The brutal fighting that had lasted four days and four nights had finally passed, for the moment, beyond its most violent phase.
Above the Heaven-Piercing Official Road, the vast hundred-thousand-mile expanse of the God Realm's skies had long since lost its former peace.
The entire sky had become a shattered, devastated killing hell. The barriers of space collapsed layer upon layer and fractured piece by piece, then continually reformed, healed, and regenerated under the support of the God Realm's source.
The battle had begun with a day and a night of cautious probing, of back-and-forth attacks and defenses.
Then came three days and three nights of all-out, peak-level mortal combat.
Every head-on collision between Shiheng and the Demon Race Asura Clan Chief was a clash at the purest god-level peak.
Torrents of laws collided, destruction divine power exploded, and two utterly different supreme forces frantically annihilated, swept outward, and scoured heaven and earth.
After four days of grueling battle, the Asura Clan Chief, who ruled the Demon Race in the Life God Realm, had been driven to the end of his rope and forced to reveal every trump card.
He had forcibly drawn out and expended three drops of Sovereign's Might, combining them with the full enhancement of the offensive Sovereign Artifact he carried, relying on both reserves.
Even then, he had only barely withstood the terrifying pressure of Shiheng's divine power fused from four laws and his fully mastered fusion of Three-Element laws.
From his initial slight disadvantage, he had forcibly clawed back the situation, maintaining a precarious, tottering balance.
But everyone knew that this brief balance was by no means the end.
It was merely the cruel beginning of an endless battle of attrition to the death.
Starting on the fifth day, a full ten days and ten