Chapter 612: The Great Battle of the Holy City (Part IV)

After acting like a madman for a while, Fang Leihuo's gaze suddenly fell upon Zhang Nuo, and he reached out to grab at the empty air toward him, his eyes splitting with rage!

In an instant, countless fire giants surged into the sky from the sea of fire below and lunged toward Zhang Nuo!

This time, Zhang Nuo did not even move; his Divine Sense flickered slightly, and the bright moon within the Divine Sea vision above his head bloomed with endless Moonlight Essence, which poured down like a waterfall toward the fire giants below!

After their bodies were enveloped by the Moonlight Essence, these fire giants burst apart one after another. Fang Leihuo refused to give up and summoned several more fire giants! But no matter how many appeared, the result was the same! As soon as they were covered by the Moonlight Essence, they immediately vanished into nothingness!

A cold sneer appeared on the corner of Zhang Nuo's mouth. He flipped one hand, and a cyan gourd appeared in his palm! This Magic Treasure, the "Green Wood Gourd," had been obtained from Niu Xiukong back in the day! After years of refining, its power was already vastly different!

He tossed the Green Wood Gourd lightly, and the Magic Treasure immediately entered the Divine Sea vision. With a flash of cyan light, the mouth of the gourd aimed at the sea of fire below, and a tremendous suction force was generated!

One could see the flames in the sea of fire being sucked into the Green Wood Gourd as if a hundred rivers were returning to the sea! The sky, which had been filled with raging flames just a moment ago, was empty in the blink of an eye, save for the residual heat left behind by the fire!

Fang Leihuo's eyes went somewhat vacant. His outstretched fingers twitched a few times, but there was no further reaction! Slowly, his hand dropped, and even the hand gripping his long sword began to tremble.

"Why? Why! I exhausted my entire life, yet I could not fuse the Nine Divine Seas, but you! A brat at the Lianxu Chuji, actually managed to do this? Tell me! Why is this!"

His long hair dancing in the wind made Fang Leihuo look even more ferocious! Back then, he had ascended the throne of the Human Emperor with two divine abilities, thunder and fire, yet he had just witnessed these two abilities prove as fragile as paper under Zhang Nuo's Divine Sea vision!

"Why? Actually, Zhang does not know either! Perhaps it is due to fate!"

After Zhang Nuo spoke these words indifferently, a sharp glint flashed in Fang Leihuo's eyes.

"Fate? Could it be that my fate is less than yours? Zhang Nuo! Even if I die, this Emperor will drag you down with me!"

Fang Leihuo, who had just quieted down, suddenly went berserk again, and yellow lightning once again surged across the surface of the long sword held tightly in his hand!

One hand held the sword, the other formed a seal! His entire person was completely bathed in yellow electric arcs! Faintly, a power originating from the heavens descended upon him!

This power was extremely immense, so much so that even Fang Leihuo's Late Void Refinement Stage body could not withstand it. Zhang Nuo also sensed the might of this invisible force; his heart gave a violent jolt, and the "Red Blood Demon Sword," which he had been refining within his body, slowly rotated a few times!

If the opponent was launching a desperate, life-risking strike, he feared that even the Divine Sea vision would be unable to block it. If it truly came to that situation, he would have no choice but to risk severe damage to his Spirit Power and use the "Red Blood Demon Sword"!

Boom!

A loud noise erupted above Fang Leihuo's head, and immediately after, that part of the sky seemed to collapse; unusual Heaven and Earth Origin Qi gathered into a vortex a hundred miles in size!

At the center of the vortex, a beam of divine light descended! It acted directly upon Fang Leihuo's body! The power within the divine light was even stronger, causing his body to swell! The long sword he held, which contained the "Mysterious Yellow Rushing Thunder," also shone brilliantly in an instant, as if what he held in his hand was merely a mass of elongated lightning!

Within the divine light, golden electric arcs leaped and continuously poured into the long sword! Gradually, a sea of thunder formed around Fang Leihuo's body!

"Great Thunder God Strike!"

Zhang Nuo's facial muscles twitched a few times, and he recalled a technique regarding the strongest thunder-type art he had once read about in a classic: the "Great Thunder God Strike!"

This technique required the user not only to possess powerful lightning but also to sacrifice their life to summon heavenly thunder! It forced the user and the heavenly thunder to become one, thereby unleashing a powerful lightning attack!

However, this technique also had a very fatal flaw: it could only be used once in a lifetime. Adding the power of the mighty heavenly thunder to one's body was something even a cultivator at the Great Accomplishment Stage could not withstand! After the strike, the cultivator's own power, combined with the power of the heavenly thunder, would vanish simultaneously, and the cultivator would be reduced to dust because their body had been struck by the heavenly thunder!

Upon seeing this scene, Zhang Nuo no longer hesitated; he flipped his palm quickly and summoned the "Red Blood Demon Sword"! At this moment, even if he wanted to flee, he feared he would have no chance! With the speed of the "Mysterious Yellow Rushing Thunder" and the might of the heavenly thunder, even if he escaped ten thousand miles in an instant, he would still be struck!

Zhang Nuo moved his Divine Sense, and the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image returned to his side. Then, the Four Great True Spirit Sacred Beasts within the Divine Sea vision surged upward and entered the body of the Dharma Image! Immediately, spirit light flowed across the surface of the Dharma Image Golden Body, and several beast roars rang out. At the same time, Zhang Nuo tossed the "Red Blood Demon Sword" in his hand toward the Dharma Image!

The Phantom Immortal Dharma Image caught the sword smoothly! At this moment, the sword body, which was originally only three feet long, suddenly expanded to over a zhang in length! Spirit Power was injected into the sword! A burst of crimson light shone! The raging blood-red glow seemed to boil, constantly coiling around the surface of the long sword!

Finally, Zhang Nuo patted his crown, and two Nascent Souls, one cyan and one black, flew out from his body. As their four small hands continuously formed seals, the power from the Divine Sea vision poured entirely into the body of the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image!

Next, a bizarre scene occurred: the spine on the back of the Dharma Image actually grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, eventually forming a complete skeleton!

Under the shroud of the golden light, the skeleton appeared to possess a degree of sentience!

Just at this moment, Fang Leihuo raised the long sword above his head. His eyes had long since lost their color, and electric arcs leaped incessantly within them. At this time, he could not see anything at all and could only rely on his final shred of Divine Sense to identify Zhang Nuo's direction!

"Go to the Underworld with this Emperor!"

After roaring this madly, Fang Leihuo's "Great Thunder God Strike" was launched!

In an instant, countless huge electric arcs, a mix of Mysterious Yellow Rushing Thunder and heavenly thunder, roared toward Zhang Nuo! The momentum was such that the void everywhere it passed shattered, and the space itself was torn open, revealing faint glimpses of the spatial storms within!

Zhang Nuo moved his Divine Sense, and the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image held the sword with one hand, gathering all his magic power. The Red Blood Demon Sword erupted with a heaven-topping red glow, and he swung the sword, sending a red beam dozens of zhang thick rushing to meet the "Great Thunder God Strike"!

The surging red glow was like a sea of blood, upon which countless Red Skulls instantly condensed and took shape. They opened their large mouths and roared continuously, as if the souls of countless powerful cultivators from hell had gathered together!

Boom!

The Great Thunder God Strike and the strike of the Red Blood Demon Sword collided instantly! The heavens and earth changed color, the ground within tens of thousands of miles shook, and the void within a thousand-mile radius shattered completely! Massive waves of energy nearly destroyed more than half of the entire Wushuang Shenghuang City!

The sky was filled with the scent of blood and scattered electric arcs!

Zhang Nuo hid beneath the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image, his body swaying and on the verge of collapse. At the final moment, the Dharma Image used its body to block all the residual power for him! Even so, he still suffered non-trivial injuries, especially since the Spirit Power in his Five-Colored Divine Sea had been drained completely! This only added insult to his injuries!

As for the Phantom Immortal Dharma Image, its body became ethereal and finally disintegrated completely, vanishing into shreds of golden light! The Red Blood Demon Sword returned to its original size and was falling toward the ground; Zhang Nuo did not even have the strength to reach out and catch the sword!

In the end, it was Xuan Jin who rushed out of his body, grabbed the Red Blood Demon Sword, and then held Zhang Nuo as they slowly landed on the ground.

Looking up at the sky, Fang Leihuo had long since been reduced to dust; only the long sword he had used in life, which contained the "Mysterious Yellow Rushing Thunder," had fallen not far from Zhang Nuo!

"Sword... sword..."

Zhang Nuo uttered a few words weakly, but Xuan Jin could not hear him clearly at all. Only when he looked in the direction of Zhang Nuo's gaze did he understand his meaning!

It turned out that what Zhang Nuo wanted was Fang Leihuo's sword! Xuan Jin pointed his fingers slightly at the long sword, directly took it into his hand, and then placed it into a Storage Bag!

Blinking his eyes with a sense of relief, Zhang Nuo looked around! Everywhere his gaze fell, everything had turned into rubble! Wushuang Shenghuang City seemed to have been reduced to ruins!

Zhang Nuo sighed weakly, then cast his gaze toward the direction of the Human Emperor Palace!

"I understand!"

Xuan Jin glanced at the Human Emperor Palace, then transformed into a streak of light and carried Zhang Nuo into the Human Emperor Palace!

At this moment, ten thousand miles outside Wushuang Shenghuang City, countless cultivators were suspended in the air. They had also sensed the power of that final strike! Everyone's expression changed! If they could feel the power of the attack from such a distance, one could imagine what had happened to Zhang Nuo and Fang Leihuo, who were at the very center!

After waiting for half an hour and seeing that no further fighting had erupted in the Holy City, the crowd cautiously approached the city. When they arrived, the scene before them caused everyone to gasp!

More than half of the city had been destroyed, and the broken walls and ruins within were even more terrifying than having experienced a Demon Beast Tide! Everyone released their Divine Sense, wanting to know who had survived after this battle!

At this moment, someone discovered that there was still a trace of Spirit Power fluctuation in the direction of the Human Emperor Palace! Thus, everyone moved toward the Human Emperor Palace!

When they arrived at the main hall of the Human Emperor, they saw a young man sitting lazily on the main throne, with two transformed Spirit Beasts standing on either side of him! Although the aura on the young man was very weak, no one dared to approach!

The young man's weak appearance was nonetheless majestic for a hundred paces in every direction! He possessed an aura that commanded awe without the need for anger!