"Feel the gap between us now, insect?! A World Lord is still a World Lord! An Immortal with a Burning Divine Body is far beyond your reach! Die!"
He pressed his advantage, and his massive body, wreathed in scarlet divine power, tore through space once more. With an unstoppable aura of Destruction, he lunged furiously at Lu Ming, who still hadn't fully regained his footing!
Claws, bites, sweeping tail strikes... The Monster Race's battle techniques combined with his burning divine power, forming one devastating attack after another that engulfed Lu Ming like a raging storm!
"Flame Edge!"
Moon Princess and the others, still fighting in the distance, watched the scene with their hearts in their throats. An Immortal's strength would undergo a qualitative leap after burning his divine body. Could Flame Edge still hold him off?
Facing Rock Wolf Immortal's frenzied, storm-like assault, Lu Ming's gaze remained calm.
His figure flickered through the starry void as the Yan Kong Blade in his hand blocked, deflected, or slipped past each blow with exquisite footwork.
Every collision erupted in deafening booms and blinding flashes of energy. The shockwaves swept the surrounding asteroid belt clean.
Boom! Boom! Boom...!
The starry void became their battlefield. The two figures collided and crossed at speeds too great for the naked eye to follow. Space warped and laws fell into chaos wherever they passed, as if doomsday had arrived.
Relying on the overwhelming strength granted by his Burning Divine Body, Rock Wolf Immortal attacked like a tsunami, each wave stronger than the last, trying to crush Lu Ming through sheer force.
Boom! Boom! Boom...!
Rock Wolf Immortal burned his divine body, unleashing an unrelenting storm of attacks.
Yet as the battle dragged on, the vengeful satisfaction and confidence he'd felt at first gradually gave way to mounting suspicion.
"What's going on?!"
The longer he fought, the more alarmed he became.
"This human brat... Why is his aura still so steady?!"
By all rights, a World Lord facing an Immortal who had burned his divine body should be barely hanging on at best, with his World Power rapidly depleted and his aura weakening. He should already be covered in wounds, on the verge of death.
But this man calling himself "Flame Edge," aside from being forced back in a somewhat awkward fashion by Rock Wolf Immortal's initial burst of power, had steadily withstood every attack that followed, no matter how fierce!
Each time they collided, Rock Wolf Immortal's strength sent his opponent flying, and his claws shredded the blade's light, but the other man's fighting spirit showed no sign of waning!
His movements remained fluid, his swordsmanship as sharp as ever. Deep in those calm eyes, there even seemed to be a hint of... mockery?
"Impossible! My attacks have landed squarely! Even if he deflected most of the force, the impact left over should be enough to injure him—or even destroy a World Lord's body! How can he be completely unharmed?!"
Rock Wolf Immortal roared inwardly. The immense power he'd gained from burning his divine body felt as though it were striking an insubstantial mass of cotton. The sensation of having nothing to hit left him so frustrated he could have spat blood.
But he didn't know that Lu Ming was privately sneering.
"That's all you've got? You'd need to hit harder to even give me an itch!"
Lu Ming seemed to be constantly blocking, dodging, and enduring immense pressure, yet in truth, he was as steady as a mountain.
After breaking through the blocks of his Yan Kong Blade and being weakened by his laws, the remaining force of Rock Wolf Immortal's seemingly ferocious attacks first struck the purple-gold armor formed by Little Thunder, which Lu Ming wore close to his body.
Little Thunder had reached the Hundredfold Gene level and was now a King Level plant lifeform with a divine body spanning ten million kilometers!
How terrifying was the defense of armor formed from its body?
After being weakened layer by layer, attacks from an Ordinary Immortal like Rock Wolf, even with his divine body burning, couldn't shake the armor's very foundation.
What was more, beneath Little Thunder's armor, Lu Ming wore the Dark Star Armor, enhanced by the power returned from the sacrifice!
The armor was already of exceptional quality, and now it provided a second, solid layer of protection.
With both layers in place, Rock Wolf's attacks really were no different from a tickle to Lu Ming.
He only acted as though he was being suppressed and forced backward for two reasons. First, it was a safer way to wear down his opponent's burning divine body. Second, he wanted to conceal his strength and avoid drawing unnecessary attention by revealing everything too soon.
"About time."
Rock Wolf Immortal's aura remained ferocious, but Lu Ming could feel the "hollowness" stemming from the weakening foundations of his divine body beginning to show. Lu Ming's eyes turned cold.
"Time to end this."
He deliberately left an opening. After one collision, his retreat seemed to slow for a brief instant.
"Now!"
A murderous gleam flashed in Rock Wolf Immortal's blood-red eyes. Thinking he'd finally caught the moment Lu Ming was out of strength, he gathered all his power into a massive claw wreathed in scarlet divine energy and drove it toward Lu Ming's chest!
He was sure this blow would land!
Yet in the face of this seemingly fatal attack, Lu Ming's lips curled into a cold smile.
Just as Rock Wolf Immortal's claws, wreathed in scarlet divine energy and powerful enough to pierce a star, were about to touch Lu Ming's chest—
Something changed!
Lu Ming's left hand, which had hung at his side all along, shot up like lightning. He spread his fingers and clenched them toward the terrifying claw!
Hum!
A seemingly slender vine, its surface shimmering with a deep, dark-purple sheen and traced with golden lightning and green life sigils, shot from Lu Ming's palm!
The vine moved with astonishing agility, wrapping around Rock Wolf Immortal's wrist in an instant!
"What?!"
The ferocious grin on Rock Wolf Immortal's face froze, replaced by utter shock!
He felt as though the claw he'd expected to land, charged with all his burning divine power, had slammed into an immovable wall of the universe!
An immense, supremely concentrated force, vast as a sea of stars, surged from the seemingly slender vine. It effortlessly neutralized all the impact and destructive power of his strike. Then its coils tightened with the crushing weight of billions of sacred mountains, leaving his massive, burning claw unable to advance even a fraction. He couldn't even pull it back!
A single vine?!
Just one vine had so effortlessly bound the full-force strike of his Burning Divine Body?!
How was this possible?!
"Die!!"
As Rock Wolf Immortal's mind reeled in shock,
Lu Ming's icy roar, brimming with murderous intent, exploded beside his ears like thunder!
Bolstered by the tremendous power transmitted through Little Thunder, the Thunderlight Vine, the muscles in Lu Ming's right arm—held ready all this time—suddenly bulged!
Nine Absolute Blades of Ember Universe—the ninth blade!
Clang!
"No—!!!"
Rock Wolf Immortal's pupils shrank to pinpricks as boundless terror engulfed him. He let out a desperate, unwilling roar and struggled with all his might to break free of the vine's grasp. His burning divine power battered against it, but it was like an ant trying to shake a tree—it didn't budge!
All he could do was watch the blade's ray of death grow larger and larger in his vision!
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!
The blade's light slashed cleanly through his body!
Time seemed to stop in that instant.
The look of utter terror and disbelief froze on Rock Wolf Immortal's face.
His massive body, covered in dark-gold scales, began to crumble wherever the blade had passed, like a sand sculpture weathering away. Inch by inch, he turned into the purest energy particles and vanished into the starry void.
His furious, unwilling roar and his consciousness were annihilated by that single strike!
Rock Wolf of the Monster Race had fallen!