In the shattered starry sky, Lu Chen and Carefree Heavenly Venerate faced each other from afar, both standing motionless.
This ancient Heavenly Venerable had yet to perish completely. His primordial spirit charged into Lu Chen's immortal platform, surrounded by densely packed, mysterious runes and radiating an eerie, terrifying power. He sought to devour and merge with Lu Chen's primordial spirit, seizing that final sliver of life.
"Carefree Heavenly Venerate, your life has reached its end. No matter how you struggle in your death throes, you have no chance!" Lu Chen shouted coldly. He activated the Foreknowledge Secret, and his primordial spirit shone with nine-colored light, exuding an immortal aura as it charged forward.
This most perilous clash of primordial spirits ended after only a fleeting moment, for Carefree Heavenly Venerate truly could no longer hold on.
He had sublimated himself to the utmost and fought Lu Chen for so long, his emperor body shattered time and again. His vitality had been utterly exhausted, and his primordial spirit began to crumble on its own.
"I struggled in every way, exhausted every scheme, even stooped to becoming a demonic dragon that fed on all living beings beneath heaven, clinging to life for millions of years. Yet in the end, I must still die. All that remains is a helpless lament!"
The ancient Heavenly Venerable sighed and cried out in sorrow. An aura of death curled around his primordial spirit as it slowly withered and dispersed, on the verge of passing from the world.
Lu Chen did not strike again. He merely watched him in silence, a trace of complicated emotion flashing deep within his cold eyes.
A supreme Heavenly Venerable of the Mythological Era, once invincible throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, whose mighty name had endured through the ages, could