"How about the Virtual God?"
"My arrows can slay true gods!"
Huang Zhong stepped forward, his white hair fluttering in the void. Two iron-cast bows behind him blazed with the Scarlet Southern Ming Fire. In his right hand, he gripped a Scarlet Blood Saber, placing it before the Sea God Island's Divine Son.
On his physical body, seven sources of divine fire blazed fiercely. Powerful auras surged towards the Sea God's Divine Son, whose Baihui acupoint had already been opened, pressing down on him. The world-shattering aura, akin to a divine beast, enveloped heaven and earth, making the Sea God Island Divine Son's physical body rumble!
Boom!
Ten thousand miles in the Nine Heavens, a giant Vermillion Bird flapped its wings, the Southern Ming Fire descending in a slanted torrent.
On the Sea God Island Divine Son's body, the ten sources of divine fire that ignited were insignificant in the face of the scarlet world. The divine beast's fire completely suppressed the Sea God Island Divine Son who had broken the limit of the Divine Fire realm.
It was a scarlet world, with raging flames, devastating ten thousand miles of the Nine Heavens!
"Ancient Divine Beast—Vermillion Bird!!"
The Sea God Island Divine Son's face was filled with horror. Unconcerned by the decline of his divine fire, he whispered in disbelief. The divine beast Vermillion Bird was a spirit of a divine object, a supreme existence that could only be glimpsed in the core of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces!
The ten sources of divine fire ignited on his body weakened progressively, posing no threat, let alone any lethal power!
"Where is the god!"
Huang Zhong's face was calm. The Scarlet Blood Saber in his hand hummed, and powerful saber intent condensed in the Nine Heavens. He spoke softly, and the world responded. His usually calm eyes swept over the dark clouds above the Sea God Island.
As his voice faded, the scarlet world of ten thousand miles split into two. A formidable saber edge ravaged the space between the scarlet expanse. Wisps of blood-red saber intent intertwined with the scarlet Southern Ming Fire. Even the physical body of the Sea God Guard Captain, who was being fiercely suppressed by Xu Chu nearby, began to emit white smoke, and faint scarlet flames ignited, continuously resisting his physical body's spiritual power.
"Baihui Divine Fire, firmly established in the firmament, how can I be defeated by your mere kind!!"
The Sea God Island Divine Son's face grew paler. The divine fire at his Baihui acupoint forcibly surged by three points, barely resisting the suppression of the scarlet Southern Ming Fire that filled the sky.
"Ah!!"
"A mere ant of the seventh layer, how dare you harm my physical body!"
The Sea God Island Guard Captain suddenly cried out in agony. The Southern Ming Fire on his body burned fiercer and fiercer, turning him into a fiery figure, suffering torment in both body and soul. Yet, he still bared his teeth and provoked Xu Chu, who held the Fire Cloud Saber.
"Heh heh!!"
Xu Chu grinned, glancing at the dark clouds on the distant horizon. Saber intent rolled within the void's fiery sea. The scarlet Southern Ming Fire enveloped endless saber edges, its might shaking the Nine Heavens. The terrifying power suppressed the Sea God Guard Captain's divine fires one by one, extinguishing them.
"Human race..."
The Sea God Guard Captain looked at the terrifying saber intent that was suppressing his divine fires. Without time to tend to the flames on his physical body, he forcefully unleashed a punch. The spiritual energy and fist intent in his body were unable to erupt fully, as they were enveloped by the Southern Ming Fire, his power less than a third of its peak.
"Your life!"
"Is already my saber's soul!"
Xu Chu glanced at the endless dark clouds. With a flick of his wrist, a void-shattering tiger roared. A surge of boundless blood qi erupted from his physical body into the Nine Heavens, the saber churning the fierce wind!
"Hummm~~"
The Vermillion Bird stood behind Xu Chu, its wings flapping, unleashing blazing flames. The Fire Cloud Saber in his hand seemed to vaporize, sometimes solid, sometimes ethereal. At one moment, a fierce tiger surged in the fire; at another, a Vermillion Bird was reborn from the flames. The convergence of these two powerful forces was entirely concentrated on the blade within.
The long saber was drawn, slashing down furiously at the Sea God Guard Captain enveloped by the Southern Ming Fire!
Firelight crisscrossed, saber intent struck the heavens!
The moment this saber strike was unleashed, the dark clouds covering the Sea God Island trembled violently. The extremely formless, yet superiorly formed saber edge, startled the divine fire at the Sea God Island Divine Son's Baihui acupoint into quietly extinguishing, daring not to contend with the saber edge from the Ninth Heaven!
"The Great Han Imperial Dynasty, the fall of the Sea God Guard Captain marks the doom of your Imperial Dynasty!!"
The Sea God Island Divine Son roared in fury and charged forward. His eyes were no longer alight with divine fire but filled with flames of rage. A divine trident was held horizontally, intending to shatter the arrogant saber edge.
"Hummm~~"
Three streaks of light flashed in the corner of the Sea God Island Divine Son's vision. Huang Zhong narrowed his eyes slightly, gripping his iron-cast bow. Three scarlet arrows, flowing with fiery light, vibrated the void wildly, constantly testing the limits of space.
"You!!"
The Sea God Island Divine Son's horizontally extended arm suddenly paused. The momentum of his forceful strike abruptly dissipated, his offensive surge transforming into a passive defense. His eyes were fixed on Huang Zhong, no longer glancing at the distant void.
"Roar!"
The roars of the multicolored tiger echoed continuously. The long hair was no longer ordinary but brimmed with divine fire!
"Boom!"
The fist intent, unleashed with all his might, vanished into the void. The faintly disappearing streaks of light proclaimed the arrival of death. The desperate hope for survival flickered and grew increasingly anxious as he watched his attack dissipate.
"No... no... I am about to reach the peak of Divine Fire, the Sea God has already promised me, he has already promised me, he will bestow upon me the origin of the plane, I... no... no!"
The Sea God Guard Captain's face grew more ferocious and distorted. His divine body was being eroded by the formidable energy of the saber edge rapidly cutting through the void. It felt like being flayed alive. The saber edge was still traversing the void at high speed, and mere wisps of its formidable energy were enough to heavily suppress him, a being who had already ignited eight sources of divine fire, leaving him no room to maneuver!
"Father!!"
After the Sea God Island Divine Son roared furiously towards the dark clouds behind him, he abandoned all defensive postures. With all his might, regardless of the spiritual energy gathered behind him, he thrust his trident furiously towards Huang Zhong ahead!
With that trident thrust, the sea waves surged, and deep blue streams of light violently collided with the divine fire that filled the sky. Even with its immense power, briefly restraining the scarlet Southern Ming Fire that raged in the Nine Heavens, it still could not withstand the terrifying, crushing saber edge!
A single saber stroke passed. There was no gushing blood, no bursting flesh and blood, not even remnants of clothing. Everything seemed to have fused with the terrifying power carried by the saber. As the saber edge continued to slash forward furiously, it continuously disappeared into the void.
"Rumble!!"
The continuously impacting saber energy, after passing over the Sea God Guard Captain, did not halt. Instead, it furiously tore towards the surging dark clouds!
"Insignificant ant!"
"How dare you not kneel before a god!"
A streak of deep blue, sword-like formidable energy tore out from the dark clouds, colliding furiously with the saber edge in the Nine Heavens, unleashing a tempestuous energy fluctuation.