Chapter 39: Dragon God Claw

Facing Ditian in such a state, Bai Yuan felt as if he were carrying a divine mountain, endless pressure threatening to crush him physically and mentally.

Bai Yuan refused to show weakness, forming a sword seal with his hand and pointing to the sky; boundless spiritual qi gathered, erupting as sky‑rushing sword qi from his body, which condensed into a golden giant sword.

「Break! 」

At this moment, Bai Yuan pushed his essence, qi, and spirit to the extreme, and the golden giant sword pierced heaven and earth, also piercing this dark world.

He seemed to transform into a sword immortal, the golden sword and the black sun facing off in the sky; the world instantly turned half pure gold, half pure black.

「Boom—」

Without any omen, the battle began.

Only seen, between the golden and black worlds, space peeled away like shards of glass, a huge black hole appearing at that position, frantically devouring everything around it.

As a result, even the stones and soil on the ground, the broken branches of all kinds of trees, rose up and flew into that black hole.

The black hole rapidly expanded, as if it would swallow the whole world; under this tremendous devouring force, the two starkly different realms in the sky seemed to form a black‑gold intertwined dragon‑like tornado.

Another thunderous "Boom—" rang out, and the gold‑black mixed tornado shattered instantly, releasing apocalyptic‑level terrifying energy.

The huge black dragon and the tiny human figure were both flung backward several kilometers, and the ten‑thousand‑year Soul Beasts watching on the ground were also affected in this collision.

Among them, the weakest Titan Giant Ape, Azure Heaven Ox Python, and Red King all suffered considerable injuries.

After the dust settled and space restored, only a towering tree tens of meters high remained standing on the ground, while everywhere else had become a huge pit.

Inside the house, Ning Rongrong looked out the window at the apocalyptic scene, feeling her heart pound with fear, and she involuntarily swallowed.

She really wanted to cross time and space to slap her past self twice and ask, "How dare you provoke such an unparalleled powerhouse?"

Beside her, Wang Qiu'er's eyes lit up, thinking her master father was incredibly awesome!

Bai Yuan and Ditian stood several kilometers apart, facing off from a distance.

Ditian said, "You are indeed special; I can feel your bodily weakness, and it seems you wield some strange energy between heaven and earth to become this strong."

Bai Yuan nodded and replied, "What you say is correct; if you are willing to learn from me, your future achievements will be limitless."

At this moment Bai Yuan also discovered Ditian's terror.

Because he had already passed through the Five Elements Formation, converting all the soul power within the formation into heaven‑and‑earth spiritual qi.

In other words, Ditian now has nowhere to replenish the soul power he consumes internally, yet in this fierce clash he remains calm, showing no sign of excessive soul‑power depletion.

It is hard to imagine how much soul power is stored within Ditian's massive body, enough to match Bai Yuan's boundless heaven‑and‑earth spiritual qi without falling behind.

This only makes it easier to imagine how extraordinarily strong Ditian's body must be to store such a vast amount of soul power.

Their hands moved again at the same time.

They did not collide again at the previous spot, for although it looked peaceful, the space there had already shattered into fragments and would not recover within an hour or two.

Ditian pointed a finger toward Bai Yuan.

The space within a kilometer around Bai Yuan's body boiled like water, appearing as ripples, with purple bubbles materializing out of nowhere and bombarding him.

Bai Yuan formed a sun seal with his left hand and a moon seal with his right hand, as if the sun and moon simultaneously appeared in his palms.

Sun and moon united, yin and yang intersected.

A Taiji diagram appeared out of thin air before Bai Yuan's chest.

The Taiji diagram spun at extreme speed.

Taiji gives rise to the Two Forms.

The Two Forms give rise to the Four Phenomena.

The Four Phenomena give rise to the Eight Trigrams.

As the Taiji diagram spun faster and faster, the two dots on the pattern became four, then four became eight, finally turning into a round shape that was both white and black.

At this moment, the Taiji diagram seemed to open the gate to an unknown world, sucking in all the purple bubbles that were bombarding Bai Yuan.

「Ditian, catch! 」

Bai Yuan thrust forth the Taiji diagram that was both white and black.

Wherever the Taiji diagram passed, everything was devoured—or rather, melted away—returning to its most primordial state.

Ditian's eyes narrowed, his right claw waved, and the rotation speed of the white‑black yin‑yang diagram instantly slowed.

When the infinite returned to eight, then to four, and finally reverted to its original form, Ditian's right claw seized it and crushed it in his palm.

That terrifying energy burst, capable of heavily injuring a ninety‑ninth‑rank Ultimate Douluo, was completely annihilated in Ditian's hand, swallowed by the darkness within his palm, without causing the slightest ripple.

Bai Yuan watched as Ditian grew thicker and more massive, his joints noticeably different from his left claw, his expression exceedingly grave.

「Dragon God Claw! 」

As the Dragon God Claw emerged, even before Ditian attacked, an indescribably majestic aura seemed to appear between heaven and earth.

This aura placed immense pressure on Bai Yuan, making it hard for him to breathe, as if Ditian's right claw had already gripped his heart.

Ditian lifted his enormous Dragon God Claw, aiming it at Bai Yuan from several kilometers away, and his own face grew solemn.

Immediately afterward, a faint seven‑colored halo appeared on the gigantic black dragon reflected in Bai Yuan's eyes.

At this moment Ditian held nothing back, unleashing his greatest power and revealing his final trump card.

A tremendous pressure manifested, making the whole world seem to tremble; a low dragon roar suddenly sounded in Bai Yuan's ears, rendering him unable to move even slightly.

That dragon roar was extraordinarily awe‑inspiring, shaking mind and spirit; even if Bai Yuan strained to dispel it, it had no effect, continuing to echo in his ears for a long time.

Ditian's Dragon God Claw gradually turned golden, and within its golden vertical pupils ignited a divine seven‑colored flame.

Bai Yuan's gaze grew heavy; he sensed no change in Ditian's energy, yet he found himself completely unable to move.

"Useless, don't bother struggling. Before the power granted by the Dragon God, any resistance of yours will be futile."

Ditian's Dragon God Claw had become entirely golden, save for a surface layer of richer seven‑colored light than the rest.

The Dragon God Claw descended; Ditian merely lowered it at an ordinary pace, not fast nor slow, yet all of heaven and earth seemed to submit.

All elemental forces of the world were bolstered beneath that claw, making this strike's might even greater.

Faint signs appeared that it had reached another level.

But unfortunately, under the constraints of the rules, Emperor Tian's strike could never reach the Divine Level.

Is it going to end like this?

Bai Yuan felt as if the time before his eyes had slowed down.

In his mind, all his power flashed through, but in the end he could find no move that could contend with Emperor Heaven's Divine Dragon Claw.

(End of chapter)