Hum—
Bursts of powerful sword qi swept towards Tang San like a world-covering torrent, forcing him to retreat continuously for a time.
Realizing that he couldn't continue like this, blue rays of light suddenly appeared around Tang San's body. These blue lights erupted outwards like giant trees.
When the sword qi slashed out by Chen Junting collided with these giant trees, a bizarre scene immediately occurred. The giant trees rapidly shattered and turned into nothingness under the sweep of the sword qi. But they quickly grew again from below, transforming into towering trees.
Growing and dying, cycling back and forth.
Clearly, Tang San was trying to use this cycle of competing in divine power consumption to buy himself a chance to change the situation, as he was currently at a disadvantage.
How could Chen Junting not realize this?
Naturally, he wouldn't give Tang San such a chance.
With a grip and a wave of his hand, his right arm armor and chest armor lit up simultaneously. Two dragon-shaped energies, one blue-white and one crimson-red, instantly surrounded Chen Junting's body. Seeing this scene, the memories of veteran gods like the God of Destruction immediately surged to their minds.
"Water Dragon King!? Fire Dragon King!?"
"How could they...!?"
The astonishment that reached his ears did not affect Chen Junting's attack. With just a thought, the two dragon-shaped energies crushed towards the giant forest created by Tang San. While hovering in the air above, the dual water and fire dragons directly transformed into a Yin-Yang millstone, carrying water and fire energy to constantly grind away the giant trees!
Seeing that the speed of growth completely couldn't keep up with the pace of destruction, Tang San made a prompt decision. The Asura Sword in his hand instantly melted, transforming into a Haotian Hammer covered in Asura demon patterns. Twisting his waist and turning his body, the Haotian Hammer suddenly enlarged. With a swing in mid-air, it fiercely pierced through the giant forest, smashing towards the Yin-Yang millstone while surprisingly carrying the water and fire energy to attack Chen Junting!
Boom—
As the Haotian Hammer, which was compatible with the Asura Sword, its power could be called violent and terrifying! Under the terrifying force, even the spatial stability of the God Realm could hardly bear it. After the immortal spirit energy exploded layer by layer, the void wherever it passed also collapsed.
Seeing this, Chen Junting slashed out mercilessly without a second thought!
Tribulation of Time and Space!
The deep blue sword light instantly enveloped Tang San's Haotian Hammer. Before they even fully contacted, the spatial collapse caused by the Haotian Hammer was instantly frozen by this sword technique. However, a terrifying cutting sword qi also erupted in the next moment, heading straight for Tang San's glabella.
Realizing something was wrong, Tang San suddenly looked up. Two purple-gold rays of light violently shot out from his eyes, hitting the sword light straight on. The two merely met for a moment before dissipating into nothingness.
Abruptly, Tang San clenched his left fist and fiercely punched out!
The surrounding gravity was compressed in an instant. A yellow beam of light violently erupted from Tang San's left arm.
Titan Firmament Breaker!
Chen Junting merely opened his Heavenly Eye, and a ray of Order light shot out from it. In just the blink of an eye, it sliced open the light beam, pointing straight at Tang San behind it. But at this moment, Tang San was no longer in his original position, but was flying rapidly towards him.
Seeing this, Tang San immediately switched the sword to his left hand and reached out with his right hand into the void. It was as if a massive dragon roar rang out in the air. A large, azure, scale-covered giant claw silently grabbed in mid-air. The originally turbulent surrounding space instantly became sluggish, as if the entire space had been locked down.
Sky Azure Slow God Claw!
Supreme Dominance!
An incredibly domineering aura erupted with a thought the moment the sluggish feeling descended, easily drawing away all the surrounding energy and causing the giant claw to directly dissipate.
"Not good!"
Tang San, who had exposed an opening, immediately paled. Chen Junting directly seized this opportunity of his mistake. A four-armed giant demon constructed of sword qi and divine power immediately appeared behind him. When four Seven Kill Swords successively appeared in the demon's hands, four crescent moon slashes hacked towards Tang San's vital points!
Racing against time, behind Tang San, a giant Haotian Hammer rose into the air and violently smashed into the void. In an instant, an invisible "Thousand-Catapult Barrier" took shape to block it.
Seeing that he was getting the worst of it in all aspects of the battle, Tang San had to resort to other means—the various ultimate skills of the Tang Sect, such as the Purple Extreme Divine Light he had already used earlier.
As the four swords chopped down, the Eight Spider Lances behind Tang San immediately popped out. Under the modification of Asura divine power, they directly transformed into eight Asura demon arms. With a reach of his hands, he grabbed the slashing sword qi in his palms, and immediately following that, he actually turned it into his own use.
When he swung out the sword qi slashed by Chen Junting using hidden weapon techniques, Tang San also quickly seized an opportunity. The two rays of Purple Extreme Divine Light in his eyes went straight for Chen Junting. The moment they hit, he wanted to take this opportunity to capture Chen Junting.
Who would have thought that Chen Junting was completely fine?
Instead, it was Tang San himself who felt an incredibly powerful divine sense instantly rush into his sea of consciousness, causing him to involuntarily tilt his head back. His originally clear mind also fell into a brief blank, and his originally connected actions suddenly couldn't follow up.
After all, Chen Junting's skull bone was forged based on the Three-Eyed Golden Nian, possessing the effect of immunity to spiritual power. Under the influence of the Evil Emperor's external soul bone, it even gained a counter-effect influence.
Clearly, Tang San had brought this upon himself.
Just as Tang San snapped back to his senses, a white rainbow pierced through the sun, heading straight for his heart. This familiar technique immediately allowed Tang San to distinguish the source of this move!
Wasn't this the Tang Sect technique "Goddess Tears"?!
Under his fury, Tang San directly cursed aloud! "God of Order! You thief! You're actually using Tang Sect techniques against me!"
However, the verbal abuse was not heeded at all by Chen Junting, who had activated the "Sword God Selfless" state. At this moment, he only wanted to take Tang San's life and seize the God Realm's core first.
On Tang San's side, knowing the troublesome nature of this move that "ignores defense and never misses," he didn't dare slack off in the slightest.
Of course, Tang San also had a corresponding solution.
That was to counter attack with attack!
But facing a super divine weapon, Tang San no longer dared to conserve his divine power. Instead, he once again erupted with full force. Blood-red light rose again, and the Asura Blood Sword came out yet again!
Clang—
Instantly, terrifying aftershocks continuously vented out.
But right at this moment,
all the gods present suddenly felt a palpitation.
"Did you feel that?"
"What's going on?"
"..."
As the gods were puzzled, the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life successively widened their eyes in shock, looking in Chen Junting's direction and murmuring, "He not only masters the power of time and space, but can actually control destiny—no, it should be said that he pulls at destiny!?"
Since bystanders could feel this way, then Tang San, as the one being targeted, felt it even more deeply right now!
Now, he felt that heaven and earth were targeting him.
No matter what he did next, it would be wrong.
Similarly, he also knew the source of this power.
[It's the power of destiny!]
Just as this answer echoed in Tang San's mind, an indifferent voice also rang out, "Destiny Judgment!"
A sword light slashed down, and Tang San's entire person was instantly enveloped in rose-gold light. The Asura demon arms behind him all dissipated. After turning back into the Eight Spider Lances, they shattered into pieces. The divine armor on his body was also as if ignited by light flames, directly suffering heavy damage!
Seeing this, Chen Junting naturally wouldn't let the opportunity pass.
The moment "Destiny Judgment" fell, the negative rules of heaven and earth condensed once again. Six bursts of rule sword qi slashed out, forming a "Kill" character that could annihilate a god's soul. It fiercely imprinted onto Tang San's body, leaving him, who had been struck by the judgment, completely powerless to stop it.
Boom—
Tang San was blasted into the earth, and dust immediately flew everywhere.
Before the dust could fully settle, "Awe-Inspiring All Directions!"
Eight phantom Seven Kill Swords descended from the sky, transforming into a cage that directly imprisoned Tang San within, making it completely impossible for him to break free.
Chen Junting overlooked Tang San, then slowly descended.
"You've lost."
Right at this time, at the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
The four Immortal-Slaying Swords flew out from the formation and returned behind Chen Junting, quietly hiding away. The Immortal-Slaying Array Diagram also shrank and floated back in front of Chen Junting, taken in by the Heavenly Eye on his glabella.
As for the gods who were previously inside the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation...
Under Tyrant's feet, he was stepping on a scar-covered Nether White Tiger. When the formation was lifted, the Nether White Tiger also instantly dissipated, turning back into the unconscious Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai.
On the Evil Emperor's eighty-one tentacles, a phoenix was directly tied up like a rice dumpling. Ning Rongrong and Oscar were unable to move, and exhausted of soul power; they were no match for him.
Xiao Wu and Zhou Weiqing were both frozen in massive solid ice, sealed inside by the Snow Empress.
Although Xiao Wu and Zhou Weiqing's strength had barely met two of the four conditions to break the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation (requiring four combatants with strength equal to the formation's caster), the Nether White Tiger, the divine soul fusion skill of Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, as well as the combined forces of Oscar and the other two, were simply no match for the Tyrant and the Evil Emperor respectively.
Thus, after the two of them finished off their opponents, the Tyrant and the Evil Emperor first teamed up to find Zhou Weiqing, launching a dishonorable three-on-one. They brutally beat Zhou Weiqing until his divine power was nearly exhausted, then lured him to the Snow Empress's Annihilating Immortal Sword Gate. Gathering the power of the formation's four sword gates, they launched a four-on-two. Finally, with Zhou Weiqing already at the end of his strength, Xiao Wu was also outmatched, ultimately only able to fall in defeat, unwilling and resentful.
"Xiao Wu!"
Seeing Xiao Wu frozen in the ice, Tang San immediately widened his eyes in anger, turning back to lock his gaze dead onto Chen Junting. "Let them go!"
However, what responded him was first Chen Junting's "Do I look like an idiot to you?" expression, followed by a sentence, "Sure, as long as you can hand over the God Realm's core, then I'll let them go."
As someone who had just entered the God Realm and hadn't officially become a member of the God Realm Committee, he couldn't sense the God Realm's core at all.
"Let them go first!"
Seeing Tang San still wanting to bargain, Chen Junting lost the desire to continue dragging it out. He directly cast his gaze towards the God of Destruction and the others who were rushing over from not far away. "Senior Destruction, may I ask, can you bring out the God Realm's core?"
"Yes."
Arriving beside Chen Junting, the God of Destruction glanced at Tang San on the ground, then looked at Chen Junting as if with emotion. After saying "The younger generation is formidable," his blood-red eyes locked dead onto Tang San, but he could only say with a slight regret: "Although Tang San is in control of the God Realm's core, as long as the God Realm Committee passes a verdict, the God Realm's rules will judge him unable to hold it. In this way, the God Realm's core will directly manifest without him needing to hand it over voluntarily."
"Then can we do this right now to avoid any future troubles?"
However, when Chen Junting asked this question, the God of Destruction shook his head and gave his answer, "For the verdict to have rule-binding power, we must go to the God Realm Committee."
Although the God of Destruction also wanted to directly take out the God Realm's core, in the past, to prevent rebellions in the God Realm where someone would directly make a move on the God Realm's core, the God Kings had established this rule.
After all, no one had ever expected that the one to rebel would be a God King who wielded the God Realm's core and held immense power. It was like a king rebelling against their own country in a nation.
Therefore, under the circumstance that Tang San refused to voluntarily hand over the God Realm's core, the four God Kings, including the God of Destruction, joined forces to set up a seal on Tang San using four God King seeds. Together with the other five Shrek Devils and the Destroyer God, they escorted him back to the God Realm Committee.
On the way, Chen Junting still had Huo Yuhao's mother's soul on his mind. After all, one of the reasons Tang Hao and Ah Yin were in his hands was to make a trade with Tang San at a critical moment.
Fortunately, the result was quite smooth. From Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's memories, he learned that Huo Yun'er had been resurrected a few days ago—roughly around the time in the mortal realm when Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er had established their relationship—and was being cared for by Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing.
Later, because the conflict broke out too hastily, the resurrected Huo Yun'er couldn't be brought along by them at all, so she was currently still confined in Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's domain.
Realizing this, Chen Junting entrusted Rong Nianbing to make a trip. After all, he could be considered one of Huo Yuhao's masters.
"Understood, leave this matter to me."
"Oh, right."
Just as Rong Nianbing was about to leave, Chen Junting called out to him, "May I ask the God of Emotions, is Yuhao almost successful?"
Hearing this, Rong Nianbing immediately revealed a gratified smile.
"I am no longer the God of Emotions."
As soon as these words were spoken, Chen Junting immediately understood.
That kid Yuhao had already succeeded.
In that case, he should also be ascending to the God Realm.
Since that was the case...
"Then I'll trouble you, Senior, to notify Yuhao. Tang San has already been captured. Since this matter is settled, let Yuhao go see his mother first. It won't be too late for him to come to the God Realm Committee to find me afterwards."
Naturally, Rong Nianbing wouldn't refuse this.
Moreover, this matter was simply human nature.
"Alright, I will notify him."
Saying this, Rong Nianbing drifted away.
Not long after Rong Nianbing left, the God Realm Committee was right before their eyes. The majestic palace, under the illumination of the God Realm's halo, flickered with a faint golden radiance. This was both the highest point of the entire God Realm, and the place that controlled everything in the God Realm.
The God Realm Committee possessed the duty of putting all gods on trial, and likewise, it also had the task of managing the God Realm and maintaining its rules.
Now, right here, a God King was going to be judged!
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