C1390 Taking the Chest in the Fire!

No matter how one looked at it, Yu Yuan's Solar Spirit Body was undeniably a Shura—a ninth level platinum Shura at that!

His armor gleamed like platinum, with sharp spines protruding, and the vital energy of a Shura pulsating from deep within his organs...

Even the Baneblade in his grasp had unknowingly transformed into a radiant silver hue, its tip flickering with a silver glow.

Save for his dark red eyes, Yu Yuan was the very embodiment of a Shura.

Jun Chen, Zhou You, and the others had battled countless Shuras and were intimately familiar with their traits and aura.

The appearance and presence of Yu Yuan's Solar Spirit Body as a Shura left them astounded.

They had never witnessed a cultivator from the Everlands forge a Solar Spirit Body quite like this.

This was no ordinary human Solar Spirit Body; it was unmistakably that of an Otherkin warrior!

"Shura..."

Yu Yuan's eyes narrowed into a smile. With a mere touch of the Baneblade, his Solar Spirit effortlessly 'possessed' Atenza.

Atenza, reeling from the backlash of Bloodhell, had his memories, bloodline mysteries, and recollections of Alonso and Sabonis seamlessly absorbed by Yu Yuan.

As a platinum Shura, Atenza had been a loyal follower of Sabonis and had encountered him numerous times.

His knowledge of the Blood King, the Dark Realm, and Alonso was profound.

By possessing Atenza, Yu Yuan had become a veritable encyclopedia of the Shura, privy to many of their secrets.

"Atenza..."

Alonso, dazed, sensed a hauntingly familiar aura, as if he truly saw his late cousin resurrected from within the Baneblade, loudly questioning him.

Ridden with guilt, he couldn't bring himself to meet Yu Yuan's gaze.

His evasion, indecision, and reluctance prevented him from concentrating on Mo Baichuan.

Crack!

A golden diamond shield at his waist emitted a strange noise before shattering.

Mo Baichuan's towering Divine Visage gleamed as he spotted an opening.

In a flash, nine grains of 'burning sun' emerged within the diamond-shaped golden shield at Alonso's waist, seeping into his flesh through the fissures.

Beneath the shield, nine intense red flames blazed around his liver and spleen.

Expanses of charred flesh rapidly spread, and this tenth level Golden Shura was gravely wounded by the fiery energy infused with the principles of fire magic.

Alonso could still faintly hear the exultant roars of ancient fire gods.

Flames began to ignite within the depths of his soul. Distracted for just a moment, he was wounded by Mo Baichuan.

Grimacing in pain, he stifled a groan and quickly banished all distractions.

Boom!

The enigmatic crystal ball emerged once again from his palm, emanating an ancient and vast aura of darkness.

It seemed as though psionic powers were deeply ensconced within the sphere, summoned forth by his bloodline.

Thus, the crystal ball transformed into a dark world, radiating a profound and ancient gloom.

An ancient city materialized, its walls seemingly home to numerous ferocious alien beasts.

The blood-smeared walls, marked with claw scratches, silently testified to the numerous brutal battles that had taken place within the city.

Mo Baichuan, captivated by the dark ancient city, trembled after a mere glance.

He realized that if it were truly absolute darkness, he should see nothing at all.

The fact that he could see the ancient city standing in the World of Darkness meant that Alonso had deliberately made it visible.

"Since you're so eager to see, take a good look!" Alonso sneered, caressing the crystal ball, and the dark ancient city vanished from within it.

Yet, in the depths of Mo Baichuan's eyes, the enigmatic dark ancient city suddenly emerged. Alonso seemed to have found the perfect moment, when Mo Baichuan's soul was vulnerable, to send the dark city directly to the depths of his soul.

Above the dark ancient city, countless Frost Beasts from the Dark Realm began to furiously assault Mo Baichuan's spirit.

As a result, Mo Baichuan's Divine Visage could no longer sustain itself and collapsed thunderously.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Thousands of golden and silver lightning bolts seized the moment to strike towards Yu Yuan and the Dragon Slaying Stage.

Yu Yuan, however, was already prepared.

With his real body and the special Solar Spirit's Dragon Slaying Stage, he vanished from the spot as soon as the first bolt of golden lightning formed.

"Shift!"

Yu Yuan commanded.

The ice rock land, concealed beneath Alonso's golden blood, along with the entire space, seemed to be surgically excised.

He had covertly harnessed the power of the Dragon Slaying Stage to move the land bathed in the golden radiance away from Alonso's watchful eyes.

"If you desire the Dragon Slaying Stage, then prove your worth," Yu Yuan scoffed, as his real body entered the Dragon Slaying Stage. With a mere ripple of his spirit, he took control and materialized amidst the golden radiance.

In an instant, the Dragon Slaying Stage expanded a millionfold, transforming into a vast expanse akin to an independent celestial terrain.

The Dragon Slaying Stage began its descent, exuding an aura that could suppress the inhabitants of the Star River and all other races. This aura emanated from the luminescent World-Sundering Stone.

Beams of light, like ribbons, shot out from the Dragon Slaying Stage, cleaving through the golden light forged from Alonso's lifeblood, as if slicing through the murkiness of the cosmos to reveal the heavens.

With a tearing sound, the golden light was rent asunder. The peculiar barrier, created from Alonso's golden blood, was brutally shredded by the beams.

Alonso's will, every wisp of his remnant soul, burst forth only to pop like fragile bubbles.

"Do you truly consider yourself unbeatable with just a few drops of your lifeblood?" Yu Yuan's mocking voice echoed from within the Dragon Slaying Stage, resonating with the Solar Spirit on the other side.

"You might find this hard to believe, but when I assumed the form of the platinum Shura, I uncovered all your secrets from the Bloodwraith of Atenza."

"Your bloodline and the starry walls you've conquered are intricately linked. You, Alonso, have mastered various barriers, energy shields, and blood-patterned arrays since childhood. As the commander of the Shura, you've waged wars across the Star River, seizing celestial spaces from the Otherkin."

"Then, with the Frost Well, you channeled the psionic power of the Dark Realm, integrating it into those walls."

"In this way, a realm became the dominion of the Shura, your world. The Blood King, Sabonis, can observe the outside world through these starry domains."

"Once saturated with the Dark Realm's psionic power, these starry worlds serve as both Sabonis's eyes and your foothold."

Yu Yuan spoke assuredly, having penetrated the enigma of Alonso's unique bloodline. With the might of the Dragon Slaying Stage, he had obliterated every trace of Alonso's fleeting thoughts.

For Alonso, the possibility of annihilating the Wintermaw with a mere thought had become unattainable.

Elsewhere, Yu Yuan, now in his Shura form, wielding the Baneblade Bloodhell, descended upon the shattered Divine Visage of Mo Baichuan.

He shouted, "Everyone, what are you waiting for? The Wintermaw is destined for the Dragon Slaying Stage and will be taken away from the Glimmerdrift Nebula!"

Upon hearing this, everyone turned their gaze and beheld the Wintermaw, resembling the Frost Well but on a grander scale, shrouded in a hazy cold fog as it made its way towards the Dragon Slaying Stage.

Golden blood cascaded from the edge of the Wintermaw like a deluge.

When the group noticed the Wintermaw wrapped in the cold fog, they immediately realized that the Dire Bear, which appeared to be uninvolved, was actually secretly connected to Yu Yuan.

It had intervened to shield the Wintermaw, preventing Alonso's blood from further contaminating it.

"Alonso!"

Jun Chen, Zhou You, and the Death Crane, relieved to see the Wintermaw unharmed, descended swiftly.

As soon as they touched down near Yu Yuan, they detected an immense surge of vital energy emanating from his body.

This revelation made it clear to them that Yu Yuan's Solar Spirit indeed wielded the combat prowess of a ninth-level archdemon!

The fact that a human cultivator's Solar Spirit was the fusion of vital energy and soul power, a marvel in itself, was already astounding.

That this newly formed Solar Spirit was as formidable as a ninth-level Monster Lord surpassed all expectations.

In that moment, they came to understand that the once underestimated junior had truly risen to become a peer amongst the mighty!

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