Chapter 1444 - Intense Clash

“What’s impossible about this? Do you think I’m still the same person as before? How ridiculous. I already told you, didn’t I? There’s no telling who will be running away this time.” Chen Fan sneered coldly. He raised his fist and started blasting.

“

Hmph

, what arrogance! Even if you’ve grown considerably stronger, you’re still only a peak Void Immortal. I can slowly wear you down to death, go to hell!”

Naturally, Chu Yun could not accept this reversal. To him, Chen Fan’s recent achievements—even single-handedly crushing the Heavenly Falcon Alliance—were meaningless. In his eyes, Chen Fan was still an insect he could crush with a flick of his wrist.

Hadn’t that been proven already when they first entered the Ancient Emperor’s Tomb? Back then, Chen Fan couldn’t even fight back. He’d been hunted like a stray dog. That was a fact beyond dispute.

As a pinnacle expert in the ninth-stage half-immortal realm, Chu Yun carried the pride of one who stood just beneath true immortality. To him, anyone beneath his realm was beneath his notice.

The two erupted into an even more shocking battle.

Blinding light burst from Chu Yun’s eyes, condensing into a strange and ancient diagram. It was an archaic ocular art, a killing technique born from a bygone era, and it shot straight toward Chen Fan.

Chen Fan activated his Eye of Breaking Deception, another strange divine art. Illusions shattered, and truths were laid bare; the energy from Chu Yun’s technique warped, twisted, and finally dissolved into the endless void. The Sky Breaking Sword appeared in his grasp, and he slashed at Chu Yun ruthlessly.

The grudge between Chen Fan and Chu Yun was irreconcilable and would only end in death. Neither would hold back nor speak of fairness. This was a battle where only one would walk away alive.

Clang!

An astonishing sword light soared to the sky, shattering everything in its path.

At some point, a halberd appeared in Chu Yun’s hand, summoned from the distant void. It appeared with a metallic hum, meeting the Sky Breaking Sword head-on.

Clang!

A violent explosion boomed. The terrifying force set off sonic waves that pierced through the formation, causing the space in the entire passageway to ripple like the sea waves.

On the sidelines, Li Yu watched as the two clashed, feeling an incomparable horror inside. The sound produced from their collision almost shattered his eardrums.

For the first time, he truly witnessed the terrifying might of a ninth-stage half-immortal.

He himself was close, only a paper-thin barrier separated him from that realm, but now he understood what that “thin paper” really meant. Without piercing through it, the gap between them was a chasm too vast to cross.

It was no wonder that any force with a ninth-stage half-immortal expert at its helm stood at the absolute pinnacle of the Immortal Conferral Ancient Realm, while those without one could only be called “top-tier.” That was the true difference in power.

Countless laws manifested the instant they clashed. Their comprehension of the martial path had already reached an astonishing level.

The resulting surge of energy wiped out many formations in an instant; even more reactivated automatically, barely keeping the passageway from collapsing entirely.

The two seemed to be evenly matched, neither able to overpower the other.

But despite Chen Fan’s calm and steady expression, Chu Yun’s face had twisted into disbelief and rage.

That brief exchange was enough to tell him everything. Chen Fan’s strength had truly reached the level of a ninth-stage half-immortal realm expert, equal to his own. No wonder the man dared face him so boldly this time.

Of course, this wasn’t good news for him.

After all, in Chu Yun’s eyes, Chen Fan had always been nothing more than a helpless sheep; now, that sheep had turned into a ferocious tiger. Taking him down and seizing the Immortal Emperor’s legacy had suddenly become a thousand times harder.

“Well, well, well. No wonder you dared to talk big in front of me. I’ve really underestimated you,” Chu Yun said coldly, staring at Chen Fan. He felt a formless pressure weighing down on him in his heart.

“It’s not that you underestimated me,” Chen Fan replied, his tone calm and razor-sharp, “it’s that you overestimated yourself.”

Chu Yun’s expression darkened. Without another word, he struck.

Forming a seal with both hands, he summoned a colossal dragon, over ten thousand meters long, its body compressed to the brink of bursting with power. The moment it appeared, the sky cracked apart like shattered glass, a web of fractures spreading outward.

This was the Heavenly Dragon Seal, a powerful immortal art that carried boundless might and could pierce through a world. Though Chu Yun’s version was only an imitation of the true dragon race technique, its destructive might was anything but false.

Chen Fan didn’t give in an inch and charged forward with a step, forming a seal of his own.

“Eight Treasures Universe Cauldron!”

The large seal condensed into a cauldron, revolving in Chen Fan’s palm as if it had the power to shatter everything, and went smashing toward the dragon violently.

Bang!

Chen Fan’s Eight Treasures Universe Cauldron smashed into the dragon’s head, stopping its attack and drawing its blood.

Boom, boom, boom!

Their powers collided again and again, explosions rippling through the void like clashing gods of war. The entire passageway trembled violently; waves of destructive energy surged out in every direction.

𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

To an untrained eye, their fight might have looked simple. Brute force against brute force. But those who truly understood the martial path knew better.

Chu Yun wielded his halberd with one hand, executing the imitation version of Heavenly Dragon Seal with his other, and struck down continuously, destroying everything.

This was no ordinary clash. Both combatants had already ascended into the realm of laws; now, they were waging war not just with strength, but also with the very essence of creation itself.

Similarly, Chen Fan held his ground with the Sky Breaking Sword in one hand and the Eight Treasures Universe Cauldron with the other, refusing to yield an inch.

Their fight was like a clash between two blazing suns, causing heaven and earth to tremble, and the void to turn into primal chaos.

Both warriors unleashed the full might of ninth-stage half-immortals; each strike was vicious, each move fatal. In the void, laws of every kind braided together—devouring, repelling—so many threads of law had manifested that counting them was impossible.

The two of them were approaching the level of the Immortal Platform realm. Their comprehension and mastery of the laws were at an extremely profound level.

At their level, grasping a single example could reveal an entire category; the complexity they commanded far outstripped any ordinary mind’s imagination.

Chu Yun’s expression was ice-cold.

“Chen Fan, how can a peak Void Immortal like you compete with me? Today, I’ll make sure you end as nothing but a corpse!”

Even Chu Yun, arrogant and ruthless, felt a ripple of shock at Chen Fan’s power; the man’s strength defied what one would expect from a mere peak Void Immortal.