In the darkness, pillars of fire surged up from the ground one after another.
The Evil God King's true body merged with the shadow of the horned demon king behind him, forming a terrifying demonic entity. Two clawed hands extended from the demonic form, exuding a terrifying aura.
His divine power level rapidly climbed, nearly reaching Di Tian's level.
In the dark, a flash of clashing fire lit up—clang!—a metallic ring echoed.
The one falling into disadvantage was still the Evil God King, who was blasted backward into the endless darkness.
But in the next instant, while retreating into that darkness, he suddenly extended two threads—one blue, one red.
These two threads wrapped around Di Tian without resistance.
As soon as they touched him, Di Tian immediately sensed that the blue thread was siphoning off his divine energy, while the red thread was draining his life force.
The stolen divine energy and life force were channeled along the threads, feeding back to the Evil God King.
In the blink of a thought, Di Tian instantly understood how to counter this trick.
His figure flickered, and remnants of his form appeared both inside and outside the "Darkness: Heaven and Earth Without Light" domain.
With this motion alone, he broke free from the threads' grip.
Di Tian's escape was so swift that the Evil God King hadn't managed to absorb much energy. And he himself hadn't yet exited the domain either.
Facing the surging Di Tian, who stepped across boundless darkness, the Evil God King raised his demonic claw, pressing down into the void, shaking the very space.
However, this had little effect on Di Tian.
This kind of spatial tremor could only be caused by a divine weapon tearing through space.
It was from Di Tian's Royal Armory.
Even in a pure darkness domain, Di Tian could wield his weapons as if they were extensions of his limbs.
A rain of divine weapons erupted—like a storm of blades, they shot out in a flash, tearing through the tremors from the demon's claw and even rebounding damage back to the Evil God King himself.
Among them, the Dragon God Spear, a supreme divine weapon, pierced straight through the Evil God King's demonic body.
From the start of the battle, even in a one-on-one, Di Tian had been suppressing the Evil God King with ease.
But when it came to the final moment, even though divine weapons had pierced through that demon body countless times, the Evil God King's life still wouldn't end.
His demon body was like a ragged cloth pierced hundreds of times—it was torn and tattered, but somehow still barely functioning.
Certainly, once the divine flame completely burned out, the Evil God King would fall.
But Di Tian didn't plan to wait. Sure, he was fine with the Evil God King dying—but not with letting the God Core burn up in the process.
He needed immense energy to forge the Sword of Judgment of the Three Realms, and the Evil God King's God Core, being of the same origin, was the perfect fuel.
Suddenly, a spiritual force surpassing the Evil God King's exploded forth.
Another domain-like ability erupted, similar to "Darkness: Heaven and Earth Without Light"—but this time, it was spiritual.
Time Stop.
Multiple Time Rings appeared within the Time Stop field.
At the edges of each ring, glowing engravings shone—twelve symbols representing the hours of time.
Under the bombardment of countless divine weapons, the Time Rings locked the Evil God King's body in place.
The previously unkillable demon form suddenly showed signs of sluggishness.
Just for an instant—but that was all Di Tian needed.
Time Stop!
The Time Ring rotated to the symbol "IX", and the temporal order exploded in power.
The frozen demon body of the Evil God King suddenly revealed a fatal flaw.
A blood-red heart appeared at the center of his body, pounding vigorously to show it still lived.
The two massive claws instinctively tried to guard it—but they were completely immobilized.
Those once fearsome eyes could only watch as Di Tian's Dragon God Spear, infused with the nine elemental orders, shredded the still-beating heart to pieces.
Even though the divine flame had not yet burned out, the Evil God King was annihilated under Di Tian's overwhelming power.
That final thought—that unwillingness and disbelief—was his last.
In the next instant, his God Core was in Di Tian's hand.
The "Darkness: Heaven and Earth Without Light" domain dissipated on its own.
Without hesitation, Di Tian descended on another battlefield.
There, Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and the Demon Emperor, along with the Golden Armor Giant formed by the Divine Punishment Array, were fighting—equivalent to four God King-level combatants.
And they held in their hands three supreme divine weapons: the Ancient Tree of Life, Scepter of Destruction, and Shura Demon Sword.
They were besieging the Kindness God King, and were clearly winning.
If not for the Kindness God King also igniting her divine flame, like the Evil God King, she wouldn't have lasted this long.
But now things got worse—because Di Tian had arrived.
His appearance meant only one thing: The Evil God King had fallen.
At this realization, a wave of pain surged in the Kindness God King's chest—so intense she couldn't breathe, her heart spasmed.
It felt as though she had died, not the Evil God King.
But the pain wasn't just emotional—it was physical.
Twelve Time Rings were now neatly lined up along the Dragon God Spear.
Each one turned like a cogwheel, radiating a shining time rune—from "I" to "XII".
Di Tian hurled the spear with force, instantly piercing through the Kindness God King's body.
At that moment, the entire space around her seemed frozen. Nothing moved. Time had stopped.
The Golden Armor Giant, commanded by the Dark Dragon King, struck at the same time—its right arm transforming into a blade.
A sweeping slash cut across the sky, golden light obliterating everything in its path.
From afar, the white-robed Kindness God King, graceful as a lotus in bloom, had no choice but to take it head-on.
She perished—cleanly, without resistance.
Her divine flame had not fully burned out, yet her God Core emerged and was taken by Di Tian, joining the Evil God King's core in his hand.
With a wave of his other hand, the Judgment Scales and Heart of Kindness, two supreme divine items, were pulled into his grasp, floating around him.
At this moment, Di Tian nodded in satisfaction.
Five divine items, now complete.
He had mobilized enormous resources, even moved the New God Realm's Divine Ark Continent as a cosmic battleship. This campaign had not been in vain.
And now, with two God King Cores as fuel…
The forging of the Sword of Judgment of the Three Realms was just around the corner.
(End of Chapter)