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Chapter 370: Chapter 367 Great Divine Power
"This human wants to escape!"
The Great Mill Spirit Venerable realized instantly that Gu Jinlai’s dive was merely a bluff.
It looked at the severely damaged Cheng Ying Mecha and Gu Jinlai himself, who had also suffered heavy injuries...
The techniques of this human Heavenly Monarch had already been tested by the Demon Demon King of Mu State, who had tried everything even at the cost of his own life.
If Gu Jinlai truly had a way to turn the tables, he wouldn’t have fought to such a desperate state, almost losing his life on the spot.
"Yu Lian! Block him!"
The Great Mill Spirit Venerable roared.
The Devouring Divine Skill was unleashed once again.
Under that terrifying power, which seemed like it could swallow the heaven and earth, the speed at which Gu Jinlai, who was attempting a "U" shaped maneuver to shoot up into the clouds, slowed down considerably.
Seizing this chance, Yu Lian, who had received the order, made a decisive move. His massive body of over thirty meters pounced down fiercely, his sharp claws somehow gripping the shoulders of the Cheng Ying Mecha.
The Cheng Ying Mecha, forged from Immortal Essence Gold, withstood even the claws of the Demon Demon Emperor, which could not tear it apart at the moment.
All he could do was to rotate and swing at extremely high speeds, not giving Gu Jinlai any time to catch his breath.
However, as the Eternal Furnace within Gu Jinlai began to operate, the Cheng Ying Mecha was engulfed in a spray of blue light from head to toe, and its thrust surged. Following this trend, Gu Jinlai would quickly be able to break free from Yu Lian’s grasp.
Seeing this, the Great Mill Spirit Venerable growled, "Take him to the ground, don’t fight in the air. I will handle this myself."
Its demonic form was clearly not adept at aerial combat.
Yu Lian violently shook the Cheng Ying Mecha he held in his grasp while rushing toward the Great Mill Spirit Venerable.
He wanted to pass the fiercely struggling Gu Jinlai, who was exerting great force, to the Great Mill Spirit Venerable.
Even so, accompanied by flickering blue light and still two thousand meters from the Great Mill Spirit Venerable, Gu Jinlai managed to struggle out.
Even more so, when breaking free from the grip of the Demon Demon Emperor Yu Lian, he twisted his body in the opposite direction, taking control. With his left hand, he firmly grasped Yu Lian’s claw.
Subsequently, the blue light emitting from the eight thrusters intensified to the extreme.
With this force, he rotated 180 degrees and used Yu Lian, the Demon Demon Emperor, as if he were a missile, hurling him fiercely towards the Great Mill Spirit Venerable below, seemingly to use his massive body to slightly block the Devouring Divine Skill of this Demon Demon Emperor.
Unfortunately...
His struggle seemed to be anticipated by the Great Mill Spirit Venerable.
While once again unleashing the Devouring Divine Skill, pulling hard at the Cheng Ying Mecha that sought to soar into the clouds, the Great Mill Spirit Venerable ordered, "Calon!"
Instantly, the Demon Demon Emperor Calon, having built up his power to the extreme, spewed out a dazzling breath of fierce flames, a column of light imbued with raging energy, shooting toward Gu Jinlai with a bang.
Compared to the hasty attempts before, this Demon Demon Emperor named Calon had stored his power to the pinnacle.
Once hit...
Let alone Gu Jinlai’s Mecha made of Immortal Essence Gold, even a Holy Body constructed by a Saint out of such material would be directly incinerated by this breath of fierce flames, melting into golden liquid.
Just as the column of light formed by this fierce flame breath rose into the clouds and was about to completely engulf Gu Jinlai, he twisted his body, and his form that was originally soaring toward the clouds plummeted towards the Great Mill Spirit Venerable like a meteor!
The speed so fast, it crossed a kilometer in an instant.
"You want to use the same trick a second time?"
The Great Mill Spirit Venerable sneered inwardly, thinking it had seen through Gu Jinlai’s pattern of attack. This time, it did not stop the Devouring Divine Skill but instead controlled the devouring force to perfectly coordinate with Calon.
But just when the rapidly descending Gu Jinlai was less than a thousand meters away from the Great Mill Spirit Venerable, he suddenly threw the Panwu Spear he held in his hand.
He threw it!
With all his strength, he threw it with all the power he could muster!
The force of the throw, combined with the amplification of the Devouring Divine Skill of the Great Mill Spirit Venerable, made the Panwu Spear break the sound barrier in an instant, even surpassing the flying swords shot with full force by a Primordial Spirit True Monarch...
At that moment, the Great Mill Spirit Venerable suddenly realized something.
Since the battle started, the terrifying fluctuations of energy on that human Heavenly Monarch’s body had been undulating constantly.
All along, it had thought that the human Heavenly Monarch’s War Spiritual Artifact was damaged and energy was fluctuating non-stop, but now thinking carefully...
He was clearly controlling the dissipation of the energy fluctuations intentionally.
He was unable to perfectly conceal the energy fluctuations, causing them to occasionally be perceived by it.
And the target into which those energies were madly infused...
The Great Mill Spirit Venerable, looking at the incredibly fast Panwu Spear carrying double the acceleration, felt an uncontrollable surge of horror within its confident gaze.
"Not good!"
It roared fiercely, and its massive body began to shrink rapidly, trying to increase its defensive power to the utmost in this form.
Almost at the same time as it switched to a defensive form, in the void...
A radiant brilliance, tens of times stronger than Gu Jinlai’s earlier thrust at Yu Lian, illuminated the sky dome.
The attacks from Gu Jinlai before, although equal to that of small tactical nuclear bombs, were at best fluctuating at a kiloton level.
But at this moment...
Using the Dao Artifact, the Panwu Spear, as a vessel and continuously channeling the power from the Eternal Furnace, which had been greatly enhanced due to the transmission characteristic, he infused it into the Panwu Spear, which escalated the might of this strike to an unprecedented climax.
Even compared with those strategic nuclear bombs with yields of hundreds of thousands of tons, it was in no way inferior.
Suddenly, a real sun seemed to appear in the sky.
The Demon Demon Emperor Yu Lian, whom Gu Jinlai had grabbed by the claw and hurled down, parallel to the Panwu Spear, did not even have the chance to scream before being directly shattered by the intense brilliance that was too fierce for the naked eye to behold.
The temperature had climbed to an unprecedented level, and the light that carried this heat seemed to possess mass. When it struck Yu Lian at the speed of light, the Demon Emperor was instantly shattered to pieces.
More accurately, reduced to ashes.
Nothing was left behind.
Literally "smacked" into flying ash.
As the intense light spread wantonly, it formed a gigantic fireball with a diameter of several hundred to a thousand meters. Within this area, it didn’t matter whether it was the Demon Emperor Yu Lian or Demon Emperor Calon; they were almost instantly "smacked" into fine dust and burnt to cinders without any suspense.
"No!"
The Great Mill Spirit Venerable, adept at defense, let out a dreadful scream, seemingly capable of struggling for a moment.
If he had been in Demon Emperor Calon’s place, perhaps there might have been hope of surviving this terrifying attack.
But he couldn’t withstand the fact that it was Gu Jinlai’s Panwu Spear that was thrown at him, and rather than meet a proper death, he used the Devouring Divine Skill to directly draw the Panwu Spear in front of him.
At the instant the energy was released from the Panwu Spear, the distance between them was less than a hundred meters!
Less than a hundred meters!
For an explosion that was equivalent to hundreds of thousands of tons of strategic nuclear bombs, this was basically point-blank range.
If Gu Jinlai’s gaze could penetrate the intense light of the nuclear explosion, he would clearly see the Great Mill Spirit Venerable’s massive form carbonize at a visible rate before being caught by the subsequent supersonic shockwave that would strip the charred flesh from its bones, inch by inch.
But compared to Yu Lian and Calon, who had been reduced to ash without leaving anything behind, the defense-specialized Spirit Venerable managed to leave behind a pitch-black, charred shadow on the ground, a testament that it once existed in this world.
...
Intense light flashed.
Filling the vision of everyone present, humans and demons alike.
This included Gu Jinlai.
This was his first time unleashing such formidable energy without holding back since he had brought the Eternal Furnace to Perfection.
The released energy far exceeded his imagination. Despite having thrown the Panwu Spear immediately, and despite the Demon Emperor accelerating the spear’s fall to him by the Devouring Power, the explosive force was still too great.
The terrifying high temperature and light radiation still slapped against his body like the collapse of mountains and tsunamis, melting the Immortal Essence Gold.
The entire front of the Cheng Ying Mecha was nearly melted into molten metal, dripping onto his body.
"Too powerful, too close..." Gu Jinlai let out a resigned sigh.
He, who thought he could block this energy surge with the Cheng Ying Mecha, ultimately had to trigger the "Eternal Immortal" trait and enter an energy state in his Super Boost State.
He had wanted to save this Skill’s cooldown in case a second or even third wave of attacks came from the Three Thousand Marshes.
Now...
He had no choice.
Activating "Undying Eternity" and entering an energy form, he gathered up the nearly one-third melted Cheng Ying Mecha and quickly fled the hellish area at top speed.
...
Behind him, all the light between heaven and earth was stripped away by a radiance that seemed like the Great Sun itself.
Zhou Yi, Zhang Lihuo, Lu Zhanxian, Hong Ye, and others, who were previously ignorant of the truth, ceased their entanglements with the Demon Kings they faced, and incredulously watched the intensely bright light on Earth.
Such light...
It was so dazzling!
So brilliant!
And so...
Terrifying.
"What is... such a mighty power!?" Lu Zhanxian murmured to himself.
"This cannot be a power that Devas possess! No! This isn’t even a power that a Saint should have! This is..."
Zhang Lihuo, sensing everything through his True Spirit, was filled with disbelief in his emotions.
And Zhou Yi conclusively provided the most accurate answer.
"Earthly True Immortal! This is the power of an Earthly True Immortal level!" he asserted.
"An Earthly True Immortal, with their own Dao, can influence the Dao that governs the workings of the world, thereby distorting some of the rules of energy flow, unleashing an attack so powerful that it surpasses human imagination, akin to a natural disaster... It’s precisely because of such unimaginable power that Earthly True Immortals are not human, not Saints, but Immortals! Transcending Super Humans and Saints, they are True Immortals!"
He had witnessed those Earthly True Immortals from the Xuanji Sect using methods that could affect the Dao sustaining the world!
The Dao sustaining the world’s motion is also known as the Three Thousand Great Dao.
And only Earthly True Immortals, whose might is so great that they can influence the normal operation of the Three Thousand Great Dao, could wield Divine Powers also known as Great Divine Power!
The strike Gu Jinlai released at this moment certainly exceeded the scope of Divine Power.
The most top-tier Slaughter Divine Power couldn’t compare with this cataclysmic force like the fall of a Great Sun!
This was Great Divine Power!
The Great Divine Power that Earthly True Immortals could unleash by shaking and twisting the Three Thousand Great Dao!
