"It's you? The inheritor of the Rakshasa God."
Feeling this sword intent, Niu Tian turned his eyes toward the newcomer.
And when he addressed Chen Junting with this title, it meant that the anger in his heart had reached its peak.
Seeing Niu Tian in such a furious state, Chen Junting was unhurried, even having the leisure to flatter himself. "What? Is an existence that served as a Beast King in the Great Star Dou Forest for ten thousand years going to do something to me, the savior of soul beasts?"
"You cannot yet be called the savior of soul beasts."
Niu Tian's tone couldn't be called dismissive; rather, it felt more like he was stating a fact. "I am not like Di Tian and the others, who lived in the Star Dou Great Forest for so long that they don't understand human nature. Given human greed, in the future, they will absolutely not limit themselves to spirit souls and artificial soul rings. After all, once there are no more worries regarding soul rings, the need for soul bones will lead humans to slaughter soul beasts on a massive scale."
"And with the pace of human development, that day is not far off."
At this moment, Niu Tian seemed to have seen through everything. Similarly, facing this historical trend of development, a trace of melancholic desolation also flashed through his eyes.
But soon, Niu Tian cast aside these troublesome thoughts and instead stared at Chen Junting with a dangerous gaze. "It seems you already know my identity. But what makes me curious is, how exactly did you find out about me? Or perhaps, was everything Dong'er knows told to her by you? Is it because of your Rakshasa God divine throne? Or..." As if thinking of something, his imposing aura erupted once again. However, compared to the last time, this eruption, while pure, was a killing intent that soared to the heavens!
"It seems you've assumed something wrong."
Although Chen Junting didn't know what Niu Tian was thinking, if it came to a fight, Chen Junting was happy to oblige. After all, if he wanted to negotiate terms with a Worship who had suppressed his cultivation to the mortal level, simply talking wouldn't work. The key was seeing whose fist was harder!
"Rakshasa brat! Roar—"
With a dragon's roar, anger and hatred were ignited.
With this, Chen Junting understood. It seemed Niu Tian thought that he possessed the lingering obsession or remnant soul of the previous Rakshasa God, Bibi Dong, or something similar.
If that were the case, it half-explained things. After all, enemies do see red when they meet.
As for the other half... They had both died once and even become gods, yet he was still so easily agitated? He actually chose to directly make a move.
A cyan-green light flowed in Niu Tian's eyes. With a shake of his body, he had already transformed into a giant beast over a thousand meters long, with a body resembling a massive python but possessing a pair of dragon claws, looking like an ox-headed, snake-bodied behemoth.
This was the Azure Divine Dragon!
And the prelude to the battle was opened by a cyan dragon's breath!
In the eyes of Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er, the Azure Divine Dragon rapidly soared into the air, raising the battlefield. Then, opening its massive maw, a breath containing the power of slowness, like a cyan torrent, swept toward Chen Junting. Wherever it passed, space seemed to become viscous, and the flow of time slowed down.
"Good timing!"
Chen Junting was overjoyed at the hunt, the Seven Kill Sword appearing in his hand.
But he merely made a casual slash forward. There was no dazzling soul skill brilliance, only a pure, extremely condensed sword aura, which yet contained a sharpness that could break all laws.
As space was torn apart, the sword aura precisely cut into the dragon's breath, like a hot knife slicing through butter, forcefully splitting the cyan torrent in two. It howled past Chen Junting's sides, leaving two bottomless ravines in the ground behind him.
At the same time, Chen Junting punched out with his backhand!
Because the moment the dragon's breath ended, the Azure Divine Dragon had already flicked its dragon tail, its massive body drawing an arc in the air, appearing right above Chen Junting as the breath was split open. Immediately after, relying on its slender body, a dragon claw covered in cyan scales was able to adjust its direction and strike down from above!
This tail, this claw—there was no energy fluctuation, yet they were enough to shatter mountains. The power contained within was Niu Tian's most primitive and powerful weapon after his essence had fundamentally mutated into a divine beast.
However, under the surging of blood essence, Chen Junting's punch was like a torrent of sword dao, striking later but arriving first, forcefully colliding with the crushing dragon claw. Furthermore, the waist-driven punching motion also allowed Chen Junting to slash his sword backhanded toward the dragon's tail!
Slashing upward from below, a massive sword aura over ten metres long shot into the sky. With this single strike, Niu Tian's dragon tail instantly filled with immense energy, until the two collided with a deafening roar.
The clashing sound of metal was deafening. Violent energy shockwaves crazily spread outward from the point of collision as the center, churning up terrifying airwaves in the sky above the Undead Demiplane! The radiating aftermath forced most of the undead creatures to prostrate themselves on the ground.
Chen Junting retreated a thousand meters with a step in the air, completely unharmed. In contrast, on the Azure Divine Dragon that Niu Tian had transformed into, the scales on its dragon tail shattered, surrounded by white marks, and its dragon claw was blasted with a chunk missing, as if a piece was gone.
"Kill—"
Holding his sword, he charged forward, and six sword qis slashed out of thin air!
A massive character for "Kill" took shape, but every stroke was filled with massive negative emotions, as if the power of heaven and earth was affected. This caused a trace of gravity to instantly rise on Niu Tian's face.
His massive body coiled up, and a giant cyan light shield appeared around him, inside which nine phantom azure dragons swam and circled.
Nine Revolutions · Divine Dragon Body Protection!
This was a powerful defensive means he had comprehended after evolving into the Azure Divine Dragon; the circling of the nine dragons could dissolve and weaken nine attacks.
Using this move was him creating an opportunity.
Subsequently, he unleashed his "Slowness Domain." This time, the power of slowness was no longer an outward attack but enveloped the entire range as far as the eye could see. Within this domain, Da Ming was the master; Chen Junting only felt his movements, soul power circulation, and even the speed of his thoughts being suppressed by an invisible force.
"Is this a god-level domain?"
Feeling the sluggishness coming from all directions, Chen Junting didn't feel the slightest bit nervous. Immediately after, with himself as the center, an invisible and formless aura—yet respectively filled with endless slaughter, frozen life, myriad changes, and absolute destruction—these four completely different yet interconnected auras suddenly spread out.
"Immortal Execution (Zhu Xian) Domain!"
And at the exact same moment, "Roar—"
In an instant, the world changed color.
The Undead Demiplane, which originally possessed no vitality, not even clouds, suddenly became densely covered in wind and clouds, with lightning flashing and thunder rumbling, as if the weather itself was directly controlled by the Azure Divine Dragon.
But soon, this celestial phenomenon seemed to be half-occupied.
The heaven and earth, originally filled with the power of the four elements, instantly turned into a ruined battlefield. The air was filled with cold killing intent and malicious aura... illusory long swords condensed from sword intent floated and sank within the domain, emitting bursts of mournful cries. Within this domain, everything was suppressed; all defenses seemed incredibly fragile, as if only finality was the eternal theme.
The power of celestial phenomena, the Slowness Domain, and the Immortal Execution Domain violently collided; completely different law powers eroded and fought against each other. The four-colored elemental power and the cyan power of slowness tried to bring the finality of the Immortal Execution Domain to a standstill. But the Immortal Execution Domain crazily sliced through their laws, trying to tear them apart. For a time, the space where the two were located issued overwhelmed "crack crack" sounds, and fine spatial cracks appeared.
"Azure Desolation Thunder!"
"I Alone Am Supreme!"
A cyan thunderbolt streaked across the sky, but an even more domineering and powerful will occupied this world. A terrifying suction force, like a black hole, devoured everything!
The power of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning disintegrated in an instant.
Suddenly, the situation seemed to reverse. However...
"Azure Sluggish Divine Claw!"
Accompanied by a dragon's roar, a giant dragon claw phantom manifested and grabbed toward Chen Junting; this was his signature skill.
Although this move required four seconds of charging, Niu Tian had already started accumulating it when he fired the Azure Desolation Thunder earlier, connecting them seamlessly. By the time Chen Junting devoured all the surrounding energy, the claw shape had already appeared.
Once caught by it, the pain from the depths of one's soul would make a person's entire thinking become sluggish. Then, facing the subsequent attacks, no matter what, it would be difficult to resist.
However, "Awe-Inspiring in All Directions!"
Eight giant swords slashed down vertically. The moment Chen Junting felt his entire being become ten times slower, he directly broke this effect. Then, his entire expression suddenly became indifferent, and he transformed into a shocking sword rainbow, instantly crossing a distance of a thousand meters, thrusting straight at the Azure Divine Dragon's head. During the flight, the sword rainbow differentiated into thousands of dense sword shadows, like an inescapable net, completely enveloping its massive body, and all the sword shadows ultimately converged at the tip of the sword. This single point of cold light seemed to condense Chen Junting's Essence, Soul, and Spirit.
Niu Tian felt a fatal threat. He let out a heaven-shaking dragon roar, and the nine azure dragon phantoms on his Divine Dragon Body Protection spun once again, weakening the incoming sword rainbow circle by circle.
At the same time, his dragon mouth opened again.
This time, what the Azure Divine Dragon spat out was no longer a dragon's breath, but a highly compressed cyan sphere. However, what it contained was no longer pure soul power, but was mixed with spiritual power.
Boom—
The sword rainbow and the sphere collided in mid-air, erupting with an extremely dazzling light. The moment the light dissipated, everything seemed to have stopped; the entire world had the pause button pressed, directly falling into a grayish-white scene.
When the world recovered the next moment, the Azure Divine Dragon's massive body also swayed. The light of the Divine Dragon Body Protection on his surface was dim; eight of the nine azure dragon phantoms had shattered, and the remaining one was covered in cracks, with a giant gap appearing in it. And through that gap, it perfectly corresponded to a deep, bone-visible sword scar on the scale armor of his chest.
Dragon blood was slowly seeping out from it.
Moreover, the "things" he left Niu Tian were not limited to this...
For example, there was also shock.
"The power of space and time!"
Although he had been completely paused by the power of space and time at that moment, including his thoughts, soul, and so on, he was a former Priest after all, and his horizons were still there, so he could naturally perceive it.
Niu Tian never imagined that this kid who inherited the Rakshasa God's position had not only grown to this step, successively comprehending the power of space and the power of time, but had even combined the two!
Just as he was shocked, "Do you want to continue?"
At some unknown point, Chen Junting in front of Niu Tian had already put on his Battle Armor. At this moment, the pressure he brought also rapidly soared.
Because Niu Tian clearly felt that the moment Chen Junting put on that armor, his aura had climbed once again to a terrifying degree. He even felt an extremely intense oppressive feeling from that armor. And this oppressive feeling could be said to come from his own bloodline.
If one were to say that before he put on this armor, Niu Tian, after having fought a round, dared to say they were evenly matched, or at worst forty-sixty, then once he wore this armor, it was only twenty-eighty.
Was a guy like this truly only the inheritor of the Rakshasa God?
He was stronger, more terrifying than that woman from ten thousand years ago!
"Do you want to continue?"
Noticing Chen Junting's dangerous gaze, Niu Tian transformed back from his Azure Divine Dragon form into his human shape. "I'm not fighting anymore."
"Eh?" Chen Junting, who originally thought Niu Tian would continue to attack, felt a bit disappointed when he heard this.
"Young man, you have proven your strength. But since you know my identity, you should also understand how great the resistance is. However, your stance towards Dong'er, as well as towards the future of soul beasts, has indeed earned my friendship. Speak, as long as it's nothing too excessive, also tell me the real purpose of inviting me here?"
Chen Junting raised an eyebrow, hearing the underlying meaning.
Niu Tian's understanding of the situation of the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest was not as superficial as it seemed at first; he genuinely knew the specifics. Chen Junting even had reason to suspect that he might have already met with Di Tian, or even the still-recuperating Silver Dragon King.
Coupled with the fact that they had always stood on Wang Dong'er's side...
The combination of the two had truly earned his friendship.
It was just that making him go against Xiao Wu and Tang San...
Was still impossible.
"Since Sect Master Niu Tian wants to listen, then I will explain it to you properly." As he spoke, Chen Junting also slowly landed on the ground.
By the end, the doubts Niu Tian already had when Wang Dong'er questioned him were completely confirmed after Chen Junting brought up the theory of the "Power of Destiny," causing his face to finally reveal heartache!
After a long silence, "I will not take Xiao Dong back."
Niu Tian looked at Wang Dong'er, but then turned away guiltily.
"Furthermore, the facts are as they are. You indeed have the strength to stop me, so I can shirk it. But delaying for a long time, this sooner or later won't be a solution. The time left for you is not much."
"Of course."
Seeing them so confident, Niu Tian didn't say anything more.
But right at this moment, Chen Junting suddenly took out a contract, which looked like it had been prepared long ago.
Niu Tian took it and looked, but the content on the contract made him feel a wave of dizziness and blurred vision.
"Are you crazy!?"
Chen Junting didn't speak, merely signaling him with his eyes.
In the end, Niu Tian chose to sign the contract. Under Chen Junting's smiling send-off, he left the Undead Demiplane with a dark face alongside Wang Dong'er and Huo Yuhao.
Only after he left did several figures appear one after another, but Niu Tian didn't notice a single clue.
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