A king! A sovereign of heaven and earth! An existence that inspired awe. At that thought, none of them dared speak carelessly, afraid they might truly unleash some great terror!
Chi Xie said, "There are no traces of ages or reincarnation in his divine power. He is a being of this era!"
"Is he truly that powerful?"
An Ming refused to accept it. He would not believe his opponent was so powerful!
Chi Xie gave a sinister smile. "Everyone, his Dao fruit is mine!"
The others shuddered, chills running down their spines as they looked at Chi Xie. Rumor had it that his clan possessed a supreme, heaven-defying ancient art capable of seizing another's Dao fruit. They had heard that the Red King was currently in seclusion, refining the Dao fruit of an Immortal King from the Nine Heavens, hoping to break into the Emperor realm through it!
"Hahaha! So you want to seize my Dao fruit? Fine, come! Either take everything, or leave your lives behind!"
"Hmph! Kill!"
Yan Luo raised his long halberd and thrust it out, charging in again!
Lin Yue said, "A defeated foe, yet you still boast of valor! Sword Disrupts Yin and Yang! Break!"
The moment Lin Yue attacked, he sensed something wrong. His divine sword technique began fading away before it even reached his opponent! He could only withstand Yan Luo's blow with his physical body!
Suddenly, heaven and earth fell into chaos. Within the stretch of sky they occupied, the Great Dao could no longer be sensed. Everyone seemed to drift away from this void. Though apparently right before one's eyes, they seemed absent from perception, as if something had severed them from the world of the Nine Heavens, leaving them alone outside the River of Time, beyond the reach of years and time.
"Time reigns supreme, and so do I! Upend the ages! Seize heaven's time!"
With a single move, Chi Xie eerily altered time in this region. Even the Great Dao could no longer inscribe its time and history!
Lin Yue's attacks seemed to be crossing endless distances and stretches of time, unable to reach the others. No law could touch them, no passage of years could reach their bodies.
It was as though a divine ability unleashed in the morning still had not reached its target by nightfall. That tiny distance before his eyes had been stretched infinitely by his opponent's secret time art, creating a phenomenon in which divine abilities could reach nothing!
This was the terror of a time beast! Strange and terrifying, enough to drive anyone to despair! Even the three from the Foreign Realm found such an ability too eerily heaven-defying and dared not associate too closely with him.
"How troublesome! Try this sword strike! Great Yin-Yang Chengli Sword Qi!"
Behind Lin Yue, two phantom gods and demons, one black and one white, swung their long swords! Indestructible divine runes coiled around them. Invincible divine power surged to its utmost, making this strike seem immune to the interference of years and time as it sought to shatter this chaotic void!
"Remarkable! A supreme secret art! It broke through the blockade and reached the ultimate limit! Crossing the distance of time and space-truly extraordinary! I cannot seal it. Lin Yue, you interest me more and more!"
Watching Lin Yue's extreme Dao strike pass through the chaotic time domain toward the four of them, Chi Xie voiced his praise!
"But these are hardly my only methods!"
He raised his hand and opened a stretch of chaos. From within it, an identical strand of Great Yin-Yang Chengli Sword Qi slashed out, canceling Lin Yue's attack!
Lin Yue frowned. "So that is it! You pulled my earlier sword strike out of the past River of Time and turned it against me! Impressive! No, terrifying would be more accurate! What an uncanny divine ability!"
Chi Xie said, "You flatter me. It cannot be called the River of Time. Peering into the River of Time without entering the domain of kings would invite great terror. I merely distorted the imprints of the Great Dao and made the event occur within this region!"
Lin Yue said, "That is already frightening enough!"
Chi Xie said, "Now that the explanation is over, you can be on your way! Red King Divine Furnace! Rise!"
With Chi Xie's roar, a divine furnace flew out of his divine body. Though an imitation, its power was far from weak. Blazing flames poured from its four openings. The furnace rose above this chaotic void and descended over Lin Yue, seeking to swallow him inside and refine him completely!
Sensing danger, Lin Yue employed the Yin-Yang Reversal Step Method, trying to leave the chaotic time domain. Yet he seemed to be circling in place. Even speed comparable to the extreme Dao could not carry him across this mysterious domain!
Chi Xie said, "Do not bother struggling. All power of the void is cut off here!"
Watching Lin Yue become enveloped, the others breathed a sigh of relief. Was it over? It felt rather unreal!
Chi Xie licked his lips as he watched the trapped Lin Yue, deeply satisfied with his heaven-reaching physique and the Dao fruit nurtured within him!
Chi Xie said, "Everyone, let us begin!"
The other three exchanged glances. Though Chi Xie might pull even farther ahead of them after this, killing Lin Yue took priority!
The four spread out, each taking a corner to suppress the four poles of heaven and earth. They acted simultaneously, channeling the divine essence within their bodies into the furnace to accelerate its refining power!
Confined beneath the furnace's radiance, Lin Yue felt a supreme, heaven-defying power peeling away his flesh. It was not extracting his primordial spirit directly, but trying to strip him open and expose his primordial spirit and Dao fruit!
"Hahaha! Your flesh may reach heaven, but it still cannot defy heaven! Once I refine you into supreme vital essence, I will seize your Dao fruit, and your flesh will become a supreme pill, releasing its final splendor. Lin Yue, we will remember a prodigy like you! Like the Nine Heavens' Six Paths Immortal King and Immortal King Wuzhong, you will leave a bold stroke in history! Do not fear being forgotten!"
Chi Xie spoke with great delight!
Below, the Foreign Realm cultivators had long been sweating with anxiety. Seeing An Ming retreat in defeat had startled them. Then even three attackers surrounding Lin Yue had failed to prevail, their combined assault shattered by his supreme swordsmanship! Their hearts had risen into their throats! Only now, seeing Lin Yue sealed by the divine furnace, did smiles appear on their faces!
"Hahaha! Excellent! Lord Chi Xie will refine him now. Hehehe, even heaven-defying abilities will do him no good. In the end, it all comes to nothing! Nothing at all!"
A Supreme from the Foreign Realm spoke, mocking the Nine Heavens' side!
"Indeed, indeed! Lord Chi Xie is invincible in this era. He has the makings of a king!"
"Despicable scoundrels! Ganging up on him again!"
"A pack of shameless beasts!"
"Hmph, the victor is king and the loser a bandit! Stop your whining. If you have the ability, call for help yourselves!"
"Boohoo!"
Some on the Nine Heavens' side were weeping, unable to refute them and choked with humiliation!
"Ah, Lord Lin Yue! How could this happen? Why were you so stubborn and refused to heed our warnings?"
Unlike those from the Foreign Realm, everyone on the Nine Heavens' side was cursing, denouncing their opponents' broken promises and despicable methods! Sadly, it accomplished nothing!
Chapter 24: Slaughter Until None Dare Claim Supremacy
As time passed, watching Lin Yue burn in the divine furnace's flames, the four went from smug satisfaction to frowns!
Yan Luo said, "What is going on? Something is strange about him! The furnace still has not refined him after all this time!"
"Intensify the refining. I refuse to believe he can hold out much longer."
The Red-Clothed Woman spoke, and all four began frantically drawing on their divine power. The furnace flames surged, refining Lin Yue like the mouth of a volcano!
Indeed, though Lin Yue appeared to be burning in the furnace flames, he regarded this as an opportunity to further test his body's limits. Beneath those flames, flaws in his flesh slowly began to reveal themselves! He then used the divine essence within him to remedy those deficiencies and temper away his weaknesses!
"No! The furnace flames are useless against him! He is using them to temper his body! What a terrifying physique! Attack together!"
Chi Xie cried out in alarm! Then he unleashed a supreme, heaven-defying ancient art at Lin Yue, who remained beneath the furnace.
The other three had no time even to be shocked. Without hesitation, they unleashed their ancestral arts at Lin Yue!
Facing their peerless killing abilities, Lin Yue remained unmoved. A divine radiance that distorted the void spread outward from his entire body, then extended through the heavens, beginning to cover the region Chi Xie had warped!
Their divine abilities and secret arts were twisted, crushed, and shattered the moment they approached, as though no law could touch him!
Within Lin Yue, the martial Dao divine infant rose to its feet. Divine essence coursed frantically through his twelve circumferential divine meridians, his three hundred sixty-five acupoint divine universes awakened, and his seven hundred twenty cave-heaven deities revived.
For the first time since his battle with He Wushuang, Lin Yue once again unleashed his most formidable state!
His black hair gleamed translucently as it danced behind him. Extreme Dao divine radiance pierced the sky like a sharp sword, and divine essence more dazzling than the furnace flames erupted in full!
His mighty blood and qi cracked the sky. His invincible presence looked down upon heaven and earth!
"Impossible! How can he be this powerful? He is only an ant from the Nine Heavens! He cannot possibly possess such might!" An Ming's composure shattered instantly. His inner demons erupted, and he frantically hurled attacks at Lin Yue!
Unfortunately, his attacks could not even reach Lin Yue!
Clang...!
Boom...!
The instant Lin Yue opened his eyes, golden-white light drifted and surged within his right eye like a sea of stars. In his left, an eyeball hung like a black sun above a crimson sea of blood, eerily strange. First, two beams of divine light, one black and one white, burst from his eyes and shot into the sky. Then, like two razor-sharp sword rays, they cleaved Chi Xie's divine furnace apart! This was Lin Yue's extreme Yin and extreme Yang Dao body beginning to manifest, engraved within his eyes like an imprint!
The divine furnace shattered, its energy surging like waves and stirring chaos in the void!
At this moment, Lin Yue stood in the void like an extreme Dao figure, drawing the attention of the entire great world. Even others engaged in battle slowed their hands, looking over to see who was fighting!
"A being of this era, so young yet already possessing the might of an invincible one. Extraordinary! A pity-were it not for the supreme shackles, our Nine Heavens might gain another expert at the peak of the Human Dao domain. But this child will surely enter the Immortal Dao in the future. Send word for our experts to protect him. He must not fall here!"
A great expert on the Nine Heavens' side transmitted an order to protect a promising seedling like Lin Yue!
"The Nine Heavens still has an invincible one?" Throughout the sky, those from the Foreign Realm frowned!
"What an invincible, heaven-blessed talent! He absolutely cannot be allowed to live! Otherwise, he will become another Wuzhong!"
After noticing Lin Yue, an Immortal from the Foreign Realm spoke. Endless killing intent spread through the sky; he would not allow Lin Yue to truly mature! Lin Yue's display was simply too horrifying, surpassing even the Heavenly Horned Ant Clan. His flesh formed a domain of its own. Though he had not entered the extreme Dao, he already possessed its might. The threat was too great!
"Good! Good! Good! Lin Yue, you have fulfilled a wish of mine. Refining you to death without a true bloody battle would have left some regret in my heart. Now it can be fulfilled!"
Watching Lin Yue cleave through the furnace and break free, his body radiating extreme Dao divine light, Chi Xie showed no anger. Instead, he seemed to have had his wish granted!
Lin Yue said, "The power of time is truly uncanny. Without my trump card, I might already have been refined! Your clan is indeed uniquely favored, and far too dangerous! If you are allowed to grow, you will certainly become a future threat. Today is the perfect time to remove that worry!"
Chi Xie said, "You are not the only one with a trump card! Lin Yue, you are strong enough to fight on behalf of your Nine Heavens. This battle will show those in your world who still harbor fantasies that your struggles are doomed to be useless. Even a heaven-blessed talent like you will be overturned beneath the overwhelming tide of our realm!"
As he finished speaking, Chi Xie also erupted with the might of an invincible one. This was not an extreme Dao strike achieved only through their combined, desperate efforts, but the true, unrestricted use of an invincible one's power! Yet the threads of strange power surrounding his body seemed not to belong to this era!
"Who is it now, unleashing the might of an invincible one?" someone from the Foreign Realm asked!
"It is Chi Xie, from that clan. He is facing the Nine Heavens' newly emerged invincible one!"
"Chi Xie? If it is him, there is nothing to worry about!"
Once they realized that this red-haired youth from the Red King's clan was contending against Lin Yue, those from the Foreign Realm stopped worrying. They believed no one in the Nine Heavens could shake that clan's ferocious might!
Self-Transformation? Surely not! Lin Yue was initially startled too, wondering whether some butterfly effect had taken hold!
But then Lin Yue understood. After all, this was a beast of time!
Lin Yue said, "Using time's uncanny power to accelerate yourself and obtain the power of your future self. An impressive method!"
Then let us fight!
After exchanging glances, An Ming, Yan Luo, and the Red-Clothed Woman no longer hesitated!
"Kill!" Having made their resolve, the three erupted with power comparable to the extreme Dao and charged at Lin Yue!
Above the sky, figures akin to invincible ones clashed. Every movement shattered stars. Both sides improved amid battle, even beginning to evolve toward becoming invincible ones.
"Life-Less Yin-Yang Sword!"
Lin Yue unleashed a terrifying sword ray of ultimate slaughter. Unlike his earlier power, this sword technique evolved into boundlessly sharp sword intent that stripped heaven and earth of Yin and Yang. Wherever the sword ray passed, the divine abilities of An Ming and the other two were devoured and extinguished, unable to leave any imprint!
Beneath one sword strike, Yin and Yang ceased to exist!
Yet even this terrifying attack was blocked by Chi Xie. He used endless time to exhaust the divine ability completely!
"Of all the laws of the heavens, time reigns supreme! Seize Yin and Yang, throw heaven and earth into chaos! Die!"
Chi Xie raised his hand, and chaos covered the heavens. In an instant, time descended into disorder and the Yin and Yang of heaven and earth reversed, grinding away at Lin Yue's flesh!
"Hmph! If time reigns supreme, then I will slaughter until even time no longer dares claim supremacy!"
The divine universes within Lin Yue erupted like furnaces. With a sword strike from his right hand, he shattered Yan Luo's thrusting halberd, while his left palm struck toward An Ming and the Red-Clothed Woman. As though crushed by the Great Dao, all three flew backward like drifting leaves!
Boom...
The three crashed down like falling stars, their bodies nearly coming apart and their primordial spirits covered in cracks. They had never imagined a casual blow from him could possess such power! The might of the extreme Dao was terrifying indeed!
The long sword snapped, the battle halberd wailed, and the battle spear shattered into fragments that fell to the ground!
"Draw forth the Yellow Springs! Enter burial! Die!"
Chi Xie roared in alarm, unleashing the innate secret art of a time beast. With the power of sacrifice, he turned time, seeking to bury Lin Yue and this entire void in reincarnation!
Heaven and earth seemed to awaken like a living being, transforming into a demon that could devour all things. It eroded Lin Yue, seeking to erase every trace of his existence!
The martial Dao divine infant within Lin Yue likewise shone with flickering extreme Dao divine radiance. It distorted the void, forming a domain of his own will to resist the interference of the ages.
"One Sword Across Worlds!"
The black sword ray severed the secret power of time, cleaved through Chi Xie's blockade, and slashed toward him as he condensed divine marks.
Before Chi Xie could react to the mighty power around Lin Yue, untouched by the laws, the sword strike sent him flying!
Golden light scattered across the sky-the extreme Dao divine radiance emitted by the essence blood within the time beast! It was a treasure of the Great Dao, and Lin Yue swept out his hand to collect it!
"Impossible! What kind of ancient seed can resist the erosion of the ages? Could you have fused with the world tree?"
Legend held that the world tree could pierce heaven and earth and grew within the River of Time. With supreme spatial power, it encompassed the River of Time, thus resisting time and the ages to a certain degree! For no matter which point in time one landed in, one merely stood upon the world tree's branches!
"Hmph! Take a guess!"
With those words, Lin Yue attacked again with the Black-Gold Long Sword!
"Damn you! Do not think these are our clan's only methods!"
"Then come! I will slaughter until you no longer dare claim supremacy!"
Chi Xie drew upon his divine essence, seeking to connect with the Great Dao of heaven and earth through his secret time art and stir tremors that would tear Lin Yue apart!
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