858: Zhang Yueshan fights the Dream Master again

“Bro... Bro...?”

Li Mingxuan's lips trembled violently, his voice hoarse like a broken bellows, every word sounding like bloody foam squeezed from the depths of his throat.

Enveloped within Yue Shan's body, his blood seemed to freeze instantly, only to surge wildly into his head the next second. Black spots danced before his eyes, and his heart felt as if it were being tightly gripped by an invisible hand, causing him pain so intense he could barely breathe!

That face, which had appeared in his nightmares countless times, blurred in his longing, and sharpened in his self-reproach... how could it appear here?

How could it be... the Dream Master, and why would he want to kill him?!

Lan Cang's pupils suddenly shrank to pinpricks, and he exclaimed involuntarily, “Li Wuji?! No... this is impossible!”

He recognized him; that was Li Mingxuan's brother, Li Wuji, who was suspected to have been killed long ago!

Regarding information about the other party, they had naturally obtained his files while learning about Li Mingxuan.

Azure King, Phoenix King—all the Great Xia powerhouses who knew the past of the Li brothers were struck as if by lightning, their faces filled with extreme shock and disbelief.

Li Wuji—could he really be the mysterious Dream Master? But why would he be bent on killing his own brother?!

The moment the mask shattered, the Dream Master's body stiffened imperceptibly.

In the depths of those “eyes” composed of nebulae, a trace of an extremely subtle and fleeting fluctuation seemed to flash, like a stone thrown into a deep sea that had slept for billions of years, creating an imperceptible ripple.

But this fluctuation was instantly submerged by an even more intense and purer starlight.

He raised his hand, his fingertips gently brushing against the cheek that had lost its mask, his movements carrying a hint of imperceptible awkwardness.

Starlight flowed between his fingers, seemingly wanting to reconsolidate the mask, but it was blocked by some invisible force.

He slowly raised his head, those non-human stellar eyes locking onto Li Mingxuan, who was frozen in place due to extreme shock and pain.

A cold, indifferent, and emotionless voice rang out again, as if the true face revealed just now had nothing to do with him.

“Did you see that, Yue Shan? This is the weakness brought by ‘humanity’! It is a shackle! It is a... flaw that hinders the master from attaining perfection!”

His voice rose abruptly, carrying a near-paranoid fanaticism!

“Precisely because of this, he—Li Mingxuan—must be completely eliminated!”

“For the supremacy of the master, for that final perfect form... any obstacle must be erased! Even if... it means sacrificing myself!”

The moment his words fell, an unprecedented brilliant starlight erupted from the Dream Master's body!

That light was no longer an elegant circulation, but carried a destructive frenzy!

Countless stellar phantoms rotated, collided, and annihilated around him frantically!

He no longer dodged, but instead faced Yue Shan, his hands forming profound and complex hand seals, drawing upon the power of all the stars in the heavens, transforming it into a torrent of starlight that seemed capable of piercing the Universe and ending all things, ferociously striking at Yue Shan!

Only Yue Shan's eyes were exposed, revealing no emotional change whatsoever!

But that heavy, seven-colored heavy blade was already held horizontally in front of him, and his crystalline armor erupted with the heavy, eternal divine light of a mountain.

He did not retreat a single step, his voice as cold as ten-thousand-year black ice, carrying a determination to sever everything: “Still obsessed! Then let me personally wake up this shell of yours that has been brainwashed by the stars!”

The seven-colored heavy blade was swung ferociously, not as a chop, but as a sweep!

A seven-colored arc of light, condensed to the extreme, tore through the sky, carrying the supreme will to shatter stars and suppress all things, meeting the destructive torrent of starlight head-on!

The collision between the two top powerhouses erupted with a boom, under the gaze of Li Mingxuan, whose heart was shaken and eyes were splitting with rage due to the truth about his close kin.

The destructive frenzy instantly swept across heaven and earth, and also completely tore apart the last line of defense in his heart.

“Bro—!!!”

Li Mingxuan's heart-rending cry was submerged in the terrifying tide of energy capable of annihilating stars.

It was just that no one heard his cry except for Yue Shan, and even if they did, what could they do?

“Immovable as a Mountain · Ten Thousand Ravines Returning to Concealment!”

Yue Shan chanted, and the seven-colored light was no longer a terrifying force that devoured everything, but transformed into an absolute protective barrier.

Phantoms of towering mountains, far more solid and heavy than before, appearing as if constructed from solid seven-colored divine crystals, emerged out of thin air.

These mountain phantoms layered and interlocked, instantly constructing a flawless, airtight, three-dimensional mountain fortress around him.

Each “peak” was inscribed with profound runes, those runes flickering with mysterious light, flowing with the heavy, condensed power of the earth.

This fortress could not only defend against physical impacts, but the heavy field it emitted could also distort energy, as if it were an impassable natural barrier.

“Dream Master, die!”

“Immovable as a Mountain · Ten Thousand Ravines Returning to Concealment!”

Yue Shan's low, deep shout resonated like the echo of an ancient sacred mountain, vibrating through the core area where the destructive energy tide erupted.

He soared into the air, and in an instant, the crystalline light on his body erupted, hanging in the sky like a seven-colored sun.

But soon that seven-colored sun began to change, and before long, countless phantoms of towering, condensed mountains, appearing as if constructed from solid seven-colored divine crystals, rose from the ground out of thin air!

They were no longer blurry outlines, but clearly defined, with ridges like blade edges and peaks piercing the firmament.

These divine crystal mountains were not piled up in a disorderly manner, but followed some profound pulse of the earth, layering and interlocking tightly.

Instantly, a colossal, flawless, and airtight three-dimensional mountain fortress was constructed around Yue Shan and Li Mingxuan!

On the surface of the fortress, complex and profound runes flowed like living creatures.

Each flicker brought about heavy spatial ripples, as if cutting this area out from the Universe, forming its own world, impregnable as a fortress.

“Rumble—!!!”

Seeing this, the Dream Master knew that Yue Shan was serious, and was determined to kill him.

“I am not wrong; you are the ones who are wrong!”

Immediately, he stopped hiding. In an instant, a torrent of starlight, gathering the destructive power of all the stars in the heavens, appeared behind him and slammed fiercely into this seven-colored divine crystal fortress of Ten Thousand Ravines!

The violent energy, capable of annihilating stars and tearing through space, was like billions of supernovae exploding simultaneously, illuminating the entire space in a deathly white.

The terrifying shockwave swept out in a ring, and wherever it passed, even the void twisted and wailed.

In the distance, the Azure King, Phoenix King, and others watching the battle had their expressions change drastically, and they all unleashed their strongest defensive methods to prevent the aftermath of the two from harming their people.

Even Lan Cang and that Protector not far from him had to stop fighting and defend with all their might, only then barely managing to withstand the dissipating destructive aftermath.

However, the seven-colored fortress at the core of the collision only trembled violently for a moment!

The star-destroying power, condensed to the extreme, struck the surface of the fortress, stirring up countless dazzling light fragments and emitting teeth-aching sounds of friction and compression.

The runes on the seven-colored divine crystal mountains flickered frantically. Each time they lit up, they decomposed, transformed, and discharged the incoming stellar energy into the depths of the earth, or even—fed it back to themselves!

The fortress remained completely unmoved!