Chapter 1960: Absolute Despair

The last two Naming Divine Origins could barely sustain his Divine Ash state for four breaths of time.

Even if this time could be extended tenfold or a hundredfold, his body would definitively be unable to hold on.

Yun Che's entire body had no intact spot. In his current bodily state, anyone else in the world would have long since perished.

The final Rock Formation was being devoured bit by bit, but to completely shatter it within four breaths... By this point, it was no longer possible.

His tightly clenched teeth relaxed, and the fury in his dark eyes gradually transformed into a deep, dark pool.

"Qingyue, I really wanted to pour all my efforts into cherishing everything you left me. But, in the end, I..."

His Evil God Profound Veins began to tremble violently, gradually revealing crimson lines.

"Sacrifice my blood body... Other Shore Asura!"

Back in the Star God Realm, to save Jasmine, he put himself in a death trap, transforming into an Other Shore Asura... In the end, he was reborn in a crippled state due to the Phoenix's Nirvana power.

This time, when he transforms into an Asura again, he is destined for death, with no chance of survival.

Just as the Evil God's forbidden power was about to decisively erupt, an endlessly scorching golden light entered his eyes, and directly into his soul, turning everything in the world and his sea of souls into a pure reddish-gold color.

In his ears, an unrivaled, sky-rending cry of a crow resonated.

The Golden Crow's cry—Yun Che was all too familiar with it.

But this cry, its might, its momentum, and its sharpness... surpassed all he had ever experienced.

Even the Golden Crow blood within him wildly boiled in that instant.

Without turning his head, a golden crow shadow, blotting out the sky, was reflected in Yun Che's sea of souls.

In the God Realm of Absolute Beginning, all beings looked up.

In the boundless sky, there was only the world-shaking shadow of the crow.

Its outstretched golden wings burned space, drawing a long golden trail, and with a sudden, mournful shriek, it plunged towards Mo Beichen.

The Vermilion Bird, Phoenix, and Golden Crow were the three ancient supreme fire-element beings.

And each of them possessed an ultimate flame that could only be ignited once in their lifetime.

Respectively:

Vermilion Bird's Redemption Flame;

Phoenix's Nirvana Flame;

Golden Crow's Jade Shattering Flame!

The Redemption Flame and Nirvana Flame both ignite after the Vermilion Bird and Phoenix perish, but the Golden Crow is different.

The Golden Crow, with the most violent flames and the fiercest temperament, ignites its ultimate flame through death, burning itself to fight to the death.

Better to be broken jade than an intact tile.

The Vermilion Bird's Redemption Flame has eternally vanished and can no longer appear.

The Phoenix's Nirvana Flame once burned on Yun Che, but that was not because Yun Che's Phoenix bloodline and Phoenix Divine Soul were "complete" enough, but rather an additional gift from the Phoenix soul. Thus, it was extremely weak and incomplete; although it did achieve rebirth after burning, it merely barely saved a sliver of his remaining life.

Feng Xue'er, who could truly ignite the Nirvana Flame, had already burned it all away years ago to save Yun Che.

Therefore, even though she possessed the complete Phoenix inheritance, she could no longer undergo Nirvana rebirth after her demise.

In other words, the Nirvana Flame has also eternally vanished.

Of the miraculous flames left in this world by the three ancient flame supremes, only one remained, imprinted within Huo Poyun's Golden Crow bloodline.

And at this moment, in countless eyes illuminated golden, it burned with determination and no regrets.

The entire world was left with only the Golden Crow's ultimate cry and the golden flames.

Even Yun Che's Golden Crow Illusory God was completely overwhelmed.

The divine might that poured down surpassed Mo Beichen, a demigod; surpassed Cang Shitian, whose Azure Sea was eternally severed; and surpassed Yun Che in his Divine Ash state.

In the world covered by golden flames, no one could see Huo Poyun's figure. Everyone's thoughts were unequivocally telling them: This was the arrival and divine cry of an ancient Golden Crow True God!

Mo Beichen stared blankly as the golden crow shadow, seemingly from an ancient illusion, drew closer and closer. His pupils had dilated to their maximum, and his mouth was unconsciously agape.

But until the golden crow shadow engulfed his entire vision, he could not utter a single sound.

Because, accompanying the golden flames, was a terrifying soul pressure that completely overwhelmed his soul.

The crow shadow crashed down, and amidst an endlessly mighty and infinitely mournful cry, the Jade Shattering Flame violently erupted with Mo Beichen's body as its center.

The world contained nothing but golden flames.

Outside the battlefield, everyone was completely stunned and lost their souls. Because what appeared in their vision was truly and genuinely...

The Descent of the Blazing Sun!

But few knew that beneath this scene of the Blazing Sun's Descent was the eternal disappearance of the Golden Crow's miracle, and... the eternal demise of an unparalleled genius with an endless future.

"Wuaaaaaah!"

"Haha...hahahahahaha!"

The Jade Shattering Flame burned Mo Beichen and Cang Shitian, eliciting their mournful screams and delighted roars of laughter.

Yet it did not harm Yun Che in the slightest.

Within the golden sea of flames, the Rock Formation on Mo Beichen's body immediately began to melt like ice under a scorching sun, dissolving at a visible speed.

The cracks beneath the Heaven Smiting Sword's tip spread madly amid the trembling.

Another Naming Divine Origin collapsed.

Only the very last Naming Divine Origin remained, sustaining his final Divine Ash power.

His spirit and power re-condensed to their utmost. Yun Che's eyes burst open with countless bloodlines, all his teeth were instantly shattered, and he let out roars like a desperate devil.

A miracle can breed a miracle...

His withered and crumbling body, which should have been exhausted and on the verge of collapse, at this moment, surged with... power almost more violent than at any previous moment.

"Die!"

"Die!!"

"Die!!!!"

A long-dormant corner of his soul re-ignited under the Jade Shattering Flame, which Huo Poyun had burned with his life.

He roared until his voice was hoarse and his strength was spent.

The Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor Sword, in extreme fury, frantically pierced Mo Beichen's heart.

Cang Shitian's residual body was also rapidly incinerated, but his power still firmly bound Mo Beichen, preventing him from escaping Yun Che's power, and even more so, from escaping the sea of flames.

Yun Che's Divine Ash power, Cang Shitian's desperate lock, Huo Poyun's Jade Shattering Flame...

*Bang—*

Finally, accompanied by a hum swallowed by the sea of flames, the Rock Formation, incinerated layer by layer, shattered and disintegrated beneath Yun Che's sword.

The scene in Yun Che's eyes suddenly became incredibly slow. He could clearly see every shred of fading light from the shattered and scattered profound formation.

That was the fading light of Mo Beichen's dead end, yet it was the beacon of a true miracle, finally shining after their repeated plunges into desperation and ultimate peril.

All of Mo Beichen's fully activated power was concentrated on the Rock Formation, leaving no reserve to protect his body.

The shattering of the final Rock Formation signified the complete collapse of his defensive power.

The impact of the shattered Rock Formation made Mo Beichen's chest and abdomen sink. His eyeballs bulged, and the scene in his vision also became incredibly slow... He watched with wide eyes as the black-flame-burning sword tip passed through the broken, fading light and pierced his heart...

Straight through.

From the tip of the sword, to its body... until the entire massive blade.

Finally, what met his gaze were Yun Che's dark eyes, boiling with ferocious devilish light.

The Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor Sword completely pierced through Mo Beichen's body, and also through Cang Shitian, who was tightly bound to him.

"He Ling!!"

In Yun Che's sea of souls, his soul-draining roar exploded.

In fact, his roar was not needed at all.

All of He Ling's tightly condensed thoughts were waiting for this moment.

The instant the Heaven Smiting Sword pierced Mo Beichen, the silhouette of a young girl silently appeared.

She was as beautiful as an elf, with emerald-green long hair and jade-like eyes. Although the surrounding world was completely engulfed by flames, her figure was remarkably clear.

Her face was serene and sacred, her hands crossed over her chest, and her jade-green eyes slowly closed... As her jade-like arms extended, a burst of intensely dense, supremely pure emerald-green ghostly light erupted from the Heaven Smiting Sword...

...and also exploded within Mo Beichen's internal organs.

Utterly terrified and soul-lost, his power dissipated, and with the eruption occurring from within his body... even as a demigod, Mo Beichen had no means to stop it.

The emerald-green ghostly light transformed into countless venomous snakes, eager to devour everything, rapidly darting towards his internal organs, bones, profound veins, and blood...

By the time Mo Beichen's mind recovered and his power returned, the emerald-green ghostly light had already spread to every strand of his hair, every corner of his body.

Even his pupils, which had originally been tinged golden, turned into a deep, terrifying green.

"Ah...ahhh..."

It was as if millions of venomous snakes were suddenly savagely gnawing within his body. His internal organs and limbs violently convulsed, his entire body twisted and twitched wildly amidst an intense burst of extreme pain and terror. Furthermore, his body surface rapidly became stained an increasingly deep green.

"Ah...ahhh...ahhhh...No...no..."

His cries were not shrill, but extremely hoarse and agonizing... as if his throat had also been tightly constricted by countless venomous snakes.

Beyond the pain, there was profound terror.

Because his similarly pain-twisted soul clearly sensed the touch of death.

Even in the desperate situations deep within the Mist Sea, or the death trials of the Pure Land... he had never perceived the approach of death so keenly.

"Ha...haha..."

Clearly touching death was not just Mo Beichen, but also Cang Shitian.

But what he emitted was a weak, yet regretless, chuckle.

The Azure Sea Divine Power, using his existence as its vessel, also completely dissipated at this moment, as his will relaxed.

His deep-blue residual body could no longer maintain its hold on Mo Beichen, and with scattering blue light, it tilted backward and fell.

Chi Wuyao's devil soul was severely wounded, but she never withdrew her spiritual perception. In the battlefield filled with demigod power, her powerful Nirvana devil soul always clearly perceived everything.

Beneath the engulfing golden sea of flames, she could not clearly see the battlefield, but she could clearly perceive Cang Shitian's final consciousness relaxing, and Mo Beichen's soul howling, suddenly filled with pain and despair.

She knew Yun Che had succeeded.

She also knew that a hyena's most insane and terrifying moment was when it reached its dead end.

"Meiyin, quickly teleport Yun Che back!"

She sent an urgent soul message to Shui Meiyin... And the Universe Needle in Shui Meiyin's hand almost simultaneously shone with crimson divine light.

However, although it was already prepared to activate, the crimson divine light did not immediately unleash. Shui Meiyin concentrated all her mental power, with Chi Wuyao's urgent calls echoing in her mind, yet she still couldn't act.

That was a catastrophic space boiling with demigod power, where forces beyond this world's capacity to bear were severely distorting space, force fields, vision, perception, and even laws.

Furthermore, she was simply too far from Yun Che, and within a short time, she couldn't accurately pinpoint Yun Che's spatial location.

"Ah...ahhh...ah..."

Mo Beichen's wails became increasingly agonizing. As a Guardian Knight, his body inherently possessed extremely strong resistance to virulent poisons and corruption.

But no matter how frantically his defensive power surged, it could not dispel the terrifying ghostly light surging within his body.

Because that was the ultimate Heavenly Poison released from the Heaven Poison Pearl.

His body felt as if it were falling into an endless abyss. The increasingly profound despair ignited a desperate madness.

"Ah...uh ah...ahhhh!!"

Following the agonizing groans, came a heart-rending roar. The remaining power within Mo Beichen's body no longer tried to dispel the Heavenly Poison, but instead violently erupted...

*Boom————*

A massive void was blasted open in the diminishing sea of flames.

Within the void, Cang Shitian's deep-blue residual body was torn into pieces, and then pulverized into countless blue dust particles...

Like fading azure stars across the sky at dawn.

Yun Che's last remaining clarity allowed him to protect his final Divine Ash power in front of him.

Amidst the loud boom, he was sent flying backward as if struck by a celestial hammer, at a speed that tore through space...

In his soul, Cang Shitian's voice resonated:

"Please...treat...Shu...He...kindly..."

The soul message faded, and the Azure Star finally fell.

His last words were not a hearty laugh, nor a furious roar of catharsis, nor grand declarations to be remembered for a thousand years... but merely a request, filled with endless concern.