Chapter 1840: The Celestial Wolf's Deadly Struggle
"Ah... ah ah!!"
Tianyang, Tianyan, Tianhun, Tianmei... the four Star Gods let out painful and mournful cries. At this moment, they had already seen that sorrowful ending. The once brilliant Star Gods would, in their generation, turn into eternal historical records.
Their chests were about to burst, and the power within them was burned to the extreme by the flames of hatred. At this moment, they went completely mad. The Star God's power erupted with an eerie radiance fiercer than any time in their lives, annihilating everything they could see ahead.
Cai Zhi's pupils no longer held starlight, only endless darkness. Her aura grew even more resentful, her sword aura even more fierce. The Celestial Wolf's resentful roar echoed throughout the entire battlefield, stirring every soul.
Long Er's gaze lingered on Cai Zhi for a long time. He sighed and said, "This generation's Celestial Wolf of the Eastern Domain — how can it be so monstrous?"
"Half a Jiazi in age?" With Long Yi's status, he almost couldn't believe his own perception.
"Pity, but she has fallen deeply into the demonic path. What a pity." Long San sighed and shook his head.
In less than ten years, Cai Zhi had grown from the seventh level of the Divine Lord Realm to the tenth level of the Divine Lord Realm. Such a speed of growth and awakening had far surpassed the previous generation's Celestial Wolf, Xi Su, and even far surpassed any Star God in history.
Given enough time, she would surely become the strongest Star God in the history of the Star God Realm.
But, she was ultimately still too young, unable to contend with Zhou Xuzi, who possessed tens of thousands of years of profound power and foundation.
Not to mention the six Zhou Tian Guardians.
The demon wolf howled at the sky, the sword like a calamitous star. Cai Zhi broke through the power seals of one Guardian after another. With one move, Heavenly Star Sorrow, she compressed a hundred miles of space into a terrifying "S" shape that appeared suddenly, directly smashing toward Zhou Xuzi's head.
In her eyes, there was only Zhou Xuzi.
Today, she might be destined to be buried here... but before that, she must, no matter what, tear Zhou Xuzi into a thousand pieces.
Zhou Xuzi stepped back slightly, swinging his right arm. The fly whisk in his hand unfurled, and the space twisted under the Celestial Wolf's sword might suddenly twisted in the opposite direction, while also fiercely distorting Cai Zhi's sword might.
Boom!!
The space on both sides of Zhou Xuzi collapsed and disintegrated. Only where he stood, a gust of storm passed by.
The six Guardians who had just been forced back now attacked together.
Cai Zhi's sword struck forward without any hesitation, leaving no retreat. Three white lights and three sword strikes all hit her body squarely, sending her flying back, her colorful robe stained with blood.
But whether internal or external injuries, she didn't even glance at them. The Celestial Wolf Demon Sword once again raged with demonic energy, and amidst the Celestial Wolf's roar, it smashed straight toward Zhou Xuzi's head.
Such a fierce battle had never occurred in the entire history of the Divine Realm.
In the Southern Divine Domain, regardless of east, west, north, or south, countless star realms and planets trembled to varying degrees.
And those subsidiary star realms near the Ten Directions Canglan Realm had already been shattered one after another by the aftershocks.
The level limited perception. The high-level Xuan practitioners of these subsidiary star realms had already fled in panic six hours ago. But countless ordinary Xuan practitioners did not believe that the distant battle in the Canglan Realm could affect their own star realms... When the aftershocks arrived, less than half managed to escape.
In the Eastern, Western, and Southern Divine Domains, all eyes turned to the Ten Directions Canglan Realm.
This sudden outbreak of the Divine Domain war, which had caught everyone by surprise in every way, made their hearts hang high in excitement.
And almost everyone hoped... and believed... that the Western Divine Domain would completely annihilate the invading demon race, saving the Eastern and Southern Divine Domains from the abyss of fire and water, and eliminating the threat forever.
At the Divine Lord Realm, destruction was originally a rather difficult thing. But when this battlefield was full of Divine Lords, even Divine Lord bodies would shatter and fly, and Divine Lord blood would spill across the sky.
Boom!!
Dimensions shattered like thin paper. Three Zhou Tian Guardians flew out spitting blood, but Cai Zhi also fluttered away like a colorful butterfly caught in a storm.
Zhou Xuzi's white hair flew wildly, his voice like a great bell: "In just a few years, such progress is astonishing. But since you have fallen into the demonic path, you cannot be spared!"
"Hmph! To kill my master, you, a mere little Celestial Wolf, are dreaming!" The Guardian stationed to Zhou Xuzi's right said viciously.
Cai Zhi stopped in the storm. She raised both hands high, the demon sword pointing to the sky. On her snow-white hands, streams of blood slowly slid down, causing heartache at the sight.
The sky suddenly darkened. Behind her, a huge blood-red full moon abruptly appeared. Within the blood moon, a ten-thousand-zhang ancient wolf had eyes like a blood hell, its mouth wanting to devour the sky, emitting a low growl that shattered souls.
The six Guardians who were about to take the opportunity to surround and attack suddenly all halted there. Their pupils, reflecting the blood moon and wolf shadow, contracted sharply.
"Oh?" The gaze of the Withered Dragon Venerable turned completely.
"Immortal-Slaying Sword Array." Long Yi said, his gaze once again fixed on Cai Zhi: "Let me see how powerful the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array of this young wolf is."
"Heh, this young wolf is young only in age." Long Er said: "With her current power, she already surpasses all the Celestial Wolf Star Gods I remember."
"Imm... Immortal-Slaying Sword Array!" A Guardian said tremblingly. The Sixth Sword of the Celestial Wolf — Blood Moon Immortal-Slaying Sword. Although he had never personally experienced it, as a Guardian, how could he not know of it?
When he finished speaking, he was startled to realize that his teeth were chattering.
And this trembling of the soul told them that what they faced was a might they could not resist.
Cai Zhi's pupils were boundless in their hatred, dark as an abyss. Her arms, in the terrified pupils of the Guardians that had been dyed blood-red, slowly fell.
Roar————
The Celestial Wolf howled at the sky, and a ten-thousand-zhang wolf shadow descended upon the world. Its bloodshot glaring pupils were like a blood-soaked purgatory that buried countless living beings.
"Fall back!!"
Zhou Xuzi let out a explosive roar. Instead of retreating, he advanced. Reflecting the blood moon and the ancient wolf, he opened both arms wide. In front of him appeared a copper-colored ancient bell.
When the bell first appeared, it was only one zhang long, but as Zhou Xuzi frantically infused white light from his arms, it rapidly expanded, becoming a hundred zhang, a thousand zhang, ten thousand zhang... The bell mouth, deep as an abyss, directly covered the blood moon ancient wolf that came crashing down from the sky.
"Huntian Bell." Long Wu looked up and muttered softly.
Boom!!!
With a sound that swallowed heaven and earth, the power of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array exploded. The wolf shadow shattered, but revealed a thousand blood-colored sword rays.
Each of these thousand sword rays was enough to destroy heaven and earth... But they did not fall on Zhou Xuzi and the Guardians. Instead, they were all absorbed into the Huntian Bell.
The sound of destruction lasted a full five breaths. The Huntian Bell shook violently. The booming noise caused countless Divine Lord Xuan practitioners to temporarily lose their hearing. At the end, the bell began to distort and deform...
Crack!!
With a terrifying explosion, a crack suddenly appeared on the Huntian Bell, and instantly spread across the entire bell body. But at this moment, the sound of destruction ceased.
"..." The shadow of the ancient wolf vanished. The blood-colored moonlight behind Cai Zhi completely dissipated. She stared blankly at the Huntian Bell, her arms slowly lowering, her pupils appearing scattered.
Then, her head also slowly drooped. Beads of blood and streams of blood slid down her hand, as white and smooth as jade, onto the sword, then quickly dripped from the tip.
The Huntian Bell quickly shrank in Zhou Xuzi's hand. Looking at the cracks on the bell body, a pang of pain flashed in his aged eyes. Then he sighed and put it away.
"Alas." Long San exhaled lightly, seeming somewhat regretful.
"Pity. If not for the Huntian Bell, Zhou Tian would have lost at least an arm. Pity." Long Four also shook his head.
The five Withered Dragon Venerables had never made a move. Instead, they were like onlookers from outside the matter. Because in their eyes, the outcome of the battle was already decided, and there was no need for them to intervene.
"Oh?" Long Yi's expression suddenly changed slightly.
At this moment, the other Withered Dragon Venerables and Long Bai also changed color suddenly. Their varied gazes fell directly on Cai Zhi.
"It seems this is about your limit." Zhou Xuzi walked forward slowly. But before he could finish his second sentence, he suddenly froze there.
The sounds in his ears suddenly disappeared.
The shouts, the roars, the booming of power, the shattering of bodies... all sounds vanished without a trace.
His vision also froze at this moment in an extremely eerie way. The distant figures and blood mists, the nearby flying dust and gravel, all stood still, and then quickly blurred in this terrifying stillness... blurred further...
Until everything disappeared. In front of his eyes, in his world, a pitch-black wolf shadow was reflected.
The wolf shadow was not large. The highest point of the wolf's head was level with Cai Zhi's height. It slowly approached Zhou Xuzi. Its wolf eyes were like a blood hell, yet they clearly reflected Zhou Xuzi's figure. Between its tightly clenched wolf teeth came a low and desperate whimper.
Thump!
Thump!
Thump!
Zhou Xuzi couldn't tell whether it was the sound of his own heart beating or the sound of this demon wolf's heart beating.
"Zhou... Xu... Zi..."
It was like a young girl's angry chant, or like a demon wolf's roar: "Even if I burn my body and shatter my soul, I will... surely... sacrifice your blood!!"
Hatred!
No words could describe what kind of hatred that was... Zhou Xuzi's entire body turned ice-cold, but soon he couldn't even feel the cold.
That demon wolf drew closer and closer, and finally pounced on him. The wolf's mouth opened wide in rage. Every fang flickered with pitch-black and blood-red cold light, rapidly approaching and enlarging in his pupils.
But he could not move, not even shout. Only in his ears did he faintly hear the roars of the Guardians.
Having lowered her head for a long time, Cai Zhi finally raised it slowly. The Celestial Wolf Demon Sword in her hand lifted again. Between her lips came a very soft murmur:
"Earth... Sorrow... Heaven... Wound..."
"Only... Hate... Without... Heart..."
The murmur fell. The Celestial Wolf Demon Sword gently swept out, sending a black sword ray that looked extremely simple toward Zhou Xuzi's direction.
At that moment, the fierce battlefield suddenly lost its voice.
In the hearts and souls of everyone, a pitch-black Celestial Wolf appeared, its body stained with blood, entangled with dark chains, just crawled out from the abyss of purgatory.
It carried endless hatred, opened its sky-devouring fangs, and bit toward Zhou Xuzi.
"Master!?"
"Master!!!"
The root attribute of the Celestial Wolf's power is hatred.
And Cai Zhi's endless hatred at this moment was locked only on Zhou Xuzi.
He was suppressed by this terrifying hatred and demonic might, losing his soul in shock, unable to move. As the sword ray approached, the six Guardians screamed and pounced, their Zhou Tian divine power heavily striking that dark sword ray.
Chi!
A tearing sound so faint it was almost imperceptible. The first Guardian's power and body were pierced through by the dark sword ray in an instant, like breaking through a thin silk fabric.
Chi!
Similarly faint tearing sound. The dark sword ray pierced through the second Guardian's body... He felt no pain at all, didn't even know his body had been severed.
Chi... the third.
Chi — the fourth.
Chi ——— the fifth.
The power of the dark sword ray finally weakened somewhat. It stalled for half an instant under the Zhou Tian divine power of the sixth Guardian, then similarly passed through his body... This time it did not cut so cleanly, carrying a spray of blood mist as the body severed.
One instant, just one instant. The six Zhou Tian Guardians had their bodies severed by the same sword ray... By the time the sword ray flew toward Zhou Xuzi, the first Guardian's body had not yet had time to fall apart.
In Zhou Xuzi's pupils, the fangs of the dark demon wolf had already approached his throat. Yet he still could not move, only despair in his heart...
Roar!!
A heaven-shaking dragon's roar suddenly rang out. Zhou Xuzi's soul shook violently, and his consciousness suddenly broke free from the prison of hatred of the dark Celestial Wolf... But the dark sword ray was already upon him. He only had time to cross his arms in front of him.
As the dragon's roar sounded, a burst of dragon qi also shot out, quickly taking the form of a pale dragon shadow that directly collided with the dark sword ray.
Long Yi!
Faced with the legendary Seventh Sword of the Celestial Wolf, he finally intervened.
Boom!!
The dragon shadow and the dark profound power collided. A resentful roar and a mournful dragon's cry simultaneously tore through the sky and shattered the firmament.
The dragon shadow from Long Yi was also snapped in half at the waist... And that dark sword ray was also weakened layer by layer until only two-tenths of its original might remained, then heavily struck Zhou Xuzi, who had already activated his defensive power.
Roar————
The demon wolf howled at the sky, but this time, besides demonic might and hatred, it also carried a touch of desolation.
The last of the dark sword might erupted on Zhou Xuzi's body. Divine Emperor blood sprayed across the sky... Zhou Xuzi's chest was split open by a two-foot-long gash, flesh and blood flying, broken bones starkly exposed.
But in the end, it failed to sever his body and end his life.
"Ugh... ahh..." Zhou Xuzi staggered back, pressing his chest, letting out pained groans, his heart and soul filled with lingering fear.
"..." Long Yi's hand paused in midair. A shock that took a long time to dissipate rippled in his aged eyes.
Looking at Zhou Xuzi's injuries, the last glimmer of light in Cai Zhi's pupils also completely dimmed, turning into a blurry darkness.
The Celestial Wolf Demon Sword slipped from her hand and fell helplessly.
Her body became incomparably light, so light that she couldn't even perceive her own existence. She closed her eyes, letting herself be carried by the cold wind, falling toward the dark and desperate abyss.