Chapter 583: Xia Zuo’s Severe Injuries and the Power of the Demon God (II)

Enveloped in a black radiance, black scales sprouted out of Xia Zuo's face and hands as he flew across the land like a shadow at eight times the speed of sound.

Covering two to three kilometers per second, he covered a hundred kilometers in less than a minute. He then abruptly stopped, his expression solemn as he gazed ahead.

On a tree, hundreds of meters tall, Alexis stood with its wings unfurled and arms crossed. It gave him an icy gaze laced with mockery.

How troublesome.

Xia Zuo sighed. His eyes then focused with determination.

Boom!

A domineering power erupted from Xia Zuo, instantly solidifying the air within hundreds of meters. As if the space itself could not withstand his presence, the pressure he had created countless transparent fissures in the atmosphere.

Boom!

A massive spear shot forth from within the fractured domain. Three hundred meters long and covered with black scales, it tore apart every space it passed through, leaving fissures in its wake.

The spear moved at lightning speed. It carved a path of destruction over a kilometer long and tens of meters wide through the forest before exploding with immense force.

A soul-shaking, will-shattering roar reverberated as the spear burst, causing the void to tremble. The phantom of a black colossal beast then materialized—draconic yet not entirely dragon-like.

From the gaping maw of the beast's projection emerged a hundred-meter-long black spear made out of compressed and condensed boundless energy.

Its spearhead radiated pure black brilliance and was so sharp that it made even Alexis feel a tinge of danger.

"Myriad Demonic Domain."

With a cold growl, Alexis destroyed and twisted the world around it, forming a terrifying kilometer-wide domain. Endless black currents of energy swirled within it.

𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Boom!

The black spear pierced through the domain, shredding the swirling black energy as it approached Alexis. The collision of their forces sent tremors through their surroundings, toppling trees and making clouds of dust billow into the sky.

Watching the spear rip through the Myriad Demonic Domain, Alexis extended its claw and pulled a grotesque, ten-meter-long spear with barbed tips from the void.

"A mere human!"

Boom!

Alexis infused the spear with the domain's full power. It then swung its weapon, obliterating Xia Zuo’s black spear and shattering the beast's projection into nothingness.

Xia Zuo's expression shifted drastically as the devastating blow from the colossal war spear sent him hurtling backward at over ten times the speed of sound. He crashed against a mountain ten kilometers away, the impact destroying the mountain and blasting rocks and dust all over the place.

Xia Zuo was a prodigy so extraordinarily talented that he broke into the Ninth Heavenly Realm at just twenty years old. His earlier strike even approached the power of a late-stage Ninth Heavenly Realm expert.

Yet, against Alexis—a middle-stage Ninth Demonic Mark demon with terrifying combat prowess—his attack proved utterly insignificant.

Boom!

An even more powerful and terrifying aura erupted in the distance. The overwhelming pressure made the dust clouds dissipate, revealing Xia Zuo, who had transformed into an eighty-meter-tall humanoid creature clad in black scales. Dragon horns had sprouted from his head.

Back when the ancient ruins of the mythical world opened on the Blue Planet, Xia Zuo had ventured into one of the ruins. Not only did he break into the Ninth Heavenly Realm there, but he also inherited a legacy imbued with world origin.

In his true form, Xia Zuo's power surged tens of times over. He grew ever closer—perhaps even rivaled—to quasi-mythical levels.

His terrifying aura elicited a flicker of excitement in Alexis's gaze.

Yes, that’s it! That human genius possesses a unique inheritance—I must devour him.

A surge of killing intent filled its eyes.

Given his potential and the rapid growth rate of the human race, it may take only a few decades for him to surpass me and become as strong as great demon kings. I have to kill him now.

As Xia Zuo unleashed a burst of energy akin to that of a quasi-mythical being, a dark colossal beast resting leisurely in the sky—casually exhaling breaths that sundered mountains and crushed humans as if they were mere insects—paused momentarily and instinctively turned its ferocious heads toward Xia Zuo.

However, the beast quickly lost interest. A mere human barely reaching the strength of a quasi-mythical level was hardly a match for Alexis.

"Escape! Go!" an Eighth Heavenly Realm expert roared, his words echoing through the mountains. The beast’s breath seemed to have grievously injured him.

Spreading a pair of blue wings, the expert clutched a missile that was over ten meters long and as thick as a small barrel. With a defiant cry, he soared skyward and hurled the missile at the colossal beast.

The scene drew sharp gazes from two human experts several kilometers away. Even the dark beast stopped before roaring in anger.

Boom!

A nuclear explosion of unparalleled brilliance lit up the sky, forming a fireball thousands of meters in diameter.

The destructive shockwave swept across the heavens and earth, accompanied by the beast's anguished howls.

"Kill!" Xia Zuo shouted. Sensing the nuclear detonation and understanding its implications, he let his eyes turn blood-red.

Boom!

The ground shattered as Xia Zuo, in his god-transformation form, appeared above Alexis. His massive hands formed a seal as they crashed down with earth-shattering force.

Boom!

Xia Zuo's attack destroyed Alexis's domain. Thousands of meters of earth exploded, and billions of tons of soil and rock erupted like a tsunami in all directions.

The destructive shockwaves swept across a radius of several kilometers, toppling towering trees as if they were mere twigs.

At the epicenter of the explosion stood Alexis in its complete Purgatory Demon form—a thirty-meter-tall figure with three heads and six arms.

From its body emanated an endless torrent of black demonic flames, shaking the heavens and the earth like a terrifying demon king from ages past.

In its complete form, Alexis was as strong as an ordinary demon king. With just one arm, it effortlessly blocked Xia Zuo's strongest attack.

Xia Zuo's expression filled with shock and disbelief.

In a deep and resonant tone, Alexis’s three heads remarked, "Humans... are too weak."

Boom!

A surge of power akin to the laws themselves erupted from Alexis's arm. Space then shattered into concentric rings of black destructive energy, hurling Xia Zuo away.

With a deafening crash, Xia Zuo slammed into the ground a thousand meters away, forming a crater with a radius of several hundred meters.

As he struggled to recover, the forehead of Alexis's leftmost head opened, revealing a pitch-black eye. A dark golden beam, condensed to perfection, shot forth.

Biu!

The half-meter-wide beam pierced through Xia Zuo's vacuum domain and chest. It then carved a meter-wide hole in a distant mountain.

Spurt!

The immense power of the laws gravely injured Xia Zuo. Blood spurted from his mouth as he vanished, retreating from the battlefield.

However, just as he disappeared, Alexis slammed his four arms against each other, engulfing Xia Zuo’s location with an invisible force.

Boom!

Space twisted and shattered violently, forcing the pale-faced Xia Zuo to reappear just mere kilometers away.

He's too strong!

He was no match against Alexis’s true demon form. It was simply far too overwhelming.

Like Chen Chu, it had transcended conventional limits. Although still at the middle stage of the Ninth Heavenly Realm, Alexis had unleashed power that pushed past the quasi-mythical level and into the mythical level.

Alexis seemed invincible.

Xia Zuo clenched his fists as he formulated a plan. He only had one option left.

A golden longsword appeared in his hand. The moment the sword materialized, both Alexis and the colossal dark beast, which had just escaped the nuclear explosion with damaged scales, froze in alarm.

The nine-headed demonic dragon let out an enraged roar, abandoning its pursuit of the two fleeing human experts over a hundred kilometers away. With a deafening crash, it turned and flew toward Xia Zuo.

In a frantic attempt to retreat, Alexis turned into a streak of light and reappeared ten kilometers away in the blink of an eye.

However, it was still too late.

Boom!

The golden longsword unleashed a blinding light as it grew rapidly. In an instant, it transformed into a colossal blade thousands of meters long, stretching across the heavens.

The heavenly king’s sword tore the earth apart, leaving a rift dozens of kilometers long. Locked in the sword’s devastating aura, Alexis couldn’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of impending death.

Even Alexis couldn’t withstand a strike imbued with the perfect laws of a heavenly king.

"I will kill you, human!" Alexis roared in frustration and despair as it entered the demon king’s domain.

Blood gushed from all over it, and its left shoulder exploded violently. In that instant, a power that far surpassed that of a heavenly king erupted.

Boom!