# Chapter 1194: Desperate Barrier
[Heard it's a chapter of nearly five thousand words ^*)]
Yun Che's world was filled with yellow sand as far as the eye could see, with no boundaries in sight.
Yun Che released his spiritual perception, but only sensed emptiness. He could not detect any aura, nor any danger.
He immediately understood—this was a pure sealing domain with no offensive properties!
Lu Lengchuan's use of such a pure sealing domain was clearly to buy time to deploy the Huanglong Sacred Barrier!
Yun Che unleashed his spiritual perception to its fullest, but still only felt the rolling yellow sands with nothing else. Without any further hesitation, he simultaneously erupted with the full force of the Golden Crow Flame and the heavy sword's power, blasting toward the front.
***BOOM!!***
Space trembled, yellow sand filled the sky, and a crack appeared in the heavens, then slowly healed silently.
"One Sand Buries the World" had a domain core; if one found it, one could break it with a single strike. But Yun Che had never fought anyone from the Futian Realm, let alone had any contact with them—how could he know that? The only thing he could do to escape was to forcefully shatter it.
The Heaven-Defying Sword continuously struck, and the quicksand world shuddered repeatedly. In the blink of an eye, cracks filled the sky. After a dozen consecutive strikes from Yun Che, the entire world trembled unceasingly, yet stubbornly maintained its integrity.
Yun Che paused his actions as flames gathered around him. Within the quicksand world, it was as if a sun had suddenly blazed.
"Yellow... Springs... Ashes!!"
***BOOM!!... BOOM!!...***
Above the Feng Shen Platform, the suspended sand domain exploded violently. Flames engulfed the sky, and the shattered fragments of the sand domain's power had not even begun to scatter before they were devoured by the inferno, turning into nothingness.
Yun Che descended from the sky, locking onto Lu Lengchuan's aura in an instant. Both of their pupils simultaneously contracted.
Lu Lengchuan was shocked that Yun Che had broken through his "One Sand Buries the World" in such a short time—and by force, no less.
As for Yun Che... around Lu Lengchuan, he saw a faint, translucent barrier of profound light.
The Huanglong Sacred Barrier!
"Ah... it's over." Huo Rulie and Yan Juehai both sighed simultaneously.
And the same sound echoed from every corner of the audience.
Yun Che had relied on his extremely powerful Golden Crow Flame to contend with Lu Lengchuan, who surpassed him in strength. Though he had gradually begun to gain the upper hand, the gap was ultimately small. And now, with the sudden addition of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier atop that small gap...
Anyone could foresee the outcome.
When the Futian Realm King saw Lu Lengchuan successfully deploy the Huanglong Sacred Barrier, he knew that he could no longer lose. But he did not smile; instead, his heart churned with turmoil... He had originally thought that after Yun Che was drawn into "One Sand Buries the World," unless he knew the method to break it, even if he tried to force his way out, the time would be more than enough for Lu Lengchuan to deploy two layers of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier.
Yun Che had indeed broken through by force, even destroying "One Sand Buries the World" to the last trace, but Lu Lengchuan's Huanglong Sacred Barrier had only barely formed a single layer!
Thinking of Yun Che's age and cultivation level, the Futian Realm King marveled inwardly and sighed. He knew very well that even though Lu Lengchuan was now destined to win... perhaps in his entire life, he would only be able to win this once.
Moreover, even if Yun Che lost this match, he would absolutely be qualified to replace Lu Lengchuan's position among the "Four Divine Sons."
The worst-case scenario had occurred. Yun Che's breathing became slightly heavier, but the fire in his eyes blazed even hotter.
Similarly, Lu Lengchuan, with a single layer of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier around him, showed no ease or pride. He still gathered all his power without reservation into the Lieqiong Spear.
Their eyes met in an instant, and then both erupted simultaneously.
***Boom boom boom...***
In a flash, both men let out low roars and shot toward each other like two thunderbolts. Sword and spear clashed, and the Feng Shen Platform, which had just quieted down, once again filled the sky with flames.
Every collision of power between Yun Che and Lu Lengchuan struck directly at the heart. Such pure force clashes, without any pretense and without holding back, were absolutely unprecedented in this Feng Shen Battle. Even those watching through the Star Monuments felt their blood boiling with excitement.
***Boom boom boom... BOOM!!***
Yun Che struck with over a dozen consecutive sword blows, finally forcing Lu Lengchuan to retreat one step. But this time, despite the flames covering his body, his expression was calm, and there was not a single trace of burn on him. The Huanglong Sacred Barrier flickered faintly, completely isolating all residual power, not affecting Lu Lengchuan in the slightest.
Yun Che's brows tightened. He slowed his offensive slightly, then suddenly erupted like a volcano. The Heaven-Defying Sword, carrying unparalleled momentum, smashed straight toward Lu Lengchuan's chest.
Lu Lengchuan's spear swirled with dragon shadows, meeting it head-on... But instead of striking immediately, his spear suddenly paused.
Yun Che instantly understood his intention, but instead of withdrawing his force, he charged forward with even greater momentum... Even if he got hurt, he had to forcefully break Lu Lengchuan's Huanglong Sacred Barrier! He couldn't afford to delay! This was his only choice, and one could even say it was a golden opportunity presented by Lu Lengchuan.
***BOOM!!***
The Heaven-Defying Sword, carrying the Golden Crow Flame burning at its extreme, slammed heavily into Lu Lengchuan's chest... And it was only at this moment that Lu Lengchuan's Lieqiong Spear thrust out fiercely, carrying surging dragon force, striking Yun Che directly in the left ribs.
With a resounding explosion, two great forces erupted simultaneously. Lu Lengchuan's Huanglong Sacred Barrier sank deeply, while blood blossomed from Yun Che's left ribs, sending him tumbling violently backward.
Lu Lengchuan retreated three steps, unscathed on the surface, but inwardly greatly alarmed.
The Huanglong Sacred Barrier was deeply dented, with a golden-red fiery mark imprinted deeply on it, crackling and lingering for a long time. What shocked him even more was the spear he had just struck into Yun Che... With the might of his spear, even if it couldn't pierce through his body, it should have crushed his tendons and broken his bones.
But after that spear pierced through Yun Che's profound energy defense and struck his body directly, he distinctly felt as if he had struck steel that was incredibly hard—unable to even break his ribs.
Yun Che staggered backward over a dozen steps, his white robes stained with blood. But he didn't even glance at his wound; like an arrow from a bowstring, he pounced at Lu Lengchuan again, his momentum undiminished.
While Lu Lengchuan was shocked, Yun Che was also horrified... Lu Lengchuan only had one layer of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier, and from the battle between Lu Lengchuan and Luo Changsheng, he already knew that the first layer was the weakest.
Yet his full-force sword strike had been completely repelled! Though it had dented the barrier, it hadn't even torn a single crack.
Lu Lengchuan's eyes blazed with light. He held the Lieqiong Spear horizontally, adopting a complete defensive posture.
***Boom boom boom boom...***
Yun Che's sword blazed with flames as he executed the Moon-Breaking Shadow Flick, shifting positions with every sword strike. But after seven consecutive blows, all were completely blocked by Lu Lengchuan. Moreover, after the seventh strike, the Huanglong Sacred Barrier, which had been dented by Yun Che's attacks, silently returned to its complete state.
For the eighth sword, Yun Che's icy shadow flickered as he appeared behind Lu Lengchuan, striking at the back of his heart. At that moment, Lu Lengchuan changed his stance, switching from defense to offense. He allowed Yun Che's sword to strike his body as the Lieqiong Spear's profound light transformed into a dragon. With a dragon's roar echoing through the sky and carrying awe-inspiring momentum, he spun around and swept his spear horizontally.
***BOOM!!***
***CRACK!!***
Both of their full-power attacks landed on each other almost simultaneously.
Flames and yellow light exploded together. Lu Lengchuan was knocked back over a dozen steps, completely unharmed, with only the Huanglong Sacred Barrier dented once more.
Yun Che, struck on his right arm by that extremely powerful spear, heard a crisp, unmistakable sound of bone breaking in the air. With a muffled grunt, he was sent flying dozens of miles in an instant, crashing heavily to the ground far away.
"Yun Che!" Mu Bingyun cried out in alarm, her snow-like face losing color.
"That hit definitely broke his entire arm." Everyone heard that crisp sound clearly.
"The moment the Huanglong Sacred Barrier appeared, this battle was already over."
"Yun Che's performance has already amazed the world—it's practically a miracle. It's just a pity, sigh."
Amid the sympathetic gazes of the crowd, Yun Che slowly straightened up from the ground.
Blood trickled from the corner of his lips, and his expression was pained, but his eyes were still as fierce and ruthless as before.
His right arm was bent backward at an extremely exaggerated angle. Yun Che took a deep breath, grabbed it with his left arm, and wrenched it back with a sharp motion.
***Click***
The arm returned to its proper position. Yun Che let out not a single groan of pain, though his face clearly paled by a shade, with beads of sweat streaming down.
"Just... just a dislocation?!" This scene shocked everyone, making them unable to believe their eyes.
Just how terrifying was Lu Lengchuan's full-powered spear strike? Yun Che was sent flying dozens of miles by that one sweep—the residual power alone was frighteningly strong.
And the arm that Yun Che had taken the full force of the blow on... was only dislocated?!
"...Hmm?" All the Divine Emperors showed expressions of surprise.
"It has nothing to do with profound strength," said the Zhou Tian Shen Di. "He wanted to break the Huanglong Sacred Barrier with all his might, so he left no strength for defense. His body... is extraordinary."
"...!" The Dragon Emperor's brow twitched almost imperceptibly.
Yun Che's right arm ached intensely, but he forcibly gripped the Heaven-Defying Sword again. However, when he looked at Lu Lengchuan, his pupils violently contracted.
On Lu Lengchuan's body, a barrier even more conspicuous than before was flickering with a faint yellow profound light.
The second layer of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier had formed!
"..." Yun Che gritted his teeth heavily.
It was clear that Yun Che had no chance of winning, but Lu Lengchuan showed no mercy at all, almost ruthlessly forming a second layer of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier. Then, like a violent wind and thunder, he charged straight at Yun Che, his spear sweeping horizontally, sending over a dozen spear shadows piercing through space toward Yun Che.
Yun Che's right arm had just suffered a severe dislocation—it was not only extremely painful but also not fully mobile. He dared not take these spear shadows head-on. He rapidly retreated, dodging with instantaneous movement. But Lu Lengchuan's figure descended from above, a dragon shadow dropping down from the sky.
"Demon Dragon Seal!"
Yun Che halted, staring at the dragon shadow. He swept his sword down with "Golden Annihilation," directly severing the rock dragon's shadow. But Lu Lengchuan had already attacked right in front of him, his spear might like a dragon.
Yun Che's right arm was sluggish, his sword returning too slowly. He was knocked back by a single spear thrust. But in an instant, he suddenly leaped into the air, his aura breaking through limits and surging wildly.
An incredibly powerful momentum suddenly pressed down, causing Lu Lengchuan to pause.
***BOOM!!... RUMBLE!!...***
Completely disregarding the pain in his right arm, Yun Che mobilized every trace of power within him. At a certain moment, the Golden Crow's fiery light flickered with a pure gold color.
Lu Lengchuan looked up, his expression grave. The Lieqiong Spear was held horizontally before him, his whole body bathed in floating yellow light. Before this sword strike even descended, its overwhelmingly terrifying momentum had already pinned him in place as if by an irresistible force, almost unable to move.
"HEEE!!!"
The Heaven-Defying Sword, carrying Yun Che's most supreme divine power, slashed down. This was the most awe-inspiring sword strike in the entire Feng Shen Battle. At the moment it fell, the very air within a hundred miles was compressed to nothing.
All the spectators widened their eyes. But Lu Lengchuan remained calm. As the storm approached, he did not move at all, not even raising his Lieqiong Spear.
Power erupted, and space violently trembled. This sword strike crashed heavily onto the second layer of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier. At that moment, Yun Che's expression suddenly changed.
The instant the Heaven-Defying Sword touched the Huanglong Sacred Barrier, the second layer deformed, and the ferociously erupting power seemed to sink into water, half of it dissipated directly, while the remaining power was completely repelled... Not a single bit managed to break through.
And Lu Lengchuan's counterattack came fiercely at that moment.
The aftermath of the Heaven-Defying Sword's strike had not yet faded, but Lu Lengchuan, having endured the most powerful attack, aimed his spear in a completely composed manner, then launched it straight into the air, piercing through the sky. At that moment, the spear transformed into a true dragon, its roar shaking heaven and earth, almost penetrating every corner of the heavens, causing all hearts to shudder.
"Collapsing... Dragon... Spear!!"
It was like Lu Lengchuan's whisper, yet also like the majestic roar of a true dragon. A surge of power, not at all inferior to Yun Che's "Heaven-Defying Sword," exploded with shocking force within the Lieqiong Spear, condensing into a boundless blast on the edge of Lu Lengchuan's spear.
***PUFF—BOOM!!***
Within a hundred miles, space was instantly filled with an intensely concentrated dragon-rock force.
A stream of blood shot from Yun Che's mouth as he plummeted like a meteor, violently shaking the Feng Shen Platform upon impact.
"Ah... ah!!"
"His back! His spine... must have... broken, sss..." The Xuan adept speaking drew in a sharp breath. Everyone clearly saw that this earth-shattering spear strike had landed squarely on Yun Che's back. How terrifying it would be for a spine to be shattered! Even for a divine path Xuan adept, they would be completely paralyzed, with no combat strength left, and would not recover any time soon.
The people from the Yin Xue Realm and Yan Shen Realm were all terrified. Mu Bingyun slowly stood up, her snow-like face slightly pale: "Yun... Che..."
Yun Che collapsed to the ground, motionless for a long time. Quhui Zunzhe swept his divine sense over him, trying to determine if he had lost consciousness, but found that his body moved, and he slowly... sat up.
Although his sitting up was accompanied by pain and difficulty, it once again shocked everyone greatly.
"He can still sit up? This... his spine... could it be... that it didn't break?"
"He took Lu Lengchuan's Collapsing Dragon Spear head-on! How is that possible!"
"...Sigh, but so what? Look at Lu Lengchuan."
***ROAR!!***
A deep dragon roar suddenly echoed in everyone's ears at this moment.
Following the source of the dragon roar, everyone's gaze shifted... Around Lu Lengchuan's body, a yellow dragon shadow was slowly dancing, releasing an aura as majestic as ten-thousand-zhang mountains.
The third layer, the strongest layer of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier, had formed!
***Haaa... haaa... haaa...***
In Yun Che's world, he could only hear his own extremely heavy breathing.
Lu Lengchuan's Collapsing Dragon Spear was terrifyingly powerful. If not for his Dragon God's Marrow making his bones as hard as refined steel, his spine would have been shattered into powder. Although his spine was not broken, his internal injuries were extremely severe. Propping himself up with the Heaven-Defying Sword, he swayed as he stood. The moment he stabilized himself, his internal aura suddenly became chaotic, and he sprayed out three mouthfuls of bright red blood.
Each mouthful of blood was mixed with large blood clots.
He vaguely felt that nearly forty percent of his internal organs had been shattered.
He sensed that Lu Lengchuan's aura had undergone another great change. Raising his head, he saw the dragon shadow coiling around his body.
The complete Huanglong Sacred Barrier... an utterly desperate barrier.
When Lu Lengchuan had not yet deployed the Huanglong Sacred Barrier, Yun Che had a slight advantage with his Golden Crow Flame, and the advantage was becoming more apparent.
But from the moment Lu Lengchuan deployed the first layer of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier, the situation had turned completely, and he was entirely on the defensive against Lu Lengchuan.
The Huanglong Sacred Barrier went from the first layer to the second, and then to the third.
When he had watched the battle between Luo Changsheng and Lu Lengchuan before, Lu Lengchuan's Huanglong Sacred Barrier was easily torn open by Luo Changsheng, seemingly not that impressive... But facing it himself, Yun Che truly realized how terrifying the Futian Realm's ultimate technique was.
Lu Lengchuan had indeed fulfilled his promise to go all out. With an already irreversible advantage, he still held nothing back and deployed the third layer of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier.
From the moment Lu Lengchuan opened the first layer of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier, Yun Che had already fallen into a losing position. Now, with Yun Che seriously injured and Lu Lengchuan protected by three layers of the Huanglong Sacred Barrier...
He had completely lost, with not even a shred of hope or possibility.
Everyone thought so.
But they also all believed that although Yun Che lost, he was not at all disgraced. Given his age, his cultivation level, and the fact that he could initially suppress Lu Lengchuan, his loss was still glorious.
Lu Lengchuan, holding the Lieqiong Spear, slowly walked toward Yun Che, who was covered in blood. At this point, he could have directly advised Yun Che to surrender. But he didn't, because Yun Che's still fierce gaze told him that even if he was about to lose, he would fight to the very last moment. Advising him to concede would not be a release for him, but an insult.
Lu Lengchuan drew closer, and the heavy pressure approached step by step. Yun Che supported himself with the Heaven-Defying Sword on his right arm, panting heavily. His left arm then made a strange movement.
He slowly raised his arm, palm facing the sky.