Chapter 914: Deep Sea Fierce Battle (Part 2)

“Dark Profound Energy!?” Xuanyuan Wentian’s expression changed completely. “Why do you possess dark profound energy? Why do you possess my power?”

“My power?” Yun Che sneered dismissively. The dark aura around him had grown so dense it almost surpassed Xuanyuan Wentian’s. “To be frank, I don’t particularly like this power, and I certainly don’t want to be seen as a fiend like you. But in this place, it makes no difference.”

The source of profound energy for ordinary people is profound veins. For ancient devil gods, it’s the Devil Source Pearl.

Yun Che, however, possessed two sources of profound energy.

One was the Evil God’s Profound Veins, and the other was the Devil Source Pearl from the Moon Slaughter Devil Sovereign, which had integrated into his Evil God’s Profound Veins!

Possessing four Evil God seeds—Fire, Water, Lightning, and Darkness—he could freely transform the power of his profound veins into profound energy of any of these attributes. However, the Devil Source Pearl could only release dark profound energy. As a terrifying negative profound energy, even the Evil God back then kept its existence hidden from the world, and Yun Che felt the same.

Therefore, after realizing he couldn't defeat Xuanyuan Wentian, he led him into the ten-thousand-foot abyss and finally unleashed the full power of the Devil Source Pearl without reservation. The energy released by his Evil God’s Profound Veins also completely transformed into dark profound energy. With the two dark profound energies combined, Yun Che instantly transformed into a fully awakened devil god, his aura growing at an astonishingly terrifying rate.

Clang... Hiss...

The Eternal Night Devil Sword in Xuanyuan Wentian’s hand suddenly trembled, emitting an obscure clang. Then, an extremely grating voice emanated from the sword: “This power... where did you get it from... impossible... this is impossible.”

Yun Che was not at all surprised by the Eternal Night Devil Sword’s agitation, as the devil soul within the sword was the Moon Slaughter Devil Sovereign’s son and would naturally sense the Moon Slaughter Devil Sovereign’s presence in his dark aura. He gripped the Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword, and the dark energy on his body swiftly spread to its blade, mixing with the original vermilion sword light to form an eerie, crimson-black mist.

“I don't need to answer a dead man's questions,” Yun Che’s voice was sinister, his expression showing an arrogance far exceeding his usual demeanor. “Although I'm not entirely accustomed to this power yet, it should be enough to kill you, Xuanyuan Wentian.”

“Hahahahaha!” Xuanyuan Wentian burst into maniacal laughter. “Although I don't know where your dark profound energy comes from, compared to my power, which has already stepped into the Divine Way, your dark profound energy is merely an inferior existence. To kill me is forever a fool's fantasy!”

“This time, you have nowhere left to run. Die!!”

The Eternal Night Devil Sword pierced through the water and struck down towards Yun Che's head... What seemed like an unpretentious sword strike carried the oppressive might of a descending devil god.

Yun Che stepped forward with his right foot, the dark aura around him intensely boiling. The power from his profound veins and the Devil Source Pearl gathered in his arms as he swung his sword towards Xuanyuan Wentian.

Yun Che, who had previously exerted himself to avoid Xuanyuan Wentian, surprisingly chose to meet him head-on this time.

“Seeking death!!” Seeing Yun Che neither dodge nor evade, but instead face him directly, Xuanyuan Wentian let out a mocking roar. The power poured into the Eternal Night Devil Sword surged again, aiming to shatter all of Yun Che's bones with a single strike.

“CLANG!!!”

The two swords clashed, producing a thunderous roar that echoed even beneath the deep sea, as if tearing through clouds and splitting rocks. The ten-thousand-year-old sea rocks beneath their feet instantly crumbled into dust.

In the ten-thousand-foot deep sea, pushing water aside was incredibly difficult because every drop bore immense pressure. Yet, the instant the two swords collided, a terrifying vacuum instantly formed in the hundred-zhang space around Yun Che and Xuanyuan Wentian. This vacuum zone persisted for a long time, filled with dreadful power capable of destroying mountains ten thousand feet high.

Their gazes met through the crossed positions of the Eternal Night Devil Sword and the Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword. Xuanyuan Wentian's face was violently contorted, his eyes filled with profound shock. Yun Che's gaze was dark, and a faint, arrogant smile played on his lips.

“You...” Xuanyuan Wentian's voice trembled slightly, fine blood vessels bursting in his eyes, because Yun Che had actually parried his Eternal Night Devil Sword!

Head-on, he had parried his Eternal Night Devil Sword without any fancy moves!

With the Eternal Night Devil Sword in hand, the power unleashed through the connection between devil blood and devil soul was that of the Divine Profound Realm! It was the only absolute power in the history of the Azure Cloud Continent, capable of regarding all profound practitioners on the continent as mere ants!

And it was... blocked by Yun Che!

“Hmph!!”

Yun Che let out a roar, and flames ignited within the black light covering his entire body. He violently pushed the Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword forward. With a thunderous “BOOM!”, a second wave of power erupted from the Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword, sending both bodies flying far apart.

Whoosh!!

The displaced seawater surged back swiftly, but the surrounding dozen miles of deep sea continued to churn violently for a long time.

Xuanyuan Wentian’s arms, numb from the impact, stared disbelievingly at his hands, then even more disbelievingly at Yun Che, who was bathed in black light across from him... If he hadn't manifested the Eternal Night Devil Sword's full power, Yun Che resisting his might would merely have astonished him.

But with the devil sword manifested, the power surging through him was that of the Divine Way... How could it be withstood by a mere mortal in the Sovereign Profound Realm?

“Impossible... That must have been... some trick of yours!!”

Xuanyuan Wentian roared furiously, his body erupting with black energy as if it were bursting apart, then he lunged at Yun Che again.

“Let’s see how you block this sword strike, then!!”

Rumble...

Before the Eternal Night Devil Sword even reached its target, the surrounding seawater was already in turmoil, like boiling water. The terrifying water pressure seemed to have no effect on either of them as the hundred-zhang sea zone instantly shrank, and the Eternal Night Devil Sword and Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword collided fiercely once more.

“BOOM!!!!”

This collision produced an extremely muffled sound, causing the sea zone to tremble terrifyingly. Violent ripples of water radiated outwards to the surrounding sea, reaching the sea surface ten thousand feet above, yet they did not stop, instead breaking out of the water and raising enormous waves.

Even as the surrounding world plunged into an unprecedented disaster, at the center of the calamity, the Eternal Night Devil Sword and Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword seemed to be magnetically fused. Xuanyuan Wentian was not thrown back, nor was Yun Che.

This sword strike, launched by Xuanyuan Wentian in a fit of mania without holding back in the slightest, was still completely parried by Yun Che head-on.

“Ugh, ahhh...” Xuanyuan Wentian's eyes widened in such horror they seemed about to burst. For him, this was far more than just his full-power strike being parried; it was the power of the Divine Way he had pursued his entire life—no, it was the belief he had finally attained after enduring countless hardships and striving for a lifetime—that was now utterly shattered.

“It seems this is all your full power amounts to,” Yun Che said, eyes half-closed, chuckling mockingly. “You schemed for a thousand years, killed countless people, and even lost your own flesh and blood body to gain the power you have today. As for me... I've only used less than eight years!”

Yun Che's words simply stated a fact, devoid of any aggressive language, yet to Xuanyuan Wentian's ears, they sounded like the most ruthless mockery and the most malicious curse in the world.

“AH!!!” Xuanyuan Wentian roared in a fit of rage, instantly rendering his throat hoarse. “Yun Che, no one in this world is worthy of looking down on me! How could my power be comparable to that of a mere whelp whose feathers haven't even grown in yet!!”

“You’ve only parried two of my sword strikes so far... Let’s see how many more you can block!!”

This time, Xuanyuan Wentian’s fury far surpassed any of his previous outbursts. He charged at Yun Che like a completely enraged dark beast, letting out hoarse roars as the Eternal Night Devil Sword, laden with all his power and wrath, slammed down.

Clang!!BOOM!!!CRACK———

The Eternal Night Devil Sword and the Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword clashed violently. Beneath the deep sea, it was as if an ancient divine bell was being struck with world-shaking force. Their positions shifted constantly beneath the waves. As they moved horizontally, the seawater was either forcefully displaced or annihilated into nothingness wherever they passed, and the sea rocks beneath their feet continuously collapsed, shattered, and vanished.

Dense black light enveloped both of them. In the deep sea, which had not seen sunlight for ten thousand years, it was as if two ancient ferocious beasts had suddenly appeared, tearing at each other furiously.

RUMBLE!!

The vast sea erupted, and both were sent flying hundreds of zhang away simultaneously. Xuanyuan Wentian’s head slammed into a sea rock, causing dozens of zhang of rock to instantly shatter. The Eternal Night Devil Sword also ploughed a dozens-of-zhang long gully in the seabed.

This time, Xuanyuan Wentian did not immediately attack Yun Che again. The arm clutching the Eternal Night Devil Sword trembled... From hundreds of clashes, his arms were almost completely numb, black blood seeping from between his fingers, yet he felt no pain whatsoever.

More terrifying than the numbness in his arms was the surging internal energy that boiled throughout his body, almost threatening to burst out.

Every one of Xuanyuan Wentian's sword strikes carried the power of the Divine Way. As for Yun Che's Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword, its weight alone was two million catties. Each collision of the two swords unleashed power akin to a meteorite striking the earth, with immense recoil forces acting upon both of them.

Even Xuanyuan Wentian's devil body, which he prided himself on, found it difficult to withstand these hundreds of fierce impacts. He felt as though his internal organs had been shattered, and his entire skeleton was on the verge of collapsing.

However, Yun Che let out a furious roar at that moment, and the Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword, wreathed in black energy, struck with terrifying might that seemed almost undiminished.

Both had been enduring the same recoil forces, and Xuanyuan Wentian's devil body was starting to feel unsustainable, yet Yun Che appeared completely unharmed, even growing fiercer.

“You...” This time, a hint of terror finally joined the shock in Xuanyuan Wentian's eyes. He gritted his teeth abruptly, bringing the Eternal Night Devil Sword across to forcibly block.

BOOM!!!

The brief respite had weakened Xuanyuan Wentian's momentum, and the power in this sword strike was far less than before. With a rumble, the blood vessels in his arms burst, blood splattered, and with a miserable cry, his body was sent flying horizontally against the sea rocks. Yun Che merely leaned back slightly, then suddenly surged forward, striking down with his sword.

“No... Unforgivable!”

“Eter...nal...Night...Void!!!”

Xuanyuan Wentian’s pupils contracted violently, and his terror magnified intensely. He halted his body, violently spat out a mouthful of black blood, and a ball of black light several times denser than the dark aura around him suddenly erupted, instantly engulfing the surrounding dozen miles of space and completely swallowing Yun Che within it.

This was the dark domain from the Eternal Night Illusion Devil Arts, and also the most extreme dark power Xuanyuan Wentian could unleash. Dark power at the Divine Way tier was enough to devour everything within the domain into eternal dark void.

Facing this incomparably terrifying dark domain, Yun Che showed no trace of tension or caution. Instead, a faint mocking smile appeared on his face. Then, completely ignoring the all-consuming extreme darkness, he surged forward with a speed even greater than before, and, under Xuanyuan Wentian's utterly disbelieving gaze, he plunged his sword into his chest, the tip emerging from his back.

“Ugh ahhh—”

Xuanyuan Wentian’s body stiffened, his pupils dilated, and he let out a painful, hoarse shriek. The Eternal Night Void domain, which had just been propped up, rapidly dissipated like a burst soap bubble. Across from him, Yun Che clutched the vermilion greatsword embedded in Xuanyuan Wentian’s body, a chillingly sinister smile on his face.

BANG!!!

Xuanyuan Wentian suddenly slammed a palm into Yun Che’s chest, sending Yun Che flying far away. The Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword was also pulled out of his body. Xuanyuan Wentian clutched his chest, where a transparent hole had been pierced, and staggered backward, his entire body wracked with pain as if plunged into hell.

“Cough... cough cough... Haha, hahahaha! Xuanyuan Wentian, isn’t this exhilarating?!” Yun Che coughed up several mouthfuls of dark blood. He looked at Xuanyuan Wentian's wretched state and burst into unrestrained laughter.

“I... will kill you!”

“I’ll kill you!!!!”

All of Xuanyuan Wentian's ferocity was completely unleashed. He released the hand pressing on his chest, letting black blood gush out, and gripped the Eternal Night Devil Sword with both hands, wildly smashing it towards Yun Che.

RUMBLE!!!

The seabed cracked, forming a fissure over a dozen miles long. With this sword strike, Yun Che was fiercely sent flying, smashing through seven or eight sea rocks in a row. Yet, the instant he landed, he sprang up, like a ferocious beast oblivious to pain and fear, and counterattacked Xuanyuan Wentian.

The two of them churned up an increasingly terrifying dark storm, their blood spreading and raging through the sea.