Marquis had a high-stage Marquis level divine body, possessing over three thousand times the power of a Domain Lord. Coupled with its own two times gene level, its full power output was close to seven thousand times the power of a Domain Lord!

However, the Hundred Ape Marquis's comprehension of laws had always been mediocre, at the average level for the Marquis stage. The ordinary ultimate skills it created were also at this level, still a long way from top-tier ultimate skills.

The divine power contained in Su Heng's 'Wanwu Jiemie' was not particularly high, only about three thousand times the power of a Domain Lord at most, according to the Hundred Ape Marquis's perception. However, the level of his ultimate skill far surpassed the Hundred Ape Marquis's 'Hong Tian'.

Even with a lower base divine power, the advantage in the level of ultimate skills allowed these sword lights to compensate for many of the gaps!

Even if they couldn't completely cancel out the attacks, the Hundred Ape Marquis's remaining attacks would still be unable to harm Su Heng, who was protected by his auxiliary life form.

Seeing this, how could the Hundred Ape Marquis not be shocked?

Although he had heard of geniuses within the demon race who could contend with Immortals at the Domain Lord or King level during their Domain Lord stage, he had dismissed it as the royal family exaggerating their strength. He thought a Domain Lord fighting an ordinary Immortal or an early-stage Marquis was already quite impressive.

King level? That was too outrageous! He even thought that a high-stage or peak-stage Marquis might not be able to contend with them!

But now, a human Domain Lord was fighting him to a standstill. This fact forced the Hundred Ape Marquis to believe that perhaps such heaven-defying monsters did exist in this universe.

However, it was precisely because of this that he could not let the opponent go!

If a Domain Lord was already this monstrous, once he broke through to become an Immortal, would he still have a chance to resist?

The Hundred Ape Marquis gave Su Heng a deep look, and then stopped holding back, directly burning his divine body.

Even though recovering the divine body after battle would require vast resources and time, if the opponent could be killed, then all losses would be insignificant!

BOOM!

After burning its divine body, the Hundred Ape Marquis received a tenfold amplification. Its original Lord of Realm power of only seven thousand times now reached a full seventy thousand times when attacking with all its might, enough to rival a peak expert among the High-tier Sealed Lords!

The opponent is merely a Lord of Realm; it's impossible for them to burn their divine power!

Even if that auxiliary lifeform burned its own life, the fundamental gap is too great, and it still wouldn't be its opponent!

"Burning divine power."

From afar, Su Heng, having just negated the Hundred Ape Marquis's 'Hong Tian' strike, witnessed the opponent burning its divine power.

At this moment, his expression was extremely solemn. The opponent was a Yao, whose innate divine body was much larger than a human's. This also meant that after burning its divine power, the duration it could sustain would be longer than a human's.

Trying to stall for time would likely be incredibly difficult, let alone facing it head-on!

The Mo Yun Vine is an Early-tier Marquis, with a base divine power of only one thousand five hundred times the Lord of Realm's power. Even after burning its divine power, it would only reach fifteen thousand times the Lord of Realm's power. The gap with seventy thousand times was simply too vast!

"Is that the only way?" Su Heng murmured.

I've forgotten whether the Immortal burning of divine power is tenfold or hundredfold, but I think tenfold is more reasonable.