801: Life or death

Having received Yuyi's personal promise, especially that phrase "protect your life," the last trace of concern in Nine Infant Chen's heart completely vanished!

An unprecedented surge of violence and confidence erupted from his body with a bang!

"Thank you for granting my wish, Lord Yuyi!" Blood-light flared in Nine Infant Chen's eyes; within his crimson vertical pupils, only the most primal desire for slaughter and greed for territory remained!

"This King... shall personally go and crush those ants!"

The final bit of hesitation in Nine Infant Chen's heart completely dissipated under Yuyi's casual promise to "protect your life"!

Capture Bhikkhu City! Devour these thousand miles of territory! Gather boundless resources and break through the barrier that had troubled him for hundreds of years in one fell swoop, ascending to the true Yao Emperor Realm! This ambition was like the most intense poisonous fire, incinerating all his reason!

There was only one target—that fire-element female Cultivator who had whipped up a sea of incinerating fire within the beast tide, causing the most casualties!

"Ji Yanshuang... die!" he roared in his heart!

Swish!

His body had not yet moved, but the space in front of him suddenly cracked open like fragile glass, revealing a massive rift! A distance of a hundred miles was but a stone's throw away under this terrifying method of tearing through space!

A viscous, bloody, dark-red stream of light, like a soul-extinguishing arrow shot from the depths of the Nine Netherworlds, instantly passed through the spatial rift, ignoring all distance!

Atop the city tower!

Yao Delong stood with his hands behind his back, his demeanor seemingly calm. However, those eyes, deep as a starry abyss, had already cast his vast and majestic Divine Thought out like an invisible celestial net, covering the battlefield for hundreds of miles around! Every ripple in space, every thread of abnormal aura, was clearly revealed under his perception!

In the billionth of a second that Nine Infant Chen tore through space to descend upon the core of the battlefield from a hundred miles away!

"He's here!" A warning alarm surged in Yao Delong's heart! That terrifying spatial ripple and the subsequent eruption of monstrous Demonic Qi were as conspicuous as a lighthouse in the dark of night!

The target was pointed directly at Ji Yanshuang at the core of the sea of fire!

At the center of the Sea of Incinerating Heaven.

Ji Yanshuang was controlling ninety-nine fire Clones, killing with great enthusiasm; every swing of the Star-Burning Divine Sword took away large swaths of Yao Beasts!

Suddenly!

An unprecedented, fatal chill that seemed to come from the Nine Nether Purgatory enveloped her entire body without warning!

Time seemed to freeze at this moment!

A terrifying giant claw that covered her entire field of vision, entwined with filthy blood-light, as large as a house, and with nails like poisoned curved hooks, emerged out of thin air from the Void Realm above her head!

Before the claw even arrived!

That terrifying pressure that tore at the Divine Soul and that filthy, stinking Demonic Qi sufficient to corrode spiritual power had already pierced into her Sea of Consciousness and all her limbs like billions of steel needles!

Death!

The shadow of death, close at hand, instantly swallowed all her flames and pride!

Ji Yanshuang's pupils shrank abruptly, and for the first time, an unmaskable horror appeared in her flame-like eyes! All her life-saving trump cards and escape methods seemed so pale and powerless in the face of the absolute pressure and speed of this claw!

She had no doubt that if she were hit by this claw, even if she didn't die, her dao foundation would surely collapse, leaving her in a state of eternal damnation, completely losing her combat strength!

"It's over..." A desperate thought rose uncontrollably from the bottom of her heart! She didn't even have time to make any effective defensive moves!

In this critical moment where life and death were decided!

"Buzz—!!!"

An extremely faint yet strange trembling hum that seemed to contain the rhythm of spatial Origin suddenly rang in Ji Yanshuang's ear!

It didn't come from the lethal demon claw above her head, but... from in front of her!

A peerlessly brilliant silver stream of light, like a cosmic comet cutting through eternal night, arrived later but struck first. With a terrifying speed that surpassed the common logic of time and space, it instantly tore through the chaotic energy field of the battlefield and appeared out of thin air between Ji Yanshuang and that world-destroying demon claw!

It was him!

Yao Delong!

On his back, a pair of dreamlike, pale silver transparent light wings completely unfolded!

The wingspan was a full five zhang, woven and constructed from countless fine, extremely profound spatial runes. At the edges of the light wings, fine silver streams of light flowed and flickered silently like the most brilliant embers of a dying star, as if carrying the orbital trajectories of the cosmic galaxy!

It was precisely one of his bottom-drawer Dao Artifact treasures—the taiyu flowing light wings!

Without the slightest hesitation!

Yao Delong's gaze was cold as a ten-thousand-year icy abyss. Facing that terrifying demon claw capable of shredding mountains, he actually didn't dodge or evade!

"Begone!" A low shout of fury vibrated like a dragon's roar!

On his right arm, muscles instantly knotted and swelled! On the surface of his skin, pale golden blood-qi patterns flashed and vanished! A pure, overbearing, and unstoppable terrifying blood-qi force, originating from something like an ancient savage dragon, erupted with a bang!

One punch!

A simple, straightforward punch!

Arriving later but striking first, it smashed with incomparable precision right into the palm of the demon claw that was covered in filthy blood-light and entwined with the Law of destruction!

Boom—!!!!!!

An indescribable, terrifying roar instantly shattered the Universe! It was like two ancient stars colliding violently at close range!

With the point of collision between the fist and claw as the center, a visible shockwave of destructive energy—a mixture of viscous blood-light, pale golden blood-qi, and silver spatial fragments—spread frantically in a spherical shape like a world-ending tsunami!

Buzz—!

Space cracked inch by inch like a shattered mirror!

The ground was forced downward, collapsing into a massive crater hundreds of zhang in diameter! Everyone within this range—be they low-level Yao Beasts charging frantically or brave Human Race Cultivators—didn't even have time to let out a scream before they were instantly turned into the finest dust in the destructive storm generated by this collision between Peak Void Refining Realm experts! Not even bones remained!

Truly... when gods fight, Mortals suffer!

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Yao Delong's body was shaken by the terrifying force from the giant claw, making him retreat three steps! With every step he took, the void beneath his feet let out an overburdened explosion, leaving clearly visible silver spatial cracks!

But while he was retreating!

His left hand slashed through the void beside him like lightning!

"Freeze!"

A silver Talisman containing pure spatial Law instantly took shape!

The Talisman's light flared, turning into a silver spatial barrier that covered dozens of zhang, narrowly protecting several Human Race Cultivators who were terrified by the shockwave and about to be shredded by spatial fragments and residual energy!

Inside the barrier, the Cultivators who had escaped death were pale-faced. Looking at the black-clad back standing before the world-destroying demon claw, their eyes were filled with incomparable shock and fanatical worship! It was Daoist Yao... who had saved their lives!

And behind Yao Delong.

Ji Yanshuang's heart was beating frantically like a drum, fine cold sweat oozed from her forehead, and her flame-red lips were slightly parted, carrying a trace of the daze and alarm of a survivor.

She clearly felt the horror of that claw just now! Her proud Incinerating Heaven Fire probably wouldn't have lasted even half a breath against that pure, extremely filthy destructive power!

If not for Delong... the consequences would have been unimaginable!

"Thank... you!" Ji Yanshuang's voice carried an imperceptible tremble. Her gaze toward Yao Delong's back was filled with unprecedented gratitude and lingering fear.