The azure dragon claw that appeared out of nowhere blotted out the sky and sun, sealing off every inch of space and every trace of aura around the Divine Lord.
There was no retreat, no escape!
In that instant between life and death, the Divine Lord unleashed every scrap of his potential. With a wild roar, he reversed the Blood God Saber and swung it back in defense from an unimaginable angle. At the same time, the blood-baleful aura around him condensed into an incomparably heavy crimson demonic shield before his back.
He tried to block this blow!
Yet before an absolute gap in strength, every struggle appeared so pale and powerless.
Boom—!!!
The dragon claw struck the crimson demonic shield solidly.
Without the slightest pause, the crimson demonic shield burst apart like papier-mâché, exploding into a sky full of bloody light!
Then, with its momentum undiminished, the dragon claw slammed viciously into the Divine Lord's back!
"Puh—!!!"
As though struck by hundreds of millions of bolts of thunder, the Divine Lord shot out like a cannonball fired at high speed. Screaming miserably, he was swatted from midair straight into the earth by that single claw!
Rumble!
The earth shook violently. A gigantic palm print, bottomless and ringed with spiderweb cracks, appeared upon the secret realm's ground. And the Divine Lord lay at the very center of that palm print, his fate unknown.
One strike!
Just one strike!
The renowned Divine Lord of the Blood God Sect, whose name made the entire outer realm quake in fear, had been swatted from the sky into the ground by the Qian Emperor's Dragon Vein Incarnation as though he were a fly!
In the distance, the three Blood God Sect elders who had just shaken off the Heavenly Wolf Army and entered the