482: Fight in the next life

The Black Crystal Half-Ancestor let out a roar that shattered the Void Realm, and the strange crystal between his eyebrows suddenly shot out ten thousand feet of blood-red light.

Nine spiral patterns appeared on the surface of the crystal. With each rotation, his aura surged, and after nine rotations, his body had transformed into a crimson glazed giant, whose every movement caused the Chaos Sea to boil.

This was the Black Crystal Blood Flame Clan, one of the Peak races among the Tianyang aliens. It is said that their Old Ancestor was a Half-step Eternal.

Once this clan engaged in battle, the Black Crystal body would transform into a crimson glazed body.

"Mere Formation Spirit, how dare you block me?!"

He threw a punch, and wherever his fist passed, space shattered like layers of a mirror. Even the Nine Netherworlds Flames, which were capable of incinerating Dao Spirit Treasures, were forced to create a vacuum tunnel by this single punch!

The Nine Hellfire Demon deep within the sea of fire slowly raised his head, and nine blood-red coronas lit up simultaneously.

His body, composed of pure flame, began to collapse and solidify, instantly transforming into a giant clad in magma armor. What flowed in the cracks of the armor was not blood, but the essence of the Nine Netherworlds Burning Sky Flame, condensed to its extreme.

"Boom!!!"

The two giant fists collided in the Void Realm, and a terrifying shockwave spread in a ring, instantly clearing the sea of fire for hundreds of millions of miles around.

Those fire ghosts and Tianyang aliens who couldn't dodge were annihilated before they could even scream. The space at the center of the collision completely shattered, forming a continuously collapsing black hole that frantically devoured everything around it.

The Black Crystal Half-Ancestor suddenly changed his punch to a claw, his five fingers slashing towards the Hellfire Demon's throat like celestial blades. The Nine Hellfire Demon did not dodge, allowing the claw to tear open half of his neck, while simultaneously, the magma armor suddenly erupted with countless sharp spikes, viciously piercing into the Black Crystal Half-Ancestor's body.

"Hiss—"

The crisp sound of crystal shattering came, and the Black Crystal Half-Ancestor discovered, with a mix of shock and anger, that the flames attached to those spikes were actually corroding his Origin!

He retreated a million miles, crashing through three floating Hellish volcanoes along the way. After stabilizing himself, his chest heaved, and surging energy began to gather.

"Star Incineration!"

A blood-red beam of light, a thousand feet in diameter, erupted from his mouth. Wherever this beam passed, even Chaos was incinerated clean.

The Nine Hellfire Demon crossed his arms, and the nine coronas formed a shield in front of him. The moment they collided, the entire Nine Hellfire Burning Sky Great Formation shook violently.

"Crack—"

Cracks appeared on the Nine Hellfire Demon's corona shield, but the flames in his hollow eye sockets blazed fiercely.

Suddenly, he opened his giant magma mouth and spat out a jet of ink-black flame. This was not ordinary Nine Netherworlds Burning Sky Flame, but "Return to Emptiness Ash Fire" collected from the deepest layer of the Chaos Sea!

The Black Crystal Half-Ancestor dodged hastily, but was still grazed on his left arm by the black flame. His crystal body, reputed to be immortal, began to melt like a candle.

In a fit of rage, he violently tore off his left arm and hurled it at the Hellfire Demon. The severed arm transformed into ten million blood-red crystal thorns in mid-air.

"Boom boom boom—"

The crystal thorns rained down on the Nine Hellfire Demon, each one exploding into a black hole that devoured flames.

The Nine Hellfire Demon's massive body was riddled with holes, but the sea of fire beneath his feet suddenly surged with colossal waves. Countless fire snakes surged into his body, instantly restoring his injuries to their original state.

At this moment, the Black Crystal Half-Ancestor's severed arm also recovered.

The two great powerhouses battled from the sea of fire to the firmament, and from the firmament into the depths of Chaos. Each of their collisions stirred up a storm of destruction in the Chaos Sea.

Sometimes, the Black Crystal Half-Ancestor would tear open the Nine Hellfire Demon's chest with a claw, and magma-like fire pulp would spill out, turning the battlefield below into a sea of fire; other times, the Nine Hellfire Demon would shatter half of the Black Crystal Half-Ancestor's body with a punch, and the splashing crystal fragments would fall like meteors, each capable of piercing through dozens of Tianyang aliens.

The most terrifying moment was when the Black Crystal Half-Ancestor activated his Origin, summoning nine orbiting meteors.

Those nine meteors were entwined with the resentments of worlds he had devoured, and they slammed into the Nine Hellfire Demon with the might to destroy everything. The Nine Hellfire Demon, in turn, detonated his nine coronas, transforming them into nine fire Dragons that spanned heaven and earth to meet the attack.

"Bang—!!!"

The moment the nine meteors collided with the nine fire Dragons, time seemed to stand still for an instant.

Immediately after, a white light, ten thousand times brighter than the sun, erupted. Whether fire ghosts or Tianyang aliens, anyone caught by this white light was instantly vaporized.

Even the Chaos Sea itself was blasted into a void with a diameter of several light-years, which remained unhealed for a long time.

When the light dissipated, the Black Crystal Half-Ancestor's crystal body was covered in cracks, and the Nine Hellfire Demon's form had become much more ethereal.

But the Hellfire Purgatory was still boiling, and more flames surged from the magma, continuously pouring into the Nine Hellfire Demon's body.

"It's useless..." The burly man stood at the core of the formation and sneered, "Within this Nine Hellfire Burning Sky Formation, the Hellfire Demon is immortal!"

Upon hearing this, a trace of solemnity flickered for the first time in the Black Crystal Half-Ancestor's blood-red crystal eyes.

He realized that if this continued, the battle would likely turn into a war of attrition, and in this Hellfire Purgatory, he was the one being consumed!

"Old Ancestor, please make a move!"

The Black Crystal Half-Ancestor's roar, like a Nine Netherworlds thunderclap, exploded in the Chaos Sea.

The terrifying fluctuations contained in that sound actually caused the entire Hellfire Purgatory to stagnate.

Heaven and earth suddenly changed color!

The originally boiling Nine Netherworlds Sea of Fire suddenly solidified, as if forcibly frozen by some supreme will. The "crack crack" sound of shattering came from the depths of the Void Realm, as if the entire world could not bear the existence that was about to descend.

"Boom—"

A dark, sky-obscuring hand tore through Chaos, reaching out from the endless darkness.

This palm was as vast as a Star Domain, with rivers of destructive Dao flowing in its lines, and each fingerprint was like an abyss spanning heaven and earth.

The moment it appeared, the entire Nine Hellfire Burning Sky Great Formation let out a groan of unbearable strain, and the formation patterns began to collapse in swathes.

The giant palm slowly pressed down.

There were no fancy techniques, no complex Dao rhyme, only the purest power of destruction.

Before the palm even arrived, the terrifying pressure had already caused the Void Realm where Outpost One was located to begin collapsing. The city walls, built from River Ruin Obsidian, cracked inch by inch, and the Dao-devouring bone pillars embedded within the walls exploded one after another.

"Bang!"

The giant palm finally struck the formation's light barrier.

The illusion of the Nine Hells shattered instantly!

Hundreds of millions of fire ghosts stiffened simultaneously, then dissipated like bubbles!

Even the Nine Hellfire Demon, comparable to a Half-Ancestor, let out a pained roar, and his magma body began to disintegrate!

The entire Outpost One was like a lone boat in a storm, shaking violently in the aftermath of the destruction. City walls collapsed, towers toppled, and the Nine Netherworlds Burning Sky Flames, which were said to be inextinguishable, now flickered precariously like candles in the wind.

The burly man spat out a mouthful of vital blood, pressing his hands tightly on the Formation Plate. His skin began to crack, and black blood oozed from his seven orifices, yet he still roared, trying to maintain the Great Formation.

But in front of this dark giant hand, all resistance seemed so futile.

"Two-step Dao Ancestor..."

In his bloodshot vertical pupils, the slowly rising dark giant palm was reflected.

The residual aura of destruction beneath the palm had already turned an area of several light-years into a void of desolation.

He looked at the soldiers beneath his feet, who had already suffered heavy casualties, and a look of sorrow appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Rather than live ignobly, it's better to die in battle!"

"Gentlemen, our swords may break, but our souls remain. Let us fight again in the next life!"

The burly man shouted fiercely!

"Fight again in the next life!"

The remaining defending soldiers trembled at his words, but no one questioned him. Instead, their eyes filled with a determination to die, and they roared in unison.

"With my broken body, I will burn all enemies!"

After saying this, he sacrificed himself as a Half-Ancestor, and the other defending soldiers also sacrificed themselves at this moment, pouring into that Formation Plate.

"Not good! Run!"

The Black Crystal Half-Ancestor's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly fled into the depths of the darkness. The other Tianyang aliens also scattered and fled!

The next moment!

"Boom!!!"

The entire Outpost suddenly erupted with light brighter than the sun.

The Formation Plate instantly exploded, releasing the most violent annihilation energy from the depths of Chaos. Hundreds of millions of ink-black cracks spread out from the fortress as their center, swallowing all living beings within several light-years.