Swish—
A single sword strike cleaved open the massive waves!
And in an instant, accompanied by the operation of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, the Seven Kill Sword in Chen Junting's hand shifted, replacing it with the Slaughter Immortal Sword, which possessed the sharpest edge and the most intense killing intent. Without changing his offensive momentum, the sword's edge traced a scarlet arc, sweeping up all the surrounding killing intent, and sliced towards the top of the Demon Empress's head in her Deep Sea Demonic Whale form.
Seeing this, the Demon Empress's expression instantly changed.
If it were an ordinary divine artifact, like the Sea God's Helmet, she wouldn't be afraid at all; she could just tank it head-on. But this sword strike was different! Because this strike wasn't just the sword itself; under the operation of this sword formation, it was equivalent to the union of five divine artifacts. Its power was absolutely the kind where 1+1+1+1+1 > 5. Furthermore, she was currently burdened with the wound left by the heavenly tribulation.
Thus, with a flash of purple-gold light, the Demon Empress immediately transformed from her true body state into human form, wanting to use this to dodge the attack. At the same time, nine bolts of lightning struck down from the sky. The Demon Empress took the opportunity to point a finger, and the surrounding air was suddenly isolated, as if turning into a vacuum.
Just as she was about to use her divine power to make heaven and earth reject Chen Junting, thereby trapping him in a quagmire to force him to take her attack head-on, another Door of Void opened, swallowing the nine bolts of lightning. In the next second, it opened above the Demon Empress's head, surging down to engulf her.
Seeing this, the Demon Empress waved her hand to disperse the lightning. However, the rejection of heaven and earth caused by her divine power had already been completely broken through under the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, and Chen Junting's sword strike was now close at hand.
Just as she wanted to flee into the void to dodge, "Roar—"
A dragon roar seemingly faintly exploded in the boundless void. As a result, she was actually repelled out by the space.
When the Demon Empress realized this was the bone dragon's doing, before she could even be surprised at how this was possible, the extreme sharpness had already scraped across her body. Immediately after, a piercing pain transmitted from her face in an instant!
Hum—
Amidst a sword cry, purple-gold blood splattered.
The Demon Empress, who could originally be considered a beauty, had her face ruined by Chen Junting's single sword strike at this moment. A massive sword scar appeared on her face, a blur of flesh and blood; almost half of her face had been sliced off.
"Ah—"
As a god-level powerhouse, although this kind of injury had the possibility of recovery, the intense pain and humiliation instantly filled the Demon Empress's heart. Already crazy, she was completely ignited by anger!
Under a sonic boom that scattered the clouds, her venomous eyes locked dead onto Chen Junting and Gu Tianchen. "I want you dead!"
Dark purple light balls appeared around her body, densely covering an area of hundreds of square meters in just an instant. Every light ball locked onto the two of them. The massive energy fluctuations immediately affected the four major regions inside the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, and space also underwent a massive distortion.
Even with Gu Tianchen suppressing it with all his might, he could only prevent the surrounding space from collapsing, which would affect the two of them.
"Old Chen, we can't let her continue like this!"
"I know."
The indifferent and ruthless Chen Junting spat out two cold words. The sword qi surging within the sword formation was entirely mobilized by him in an instant. At this time, ear-piercing sounds of tearing air rang out. Tens of thousands of dark purple light balls smashed towards them like a meteor shower, so fast that even lightning and sparks couldn't describe it.
Facing this attack, "Door of Void, Open!"
"Open! Open! Open—"
Gu Tianchen's voice rang out continuously. Doors of Void opened one by one in irregular positions around the Demon Empress.
Hum, hum, hum—
At this moment, all the sword qi mobilized by Chen Junting within the sword formation emitted bursts of sword cries. Then, under Chen Junting's control, they turned into bursts of sword qi tornadoes and surged into one of the Doors of Void. In the next second, the sword qi tornadoes appeared from every Door of Void at almost the exact same time, shattering all the Demon Empress's light balls and sweeping towards her.
Seeing this, the purple-gold light around the Demon Empress instantly flickered, then erupted violently outward, wanting to block the sword qi tornadoes.
But Gu Tianchen repeated his old trick. He opened the Doors of Void, swallowing all the sword qi tornadoes.
However, facing Gu Tianchen, whose attainment in space surpassed hers, his bizarre methods were fundamentally hard for the Demon Empress to guard against. Thus, caught off guard, she was struck squarely by the sword qi tornadoes.
A fierce scream rang out from the Demon Empress's mouth. The moment she was struck, her body seemed to become entirely soft, and large swathes of purple-gold light spewed from her body. Although the sword qi tornadoes dissipated as a result, a massive gash was chopped into her waist. More than a quarter of her slender waist was sliced open, and blood spewed out frantically.
Although this wound healed at an astonishing speed, the Demon Empress's perception also paused, and then she instinctively felt a throb in her heart!
Suddenly, the brilliance of a great sun dispersed all dark clouds at this moment. A blazing white long rainbow pierced through the great sun and penetrated the sky.
Abruptly, the Demon Empress's movements paused, and the expression on her face solidified. As her pupils contracted, her expression completely stiffened, leaving only a look of disbelief hanging on her face.
At this moment, the divine power around her had turned into specks of starlight and disappeared. And at the position of her chest, the palace dress transformed from divine power now bore a mark of a sword piercing through it. This sword scar pierced so deeply that one could see her heart through this position, and then completely see the scene behind her through her heart. Because this sword wound was completely penetrating and connected, and it was under the premise of piercing through her heart.
In an instant, a streak of purple-gold blood flowed down the corner of the Demon Empress's mouth. She had actually been pierced through the heart by a mortal while practically having no ability to resist!?
How was this possible!?
However, the facts were laid out right here.
Even though this almost certainly fatal injury for a non-god-level powerhouse still couldn't put her, a god, to death. But there was no doubt that under this strike, the Demon Empress suffered an unprecedented heavy injury, more terrifying than the heavenly tribulation, costing her half her life.
And this strike was exactly the "Long Rainbow Pierces the Sun" that Chen Junting had developed himself after researching the "Guanyin Tear" technique from the Hundred Solutions to Hidden Weapons left by Tang San.
"Make your move!"
Chen Junting took a breath, and "I Alone Am The Supreme" activated!
With the Demon Empress heavily injured and unable to fight for control, all the surrounding energy was completely devoured by Chen Junting. The consumption from using "Long Rainbow Pierces the Sun" was immediately replenished.
At the same time, as his voice fell, dark gold light erupted from Gu Tianchen's entire body. The bone dragon's true body vanished into the void, and in the atmosphere, spatial rifts continuously spread.
The void transformed into an ocean. Pure spatial power formed the bone dragon's head, suddenly lifting from the sea of void. In the next second, an earth-shattering dragon roar resounded through the nine heavens. "Bone dragon soars from the abyss, traversing the four seas, crossing the eight desolates, reaching up to the blue heavens, down to the yellow springs!"
Boom—
The bone wings spread, and space shook! "Bone Transforming into Divine Dragon!"
A thousand-meter-long dark gold giant dragon soared into the sky. Under its influence, the entire space echoed with deep rumbles wherever it passed. Spatial rifts opened one after another, and the chaotic currents within seemed as if they could fall at any moment.
Right at this time, Chen Junting's eighth soul ring instantly lit up, shining with a rose-gold brilliance. All luck was stripped away from all directions at this moment, instantly making the Demon Empress feel palpitations.
But immediately after, a silver-white Seven Kill Sword shot into the sky, and the magnificent surrounding patterns reflected on the sword's body under the sunlight. Within the sword formation, four completely different sword qis—from Immortal-Slaying, Slaughter, Trap, and Absolute—quickly converged, turning into a murderous rain of flowers that completely buried the torn space.
Accompanied by the rustling sword light transforming into a dragon and phoenix, a soft hum like a sword cry sounded: "Power and nobility press upon one, leaving no freedom; the dragon's prance and phoenix's flight are impossible to restrain. A hall full of flowers intoxicates three thousand guests; a single sword's frost chills fourteen provinces!"
In an instant, "Hum—"
Under the sword cry, a single sword cleaved the void!
"Sword Dao · Junting!"
Dragon breath and sword dao also merged into one at this moment.
Under the bone dragon's roar, its dragon mouth opened wide. Its wings spread, wrapping around the Seven Kill Sword, swallowing the sword body. The remaining skeletal body opened inch by inch, transforming into thousands of bones. At this moment, the bodies of sword and bone linked up, causing Chen Junting and Gu Tianchen's auras to intertwine.
"End of Ten Thousand Bones · Heaven and Earth's Single Breath!" x2
The sword-bone struck down, and flowing light suddenly appeared.
"The Nine Treasures have a name, the eighth is: Nine Treasure Invincible Divine Light!"
Under her Martial Soul True Body, Ning Tian's soft shout caused the remaining "Invincible State" to be entirely attached to Chen Junting and Gu Tianchen.
The cooperation of the three reappeared after slaying Zhong Liwu. This time, their attack truly surpassed the mortal realm!
The void collapsed, and the yuan energy was cut off. The already heavily injured Demon Empress immediately widened her eyes. In this instant, she could clearly feel, relying on her mental level that had reached the god rank, that it was as if the entire sky was in the process of disintegrating. Wherever the attack passed, absolutely everything shattered and peeled away.
Heaven and earth seemed to let out a wail of grief. How could she dare to be hit head-on by such an attack now!
The Demon Empress's body instantly turned purple-gold. Purple-gold light spewed forward, while her body retreated as fast as lightning, trying to escape. In her view, only by fleeing here first and dodging this combined attack would she have a chance.
But imagination is beautiful, while reality is cruel.
A brilliance of gold and silver enveloped her—this was the power of time and space. From the moment the power of time and space simultaneously activated their imprisonment, the Demon Empress felt that heaven and earth seemed to be imprisoned by the two, turning into a ring that enveloped her body, causing it to solidify. And the distance she seemed to have escaped earlier vanished completely.
Everything around wanted to completely devour her! Fear, unwillingness...
A massive amount of negative emotions madly surged out in her heart. In the next second, [Holy Emperor, save me!]
The cry from her heart rang out! She didn't want to die yet! She hadn't taken her revenge yet!
[Trash!]
The Holy Emperor's annoyed voice exploded in the Demon Empress's heart!
Facing all this, how could he not be annoyed!?
The Demonic Plane had racked its brains to find a partner in the Douluo Plane, then helped her break through to become a god, so as to devour the Douluo Plane's life energy.
And the result!? The God Realm hadn't even stepped in yet, and it was about to be ruined! All the costs were going down the drain! And the opponents were merely three mortals who hadn't become gods!
[Hand your body over to me!]
The Demon Empress's demonic patterns shone at this moment, and dark purple stripes instantly covered her body. This aura, which didn't belong to the Douluo Plane, also covered the entire heaven and earth at this moment.
This change was also clearly perceived by Chen Junting.
In an instant, the sky enveloped by the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation suddenly changed. A powerful aura that didn't pose a threat to Chen Junting and the others instantly invaded the sword formation, instantly covering the sky, and a nine-colored brilliance also diffused out. At the same time, a powerful tribulation cloud also began to frantically condense.
Clang!
At the moment "End of Ten Thousand Bones · Heaven and Earth's Single Breath" completely fell, the Demon Empress, whose body had been taken over by the Holy Emperor, suddenly condensed a great halberd, turning into a thick beam of energy that swept out!
Boom—
At this moment, the world lost its color.
It was also at this time that the tribulation cloud descending from the Douluo Plane seemed to have lost its target, gradually dissipating and disappearing into the sky.
But within the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, Chen Junting and Gu Tianchen revealed their figures one after another, still gazing ahead with solemnity.
The Demon Empress hadn't disappeared, and similarly, that demonic aura hadn't dissipated either. This meant the Holy Emperor's consciousness was still within her body.
However, at this moment, even the Holy Emperor wasn't so relaxed. On the surface, he appeared calm and collected, but in reality, he was still wary of the heavenly tribulation that was about to strike down just now.
[Good thing for my arrangements in the Holy Spirit Church all these years. But I didn't expect that before plundering the life energy, it would come in handy here first.]
Right at this time, the Holy Emperor suddenly felt a divine sense lock onto him.
Without even having to look over, he knew that Chen Junting and the other two were already ready to strike, or rather, standing in full battle readiness.
In the "Sword God Without Self" state, Chen Junting didn't attack immediately. Instead, he opened his mouth and said, "You are the Holy Emperor."
His tone was so certain, as if he had already confirmed his identity.
Who would have thought, "No! I am the Demon Empress."
The Holy Emperor categorically denied it, without the slightest embarrassment.
But it was exactly this kind of action that caused even the indifferent and ruthless Chen Junting to blank for a moment, let alone Gu Tianchen and the others.
As a result, in the next second, "Swish—"
The Holy Emperor actually controlled the Demon Empress to turn around and flee!
Even though space was locked, coupled with the barrier of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, "Boom—" Not knowing what price he paid, a violent explosion suddenly detonated within the grand formation, and its power actually tore a slit in the formation.
No matter how Chen Junting and the other two tried to intercept him, the Holy Emperor only controlled the Demon Empress to flee for her life, even though his aura was far above the Demon Empress's.
With his escape speed, even though Gu Tianchen led the group to pursue by diving into space, they were actually neutralized one by one.
In the Holy Emperor's words, anyway, within the Douluo Plane, no matter what, he would never admit his identity as the Holy Emperor! Right now, he was just the Demon Empress!
After all, he was only here to steal the Douluo Plane's life energy, not to attract the God Realm's attention and then act like this lunatic Demon Empress, saying he wanted to sacrifice the Douluo Plane's life energy to enhance his strength and then kill Tang San.
Therefore, what the Holy Emperor sought was profit!
As for face... how much was that worth?
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