The Pharmacist's formless sword was illuminated by the golden-purple light. Two beams of light shot through the air, creating a dazzling display of light.
The Pharmacist grunted. The light in her eyes dimmed, and her dharma began to fade.
But the Violet Prince staggered backward, unable to regain his footing.
The Pharmacist was a Reflection of Heaven and Earth. Against the Violet Prince's immeasurable power, it was a feat to be proud of.
The Violet Princess made her move. Her hands spread wide and her fingers moved in a strange rhythm. Strands of violet light blossomed in the air, like threads of starlight connecting planets. In the blink of an eye, they wove together into a giant net that hung in the sky.
Lan Jue's figure appeared within the net, but he was calm and collected. Captus slashed slowly through the air.
However, the sword was empty, as if nothing existed. Five beams of light lit up on the Celestial Trapping Sword. It was the light of the Five Thunders Execution.
The Boundless Starlight Domain thickened once more, and bolts of lightning tore through the purple and red threads in front of it. Lan Jue's sword was finished.
Space itself collapsed, a stark contrast to the rest of the universe.
A crimson vortex appeared in space.
The Violet Princess's astral threads were completely absorbed.
The Pharmacist and Lan Jue's bodies were swallowed as well.
"You think you can run?"
The Violet Prince snorted disdainfully. His right hand clawed at the empty air. An enormous violet hand, a thousand meters in diameter, tore through the fabric of space.
Lan Jue and the Pharmacist tumbled out of the rift. Their bodies were in disarray.
The Violet Princess chuckled. Her body flickered like a bolt of lightning, and a curtain of violet light enveloped the two of them.
Lan Jue spun around, Captus flashing with crimson light. Suddenly the sky was filled with countless copies of him.
When the Boundless Starlight Domain was deployed once more, there was no more lightning. Instead it was filled with thousands of twinkling stars.
Every ray of starlight illuminated Lan Jue's figure.
Thousands upon thousands of Captus lashed out, converging into a torrent of energy that slammed into the Violet Princess's barrier.
Space distorted violently, and the energy from both sides was extinguished at almost the same time.
The Violet Prince and Princess were shocked once more. They'd always been interested in Lan Jue's genes, but they'd never expected her to be a match for them.
When the Violet Princess had first met Lan Jue, she'd seen him as weak and insignificant. It was only because Lan Jue had helped him out of trouble that the Violet Princess felt a sense of novelty.
She had inherited the genes of humans, so she naturally knew that emotions existed in the human world. One step further was love.
Among all the humans she had seen, only the one in front of her seemed to be more pleasing to the eye. If she had to choose a mating partner, there was no doubt that this male human was very suitable.
It was with this thought that the Violet Princess realized she didn't want to kill this man. Even if she wanted to kill him, she would at least try to mate with him first.
It didn't matter who you were, deep within your genes there was a wonderful feeling and memory of mating. This was a new and exciting experience for the Violet Princess.
Although all the aliens had been born from the home worlds, only she and the Violet Prince had inherited the complete genetic heritage of their home worlds.
They were the true children of the home worlds.
The Violet Prince had inherited the genes of Monarch and Queen. The Princess had inherited the genes of Monarch and Consort.
Thus, after the evolution of the home worlds, the two of them had become the true commanders of the alien army.
The power Lan Jue had displayed just now was equal to her own. The Violet Princess couldn't believe it.
It had taken her thousands of years to reach this level of evolution.
But this human had grown so much in a few short years. At this rate, it wouldn't be long before he reached the level of a Monarch!
The human genes and potential were truly wondrous.
The Violet Princess's desire to mate with Lan Jue deepened.
She spread her hands apart, and a curtain of violet light appeared once more. This time it was much thicker than before. It swept toward Lan Jue.
Lan Jue's face was pale. He had only recently reached Nirvana, and it had taken all his strength to block the Violet Princess' attack.
Now that the Violet Princess had increased her power, the pressure on him increased.
Captus swung through the air, and an arc of light appeared in space.
The edges were red, but the interior was black. It was as if the sword had carved out a black hole in space.
However, the strange thing was that the purplish-red light screen that blotted out the sky and covered the earth seemed to be drawn by it and was dispersed to the side.
Lan Jue breathed a sigh of relief at the success of his attack. He unfurled Captus, and a series of circles appeared. Some were large, some were small, some were round, some were oval. Each circle shimmered with a dazzling brilliance.
The halos drawn by the tens of thousands of incarnations combined organically in the air, forming layers of halos.
The Taiji Sword was used to its fullest potential by Captus.
Without Zhou Qianlin, this was Lan Jue's strongest ability. Combined with his Boundless Starlight Domain, he was able to repel wave after wave of the Violet Princess' attacks.
The Violet Princess rummaged through her human memories. Suddenly a phrase came to her mind, one that perfectly described the man before her.
A scholar who has been away for three days must be looked at in a new light!
Only a short time had passed, and he was already strong enough to withstand her attacks. What would happen if he was given more time?
How strong would he become?
The next time they met, she might not even be able to defeat him.
Today, she had to keep him here and mate with him.
With this thought in mind, the Violet Princess's eyes became a violet-gold color. A powerful psychic pressure accompanied her Domain of Life and Death bore down on Lan Jue.
On the other side, the pressure on the Pharmacist Faerie was even greater.
The Violet Prince was shaken to the core by her ability to cut three corpses, but the difference in cultivation between the two was too great.
The Pharmacist's Occisus was stretched thin in the face of the Prince's Domain of Life and Death. It was like she was stuck in a quagmire. The quagmire grew thicker and thicker, making it difficult for the Pharmacist to use her dharma.
The Prince's eyes glowed with an intense violet light, as if he could see through everything. He was always able to pinpoint the Pharmacist's movements before she struck.
The Pharmacist bit the tip of her tongue. Her cheeks flushed an unnatural shade of red. Occisus flared with light, and golden runes flickered in and out of existence. Her murderous aura erupted, carrying her out of the encirclement.
Occisus stabbed toward the Violet Prince. As it did, the Pharmacist's dharma began to shrink, but at the same time it grew more solid. Her dharma was filled with energy, and before the sword could reach the Prince she had returned to her normal size.
As her body shrank, so did Occisus.
As a result, the Violet Prince's palm struck empty air.
The Pharmacist's Body-Sword Faerie seized this opportunity. Her dharma surged, and all of its power poured into Occisus.
Occisus seemed to grow to twice its original size. The tip of the sword spat out a beam of light as it stabbed toward the Prince's forehead.
"Ding!"
The Violet Prince's right hand's middle finger struck the beam of light. It was as if he had struck a solid object. The light shattered, but Occisus was right in front of him.
The Violet Prince's other hand shot forward. He brought his palms together in front of his chest and caught the Occisus between them.
Occisus' murderous aura flared, pulsing with murderous intent as it tried to pierce through the Prince's body.
However, a dark violet aura surged from the tip of the sword, suppressing the onslaught. It followed Occisus' trajectory toward the Pharmacist.
Occisus shimmered as it struggled to free itself from the Domain of Life and Death. Unfortunately, the Violet Prince's cultivation far exceeded hers. All she could do was watch helplessly as Occisus was swallowed whole.
The flush on the Pharmacist's face receded, replaced by a pallid pallor. She had done all she could, but the gap between their powers was insurmountable.
Lan Jue's situation was slightly better than hers, but not by much.
The Violet Prince was even more frightening than she had imagined. Now that she had absorbed human DNA, she was more like a human woman. Her original rigidity was gone.
As they fought, the Princess's perfect form manifested in the air.
Although Lan Jue was everywhere, the Violet Prince's power was far greater than his own.
Lan Jue's Taiji sword's range grew smaller and smaller.
However, the power of the Taiji sword was formidable. Even in such a disadvantageous situation, it was able to keep the Prince at bay.
The Violet Prince snorted. The Pharmacist felt as if she had been struck by a hammer. Her head snapped back and her vision went white.