Chapter 2384: Peak Combat Power, Undefeated and Immortal

Chapter 2384: Peak Combat Power, Undefeated and Immortal

"Since no one is willing to compromise, then we can only fight to the death."
Zhang Ruochen swept his leg sideways, and the resulting airwave sent more than twenty Yama Clan formation masters flying like kicked stones.
"Swoosh!"
A spatial wormhole mirror surface manifested, and all the formation masters sank into it.

From a distance.
Yan Huangtu's eyelids twitched, sensing something was wrong.
No one knew where the other end of the spatial wormhole mirror connected, but he guessed in advance and rapidly retreated backward.

Sure enough.
The moment he retreated, the spatial wormhole mirror appeared at his previous position. More than twenty Yama Clan formation masters, their bodies burning with divine flames, flew out, screaming in agony.
Several of them had bones nearly melted by the heat, teetering on the edge of life and death.

"Zhang Ruochen timed it perfectly."
Yan Huangtu sighed, forced to unleash icy power to help them extinguish the divine flames.
When Zhang Ruochen suppressed the twenty-plus formation masters, Yan Huangtu could have chosen not to compromise. But now that they had been thrown before him, he absolutely could not ignore them and let them die.
This was Zhang Ruochen's scheme!
He had timed it to the very instant, forcing Yan Huangtu to act immediately.

In half a breath, Yan Huangtu extinguished the divine flames on the twenty-plus formation masters. To his right, another spatial wormhole mirror opened, and Zhang Ruochen charged out.
In that moment, Yan Huangtu had an illusion—space seemed to freeze, time seemed to stop.
No!
It wasn't an illusion.
Space truly froze, and time indeed stopped for an instant.

Zhang Ruochen's right hand grabbed the Soul-Controlling Flute.
His left hand formed a palm strike, aimed at Yan Huangtu's chest.
Yan Huangtu knew how terrifying Zhang Ruochen's palm strike was. He dared not take it head-on, even with his invincible defense and Imperial Dao Divine Bones; he would certainly be unable to withstand it.

"Roar!"
Yan Huangtu bellowed, releasing tens of thousands of golden dragon shadows from his body, unleashing immense divine power. He shattered the frozen space, abandoned the Soul-Controlling Flute, and retreated rapidly.
Only after retreating a hundred zhang did he stop, still shaken.

"Time and space combined... so terrifying."
In that instant, his entire body had been unable to move, all power and even thought had ceased, as if he could only be slaughtered. That feeling tormented Yan Huangtu immensely.
Fortunately, the time stop lasted only an instant. Any longer, and Yan Huangtu feared he might lose the confidence to even fight Zhang Ruochen.

"Xian'er, kill Xia Yu immediately... Xian'er..."
Just as Yan Huangtu sent a mental message, he witnessed a shocking scene.

The space where Yan Zhexian, the Eight Life-and-Death Sons, and the Yu Emperor were located collapsed on a large scale, forming a spatial fragmentation zone hundreds of meters in diameter. All of them sank into the void space.
From a distance, it looked like a thin layer of ice on a lake breaking, with them all falling into the water.

"Zhang... Ruo... Chen..."
Yan Huangtu gritted out these three words.
Above the shattered space, a spatial wormhole mirror still lingered, not yet dissipated.
Clearly, during the half-breath when he was rescuing the twenty-plus formation masters, Zhang Ruochen had first attacked the space where Yan Zhexian and the others were, then struck at him.
The speed was astonishing.

"Time-Space Controller... This is the Time-Space Controller! In the entire Heaven Hunting Battlefield, is there any cultivator who can stop him?"
Yan Huangtu was filled with regret. He should have ordered the Yama Clan formation masters and talisman masters to set up a grand formation to suppress time and space first. Otherwise, with time and space under Zhang Ruochen's control, how could they fight him?

...

Yan Zhexian and the Eight Life-and-Death Sons were also regretting now.
The Heaven Hunting Battlefield was located within the Six-Colored Divine Mist Nebula of the No-Return Forest. The space was incredibly stable. Even with their powerful cultivation, they could at most tear open a crack in space.
But Zhang Ruochen, as a Space Controller, mobilized space rules and shattered a vast area of space hundreds of meters long with a single palm strike, sweeping them all away.

"I'll help you return to the battlefield. You must suppress Zhang Ruochen. The Yama Clan's top position cannot be lost."
Yan Zhexian stood on a sinking spatial fragment, her ten fingers moving rapidly. She drew eight talismans and struck them onto the Eight Life-and-Death Sons. Just before the space closed again, she pushed them out of the void space.
Yan Zhexian and the Yu Emperor, however, sank deeper into the void space, swallowed by darkness.

Of course, the Yama Clan's Xue Zhi Gushen and Blood Absolute War God soon acted, rescuing them from the void space.

"Finally, I've sent them out of the battlefield. Now, with no more ties, I can fight to my heart's content."
Zhang Ruochen checked the Soul-Controlling Flute, confirming that the Yu Emperor's sacred soul was indeed inside. He then retrieved her spiritual power from the Seven-Star Ghost Lotus and placed it into the flute's inner space.
With a casual toss, he threw the Soul-Controlling Flute into the void space.
He knew that many deities were watching this battlefield. He believed that the deity who rescued the Yu Emperor would also take the flute away.

"Swoosh!"
Zhang Ruochen did not attack Yan Huangtu again. Instead, he flashed across a spatial wormhole mirror and appeared before the Pink Skeleton.

"Zhang Ruochen, you're too late. I've already teleported sixty-three Bone Clan Great Saints to hunt down the sixty-three Nine-Step Saint Kings of the Undying Blood Clan."
The Pink Skeleton had anticipated that Zhang Ruochen would target her first. She was already prepared, her body radiating divine light as she pointed a bone finger at Zhang Ruochen.
On the finger was a ruby ring.
It was the Bone Clan's supreme sacred artifact.

Facing Zhang Ruochen at his current level, the Pink Skeleton went all out from the start.
This finger strike was a Thousand-Question-level high-rank sacred art, alternating between slow and fast, unpredictable. Even with his Truth Heart, Zhang Ruochen found it difficult to discern, and he was inwardly shocked.

"The Pink Skeleton actually has such a profound technique! With this finger strike, even strong ones like Wujiang and Yan Huangtu might not escape unscathed."
"Boom!"
Zhang Ruochen's body erupted with millions of starlight points, forming the "Starry Sea Without Shores" Truth Realm Form. Beams of Truth Light shone onto the Pink Skeleton.
Finally, he could see the attack trajectory of the bone finger.

Due to the influence of his Space True Domain, the Pink Skeleton saw Zhang Ruochen's body as sometimes near, sometimes far, sometimes left, sometimes right, making it equally hard for her to predict.

In the moment the Pink Skeleton was distracted, the Seven-Star Ghost Lotus flew out from nowhere and collided with her bone finger.
At the same time, Zhang Ruochen's palm strike landed heavily on her chest. Ten swastika-shaped azure dragons flew from his palm, sending the Pink Skeleton flying over a hundred li with a scream of agony.

"Impossible... How could he break my Illusion God Finger so easily? The Illusion God Finger was combined with the power of the supreme sacred artifact."
Divine markings of immortality lit up on the Pink Skeleton's divine bones, neutralizing the full force of Zhang Ruochen's palm strike.
On the Bone Clan's home planet, although the Pink Skeleton had not gained a great opportunity, she had still made some progress, deepening her understanding of the immortal divine markings on her bones.

"Shua!"
Zhang Ruochen crossed space and appeared before the Pink Skeleton again.
Before she could stabilize herself, he struck another palm.
"Boom."
The Pink Skeleton flew off once more.

"I don't believe you're truly immortal."
Zhang Ruochen continued his assault, this time summoning the Purifying Divine Flame, intending to refine the immortal divine markings on the Pink Skeleton's body.
He had long heard from Luo Sha that the Pink Skeleton possessed an immortal body. She had been killed three times by a Supreme Realm Great Saint, yet revived each time—extremely eerie.
Zhang Ruochen refused to believe it.
In this world, there was only absolute power, not some immortal body.

In just one breath, Zhang Ruochen sent the Pink Skeleton flying thirteen times in a row, beating her until she couldn't fight back. Every time she opened her mouth to curse, the sound was cut off halfway.

Yan Huangtu gathered with the Yama Clan talisman masters, his finger pointing at Zhang Ruochen and the Pink Skeleton. "Seal that space."
More than sixty Yama Clan Great Saint talisman masters acted together, unleashing the wall-shaped talisman patterns they had already drawn.
These talisman patterns had originally covered a space of twenty thousand li in radius. Now, they rapidly contracted, shrinking to cover only a thousand zhang in area.
They tried to shrink further but were blocked by Zhang Ruochen's Space True Domain and Truth Realm Form.

"That's enough!" Yan Huangtu said.
With more than sixty Great Saint talisman masters working together, they could exert tremendous suppression on Zhang Ruochen, turning him from a fierce tiger into a trapped beast.

Yan Huangtu activated the supreme power of the Heaven-Pass Ruyi and charged into the wall-shaped talisman patterns, striking at Zhang Ruochen's waist and abdomen.
Unable to use spatial displacement to dodge, Zhang Ruochen could only unleash the Seven-Star Ghost Lotus to clash head-on.
The ghost lotus spun rapidly, releasing vast amounts of yin-cold ghostly qi.

"Boom."
When Yan Huangtu struck, Zhang Ruochen was already prepared.
Thus, this exchange did not put him at a disadvantage.
Both bodies retreated rapidly.

"Indeed, Zhang Ruochen's space power has been suppressed!" Yan Huangtu felt a surge of joy.
Zhang Ruochen was the first to neutralize the supreme power of the Heaven-Pass Ruyi. Then, holding the still-rapidly-spinning Seven-Star Ghost Lotus, he transformed into a golden light and attacked Yan Huangtu again.
Yan Huangtu was unafraid, shouting, "Come fight!"

But Yan Huangtu's expression soon turned extremely ugly, because Zhang Ruochen released his Virtual Time Domain. Within this domain, the flow of time slowed considerably.
It was as uncomfortable as the earlier space freeze and time stop.
Even worse, Yan Huangtu found that the time slowdown was continuous, not disappearing in an instant.

On the Heaven Hunting Battlefield, Zhang Ruochen had gained several opportunities in succession. His time rules and space rules had increased nearly tenfold, greatly enhancing their power. They could now affect Great Saints at the Ten-Thousand Deaths One Life Realm to a certain extent.
For Great Saints below that realm, the impact was even greater.

"Boom!"
Yan Huangtu's Heaven-Pass Ruyi struck much slower than Zhang Ruochen. The Seven-Star Ghost Lotus hit his chest, tearing open his flesh, rupturing his internal organs, and destroying half of his body.
However, his Imperial Dao Divine Bones remained intact.

"Another Great Saint with defense reaching an abnormal level. This Yan Huangtu and the Pink Skeleton are a perfect match." Zhang Ruochen thought to himself.

Just as he thought of the Pink Skeleton, she attacked from behind, activating the full power of her ring supreme sacred artifact to suppress Zhang Ruochen.

"Seven-Star Ghost Lotus, Lotus Sevenfold."
The Seven-Star Ghost Lotus in Zhang Ruochen's hand instantly split apart. Seven petals flew out, each carrying supreme power, attacking both the Pink Skeleton and Yan Huangtu simultaneously.

Within the wall-shaped talisman patterns, the three top experts activated three supreme sacred artifacts, fighting fiercely.
Turbulent ghostly qi, Purifying Divine Flame, immortal divine power, Nine Dragon Divine Patterns, supreme power... all kinds of forces interweaved chaotically, constantly battering the talisman patterns.
The more than sixty Yama Clan Great Saint talisman masters were all on edge, drenched in sweat. They were giving their all, yet they could barely control the talisman patterns, which seemed on the verge of shattering.

"Zhang Ruochen is too strong! Fighting two opponents alone, he still has the upper hand. I feel the talisman patterns will soon be overwhelmed by the power of the three supreme sacred artifacts."
"If Zhexian Great Saint were still here, with her talisman mastery, she might be able to suppress Zhang Ruochen steadily."
...

On the other side, hundreds of Bone Clan Great Saints mobilized fully, encircling the Undying Blood Clan cultivators.
Their primary target was the fourteen Great Saints carrying seventy-seven million Undying Blood Clan members. If they could wipe them out, the Undying Blood Clan's points might be halved.
After all, the sixty-three Great Saints the Pink Skeleton had sent to kill the sixty-three Nine-Step Saint Kings should have an easy time.

"Break out, break out immediately! Zhang Ruochen has tied down the top experts of the Yama Clan and Bone Clan."
"For the glory of the Undying Blood Clan, dying today leaves no regrets."
"We must show a desperate spirit to intimidate the Bone Clan cultivators. Stop holding back! Let's all burn our sacred blood together and cover the fourteen Great Saints' escape."
...

The Undying Blood Clan cultivators were all filled with murderous intent, charging recklessly at the Bone Clan's Great Saint army.
The Bone Clan Great Saints were indeed intimidated by their momentum. Were these Undying Blood Clan cultivators truly unafraid of death? This was just the Heaven Hunting Battlefield—why fight to the death?
Were they so reckless?
What if they all self-destructed together? Wouldn't that mean mutual destruction?

Earlier, one Undying Blood Clan Great Saint had already self-destructed.
The Bone Clan Great Saints slowed their advance and quickly spread out, unwilling to engage the Undying Blood Clan cultivators at close range.
Choosing long-range combat would slow the casualty rate, making it take much longer to annihilate the Undying Blood Clan.

In the battlefield of Zhang Ruochen, Yan Huangtu, and the Pink Skeleton, the situation was grim.
Yan Huangtu's physical body was constantly being shattered by Zhang Ruochen, with large amounts of flesh flying off. In the end, over ninety percent of his flesh was lost, leaving only a golden, gleaming Imperial Dao Divine Skeleton.
Earlier, the Yu Emperor had been unable to withstand the recoil of the supreme sacred artifact, reduced to a sacred skeleton by Yan Huangtu.
Now the tables had turned.
Yan Huangtu could no longer withstand Zhang Ruochen's attacks. He was sent flying countless times, his flesh nearly depleted.
But unlike the Yu Emperor, his Imperial Dao Divine Skeleton was indestructible. His sacred source, meridians, and Qi Sea were all hidden within the bones. Despite being beaten so badly, his combat power remained full—truly abnormal.

The Undying Blood Clan cultivators watching the Myriad Realms Divine Eye projection were all fired up, believing Zhang Ruochen was avenging the Yu Emperor, repaying in kind.
Yan Huangtu, such a formidable expert, was being beaten until his flesh shattered. Defeat was only a matter of time.
After all, no defense, no matter how strong, could last forever.