Sensing the suddenly sharp and intense aura radiating from Yun Ming, Tang Chen was struck with alarm; a long-absent sense of life-and-death crisis coiled around his heart.
No, I cannot let this boy unleash such a dangerous spirit skill!
Tang Chen raised the Shura Sword in his hand, and the endless killing intent that had been balancing Yun Ming's World Domain began to converge. Behind him, a massive Divine Dharma Image appeared, clad in ferocious blood-colored armor, wielding a Shura Demon Sword, its face a blur. The Dharma Image moved in sync with Tang Chen, raising its giant sword high as six massive Shura Swords, constructed from soul power, slowly materialized in the void. Unlike Yun Ming, however, his sword art took shape much faster.
"Shura Other Shore!"
As the sword shadows formed, Tang Chen let out a thunderous roar. He brought the Shura Sword down, pointing directly at Yun Ming. Receiving their master's command, the six giant swords descended with a heart-stopping demonic light, striking from six directions at angles designed to seal off every possible retreat. From Yun Ming's perspective, it looked like a bewitching, magnificent flower of the other shore flying toward him.
Watching the six giant Shura Swords draw ever closer, Yun Ming's eyes remained calm. Two light shadows flickered before him, and two massive Dragon Turtles, largely identical but with slight variations in skin color, appeared—they were the two Ao Tian.
Tang Chen's actions were entirely within his expectations. His Eighth Soul Skill was the type that required charging; even after breaking through to the Title Douluo realm and reducing the charge time, it still took about a minute and a half.
Tang Chen was somewhat surprised. From the strange light flickering in the eyes of the two Ao Tian, he could be certain that the two big guys possessed intelligence. But wasn't Yun Ming's martial spirit a space-attribute assault-type weapon spirit? It wasn't dark or mental-type either, so how could he have such a soul skill? It didn't make sense. Having never seen a soul spirit, he automatically attributed it to the functionality of a soul skill.
"Go!"
It didn't matter, though; he could cut down soul entities with intelligence just as easily. Under their master's command, the six killing swords struck down ferociously.
When the two Ao Tian truly emerged to face Tang Chen, they felt the terror of this human firsthand and hurriedly mobilized the sixth soul ring they had bestowed upon Yun Ming.
Eternity!
Rings of golden ripples radiated from the two dragons' horns; one wave surged directly toward Tang Chen, while the other pointed toward Yun Ming himself.
Although "Eternity" was Yun Ming's strongest control skill—possessing a power of spatial suppression that reached the intensity of indirectly stopping time, and having previously suppressed Bibi Dong, an inheritor of the gods—Yun Ming still vaguely felt that this move might not be able to seal the Shura Sword. There was no evidence for this, just an inexplicable feeling, but that feeling was enough for Yun Ming to be cautious.
If he could seal his opponent, that was best; if he couldn't, he would add a layer of insurance for himself. By using the soul skill on himself, he could still control its intensity.
Seeing the golden ripples drawing closer, Tang Chen was not surprised. He had known Yun Ming had a backup plan since he dared to charge up in front of him. His response was to detonate his rings.
The nine soul rings beneath his feet—seven black and two red—appeared one by one. The first three rings burst open, transforming into clusters of blood-colored energy that surged into the Shura Sword. As the soul ring energy poured in, the aura of the Shura Sword, a super-divine artifact, began to revive. A section of patterns on the blade lit up, and a blurry phantom appeared before Tang Chen.
Facing the incoming Eternity ripples, the phantom raised its right hand and pointed a finger. Rings of similar silver ripples surged out to intercept the power of Eternity. The two types of ripples collided, blending and tempering each other until they finally dissipated into nothingness. The Eternity was broken, and the phantom, its task complete, returned to the Shura Sword with dimming light.
Yun Ming watched everything that happened. Although he couldn't perceive it, seeing the way the two ripples collided and neutralized each other, he knew that the reason Tang Chen had resisted Eternity was due to the same spatial ability. He hadn't expected Tang Chen—or rather, the Shura Sword—to possess such a capability.
Heroic Soul Breaking Calamity! This was the move Tang Chen used, which essentially utilized the individual ability of the Heavenly God Hunter within the sword to deal with moves the sword's master could not handle. While this move was basically useless against the Shura God himself, the presence of the heroic soul within the sword made it a very practical power for the inheritor.
The ring detonation after being injured made Tang Chen's complexion even uglier, but his sword still swung down with determination. The two Ao Tian dared not touch the Shura Sword and hurriedly dodged, allowing the six giant swords to strike the "cage" Yun Ming had set up for himself.
Clang—
The absolutely stable space around Yun Ming was like a Wall of Sighs; even the six Shura Demon Swords, capable of severing the heavens and splitting the seas, could not shake it.
Seeing that this move was so sturdy, Tang Chen was first glad for his earlier wisdom in decisively using the Power of the Gods to avert disaster; otherwise, he might have been trapped. But what followed was a full-force eruption—he refused to believe he couldn't break Yun Ming's turtle shell.
"Break... for me!!"
Veins bulged on Tang Chen's forehead as all his soul power and killing intent surged into the Shura Sword like a great river. Yun Ming trapping himself meant he was truly unable to move, so Tang Chen decided to pour all his strength into this one strike, settling the outcome with a single blow.
"Kill!!!"
Receiving Tang Chen's all-out effort, the Shura Sword began to provide feedback to its temporary master. Red light flared in the eyes of the Divine Dharma Image, and with a war cry, its body became further materialized. Its size, aura, and the intricacy of the Dharma Image's patterns all improved comprehensively. The power of the sword art it unleashed rose again, and the six giant Shura Swords doubled in size.
As mentioned before, there was no relationship of restraint between space and killing intent, so when these two powers clashed, it was purely a contest of raw strength. Facing this level of "Shura Other Shore," the Eternity Barrier began to waver.
Ao Tian felt the fluctuations in the soul skill and spared no effort to stabilize it, but even though they had nearly drained the soul power from Yun Ming's Yin Yang Dual Soul Core, the defense began to shatter piece by piece.
Crack, crack—
Listening to the sound of the Eternity Barrier constantly breaking, Yun Ming sighed in his heart; in the end, he hadn't been able to block it!
Watching the crumbling defense, Yun Ming voluntarily canceled the Eternity and stopped the charging of the Severing Boundary. Using the final bit of maneuvering space to adjust his posture, he slashed a white light from his right arm, forcefully cutting through the space in front of him.
The "Severing Boundary" collided with "Shura Other Shore," but the light of the Severing Boundary, which hadn't been able to charge to its peak, only consumed half the power of the six giant Shura Swords before being cut into showers of light and dissipating. Some soul skills were like that; until quantitative change accumulated into qualitative change, they remained weak.
Even though Yun Ming had taken the opportunity to adjust his position, two of the giant Shura Swords still struck his chest.
The Battle Armor encountered such a terrifying attack that its underlying core patterns lit up, trying its best to protect its master, but it was still shattered by the two giant swords. The heavily damaged Battle Armor could no longer maintain its form and voluntarily returned to his body. The two giant swords broke through layers of obstacles and successfully struck Yun Ming's chest.
"Pfft—"
With the giant swords embedded in him, Yun Ming was forced out of his Spirit Avatar form. A massive amount of Shura sword qi entered his body, and he couldn't stop himself from vomiting a large mouthful of blood. Coupled with the terrifying 'X'-shaped wound that had nearly touched his heart, the amount of blood flowing out was enough to drain a third of his body's blood in this single blow.
Yun Ming's aura plummeted rapidly, his vitality nearing the death line. If not for his top-tier Blood Soul Core, which contained a portion of the Golden Tree's power, it would be hard to say if he were even alive right now.
Watching Yun Ming falling toward the ground, Tang Chen mobilized the bit of soul power he had just recovered and flew toward him at high speed.
Tang Chen manipulated space to freeze Yun Ming in place. Arriving before him, he found that Yun Ming hadn't fainted despite the blood loss, and said in a deep voice.
"You are strong—stronger than I was at my peak before I accepted the God Trial—but you have still lost."
Upon hearing this, Yun Ming struggled to lift his eyes to look at him but said nothing.
Tang Chen didn't care; it was indeed hard to speak with such heavy injuries. He didn't dwell on it, raised his hand to lift the Shura Sword, and said one last time.
"Farewell!"
As he spoke, he swung his sword down, but at this moment, a change occurred. The Atlas Divine Spear appeared in Yun Ming's hand, his ninth soul ring lit up, and he whispered.
"I told you... there are three moves."
Tang Chen's expression changed, and he accelerated his sword swing, but Yun Ming's final soul skill had already taken effect.
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