Chapter 296: Terrifying Strength

"Damn you, Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe!"

Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe paid no attention to the Seven-Colored Glazed Crystal that Lu Qingshan had taken first, but roared directly at him: "I have waited for over eighty million eras; today I have finally encountered you again!"

"Today, I will return all the humiliation you inflicted on me back to you!"

"Bai Hua, do not be impulsive!"

After hearing Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe's words, her teacher Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe immediately transmitted his divine voice, saying: "This Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe has just comprehended the fifth layer of the Beast God Dao recently; now he even dares to venture into the Cosmic Secret Realm alone. His strength must have increased significantly!"

"With the strength of us master and disciple, it should be difficult to deal with him! Even if we rely on our massive divine bodies to consume his divine power, he will surely be able to wait for other powerful figures of the Human Clan to arrive!"

"Fighting this Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe is merely a waste of divine power. In my opinion, it would be better to retreat for now and deliver a fatal blow to him when we have another opportunity!"

"Teacher!"

Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe quickly transmitted her voice, saying: "This Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe and I have a grudge of killing for treasure; since we have met this time, I absolutely will not let him go easily!"

"Even if we cannot kill him, we can consume his divine power so that he cannot recover for countless years! Moreover, didn't this Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe kill Hei Lang Zifeng Zunzhe of the Tianlang lineage in front of you, Teacher? Do you not want him to pay a price?"

"This..." After hearing the words of Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe, Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe hesitated for a moment.

Seeing this, Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe continued to add fuel to the fire: "Teacher, even if the strength of this Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe is a bit stronger than ours, it must be very limited!"

"Moreover, he is alone now, while we are two; if we really fight, we will surely be able to gain the advantage!"

"As long as you, Teacher, are willing to act, I will not take any of the gains from this venture into the Cosmic Secret Realm; once we really kill this Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe, I will not take any of the spoils either!"

For Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe, who had been granted two supreme treasures by the Master of the Forbidden Realm, although she now understood how difficult it was for a Cosmic Zifeng Zunzhe to accumulate wealth, she possessed a net worth that only a powerful figure at the level of a Cosmic Hegemon could normally own, so she did not truly care too much about the wealth equivalent to over one hundred treasure points from the Human Clan's treasury that she had obtained in this Purple Snow Secret Realm previously.

At this moment, to make her teacher Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe act, paying such a price was worth it.

"This..."

After hearing Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe's words, Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe quickly nodded and agreed: "Good! Since Bai Hua you insist on acting, then we master and disciple will make this damn Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe pay a price today!"

Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe was different from Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe!

Besides her original form standing hundreds of meters tall, Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe's other avatar was an ordinary human, so her divine body was naturally very small!

If Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe's original form suffered damage to her divine power, the speed of recovery relying on her human avatar would probably not even match her original form recovering slowly on its own!

However, when Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe originally created his avatar, he created a plant avatar with a size of millions of kilometers, so he had no worry at all regarding the consumption of divine power.

After all, even if all the divine power of his original form was completely exhausted, his plant avatar would not take too long to recover.

Not to mention that this time Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe also promised to give up the gains from this Secret Realm, which was equivalent to his gains over a very long period, so acting once for this was worth it.

Moreover, Lu Qingshan had previously killed Hei Lang Zifeng Zunzhe of the Tianlang lineage in front of him, which could be considered as stepping on him, Qing Lang, and Hei Lang, the three demons, to become famous; naturally, if there was an opportunity, he was also willing to teach the other party a lesson.

Previously wanting to retreat was simply because he felt the cost did not match the gains.

Now that Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe had already decided to give up the gains from this Secret Realm, what was there to hesitate about in such a sure-win, no-loss matter?

Could this Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe possibly kill both him and Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe, the master and disciple?

Thinking of this, Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe quickly, along with Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe who had already deployed a spatial blockade, surrounded Lu Qingshan completely from front and back.

On the other side...

After seeing that the ones appearing before him were Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe and Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe of the Meng Yao Zu, Lu Qingshan himself could not help but be slightly stunned.

"This is truly..."

Lu Qingshan could not help but sigh in his heart: "It is really too coincidental; I didn't expect to actually encounter these two guys!"

He came to venture into the Yigao Gorge, actually originally thinking about whether he could meet Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe and the other one.

Originally, after over a million years had passed, his thoughts on this had already faded, but unexpectedly, he suddenly encountered them now.

As the saying goes, 'With great skill comes great boldness'; with sufficiently powerful strength, Lu Qingshan naturally would not care too much about the small maneuvers between Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe and Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe.

Just like that, Lu Qingshan watched with his own eyes as Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe and the other one surrounded him from front and back, and only then spoke out: "Have you two Meng Yao Zu scum prepared yourselves?"

Seeing Lu Qingshan's bold and unafraid appearance, Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe quickly became vigilant, and then transmitted his voice to Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe: "Bai Hua, this Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe is still so calm facing us master and disciple; during the upcoming battle, you must be extra vigilant; perhaps there are other powerful figures hiding in the World Ring he carries with him!"

"Rest assured, Teacher!"

Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe quickly spoke: "Even if one more High-Level Zifeng Zunzhe appears beside this Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe, we don't need to worry; could there possibly be a Cosmic Hegemon hiding on his person?"

Boom! Boom!

To prevent other powerful figures of the Human Clan from arriving quickly after Lu Qingshan called for help, Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe and Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe, after deciding to act, naturally did not hesitate for a moment, and directly transformed into streaks of light from the front and back, killing towards Lu Qingshan.

Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe even deployed his Domain-type Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao; in an instant, the surrounding heaven and earth fell into an endless darkness of black light.

Wrapped in this endless black light, Lu Qingshan did not care too much.

What Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe deployed was merely an ordinary Domain-type Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao; such a domain might have some restrictions on Low-Level Zifeng Zunzhe and Mid-Level Zifeng Zunzhe, but for a High-Level Zifeng Zunzhe, it had no effect at all!

Moreover, Lu Qingshan had exchanged for the top-tier Domain-type Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao 'Purple Thunder Domain' in the Human Clan's treasury this time; once deployed, it would probably instantly destroy the domain deployed by Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe.

"Settle Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe first!"

Looking at Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe and Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe rushing at him from front and back, Lu Qingshan thought secretly in his heart: "Sovereign Beihai mentioned before that Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe's defense is quite shocking; if I deal with her first, I might let Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe escape!"

"And the strength of this Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe, I have already learned about before; he is just an ordinary Mid-Level Cosmic Zifeng Zunzhe; perhaps he can rely on his massive divine body to tangle with a High-Level Zifeng Zunzhe, but facing a Cosmic Hegemon, he would surely be useless!"

With the strength of a Cosmic Hegemon, a full-power strike is enough to reach the limit of a top-tier Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao armor, producing a certain effect of breaking the defense!

In this way, the effect of the top-tier Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao armor, which originally could reduce the attack's power to one-thousandth, would drop significantly; trying to reduce the attack's power to one-hundredth of the original would be very difficult!

Thinking of this...

Boom!

Lu Qingshan also acted instantly.

His divine body instantly swelled to the normal height of two hundred meters, and then immediately began to burn his own divine power.

While burning his divine power, Lu Qingshan also activated the top-tier Domain-type Ordinary Ordinary Zhibao 'Purple Thunder Domain' that he had just exchanged for in the Human Clan's treasury.

The burning divine power continuously flowed into the Purple Thunder Domain, while at the same time Lu Qingshan's Time Law Domain instantly descended, completely overlapping with the Purple Thunder Domain.

Pfft!

The black light originally filling the surrounding space instantly dissipated, and suddenly, dense purple Lei Ting appeared throughout heaven and earth, sweeping majestically across the void with a diameter of thirty million kilometers, completely wrapping the two demons, Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe and Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe, within it.

It must be known that the 'Purple Thunder Domain' exchanged by Lu Qingshan was considered a top-grade item even among top-tier Domain-type Supreme Treasures; at this moment, fully activated by Lu Qingshan, even an ordinary Cosmic Hegemon would be affected to a small degree, let alone Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe and Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe, whose strength was two levels lower than that of a Cosmic Hegemon.

"Top-tier heavy treasure!!"

"It's a top-tier heavy treasure of the domain type!"

Seeing his domain instantly shattered, Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe's heart suddenly fluttered with panic.

Lu Qingshan's sudden activation of a top-tier domain heavy treasure made Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe immediately sense something was wrong—and instantly snapped back to clarity.

After all, top-tier domain heavy treasures are even rarer than ordinary ultimate weapons; only universe overlord-level experts typically possess them.

"How could Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe possibly obtain a top-tier domain heavy treasure? Did he find it in the Zushen Sect's treasure vault?"

"Or is there another powerful being hiding within Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe, and this domain is actually cast by someone else?"

As various thoughts flashed through his mind, Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe quickly whispered to his disciple Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe: "Bai Hua, this is a trap—we must leave this domain immediately!"

"Yes, Master!"

At this moment, Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe had also sensed something was amiss; she no longer cared about avenging herself on Lu Qingshan, but only wanted to flee this place as fast as possible.

"Starting to panic?" In the center of the Purple Thunder Domain, Lu Qingshan smiled as he watched the two demons: "Too late now!"

Shhh!

Lu Qingshan instantly surged toward Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe, who was closer to him; yet the Purple Thunder Domain, which severely hindered both Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe and Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe, had no effect on Lu Qingshan—even slightly boosting his speed.

"Annihilation Slash!"

To swiftly kill the weaker Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe, Lu Qingshan unleashed his strongest technique at full power from the start.

……

"With the pride of a universe overlord, it's virtually impossible for one to hide inside the world ring carried by Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe!"

After sensing the terrifying power of the Purple Thunder Domain, Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe quickly thought: "Then this top-tier domain heavy treasure must belong to Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe himself!"

"But no matter how he obtained it, with this domain treasure protecting him, neither I nor Bai Hua can touch him—we might even suffer heavy losses. Better to flee now!"

At this moment, Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe no longer relied solely on flight to escape—he began slashing through layers of obstruction with his claws, rapidly carving a path toward the outside world.

But just then…

"Hmm?" Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe frowned slightly; he sensed a powerful presence approaching.

"It's Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe!"

The moment this thought surfaced in Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe's mind, a brilliant sword light ignited behind him.

This sword light cut straight through the endless Purple Thunder Domain, instantly surging toward Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe with unstoppable force—it was Lu Qingshan's newly created ultimate technique: "Annihilation Slash!"

Facing this terrifying strike, Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe was filled with shock and rage, yet still mustered all his strength to swing his claws and unleash his own ultimate technique in defense.

Boom!

The brilliant sword light struck directly against Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe's claws—he could even feel the trembling resonance of his own top-tier heavy treasure weapon.

Then, the sword light, barely weakened at all, slammed into Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe's divine body; its power instantly reached the absolute limit of his top-tier heavy treasure armor, reducing the armor's ability to dampen the attack from one-thousandth to merely one-fiftieth.

Terrifying power raged wildly within Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe's body, instantly consuming 37% of his divine body—and his face twisted in panic: "Universe overlord—definitely a universe overlord!"

Only a universe overlord could inflict such devastating damage upon him.

And the next instant, the brilliant sword light flared again.

"Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe is a universe overlord—flee!!"

After sending out a shrill divine-force transmission, knowing resistance was futile, Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe chose to detonate himself in fury.

Boom—!

Endless shockwaves instantly swept outward in all directions!

Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe's divine body stood over three hundred meters tall; even with more than half remaining, his self-destruction's power was unimaginably terrifying—so much so that even the Purple Thunder Domain's own domain was momentarily pushed back by the blast.

But Lu Qingshan wore a high-grade ultimate treasure armor, capable of withstanding even the full-force attacks of top-tier universe overlords—let alone this level of self-destruction.

After Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe's detonation, only a black armor emitting a faint glow remained at the spot; his weapon and space ring had been blown far away by the explosion's force.

Fortunately, Lu Qingshan continuously maintained the Purple Thunder Domain, so he had no fear of losing his spoils.

"Next!"

After killing Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe, Lu Qingshan swiftly charged toward Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe on the other side, wielding Lei Yaozhen's Sword: "I hope the treasures on Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe bring me some pleasant surprises!"

……

On the other side, after hearing Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe's desperate transmission, Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe was thrown into panic.

"Universe overlord? How is that possible?" Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe's face was filled with disbelief.

After all, when Lu Qingshan had just begun rising to prominence, Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe had already been lurking within the human race for a very long time.

Thus, she believed she understood Lu Qingshan well—and had always thought herself no less than him.

Lu Qingshan had clones; so did she.

Lu Qingshan became a disciple of Bing Feng Zhi Zhu; she became a direct disciple of the even stronger King Jin Zhi.

Lu Qingshan obtained treasures from the Zushen Sect's vault; she received two ultimate treasures from King Jin Zhi!

Yet now, even with ultimate treasure protection, she barely touched the threshold of a high-grade universe Venerable—how had Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe become a universe overlord?

"No good!"

After sensing the explosion power of her master Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe, Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe silently cursed—then immediately sent out distress signals to several powerful Meng Yao Zu figures.

Although the Meng Yao Zu's communication system was the weakest among the four peak races, at the universe Venerable level, it was easy to split off a divine-force avatar to remain within the clan's core territory, enabling instant communication via localized networks.

Though Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe's strength was not great, she possessed clone ability and was King Jin Zhi's direct disciple, granting her relatively high status among Meng Yao Zu universe Venerables.

Thus, the moment her distress signal was sent, it immediately drew attention from many Meng Yao Zu elites.

"Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe is in danger—should we go help?"

"Are you stupid? The enemy is a universe overlord—Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe, with a three-hundred-meter divine body, was instantly killed. If we go, we won't even survive one strike!"

Among the Meng Yao Zu races, only a few royal clans and Wang Zu members had large divine bodies; most had ordinary ones—like the Mo Luo Hou lineage or the Flying Swallow lineage, whose divine bodies were even smaller than those of ordinary humans!

So after learning Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe had been swiftly slain, many Meng Yao Zu elites, even if they wished to rescue Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe, were powerless to act.

"Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe says the enemy is Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe of the human race? But didn't he just now penetrate the fifth layer of the Beast God Dao? How could he already possess the power of a Cosmic Overlord?"

"So what? Wan Jie Zifeng Zunzhe has only just penetrated the fifth layer of the Beast God Dao, but perhaps his achievements in the Space-Time Dao are even greater!"

"It seems Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe is in for bad luck!"

"Actually, it's not that bad! Both Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe and Long Diao Zifeng Zunzhe belong to the Shuangshou Yaodiao lineage—they naturally possess the ability to create clones. Even if a clone truly perishes, it can be reborn again; at most, they lose some treasures!"

"The strong ones of the Shuangshou Yaodiao lineage truly excel in survival!"

Zi Xue Secret Realm, hundreds of thousands of light-years away from the area where Lu Qingshan and Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe clashed.

At this moment, a towering figure over three hundred meters tall, with a long tail trailing behind and two heads growing from its shoulders, was coiled before a still-incompletely matured Ice Crystal Flower.

If any powerful being appeared here, they would recognize this figure as the famed Cosmic Overlord of the vast universe—Long Ya Zifeng Zunzhe of the Meng Yao Zu's Shuangshou Yaodiao lineage.

"I estimate it will take another three thousand years before this Ice Crystal Flower fully matures!"

Gazing at the Ice Crystal Flower before him, Long Ya Zifeng Zunzhe could not help but smile slightly.

Over three million years ago, Long Ya Zifeng Zunzhe had merely wandered into Zi Xue Secret Realm on a whim, yet he had accidentally discovered this Ice Crystal Flower.

Now, after waiting here for over three million years, he was finally about to see it fully mature.

But at that moment, a distress signal suddenly reached Long Ya Zifeng Zunzhe.

"Bai Hua's distress signal?"

Long Ya Zifeng Zunzhe's eyes flashed like lightning: "That fool Bai Hua—Third Master warned her long ago not to rely on the power of her treasure to roam recklessly through the cosmos. Now she's finally run into trouble!"

Long Ya Zifeng Zunzhe was also a disciple of King Jin Zhi, yet he looked down on this little sister Bai Hua.

After all, Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe's strength was ordinary; she had only been accepted into King Jin Zhi's sect due to her long-term espionage work among the human race.

"But Bai Hua carries a treasure bestowed by our Master—if she is truly killed, it would be a significant loss for our Shuangshou Yaodiao lineage!"

Thinking this, Long Ya Zifeng Zunzhe immediately waved his hand to set up protections around the Ice Crystal Flower, then instantly teleported toward the coordinates provided in Bai Hua Zifeng Zunzhe's distress signal.

(End of Chapter)