Manic laughter shook the sky.
Accompanied by suffocating airwaves, Shuhu's aura surged to an unprecedented peak at this moment.
The countless chaotic blessings that Qi Zhimu had plundered through the Self-Actualization Aspect Method, after being harmonized by the power of the Ambrosial Arbor, were now perfectly absorbed and assimilated by Shuhu.
An ultimate monster, combining the strengths of tens of thousands of Abominations, possessing both the regenerative power of the Ambrosial Arbor and the authority of an Emanator, was born here.
"Fire! Full power fire!"
The Zhuming Xianzhou support fleet had just arrived with the Luofu fleet. Witnessing this scene, the commander roared hoarsely.
Jing Yuan also gave the order, praying in his heart for his Master to be faster.
They had set off one step ahead of Jingliu, but the current battle lacked powerful combat strength capable of withstanding frontal pressure.
Otherwise, the warship fleet attacking Shuhu in formation would be extremely risky.
Hundreds of starships and warships simultaneously turned their cannons, and the Zhuming Fire, said to be capable of incinerating stars, surged out, instantly engulfing Shuhu.
However, the scene that followed sent all Cloud Knights into an ice-cold abyss.
The overwhelming Zhuming Fire instantly swallowed Shuhu, but He spread His arms, allowing the flames to burn.
Flesh charred, carbonized, and peeled off.
Before the ashes could even scatter, new flesh had already begun to reorganize, completing regeneration at a speed beyond the naked eye's grasp.
To others, the Zhuming Divine Fire seemed completely ineffective against Him, instead becoming a backdrop for Him to show off His terrifying body.
"Damn it! Even the Zhuming Fire is ineffective?"
"Use all means! Concentrate fire!"
Countless high-explosive missiles, disintegration beams, and annihilation rays, carrying world-destroying power, fiercely bombarded Shuhu.
Flames soared to the sky, and smoke obscured the sun.
Facing all this, Shuhu's eyes revealed endless mockery.
His arms transformed into thousands of branches and swept out violently, and most of the nimble warships weaving through the high altitude had no way to dodge.
With just one strike, ninety percent of the warships disintegrated in mid-air, splitting into countless fireballs and plummeting.
The remaining ones were tightly entangled by the branches, smashing towards the ground like trash.
"Bai Heng!"
Seeing her starship crash, Yingxing's eyes were bloodshot, and he immediately rushed to rescue her, only to see Bai Heng's legs completely severed and her left arm also missing.
Screams rose and fell, and countless Cloud Knights lost their lives in this attack.
"Why are there still Short-Lived Species here? How pitiful, let me grant you eternal life!"
Several branches broke through the earth and wrapped around Yingxing, their sharp thorns piercing his body, injecting Abundance Power that made Teng Xiao's face drastically change.
"Stop!!"
Teng Xiao forcibly squeezed out all the power in his body, even overdrawing his elixir organ to the limit, merging it with the power of The Hunt.
Behind him, the golden Divine General once again manifested, and this time, the Divine General's figure was more solid than ever before.
"Slash!!"
The Divine General's battle blade, carrying the might of creation, cleaved down directly onto Shuhu's head.
Boom!
The entire earth was completely split open by this single strike, and countless bottomless, thousands-of-meters-wide terrifying fissure instantly formed.
The earth's core was severed, and crimson magma surged out like a torrent, quickly filling the fissures and rapidly spreading outwards.
At the center of the battlefield, the smoke and dust dispersed, but Shuhu's figure was nowhere to be seen.
Only rolling magma raged, devouring the earth.
"Hoo... hoo..."
The Divine General's colossal figure dissipated into golden specks of light, and Teng Xiao knelt on one knee in mid-air, breathing heavily.
The surviving Cloud Knights were still in shock, surveying the doomsday-like scene below.
"Is it dead?"
"Probably... dead, right?"
If not for Lord Tianfeng raising a wind curtain at the last moment to save the survivors on the crashed warships, no one on the ground would have survived.
"General's strike... it was like splitting the planet in half."
"Even if that monster was strong, taking that blow head-on, it should have been annihilated, right?"
Everyone floated high in the air on the wind curtain, nervously searching every corner.
Suddenly, the magma sea below boiled violently.
"Watch out!!"
Lord Tianfeng roared sharply.
Before his voice faded, numerous thick roots, ignoring the thousands of degrees of high temperature, broke through the magma and shot into the sky, instantly entangling dozens of Cloud Knights in mid-air.
"Ah!"
"My hands! My face!"
Their skin shriveled and wrinkled at a visible speed, and their black hair turned snow-white.
In a short time, many of them turned into the appearance of dying old people, then crashed into Shuhu's body and disappeared.
Teng Xiao felt his elixir organ almost shatter, spitting out fresh blood, and forcibly squeezed out one last sword strike.
Sword qi like a rainbow, severing all roots.
But the next second, more roots drilled out from the magma, and in the center of the magma, Shuhu's intact body slowly floated up.
He bathed in the magma, His aura not only did not weaken but became even more terrifying.
"How is this possible..."
Teng Xiao's vision went black, completely exhausted, his body swaying precariously.
Just then, a figure bathed in flames fell like a meteor, directly crashing in front of Shuhu.
"Yo, even Zhuming's General has come?"
The newcomer held a giant flaming hammer, his small figure rapidly swelled, his muscles bulging, and his hair and beard bristling.
"General Huaiyan... if you had arrived a moment later, everyone here..."
"Lord Tianfeng, take everyone back!" Huaiyan completely ignored Shuhu, and the Emanator-level battle erupted again.
The aftershocks of this battle were definitely not something ordinary Cloud Knights could withstand.
Lord Tianfeng dared not delay, immediately taking everyone to retreat to the temporarily safe periphery, only then rejoining the battlefield.
At this moment, several streams of light streaked across the sky.
The Sword Master of Yaoqing, Zhuming, and the main reinforcements from various Xianzhou finally arrived.
"Support General Huaiyan!" Jing Yuan calmly ordered.
Dan Feng immediately rushed into the battle circle.
Facing the encirclement, Shuhu, however, was as leisurely as a cat playing with a mouse.
"Boring. Before that woman, Fu Hua, arrives, let me give you all a big gift first!"
Shuhu seemed to have grown tired of playing, letting out a strange laugh. The branches around His body rapidly grew in scale, and their hardness increased by several levels, directly swatting the unprepared Huaiyan into deep space.
Clang, clang, clang—
Dan Feng's spear struck the branches, only producing a shower of sparks, unable to even pierce the surface.
"What?!"
Dan Feng was greatly alarmed. Before he could react, the branches brutally broke through his protective water armor, coiling around him like pythons.
Not just him, everyone involved in the battle, except General Huaiyan, was firmly bound.
"True eternal life and immortality, I bestow upon you!"
Shuhu's chest split open, revealing a gaping maw full of sharp teeth.
A terrifying suction erupted, pulling the trapped individuals towards that giant mouth.
Just as Lord Tianfeng, Dan Feng, and others were about to be devoured, at the critical moment, a sliver of desolate moonlight bathed the earth.
The moment those wildly wriggling branches touched the moonlight, they all froze.
Thick ice rapidly spread along the roots, freezing Shuhu's giant mouth along with them.
Countless crescent moon sword qi descended from the sky. Wherever the sword light passed, the hard branches that even Dan Feng couldn't pierce shattered inch by inch.
Everyone felt their bodies loosen, their restraints gone, and quickly took the opportunity to retreat rapidly.
Shuhu shattered the ice on His body, His gaze directed towards mid-air.
Jingliu hovered there, her long sword wreathed in frost, her facial expression appearing somewhat off.
Her gaze was locked onto Shuhu, her eyes unfocused, devoid of light.
The entire world in her eyes lost its color, turning into a gray, dead silence; only this monster was crimson in her sight.
Because on Him, lingered the aura she had sought for a thousand years, etched into her bones... that was Master's aura.