On the battlefield above Magic City, hundreds of millions of black skeletons erupted with Underworld radiance.
Gathering together, they soared into the heavens, shaking heaven and earth.
Led by the Emperor-level Skeletal Demon God, an endless undead legion emerged, constructing one mountain of corpses after another, oceans of blood crashing down with overwhelming force.
Ever since the previous battle against the Sea Demons, Lu Jun had secretly buried countless skeletons beneath the layers of earth beneath the Magic City battlefield.
Within them, he had hidden a fragment of the Ancient King's Authority over Death, waiting for the decisive moment to activate it.
Now the Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons was trapped inside the colossal black skeletal palace.
Above her, mountain-like seas of corpses came crashing down.
Her bones creaked violently under the immense pressure.
The white shroud wrapped around her body tore apart inch by inch.
Even the Undead Throne beneath her transformed into an inescapable cage of death.
Witnessing this, she was both furious and terrified.
She had never imagined that Jiuzhou possessed another contender for the title of Underworld King.
Nor had she guessed that this entire war had been set up as bait to lure her willingly into this fatal trap.
"Kill!"
With a single thought from Lu Jun.
The endless undead surrounding them surged toward the Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons like an overwhelming tide.
The Skeletal Demon God charged at the front.
Its world-shattering demonic claw descended from above, carrying enough force to destroy heaven and earth, unleashing hurricane-like shockwaves.
Boom!
A deafening explosion rang out.
The Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons was sent flying.
She slammed violently into the edge of the enormous black bone prison, snapping several of its crimson ribs in the process.
The Skeletal Demon God roared with excitement.
As a temporary existence reconstructed from countless skeletons, having the chance to slay a Dominator Emperor with the body of what had once been insignificant creatures was the greatest fortune imaginable.
With another thunderous roar, it charged again.
Its colossal body crashed forward like an entire continent, reducing the immense force within the surrounding void into nothingness.
The Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons burned with rage.
These insignificant creatures had once knelt obediently beneath her feet.
How dare they raise their hands against the Goddess of Death?!
The two terrifying undead beings engaged in a brutal battle.
The prison of hundreds of millions of black bones had become a gigantic arena.
Only one would leave alive.
The Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons was steadily driven backward.
The white shroud covering her body tore apart again and again before constantly repairing itself.
Her crimson bones repeatedly shattered before healing once more.
Wave after wave of destructive shockwaves swept across the battlefield.
She remained at an absolute disadvantage.
There was no helping it.
This was Lu Jun's home ground.
His magic greatly suppressed the Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons.
Moreover, the Divinity of the Underworld King completely restrained her authority to command the undead.
She herself had always been a spell-oriented demon.
More precisely a summoner-type demon.
Close combat had always been her greatest weakness.
Without the magical abilities she specialized in, it was hardly surprising that she was being utterly overwhelmed in close-quarters combat by an Emperor-level opponent.
The Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons began to regret her decision.
She was known as the Queen of the Sea.
Her true battlefield was the deep ocean.
There, she could command the countless skeletons that had accumulated across the seabed through countless generations.
Her combat power would increase severalfold.
Even the Cold Lunar Eye Demon God could not confidently claim victory over her in those conditions.
But now having come ashore, the newly created corpses from the bloody war between humanity and the Sea Demons had all been turned into her enemy's weapons.
She was nothing more than a fish stranded on land, slowly dying of thirst.
Finally...
She felt her aura steadily weakening.
She could no longer afford to wait.
She began chanting an ancient incantation.
Crimson Underworld radiance rained down from the heavens. Rolling waves of murderous energy spread across the battlefield.
From the distant ocean unique black iron-like bones covered in strange dark patterns began flying toward her.
They seemed almost alive.
Awaiting only the Sea Queen's command, they converged together.
Every single bone was enormous, each one comparable to an entire skyscraper.
As they gathered, they assembled themselves into one complete body.
A ferocious skeletal dragon's head emerged first.
Six crown-like horns radiated majestic authority.
The crimson soul fire burning within its forehead blazed like a scarlet sun.
Then came its massive neck.
Its mighty skeletal body...
Its enormous bone wings that blotted out the sky. And finally, its long tail covered with countless bony spikes.
An Emperor-level Skeletal Nether Dragon descended upon the battlefield.
Its entire body overflowed with immense Necromantic power.
It was the Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons' proudest creation.
Her strongest subordinate.
The perfect weapon to compensate for her weakness in close combat.
Now it appeared, intending to attack from both inside and outside to shatter the death trap Lu Jun had carefully prepared.
Unexpectedly the very instant the Skeletal Nether Dragon appeared.
A world-shaking dragon's roar echoed from Magic City's coastline.
The supreme Black Dragon Emperor, whose colossal body resembled a pitch-black mountain range stretching to the horizon, immediately sensed the arrival of its lifelong nemesis.
Without hesitation, it soared into the sky to intercept it.
The two true dragons.
One representing life.
The other representing death.
Collided violently in midair.
Boom!
Space exploded violently.
The terrifying collision of their overwhelming strength unleashed devastating shockwaves.
Within a radius of a thousand li, space instantly collapsed into countless shattered cracks resembling an enormous spider's web.
The two true dragons wrapped themselves around one another.
Locked in a brutal fight to the death.
The Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons' reinforcements had been intercepted outside.
Inside the black bone prison, she continued desperately dodging attack after attack.
For the first time despair rose within her heart. But that was not the end of it.
Hiss...
Roar...
Within the dark prison the towering figure of the Mother of Medusa silently appeared like an ancient demon god.
Her pair of golden eyes reflected the image of the Queen in Imperial Shroud of Withered Bones.
A brownish gray radiance, like the first light of dawn, slowly swept across the boundless battlefield.
Yet how could the Mother of Medusa's eyes ever produce the light of dawn? It was an ancient calamity, a curse that transformed all living things into lifeless stone and dust!
Crack! Crack!
Without the slightest warning, by the time the Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons sensed the approach of death, it was already too late to evade. She was struck by the endless brownish gray beam of Spiritual Curse Light.
The crimson skeletal body wrapped in white burial shrouds was instantly petrified over more than half its form, turning into lifeless gray stone. Then it crumbled inch by inch, collapsing into fine ash that scattered through the air.
Only half of the Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons' head remained untouched. Even so, she suffered devastating injuries in an instant.
Although the Mother of Medusa's cultivation was not especially high, the terrifying power contained within her eyes had surpassed the Emperor level and reached the Ruler Emperor realm. With the frail true body of the Undersea Undead Queen, there was no way she could withstand such power.
The Demon God Skeleton then charged forward with earth shaking strides, while the Shark King Lord appeared from the shadows with sinister cunning, suddenly pouncing onto the Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons.
Rip!
Before the Undersea Undead Queen had recovered even a fraction of her shattered body, the two heaven towering Emperors, possessing limitless divine strength, tore her apart into two pieces.
"Damn you insignificant insects!"
The Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons cried out in agony. As the Goddess of Death of the seas, she had actually foreseen her own inevitable demise, and terror consumed her.
"You have no more chances. From this day onward, the throne of the Underworld King belongs to someone else."
From the distant heavens, Lu Jun spoke coldly as the supreme killing technique he had been preparing for so long finally descended.
His gaze was terrifying. His left eye shone with brilliant pure white light, while his right eye was unfathomably black. They flickered nine consecutive times, alternating between life and death, releasing strands of chaotic divine mist that surged outward in vast waves, sweeping across the battlefield to the distant horizon.
The entire world's colors were suddenly stripped away, becoming nothing more than black and white, like the image on an ancient monochrome television. Only the Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons retained her original colors.
She was completely frozen in midair.
Three concentric rings surrounded her body, layered one inside another. The outermost ring shimmered with chaotic colors, the middle ring was pitch black, while the innermost core was pure white, as though she had been compressed into an entire universe.
The next instant, the center corresponding to Lu Jun's pupils flashed.
A dazzling singularity appeared.
Endless Chaos poured out from within the Undersea Undead Queen's body, crushing everything in its path. It was as though the universe itself had undergone a Great Explosion. An immeasurable sea of stars was born, and the aura of all creation and new beginnings spread throughout existence.
Then, one star after another expanded, dimmed, exploded, and faded into extinction.
The overwhelming power of the Final Apocalypse filled the entire universe enclosed within the three concentric rings.
The sea of stars fell silent.
Deathly stillness spread everywhere.
Within that void universe, not the slightest trace of the Queen of Imperial Veil Skeletons remained.
She had been completely erased.
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