Chapter 2344: All Are Powerhouses
The Space Sword Dance was a technique Zhang Ruochen had developed by integrating space and swordsmanship, possessing indestructible destructive power. Amplified by the Way of Truth, the space swords unleashed a tenfold increase in attack power, making their might absolutely terrifying.
"Swish, swish!"
Where the thirty-six swords flew past, they severed many of the Dao locks within this world.
Even Que, with his cultivation, dared not take them head-on.
He executed a ghost-like movement technique, continuously evading.
But no matter how fast he was, how could he possibly avoid all thirty-six swords?
One sword stabbed straight into his heart.
Just as Zhang Ruochen thought this strike would surely severely wound him, Que's heart area turned ethereal. That space sword pierced through as if hitting air, passing through his body.
Immediately after, four more space swords struck Que, all neutralized by his etherealization technique.
"As expected, Que in his ethereal state is no longer within space, so even space swords cannot harm him." Zhang Ruochen's heart sank slightly.
The tenfold attack power from the Way of Truth lasted only an instant.
Soon, the power of the thirty-six space swords greatly diminished, losing their unstoppable momentum.
"Bang, bang."
Que's Shadow Dan Sword, within a thousandth of a breath, struck out thirty-six times, shattering all thirty-six space swords.
Nothingness had broken space.
"Rip!"
Above their heads, Yan Wushen unleashed a thousand Source Dao Towers, pressing down layer by layer, the wind force also stacking, completely locking onto Que. Yet Que still had the leisure to swing a sword at Zhang Ruochen.
Only then did he lift his sword and charge upward, actively meeting the Source Dao Towers, his form elegant and carefree, exuding an invincible aura.
The sword Que swung at Zhang Ruochen contained space power. Dense space rules trembled, and then the sword qi underwent a spatial jump, instantly appearing before Zhang Ruochen.
The sword qi was not fierce; instead, it carried no energy fluctuation at all.
It was like a beam of light with no offensive power.
The more this was the case, the more Zhang Ruochen sensed danger. However, within his Space True Domain, with just a thought, his body retreated a hundred zhang.
"Condense!"
Zhang Ruochen clasped his hands together, and the space before him froze layer by layer.
The sword qi broke through seventy zhang of frozen space before dissipating.
Such powerful attack force, if it struck a planet, would surely split it in two.
Clearly, Que's sword was not meant to kill Zhang Ruochen, only to force him back and buy time to break Yan Wushen's Source Dao Towers and Thousand Heads Thousand Bodies Yama Great Art.
And he succeeded.
Que's body transformed into an ethereal beam of light, charging upward, destroying all thousand Source Dao Towers.
Shadow Dan Sword precisely struck Yan Wushen's chest, colliding with his golden body, producing a bell-like sound that echoed for ten thousand li. Yan Wushen's hands came together, clamping the Shadow Dan Sword, neutralizing part of the force.
"Your golden body is tougher than I imagined."
Que tried to withdraw his sword but found Shadow Dan firmly gripped by Yan Wushen's hands.
"Shura Heaven Exhaustion Kill."
Behind Que, Lan Ying's body materialized, shifting from blurry to solid.
The Asura Sword in his hand erupted with extreme Supreme Power, its light piercing through the blue clouds. He executed the *Asura Sword Art*, slashing horizontally.
Que snorted lightly. Shadow Dan Sword shifted from solid to ethereal, slipping free from Yan Wushen's grasp.
In an instant, the sword turned from ethereal back to solid.
"Swish!"
"Swish!"
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Que struck out over three hundred swords in succession, weaving them into a Nothingness Sword Domain. Dense sword light filled the heavens and earth.
The Asura Sword and Asura World clashed with the Nothingness Sword Domain.
"Boom!"
With this strike, Que and Lan Ying were evenly matched, both sent flying backward.
Though it seemed a draw, Lan Ying couldn't be happy. That strike had been his full-powered attack, also activating Supreme Power.
But Que had no time to gather strength, receiving it hastily.
Achieving such a result was already earth-shattering.
All four present were unparalleled figures, having experienced countless battles. Each knew how to seize the perfect moment to execute the most lethal techniques.
Just as Que was sent flying, Zhang Ruochen's Truth Realm Form released tens of thousands of starlight beams, like ten thousand arrows piercing Que's body.
Que gritted his teeth, instantly etherealizing his body.
"Come out!"
Zhang Ruochen and Yan Wushen shouted simultaneously.
Their Space True Domains were pushed to the limit, suppressing the space where Que was. Then, Source Light and a Virtual Time Domain descended, forcing Que to materialize again.
"Boom!"
The starlight beams of the Truth Realm Form struck Que.
Even in absolute peril, Que reacted with astonishing speed, deploying defensive measures.
He raised his sword to block. Dense sacred rules surfaced on the blade, forming a circular light arc to counter the starlight beams.
How could he possibly block it?
Que's body shot backward like a cannonball.
Lan Ying had already calculated the optimal moment to strike. Appearing like a ghost from behind Que, his sword slashed across Que's waist.
"Pfft."
Sacred blood splattered.
Que fell to the ground, a long sword wound on his waist, sacred blood flowing endlessly.
Lan Ying laughed loudly: "After so many battles with you, I finally draw blood!"
In every previous encounter, Lan Ying would suffer some injury while Que remained unscathed.
How could Lan Ying not be delighted?
Seeing the wound on Que's waist, even Zhang Ruochen and Yan Wushen breathed a slight sigh of relief, thinking: "It seems he is not invincible."
"No one has ever made me bleed. You three are very good, very good, extremely good."
Que's eyes turned fiercely sharp.
He stomped hard on the ground. Thick ice spread from beneath his feet, extending toward the three standing in different directions.
The ice rose from the ground, forming three ice dragons that roared deafeningly.
"Om!"
Yan Wushen radiated Buddha light ten thousand zhang, uttering the first word of the *Six-Syllable Great Bright Mantra*. The ice dragon charging at him instantly shattered into ice crystal fragments.
"Not good."
Yan Wushen's spiritual perception was extraordinary; he sensed danger approaching.
He immediately realized that Que's three ice dragons were meant to obscure the Source Light.
Before Yan Wushen could react, a thin, translucent light sword appeared at his upper right.
One slash struck Yan Wushen's neck.
"Boom!"
With the collision, golden light filled the sky.
Yan Wushen's golden body was broken by the power of nothingness. He flew sideways like a scarecrow, a long bloody gash on his neck, nearly decapitated.
"How is this possible? How can the power of nothingness be so terrifying? My nine-zhang-six-foot golden body, plus my half-Buddha physique, shouldn't even be breakable by a Great Saint in the Ten Thousand Deaths One Life realm."
The golden light on Yan Wushen dissipated. Fearing Que would continue pursuing him, he knew another strike like that might not kill him but could sever his head.
So, upon landing, he immediately fled far away, creating distance.
Que was also deeply shaken. Having struck Yan Wushen with his full force, Yan Wushen only suffered minor injuries?
In his plan, this strike was meant to kill Yan Wushen in one blow.
This was a crucial step.
Because with Yan Wushen dead, without the suppression of Source Light, he could deal with Zhang Ruochen and Lan Ying more easily.
But now, with the strike failing and Zhang Ruochen and Lan Ying already attacking, he lost the chance to kill Yan Wushen.
"Cross Asura!"
Lan Ying's body seemed to split in two in an instant, striking out two swords simultaneously.
The two swords crossed into a cross.
The sword qi was formed from killing aura, chaos aura, divine qi, and Supreme Power. More importantly, the Asura Sword Art was astonishingly profound.
The center of the cross seemed to contain a unique space, frantically pulling everything within that space toward it.
Que felt space split into four parts, forming four sword qi walls.
"Nothingness Treasure Mirror."
The Shadow Dan Sword in Que's hand dispersed. All nothingness rules sank down, forming a circular, smooth mirror beneath his feet. Around the mirror, space twisted. As the sword qi approached, it immediately turned to nothingness.
The Cross Asura Sword Lan Ying struck was devoured by the Nothingness Treasure Mirror upon approach, dissipating silently.
A look of shock appeared on Lan Ying's childish face.
"Boom!"
Que displayed unmatched speed, punching Lan Ying in the chest. Lan Ying's body exploded, turning into nine-colored, eighteen-hued chaos light mist.
"Oh?"
Que was slightly surprised. Even if Lan Ying's defense was poor, he shouldn't be killed so easily, right?
Without extra thought to check Lan Ying's fate, Que's attention was fully on Zhang Ruochen.
Shadow Dan Sword condensed again.
His body merged with the sword, turning into a streak of light, a sword shuttle flying out, striking the River of Time Zhang Ruochen had unleashed.
Sword breaks river.
From the head of the River of Time to its tail, the sword tip aimed at Zhang Ruochen's right palm.
With the aid of his Space True Domain and Virtual Time Domain, Zhang Ruochen's speed was not much slower than Que's. He teleported away in an instant, dodging the strike.
It could be said that only Zhang Ruochen's speed could match Que's.
"Swish, swish."
Shadow Dan Sword struck again, but Zhang Ruochen dodged again.
One person, one sword; one chasing, one evading.
Before long, Que had struck over a thousand times, finally catching up to Zhang Ruochen, forcing him into a position with no escape.
In Zhang Ruochen's vision, the white light sword was right before his eyes, filling his pupils. Even Yan Wushen's golden body had been broken, showing how terrifying Que's nothingness sword technique was.
If he were struck, his physical body would surely be split in two.
"Boom!"
At the critical moment, Zhang Ruochen grabbed the Purple Gold Gourd and swung it, colliding with Shadow Dan Sword. Sword qi exploded like a bomb, scattering in all directions.
Zhang Ruochen slid backward over ten li. Nothingness sword qi struck his chest, leaving four bloody holes.
"Swoosh——"
Shadow Dan Sword flew in a circle through the air, landing back on the ground, manifesting Que's tall, thin figure.
He stood there as if at the center of the universe, exuding the kingly aura of the number one on the Hundred Shackles Great Perfection Ranking.
After fighting to this point, Zhang Ruochen had to elevate his assessment of Que once more. Someone who could cultivate a Second-Rank Sacred Intent and master the Way of Nothingness was indeed a being that might not appear even once in an eon.
"Why did you stop?" Zhang Ruochen asked.
Que said, "If I continued attacking, you would have no power to resist, and ultimately, you couldn't escape death. But I would rather see your Second-Rank Sacred Intent before you die."
A Second-Rank Sacred Intent was not something one could see anytime.
In an era, the probability of two Second-Rank Sacred Intents appearing simultaneously was minuscule.
Of course, Que wanted to see Zhang Ruochen's Second-Rank Sacred Intent. He might glean some insights from it, which would surely help him perfect his own.
"Aren't you afraid of dying to my Second-Rank Sacred Intent?" Zhang Ruochen understood Que's intention and smiled.
Que said, "If you, with your cultivation of having broken thirty shackles, could threaten my life, then dying by your hand would be my own fault."
"Fine, as you wish."
Zhang Ruochen spread ten golden wings on his back, his body soaring upward.
Immediately after, the massive Immovable Bright King Sacred Image manifested behind him, emitting dazzling golden light. He evolved the Divine Demon Prison Suppression sacred art, merging the divine demon shadows with the sacred image.
As Zhang Ruochen's aura grew increasingly fierce, Que's expression gradually turned serious.
In this world, few cultivators could make him cautious, but Zhang Ruochen had officially joined that list.
Que's sword traced out various sword techniques, also mobilizing the Sacred Intent he had cultivated, merging it with the sword techniques to achieve a state of natural perfection.
His Second-Rank Sacred Intent was formed by fusing four sacred paths: the Way of Nothingness, Sword Dao, Flowing Light Way, and Wind Way.
The reason he was so fast was his high attainment in the Flowing Light Way and Wind Way, having cultivated top-tier Fourth-Rank Sacred Intents.
The Flowing Light Way was the fastest speed sacred path, ranking among the top of the seventy-two supreme sacred paths.
Que closed his eyes, fully immersing himself in the sword technique.
This strike, he would also go all out, not only to break Zhang Ruochen's Sacred Intent but also to kill him. He had entered the Heaven Hunting Battlefield with the restriction of "no killing," but Zhang Ruochen, Yan Wushen, and Lan Ying joining forces had threatened his life.
How could he just wait for death?
"Yin-Yang Five Elements, Divine Demon Prison Suppression."
The Yin-Yang Five Elements Sacred Intent merged with the Immovable Bright King Sacred Image. Zhang Ruochen stood at the center of the divine demon shadows, stomping down toward Que.
With the enhancement of the Sacred Intent, this strike triggered celestial phenomena. Thunder and lightning flashed across the sky, continuously striking the nine-tiered heavenly palace above the Immovable Bright King Sacred Image's head.
Below, billions of corpses lay scattered, like a scene from hell.
The entire world was plunged into darkness.
"Nothingness Sword Technique, Thousand Turns One Sword Void."
As Que soared upward, his body vanished, merging with Shadow Dan, striking the Yin-Yang Five Elements light cloud beneath the divine demon shadow's foot. Upon contact, the Yin-Yang Five Elements light cloud transformed into a Taiji seal.
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