Chapter 768: Counterattack against the Demon Gods, the Sealed Chen Chu (II)

Boom! Boom!

Just as the Destructive Dragon Emperor finished slaying the ancient creature, a pair of demonic claws reached down from above, wrapped in monstrous principle power and grabbing toward Chen Chu.

Roar!

The Dragon Emperor jerked its head up, and blinding red light flared from its mouth.

Boom!

A beam of deep crimson breath, a kilometer thick, blasted forth, shattering Deorus’ principle-condensed claws in a single shot.

The breath transformed into a red energy beam that pierced the azure heavens, tearing through the abyssal domain of principles and forming a ten-kilometer-wide hole all the way up into the sky.

Even under the siege of two middle-stage demon gods, the Dragon Emperor displayed monstrous battle strength, fighting two opponents without falling behind.

Despite being a colossal beast, it fought like a human, possessing grandmaster-level combat awareness and reflexes. It wielded its tail, claws, fangs, and breath with keen precision and brutality. Combined with its defense that ignored principle power and its annihilating blood-red lightning, it was almost unstoppable.

However, the greater the Dragon Emperor’s battle power, the faster Chen Chu's energy drained. His aura weakened rapidly; he estimated he could maintain the dark-red form for at most three more minutes.

This time, he didn’t have the Heavenly Reincarnation Elixir to instantly replenish his energy. Even if he did, it would no longer work instantly—after all, his cultivation was no longer just at the beginning stage of the Ninth Heavenly Realm.

Naturally, Deorus sensed the change in Chen Chu’s aura. Standing tall amid the boundless black sea of fire, his ten-thousand-meter-tall form blurred, faint traces of flowing time surrounding him.

He remained cold and composed in the face of such heaven-defying battle strength, neither hurried nor panicked.

Such a summoning, then having the summoned creature explode with strength that surpassed a major realm, would bring an unbearable burden—enough to drain a peak demon king dry in an instant.

Even though this human freak’s true body was monstrously strong, he couldn’t possibly last more than a few minutes.

Everything was unfolding just as he had anticipated. This human monster was incredibly hard to kill, but fortunately, Deorus had been cautious enough to bring Kaodes along—otherwise, they would have failed to pin him down.

In fact, one demon god alone wouldn’t have been able to suppress this destructive beast. Such an attempt would have ended in disaster.

Deorus’s voice rumbled low. "Kaodes, this beast has some kind of immunity. Pure principle force can’t even get close."

Roar!

On the ground, the black demonic dragon shook its wings and stirred up endless abyssal flames as it soared into the sky with a ferocious roar, charging toward the Dragon Emperor.

This time, its entire body, including its claws, was covered in deep-red metal armor. Black principle patterns intertwined across it, radiating an indestructible and overwhelming heaviness.

This Abyssal Armor was a principle-level treasure that Kaodes had refined at great cost, exhausting countless resources. It allowed him to unleash the full might of his demonic dragon true form.

Boom!

When the two colossal beasts collided again, the pure force that was unleashed shook and rumbled the heavens and earth.

Yet this time, the demonic dragon wasn’t sent flying. With the amplification of the principle-level treasure, its true form was incredibly durable and its power domineering.

At the very moment the demonic dragon clashed with the Dragon Emperor, Deorus stepped forward, appearing outside the demonic domain. His claws reached into the endless black mist that towered into the sky.

Boom!

The entire domain shook violently, the ground splitting apart as a dark war halberd, fifteen thousand meters long like a mountainous ridge, was slowly drawn out.

A crushing aura spread out. Principle power entwined around the war halberd, causing the surrounding space to collapse continuously from the earth-shaking momentum.

This was Deorus’s principle weapon, nurtured and tempered within the demonic domain of his empire. It was a weapon he only wielded during wars of extinction, capable of pushing his strength to the extreme.

Principle-level weapons were incredibly rare even among demon gods. Each one required countless resources, god-level minerals, and principle-level materials to refine.

Boom!

As Deorus gripped the Apocalyptic Halberd, a sharp and domineering will surged into the sky. The heavens and earth trembled, and black rifts tore across the sky for tens of thousands of kilometers.

Something’s wrong.

Chen Chu turned his head, narrowing his eyes as he watched the demon god advancing with the halberd.

As the core of the empire, Chen Chu had long suspected that the demonic domain wasn’t so simple. That was why he had only torn through the outer mist walls and hadn’t gone deep inside.

"Colossal beast, take this: Heavenly Apocalypse."

Black-golden light wrapped around the immense halberd, layered with a transparent veil of time power. In the instant it swung, it shattered the void, surpassing the flow of time and appearing instantly beside the Dragon Emperor.

Yet standing against it was a dragon claw wrapped in blood-red lightning.

Boom!

The Dragon Emperor’s left claw clashed head-on with the demonic dragon, exploding with overwhelming force and blasting the much larger dragon backward. Its right claw then grabbed toward the mountain-sized black halberd.

The razor-sharp halberd tore apart the void, slicing through strands of Destructive Thunderbolt, and finally shattered the law-bound world in front of the claw, striking the Dragon Emperor for the first time.

Hum!

The massive spike of the halberd struck the thick red scales of the Dragon Emperor’s claw, erupting with a deep, resonating hum. Shockwaves spread out, destroying space across a hundred kilometers.

Deorus, wielding a principle treasure with his principle-condensed true form, unleashed a strike capable of crushing the earth and shattering space.

Yet the strength within the Dragon Emperor’s claw was even heavier and more domineering. At the moment of contact, Deorus’s massive figure trembled and was blasted over a hundred kilometers backward, forced to retreat several steps.

That overwhelming force had already transcended normal concepts, reaching the very threshold of principle power itself.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Amid the raging currents of shattered space, the Dragon Emperor’s claws destroyed all, exchanging thousands of blows with the vibrating light of the Apocalyptic Halberd. Each collision unleashed waves of destructive force.

Meanwhile, it slashed its tail blade through the void, engaging the armored demonic dragon as it charged back in, and fighting two opponents at once.

Their battle destroyed heaven and earth. Their speed exceeded even the flow of time, flashing across thousands of kilometers in the blink of an eye. The aftershocks annihilated everything in their path.

Above the sky, space collapsed, plunging deep into the void realm. On the ground, mountain ranges spanning thousands of kilometers exploded as the earth split apart.

Towns, bases, and settlements, consisting of demons, mutated beasts, and colossal beasts, were obliterated before they even had time to react, wiped away by the spreading principle forces.

The blazing abyssal flames shrouded the sky. Blood-red lightning destroyed all it touched. Every sweep of the colossal black halberd shook time and space.

Within just a few breaths, and without any restraint, thousands of kilometers of land had turned into ruins. The energies between heaven and earth rampaged chaotically, and the laws collapsed into disorder.

Roar!

Ignoring the halberd that pierced through time and space behind it, the Dragon Emperor unleashed a burst of force that sent the demonic dragon flying and crashing heavily into the earth.

Boom!

The central spine of a mountain range thousands of kilometers long collapsed, dust billowed, and abyssal flames roared skyward.

At the same time, the Apocalyptic Halberd, wrapped in black-golden principle power, struck the Dragon Emperor’s back. The overwhelming force shattered its scales, and a web of cracks spread across its body.

For the first time in this battle, the Dragon Emperor had been wounded. Yet before the two demon gods could even feel a hint of excitement, those cracks vanished in the blink of an eye from the healing power of its life law.

Simultaneously, crimson flames blazed across the Dragon Emperor’s body, emanating a destructive aura that made even their hearts pound in terror.

Roar!

Pinned beneath the fierce Dragon Emperor, the demonic dragon roared in shock and rage. "Are you insane? You’re just summoned here for a contract—what are you risking your life for?!"

The Dragon Emperor threw its head back and roared, endless Destructive Thunderbolts erupting from its body and forcing Deorus back. The entire sky was bathed in crimson light.

Remember this: I am Dragon Emperor Ao Batian, Lord of the Dragon Palace Empire!

Endless blood-red lightning breath erupted from its mouth, piercing the void and blasting a kilometer-wide beam of destruction directly at the demonic dragon's head.

Boom!

It was like the explosion of a star. A dazzling red sphere of light erupted, with the Dragon Emperor at its core, releasing an endless torrent of destruction breath.

The red armor covering the demonic dragon’s head began to melt and shatter, and the sheer force pushed its massive head downward.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

Despite being larger in size, the demonic dragon let out enraged, panicked roars. It struggled madly, unleashing enough power to tear a thousand-kilometer-long rift through the earth.

Yet, due to the Dragon Emperor’s suppression, it couldn’t rise at all, as if it were pinned down by a mountain weighing billions upon billions of tons.

Atop the Dragon Emperor’s head, Chen Chu’s aura weakened to the extreme. His figure wavered, yet his expression remained cold and calm, his eyes steady.

He had to heavily wound one demon god, and force it into a state where it couldn’t recover quickly, thereby preventing it from initiating an extinction war.

The Demon God Empires sought to annihilate humanity, partly due to the Primordial Ancestor’s order for eastward expansion, and partly to sacrifice a powerful civilization to the abyss for strength.

However, if a demon god was heavily wounded during an extinction war, with incomplete principles, it would inevitably be besieged by humanity’s strongest. There would be a real risk of death, and when the time came, it would hesitate.

As Chen Chu was about to burn his last reserves, willing to injure the Dragon Emperor in order to grievously wound one demon god—

Boom!

Suddenly, time and space between the Dragon Emperor and the demonic dragon were severed. A massive piece of white beast-hide burst into flames between them, releasing endless space energy.

Roar!

With this spatial forbidden principle artifact as a barrier, the demonic dragon’s form disintegrated, transforming into boundless abyssal flames that surged into the heavens, then recondensed.

Its dozens-of-kilometers-long true form reappeared, its red armor glowing and black flames burning. Yet a section of the armor atop its head was nearly pierced through by the destruction breath.

Had it not been for the protection of the principle armor, it would have suffered devastating injuries.

Meanwhile, atop the Dragon Emperor’s head, Chen Chu’s body wavered, nearly too weak to stand. The deep blue space-time summoning array under his feet flickered.

Chen Chu gasped weakly.

As expected, the demon gods can’t be underestimated. They’ve existed for countless years and hold countless secret treasures and trump cards.

Sensing Chen Chu’s aura growing feeble to the limit, both demon gods revealed cold glints in their eyes.

Finally... you can’t hold on anymore.

"Not enough yet!" Chen Chu roared furiously. A layer of golden flame suddenly erupted from his body, his aura surging wildly, and the space-time summoning array underfoot flared brightly.

Burning his life origin, Chen Chu unleashed endless power, sustaining the Dragon Emperor’s existence in a continuous, explosive burst.

Roar!

The Dragon Emperor threw its head back and roared to the heavens, blood-red lightning erupting from its body and radiating a blinding red light.

"Drain him dry!" Seeing this, Deorus and Kaodes weren’t alarmed, but instead exhilarated. Abyssal flames surged skyward as they rushed toward the Dragon Emperor.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

An even fiercer battle erupted.

The stronger the power Chen Chu displayed, the more determined Deorus and Kaodes became to kill him, though they also realized the difficulty had increased.

Yet now, with Chen Chu actively burning his life origin, the two demon gods were delighted. They intended to drag this battle out and exhaust him completely.

Both the Dragon Emperor and Chen Chu were achieving cross-realm strength only through limited explosive bursts. In contrast, Deorus and Kaodes were middle-stage demon gods; they were fighting at their norm.

Though their strength depleted over time, they would only need some cultivation to recover after the battle. Meanwhile, Chen Chu burning his life origin damaged his foundation. Once he reached the limit, he would burn to ashes and die from exhaustion, like the High Priest.

Under normal circumstances, a mythical-level lifeform’s lifespan was unimaginably long—up to ten thousand years, or thirty thousand years in the Blue Planet’s time frame, provided sufficient life-force resources.

Some innate lifeforms could even break that limit, matching the endless lifespans of ancient titans and living as long as heaven and earth.

However, even such immortality had conditions: the life origin had to remain intact. Otherwise, eventual death was inevitable, just like ancient creatures that failed to ascend.

Repairing damaged life origin required powers of creation, and to make things worse, resources and treasures capable of creation were rare even in the mythical world.

The Dragon Emperor roared ferociously, clashing one against two and unleashing world-shaking destructive force with every strike.

Yet Deorus and Kaodes, already prepared, fought fiercely. Despite the Dragon Emperor’s overwhelming might, it could no longer find an opening to trade injury for injury and seriously wound one demon god.

At the same time, the two demon gods consciously controlled the battlefield's range, preventing the Dragon Emperor from using the shockwaves of battle to destroy other demon kings' cities.

As the battle dragged on and Chen Chu burned through his life origin with reckless abandon, strands of white gradually appeared amid his black hair. Although golden flames burned around him and his aura seemed powerful and vigorous, there was an inexplicable sense of emptiness about him.