In the Central Battlefield, when Jimtore’s true form was grievously wounded, an enraged roar thundered from the heavens.
"I shall bestow a fragment of a demon god’s principle origin to whoever kills that human!" Deorus declared.
The more freakish Chen Chu’s performance, the greater Deorus’s killing intent became. Offering a fragment of a demon god's principle origin as a reward was an unprecedented gesture.
Had Deorus and Kaodes not been entangled with the Celestial King and Heavenly King Zhenwu, it would have personally descended and crushed the human prodigy.
Every demon king and even several great demon kings turned their bloodthirsty gazes toward Chen Chu, who lay weakened on the ground below.
Desire alone was not enough, however. The battlefield was on the brink of destruction. Staying longer, even if they killed the human, would mean certain death at the hands of opposing supreme powerhouses or impending annihilation.
The destructive impacts in the heavens grew closer. The vast, colossal star hurtling down illuminated the entire expansive world with its apocalyptic radiance.
"Everyone, retreat!” Heavenly King Zhenwu commanded.
This battle had already given humanity the upper hand. Prolonging it was unnecessary.
The approaching solar force exuded an overwhelming pressure that even the four demon gods found daunting enough to make them unwilling to face it head-on.
A golden principle of light spread across the sky, forming a vast canopy that encompassed the entire world. Mountains and rivers within the human territory trembled in resonance with the heavenly power.
The dark-red principle spread on the opposing side as well, activating numerous restrictions laid by Demon God Deorus. The power of the principle made the entire world quake.
The two factions prepared to face the cataclysmic impact.
As the golden curtain of light clashed with the dark-red principle, both forces intertwined and collided, shaking the battlefield where the heavenly kings and demon kings faced off.
A thread of golden principle swept across a late-stage mythical-level demon king, instantly causing the demon king to cough up fresh blood. With a look of utter terror, he retreated frantically.
On a distant battlefield, an earth-shattering impact from the dark-red principle shattered a human king’s stone pagoda. The king was sent flying backward, spewing blood.
The situation was becoming even more perilous.
With the supreme powerhouses and demon gods intervening, any misstep could result in annihilation by the overwhelming principles.
Hence, the demon kings and human kings who had been locked in combat reluctantly broke away from their opponents and retreated. They were all wounded and showed signs of weakening, a clear sign that their battle had been too brutal.
Mech No.1's eyes shot out blue-and-white divine beams, forcing back three advancing demon kings. It then reluctantly withdrew due to the golden principle's' enveloping force.
In the distance, a blood moon appeared and slowly descended.
It was the same demon king whose true form had been severed by the dark-red colossal beast’s tail blade and later suppressed by a female human king wielding a peculiar longsword.
High above the skies, Deorus’s gaze turned even colder. Its empire had suffered catastrophic casualties—including more than five demon kings.
Just then, the golden curtain of light reached the weakened Chen Chu and pulled him toward the rear.
"Die, Human!" Deorus declared, its words echoing across the heavens. The void trembled as massive demonic claws extended toward Chen Chu.
The terrifying claw blotted out the sky and sun, its mere descent crushing Chen Chu with a suffocating pressure that made his bones crack audibly. The ground below shattered, leaving a palm print tens of kilometers wide.
In that fleeting moment, an overwhelming sense of death enveloped him.
Chen Chu couldn’t even resist the demon god’s power. The disparity in strength was insurmountable, especially in his weakened state.
"Deorus!" Heavenly King Zhenwu roared in fury.
From the heavens, a divine monument descended, suppressing everything in its path. Deorus’s arm was destroyed, scattering black and gold substances across the skies and unleashing terrifying energy waves.
Deorus, the Celestial King, Heavenly King Zhenwu, and Demon God Kaodes were all stunned.
The massive demonic claws were not an embodiment of principle but Deorus’s true form. To kill the human, Deorus had willingly severed its own arm.
Demonic light erupted from Deorus’s severed arm, transforming it into a terrifying black demonic dragon that was tens of thousands of meters long. The dragon coiled in the sky and tore a gaping hole in the golden principle barrier that the Celestial King had cast.
Transcending the concept of time, the black demonic dragon swallowed the principle-shrouded Chen Chu in one bite.
The expressions of the combatants on the battlefield drastically changed. The demon kings were filled with excitement, while the human kings were left in shock.
The Celestial King and Heavenly King Zhenwu roared in rage, unleashing their full power. The golden curtain of light that had blanketed half the sky crashed down with world-destroying force to suppress the black demonic dragon.
A blinding burst of starlight exploded within the demonic dragon. The force of principle—comparable to a supreme powerhouse’s strike—destroyed the dragon’s abdomen. It also obliterated hundreds of kilometers of void and shattered the earth itself.
Amid the raging, chaotic energy streams of destruction, a beam of starlight shot forth. The golden curtain of light had swept Chen Chu away, making Deorus roar in fury. Despite having sacrificed an arm, it still failed to kill him.
However, Deorus no longer had a chance to strike. From the heavens descended an indescribable pressure with a force so overwhelming that not even a demon god could ignore it.
At that moment, it became clear that the blinding light radiated not from a sun. Rather, it came from the corpse of a colossal beast that was many times larger than a planet.
The corpse’s plummet seemed slow but was actually unimaginably fast. When it landed on the horizon, the entire world trembled violently, and an even more blinding explosion erupted.
Amid the apocalyptic brilliance, a tail tens of thousands of kilometers long stretched across the heavens, seemingly descending in slow motion toward their location.
A suffocating aura of death engulfed everyone, causing even the expressions of the Celestial King and Heavenly King Zhenwu to darken.
Their earlier calculations had been correct—the gigantic entity landed quite far away from their position, requiring them only to withstand the impact.
That sky-shrouding tail, however...
The Celestial King and Heavenly King Zhenwu joined forces, unleashing golden light that tore apart the heavens and earth. The battlefield split as the land shattered, forming a rift over ten thousand kilometers long.
The two supreme powerhouses’ full-power assault sundered the frontline, creating a spatial tear that shifted the land backward to evade the descending tail.
The continent split, causing the ground outside Abyssal City to crumble and mountains to collapse. Over a million warriors—reduced to mere ants—silently awaited the impending apocalypse.