The Asura God's crimson eyes transformed into two blazing blood moons. The deep red light reached its extreme.
A majestic voice of judgment resounded from him, echoing across the sky of the Divine Realm.
At the same time, a faint cry emanated from the Asura Demon Sword in his grasp.
The sound was short and Seniorar, but Chen Yi's hearing was extremely sharp. He could not help but frown.
"That voice… it sounds familiar?"
However, at this moment, he had no time to think further, because the terror plotted by the Asura God had already begun.
"Asura's Judgment!"
The Asura God's cold voice sounded like a final verdict. He thrust the demon sword toward the sky.
In an instant, the entire sky of the Asura God Realm was covered in thick blood-like light.
Blood-red light swirled as if an ocean of blood had been inverted, releasing terrifying killing intent that made even gods tremble. Countless blood-red light rays poured down like a torrential rain from the blood-red sky, fiercely attacking Chen Yi's location!
Each blood-red light strand carried the Asura God's most primal laws of slaughter and will of judgment. Their power was enough to easily destroy any being below God King level.
Chen Yi narrowed his eyes at the intensity of the attack but showed no fear. He pointed his Thunder God Mace toward the sky and shouted in a low voice,
"Thunder Prison—Heavenly Punishment!"
Boom—!!!
Above the Divine Realm, the chaotic sky was instantly covered by endless thunderclouds. Within the thunderclouds, countless purple-gold lightning bolts poured down from the heavens, colliding with the blood-red light raining from above.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang—!!!
Lightning and blood-red light clashed violently in the air. Deafening roars echoed continuously. Terrifying energy shockwaves spread like tsunamis, distorting the entire space of the Asura God Realm and making it seem on the verge of collapse.
Even the Elemental Gods and Sin Gods, who were cooperating with their divine power beyond the Divine Realm to prevent the aftershocks from spreading, felt immense pressure from this terrifying impact that far surpassed all previous collisions.
The light emitted by the two great god arrays flickered violently. The fifteen powerful gods groaned almost simultaneously and pushed their divine power to the limit. Their god arrays linked tightly, radiating unprecedentedly dazzling divine light as they barely held back the terrifying aftershocks.
"So strong…" the God of Wrath muttered with a slightly pale face. "Even if we form the Sin Array or Elemental Array, our chances of winning… are slim."
"Tch!" Upon hearing this, the God of Water immediately widened her eyes and retorted without hesitation, "That's because you lot are too weak. Don't drag us into it. We might be weak too!"
As she spoke, she glanced proudly at Shui Bing'er, who was standing a little further away.
In other words, with new talent joining us, we've become stronger!
Hearing this, the Seven Gods of Sin could not help but twitch the corners of their mouths and curse inwardly.
"That woman is still as annoying as ever!"
After successfully blocking Asura's Judgment, Chen Yi's eyes sharpened further. He clearly sensed an even more dangerous energy wave rising violently from the Asura God's location.
The Asura God… was fighting desperately. He intended to use his true trump card—his strongest killing technique!
As expected, the Asura God stood motionless. However, his body was not only enveloped in blood-like light but had transformed into tangible blood flames that seemed capable of burning the heavens as they surged skyward.
The sky above his head let out an unbearable pained wail under the impact and tore apart with a deafening roar.
Behind the spatial rift, however, was not mere spatial turbulence but a vast, swirling sea of blood. Within that sea of blood drifted countless oppressed souls and vengeful spirits filled with hatred, wailing in sorrow. Their aura was unsettling even to gods.
Immediately after, from the deepest part of the sea of blood, a gigantic, indescribably ferocious blood sword slowly rose, its tip pointing directly at Chen Yi.
The moment the enormous sword appeared, terrifying killing intent capable of cleaving the entire Divine Realm in two spread in all directions.
This was the Asura God's strongest killing technique and the ultimate source of confidence for the one known as the most ruthless killer in the God Realm—Asura Blood Sword!
Chen Yi's expression finally turned completely serious. He knew painfully well how terrifying this move was.
In the original novel, even when Tang San—who still had shallow foundations—used this technique, the God of Destruction had to pay a massive price to defend against it.
At this moment, the power of the Asura Blood Sword unleashed with full force by the Asura God was such that none of the current God Kings in the God Realm could confidently face it head-on.
Even the Goddess of Life and the Goddess of Good, who had been watching the battle from afar, suddenly contracted their pupils upon seeing the blood sea tearing through the sky and the ferocious blood sword soaring high.
"Asura… he was actually pushed this far…" the Goddess of Good muttered in disbelief.
The pressure Chen Yi had placed on the Asura God had finally forced him to resort to this forbidden killing technique.
"Thunder God!" The Asura God's blood-red eyes were fixed on Chen Yi. His voice was hoarse.
"Today, I will clearly show you how different you are from a true veteran God King standing at the pinnacle of the God Realm!"
Even as he spoke, he gripped the Asura Demon Sword tightly with both hands. The blade trembled violently, and an even clearer cry rang out from within.
"Tang San…"
In that instant, Chen Yi finally recalled the owner of that voice.
The Asura God had actually refined Tang San's soul and fused it into this newly born Asura Demon Sword.
No wonder the earlier cry had sounded familiar.
"Hahaha!" The Asura God seemed to notice Chen Yi's realization and laughed maniacally.
"That's right! Back then, I thought of using his special ability to overcome the flaws in the Asura God position, but I never imagined this useless trash would be so worthless!
"My efforts failed repeatedly because of him!
"However… using waste isn't a bad idea! Incorporating his special soul into the newly forged demon sword… the effect seems quite good! Hahahaha!"
Even after hearing these words, Chen Yi's eyes remained calm. To him now, none of it mattered. His only goal was to defeat the enemy before him.
With that thought, Chen Yi's originally wild and outward aura gradually receded. His presence slowly transformed into that of an ordinary human.
At this moment, Chen Yi appeared ordinary on the surface, yet he exuded an even more unfathomable atmosphere. It was as if a god were indifferently looking down upon the humans beneath his feet without any emotion.
"Asura," Chen Yi began. His voice was calm yet carried the resonance of heaven and earth.
"You are truly an excellent individual. Today, I shall offer you… as the first… sacrifice after my bloodline has truly awakened."
The moment he finished speaking, the endless thunderclouds behind Chen Yi began to undergo astonishing changes.
The thunderclouds gradually solidified, slowly forming into a vast and boundless sea of thunder.
Chen Yi stood at the apex of the thunder sea, like an unparalleled ruler striding through his kingdom of thunder!
In the next moment, from the deepest part of the roaring sea, an indescribably massive creature appeared.
It had a human face and a dragon body!
Its face was blurred yet majestic, as if it carried the will of thunder from the creation of heaven and earth. Its body undulated hugely, composed entirely of pure thunder.
He was not the embodiment of thunder—because thunder was rather his creation!
The instant he appeared, all gods in the Asura God Realm—and wherever they were, whatever they were doing—clearly witnessed the arrival of this god-demon.
It was not through vision, but through spiritual perception.
Even the God of Destruction, who was cooperating to suppress the Golden Dragon King, was drawn from the depths of his soul by this vibration and involuntarily gazed at the phantom of the god-demon floating in the sea of thunder.
With just one glance, the God of Destruction's usually cold and dignified face froze for an instant. Then, an almost obsessive light of fascination slowly rose in his eyes.
"This is… thunder? Can thunder… truly… reach this height?"
He murmured faintly in disbelief. As a God King who controlled thunder, he had never imagined that the power of thunder could take such a perfect form.
Compared to this, the destructive thunder he wielded seemed like nothing more than insignificant branches and leaves within this immense thunder.
Not only him, but every god in the Divine Realm who possessed any knowledge of the laws of thunder showed a pilgrim-like gaze at this moment without exception.
The thunder symbolized by this god-demon was too perfect, too primordial—the ultimate form they had pursued throughout their lives but could never reach!
While the gods stood dazed in thought, inside the sea of thunder, the god-demon… slowly opened his tightly closed eyes!
Buzz—
An indescribable torrent of energy swept across the Divine Realm in an instant.
It was not an energy shock, but rather an overwhelming force at the level of laws.
In the next instant, regardless of your sacred authority, your perception of that authority would be stripped away by higher-order rules.
What could be felt was only lightning! Omnipresent lightning, all-encompassing lightning, the sole origin of the world, the sole truth—at this moment, only thunder existed.
And the supreme god-demon dwelling in the sea of thunder, indifferently overlooking the entire Divine Realm!
Chen Yi's expression was emotionless, as if he had merged with the thunder god phantom behind him.
He quietly gazed into the distance at the Asura God, who was struggling to maintain the Asura Blood Sword.
Chen Yi slowly raised his right hand.
As he moved, the massive phantom of the thunder god behind him slowly raised its right claw.
Countless laws of thunder rapidly converged, intertwined, and evolved before Chen Yi's eyes, ultimately condensing into a gigantic Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams pattern.
The pattern was composed solely of purple-gold thunder runes. In the center were yin-yang fish, surrounded by the Eight Trigrams, with nine square grids layered around them in a mysterious and unpredictable structure, radiating the majestic power of thunder that governed heavenly punishment.
Chen Yi's lips moved slightly. His voice resonated like a divine command deep within the souls of all gods.
"This is—"
"Nine Palaces—Thunder Law."
The moment he finished speaking, the enormous thunder diagram pressed slowly toward the distant Asura God like an ancient heavenly millstone.
Its speed might not appear fast, yet wherever it passed, the entire space of the Asura God Realm completely froze.
Time, space, energy, rules… everything lost meaning under the protection of the thunder diagram.
The Asura God had nowhere to run, no place to escape!
The Asura God stared at the slowly approaching lightning. The final madness burned in his eyes.
This would be the strike that decided his life and death.
"Uwooooooh!!!"
The Asura God roared toward the heavens. Two streams of blood tears flowed from the corners of his eyes. His sacred blood, sacred soul, and even… his sacred core began to burn fiercely.
Buzz—!!!
The aura of the Asura Blood Sword suddenly expanded several times over. The size of the blood sword grew once more. Its color shifted from dark red to a blazing, dazzling blood-red. The killing intent it emitted sent chills through the hearts of the God Kings watching from afar.
The Asura God clenched his fists, mustering his final strength to fiercely stab at the slowly approaching thunder diagram.
This was his last all-out attack!
However, the evenly matched battle he had imagined did not occur.
Crack.
The tip of the blood sword, while burning everything, produced a thin, clear crack the instant it touched the thunder diagram.
The moment the crack appeared, it spread with astonishing speed across the sword's blade, hilt, and the vast sea of blood supporting the blood sword behind it.
Snap! Snap! Snap snap snap!!!
A series of dense snapping sounds rang out!
In the blink of an eye, the mighty Asura Blood Sword and the endless sea of blood behind it were covered in countless cracks.
Bang!!
In the next moment, the enormous Asura Blood Sword completely vanished along with the sea of blood.
The roaring phantom remained motionless, radiating dazzling light as it continued to press slowly toward the Asura God.
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