Zhan Lunhui’s inky black long hair whipped wildly in the air, resembling strands of deep-sea kelp caught in a tsunami. His eyes flashed like lightning and thunder, his face utterly devoid of expression, yet a suffocating aura of wanton cruelty suddenly erupted from his entire being!
His nearly naked body was adorned with only a few scraps of cloth. Such a state should have made him look utterly wretched, but at this moment, Zhan Lunhui somehow exuded a magnificent grandeur, as if a celestial being had descended. This transcendent aura, both divine and demonic, expanded across the heavens and earth in less time than it takes to blink ten times!
Yet, within every inch of space for ten thousand li around, this supremely savage energy saturated everything!
"Since you push me so hard, forcing a confrontation, this old man must let you taste a real blow, to understand that there are always stronger men, and heavens beyond the heavens..." Zhan Lunhui let out a cold chuckle, his body suddenly twisting. A tornado instantly formed beneath his feet, erupting from the earth like a primal dragon, instantaneously spanning the firmament and sweeping up everything in its path!
As the vortex rose, a surge of cyan-blue energy exploded outward from Zhan Lunhui. Suddenly, millions of phantom images of Zhan Lunhui materialized between heaven and earth simultaneously!
“It’s the Heaven-Raging Dragon Kill! Retreat quickly!” Gu Han’s face drastically changed, and he hastily called out.
The Heaven-Raging Dragon Kill was Zhan Lunhui’s signature technique from his time as Zhan Kuang!
The might of this move was said to be unparalleled. Zhan Lunhui had once used it to fight the Nine Nether Young Masters and gained overwhelming advantage!
The greatest power of this technique lay in its ability to spawn countless spatial rifts within the area where he attacked. Any blow landed, regardless of which spatial rift one fell into, meant an irreversible doom!
Even existences whose power surpassed Zhan Lunhui’s might suffer if they rashly encountered this technique!
Back when Zhan Lunhui was still Zhan Kuang, this move was classified as an absolute forbidden strike!
This technique was Zhan Kuang’s ultimate, decisive killing move!
The “Ninth Nether Fourteenth Young Master” currently engaging Zhan Lunhui, while an enemy of the Three Great Sacred Lands, had inadvertently saved the members of the Celestial Saint Palace by intercepting Zhan Lunhui, allowing them to successfully form an encirclement. In this regard, the Celestial Saint Palace members undoubtedly owed him a great debt!
Thus, Gu Han could not stand by!
The colossal tornado conjured by Zhan Lunhui suddenly exploded in the next instant!
The countless specks of light created by the explosion instantly morphed into legions of pitch-black spatial rifts across the entire expanse affected by the blast! They pulsed with an aura of death and utter destruction!
Concurrently, the myriad phantom images of Zhan Lunhui formed earlier surged outward, launching indiscriminate, chaotic attacks from every conceivable direction—above, below, front, and back!
The coverage area was exceptionally vast, encompassing the hundred zhang radius where the Blood of Yan Huang and the Nine Nether Cold Blade manifested!
Zhan Lunhui’s objective was simple: anyone within this range was fated to be unable to escape this wave of assault, no matter what! No one could attack from a hundred zhang away while maintaining such agility!
Not even Miao Qingcheng could manage it!
If anyone could achieve such a feat, they wouldn’t be human, but a god!
As long as he remained human, escape from the range of Zhan Lunhui’s attack was impossible!
The moment a target’s location was locked, no matter how well they concealed themselves, all attacks would focus and converge!
A deafening explosion! Innumerable streams of violent energy shot out in all directions.
Even the encirclement formed by Gu Han and the other experts from the Three Great Sacred Lands was violently buffeted by the edges of this attack’s immense power, forcing them to scatter far away.
And indeed, those two swords vanished completely in that instant!
Zhan Lunhui, still looking utterly ravaged, stood proudly in the exact center. As his divine sense swept across the space spanning hundreds of zhang, the corner of his mouth curled into a faint smile. It was the satisfied smile of a victor!
This attack largely achieved its intended purpose. Although it failed to completely annihilate the Ninth Nether Fourteenth Young Master, it had, for the moment, broken the entanglement of those two bizarre long swords, and moreover, the strike had completely shattered the encirclement network set up by the Celestial Saint Palace forces. His hope of escaping confinement had greatly increased—once free, all other problems would resolve themselves!
The tornado generated by the "Heaven-Raging Dragon Kill" technique continued to rage fiercely across the land. After a short while, it slowly gathered, transforming into a pale gray, swimming dragon circling around Zhan Lunhui, twisting up and down. Yet, Zhan Lunhui’s body, standing tall in the void, remained perfectly distinct. His nearly naked form showed no trace of wretchedness at this moment, only endless severity and a majestic dominance looking down upon the world!
His eyes swept over Gu Han and the others with cold indifference. Without uttering a word, he turned his gaze away.
Only then did the pitch-black spatial rifts created by the Heaven-Raging Dragon Kill technique quietly seal themselves, restoring the clear daylight that existed beneath the volcanic eruption!
That single move, the Heaven-Raging Dragon Kill, had managed to shield everything in this world!
Truly a near-divine technique of legend!
Gu Han and the other high-level experts of the Celestial Saint Palace all looked ashen-faced!
They had all heard legends of how formidable and powerful Zhan Kuang was, but they never imagined he could be this terrifyingly strong! Zhan Lunhui’s might had clearly reached a level that shook the ages!
If this Heaven-Raging Dragon Kill had been unleashed against them, perhaps only a select two or three individuals could have narrowly escaped; everyone else would have been lost in the spatial turbulence—a near total annihilation!
And Zhan Lunhui’s indifferent glance just now, though silent, carried an undeniable warning and deterrence!
Facing this arch-enemy, after mobilizing so many forces, they were powerless to restrain him!
Zhan Lunhui’s current state clearly indicated he still held reserves of energy, fully capable of executing another Heaven-Raging Dragon Kill!
Even the Ninth Nether Fourteenth Young Master, who had recently forced Zhan Lunhui into an absolute disadvantage single-handedly, had now vanished into smoke! Those two divine swords whose radiance could illuminate all ages were now nullified. How could their side possibly contend with such a formidable foe?
Even with the will to fight to the death, it would be futile!
In the distance, the volcano continued to rumble, spitting out tongues of fire and molten rock. The terrifying consequences wrought by Zhan Lunhui persisted, but everyone felt an inexplicable, profound sense of powerlessness toward him!
Zhan Lunhui let out a cold laugh, hands clasped behind his back, and slowly floated forward!
Gu Han trembled! Fierce, scorching light erupted from his eyes!
It was the determination for a final, desperate, all-or-nothing gamble!
Zhan Lunhui’s recent cold laugh had ignited every drop of hot blood within him!
“Kill! Even if we perish together with this wretch, we must never let him go so easily…” Gu Han’s teeth ground together in rage, and he roared, throwing up his arm!
“Kill…” A massive shout shook the heavens!
More than fifty top-tier experts charged toward Zhan Lunhui without regard for their own lives!
Zhan Lunhui’s cold laughter never ceased. Spreading his hands wide, a sphere of inky black light slowly began to form in his palm. His long hair suddenly flew backward, his eyes gleaming with savage light, and he roared: “Since you Three Great Sacred Lands insist on leaving no room for retreat and courting your own demise, then I, Zhan, shall grant your wish! Anyway, your younger generations are almost entirely wiped out in this great calamity! I shall send you all to reunite! Hahaha…”
Just as he was about to strike…
A variable reappeared, catching every single person present by surprise!
Brilliant sword light flashed once more—the same magnificent, mountain-like dazzling sword light reappeared. This strike was committed, never to be recalled!
Carrying an indescribable splendor and a resolute, profound intensity, the divine sword strike, moving like a thundering meteor, accurately pierced Zhan Lunhui’s chest! It also coincidentally shattered the nearly formed sphere of light in his palm!
Zhan Lunhui bellowed!
But this sword showed no hesitation, continuing to push forward with immense, crushing force!
In that instant, Zhan Lunhui focused all his profound energy onto his chest. The long sword, having penetrated only three cun into his flesh, was immediately checked by his fiercely counter-attacking, thick vital energy, unable to advance another fraction of an inch! However, Zhan Lunhui’s entire body, unable to resist such tremendous thrust, was forced to arch backward, his spine protruding outward!
His head and feet were now aligned on the same horizontal plane!
Under the ferocious impact of this one-way, unstoppable sword strike, he recoiled backward with the speed of a comet chasing the moon!
Mid-air, a sword emitting ten thousand beams of cold light propelled a human body in rapid retreat! In this moment, both the sword and the person radiated myriad rays of light!
With a resounding thud—a master from the Celestial Saint Palace behind him, both man and sword, struck Zhan Lunhui squarely on the back. In a burst of sound, he was instantly pulverized into a mist of gore. His sword, too, disintegrated into a shower of iron filings, flashing briefly in the air before vanishing without a trace!
Such a completely undefended vulnerability, instead of proving lethal, seemed to become a sharp tool capable of destroying the enemy?
Zhan Lunhui’s mastery had truly reached an unimaginable height!
Zhan Lunhui suddenly let out a heaven-shaking roar! He tried desperately to stabilize his rapidly retreating body. But being suspended in mid-air, although he could barely prevent the sword, which possessed a god-like or demonic power, from piercing him completely, he had nowhere to brace against, and ultimately could not resist the attack’s overwhelmingly fierce momentum!
Gu Han’s eyes lit up. Disregarding the fact that a companion had just paid with his life for rashly intervening, he guided his long sword, flashing like a meteor, arriving slightly later but striking first. With a mighty roar, he stabbed his sword into Zhan Lunhui’s sternum as well!
Similarly, the goal was not to kill, but merely to push him back!
In that instant, Gu Han grasped the intention of the “Ninth Nether Fourteenth Young Master”: with Zhan Lunhui’s profound mastery, he had reached a level where mortal power could not kill him! To end him, only an alternative path remained, and currently, there was only one way to make Zhan Lunhui perish—
That was to drive this entire scoundrel directly into the heart of the volcano!
The volcano opened because of you, Zhan Lunhui; therefore, you shall be buried by the volcano!
Pushed by two successive immense forces, Zhan Lunhui gradually neared a volcanic crater. His eyes seemed ready to spew fire, as if intending to burn the world! But under these circumstances, he had already lost the initiative, and having already gathered the near-divine power of the Heaven-Raging Dragon Kill twice, trying to launch another strike now meant he was willing but unable; this was precisely his most vulnerable moment!
He was completely unable to free his hands to counter-attack!