"Hmph!"
Seeing that the Asura God had no fear of him escaping, Di Tian snorted coldly, his expression gradually turning serious.
His body suddenly expanded, transforming into a massive black dragon that crushed several nearby palaces into ruins as he let out an earth-shaking roar.
"Acting like this, do you think you can kill me whenever you want?!"
Although his opponent was one of the strongest among God Kings, while he currently possessed only the combat strength of a First-Level God.
The pride of being both a member of the Dragon Clan and the Beast God of the Star Dou Great Forest still kept him from lowering his head.
The Asura God paid no attention to Di Tian's words. Instead, he looked at Di Tian and spoke in a tone of reminiscence.
"You do resemble the Dragon God somewhat."
Not hearing what the Asura God had said, Di Tian flapped his wings and roared. A massive cross-shaped claw mark unleashed by the Dragon God Claw tore through the sky and howled toward the Asura God.
Wherever the claw mark passed, the terrifying aftershock shattered the magnificent palaces into pieces!
Yet the Asura God merely smiled faintly.
Two of the six strange hands behind him clenched into fists. Scarlet Asura God Power frantically gathered over them before finally erupting into two blood-red fist shadows.
The moment the fist shadows appeared, the surrounding world abruptly darkened, and dark-red lightning slithered through the air.
"Bang!!"
Di Tian's full-powered Dragon God Claw collided midair with the Asura God's casually thrown twin punches.
A visible shockwave swept outward, directly reducing all the palaces within several miles to rubble.
The two attacks contended in midair for a moment before both dissipated.
"That black dragon's Soul Power fluctuations are only at the First-Level God rank. How could he possibly withstand the Asura God's attack?"
Among the first group of gods to arrive, the Nine-Colored Goddess spoke in astonishment, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief.
The Food God beside her shook his head, indicating that he did not know either.
"You don't understand this, do you?"
The God of Emotions, Rong Nianbing, approached the two of them and spoke leisurely.
"They may seem evenly matched, but in truth, the Asura God has no killing intent yet."
"After that black dragon attacked, he merely used an attack of equal strength to cancel it out."
The Nine-Colored Goddess and the Food God immediately understood.
Rong Nianbing was a First-Level God, so he could indeed see more from the exchange.
Rong Nianbing glanced at Di Tian and the Asura God in battle, then looked toward the streams of light constantly arriving from the horizon.
Every stream of light was a noble god from one of the various lower realms.
"The God Realm hasn't had anything interesting happen in a long time."
Rong Nianbing shook his head, his voice carrying a hint of emotion.
"With the Asura God stirring things up like this, all the gods in the God Realm have come to watch the excitement."
At the center of the battlefield, Di Tian saw that no matter how many slashes he unleashed with the Dragon God Claw, the Asura God blocked them with ease.
He immediately flapped his wings and retreated, opening up distance from the Asura God.
"Sea-Playing God!"
Di Tian roared, instantly activating his Divine Skill.
Rows upon rows of purple discs appeared before him once more, layered atop one another in a straight line, their target firmly locked onto the Asura God.
It was exactly the same move he had used not long ago to kill Tang San after enhancing the technique.
"Asura God! I, Di Tian, am not some toy for you to play with!"
Before his words had faded, light from Soul Power flashed in Di Tian's mouth. A dragon-shaped breath erupted from his jaws, howling into the purple discs and repeatedly passing through them.
With every passage, the breath grew even more powerful!
The Asura God frowned slightly.
He clenched his hand in the air, and the super divine artifact, the Asura God Sword, appeared in his grasp out of nowhere.
He casually swung it.
The Asura God Sword unleashed a massive blood-red slash!
The crescent-shaped slash tore through the sky, easily cutting through the breath rushing toward him!
The purple breath was like paper before the slash, instantly split in two!
After shattering Di Tian's attack, the Asura God swept his gaze over the surrounding gods who were watching, a trace of impatience flashing through his eyes.
"Di Tian!"
"If you are willing to remain in the God Realm of this era and stop disrupting space-time, I can still spare your life!"
Hearing words that were clearly meant to place him under house arrest.
Di Tian flew into a rage, blazing fury burning within his violet-gold dragon eyes.
"The future of soul beasts is in my hands! Unless you kill me, it will never change!"
"There's no helping it."
After hearing Di Tian's words, the Asura God looked somewhat regretfully at the roaring Di Tian and shook his head.
The next moment, he gripped the Asura God Sword and turned into an afterimage, slashing toward Di Tian!
"So fast!"
Di Tian only managed to catch a faint shadow before the Asura God had already finished his strike and appeared behind him!
He maintained his sword-swinging posture without turning around.
Because that strike had already been infused with enough Divine Power to kill Di Tian in a single blow.
Yet not long afterward, the sound of something cutting through the air came from behind him.
The Asura God turned around to look.
Di Tian was completely unharmed, and he was even launching a sneak attack against him!
"What is going on?!"
The Asura God frowned, dodged the sneak attack, and swung his sword again.
The blade swept through Di Tian's body, and it should have cut him in two.
Yet nothing happened. The blade seemed to have passed through empty air.
Just as Di Tian was about to be killed by the Asura God, he activated his Divine Skill, "Heavenly Timing," locking his current state in place.
No matter how severe the damage he suffered, it would be temporarily suppressed and only erupt all at once after the Divine Skill's effect ended.
Di Tian and the Asura God continued to clash, dragon claws and sword blades colliding endlessly in midair!
Yet Di Tian was never able to injure the Asura God in the slightest!
On the contrary, without the protection of the Divine Skill "Heavenly Timing," he would likely have been slain hundreds of times already!
"No! I can't die!"
Di Tian's eyes were bloodshot, filled with crimson veins as he desperately tried to capture the Asura God's figure.
"I will never accept the fate of the future!"
The Divine Skill was still in effect, so the Asura God could not kill him.
But once the Divine Skill's effect ended, he would undoubtedly die!
He suddenly thought of those scenes from his future. The pain of giving everything only to receive nothing in return, the desolation of having his loyalty betrayed, surged into his heart once more.
"My fate! I will never accept it!"
As he thought this, he remembered the Dragon Vein attached within his body.
He had relied on it to break through to the strength of a First-Level God. Now, in this desperate situation, the Dragon Vein was the only thing he could think of!
He frantically shouted within his Spirit Sea.
"Dragon Vein! Help me! The one before me may be a God King."
"But mere power of slaughter is something that can be found in abundance before the long river of space-time! As long as you help me, we can definitely destroy him!"
Di Tian struggled against the Asura God while roaring inwardly.
Just moments ago, he had been struck several more times by the Asura God!
"So that's it! Is this a space-time-type Divine Skill?"
After probing for a while, the Asura God finally identified it through his hundreds of thousands of years of experience as a God King.
Di Tian's expression immediately darkened upon hearing that.
The Asura God stopped attacking, held his sword with both hands, and pointed its tip toward the sky.
The Divine Power of the entire God Realm began to surge wildly, gathering toward the Asura God Sword like countless rivers flowing into the sea.
Blood-red lightning continuously crashed down from the sky, staining the entire world dark red, as though the apocalypse had arrived.
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