105: God's heart collapses, the power of the twelfth level

The earth-shattering cries of battle almost overturned the sky of Panshi City.

Through the massive breach in the East City Gate, the iron torrent of Infinite City’s army continuously poured in, clashing with the Panshi City defenders who had rushed to the scene.

Led by Huo Jun, the Azure Thunder Dragon Riders transformed into streaks of lightning tearing through the sky; each dive was accompanied by the collapse and wails of large numbers of enemy soldiers.

Above, the fierce battle between Bai Xiao and Shi Potian had reached a fever pitch.

Each collision of sword and broadsword unleashed destructive energy impacts, causing the battlefield below to tremble.

However, as Infinite City's main forces continuously joined the fray, especially the thousands of Azure Lightning Cavalry Guard, who, under the 'Swallow Step' characteristic of Huo Jun's 'Vast Sea Cloud Banner' aura, gained temporary low-altitude dashing ability, they became like thunderous whirlwinds, breaking into the flanks of the Panshi City defenders from all directions.

The Panshi City defenders' line of defense was crumbling at a visible rate.

Shi Potian's crimson eyes swept over the steadily retreating army below, a wave of unwillingness surging in his heart.

He could clearly sense that Panshi City, which he had personally built, was heading towards destruction.

Was his century-long revenge to fail at this very moment?

“Panshi City… my Panshi City…” Shi Potian murmured, his voice filled with pain.

He gazed at the Panshi City below, now engulfed in a sea of fire and chaos, as if it were a re-enactment of a hundred years ago.

“Why… why can’t even the last chance be given to me…” His voice became hoarse, filled with despair.

Suddenly, he seemed to have made a certain decision; the pain and sorrow in his eyes were replaced by a deathly calm.

“Since everything is irreversible, then let all of you be buried with my wife, my children, and my clansmen!” Shi Potian roared to the sky, his voice full of resolve.

In his chest, the blood-red heart that had fused with him began to beat violently at an unprecedented frequency.

More profound and sinister blood-red patterns spread from his heart, instantly covering his entire heavy armor, and even penetrating into his skin.

“All of you… must die!”

Shi Potian abruptly lowered his head, his blood-red gaze fixed on Bai Xiao, and further away, on Su Jin and others.

“With my broken body, I sacrifice the heart of god!” He let out an earth-shattering roar.

“Boom—!!!”

An indescribably terrifying energy fluctuation suddenly erupted from within Shi Potian!

That power, far exceeding any previous instance, carried an aura of world-shattering destruction, spreading wildly in all directions!

The blood-red heart in his chest, at this moment, seemed to transform into a miniature blood-red sun, radiating billions of rays of blood light.

“Hm?” Su Jin’s expression in the distance turned somewhat solemn; he could clearly perceive the essence of that power.

Shi Potian was sacrificing himself for this temporary burst of power!

“He’s going to collapse that ‘heart of god’!” Bai Xiao, at this moment, also felt a fatal sense of crisis.

Although that ‘heart of god’ was originally strange, its power release was still within a controllable range.

But now, Shi Potian was clearly going to detonate it completely, drawing out its most fundamental and violent power!

In the sky, the energy turbulence that had gathered due to their battle was now stirred by an invisible giant hand, forming a massive blood-red vortex.

And the center of the vortex was Shi Potian!

His body began to undergo a bizarre transformation.

His originally burly physique, enveloped in blood light, began to grow taller inch by inch, muscles bulging, his heavy armor groaning under the strain, then peeling off and disintegrating in pieces with a harsh metallic shattering sound.

In its place was a blood-red chitinous layer, seemingly composed of pure blood energy, covered with strange demonic patterns.

His face became ferocious, his eyes completely transformed into two burning blood-red abysses, and even a pair of curved, demon-horn-like blood-red bone spurs grew on his head.

“Roar—!!!”

Shi Potian let out an inhuman roar; the pressure contained within the sound wave made both the Infinite City army and the remaining Panshi City forces below feel a shiver originating from their souls, with weaker individuals even collapsing to the ground, bleeding from their seven orifices.

His aura, at this moment, surged wildly!

Peak Tenth Order… Eleventh Order!

The bottleneck was torn apart as easily as thin paper!

Mid-Eleventh Order… Late-Eleventh Order…

His aura continued to climb!

Peak Eleventh Order!

Then, under the augmentation of an even more immense power, Shi Potian’s rank steadily stepped into—

Twelfth Order!!!

Although it was only temporary, a fleeting glory bought at the cost of completely collapsing the ‘heart of god’ and burning his entire being, that power was genuinely Twelfth Order!

In Woma World, within the known rank divisions, Tenth Order was already considered a powerful individual, the mark of a gold-tier unit.

Eleventh Order was already a legendary realm, something ordinary people could hardly hope to achieve in a lifetime.

And Twelfth Order was the strongest beneath the legendary!

Although the ‘heart of god’ that Shi Potian had collapsed was an incomplete item that had not fully recovered and had suffered successive heavy blows, far from reaching its designed perfect state capable of rivaling a legend, the power it unleashed at this moment was enough to crush all Tenth Order beings!

Blood-red energy erupted from Shi Potian like a tsunami, instantly sweeping across the sky for several thousand meters, completely suppressing and devouring Bai Xiao’s platinum flames from his ‘God Liberation’ state!

The sky, at this moment, had completely turned blood-red!

“This… this is…” On the ground, both the soldiers of Infinite City and the remaining troops of Panshi City looked up in horror at the figure in the sky, resembling a demon god descended, feeling that suffocating, terrifying pressure; for a moment, they even forgot to fight.

“Twelfth Order… he actually did it…” Su Jin exclaimed with some admiration.

Although he knew the ‘heart of god’ was strange, he hadn’t expected Shi Potian to be able to forcefully elevate himself to such a terrifying realm in this manner.

He wondered if Bai Xiao could handle it; if not, he might have to intervene himself.

Violent blood-red energy raged in the sky, and space groaned under the strain of this power.

Bai Xiao hovered in mid-air, bearing the brunt of that terrifying pressure.

He could feel that the opponent’s life level had completely surpassed his own.

“Evil demons from beyond… today is your doomsday!”

Shi Potian, or rather, the “Blood-red Demon God” that could no longer be fully called Shi Potian, slowly raised his arm, and a grotesque greatsword, completely condensed from blood energy and over ten meters long, formed in his hand.

The sword pointed directly at Bai Xiao!

That locked-on sensation made every cell in Bai Xiao’s body scream with frantic warnings of danger.

“The God Liberation state cannot make up for such a huge difference in rank,” Bai Xiao understood in his heart.

He slowly closed his eyes, the platinum flames on him flickering stubbornly under the blood-red pressure.

Since the enemy had already stepped into a higher realm…

Then he, too, had only one choice…

To break through!