Boom!
A figure, wrapped in boundless lava, emerged from the depths of the earth, declaring his invincibility to the world.
"Your courage is commendable."
Jiang Ping silently assessed him. No matter how arrogant the Ant King was, being able to maintain such fighting spirit when facing an unbeatable opponent was already exceedingly rare.
After two heavy blows, the Ant King's body had cracked like porcelain, web-like fissures spreading continuously from its center. The Tablet of Truth had been shattered again by that palm strike just now!
Most importantly, the core Nine-Nine Song rune had also been worn away by more than half. When it had resisted the Spear of Destiny before, the truth runes had not been destroyed!
"The next strike will decide life and death!" the Ant King said gravely.
This opponent was the most inconceivable existence he had ever encountered. Although he had made ample preparations before challenging him, Jiang Ping's strength still inspired despair!
Jiang Ping looked curiously at the Ant King. Faced with such an enormous gap, what other means did he have?
"The Heaven and Earth Great Sacrifice begins!"
The Ant King spat out those six blood-soaked words, and as his voice fell—
Blood-red arrays appeared simultaneously across the Primordial World. The largest and most central formation was the Altar of the God Sacrifice!
Across the land, densely packed Devouring Ants went mad, and hundreds of millions of clansmen began to kill each other!
The sounds of slaughter, screams, and wails rose and fell without end.
Jiang Ping watched everything coldly. The Ant King beneath his feet grew stronger and stronger as countless strands of origin power gathered from all over the world.
The mutual slaughter at the altars caused hundreds of millions of streams of blood to gather beneath the Ant King's feet!
The vast river of blood dyed the Ant King's entire body, even staining the golden divine flame between his brows crimson!
"You set up Sacrifice Arrays throughout the world to draw upon the world's origin power, then induced your clansmen to kill each other, allowing power of the same origin to continuously gather within you."
Jiang Ping saw through everything. The Ant King was right: this strike would indeed decide life and death.
The entire Primordial World rumbled as it continuously sank!
This was no illusion. If someone could observe from beyond the void, they would see the Primordial World wither in an instant!
Its energy continuously declined, and even the world itself kept falling!
After such a great sacrifice by the Ant King, the world's origin was gravely damaged. From then on, it would no longer have even the slightest hope of advancing!
Nor would it be able to give birth to gifted creatures!
In just a few seconds, hundreds of millions of Devouring Ants died. Their power and souls gathered into the Ant King as the array patterns flashed from time to time.
The Ant King's web-cracked body was fully restored and even underwent another bloody evolution. Surging world origin power flowed toward him, making him seem capable of fully controlling the entire world so long as he stood upon the land!
Ka ka ka!
As though unable to suppress the immense energy, the Ant King's body trembled continuously. His demonic blood-red eyes stared at the colossal figure ahead, while the crimson divine flame between his brows flickered without end.
Crash!
The continental plate beneath the Ant King's feet could not bear the power and crumbled. Fiery lava erupted from deep underground, and the Ant King vanished in an instant!
At that moment, there was no afterimage and no sonic boom.
As if traversing space and time and shattering the void, the Ant King appeared before Jiang Ping's brow with a blood-red divine spear in hand!
"This strike sacrifices heaven! Sacrifices earth! Sacrifices my clan! Sacrifices myself!"
A voice brimming with boundless killing intent sounded beside Jiang Ping's ear.
Jiang Ping's expression finally lost its calmness. In his eyes, the Ant King's figure had disappeared. The Ant King truly was ruthless.
To kill him, he had not only sacrificed heaven and earth and his entire clan, but even sacrificed himself!
Of course, the Ant King was not seeking death. As long as the Creation God fell, all manner of fortune would be his for the taking.
He could easily return to normal, and could even devour the Creation God's body, replacing him and becoming the world's supreme deity!
Space cracks appeared one after another, and Chaos Current continuously erupted from them as the earth kept collapsing.
Crash!
Ten thousand volcanoes erupted at once, with rolling crimson lava continuously spewing forth.
Roar!
Towering tsunamis battered the continent. The Continental Plates swayed like small boats, then were submerged by pitch-black seawater in the blink of an eye!
Crack!
Cracks appeared across the World Barrier. External chaos poured in and began assimilating the entire Primordial World!
The Ant King's strike turned heaven and earth upside down and robbed the sun and moon of their light!
The entire world stepped into the apocalypse, as though it would return to chaos in the next moment!
Kill!
The Ant King's figure completely vanished between heaven and earth, leaving only a blood-red God-Slaying Spear rushing toward the Creation God's brow! This strike was like a scarlet demonic star crashing into the earth!
It left behind an indelible blood-red trail across the sky, its spearhead aimed directly at the god's brow!
Swish!
Jiang Ping's expression turned solemn. He extended two fingers and lightly caught the blood-red spear before his brow.
This strike was as traceless as an antelope hanging its horns, as wondrous as an elephant crossing a river.
It was clearly the most ordinary and plain strike, yet it prevented the blood-red God-Slaying Spear from advancing even an inch!
"H-how is this possible?"
The Ant King's shocked roar came from within the divine spear. His lifelong strike had been stopped by merely two fingers?
"Not bad."
Jiang Ping spoke, evaluating the Ant King's lifelong strike. He had only been playing around just now. If he got even slightly serious, he could make the Ant King despair.
Still, being able to force even a trace of seriousness from Jiang Ping with this strike was truly no easy feat!
"How is this possible!"
A heaven-shaking roar echoed between heaven and earth as the blood-red God-Slaying Spear expanded once more!
Sizzle!
The entire divine spear turned into a drill, continuously attacking Jiang Ping in an attempt to break free from the restraint of his two fingers!
Die, die, die!
Even Jiang Ping could easily sense the killing intent emanating from the divine spear. At this moment, the God-Slaying Spear was not only a thousand zhang long, but its blood-red body had grown darker and darker, becoming scarlet!
Jiang Ping could even smell faint traces of blood.
Black runes appeared across the scarlet divine spear. When combined, these runes formed the Ant King's body!
Ant and spear had become one, and at the spearhead burned the Ant King's crimson divine flame!
The Ant King refused to accept defeat!
Even if he were crushed to pieces, he would make this supreme deity pay the price!
"It's over."
Jiang Ping spoke indifferently and released the God-Slaying Spear from between his fingers. The Ant King was overjoyed, and the God-Slaying Spear stabbed toward the Creation God's brow!
A world-destroying strike, enough to destroy a Divine Soul!
Yet what appeared in the Ant King's consciousness was a heaven-supporting pillar!
Jiang Ping's divine body seemed to expand once more. Even the vast Primordial World could no longer contain his True Form as he extended one index finger and struck toward the God-Slaying Spear!
A dimensional crushing strike!
The sky was covered, and the earth was split into two. Even the Primordial World seemed to have been divided by that finger!
The God-Slaying Spear, overflowing with killing intent, stopped in an instant.
Crash!
A heaven-shaking explosion rang out. The scarlet divine spear was shattered by a single finger. Starting from its tip, its blood-red color faded, revealing its Main Body of silver before it turned into countless motes of dust that drifted away on the wind.
The Ant King's tall figure reappeared in the world. Looking at the gigantic figure that even the world could not bear, he could not help but mock himself.
"So god-slaying was nothing more than a joke! Haha!"
His laughter spread throughout the world. At the altars, the remaining Devouring Ants stared blankly at this strongest king.
The Ant King looked unwillingly at his clansmen. His tall body began to disintegrate, finally turning into countless dazzling points of light and vanishing forever between heaven and earth.
Born in battle, he died in battle.
This king, who had created countless mythical miracles, ultimately died in an exhilarating battle, just like the enemies who had fallen beneath his hands.
All his methods, the world-destroying strike unleashed with the strength of his entire life, could not harm the true god in the slightest.
Before disappearing, the Ant King suddenly thought of Gai Feng from a thousand years ago. Presumably, back then, Gai Feng had died with the same regret he now carried?
Jiang Ping shrank his body and reappeared within the Primordial World, looking down upon all things below.
As far as the eye could see, blood covered the land, the earth churned restlessly, and tsunamis raged skyward.
Deathly energy filled the air. The World Barrier was riddled with holes, and the chaos outside continuously invaded.
"King! How could you leave us behind like this!"
The surviving ant queens wailed. One after another, they chased the points of light filling the sky, attempting to preserve even a trace of this peerless demon king's life force.
The heavily wounded Ant Tribe Heroes could not help but grieve as well. One by one, they had slaughtered tens of millions of creatures and wiped out the Myriad Races in the war for the world, yet now they wept like hatchlings.
There were even Ant Tribe Heroes who refused to give up. Raising their weapons high, they launched attacks at Jiang Ping.
The Ant King's prestige was too great. In the hearts of the Devouring Ants, the Ant King surpassed the creator!
Jiang Ping lightly raised one foot. With a smack, he crushed the Little Fellow that had dared challenge him.
There were still ten million Devouring Ants remaining. These ten million were also the most elite Devouring Ants; otherwise, they would not have survived the Heaven and Earth Great Sacrifice.
There were especially several hundred Ant Queens. As long as they remained alive, and as long as they had time and resources, there would be another swarm of Devouring Ants a hundred years later.
In fact, these were the only creatures left in the Primordial World, because they had slaughtered and devoured every other living being!
The Devouring Ants looked cautiously and reverently at the Creation God, ten thousand zhang tall, no longer making such laughable provocations.
As the Ant Queens lowered their heads and knelt one after another, the Ant Tribe Heroes also began kneeling and begging for mercy.
Jiang Ping glanced at the Devouring Ants beneath his feet.
"Every living being must ultimately bear responsibility for what it has done!"
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