Chapter 83

Although they had wounded Gu Xuan, leaving him severely injured, this battle situation also shocked the two Supremes.

Under their siege, the Great Accomplishment Holy Body actually still thought about perfecting his own methods, somewhat defying heaven.

Both of them faintly gave birth to some ominous thoughts in their hearts.

Because never has anyone dared to be so bold, using several Imperial Path Experts to train, tempering his methods in a life-and-death battle with them, simply dancing with his life.

But no matter what, they had indeed wounded Gu Xuan, even if the other party did it deliberately to perfect his own Great Dao, that was his own doing.

The two Supremes were both extremely decisive in their minds, seizing this excellent opportunity, they erupted with even more ferocious divine might.

Obviously they had burned a portion of their essence blood, borrowing even more soaring combat power, wanting to pursue the victory and strike down Gu Xuan in one fell swoop.

Amidst the violent energy laws, Gu Xuan sighed.

This cannot continue, otherwise he would truly face mortal danger, because facing the all-out surround-and-kill of two Flawless Imperial Dao Experts, he had not yet reached the point where he could be so arrogant.

And in the dark, there seemed to be someone else spying!

Finally.

He let out a long roar, shattering the Chaos Light Cocoon evolved from the "Sacrifice" Character Formula.

Then, protecting his body with the Chaos Square Vessel, the Nine Secrets united as one, Six Paths Reincarnation Fist, Sacrifice Word Formula and other secret techniques all emerged together, campaigning against the two great enemies.

The great battle continued.

This Star Sky Battlefield all boiled, various Great Dao laws raged, surging tumultuously.

Because it was not only Gu Xuan dueling two Sublimated Ancient Emperors, the Void Great Emperor was also blood-battling the Candle Dragon Ancient Emperor who had reached Extreme Sublimation.

This fluctuation was too violent, countless stars had long since shattered into dust, even the surrounding Star Domains were affected.

Fortunately the Void Great Emperor's Spirit Coffin of the Ancient God deliberately chose this desolate starry sky, otherwise billions of living beings would inevitably have been exterminated by the aftermath.

Throughout the Universe.

Many Supreme Races and major forces still had quite a few cultivators who had not fled to secret realms.

Because quotas were indeed limited, and they were old and their realms insufficient, they could only stay behind.

These people activated their Sect's supreme treasures, including various Heaven-Penetrating Dharma Eyes, Source Heaven Law Arrays, etc., scanning this Star Sky Battlefield, wanting to learn of this Supreme-level clash rarely seen in tens of thousands of years.

However.

Even though they operated them to the extreme, they could only barely see some light and shadow, only vaguely perceive that the battle situation was fierce, seemingly both sides evenly matched.

Only the Forbidden Zone Supremes, emitting Divine Sense powerful to the extreme, could capture some real scenes.

They discovered in amazement that Gu Xuan, facing two alone, actually did not fall into a disadvantage!

In the starry sky, precious Supreme blood sprinkled down.

Among them was Gu Xuan's, and also the Cang Xu Supreme and Lei Huang's, crystalline and translucent, fresh red and dripping, each drop capable of suppressing and killing Great Sage cultivators countless times.

And in this fierce confrontation, all three's Supreme Weapons suffered damage.

Among them, Lei Huang's Extreme Dao Imperial Weapon was more severe, already broken by one-third, even the sword tip no longer existed.

This was because during his Extreme Sublimation process, he suffered Gu Xuan's all-out attack and kill, his Origin was already injured somewhat.

And therefore in the subsequent great battle, he became Gu Xuan's priority kill target, bearing the majority of the slaughter.

In a certain clash.

Gu Xuan once again disregarded essence blood consumption, displaying the stunningly peerless "Sacrifice" Character Formula, wanting to sacrifice away a portion of Lei Huang's body.

And the Lei Sword protected its master, blocking this terrifyingly peerless strike for him, although successful, it was ultimately half-destroyed.

This result made the two Supremes' eyes turn red!

Since when did this generation's Great Accomplishment Holy Body's combat power reach such a level?!

In that Supreme Great War over ten thousand years ago, he merely relied on more abundant Qi and Blood to delay time, barely guaranteeing he would not be killed.

And in the end, it was also with the Void's help that he narrowly defeated the two Supremes of the Reincarnation Sea!

But now, he can actually oppose the two Flawless Ancient Emperors, evenly matched in power.

Even having the leisure to evolve supreme methods, perfecting his own Dao in this life-and-death peril!

"Remarkable..."

In a certain Life Forbidden Zone of Beidou, a Supreme's low murmur transmitted, somewhat emotional, also somewhat amazed.

Obviously.

He had already seen some clues.

The current Gu Xuan, his state was clearly extraordinary, even though he had not yet Proven the Dao and Become Emperor, he was not far from that step.

Merely due to limitations of time and situation, he had not truly taken that step, perhaps given time, he could not fail to achieve it.

Such a figure already possessed a trace of the Di Zun's splendor from back then.

"Kill!"

On the battlefield, the two Supremes naturally were unwilling to accept fate, as former Provers of the Dao, who would admit to being weaker than whom?

For them, this was a remarkable major event!

Fighting to this extent, they no longer cared about preserving any essence blood.

Nor did they care whether excessive consumption would make it difficult to repair the Immortal Platform with Emperor Blood after the battle.

The only goal was to first kill the Great Accomplishment Holy Body before their eyes!

After another fierce collision, three figures flew horizontally, all with staggering footsteps, and someone coughing up large mouthfuls of blood.

"Forcing me? I have not lost once in this life!"

Lei Huang was a majestic and upright middle-aged man, his whole body covered in lightning radiance, long hair scattered, very dense, though mixed with a few strands of white hair.

From his words, it seemed he still had a remarkable trump card not yet used.

Before this, he had been repeatedly targeted by Gu Xuan, and was the one more deeply wounded.

This had long since ignited his true fury!

As a former generation's unrivaled one, after proving the Dao and becoming an Emperor, when had he ever suffered such treatment?

Hum!

The Thunder Emperor stood in the starry sky, exchanging a glance with the Cang Xu Supreme, a certain profound divine sense transmitting out.

The next moment.

The Thunder Emperor's entire body's Qi mechanism suddenly underwent a mysterious change.

And his appearance abruptly aged considerably; his originally black hair, though already having a few strands of white, now turned completely white-haired!

Simultaneously, the aura on his body also surged several times over.

This was an ultimate secret technique he created in his old age, almost never used against outsiders.

Because in the Thunder Emperor's old age, he had already been unrivaled under heaven for tens of thousands of years; no cultivator of the same era was his match in a single move.

And the reason he created this secret technique was originally as one of the strongest trump cards to contend with other Supremes for the opportunity to become an immortal on the Immortal Path.

Burning away part of his True Self, exchanging it for combat power surpassing even a Flawless Imperial Dao Expert, to seize the initiative!

But now forced by circumstances, he had to use it in a life-and-death blood battle with Gu Xuan; otherwise there would be no chance again.

The next moment.

The Thunder Emperor's entire body suddenly vanished, and even that fiercely intense Thunder Dao Law aura disappeared.

Of course, with such a tremendous price paid, he could not possibly truly fade into obscurity just like that.

And this Star Sky Battlefield had long since been set up by Gu Xuan and the Void with a reinforced Chaos Two Instruments Killing Array.

Unless someone could simultaneously defeat both of them, it would be absolutely difficult to break out of this region and reach other Life Ancient Stars.

But for a time, even the Supremes in the various Forbidden Zones of Beidou could not capture the Thunder Emperor's figure.

Only Gu Xuan, facing him as an enemy, perceived some traces.

Because at this kind of moment.

Above Gu Xuan's head, nine terrifyingly vast thunder lights appeared, each spanning several Star Domains in length, shaped like Immortal Domain True Dragons.

And the nine Thunder Dragons converged, forming an unprecedented Thunder Dao Great Array, self-perpetuating, its thunder punishment power rarely seen in ten thousand ages, absolutely surpassing the Proving Dao Emperor Tribulation of all ages past!

And the Thunder Emperor, wielding a damaged thunder sword, transformed his body into the Dao, fusing as one with one of the Thunder Dragons, intending to carry out an extermination move against Gu Xuan.

As a cultivator, only the Thunder Emperor who proved the Dao through Thunder could do such a thing.

If it were anyone else, even the Cang Xu Supreme or the Candle Dragon Ancient Emperor of the same cultivation level coming here would only be shattered by the Thunder Tribulation, exploding and dying.

This moment.

A great crisis finally arose in Gu Xuan's heart.

The combat power the Thunder Emperor gained by sacrificing part of his True Self had now surpassed him; this ultimate chapter's forbidden secret technique could absolutely wound him, even possibly kill him!

And what he had to face was not merely this.

The other side.

After the Cang Xu Supreme exchanged divine sense with the Thunder Emperor, he likewise made a decisive response.

Because this was his only chance; missing the joint attack with the Thunder Emperor, what awaited him was most likely defeat and death.

"Tu!"

With a Dao Shout from the Cang Xu Supreme, a certain terrifying power enveloped this battlefield.

Not a shred of power leaked out; it merely locked onto Gu Xuan, yet formed a Return to the Ruins World unto itself.

Even the Heavenly Principles underwent a bizarre change, in turn affecting the Great Dao circulation within Gu Xuan's body.

In fact.

This was still only a partial manifestation of this secret technique's might by the Cang Xu Supreme.

Its true effect lay in his entire person merging as one with the Eternal Blue-Gold Ancient Blade, transforming into a single Return to the Ruins Blade!

The blade body did not appear particularly majestic.

However at this moment, between heaven and earth, there seemed to exist only this one blade.

Nothing unbreakable, nothing indestructible, all things return to the ruins!

And Gu Xuan became the sole target!

Forced into a corner so be it, wanting to end the battle quickly also works; both Supremes unleashed the strongest strikes of their lives, even paying irreversible prices for it!

This power even drew amazed exclamations from Supremes within the Forbidden Zones.

This is absolutely a supreme secret technique that could astonish ten thousand ages; even if they appeared, they would likely suffer great losses, perhaps perish!

And Gu Xuan, caught within it, having to face these two killing moves alone, even with heaven-shaking combat power, how could he withstand it?

Even the Void Great Emperor in the other battle was alarmed, casting a slightly worried glance from within his life-and-death great battle with the Candle Dragon Ancient Emperor.

And Gu Xuan also deeply knew he had encountered an unprecedented life-and-death great peril.

This was the most terrifying killing move he had faced head-on in his life.

Even more so than the two Supremes of the Reincarnation Sea over ten thousand years ago!

He let out a furious roar, endless brilliant light erupting from his whole body, the Qi and Blood within him rumbling like the Chaos Boundary Sea, even his eye sockets cracking, bleeding!

Boom!

This moment.

The "Ji" Character Formula operated to its extreme!

Profound runes emerged one after another from within his body, the true meaning of the Ji Character communicating with the Universe's Great Dao, seemingly piercing through past, present, and future.

Upon his Holy Blood Treasure Body, two more faint light shadows drew near, emitting the aura of the River of Time, shaking everyone.

Those were Gu Xuan's Past Self and Dao Self, sitting cross-legged on futons, one born in the past, one manifesting in the future, both towering and independent, possessing peerless heroic bearing!

This moment, even time and space seemed to freeze, Forbidden Law of the Human Path permeating the Heavens and Worlds.

Zen Chants rang out, as if sacrificial sounds from the Immortal Domain pierced through time and space, misty and drifting.

Finally, the Past Self, Dao Self, and True Self merged as one, converging upon Gu Xuan's body.

All mighty power gathered in one body; Gu Xuan met the attack head-on, using a pair of fists to directly clash against the Thunder Emperor's endless Thunder Prison!

Simultaneously, the Chaos Square Vessel above his head flew up, blocking the Supreme of Cang Xu's Return to Ruin single knife strike; within it, the true intent of refining the Ten Thousand Daos manifested, intending to use this to break the Supreme of Cang Xu's peerless strike!

This kind of surging combat power and supreme secret technique caused even the various Supremes of the Forbidden Zones who had been tracking this battle to click their tongues in amazement.

"Boom—!"

Infinite energy laws underwent a great collision.

This starry sky was utterly destroyed; even the void underwent a great collapse, nothing could remain, and even the distant battle between the Void Great Emperor and the Candle Dragon Ancient Emperor was affected.

"Pfft!"

Three figures flew backward almost simultaneously, all with bodies cracking, coughing up large mouthfuls of blood!

Gu Xuan's pair of fists turned flesh and bone into mud, two-thirds thoroughly turning into nothingness — this was due to the Thunder Emperor's supreme Great Dao annihilation.

And not only that; several terrifying, unmatched large holes appeared on his upper body, each the size of a bowl mouth, the internal organs within destroyed, and strange Return to Ruin power cutting inside, wanting to nibble away his life force.

At this moment, Gu Xuan's condition was incomparably withered; his whole person emitted a kind of aura desperate to the extreme.

But the other side.

The Thunder Emperor and the Supreme of Cang Xu were not faring any better either.

After unleashing this killing move, both turned white-haired and aged in appearance, obviously because they had burned their remaining essence blood.

And they had also each sustained not-light injuries.

Half the Thunder Emperor's skull was smashed to pieces by Gu Xuan's fist, his appearance incomparably miserable; even Immortal Fire was burning within it — this was temporarily added by Gu Xuan, solely to increase lethality.

As for the Supreme of Cang Xu, both arms had vanished, and even his upper body was in tatters, refined away by Gu Xuan using a supreme secret technique.

"Ah..."

The Thunder Emperor wailed miserably, for Immortal Fire is most terrifying to an aged Supreme like him, burning all the way to the critical Immortal Platform!

Causing a former Prover of the Dao to emit such a sound — one can see how deep and painful his injury was.

"Kill!"

Gu Xuan forcefully rallied his essence blood, recovering his injured body in the span of an instant.

Although his face was pale as paper, injured to the Origin, he still had to do so, wanting to pursue the fleeing enemy while the victory was hot, to strike down the Thunder Emperor first!

At this critical moment, he once again keenly sensed a kind of extremely malicious spying.

Therefore.

He could not care about anything else; he must achieve a quick decision, otherwise other terrifying variables might arise.

The Supreme of Cang Xu's heart turned cold!

He and the Thunder Emperor had both already forcibly borrowed several times their combat power using essence blood, unleashing the strongest attacks of their lives, yet still had not managed to kill Gu Xuan.

Now, the Thunder Emperor's life hung by a thread; next would be his turn.

At this time, he could not afford to hold back.

The Supreme of Cang Xu recovered his injured body once more; although his body trembled, he still swung his damaged ancient knife at Gu Xuan's back, wanting to attack where he must save.

But Gu Xuan did not even look back, merely sacrificing the equally damaged Chaos Square Vessel to block the Supreme of Cang Xu.

While he himself advanced without hesitation, swinging the Supreme Fist, wanting to smash the Thunder Emperor to death in one go.

Although the Thunder Emperor exerted all his strength, condensing a Thunder Prison Small World before him to trap and suppress Gu Xuan, this was obviously already to no avail.

Gu Xuan's pair of fists directly charged through the thunder radiance, unleashing extreme mighty power, smashing into the Thunder Emperor's Immortal Platform.

With a boom, supreme magic power exploded, pulverizing all things, piercing through the heavens, blasting a spray of blood flowers ahead.

"Ah..."

The Thunder Emperor had already been at the edge of extinction, unable to hold on much longer; now he suffered Gu Xuan's all-out strike on top of that.

He let out a loud cry, his Immortal Platform shaken and cracked, his whole body flying horizontally, finally exploding with a boom, splitting into five pieces!

In an instant.

Emperor Blood sprinkled across the sky, emitting a supreme Extreme Dao aura that trembled the starry sky.

The Thunder Emperor perished!

At this moment, heaven and earth anomalies manifested, Ten Thousand Dao orders emerged; Thunder Dao laws gave birth to ancient beasts, raising their heads to wail mournfully; the Star Universe had order blood rain sprinkling down, dyeing one star domain after another red.

(Chapter End)