236: Tianyu Goddess, Yu Nishang

In the deep pit at the edge of the battle platform, Zhan Qiong's figure was revealed. The hideous bone armor covering his body was riddled with cracks, dull and lusterless, like broken pottery. The Blood-dripping Demon Halberd was broken into several pieces and scattered nearby. He knelt on one knee, one hand supporting himself on the ground, the other clutching desperately at his chest. Dark golden blood continuously seeped through his fingers, mixed with emerald green Vitality light spots and gray, desolate deathly ice shards.

He gasped violently, each breath accompanied by the agony of shattering bones. His helmet was long gone, revealing a face twisted by intense pain and severe Origin damage. The look he directed at Lin Yuan was filled with bone-deep terror, incomprehensible fear, and... a trace of despair from having his Dao Heart crushed.

He didn't die. Lin Yuan's final strike, “Origin Burial,” destroyed the Origin of his Asura Demonic Heart and crippled the Foundation of his Myriad Calamity Asura Dao, but spared his life. Yet, this brought Zhan Qiong more humiliation and fear than death itself.

Lin Yuan glanced indifferently at the dispirited Zhan Qiong, who resembled a cripple, before casting his gaze toward the depths of the Chaos Void Realm, as if what he had just crushed was not the renowned Saint of the War Demon Hall, but merely an irritating speck of dust.

The Chaos Arena once again fell into a suffocating silence. All spectators, whether the Leaders of other battle zones or the Prodigies on the floating Viewing Platforms, felt as if an invisible giant hand had seized their throats, their very thoughts seemingly frozen.

Above the Ten Thousand Zang Star Stele, the name “Zhan Qiong” completely dimmed and shattered, like a stain being wiped away. Meanwhile, the two characters “Lin Yuan” erupted with an unprecedented, blazing golden light that seemed intent on piercing the Chaos Void Realm!

“Even Zhan Qiong... was annihilated by a single finger... This child is no longer an opponent for the Feather Transformation Realm!” Another Prodigy, who carried a Star Chart Scroll on his back, turned pale and subconsciously tightened his grip on the Magical Artifact in his hand.

“Who... whose successor is he?!” Countless pairs of eyes stared intently at the illusory Green Lotus atop the Star Stele, and the name beneath the Green Lotus that seemed branded onto Chaos itself.

Spatial fluctuations descended again. This time, the Power of Transportation carried an indescribable sense of nobility and heat, like billions of invisible Phoenix feathers gently brushing past. Lin Yuan's figure vanished from his spot, and the next moment, he appeared on the Ultimate Battle Platform—the most central and highest platform in the Chaos Arena.

This battle platform was different from the others. It was entirely constructed from a semi-transparent Glazed Divine Crystal that flowed with seven-colored radiance, looking like solidified rainbows. Beneath the platform was not the Void Realm, but slowly rotating, boiling, and roaring Chaos Nebula! Within the Nebula, countless stars were born and extinguished, rising and falling, emitting vast and majestic Origin Qi. An invisible great power surged from the Nebula, reinforcing the platform and forming a stable Spatial Barrier ten times stronger than those in the outer areas.

At the other end of the battle platform, a figure quietly floated.

The Heavenly Feather Goddess, Yu Nishang, the current Goddess of the Yu Clan, who possesses the Awakening of the Ancient Divine Phoenix Bloodline, is an unparalleled Prodigy from the Yu Clan—the most powerful of the Ancient Clans in the Heavenly Feather God Domain!

She wore a Feather Robe flowing with nine-colored radiance. Every plume seemed forged from the purest starlight essence and divine fire, scattering brilliant star dust with every gentle sway. Her face was shrouded in a layer of hazy nine-colored divine light, with only a pair of Phoenix eyes clearly visible. Within her eyes, billions of stars seemed to revolve, and the eternal, inextinguishable Divine Phoenix True Fire appeared to burn quietly. Most heart-stopping were the Divine Wings stretching out behind her—not physical, but condensed from pure Law and divinity. The left wing flowed with starlight as deep as the Universe, and the right wing burned with Nine-colored Divine Flames that could incinerate all things! Every slight flap of the Divine Wings caused the Chaos Nebula below to ebb and flow like a tide, emitting a low roar like the pulse of the Universe.

“Lin Yuan.” Yu Nishang's voice was ethereal and majestic, like the Immortal Music of the Nine Heavens, yet carried the indifference of a Divine Phoenix looking down upon all living beings. “Your path ends here.”

She didn't even wait for the Referee to announce the start. The moment her voice fell, the right wing behind her, which was burning with Nine-colored Divine Flames, fiercely flapped forward!

“Divine Phoenix True Flame: Universe Incineration!”

Boom—!!!

It was no longer mere fire, but a torrent of Law! A raging wave composed of nine distinct yet perfectly fused World-destroying Divine Flames instantly swept across the entire Ten Thousand Zang Glazed Battle Platform! Blood-red, melting stars; brilliant gold, purifying all methods; deep blue, freezing space-time; emerald green, corroding Divine Souls... The Nine-colored Divine Flames were not a simple superposition of energy, but formed an ultimate Domain that burned all Dao and extinguished space-time! Space silently annihilated within the flames, time was scorched, twisted, and broken, and even the surging Chaos Nebula below seemed about to be ignited by the Divine Flames!

The might of this strike far surpassed Ice Without Absolute's Eternal Calamity Ice Coffin and Zhan Qiong's Myriad Calamity Asura Dao! This was the supreme True Flame of the Divine Phoenix Bloodline, a forbidden power capable of incinerating a Small World! Even before the flames reached him, the terrifying high temperature and Law suppression that annihilated all things were enough to turn ordinary Hunyuan Realm experts into ashes!

“Nine-colored Divine Phoenix True Flame! Yu Nishang used the Power of Bloodline Origin right from the start!”

“It's over! No matter how strong Lin Yuan is, if he's engulfed by the Universe Incineration Divine Flames, he's definitely dead!” A chorus of gasps, laced with tones of despair, echoed through the Viewing Area.

Facing this nine-colored sea of fire that could incinerate the Universe, the Glazed Chaos Heart Light in Lin Yuan's eyes flickered slightly, revealing a hint of... solemnity? But that was all.

“Life and Death Wheel: Myriad Laws Annihilation!”

He rapidly Formed Seals with his hands before his chest, and the Chaos Fearless Dao Heart deep within his Sea of Consciousness pounded loudly! This was no longer an outburst of Chaos great power, but a force condensed purely from the Origin Spell, the Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel, combined with the Origin of the Great Dao of Life and Death, surging forth!

Buzz—!

The Vitality in his left eye was vast like the birth of the Universe, and the emerald divine light transformed into a surging Life Torrent; the deathly silence and decay in his right eye was like the end of all things, the gray Death Qi condensing into a deep Netherworld Abyss! These two diametrically opposed supreme powers spun and merged wildly before him, instantly transforming into a massive, slowly rotating disc thousand zhang in diameter!

The left half of the disc was full of Vitality, evolving illusory images of countless Wild Divine Trees, Exotic Flowers and Grasses, and surging rivers, dripping with emerald green, radiating the majestic great power that nourished all things. The right half was silent and gray with decay, with mountains of white bones, wailing souls, and the River of the Underworld flowing, permeated by the power of decay that froze space-time! In the center of the disc, a slowly rotating, miniature black hole that seemed capable of devouring all light quietly appeared—that was the core where Lin Yuan had fused a trace of the True Intent of the Great Dao of Devouring!

The enormous Life and Death Wheel, like the eternally existing Millstone of Heaven and Earth, fiercely met the raging Nine-colored Divine Flames of Universe Incineration!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a grating, piercing sound of Laws being forcefully ground, decomposed, and devoured!

When the Universe Incineration Divine Flames collided with the Life and Death Wheel, the terrifying high temperature and Law of Destruction, which were capable of melting stars, were forcibly “neutralized” and “soothed” by the majestic Life Torrent on the left half of the disc! Countless massive waves of divine flame seemed to crash against an invisible dam, their violent momentum abruptly halted. Meanwhile, the power of deathly silence and decay permeating the right half of the disc, like the most gluttonous Taotie, frantically “gnawed” away at the Law structure and energy Origin contained within the divine flames! The Devouring Black Hole in the center of the disc erupted with terrifying suction, wildly consuming the fragments of divine flame that had been weakened and decomposed by the Power of Life and Death, turning them into nourishment for the disc itself!