"You... you actually defeated the universal laws..."
Tang Xuanyu looked at the dimmed Dragon God Spear, his eyes full of disbelief.
In his understanding, the universal laws were invincible. All stars, celestial bodies, and living beings were born in this universe; everything existed based on the existence of the universe.
On Huo Yuhao's shoulder, a beautiful figure emerged.
Tang Xuanyu couldn't be more familiar with that figure.
"You are... the Crimson Mother?"
The Crimson Mother ignored Tang Xuanyu, but turned around to face Huo Yuhao, her eyes complex. The moment Huo Yuhao crushed the universal laws, she recognized him.
This man who had occupied her Crimson Realm had not completely devoured her spiritual intelligence. Instead, along with her Crimson Realm, he had incorporated them into his body to construct a fourth soul core.
From now on, she no longer had to worry about being purged and rejected by the plane's laws. Because she and he would be inseparable. As long as Huo Yuhao was still alive, the Crimson Realm could receive protection, along with the embryonic form of the Divine Star in his body.
Perhaps, being protected by such a man is also a not bad experience? The corners of the Crimson Mother's lips curled into a charming arc, thinking to herself...
Huo Yuhao finally slowly opened his eyes. What kind of eyes were those... as vast as the starry sky, filled with an intent that would not fall into reincarnation.
His spiritual realm and divine consciousness finally surpassed the God King realm at this moment!
"Impossible! How could you..." Tang Xuanyu could hardly speak. From this moment on, the Crimson Realm had completely merged into Huo Yuhao's body and could no longer be extracted.
This also meant that the fact of Tang Xuanyu being the Dragon God would be overturned. It was precisely by absorbing the complete bloodlines of the Golden and Silver Dragon Kings and the energy of the Crimson Realm that he had achieved the Dragon God!
"Tang Xuanyu, you've lost." Huo Yuhao was expressionless, watching Tang Xuanyu's aura continuously drop.
At this point, he and Gu Yuena would win without fighting.
Gu Yuena came to Huo Yuhao's side, looking at Tang Xuanyu's continuously fading body. A thousand words ultimately turned into a long, faint sigh.
"Xuanyu, goodbye."
"No—" Tang Xuanyu cried tears and mucus. How could he accept such an ending? Now, not only was Xiuxiu gone, but even the fact of his own existence was about to be erased.
He shouted and roared, but without the energy to support his existence as a God King, he would ultimately only regress to his pre-godhood self.
He had finally managed to become the most powerful God King of the Tang family, finally married Bai Xiuxiu, finally reunited his family, and finally put the new Dragon God Realm on the right track...
"It's over."
The cold Demon King Halberd pierced through Tang Xuanyu's chest in the next moment.
As the saying goes, delays bring changes. Huo Yuhao didn't want Tang Xuanyu to suddenly pull a self-destruct or some other move at the end to make the situation lose control.
Tang Xuanyu lowered his gaze with difficulty, looking at that pitch-black long halberd, unable to speak.
Yes, even if Huo Yuhao hadn't stepped in, normally he wouldn't have been able to defeat the combined forces of Gu Yuena, who was also a Dragon God, the Crimson Mother, and the Lord of the Plane of the Tianma Twin Stars.
He was defeated. The moment the power of universal law enforcement was broken by Huo Yuhao, he was defeated.
"Let's go back." Gu Yuena linked her arm with Huo Yuhao's and turned her head away. Her mood was somewhat low. No matter what, Tang Xuanyu was in a sense her son.
"Alright." Huo Yuhao prepared to pull out the Demon King Halberd and take Gu Yuena back to Douluo. The situation there had reached a critical point that brooked no delay; they couldn't delay in the Tianma Galaxy any longer.
"Go back? Where can you go back to?"
Suddenly, Tang Xuanyu, whose life signs were about to fail, suddenly straightened up, his eyes filled with an alternative luster.
"You..." Huo Yuhao was startled. He hurriedly pulled out the Demon King Halberd, taking Gu Yuena and the Crimson Mother to retreat madly.
On Tang Xuanyu's skin, faint black textures suddenly appeared, spreading like mysterious runes. These textures flashed with a bizarre light.
"This is..." Gu Yuena hurriedly covered her mouth, looking at the changes happening to Tang Xuanyu in disbelief.
As time passed, the speed of the changes on his body accelerated sharply. Tang Xuanyu's body began to swell uncontrollably. His muscles bulged at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his originally firm lines became twisted and hideous. His bones made a creepy "creak" sound, as if being forcefully stretched and reshaped by an invisible giant force.
His face gradually lost its original contours, and his facial features began to twist and deform. His forehead protruded forward, his brow bones stood as high as peaks, and his eyes sank deeply. The area around his eye sockets was covered with black blood vessels. The light in his eyes was no longer the gentleness and wisdom of humans, but burned with crimson, violent flames, as if to burn everything to ashes.
"What is going on?" The Ice Empress was inevitably frightened by this scene as well, her twin tails trembling uncontrollably.
Tang Xuanyu's mouth opened extremely wide, and fangs abruptly grew out from his gums, sharp and keen, like saw teeth. Every fang flashed with a cold light, seemingly able to easily tear apart the hardest metal.
His hands and feet became unusually thick, his muscles tense like a volcano about to erupt. At the ends of his fingers and toes, claws as sharp as knives extended out. The claws flashed with a faint cold light, like soul-reaping blades from hell. Every slight movement could scratch deep marks in the void.
"My god, what is this?" Huo Yuhao brought the women to retreat madly, his eyes horrified.
Tang Xuanyu's back bulged high, and sharp bone spikes broke through the skin. Black mist lingered on the bone spikes, as if they were cursed evil objects. These bone spikes continuously grew longer and intertwined with each other, forming a chilling sight.
At this time, Tang Xuanyu had completely lost his human form. His body was covered by a layer of black scales. The scales were closely arranged, flashing with a cold and hard luster. Every scale seemed to contain endless dark power, making people dare not look directly at them.
A powerful suction force began to emanate from around his body, and the surrounding cosmic energy surged toward him like a tide. These energies were madly devoured by him and fused into his continuously changing body. As the energy poured in, his body became even more massive and terrifying.
"Are these... cosmic rays?" The Crimson Mother noticed those energies and couldn't help but draw a deep breath of cold air.
Tang Xuanyu's head had completely turned into a massive and twisted insect head, covered in sharp barbs that flashed with bizarre light. Black smoke puffed out from his nose. Within the smoke, shrill howls could faintly be heard, as if countless imprisoned souls were struggling in pain.
On his chest, a massive black vortex appeared, continuously spinning and devouring all matter and energy that came close. This vortex was like a bottomless pit, forever unable to be filled.
At this moment, Tang Xuanyu had thoroughly transformed into a Star-Devouring Monster. His body was massive and terrifying, exuding endless evil and destruction. The surrounding void began to tremble and distort under the pressure of his aura.
"This universe..."
"I—Enforce—The—Laws!"
In his eyes, there was no longer any emotion or reason, only an endless thirst for power and a fanatical pursuit of destruction. He opened his bloody maw and let out an earth-shattering roar. This roar traversed the endless void, announcing his birth to the entire universe, about to set off a storm of blood.
Author's Note: The finale arc is about to reach its climax. The so-called universal law enforcer is the Star-Devouring Monster used by the Great Will of the universe to purge advanced civilizations. They are responsible for preventing the birth of all existences not controlled by the universal laws.