Chapter 243: A Thunderous Strike, Slaying Asura First
Outside the boundary wall, the voice of Asura God Tang San, filled with bone-deep hatred and icy Killing Intent, echoed incessantly across the firmament of the Douluo Plane like a sinister wind blowing out of the nine layers of Hell, penetrating the planar barrier flowing with seven-colored dawn light.
"Lord of the Douluo Plane... This seat, Asura God Tang San... has returned!"
Every word seemed soaked in the suffering of the Old God Realm's drifting struggle within the Space-Time Turbulence, carrying his monstrous resentment over his stolen God Position and damaged faith Foundation. Moreover, it condensed an extreme Killing Intent, impatient to tear his enemies into ten thousand pieces and extinguish their divine souls. That Asura God Sword, dark red as blood and entwined with an endless aura of slaughter, pointed its tip directly at Lei Chen and Gu Yuena within the Douluo Plane, as if it would tear through the boundary wall and annihilate everything in the next moment.
However, facing this declaration full of hatred and intimidation, the reaction of the two figures standing side by side upon the firmament within the boundary wall was so calm it was heart-palpitating.
Lei Chen didn't even look at the Super Divine Artifact in Tang San's hand that was brimming with Killing Intent. His gaze moved past that solitary figure outside the boundary wall wrapped in crimson Killing Intent, casting toward the more distant and deeper cosmic Void Realm—there, the massive yet tattered outline of the Old God Realm's boundary body was struggling to adjust its direction. Its movement speed was far inferior to the crimson streak of light currently burning with the flames of revenge before them.
A crystal-clear and once-in-a-lifetime combat opportunity suddenly lit up like a spark of flint in Lei Chen's mind, which had weathered many storms and was never without a plan.
He turned his head slightly, and his gaze instantly met Gu Yuena's eyes, which reflected the creation and destruction of the Universe. There was no Divine Thought transmission or verbal exchange; at their level, a single look or the flow of a single thought was enough to convey the most complex information and the most resolute will.
Lei Chen's lips barely moved, but a calm yet decisive thought, containing iron-clad determination, already resounded deep within Gu Yuena's mind:
"Dragon God, the strongest reliance of the Old God Realm is nothing more than that 'Three Realms Judgment Sword' which requires the joint efforts of the three God Kings—Asura, Kindness, and Evil—to activate. Its power is said to be capable of slaying a God King in a single strike; it is their greatest trump card and killing move."
His gaze returned to the dark red figure outside the boundary wall, whose aura was unstable due to hatred. Deep within his eyes, a sliver of Killing Intent as cold as ten-thousand-year-old profound ice quietly congealed.
"At this moment, the other four God Kings have not yet arrived. Only Asura God Tang San is here clamoring alone... This is a god-given opportunity." Lei Chen's thought carried an unquestionable decisiveness. "Let us join forces and, with thunderous momentum, suppress and kill him here first! As long as the Asura God dies, the 'Three Realms Judgment Sword' will become like a tree without roots, and the Old God Realm's greatest threat will be resolved. At that time, when we face the other four God Kings, the pressure will be greatly reduced, and our certainty will increase immensely."
"What do you think?"
The proposal was simple and direct, yet ruthless to the extreme, pointing straight at the Old God Realm's most fatal weakness!
Take advantage of their weakness to take their life; give them absolutely no chance to breathe or assemble!
On Gu Yuena's exquisite face, there was no sign of surprise. The moment Lei Chen proposed this plan, her mind, which contained the supreme wisdom of the Dragon God, had already rapidly deduced and weighed all the pros and cons.
"Three Realms Judgment Sword..."
This name allowed her to "see" how the previous Golden Dragon King had been forced to choose the most tragic self-detonation, attempting to perish together with the enemy under the intimidation of that terrifying light sword, which was condensed from the Origins of the three great God Kings and represented the God Realm's highest authority of judgment...
That sword indeed possessed the supreme power to slay a God King. It was the strongest Sharp Weapon of the Old God Realm for suppressing all and decreeing life and death.
If they could disable this greatest trump card beforehand... Within Gu Yuena's eyes, which reflected the birth and death of the Universe, a sharp silver-gold chill suddenly surged, like the first bolt of lightning splitting open the Chaos.
"Agreed."
Without any hesitation or superfluous questions, a crisp and concise thought, yet one containing endless slaughter and decisiveness, surged from the depths of her mind to respond to Lei Chen's proposal.
Her stance was based not only on her clear recognition of the power of the "Three Realms Judgment Sword" but also on her trust in Lei Chen's judgment and her own Battle Intent as a newly ascended Dragon God eager to test her edge.
More importantly, she and Lei Chen were now a true community of shared destiny; they would prosper or suffer together. Any chance to weaken the Old God Realm and increase their own odds of victory could absolutely not be missed!
Agreement was reached in an instant.
Outside the boundary wall, seeing that his declaration full of hatred only earned a calm gaze and silent exchange from the two inside—as if he, the renowned Asura God King, was merely an insignificant insect—a surge of rage from being completely slighted and humiliated exploded in Tang San's chest like a volcano. It caused the crimson Killing Intent around him to suddenly boil, the Asura God Sword to hum and tremble, and his Killing Intent to soar straight into the highest heavens!
"Arrogant! Today, this seat shall..."
His roar had not yet fully left his mouth—
When a sudden change occurred!
"Strike!"
A silent shout rang out simultaneously in the hearts of Lei Chen and Gu Yuena.
There was no charging up, no omen, and not even any external manifestation of intense energy fluctuations.
At the very moment Tang San's aura showed an imperceptible fluctuation due to his rage, and at the instant his entire attention was drawn by the roar about to burst forth—
Boom—!!!
Two attacks, whose vastness, dominance, and destructiveness were beyond words, erupted from within the Douluo Plane from the location of the two figures standing side by side. They tore through the Void Realm, ignored the obstruction of the planar boundary wall, and with a terrifying posture that surpassed thought and the speed of light, fiercely struck toward the dark red figure suspended alone in the cold Void Realm outside the boundary wall!
Lei Chen's attack manifested first.
He simply raised his right hand and pointed his fingers like a sword, pointing through the air at Tang San outside the boundary wall.
"Silence."
A single word of truth was lightly uttered.
In an instant, starting from his fingertips, the cosmic Void Realm ahead suddenly turned into an absolute "pitch black" that swallowed all light and sound!
That was not simple darkness, but the "Silence" of the end of all things, presented after the Law of "Thunder" had evolved to its extreme!
A streak of terrifying thunder light, condensed to only the thickness of a hair yet presenting a chaotic purple-gold color with countless miniature thunder Universes seemingly rotating and being born and destroyed within, shot out from that absolute pitch black. It was silent and soundless, yet fast beyond the measure of time. Along its path, the cold cosmic dust, free-floating energy particles, and even the void spatial structure itself seemed to be infected by the will of "termination" contained within this thunder light, instantly returning to the most primitive "nothingness." Even the process of annihilation was omitted!
This strike seemed simple, yet it was the ultimate manifestation of Lei Chen's authority as the "God King of Thunder." It condensed the destruction, judgment, and termination of thunder into a single line. The concentration of its power and the height of its Law even surpassed the full-strength strike of an ordinary God King. Furthermore, it contained his latest insights into the Dao of "Creation-Destruction," making this silent thunder light seem to predetermine the end of the opponent's "existence" while terminating everything, carrying a sense of inescapable fate!
Almost at the same instant Lei Chen struck, Gu Yuena's attack followed like a shadow.
She made no fancy movements, merely extending a long, jade-like index finger toward Tang San outside the boundary wall and tapping lightly forward.
"Extinguish."
A voice that was ethereal and majestic, yet contained the will of supreme judgment, seemed to come from the end of ancient time and space.
Where her finger pointed, a chaotic-colored "light spot" the size of a palm appeared out of thin air.
The scene inside this "light spot" was incredibly bizarre—on the left, the seven major elements of earth, fire, water, wind, light, and dark surged wildly, evolving into scenes of "Creation" like the opening of heaven and earth and the birth of stars, filled with endless vitality and possibility. On the right was the "Destruction" of the end, where all things withered, stars were extinguished, and all tangible and intangible existences returned to void Chaos, emitting an absolute dead silence that froze the Soul.
Creation and Destruction, two diametrically opposed supreme Laws that should logically repel each other, coexisted and flowed in this tiny "light spot" in a harmonious way that surpassed cognition. And... under the drive of Gu Yuena's will, they began the most violent and direct collision and annihilation!
The "light spot" did not shoot out; instead, the moment it appeared, it seemed to lock onto the "Origin" of Tang San's existence, acting directly on the Law level corresponding to his "position"!
With Tang San as the center, the cosmic Void Realm within a hundred-foot radius suddenly distorted and collapsed!
Space was no longer stable, the flow of time became chaotic, and all the Laws forming the Foundation of that area's existence—whether elemental Laws or power Laws—began to spontaneously and violently move toward two extremes. On one side, they "Created" frantically, evolving into countless elemental turbulences, micro-black holes, and spatial folds not belonging to this place, attempting to "assimilate" Tang San's existence into a part of this disordered creation. On the other side, they "Destroyed" to the extreme, pushing all the divine force, Killing Intent, and even the defensive concept of his divine armor around him toward a finality of disintegration, annihilation, and return to nothingness!
This was the manifestation of the Dragon God's authority, using the root power of Creation and Destruction to directly distort and tamper with the "reality" and "Laws" where the opponent was located! It was far more terrifying and difficult to resist than any simple elemental attack or power impact, pointing directly at the essence of existence!
Of the two attacks, one was extremely condensed, containing the fate of thunder's termination; the other distorted reality, tampering with Laws with the power of Creation and Destruction. Although both were launched simultaneously, they seemed to form a mysterious complementarity and superposition. It wasn't as simple as one plus one equals two; instead, it produced a qualitative sublimation, instantly turning that patch of cosmic Void Realm around Tang San into an absolute dead zone that would make even a God King turn pale!
"What?!"
Outside the boundary wall, Tang San's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of pinpricks in this instant!
Even though his combat instinct belonging to the Asura God, tempered through countless life-and-death battles, had already frantically warned him the moment Lei Chen and Gu Yuena's gazes met—causing him to instantly raise his alertness to the maximum, surge his Asura divine force, and hold the Asura God Sword across his chest in the most rigorous defensive posture—
He had even anticipated that the other party might launch a surprise attack while he was alone and the Old God Realm's main force had not yet arrived.
But!
He never imagined that the attacks of these two would come so quickly, so abruptly, and without any omen, as if their minds were connected and synchronized to a perfect degree!
He especially never imagined that the power contained in these two attacks and the height of the Laws they displayed would actually be... so overbearingly terrifying!
That chaotic purple-gold silent thunder light had not even reached him yet, but the termination will—as if it would completely "erase" him from the level of "existence"—already made his divine soul shake violently. It was as if he saw a terrifying future vision of himself falling within an endless sea of thunder. This was by no means the thunder power of an ordinary God King; the Laws contained within had already touched a higher level!
And that chaotic light spot distorting the reality around him and inducing the collision and annihilation of Creation and Destruction made his Soul depart his body in fear. He was not ignorant of the Dragon God's power, but the means Gu Yuena was displaying now—their subtlety, their dominance, and their control over Laws—far exceeded his understanding of the Dragon God. It even... made him faintly feel a sense of despairing pressure!
"Impossible! How could they be strong to this extent?! How much time has passed?!"
Unparalleled shock, like a cold poisonous snake, instantly bit into Tang San's heart, even briefly suppressing that monstrous hatred.
The shadow of death shrouded him so truly and so swiftly!
"Roar—!!!"
At the critical moment of life and death, Tang San was, after all, the Asura God who had ascended to the position of God King. Under the extreme shock and threat of death, he erupted with all his potential, even letting out a roar that surpassed his limits!
He no longer cared about holding back. The Asura divine force within him, vast as a sea of blood, was poured without reservation into the Asura God Sword in his hand. The Super Divine Artifact let out a shrill clang as if it were about to shatter. A dark red Sword Beam, condensed to the extreme and seemingly formed from endless slaughter and the will of judgment, fiercely slashed forward, attempting to split open the incoming silent thunder light. Simultaneously, his asura god armor shone with brilliant blood light, and countless Law divine runes representing slaughter, judgment, and death appeared, forming layers of incredibly sturdy blood-colored barriers, wanting to resist and delay that reality-distorting power of Creation and Destruction.
"Asura, Judgment!"
The dark red Sword Beam and the chaotic purple-gold thunder light collided violently in the cold Void Realm!
No sound came out because the concept of sound in that area had been distorted and swallowed by the terrifying energy turbulence erupting from the center of the collision, which was enough to annihilate an ordinary First-rank Deity.
There was only a patch of indescribable light, a mixture of destructive purple-gold and crimson blood-color, which exploded brilliantly in the deep space of the Universe outside the boundary wall like a supernova. It illuminated the tattered Old God Realm struggling to approach in the distance, and also lit up the calm and deep eyes of Lei Chen and Gu Yuena within the boundary wall.
As for Tang San's figure, it was completely swallowed by the erupting destructive energy and the chaotic light spot of Creation and Destruction that followed closely behind and enveloped his body.
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