Chapter 43 The Ultimate Battle, Clash of Origins

"Grandmist Heavenly Emperor: World-Extinguishing Palm!"

The moment the Heavenly Emperor's voice fell, the entire sky suddenly darkened.

A massive golden palm, covering a radius of a thousand miles, reached out from the depths of the firmament. Its palm lines were like mountains and ravines, with every single line flowing with the Law of Destruction. Before the giant palm had even fully descended, the space below had already begun to collapse inch by inch, revealing a pitch-black void.

This was true world-extinguishing power! Ordinary Supreme Late Stage Cultivators would not even have a chance to escape under this palm!

Nightmare looked up, the Demonic Flames in his eyes flickering wildly.

Instead of retreating, he advanced, spreading his arms as the Demonic Flames around him erupted toward the sky like a volcanic explosion!

"Dao Reversal Convergence: Shield!"

Pitch-black Demonic Flames converged and compressed wildly in mid-air, transforming into a massive shield a hundred zhang in diameter. The surface of the shield was not solid, but an energy barrier composed of countless flowing Dao Reversal Runes, emitting an aura of Chaos and nothingness.

The massive golden palm slammed down with a roar!

"Boom—!!!"

The moment the shield and palm collided, heaven and earth lost their voice.

The terrifying energy shockwave turned into visible circular ripples, sweeping out in all directions! Everywhere it passed, palaces turned to dust, the ground was scraped three feet deep, and even space was plowed into deep ravines!

The three hundred elites had already retreated a thousand miles away; even so, their blood and Qi were still churned by the aftershocks.

The shield shook violently, and countless cracks appeared on its surface.

A cold light flashed in the Heavenly Emperor's eyes as he pressed his palm down once more:

"Break!"

The light of the golden palm intensified again, and its destructive aura surged by thirty percent!

"Crack—"

The cracks on the shield spread rapidly, looking as if it were about to shatter!

Nightmare, however, smiled at this moment.

"Devour."

He softly uttered a single word.

Countless black tentacles suddenly surged from the cracks on the shield's surface! The tentacles wound around the massive golden palm like living creatures, crazily sucking and devouring the Divine Court Origin contained within the palm!

"Zizizi..."

The massive golden palm dimmed and shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye! In just three breaths, nearly thirty percent of its Origin had actually been devoured!

"What?!" The Heavenly Emperor's pupils shrank abruptly.

He could clearly feel that the power in his palm was being assimilated and absorbed by that eerie black fire, turning into the opponent's strength!

"The Fire of Dao Reversal... can actually backfire against the orthodox?!" A tumultuous wave rose in his heart.

Nightmare seized this momentary opening, and his figure suddenly vanished!

When he reappeared, he was already ten zhang in front of the Heavenly Emperor!

"Dao Reversal Reincarnation Convergence Blade: Origin Breaker!"

The pitch-black long blade concentrated all its power and stabbed directly toward the core of the Heavenly Emperor's Dantian! Everywhere the blade's tip passed, space was silently annihilated, leaving a black trail that could not heal for a long time!

The Heavenly Emperor roared, and the golden light around him surged, transforming into a thick "Heavenly Emperor Origin Shield"!

"Clang—!!!"

The blade's tip struck the shield, erupting with a piercing sound of clashing metal!

The shield vibrated violently, and ripples appeared on its surface. The blade's tip did not pierce through, but those wisps of pitch-black Demonic Flame were like maggots on a bone, crazily spreading and eroding along the shield's surface!

"Zizizi..."

The golden light of the shield dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye!

"Scoundrel!" The Heavenly Emperor was enraged; his left hand formed a seal, and he pointed a finger toward the center of Nightmare's brows:

"Heavenly Emperor Finger: Soul Execution!"

Golden light condensed at his fingertip, turning into a thread-thin beam of light that ignored spatial distance and stabbed directly toward Nightmare's Divine Soul!

This was a killing move specifically targeting the Divine Soul! No matter how strong the Physical Body was, a wounded Divine Soul was still a heavy blow!

Demonic Flames flashed in Nightmare's eyes, and a phantom of a dao reversal key appeared at the center of his brows!

"Weng—"

A pitch-black light curtain spread from the center of his brows, colliding fiercely with the golden beam of light!

Silent annihilation occurred in mid-air as gold and black intertwined and dissipated.

And in that spark of an instant, Nightmare exerted force with the long blade in his right hand once more!

"Break!"

"Crack—!!"

A crack finally appeared on the Heavenly Emperor Origin Shield!

Though subtle, it truly existed!

The Heavenly Emperor's expression finally changed.

Without hesitation, his hands formed seals, and the golden Origin within his body began to burn wildly!

"Grandmist Heavenly Emperor Technique: Origin Sacrifice!"

His aura climbed madly! In an instant, it broke through the limit of the Supreme Late Stage and stepped into a blurred level!

The entire world wailed under his pressure!

"Die for this Venerable One!"

The Heavenly Emperor threw a punch, the fist print transforming into a golden torrent carrying the destructive power of burning Origin, heading straight for Nightmare's face!

This punch was enough to heavily injure someone of the same rank!

Battle Intent boiled in Nightmare's eyes as the three dao reversal keys inside his body resonated simultaneously!

"Grandmist Chaos Void Annihilation Reincarnation Convergence: Full Release!"

The power of the pitch-black Demonic Flames rose another level! He actually neither dodged nor avoided, throwing a punch in return!

"Dao Reversal Convergence: World Crusher!"

The two fists collided!

"Rumble—!!!"

This explosion was more terrifying than any before!

The golden and black lights intertwined into a sky-reaching pillar of light that shot straight into the depths of the Universe! All the Cultivators in the High Realm where the Divine Court headquarters was located saw this light and felt the world-destroying ripples!

In the center of the light pillar, two figures frantically crossed and struck each other at a speed difficult for the naked eye to capture!

Fists, palms, fingers, blades... every collision triggered a collapse of space! The two fought from the heavens to the earth, and then from the earth to the depths of the Void Realm! Everywhere they passed, everything turned to nothingness!

The three hundred elites watching from a thousand miles away were already dumbstruck.

Is this... a duel at the Supreme Peak level?!

"Puff!"

Fighting until the thirty-seventh round, the Heavenly Emperor suddenly spat out a mouthful of golden blood!

He discovered with horror that the combat power increase he had gained by burning his Origin was actually fading rapidly! And that eerie Reverse Path power was frantically eroding his Origin core through every collision!

"Impossible... This Venerable One's Grandmist Heavenly Emperor Technique is an orthodox Supreme Cultivation Technique, how could it be countered..." A tumultuous wave rose in his heart.

Nightmare seized his momentary trance, his figure closing in like a ghost as the Dao Reversal Blade swept across!

"Chila—!"

The golden armor on the Heavenly Emperor's shoulder shattered, and a wound deep enough to see the bone appeared! Golden blood gushed out like a fountain, and the Origin power contained within it leaked out wildly!

"You...!" The Heavenly Emperor retreated a thousand zhang, clutching his shoulder, an expression of disbelief finally appearing in his eyes.

He was injured.

For the first time in ten thousand years, he was truly injured!

Nightmare stood with his blade, Demonic Flames burning fiercely around him, his aura rising instead of falling.

He licked the corner of his mouth—a drop of the Heavenly Emperor's golden blood was there, currently being rapidly devoured and converted by the Demonic Flames.

"Orthodox?"

He looked at the Heavenly Emperor, his eyes full of mockery:

"Nothing more than this."