Mo Qilin Laozu was previously struck down by a falling tribulation flame. His Hunyuan Golden Immortal body was no match for the tribulation flame flower, leading to his immediate demise.
Only Kong Xuan remained, adrift in a tiny fragment of the Primordial World, gazing at the vast chaos. He harbored endless hatred as he watched the battle between Lu Ya Daojun and Heavenly Emperor Fang Ming.
However, neither Lu Ya Daojun nor Fang Ming paid any heed to Kong Xuan, a mere ant. His identity as the young master of the Phoenix clan was but a fleeting existence in countless cycles of reincarnation. What was he to them?
No one ever cared about such insignificant beings.
Lu Ya Daojun saw Fang Ming's fist strike towards him. The mere force of the punch had already shattered the entire Primordial World.
He chanted, "Alas, without beginning or end, the Immortal Slaying Blade emerges, and Immortal Kings fall!"
A sharp, ultimate blade light, carrying endless tribulation fire, slashed towards Fang Ming's primordial spirit!
The fiery divine pattern between Lu Ya Daojun's brows blazed, illuminating a figure on the blade light with the Li Fire body.
The Immortal Slaying Gourd.
It contained a ten-dimensional great universe.
Thus, this blade light strike was not just a blade light, but carried an entire ten-dimensional great universe!
Within the ten-dimensional great universe, the Sun Goddess Sur burned through endless star seas, nebulae, all signifying the universe's return to emptiness and destruction, and its repeated restarts.
It spoke of reincarnation!
It depicted countless restarts, ultimately failing to achieve transcendence!
To be lost in this...
Lost in this world! To become one of the lost!
From the depths, a song could be heard.
It seemed to intend to obliterate Fang Ming as well, dragging him into this endlessly restarting, cyclical Primordial script.
To become an actor on the script's stage.
In the past tribulations, many extraterrestrial demons met such a fate...
Under the descent of ancient sages, they were lost in this tribulation, transforming from free beings into puppets of the world's will, enacting one Primordial script after another!
Performing one Xuanhuan novel after another!
Performing countless chaotic epochs, yet never achieving transcendence!
Memories, personalities, eternally etched! Eternally etched!
"Innate Li Fire!"
"Primordial Spirit Locked!"
Fang Ming saw through Lu Ya Daojun's strategy and chuckled.
The blade light of the Immortal Slaying Gourd already had the ability to lock the primordial spirit!
If one were unfamiliar with such a technique, an ordinary Immortal King would likely have their primordial spirit shattered by this blade light. Their vast, universe-creating primordial spirit power would be unable to escape the Immortal Slaying blade.
This technique was already terrifying.
Moreover, Lu Ya Daojun's blade light carried a ten-dimensional great universe.
This was clearly the method of creating an inner universe, akin to the Chaotic Pearl, a supreme chaotic treasure!
An inner universe is different from an external, ordinary universe.
Especially when this inner universe contained a magical powerhouse comparable to an ordinary Immortal King, acting as the world's consciousness, the great universe's consciousness.
When endless tribulation fire, the concept of the sun, and authority were all wielded.
The power of this flying blade had reached its limit!
The strength of ancient sages was extraordinary.
Even for a weak ancient sage like Lu Ya Daojun, under this flying blade, let alone an ordinary Immortal King, even a peak Immortal King at the same level would be in grave danger!
Alas, Lu Ya encountered Fang Ming.
Alas, Fang Ming already knew all of his techniques.
Fang Ming had long ago obtained extensive information about the Immortal Slaying Gourd, its internal workings, through the immortal and indestructible attacks of the Human Race Heavenly Court.
The blade light of the Immortal Slaying Gourd that locked primordial spirits could lock the primordial spirit of a peak Immortal King, but it could not lock his primordial spirit!
This was because Fang Ming understood the flaw in the blade light the moment Lu Ya raised his hand to wield the Immortal Slaying Gourd!
At this moment, he flickered slightly, bending down. This brief movement spanned countless spacetime and involved countless spatial mysteries.
Time seemed to be distorted.
Space seemed to be inverted.
In the chaos, the myriad chaotic energies seemed to have lost their chaotic color.
Silence reigned.
It was unclear how much time had passed.
Or perhaps, it had only been an instant.
Time began to flow again.
Fang Ming's fist finally reached Lu Ya Daojun's face, striking directly towards the fiery divine pattern between his brows.
Boom!
A deafening roar echoed through the boundless chaos.
Following this roar, Lu Ya Daojun's face swelled significantly, and the fiery divine pattern between his brows dimmed.
"My Innate Li Fire body..."
The boy gritted his teeth, feeling the dimming fiery divine pattern. "It was destroyed by you like this?"
"You always hit the fiery divine pattern on my forehead, ah! Fang Ming! I wish you a miserable death!"
In the past tribulations, the fiery divine pattern was a symbol of the Demon Court's myriad races' lord, the Demon Court's Crown Prince. With this divine pattern, one could wield the True Sun Fire.
Therefore, Jinwu Lu Ya greatly valued the fiery divine pattern. When it was branded with a slave seal and damaged, he felt despair.
And the ancient sage Lu Ya Daojun had elevated the fiery divine pattern to the Innate Li Fire Divine Pattern, a critical point of his Innate Li Fire body.
Fang Ming struck directly at the weakness, intending to shatter the Innate Li Fire body, hitting Lu Ya Daojun's vital point.
Lu Ya Daojun suffered a great loss.
And the blade light from the Immortal Slaying Gourd was dodged by Fang Ming, failing to intercept his fist.
Seeing their master's defeat, the Sun Goddess Sur, controlling the blade light, traversed countless spacetime and pursued Fang Ming's primordial spirit.
Fang Ming smiled slightly and repeated his trick, dodging this attack once more.
Standing at one end of the chaos, Fang Ming looked at Lu Ya Daojun. He saw that Lu Ya Daojun's crucial point had been breached, and he was actively repairing his Innate Li Fire body.
The blade light of the Immortal Slaying Gourd had also returned to the gourd's world, having achieved nothing.
He couldn't help but smile.
When all of the enemy's techniques were understood and seen through by himself.
And his own techniques were only superficially understood by the enemy, without clear insight.
This was an advantage...
A great advantage!
With such a great advantage, and the boon of immortality, how could Lu Ya Daojun possibly defeat Fang Ming?
All his actions were futile! Useless!
"Life and Death Reversal!"
Seeing that the blade light of the Immortal Slaying Gourd could not harm Fang Ming for the moment, Lu Ya Daojun took out a manuscript, the supreme chaotic treasure, the Ding Tou Qi Jian Shu (Nail-Headed Seven Arrows Book)!
Lu Ya Daojun's two signature techniques: if the Immortal Slaying Gourd was a direct offensive technique, then the Ding Tou Qi Jian Shu was a method of assassination, a诡异 (guǐyì - strange/unpredictable) technique!
In Lu Ya Daojun's mind...
Fang Ming could evade the Immortal Slaying Flying Blade, but he might not be able to evade the Ding Tou Qi Jian Shu's direct modification of the definition of life and death!
"All beings in the world, suffering masses, compared to heaven, are but tiny specks."
"Looking at worldly affairs, like a dream of water. Life's span is but a moment, extinction follows swiftly."
"Looking across the world, within the sea and sky, where is there eternal life?"
"Birth implies death! No one can escape this fated cycle, Fang Ming, you are no exception!"
As Lu Ya Daojun wielded the Ding Tou Qi Jian Shu, Fang Ming felt as if the definition of his own life and death was about to be altered by it.