"The power of this rune is less than one-thousandth of its ancient glory, a casualty of time itself!"
Xia Xinyu glanced around, then turned, stroking a formation mark below. "We're too late," she said, disappointment in her voice. "There's nothing left to salvage here."
"After all, this wasn't the place where Zhulong's primordial spirit was sealed. With Cheng Tian Zhi Mu fallen, the path to immortality is incredibly difficult to find again!"
Wang Zhuo's expression was tinged with disappointment. "I wonder how the Jian and Zhan families are faring in the other secret realm?"
"Halt!"
"Insects, dare to challenge ancient divine power!"
Chu Fan roared, his voice like a thousand divine thunders.
Dian Wei, currently parrying a deep blue spear, three thousand zhang long, looked up at the colossal spearhead blocking his path. Within its center, a rune flowed slowly. He vaguely saw a blurred figure within, and with every tremor of this figure, the three-thousand-zhang spear gained immeasurable weight.
Within a few breaths, he began to feel the strain. Chu Fan pressed his advantage, his arms relentlessly pushing, bombarding the minuscule Dian Wei. Each impact of divine power from the spear sent resounding tremors through Dian Wei's armor.
"Hah!"
Dian Wei roared in defiance, flames erupting around his body. The thousand-zhang Vermilion Bird behind him surged upwards.
"Behold my halberd!"
At the same moment, he swung his twin halberds, smashing them directly towards the spearhead.
*Boom!*
The two forces collided with a deafening roar. The terrifying spear, as heavy as the heavens themselves, swept away the halberd strikes Dian Wei unleashed, twisting through the void and piercing directly towards the thousand-zhang Vermilion Bird.
"I thought you had some formidable trump card. Now it seems I overestimated you!"
Chu Fan sneered, watching his halberd strikes annihilated.
With a high-pitched cry, Dian Wei charged again. Empowered by the Vermilion Bird's manifestation, his halberd strikes instantly exploded into over ten thousand beams, rippling through the void. Chu Fan's divine power was immense, but his reactions and speed were incredibly sluggish. Dian Wei seized this opportunity, accelerating his advance.
The two engaged in a fierce, bloody battle, neither gaining the upper hand.
Compared to Xia Xinyu and Wang Zhuo's swift victory, Dian Wei and Chu Fan's battle was a true clash of peak supreme beings!
One was a peerless prodigy who had unearthed a sliver of ancient rune's legacy, the other a peerless general from the late Eastern Han Dynasty who had fought valiantly against Lu Bu for several rounds!
"This Chu Fan is indeed a peerless hero!"
Long Ju marveled. He knew well Dian Wei's strength. To fight him for hundreds of rounds and remain evenly matched, Chu Fan was undoubtedly a leading figure of this era's beings.
The world grew dim, not due to any celestial phenomenon, but because night had truly fallen!
Xia Xinyu and Wang Zhuo had disappeared to some unknown location. The battles of Wang Yunxuan, Wang Le, Hong Feiyang, and Hong Yixiu had reached their critical junctures, and the fight between Dian Wei and Chu Fan raged fiercely.
*Boom!*
"Get out of the way!"
A halberd strike erupted, startling Wang Le and Hong Feiyang. They shouted and decisively intervened, using the recoil to propel themselves thousands of zhang away. The halberd beam sliced through the air, tearing through layers of space.
*Boom!*
Dian Wei charged out of the fray, his twin halberds incessantly swinging. Beams of halberd energy flew, intercepting the deep blue spear. The violent tremors shook heaven and earth, forcing all nearby beings to retreat.
No one had expected that Chu Fan and Dian Wei, the ones least anticipated, would engage in a battle that would shock all present!
Even Xia Xinyu and Wang Zhuo cast glances their way.
*Boom*
Dian Wei’s hands pulsed, and two Vermilion Birds, ten zhang in size, spread their wings. Terrifying flames enveloped Dian Wei in dozens of zhang of void, drying the air and thinning the spiritual energy!
As the two Vermilion Birds took flight again, Dian Wei grasped them, and they instantly transformed into his twin halberds. Now imbued with immense offensive power, Dian Wei struck the three-thousand-zhang spear.
*Rumble!*
The violent impact shattered the blurred figure at the spearhead. The deep blue spear even lost some of its color. Chu Fan, a thousand zhang tall, was sent flying backward, his impact pulverizing mountains and rupturing the void.
"Cough..."
Lying on the ground, Chu Fan coughed up blood, spraying forth like a fountain. With a clang, he plunged his spear into the earth and, after a moment's respite, rose to his feet. He stared intently at Dian Wei, who stood in the void.
This move of his, even beings at the Small Heavenly Sovereign realm would find difficult to withstand. Even Chu Shang, killed by Xia Xinyu, could not block this forceful strike. How had this human, Dian Wei, managed to resist it?
"Kill!"
He roared, his colossal body surging across the land. Each step he took altered the terrain, leaving behind deep pits dozens of zhang deep and hundreds of zhang long. His massive form thundered across the ground, shattering countless peaks.
*Boom!*
Wielding his deep blue spear, he brought it down, severing rivers and mountains, tearing through the void. At this moment, he truly resembled the blurred figure from the formation, exuding supreme might with every movement.
Chu Fan’s body was no longer sluggish. His spear danced with lightning speed, unleashing thousands of deep blue spear-beams in an instant, forming a curtain of light that banished the dim heavens, transforming the world into a deep blue expanse, like a fathomless ocean, surging forth, intent on devouring Dian Wei.
Dian Wei’s face was pale. This was the most exhilarating battle of his existence, and perhaps he would never face such a challenge again. He swung his crimson twin halberds, each strike delivered with full force.
*Clang clang clang!*
The devouring tide of the deep blue ocean slowed slightly. Each of the ascending halberd strikes shattered incoming spear-beams. The tip of the deep blue light faded in color, its divine power dissipating.
Dian Wei stepped into the void, his hands pulsed, and the Vermilion Bird halberds vanished. Small, short iron halberds materialized in his hands. He hurled them with all his might. In the blink of an eye, several small iron halberds shot out, each one shattering the void, ferociously tearing apart the deep blue ocean. Even the fiercely attacking deep blue spear-beams could not advance an inch, being held at bay.
"Dian Wei, do you think this is all I have to stop you? Today, I will show you what true kingly might is!"
Chu Fan roared, stomping his feet, creating a depression dozens of zhang deep. He gripped his spear tightly, suffused with divine power.
*Boom!*