I had long suspected my opponent was that Nine Luminaries Divine True Man, yet only now, seeing it with my own eyes, was I confronted by the terror of his legendary ultimate skill!
Even Shengyan Zhenyu couldn't help but gasp in shock!
If he took a direct hit, even protected by the Phoenix Heaven Demon Armor, he would certainly be smashed to dust!
Yet, Shengyan Zhenyu knew even more clearly that there was no escaping this move! That piercing killing intent had already firmly locked onto his very spirit!
Is this truly just a Heavenly Demon Warrior? If he wore the Phoenix Heaven Demon Armor with this level of cultivation, could I still be his match?!
Facing such peerless swordplay, footwork, and speed, evasion was completely useless!
The only option was to meet it head-on!
Yes! When strength reaches this level of confrontation, it becomes a contest of spirit and will, a deeper, more subtle realm of intent that allows for not a sliver of hesitation or doubt!
One must absolutely not think of fleeing, for any trace of cowardice would instantly cause the opponent's spiritual power to crush one's own!
Techniques, footwork, and speed held no special meaning at this moment; the only things of use were mental resolve and raw power!
Likewise, the dignity of a Phoenix Heaven Warrior forbade any hint of retreat!
A God of War never shied away from a direct challenge!
"Heaven and Earth Split." The Phoenix Heaven Dou Qi was instantly raised to its limit, and because of the astonishing Dou Qi energy, the Heaven-Splitting Greatsword condensed into a gigantic Dou Qi greatsword spanning fifteen meters!
The terrifying purple sword aura seemed to writhe back and forth, entwined with countless streams of purple electric light, emitting a faint crackling sound!
It then cleaved down toward the World-Ending Comet plunging from the nine heavens!
This single sword strike pierced the sun and moon, slicing through the clouds! A simple upward chop felt capable of cleaving the entire sky apart!
"Ah! What powerful sword energy!"
Even from afar, the crowd in the alley felt the earth-shattering, overwhelming momentum!
Meanwhile, Nine Luminaries Chongyang and the others, the moment the Nine Luminaries Divine True Man made his move, had already dragged the corpses of Shengyan Zhenxiong and Shengyan Zhenhe and fled the plaza!
Indeed, the battle that followed was no stage for them to participate in!
At this moment, the only thing they could do was stare intently at the figure plummeting from the sky!
"Roar!"
The giant greatsword soaring up finally collided with the World-Ending Comet smashing down!
Boom!
At the instant of impact!
A blinding flash of light suddenly erupted!
The entire sky was illuminated in a brilliant, piercing light that forced everyone to shut their eyes.
Like an exploding sun, countless shards of brilliant light scattered, slamming onto the ground and then exploding into numerous pits, large and small!
Accompanying this was!
Clang, clang, clang!
Countless muffled roars!
The colossal Dou Qi greatsword moved like a serpentine dragon of sword energy, whipping up and down!
With incredible speed and accuracy, every single falling speck was instantly struck and annihilated in an explosion!
The entire space was swept over by the deafening roar of these countless explosions!
However, the specks of light raining down came in wave after wave, surge after surge!
Endless and ceaseless, as if they would never stop!
Yet, the dragon of sword energy in Shengyan Zhenyu's hand showed no pause, no weakening in its aura! It continued to whip up and down relentlessly!
From beginning to end, not a single star-thunderbolt falling from the sky managed to break through the dragon's defense and strike the ground!
The continuous roaring finally ceased!
As if the clouds had gathered and the rain dispersed!
No one knew how many star-thunderbolts Shengyan Zhenyu blocked in that instant!
Nor how much terrifying power each star-thunderbolt contained, but the entire plaza was already unrecognizable.
The hard bluestone floor had been pulverized by the violent Dou Qi explosions, turning into a desert of uneven craters!
But in the very moment the starry rain dissipated! Nine strange streams of light! Appeared out of thin air!
These were precisely the nine elusive Dragon Shadows!
No one saw how these nine Dragon Shadows materialized, because their speed was too great!
Even Nine Luminaries Chongyang and the others, possessing the Eye of Death's Desire, could not see clearly!
The sudden Dragon Shadows!
Did not disrupt Shengyan Zhenyu’s stance!
He didn't even attempt a basic dodge!
With a simple spin, the dragon of sword energy sweeping from the Heaven-Splitting Greatsword was once again whirled into a vast circle!
Thick Phoenix Heaven Dou Qi instantly formed a massive Dou Qi defensive barrier!
Boom! Clang! Rumble!
The nine Dragon Shadows once again struck this pervasive defensive barrier without any flourish!
And then exploded!
However, Shengyan Zhenyu, at the center of the explosion, remained completely unmoved!
Faced with the defensive barrier erected by the Phoenix Heaven Dou Qi pushed to its absolute limit, even the terrifying explosive force of the Dragon Shadow Cannon proved ineffective!
In the face of absolute power, all skills and techniques were futile!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
A series of muffled impacts sent a thrill of uncontrollable surging blood through everyone present, leaving them extremely uncomfortable, feeling as if their bodies were about to explode at any moment!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Amidst the violent explosions! The nine Dragon Shadows simultaneously recoiled with lightning speed and shot high into the sky! Under the gloomy sky, they trailed nine strange ribbons of light! Gorgeous, dazzling, and striking!
"Ah!" Everyone couldn't help but cry out in amazement!
"That's the Nine Heavens Star River Sword Technique!" Tong Lei and the others were almost stunned: "And a combined attack with the Dragon Shadow Sword Technique."
"So he really learned the Nine Heavens Star River Sword Technique," Yun Xi whispered, trembling: "I thought it was just a legend; I didn't expect it to be real!"
"Isn't that Blood Tiger Luo Jiang's ultimate skill?"
"How could this be? Did he learn it just by watching it once?" Feng Qingtian was even more aghast: "Is this guy even human?"
"Learned it after seeing it once," Qing Long murmured: "How is that possible."
The fierce battle raged on!
The moment the nine Dragon Shadows were repelled upwards!
The figure plummeting from the sky finally descended toward Shengyan Zhenyu's head!
Then, a blue light flashed!
A sword!
Just one strike! A sword light of profound blue!
Utterly rigid and fierce, fantastically unpredictable, this single strike seemed to lock down every inch of the surrounding space! Assaulting every flaw! Even more astonishing was this sword's terrifying speed! And its unparalleled impact force and penetration!
Even Shengyan Zhenyu, possessing the Phantom Demon Eye, could barely capture a vague, blurred afterimage!
This one strike was the true killing blow!
The preceding starry bombardment, and even the elusive nine Dragon Shadows, were all designed to restrain Shengyan Zhenyu's movement, exhaust his power, and numb his spirit!
This following strike arrived precisely when Shengyan Zhenyu's momentum faltered, his previous move ended, his old strength spent, and his new strength not yet born!
The position was the most difficult to defend: directly overhead!
In terms of speed, angle, and force, it was a perfect strike! Even with the protection of the Phoenix Heaven Body plus the defense of the Phoenix Heaven Demon Armor, it could not withstand this sword's penetration!
"Magnificent sword technique!" Even his opponent, Shengyan Zhenyu, couldn't help but admire and be captivated by this exquisitely perfect sword move!
At the same time, it ignited Shengyan Zhenyu's fighting spirit!
"But, it's not enough." With a furious roar, the Phoenix Heaven Dou Qi, which had been circulating to its limit, suddenly burst open. The Heaven-Splitting Greatsword, which had been gradually dimming, erupted in another dazzling light!
Then it instantly rotated into a halo of light, slashing toward this appearance-out-of-nowhere strike!
Clang! Rumble! A muffled roar, accompanied by a blinding flash of light!
The Heaven-Splitting Greatsword, with miraculous skill, struck this seemingly inevitable sword strike!
Not only that, but the incomparably violent impact force sent the Nine Luminaries Divine True Man, weapon and all, flying far away!
However, the flying golden afterimage seemed to have absolutely no weight!
Completely defying the physical laws of potential and kinetic energy!
The moment he flew out, the Heavenly Demon Wings on the back of the Demon Armor instantly unfolded! Like an eagle spreading its wings in flight! He traced a faint arc in mid-air, then whoosh, shot back high into the sky!
Moreover, after reaching the apex of his ascent! He retracted the Heavenly Demon Wings!
His dreamlike figure abruptly executed an aerial reversal, flying back toward the ground!
"Then take this one! Chaotic Stone Nebula!" A fierce shout echoed from mid-air!
The golden figure erupted again in a dazzling burst of colorful light!
Like an exploding sun, countless brilliant lights scattered outwards!
Under the gloomy sky, that bizarre and unpredictable night sky reappeared! It seemed no different from the previous Nine Heavens Star Fall!
The sky full of starlight once again rained down upon the world! As if the entire night sky, the entire galaxy, was smashing down at this very moment!
Indescribably strange, brilliant, and dazzling!
But this rapidly falling starlight was completely different from before! It seemed to follow a strange spiral trajectory, circling downward! The myriad lights transformed into a single, incomparably vast vortex of starlight!
The entire world was pulled and drawn by the immense vortex's gravitational force, beginning to spin and vibrate! Everyone felt a dull aura, as if the end of the world had arrived!
"It's the Chaotic Stone Nebula," Feng Qingtian exclaimed in horror: "The second move of the Nine Heavens Star River Sword Technique." Many present had witnessed the power of this move!
They recalled the duel between Blood Tiger Luo Jiang and Silver Demon Jidu, which many had seen firsthand! That earth-shattering battle was still deeply etched in everyone's minds!
But the same technique, executed by this Star figure now, appeared even more terrifying and astonishing! He was undoubtedly a hundred times stronger than Luo Jiang was back then!
"My God, is this what a God of War level duel looks like?"
"Too astonishing."
"The second move?" Shengyan Zhenyu, completely undaunted, poured vigorous Phoenix Heaven Dou Qi into the Heaven-Splitting Greatsword once more! It transformed again into that fifteen-meter-long giant Dou Qi greatsword!
He adopted a posture most suitable for a mighty cleave!
"Then come!" Shengyan Zhenyu's grim gaze locked onto the swirling vortex of the nebula! He also paid close attention to the nine indistinct, flickering nine-colored streams of light hidden in the center of the vortex!
By instinct, Shengyan Zhenyu knew that the power contained within these nine Dragon Shadows was definitely much greater than before!
And behind the nine Dragon Shadows was the true body of the Nine Luminaries Divine True Man, descending straight down—the true killer move of the Chaotic Stone Nebula!
The Chaotic Stone Nebula was inherently infinitely powerful, but now it fused with those nine elusive and unpredictable mutated Dragon Shadows! Plus the main body attack of the Nine Luminaries Divine True Man!
This downward strike from the heavens was divided into three stages: endlessly variable and profoundly subtle!
This was the true horror of the Nine Luminaries Divine True Man!
In the martial arts common sense of the Mafa Continent, the most taboo thing was being airborne!
Because when a person is airborne! The body cannot borrow external force, and therefore cannot change movement or adjust posture, nor can it utilize the power of the entire body!
Although masters above the Heavy Armor level could alter their flight trajectory using the Heavenly Demon Wings of the Heavenly Demon Armor, the Thunder Wings of the Thunder Armor, or the Phoenix Wings of the Phoenix Heaven Demon Armor, even in that state, they still could not mobilize the power of their entire being!
Consequently, even Shengyan Zhenyu, a Phoenix Heaven God of War, dared not easily lose balance and allow himself to hover suspended in the air!
But these common notions were completely overturned by the Nine Luminaries Divine True Man.
This man could adjust his form even while suspended in the air, and even more terrifyingly, his masterful Dragon Shadows allowed the airborne Nine Luminaries Divine True Man to truly utilize the power of the shadows, achieving movement as if walking on solid ground, "treading clouds as if treading flat earth." Coupled with the fact that the Nine Heavens Star River Sword Technique was inherently a powerful killing move designed to attack the ground from high altitude!
Now that the Nine Luminaries Divine True Man had mastered both! What kind of power would the fusion of these two ultimate skills unleash!
Thinking of this!
Even Shengyan Zhenyu, a Phoenix Heaven God of War, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, his whole body trembling!
But what followed was an almost maniacal excitement and agitation!
Since becoming a Phoenix Heaven God of War!
It had been a long time since he felt such life-and-death tension and pressure!
Unexpectedly, facing the heavily armored Nine Luminaries Divine True Man now, that long-lost, feverish, desperate madness resurfaced! His entire being was utterly ignited! The Phoenix Heaven Dou Qi circulating at its limit surged again!
The purple Dou Qi greatsword transformed into a giant Fire Phoenix spreading its wings as if ready to fly! Its astonishing aura surged madly, seemingly without a ceiling!
"Raging Fire Upholds Heaven!" At this moment, the second move of the Sun-Chasing Sword Technique, Raging Fire Upholds Heaven, was unleashed! It rushed toward the swirling downward nebula vortex!
Clang! Rumble!
Another head-on collision without any tricks!
The colossal Fire Phoenix, obscuring the sun and sky, instantly smashed into the starry cloud mass! It whipped up and down at astonishing speed, charging left and right!
Indescribably swift and agile, indescribably fluid and ethereal!
And with every charge and sweep of the Fire Phoenix, waves of incomparably dazzling light explosions erupted!
The entire sky, in that instant, seemed to be burning with boundless flames!
"That is the second move of the Sun-Chasing Sword Technique, Raging Fire Upholds Heaven." Nine Luminaries Chongyang was utterly horrified!
"Your Highness!" Yueyao and the others could only desperately grip the stone pillars beside them, watching the scene on the field with intense tension!
"He must hold on!"
Even those far away felt their Qi Seas churning from the terrifying aura, showing just how terrifying the power of this move was!
It was hard to imagine how the Nine Luminaries Divine True Man, situated in the center of it, would endure this move!