Chapter 1000: Silent Night—Severing Dust

The only remaining remnant eye of Fanni erupted with an extremely ferocious light.

Hiss!

Hundreds of millions of terrifying whispers instantly resounded.

Sneaky, inexplicable, and evil thoughts poured into the depths of the minds of Zhang Huizhi and the other two like a tidal wave.

Zhang Huizhi's breath hitched:

"Retreat!"

The next instant.

Hum!

Vertical streaks of pitch-black light spread outward.

Xia Hanzhou, Xia Zhiyang, and Zhang Huizhi simultaneously felt as if countless stars were suppressing their physical bodies, leaving them unable to move.

Space had been frozen!

Crack, crack, crack!

The True Martial Power within Zhang Huizhi erupted, and cracks appeared in the space around his body, as he was about to break free.

Xia Hanzhou and Xia Zhiyang, however, were like those trapped deep within ice, unable to move.

The next moment.

Tap, tap...

Fanni, with pitch-black blood flowing from his single eye, walked toward Xia Hanzhou; he extended a large, pitch-black hand to grab Xia Hanzhou's head.

Crack, crack, crack!

The space around Xia Zhiyang's body was likewise shattered by the power of surging blood and Qi.

Xia Zhiyang's eyes erupted with a fierce glare, staring fixedly at Fanni, as if ten thousand rages were about to explode at any moment.

The next moment.

Slap!

Fanni grabbed Xia Hanzhou's head with one hand.

"Ahhhhhh!"

Xia Zhiyang let out a heaven-shaking roar.

Zhang Huizhi's eyes widened; he saw Xia Hanzhou's gaze looking at him through the gaps in Fanni's fingers.

There was no terror, no complexity, but rather a sense of relief.

He was too tired.

He did not want to care anymore.

Even if Fanni did not kill him, he wanted to die.

There was only a sliver of regret.

He had originally wanted to die in the Ancient God Forbidden Land, following Chi Mi.

And not here.

In the end, a smile appeared in the depths of Xia Hanzhou's eyes.

Boom!

The head shattered, and blood splashed everywhere.

"Kill!!!"

Xia Zhiyang's eyes wept blood, wanting to completely shatter the space restricting him.

Crack, crack, crack!

Around Zhang Huizhi, layers of space were the first to shatter; as if breaking free from shackles, Zhang Huizhi's physical body began to tremble.

Fanni turned his head instantly, his remnant eye looking at Zhang Huizhi.

He shifted his target.

His battle instinct told him that only by killing this youngest alien would he be able to kill all the other aliens more easily.

The next moment.

Fanni appeared before Zhang Huizhi.

He raised the long sword in his hand and slashed toward Zhang Huizhi.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!"

Xia Zhiyang roared, struggling desperately; terrifying bloodstains appeared on his physical body, and his entire figure became blurred.

The next moment.

"Ten Thousand Generations, I Stand Alone!"

A low voice resounded.

Time and space seemed to freeze once more, and a stream of pure golden light instantly slammed into Fanni's physical body.

Lu Xunyang!

Lu Xunyang punched Fanni in the chest, as if an entire world had struck him.

Boom!

Fanni's body was sent flying.

"I am late."

Lu Xunyang was dressed in white as snow, his entire body enveloped in golden light.

Zhang Huizhi looked at Lu Xunyang, his heart sinking.

Lu Xunyang had not ascended to the Ninth Rank, but was stuck in the process of ascension; now, he could at most exert half of his Ninth Rank power.

The next moment.

Zhang Huizhi looked toward Xia Zhiyang, his pupils shrinking.

He saw that in order to break free from the spatial cage, Xia Zhiyang's entire body was erupting with bone spurs, blood flowing like a river, no longer looking human.

"Leave the rest to me."

Lu Xunyang's voice was deep; he met Xia Zhiyang's blood-red eyes, as if he had already made up his mind.

The next moment, Lu Xunyang reached out a hand.

Under Zhang Huizhi's astonished gaze.

Crack, crack, crack!

Xia Zhiyang's physical body, which had been frozen by space, began to snap and shatter, his blood and flesh turning into streams of light that flowed out from the spatial cracks.

"Xia Zhiyang is Lu Xunyang, Lu Xunyang is Xia Zhiyang.

But if I were given another chance, I would rather be Lu Xunyang than Xia Zhiyang."

Lu Xunyang's voice was low to the extreme.

The red light formed by Xia Zhiyang's flesh and blood wrapped around Lu Xunyang's body and seeped into him.

At this moment.

Lu Xunyang's aura began to strengthen infinitely.

Strengthening!

Climbing!

A mere wisp of the terrifying power leaking out was enough to shatter the heavens and destroy the earth.

Zhang Huizhi was stunned.

Xia Zhiyang was dead!

Yet he had used his own flesh and blood to turn into the purest energy, enhancing Lu Xunyang's combat power to an extreme degree.

In fact, this could not even be called a merging.

It could only be called a catalyst.

And it was a catalyst with a time limit.

"I can only hold on for three minutes; after that, it is up to you."

Lu Xunyang spoke indifferently, his voice calm, but it explained everything.

An entire Master of Qi and Blood using his physical body and life as a catalyst could only strengthen Lu Xunyang for three minutes.

Terrifying!

Tap, tap, tap...

In the distance, Fanni, who had been knocked flying, walked over.

His remaining eye was ferocious, staring fixedly at Lu Xunyang.

His combat instinct told Fanni that this would be the strongest enemy he had ever encountered.

Just the pressure leaking from that person made even him feel interested.

Moreover, in his remaining memories, this was an enemy he had encountered ten thousand years ago.

He had not expected that after ten thousand years, this person would have become so strong.

Lu Xunyang's expression was calm as he reached out a hand.

The remaining half of Xia Zhiyang's flesh and blood light did not flow into Lu Xunyang's body, but instead gathered in his palm into a blood-red orb of light.

Next would be a strike sacrificed by the flesh of half a Martial Dao Master!

"If the current me had appeared ten thousand years ago..."

A touch of melancholy appeared in Lu Xunyang's eyes:

"Perhaps, the human race would have had no Ancient Gods long ago."

Quiet!

Quiet!

The aura was condensing.

Extreme silence.

The next moment.

Boom!

Lu Xunyang moved!

He turned into a stream of light that tore through space and time, charging straight at Fanni!

Fanni's remaining eye was violent, his malicious longsword slashing horizontally, and pitch-black cracks spread like a spiderweb.

Yet before the sword edge could touch the golden light, Lu Xunyang had already arrived before him!

The blood orb in his palm, condensed from half of Xia Zhiyang's flesh and blood, suddenly expanded.

Endless Qi and blood power collapsed and boiled within it, as if it were a fallen red sun.

The next moment.

Boom!!!!

Like the thunder of ten thousand ages!

The blood orb exploded with a roar, the scorching flames swallowing the heavens and earth, tearing a brilliant rift in the scarlet sky.

Yet in the very next instant.

The terrifying flames rapidly contracted, not wasting a single bit of energy, all of it pouring into Fanni's body.

Thump!

A low, deep rumble threatened to burst the eardrums of all living things.

"Did you learn it?"

Lu Xunyang laughed loudly:

"Blindly exploding has no meaning; only precise application can unleash the strongest power!"

Screech!

A shrill, mournful cry rang through the heavens and earth.

At the center of the light and flame, Fanni's head shook violently, its withered face twisted in the torrent of destruction, the sound of its skull cracking like the explosion of stars.

Within the astonished gaze of Zhang Huizhi.

That originally incomparably powerful Fanni now had the side of its head shattered, pitch-black blood mixed with bone fragments splattering out, its lone eye nearly dislodged from its socket!

It stared fixedly at Lu Xunyang, never expecting that a mere alien would pose such a threat to it.

Lu Xunyang stood calmly, a flash of astonishment crossing his eyes.

He had not expected that such a method would still fail to blast Fanni to pieces.

However.

This was not a bad thing.

Lu Xunyang looked toward the location of Fanni's shattered brain, where a pitch-black Divinity had already been exposed to the world.

At the same moment.

Zhang Huizhi also noticed that Ancient God Divinity.

Crack, crack, crack!

Zhang Huizhi finally stepped out of the spatial cage, a blood-blade transformed from the Will Divinity appearing in his hand.

"Find the right moment."

Lu Xunyang's voice was low.

He and Zhang Huizhi understood what the other was going to do in an instant.

The next moment.

Screech!

Fanni roared, its pitch-black longsword instantly slashing toward Lu Xunyang's shoulder blade.

"Come!"

Lu Xunyang did not dodge or yield, his right fist, wrapped in blood-light, thrusting out to clash head-on with the sword edge.

Clang!

The sound of metal clashing rang through the clouds, the shockwave leveling a thousand miles of ruins.

Lu Xunyang's movements were simple, yet every move and style displayed the momentum of a Martial Dao Grandmaster.

Boom, boom, boom!

In the midst of the battle.

Two figures intertwined, their fists and swords colliding like stars crashing, every exchange sparking billions of embers.

Lu Xunyang's white robes were stained with blood, yet the blood-light grew ever stronger, his fists and palms carrying the massive Qi and blood sacrificed by Xia Zhiyang, every strike shaking Fanni's decaying physical body.

He was overdrawing.

Not only was he overdrawing the flesh and blood essence of Xia Zhiyang, he was also overdrawing his own physical body and future.

This was perhaps the strongest battle to have ever occurred in the human world.

But Lu Xunyang knew that he was not the most critical point.

Everything he did was to prepare for Zhang Huizhi.

At the same time.

Above the void.

Zhang Huizhi's body sank, his wrist suddenly dropping, his five fingers locking onto the hilt, shaking violently.

The blood-blade slashed diagonally, the resulting airflow causing his robe corners to flutter.

Zhang Huizhi thought of a move.

The one move that Shadow knew for his entire life.

"Silent Night..."

Zhang Huizhi's voice was low, aiming at the Ancient God Divinity within Fanni's shattered head.

"Severing Dust!"

Hum!

The world instantly darkened, all light vanishing completely.

There was only a single streak of blood-light!