Chapter 277: Joining Forces

Jiang Yuan.

He has arrived.

There were no extra words, not even an exchange of glances.

When Jiang Yuan's figure fully emerged from the shadows, the darkness behind him came alive.

Countless twisted, silent shadows rose from the ground, varying in form—some wielding blades, some hulking, their leader none other than the terrifying butcher brandishing a massive axe.

They made no sound, yet they coalesced into a black torrent fierce enough to make any army tremble.

Hundreds, even thousands of shadow soldiers stood silently behind Jiang Yuan, forming a silent dark legion.

Dark Shadow Court, descend!

Chen Shao glanced at the massive shadow army; the crimson demon eye in his gaze twitched slightly, yet he showed no surprise.

They're all monsters.

Except one is a lone king walking the mortal realm, the other is the dark emperor ruling the entire Abyss.

The two stood one before the other in the city center built of white bone and flesh, less than five meters apart.

One represents the ultimate interference of rules.

One represents pure consumption and destruction.

Between them, no tactical communication was needed; the moment they saw each other, a tacit understanding formed.

Roar——!!!

Bone City sensed an unprecedented threat.

The colossal face belonging to Ouyang Feng surfaced upon the White Bone Heart, filled with fury and madness.

It could not comprehend.

Why would two beings meant to slaughter each other stand together!

Hum——!

Bone City launched its attack again, this time even more ferocious.

Tens of thousands of bone worms hatched and peeled from every opening in the buildings, coalescing into two sky‑covering gray‑white waves that surged toward Jiang Yuan and Chen Shao.

At the same time, the earth shuddered violently as dozens of bone spears, like siege rams, burst from the ground with a piercing screech, thrusting straight up at the two.

This was a three‑dimensional slaughter akin to a Heaven‑Earth Net.

Faced with this heaven‑shattering, earth‑destroying scene, Chen Shao didn't even lift an eyelid.

He merely let out a cold snort.

Noisy.

The next second, that crimson demon eye burst forth with a blinding red light!

Invisible psychic force pressed down like an unseen heavenly hand, slamming down hard!

Boom!

The bone‑worm waves that had just flown into mid‑air, as if struck by a falling mountain, all sank downward at once, their speed plummeting.

And those colossal bone spears thrusting up from the earth were frozen in mid‑air ten meters from the two, unable to move.

Chen Shao alone suppressed half of Bone City's assault!

The other half was left entirely to the man behind him.

Jiang Yuan moved.

Faced with the sky‑engulfing worm swarm that could make a trypophobe faint on the spot, he simply stepped forward.

Go.

One word.

The Dark Shadow Court behind him erupted instantly!

"The Butcher" let out a silent roar, charging ahead as his axe swung, instantly shattering hundreds of bone worms into fragments!

More shadow soldiers surged forward like a tide, wildly clashing with the white bone worms.

There was no artillery roar, no continual screams.

On the battlefield, only two colors wildly collided, shredded, and devoured!

Each swing of the black shadow blades swept away a piece of pallid bone wing.

Each bite of the white bone teeth left a notch in the black shadow form.

But the advantage of the shadows lies in their ability to devour.

For every bone worm slain, the shadow soldiers' black aura grew richer; they could even assimilate the slain worms' remains, transforming them into new, lesser shadow creatures.

Thus, the worm swarm capable of engulfing an entire regiment was held at bay outside by Jiang Yuan's legion, unable to advance an inch.

Black and white staged a silent yet spectacular war upon the ruins of this sinful city.

Yet the situation remained far from optimistic.

Bone City's evolutionary power was too strong.

It kept spawning new bone worms, and these newborn individuals clearly developed some resistance to Chen Shao's psychic suppression and Jiang Yuan's shadow energy.

A gleeful, manic laugh spread across Ouyang Feng's twisted face.

He admitted that, taken individually, these two were monsters among monsters.

Give him enough time, and his Bone City will analyze their powers and evolve the perfect countermeasure!

Surpass Jiang Yuan!

Surpass Chen Shao!

His wish is coming true!

"Heh, you still don't get it, idiot. The effect of one plus one is greater than two."

Chen Shao stared at that wildly laughing face, disdainfully spitting out two words.

He no longer conducted large-scale psychic force suppression, but instantly recalled all the diffused power, concentrating it entirely at a point!

Target—the Tongzi Lou that serves as the core of Bone City!

"Stop...... for me!"

Chen Shao's left eye, blood-colored and thick, about to drip down, "Now!"

Hum——!!!

A psychic force far surpassing before, solid as substance, turned into an invisible massive spike, fiercely driven into that constantly writhing building!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The building's bones all groaned under the weight, countless flesh tissues were forcibly squeezed, bursting out black juice.

Bone City's evolution and proliferation were forcibly interrupted at this moment!

All of its computing power was forced to resist this terrifying dominating force capable of crushing rules!

"Good!"

Jiang Yuan's voice sounded.

He had been waiting for this opportunity!

He suddenly raised his hand; the endless shadow army behind him actually ceased fighting the bone worms in an instant, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, all flowing back into his body!

Jiang Yuan's aura rose step by step at this moment; the shadow behind him was stretched enormously, turning into a ferocious demon god wielding a huge sickle!

Power, gathered at a point!

"Ouyang Feng!!"

Jiang Yuan let out a roar, his voice filled with anger and regret over the downfall of his former comrade.

The shadow in his hand condensed into a black blade a hundred meters long, aimed at the White Bone Heart tightly locked by Chen Shao, and he slashed down with one strike!

This strike gathered the power of the entire shadow army.

This strike split the torrential rain.

This strike aimed to sever the madman's path to godhood!

"No!!!"

Ouyang Feng felt a deadly crisis, he frantically activated Bone City's power, trying to break free from Chen Shao's restraint.

But, it was too late.

Bone City's evolutionary ability could adapt to Chen Shao's rule-crushing pressure, and also adapt to Jiang Yuan's shadow erosion.

But it could not, at the same time, evolve an ability capable of simultaneously resisting two utterly different yet equally terrifying forces!

It surpassed Jiang Yuan.

It also surpassed Chen Shao.

Yet it could not surpass Jiang Yuan plus Chen Shao!

Boom!!!

The black giant blade, under Chen Shao's precise psychic force guidance, without the slightest deviation, fiercely slashed onto that huge White Bone Heart!

Crack——!!!

The crisp cracking sound echoed throughout the night sky.

On the indestructible white bone shell, a deep, bottomless huge crack appeared.

Immediately after, the crack spread like a spiderweb rapidly.

Finally, in a tremendous roar, that White Bone Heart symbolizing "god" shattered violently!

Countless bone fragments mixed with flesh tissue scattered and sprayed.

Revealing the curled-up figure inside.

That was precisely Ouyang Feng's true form.

But at this moment, he could no longer be called human.

Half of his body was stuck together with shattered bones and writhing flesh, with ferocious bone spikes protruding from his back, while the other half still maintained a human shape.

He thus hovered in the center of the ruins, slowly raising his head.

In those eyes, half was human madness and ambition, the other half was the ferocity and chaos of a Fierce Ghost.