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...Inside the God Forbidden Land.
Xuan Ming naturally had no idea of the outside discussion or the five God Kings' decision. Every shred of his mind was locked in a savage duel with the Golden Dragon King!
By forcefully devouring the God Realm's Origin divine force and immortal qi with Dragon Emperor Devouring World, his Asura Battle Soul had temporarily stabilized at the God King level—enough to clash head-on with the Golden Dragon King!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Every collision between the two titans shattered space and threw the Laws into Chaos.
Blood Spear and dragon claws struck wildly; annihilating breath met killing fists; dark-gold dragon blood and crimson energy sprayed in all directions.
The Golden Dragon King was utterly berserk, pushing the power of his shattered godhood to the limit, his attacks growing ever more ferocious in his determination to tear Xuan Ming apart.
Xuan Ming, riding the Asura Battle Soul, fused the might of his three divine rings to the extreme—slaughter, evil, and annihilation Laws interwove into a lethally sharp offensive.
The battle sank into a brutal stalemate.
For the moment, neither could overcome the other.
If the fight dragged on, Xuan Ming had no idea what the outcome would be—but Gu Yuena definitely could not wait that long.
So he had to end this quickly!
No more delays!
A flash of resolve crossed Xuan Ming's eyes; a drawn-out battle was a death sentence for Gu Yuena. He had to break the balance, even at a terrible price.
His thoughts raced, and in an instant he made a crazed decision!
"Buzz—!"
He no longer merely drew on the Blood Spear's own power; he sent his will deep into its core, linking to the nine spirit rings that encircled it.
Apart from the three million-year rings—Asura, Evil, and Annihilation—from the God Kings, the other six rings had long ago, during his Ascension into the God Realm and the forging of his godhood, been elevated to over two-hundred-thousand-year levels through the Power Of Faith he had gathered in the mortal world and the tempering of his Godhood Tribulation; each contained immense energy.
But now, instead of temporarily devouring their power as before, he would… devour them completely!
He would fuse the Laws and Origin energy within the rings entirely into the Blood Spear for a one-time, limit-breaking ultimate eruption.
It was tantamount to destroying those rings, stripping the spear of their future support.
But he could no longer afford to care.
The instant he condensed his godhood, the Blood Spear itself had transformed, reaching the level of a "pseudo-supreme Divine Artifact."
The rings had merely been icing on the cake.
Now, to gain absolute power capable of instantly gravely wounding—or even killing—the Golden Dragon King, those rings could be sacrificed.
Even the three priceless God King rings were expendable!
"Ring Devouring… Explode!"
Xuan Ming roared inwardly, his will a raging furnace that ignited every spirit ring on the Blood Spear.
The first ring—a blood-red halo—shuddered, then blazed like a star, turning into a pure golden torrent that poured into the spear. The spear's edge soared, its murderous aura piercing the heavens.
Next, the second, third… up to the sixth ring! Six rings of at least two-hundred-thousand years each burned and collapsed, six golden tides rushing one after another into the spear.
The Blood Spear shrieked under the strain, its shaft glowing red-hot, countless cracks webbing across its surface as though it might shatter at any instant—yet the destructive force it released multiplied geometrically, already surpassing the limit of a pseudo-supreme Divine Artifact!
But it was still not enough; to gravely wound the Golden Dragon King, he needed more.
"Asura Ring! Evil Ring! Annihilation Ring! Fuse!"
A ruthless gleam flashed in Xuan Ming's eyes as he triggered the final three million-year God King rings.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
The three radiant rings representing the Laws of God Kings flared, then hurled themselves like moths into flame, merging into the already berserk vortex of energy.
Slaughter, evil, annihilation—the three paramount Laws were forcibly compressed and smelted together.
Boom—!!!
The Blood Spear let out a heaven-shaking roar. No longer merely dark red, its whole body shimmered with a chaotic hue blending dark gold and blood; the shaft was wrapped in tangible strands of slaughter, evil, and annihilation.
The aura it emitted surpassed the pseudo-supreme level—reaching a true Supreme Divine Artifact.
This single strike would gather every ounce of his present strength: the God Realm divine force and immortal qi he had devoured, and the ultimate sacrifice of all the Blood Spear's spirit rings!
"Seal!"
Xuan Ming barked; the pure-white radiance of his godhood erupted at an intensity never seen before, turning into invisible chains of Law that locked the Golden Dragon King—who had just steadied himself for another charge—firmly in place. It was an absolute Law of negation against movement.
Shock flashed in the Golden Dragon King's blood-red eyes; he thrashed wildly, bursting with shattering divine force, yet for a moment he could not break the eerie Binding of the white godhood.
And in that very instant—
Xuan Ming, riding the Asura Battle Soul, hurled the Supreme Divine Artifact Blood Spear—breathing the aura of universal annihilation—straight at the immobilized Golden Dragon King.
There was no sound.
Only a Chaos-colored stream that seemed to pierce both time and space.
Where it passed, everything returned to nothingness; Laws ceased; even "existence" itself was erased, leaving an eternal trail of void.
The Golden Dragon King let out a despairing, frenzied roar, condensing all his shattering divine force into a thick dark-gold Law shield before him.
The next instant—
The Chaos stream and the dark-gold shield collided without the slightest noise.
No explosion, no shockwave.
Only ultimate annihilation.
The shield melted like snow under the sun; the Dragon King's roar cut short; his colossal body began disintegrating from the chest outward, turning into fundamental particles swallowed and annihilated by the Chaos light.
Rumble—!!!
Only then did a belated, cosmos-rending thunder roll across the God Forbidden Land, accompanied by an indescribable storm of energy.
The thirty-thousand-metre Asura Battle Soul, its energy exhausted, flickered like a candle in wind and dispersed.
Xuan Ming's true body fell from the sky, his face deathly pale, his aura ebbing back to merely a first-rank god—no, weaker than that.
He knelt on one knee, leaning on the now-dulled, ring-less Blood Spear, gasping for breath; even his white godhood flickered uncertainly.
Before him, the apocalyptic storm slowly subsided.
The Golden Dragon King's titanic form had vanished.
In its place stood a two-metre-tall, blood-soaked human youth covered in horrific wounds.
His short hair was dark gold, his face ferocious, pupils still madly blood-red, exuding a weakened yet savage aura.
The Golden Dragon King had been forced into human form—proof of unprecedented grave injury!
He clutched his chest—still gushing dark-gold blood—and stared at Xuan Ming with eyes full of dread, fury… and a trace of relief at survival.
"Cough cough…" He coughed up mouthfuls of dragon blood mixed with bits of organ, voice hoarse and icy. "Good… very good! Human—no, new god—you almost… truly almost killed this king!"
Feeling the divine power within him nearly scattered and his dragon core grievously wounded, a chill of fear ran through him.
Had Xuan Ming stabilized his God King Realm with his divine soul intact, that strike would have meant certain death.
"What a pity…" A cruel, twisted grin spread across the Golden Dragon King's face; he straightened despite the agony.
Dark-gold light condensed into an indestructible golden dragon spear in his hand.
"You're at your last gasp! Yet this king… with the body born of Dragon God, can still tear you apart!"
Step by step he advanced on the exhausted Xuan Ming, the golden dragon spear aimed at his brow.
"After devouring you… I'll devour the Silver Dragon King… and I… will still be the final victor!"