# Chapter 3432: The Emergence of Kui Liang Huang
On the surface of the Ancestor Boots, the swallow pattern imprint appeared. With each step, a white light lake emerged in the void, ripples spreading one after another. Zhang Ruochen moved extremely fast, and in no time, he had arrived at the area where the battle fluctuations were most intense.
Xuan Yi had suffered repeated heavy injuries, his divine body transforming into a blood cloud spanning ten thousand miles in diameter, suppressed by the half-Buddha half-demon dharma manifestation that Huang Tian had condensed.
Huang Tian stood within the dharma manifestation, activating the Death Esoterica, incarnating as the Death Lord God. Borrowing the death rules between heaven and earth, he continuously slashed at Xuan Yi's divine soul and spiritual will within the blood mist.
His body was like a giant stone statue, the divine venerable aura overwhelming the entire star domain.
"Boom rumble!"
Within the blood cloud, countless lightning bolts were shuttling back and forth.
These lightning bolts sometimes condensed into heaven-reaching great hand seals, sometimes transformed into storm vortices, and sometimes merged with the River of Time, continuously attacking the half-Buddha half-demon dharma manifestation at the center of the blood cloud.
Clearly, although Xuan Yi's physical body had turned to mist, his divine sea remained unbroken and his consciousness undying.
He was still counterattacking, still contending with Huang Tian in magical combat, seeking to escape.
Killing a Divine Venerable was no easy task.
Even if Huang Tian was the Death Lord God, to completely refine Xuan Yi to death would still require spending thousands of years.
But what was even more terrifying was that when a Divine Venerable was pushed to the brink, their desperate life-or-death counterattack—burning lifespan, blood qi, and divine soul simultaneously—could, in extreme cases, double their combat power, and could even severely injure an enemy whose cultivation far surpassed their own.
It was precisely for this reason that without absolute advantage, two Boundless cultivators would always have a certain degree of mutual wariness when fighting each other.
They could determine victory or defeat, but not life or death.
"Break!"
Under Xuan Yi's desperate counterattack, the half-Buddha half-demon dharma manifestation could no longer suppress him. It was split open by lightning bolts. Huang Tian's true body manifested within the dharma manifestation.
Zhang Ruochen wanted to help.
"Don't come close," Huang Tian said.
Zhang Ruochen knew what Huang Tian was worried about. This time, Xuan Yi was truly trapped in a desperate situation, and could self-detonate his divine source at any moment.
Xuan Yi's spiritual will was powerful. If he self-detonated his divine source, even if Zhang Ruochen and Huang Tian joined forces to suppress him with their divine souls, they wouldn't have a ten-out-of-ten chance of succeeding.
If the self-detonation of the divine source succeeded, the consequences were predictable.
But Huang Tian was clearly unafraid.
He could be a living being, or transform into an undead in a single thought.
He was both the Lord God of the Path of Life and the Lord God of the Path of Death.
It was precisely for this reason that his comprehension of life and death was rarely matched in the world.
Even if Xuan Yi self-detonated his divine source, he had full confidence in surviving.
Zhang Ruochen did not overestimate himself. If Xuan Yi really self-detonated his divine source, even if he could withstand it, he would inevitably suffer severe injuries. Therefore, he stood one Divine Spirit Step away and took out the Spirit-Fixing Needle.
Truth radiance appeared in his pupils, and he could see the location of Xuan Yi's divine sea within the blood cloud.
"Hua!"
The Spirit-Fixing Needle flew out.
It was too fast. After the Spirit-Fixing Needle flew out, it disappeared, making it difficult even for divine thoughts to sense.
"Bang!"
The Spirit-Fixing Needle pierced through the blood mist, flying past the edge of Xuan Yi's divine sea.
"Shua shua"—sharp breaking sounds rang out continuously. The Spirit-Fixing Needle was like an invisible beam of light, shuttling through the blood mist.
Once, twice, three times...
Xuan Yi's divine sea could become smaller than a speck of dust in a single thought. Even if it could be found, it was very difficult to hit.
"Come out!"
Zhang Ruochen took out a bronze coffin and slapped the coffin body.
Dense swarms of Soul-Devouring Insects flew out from the coffin, heading toward the ocean of blood mist.
After continuous evolution, the individual strength of the Soul-Devouring Insects had become very formidable.
Especially at Star Heaven Cliff, after gnawing on the Red Crow Tree, they had inherited the Red Crow Tree's powerful reproductive ability. Now, the scale of the insect swarm was enormous, like a red cloud.
Of course, asking them to deal with a Divine Venerable was still too much.
"Hua!"
The divine sword flew out, blocking the front of the insect swarm, cleaving apart the divine power aftershocks released by Xuan Yi.
The insect swarm absorbed the escaping blood mist, advancing step by step, causing the ocean of blood mist to continuously shrink.
Zhang Ruochen struck again, directly collecting the blood qi within the ocean of blood mist. This approach was no different from dismembering Xuan Yi, continuously weakening him, forcing him to self-detonate his divine source.
For now, he did not use the Earth Cauldron, because within the cauldron, Su Yun and the Earth Thunder Pearl were still suppressed, awaiting refinement and killing.
"Do you really want to perish together?"
Within the ocean of blood mist, Xuan Yi's cold voice transmitted into the starry sky in the form of divine thoughts.
"Bang!"
Huang Tian struck out with his axe, for who knew how many times, cleaving apart the blood mist body that Xuan Yi had condensed.
Zhang Ruochen looked at the two figures contending within the ocean of blood mist and said, "Xuan Yi, you should be very clear in your heart that even if you self-detonate your divine source, you cannot kill us."
"Is that so? If you were truly fearless, why are you standing so far away?"
Xuan Yi continued, "When a Divine Venerable self-detonates their divine source, even if it doesn't kill you, it will certainly severely damage your foundations, preventing you from ever entering Great Unbound Infinite. Moreover, your chances of surviving are inherently low."
Zhang Ruochen said, "The possibility of you successfully self-detonating your divine source is also not high."
"Don't you want to know where A Le and Peach Blossom's child is?" Xuan Yi said.
Zhang Ruochen said, "As long as I collect enough of your divine soul, I can naturally perform a soul search to get the answer."
"The moment I die is the moment he dies," Xuan Yi said.
Zhang Ruochen said, "I don't know who currently holds that child. But I can tell you with certainty: if you die, that subordinate of yours, in order to save his own life, can only hand the child over to me. Otherwise, he cannot leave the Extinction Star Sea alive."
Every word exchanged between the two was aimed at psychologically breaking the other.
Xuan Yi's goal was to force Zhang Ruochen to let him go.
Zhang Ruochen's goal was to make Xuan Yi's determination to self-detonate his divine source less firm.
Only when he himself was not firm could Zhang Ruochen and Huang Tian use their divine souls to forcibly suppress his intention to self-detonate.
"Crackle!"
Throughout the star domain, in an expanse of space hundreds of millions of miles wide, countless electric lights appeared.
Some were millions of miles long, others thousands of miles long, all converging toward the ocean of blood mist.
Zhang Ruochen's spirit was instantly raised to its peak.
He saw the blood mist and the lightning bolts covering the entire star domain charging straight at him, knocking the divine sword away, crushing the Soul-Devouring Insect swarm, causing them to continuously explode.
"Bang bang!"
More than ninety percent of the Soul-Devouring Insects were crushed to powder by Xuan Yi's divine power.
At this moment, the aura Xuan Yi emitted far surpassed normal. His blood qi burned at an astonishing rate, consuming ten thousand years of lifespan every instant.
"Xuan Yi is self-immolating. Don't fight him head-on."
Zhang Ruochen extended both hands, pressing forward into the void.
The Taiji Four Symbols Diagram manifested, rotating slowly. The space in front of the diagram shattered, transforming into a zone of void space ten thousand miles long.
The Earth Cauldron and the Bright Mirror Platform floated within the Taiji Four Symbols Diagram, releasing dazzling radiance.
In this state, if Xuan Yi self-detonated his divine source, it could not be suppressed. Zhang Ruochen and Huang Tian both unleashed their strongest defensive powers and rapidly retreated.
"You leave from the Void World. I'll hold them off."
Xuan Yi's will was firm. He had already made up his mind to self-detonate his divine source, to destroy Zhang Ruochen and Huang Tian's foundations. Suddenly, this voice sounded in his sea of consciousness.
"You? How could it be you? Kui Liang Huang is actually you?"
Xuan Yi identified the identity of the person hidden in the shadows through the voice.
That voice sounded again: "Whether I am Kui Liang Huang or not is unimportant. What matters is that I can save your life."
Xuan Yi was very decisive. He immediately stopped executing the forbidden technique. His blood qi and lightning bolts rapidly contracted, condensed into a semi-mist humanoid form, and fled into the Void World.
"He's not trying to self-detonate his divine source, but to escape. Stop him."
Huang Tian threw his stone axe. It spun as it flew into the Void World, striking at Xuan Yi.
But Xuan Yi dodged it.
Just as Huang Tian was about to chase in with his true body, he suddenly sensed a terrifyingly extraordinary aura appearing between heaven and earth, as if the power of the entire universe was pressing down on him.
"Be careful! A top-tier expert from the Quantity Organization has made a move. I'll hold them off for a moment to buy you time. You must kill Xuan Yi. He absolutely cannot be allowed to escape."
Huang Tian's tiger-like eyes looked at the stars filling the sky. His petrified body suddenly expanded by a large margin, becoming the size of a mountain.
It grew again, reaching a thousand miles.
...
In an instant, Huang Tian's body became as large as a star, millions of miles tall. His arms slowly raised, one hand grasping life and death, the other controlling the universe.
"Crackle pop!"
Explosive sounds rang out from within his body.
Every stone that made up his body was moving, like stars colliding.
The entire starry sky was pressing down!
Huang Tian let out a long roar, simultaneously executing two Second-Rank Divine Paths. His body ignited, the stone skin turning into crimson magma. He raised his arms to support the pressing starry sky.
Zhang Ruochen also bore the power from the entire star domain. Without guessing, he knew that some spiritual power giant had made a move to help Xuan Yi escape.
It felt very similar to when he had crossed the divine tribulation outside the Abyss of Darkness and was attacked by Qing Tian.
The pressure from heaven and earth, the energy of the entire world being mobilized, was suffocating and terrifying.
But Zhang Ruochen was now a Divine Venerable. Unless the spiritual power giant's true body arrived in person, how could merely using spiritual power thoughts to mobilize the power of the universe suppress him?
"Xuan Yi is dead for sure, I said so. Sir, you cannot save him!"
Zhang Ruochen raised the six-sword-combined divine sword above his head, cleaving open the various energies that were madly surging from the universe with one sword strike.
"Shua!"
Relying on the Ancestor Boots, Zhang Ruochen caught up to Xuan Yi, tens of thousands of miles behind him. The Earth Cauldron flew out from his hand.
"Boom!"
The cauldron body smashed down.
Around the cauldron, an ancient desolate world manifested, blasting apart the divine body that Xuan Yi had only just condensed.
"Don't leave!"
Zhang Ruochen knew time was pressing. He went all out, unfolding the Taiji Four Symbols Diagram, enveloping all the blood mist from Xuan Yi's explosion into the diagram.
"Zhang Ruochen, if you dare to take me into the Taiji Four Symbols Diagram, aren't you afraid that all your cultivation will be destroyed?" Xuan Yi said coldly.
Zhang Ruochen's gaze was firm. He continuously contracted the Taiji Four Symbols Diagram and said, "Someone has come to save you. You have hope in your heart, and your determination to self-detonate your divine source is no longer so firm. I bet that you won't self-detonate your divine source."
Zhang Ruochen locked onto Xuan Yi's divine sea. His true body charged forward, and his fist struck heavily against the wall of the divine sea.