Just as Electrolux was about to clash violently with Austin Griffin, a vast divine might once again descended from the sky.
"Teacher, leave him to me."
Chen Junting trod on the void, looking down at the God of Heavenly Calamity. And his arrival also placed immense pressure on Austin Griffin.
[Another one!]
At this moment, even though Austin Griffin's thoughts of destruction were at their peak, he didn't dare to act rashly. Thus, he transformed into his human form—a head of purple long hair, wearing a luxurious purple robe, with gray eyes full of deathly stillness—once again presenting himself before everyone.
First casting a subtle, traceless glance at Electrolux, Austin Griffin then locked his gaze dead onto Chen Junting, his tone exceptionally cold. "Foreign god, you want to interfere in the affairs of my plane!? Your jurisdiction reaches too far!"
"What I want to do, what does it have to do with you!?"
Having cultivated his character for many years, the arrogance in his bones remained indelible. This single opening remark thoroughly enraged the God of Heavenly Calamity!
He was wary, but that didn't mean he was afraid!
"Foreign god! You seek death!" Austin Griffin fiercely clenched his right hand, and a cluster of purple light bombarded towards him like lightning.
Chen Junting, however, waved his hand grandly, dissipating it into nothingness.
Immediately after, silver radiance erupted in an instant. Under the flow of spatial power, it directly enveloped the figures of both of them.
Apart from Electrolux, everyone was blinded by this dazzling silver brilliance. But when their vision recovered, they found that the two highly tense figures had already disappeared.
"Senior Electrolux, what exactly..."
Long Haochen, who roughly guessed the situation, looked at Electrolux. While cradling Hao Yue's consciousness, a flash of worry crossed his eyes.
"Relax, it's fine."
Seeing Chen Junting take action, Electrolux's entire aura also retracted. He believed in his student; a God of Heavenly Calamity in an incomplete state would be no match for him.
Subsequently, he turned his gaze to Sheng Caier beside him.
"The one just now is your junior brother..."
"Junior brother?!"
Hearing this, Sheng Caier's eyes immediately lit up.
Thus, Electrolux began to recount his experiences after death. Of course, he also placed the Tower of Eternity upon the earth, emitting divine power to protect the Throne of Seal plane.
At the same time, in the vast universe, two figures stood opposed, tens of thousands of miles apart. On one side was the God of Order, Chen Junting, holding his divine sword, clad in divine armor, his aura as steady and profound as the vast starry sky; on the other side was the God of Heavenly Calamity, Austin Griffin, radiating endless destruction and boundless anger. His body was enveloped in pitch-black lightning, as if gathering all the power of destruction in this galaxy.
This was an unprecedented divine battle.
At least for Chen Junting, it was something he had never experienced before.
It was just that once the powers of two supreme gods collided with full force, it would be enough to affect the galaxy and destroy several planes here. Even situated in the cosmic starry sky, it was not safe.
To prevent the battle's aftershocks from affecting the galaxy, Chen Junting directly struck first. The Immortal-Slaying Array Diagram suddenly lit up, and four divine swords flew out from the void, suspending themselves around the perimeter of the starry sky battlefield.
Slay, Massacre, Trap, and Annihilate instantly unfurled an invisible barrier between heaven and earth. In an instant, the entire battlefield was isolated into an independent space. Unless the formation was broken, no matter how earth-shattering the battle was, it could not affect anything outside the barrier.
Austin Griffin suddenly looked up. "This is a formation composed of super divine weapons. You plan to trap both of us here?"
Chen Junting merely pointed his sword at the God of Heavenly Calamity. "I use this sword formation to isolate this space-time. This battle will be settled between us and will absolutely not affect the Throne of Seal plane. Lest it indirectly achieves your goal."
Hearing this, Austin Griffin laughed wildly, the power of destruction surging madly around him. "Just you? Even the Creator God back then couldn't do it! Your rule is Order, right! Foreign god, today, let the wrath of Heavenly Calamity burn your ridiculous Order to ashes!" As he finished speaking, his aura suddenly climbed, and the surrounding void began to violently tremble, as if it could collapse at any moment.
Chen Junting's expression remained unchanged as he gently swung the Sword of Order with his right hand. Instantly, a vast power of Order surged from the blade, re-stabilizing the shaking space around them.
"Further words are useless, let's fight!"
"Roar—"
Austin Griffin struck first.
Throwing his head back in a long howl, pitch-black lightning drilled out from his fingertips like living creatures, converging into a sky-obscuring thunder dragon that fiercely pounced towards Chen Junting. Wherever the thunder dragon passed, space shattered one after another, revealing the deep, chaotic void.
"Awe-Inspiring All Directions!"
With a soft shout, eight divine swords suddenly fell, and a barrier instantly rose. All the lightning that struck it was firmly blocked, unable to advance a single inch further. Accompanied by a thought, the barrier bloomed with ten thousand rays of glowing light, purifying all the negative energy completely. The thunder dragon, upon touching the glowing light, melted and collapsed like ice and snow meeting the scorching sun.
With a backhand sword strike, the power of Order surged madly.
Austin Griffin, in turn, let out an angry roar. A burst of fierce flames suddenly rose, instantly shaking back the layers of sword light. His hands condensed two tornado cyclones, launching a pincer attack on Chen Junting from left and right.
The wind fueled the fire, and two wind-and-fire dragon kings swept in.
Chen Junting neither dodged nor evaded. The Sword of Order drew a perfect arc in front of his chest, and an overbearing will rose up.
Supreme Dominance!
In an instant, the surrounding energy seemed to encounter an emperor, and its flow suddenly underwent a bizarre change. The surrounding energy was directly drawn empty. The imposing wind-and-fire dragon kings, in a flash, seemed to lose all energy support. Without the continuous stabilization of divine power, they dissipated into nothingness with a "bang."
At the same time, Austin Griffin's gaze jolted.
Sensing something amiss, he immediately unleashed his unique divine domain. In an instant, the space within the entire Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation became incomparably dim. Countless black lightning bolts interwove into a web in the sky, as if the apocalypse had arrived. The void tore open massive rifts, spewing out an endless aura of destruction. The figure of the God of Heavenly Calamity loomed faintly in the darkness, like a demon god from the abyss.
Sword God Without Self!
Facing the God of Heavenly Calamity who was almost going all out, Chen Junting similarly pushed his amplifications to their peak. His entire aura abruptly changed, his body, mind, and will seemingly connecting with the universe.
"Tribulation of Time and Space!"
In a state of absolute rationality, the Sword of Order in Chen Junting's hand burst forth with dazzling brilliance. This sword strike seemed to cross the river of time, containing the power of temporal erosion.
At this moment, Austin Griffin felt an indescribable senility and exhaustion instantly envelop his body. Even his power and vitality were significantly worn down at this moment.
Seeing this, Chen Junting erupted with boundless divine might and pressed forward!
"You think this can defeat me!"
Forcibly suppressing the power of time and space within his body, Austin Griffin's tone was ice-cold. But how could Chen Junting bother with what this guy was saying? He directly engaged him in a brutal melee, fighting with genuine fury, intending to thoroughly suppress and kill the evil thought when he was at his most vulnerable.
For a time, both of them went all out.
Such a brutal slaughter lasted for a full two days.
During these two days, quite a few lifeless planets within the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation were blasted apart. The elemental entities nurtured within these planets were also controlled by Austin Griffin to use against his enemy. He even combined the power of destruction with the energy generated from the shattering planets, turning them into a purple divine sword that collided with Chen Junting in the starry sky.
After fighting to this step, both Chen Junting's and Austin Griffin's bodies were simultaneously damaged. Even though Chen Junting was protected by super divine weapons, he was still invaded by the God of Heavenly Calamity's power.
Both possessed vigorous divine power, fighting until blood splattered everywhere, going completely berserk. Although for Chen Junting, most of the blood on his body belonged to Austin Griffin. At the same time, Austin Griffin's condition was far inferior to Chen Junting's, with his essence, energy, and spirit constantly declining.
"Roar—"
Right at this moment, Austin Griffin let out a roar, and his ten-thousand-meter-long body unfurled like a city. Covered in massive scales tens of meters in diameter, his thick limbs seemed capable of making the void collapse at any time. A pair of giant wings spread out, their nearly ten-thousand-meter width blotting out the sky and sun.
The most terrifying thing was the nine massive heads growing from his thick neck, resembling lions and dragons, incomparably ferocious. They all opened their blood-red maws, devouring towards Chen Junting. When the nine mouths snapped down simultaneously, the void annihilated, and meteorites and shattered planet fragments fell into his mouth. It could truly be described as terrifyingly so!
Underneath the nine massive chimera heads all opening their bloody maws, they swallowed everything nearby in one gulp, emitting black light that engulfed all tangible matter.
Chen Junting waved his hand, and the four swords shot out simultaneously. Four sword gates, filled with the Slaying, Massacre, Trap, and Annihilate auras, struck forward, blocking the path of the attack. But as the nine beast heads spewed black light, it caused the sword gate projections to annihilate and the laws to dry up.
"Roar—" ×9
Nine roars, what a world-shaking ferocious might!
At the exact same moment, from behind Austin Griffin's true body, a tail suddenly shot out, fiercely attacking Chen Junting's back like a giant snake... or rather, it was a giant snake!
Pitch-black as ink, the snake head was hideous.
Under its giant maw, its fangs were densely packed, tearing through the cosmic starry sky.
Chen Junting, however, suddenly spun around. The light from his Heavenly Eye's pupil turned into a blade's edge, utilizing the divine power of Order. Under the dazzling golden luster, he directly pinned down Austin Griffin's snake tail, and then, amidst the blooming divine light, fiercely slashed down like a divine blade.
"Roar—"
Austin Griffin immediately let out a painful cry!
Chen Junting seized the opportunity. His eyes became incomparably sharp, and the Sword of Order bloomed with the radiance of destiny.
"Dirge of Destiny!"
As the voice rang out, Austin Griffin suddenly felt a palpitation. He discovered in horror that under this divine light, all of his non-divine power defenses lost their effect at this moment. As if ignored by destiny, his divine body became unusually fragile, appearing as vulnerable as an ordinary physical body.
"Pfft—"
Blood surged to the sky, flying straight up three thousand feet!
Chen Junting tore off that giant snake tail, letting its snake mouth snap open and shut. Then, he violently turned around again. As he slashed out with his sword, Austin Griffin instinctively dodged, but his body was still heavily injured.
Austin Griffin roared in pain once more.
He quickly distanced himself again. After all, his tail was severed, and even his spine had been cleaved with a massive gash; he was almost dead.
Realizing that the situation was wrong, he transformed back into human form after putting some distance between them. However, the divine power within his body condensed frantically, forming a suit of energy divine armor on his surface, exceedingly difficult to break.
As the battle once again entered a white-hot stage, Chen Junting and Austin Griffin each unleashed their trump cards.
Austin's divine domain covered the sky and earth, with endless power of destruction; Chen Junting's divine domain was as steady as a rock, blocking all destruction outside. The two went back and forth, temporarily unable to determine a victor.
Of course, if it continued, Austin Griffin would absolutely not be Chen Junting's match.
Because his condition was simply too poor; his body had already been heavily damaged by Chen Junting. And continuing to fight to the point of slaying Austin Griffin was not Chen Junting's goal. He had to make a quick decision to prevent his physical body from collapsing.
Thus, "Heaven and Earth Fall Silent!"
An invisible power of artistic conception spread out, bringing all things to silence. Wherever it passed, even Austin Griffin's divine power of Heavenly Calamity temporarily lost some of its sharpness.
At this moment, Austin Griffin felt his mind suddenly plunge into a dead silence. His essence, energy, and spirit seemed to be drained dry, and the circulation of his divine power became exceptionally slow. In this instant, he felt the illusion of becoming a non-god. This sense of weakness and powerlessness couldn't help but make him feel terrified.
But soon, he forcibly broke free.
However, at this time, a rose-gold halo flashed by first.
Destiny Judgment!
Following that was the Sword of Order emitting a clear hum. Upon the blade, six completely different types of sword qi projections emerged, all containing the ultimate meaning of "abandonment" and "rejection."
The first sword qi was vast and lofty, yet carried a complete apathy, as if the entire heavens had turned their backs, no longer offering the slightest favor—Heaven Abandons it;
The second sword qi was heavy and condensed, yet revealed a resolute rejection, as if the earth had turned into a quicksand trap, wanting to devour everything—Earth Rejects it;
The third sword qi gathered phantoms of sentient beings, with wails, angry curses, and fear, ultimately condensing into a sky-reaching torrent of resentment and hatred—Humans Loathe it;
The fourth sword qi was wild and violent, containing the madness and hatred of hundreds of millions of beast souls, tearing at all civilization and order—Beasts Hate it;
The fifth sword qi was sacred and majestic, yet full of the gods' deepest abhorrence for blasphemous existences, descending divine punishment—Gods Detest it;
The sixth sword qi was deep and eerie, pulling at the sighs and curses of death, making all things wither—Ghosts Despise it.
Six bursts of sword qi, representing the ultimate slaughter of being jointly intolerable to heaven, earth, all things, and all rule-bound living beings. The moment they appeared, it was as if the entire Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation trembled and feared for it.
At this moment, from Chen Junting's mouth, four icy words were spat out, like the final judgment:
"Heaven's Way—Kill Character!"
The six bursts of sword qi, in an incredibly profound sequence and trajectory, interwove into a complex rune full of destructive beauty—a massive "Kill" character!
This "Kill" character was like an extermination order issued by the Heavenly Dao against Austin Griffin!
The moment the "Kill" character took shape, it slowly rotated, stamping towards Austin Griffin. Its speed didn't seem fast, but Austin Griffin found that he couldn't dodge it at all at this moment. His aura, destiny, and even every "trace" of his existence in this world had been completely locked onto by this Heavenly Dao "Kill" character. Time and space solidified around him, and even his thoughts seemed to stagnate.
Realizing this, Austin Griffin naturally wouldn't sit and wait for death.
"Final Annihilation!"
Accompanied by a loud shout, behind Austin Griffin, wisps of purple mist rose up. His own body surged with black light, condensing into a dharma avatar. It was himself, standing in the cosmic starry sky, incomparably massive.
With a "rumble," a black shadow behind him formed the shape of a nine-headed chimera. Each head condensed a strand of elemental energy, and after gathering together, they suppressively killed towards the stamping "Kill" character!
Austin Griffin's original body closely followed, flowing with a halo of destruction. He completely merged with that phantom, erupting with a world-destroying aura, causing the void to collapse and matter to turn into flying ash.
At this moment, he unleashed his strongest strike!
In the next second, the two thoroughly collided!
Boom—
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