Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Beneath the somber sky!
Strange brilliance flashed! In the blur, only three streaks could be vaguely discerned!
Not even the slightest ripple appeared!
"Ah!" Shengyan Zhenyu was startled!
And when he clearly saw the direction these three streams of light were flying, his shock turned to terror!
These three streaks of light moved with unimaginable speed, so fast that even he couldn't clearly capture them!
One was charging toward him, while the other two sped toward Shengyan Zhenhe and Shengyan Zhenxiong. More terrifyingly, with his astonishing cultivation as a Phoenix Heaven War God, under the effect of the Illusory Demon Eye, Shengyan Zhenyu clearly sensed that every single one of these three light streaks carried destructive power!
"Be careful!"
With a furious roar, the light stream, flashing like lightning, instantly shot up to Shengyan Zhenyu’s chest! He didn't even have time to evade! Instinctively, he turned his sword, which was originally aimed at Jiuyuan Chongyang’s Kaitian Great Sword, but at that very instant, it suddenly reversed course!
Sweeping out a purple crescent moon, it rapidly lunged to meet that incoming light!
On the other side, Shengyan Zhenhe, who was still suspended in mid-air, not yet returned to the ground!
And Shengyan Zhenxiong, who was forced into a perilous situation! Under the state of the Eye of Death, they only vaguely sensed the approach of the anomaly!
But there was no time to react!
Because its speed was simply too fast! Like a bullet fired from a barrel!
Bang!
Rumble!
An earth-shattering roar!
The surging tidal wave of Battle Qi erupted!
And the explosive shockwave, capable of obliterating everything, instantly blasted outward!
No one could describe the sheer terror of that explosion.
Even Shengyan Zhenyu, the Phoenix Heaven War God, was flung far away as if he were a football kicked away!
On the other side!
Thwack, thwack!
There were only two soft, crisp sounds!
Shengyan Zhenxiong and Shengyan Zhenhe didn't even realize what had happened!
They only felt a sudden chill near their throats!
Their breath hitched instantaneously, as if something had clogged their windpipes!
Instinctively, they reached for their throats, only to find warmth and wetness!
Ah, it was blood!
What in the world—how could the speed be so fast! From start to finish, they hadn't even seen it clearly!
Then they saw it!
The entire ground!
And the sky, thick with blood mist! Their vision darkened, and their minds went blank!
In the alley, everyone was stunned by this sudden turn of events!
Two Thunder Warriors collapsed without warning. Even Yin Hu Yueyao and the others, who were standing nearby, couldn't clearly grasp what had transpired! Although this was all part of the arrangement, this speed, which defied imagination, still left them dumbfounded!
But even more astonishing was that ball of light exploding in the air not far away!
Amidst the muffled booming sound!
The very space seemed to be pulverized by this astonishing explosion!
Shards of rubble! Rushed outwards like a torrential storm, forming a mist that blotted out the sky!
And within this hazy fog!
A hazy afterimage, like lightning, shot out! Charging toward the retreating Shengyan Zhenyu!
Everything had happened too suddenly!
It occurred almost the instant Shengyan Zhenyu made his move! The gap between the two actions could not have exceeded one second!
"So fast!" Even Qing Long and Tong Lei Feng Qingtian, with their Crimson Moon pinnacle cultivation, could only just manage to glimpse the fleeting afterimage!
"How can such speed be possible!" Even seeing it with their own eyes, no one could truly believe the astonishing scene before them!
"It's Xing Chen!" Feng Qingtian became so agitated she could barely speak coherently. That familiar aura, that ghostly speed—it was precisely the signature technique of the Blue Lightning!
"It's only been a year, and this guy has become even stronger," Tong Lei murmured.
"He is the true Lightning now," Qing Long exclaimed excitedly.
Shengyan Zhenyu was equally aghast! Even relying on the Illusory Demon Eye of a Phoenix Heaven Warrior, all he could capture was a vague afterimage! Like a lightning phantom! Rapidly closing in! The killing intent was so intense, thick as aged liquor, suffocating and chilling!
It was him!
Under heaven and earth, without relying on the power of the Phoenix Heaven Demonic Armor, yet possessing such speed!
Only one person could possess such killing intent!
Damn it! It's Jiuyuan Shenzhen!
Tricked!
In an instant, Shengyan Zhenyu understood everything!
But it was too late!
This was clearly a meticulously arranged, brilliant killing trap!
In a single move, three Dragon Shadows simultaneously attacked him, as well as Shengyan Zhenhe and Shengyan Zhenxiong!
Although, relying on his cultivation as a Phoenix Heaven Warrior, Shengyan Zhenyu managed to block this strike, the unprepared Shengyan Zhenhe and Shengyan Zhenxiong were instantly executed!
Attacking three masters simultaneously seemed utterly insane, yet thanks to this ghostly, terrifying speed, it was entirely possible to succeed!
And in reality, Shengyan Zhenyu was certain that Jiuyuan Shenzhen's ultimate target was himself! Shengyan Zhenhe and Shengyan Zhenxiong were merely opportunistic strikes!
If not for that, he would never have waited until he attacked Jiuyuan Chongyang before launching the sudden assault!
From beginning to end, Shengyan Zhenyu had been extremely cautious, but the moment Jiuyuan Chongyang appeared, Shengyan Zhenyu's judgment faltered!
And he attacked!
Clearly, Jiuyuan Chongyang was the bait Jiuyuan Shenzhen used to lure him into attacking. Only when attacking would he expose a flaw!
Even if it was just for a fleeting moment!
But that brief instant was seized by Jiuyuan Shenzhen!
Ambush, surprise attack—these were always the tactics Jiuyuan Shenzhen excelled at. He hadn't expected to fall for his scheme! Yet what shocked Shengyan Zhenyu even more was that Jiuyuan Shenzhen's terrifying speed and power seemed equal to his own as a Phoenix Heaven War God! This was the greatest miscalculation!
One wrong move and the entire game was lost!
Shengyan Zhenyu was certain! The previous Dragon Shadows had merely knocked him off balance and sent him airborne; the real killing blow was yet to come!
Aerial combat had always been Jiuyuan Shenzhen's signature technique!
Indeed, the moment he was thrown into the air, unbalanced by the Dragon Shadow Cannon's impact!
The afterimage shot out of the mist like a cannonball, hurtling toward him!
The dense killing intent felt like damp dew, making breathing difficult and agonizing, or like the muffled eruption of volcanic magma, pressing down until he couldn't draw breath!
Shengyan Zhenyu couldn't even control the horror in his heart!
All he could do now was retreat, retreat with all his might! He absolutely could not let his form be locked down! Otherwise, the subsequent lightning-fast continuous attacks would surely send him to his doom!
Looking back at those killed by Jiuyuan Shenzhen, a large portion were instantly slain by his incredibly fast lightning strikes! Very few could withstand the initial few moves!
This was the terror of Jiuyuan Shenzhen; once he found an opening, he would never give his opponent a moment to catch their breath!
At this moment, the astonishing speed and seasoned responsiveness of the Phoenix Heaven War God immediately shone through! Instinctively, he swept out several streams of sword qi, using the thrust generated by the qi's agitation!
Shengyan Zhenyu’s figure, which had been retreating in a straight line, now drifted like willow catkins in the wind! Elusive!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The three lightning-fast thrusts missed! They passed only through the afterimages Shengyan Zhenyu left floating in the air!
But the rapidly approaching afterimage showed no pause whatsoever! Like a sea swallow racing through a storm! It doggedly tracked Shengyan Zhenyu’s erratic trajectory, weaving and darting, appearing chaotic, yet always locking onto Shengyan Zhenyu’s true body in the blink of an eye! Launching rapid attacks!
Too fast!
Incredibly fast! The drifting afterimages left no trace, the lightning quick swords offered no recognizable pattern or standard! But every single strike was purely offensive, aimed precisely at Shengyan Zhenyu’s vital points!
It felt as if countless sharp swords were attacking him simultaneously, impossible to guard against!
Even more terrifying was that this Lightning Sword Style was not only incredibly fast but also fiercely brutal, carrying full power—a fighting style implying mutual destruction!
The Kaitian Great Sword danced wildly like the wind, yet still couldn't withstand this storm of lightning attacks! Therefore, the best countermeasure was to maintain distance and evade his strikes!
This was the exact countermeasure collected and summarized by the Church!
It was just that Shengyan Zhenyu had always disdained this tactic in the past!
In his view, the speed gap between a Phoenix Heaven Warrior and a Heavenly Demon Warrior was an insurmountable chasm! But now, facing it directly, he realized he was wrong, and profoundly so!
Jiuyuan Shenzhen’s speed absolutely exceeded human limits! Could this be the terrifying result of cultivation in the Forbidden Zone?!
Facing this utterly abnormal speed, Shengyan Zhenyu found it impossible to shake off this persistent, shadow-like pursuit!
He never imagined that one miscalculation would force him into a situation where he couldn't even gasp for air! With no way to evade, Shengyan Zhenyu could no longer hold anything back! He suddenly channeled his entire being!
"Phoenix Heaven Body Shield!" he roared!
A surge of potent warmth immediately poured out from within the Phoenix Heaven Demonic Armor, heat surging throughout his body, dispersing the almost suffocating killing intent, before converging everywhere! Bang! The profound protective Battle Qi instantly burst forth, laying down a dense shield of protective Battle Qi around him!
Since he couldn't outrun him, the only choice was to grit his teeth and withstand his lightning quick swords!
Clang! Ding!
The quick sword, thrust out like lightning, finally struck Shengyan Zhenyu’s chest!
However, it was forcefully resisted by the supreme defense of the Phoenix Heaven Demonic Armor mixed with the Phoenix Heaven Protective Battle Qi!
And that storm-like quick sword paused for a fraction of a second at that moment!
But even so, the terrifying impact force still sent Shengyan Zhenyu staggering back dozens of meters!
Yet, it was only a momentary pause. The ghostly figure was already following closely again, rapidly pressing the attack!
However, Shengyan Zhenyu had finally secured a rare chance to catch his breath!
Roar!
"Sun-Chasing Wave Breaker!"
The Kaitian Great Sword whipped up a sky full of sword qi, resembling a long dragon of churning Battle Qi! Beneath the somber sky! It traced a strange, magnificent trajectory!
It lunged toward the elusive afterimage before him!
Bang, rumble, rumble, rumble!
An earth-shattering explosion roared!
The blinding light burst was enough to blind onlookers!
Space itself seemed to be torn to shreds in that instant! The intense shock nearly knocked everyone unconscious—like the collapse of heaven, the sinking of earth, or the splitting of tsunamis and mountains!
Dust flew, leaves scattered, fragments of debris continued to surge everywhere like a violent storm, scattering outward like waves rising in the void!
Everyone stood frozen!
Stunned, as if struck dumb!
The powerful shockwave hadn't harmed them in the slightest!
But it rattled their spirits; they could hardly believe such an attack was man-made.
In the center of the plaza, a gigantic crater had been violently blasted open!
This was sheer fantasy!
In the alley!
"Is this the power of the Phoenix Heaven War God!" Tong Lei and the others were speechless!
"Sun-Chasing Sword Style!" Jin Yao and the others were deeply shocked!
As heavily armored warriors, none of them were unaware of how terrifying the Sun-Chasing Sword Style was!
Eight hundred years ago, an incredibly powerful Phoenix Heaven War God emerged! He was one of the three Phoenix Heaven War Gods who fought against the Orc invasion! He was known as the strongest Phoenix Heaven War God since the Divine Dragon Empire!
Not many people remembered his name!
Later generations only referred to him as the Sun-Chasing War God!
And his famed ultimate technique was the Sun-Chasing Sword Style, which the Church called the strongest battle technique!
After his death, the Sun-Chasing Sword Style became the sacred, foundational skill of the Shengyan Church, only trainable by successive Phoenix Heaven War Gods!
Many said that if anyone in this world could defeat the First Generation Dragon Shadow, it would undoubtedly be the Sun-Chasing War God!
But sadly, these two figures never lived in the same era, so determining who was stronger remained inconclusive!
Yet, even so, for eight hundred years, the question of whether Dragon Shadow or Sun Chaser was the strongest had always been the most fascinating topic for all martial artists!
It was the Mafan world’s equivalent of Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong! Yuan Ba clashing with Lü Bu!
"Nine Heavens Star River versus the Sun-Chasing Sword Style." Jiujia She and the others in the alley were beside themselves with excitement!
"No matter what, this battle will certainly be an earth-shattering, world-renowned fight."
"Finally, we will have a conclusion on who is the strongest between Dragon Shadow and Sun Chaser."
"Go! You must win," Tong Lei and the others gripped their sword hilts tightly! They didn't even dare to breathe!
On the field!
Bang! Rumble!
Whoosh, whoosh!
Amidst the surging Battle Qi explosion!
The afterimage struck by the Sun-Chasing Sword Qi instantly shot high into the sky like a meteor fragment!
What quick reaction!
Shengyan Zhenyu was also greatly surprised by Jiuyuan Shenzhen's astonishing adaptability; he hadn't expected him to see through the Sun-Chasing Sword Qi the moment it was unleashed and retreat rapidly to dodge it!
Of course, the continuous chain of lightning strikes was completely interrupted!
Shengyan Zhenyu roared, about to press his advantage!
But at that very instant, two hazy streams of light, like lightning, approached Shengyan Zhenyu’s rear chest! And front chest!
Ah! So fast! It was the Dragon Shadow!
If Shengyan Zhenyu hadn't possessed the Illusory Demon Eye, he wouldn't have been able to capture the Dragon Shadows moving at bullet-like speeds!
It was the Dragon Shadows that had previously slain Shengyan Zhenhe and Shengyan Zhenxiong, returning now, one from the front and one from the rear! Giving Shengyan Zhenyu absolutely no chance to recover!
"Damn it!" The sudden Dragon Shadows prevented Shengyan Zhenyu from pressing his advantage!
His Kaitian Great Sword, condensed with Sun-Chasing Sword Qi, could only spin around, sweeping out a crescent-shaped arc of qi around his body!
Bang, bang!
The Dragon Shadow Cannons attacking from front and back were once again caught squarely by Shengyan Zhenyu’s Kaitian Great Sword!
Accompanying them were the earth-shattering roars! And violent explosive shockwaves!
However, this time he had the protection of the Phoenix Heaven Body Shield!
Shengyan Zhenyu wasn't as disheveled! But even so, he was still thrown into the air by the shockwave of the explosion!
From the moment he struck until now, Shengyan Zhenyu hadn't even managed to see his opponent's face!
The initiative he had barely regained was instantly destroyed by these two sudden Dragon Shadows!
Not only that, but the opponent immediately launched a relentless barrage of continuous attacks!
The moment the two Dragon Shadows were blasted away!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
There was another sound of hazy whistling!
This astonishing speed seemed to cut the very air apart!
It was another six Dragon Shadows striking like lightning! Giving Shengyan Zhenyu absolutely no chance to fight back or escape!
After cultivating in the King’s Forbidden Zone, the power of the Dragon Shadow had become even more terrifying!
Each Dragon Shadow possessed a powerful impact and speed comparable to a cannonball, and combined with their elusive trajectories, Shengyan Zhenyu simply couldn't defend against them!
It was like facing nine terrifying swordsmen of the same level who specialized in speed!
"Get away!" At this moment, Shengyan Zhenyu was so frustrated he was nearly driven mad! He never imagined that the Dragon Shadow, once considered a minor trick, could unleash such astonishing power in Jiuyuan Shenzhen's hands!
This guy was a monster who overturned martial arts common sense! Even if the First Generation Dragon Shadow were resurrected, he couldn't have elevated the Dragon Shadow to such an abnormal level of power!
Coupled with that ghostly speed!
It meant that Shengyan Zhenyu, the Phoenix Heaven War God, couldn't even land a single solid hit on his opponent!
Enraged, Shengyan Zhenyu spurred his Battle Qi further, and the Kaitian Great Sword suddenly swept out a massive circle!
The profound Battle Qi energy instantly traced a protective shield around his entire body!
Bang, rumble, rumble, rumble!
The six Dragon Shadows struck this shield simultaneously!
Then, they immediately exploded!
Muffled roars echoed through the sky once more!
And Shengyan Zhenyu, at the center of the explosion, was shaken so violently he almost spat blood!
From start to finish, he hadn't even touched the corner of his opponent's clothes! Yet, he was battered and utterly humiliated by the nine elusive Dragon Shadows! Until this day, Shengyan Zhenyu, as the Phoenix Heaven War God, had never been so wretchedly defeated!
If not for the astonishing defense of the Phoenix Heaven Demonic Armor,
If not for Shengyan Zhenyu's lightning-fast reaction!
If not for the Phoenix Heaven Protective Battle Qi! That formidable defensive power!
The mere power of the nine Dragon Shadows was enough to blast him to pieces!
He never imagined that, apart from a Phoenix Heaven War God of equal rank, there could be such a troublesome opponent in this world!
Finally! After enduring the explosion shockwave of the nine Dragon Shadows!
Before he could even catch his breath!
A sharp whistle sounded again directly above him, accompanied by a suffocating, chilling sense of pressure!
He looked up!
Beneath the gloomy sky, countless dazzling pinpricks of light appeared! The world instantly transformed into a dim, hazy, starry night! Even more astonishingly, these specks of starlight were rapidly descending at incredible speed, as if all the stars in the night sky were falling to earth in that single moment!
Indescribably strange, beautifully brilliant! Like countless comets entering the atmosphere, trailing long tails, yet carrying an impact force capable of destroying heaven and earth as they slammed into the ground at amazing speed!
Crashing toward Shengyan Zhenyu!
"Ah! It's Starfall Nine Heavens!"