The two battled in mid-air!
Bang!
Another great collision erupted, producing a reverberating sound like a struck gong.
This time, the entire Atlantis seemed to tremble!
A formidable aura swept out, scraping against their bodies like wind blades.
Pfft.
Pfft!
New wounds appeared on the bodies of Ao Yuan and Poseidon.
They would have ignored the leaked aura before, but things were different now.
Both sides were at their final moments, and Ao Yuan had no spare spiritual energy to resist this aura.
Although Poseidon spoke as if he didn't regard Ao Yuan, he had actually poured all his strength into this strike.
Bang bang bang!
Under this blow, Ao Yuan was completely at a disadvantage.
However.
Ao Yuan had never thought of defeating Poseidon with this single strike. What he wanted to do was very simple.
It was nothing more than to knock down the trident in Poseidon's hand.
"Come down for me!"
Ao Yuan completely gave up on attacking Poseidon, only desperately increasing his spiritual energy to counter the trident.
Yet.
Even with all his might, Ao Yuan couldn't knock down the trident from Poseidon's hand.
"Roar!"
Seeing this, Ao Yuan swallowed several more beast pills and, as if driven mad, poured his spiritual energy into the attack.
Bang!
This time it didn't last long before Poseidon's face finally showed a trace of difficulty.
"You want to knock my weapon away?" Poseidon seemed to sense Ao Yuan's intention.
His eyes flashed with ferocity: "Do you think I can't be your opponent without a weapon?"
As he spoke, Poseidon threw the trident in his hand away. Instantly, the force Ao Yuan had applied to the trident vanished without a trace.
"Die!"
Taking this opportunity, Poseidon's tail curled high, and its tip fiercely struck Ao Yuan's body.
A massive blood hole instantly appeared on Ao Yuan's body.
After this strike, Poseidon's hands clamped tightly around Ao Yuan's body, preventing him from moving.
His sharp tail was pulled out of Ao Yuan's body, bringing with it a mass of flesh, and then plunged towards him again.
Pfft!
The sharp tip left another deep blood hole in Ao Yuan's body.
For a time.
Blood gushed like a pillar.
However.
Just as Poseidon was about to pull it out again and attack Ao Yuan.
"Roar!"
A dragon's roar echoed, and Ao Yuan's body suddenly surged upwards.
In an instant, he transformed into a colossal dragon hundreds of feet long!
"You think growing bigger will let you defeat me? How laughable!" Poseidon sneered.
Since embarking on the path of cultivation, it wasn't about who was bigger but who was more powerful.
It still depended on one's own realm.
It wasn't as if Ao Yuan's strength would increase just because his body got bigger, right?
However.
As soon as he finished speaking, the dragon, hundreds of feet long, opened its massive maw and engulfed all the golden light around it.
The entire world seemed to turn black at that moment.
Then!
Without giving Poseidon any chance to react, Ao Yuan opened his mouth and swallowed him.
At the last moment, Poseidon seemed to have reacted and tried to escape.
But at such close range, how could he escape?
"You dare swallow me!"
"I will definitely punch through your belly and get out!"
Finally, Poseidon's roar was the last sound heard before he was swallowed by Ao Yuan.
As soon as he had swallowed Poseidon, before Ao Yuan could make any other move, his expression suddenly changed.
At this moment.
His abdomen felt as if it had suffered a blow.
Just like when he had previously swallowed the heavenly fire, an intense pain spread from the inside out.
Looking down, Ao Yuan could clearly see his abdomen moving as if something were wriggling inside, sometimes bulging, sometimes shrinking.
This was similar to when Ao Yuan had swallowed the heavenly fire, the only difference being that the heavenly fire had engulfed his entire body.
Now, only his abdomen hurt intensely, as if something were about to break out.
"As expected... gods are not so easy to swallow."
Ao Yuan took a deep breath, suppressing the pain spreading through his body, and said with a grimace.
However, there was no surprise on Ao Yuan's face, clearly indicating that he had long anticipated this.
"But no matter how difficult you are to swallow!"
"I will swallow you today no matter what!"
Ao Yuan muttered, and his body began to shrink gradually.
At the same time!
He summoned heavenly thunder and heavenly fire within his body!
Boom boom boom!
Instantly, Ao Yuan felt a scorching aura spread throughout his body.
This was heavenly fire.
Undoubtedly, Ao Yuan felt even more uncomfortable.
But fortunately, the heavenly fire was under Ao Yuan's control. This time, the pain caused by the heavenly fire ravaging his body was incomparable to the first time.
The pain was entirely within Ao Yuan's tolerable range!
After releasing the tribulation lightning and heavenly fire, Ao Yuan made no other moves. He simply lay on the ground, waiting for Poseidon to be destroyed by the heavenly fire and tribulation lightning.
Otherwise, if Poseidon caused trouble in his body, Ao Yuan would have difficulty doing anything else.
Meanwhile.
Inside Ao Yuan's abdomen.
Poseidon punched and hammered Ao Yuan's body with all his might, trying to punch an exit from within Ao Yuan's body.
However, the next moment!
A fierce flame erupted from an unknown source and instantly spread throughout Ao Yuan's body.
"Ah!"
"So... so hot! This is heavenly fire, the aura of heavenly fire!"
As the flames enveloped him, Poseidon's expression instantly changed.
He instinctively wanted to flee. How terrifying was the power of heavenly fire?
As a god, he knew better than anyone. If it were at the beginning, he might have been able to resist it.
But now, with his injured body, how could he resist it?
"Ah! So... so painful."
Upon contact with the flames, Poseidon began to wail uncontrollably.
At this moment, the heavenly fire carried immense power, as if it intended to burn him and his soul to ashes.
"Hold on!"
Water flowed from Poseidon's body, attempting to weaken the power of the heavenly fire. At the same time, he gritted his teeth and mobilized the spiritual energy within him, continuing to pound Ao Yuan's body repeatedly.
Poseidon understood that there was only one way for him to escape after being swallowed by Ao Yuan.
That was to break through Ao Yuan's abdomen and get out!
And as long as he could withstand the erosion of the heavenly fire, and before his body was completely consumed by the flames, he could break through Ao Yuan's body.
Then he could get out and even complete a counter-kill!
However.
At some unknown point, streaks of lightning appeared amidst the heavenly fire, and with a whoosh, the surrounding lightning arcs rushed towards Poseidon.
As soon as the lightning arcs encountered the water flow erupting from Poseidon, they were like ants finding food, all rushing towards him.
"Ah!"
Poseidon's face contorted in fear, and his body instinctively curled into a ball, shaking violently.
He felt as if he were undergoing a cruel torture.
And the biggest problem was...
He had the ability, but he couldn't stop it at all!