Chapter 1965: Angel's Sword of Destruction

Each time he absorbed the enemy's power, not only did it fail to harm the Night Emperor in the slightest, but it also indirectly helped him grow even stronger.

Xu Yang chuckled.

"Excellent," he said. "It's been a long time since I've faced an opponent who could make me think. This truly is an exciting feast of war!"

Xu Yang was now serious. At the same time, he began to change his combat strategy. Relying solely on raw elemental power would not inflict enough damage on his opponent.

In fact, no matter how powerful the attack, it wouldn't have the desired effect on him. Therefore, to impose significant limitations on his opponent, Xu Yang needed to use power at the level of fundamental laws.

With that, Xu Yang slowly stepped into the void. Behind him, twelve angelic wings swiftly coalesced, manifesting golden laws of light that completely enveloped his body and fundamentally altered his power attributes within the battlefield.

"From this moment on," he declared, "I will no longer be affected by any rules within the scope of the Ancient Martial Divine Path. You are about to face the true Xu Yang, at full power."

The moment the golden light descended, the Night Emperor instinctively gasped, a hint of solemnness and apprehension appearing on his brow.

"I didn't expect you to possess a flawless angelic bloodline," the Night Emperor exclaimed. "Why did the God of Angels come to this era?" Xu Yang burst into laughter.

"There are many things your current realm cannot comprehend," Xu Yang replied. "If my judgment is correct, what you call standing at the pinnacle of the Ancient Martial Divine Path is, in reality, merely being a pawn in the hands of shadowy forces.

"They allowed you to acquire that blue life essence simply to give you a taste of power, so you could better play your part as their pawn.

"However, none of this matters to me. When I fight at full power, no one on the main continent has the strength to defeat Xu Yang."

Xu Yang's confidence in saying this stemmed from two reasons. First, his Way of Tai Chi had been recognized by all the myriad paths of the heavens, and through it, he had comprehended the limits of the Grand Dao of Life and Death, achieving true immortality.

Second, Xu Yang wielded the most formidable power of the angelic lineage: not only the flawless bloodline of the God of Angels and the awakening of the twelve angelic wings' innate talent, but also the Supreme Divine Artifact, the Mirror of Samsara.

As Xu Yang finished speaking, an incredibly dazzling golden angelic sword swiftly materialized above his head. This was the mightiest sword, born from Xu Yang's Eternal Sword Dao combined with the supreme laws of the angelic lineage, capable of ignoring all myriad paths and techniques of the heavens.

Sure enough, even before the golden light-sword fully formed, the previously fearless Night Emperor finally felt a truly devastating pressure. Without hesitation, he began to employ his strongest ultimate profound technique, directly attempting to absorb the black crescent moon totem behind him with his physical body. The totem and his flesh began to merge perfectly.

This was a style of combat Xu Yang had never witnessed before.

Based on Xu Yang's understanding of his opponent's technique, once this method was unleashed, it signified an absolutely irreversible process.

The merging of the two powers meant their very life force had undergone a fundamental change, making any attempt to separate them again completely unrealistic.

"Are you truly prepared to use this method to fight me?" Xu Yang asked, speaking purely from a moral standpoint as a friendly warning. "If you cannot utterly defeat me, then you will forever be merged with this black crescent moon totem, completely losing your physical body."

However, the Night Emperor's mind was made up. His domineering nature dictated that he would act without regard for the consequences, going all out.

"You don't need to say more," the Night Emperor retorted. "I have made my decision, and I will naturally bear all its consequences. Compared to permanently losing my physical body, if I lose to you, everything I once possessed will vanish into thin air. Today, I must defeat you, my greatest opponent, at all costs, or I will lose everything."

It must be said that the Night Emperor's reasoning was not flawed. For if he were to be defeated by Xu Yang, all his secrets would be laid bare.

And facing a powerful opponent he could not defeat, the Night Emperor would never be qualified to become the true ruler of the Ancient Martial Divine Path.

The black crescent moon totem began to madly devour the Night Emperor's entire physical body. The two finally completed their merger, his body becoming completely one with the black moon.

In an instant, the entire imperial palace battlefield was enveloped by golden light and the light of the black crescent moon. The two opposing lights each occupied half of the battlefield, their intensities almost perfectly matched. Xu Yang finally saw the terrifying amplification effect that the blue life essence brought to his opponent.

Given Xu Yang's angelic power, it would have been absolutely impossible for his opponent to maintain such combat power and competitive intensity against the legacy of the angelic lineage without the blessing of that special life force.

"Angelic Sword of Destruction!"

Xu Yang let out a roar, and the golden-yellow Sword of Destruction above his head finally cleaved downwards. The massive sword aura, hundreds of meters long, shattered the entire space within the imperial palace battlefield in a single strike. All the sharp sword energy ultimately converged on the surface of the Night Emperor's Black Moon Totem.

Initially, the Black Moon Totem was indeed cleaved with a terrible gash by this sword. However, accompanied by the Night Emperor's almost frantic, roaring counterattack, all the sword energy from the golden Sword of Destruction was ultimately completely devoured by the Black Moon. The amplification this provided to the black moon wheel totem was far more terrifying than anything seen before.

"Hahahaha," the Night Emperor cackled. "Thank you for another hearty meal! The power amplification contained within your sword energy is truly astonishing. Now, I doubt you can produce any means powerful enough to suppress me. It's time for you to experience the might of my strongest ultimate profound technique."

"Eternal Night Descent!!"

With a fierce roar from the Black Moon Totem, the Night Emperor activated his strongest ultimate profound technique. In an instant, more and more black energy masses began to appear out of thin air in the air surrounding the entire imperial palace. These masses began to reduce everything within the space to nothingness.

This was an extremely powerful method of destructive force manifestation, pushing the disintegrating effect of the Black Moon Totem lineage's extraterrestrial power to its absolute extreme.

"What a terrifying technique!" Xu Yang thought. "If this guy's strength were great enough, with just this ultimate profound technique, he could probably devour all the life force on the entire main continent! This is truly world-destroying power!"