Chapter 257: Chapter 139: Ancient God’s Hand, Divine Blood Falls
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
VMMMM...
The battle between the two quickly moved from the Starry Sky Island into the Starry Sky Region.
And then into the Starry Sky Wreckage Area.
The release of their powerful attacks shattered and annihilated large swathes of wreckage.
The entire Starry Sky churned, a tempest of interwoven golden and blood-red light.
’That Divine Blood Berserker, Baluk, is indeed stronger than before. Even I might not win if I went up against him.’
’But...’
The Evil Spirit Wizard’s figure was perfectly reflected in Snake Woman Selena’s reptilian pupils.
’This Evil Spirit Wizard named Zorn Corick is clearly even stronger.’
’More importantly, this guy has mastered an Ancient God Curse, and he hasn’t even unleashed its core power yet. Don’t tell me he actually intends to kill Baluk?’
Snake Woman Selena knew very well.
For top-tier masters of their level, it was already difficult to achieve victory when fighting each other.
Killing an opponent was obviously even harder.
But right now, this Evil Spirit Wizard was enveloped in a dense aura of Calamity, clearly preparing a more powerful form of Magic.
For a moment, Snake Woman Selena felt a sliver of anticipation for the Evil Spirit Wizard’s stronger Ancient God Curse.
Even if he couldn’t kill Baluk, severely injuring him would be excellent.
After all, Baluk had injured her once during a battlefield skirmish, a fact she remembered quite clearly.
In the region of the starry asteroid belt.
Under the combined assault of Holy Judgment: Arrow of Concealed Sin and the Rune Hand.
Baluk was in a truly miserable state.
His body had been pierced by more than thirty Arrows of Concealed Sin.
The unique power ran through Baluk’s body like chains.
It suppressed his Frenzy Power and Ancient God’s Blood, causing him immense discomfort.
Before, he could still withstand the giant, purple-gold Rune Hand to some extent. He could even push it back slightly with an all-out burst of power.
But now, as the Rune Hand was continuously infused with Evil Energy, Baluk was being beaten back relentlessly. His Divine Blood even streamed from his body, staining the entire Starry Sky.
"HUFF... HUFF..."
Gasping for breath, Baluk desperately tried to absorb large amounts of Spiritual Energy.
But the Spiritual Energy in the Starry Sky was thin, making him feel as if he were suffocating during the high-intensity battle.
The more he struggled, the more Baluk felt that the damned Evil Spirit Wizard’s techniques were like a great net, slowly entangling him and leading him to his death.
’If this fight goes on, I’ll definitely die. This guy is too difficult to deal with.’
’It seems my only option is to use the Ancient God Blood Secret Technique.’
With this thought, Baluk began to unseal the Ancient Power within his Ancient God’s Blood.
Although this would come at a considerable cost, he had to do it to defeat this damned Evil Spirit Wizard.
RUMBLE...
Bloody flames surged like a great river.
In an instant, the entire Starry Sky was tinged with a blood-red halo.
Baluk’s aura grew increasingly powerful and dense.
His "Divine Blood Realm" bloomed to its absolute limit at this moment.
A hazy, illusory shadow of an Ancient God appeared.
Seeing this, the Transcendent onlookers in the distance immediately perked up, their focus sharpening.
"It’s starting!"
"Baluk is about to release the power of his Divine Blood!"
"Hahaha... Baluk has finally been forced to use his trump card!"
"I have to say, this Evil Spirit Wizard is truly amazing! To be able to beat Baluk into this state right after arriving here... that kind of strength would place him among the top-tier even across the entire Starry Sky."
"The Extraordinary World is truly full of endless masters."
When the Ancient God’s Blood was released to a certain extent, Baluk felt his consciousness begin to blur.
A searing pain pulsed from the depths of his soul.
"Die!"
He poured his many powers into his War Axe.
Pushing the Ancient God’s Forbidden Secret Technique to its limit, Baluk swung the axe down in a single chop.
CRACKLE...
For a moment, the entire layer of the Starry Sky crackled and shattered.
The crisscrossing forces gathered on Zorn from all directions.
Zorn consecutively used Shadow Traveling, trying to evade this extremely dangerous strike.
But after traveling three times in a row, not only did he fail to create distance from the terrifying collapsing force, it actually drew closer.
Seeing this, Zorn’s Dual Realm erupted as well.
Supported by the Dual Realm, Evil Energy and Gang Qi, carrying the power of the Ancient God’s Hand, rapidly poured into the Golden Giant Dragon·Holy Armor.
"ROAR! ROAR!"
As the Giant Dragon’s roar shook the Starry Sky, Zorn also raised the Golden Gang Dragon Hand and met the terrifying Power of the Ancient Gods head-on.
BOOM... RUMBLE... RUMBLE...
The shadow of the giant, blood-red War Axe and the towering Golden Giant Dragon intertwined in the depths of the void.
They clashed and collided relentlessly.
This scene made the hearts of the many Transcendent onlookers pound with fear.
"Baluk’s Ancient God Secret Technique is this powerful!"
"Hmph... He’s just relying on his Divine Blood to activate it."
"That may be true, but the Ancient God’s Blood is his, after all. This terrifying destructive ability is truly astonishing."
"In my opinion, the Evil Spirit Wizard is the stronger one. Did you all feel it? There’s a Dual Realm of Gang Qi and Spiritual power in there."
"That Evil Spirit Wizard is actually a rare Dual Sequence."
"I felt it. This guy is indeed a very, very rare Double Sequence Transcendent."
"More importantly, his Dual Sequence is in a state of perfect fusion, not separated from each other."
"This Dual Sequence is indeed perfect. It’s a case of ’you are in me, and I am in you,’ forming a perfectly coupled and interwoven power. It’s not like other Dual Sequences that clash with each other, injuring the user before the fight even begins."
The Divine Blood War Axe clashed against the Golden Giant Dragon—formed by the Gang Qi Witchcraft from the Dual Sequence Domain—high above in the Starry Sky.
The terrifying ripples that bloomed from their clash made the entire Starry Sky churn even more violently.
After a dozen breaths, although the Golden Giant Dragon’s body was covered in cracks and looked quite battered, the ultimate burning of the Divine Blood had already reached its end.
The next moment, the weakened Divine Blood War Axe was torn to shreds by the Golden Giant Dragon’s claws.
Immediately, a figure with a decaying aura shot out from within the Divine Blood War Axe like a blood-red meteor, speeding towards the Starry Spirit Bridge.
The Divine Blood Berserker, Baluk, seeing that even his strongest technique was being defeated, was blatantly trying to flee.
A cold voice rang out from high above in the Starry Sky.
"My friend, to think you can still escape at this point... you must not take me seriously at all."
Just as the Divine Blood Berserker Baluk reached the Starry Sky Island region and was about to head down the Starry Spirit Bridge, a terrifying black Ancient God’s Hand instantly bloomed in the area of the Starry Sky Island where he was about to land.
It looked as if the Divine Blood Berserker Baluk had voluntarily leaped into Zorn’s Ancient God Curse.
Earlier, when Zorn was fighting him on the Starry Sky Island near the entrance, he had used the power of the Calamity Black Mist to hide the power of the third form of the "Ancient God’s Hand" there.
It was all to prevent the Divine Blood Berserker Baluk from escaping.
Already heavily injured, the Divine Blood Berserker Baluk’s face filled with despair as he fell into the terrifying black Ancient God’s Hand.
After his previous all-out burst, his Sequence had been shattered and his Divine Blood power was depleted. He no longer had any strength to resist.
CRACKLE...
In the sudden, crushing grip of the "Ancient God’s Hand," the Divine Blood Berserker Baluk was crushed into pulp.
He perished on the spot.
At this moment, across the entire Starry Sky, despite the many onlookers, a dead silence fell as the Divine Blood Berserker Baluk died.
In a corner, a spiritual light flickered within Snake Woman Selena’s vertical pupils.
’Back when he was fighting on the Starry Sky Island, he used the Black Mist as cover to set up this trap to prevent Baluk’s escape. Hiss... this Evil Spirit Wizard’s schemes run so deep.’
’He not only used Gang Qi to create a Gang Qi Armor with extremely strong close-combat defense and offense to defeat Baluk’s Divine Blood eruption, but he also unleashed the terrifying destructive power of an Ancient God Curse from a distance.’
’Baluk’s death wasn’t unfair in the slightest.’
’This guy is definitely among the absolute top-tier powerhouses in the entire Starry Sky domain.’
Zorn scanned his surroundings for a moment.
Then, he immediately traveled into the depths of the Starry Sky.
Although he had just withstood the eruption of Baluk’s Divine Blood War Axe, he had also sustained considerable injuries.
It was an Ancient God Secret Technique, after all, a power on the Ancient God Curse Level.
’It’s very, very difficult to kill someone like that without taking any damage.’
’But as long as I’m willing to pay a certain price, killing him isn’t a problem.’
’In this Starry Sky District, there are many masters. It’s necessary to capture another batch of top-tier Level 10 masters.’
’That way, whether it’s competing for resources later or fighting against others, I can hold a huge advantage.’
’When the power gap between everyone isn’t too large, numbers will be the absolute advantage.’
Now that he was in the outside World, an Evil Spirit Wizard could openly use many of his techniques.
There were quite a few ways to achieve abilities similar to the Evil Spirit Authority.
It was just that other, similar methods weren’t as powerful or as terrifying as an Evil Spirit Wizard’s Evil Spirit Authority.
...
「Atop the towering Star Trace Tower.」
Today, Holy Crowned Priest Aster was in an exceptionally good mood.
And the reason was because of something that happened in the Spirit Realm battlefield.
Their Calamity Court had produced a top-tier master.
A "Dual Sequence" of Fighting Master and Evil Spirit Wizard.
One who had mastered the powerful Ancient God Curse and the Power of the Giant Dragon Bloodline.
Even a Holy Crowned Priest like Aster couldn’t help but marvel privately at the sheer number and strength of this Level 10 Double Sequence Transcendent’s techniques when he saw the intelligence report.
But what made Holy Crowned Priest Aster happiest was that this fellow named "Zorn Corick" had entered from his post.
This meant that when Zorn Corick came out, he would inevitably return to this very Star Trace Tower.
This was an excellent opportunity for recruitment.
Holy Crowned Priest Aster had already issued a strict order.
They had to monitor the River of Despair from all angles.
The moment Zorn Corick emerged, he must be brought here immediately.
For a genius master like this, becoming an Upper Rank Level was practically a certainty.
Becoming a Holy Crown like himself, while difficult, was very much possible with the Divine Kingdom’s nurturing.
If he cultivated diligently for a few decades, or even a century, that guy had a high chance of advancing to the Legendary realm.
Someone with the potential to become Legendary—that was the kind of top-tier talent the Divine Kingdom needed.
’Also, I need to contact our people inside and have them make proper contact with this genius Evil Spirit Wizard.’
’As long as he’s willing to join the Divine Kingdom and become one of the great Divine Tree’s Believers, many things are negotiable.’
Lost in thought, Holy Crowned Priest Aster began an initiation ritual to contact his agents in the Spirit Realm battlefield.
