C2303 The King Meets the King

After Lin Daoke of the Sword Sect vanished, the purple sea within the Frostlands also ceased its churning.

In this silent world, only Dark Phoenix Zhiya remained.

Emerging from the sea, she squinted toward the direction where the prismatic ice crystal had departed and murmured, "Zionidall."

Her impeccable face was etched with deep scorn.

Moments later, she shifted her gaze, her eyes brimming with expectation as she turned her attention to the depths below.

Time passed, and eventually, a fleshless, dragon-shaped skeleton emerged, drifting slowly to the surface.

It was the violet gold skeleton of the little spinosaurus!

The recently ascended Titan Spinosaurus, stripped of flesh and organs, with not a single dragon tendon remaining, had only its violet gold bones emitting a soft glow.

"Excellent material."

Zhiya licked her lips, content as if she had just savored a feast.

"With your bones, I shall forge a Divine Weapon suited to me."

She descended upon the massive violet gold skeleton, and from within her, countless strands of purple lightning unfurled, enveloping the bones, branding them with their unique essence and traces of vital energy.

The great violet gold skeleton was hammered and refined by her power, scattering shards of light.

Under her force, the bones were methodically disassembled and arranged into a pile.

With a thunderous boom, her overwhelming demonic power surged, wrapping the secrets of the rule within the purple sea around the heap of bones, drawing them together.

Slowly, a totem-pole, mountainous in its stature, was crafted using the Titan Spinosaurus's bones as the primary material.

Streams of silver crystals, gold essence, extraterrestrial meteoric iron, and the brilliant light of Hex Stones poured from her palm, each merging into the towering totem-pole.

This newly forged totem-pole radiated a powerful pulse of life, alternating between the form of a violet-gold Holy Mountain and a long spear.

This enigmatic totem-pole was also imprinted with the many profound truths of the rule that she had mastered.

After a considerable time, Zhiya alighted upon the colossal violet gold totem-pole, contentedly declaring, "The time has come to depart."

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The expansive purple sea began to contract.

Once it had diminished a millionfold, covering merely ten thousand acres, it soared anew.

Shortly thereafter, the purple sea came to a silent halt, hovering above the Abyss of Truth.

"Abyss, All Spirits Ban."

Zhiya furrowed her brow and called out.

Beneath the purple sea lay the resplendent All Spirits Ban, enveloping the entire firmament of the Abyss of Truth.

Howl!

Within the purple sea, the mature Chaos Titan unleashed a roar that reverberated through the heavens and the earth.

The bellow, powerful enough to shatter the wall of the Frostlands, made the All Spirits Ban, which veiled the Abyss of Truth, radiate a blinding brilliance.

Amidst the successive seals, the essences of the Way of Heaven, along with the images of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, ice, and lightning, as well as the profound meanings left by numerous Primal Animas, were all unveiled.

The Dark Phoenix Zhiya and the creature concealed within the sea of demon energy fixed their gaze upon the All Spirits Ban as it displayed its marvels.

It seemed as though they could discern the true essence of the rules from the profound mysteries imprinted by the departed Primal Animas within the All Spirits Ban.

...

In the Wasteland.

The massive swathe of five-colored flesh that eclipsed the sun and sky sped through the dark, desolate void, traversing the Star River.

With no living creatures remaining on its path of return, it moved with incredible speed.

Suddenly, it came to a gradual halt.

A crimson lightning bolt, blood-red in hue, flashed into existence in the distant cosmos, racing towards it.

Whoosh!

The lightning abruptly ceased, transforming into Yu Yuan's stern-faced Solar Spirit Body.

At that very moment.

Yu Yuan's Solar Spirit Body, as well as his real body within the Stellar Phoenix, both quivered gently.

His real body acutely sensed that in the depths of the purple sea governed by Zhiya, the young beast of Chaos Titan lineage had consumed the little spinosaurus, undergoing a metamorphosis akin to a child becoming a youth.

This formidable creature had first devoured Yuan Le, born of the Primal Blood of the Wasteland, and then consumed the Primal Blood of the Origin Realm to forge the supreme Titan Spinosaurus.

Having absorbed the life force and bloodline mysteries of two eleventh-level supremes, the young beast achieved a sublime ascension.

This transformation and ascension astonishingly reverberated back to Yu Yuan's Mindscape, specifically at the tenth tier of the Blood Altar!

The Blood Altar had utterly subdued the Soulstone Pedestal.

After a prolonged struggle, the Soulstone Pedestal suddenly became tranquil and ceased all movement.

Yu Yuan was swiftly grasping the final aspects of the Secrets of Life, remnants of the Primal Blood from the Abyss that lingered in this world.

He was on the cusp of fully mastering the life and bloodline mysteries of not just one, but three worlds: the Origin Realm, the Abyss, and the Wasteland.

He instantly realized that the shifting, multicolored flesh would soon be within his grasp.

At that moment, with his Solar Spirit Body, he approached the vibrant expanse of flesh.

This terrifying flesh, a harbinger of doom and annihilation to the beings of both the Wasteland and the Abyss, ceased its motion, pacified by the scent of his presence.

Yu Yuan paused at the edge of the flesh, extending his hand to gently caress the multicolored surface.

Surprisingly, a vivid red divine radiance shimmered atop the flesh, which felt as smooth and warm as jade to the touch, emitting an enticing aroma.

Previously, sitting atop this vast flesh elicited no particular sensation.

Now, as his real body was on the verge of unlocking all the secrets carried by this flesh, his touch brought forth an inconceivable feeling.

The flesh, reminiscent of multicolored soft jade, felt incredibly familiar; touching it was like touching his own skin.

It was as if this flesh was an extension of himself.

He had long contemplated that once he fully deciphered the profound truths of the Abyss's Primal Blood, he would either refine this flesh to create a new race or harness its boundless vital energy to endow Life Keychains upon the mightiest of his followers.

He had intended to refine this flesh with the power of the Solar Spirit.

But suddenly, he sensed an indissoluble link between this flesh and his soul consciousness!

"Could it be due to the breakthrough of the Life Seed's secrets at the tenth level of my Soul Altar?" Yu Yuan mused.

At this moment, his real body remained in the Stellar Phoenix, diligently striving to comprehend the remaining fragments of the Secrets of Life.

Images both blurry and eerie began to emerge in his mind, reminiscent of the Abyss in its primordial state. He seemed to recall interactions with the eight distinct Primal Animas: gold, wood, water, fire, earth, sun, moon, and stars. It was as if he had been within the mightiest "chaos Titan" known as Creation.

Whoosh! An endless expanse of darkness suddenly materialized in the nearby void, where a cyan-black eye, starlike in appearance, floated atop the darkness, gazing solemnly.

Yu Yuan, who had been touching the living creature, now floated above, locking gazes with the massive cyan-black eye. Within the depths of the eye, the unsettled spirits and demons began to fade, while a Soul Shadow that mirrored his own visage emerged clearly within the cyan-black eye, rapidly enlarging.

The Primal Soul of the Abyss had not continued towards the domains of the two extraterrestrial deities but had instead detoured here. "We can join forces to first annihilate the other side, the thirty-six worlds," he proposed calmly. "Our conflict has spanned billions of years; a moment more or less is of no consequence."

"The gods of the Otherworld, the Heavenly Dao Laws they wield, you and I can assimilate most of them," he continued. "For eons, we have both drawn upon all the power available, through the All Spirits Ban I control and the Soul Altar you have consecrated."

Yu Yuan maintained his silence. His real body, situated far within the Stellar Phoenix, radiated with a spectrum of light, forging a passage to the Solar Spirit, poised to provide support at any moment.

It was then that Yu Zhu, concealed within the Void's Maelstrom, realized he could have entered at any time. Had he truly wished to strike, not one of those hiding in the Phoenix Shrine or the Beast God Temple, including the Moonfang Tiger, would have stood a chance of escaping with their lives.

"The gods of the Otherworld differ from us, distinct from those in our realm," the entity within the cyan-black eye declared, not rushing to demonstrate his power but instead steadily expanding the darkness, infiltrating the Star River in every direction.

"What makes them different? I'd like to hear," Yu Yuan inquired.

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