Zi Chen and the others had started fighting as soon as they arrived in this world. They didn't care if there were any other dangers in this world.
It wasn't that they were careless. Even if Zi Chen was pressured and didn't have time to pay attention to his surroundings, Hei Long, An Peng, and Ya Wei would still try to sense if there was any danger here. After all, this was a place that they had reached through the Slaughtering Heaven Grotto. It was a place that even Saints didn't dare to casually set foot in.
In fact, they had already sent out their spiritual senses to sense their surroundings. However, they didn't sense any danger.
Perhaps there would be danger in the depths, but in Ya Wei's opinion, no matter how dangerous it was, it couldn't compare to getting rid of Zi Chen first. Even if they didn't get anything out of killing Zi Chen this time.
The sound of energy explosions continued to ring out. The world was also constantly shaking. On the ground, many hills that weren't very tall were first flattened and then turned into deep pits by the energy explosions.
The magma hidden underground spewed out from the ground. Fiery red energy soared into the sky and then exploded, turning into raindrops that fell down.
At this moment, the world was filled with all kinds of energy. They were colorful, gorgeous, and beautiful. However, they were also filled with a thick sense of danger.
In the depths of this world, there was a huge pit that looked like a plain. The plain was covered with dry fine sand.
The two sides fighting directly caused the world to shake. In the midst of this shaking, the endless fine sand trembled.
This powerful shaking passed through the fine sand and into the ground. Then, the area began to shake even more violently. This shaking was naturally caused and came from the ground. It had nothing to do with the aftermath of the battle.
The fine sand was trembling like boiling water, and it began to roll over the plains.
The tumbling became more and more violent, and the undulations became greater and greater. In the end, the ground seemed to collapse, and the fine sand began to sink.
A scorching energy visible to the naked eye rose from the sunken fine sand, causing the temperature of the plain to rise rapidly.
When this happened, the battle in the distance was at its fiercest, so no one noticed it.
The fine sand continued to sink, and the plain became a deep pit. In the end, it became a deep valley. Streams of red magma flowed out from the ground. All the fine sand that came into contact with the magma instantly melted.
It wasn't that the fine sand had sunk. Instead, it was the tremors that had caused the magma underground to surge up and melt the fine sand.
Soon, the plain turned into a deep valley. In the deep valley, crimson lava flowed. Vaguely, one could see the flowing lava piecing together to form a huge face.
At first, the face was not clear, but gradually, as the magma distorted, it started to change. The face completely protruded from the magma, becoming abnormally clear.
"Who woke me up?"
A low murmur seemed to come from the face. The voice was very soft, like rolling magma, but also like the sound of energy causing space to distort. It didn't sound real.
The energy in the world was still vibrating. Wave after wave of powerful energy fluctuations spread out. These fluctuations reached the magma, causing it to tremble.
"It's this energy that woke me up. What a weak fluctuation, it's not even enough to fill my stomach."
Another voice sounded from the face. However, this voice was much clearer than before.
The face seemed to be awakening. It rose higher and higher from the magma. Much of the magma flowed down. If one looked carefully, they would discover that as the face rose, it brought with it a large amount of magma. It was still connected to the magma.
"Whether it's weak or not, it's still food."
The face rose again, but when it was a thousand feet high, it seemed to be pulled by a great force. A painful expression appeared on its face. The magma continued to boil, as if there was a great force emerging from the magma, forcefully pulling at the face. Its facial features became more and more distorted, and the pain became more and more intense. Finally, it fell back into the magma and disappeared.
"Damn things, when this god gets out, I'll tear you to pieces."
After a long time, the face reappeared from the magma. Its facial features began to distort, as if it was suffering great pain.
After trying several times, it was unable to rush out of the magma. Fortunately, it chose to give up. After letting out a few unwilling roars, its face disappeared and the magma returned to normal.
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The change in the depths did not attract the attention of Zi Chen and the others. Even Hei Long and An Peng, who did not participate in the battle, did not know.
At this moment, their attention was focused on Ya Wei, and their faces were filled with unimaginable shock.
Because there were five fragments of the shield floating in front of Ya Wei. Moreover, these fragments were slowly descending as Ya Wei's hand seals moved. Finally, they arrived in front of Ya Wei and were collected by Ya Wei.
The five fragments were all in Ya Wei's hands.
At this moment, the first thing that came to their minds was not that Ya Wei was likely to obtain the complete shield, but that Zi Chen had lost the fragments. He would not be able to walk out of the Slaughtering Heaven Cave unless he killed Ya Wei.
Zi Chen's escape route was completely blocked.
However, this was not the end. In the sky, a finger seal descended. While Zi Chen had to fight the three Heaven-Defying Cultivators, he also had to deal with Ya Wei's attack.
Previously, when he took out the fragments of the shield, he was confident that he could block this attack. However, the fragments of the shield had suddenly disappeared. This kind of change was far beyond Zi Chen's expectations. When faced with the descending finger seal, he was caught unprepared.
However, he was Zi Chen. He had experienced countless battles. Even if he was caught unprepared, he would not panic. With his rich battle experience, Zi Chen was able to find a perfect solution in a short period of time.
First, he used his extreme speed. With the combination of his lightning wings and footwork, Zi Chen's Nine Lightning Flashes had undoubtedly reached the limit of what Zi Chen could display.
At this moment, even Zi Chen was able to display an extraordinary performance.
A mysterious power spread out, forming a space of its own. In this space, other than Zi Chen's speed, which was infinitely increased, the speed of the others was infinitely suppressed.
The three storms that surrounded him were suppressed to the extreme. They instantly slowed down, as if they were about to stop.
In the sky, the descending finger imprint seemed to have paused for a moment after being suppressed by this speed.
Zi Chen did not need much. Just this momentary pause was enough.
A cold light flashed in his eyes. He threw out the Heavenly Blade in his hand. The dazzling Heavenly Blade soared into the sky and aimed at the finger seal.
Seeing this, Ya Wei smiled coldly. His attack was not something that a mere Heavenly Blade that could not attack on its own could block.
"Explode."
Zi Chen did not expect the Heavenly Blade to be able to block the finger seal. When the Heavenly Blade left his body, he had already poured his spiritual thoughts into the blade. The moment the Heavenly Blade came into contact with the finger seal, he let out a low roar. The spiritual thoughts that he had poured into the Heavenly Blade rushed toward the Soldier Spirit within.
"Boom!"
Under the deliberate control of his terrifying spiritual thoughts, the Soldier Spirit within the Heavenly Blade exploded. Immediately after, the Soldier Spirit that was connected to the entire Heavenly Blade also exploded.
All of this was somewhat complicated to describe. In fact, Zi Chen had forcibly self-destructed the Heavenly Blade that he had taken from the Heaven-Defying Cultivator.
When the Heavenly Blade exploded, it turned into a destructive energy that spread out in all directions.
This was a weapon that a Heaven-Defying Cultivator had spent his entire life refining. It could be considered a Heaven-Defying Cultivator's greatest treasure. Yet, it was destroyed by Zi Chen in such a manner.
However, the destructive power of the Heavenly Blade's self-destruction was unimaginable.
This violent energy attacked indiscriminately. Not only would it attack the enemy, but it would also attack Zi Chen.
Swoosh!
Just as the Sky Blade exploded, Zi Chen instantly sped up and headed downwards. At that moment, the destructive energy was spreading in all directions. Relatively speaking, it was safer to head downwards.
The energy of the Heavenly Blade that had exploded enveloped the finger seal. At the same time, it also swept in the storm formed by the other three Heaven-Defying Cultivators.
When Gao Wei saw that Zi Chen had actually used such a method to block the Heaven-Defying Cultivator's attack, a look of astonishment appeared on his usually calm and confident face.
He knew very well that Zi Chen's Heavenly Blade had come from a foreign Heaven-Defying Cultivator. In fact, he could even accurately name that Heaven-Defying Cultivator. This Heaven-Defying Cultivator had spent his entire life refining this Heaven-Defying Cultivator. Ever since Zi Chen had obtained it, he had been using it. This was not because Zi Chen was strong enough to tame the Heaven-Defying Cultivator. Rather, it was because Zi Chen had refined the Heaven-Defying Cultivator anew.
After using the Heaven-Defying Cultivator, Zi Chen had killed many Heaven-Defying Cultivators. However, he had not switched to another Heaven-Defying Cultivator's weapon. This was because a Heaven-Defying Cultivator's weapon had to be refined with his own energy in order to unleash its greatest power.
Rather than calling it a Heaven-Defying Cultivator's weapon, it would be more accurate to say that it was Zi Chen's own weapon. It was already equivalent to Zi Chen's arm. It could be considered a part of Zi Chen's body.
However, the meticulous Rocky had never imagined that Zi Chen would choose to detonate Heaven-Defying Cultivator's Heaven-Defying Cultivator.
As a result, even if Zi Chen were to take out a new Heaven-Defying Cultivator, he would not be able to unleash such great power.
Thus, Rocky was very astonished.
With the boost in speed, Zi Chen charged downward. He fell into a large crater that was spewing out lava. When he landed, his face turned pale. His internal organs churned and he coughed out large mouthfuls of blood.
Golden blood fell into the lava and was instantly submerged by it.
Detonating Heaven-Defying Cultivator's Heaven-Defying Cultivator was like cutting off an arm. It caused considerable damage to his body. His mind was shaken. Furthermore, the uncontrollable destructive power that resulted from the detonation of Heaven-Defying Cultivator's Heaven-Defying Cultivator had also injured him.
This was the price Zi Chen had to pay for Rocky's attack.
He had lost a fragment, detonated Heaven-Defying Cultivator's Heaven-Defying Cultivator, and sustained injuries. Everything looked so bad. Fortunately, he managed to preserve his life.
Golden light surged around him as he stepped on the gushing magma. He raised his head to look at the sky, where the destructive energy created by the Skyblade had yet to dissipate.
Qi Wei's fingerprints, as well as the three Heaven-Defying Cultivators, were still inside.
The destructive aura created by Skyblade's self-destruction was too terrifying. However, under normal circumstances, no one would choose to self-destruct a Celestial Weapon. That was because that would be equivalent to wasting their entire life's effort and losing half of their combat strength. For some people who pursued strength, this was even more unacceptable than death.
Zi Chen's decisiveness caused the expressions of the Dark Roc and the Black Dragon to change greatly.