The Void Star God Mecha, sixfold.
Void Profound Ice, threefold. His second soul skill, third soul skill, and fourth soul skill lit up in succession, stacking into a sixteenfold amplification.
That aura of evil and darkness pressed down as though solid, making even Xiong Jun, a 470,000-year-old ferocious beast, feel his breath catch.
"Impossible!"
Xiong Jun roared in disbelief, "How could you possibly!"
In his hundreds of thousands of years of life, he had never encountered a human capable of unleashing successive bursts of power like this.
His soul skills were actually all consecutive amplifications.
But he soon tore that flicker of shock and doubt to shreds, replacing it with even more savage killing intent.
He decided to strike first, abruptly raising both claws as dark golden light gathered furiously at their tips.
"Sky-Rending Claw!!!"
Yet before that golden radiance could fully take shape, an enormous black-and-gold figure had already appeared before him.
Like a bolt of black lightning, the Void Star God Mecha swung its right claw, slashing viciously upward across Xiong Jun's chest with a shriek that tore through space!
Squelch!
Five claw marks cut through Xiong Jun's dark golden fur, which completely disregarded attacks at his own level. Blood gushed like a fountain, spattering the soil beneath his feet.
The force of that blow sent Xiong Jun's massive body flying.
He plowed a bottomless trench through the ground several kilometers away before crashing heavily to the earth.
The earth thundered, and dust billowed.
Xiong Jun struggled to rise, lowering his head to look at the five bone-deep claw marks across his chest. His savage bear face was filled with disbelief.
"How could this be..."
"My body..."
He looked up at the distant figure slowly withdrawing its claws, and his pupils abruptly contracted.
The next instant, his opponent vanished from the spot.
He frantically searched for that damned human who had injured him.
He abruptly looked up at the sky.
Ye Guixu's figure suddenly appeared a thousand meters overhead.
The Void Star God Mecha stood in midair, its right hand raised high, palm facing upward.
Dark red energy gathered furiously around him, like a bottomless abyss greedily devouring everything nearby.
Light, air, clouds, and even space itself collapsed toward that enormous metal claw.
The energy sphere expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye: ten meters, thirty meters, fifty meters.
It finally settled into a black-and-red sphere over a hundred meters in diameter.
Terrifying gravity tugged furiously, violently twisting and distorting the space surrounding the energy sphere.
Light was forcibly bent as it approached the sphere's edge, forming rings of eerie ripples. Clouds were stretched into spirals around the sphere, as though spacetime itself were making way for this star about to fall.
"Mysterious Universe!!!"
Ye Guixu looked down at Xiong Jun below, abruptly drew back his arm, and hurled it downward!
The hundred-meter-wide Mysterious Universe hurtled like a black-and-red meteor, trailing a pitch-black wake that warped space as it delivered the abyss's judgment upon Xiong Jun!
Xiong Jun flew into a towering rage, dark golden light erupting from his entire body once more.
"Damned human! You're courting death!!"
"Sky-Rending Claw!!!"
Meanwhile, deep within the Lake of Life, the Myriad Demon King's expression abruptly changed.
"This is bad, Di Tian. Xiong Jun, he..."
As a Demon Eye Tree, the Myriad Demon King could monitor everything happening throughout the Star Dou Great Forest through the sensory network formed by his roots and the vegetation.
Just now, he had clearly sensed it.
The million-year-old fat maggot had actually sacrificed himself to a human!
Immediately afterward,
Xiong Jun had gone looking for him in a fury, then fought him, and...
Xiong Jun had actually proved no match for him!
His opponent had sent him flying several kilometers with a single swipe of his claw!
The Myriad Demon King's astonishment immediately left the surrounding ferocious beasts bewildered and uncertain.
Xiong Jun had clearly gone to find that fat worm's spiritual origin. Why did it seem as though something had gone wrong?
Ripples spread through space, and a pitch-black figure slowly stepped out.
Di Tian's expression was rather grim. His golden slit pupils swept over the ferocious beasts present, and he said in a low voice, "Come. Something has happened to Xiong Jun."
On the other battlefield, Xiong Jun roared furiously. Sensing the terrifying power contained within that energy sphere, his enormous dark golden claws shone with dazzling golden light.
He struck with both claws, swinging all ten sharp talons at once and smashing them viciously toward the rapidly descending Mysterious Universe.
Double Sky-Rending Claw. He would tear this damned human to pieces!
Yet,
The instant the ten Sky-Rending Claws touched the surface of the Mysterious Universe, they seemed to sink into an abyss.
Those dark golden claw rays, powerful enough to tear space apart, were completely devoured and annihilated by that terrifying gravity, leaving not even a trace behind.
Xiong Jun's pupils abruptly contracted.
How was this possible?!
Like a fly struck by a slap, he had nothing left in his mind but those words.
Impossible!
Though every challenge he had made against Di Tian had ended in defeat, his Sky-Rending Claw could break through even Di Tian's defenses and tear wounds into him!
How could his opponent annihilate it so easily?!
Never in his life had he seen his Sky-Rending Claw neutralized so effortlessly.
Even Di Tian couldn't possibly do that.
The hundred-meter Mysterious Universe pressed downward at an unhurried pace.
Every hair on Xiong Jun's body trembled.
He wanted to retreat, only to discover that his enormous feet had already sunk into the cracked ground and could not be pulled free.
In his eyes, the Mysterious Universe swallowed the sky, the sea of trees, and the mountain ridges. The world seemed to hold nothing but that slowly falling sphere and the collapsing abyss beneath his feet.
"No... no!!"
Xiong Jun howled, a fear that had never appeared before surfacing in his scarlet eyes.
The Mysterious Universe crashed down amid Xiong Jun's desperate, furious roars.
As though the weight of the entire sky had condensed into that black-and-red energy sphere, it pressed Xiong Jun's hundred-meter-tall body into the earth along with the ground beneath his feet.
The ground throughout the Star Dou Great Forest shook. The thunderous roar carried for hundreds of li, and even the water deep within the Lake of Life rippled in widening rings.
Not far away, the void split open, and several figures stepped out.
Their gazes landed on the Mysterious Universe smashing deep into the earth below, and their expressions abruptly changed.
"Xiong Jun!"
Before the cry had faded, boundless light suddenly exploded.
A terrifying dark red mushroom cloud rose thousands of meters into the sky, light and heat intertwining as they swept in every direction.
The terrifying shock wave hurled rubble and dust hundreds of meters into the air. The entire area looked as though it had been struck by a meteor. The ferocious beasts' expressions changed drastically, and they retreated frantically.
Only Di Tian remained standing where he was through his formidable strength, letting the shock wave sweep past him.
As the dust and smoke slowly dispersed, an enormous crater several kilometers in diameter appeared in the earth.
Xiong Jun's mountain-like body lay at the bottom of the crater, as battered and broken as a rag doll, already devoid of any sign of life.
An orange-gold soul ring slowly rose from Xiong Jun's corpse, gleaming coldly in the sunlight.
"Xiong Jun!"
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