Chapter 3021: Terrifying Destructive Power

Lu Yin and the others had already anticipated the Aeternals making a move, and Lu Yin was prepared to summon all of his Progenitor-level champions just to ensure that at least one of them could survive after Aeternus joined the battle.

However, someone else reacted even faster.

A golden light filled the sky and covered the earth, illuminating the Scourge and blinding Lu Yin and the others.

He instinctively turned around, whereupon Lu Yin saw a colossal version of Sovereign Dou Sheng wielding his golden cudgel. The weapon dropped from the sky in an unstoppable manner, attacking Skydog, the Seven-Star Mantis, and the nine-headed bird, who were all at the entrance to the Scourge.

A surge of divine energy erupted in an attempt to block the cudgel, but it failed. The golden weapon slammed into the ground, shaking the entire First Scourge.

Sovereign Dou Sheng had been waiting for a long time to release this attack. He resented not having killed Skydog in the past. He had been waiting to unleash this attack for far too long.

Everyone stared at the entrance to the Scourge. Even divine energy was being forced back by this attack. Who could possible survive such a thing?

Lu Yin had no idea whether Skydog had died, but he was certain that the nine-headed bird was dead. There was no question that it had been killed by Sovereign Dou Sheng’s blow. Even at its peak, the nine-headed bird would have been instantly killed by such an attack, let alone after suffering serious wounds.

As for the summoned Seven-Star Mantis, it had not had a chance to survive either.

Far away, Sovereign Dou Sheng was gasping for breath. People looked over as the towering Progenitor’s world slowly faded away. The Sovereign had delivered his final strike with his full power. It had not only been aimed at the nine-headed bird and Skydog, but also at the Purple Emperor, who had been trying to escape to the Scourge underground. However, it was uncertain whether the Sovereign’s attack had landed on the Purple Emperor, given that he was able to fold time.

Debris shot away like shrapnel as divine energy raged, clashing with the golden light.

Some time later, the dust settled. What appeared before everyone’s eyes was the smashed corpse of the nine-headed bird, which had been completely crushed by the cudgel. Skydog was also there.

Woof!

Lu Yin’s heart dropped. It was no use attacking the mutt.

Far away, Sovereign Dou Sheng clenched his cudgel tightly, as he realized it was futile for him to attack the dog.

Sovereign Lotus was startled to see that not even Sovereign Dou Sheng’s full-powered blow, launched with every last ounce of his strength, had killed Skydog. What was the creature made of?

Arrow Sage and Food Sage exchanged glances, clearly able to see the shock in the other’s eyes.

Lu Yin focused his Heaven’s Sight onto Skydog. How could the dog have survived Sovereign Dou Sheng’s attack without using any sequence particles? The nine-headed bird had been a sequence powerhouse, and yet it had been killed instantly by the blow. Just what was the leader of the True God Guard Captains made of?

Lu Yin somewhat regretted the nine-headed bird’s death. If Lu Yin had been given a bit more time, he could have eliminated the feathered nuisance himself, potentially anointing another sequence powerhouse to his Champions’ Stage. However, even if he was capable of summoning the nine-headed bird, it would not provide much assistance to him.

The nine-headed bird’s most formidable factor was its ability to curse its opponents with invisible sequence particles. If Lu Yin anointed the bird as a champion, the summon would not have been able to use its sequence particles, rendering the skill useless. Aside from acting as a shield, such a champion would serve no purpose at all.

After considering this, Lu Yin stopped regretting his lost opportunity to anoint another champion.

Woof!

Skydog barked again, sounding like he was mocking everyone.

Figures started to appear behind him, their bodies roiling with divine energy. There was Zhong Pan, Marquis Wu, and Marquis Wang. Three more True God Guard Captains had joined Skydog, and they faced off against Lu Yin and the others.

The Aeternals were sharply focused on Sovereign Dou Sheng.

At the moment, the Sovereign was truly at his limits, and he gave everyone the impression that even a single touch would be fatal. Such a vulnerable state was very tempting for Aeternus.

It was in this charged atmosphere that Arch-Elder Zen arrived, and his wary eyes locked onto the entrance to the Scourge.

Sovereign Dou Sheng gasped for breath as he cracked a smile. “Well, come on then! Kill me here and now, if you dare. If you miss this chance, you’ll never get another.”

Zhong Pan clenched a fist. Skydog wagged his tail as he stared at Sovereign Dou Sheng. Both Marquis Wu and Marquis Wang were also looking at the Sovereign.

As for Lu Yin, he was focused on Marquis Wang. Her name was Wang Xiaoyu. Lu Yin was wondering whether the woman had truly betrayed the Fifth Mainland.

There was a gust of wind, and another figure emerged from the entrance of the Scourge. It stopped right in front of Marquis Wu and the others. “Dou Sheng, if you wish to die, then so be it.”

Sovereign Dou Sheng glared at the newcomer, his eyes flaring and overflowing with a frigid killing intent. “Sovereign- No, Shao Yin!”

Sovereign Lotus, Arrow Sage, and Food Sage were all startled by the man’s appearance. “Shao Yin?”

Lu Yin’s pupils shrank. Shao Yin? He had been punished and cast into the lake of divine energy, so how was he already out? How had he gotten free? Not only that, this feeling...

Shao Yin smirked, oozing an overbearing arrogance. “It’s been a while, everyone. Especially you, Lord Lu.”

Lu Yin and Shao Yin locked eyes. Lu Yin’s eyes were ice cold. “So, you’re still alive.”

Shao Yin’s eyes bored into Lu Yin. They were filled with hatred, killing intent, though there was also confusion. When they had fought in the Decaying Diablo Universe, Shao Yin knew that he had been captured by Lu Yin. The man had been forced to his knees and made to apologize. He had been right at the brink of death, and yet he had survived. Shao Yin could not understand why he had survived that encounter, as it was clear that Lu Yin loathed the former Sovereign. After all, Shao Yin was the mastermind behind the Lu family’s exile. Why had Lu Yin not killed him? He had had the opportunity.

“Lord Lu, it’s been a long time,” Shao Yin said through gritted teeth. Regardless of why Lu Yin had allowed Shao Yin to live, the man had still vowed to get revenge for the humiliation that he had endured in the Cyclic Universe and of being forced to his knees in the Decaying Diablo Universe.

Lu Yin grew very wary. For some reason, Shao Yin felt completely different from the past. Had he successfully integrated yin and yang? If he had, it would be quite the problem.

In the past, Shao Yin had merely been a rather average sequence powerhouse, comparable to someone like Old Mo. After the Great Sovereign had stripped the former Sovereign of his granted power, his power of Extreme Yin had been greatly weakened, and his strength had plummeted. However, the man had never cultivated just the power of Extreme Yin, as he had been hiding the fact that he also cultivated the power of Extreme Yang. His true path was to merge yin and yang into a unified power.

The man had not yet succeeded when he was submerged in the lake of divine energy, so how had he managed to succeed? What had happened in just a bit more than a decade?

“Shao Yin, you were lucky to survive our last encounter. This time, your luck has run out,” Lu Yin threatened.

The Purple Emperor emerged from underground. Sovereign Dou Sheng’s strike had not killed the outsider powerhouse. Elsewhere, Sovereign Lotus was still keeping an eye on the creature of pure energy, preventing it from escaping.

Shao Yin laughed loudly at Lu Yin’s statement. “The one who needs luck is up for debate. This time, all of you will die.”

As the man spoke, he raised a finger. At its tip, a dark-green color swirled alongside something that looked like the blazing light of the sun, the two sequence particles twining together in a unique manner. The sight gave Lu Yin an indescribable sense of dread. It was the same feeling that he had felt at Shao Yin’s arrival, only more intense.

Shao Yin’s eyes rose, and his finger pointed forward. Lu Yin’s expression instantly changed, and he moved to dodge, but this attack was not for him. Shao Yin was targeting Sovereign Ninth Lotus.

The woman was still using her lotuses to fight against the creature of pure energy, and their exchange had not attracted much attention before Shao Yin suddenly targeted Sovereign Lotus.

She was completely caught off guard, and the only defense she was able to raise was to open a Ninth-Grade Lotus directly beneath her feet.

Even sequence powerhouses found it difficult to break through her lotuses. Sovereign Ninth Lotus was one of the Cyclic Universe’s Three Sovereigns, and her strength was second only to Sovereign Dou Sheng. She had been regarded as superior to Shao Yin during his time as a Sovereign. Sovereign Lotus’s disciples had spread throughout the entire Sixverse Association, and nearly all of them relied on the defenses of her lotus technique.

A beam shot out from Shao Yin’s fingertip, bypassing Lu Yin and the others to strike Sovereign Lotus. The beam struck her Ninth-Grade Lotus, which instantly started to crack. The sight of the cracks caused Sovereign Lotus’s complexion to drastically change. How was this possible?

Boom!

The blooming lotus shattered, and the beam formed from the intertwined dark-green and brilliant lights slammed into Sovereign Lotus. It pierced through her shoulder, drawing blood before it vanished into the void.

Sovereign Lotus was sent flying by the force of the attack, and she nearly collapsed.

The being of pure energy took the opening, and it shot straight for the entrance to the Scourge.

The beam slowly faded away.

Shao Yin’s attack had injured Sovereign Lotus, which was something no one had expected.

Lu Yin had expected Shao Yin’s strength to have risen precipitously, as he had sensed a threat from the man. But even so, that beam had surpassed Lu Yin’s expectations. The beam was created from the merging of yin and yang, and it had both shattered a Ninth-Grade Lotus and wounded Sovereign Lotus.

Out of everyone on the battlefield, Sovereign Dou Sheng was the only person on the humans’ side who possessed the strength to face off against the power that Shao Yin had just revealed.

After instantly wounding Sovereign Lotus with his opening attack, Shao Yin grew smug, and he smirked at his opponents. “This is my true power. In the Sixverse Association, I was one of the Three Sovereigns. In Aeternus, I am one of the Seven Skygods! Starting today, I will destroy the entire Sixverse Association!

“Especially you, Lord Lu. I will ensure that each and every person from your Heavens Sect dies before you. Tell me, just who can stop me?”

The former Sovereign then pointed a finger at Lu Yin, openly changing his target.

The beam shot out again, and Lu Yin’s scalp went numb. Had he known that Shao Yin would obtain this much strength, he would have never let the man live. Lu Yin had been told to leave the man alive for the sake of the bigger picture, but while Lu Yin had no idea what sort of plan the Great Sovereign had in store for Shao Yin, or how that plot might harm True God, the most important thing at the moment was the danger that Shao Yin posed at the present moment.

Using Inverse Step, Lu Yin moved at the speed of time and fled.

The beam shot through the sky, its terrifying sequence particles instantly making it impossible for Lu Yin to move at the speed of time with Inverse Step. He did not manage to get very far before Shao Yin shifted his hand, and the beam swept across a large area as it chased after Lu Yin. It wasn’t just him—Arrow Sage and Food Sage were also targeted by the beam, and they frantically tried to escape its path of destruction.

Given their strength, if that beam so much as touched them, there was no doubt that they would die.

Arch-Elder Zen used his Tri-Yang Ancestral Qi to summon Lu Tianyi, and the summoned Progenitor attacked with his Law of Undoing, instantly breaking the beam.

The summoned Lu Tianyi had successfully disrupted Shao Yin’s beam, but doing so caused Arch-Elder Zen to spit out blood.

Shao Yin attacked yet again. The power formed from merging yin and yang was not complex, but it was terrifyingly destructive. It gave the impression of something complex returning to something simple.

Arch-Elder Zen had successfully blocked the beam once, but a second time was impossible.

When the beam reappeared, just as Lu Yin was about to dodge it, a golden cudgel slammed down from the sky. It sealed off the area to Lu Yin’s right, which was where the beam was approaching.

Shao Yin’s beam struck the cudgel and tried to destroy it.

𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Sovereign Dou Sheng dragged his horribly wounded body over, and he hefted his golden cudgel as he glared at Shao Yin. Sequence particles filled the Sovereign’s weapon, which made this confrontation a contest between Sovereign Dou Sheng and Shao Yin’s sequence particles.

When it came to mastery over the laws of the universe, Sovereign Dou Sheng was in no way inferior to Shao Yin, but the Sovereign was too severely wounded to even remain standing.

Golden blood still dripped from his numerous injuries, evaporating to power the man’s Triumphant Brawl as he stood and blocked Shao Yin’s attacks.

Lu Yin took out the slipper and slammed it into the beam, instantly breaking it.

Shao Yin sneered. “Let’s see how long you can endure for.”

Another attack instantly shot out, the beam aimed at both Lu Yin and Sovereign Dou Sheng.

“Move!” Sovereign Dou Sheng reached for Lu Yin, intending to push him away.