# Chapter 3898: Two Against One
Although the Jade Emperor Cauldron was a bronze tripod, its body was as crystal clear and smooth as jade.
As the white-haired skeleton infused divine qi into it, golden characters detached from the cauldron's surface, flying all around.
The golden mist between the characters condensed into a tall figure, resembling the Immovable Bright King Great Venerable.
Gu Yanluo wanted to finish the battle quickly, unleashing the strongest divine ability created by the Great Demon God—"Thousand Spirits Blood Fiend." The blood fiend aura filled the space, dyeing heaven and earth red.
From the very first exchange, they went all out.
"Boom!"
The residual shockwaves from their fierce clash forced even powerful cultivators like Zhang Ruochen and Luo Tongluo to retreat far away. Staying too close would result in injury.
Suddenly, Luo Tongluo keenly sensed she was being targeted. Turning around, she discovered Zhang Ruochen had already arrived nearby.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen wasn't thinking about how to break through the seventy-two pillar world formation Gu Yanluo had set up to escape, but instead was still thinking about dealing with her?
Zhang Ruochen manipulated the Emperor Talisman's light, condensing it into a large hand seal to strike at her.
"If you're seeking death, I'll gladly grant your wish."
Luo Tongluo's Shura battle qi transformed into a boundless ocean.
Standing atop the raging waves within the sea, she pointed a finger forward. The beam of light from her fingertip collided with the talisman-formed hand seal.
As the two forces clashed fiercely, Luo Tongluo's third eye on her forehead opened. From her pupil flew out the Eight Trigrams Dao Seal, carrying Ancestor Rules and Ancestor Qi, crushing the talisman patterns and heading straight for Zhang Ruochen's true body.
Zhang Ruochen was only at the Great Unbound Infinite cultivation level and dared not easily receive this strike. He could only dodge.
"Still not making a move?"
Zhang Ruochen shouted this.
The Black and White Daoist, who had been hiding in this region, realized the moment Gu Yanluo appeared that he had fallen into Zhang Ruochen's trap. He had already cursed Zhang Ruochen countless times.
What to do now?
He could only grit his teeth and go forward.
"Zhang Ruochen, meeting you is the worst luck I've had in eight lifetimes."
The Black and White Daoist rushed out from inside a palm-sized fragment of bone, leaping through the void. With each leap, his body alternated between black and white.
On the eighth leap, crossing millions of miles, he appeared behind Luo Tongluo.
Luo Tongluo glanced back from the corner of her eye. A blazing star appeared in her right palm. But at that moment, Zhang Ruochen, carrying the Emperor Talisman's talisman patterns, struck with the Immovable Wisdom King Fist. Nine-colored divine qi flickered on his fist.
The star in her right palm shot straight toward Zhang Ruochen.
At the same time, the Black and White Daoist's hands transformed into skeletal forms, filled with corrosive qi, striking toward her back.
"Splash!"
Luo Tongluo stomped her foot violently. A vast amount of seawater surged from the space beneath her, forming towering waves that crashed into the Black and White Daoist, sending him flying.
The Black and White Daoist flew backward for hundreds of thousands of miles, drenched through, his hair bun in disarray.
Before he could stabilize himself, the seawater of the Shura Battle Soul Sea swept to his feet again.
Wave after wave crashed down, each carrying the terrifying destructive power to shatter stars.
"Why do you have so much water?"
The Black and White Daoist let out a long roar, raising his arms to prop up a black-and-white divine light wall, resisting the successive giant waves.
Zhang Ruochen was fighting Luo Tongluo head-on, struggling greatly. The talisman light on his body was constantly being dispersed. "Can you do it or not? You can't even get close to her back, and you claim to be the leader of a clan?"
"She has too much water!"
The divine flame on the Black and White Daoist's body was extinguished by the seawater of the Battle Soul Sea as he retreated step by step. Then he added, "I just broke through to Indestructible Infinite not long ago, while she was once an Ancestor. She can continuously mobilize the Shura battle qi from the Shura Battle Soul Sea."
Zhang Ruochen said, "If you can't handle it, step aside and attack the seventy-two pillar world formation. See if you can break Gu Yanluo's Dao method."
As an Indestructible Infinite cultivator and clan leader, being looked down upon by a junior like this nearly made the Black and White Daoist choke on his breath. He roared, "Where are the Dragon Corpse Knights? Form the Combined Attack Formation!"
Ten Dragon Corpse Knights emerged one after another from that bone fragment. Like the Black and White Daoist earlier, they had been hiding in spaces the size of particles.
They were outstanding talents from the Ghost Clan throughout the ages, secretly sent to the Ancestor Realm for training. Each possessed Infinite Realm combat power. Like the Four Soul-Suppressing Divine Artifacts, they would only be deployed when the clan faced extinction.
Now, the situation facing the Ghost Clan was comparable to the threat of extinction.
The dragon corpses beneath the ten Dragon Corpse Knights were all Indestructible Corpses, each with astonishing origins. Through special sacrificial refinement methods, a single dragon corpse was a powerful war tool, capable of unleashing Indestructible Divine Qi and the Indestructible Rules within the Divine Source.
Their combat power surpassed even the Dragon Corpse Knights themselves.
When combined, their combat power more than doubled.
All ten Dragon Corpse Knights wore metal masks, forming a circle. The long spears in their hands flickered with crimson inscription patterns, and the dragon corpses beneath them also emitted formation inscription patterns.
Using the spears and dragon corpses as the formation's foundation, a Combined Attack Formation was assembled.
The Black and White Daoist, who had been sent flying by Luo Tongluo's divine power, landed within the Combined Attack Formation and immediately became the formation's eye.
Absorbing the power of the ten Dragon Corpse Knights, his aura surged step by step, instantly reaching a level comparable to a mid-stage Indestructible Infinite cultivator.
"Yin-Yang Dual Birth Realm, Ice and Fire Billion Army."
"Ghost Army, come forth!"
The Black and White Daoist cared greatly about face and intended to show off for Zhang Ruochen.
He raised both hands above his head, splitting the formation world in two. Half was Yin, half was Yang, black and white.
From his sleeves poured an endless stream of ghost spirits.
Some of these ghost spirits burned with flames, while others exuded chilling cold. In no time, they filled the Yin-Yang Dual Birth Realm, forming two patches of ghost clouds.
Each patch of ghost cloud contained over one trillion ghost spirits.
These two trillion ghost spirits were the Black and White Daoist's strongest method—his undead army. Though not as high in quality as divine armies, they made up for it in sheer quantity. Under the empowerment of the Combined Attack Formation and the Yin-Yang Dual Birth Realm, they could unleash unexpected combat power.
"Junior Zhang Ruochen, witness this old man's true methods! My over a million years of accumulated foundation is not something you can compare to!"
The Yin-Yang Dual Birth Realm rotated, pressing down toward Luo Tongluo.
It must be said, the Black and White Daoist brought considerable pressure to Luo Tongluo. Her gaze turned solemn as she formed hand seals with both hands, summoning the Four Directions Universe Seal.
The Four Directions Universe Seal spun above her head, driving space to rotate along with it, forming a spatial storm vortex.
This was the Space Divine Temple's temple-suppressing divine artifact, said to be forged from a small piece chipped off the Universe Cauldron.
The Yin-Yang Dual Birth Realm, unable to resist, followed the Four Directions Universe Seal, spinning rapidly within the vortex.
The Black and White Daoist, the ten Dragon Corpse Knights, and the two trillion ghost spirits naturally spun inside as well.
The Black and White Daoist never expected his Combined Attack Formation to be broken so easily! They had power but couldn't unleash it.
If they continued spinning like this, the two trillion ghost spirits would surely collapse first.
"Zhang Ruochen, aren't you the Heir of Time and Space? How did she take control of space? Can you do it or not?" the Black and White Daoist roared.
Zhang Ruochen waved his hand, sending out the Heavenly God Chain. The black hand at the chain's tip struck at Luo Tongluo with a palm.
Luo Tongluo immediately fully released the Shura Battle Soul Sea, continuously widening the distance between herself and Zhang Ruochen. At the same time, she propped up the Luo Shu diagram, with forty-five stars rotating, distorting space.
"Boom!"
The Myriad Forms Formless Seal at the center of the black hand's palm erupted, shooting out a spatial light beam that tore the Shura Battle Soul Sea in two, constantly approaching Luo Tongluo.
Even with Luo Tongluo's cultivation, facing the Myriad Forms Formless Seal, she had to dodge, unwilling to clash head-on.
"Boom!"
After Luo Tongluo evaded, the spatial light beam struck the vortex formed by the spinning Four Directions Universe Seal, collapsing it.
The Yin-Yang Dual Birth Realm within the vortex was nearly hit.
After stabilizing the great world beneath his feet, the Black and White Daoist, without time to complain, immediately struck out, firmly suppressing the Four Directions Universe Seal, refusing to let Luo Tongluo activate it again.
Luo Tongluo glanced at the Four Directions Universe Seal suppressed beneath the Yin-Yang Dual Birth Realm, snorted coldly, and manifested a human-shaped Dharma Form millions of miles tall, punching down heavily.
"Come on!"
The Black and White Daoist grew excited, pushing both arms upward.
Two light pillars shot out from the Yin-Yang Dual Birth Realm—one black, one white—colliding with Luo Tongluo's fist seal.
"Well done! The clan leader is finally useful!"
How could Zhang Ruochen miss this opportunity? A Taiji Four Symbols Diagram Seal appeared beneath his feet as he stepped through the chaotic space around Luo Tongluo, closing in on her.
Facing two opponents alone, the pressure on Luo Tongluo was far from easy. Watching Zhang Ruochen approach, she said, "You've also cultivated the Luo Shu, haven't you? You should understand that once you enter the Nine Palaces Domain of the Luo Shu, escaping won't be so easy!"
"I want to experience the Nine Palaces Domain of the Luo Shu!"
Zhang Ruochen entered the Luo Shu diagram formed by forty-five stars from the North Kun position. In the next moment, the forty-five stars became two thousand and twenty-five.
Then, they became four million one hundred six thousand six hundred and twenty-five.
...
In just a few breaths, the simple forty-five stars had transformed into a vast universe. Front, back, left, right, east, south, west, north—countless stars filled the space.
Zhang Ruochen marveled at the mystery of the Luo Shu while gaining a profound understanding of Luo Tongluo's cultivation. As someone who had once achieved the Ancestor Realm, she was far beyond him and the Black and White Daoist.
In the future, Luo Tongluo would break through to the Heavenly Venerable level much more easily than they would.
However, Luo Tongluo had only returned with a remnant soul. Her current combat power was still at the mid-stage Indestructible Infinite level, not invincible.
Zhang Ruochen held the Emperor Talisman, fully releasing his spiritual power. Countless talisman lights shot out, shattering stars one by one.
"Whoosh!"
The next moment, he appeared before Luo Tongluo. His lightning-fast fist seal was caught by her palm as they clashed.
The amount of Indestructible Substance within Zhang Ruochen's body was no less than that of a mid-stage Indestructible Infinite cultivator, but his physical strength was still at the early Indestructible Infinite level. Only with the Emperor Talisman's empowerment could he engage in close combat with her.
"Bang! Bang!"
The two exchanged dozens of moves. Talisman patterns and radiant light clashed, causing the surrounding space-time to tremble violently.
Finally, Zhang Ruochen found an opportunity, grabbing Luo Tongluo's slender and soft wrists. His ten fingers clamped down like iron nails, attempting to capture her.
Luo Tongluo's reaction speed was astonishing. She charged straight forward, crashing into Zhang Ruochen's embrace.
This was not a warm, fragrant embrace of jade but something more terrifying than blades and swords.
With this collision, his arms were broken by his own force. Zhang Ruochen's chest caved in, all his ribs shattered, and his internal organs turned to bloody pulp. His body flew out like a meteor.
She gave him no time to catch his breath, chasing after him and stomping toward his waist and abdomen, as if intending to break him in two.
"Clatter!"
The Heavenly God Chain flew out, wrapping around her long, graceful leg as it stomped down.
The black hand and Universe Cauldron at the tip of the Heavenly God Chain spun once before slamming into her, blasting half her body apart, turning it into liquid.
Half body, half ocean—yet the two were connected in aura.
Seawater continuously flowed back, recondensing into a porcelain-white body.
Even though her body was completely exposed, extremely beautiful and seductive, Zhang Ruochen had no appreciation for it. Suppressing his injuries, he transformed into a beam of light and charged forward, striking out with a palm.
"Pfft!"
Luo Tongluo did not dodge. Her two fingers shot out with extreme speed, piercing Zhang Ruochen's bloody chest.
Her hand penetrated his body, emerging from his back, still maintaining the shape of sword fingers.
Blood continuously dripped from her fingertips.
Zhang Ruochen's palm, meanwhile, had shattered her head.
With both cultivators at such high levels—one with a body condensed from the Shura Battle Soul Sea, the other possessing vast amounts of Indestructible Substance—physical injuries meant little.
Thus, as they wrestled together, the battle grew increasingly brutal. Neither could keep their body intact, and blood and seawater mingled together.