The valley lay deathly still, and the evening breeze abruptly stopped.
Gu Yuena's battered figure suddenly shuddered violently.
Deep within Dragon Valley, the Dragon God's Heart, sealed away for countless ages, abruptly erupted with Nine-Colored Divine Radiance that spanned heaven and earth. It crossed spatial barriers, disregarded the constraints of distance, and forcibly poured the purest, most overbearing God King Origin into Gu Yuena's shattered Divine Essence.
There was no warning whatsoever.
Gu Yuena's eyes snapped open. Her once-clear, pale silver eyes now brimmed with the majesty of a God King who stood above the plane, and she forcibly rewrote every law of heaven and earth throughout the valley.
Qian Gu Fenfeng's expression changed drastically. The God-Level Soul Power throughout his body instantly tensed, and the Coiling Dragon Staff hummed without cease.
He had only recently reached God Level, and his foundation was already unstable, constantly suppressed by the laws of the Douluo Plane. He had thought capturing the gravely wounded Silver Dragon King alive would be a complete victory, never imagining that she could remotely rouse the Super Divine Artifact, the Dragon God's Heart!
"How could this..."
Before he could finish, a boundless God King Spiritual Tsunami came crashing down.
This was not the power of a Soul Master or a Dragon King. It was true God King Authority, the highest order of origin power that stood above this heaven and earth!
Qian Gu Fenfeng instantly unleashed the strongest defense of the Unyielding Staff Technique. The overlapping staff intents of Illusion Break and Dust Break enveloped his entire body, while dark-golden Staff Dao Will fiercely shielded his Divine Soul and flesh. Beside him, Han Tianyi exhausted every ounce of his lifetime's spiritual power to raise a barrier, and the other twelve pinnacle experts simultaneously channeled their Soul Power to support them. Yet before absolute God King power, every defense was as fragile as thin paper.
Crack-!
The invisible spiritual impact instantly tore through every obstruction.
Qian Gu Fenfeng's sea of consciousness erupted in explosive agony. His Divine Soul felt as though countless Divine Blades were slicing and stripping it away inch by inch. Scalding crimson divine blood instantly gushed from his seven orifices, and fine bloody fissures split the skin of his forehead, neck, and arms. For the first time, his once-indestructible God-Level body suffered injuries that fractured its very origin.
Seizing the opening, the laws of the plane lashed back furiously, relentlessly tearing at his newly condensed Godhood Foundation.
Pfft!
His body doubled over violently, and he spewed a great mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of his internal organs. It splashed onto the ground, instantly evaporating into wisps of white vapor.
Gu Yuena's silver hair whipped wildly. Enduring the agony of overdrawn Divine Essence, she drew upon the Dragon God's Heart to summon the Six Origin Elements. Water, fire, wind, earth, light, and darkness-six supreme powers intertwined into a Destruction Divine Domain, sealing off every avenue Qian Gu Fenfeng had to dodge. Countless Elemental God Blades, condensed to the utmost, pierced and bombarded him like a torrential downpour!
Tribulation Break! Limit Break!
The two great Self-Created Arts erupted, accompanied by the Unyielding Staff Technique's Final Form: Breaking Through to Godhood!
Qian Gu Fenfeng burned his remaining Divine Essence, pouring all his strength into the most powerful staff strike of his life. His unfailingly accurate Staff Dao Will and invincible blocking power were his final reliance.
But this power far surpassed God Level, its superior tier crushing every rule.
Boom-!!
A heaven-destroying, earth-destroying roar exploded. The entire valley was leveled outright, the surrounding mountains collapsed one after another, and abyssal fissures hundreds of zhang deep split the earth.
The dark-golden staff shadow shattered inch by inch, and the will of the Unyielding Staff Technique collapsed with a crash.
Terrifying God-Level Backlash surged up the Coiling Dragon Staff, instantly piercing every limb and bone in his body.
The sharp cracks of exploding bones rang out in succession!
Hundreds of tendons and bones throughout his body snapped. The upper-arm bones in both arms were pulverized, the shinbones in both legs shattered, and every rib in his chest broke apart completely. The God King shock wave crushed his internal organs, leaving them gravely damaged, displaced, and collapsed. His once-stable God-Level cultivation shook violently, his realm teetered on the brink, and his newly formed Godhood verged on dissolution.
Unable to keep his footing at all, Qian Gu Fenfeng was smashed by divine power into a deep crater in the ground like a ruined rag doll.
Dust, rubble, and bloody mist churned across the sky.
At the center of the crater, Qian Gu Fenfeng lay drenched in blood, his body twisted and caved in. His Battle Armor and robes were completely shattered, and not an inch of his skin remained intact. Thick divine blood streamed constantly from his mouth, nose, eyes, and ears. His breathing was faint in the extreme, his Divine Essence was disordered and dispersing, and his Divine Soul was utterly ravaged. He no longer had even the strength to raise a hand and grip the Coiling Dragon Staff.
The God-Level body and undefeated staff technique he had taken such pride in had been utterly battered by the God King power of the Dragon God's Heart, leaving him gravely wounded and near death.
On the outskirts, Wang Hongchen, Yi Hongchen, and everyone else were sent flying by the aftershocks, coughing up blood. No one could approach the battlefield by so much as half a step. They could only watch helplessly as their Councilor was mercilessly crushed.
The dust slowly dispersed.
Gu Yuena hovered in midair, her face as pale as snow, her Divine Essence severely overdrawn. The remote empowerment from the Dragon God's Heart slowly receded, and the God King Pressure gradually dissipated. Yet her icy gaze remained fixed on the dying Qian Gu Fenfeng in the crater.
"Qian Gu Fenfeng, did you think that with the incomplete body of a fledgling god, you could trample the dragon race and imprison me in your palm?"
"Before the true Dragon God Origin... your God-Level power cannot withstand a single blow."
Inside the crater, Qian Gu Fenfeng struggled to open his bloodstained eyes. Agony penetrated his marrow, every breath tugged at his shattered internal organs, and waves of faintness swept through his mind.
His undefeated will had yet to be extinguished, but his broken body, dispersing Divine Essence, and Godhood on the verge of collapse all proclaimed that he was already an arrow at the end of its flight.
"Hahaha... hahahahahaha!"
"To think that I, Qian Gu Fenfeng, would see a day like this!"
He knew full well that Gu Yuena had only just awakened and had no ability whatsoever to activate the Dragon God's Heart, much less when she had not even found Dragon Valley.
Yet the Dragon God's Heart had suddenly come to her aid from countless miles away. He would never believe that Tang Hao had no hand in this.
"You... think victory is already in your grasp?"
Qian Gu Fenfeng slowly raised his head from the rubble and stared at the Silver Dragon King in the sky.
"Haven't you noticed... that we've been three people short from the very beginning?"
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