Chapter 974: Reverse

High above the plain, Su Youwei found herself in great peril. Zhao Mushen and Wu Yao were both as powerful as she was, and now they had suddenly unleashed a combined killing blow. If she were hit, even if her Genesis Qi foundation was slightly stronger than theirs, she would undoubtedly pay a heavy price.

She stood mid-air, her beautiful and elegant face growing solemn.

Su Youwei took a deep breath. Her eyes glinted as Genesis Qi surged around her. She brought her slender hands together, forming hand seals that blurred into countless afterimages.

As her hand seals changed, countless purple stars appeared around her. These stars subtly connected, seemingly forming a massive star map.

The star map enveloped Su Youwei, creating an incredibly powerful defense.

"Lesser Saint Art: Amethyst Star Map!"

Su Youwei's lips parted slightly, and a soft murmur escaped her.

The star map layered around her. From a distance, it looked as if a purple crystal enveloped and covered Su Youwei.

Facing the combined assault from Zhao Mushen and Wu Yao, Su Youwei chose to resist with her strongest defense, as Zhao Mushen had already locked down the surrounding space, making a retreat unwise.

As the layers of purple star maps formed, Zhao Mushen's attack arrived first. A colossal, mottled ancient hand, pale yellow in color, smashed through the void, directly unleashing destructive power as it heavily struck the star map.

Boom!

A thunderous sound resonated, the void trembled violently, and a storm of Genesis Qi surged.

The layers of the star map flickered intensely, then began to shatter under the onslaught of the mottled hand.

However, the star map evidently possessed a repair function, so even as it broke apart, new layers continuously condensed and appeared.

A brief stalemate ensued.

It was at this moment that a clear cry of a phoenix echoed throughout the world. Behind them, the void shattered, and a colossal black lightning phoenix burst forth. From its beak, boundless black lightning erupted, ferociously striking the star map.

Boom! Boom!

Under the assault of these two terrifying forces, the star map's rate of disintegration immediately accelerated.

From afar, the purple crystal layers covering Su Youwei looked like an ice ball in lava, constantly melting away.

Seeing this, Zhao Mushen knew that with one more powerful blow, Su Youwei's strongest defense would crumble. With a thought, the ancient hand formed a fist seal.

"Heavenly Fist Soul Cleaving Seal!"

The ancient fist seal directly shattered space, then, carrying an extremely terrifying fluctuation, it fiercely struck the purple star map under the startled gaze of countless onlookers.

This collision unleashed a surging wave of Genesis Qi tens of thousands of feet high. With a crackling sound, the purple star map instantly collapsed by more than half.

"Wu Yao, now!" Zhao Mushen commanded in a deep voice.

A phoenix cry reverberated as the black lightning phoenix suddenly shot forward. Its beak opened wide, and in one gulp, it swallowed Su Youwei along with the nearly shattered star map. Within its abdomen, endless lightning roared.

Seeing this, Zhao Mushen's expression relaxed slightly.

"What a domineering lightning phoenix," Zhao Mushen chuckled.

However, no sooner had his voice faded than his pupils suddenly contracted. He saw that after swallowing Su Youwei, the lightning phoenix's speed had not decreased but rather increased, charging through the void, roaring directly towards him.

Thunder echoed throughout the world, bringing with it an aura of ferocity.

Zhao Mushen raised an eyebrow slightly and said, "Su Youwei has only just been subdued; aren't you acting a bit too quickly?"

However, it was clear that he wasn't surprised at all. He hadn't dispelled his ancient, mottled hand, and if he had waited a few more breaths, he would have attacked Wu Yao himself.

After all, their earlier cooperation was merely to eliminate one opponent first.

Now that Su Youwei was inside the lightning phoenix, she would undoubtedly be heavily injured, and her threat had greatly diminished.

Zhao Mushen waved his sleeve. The mottled ancient hand once again formed a fist seal, carrying terrifying power, smashing through the void, and directly colliding head-on with the rapidly approaching black lightning phoenix.

The moment they collided, black lightning splattered across the world, transforming into countless bolts that poured down, blasting thousands of craters into the plain below.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In the void above, the lightning phoenix let out long cries, continuously colliding and striking the ancient colossal hand.

Each collision shook heaven and earth. The sheer scale of the disturbance sent shivers down the spines of countless observers. In a confrontation of this magnitude, even top Heavenly Talents like Yuan Kun and Jiugong would likely be defeated one after another if they entered.

The combat power of these two, ranked top in the Divine Dwelling List, was truly terrifying.

Wu Yao stood in the void, observing the stalemate. A fierce glint passed through her phoenix eyes.

A mystical aura surged from within her, subtly forming a colossal phoenix phantom behind Wu Yao. The moment this phantom appeared, the Genesis Qi throughout the world began to stir.

Wu Yao's body seemed capable of constantly merging with the world, harnessing the power of heaven and earth.

That was the Heavenly Phoenix Fate!

Within Wu Yao, there were two strands of Saint Dragon Fate that originated from Zhou Yuan. Over the years, these two strands had gradually integrated with her, subtly forming her unique Heavenly Phoenix Fate.

Of course, fate was ever-changing; if Zhou Yuan were able to reclaim them, they would naturally transform back into his Saint Dragon Fate.

Standing in the void, Wu Yao extended her jade-like finger and pointed into the air.

The Genesis Qi from heaven and earth surged forth, finally transforming into tiny crystal flakes that drifted down onto the body of the black lightning phoenix.

In an instant, the lightning phoenix's aura surged. The crystal flakes seemed to form a layer of crystalline scales on its body.

The lightning phoenix let out a long cry. Its wings folded, and its enormous body transformed into a black lightning arrow. Black lightning surged wildly around it, and then it directly slammed into the ancient colossal hand.

This time, the black lightning formed a rotating vortex, unleashing incredibly terrifying destructive and penetrating power.

It actually pierced right through the ancient colossal hand.

Zhao Mushen's eyes narrowed. His figure flickered, turning into afterimages as he rapidly retreated.

However, the lightning phoenix was even faster; where it passed, even the void left faint traces.

Realizing he couldn't evade, Zhao Mushen immediately stopped. He swiftly formed hand seals, and behind him, the golden light array reappeared in the void. This time, its Genesis Qi intensity was even greater than before!

Boom! Boom!

The golden light array rotated. The next instant, two ancient hands extended, directly overlapping to form a colossal golden mountain!

The giant mountain was covered in ancient and mysterious patterns.

Rumble!

The golden mountain shimmered, appearing as if teleporting above the black lightning phoenix that had charged forward. Then, it heavily suppressed downwards, causing the void itself to crack.

As the golden mountain descended, the black lightning phoenix also let out a sharp cry. Countless bolts of black lightning swept wildly, attempting to resist the mountain, but to no avail.

The golden mountain continued its descent, growing larger and larger, as if intending to completely engulf the black lightning phoenix.

But just as the black lightning phoenix was about to be suppressed, its massive beak suddenly opened. A condensed black lightning beam, as dark as ink, violently shot out, directly striking down on Zhao Mushen's head.

This black lightning was extremely dense, clearly compressed to a terrifying degree.

The black lightning was too fast; even Zhao Mushen couldn't evade it. He immediately roared like thunder, gathering his vast and powerful Genesis Qi into his palms, then thrust them out, fiercely gripping the black lightning beam.

Hiss! Hiss!

The black lightning beam pulsed erratically, its tyrannical power immediately drawing blood from Zhao Mushen's hands.

Yet, Zhao Mushen paid no heed. He simply stared intently at the black lightning beam, which was slowly pushing towards his glabella. He was well aware of this black lightning's destructive power; if it truly pierced his glabella, even he would undoubtedly be severely injured.

Behind Zhao Mushen, over ninety million Genesis Qi stars flickered wildly.

The black lightning beam slowly drilled forward, finally stopping when it was still about two inches from Zhao Mushen's glabella.

In that instant, even Zhao Mushen let out a sigh of relief inwardly.

However, before he could fully exhale, he suddenly saw a purple light spot flash within the black lightning beam.

Zhao Mushen's pupils abruptly contracted, and the hairs on his entire body stood on end.

Just as he was about to use a technique, a streak of purple light flashed from within the black lightning, instantly transforming into a graceful figure that appeared before him.

It was Su Youwei!

She wasn't severely injured by the black lightning inside the black phoenix?!

For at this moment, Su Youwei's Genesis Qi was still full and powerful, showing no signs of injury whatsoever!

Zhao Mushen's mind raced like lightning, and his face turned slightly pale. He had been tricked!

Wu Yao had actually teamed up with Su Youwei to deal with him!

"Violet Heavens Azure Abyss!"

However, there was no time to counterattack. Between Su Youwei's jade-like hands, purple and azure light flickered. The next instant, a long violet-azure sword appeared, its blade formed from starlight, brilliant and mysterious. The sword light flashed past.

It directly pierced through Zhao Mushen's chest.

Zhao Mushen's internal Genesis Qi violently churned. His grip loosened, and the black lightning beam curved slightly, like a black thorn, forcibly stabbing downwards into his shoulder from above.

Su Youwei's graceful figure appeared behind Zhao Mushen.

Further away, Wu Yao crooked her finger, and the black lightning phoenix cried out to the sky.

She stared at the wide-eyed Zhao Mushen and said calmly, "Zhao Mushen, you are the most dangerous one, so I think it's best if you're out first."

In fact, when Zhao Mushen had transmitted his message to her, she had instantly transmitted one to Su Youwei as well. Although the two women had some past differences, they both clearly understood Zhao Mushen's dangerous nature.

For Wu Yao, if Su Youwei were eliminated first, facing Zhao Mushen alone would be more difficult than facing Su Youwei alone.

This was probably what Su Youwei also thought, so when she received Wu Yao's message, she immediately agreed.

Zhao Mushen glared furiously, but the Genesis Qi from Su Youwei and Wu Yao raged and exploded within his body, rendering him speechless. Finally, he slowly collapsed backward.

Outside, everyone was dumbfounded.

Countless gazes stared almost blankly at the scene. The original situation appeared to be Zhao Mushen and Wu Yao teaming up against Su Youwei, but who could have imagined that it was merely a deception? Wu Yao had clearly reached an agreement with Su Youwei beforehand.

Wu Yao had used her lightning phoenix to swallow Su Youwei, and the two women had collaborated to trick Zhao Mushen.

Their eyes blankly followed Zhao Mushen as he fell backward. Was the king ranked first on the Divine Dwelling List truly eliminated just like that?!