Under the celestial dome, the black dragon coiled, its broken body still exuding a suffocating pressure.
Lin Wan and Ji Hongli stood in mid-air, their gazes fixed intently upon the sky.
"It's my turn."
Lin Wan's voice sounded faint, yet carried an unwavering determination.
With a single step, her plain dress stirred without wind. As her form ascended, ripples spread beneath her feet. Each step seemed to tread upon invisible stairs, propelling her straight toward the black dragon.
"Just another ant!"
The black dragon's single eye blazed crimson. It opened its maw, and world-ending black thunder roared down!
The lightning was as black as ink, each bolt containing the laws of heaven. Where it passed, space twisted, and even light was devoured.
Before the lightning struck, its terrifying pressure had already caused the ground within a hundred miles to crack inch by inch.
Lin Wan's expression remained unchanged. She raised her right hand slightly, and a long sword materialized out of thin air, its blade shimmering with a faint azure glow.
She twisted her wrist, and the sword swept horizontally through the air. The swordlight flowed like water, tracing a luminous barrier before her.
The intersecting sword energies flowed and turned, actually dissipating all the black thunder.
"Heaven-reaching Sword, Defend."
She murmured softly, her sword momentum as deep as an abyss, as steady as Mount Tai.
The sword circle expanded continuously, forming an intangible barrier that blocked each subsequent thunder strike from the black dragon.
With each collision, ripples spread, yet the barrier remained as solid as ever.
The black dragon roared in fury, its claws tearing through space as it swatted down!
The claws were as large as mountains, their tips gleaming with a cold light. Where they passed, space shattered inch by inch.
Lin Wan shifted her sword momentum, and the sword circle suddenly expanded, enveloping her like a heavenly curtain. When the dragon's claws struck the sword formation, the force wasdissipated layer by layer (layered and deflected), causing the black dragon's form to stagger.
"Nine Heavens Thunder Roar·Heavenly Tribulation!"
Seizing the opening, Lin Wan's sword momentum shifted abruptly! She retreated half a step, formed a seal with her left hand, and pointed her right hand's sword toward the heavens.
Above the nine heavens, thunderclouds converged, and countless purple thunders descended, coiling around the sword's edge. This lightning was no ordinary bolt; each contained the power of heavenly tribulation, exuding an aura of destruction.
Then she slashed out with her sword. The thunderlight cascaded like a waterfall, transforming into a sword beam that pierced the heavens, striking directly at the black dragon's head!
Where the sword beam passed, space was torn open, leaving a pitch-black fissure that refused to heal.
"Boom—!"
The black dragon was struck by the thunder sword. Its scales exploded, and black blood rained down.
This blood was not crimson but glowed with an eerie black light. Each drop that fell the ground corroded it, creating massive pits.
The black dragon rolled in furious agony, its tail sweeping across the land, flattening mountains and rivers for a hundred miles.
Countless stones flew, smoke and dust permeated the air, and the entire battlefield instantly became chaotic.
"Nine Heavens Thunder Roar·Divine Thunder!"
Lin Wan's form moved like lightning, and her sword techniques changed again! She trod the Seven Stars, leaving afterimages in the void.
Her long sword multiplied into thousands, each sword enveloped in blazing white thunderlight, like heavenly punishment descending from all directions to strike the black dragon!
The swordlight was as fast as lightning yet imprecise.
Every sword aimed at the black dragon's vital points—its eyes, its reverse scales, or the wounds previously torn by the red dragon.
The black dragon roared and waved its claws to defend, yet several swordlights broke through its defenses, leaving deep gashes on its body.
The black dragon suddenly realized how troublesome this "ant" was. The previous dragon, though stronger, had engaged in close combat, allowing it to maintain the upper hand.
But this "ant" was like a nimble mouse, its attacks grand and sweeping yet repeatedly parried or dodged.
Finally, the black dragon was thoroughly enraged. It howled to the heavens, and a pitch-black dragon orb slowly emerged from its maw again.
The orb was no larger than a fist, yet it contained an entire star river, with countless stars being born and dying within it. The moment the dragon orb appeared, the entire world twisted, and a terrifying suction drained all spiritual energy within ten thousand miles.
"You insignificant ant, dare you defy heaven?" The black dragon's voice was like the roar of ten thousand thunders. Heavenly Dao symbols swirled frantically in its eyes, and world-ending black flames erupted from its maw. Where the black flames passed, space was scorched into black holes, exuding a heart-stopping aura.
Lin Wan sneered. Her form suddenly shot upward, her sword pointing toward the heavens! Spiritual energy surged violently around her, her robes fluttering, and every strand of hair standing on end. Thunderclouds roiled in the sky, electric snakes danced wildly, as if the entire world was responding to her call.
"Nine Heavens Thunder Roar·Myriad Tribulations!"
This sword summoned divine thunder from the nine heavens, subjecting all to myriad tribulations! The celestial dome suddenly split open, and a thunder column spanning a thousand miles crashed down, enveloping both Lin Wan and the black dragon! The lightning blindingly white contained the purest power of heavenly punishment. Each bolt was capable of cleaving mountains.
Within the thunderlight, Lin Wan's sword momentum was like a dragon's. Each strike carried the power of world-destroying thunder tribulation. Her figure weaved through the sea of lightning, moving so fast it was nearly impossible to see, only trails of swordlight like meteors leaving deep, bone-deep wounds on the black dragon.
The black dragon roared in pain, its dragon orb trembling violently, spiderweb-like cracks appearing on its surface.
Lin Wan sighed. As an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, it was truly formidable. She had used her full strength, and though the black dragon seemed constrained, only she knew that those seemingly devastating wounds were merely superficial, unable to harm its fundamental essence.
It seemed she had no choice but to use that move.
Lin Wan sheathed her sword and stood still, the thunderlight around her still undimmed.
She glanced back at Ji Hongli on the ground, a faint smile touching her lips as she silently mouthed, "Honey, hang in there. I'll be waiting for you outside the secret realm."
Then, a sharp glint flashed in her eyes.
In the next moment, her body erupted with blinding white light! The light was as intense as the sun, instantly illuminating the entire gray-white world.
Her skin cracked inch by inch, and countless blazing white rays of thunder erupted from within her body. She was like a star on the verge of explosion!
"Boom—!!!"
The celestial dome collapsed, and the earth trembled!
Lin Wan's self-detonation, after her private research, was not the usual dissipation of a cultivator's spiritual energy but the instantaneous release of all her sword intent, thunder methods, and Dao rhythms within her body!
It ensured she would be blown to dust, with all lost mass converted into energy according to the laws of the cultivation world—a terrifying shockwave swept across a thousand miles. Where it passed, space shattered inch by inch, revealing pitch-black nothingness.
Blazing white thunderlight roared like an angry dragon, completely engulfing the black dragon!
This strike far exceeded all previous damage it had sustained.
The black dragon let out a miserable shriek as its body was torn apart by the thunderlight. Pitch-black scales peeled off in large patches, and dragon blood rained down like a waterfall! Its dragon orb trembled violently, cracks spreading across its surface until it finally shattered with a "crack"!
"Roar—!!"
The black dragon's aura plummeted wildly, once again dropping from the level of an Immortal Venerate to the peak of the Saint Realm!
Its eyes dimmed, its body broken and mangled, and its circling movements grew sluggish, clearly suffering unimaginable injuries!
Fortunately, it was an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao; otherwise, it would have been reduced to dust alongside Lin Wan.
Knowing her husband would not be fundamentally harmed, Ji Hongli chuckled lightly and turned her gaze back to the heavily injured black dragon.
She raised her jade-like hand, and a red lotus slowly bloomed in her palm.
"So... now, it's my turn."
With a single step, her battle intent soared to the heavens!
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