Long Haochen finally summoned the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation, while Xu Yuan entered a form he had never used before.
The form of the Three Lives Spiritual Furnace was another trump card that Xu Yuan developed in the past month.
If the Domain of All Things constructed with spirit nodes was merely Xu Yuan's replication of his previous mech domain, then this Three Lives Spiritual Furnace form represented Xu Yuan's exploration of Jue's power.
Xu Yuan perfectly utilized all the powers possessed by the Hunyuan Spear, transforming them into weapons and armor based on the system of the Holy Demon Continent.
This could also be considered Xu Yuan's recreation of his previous powers.
However, given Jue's current strength, the battle armor capabilities he recreated were stronger than Xu Yuan's true battle armor from Douluo Planet.
Jue's current power had completely surpassed Xu Yuan of the past.
With the quality of a transcendent divine artifact and inheriting Xu Yuan's essence, energy, and spirit, Jue's power was fully tapped.
In Xu Yuan's hands, Jue's power was perfectly exploited, even achieving one hundred twenty percent of its potency.
The two stood facing each other in mid-air.
Long Haochen, holding the nine-colored Eternal and Creation Sword, looked solemn.
Xu Yuan's strength far exceeded his expectations.
He hadn't expected Xu Zhi's son to be so powerful.
Actually, based on Xu Zhi's talent, Long Haochen had made some predictions about Xu Yuan's strength.
However, in Long Haochen's fixed impression, Xu Zhi was just a genius, not someone who had accumulated decades of strength.
No matter how extraordinary, in Long Haochen's subconscious, Xu Zhi's son was still a junior. Even if he inherited Xu Zhi's talent, his strength shouldn't be too outrageous.
But precisely because of this fixed impression, his prediction of Xu Yuan fell far short.
In fact, Xu Yuan was five years older than Xu Zhi in this life.
If following this logic, Long Haochen wouldn't have underestimated Xu Yuan. Based on the current situation, if Xu Zhi continued to accumulate for five more years, he would really have a chance to reach Xu Yuan's current level.
"Cross Slash!"
The giant sword in Long Haochen's hand instantly unleashed two sword qi, crossing each other—one horizontal, one vertical—forming a cross.
Cross Slash, a signature skill of knights, might be mastered by a third-rank knight.
However, in Long Haochen's hands, the power of Cross Slash couldn't be evaluated as a basic skill.
After the decisive battle at Demon Suppressing Pass, over the past half year, Long Haochen had reorganized all his abilities, bringing each skill to the limit of what he could achieve now.
Xu Yuan, holding the Hunyuan Spear, lightly drew it in front of him.
A spear radiance emerged.
Like a deep black hole forming the shape of the spear radiance, it tore open a crack in space.
The Cross Slash was swallowed by the spatial crack.
He swung the spear again.
The vortex resembling a black hole condensed into a crescent-shaped spear radiance.
The spear radiance swept across.
From Long Haochen's Eternal and Creation Sword, countless sword edges emanated, turning into rivers swirling in the air, bypassing the crescent-shaped spear radiance and forming a sword storm that directly surged toward Xu Yuan.
The Eternal and Creation Armor released dense light elemental power, condensing into a shield. Within the Eternal Light Domain around Long Haochen's body, seemingly endless light elemental power permeated and merged into the light shield released by the Eternal and Creation Armor.
No, to be precise, it wasn't the Realm of the Light God anymore.
When the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation appeared, a domain was also released from within the throne—it was the inherent Eternal Domain of the throne.
The Eternal Domain fused with the Realm of the Light God to form the Eternal Light Domain.
And the Eternal Light Domain was only on par with Xu Yuan's Domain of All Things.
The crescent-shaped spear radiance resembling a black hole landed on the light shield, causing a collision that disturbed space.
A crack immediately appeared on the light shield.
The crack rapidly spread, expanding quickly along with the spatial disturbance.
The vortex resembling a black hole seemed to merge with the surrounding space, releasing a devouring force, absorbing the power of light elements.
Long Haochen felt the light elemental power being devoured within the Eternal Light Domain and was shocked.
"What a refined technique."
Not only did it have powerful attacks, but it also had subsequent effects. The power of the vortex could even merge with space.
The way this person employed power involuntarily reminded Long Haochen of Xu Zhi.
Truly worthy father and son.
The sword storm released by Long Haochen now enveloped Xu Yuan.
The armor formed by the Stellar Spiritual Furnace on Xu Yuan's body emitted dazzling points of light. These points resonated with each spirit node, and all the power within the Domain of All Things transformed into stellar power.
Wherever the sword storm reached, countless stellar points of light appeared, rapidly expanding.
These points of light resembled tiny vortices, swallowing the sword edges and continuing to grow.
In the blink of an eye, the sword storm was completely devoured.
Long Haochen's pupils contracted.
This devouring power was simply absurd.
It wasn't just the absurdity of the devouring power but also the terrifying extent of Xu Yuan's development of the devouring attribute.
"Is this the change after the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace was integrated into the Hunyuan Spear?" Xu Zhi watched from the side, feeling shocked.
Perhaps the evolution of the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace didn't reach this point, but it undoubtedly provided Xu Yuan with an excellent opportunity to develop the devouring attribute.
These vortices were the best manifestation.
Weren't these vortex-like black holes the power of the Primordial Vortex Spiritual Furnace?
Long Haochen took a deep breath, and his entire body turned into a ball of light.
At this moment, he seemed to embody light itself.
The Eternal Light Domain continuously provided him with light elemental power, replenishing his consumption.
"Light Sword Slash!"
"Punishment Slash!"
"Judgment Light!"
One skill after another was released.
Finally, his gaze flickered.
"So, these vortices do have a limit to the power they can absorb. Once they reach their limit, they can no longer continue devouring." Long Haochen said.
Among the many skills he released, the final Judgment Light landed before Xu Yuan.
Xu Yuan held the spear, and between the transformation of black and white forces, five-element powers derived and split the Judgment Light.
"Sword Storm!"
Long Haochen released an infinite number of sword edges again, enveloping Xu Yuan in the sword storm.
Xu Yuan smiled.
Around him, numerous vortices collided with the sword edges.
Boom boom boom!
The sword storm dissipated.
Long Haochen's pupils contracted.
This...
He gave a bitter smile.
Simply absurd.
Such defensive capability was already invincible.
The starlight vortex absorbed power. Even if it reached its absorption limit, it could release all its power to withstand subsequent damage.
Unless the damage in one go exceeded twice the vortex's absorption capacity, the remaining force after reducing its double upper limit would still need to harm Xu Yuan.
Otherwise, any large-scale skill couldn't affect Xu Yuan.
"The only way to harm him is through close combat."
Long Haochen took a deep breath.
The light elemental power dissipated and quickly condensed, appearing not far from Xu Yuan.
He didn't continue to release large-scale skills.
If the starlight vortices that absorbed power could actively burst out damage, he needed to keep Xu Yuan's starlight from filling up as much as possible.
Otherwise, while engaging in close combat with Xu Yuan, he would also have to guard against the damage from the surrounding starlight vortices.
Long Haochen's Eternal and Creation Sword changed, becoming one of the lightweight dual swords, and then light elemental power condensed in his left hand.
The Royal Sword combined with the power of the Eternal Light Domain to form a new Eternal Royal Sword.
Holding the dual swords, Long Haochen's body began to spin.
The Hunyuan Spear thrust out.
Clang!
The Killing Spiral Sword wasn't released.
Long Haochen was surprised again.
Caught off guard, he was hit by Xu Yuan's second spear thrust.
His light elemental body was pierced, and then a burst of white light exploded, severely damaging his body.
His body turned into light and dissipated, re-condensing in the distance.
Far away, Cai'er, watching the battle, couldn't help but feel anxious.
Xu Yuan was too difficult to deal with.
Just by watching, Cai'er realized how troublesome Xu Yuan was.
Those various abilities were not only difficult to handle individually but also seemed to target Long Haochen specifically.
"Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace!"
Though the familiar power felt somewhat unfamiliar, Long Haochen followed his intuition and judged the force that interrupted his Killing Spiral Sword.
The ability of the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace was to make enemies only able to attack the user.
However, what Xu Yuan used earlier wasn't just locking Long Haochen's target onto him.
Even Long Haochen's movements were pulled.
Thinking of the image of the four-times evolved Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace from the Three Lives Spiritual Furnace earlier, Long Haochen understood the answer.
After just a few rounds of combat, they had thoroughly analyzed each other's abilities.
However, Long Haochen had no way to counter Xu Yuan.
Despite having extensive combat experience, Long Haochen still had no strategy.
Yet, the battle wasn't over, and Long Haochen had to continue fighting.
Holding the dual swords, he closed in again.
Once again, his Killing Spiral Sword was interrupted, and he confirmed the effect of Xu Yuan's Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace.
The third time, he finally rotated and slashed out the second sword.
The power of the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace linked his Eternal Royal Sword with Xu Yuan's spear, allowing him to slash out a second sword faster than his previous practical Killing Spiral Sword.
In this instant, Long Haochen felt a sense of enlightenment.
This peculiar sensation was like an epiphany.
Perhaps, in the future, he could explore further applications of the Holy Attraction Spiritual Furnace.
However, before he could delve deeper, the third sword was interrupted.
The Eternal Royal Sword was the second sword, and naturally, the third sword was the Eternal and Creation Sword.
The Eternal and Creation Sword lacked the power of the Holy Attraction.
Even though he had already used the Holy Attraction power, it didn't produce the same effect as before.
Long Haochen felt mentally exhausted.
He continued to release various knight skills.
Xu Yuan countered them one by one.
"Xu Zhi."
Xu Zhi, who was watching the battle, was interrupted by Cai'er's voice.
With a gratified smile, he looked at Cai'er.
Xu Yuan's battle satisfied him.
"You're curious why, despite Xu Yuan's displayed power intensity being low, even weaker than Haochen's, he remains undefeated, right?"
Cai'er nodded.
She and Long Haochen were older than Xu Zhi, but in their past interactions, Xu Zhi always acted like a teacher, explaining many principles of combat. So, when she had doubts, she immediately sought Xu Zhi for answers.
"This is understanding power," Xu Zhi said. "Flexible application isn't just about refining all mastered skills to their maximum power, making a first-rank skill exert ninth-rank limit effects."
Xu Zhi shook his head, looking at Xu Yuan in the sky.
"The strongest ability Little Yuan has shown so far is the devouring power, and his application of devouring power has been integrated into every aspect."
"Look, he can release the devouring power at any time—that's true flexible application."
Cai'er frowned, still unable to understand.
Randomly interspersing skills—hadn't Haochen achieved that yet?
"You still don't get it." Xu Zhi shook his head.
He sighed.
Without continuing the explanation.
Different types of cultivators find it hard to communicate with each other.
Like Xu Yuan's battle, it always seemed effortlessly easy, as if he weren't exerting any effort.
This is wisdom.
Having mastered the essence of power, he always applied his strength at the most critical moments when dealing with enemies.
Enemies were fighting, while he was solving problems.
A brute like Long Haochen couldn't understand, let alone learn.
The fierce battle between Long Haochen and Xu Yuan continued.
Since the Killing Spiral Sword couldn't be executed, Long Haochen didn't persist.
One person held dual swords, the other a long spear, engaging in close combat.
It resembled the most primitive close-quarters combat.
However, every collision of sword and spear caused spatial tremors and disturbances in the heavenly laws.
"Your strength is still lacking, but with the Divine Throne of Eternity and Creation, ascending to godhood won't be difficult for you," Xu Yuan said indifferently.
He thrust the spear one last time, piercing through Long Haochen.
"You can't defeat me."
The indifferent tone made Long Haochen feel defeated.
Although his power was superior, he felt suppressed, as if he were being toyed with at will.
"My father will still stay here. After you ascend to godhood, if you have any questions, you can ask him. If handling things here becomes difficult, my father can contact me."
As Xu Yuan spoke, the Hunyuan Spear in his hand disappeared, the Domain of All Things dissipated, and all spirit nodes concealed within his body.
The stellar armor on his body dispersed, and the surrounding starlight vanished.
While Long Haochen frowned, Xu Yuan explained with a bitter smile.
"Your strength is still stronger than mine; this body of mine can't hold up anymore."
After all, it was just a temporary body constructed with consciousness as the core.
The temporary body also had a limit to the power it could endure.
The continuous collisions had finally reached the limit of this body.
As his words fell, his body gradually disintegrated.
One by one, the spirit nodes collapsed.
His body became ethereal.
This scene made Long Haochen's eyes widen.
What, what's going on?
While fighting, although he was at a disadvantage, the opponent suddenly collapsed?
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