1113: Chapter 1112 A Frenzied Clash of Arms, Evenly Matched

Hum—!

Inside Luo Xiu's body, deep within his Divine Soul Origin and the blood of gods and demons that was already boiling from combustion, something deeper and more fundamental was ignited by this ultimate life-and-death crisis and his resolute will!

This was not a simple burning of essence blood, but an Origin Sacrifice!

At the cost of permanently consuming his life Origin and Lifespan, he forcibly leveraged a deeper level of Divine Demon Power!

The price was a hundred times more severe than burning essence blood!

At best, his Foundation would be completely destroyed, trapping him in his current Realm forever; at worst, he would die on the spot, his Dao vanishing and his Divine Soul being extinguished!

Boom—!!!

An indescribable aura—vast, ancient, and seemingly originating from the beginning of Chaos and the birth of gods and demons—suddenly erupted from Luo Xiu's body!

The blazing white flames surrounding him abruptly deepened in color. The inner layer turned into a chaotic gray mist, while the outer layer burned with dark gold edges, as the temperature continued to climb.

Luo Xiu's appearance underwent a terrifying transformation. His black hair, which had been standing on end and tinged with white flames from burning essence blood, began to turn gray and lose its luster at a visible speed, starting from the temples and roots!

It was as if his endless vitality and Lifespan were being frantically extracted!

In an instant, half of his black hair had turned white!

The interweaving of black and white, paired with his body burning with chaotic gray and dark gold flames, and his eyes—one dark, one blazing white—made him look incredibly eerie and tragic, yet possessed a heart-shaking resolve and majesty!

"What?!"

The Spirit Emperor was deeply shaken. From those gray, chaotic flames, it felt an aura even more unsettling—even terrifying—than the previous God-Demon Flame!

But the arrow was already on the string and had to be fired!

It pushed its finger strength further, the dark gold radiance piercing through layers of flames to strike ruthlessly at Luo Xiu's heart!

However, Luo Xiu seemed completely oblivious to that fatal finger strike!

The moment his hair turned white, his body—which had been forced back—used the violent, overloaded power gained from this second sacrifice to forcefully steady itself against all odds!

Instead of retreating or dodging, he twisted his waist and poured all his strength, along with the chaotic gray flames, into his right fist!

His left arm, meanwhile, proactively met the finger strike from the Spirit Emperor!

Pfft!

The dark gold finger beam pierced through the armor of gods and demons on his left arm without hindrance, boring through bone and muscle and bringing forth a spray of dark gold blood mist. Its momentum undiminished, it continued toward his heart.

But after being blocked by his left arm and eroded by the gray flames, its power and speed had already weakened by thirty percent!

Luo Xiu's right fist, like a meteor rising from Chaos, trailed a tail of interweaving gray and dark gold flames. Ignoring the slight opening the Spirit Emperor exposed in its shock, he struck at the Spirit Emperor's cracked dark gold crystal chest in the most direct, brutal, and relentless manner!

"You want to kill this King? Then let us... perish together!!!"

Luo Xiu's roar, mixed with the sounds of shattering bone and exploding flames, echoed through the world that was about to completely collapse!

His tactic was clear and tragic: sacrifice his left arm to weaken the fatal finger strike, gambling that his chest—bolstered by his divine demon body and chaotic flames—could withstand the weakened force without dying!

At the same time, he would land the strongest punch of his life, gained from the second sacrifice, onto his opponent without reservation!

Either your finger pierces my heart and my fist shatters your emperor's body!

Or, I win by a hair, surviving as a wreck while you... are certain to be heavily wounded!

This was a true life-or-death gamble!

A madness that pushed himself to the edge of destruction!

A flash of panic finally crossed the Spirit Emperor's eyes; it hadn't expected Luo Xiu to dare such a thing!

The incoming fist of chaotic flames made it feel an unprecedented threat of death!

It wanted to pull back to defend or dodge, but the previous finger strike had been delivered with full strength. Its old strength was spent and its new strength not yet born. Combined with the battlefield's collapse restraining it, its body suffered a moment of stagnation!

And Luo Xiu's fist was too fast! Too resolute!

"No—!!!"

Amidst the Spirit Emperor's unwilling roar—

Bang!!!

The iron fist, wrapped in chaotic gray and dark gold flames, slammed solidly onto the crown rune in the center of the Spirit Emperor's chest!

Crack... Boom!!!

First came a crisp sound, as if the very Foundation of the world was shattering. The Spirit Emperor's supposedly immortal dark gold crystal chest instantly filled with spiderweb-like cracks centered on the point of impact!

Gray chaotic flames drilled into and spread through the cracks. Wherever they passed, the crystal material vanished as if erased. The imperial Laws and battlefield Origin contained within emitted shrill wails as they were forcibly annihilated and sent Divine Demon Returning to the Void!

Next came a deafening explosion!

The Spirit Emperor's entire upper body was nearly blown apart by this single punch!

Countless dark gold crystal fragments, mixed with gray flames and shattered Law light streams, sprayed backward!

The phantom crown on its forehead let out a mournful cry and completely dissipated!

"Argh—!!!"

The Spirit Emperor let out an agonizingly shrill scream. Its aura plummeted like an avalanche, falling directly from the Peak of the Fifth Rank back to the Late Stage, and it was still weakening!

Its body was mangled, and its imperial authority was nearly shattered by that one punch!

And at almost the same instant—

Pfft!

The Spirit Emperor's weakened dark gold finger beam finally struck Luo Xiu's heart!

Clang—!!!

A dull thud, like striking thick leather, rang out. The already dense cracks on the armor of gods and demons at his heart instantly expanded and connected, shattering to reveal a fist-sized gap!

The residual power of the finger beam stabbed deep into his flesh, striking the bone outside his heart and his protective Divine Demon Power!

Waugh—!

Luo Xiu felt as if he'd been struck by lightning. He spat out another large mouthful of blood, which was now mixed with fragments of internal organs!

A tearing pain radiated from his chest; his heart convulsed violently, as if it were about to stop beating!

A cold, tyrannical Law of Imperial Destruction invaded his body, frantically destroying his vitality!

His aura, like a candle in the wind, suddenly dimmed and flickered, becoming even weaker than the heavily injured Spirit Emperor!

Mutual destruction!

A most tragic mutual destruction!

Luo Xiu was covered in blood on one side, his hair white and clothes black, his chest mangled and his breath faint. He hung in the collapsing Void Realm, looking as if he might fall at any moment.

The Spirit Emperor's body was ruined, its crown gone, and its aura withered. Gray flames still burned within the cracks of its dark gold crystal body, continuously annihilating the Foundation of its existence.

Below them, the ancient battlefield had completely entered its end.

The earth subsided, the sky turned into a void of dark turbulence, and the few remaining fragments of land were rapidly dissolving.

The entire space let out a final, desperate groan, about to return completely to eternal silence.

In this doomsday scene, the two figures—both heavily injured and on the verge of death—stared fixedly at each other across the shattered Void Realm and the raging energy turbulence.

Their killing intent had not diminished in the slightest.

They breathed only for the next moment of life and death.