Chapter 1001: Death Battle

Hum!

This streak of blood-colored light was brilliant to the extreme.

The heavens and earth seemed to have been drained of all sound.

Screech!

Fanni let out a shriek, instinctively sensing a powerful crisis.

He was just about to raise his arms to block.

Boom!

Lu Xunyang's hands gripped Fanni's arms like iron pincers.

In an instant.

Zhang Huizhi had already arrived.

Hum!

That blood-colored line, condensed to the extreme, did not cleave through flesh and blood, but instead plunged directly into the opening in Fanni's skull, precisely cutting into that jet-black Ancient God Rank exposed within.

Boom!

The Ancient God Rank and the Will Rank collided instantly.

Billions of black and red electric sparks erupted.

Malice and will intertwined and clashed.

Myriads of terrifying cracks shattered across the void.

Screech!!!

A heaven-shaking shriek rang out just like that, stretching boundlessly, shaking time and space.

At this moment.

Throughout the entire human world, countless living beings heard this roar and fell into terror.

In the depths of the universe.

Jilie, dressed in white, seemed to sense something and looked far off toward the direction of the human world.

Her expression underwent some changes.

On the Evil Realm's Saint-Breaking Tree, Chen Yan's true form slowly opened his eyes.

Having endured thousands of hardships to reach this place.

This was the first collision between the Will Rank and a true Ancient God Rank.

Crack, crack, crack, crack, crack!

The sound of shattering rang out.

A deep crack suddenly appeared on the surface of the Malice Rank, and nearly half of the jet-black substance was forcibly stripped away, splashing out like shattered ice.

Bang!

Half of the Ancient God Rank was instantly stripped away, flying out of Fanni's body.

Lu Xunyang's eyes shone brightly, filled with immense astonishment at this moment.

That Ancient God Rank was impossible to gaze upon without feeling dread in one's heart.

Yet he had not expected that a rank belonging to the human race could shatter an Ancient God Rank.

Zhang Huizhi's gaze was cold.

It was as if Chen Yan had split himself from his Will Rank back then.

Li Zhiyi had devoured the Blood Brand to create a brand-new breakthrough.

Chen Yan had swallowed the Ancient God's aura to create the Will Rank.

All of it was for this strike today.

Break, break the shackles of the Ancient God!

Slash, slash the injustice of the world!

At this moment.

Fanni's mangled body shook violently, and for the first time, a look of near-furious distortion appeared in his only remaining eye.

Something of vital importance had just left him like this.

The next moment.

Screech!

That heaven-shaking shriek rang out.

Countless strands of jet-black malice transformed into a long river, sweeping toward the Ancient God Rank.

A terrifying suction force erupted.

That half of the severed Ancient God Rank flew rapidly toward Fanni.

"Damn it!"

Lu Xunyang kicked out, wanting to send Fanni flying.

But Fanni took the kick head-on, opening his mouth, preparing to swallow that half of the Ancient God Rank.

Yet, just as the half of the Ancient God Rank was about to enter Fanni's mouth.

Slap!

A hand appeared instantly, grasping this half of the Ancient God Rank.

Zhang Huizhi shifted his body and flew into the distance.

The next moment, in Lu Xunyang's astonished gaze.

The Will Rank transformed into a stream of light, wrapping around the half of the Ancient God Rank, and was integrated into Zhang Huizhi's body.

"What are you doing!"

Lu Xunyang let out a low roar immediately.

He certainly did not want to deal with two Ancient Gods at the same time.

Sss!

Pitch-black malice instantly emerged from beneath Zhang Huizhi's skin, spreading over his entire body like slithering snakes.

In an instant, Zhang Huizhi's eyes were occupied by pitch-black.

Skree!

Fanni let out an unprecedented shriek, the entire Shattered King's Court collapsed as a result, and malice erupted from within its body like a tsunami.

Having its status stolen meant its completeness was thoroughly broken, and its own combat power had dropped by half.

The next moment, it kicked Lu Xunyang away with a boom and flew toward Zhang Huizhi.

Zhang Huizhi's ears buzzed, his entire brain filled with billions of whispers, and for a moment, he could not even distinguish reality from illusion.

This half of the Ancient God status was more massive than all the Ancient God auras Chen Yan's true self had obtained combined.

But the current Zhang Huizhi was not who he was before.

Within his physical body, the Martial Dao rules belonging to the true self frantically struck that half of the Ancient God status, causing him to regain his senses in the next instant.

And at this very moment, the great sword in Fanni's hand had already slashed toward Zhang Huizhi's face.

Almost at the same instant!

Boom!!!

Lu Xunyang's figure had already crashed into Fanni's chest like a meteor.

His entire body burned with blood flames; that was the final radiance transformed from Xia Zhiyang's sacrifice, and also the overdraft of his own Martial Dao sublimated to the extreme.

There were no words, only the most primitive, most violent assault.

Boom, boom, boom!

Lu Xunyang did not know what exactly Zhang Huizhi was doing.

Perhaps in the next moment, Zhang Huizhi would turn into another Ancient God.

But there was still Li Zhiyi.

His punches were like dragons, each strike carrying the power to shatter stars, hard-contesting the malicious longsword Fanni had swung in haste.

The flesh and blood energy belonging to Xia Zhiyang was rapidly fading.

Do not look at the fact that Fanni's strength had been reduced by half.

Lu Xunyang's strength was actually decreasing even more rapidly.

Half of Xia Zhiyang's physical energy had been used for that initial strike.

Boom, boom, boom!

Fanni's blade sliced through his shoulder blade and waist, blood spilling across the sky, but Lu Xunyang's gaze remained as calm as ice.

Zhang Huizhi stood silently in the void.

Streams of will light began to emerge from his physical body, and the Martial Dao rules and power of will within his body began to suppress that half of the Ancient God status.

It even began to rapidly devour and extinguish it.

But he could feel that Fanni, who was fighting Lu Xunyang, was looking at him with an even more ferocious gaze.

Boom!

Fanni kicked Lu Xunyang away, and the next moment it rushed toward Zhang Huizhi, reaching out with one hand—

Bang!

Behind, Lu Xunyang had already stood up, grabbed Fanni's ankle with one hand, and slammed Fanni onto the ground.

Lu Xunyang already possessed the power of will, and was the second strongest in the path of will in the entire world, besides Chen Yan.

The current Lu Xunyang had already entered a state of extreme rage.

"Kill!"

He was like a mad demon, pinning Fanni down and throwing punch after punch.

Boom, boom, boom!

As palms crossed, blood energy, force, and the power of will fused and erupted, actually blasting spiderweb-like cracks onto Fanni's chest.

Lu Xunyang's fists began to blur, his arms severely eroded by the malice.

But at this moment, he no longer cared, using a completely suicidal fighting style of trading life for injury.

At the same time.

Above the Evil Realm Saint-Breaking Tree.

Chen Yan reached out with one hand, beginning to receive the remnant souls of the Universe Master, Xia Zhiyang, and others.

Skree!

A heaven-shaking shriek resounded.

Beside the Evil Realm Saint-Breaking Tree, a bleeding remnant eye suddenly appeared.

Chen Yan frowned.

At the same time.

Where the battlefield was.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

The Universe Master's roar instantly resounded.

Four remnant souls appeared in the void.

Universe Master, Xia Zhiyang, Lord of Elements, Xia Hanzhou.

They were somewhat bewildered; they had clearly died a miserable death, so why had a remnant soul appeared?

It was because someone, after their deaths, had used a strange method to summon the final remnant souls they had left in the world.

But at this moment.

Their remnant souls were frozen in the surroundings, and strands of malice were binding toward them.

It wanted to make them stay here completely.

It was Fanni.

Even while battling Lu Xunyang, Fanni still sensed the remnant souls of the Universe Master and the others being summoned.

Even, they sensed where Chen Yan was.

"What is the situation?"

The Master of Elements' face was pale as they watched the strands of malice drifting toward them.

Xia Hanzhou and the Universe Master, however, looked at Zhang Huizhi and Lu Xunyang, their expressions extremely unsightly.

Anyone could see that Lu Xunyang was not going to hold on much longer.

And Zhang Huizhi's situation was even worse.

Boom!

Lu Xunyang was sent flying by a punch from Fanni, and the next moment, a long sword slashed toward Lu Xunyang.

Bang!

A fist wrapped in battle armor blocked this sword.

It was precisely Zhang Huizhi, who was still being influenced by the Ancient God status.

At this moment, Fanni did not give Zhang Huizhi any time to catch their breath at all; Zhang Huizhi had no time to devour and extinguish the half of the Ancient God status within their body.

They had to join the battle.

Just the moment the fist and sword collided, the armor on Zhang Huizhi's fist had already shattered.

This was a divine armor formed from the fusion of a Rank 9 simulated status and the Heavenly God Armor.

It could absolutely be considered a top-tier divine artifact of the mortal world.

Yet now, it was slashed open by Fanni with a single sword strike.

Moreover, it was not just as simple as being slashed open; it was directly eroded by malice and could not be utilized.

The next moment.

Fanni's sword slashed again, tearing an unfathomably deep black abyss in the void, heading straight for Zhang Huizhi's face.

Zhang Huizhi dodged sideways abruptly, and while avoiding the sword edge, their right fist, carrying the force to collapse mountains and split seas, slammed toward the flat of the blade.

Thud!

The moment the fist and sword collided, a piercing sound of metal clashing exploded, shaking the distant ruins and causing rubble to fall with a rustle.

Crack, crack, crack!

The battle armor on Zhang Huizhi's two fists shattered and fell off.

The next instant, layers of scale armor covered them again, and they threw another punch.

Boom, boom, boom!

Fist and sword struck each other!

The moves between Zhang Huizhi and Fanni were extremely fast, turning into afterimages.

Every instant involved thousands of collisions.

Scales of the Heavenly God Armor were corroded and fell off by the malice, but scales from other parts of the Heavenly God Armor covered Zhang Huizhi's fist surface again.

And the rest of Zhang Huizhi's body also began to be gradually exposed.

First the feet, legs, waist...

This was entirely a war of attrition belonging to divine artifacts.

But the Universe Master and the others watched with trembling breath; everyone knew that the human race could not lose this battle.