Chapter 414 Crystal Core Guardian, Divine Court Assassins

Passing through the black vortex, the scene before them caused the ten elites behind Nightmare to gasp in cold breath.

There was no ground, no sky.

There was only a vast starry sky.

Billions of stars flickered in the deep purple Void Realm, each star slowly rotating, emitting varying degrees of Origin fluctuations. Those fluctuations intertwined, forming an energy network that covered the entire space.

And at the center of this starry sky, a golden crystal the size of a human head floated.

The crystal was completely transparent, with liquid seemingly flowing inside, and its surface emitted a nine-colored radiance. The light was soft, yet it carried an indescribable majesty—an Origin pressure far exceeding the level of the Cosmic Supreme Realm.

primordial supreme crystal core.

But around the crystal core, three people stood guard.

They were not living people.

They were three humanoid Puppets.

They were dark gold all over, surfaces covered in complex patterns, eyes hollow and devoid of any life. However, each humanoid Puppet was surrounded by a pale golden halo—the inner Universe fluctuations unique to the Cosmic Supreme Realm.

“Supreme-level Death Soldiers...” Nightmare narrowed his eyes.

He had seen related records in Black Prison's storage ring—the Divine Court Heavenly Emperor used a special secret method to refine Cosmic Supreme Realm Cultivators into completely loyal Puppets, erasing all consciousness and retaining only combat instincts.

These Death Soldiers had no fear, no hesitation, and would only execute one command: kill everyone who approached the crystal core.

As soon as Nightmare stepped into this starry sky, the three Death Soldiers turned their heads simultaneously, their hollow eyes locking onto his position.

No warning, no nonsense.

The Death Soldier on the far left moved.

It took a step forward, instantly crossing a distance of a hundred feet to appear before Nightmare. It clenched its right hand into a fist wrapped in blinding golden light and punched toward Nightmare's face.

Heavenly Emperor Slaying Fist.

Wherever the fist wind passed, the starry sky trembled. It wasn't just a physical impact; it carried a will of 'destruction'—as if this single punch could shatter stars and punch through time and space.

“Get back,” Nightmare barked at the elites behind him, simultaneously raising his hand to meet the punch with one of his own.

The black-gray Grandmist Chaos Void Annihilation Dao Reversal Demonic Star Flame condensed, collapsed, and underwent a qualitative change on his fist, finally turning into a single point of ultimate 'Annihilation.'

The two fists collided.

There was no sound.

But the starry sky around the point of impact instantly collapsed, forming a black void ten feet in diameter. At the edges of the void, spatial fragments flew off like shattered glass.

The Death Soldier flew backward, the dark gold shell on its right arm shattering inch by inch to reveal the flowing golden liquid inside—the manifestation of its core Origin.

Nightmare stood his ground, unmoving, but a tiny crack appeared on the surface of his right fist, and a few drops of blood seeped out.

“What a hard fist.” He shook his hand, and the wound quickly healed under the shroud of black-gray flames.

At the same time, the other two Death Soldiers moved.

They didn't attack Nightmare; instead, they lunged toward the ten elites—clearly, they judged Nightmare to be the greatest threat and intended to clear out the meddlesome minions before concentrating their attack on him.

“Form the array!” The ten elites reacted extremely quickly, instantly forming a battle array.

The auras of the ten people merged into one, and black-gray flames flowed between them, forming a flame shield thirty feet in diameter.

The two Death Soldiers slammed into the shield.

Boom! Boom!

The shield trembled violently, and fine cracks appeared on its surface, but it barely managed to hold.

“Hold on! Buy time for the Lord!” The leader of the elites roared through gritted teeth, frantically stimulating the Origin within his body.

Nightmare glanced over, knowing those ten couldn't hold out for long.

He had to end this quickly.

He looked at the Death Soldier he had just repelled—it had already repaired its right arm and was charging again.

This time, Nightmare didn't meet it head-on.

His figure flickered and vanished from the spot.

When he reappeared, he was already behind the Death Soldier.

“Dao Reversal Cage.”

As the four words were uttered, the space around the Death Soldier instantly froze.

The Death Soldier's movements abruptly stalled, but only for a moment—its inner Universe began to rotate frantically, attempting to break through the cage's constraints.

“You want to break it?” Nightmare sneered. “Then I'll let you break all you want.”

He formed hand seals, and black-gray flames surged from his body, turning into countless fine threads that bored into the interior of the cage, frantically wrapping around the Death Soldier's body.

Wherever the threads passed, the dark gold shell on the Death Soldier's surface began to dissolve.

It wasn't shattering; it was being erased from the level of existence by the power of 'Annihilation.'

The Death Soldier seemed to sense the crisis and began to struggle violently. The golden liquid inside it surged madly, trying to burst the constraints of the flame threads.

But the flame threads only wrapped tighter and tighter.

In just three breaths, the dark gold shell on the Death Soldier's surface had completely disappeared, revealing a body composed entirely of golden liquid.

“The core is there.” Nightmare's gaze locked onto the Death Soldier's chest—there was a fist-sized golden light cluster throbbing frantically.

That was the Death Soldier's energy core and its only weakness.

“Die.”

Nightmare raised his hand, and the Dao Reversal Supreme Blade condensed in his palm.

This time, the flames on the blade were no longer black-gray, but... transparent.

Transparent flames, yet they emitted an even more terrifying aura of annihilation than before.

He thrust the blade forward.

The blade pierced into the golden light cluster without any resistance.

Puchi.

The light cluster exploded.

Golden liquid gushed out like a fountain, but the moment it emerged, it was burned into nothingness by the transparent Annihilation flames.

The Death Soldier's body stiffened, then rapidly collapsed and vanished.

One Early Stage Cosmic Supreme Realm Death Soldier, destroyed.

By this time, the other two Death Soldiers were about to break the shield of the ten elites.

“It's your turn.” Nightmare turned and looked at the two Death Soldiers.

He spread his hands.

Two streaks of transparent Annihilation flames shot from his palms, turning into two flame ropes that instantly wrapped around the necks of the two Death Soldiers.

The Death Soldiers struggled, but the Annihilation power on the flame ropes frantically eroded their Origin.

Their movements grew slower and slower, and the dark gold shells on their surfaces began to peel off.

“Now!” Nightmare shouted to the ten elites.

The ten people struck simultaneously.

Ten streaks of black-gray flames condensed into ten long spears, piercing into the bodies of the two Death Soldiers from different angles.

Puchi puchi puchi puchi puchi—

The Death Soldiers' bodies were perforated, and golden liquid gushed out madly.

And Nightmare's flame ropes suddenly tightened.

Crack.

Two 'heads' were forcibly snapped off.

The bodies of the two Death Soldiers slumped down and were subsequently completely devoured by the flames.

Three Supreme-level Death Soldiers, all destroyed.

Nightmare withdrew his hands and looked at the primordial supreme crystal core emitting nine-colored radiance at the center of the starry sky.

Now, no one could stop him.