Chapter 395: Displaying Might to Destroy the Bee, and a Great Flood Dragon Lurks Maliciously

"Urgh!"

Apostle An was caught off guard, feeling as if struck by a heavy hammer, and was sent crashing directly into the nearby pillar of pestilence, where the brilliant explosion had yet to subside, causing her to scream incessantly.

Du En was not surprised by this result.

What is the strongest means of the Soul Formation stage? It is the Primordial Spirit! What is the essence of Primordial Spirit coercion? It is a type of external disturbance and influence brought about by the Primordial Spirit beginning to probe the mysteries of heaven and earth!

And what is the difference between a Heaven's Pride Great Cultivator and a genius Great Cultivator? To prove it once is to prove it forever; using vastly different starting points to climb the same infinite peak!

Therefore, Du En, at the mid-Soul Formation stage, could already be called a "lesser Void Refinement," and his Primordial Spirit coercion had taken on the characteristics of the Void Refinement stage—or rather, it had become close to the Primordial Spirit Dao-might that only exists in the Void Refinement stage!

It is the integration of great magic power and great might, taking a step further, becoming closer to the principles of the Dao, and becoming even more profound and unfathomable! To put it simply, it is the active manipulation of the principles of heaven and earth to form various substantive manifestations of power.

Although still weak, merely the budding sprout of a beginning, the opponent before him was not the type that could be defeated simply by relying on one's own toughness, like Apostle Su.

"Urgh-ah-ah-ah!!!"

Amidst the shrill roar, Apostle An, the Queen Bee, rushed out from the pillar of pestilence—which was transitioning from bright red to deep purple and rapidly beginning to extinguish and crystallize—and raised her wings to wave them toward Du En.

There were three pairs of membrane wings: one pair of human-hand wings erupted with great might, infecting the space like deep purple light; one pair of tentacle wings sprayed viscous fluid, scarlet and foul-smelling, hot as molten lava; and the last pair of sticky membrane wings vibrated continuously, instantly turning the air into a flesh-sac, with brilliant light brewing within, about to explode.

Du En's gaze pressed down slightly, and the flesh-sac went *squelch* and shriveled, erased by an invisible force; the deep purple light-might seemed to step into a quagmire, fast yet slow, like stepping onto a road that never ends; the final molten lava fluid, under his gaze, suddenly corrected its course, erupted with brilliant light-might, and instead plastered itself onto her own face.

"Ah-ah-ah!!!"

Screaming in agony, her six compound eyes opened wide, as if each had its own will, manifesting various emotions in different directions.

A pair of human eyes looked toward Du En, one looking up, one looking down.

Staggered up and down!

The Law of Space!

But it was useless; Du En's understanding of space was deeper than hers. Just as they were about to intersect and kill, he silently guided them back to the right path, in proper, harmless order.

A pair of pestilence eyes looked to Du En's left and right, one looking left, one looking right.

Two layers of pestilence!

Deep purple and bright red!

Still useless. Before he could be struck by the double infection, Du En's form suddenly turned to light; it was the indestructible radiance remaining from his spiritual body, like a great sun hanging in the sky, eternally brilliant and unchanging, completely immune to being stained.

Apostle An was furious, in a great rage. Her last pair of eyes, the pus-sac eyes, widened even further: one had all its pupils shrink, the other had all its pupils dilate; then, one crawled out like a slug, and the other gathered into a single insect egg, both detaching from the eye sockets.

That slug was the Myriad-Devouring Filth Worm, and that egg was the Heart-Parasite Evil Egg; both were extremely vicious and treacherous means that were impossible to guard against! Sensing the scent of danger, Du En immediately squeezed out that sliver of just-recovered magic power and, through the transformation of his natal magic treasure, manifested the Thunder-Command Seal.

Boom!

Crack!

A bolt of lightning from a clear sky appeared, and a thunder realm crashed into the human world!

Wearing a crown and robes, majestic and awe-inspiring, like an abyss or a prison, Du En channeled the budding Dao-might and blessed it upon this thunder-law realm. Instantly, ten thousand thunders became like dragons, arching their backs to form a throne, and he was the Emperor-God in charge of the orthodox Thunder Law, his brilliant heavenly might falling in response.

Boom!

Boom!

Crack! Crack! Crack! The thunder roared, volley after volley like a punishment; invisibly, it returned to Yin, the sound of Yin-Thunder, directly shattering the pus-sac eye that had gathered into an insect egg.

The light grew intense; though it was a punishment, the phenomenon returned to Yang, the lightning like dragons, probing in all directions, grabbing fiercely to leave the filthy slug with nowhere to hide, forcing it to be crushed and extinguished! Having just done this, the thunder realm collapsed, and the Emperor fell back to the human world.

In the end, Du En was also at the end of his rope. Forcibly urging the budding Dao-might that he had only just managed to combine and gestate at the mid-stage was a great burden on his Primordial Spirit; the true form within his Spirit Palace had already dimmed, and he could hardly continue.

"Hee-hee-hee-hee!"

Seeing that Du En's momentum had waned and he had no follow-up power, Apostle An giggled, circled in the air, and lunged over.

Her target was Du En, and even more so, the Holy Spirit Hanging Lamp on his face!

Her wings and eyes had all been broken one by one, but she still had her ugly body, which now split open, turning into a foul-smelling giant mouth, intending to swallow him and the lamp in one bite!

"Holy Spirit, Holy Mother, beautiful Mother, I am coming!"

"……An!"

The Holy Spirit spoke solemnly at this moment, her gentleness gone, appearing distant and high.

She called out the name of her creation.

"It's useless, I, I, urgh..."

"That which is called a name is the statement of principle, it is the granting of authority!"

The Holy Spirit was truly like a god, speaking of the Dao and heaven, pointing directly to the root.

Therefore.

"Rest in peace."

Her true form closed her eyes, unable to bear the sight.

And Apostle An suddenly disintegrated, vanishing into smoke in the blink of an eye.

Do not think it looked simple; this Queen Bee had first had her bee-queen shell shattered, then was caught off guard and struck into the pillar of pestilence—a place Du En dared not stay in, a place where he had relied on the self-detonation of a pile of fifth-grade magic treasures to find a gap and escape immediately.

Finally, he had dismantled her three pairs of membrane wings and three pairs of compound eyes; it was a dismemberment from the root, like a Dao-wound, with life constantly flowing from the gashes.

In fact, Apostle An was just like him, at the end of her rope, and both of them only had the strength for one final strike left!

It's coming!

Du En was stern, fixing his eyes on it; the Holy Spirit was nervous, opening her eyes once more.

An indestructible pestilence-seed arrived as expected, emerging abruptly from the dissipating smoke, rushing over urgently, replacing Apostle An, even more impatient than she had been, wanting only to root itself into the body of Du En, who looked as if he had no strength left.

The Holy Spirit was about to act; she could still channel her authority in this realm, the crown of a god, though doing so would leave her like Du En, adding injury to injury, nearing total exhaustion.

Du En did not pin his hopes on that; he had kept an ace up his sleeve, an old trick of his.

Moreover, he also wanted to verify one thing.

Thus, his form suddenly vanished, and in its place was a towering Spirit Palace.

Hm?!

The Holy Spirit was startled, subconsciously flying up, and then she saw the gate of the Spirit Palace swing open violently, and a claw of raging flames suddenly reached out from within.

"Screech!!!" Phoenix Remnant Hatred!

Having caught a sheep to fleece it relentlessly, now that it had been released for him again, that long-accumulated hatred and resentment poured out immediately, just in time as there was an extremely burnable existence right before his eyes.

Seed of Immortality!

Die! Die, be destroyed, be annihilated, disappear completely!!! The madness of Phoenix Remnant Hatred roared as if screaming, incomparably chaotic, instantly igniting the surroundings; that Fluorspar-disease Qi, with a boom, was a firestorm raging, even spreading all the way to ignite those Fluorspar-crystallized mantle columns.

Gurgle! Pshhh! Rumble! This time, it was truly a great surge of the mantle columns; the fire of immortal hatred burned wildly across, like a torch thrust into a gasoline depot, and in an instant, the entire earth was boiling, and the entire spatial interlayer was detonated.

"Quick, run, run quickly!"

Such a formation was truly terrifying.

Frightened, the Holy Spirit subconsciously cried out in a hurry.

With a boom, the Divine Palace closed its doors, Du En reappeared, and without hesitation, he stepped on the spatial rift and immediately fled into the distance.

The Seed of Immortality, burned by the hatred, also wanted to pursue; it was truly a maggot on the bone, and it even brought with it the roar of fire and magma, like a hand from that terrifying great eruption of the mantle columns.

It covered the sky and blotted out the sun, slapping down toward the Holy Capital!

That's right, Du En was running this way on purpose.

Although he had accidentally triggered this terrifying natural disaster, as if a True Person were unleashing their might and the stars were roaring, he was very calm and immediately thought of borrowing the mantle to destroy the capital!

Otherwise, the mutual slaughter over there would sooner or later produce another great enemy like the Apostle! That was a visible development, and his current state was extremely poor; although he had his divine ability as a final trump card, he was unwilling to expose it so quickly, so if he were caught up to and forced to reveal his hand prematurely, and there were further targeting later, that would truly be the end of the road! "Wait, wait, wait..."

The Holy Spirit ran for a while, and seeing the Holy Capital before her eyes, she immediately wanted to tell him to turn, but then seeing him charging forward without stopping, she was instantly stunned.

That was the Holy Capital!

The center of our Holy Nation! It is...

"Sigh!"

She finally only let out a melancholy sigh, noticed the approach of the Seed of Immortality behind her, hurriedly flashed past, appeared beside Du En, and continued running along with him.

Rumble! The earth cracked, and space shattered.

The geological disaster, a mixture of the virtual and the real, was like a heaven-supporting giant pressing down with a single palm.

The glorious Holy Capital was directly reduced to the past, becoming a small leaf torn apart and buried.

The Pathogen-afflicted ones unleashed their magic power and diseased bodies, erupting with various great might, but now it was merely a mantis trying to stop a chariot, overestimating their own strength; in an instant, they were crushed, all burned and melted away!

The terrifying mantle tide continued to spread, completely covering the entire central hub of the Holy Nation, causing a large, ugly, dazzling red spot to appear on the surface of the star! The seemingly infinite sea of disease Qi ultimately relied on its volume to suppress that mere torch of an explosion; the great movement of the mantle columns did not truly disintegrate the continental shelf or trigger a great change in the star's surface.

This world of the Source-Life Star Realm was unexpectedly resilient!

Perhaps it was because the main body of the god was hidden in the inner layer, becoming a ballast-like existence?

Du En couldn't help but speculate.

Because the scene before his eyes, of scorched earth stretching for more than ten thousand miles, resembling a lava hell, was truly terrifying to the extreme and sufficient to cause the collapse and reshaping of the surface ecology; it shouldn't have calmed down so quickly, so it could only be said that there was some other external force.

It might also be the means laid down by the Unmoving True Monarch; after all, this was his experimental field, so there had to be some protective measures.

Of course, what he cared about most now was the Seed of Immortality that had finally been burned up and was withering before his eyes.

Sure enough, Phoenix Remnant Hatred was a part of that Divine Venerable's True Immortality...

Long ago, after his spiritual body shed its shell and he grasped the rudiments of True Immortality, he had realized that immortality did not equal being undying.

Not to mention that cultivators who have not become immortals always have a heaven-ordained lifespan; regardless of whether you are immortal or undying, when the time comes, you must perish. This is the foundation of the laws of reason, an ultimate truth that those who cannot transcend the mundane cannot resist.

Even a Supreme is the same! And as for those of the second rank among Venerables, those with the titles of Divine Venerable or King Venerable, they are naturally the geniuses among geniuses, or even the supreme among the supreme; it is impossible that they have not grasped True Immortality.

However, Phoenix Divine Venerable died.

Therefore, even if it is True Immortality, in the end, it does not equal being truly undying! That Phoenix Remnant Hatred could burn the Seed of Immortality proves that it is a fragment of the Divine Venerable's True Immortality, or at the very least, a fragment.

In other words, even if such Venerables die, their own True Immortality lives up to its name, remaining in the world, and even infecting a certain emotional will of theirs, further embedding itself into the heavens and earth to become a part of the laws! The body is dead, but the law is immortal!

What is truly immortal is the law, not the person! It is like a completion of the heavens and earth? Du En frowned slightly, his eyes filled with confusion.

The Holy Spirit was immersed in her emotions, her field of vision full of sorrow.

One god and one Apostle, silent and soundless, watched quietly.

It was not until the laughter of a madman rang out that the silence here was broken.

"Hahahahaha!"

"Freedom! I am finally free!"

Wantonly arrogant, bathing in the mantle fire, it suddenly soared into the air, scattering scorching petals, revealing a battered and miserable-looking gargantuan body.

With a snake's body and four feet, bearing two horns, it brought up clouds, a striking ink-gray within the mantle's red heat; it was clearly a Fifth-Rank Great Flood Dragon!

Looking at the dragon bones on its shoulder blades, where chains and hooks were deeply embedded and not yet torn off, it was obvious that it had been imprisoned here previously, and because the great eruption of the mantle columns had destroyed the place of its seal, it was able to escape and gain freedom.

Is there no end to this? Even a person of Du En's temperament, facing the endless obstacles of enemies coming one after another, couldn't help but feel helpless at this moment, his eyelids drooping slightly.

Clearly, the Great Flood Dragon circling in the air, flaunting its freedom, was intentionally or unintentionally casting its gaze this way; the divine sense it could exceptionally unleash was wrapping around them layer by layer, and in its throat, a demonic flood dragon breath was brewing.

Visible malice, hostility, and killing intent! The Holy Spirit Xuan Deng also couldn't help but exclaim: "Is that an Outer-Domain Heavenly Demon?!"

"Presumptuous!"

The Great Flood Dragon in the distance heard this title and was instantly furious, "A mere indigenous Transformation-God, actually daring to imprison and despise me, you truly deserve to die!"

Hm? Du En discovered a subtly different situation.

The Holy Spirit was already in a bad mood, and coupled with the Great Flood Dragon's overflowing malice, which had not changed at all, she couldn't help but speak: "You came from outside the heavens and started eating people the moment you landed, how are you not an Outer-Domain Heavenly Demon?"

"Bold!"

The Great Flood Dragon was even more thunderously enraged, flying over as it slithered, completely shaking off the attachment of the mantle disease Qi; its missing limbs recovered rapidly with the eruption of its demonic power, and a domain of ink-dyed demonic territory unfolded, fully displaying its Fifth-Rank perfection might.

"I am a descendant of the True Dragon, how can those outer-heaven ghosts and past dust be compared to me?!"

"You indigenous people do not understand the vastness of the star sea, do not know the breadth of the world, and even less do you know my noble status; isn't it just eating a few tens of thousands of people? That is a blessing and duty you ought to offer!"

"To actually imprison and insult me, you deserve to die, you deserve to die!!!"

The demonic domain closed in, trapping the two of them inside.

(End of chapter)