Counterattack

"Chaotic Space-Time!"

Aboard the Universe Ocean, facing another True God, Shi Yan could finally unleash his full strength.

Time warped, space twisted, and the space-time spanning hundreds of light-years fell entirely under Shi Yan's control, a terrifying pressure instantly bearing down on the Monster Beast Progenitor.

"Starlight River, empower!" Shi Yan also activated his domain supreme treasure, but at this level, a mere top-tier domain supreme treasure offered only a faint boost to his secret technique—better than nothing, but barely.

"Hm? Seventh-order peak power?" The Monster Beast Progenitor was shocked, attempting to unfold the Black Wind Realm in resistance, only to find its domain supreme treasure directly dispersed.

It had come to the Universe Ocean brimming with confidence, betting that Shi Yan, having missed the Chaos Evolution, would be stuck at mere sixth-order peak strength. With its own seventh-order level, it thought it could crush him.

Even though it had witnessed Shi Yan's space-time secret technique in the Primal Universe before, it had assumed it was a sixth-order technique, its full power already spent in that realm. It never imagined Shi Yan's space-time secret technique hadn't reached its limit, and its might could actually dispel its peak domain supreme treasure.

"What? Did you really think your paltry interference could trap me at the sixth order?" Shi Yan sneered, then his speed shot to the limit. In the blink of an eye, he was before the Monster Beast Progenitor, the Beast God Hoof descending from above, stomping toward it.

The Monster Beast Progenitor, suppressed by "Chaotic Space-Time," was pitifully slow, so it simply stopped moving and stood its ground to face Shi Yan.

"Seventh-order peak—what can it do to me?!"

The Monster Beast Progenitor roared, its divine body fully unfurling. Black holes appeared at the tips of its ten claws, as if to devour everything utterly. Then, the ten claws traced different trajectories, yet moved as one, meeting Shi Yan's attack.

"A combined strike technique?"

Shi Yan's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but marvel that every Universe Supreme Being had some unique skill.

This move of the Monster Beast Progenitor incorporated some array mysteries, elevating what should have been a seventh-order attack to near seventh-order peak.

But though exquisite, this technique happened to be something Shi Yan could counter.

In the next moment, intricate Secret Patterns lit up on Shi Yan's horns. Some of the Monster Beast Progenitor's ten claws suddenly accelerated, while others seemed to freeze, the unified momentum crumbling on its own.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

Without the combined strike's boost, the Monster Beast Progenitor's attack power dropped a level. Its claws were no match for Shi Yan's stomp, knocked aside.

"Boom!"

Shi Yan kicked the Monster Beast Progenitor square on the head. A layer of Crimson Armor surfaced on its scales.

Yet the terrifying force still sent the Monster Beast Progenitor plummeting downward. Shi Yan pressed the attack, striking relentlessly.

"Boom! Boom..."

The two clashed repeatedly. Claw after claw from Shi Yan, suppressed by the domain and outmatched in strength, the Monster Beast Progenitor was beaten without any chance to fight back. Dark Gold Blood splattered, and its divine power drained rapidly.

Even a peak supreme treasure armor struggled to fully protect against seventh-order peak attacks.

While suppressing the Monster Beast Progenitor, Shi Yan deliberately guided it away from the Primal Universe. By now, their battlefield had shifted hundreds of light-years from where they started.

Just then, the membrane of the nearby Primal Universe tore open again, and the Serrated Shell Beast appeared in both their sights.

"Zhen Jiao, come help me fast!"

Thoroughly dominated, the Monster Beast Progenitor abandoned all pride and urgently called for Zhen Demon Ancestor's aid.

"Hold on, Ancestor, I'm coming!" Zhen Demon Ancestor outwardly agreed readily, but a flicker of contempt passed through its eyes. It thought to itself, "This Monster Beast Progenitor is more trouble than help, swearing the Time Beast God couldn't break through to the seventh order... To completely suppress the Monster Beast Progenitor, this Time Beast God must be at least seventh-order peak, maybe even close to the eighth order."

Shi Yan's displayed strength only steeled Zhen Demon Ancestor's resolve to abandon the Monster Beast Progenitor. If he broke through further and obtained a Supreme True Treasure, he'd reach ninth-order combat power, rivaling the First True Master of the God Eye Race and other super existences of the Universe Ocean.

Then the Monster Race would be in real trouble.

"Let the Monster Beast Progenitor die. My Monster Race can't be buried with it." Zhen Demon Ancestor quickly shed its last shred of hesitation.

"Ancestor, I'm here to help!"

Zhen Demon Ancestor's speed broke light speed, quickly closing in on the battlefield. The Monster Beast Progenitor, enduring several of Shi Yan's attacks, barely managed to regroup with Zhen Demon Ancestor.

Shi Yan's eyes darkened. He could have continued the pursuit but stopped.

"Monster Beast Progenitor, weren't you going to take my life and claim my corpse?" Shi Yan looked down on the Monster Beast Progenitor from on high, watching the Dark Gold Blood streaming over its body, and taunted, "Seems your strength doesn't match your big mouth."

"Old bastard, don't get cocky!" The Monster Beast Progenitor's eyes blazed with fury. "With Zhen Jiao and me together, we'll make you pay!"

Shi Yan just snorted in response. The Monster Beast Progenitor's words were nothing but a pipe dream.

Two seventh-order True Gods joining forces could at most match a single seventh-order peak True God, and that was before factoring in Shi Yan's domain advantage, which made him especially adept at breaking coordinated attacks.

Still, Shi Yan knew the Monster Beast Progenitor's stubborn nature. Back when facing Original Ancestor, it had chosen to let the entire Monster Race hole up in the Primal Universe rather than bow its head.

Only after Original Ancestor taught it several harsh lessons, and his power grew ever stronger, did the Monster Beast Progenitor finally yield.

Now, Shi Yan was still a hair's breadth from the eighth order. Even one-on-one, killing the Monster Beast Progenitor wouldn't be easy, and with another seventh-order True God, Zhen Demon Ancestor, at its side, the Monster Beast Progenitor was even less likely to back down.

"Ancestor, how about we call it quits? This Time Beast God's strength—even the two of us together can only match him. Let's plan for the long term." Zhen Demon Ancestor secretly transmitted to the Monster Beast Progenitor.

It seemed like advice, but knowing the Monster Beast Progenitor's temperament, the more it said such things, the less likely the Monster Beast Progenitor would retreat so easily.

Sure enough, the Monster Beast Progenitor burst into curses. "Bastard! I am the Ancestor of the Monster Race, humiliated like this, and instead of avenging me, you want to run?"

Shi Yan, listening from afar, couldn't help but laugh. "If you want to run, go ahead. I have no interest in cowards."

"Hmph! You think you can take advantage and just leave? No such luck. Zhen Jiao's a coward, but I'm here—whether it wants to fight or not, it has to." The Monster Beast Progenitor sneered.

But Zhen Demon Ancestor, hearing this, grew more furious by the second. It was a True God in its own right, no weaker than the Monster Beast Progenitor—how could it endure such humiliation?

Even Original Ancestor, who had a master-disciple bond with Giant Axe Founder and was far stronger, never belittled Giant Axe Founder so openly.

"Old bastard, enjoy your smugness a little longer." A flash of murderous intent flickered in Zhen Demon Ancestor's eyes.

"Zhen Jiao, once we return to the Primal Universe, I'll settle accounts with you. For now, join me in teaching this Time Beast God a lesson." Having commanded the Monster Race with arrogance for endless ages, the Monster Beast Progenitor was utterly oblivious to Zhen Demon Ancestor's simmering resentment and issued orders as casually as ever.

Zhen Demon Ancestor barely suppressed the fury in his heart, feigning deference as he replied, "Yes, Demon Ancestor!"

In the distance, Shi Yan took in the entire scene, a meaningful glint in his eyes, before saying, "Then let me see how two Seventh Order True Gods presume to teach me a lesson."

"Shua!"

Shi Yan's form closed in rapidly, and "Chaotic Space-Time" bore down with full force.

"Erase!"

The Beast God Claw descended, striking from the past, present, and future all at once.

"Zhen Jiao! Make your move!"

The Monster Beast Progenitor barked sharply, its tail lashing out like a whip. As for the combined attack technique, having suffered from it once, the Monster Beast Progenitor dared not use it again.

"Roar!"

Divine power coalesced into countless miniature monstrous beasts. The Purple Demon Awl stirred up a black cyclone, within which the tiny beasts flickered in and out of sight.

In terms of sheer momentum, Zhen Demon Ancestor's move was certainly inferior to the Monster Beast Progenitor's combined attack, but it was no less formidable than its other techniques.

Seeing Zhen Demon Ancestor strike, the Monster Beast Progenitor confidently focused its attention on Shi Yan. Yet, midway, the black cyclone abruptly veered and lunged at the Monster Beast Progenitor, detonating violently under its stunned gaze.

"Aaaaaaah! Zhen Jiao! You bastard!"

The black storm raged as the Monster Beast Progenitor howled in agony.

Zhen Demon Ancestor's sudden ambush left the Monster Beast Progenitor no time to counter or deflect the attack, so the full hundred percent of the blow's power erupted directly against its divine body.

A crimson armor materialized, but Peak Supreme Treasures were never meant for True Gods. This armor of the Monster Beast Progenitor was merely average among Peak Supreme Treasures.

Facing the full force of a Seventh Order attack, the armor's endurance limit was breached in an instant. Normally capable of reducing an attack's power to one hundred-thousandth, the Peak Supreme Treasure now could only diminish Zhen Demon Ancestor's strike to one-tenth—a drop in the bucket for the Monster Beast Progenitor.

"Hahaha, Monster Beast Progenitor, today is your death day!" Shi Yan laughed with unrestrained glee. Following the principle of striking while the iron was hot, he stomped down with all his might at the Monster Beast Progenitor.

The Monster Beast Progenitor tried to raise a defense, but the residual force of Zhen Demon Ancestor's attack, combined with "Chaotic Space-Time," left the grievously wounded Monster Beast Progenitor momentarily paralyzed.

"Boom!"

Shi Yan's full-powered claw slammed into the Monster Beast Progenitor—a strike far more terrifying than Zhen Demon Ancestor's ambush.

The Monster Beast Progenitor's divine body was shattered into pieces, dark-golden blood raining down like a downpour.

"No!"

The Monster Beast Progenitor was utterly panicked. It truly smelled death. After several calculated strikes catching it off guard, its injuries were severe, and its divine power had dwindled to less than thirty percent.

Though a True God's soul no longer merged with its divine body, instead hiding within the True God Heart, allowing it to still exert one hundred percent of its strength, if the fight dragged on until its divine power ran dry, it would be truly finished.

"What do I do? What do I do?" Facing mortal peril, the Monster Beast Progenitor could no longer afford rage. No matter how great its pride, it meant nothing without its life: "Right! The Primal Universe! If I can just return to the Primal Universe, I'll survive!"

A glimmer of hope flashed in the Monster Beast Progenitor's eyes. Bracing itself against another of Shi Yan's blows, it forced its shattered divine body to block Zhen Demon Ancestor's attack, then fled at full speed toward the Primal Universe.