Chapter 251: A Fight to the Death

"Youtong, you cannot escape this time!"

The giant shadow's voice shook the heavens and earth like thunder, causing even the Soul to tremble.

This was not a sound in the ordinary sense, but a resonance of heaven and earth triggered by a powerful soul.

"When did I ever say I was going to escape!" Demon Lord Youtong stared coldly at the phantom.

"Not escaping is for the best, because you were never going to escape anyway. Once I devour you, I can advance to Demon Emperor and completely break free from this wretched place!" The massive phantom nodded indifferently.

"Hmph, you think quite highly of yourself, but if you lose this avatar, I fear you will have to remain here for several more epochs. Do you not feel you have been too careless?" Demon Lord Youtong scoffed.

"With your current strength at the Demon King realm, do you really think I need to use my true body? You think too highly of yourself!"

"Enough nonsense, regret it after you've beaten me!"

A faint golden light flashed within Demon Lord Youtong's pitch-black eyes, and the blood-red wings behind her flapped violently.

Xu Chen felt as if he were riding the clouds and mist as he was blown away. Black light flickered around his body; he had actually been sent to the edge of the Void and was rapidly leaving the battlefield.

A pale golden, illusory ripple undulated across the pitch-black heavens and earth.

Demon Lord Youtong's body, like a red arrow, pierced through the ripple and suddenly appeared at the center of the black giant shadow's brow.

"Pupil techniques are already ineffective against me..."

The black giant shadow suddenly transformed into a streak of black light and dissipated. By the time it reappeared, it was already behind the red light. It raised a hand and grabbed into the golden ripple; Demon Lord Youtong suddenly froze in mid-air, the golden light shattered, and her body was actually caught in the black shadow's grasp.

"If you had your strength from back then, killing you might have taken some effort. Now, your demon soul is pathetically weak. If it weren't for your Ancient Demon Bloodline, I wouldn't even bother coming to find you!"

As the black giant shadow spoke, it opened its massive mouth, intending to stuff Demon Lord Youtong inside.

"Is that so? If I were so easy to kill, how would I have lived until today? Why don't you look behind you?"

Demon Lord Youtong's voice rang out from behind the black giant shadow.

The black giant shadow stopped abruptly, discovering that its hand was completely empty—there was no sign of Demon Lord Youtong. Before it could even turn around, a red light exploded behind it, the Void shattered, and Demon Lord Youtong smashed a fist into the black giant shadow's cheek, sending both of them tumbling into the Void turbulence.

"Boom, boom, boom~"

The pitch-black heavens and earth shook violently, and muffled thunder exploded within the Void, as if two Ancient Fierce Beasts were colliding wildly inside. Void turbulence sprayed in all directions, and high mountain ridges collapsed in an instant.

"Boom~"

Several hundred miles away, the Void suddenly bulged and burst open. A red figure broke through the air, then transformed into a streak of light to catch up with Xu Chen, grabbing him and tearing through the Void like lightning.

"I told you to run, why didn't you run faster?" Amidst the high-speed flight, Demon Lord Youtong's voice rang out in Xu Chen's Sea of Consciousness.

Xu Chen smiled bitterly: "I didn't have time to run yet, did I? Besides, with no one to lead the way, where was I supposed to run?"

Demon Lord Youtong was silent for a moment before saying: "I feel like I'm broken. I clearly don't want to help you, yet I find myself inexplicably concerned with helping you. Honestly, did you do something while I was resurrecting?"

Xu Chen's heart trembled slightly: "How could that be possible? With my strength, what could I possibly do? You absorbed those Soul Beads yourself; don't you know if there's a problem?"

"Hmm, that's true, but I always feel something is wrong. I wasn't like this before. A worm like you—I would crush one every time I saw one, especially humans. And I hate people who talk too much, but since this resurrection, I've wanted to talk to you constantly!" Demon Lord Youtong sounded somewhat puzzled and lost.

Xu Chen felt anxious; he had some general ideas, but he truly dared not speak them.

The biggest problem naturally likely stemmed from that Nether Beast egg.

Because inside it was a Slave Seal left behind by Feng Feiyi.

Although he did not know if Feng Feiyi could be resurrected, after this beast egg was occupied by Demon Lord Youtong by chance and she was reborn, Feng Feiyi had completely lost the opportunity, but that Slave Seal must have merged into Demon Lord Youtong's body.

If his speculation was correct, Demon Lord Youtong's current strange feeling must be related to that Slave Seal.

Because back then, Feng Feiyi had also charged into the Heavenly Tribulation with all his might to save him, only to die.

It is said that there is a will of heaven in the dark.

He had once used the Slave Seal unintentionally, which directly led to his dantian being destroyed and his path of cultivation nearly severed, but now he had been saved by it several times by sheer coincidence.

"Youtong, you cannot escape!"

Within the Void, a tyrannical aura approached rapidly, the voice cold and filled with boundless fury and killing intent.

Demon Lord Youtong had no choice but to stop again, breaking through the Void to appear in another completely unfamiliar wasteland.

On the cold, dark earth, there were crisscrossing fissures everywhere.

It looked as if it had been cut into a mess by some massive weapon.

This was an ancient battlefield in Minghuang.

Although countless years had passed, the lingering aura remained terrifying.

Within these fissures, black light flashed from time to time, directly slicing through the Void.

The originally pitch-black world here actually carried a strange glow; the entire sky was flickering and shaking slightly, as if blade lights and sword shadows were still constantly clashing and fighting.

Not long after Demon Lord Youtong and Xu Chen appeared, a tall phantom flickered into existence several miles away from them.

Looking at the strange scene before him, the black phantom's eyes flashed with red light. A moment later, his Soul vibrated like thunder: "I didn't expect you to actually escape here, but it's useless; you still cannot escape my grasp!"

"Is that the only sentence you know how to say?" Demon Lord Youtong said coldly.

"You know that this is not my true body, so my speech is indeed a bit clumsy, but that is not important. In consideration of you protecting this little lover of yours so well, obediently let me eat you, and I will let him go!"

The black giant shadow seemed slightly wary this time, actually resorting to playing on emotions.

Xu Chen couldn't help but shout via Divine Sense Transmission: "Demon Lord Heitian, stop spouting nonsense! Demon Lord Youtong and I are perfectly innocent; do not ruin her reputation."

Demon Lord Youtong glanced at Xu Chen with a strange expression.

Although this was what she wanted to say, she didn't know why, but hearing it come from Xu Chen's mouth made her feel an inexplicable sense of irritation and discomfort.

Feeling the pressure of Demon Lord Youtong's gaze, Xu Chen shrank his neck guiltily, turned his head, and laughed dryly: "I only thought mortals liked to spout nonsense, but I didn't expect a dignified Demon Lord to do the same. Therefore, please do not take such words to heart."

Demon Lord Youtong nodded indifferently: "I will not take it to heart, but you said a while ago that I deserved to be trapped in the human world for another three thousand years in my next life—I have remembered that."

Xu Chen:...

"Alright, get ready. This is our only chance to shake off Heitian!" Demon Lord Youtong took a deep breath, seemingly having made the determination to fight to the death.

A look of resolve also appeared on Xu Chen's face, and two illusory Mysterious Gold Shell light shadows emerged behind him.

Demon Lord Youtong bringing the avatar of Demon Lord Heitian to this ancient battlefield clearly wasn't because she couldn't continue running, but because she was looking for a suitable place to settle things once and for all.

What grudges existed between her and Demon Lord Heitian, Xu Chen did not know.

However, from the moment Heitian appeared, the two sides entered a state of irreconcilable enmity.

Compared to the ages of the two great demon lords, Xu Chen is indeed a mere fledgling among fledglings.

But he has also survived countless life-and-death struggles, so he sees the current situation very clearly and observes the circumstances with great care.

This battle will decide the outcome; win and live, lose and perish together.

Although he knows this, Xu Chen remains deeply uneasy.

The fact that these Underworld Clan great demon lords possess such formidable strength by relying solely on the barbaric devouring of their own kind makes them almost no different from the Demon Beasts of the Mortal World.

Thus, this Underworld is truly no place for a person to stay; if he can survive, he will never come back again.

"Heitian, are you ready?"

A massive, pale golden phantom emerged behind Demon Lord Youtong, appearing surprisingly like a giant eye, with illusory tentacles growing all around it, dancing wildly across the sky like a monster.

A terrifying aura descended from the sky, shrouding the vast and boundless ancient battlefield.

"Demon Eye! It seems you really don't intend to run anymore. Very well, I shall finish you off right here today!"

The towering phantom of Demon Lord Heitian spoke coldly, then raised his hand to slowly draw a phantom black curved blade from behind his back, over ten zhang long, resembling a black scythe.

At the moment the black blade appeared, a similarly terrifying aura shrouded the heavens and earth, and phantoms of giant black beasts roared and bellowed across the sky, emitting an aura of destruction.

"There is only one chance, be careful!"

The cold voice of Demon Lord Youtong rang out in Xu Chen's Sea of Consciousness, and he saw the giant Demon Eye phantom slowly open, as a red curtain of light unfurled between heaven and earth, like a blood-colored sunlight illuminating the pitch-black Minghuang.

This bright light could be seen clearly even from tens of thousands of miles away in Minghuang.

"This is more like it; you didn't make me waste my trip!"

The giant phantom of Demon Lord Heitian stepped forward and swung the black curved blade in his hand; a black light connected heaven and earth as it descended, as if the world itself were being sliced in two by a single strike.

"Boom~~"

The red and black colors collided.

Light that could blind the Soul tore through heaven and earth, illuminating the netherworld.

In an instant, the heavens and earth seemed to shatter like paper, with large swathes of the Void opening up, where colorful chaotic halos flickered and vanished like fireworks, causing the vast Minghuang to tremble and shake under the unbearable strain.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

The earth collapsed like ocean waves, surging outward in all directions like a tide.

For the first time, light appeared in the dark and gloomy Minghuang, which had been silent for hundreds of millions of years.

But this light carried an incomparable aura of death, intending to annihilate everything between heaven and earth into nothingness.

The crisscrossing fissures of the Huanggu Zhanchang were leveled in the blink of an eye, and streaks of black light flickered out from the ground and the Void like living things, releasing sharp auras to resist this unprecedented wave of annihilation.

Most of them vanished into thin air under this terrifying impact, but others with formidable auras also released sharp, terrifying killing intent, emitting shrieks that tore at the Soul as they struck toward Demon Lord Heitian and Demon Lord Youtong.

This was the lingering killing intent from the great battle countless years ago, which would automatically launch a counterattack upon encountering a strong enemy.

As for how many strong beings' lingering killing intent remained in this Huanggu Zhanchang of unknown size, no one knew.

(End of this chapter)