Torrent

"How is this possible... The power of this Void Sword..." The Eight Desolations Demon Lord's pupils contracted. Judging by the methods Yaoguang was currently displaying, even without the power of the formation, he was likely on par with an ordinary Void Shattering cultivator. He... actually possessed such strength?! "Not only has he cultivated Void Flicker to the Great Accomplishment realm, but his Void Sword has reached the Great Accomplishment level as well. That was why he could crush your Eight Desolations Purgatory head-on. Besides that, the speed at which he unleashes Dao arts... is abnormal as well!" The Dark Demon Lord's heart was equally heavy. This man, Yaoguang... He was powerful to a degree that seemed impossible for a newcomer who had only recently advanced to Void Refining. Instead, he was like one of those ancient beings who had been steeped in the Void Refining realm for thousands of years. The only difference was that his immersion had been channeled into the study and mastery of Dao arts! Two Great Accomplishment Dao arts! Even ordinary Void Shattering cultivators were only at this level. Having personally experienced the full-force joint siege of two Void Shattering cultivators and still calmly broken free, Yaoguang now possessed sufficient confidence. "It seems my understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of Void Shattering cultivators from the information I gathered wasn't mistaken." Yaoguang looked up at the two Void Shattering cultivators. "So... is this your limit?" "He is only at Void Refining! Great Accomplishment Dao arts place an immense burden on his grotto-heaven. Force him to go all out! He won't be able to keep this up for long!" The Eight Desolations Demon Lord decisively switched tactics. Every Void Shattering cultivator was a paramount figure of their stage; naturally, in any battle, they could pinpoint their enemy's weakness with the utmost speed, playing to their own strengths while targeting the opponent's vulnerabilities to secure the final victory. "Qi Sha, Wu Changfeng, Chi Yu, Ling Ruogu, all of you strike together! Their strength has been suppressed by at least fifty percent. I don't expect you to defeat these four Void Refining demon cultivators—just tie them down!" With a shout of command, Yaoguang brazenly charged at the two Void Shattering Demon Lords. "Understood!" Receiving the order, the group responded in unison and swiftly rushed toward the four Void Refining demon cultivators, leaving them no leeway to intervene in the main battle. Meanwhile, facing the two Void Shattering demon cultivators, Yaoguang channeled the Torrent of Time and unleashed three Void Swords in rapid succession almost instantly. One of them was aimed to pin down the Dark Demon Lord, while the other two shot directly toward the Eight Desolations Demon Lord, who posed the greater threat to him. Facing the Void Swords Yaoguang slashed out, the Eight Desolations Demon Lord once again condensed the Eight Desolations Purgatory to seal them away. Yet when the two Dao arts clashed, they were merely evenly matched. The Eight Desolations Purgatory was completely unable to contain the Void Swords. Moreover, because the speed at which Yaoguang slashed out the Void Swords was abnormally fast, one strike immediately followed by another, the Eight Desolations Demon Lord had no time to prepare another Dao art. For a moment, he actually fell into a disadvantage. "The Heavenly Capital Dragon-Slashing Formation!" The Eight Desolations Demon Lord was both shocked and enraged. "Eight hundred years ago, I broke through the Heavenly Capital Dragon-Slashing Formation, and back then, it had nowhere near this kind of power—it couldn't cut down twenty percent of our strength directly... If not for that, even if both are Great Accomplishment Dao arts, your Void Sword wouldn't necessarily have slashed open my Eight Desolations Purgatory!" A Dao artifact on his person similar to the Two Realms Ruler flashed with light, seemingly about to sweep him away to evade the strike of the second Void Sword. Yet right at that moment, the Heaven-Sealing Stele swept forward. Its mighty power of spatial suppression caused his flickering form to shift less than a li. With a shift of Yaoguang's divine sense, the Void Sword slightly altered its trajectory and fiercely slashed into his body. As it struck, an armor-type Dao artifact surfaced on the Void Shattering cultivator, forcefully enduring the cutting edge of the Void Sword. However, he clearly had not practiced the Dao art corresponding to this Dao artifact. Upon their clash, the light of this Dao artifact battle armor rapidly dimmed. Taking advantage of the collision, he pulled back in a violent retreat, putting distance between them. "Four Dao artifacts—truly extravagant!" Yaoguang sighed with emotion. Presently, he only had three suitable Dao artifacts: the Swimming Dragon Sword, the Two Realms Ruler, and the Heaven-Sealing Stele. He did not possess any defensive Dao artifact. The suite of Dao artifacts on this Eight Desolations Demon Lord before him already surpassed his own. Though he marveled at how wealthy this Void Shattering cultivator was, Yaoguang's hands were not slow in the slightest. Under the amplification of the Torrent of Time, three Void Swords slashed out once more in virtually the same instant. But this time... Just as the Eight Desolations Demon Lord crushed one Void Sword and attempted to pull away, an azure chain abruptly plummeted from the heavens. "Bastard!" As he was about to withdraw in a violent leap, the precious mirror hovering above the Eight Desolations Demon Lord's head spun rapidly, shooting out a ray of light that pinned down the void chain winding down from the sky. Right at that moment, the Heaven-Sealing Stele's void suppression came crashing down again, accompanied by the arrival of the second slashing Void Sword. This time... the Demon Lord could no longer activate his Dao artifact battle armor. The blade edge of the Void Sword swept across... The Void Shattering cultivator's demonic body was instantly cleaved in two. "Darkness, assist me!" The Eight Desolations Demon Lord's divine sense vibrated in alarm. Even with his demonic body bisected, his movements in unleashing Dao arts did not slow down by much. However, because his demonic body was split in two, his control over the primordial demonic qi within his body dropped substantially, to the point that the hastily unleashed Ten Directions Chaos Slaying lacked even the power of a Minor Accomplishment Dao art. Over the past four years, the Dao arts Yaoguang had cultivated to Great Accomplishment were far more than just the Void Sword and Void Flicker; the Starlight Glazed Body and Taishang Selflessness were no exception. As starlight flickered incessantly, when the space-rending might of the Ten Directions Chaos Slaying tore toward his body, it was directly warped and failed to tear through all the starlight coating his flesh. Seizing this opportunity, the Great Annihilation Sword Qi, rooted in the Grand Dao of Destruction, blasted straight into the demon lord's severed halves. "Darkness!" The Eight Desolations Demon Lord cried out in furious horror. Only then did the Dark Demon Lord arrive late to the mark, pointing a finger to cast Six Senses Deprivation. Unable to dodge in time, Yaoguang instantly lost all perception of space, time, direction, matter, energy, and more. Yaoguang had continuously and rapidly unleashed Great Accomplishment Dao arts just now, causing his grotto-heaven to tremble restlessly. In other words, the power within his Dao seed had been consumed to such an extent that he was on the verge of being unable to maintain the stability of his grotto-heaven. It was precisely for this reason that the Dark Demon Lord had been slightly slow to act, wanting to let the Eight Desolations Demon Lord deplete more of Yaoguang's strength. That way, he could secure victory more safely in the subsequent battle while also leaving the Eight Desolations Demon Lord grievously wounded, thereby forcing him to concede more profits when dividing the spoils. When demon cultivators cooperated, how could there ever be genuine sincerity? Whenever there was any opportunity to kick an ally when he was down and maximize their own gains, they would never hesitate. After trapping Yaoguang with Six Senses Deprivation, the Dark Demon Lord unleashed another Dao art without hesitation. "Infinite Depravity!" This Dao art could drag a person's perception into an endless abyss of boundless darkness. The power of the Grand Dao it drew upon was no longer purely the Grand Dao of Darkness, but also carried a sliver of the divine mysteries of the Grand Dao of Souls. Yet what he did not know was that although Yaoguang had been struck by his Six Senses Deprivation, the brilliance manifested from the light of Yaoguang's true spirit dispelled all those disorienting sensations in an instant. At the same time, using the location of the Dark Demon Lord illuminated by his true spirit's light, Yaoguang mobilized the power of the Heavenly Capital Dragon-Slashing Formation once more. Three azure chains manifested and whipped out to bind the Dark Demon Lord, forcing him to vanish into darkness to evade their assault. Right at this moment, Yaoguang pushed the Dao art of Torrent of Time to its limit. Aiming at the Eight Desolations Demon Lord, he not only unleashed two Void Swords in a split second, but immediately followed with four blasts of Great Annihilation Sword Qi. Six Dao arts! A full six Dao arts tore toward the demon lord's body in successive strikes, as though six Void Shattering cultivators had joined forces in a premeditated ambush. If his demonic body were truly torn apart by two Void Swords and then struck by four blasts of Great Annihilation Sword Qi... he would be in grave danger of perishing! "Yaoguang!" The Eight Desolations Demon Lord roared, his divine sense erupting as he actually abandoned half of his body. He turned the half that had been previously sliced off by the Void Sword into an avatar-like state to serve as a decoy and bear the brunt of the onslaught from the six Dao arts. Meanwhile, his other half whipped up demonic flames, soared into the air, and shot straight into the clouds. Crack! Azure light flared once again in the firmament. Two void chains bound the Eight Desolations Demon Lord's body like giant azure pythons. At the same time, one Void Sword and two blasts of Great Annihilation Sword Qi changed direction, climbing rapidly as they pursued the Eight Desolations Demon Lord. In this life-or-death crisis, the Void Shattering demon cultivator could no longer spare any thought for his trump cards and flung out a streak of purple light with a violent wave of his hand. "Void Unbounded Divine Lightning! Break!" Rumble! The entire Heavenly Capital Dragon-Slashing Formation shook violently. In an instant, countless buildings and pavilions serving as the formation's foundations collapsed, and untold quantities of spirit stone energy sustaining its operation were consumed. Even though the formation's solidity and stability had increased notably compared to before, it was still blasted open by the Eight Desolations Demon Lord's Unbounded Divine Lightning. "Good!" Uncontainable delight surged in the Eight Desolations Demon Lord's eyes. His flame-wrapped body was about to dart through the breach to escape with his life. Yet at that very moment, Yaoguang stepped into the void, his figure flashing into view directly before the blasted opening. Void Flicker could be used to flee in critical moments. Likewise... it could be used to intercept. "You're courting death!" The Eight Desolations Demon Lord roared, stabbing a finger into empty space to unleash Reversing Heaven and Earth. Yet just as he cast Reversing Heaven and Earth, the Heaven-Sealing Stele's void suppression bore down, rendering the surrounding space as solid as an impregnable fortress and forcefully resisting the spatial inversion caused by the Dao art. At the same time, Yaoguang spread his arms wide, and the blasted opening of the Heavenly Capital Dragon-Slashing Formation swiftly converged and closed once more under his control. "No! No! No!" Void power surged frantically across the Eight Desolations Demon Lord's body as another Ten Directions Chaos Slaying swept toward Yaoguang. However, when plugging the gap, Yaoguang had already pushed his Starlight Glazed Body to its limit. His entire form transformed into a dazzling radiance of brilliant starlight, illuminating the sky. Having lost half his body, the Eight Desolations Demon Lord's strength had plummeted; the Ten Directions Chaos Slaying he had hastily cast quickly dimmed the luster of the Starlight Glazed Body, but it could not break through this Great Accomplishment defensive Dao art in an instant. In the end, he watched helplessly as the escape route he had blasted open snapped shut again. And then... The Void Sword and Great Annihilation Sword Qi that followed closely behind tore and obliterated his body once more. Hum! Yaoguang's grotto-heaven world manifested! Like the demon cultivator before him, this Void Shattering cultivator was swept up by the grotto-heaven and suppressed deep within its depths.