Slash!!!

Gu Sheng looked down at Slaughter City, now transformed into a sea of flames and ruins, and let out a cold snort.

Then he turned around. His figure became a streak of golden light and vanished into the collapsed passage in an instant.

All that remained was the raging fire, burning quietly among the ruins and burying this land of sin beneath the dust of history.

The golden streak of light sped through the dim, collapsing passage.

Boulders kept crashing down around him, but the instant they neared the golden light, an invisible force shattered them to pieces.

Gu Sheng remained calm, his eyes fixed on the exit ahead. His figure never slowed for a moment.

Yet just as he was about to burst out of the underground passage, the entire tunnel's tremors abruptly stopped.

The falling rocks and collapsing earth froze in midair, creating an eerie scene.

The Holy Fire, which had made the air scorching hot, suddenly cooled. In its place came a heavy pressure, thick with an endless aura of slaughter and destruction.

This pressure seeped out of the Void and instantly enveloped the entire underground space.

Gu Sheng stopped and hovered in midair.

He turned his head slightly and looked toward the depths of the passage.

In the direction of the ruins, where the Holy Fire had been burning, a terrifying dark-red light was now frantically gathering.

Within that light was a power that surpassed the mortal limits of this world.

"Finally decided to show yourself?"

Gu Sheng's lips curled slightly, a trace of amusement showing in his eyes.

This was the moment he had been waiting for.

Destroying Slaughter City was not only meant to cut off Tang San's retreat. It was also meant to force out the true master behind this land of sin.

Humm!

A strange vibration suddenly rang out in the Void.

The rock walls overhead, above the already-collapsed underground space, began to melt away inch by inch, turning into nothingness.

A huge dark-red vortex slowly revolved in the sky. At its center, dark-red lightning flickered wildly.

Each flash of lightning was accompanied by a deafening boom, as if the entire world trembled beneath its power.

Then, a massive phantom a hundred meters tall slowly descended from the dark-red vortex.

The phantom wore dark-red demonic armor, carved with countless grotesque images of evil spirits. He held an enormous blood-red greatsword in each hand.

A cold mask covered his face, revealing only a pair of eyes glowing with a ghostly green light.

With the phantom's appearance, the entire world turned blood-red.

The air filled with an overwhelming stench of blood, while the wails of countless tormented souls echoed through the Void.

This was none other than Asura God, one of the Divine Realm's five Supreme Gods, appearing as a projection.

The Asura God Projection looked down at Gu Sheng, his ghostly green eyes devoid of any human emotion.

"Mortal, you have crossed the line."

His grand, imposing voice descended from the sky, sending ripples through the surrounding space.

It carried an absolute air of judgment, like the laws of heaven itself, ready to erase every living thing below.

Gu Sheng stood in the Void, facing the pressure of the divine projection. His body remained straight as a pine, utterly unaffected.

With one hand behind his back and the Sword of Holy Spirit in the other, angled toward the ground, he spoke calmly:

"Crossed the line?"

"On this continent, nothing I want to do can be called crossing the line."

At Gu Sheng's words, dark-red light abruptly flared in the Asura God Projection's eyes.

"Arrogant."

"You destroyed the land of my inheritance and killed the one I chose. You have committed a heinous crime."

"Today, I shall punish you on heaven's behalf, cast your soul into the Nine Hells, and make you suffer the burning of karma's flames for all eternity."

The Asura God Projection's voice rolled like thunder, exploding again and again across the sky.

Hearing this, Gu Sheng threw back his head and laughed, his laughter full of contempt and disdain.

"Punish me on heaven's behalf?"

"You're nothing but an enforcer of the Divine Realm. Who are you to speak for heaven?"

"As for the heir you chose, whether Tang Chen or Tang San, neither amounts to anything in my eyes."

"I killed them. What can you do about it?"

Gu Sheng spoke with such domineering arrogance that he paid no heed to this Supreme God of the Divine Realm.

The Asura God Projection clearly had not expected a mere mortal to address him with such disdain.

"You dare."

Two simple words rang out.

The dark-red vortex in the sky instantly seethed.

The Asura God Projection raised the blood-red greatsword in his right hand. An endless aura of slaughter rushed toward its blade.

The enormous greatsword swelled several times in an instant, radiating dazzling blood-red light.

"Asura Judgment!"

With a furious shout, the blood-red greatsword came crashing down at Gu Sheng with the force of splitting heaven and earth.

The moment the sword fell, a vast black rift tore open in the Void.

Frenzied spatial turbulence rampaged inside the rift, only to be ground to pieces the instant it neared the blood-red blade light.

Facing this strike from a god, a trace of seriousness finally appeared in Gu Sheng's eyes.

"Good!"

He roared as the Holy Spirit Divine Power within him surged into motion.

The Sword of Holy Spirit in his hand burst into dazzling golden light. Pure and vast, it instantly drove away most of the surrounding blood-red hue.

"Holy Spirit Verdict!"

Gripping his sword, Gu Sheng shot into the sky and swung at the descending blood-red greatsword.

A thousand-meter golden sword beam shot upward, colliding fiercely with the blood-red greatsword in midair.

Boom!

An earth-shattering crash rang out, beyond anything words could describe.

Golden Holy Fire and dark-red slaughtering energy intertwined, collided, and annihilated one another across the sky.

The terrifying shockwave became a visible wall of air that swept in every direction.

The already-ruined Slaughter City below was ground to dust by the force of the shockwave.

The earth split apart, countless enormous cracks spreading like a spiderweb as surging lava erupted from deep underground, turning the region into a living hell.

In midair, Gu Sheng's figure shuddered slightly and he was forced back a hundred meters.

He looked at his numb right hand. Rather than fear, a hint of wild delight shone in his eyes.

Because, during that clash, the third seal within him—the one that had remained dormant—had loosened slightly.

Gu Sheng was never an ordinary person from this world. The power within him was too vast. To keep his body from collapsing when he arrived, he had personally set nine seals.

Every seal he broke would bring a qualitative leap in his strength.

Now, he was at a critical point in breaking the third seal.

And the immense pressure brought by the divine projection was the perfect catalyst.

"Again!"

Gu Sheng laughed with exhilaration and flashed toward the Asura God Projection.

He swung the Sword of Holy Spirit, becoming a golden bolt of lightning that flickered through the blood-red sky.

With each flash, he left a golden wound, deep enough to expose bone, on the Asura God Projection's body.

The Asura God Projection flew into a rage.

"Miserable mortal, you dare wound my divine body!"

He swung all six of his arms, weaving the six blood-red greatswords into an airtight net of slaughter that enveloped Gu Sheng.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The dense clashes rang out without end across the sky.

Each collision shattered vast swathes of the Void.

Gu Sheng darted wildly through the net of slaughter. Though he had suffered a few minor wounds, the battle intent within him only grew stronger.

As the fight went on, he could clearly feel the invisible shackles inside him cracking more and more.

The golden gate sealing his terrifying power shuddered violently under the impact of the divine pressure.

The Asura God Projection seemed to notice something was wrong, too.

He was shocked to discover that this mortal showed no sign of tiring in battle. Instead, his aura kept growing stronger.

"Something's wrong. You're using my power to break through?"

For the first time, the Asura God Projection's voice wavered.

For a god who stood above all others, this was an immense humiliation.

"You noticed?"

"Too bad. It's already too late."

Gu Sheng stopped and hovered in the Void, wiping away a trace of blood that had trickled from the corner of his mouth.

He looked at the Asura God Projection with amusement in his eyes.

"To thank you, I'll let you see what true power looks like."

With that, Gu Sheng slowly closed his eyes.

He abandoned all defense and drew all the Holy Spirit Divine Power within him back into the depths of his divine soul.

Seeing this, the Asura God Projection's killing intent surged.

"Arrogant fool, be destroyed!"

He poured all his divine power into the blood-red greatsword in his hand.

In an instant, the greatsword became a blood-red pillar of light that reached from heaven to earth. Within it, the phantom of the Asura God Kingdom could faintly be seen.

"Asura: Blade of Termination!"

Gripping the sword with both hands, the Asura God Projection swung down at the defenseless Gu Sheng with the force to destroy the world.

This was a god's full-power strike.

The surrounding space vanished beneath the sword, leaving behind a pitch-black black hole.

The blood-red pillar of light swallowed Gu Sheng in an instant, moving faster than light.

Rumble—

Terrifying blood-red light dyed the entire world a deathly, dark red.

Under such a terrifying attack, any mortal being should have been reduced to ashes in an instant.

Yet at the center of the blood-red light, Gu Sheng endured unimaginable agony and transformation.

Deep in his divine soul, the enormous golden seal-gate could no longer withstand the Asura God's power battering it.

Crack!

A crisp sound of shattering rang clearly in Gu Sheng's mind.

Then—

Countless cracks spread across the entire golden gate in an instant.

Boom!

With a deafening crash, the third seal within Gu Sheng shattered.

A terrifying power beyond words erupted in that instant, like a volcano held back for millions of years finally spewing forth.

Pure, ancient, and noble, this power surged through Gu Sheng's entire body, carrying supreme majesty.

His body underwent a complete transformation in an instant.

His damaged meridians were instantly repaired by this power and widened several times over.

His bones turned pure gold, every one of them carved with profound golden runes.

His long hair became dazzling pure gold, flying wildly behind him despite the lack of wind.

His once-black eyes also turned pure gold, like two suns hanging high in the sky, shining with a light no one dared look at directly.

Boom!

A terrifying fluctuation of Soul Power erupted from within Gu Sheng.

His cultivation began to soar wildly.

Level 95...

Level 96...

Level 97...

Level 98...

Almost in the blink of an eye, his Soul Power broke through the threshold of Titled Douluo and reached Level 99!

Limit Douluo!

And not an ordinary Limit Douluo, but one with a divine body and divine soul!

His aura became unfathomably deep, vast as the starry sky, its depths impossible to measure.

The blood-red pillar of light that had swallowed him began to collapse inch by inch under the impact of this terrifying power.

Golden Holy Fire burst from Gu Sheng's body, sweeping outward and burning away the surrounding blood-red light in an instant.

Gu Sheng stood in the Void, feeling the terrifying power within him surge like a turbulent river. He could not help but let out a long breath.

"So this is the power of the third seal?"

He clenched his fist, and the Void gave a muffled boom.

He could feel that his current strength was more than ten times greater than before.

Before, he still needed to rely on certain methods to contend with a divine projection.

Now, crushing this divine projection before him would be as easy as crushing an ant.

The Asura God Projection watched Gu Sheng slowly emerge from the blood-red light. At last, shock appeared in his ghostly green eyes.

"This... this is impossible!"

"What kind of monster are you?"

"How could a human possibly break through at such a terrifying speed? The power inside you... absolutely shouldn't exist in this world!"

For the first time, terror crept into the Asura God Projection's voice.

He could clearly feel that the pressure radiating from Gu Sheng was now so overwhelming that even this projection of a god trembled deep in its soul.

Gu Sheng looked at the utterly shocked Asura God Projection. The corner of his mouth lifted slightly, forming a cold, mocking smile.

"I told you. In my eyes, gods are nothing special."

"Now, the game is over."

Gu Sheng slowly raised his right hand.

The Sword of Holy Spirit, which had been floating beside him, erupted in a golden radiance a hundred times more brilliant than the sun.

In that instant, the entire sky was dyed gold.

The dark-red vortex that had shrouded the heavens rapidly melted away beneath the golden light, like snow under the sun.

Gu Sheng gripped the Sword of Holy Spirit. Without using any flashy Soul Skill, he simply swung it toward the Asura God Projection in an utterly ordinary strike.

"Cut."

A calm, simple word left his lips.

In an instant, a golden sword aura beyond the power of words to describe sliced through the void.

Wherever the sword aura passed, time seemed to stop flowing, and space was perfectly cleaved in two.