Chapter 754: It Is You Who Forced Me!

The entire world was suppressed by the terrifying sword radiance.

Hum, hum, hum!

Sword hum!

The pitch-black night sky was suddenly torn apart, and a ghostly light slashed through ten thousand miles of the galaxy.

The black sword came breaking through the air, carrying the momentum of thunder; wherever it passed, the stars dimmed, brilliant as the light of creation, shaking the heavens and earth.

In an instant, it shattered the rule barrier condensed by Lord Chen with the aura of life and death, and was gripped tightly by a large hand.

Lord Ji and Lord Lu's expressions changed instantly, and they looked at this scene in disbelief.

Yet they saw the white-haired middle-aged man holding the pitch-black greatsword high like a white-clad god of slaughter, his killing intent surging.

Lu Xunyang, however, felt utterly speechless inside.

Even if Xia Hanzhou had arrived one step later, Chen Yan's plan would have succeeded.

Never would he have thought that it would happen at such a critical moment.

Chen Yan watched calmly, lowered his head, scanned the shattered world, and directed his gaze toward Zhao Zhugui on the ground.

Zhao Zhugui was currently climbing over a broken wall, still having the leisure to walk upon the earth.

This scene was seen by Lord Ji above the void.

In an instant, Lord Ji's expression began to change.

Had Chen Yan noticed something?

Lord Ji's expression turned gloomy; Zhao Zhugui was her means of survival, so she could not allow anything to happen to Zhao Zhugui.

Deep in her heart, Lord Ji had long since sentenced Chen Yan to death, but she was also afraid of future changes.

Could it be that the prophecy would really come to pass?

Lord Chen's eyes widened, staring fixedly.

"Slash!"

Lu Xunyang's sword had already been swung, and the magnificent sword light descended instantly, covering the sky and earth.

"Lu Ya, kill him with me!"

Lord Chen let out a low roar and instantly turned into a stream of light, charging toward Lu Xunyang to kill him.

"Ji Ling, kill Chen Yan!" Lord Chen spoke again:

"Lu Xunyang can live, but Chen Yan must die!"

Lord Chen could no longer attack Chen Yan; Lu Xunyang holding the number one divine artifact was the absolute peak of the mortal world.

In a battle of the peak, even a moment of distraction is a disrespect to one's own life.

Behind the two of them were the Five Clans and Great Xia; the result of this battle would lead to changes in the future.

"The battle between you and me will destroy the mortal world; it is better to go fight in the starry sky!"

Lord Chen rose like a star, his vast green light illuminating the mortal world.

"That is exactly my intention!" Lu Xunyang's voice rang out.

The people of the world could only see two magnificent streams of light heading straight into the depths of the universe, leaving behind two tails of light as brilliant as the galaxy.

Almost the very next instant.

Rumble!!!

Outside the firmament, a dead star exploded.

It was a desolate star that had been silent for ten thousand years, yet the moment the two figures collided, it shattered like glass.

The incandescent star core fragments carried a flood of destruction, instantly illuminating the night sky.

"Slash!"

The brilliant sword light landed with one strike, slamming into the bright moon.

In an instant,

The moon trembled, and even mortals far away within the mortal world could see cracks spreading like spiderwebs upon that clear moon.

The two streams of light rushed near the bright moon, and in an instant, endless radiance erupted.

"Slash-Void Dao!"

Lord Chen swung his sword, a ten-colored divine rainbow piercing the universe; wherever the sword light passed, space collapsed into an abyss.

Lu Xunyang swung his sword as well.

In a flash, the two attacks slammed into each other, and countless sword rays scattered wildly.

Boom!

Hideous ravines spanning a thousand miles exploded on the lunar surface, and silver-gray moon dust poured down like a waterfall, condensing into silent wails in the vacuum.

The bright moon shook, and the tides surged!

Throughout the entire mortal world, the four seas boiled.

Giant waves collapsed like mountains, smashing coastal cities, and deep within the earth's veins came a roar of being unable to bear the burden.

Lord Chen and Lu Xunyang looked toward the mortal world; the bright moon could not be destroyed, or else the mortal world would also give birth to a terrifying scene of world-ending proportions.

This battle was extremely terrifying, to the point that even Lord Lu, who was holding the line for Lord Chen, could not intervene.

Subsequently, Lord Chen and Lu Xunyang flew toward the depths of the starry sky by mutual agreement.

Like two points of starlight constantly moving away from the mortal world, they became smaller and smaller, but the earth-shattering flashes of battle still reached the mortal world.

The sword light sought to slash the galaxy, and the force of their fists seemed to want to extinguish the stars.

Even the river of time was distorted by their existence, and fragments of the past and future flashed and vanished in the cracks.

The aura of life and death fought against the aura of life and death.

The world's second-greatest divine technique vied for supremacy against the world's number one divine artifact.

The number one powerhouse in the human world and the number one Eighth-Rank in history were about to fight to the death.

Bang!

The bright moon, which refracted the brilliance of the great sun, suddenly let out a wail, and a massive crack running north to south across the moon suddenly exploded open.

Lu Xunyang and the Master of Chen had already departed, but the residual power exploded at the core of the moon.

The moon was about to collapse and perish.

On the earth, countless living beings opened their mouths wide.

Feeling the changes in gravity coming from the earth, the human world was shaken by tremors and tidal shifts for a time.

The bright moon, which had existed ever since the human race appeared, was now about to vanish.

The Master of Ji was covered in blood, looking with difficulty toward the night sky, her eyes filled with shock and terror.

Had the Master of Chen already reached such a level?

Yet, at this very moment.

Within a certain sea area of the human world, the seawater surged, and streaks of silver light shot out from the deep seabed in an instant.

Thousands upon thousands of silver-gray mechanical bodies transformed into lasers and charged toward the moon.

They unfolded gear-shaped wings and sprayed a strange liquid metal, which bonded between the fissures of the moon to reshape the lunar soil.

The silver-gray mechanical bodies circled the bright moon, and the light flames, similar to those from a welding torch, collided fiercely with the collapsing moonlight.

The bright moon, which had been collapsing, actually stopped disintegrating.

"Master of Yu!"

Within the universe, the Master of Ji gritted her teeth:

"You have been watching all along; you have always wanted to see me die, to see my Ji Province perish!"

She was about to vomit blood; who else could it be but the Master of Yu who had taken action at this moment?

It was clear they possessed technological means that the other four provinces did not, and it was clear that no one from Yu Province had gone to the Forbidden Land of Ancient Gods, so they could have aided Ji Province.

But the Master of Yu had been hiding all along, with no intention of taking action at all.

If not for the fact that the bright moon was collapsing and the human world would fall into chaos, this method of Yu Province would never have appeared.

"My Yu Province has no means of combat; joining in wouldn't change anything," a light, airy man's voice came, audible only to the Master of Ji.

The Master of Ji's expression was cold:

"Today's matter, I, Ji Ling, will remember!"

At this moment, she had no leisure to bicker with the Master of Yu.

What she had to do now was to kill Chen Yan.

At the same time.

In a distant part of the world.

Xia Hanzhou stood high in the sky, covered in blood, his aura withered.

The Master of Chi was not simple.

The strength of the Master of Chi was perhaps only below that of the Master of Chen.

Cutting through the blockade of the Master of Chi and the others to throw the Xia Master Sword to Lu Xunyang had nearly cost Xia Hanzhou his old life.

It was also at this moment.

Rumble!

Behind Xia Hanzhou, a sea of fire and a river of ice suddenly surged, and a figure wearing a long robe walked over, stepping on the sea of fire and river of ice.

"Did you never think about what you would do without the Xia Master Sword?" the cold voice of the Master of Chi rang out.

"Did you never think about what would happen to the Director of the Astronomical Bureau and the million-strong army you sent?"

Xia Hanzhou had blood at the corners of his mouth and smiled:

"I'm tired, kill me!

Let Lu Xunyang bear the responsibility for the destruction of the million-strong army, let Chen Yan bear it!

They did what they did, they should be held responsible!

If they can't carry it, let them die in agony; don't blame me, Xia Hanzhou!

I, Xia Hanzhou, have done enough to live up to the ancestors of the Xia clan and to the billions of living beings of Great Xia!"

Xia Hanzhou's eyes erupted with killing intent:

"Come and kill me, right now, kill me!"

He was angry to the extreme.

Back then, he and Chi Mi were a perfect match.

He, Chi Mi, Shen Keqing, and Lu Xunyang were known to all as close friends.

If Chi Mi had married him, Chi Province and Great Xia would not have ended up in this state today.

Chen He's conspiracy was one thing, but the true culprit was the Master of Chi.

He wanted to suppress Chi Mi's faction and also destroy the possibility of a marriage alliance between Great Xia and Chi Province.

He destroyed Chi Mi, and he also destroyed him, Xia Hanzhou.

The hatred Xia Hanzhou felt for the Master of Chi could no longer be suppressed.

"You are not Ninth-Rank, and I am second on the Eighth-Rank list; who kills whom is not certain!" Xia Hanzhou grinned hideously:

"The Xia Master Sword does not recognize me; do you really think it can exert much power in my hands?"

His meaning was simple: the Xia Master Sword did not boost him much, and without the Xia Master Sword, he, Xia Hanzhou, was not weak either.

The strength of the Xia Master Sword lay in its ability to protect a nation, to protect Great Xia.

But only in the hands of an outsider like Lu Xunyang would the Xia Master Sword erupt with its greatest combat power.

The Pool Master narrowed his eyes.

Xia Hanzhou, the Xia Moon King of the Xia Clan, second on the Human Realm Eighth-Order Ranking.

The world had almost forgotten Xia Hanzhou's original combat strength; even without the Xia Lord Sword, the momentum Xia Hanzhou erupted with now did not seem weak.

The Pool Master pursed his lips and stepped onto the frozen river and sea of fire, moving at extreme speed.

He raised his head.

Even though Xia Hanzhou was second on the Eighth-Order Ranking, the masters of the five clans were not on the list.

The Pool Master did not believe Xia Hanzhou would be his match, and furthermore, Chen Qi and the others would be arriving soon.

Boom!

Xia Hanzhou reached out with one hand, brandishing a long spear; the Ninth-Grade Spear Soul slashed the heavens and shattered the earth!

Hum!!!

A divine-level grand array, complex to the extreme, appeared behind Xia Hanzhou, the terrifying power of the array spilling out wildly.

Array Divine Venerable!

Xia Hanzhou pointed his spear at the Pool Master:

"Fight to the death!"

The Pool Master sneered, raising one hand, and an infinite force condensed in his palm.

Yet at this very moment.

The Pool Master looked abruptly in another direction.

He saw a figure clad in black robes appear above the surging sea.

Following behind the figure were Yu Ming and Yu Cheng.

"Yu Master!" the Pool Master shouted in a low voice:

"What exactly are you trying to do?!"

Anger simmered in the depths of his eyes; if Yu Province had participated, how could the incident of Chen Yan disrupting Ji Province have occurred?

Clearly, this was the best moment to extinguish the hope of the Great Xia, yet the Yu Master had not appeared from start to finish.

The Yu Master was completely covered by black robes, with only two points of light flickering beneath the hood.

"The human race cannot afford to lose any more supreme powerhouses." The Yu Master's voice rose:

"My clan's machines have detected that the auras of two ancient divine beasts, which haven't appeared for thousands of years, are spilling over here."

The Pool Master's eyes flickered, his expression growing increasingly cold:

"Are you blocking me?"

The Yu Master was silent.

"Yes."

The Pool Master stared fixedly at the Yu Master, his brows and eyes as cold and sharp as if carved by a knife, the anger churning in his eyes nearly solidifying.

Yu Cheng and Yu Ming exchanged glances, their expressions changing.

The Pool Master was about to explode.

The Yu Master remained silent, but his eyes were flashing wildly.

The next moment, he shook his head slightly.

Following a long sigh.

Hum!!!!!!

In an instant, the Yu Master's momentum changed completely; sounds like gears grinding wildly and bones being crushed erupted from his body.

Amidst the trembling sound waves, scarlet energy spilled out within the Yu Master, surging like a living creature to cover the sea, as if to swallow the entire world.

At this moment, the Pool Master's expression changed abruptly, filled with disbelief.

Xia Hanzhou was even more stunned, looking at the Yu Master's location in astonishment.

"It is not I who is forcing you." The Yu Master's voice was icy cold:

"It is you who is forcing me!"

The Pool Master's expression shifted.

"I have already made it very clear that the human race cannot afford to lose any more supreme experts; why will you not listen?" The Yu Master's voice grew increasingly grim, his momentum becoming more and more powerful.

"Ancient divine beasts have set their sights on the human race; do you not understand what I am saying? How much more foolish must you be before you stop?!"

"You fool who only knows how to engage in internal strife!"