Before the eyes of millions watching the livestream, Huang Tian plummeted like a meteor!
The wind became a deafening torrent against his ears, howling as the air whipped violently about.
Crack! Snap!
As he plunged, his body swelled drastically. His skin took on a radiant platinum hue, and his bones popped like claps of thunder.
In a mere instant, he transformed from his normal form into a three-meter-tall platinum mini-giant.
The surging currents of air were blasted aside by his unbridled descent, rippling outward like disturbed water.
Then, aiming straight at Moya, whose sneer was the most mocking of all upon the clearing on the city's outskirts, he threw a punch!
A blow descending from the heavens!
The pinnacle of strength and speed!
Wherever his fist passed, layers of air were crushed and detonated. White shockwaves blasted outward, as though a sacred mountain had tumbled from the firmament.
Step.
Looking up at Huang Tian falling toward them, Gu Rong instinctively took a step forward, intending to intercept him and fight alongside Moya. But Moya merely snorted with disdain.
"I am more than enough!"
Moya leaped upward with a roar, the veins along his neck bulging violently.
"Roar!!"
His body ballooned instantly. Muscles rose and piled upon one another in wild mounds; his skin turned a murky, dark red, and dark greenish-black veins wriggled beneath his flesh like squirming rats.
In the blink of an eye, a grotesque monstrosity over two meters tall, composed of knotty muscle and reeking of thick stench, revealed itself before countless viewers.
Facing Huang Tian as he plunged from the vault of heaven, Moya threw an upward punch of his own.
Suspended midair, one from above and one from below.
Blazing platinum, like divine retribution!
Hellish flesh, like a devil's counterattack!
Scores of meters above the earth, the two fists collided with a tremendous crash.
Brilliant light erupted violently from the epicenter of the impact, accompanied by a blast so colossal it tore through the clouds.
Boom!
A massive shockwave rippled out in a frenzy like a sweeping hurricane, blasting away all the trees, rocks, and soil from the ground below.
"Who—who won?" In the livestream, everyone instinctively leaned forward, as though doing so would allow them to see through the blinding glare covering the scene.
"Please, he has to win—"
"Humanity's fate rests on this—"
"Beat that disgusting monster to death, you have to!!"
"Take all my faith, my courage, and my passion! Huang Tian, you must vanquish all evil!!!"
On the outskirts of the city, Gu Rong narrowed his eyes. Suddenly, his expression shifted drastically, because—
Bang!
With another thunderous blast, he saw the platinum fist plunging from above tear through Moya's punch with unstoppable momentum, smashing through his fist, forearm, shoulder blade, chest, skull, waist, abdomen, and lower limbs—
The flesh monster Moya had become burst apart like a crushed watermelon!
Flesh and blood splattered in every direction.
Innumerable bits of minced meat and shattered bone rained through the air, like a violent downpour of gore.
Squelch! Splat!
A red mist rose, and fragments of meat pelted down like heavy raindrops, staining the soil a murky crimson.
Thick segments of intestine hung from the branches of distant trees, while an eyeball rolled along the ground, its pupil frozen in the terror and disbelief of Moya's final moments.
Droplets of flying blood even sprayed across Gu Rong's face, causing his expression to stiffen further and further.
Huang Tian landed gently, standing twenty-odd meters away from Gu Rong and his followers. His gaze was serene. "Insects?"
Gu Rong stumbled back half a step in shock. Behind him, the cultists belonging to the Flesh Society and Scarlet Society turned pale with horror, retreating in rapid succession.
"Holy crap holy crap holy crap!"
"God almighty, that was mind-blowingly cool!"
"Boss Huang Tian is absolute fire!"
"Who was calling who an insect just now?"
"Moya! Gu Rong! Turn on your mics and talk! Weren't you acting all high and mighty? Why aren't you barking now?"
"Divine Huang, I love you!!"
The livestream chat refreshed at a frantic pace, and millions boiled with excitement.
"How is this possible?!" Looking at Huang Tian, the shock within Gu Rong's heart was beyond words.
Both were at the Supreme realm of martial arts. How could the disparity in strength be so staggering? Moya couldn't even withstand a single strike!
This made no sense at all!
Yet no matter how absurd it felt, he had no time to dwell on it right now. With an enraged roar, a thousand-meter-tall dark red titan manifested behind him.
Its flesh was like flowing magma, its veins like winding mountain ranges. Between breaths, it stirred mighty hurricanes, dyeing the clouds across the sky blood-red, as though the firmament itself were weeping tears of blood.
"So... so strong—"
Inside Juhua City, the Dawnlight members and soldiers preparing urgently for battle, along with the citizens who had not yet finished evacuating, looked out toward the titan thrusting into the clouds, unable to suppress the terror rising in their hearts.
A thousand meters!
A titan a thousand meters tall would not even need to throw a punch; a single breath might blow them into the sky to plunge to their deaths!
Engulfed by the immense shadow, Huang Tian said nothing. He simply stepped forward.
Thud!
The next instant, a giant radiating platinum light stepped forth from his Huangting, planting its feet firmly upon the earth.
Standing over a thousand meters tall, its figure was as towering as a mountain range, sleek yet brimming with boundless might.
Merely standing there, the radiance around it dispersed outward like a golden sun, scattering the blood-red clouds across the sky and bathing the human realm below in warm brilliance.
Across the distance between them, the two titans stared at each other for less than a second.
"Roar!"
Gu Rong roared violently. Thrusting his massive right hand forward, he caused the thick, bloody aura in the air to converge furiously, instantly condensing into a gargantuan blade the size of a mountain ridge.
The blade was blood-red, shimmering with an ominous aura.
Gripping the bloody blade, he swung his arm to strike!
An exceptionally thick beam of crimson light poured forth instantly.
Wherever the torrent of light passed, the air was swept aside, leaving virtually no sound. Baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, it lunged forward like a vicious dragon.
Faced with this strike, Huang Tian's expression remained unchanged. He made no move to dodge or parry.
Because there was no need.
He stepped forward, meeting it directly.
Boom!
The crimson deluge struck straight against Huang Tian's chest, yet it failed to wound him in the slightest. His footing was not even checked; he continued forward at an unhurried pace, pushing straight through the torrent.
"Impossible!"
Gu Rong's eyes filled with horror. Although that slash had not been his full-power strike, he had put seventy to eighty percent of his strength into it.
They were clearly beings of the same realm, yet his technique couldn't even breach the other's defenses—
"I don't believe this! Die for me, aaaaah!!"
He raised his great blade, sending a red tide churning from the weapon as he slashed horizontally toward Huang Tian's neck.
Between heaven and earth, it looked as though a blood-red curtain were sweeping across the vast sky, billowing onward.
Huang Tian still did not dodge. Continuing forward, he let the bloody tide slam into his neck, yet it still failed to break his skin.
Aside from detonating into an even more dazzling flare of light and an ear-splitting boom against his platinum flesh, it could not halt his footsteps at all.
One step, two steps, three steps...
With every step Huang Tian took, the dread in Gu Rong's heart deepened. His mind buzzed, feeling that the world had turned utterly preposterous. *I am a god-favored chosen one favored by the divine—how could I possibly be no match for an ordinary mortal like you?!*
*Even if we are in the same realm, I should be the stronger one!*
*How could things have turned out like this?!*
He let out an incredulous roar. "Impossible!"
As the words left his mouth, he raised his blade again. Just as everyone thought he was about to strike once more, his frame shuddered. The muscles in both legs erupted into bursts of blood mist, and he spun around, rocketing into the sky.
He had chosen to flee!
"High Priest!" The Flesh Society cultists he had abandoned cried out in terror.
"Run! Run now!"
"Even the High Priest ran! If we don't flee, are we staying here to die?"
"Scatter! Don't let him wipe us out all at once!"
"Those bastards from the Scarlet Society took off first, damn them!"
"Don't follow me! Stop following me, go run over there!"
The throng of cultists at the Combat Master and Martial Grandmaster ranks scattered in wretched panic.
Huang Tian paid them no heed for the moment. With a single leap, he shot upward and caught Gu Rong's right leg hundreds of meters above the ground.
Gu Rong's face twitched. He tried desperately to break free, but that hand held him fast, impossible to shake off.
The next instant, Huang Tian twisted his waist, using his ankles as a pivot to swing the giant Gu Rong clean through the air.
Gu Rong's colossal body traced a crimson arc through the sky, unleashing a series of sonic booms.
One revolution, two, three... Accelerated to the absolute limit, his form blurred into an indistinct afterimage to the naked eye, churning the air into white vortexes.
Then, Huang Tian hurled him straight toward the upper atmosphere!
The dark red titan flew toward the distant cloud canopy like a bloody meteor flung with full force, entirely out of control.
He moved so fast he trailed a long bloody tail behind him, his terrified shrieks shredded by the gale.
At the very moment Huang Tian threw him, his knees bent slightly. The earth beneath him collapsed downward with a boom, and he leaped into the air, his entire body turning into a lance of platinum light that pierced heaven and earth. Chasing after Gu Rong, he moved even faster than the bloody meteor.
He leaped above Gu Rong, twisted his frame to face the panicked giant below, channeled the full measure of his power into his right fist, and hammered down with brutal force.
The descending fist felt as though an entire sky were collapsing upon him.
"No!!"
Accompanying Gu Rong's shriek of agony was a dull pop, like a water bladder bursting.
The moment the platinum fist struck his thousand-meter-tall, peerlessly formidable true soul body, it exploded directly into a cloud of crimson blood mist so dense it would not disperse, blanketing the entire sky.
A far-reaching rain of foul blood fell from above. Yet despite the stench, the sight held an eerie, magnificent beauty.
At least, to the people across the world, this scene was breathtaking.
"Divine Huang is amazing!!"
"I love you to death!"
"Take a taste of an utterly unexceptional punch!"
"In all the world, who stands supreme?"
"Evil god cultists my ass—die, all of you!"
"They aren't even on the same level. Boss Huang Tian is basically stomping noobs. Two casual moves and two Supreme-realm martial artists are dead—"
"The people calling others insects used to be insects themselves. After becoming the evil gods' dogs, they thought they weren't insects anymore, only to be crushed by an 'insect'—heh, speaking of insects, the evil gods they worship are probably the real freaky bugs!"
Across the globe, people cheered and rejoiced. Inside his dorm room at Baidi University, Fang Yun clenched his fists, his face and neck flushed red as he shouted, "The light I gave you really is invincible! Let our shared convictions unite and sweep away all evil in this world!!"
Hum...
Hovering midair, Huang Tian's eyes, each as large as a house, swept downward. He immediately located the cultists fleeing in every direction. Rubbing his hands together, he conjured dozens of silver-white light wheels.
With a flick of his hands, the light wheels tore across the sky, slicing toward the cultists at blinding speed.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
A flurry of dull impacts rang out. Dozens of heads rolled from their necks as blood vaulted skyward. Their bodies collapsed limply onto the ground, twitching faintly amid the kicked-up dust.
Having dispatched these evil god cultists, Huang Tian shifted his thoughts. Countless voice lines instantly surged through the void toward him, and within this vast sea of lines, several black ones were especially conspicuous.
His gaze shifted as he looked along one of the black voice lines.
In Hailaba City of the Guduo Federation—a metropolis where over a million people once lived—nearly half had been reduced to ruins.
On the streets, vehicles crashed into one another, and pedestrians ran headlong in panic, their wails and screams blending into chaos.
Rudi, the high priest of the Destiny Society, stood high in the air, his white robe fluttering. He looked down upon the citizens fleeing like ants. By rights, he should have felt smug satisfaction and laughed aloud, yet right now he could not laugh at all, his expression turning thoroughly ugly.
Because on an outdoor display screen of a large shopping mall below, the broadcast had just shown Huang Tian obliterating Moya and Gu Rong in full.
*Moya and Gu Rong were evenly matched with me. If this Huang Tian could kill them so easily, killing me won't take much effort either. I have to hide. Dammit, why do I still have to keep skulking around even after reaching Supreme?!*
He cursed under his breath. Suddenly, he noticed a young boy standing beneath the mall's display screen, looking up at him with eyes full of fury.
"You monster, he's definitely going to kill you!" Seeing Rudi look his way, the boy forced down his terror and yelled.
Rudi sneered. "You mean Huang Tian? Heh, whether he can kill me or not, I don't know. But right now, a wretched cur like you will burn to death first!"
With that, a cluster of eerie, dark flames ignited in midair, descending toward the boy.
The boy shivered and shut his eyes instinctively. Yet a ray of light—an exceedingly warm ray of light—enveloped heaven and earth, cloaking his body and causing him to open his eyes again.
Across Hailaba City, all the citizens fleeing or hiding turned their eyes to the sky.
Even Rudi looked up in astonishment.
There, spanning the vast firmament, a streak of light appeared. It grew denser and brighter, majestic and blazing, yet pure and warm.
With a speed far beyond human thought, the endless brilliance converged into a colossal palm that blotted out the sky. Spanning nearly everything within sight, it bore down upon Rudi with boundless might!
Rudi was terrified, yet also utterly baffled. Where had this sky-covering palm come from, and why was it attacking him?
Just then, a calm voice drifted from the void, answering his confusion.
"Are you calling me?"
That voice—
"Huang Tian?!!"
Rudi's eyes went wide with shock and fury. Dark qi churned around him like a tide as he prepared to unleash his life-saving techniques. But that palm was far, far too fast. The very moment the voice registered in his ears, it slammed down onto his head.
Splat!
In an instant, his entire body burst apart, blooming into a dazzling, exquisite blossom of blood against the vast sky—
Chapter 220