"Chu Batian!!" A furious roar echoed across heaven and earth as the black mist trembled violently. In the next instant, a terrifying aura descended, and with it came a saber light over three thousand meters long, burning with black flames.
The mountain range where Chen Chu had been standing collapsed. The earth tore open, forming a deep rift stretching for hundreds of kilometers, and fiery lava blazed within the depths.
High above the sky, a towering woman over a hundred meters tall hovered, her figure clad entirely in battle armor.
Her body was fierce and explosive, her purple hair dancing wildly. In her hand, she wielded a colossal saber over three hundred meters long. Behind her, endless black flames raged with the boundless dark mist, setting the world ablaze and releasing an aura that far surpassed even the great demon kings.
However, Chen Chu had already vanished, merging into the void. He activated the power of Hidden Divinity, erasing all traces of his aura and presence.
Gazing down at the collapsed mountain range, Tarorya’s violet eyes gleamed cold and sharp. She unleashed her vast divine soul across a range of hundreds of kilometers, but she found not even the slightest trace of Chen Chu.
No lingering aura, no spatial distortion. It was as if he had simply ceased to exist. Even her secret bloodline arts failed to pick up the faintest clue.
Tarorya’s brows furrowed slightly. "Such powerful concealment methods."
Seeing that Chen Chu had once again vanished into hiding, Tarorya swept her gaze across the devastated region behind her. Her eyes narrowed coldly.
Meanwhile, over the Chaotic Sea, the Dragon Emperor turned and seized another, even thicker dorsal fin from its own back. After the earlier test, it now knew it could compress even more power.
The black-and-blue dorsal spike—180 meters long and over 40 meters thick at its widest point, like a small mountain—snapped off with a deafening crack.
The Purple Dragon blinked at the sight. It instinctively glanced at its own back, only to find it had nothing to snap off.
Endless blue-black thunderbolts erupted outward from the Dragon Emperor, sweeping across a hundred kilometers. They formed into a vertical lightning ring, a kilometer wide and radiating a searing aura of pure destruction. The lightning ring compressed inward and formed a mighty electromagnetic field that rapidly concentrated toward the Dragon Emperor and the spike in its claw, now glowing brilliantly with seven-colored light.
Meanwhile, across the other side of the thousand-kilometer-wide demonic domain, Chen Chu silently reappeared halfway up a mountain, over two hundred kilometers away. At his feet, the space-time summoning altar emerged once more.
Standing atop the blue altar, Chen Chu’s long black hair whipped wildly in the wind. His gaze, cold and indifferent, swept across the distant black mist wall, the buildings beyond it, and the countless figures moving within.
Just like in human societies, the residents of the capitals were never ordinary individuals—even less so for the demons living within this domain.
Each of these demons could be considered a genius, or the relatives of advanced demons and descendants of demon kings.
Compared to slaying an additional demon king, a large-scale massacre of these noble demons would be even more profitable. There could even be freakish prodigies among them, comparable to the likes Xia Zuo and An Fuqing.
As the blue vortex above Chen Chu’s head reappeared, a surge of powerful energy rippled outward, distorting the surrounding space-time.
"There! The human is there!" In an instant, a demon king’s aura burst forth from the distance. An enraged roar shook heaven and earth.
However, it was already too late. The blue summoning passage above Chen Chu’s head collapsed, and a dazzling seven-colored light tore across the sky like a brilliant rainbow as it hit the black mist wall.
The same scene played once again. The radiant seven-colored light pierced through the heavens, and a black shockwave spread along its expanding edge, destroying everything it touched.
Countless demons let out desperate wails before being reduced to ash, and even the space around them was annihilated.
From deep within the demonic domain came a thunderous roar. An aura belonging to a peak titan colossal beast exploded forth, and a three-thousand-meter-long monstrous figure shot into the skies.
"Found you! Sky-Sealing Death Seal! Freeze space-time! Array, rise!"
High above, dark clouds tens of thousands of meters tall began to swirl, forming seven massive vortices. From their centers, seven black demonic banners, each ten thousand meters long, descended from the heavens.
In the blink of an eye, the seven banners pierced the void and embedded into the earth, shattering the ground. The black runes coiled around the flagpoles flared brilliantly, and the fluttering flags expanded, interlinking to form a black curtain that shrouded an entire section of the world.
In just a breath, Chen Chu found himself trapped inside an isolated world, over a thousand kilometers in diameter. The sky and earth were completely black, and at the edges of this world, seven towering phantoms, each tens of thousands of meters tall, stood silently.
The seal and frozen space-time caused the Space-Time Altar beneath Chen Chu to instantly collapse. Even his connection to the planar world was severed.
This unexpected change caused Chen Chu’s expression to turn grim. Compared to the earlier Heaven-Suppressing Demonic Array laid by six demon kings, this one was even higher in grade.
Clearly, the Purgatory Demon Clan had gained a thorough understanding of his various trump cards, and had meticulously prepared a countermeasure. As expected, a trump card known by others was no longer a trump card.
"Human, this is the place I chose for you as your grave. Are you satisfied?"
A cold voice echoed through the blackened heavens as a rift tore open across the sky. From within the crack stepped Tarorya, clad in resplendent red battle armor, her hundred-meter-tall figure gripping a massive saber.
Endless black flames flooded outward, engulfing hundreds of kilometers, transforming the land into a dark hell, and even burning through the fabric of space.
Meanwhile, outside the black curtain loomed a colossal demonic black-scaled dragon, over three thousand meters long and bristling with black thorns. It radiated the overwhelming aura of the peak titan level.
However, this dark three-headed dragon didn’t enter. It remained stationed outside, acting as a deterrent in case Chen Chu attempted to flee.
Right now, it could be said that Tarorya’s preparations had reached perfection. No matter what trump cards Chen Chu might have, there would be no escape—even if he possessed a forbidden weapon gifted by a supreme powerhouse. The array sealing this world was composed of seven principle-level forbidden weapons.
Today, Chen Chu was doomed. Yet...
Sensing the resonance between the Hell’s Eye at his brow and the Insightful Void-Slashing Eye, Chen Chu’s lips curled into a slight smile.
With a single thought, he could summon the power of the Supreme Hell. The supreme planes spanned countless worlds and timelines, and everyone who had seen Chen Chu do this had already died. No one knew of this final trump card.
Hundreds of kilometers away, Tarorya looked at the tiny human figure, no larger than her fingertip from her vantage point. Relaxing slightly, she spoke in a languid tone, "Human, your courage is commendable. To dare to venture alone into the heart of our empire...
"And not only that, you slew seven of our demon kings, and even a great demon king. Such a record is so fearsome that even I cannot help but admire it.
"Such immense battle power—not even I could have achieved it in my prime. It is a pity you are human; otherwise, I would be very interested in bearing a child with you."
The sudden shift in topic made Chen Chu pause slightly. He coolly replied, "...Sorry. I have no interest in Purgatory Demons."
Putting aside the vast differences between their races and loyalties, just glancing at Tarorya’s true form—standing a hundred meters tall, with a physique so imposing that her "assets" alone were the size of ten-meter-wide houses—made Chen Chu's eye twitch slightly.
Giving birth? With that kind of body, even if I threw my entire self into her, she probably wouldn't feel a thing, unless I revealed my True Demon God Form.
But if I did that, I would become pure energy... which means certain things wouldn't exactly work anymore. Uh—What am I even thinking?