As his voice faded, the Heavenly Punishment Law Domain finally reached its limit and crumbled into nothingness.
An incomparably terrifying power wildly rushed over again.
Chi!
Zhou Yuan’s skin began to tore apart, and even his glass light, which greatly strengthened his defense, couldn’t endure the starry river’s destructive power.
“Great Flame Devil!”
Zhou Yuan’s eyes turned icy, but the temperature around began to soar as red patterns emerged across his body.
“Green Wood Mark Taiyi!"
Ancient runes emerged in his flesh and blood, erupting with majestic vitality to repair his injuries.
Zhou Yuan brought out everything he had to withstand the starry river’s destructive power.
This, however, still wasn’t enough.
His skin and flesh cracked little by little until his bones were exposed and split. The injuries all over his body made many people’s hair stand on end.
His body constantly crackled, as if crushed by gravity.
Dripping with blood, Zhou Yuan slowly closed his blood-red eyes, as though he gave up.
Jia Tu looked skywardand laughedwildly. His laughter echoed in every corner of the boundary. “Hahaha, is he the strongest Heavenly Sun expert from the five heavens? I told you lowly ants that you can’t defeat our Sacred Race with your power!?”
Countless people from the five heavens balled their hands into fists. Their fingertips almost punctured their palms, but the pain from that couldn’t be compared to the anger and despair in their hearts.
A bitter smile came to Bai Xiaolu’s face that didn’t match her appearance or age. “Even Zhou Yuan can’t win…”
She, who was very prideful, acknowledged Zhou Yuan’s strength. But now, even Zhou Yuan couldn’t stop Jia Tu. Was there any hope?
“Zhou Yuan…”
Wu Yao silently stared at the bloodied figure in the starry river. “How could you die here? I still haven’t defeated you!”
“Your Highness…”
Su Youwei raised her blood-stained face. She, who was always strong-hearted, couldn't help trembling and her eyes reddened.
“I’m sorry, I’m too useless and couldn’t help you.”
She thought she could face everything with Zhou Yuan after all her years of cultivation, but in the end, she realized that she still wasn’t good enough.
Zhao Mushen peered at the void with a dark face, gritted his teeth and said, "Zhou Yuan, you are the one who defeated me. I don't believe you will lose here!
“Also, I don’t want to die here! I haven’t eaten enough Sacred Race people!”
However, although he said that, what else could Zhou Yuan do in the face of Jia Tu’s abnormally strong power?
Perhaps, he believed in Zhou Yuan, who had always created miracles in the past.
Hahaha!
Jia Tu's laughter continued to echo between heaven and earth.
"Zhou Yuan, do you not feel the despair from the lowly ants?
"They still seem to be hoping you could turn the situation around!
"Now, do you regret taking those idiots to break through the boundary formation?! Say, if they all die here, will the name Zhou Yuan become infamous?
“Haha, you brought about their deaths!” Jia Tu roared with laughter.
He suddenly stretched his back and smiled, “It’s time.”
The starry river had constricted to its highest degree.
Flesh shed from Zhou Yuan’s body, turning to powder by a terrifying force.
“Huh?”
Jia Tu noticed Zhou Yuan’s body shrivelling and his blood dried up like a corpse.
Surprised flashed in Jia Tu’s eyes because that wasn’t one of his starry river’s powers.
What is that guy doing?
His eyes turned fierce, and he roared, “Die!”
He folded his hands together.
Boom!
The starry river vibrated violently, like a huge halo suddenly constricting, and terrifying forces rushed over, crushing the space around Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan would no doubt die when the power descended.
Everyone stared intently and dared not utter a sound.
Zhou Yuan closed his eyes tight, even if the destructive power was rushing towards him, as though he couldn’t sense anything.
However, if someone saw the movements within his body, they would find that all Zhou Yuan’s powers were gathering in one place.
He even burned the power of his flesh and blood.
He was clearly doing everything he could for this.
This was because it was his last means.
The means was difficult to activate in ordinary times and would only be born when his essence, qi, bodily strength and spirit were refined to their peak and when he had the determination to fight his way out of death.
“Come out!”
A deep roar resounded in Zhou Yuan's mind.
A mysterious rune on the rune light ball in his Divine Dwellings, which had been stilled for many years, finally erupted with dazzling light.
That’s…
The fourth Saint Rune of the Cangxuan Saint Stamp!
Chapter 1191 Saint Fire Destroys Everything
There were four Cangxuan Saint Runes, all of which were stripped from the Cangxuan Saint Stamp.
The first time Zhou Yuan saw the most mysterious fourth rune should be on Old Xuan’s back, and then, by some strange combination of circumstances, the four Saint Runes carried the largest piece of the Cangxuan Saint Stamp and hid in his Divine Dwellings.
Zhou Yuan was very familiar with the first three of the four Saint Runes, which had helped him tremendously over the years.
But Zhou Yuan had never seen the true face of the fourth Saint Rune.
He didn’t even know its name.
In Zhou Yuan’s view, the fourth Saint Rune should be the most powerful of the four, and one of the reasons he couldn’t see its true form yet was because he wasn’t strong enough. But he felt it had more to do with that he hasn’t had the right opportunity yet.
What opportunity?
After so many years, Zhou Yuan felt the so-called opportunity he was waiting for was a strong enough threat.
Although it was difficult for Zhou Yuan to touch upon the fourth Saint Rune, it had been in his Divine Dwellings for years and so he could feel its spiritual intellect was much stronger than the other three. It hadn’t appeared yet because Zhou Yuan hadn’t encountered a dangerous enough situation!
Maybe it felt that it couldn’t appear so easily given its status.
Could a Saint Rune have such strong spiritual intellect?
Zhou Yuan was puzzled every time he thought about this.
Zhou Yuan had no choice but to plunge himself into Jia Tu’s Starry River of Destruction to investigate whether there was an opportunity that would make the fourth Saint Rune appear.
Jia Tu was too strong. Although Zhou Yuan had encountered many powerful people over the years, no one could push him to such a state of crisis.
However, the crisis was the perfect opportunity for Zhou Yuan to bring out the prideful fourth Saint Rune.
Therefore, Zhou Yuan didn’t hesitate to burn his flesh and blood when the destructive power roared towards him and poured all his powers toward the fourth Saint Rune in his Divine Dwellings.
"Big brother, you’ve been living in my body for so many years, shouldn’t you pay rent?!”
As Zhou Yuan's voice echoed in his body, an ancient rune on a Saint Rune ball that had been dimmed for many years finally grew brighter.
It soon erupted in a blaze of light.
When the destructive force brought about by the constricting starry river crushed space and directly enveloped Zhou Yuan, the last flicker of hope in the eyes of everyone from the five heavens also dimmed. No one screamed out loud and just sank down weakly, sitting paralyzed.
The Sacred Race troops in the distance burst into wild laughter.
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nbsp; Jia Tu also wore a faint smile as he stared at the scene, as if admiring his masterpiece.
"After I kill that guy, what should I do with the people from the five heavens?
"They will all be refined into the Blood Genesis Pills. It’s a pity that the five heavens put so much effort to cultivate them.”
Jia Tu watched the starry river’s destructive power engulf Zhou Yuan's body. He should be turned into nothingness soon. It's a pity because his flesh and blood could be refined into a tasty Blood Genesis Pill.
Just when he was thinking this, all his hair suddenly stood on end and his pupils shrank and almost resembled snake-like eyes.
His previous delighted smile was replaced by a cold and shocked expression.
This was because he saw a figure standing silently and motionless in the center of the starry river like a rock.
From his perception, he could feel the starry river’s destructive power hadn’t struck Zhou Yuan's body.
Additionally, it suddenly vanished when it was an inch away from Zhou Yuan.
Many people with the boundary also noticed the sudden strange change.
The eyes that had dimmed and lost its luster suddenly lit up.
Whispers broke out from the Sacred Race team and even some elites frowned in disbelief. They couldn’t understand why Zhou Yuan would be standing unwounded in the starry river’s depths.
No one at the Heavenly Sun stage should be able to endure such power!
Why isn’t that guy dead?!
Jia Tu similarly stared fixedly at the figure standing silently. Zhou Yuan's flesh and skin were still shrivelled and he looked like a corpse, but Jia Tu could feel a terrifying power accumulating within the withered body.
That power chilled him to the heart.
“Stop playing tricks!”
Murderous intent filled Jia Tu's eyes as he folded his hands in a seal. The galaxy-like star map behind him sent another starry river roaring out like a dragon and sped towards Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan slowly lifted his wrinkled face, watching the starry river roar down.
Then, he opened his mouth.
A hoarse noise sounded and a faint, laughable wisp of smoke drifted out from his mouth.
Then, Zhou Yuan coughed violently.
At that moment, the starry river had already streaked across the sky and was nearing him. Compared with it, his figure was as small and insignificant as a speck of dust.
Pu!
However, he seemed to have cleared his throat from all that violent coughing and a flame the size of a finger shot out.
The flame seemed ordinary and didn’t have a showy appearance.
Pu!
But when it fluttered out and collided with the starry river, although there wasn’t any noise or terrifying Genesis Qi shock waves, the starry river vanished amidst astonished gazes, as if evaporated without any trace.
A breeze passed by.
Zhou Yuan scratched his throat and his shrivelled body felt itchy.
Jia Tu's expression froze, and then his relaxed and condescending expression faded little by little and was soon replaced by a look of horror.
He still couldn’t understand how Zhou Yuan, who had been suppressed all along, broke away from his control.
The wisp of flame looked very ordinary, but Jia Tu noticed a familiar wave of energy from it. That wave of energy was seen only on Saint experts and the flame, although very small, should be the legendary Saint fire that only Saint experts possessed.
Even Jia Tu felt an urge to curse out loud.
He refined a Saint fire at the Heavenly Sun stage?!
Who is he?!
Chapter 1192 Reverse the situation
At the Sacred Derivation Boundary’s core.
Zhou Yuan and Jia Tu stood opposite each other from afar.
But both’s bearings had undergone earth-shaking changes. Jia Tu had lost his composure and his changing expression revealed the fear in his heart.
He couldn’t help feeling afraid. Although the fire that Zhou Yuan spewed out was seemingly small, like a candlelight, Jia Tu, as the strongest person at the Heavenly Sun stage in the Sacred Race, knew how terrifying the fire was from his vast experience.
It was a Saint fire that only Saint experts could refine!
It was said to be capable of incinerating Law Domains!
Regardless how weak Zhou Yuan's Saint fire was, it was still a Saint fire, a power that a Heavenly Sun stage expert couldn’t touch upon.
“Zhou Yuan, you’re very fierce.” Jia Tu’s voice was filled with anger.
"You didn’t hesitate to burn your flesh, blood, Spirit and Genesis Qi to create this Saint fire, but it isn’t a power you can touch. You will pay a very heavy price for this.”
Although he couldn’t understand how Zhou Yuan created a Saint fire, he could feel that Zhou Yuan’s flesh, blood, Spirit and Genesis Qi were in a burning state. In other words, Zhou Yuan used them as fuel to bring out the Saint fire.
If this were to continue, Zhou Yuan could be burned alive.
Jia Tu drew a deep breath and his expression changed again. "Zhou Yuan, I have to admit that you’re a formidable enemy. I’m willing to back down and allow the five heavens troops to exit the boundary unharmed. I can even leave three main ancestral qi veins to you.
"You have a limitless future. You shouldn’t burn yourself to destroy me here.”
Jia Tu’s tone clearly showed he was stepping back. He was forced to back down.
In Jia Tu's view, Zhou Yuan was a lunatic preparing his last fight. If a battle were to break out between them again, Jia Tu didn’t have the confidence to escape unscathed under the Saint fire’s power.
Jia Tu's voice rang in everyone’s ears. The Sacred Race team remained silent and didn’t dare to object to him backing down.
This was because they could also feel Zhou Yuan’s terrifying power.
The people from the five heavens watched silently.
They could only push Jia Tu to such a state because of Zhou Yuan’s strength, and Zhou Yuan paid a very heavy price for this—as Jia Tu said, he was burning his life.
Therefore, they had no right to make a decision.
Countless gazes were fixed on the shrivelled figure.
Amidst those gazes, Zhou Yuan’s terrifyingly wrinkled face didn’t ripple in the slightest, and only a faint fire leapt about in the depths of his eyes. But even the world seemingly shuddered under the fire.
"Your Sacred Race is arrogant and ruthless. What you said is ridiculous and only makes a laughing stock of yourself.”
He shook his head. "In my opinion, it’s best that the Sacred Race is dead.”
Zhou Yuan’s answer was obvious. He had to pay a very heavy price for his current state. Additionally, there was a time limit, which Jia Tu should have guessed. This was why he deliberately tempted Zhou Yuan to try to stall for time.
Jia Tu would kill Zhou Yuan on the spot the moment he withdrew from his powerful state.
If that was the case, it would be better to end everything neatly.
He had already paid the price, was there a reason to step back?
Jia Tu's face darkened. “You really want to give up your life? You won’t be able to protect your Spirit under the Saint fire. In other words, you will disappear from the world.”
Zhou Yuan paid no attention to him. The faint fire continued to leap about within his shrivelled body.
Smoke rose from his opened mouth, and then, sparks sputtered out.
The sparks swiftly gathered to form a candlelight. The flame flickered and soon disappeared.
But Jia Tu suddenly stiffened and all his hair stood on end. He felt an indescribable aura of death enveloped him.
“Sacred Pupil Art, Divine Galaxy Armor!”
Jia Tu drew back frantically, roaring at the same time. Cracks split his Sacred Pupil, causing blood to seep out and made him look even more terrifying.
Jia Tu exerted all his powers because he knew the seemingly ordinary-l
ooking flame possessed the power to utterly destroy him.
Boom!
Space shattered as several starry rivers emerged from nowhere. The stunning starry rivers surrounded him like an armor.
This was Jia Tu’s last trump card to protect his life!
When the Divine Galaxy Armor appeared, the space around silently broke to pieces and sparks fluttered out, landing on the armor.
Then, countless eyes widened in shock when they saw Jia Tu’s strongest defense melt as the sparks landed.
Jia Tu shuddered, his pupils shrinking.
The aura of death that the sparks brought felt suffocating to him.
He finally understood that all his means were as fragile as tofu under the Saint fire’s sparks.
Jia Tu didn't dare to move an inch because he knew that any movements could trigger the sparks to destroy him completely.
However, even so, that only delayed the spread of the fire.
The countdown to death had already started.
Jia Tu stared at Zhou Yuan’s shrivelled body, regret rushing up to his eyes.
If he knew this would be the outcome, he would have immediately killed Zhou Yuan as soon as he came to Guyuan Heaven.
“I never thought I, Jia Tu, would end in your hands.” He was already very cautious but who would have thought he would still be defeated.
“However you also will die!” Jia Tu’s face twisted fiercely.
From his perception, he could feel Zhou Yuan had turned his flesh, blood, Spirit and Genesis Qi into fuel, which means Zhou Yuan was in a similar situation as him. They both had fallen into the countdown to death.
Zhou Yuan continued to ignore him. He flung his sleeve and hurled out dozens of formation flags, which all landed in different directions at the core. Finally, with a slight movement, he appeared on the summit where Jia Tu was sitting cross-legged.
There, it was the core of the Sacred Derivation Boundary.
"Zhou Yuan! You ruined our Sacred Race’s plan! Our Saint experts will crush your bones to ashes and then eliminate all those related to you!” Jia Tu threatened, his eyes reddening in fury.
He drew back as his face contortedinagrimace ofpain. A spark pierced through the Divine Galaxy Armor and instantly turned one of his arms into nothingness.
The Sacred Race teams finally began to panic, their eyes widening with fear.
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