Chapter 522 - 518: Shattering the Void
This was utterly terrifying.
You have to understand, this place was protected by void runes. Even a duel as terrifying as the one just now hadn’t damaged it in the slightest.
But now, under the assault of the divine vines, the void runes were rendered useless. The starry Ancient Road simply exploded.
Young Master Moon’s Divine Soul was terrifying.
He Jundao’s Divine Soul could previously condense soul runes, but Young Master Moon’s did the exact opposite—it could annihilate them.
From the looks of it, Young Master Moon’s Divine Soul was far more terrifying.
Lin Hao retreated explosively, but Young Master Moon’s speed was barely any slower, sticking to him like a shadow.
The starry Ancient Road was suffering unprecedented destruction. The ground didn’t just ring with explosions.
Under the assault of Young Master Moon’s divine vines, the void runes were rendered completely useless, and the surface paved with Celestial Meteorite became as fragile as tofu.
In the chaos, several Martial Artists were pierced by the divine vines and met a violent end.
The spectating Martial Artists wanted to flee, but they were powerless to do so.
Young Master Moon was using his Divine Soul, and the resulting pressure was absolutely terrifying. Under its weight, their bodies were completely immobilized.
Lin Hao retreated again and again, until he finally had nowhere left to run.
He had reached the exit of one of the starry Ancient Roads, which was now sealed by a mysterious force. There was no going back.
BOOM!
The divine vines shot toward Lin Hao like swords. He launched himself into the air just as the vines slammed into the mysterious barrier, releasing a massive wave of energy.
At this moment, Lin Hao hovered in the void and unleashed his Evil-Slaying Sword.
Driven by his Chaos True Essence, the Evil-Slaying Sword became incomparably crystalline. Lin Hao swung, unleashing a terrifying sword light.
This Chaos Sword light was said to be indestructible, yet Young Master Moon’s divine vines actually withstood the attack, completely unharmed.
Not only that, but the vines, capable of being both hard and soft, immediately wrapped themselves around the Evil-Slaying Sword.
One vine ensnared the Evil-Slaying Sword, but Young Master Moon still had six more. Almost instantly, all six remaining vines shot toward Lin Hao.
Left with no other choice, Lin Hao abandoned his sword.
Yang Qingtian, who was watching this scene, frowned slightly.
The duel between Lin Hao and He Jundao was still fresh in his mind. ’Logically, choosing to use a sword right now is a mistake even an ordinary person wouldn’t make.’
’Does this mean Lin Hao has another trick up his sleeve?’
Yang Qingtian’s expression grew even more focused.
Among his generation, Lin Hao was the first person he couldn’t quite figure out.
However, it seemed Yang Qingtian was mistaken.
One of the divine vines flicked the Evil-Slaying Sword, sending it flying far into the distance. In the blink of an eye, it vanished without a trace, lost somewhere within the starry Ancient Road.
As their confrontation escalated, Yang Qingtian quickly forgot about the Evil-Slaying Sword, because their duel had grown even more ferocious.
The seven divine vines possessed boundless might, seeming to hold the power to pierce the very heavens. And Lin Hao was equally impressive, though he dodged each attack by a razor-thin margin.
Suddenly, the aura around Young Master Moon changed.
’For my Divine Soul attacks to be ineffective for so long... This is an insult.’
The sky turned pitch-black. The crowd felt an oppressive weight, as if dark clouds were bearing down on them, and even breathing became difficult.
At the same time, thunder rumbled and lightning flashed across the sky, its power world-shaking.
The next moment, something even more terrifying happened.
The seven divine vines manifested by Young Master Moon’s Divine Soul suddenly merged into one. It then shot straight into the sky, colliding with a bolt of lightning that streaked down from above.
Then, the vine struck down at Lin Hao.
The divine vine seemed to have merged with the lightning bolt, wielding its power as it descended to annihilate Lin Hao!
A Divine Soul capable of borrowing power from the phenomena of heaven and earth—this was the true extent of Young Master Moon’s strength.
Utterly terrifying.
The strike illuminated the once pitch-black sky, tearing it asunder.
This attack was nothing short of a deathblow. Even from a great distance, many Martial Artists simply exploded into dust from the sheer force.
Suddenly, a grinding sound, KAKA, echoed from Wangchuan City, which stood tall beneath the sky.
The always-closed gates of Wangchuan City opened.
But the Martial Artists felt no joy. The pressure was so astonishing that they were still completely immobilized.
The next moment, a ball of white light lit up from within the gates of Wangchuan City.
When the white light faded, all the Martial Artists—except for Lin Hao and Young Master Moon—found themselves inside Wangchuan City.
The Martial Artists were overjoyed to discover that not only could they move their bodies again, but the oppressive pressure had vanished as well.
With no time to survey Wangchuan City, nor even ponder the reason for their sudden relocation, all the Martial Artists stared intently outside the city gates.
Young Master Moon’s attack descended with the might of the heavens. Whether Lin Hao could withstand it was the question on everyone’s mind.
Outside Wangchuan City, under the force of Young Master Moon’s strike, Lin Hao’s body was momentarily paralyzed.
This was extremely dangerous.
Because, though it sounded like a long sequence of events, the time from Young Master Moon’s seven vines merging to all the Martial Artists being spirited away to safety in Wangchuan City was but a single instant.
And of course, the divine vine, striking down with the speed of lightning, closed in on Lin Hao in that same instant.
Lin Hao’s body might have been immobilized, but that didn’t mean he would simply wait for death.
The very moment Young Master Moon borrowed the power of the sky’s lightning, Lin Hao’s Divine Soul had already leaped from his body.
The next moment, his Divine Soul soared, its body twisting in a peculiar way as it charged directly into the lightning-infused vine.
BOOM!
The two forces collided. The onlookers in Wangchuan City saw only a sudden, explosive burst of white light that instantly filled the entire sky.
Beyond the white light, the Martial Artists could see nothing at all.
When the white light faded, the Martial Artists couldn’t help but stare, their eyes wide with disbelief.
The two of them were still standing, facing each other. But everything around them had been utterly annihilated!
The Celestial Meteorite ground, the surrounding mountain peaks—all had been obliterated.
Even their Divine Souls were nowhere to be seen.
The two of them stood silently in the void, the boundless universe stretching out behind them.
The image was seared into everyone’s minds, an eternal, unforgettable tableau.
One second, ten seconds...
One minute, two minutes...
Several minutes passed, and neither of them had moved.
"What just happened? Why have they stopped moving?" a Martial Artist asked in confusion.
Everything that had just occurred was obscured by the white light; they hadn’t been able to see what happened.
As soon as he finished speaking, the void before the crowd began to distort, and an image appeared within it.
The image showed the climax of Lin Hao and Young Master Moon’s duel, replaying their recent movements as if in slow motion.
The crowd could finally see clearly what had transpired.
They saw that when Lin Hao’s Divine Soul and Young Master Moon’s lightning-infused vine collided, a terrifying shockwave erupted from the point of impact.
Not only was all matter around them annihilated as if it were tissue paper, but their bodies were also thrown backward like paper dolls.
During this, both Lin Hao and Young Master Moon coughed up great mouthfuls of blood.
By the time they managed to stop themselves, they were separated by an unknown number of thousands of miles.
At that point, the image vanished.
The crowd snapped back to reality and looked outside, their expressions growing even more perplexed.
In the replay, they were clearly separated by an incredible distance. Why, then, did they now appear so close?
"Spatial barriers!" Yang Qingtian spoke up. "Their attacks shattered the void, creating a temporary spatial barrier in this realm."
HISS!
The crowd collectively drew in a sharp, cold breath.