"Huh?"
Lu Ce looked with confusion at the giant demon before him, and the massive wound created by the axe.
With his current power level, and the Extreme Path Battle Axe being a Broken Divine Weapon, such a direct strike into flesh should have been impossible to not penetrate completely.
"Hmph! What is this!"
As he spoke, he forcefully twisted the battle axe in his hand, brutally tearing through the opponent's surface defense. The flesh on the outer layer of the Hell Envoy exploded violently!
The instantaneous impact made everyone's eyebrows twitch. Due to the Hell Envoy's massive size, the explosion appeared particularly bloody.
For a moment, black-purple blood splashed across a large area, resembling some kind of special pigment.
Within a radius of dozens of meters, everything was stained by the opponent's flesh and blood, dyeing Pride's bright golden color with a somewhat extreme brutality.
Sizzling sounds emerged from the ground - demon blood had significant corrosive properties for this world.
The Hell Envoy's enormous body trembled continuously. As the first major demon to appear, it had come with the mission to destroy an entire world.
But now, it seemed to be on its last breath.
No, not seemed!
Under Pride's current enhanced state, the fact that He could withstand it without dying was already proof of His strength.
At this moment, the large area of flesh on His chest had been shattered, revealing a hard object inside.
From any angle, that thing looked like half of something.
Overall, it was probably a regular octagon, but currently only part of it remained, with rugged edges at the broken section.
On it was imprinted a strange pattern, its purpose unknown.
However, Xie Antong, who had been slacking throughout the battle and quite skilled at blending in, suddenly found her breath catching.
This object looked distinctly familiar to her.
Frowning slightly, she focused her mind. A distant All-Seeing Eye over ten kilometers away instantly turned with a buzzing sound.
This particular All-Seeing Eye had been following Chiyo Eine all along!
Now, the All-Seeing Eye made no attempt to conceal its sound, even deliberately emitting buzzing noises to attract Chiyo Eine's attention.
She immediately understood Xie Antong's meaning and quickly followed.
Chiyo Eine's current location was precisely the place marked on the map as [Demon Beacon].
However, this was just an ordinary urban area. Even looking up into the distance, one could see the collision of golden and black light at the horizon.
No Demon Beacon was visible, nor any suspicious objects.
But when Pride's battle axe split open the Hell Envoy's chest over there, Xie Antong instantly felt as if she could see everything.
The All-Seeing Eye ascended, looking down at the T-shaped intersection below.
There, traffic from three directions converged before separating again.
Right at the center of this intersection was a patch of grassland, whether for greening purposes or absorbing vehicle emissions - perhaps both.
A very common sight.
But viewed from above, the flower bed within the grassland was a regular octagon.
The entire grassland's border was a regular octagon!
Even the decorative night lights within the grassland were regular octagons!
The All-Seeing Eye flew back to Chiyo Eine's ear, transmitting just one sentence.
"Here, go check it out!"
Chiyo Eine nodded, her body transforming into black water that merged with the ground. In the blink of an eye, she appeared at the exact center of the flower bed.
Kneeling on one knee, both hands pressed against the grass, in an instant, the sound of surging waves echoed between heaven and earth!
Several seconds later, black water churned, flipping the entire grassland over before merging into nothingness.
It was as if the large grassland, trees, and streetlights had been instantly melted, then vanished into another dimension.
Soon, what lay beneath was exposed.
Chiyo Eine slowly stood up in surprise, looking down at the dramatically changed ground that resembled a silver lid of unknown material - a regular octagon!
Similarly, it bore strange patterns. A quick glance revealed they were identical to the object in the Hell Envoy's chest.
Except, the patterns were different...
The object inside the Hell Envoy that descended in Qian City didn't match the Demon Beacon in Qian City's center!
Xie Antong almost instantly understood the general mechanics of this thing, telling Chiyo Eine: "Stay and guard this place for now!"
Back in the battle, her eyes suddenly refocused. Her first action was to pull out that epic-grade pistol, raising it to aim at Pride's back.
Stimulation!
Without the slightest hesitation, she pulled the trigger. In the roaring explosion, she forced Lu Ce to swing his battle axe horizontally, not taking the hit with his body but blocking it with the axe's surface.
This counted as a serious move - unless directly fusing with Pleasure's power at high levels, this represented Xie Antong's strongest attack method.
After firing, she instantly turned to look at the Death Messenger, sharply saying:
"What are you still standing around for! You can't just let him take that thing casually, can you?"
Death Messenger:...
First, this "Sin" didn't seem to realize yet that this thing needed to be collected.
Second, I've been hiding all this time waiting for an opportunity - what do you mean by pointing me out like this!?
In the air, the Death Messenger gritted her teeth in frustration, thinking to herself: If this woman wants to slack off, then slack off properly!
Why is it that every time she helps, it's just for show without any real use?
What did Pleasure see in her!?
But there was no choice. Now that she had been exposed, she had no choice but to act. The Death Messenger behind the Hell Envoy suddenly took off, black energy spreading before her eyes, her beautiful face carrying intense ferocity!
That rich purple-black color enveloped everything again. Her death domain clung to Lu Ce's every muscle and bone like maggots in rotting flesh, making it difficult for him to move.
This time's intensity was much stronger than before.
And Lu Ce wasn't someone to take things lying down either. The moment his opponent made a move, he decisively acted - swinging his axe at the half-beacon in the Hell Envoy's chest.
He didn't really know what this was, but it needed to be taken!
Anyway, the opponent had probably prepared something big for him. No problem - he'd trade injuries for this Hell Envoy's life!
Amidst piercing screams, a phantom of a purple-black scythe materialized in the air.
The axe was already wedged into the beacon in the Hell Envoy's chest, pulling outward as if tearing out bones and sinews!
Simultaneously, the scythe spanning heaven and earth came chopping down!
Xie Antong's pupils abruptly contracted. Just as she was about to act, suddenly, a blue light flashed across the sky.
Jiang Yuan lightning-bolted into the death domain, shielding Lu Ce's front while raising a shield with one hand, already immobilized by the domain's suppression.
Boom!
In that instant, the light shield shattered, blood splattered, and a deep, bone-revealing scar ran from the corner of his eye to his jaw on his handsome face.
He forcibly deflected this charged attack off course, making it veer to one side and split the stadium ruins beneath their feet in two!
"You...?" Even Pride was surprised this time.
Meeting his gaze, those blood-stained eyes remained unwaveringly firm!
"Jiang Yuan is willing to go through fire and water, even ten thousand deaths wouldn't make me hesitate!"