Mengqi and the others cried out in surprise, but Ye Benchang showed no sign of joy, because what he had slain was actually a clone.
Sure enough, after the willow branch shattered, in the distance, under the distortion of the void, another towering willow tree appeared. No one knew what method Liu Ruyan used, but she had actually completed the clone death substitute technique, and her true self left with Long Chen.
"Die!"
Just as Liu Ruyan appeared, a sudden explosion erupted nearby. A massive figure appeared—Kunpengzi actually revealed his true form and charged forward.
"Be careful, he's starting to burn Peng Emperor's essence blood."
From afar came Beitang Rushuang's startled scream. Even with the combined efforts of Beitang Rushuang and Nangong Zuiyue, they couldn't stop Kunpengzi. At this moment, Kunpengzi began to fight desperately, actually burning the incredibly precious Peng Emperor's essence blood.
At this moment, Kunpengzi's blood energy surged, his pressure shaking the heavens. His wings struck down as if a universe was pressing down, and his divine might was actually no weaker than Ye Benchang's strike.
"Buzz!"
Liu Ruyan's death substitute technique could only be used once in a short time. For now, she could only withstand it head-on. Endless willow branches intertwined, forming a massive defensive wall sealing the sky.
"Boom!"
But facing Kunpengzi, who had burned the Peng Emperor's essence blood, Liu Ruyan's defense was so fragile that it instantly shattered. Kunpengzi's massive thunderous wings tore through the void, mercilessly slashing down toward Long Chen and Liu Ruyan.
Liu Ruyan's expression changed. At this moment, Kunpengzi was terrifying, its attack carrying the pressure of an emperor. Her technique was simply impossible to resist. Seeing the strike approaching, the willow branch trembled and threw Long Chen away. She used her own life to buy him a little more time.
"Buzz."
But just as she threw Long Chen away, she suddenly saw Long Chen's whole body radiate with radiant light, a terrifying aura radiating across the nine heavens. The Dragon Bone Evil Moon unleashed a thunderous dragon roar and slashed down at Kunpengzi with a single blade.
"Boom!"
The explosion shook the heavens, divine sounds rumbled, endless light poured down, like massive fireworks exploding or stars shattering—brilliant and awe-inspiring.
The vast light slowly faded, revealing Long Chen's figure. At this moment, his black robe was tousled by the fierce wind, his long hair flying nonstop. His aura was so calm that it was almost impossible to sense his presence.
Unlike his previous wild aura, Long Chen's aura was now much calmer—so calm it was almost frightening.
Long Chen held his blade in one hand, blocking wings as large as mountains. His eyes flashed with divine light, and suddenly he shouted explosively:
"Get lost!"
His thunderous roar shook the heavens. At the same time, Long Chen's aura surged in an instant, his divine ring trembling, and six stars swirling in his eyes like a violent volcanic eruption.
"Boom!"
Kunpengzi's massive figure was actually shaken back by Long Chen's terrifying aura, unable to withstand the force even after burning the Peng Emperor's essence blood.
"Rumble...
A pillar of light shot up from Long Chen as its core. Its violent aura was like two angry dragons, rapidly swirling around Long Chen and sweeping into the sky. In that instant, space roared and exploded, as if tornado might tear it apart, causing the stars to tremble.
"Such terrifying power of life and death, such a violent aura! Just entering Tongming, can your aura be this terrifying?" A powerful figure exclaimed in shock.
Long Chen stood atop the void, his entire aura erupting, like a volcano erupting accumulated for billions of years. Endless energy soared into the sky, forming a vortex tens of thousands of miles in the void—a terrifying sight.
The mighty Kunpengzi ignited the Peng Emperor's essence blood, its arrogance overwhelming, but in the face of Long Chen's aura, it was still overwhelmed.
At this moment, Long Chen looked like a demon king descending to earth, murderous intent rolling in his eyes as he suddenly moved his foot.
"Whew."
Long Chen vanished from where he stood. In that instant, Kunpengzi's face turned shocked, because he had locked onto Long Chen with all his heart and soul, and Long Chen could actually ignore him. At the very moment Long Chen vanished, he sensed something was wrong.
"Eighth Form of Heaven Creation"
above Kunpengzi's head, above the Evil Moon of the Dragonbone, runes lit up. Two dragon-shaped patterns resembled two true dragons reborn, and an evil aura spread from the Moon, as if a sealed demon had been released.
In that instant, Kunpengzi seemed to be stared down by a demon, his whole body chilled. He folded his wings and evolved the cosmic void, within which countless stars were in motion.
"Peng Emperor Divine Art, Kunpeng Heaven-Shattering Strike!"
Kunpeng roared to the sky, his blood energy surging to the extreme, and the evolved celestial world crashed toward Long Chen.
"Pfft"
The vast heavenly world was sliced open by a massive blade shadow, torn apart like slicing tofu. Kunpengzi was shocked, not expecting that even the Peng Emperor's divine technique could not withstand Long Chen's strike. He hurriedly dodged, but it was too late—he only avoided the vital point—a ten-thousand-mile wing, sliced down by Long Chen's blade.
Kunpengzi let out a piercing scream. The wings of the Kunpeng clan were unlike those of other mystical beasts; they were the result of their lifelong strength. Every feather was connected to their souls. Now, having been slashed by Long Chen with a single blade, the pain was no different from the soul being torn apart.
"Whoosh."
As soon as the wing left Kunpengzi's body, Long Chen reached out and stored the massive wing into the chaotic space.
"Hahaha, tonight, we've got braised Kunpeng wings to eat." Long Chen laughed heartily, and the Dragonbone Evil Moon slashed down with another strike.
Even with Long Chen's composure, he couldn't help but feel extremely excited. He had finally advanced to the Tongming realm.
After advancing to the Tongming Realm, his 108,000 stars multiplied tenfold. The Nether Gate Star was activated, entering the first transformation of the Star Transformation, truly able to mobilize the power of 108,000 stars.
But this wasn't what excited Long Chen the most. What made him most ecstatic was that within the 108,000 stars, the power of life and death had actually accumulated.
As Long Chen refined the Heavenly Dao runes, his star space began to show its own life fluctuations. They started evolving their own life frequencies and gradually gave birth to their own laws.
However, the first law to appear was the Law of Life and Death, and Long Chen was the master of it, the birth of the power of life and death from 108,000 stars.
With a thought, Long Chen's life-and-death power intertwined with each star, like a small Twin Dragon-Breaking Heaven-Breaking technique pouring into Mingmen Star, providing him with endless strength.
At that moment, Long Chen's power surged into the Dragonbone Evil Moon. Long Chen clearly felt that some shackle within the Moon was broken, and the Moon's own power began to surge. With a single strike, Kunpengzi was completely powerless to resist.
At this moment, Long Chen seemed to possess infinite power within him. Although this power was like a wild horse running free, hard to control, the overwhelming sensation was truly exhilarating.
Long Chen slashed off one of Kunpengzi's wings with a single stroke, and the Evil Moon of the Dragon Bone slashed out again, this time aiming straight for Kunpengzi's massive head.
Kunpengzi suddenly opened his mouth wide, and a bolt of lightning shot out, unexpectedly spitting out his own inherited artifact—the Thunder War Halberd.
"Boom!"
The Dragonbone Evil Moon Slash struck Thunder BattleA thunderous explosion erupted from the halberd. After the divine light erupted, the Thunder War Halberd was blasted away, and the once dazzling Thunder War Halberd instantly dimmed considerably.
"What kind of worthless thing is this? You dare to go head-to-head with me?" Long Chen pushed harder and smashed that broken war halberd. I've been holding back for so long, I want to show off now. "Dragon Bone Xie Yue shouted arrogantly.
As Long Chen entered the Tongming Realm, the seal within its body was broken once again. The Dragonbone Evil Moon seemed to have been bound for countless years as a magical beast, finally gaining freedom and ready to kill to its heart's content.
The power of the Dragon Bone Evil Moon merged with Long Chen's strength. Even without using combat techniques, it was still terrifying. With one strike, he sent the Thunder War Halberd flying. Long Chen stepped through the void and charged straight at Kunpengzi.
Seeing things turn bad, Kunpengzi retreated rapidly. Long Chen sneered, "Didn't you say I, Long Chen, have a reputation for nothing?" Didn't you say you wanted to personally kill me, Long Chen? Where is your arrogance? "
Whoosh"
The thunder wings behind Long Chen trembled as he stepped forward. Kunpengzi, now half of its wing, noticeably slowed down. After Long Chen caught up, he slashed down with another strike.
Kunpengzi's expression changed. With that last strike, the talisman inside his life-bound divine weapon, the Thunder War Halberd, had already shattered. If he blocked another blow, the weapon would likely be ruined, and if the Thunder War Halberd shattered, his soul would also be injured.
Now, Long Chen had slashed down with a single strike, soaring through the sky and earth, with nowhere to escape. He could only block head-on with the Thunder War Halberd, sacrificing the Thunder War Halberd to buy himself a brief moment to catch his breath.
As long as the connection with the divine weapon is severed at the moment it shatters, the implication he suffers will be minimized. However, this divine weapon, passed down for countless years, will completely disappear.
Seeing Long Chen slash at him, Kunpengzi had no other choice. The Thunder War Halberd was summoned, and just as he was about to strike, a long sword suddenly struck with its light that swept across the nine provinces, stabbing at Long Chen from behind.
This sword strike was like thunder—fast and fierce, attacking the enemy where it must be saved. If Long Chen continued his assault, he would surely take the blow. The timing of this strike was extremely skillful.
"Ye Benchang, I was just looking for you, but I didn't expect you to come knocking on me." Long Chen sneered, and the Dragonbone Evil Moon slashed backward, giving up on killing Kunpengzi.
"Boom!"
The clash of blades and swords caused both Long Chen and Ye Benchang to shudder. Long Chen's arm went numb from the impact, but Long Chen saw that blood was already oozing from Ye Benchang's palm between his thumb and index finger. Clearly, in terms of strength, even at the third step of the Tongming Realm, Ye Benchang's cultivation was still slightly inferior to him.
"Ye Benchang, last time in the Yin-Yang Realm, you ambushed me and Xiaoyu, and I nearly lost my life at your hands. Today, let's settle our old and new grudges together." Long Chen immediately abandoned Kunpengzi and wielded the Dragon Bone Evil Moon to attack Ye Benchang.
Last time was just too dangerous. At that time, Long Chen and Dongming Yu were only at the Mingxing Realm, and Ye Benchang, who was clearly a third-step Tongming Realm expert, shamelessly ambushed Long Chen and the others.
Long Chen was filled with anger and vigilance. This man was ruthless and ruthless, using any means to achieve his goals. He would do anything. Such a person was the most shameless, but also the most terrifying.
"You have despised the dignity of the Divine Clan and deliberately stirred up strife on the continent. You, Long Chen, are to be punished by all. Today, I will kill you to set the record straight." Ye Benchang snorted coldly and slashed his sword at Long Chen.
"Then let's see who kills whom today."
Long Chen snorted coldly. Ye Benchang came to kill him, and Meng Qi and the others freed up enough to control the battlefield. He could go all out without any hesitation.
Seeing Ye Benchang charging in, Long Chen's dragon bones and evil moon trembled, the void roared, just about to act.
Suddenly, a black hole appeared in the void, instantly swallowing Long Chen, followed by a colossal figure silently appearing.