The sky was filled with golden lightning, accompanied by gathering white light, attempting to halt the demon's further destruction.
However, the power of a Great Lord was not something a mid-tier world could contend with.
When a Great Lord was willing to pay the price, the shattering of a world was merely a matter of time.
The lightning flashing across the sky, like countless dragons, struck the demon's giant claws.
But the Heavenly Wrath, which was enough to carve countless fissures, gradually lost its efficacy.
It wasn't that the world's resistance had weakened,
but rather, as the world's protective layer became increasingly fractured, the power the demon could wield would only grow.
At this critical juncture for heaven and earth, Chen Luo's declaration completely drowned out the thunder.
Above the firmament, the demon, which was tearing through the world's outer shell, paused upon hearing this.
Immediately after, uncontrollable laughter echoed through heaven and earth:
"Foolish!!"
"Ant, has the fear of death driven you mad?"
"Perish!!!"
A dense, dark red radiance suddenly covered the giant claw. This claw, which had invaded the world, now completely disregarded the bombardment of heavenly lightning and clawed directly at Chen Luo!
The sky was obscured by the giant claw. The dark red color was enough to drive anyone who saw it into madness and despair.
Between heaven and earth, Chen Luo remained silent.
The circulation of his vital energy within his body was like a celestial river descending, surging ceaselessly.
Facing this sky-obscuring giant claw, Chen Luo transformed into a beam of light and charged forward against the pressure!
Boom!!
The descending giant claw from the sky abruptly halted. Amidst the explosion, the surrounding atmosphere was pushed back by tens of thousands of miles!
The gases on the planet's surface began to dissipate into space. Under the faint light, they cast a brilliant ring around the planet.
And at the very center of the collision,
a small impact crater appeared in the palm of the giant claw.
Within the crater, Chen Luo, clad in armor with fiery red hair, spat out a mouthful of blood. His right hand simultaneously turned to ash.
"So hard."
Points of light converged on his right arm. His right arm, destroyed by the immense recoil, was instantly restored.
The Great Lord demon, momentarily stunned by the collision, finally came back to its senses.
Was Chen Luo strong?
No, not strong. Even the massive dent created by the collision was merely a minor injury to the demon.
But what surprised the demon was that its seemingly inevitable strike had been blocked?!
It must be understood that the demon had already extended its true form. Even while constantly enduring the world's repulsion, it should not have been something a newcomer at the Domain level could contend with.
Amidst the surprise, the demon felt a sense of foreboding.
The original plan was to forcefully withstand the world's suppression, devour this anomaly, and then immediately withdraw after destroying this world.
However, at this moment, things seemed to be spiraling out of control.
A thought stirred within the demon's mind: it had to end this quickly!
Hum!
The giant palm began to merge with a sudden force. Although it appeared slow, relative to its immense size, the slight movement of its fingertips covered nearly a thousandth of the speed of light per second.
"Resistance is futile. Accept your fate, ant!"
Sun Wukong, with a single somersault, traveled 108,000 li, yet could not escape the palm of the Buddha.
This was because when the Buddha's palm expanded to tens of thousands of li, a mere flick of a finger was enough to traverse hundreds of somersaults.
At this moment, Chen Luo was like Sun Wukong in the Buddha's hand. Several dark red, sky-piercing pillars directly enveloped him from all directions.
On the palm's surface, the dense dark red energy began to surge exponentially as the claw tightened.
Once the palm merged, the energy within would be enough to annihilate everything!
Chen Luo, however, showed no panic. He clenched his just-restored right hand, then looked up at the descending darkness.
"The path of vital energy has no such flashy tricks. Time, elements, karma – they are all irrelevant."
"The path of vital energy cultivates a pure physique, pure strength, pure combat power!"
"Therefore, if the heavens wish to crush me! Then I shall shatter these heavens!!"
His crimson combat boots stomped forcefully on the solid palm. The immense and pure physical strength caused even the demon's arm to tremble involuntarily.
Extreme strength brought extreme speed!
The next moment, a crimson beam of light, within the tens of thousands of li giant palm, began to maneuver with the speed of a shooting star!
Amidst continuous explosive impacts, one impact crater after another appeared on the palm and fingers!
With each strike, the merging giant palm paused for a moment.
In the blink of an eye, only a crimson line could be seen, crisscrossing and overlapping at the center of the massive demonic claw.
These were the afterimages of light left by its excessive speed!
The demon's enraged voice sounded again:
"Foolish!!! A mere Domain level, even in a direct clash, it is you who will die!!!"
"The body of a Great Lord is eternal!! For every inch you wound me, you will suffer a hundredfold!!"
The power of the giant claw increased, and its merging speed quickened.
In the increasingly narrow palm space, the speed of Chen Luo, transformed into a crimson stream of light, also grew faster!
With every collision, an impact crater appeared on the demon's palm.
But within that crimson stream of light, as the demon had said, Chen Luo's attacks were self-damaging!
Boom!
With another fierce collision against the giant palm, a large half of Chen Luo's body turned to ash in this impact.
But he did not stop, instead colliding with the next spot at an even faster speed!
Within a ten-thousandth of a second, the regeneration of his body was complete.
However, the pain from his shattered body was like falling into the deepest abyss of Avici Hell, where he endured inhuman suffering every moment.
Furthermore, with each collision, Chen Luo exerted his full strength, pushing his regenerative power to its absolute limit.
This meant Chen Luo was walking a tightrope over death.
A single mistake, and he would plunge into the abyss of death!
Therefore, the Great Lord demon's words were not wrong. It did not care how this human, possessing only brute force, resisted.
After all, once the palm merged, with the energy output of a Great Lord, it would be enough to refine everything about this human in an instant!
But things did not unfold as the demon expected.
As the giant palm merged, the space became increasingly constricted, and the pressure on Chen Luo grew.
This meant Chen Luo had to counterattack with even greater speed.
The stream of light within the palm had become an illusion.
The dense crimson lines seemed to weave into the appearance of a nebula.
Chen Luo should have been pushed to his limits, but the demon's heart suddenly sank.
The palm could no longer merge further!
A wild laugh erupted within the nebula of circulating crimson light:
"So satisfying! So satisfying!!"
The wounds on his body were already difficult to heal in time, and his surging vital energy even dissipated outside his body.
After each collision, Chen Luo's body moved one step closer to death.
But at this moment of facing death, Chen Luo's eyes shone brighter and brighter!