Chapter 407: Fighting Two at Once, It

Malice rushed toward her; Yun felt a bit nervous at this moment, her body subconsciously tensing up.

Although the current situation looked one-sided, during the conversation just now, Du En had still been silently exerting force; right now, the Flower Demon's lair was already tottering, with wind and sand having long since ravaged the interior, tearing it into pieces.

However, she still subconsciously remained vigilant, and she still harbored a doubt to this day.

It was just that she hadn't had the chance to ask it yet.

That is, the current status of the Apostle Lie!

Actually, there was no need to ask anymore, because as the malice of the Time-Wheel Flower Demon became prominent and everyone's attention turned toward her, the answer had already been thrust right before them.

Boom! Du En suddenly turned around, throwing a punch that had been gathering power, meeting head-on the person who was also brewing a sudden attack and charging in at that moment, immediately creating a vacuum in the storm.

Viscous purple sap oozed out at the edge of the boundary, smearing the perimeter and isolating the inside from the outside; the principle of the four-season cycle, from vibrant life to the withering of all things, was faintly contained within it.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The Wind of Impermanence suddenly erupted, blowing it full of holes like a rotten sieve, and with the impact brought by the physical confrontation, it was immediately torn to shreds.

"Pfft!"

"How could you know? How could you be prepared!?"

The Time-Wheel Flower Demon spat out sap while raging, full of venomous spite.

It appeared to be targeting Yun, but in reality, it was drawing attention; the true target was actually Du En, who was currently the most direct and greatest threat—this damned Holy Divine Apostle who could restrain it!

But the other side had anticipated this and was prepared, not only blocking Apostle Lie's surprise attack but also shattering the Time-Wheel Disease Circle it had painstakingly prepared, preventing it from showing any power at all!

Damn it...

However, wasn't this something obvious at a glance? In the gaze Du En cast toward the Flower Demon, there was only this kind of blunt color.

His calm expression was as if he were stating a fact, a fact that didn't need any thinking at all.

The Time-Wheel Flower Demon froze.

It was truly broken.

And it was truly terrified.

Under Du En's current gaze, it couldn't help but recall the time back then.

That was the first time it saw the Holy Divine, or rather, the purpose of the Holy Divine.

It was the same as this; with just one glance, it had already been seen through, evaluated with a sigh of pity for the inferiority of its temperament! It was especially dissatisfied, especially hateful, especially terrified and uneasy, yet, it was completely powerless!

And so it began to go mad, began to go crazy, began to twist; in short, it just didn't learn to be good...

Sigh.

Truly a half-baked thing, originally a bad seed, yet always desperately finding excuses to embellish, to find reasons for its own evil actions; please, you are a natural-born bad seed, can't you just be straightforward? Du En had clearly seen through this guy's fragile and pathetic psychology, and at this moment, his gaze revealed his thoughts; even without speaking, it was still venomous and sharp.

"... You, you are truly damned!!!"

The Time-Wheel Flower Demon couldn't help but let out a ferocious roar; the ominous purple at its stems rapidly deepened and climbed, allowing it to regenerate more surplus energy, while at the same time, the surging Sea of Disease hovering in the sky also drew a few feet closer to the ground.

Clearly, shamed into anger, flustered and exasperated, and having suffered a major breakdown, it also realized that it could no longer hold back, otherwise it might really be defeated and uprooted by Du En, so it began to actively accept the irrigation of the Sea of Disease.

Spring returned, Summer blazed... Pfft, pfft, pfft, squeak, squeak, squeak, one after another, more twisted diseased trees and strange flowers rapidly broke through the soil, re-establishing wind-breaking dikes for the lair that was almost submerged by the wind and sand.

The autumn wind was bleak, the cold wind was murderous... The two great winds blowing from the west and the north mixed together, carrying the flavor of the withering of all things and the freezing of the earth, engaging in a fierce struggle with the wind and sand and the Wind of Impermanence.

The four seasons were suddenly complete, and the cycle began to sprout! This was the true Time-Wheel! Once it let go of its resistance, it immediately advanced toward the Sixth Rank, the level corresponding to the Void Refinement stage!

In this way, even the Wind of Impermanence could no longer have a miraculous effect, beginning to be hindered by the cycling four seasons.

It was obvious that this Flower Demon was attempting to break through its rank, wanting to breakthrough in the midst of battle!

Naturally, Du En could not let it succeed, but the Flower Demon also had a countermeasure.

Apostle Lie! Boom! The two fists collided again, erupting into a great and fierce battle, with vast magic power flowing endlessly, crushing against each other!

The manipulated and driven Apostle Lie was naturally in a state of deep infection, his whole body covered in purple patterns, like tree roots, looking very ferocious.

A pair of eyes were even covered by fluorite, with no pupils visible at all, reflecting only ominous light.

He was an apostle who had originally chosen to retreat while at his peak; it was not that his physical combat power had declined, as he still possessed his full strength, matching a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator who was a strong genius.

And after being infected with the Fluorite Disease, he went a step further, gaining a boost in power amidst the madness of the disease, reaching the Nascent Soul Perfection, and faintly showing signs of going a step further to enter the ranks of the weak prodigies!

In other words, this was an opponent only two notches weaker than the Master of the Dust Puppet Tower!

And now, Du En still had to maintain various Dao techniques, and the embryonic form of his Dao might still had to bolster the Blade of Impermanence, so dividing his attention to cover and strike the Flower Demon's main body made him appear somewhat strained in dealing with Apostle Lie.

With one increase and one decrease, it made his handling of Apostle Lie appear somewhat laborious.

Specifically, it manifested externally as the two of them relying only on hand-to-hand combat, falling into a stalemate.

Boom, boom, boom! The two were locked in close-quarters combat, both erupting with the power of their spirit bodies and diseased bodies, fighting fiercely, shattering the cover of the wind and sand, shaking the Sea of Disease overhead, and also making the watching Yun feel uncomfortable; due to witnessing and observing that overly intense and fast-paced battle, she was momentarily unable to process the information received by her senses.

She shook her head to calm herself down.

Looking at the Time-Wheel Flower Demon, which was currently gathering its strength to breakthrough during the battle, and then looking back at the Holy Divine's Hanging Lamp.

She was already appearing strained just by protecting those remnants of the living, and now she seemed powerless regarding the battle; no, actually, it should be said that she was gathering her strength to unleash a big move.

Deep within that Sea of Disease, beneath the interlayer, in the true inner layer, light was flickering, accumulating, and gathering; as soon as enough was gathered, it would erupt directly, piercing through all obstacles and evaporating the Time-Wheel Flower Demon on the spot! Perhaps it sensed this, or perhaps it mistook the terror between life and death for something brought by Du En, so even though the Time-Wheel Flower Demon had a trashy personality, it wasn't screaming or spouting all kinds of garbage and dirty words now.

It had to muster all its strength to quickly complete the breakthrough so it could deal with that increasingly intense sense of crisis! "Your Majesty!"

Yun looked at those remnants of the living again; they appeared to be in pain, suppressing their pain, not wanting to be any extra burden or interference since they were already dead weight.

Although these people were mostly ordinary citizens of the Holy Kingdom during their lifetimes, and there were even the old, weak, women, and children, at this moment, they all felt pain for being a drag, without exception. Even if they might not have actually had contact with the Holy Divine while alive, treating it as a story to listen to, or treating it like a mascot, or more accurately, the existence of the Holy Divine was the sun in the sky, the trees and flowers, the flowing water and high mountains, already filling the lives of the Holy Kingdom's citizens.

Even if it sounded distant before, with no real sense of reality, and even if they were mortals who couldn't recognize that the Hanging Lamp was the incarnation of a deity, right now, they all had thoughts of not deviating from the righteous path.

Precisely because of this simple kindness, not falling into evil, the Holy Divine had been in a dilemma before, unable to make a choice, and was subjected to obvious interrogation.

At this moment, this deity drew out some spare energy and looked toward Yun: "Is there something you wish to say?"

As he spoke, radiance fell, enveloping Yun as well, isolating the outflow of sound and other information.

What are they doing? The Time-Wheel Flower Demon was somewhat concerned.

Although a deity, after the Great War of Holy Darkness and the two-fold blow of the world's disease, could now only walk the world relying on a hanging lamp, making flowers laugh.

Although a woman, hiding her head and showing her tail, weak and very ordinary, without being infected, she only had the combat power of an ordinary early-stage Nascent Soul, belonging to the kind of person in the current Life-Source Star Realm who was not prominent at all; it could kill a whole bunch of them with a wave of its hand.

Although that pile of remnants of the living were all residues left by the dead of the past, if it hadn't wanted to use them to disgust, harass, and interrogate the Holy Divine, it wouldn't have wasted its energy to pull them back; now they were even more like a pile of foam, all supported by the Shadow of the Gap Flower, and could be said to be completely non-threatening.

With such a pile of rotten fish and shrimp gathered together, they shouldn't be able to stir up any trouble.

The Time-Wheel Flower Demon very much wanted to convince itself of this, but it felt an inexplicable sense of unease, not knowing where it came from.

—As it drew closer to the barrier of the Sixth Rank, it became increasingly sensitive; at this very moment, it began to notice that the life-and-death crisis actually came primarily from the Holy God! But, this did not mean that Du En could simply be ignored.

Boom! A dull sound, like a bell being struck; Du En was hit by the Apostle Lie and sent flying out?

No, that's not right!

He was hit on purpose! He suddenly broke away from the battle group and moved toward it! Two flowers bloom, Eternal Ice Coffin.

Before the Time-Wheel Flower Demon could urge the diseased Apostle Lie to intercept, a new move had already been unleashed! The embryonic Dao Might imbued in the Impermanence Blade now flowed like water onto the Eternal Ice Coffin, freezing it inside in the blink of an eye.

Eternally frozen and unchanging, cutting off the inside from the outside, absolute defense... In other words, it was a disguised form of time solidification!

The turning of the four seasons, the mystery of time, was forcibly severed at this moment! Naturally, there was no need for the excessive reinforcement of the Impermanence Wind; the violent sandstorm immediately destroyed the enemy's rebuilt lair and began to swirl in place, forming a terrifying eye of the storm, with lightning flashing and thunder rolling, sand and dust like blades—the wind power was gathering strength.

In truth, Du En also had his frustrations; it wasn't that he didn't want to wipe them out in one go, but as space shattered, the diseased Apostle Lie had already killed his way back before his eyes, relying on the power of that terrifying diseased spirit body, making it impossible for anyone to underestimate him in the slightest.

Du En had no choice but to first boost his spirit body's great might and continue to tangle with him.

Although he was maintaining the advantage for now, anyone with a discerning eye could see that while he might have a great advantage in a one-on-one, he could only barely maintain the situation now that it was one-against-two.

In the end, he was merely a weakling among the Heaven's Prides; although his talent was a great mountain standing before his enemies, his cultivation was a shortcoming after all... Should he start revealing his trump cards and use a desperate fighting style?

He couldn't help but think this calmly.

The self-immolation secret technique he had just learned?

Activating the Phoenix Blood Spear to let the Divine Venerable's lingering hatred manifest once more?

Or perhaps, to be more direct, simply use his trump card, his divine ability... Alright, he wouldn't use this move just yet; of course, he couldn't be stingy when the moment of necessity arrived.

And there was the Phoenix Red True Flame, currently his strongest conventional spell-based means...

Du En's deliberation had no conclusion, but Yun's side had already taken action.

She had finished saying something to the Holy God and received the other party's affirmation.

Moreover, he immediately noticed that those projections of the living were all becoming excited, sweeping away the pain and depression from just a moment ago.

Thus, Du En understood immediately: it seemed he could still hold onto his own means.

After all, there was still the final wonder, the Bone of Rain, to collect next; once all the wonders were gathered, regardless of whether there was an antidote, he had to start heading toward the Dark Nation!

Not to mention the state of the Dark God, just that Dark God General alone—if he actively infected himself with Fluorite Disease, connected to the interlayer disease sea, gained growth beyond normal limits, and broke through another small realm, he would be exceptionally difficult to fight. Du En estimated he would have to exhaust all his trump cards to bridge the gap in realm.

Then, behind the General, there was the Dark God who surely still had some strength left! That deity did not consume its remaining strength through various actions and displays like the Holy God here; one could imagine it would be an extremely tough opponent! In short, Du En had been calmly examining the status quo, trying his best to use the minimum output and the minimum cost to achieve victory in each battle! That was the case right now; seeing the situation change, he immediately erupted with the power of the Five Undying, sent Apostle Lie flying with a heavy blow, and then, bearing the injury caused by being hit, suddenly broke away from the entanglement and rushed toward the Time-Wheel Flower Demon without looking back.

Yun and the others did not hesitate and took over this mess on the spot.

"Aargh!!!"

Apostle Lie roared, the purple disease-veins on his body, like writhing living worms, becoming even more hideous and prominent as he breathed out disease-Qi, almost turning into muscle fibers.

Fluorite crystal clusters also grew all over his body, a sight that made people feel an instinctive fear and retreat, subconsciously not wanting to get close.

Yun pursed her lips beneath the full-isolation protection, suppressing the trembling of her body and the unease in her heart, and suddenly broke away from the range illuminated by the hanging lamp.

The other projections of the living were the same; after their instinctive fear, they took a deep breath, left the swaddling clothes of light one after another, and arrived before the terror.

Yet, that terrifying diseased one had only been a simple and honest flower farmer in the past.

"Lord Lie!"

"Master Lie!"

"Venerable Lie!"

People called out to him, but the diseased monster paid them no heed at all.

"Hahahaha! Truly laughable! Truly laughable!"

"You lot, you make me unable to help but laugh out loud. I originally thought you were playing some trick, but it turns out to be this kind of naive ruse; it's enough to make one laugh their teeth off!"

The Time-Wheel Flower Demon's mockery sounded timely.

Unable to resist a glance, he discovered that the Eternal Ice Coffin was already covered in fine cracks.

Yun and the others couldn't help but grit their teeth, but they were not interrupted.

(End of chapter)