Ni Ren had no chance of leaving. No matter how deeply its long blades carved into Lu Yin’s body, he kept the creature pinned down and ripped its body apart inch by inch... bit by bit... ever so slowly...
Since the beginning of the war, Ni Ren had not suffered such wounds, even when fighting against Hong Xia. At this moment, it was experiencing the true taste of approaching death, and it did not want to die.
Rifted Firmament.
Ni Ren’s world shattered the void. Countless spatial tears gathered, flowing towards it.
Lu Yin clenched both fists and raised his head to roar upwards. Even more divine energy erupted, expanding in a circular wave. The tricolored divine energy was tyrannical beyond measure, and it actually forced Rifted Firmament back momentarily.
Lu Yin was too close to Ni Ren. It wanted to absorb every spatial rift with Rifted Firmament to launch its strongest attack, which it had used once before with its two long white blades. Doing so had enabled Ni Ren to cut through even Lu Yin’s most powerful attack.
But at this moment, it could not even gather the spatial tears, as they were being constantly pushed away by the tricolored divine energy.
Ni Ren was horrified. It merged the few fissures it had managed to gather with its twin blades and slashed out. The twin blades cut into Lu Yin’s chest, biting deep into his bones.
He suddenly grabbed hold of both blades with his hands. Divine energy churned, and he wrenched hard. All of the power that he had gathered with Extremes Must Be Reversed was released throughout his entire body.
Crack!
A sound rang out as cracks spread down the white blades. To Ni Ren’s utter shock, they shattered.
It could not believe it. Its civilizational weapons, both of which had recorded Immortal civilizations, had actually been crushed and shattered.
Keeping a hold of the remaining blade shards, Lu Yin charged. The fragments ripped through, tearing Ni Ren’s body apart. Lu Yin’s arms acted like blades as he swung them nonstop, carving Ni Ren apart again and again.
It could only retreat, but its speed could not come even close to matching Lu Yin’s. There was no escaping from the ability to teleport.
“You forced me to do this!” Ni Ren roared. Its cement-like body suddenly warped, transforming into the shape of a blade. “Blade Realm: Heartless!”
Ni Ren turned itself into a long blade, recording itself as a civilizational weapon that then slashed at Lu Yin.
He raised a hand. The shards of the white blades were instantly reduced to dust by the approaching slash. In its blade form, Ni Ren chopped straight down at its opponent, only to suddenly stop. Heaven’s Sight Crow Immobilization. Ni Ren had forgotten that Lu Yin could do this as well.
Using its Blade Realm: Heartless exacted a terrible price. Recording itself meant abandoning its cosmic law. Doing so could elevate its slashes to the highest level possible, but at the cost of being catastrophically weakened afterwards. It had never imagined that it would need to use this method against an opponent who was not even an Immortal.
Even worse, the attempt had failed.
At this moment, Lu Yin spread his arms out as divine energy wrapped around every finger. The tricolored divine energy surged wildly, making it look as if he was holding two suns in his hands. Together, he slammed them both against Ni Ren’s body.
Boom!
A deafening explosion erupted from where Lu Yin and Ni Ren met. The void expanded and then shattered. The damage reached infinite distances.
At the point of impact, Lu Yin’s two hands shattered Ni Ren’s body and even moved past it.
In an instant, Ni Ren had been slapped into three pieces. It had never dreamed of being defeated in such a fight, let alone losing so miserably.
At that instance, the cosmos grew blurry, and Ni Ren’s comprehension blurred with it. The Aevum Inch grew pitch black.
This frenzied release of divine energy allowed Lu Yin to regain a bit of his consciousness. He hurried to release his Investiture of the Gods. Ming Yan released her consciousness, spreading it over Lu Yin to keep him lucid. Seeing that his eyes were still crimson, Ming Yan’s heart ached. This battle had been too brutal.
He spat out a mouthful of blood. Even with Extremes Must Be Reversed helping him to recover, it was nowhere near enough to mend the wounds that he had suffered from Ni Ren’s slashes. The cuts on both sides of his neck had almost severed his head from his body.
After enduring the severe injuries, he released his inner universe before attempting to filter out the tricolored divine energy. If he could not do that, then as soon as Ming Yan’s consciousness gave out, Lu Yin would lose his mind once more, and it was impossible to predict the results of that.
This had been his first attempt to use tricolored divine energy. He had never expected it to be so powerful. He had instantly bridged the gap with Ni Ren, surpassing the creature to the point where Ni Ren’s slashes had not been able to even break through his physical defenses.
Divine energy was strong, supremely so.
This was also only tricolored divine energy; what would happen if Lu Yin fused all twelve colors of divine energy that Obscura possessed?
He did not even dare to imagine such a thing. He had no assurance that he could withstand it even after he became an Immortal.
For the time being, separating the tricolored divine energy was already a struggle.
But at that moment, a paper bridge spanned the cosmos, and a mud doll appeared.
Lu Yin frowned. What was Ba Se doing? He had fought so hard, and yet an enemy was still allowed to appear before him.
Fortunately, he had made preparations. He brought out a Zenith Mountain and released Master Qing Cao and Kang Tian.
Lu Yin was glad that he had brought them along. If not, he would have struggled to do anything at all, given his current state.
The moment Master Qing Cao and Kang Tian appeared, the mud doll fled in terror. No one pursued it. Instead, they glanced around and inhaled a cold breath. What had happened?
The aftermath of the battle between Ni Ren and Lu Yin had not dispersed yet, and the two Immortals could feel the lingering sharpness of Ni Ren’s blades, which they did not even dare to touch. They felt like an ordinary person facing a blade, and the chill left them shuddering.
They also sensed the tyranny of the tricolored divine energy. It had seemingly flooded the entire Aevum Inch.
They turned to stare at Lu Yin.
“I’ll trouble you two to stand guard. Also, keep an eye on Ni Ren. It’s that puddle of cement over there. It’s been heavily wounded, but don’t let it escape,” Lu Yin warned.
Master Qing Cao looked over at Ni Ren. Half-dead, it was unable to flee even if it wanted to. “Alright.”
With two Immortals standing guard, Master Qing Cao and Kang Tian, as long as they did not encounter one of the Mudwater Dominion’s most powerful eight elders, there would be no trouble. Lu Yin could focus on dealing with the backlash of fusing his divine energies.
Time passed slowly. The end of war that Ba Se had announced never came. It was possible that the Mudwater Dominion was waiting for Ni Ren and that, if it did not return, the war would not end.
They did not know that Ni Ren would never return.
That mud doll had been scared off the moment it appeared, and it was impossible to say if it had seen Ni Ren’s miserable state.
Kang Tian shot occasional glances at Lu Yin. What a monster!
It had tried to touch one of the lingering spatial tears with its spatial mire, but the moment it did so, Kang Tian’s efforts were torn apart. That was just a remnant of the battle that could vanish at any moment. The snail could only imagine how dangerous the real fight had been.
It was too terrifying, especially since Lu Yin was not even an Immortal. He was too terrifying and was a true monster.