This time.
Even Xu Taiping himself could not tell how much of his and his primordial chaos clone's lifespan he had consumed.
Because this time, after activating the Heaven-Flipping Seal's power of life and death, he had never intended to shut it off.
To be precise.
He had no intention of shutting it off before killing Dragon Emperor Ao Yan.
"Rumble...!"
For a time, the combat power and qi and blood surrounding both Xu Taiping and Dragon Emperor Ao Yan began surging outward like raging waves, one crashing after another.
Soon, two forces of killing power that seemed poised to tear this world apart collided heavily.
"Boom...!"
Amid the deafening collision, the waters of the Great Lake swept outward in all directions, with the two men at their center.
The mud-covered lakebed was immediately laid completely bare.
"Rumble..."
And because their combat power was still climbing without pause, the vast expanse of lake water pushed out of the lake remained suspended around them.
It looked like an enormous jade-green bowl.
"Boom!"
But after holding for a brief moment, the stalemate between their combat powers was broken by a sudden surge in Dragon Emperor Ao Yan's power.
"Rumble...!"
Amid the violent trembling of heaven and earth, the Divine Seal's power enveloping Dragon Emperor Ao Yan dissipated completely.
Clearly, he had fully refined the Divine Seal's power.
"Boom!"
The next moment, accompanied by a deafening sonic boom, Dragon Emperor Ao Yan's enormous body appeared before Xu Taiping without warning, as though through instantaneous movement.
"Boom!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Ao Yan drove a fist heavily toward Xu Taiping.
But as Ao Yan's punch came crashing down, Xu Taiping had already raised his own fist.
"Bang!!!"
In an instant, their fists collided, and a violent qi explosion rang out.
The lake water that