148: Bitter battle

"Nine Nether Soul Devouring Palm? Break for me!"

Lin Jingyu roared like thunder, his muscles swelling as if about to burst. The Primordial Violet Qi violently surged out of his body, actually resisting the terrifying suppression of the Myriad Bone Soul Devouring Domain, as his fists fiercely met the Skeletal Demonic Palm that covered the sky!

Boom—!!!

The Purple-Gold Fist Seal violently collided with the dark vortex at the center of the Demonic Palm!

There was no massive sound, only the terrifying shriek of space being forcibly torn apart and annihilated by the extreme power!

The Primordial Violet Qi frantically manifested the Scene of the Creation of Heaven and Earth, desperately resisting the relentless erosion and devouring power of the nine nether death qi!

Crack! Crack!

The Skeleton Continent beneath Lin Jingyu's feet, which was harder than fine steel, cracked inch by inch!

The muscles on his arms were coiled like enraged Dragons, and Purple-Gold Vital Energy soared into the sky, forcefully resisting a blow that was sufficient to obliterate an ordinary Domain Realm expert!

Stalemate!

"Roar!"

The Bone Armor Violent Bear and the Nine-Tailed Bone Scorpion seized the opportunity to rush forward, their bone claws wrapped in Death Qi tearing space, and their poisonous bone tails stabbing straight toward his back!

Attacked from both sides!

"Get lost!" Lin Jingyu's eyes were bloodshot. His left leg swept out like a steel whip, unleashing the power of his indestructible Physical Body!

Bang! Crack!

One of the Nine-Tailed Bone Scorpion's poisonous bone tails was forcefully swept off!

At the same time, his right elbow struck backward. The elbow strike, wrapped in Heaven-Opening Fist Intent, fiercely smashed into the massive claw of the Bone Armor Violent Bear!

Boom!

The Bone Armor Violent Bear's massive body was actually blasted back a step, its bone claw shattered!

[Ding! Severely wounded the Guardian Skeleton (Nine-Tailed Bone Scorpion) at the First Heaven of the Domain Realm, gaining evolution points: 100,000 points!]

[Ding! Severely wounded the Guardian Skeleton (Bone Armor Violent Bear) at the First Heaven of the Domain Realm, gaining evolution points: 100,000 points!]

The cost was enormous!

Pfft!

Due to his momentary distraction, the Death Qi vortex of the Nine Nether Demonic Palm suddenly intensified, and a layer of the Primordial Violet Qi covering Lin Jingyu's fists was forcibly eroded away!

The power of death, containing Domain rules, instantly invaded his body like maggots clinging to bone!

Ugh!

He violently spat out a mouthful of light golden blood, his face instantly turning pale. The Purple-Gold Divine Light around him fluctuated violently, and even his Dharma Aspect Phantom dimmed slightly!

The flesh and blood around his wounds rapidly withered, and his bones groaned!

"ant! Your struggle ends here!" On the throne, the Demon Saint Skeleton's Lava Soul Fire flickered with cruel pleasure.

Its massive bone claw lifted again. Death Qi surged wildly within the Myriad Bone Soul Devouring Domain, and the power of the Nine Nether Demonic Palm increased once more, aiming to completely crush and devour Lin Jingyu!

RUMBLE—!!!

Right at this critical moment of life and death, an unexpected change occurred!

At the edge of the Skeleton Continent, a dazzling earthen-yellow pillar of light suddenly pierced through layers of death fog, fiercely striking the boundary wall of the Myriad Bone Soul Devouring Domain!

"Xuanhuang Demon Suppression! Open!"

Outside the tower, Qin Shanhe's hair and beard bristled, his body covered in blood. The xuanhuang greatsword was plunged in front of him, and his hands were pressed tightly onto a dazzling Xuanhuang Talisman Seal!

He was burning his Dharma Aspect Origin, with blood seeping from all seven orifices, just for this life-risking strike!

Buzz—!!!

The Xuanhuang Divine Light, carrying the profound will to suppress all evil, forcibly tore open a tiny fissure in the Demon Saint's Domain barrier!

Although it was immediately sealed by the boiling Death Qi, this momentary interference caused an extremely faint delay in the lock-on of the Nine Nether Demonic Palm!

"Brother Qin!" A sharp light burst from Lin Jingyu's eyes! This fleeting opportunity was his path to survival!

"Open for me!"

The Primordial Creation Scripture, which he had fused and deduced to its limit within his body, frantically circulated at an unprecedented speed!

The power deep within the five great divine treasuries, completely ignited by the life-and-death crisis, violently boiled!

Heart Fire Burns the Heavens, Liver Wood bursts forth, Spleen Earth is profound, Lung Metal is sharp, and Kidney Water is vast!

Under the forced command of the Primordial Violet Qi, the five majestic divine energies erupted in an unprecedented resonance!

Boom!

The Primordial Violet Qi around his body suddenly burst open, actually forcing back the encroaching Death Qi for a moment!

Using this explosive power, his body, like an Archaic Vicious Beast breaking free from its shackles, rushed out from the edge of the Nine Nether Demonic Palm and the pincer attack of the two Guardian Skeletons with a speed that surpassed his limits, barely escaping!

His target—the largest chaos origin stone scattered at the edge of the continent!

"Impossible!" The Demon Saint Skeleton was utterly enraged!

Lin Jingyu's tenacity and the essence of the Primordial Violet Qi made it feel a massive threat, filling it with immense frenzy!

"Abyssal Master! Grant me power! Crush this fiend!"

It suddenly let out a roar that shook the Void Realm!

The black Abyssal Demonic Scab covering its massive skeletal body suddenly illuminated with countless bizarre Demonic Runes, dark red like blood!

An Abyssal Demonic Nature, hundreds of times deeper and more terrifying than before, erupted violently!

Hiss, hiss, hiss—!

Those wriggling black demonic scabs burned and sacrificed themselves wildly, like living creatures! The Demon Saint Skeleton's aura began to climb at a terrifying speed!

Domain Realm Eighth Heaven Peak... Ninth Heaven... Boom!!!

A terrifying pressure that transcended the Domain, carrying a trace of immortality and seeming capable of wielding partial rules, instantly filled the entire Skeletal Space like a world-ending flood released from a gate!

Crack! Crack!

The Myriad Bone Soul Devouring Domain instantly strengthened by more than tenfold!

Countless skeletal spikes became as thick as mountains, and dark red Demonic Runes appeared on the winding Chains of Death!

Space completely solidified, and even time seemed to become viscous!

Under the illumination of the Demonic Light, the broken limbs of the two severely wounded Guardian Skeletons instantly experienced Rebirth, and their auras also surged, approaching the Second Heaven of the Domain Realm!

The Soul Fire in their eye sockets turned dark red, filled with pure destructive desire!

Half-Step True God Realm!

This Demon Saint Skeleton actually sacrificed a portion of the Abyssal Demonic Scab's Origin, forcibly pushing its Realm briefly into the terrifying level of Half-Step True God!

"Die!!!"

The Demon Saint Skeleton's icy will carried the majesty of world destruction. Its massive bone claw snatched at the air!

RUMBLE!

The endless Death Qi, demonic nature, and broken skeletons within the Myriad Bone Soul Devouring Domain frantically converged, instantly forming a terrifying great halberd wrapped by nine dark red Demonic Dragons, its blade spitting destructive black light—the Nine Abyss Demonic Halberd!

The moment the Demonic Halberd appeared, the core of the entire ruin wailed! Black cracks were cut into the Void Realm!

The halberd tip pointed directly at Lin Jingyu, who had just touched the chaos origin stone!

This single halberd strike contained a trace of the True God Realm's rule of destruction! It locked onto all of Lin Jingyu's vitality! It was more than ten times more terrifying than the previous Nine Nether Demonic Palm!

"Half-Step True God?!" Lin Jingyu's pupils suddenly contracted to pinpricks! The shadow of death instantly enveloped his entire body!

Having just grabbed the chaos origin stone, every pore on his body was screaming a frantic warning!

He couldn't dodge it! He couldn't block it!

The resonant power emanating from the depths of the five great divine treasuries, under this absolute death pressure, was like a lit powder keg, frantically circulating, colliding, and attempting to break through some limit at an unprecedented speed!

Heart Fire Burns the Heavens threatened to burst, Liver Wood's vitality surged to the extreme and instantly withered, Spleen Earth was so profound it nearly solidified, Lung Metal's sharpness pierced his Divine Soul with intense pain, and Kidney Water's vastness impacted his limbs and bones!

His Physical Body groaned under this terrifying internal and external pressure, nearing its limit!

Fine cracks began to appear on the surface of his skin, and light golden blood seeped out from them!

"System!!"

Lin Jingyu's will roared, like a lone boat struggling in a stormy sea. He plunged his entire consciousness into the boiling torrent of power within his body. "Breakthrough! Fuse for me!!"

[Command confirmed! Final Integration begins!]

[Core Cultivation Technique: Primordial Creation Scripture (Prototype) dominates all!]

[Fusion complete! Primordial Creation Scripture deduced to the absolute limit of the Ninth Heaven of the Dharma Aspect Realm!]

[five great divine treasuries Resonance Level: 99%! On the verge of qualitative change!]

Buzz—!

A new power, more harmonious, vast, and seemingly harboring the great strength of creation and the opening of heaven, instantly flowed through his nearly collapsing Physical Body and Divine Soul!

Although his Realm did not change, his foundation and control were forcibly elevated by a thread!

"Kill!!!" The Demon Saint Skeleton's will carried the ruthlessness of total extinction.

The Nine Abyss Demonic Halberd moved!

There was no process, only result!

The great halberd wrapped by nine dark red Demonic Dragons seemed to ignore spatial distance. Its blade, carrying a trace of black rule power that annihilated all things, instantly appeared above Lin Jingyu's head!

The edge of destruction had not yet touched his body, but it already caused the bones throughout his body to emit loud, unbearable cracking sounds!

The protective Primordial Violet Qi dissolved like snow melting in boiling water!

There was no avoiding it!

"Heaven-Opening!! Creation!!!"

Lin Jingyu's eyes burned with final madness. He poured all the power, will, and the strength of the five great divine treasuries—which were on the verge of qualitative change after Fusion and integration—into his arms without reservation, crossing them above his head to block!

The Grandmist Creation Divine Magic Manifestation behind him let out a silent roar, performing the same movement. The Chaos Divine Demon Runes on its purple-gold divine body shone to the extreme!

BOOM————————!!!!

The Nine Abyss Demonic Halberd fiercely struck his crossed, blocking arms!

An indescribable, terrifying explosion!

Time seemed to freeze at this moment!

Centered on the point of impact, a circle of destructive ripples, mixed with Purple-Gold Divine Light and pitch-black Devilish Qi, violently exploded!

Wherever it passed, the Skeleton Continent silently turned to dust! Space shattered inch by inch like fragile glass!

Puh—!!!

Lin Jingyu felt as if he had been struck by billions of stars, and the clear sound of bone cracking came from his arms!

Light golden blood spurted out like a fountain!

His entire body was smashed away like a meteor, crashing through countless spatial fragments, and finally slammed onto the pedestal beneath the Skeletal Throne!

RUMBLE!!!

The incredibly hard Demon Saint Throne Pedestal was smashed into a massive deep pit, with cracks spreading outwards!

Lin Jingyu lay at the bottom of the pit, his arms bloody and mangled, revealing light golden arm bones covered in fine cracks!

His chest was deeply caved in, and he didn't know how many bones were broken!

The Primordial Violet Qi around his body was extremely dim, and his Dharma Aspect Phantom had nearly dispersed!

Light golden blood gushed out from the cracked wounds all over his body, soaking the pale white throne pedestal beneath him.

Intense pain overwhelmed him like a tide, and his consciousness began to blur.

The resonant power emanating from the five great divine treasuries was completely exhausted in that previous strike, now replaced by waves of tearing emptiness and agonizing pain, pushing him to the brink of total collapse.

His Physical Body... was nearing its limit!

"Cough, cough..." He coughed up large mouthfuls of light golden bloody foam, and his vision was stained red.

"ant! To force this Saint to use the Abyssal Origin, you should be proud!" The Demon Saint Skeleton's cold voice carried a hint of fatigue, but more so, the indifference of one who controls life and death.

The Lava Soul Fire flickered in its eye sockets as it looked at Lin Jingyu, who resembled a ragdoll at the bottom of the pit.

The two Demonized Guardian Skeletons, roaring with bloodlust, approached the deep pit step by step, their dark red Soul Fire locking onto the figure at the bottom.

"Now, offer up your flesh, blood, and Soul, and become a sacrifice for the return of my Master!"

The Demon Saint Skeleton's massive bone claw rose again. Death Qi and Demonic Energy converged within the Myriad Bone Soul Devouring Domain, and a slightly smaller phantom of the Nine Abyss Demonic Halberd began to condense. Although its power was far inferior to the previous one, it was more than enough to kill the current Lin Jingyu!

In the deep pit, Lin Jingyu's consciousness drifted between agonizing pain and stupor.

His bones felt ready to shatter, his Meridians were scorched, and the five great divine treasuries felt completely hollowed out, transmitting tearing emptiness and severe pain.

'Am I going to die...' A thought flashed uncontrollably through his mind.

Boom—!!!

Right at this moment of near death, another change occurred!

The Skeletal Throne pedestal beneath him, soaked in light golden blood, those ancient, pale white Demon King Skeletons, actually devoured the light golden blood flowing from him like sponges!

The blood seeped deep into the skeletons, as if triggering a taboo that had been silent for ten thousand ages!

Buzz!!!

A faint yet extremely ancient, extremely vast, Savage Aura, seemingly originating from the dawn of creation, suddenly emanated from the deepest part of the throne pedestal!

This aura was completely different from the Demon Saint Skeleton's Abyssal Demonic Nature, filled with pure power and unyielding Battle Intent!

The instant this aura appeared—