Though drenched in blood, Shi Hao’s killing intent was overwhelming. Severely wounded, surviving the siege of four supreme emperors was nothing short of a miracle.
In contrast, the Annihilation Elder bore only superficial wounds—mere scratches that healed instantly as his body radiated light.
Shi Hao, however, was on the verge of being torn apart, his body riddled with deep fissures. As a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, facing four supreme adversaries had plunged him into dire straits.
“Desolate, you’re finished!” Yu Di growled, convinced that today would mark the end of this terrifying upstart.
The Annihilation Elder remained solemn, far less optimistic.
Shi Hao, unwavering in his resolve, stood firm—cold, resolute, and brimming with unshaken confidence. Even now, bathed in blood, he exuded the aura of a conqueror poised to annihilate all foes.
**”Roar!”**
With a thunderous roar, his blood energy surged. Above him hovered the Law Pool, while in his grip was the nascent Immortal Sword. With a sweeping slash, its razor-sharp blade split eternity itself.
**”Hmm?”**
At that moment, Cang Di’s face paled. A sense of impending doom gripped him—his strength waning, his vitality fading.
**”Pfft!”**
Amidst a thousand sword beams, he alone failed to evade. Shi Hao’s strike nearly severed his head, leaving a ghastly gash across his neck.
Staggering back, Cang Di clutched his throat, his face etched with horror.
“You—” Blood-flecked spittle spilled from his lips as his pupils contracted in shock. His head had almost been lopped off.
**”Kill!”**
Disheveled and bloodied, Shi Hao was far more wounded than the four Quasi-Immortal Emperors. Yet now, he embodied the very essence of a god of slaughter, dominating the battlefield with unmatched ferocity.
“Slay him!” Hong Di commanded.
The four Quasi-Immortal Emperors struck as one. The Boundary Sea churned, its waves evaporating into mist, ceaselessly annihilated.
Worlds were born and destroyed in the span of their assault.
Chaos raged, immortal energy surged, sword beams carved eternity, and laws wove a celestial net. The battlefield shimmered with radiant mist—a spectacle both dazzling and terrifying.
**”Pfft!”**
This time, Hong Di suffered a devastating blow. His pupils shrank as he recoiled, his brow split open, blood gushing. Even his primordial spirit had been cleaved.
Were he not a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, that sword would have ended him.
“Why… why is my body weakening?!” Hong Di cried out in alarm.
Cang Di echoed the sentiment—this was no accident. Their magic was depleting, their bodies exhausted. It wasn’t just him.
“Elder, what’s happening?” Cang Di turned to the Annihilation Elder.
Yu Di’s expression darkened as he too sensed his strength ebbing.
Unlike the others, Yu Di wasted no courtesy. He whirled toward the Annihilation Elder and snapped, “Old fool, was your Quasi-Immortal Emperor Elixir only a temporary boost?”
Now, none of the three—Cang Di, Hong Di, or Yu Di—remained at their peak. Cang Di faltered first, while Yu Di’s decline came last.
Shi Hao, cold and unyielding, pressed forward. He had sensed the decay creeping into his foes, a withering aura seeping from their bodies.
Noticing the Annihilation Elder’s furrowed brow, he deduced the truth—the three emperors were weakening.
“Your wounds are too severe, your foundations damaged. There’s no such thing as an instant cure. That elixir was but a stimulant—a temporary reprieve. True recovery takes time,” the Annihilation Elder explained.
“You—!” Yu Di roared, his wings beating furiously. The heavens shattered, light raining down like an ocean, threatening to sunder the Boundary Sea.
Forced to retreat under Shi Hao’s relentless assault, they had returned to square one—their essence nearly depleted, their supreme combat power crippled.
Hong Di and Cang Di paled, scrambling back to evade the unstoppable Desolate. Despite his bone-deep wounds, Shi Hao now loomed over them like a tiger—a god of slaughter.
“This battle is between you and me!” Shi Hao advanced, his focus locked onto the Annihilation Elder.
Eliminate him, and the other three would fall like dominos.
Unlike his foes, who relied on elixirs, Shi Hao had undergone a metamorphosis. Even gravely wounded, his combat prowess remained terrifying.
“You—”
Shi Hao’s disregard for the three Quasi-Immortal Emperors stung their pride. He strode past them as if they were mere statues.
**”Roar!”**
The trio roared in fury, turning to flee.
“Sparing you now doesn’t mean I’ll let you escape!”
With a deafening explosion, Shi Hao unleashed boundless divine might. Three streams of clear qi erupted from his chest, morphing into his likenesses to pursue the fleeing emperors.
His *Self-Derived Freedom Great Technique* remained unusable—a lingering consequence of his past self-destruction.
Yet, even these qi clones clashed fiercely with the weakened Quasi-Immortal Emperors.
“You dare look down on us?!” Hong Di snarled.
Shi Hao paid no heed. Locked in mortal combat with the Annihilation Elder, he fought with unbridled fury—a final, decisive showdown.
Two days had passed since the battle began.
Beings from the future and present clashed, their war shaking heaven and earth, resonating across time itself.
By now, both Shi Hao and the Annihilation Elder had suffered grievous injuries, their transcendent states crumbling. That fleeting perfection—the pinnacle of their metamorphosis—could not be sustained.
Shi Hao understood: the path to true Immortal Emperorhood was fraught with peril, a road so treacherous it bordered on despair.
Now, they fought as Quasi-Immortal Emperors once more, just as Shi Hao had against Yu Di and the others.
Drenched in blood, their magic surged, chaos roiled, and the battle raged to its bloodiest crescendo.
**”Roar—!”**
Suddenly, the Annihilation Elder let loose a bestial howl. His form shifted, revealing a monstrous wolf’s head—crimson fur thick as a mane, crowned by massive ox horns.
Its maw gaped wide, swallowing the very heavens. Stars plummeted into its gullet as the Boundary Sea itself began to dissolve.
This was no mere *Taotie* devouring—this was the annihilation of all creation.
The colossal wolf’s head, its maw dripping with gore, consumed everything in its path, refining all matter into oblivion.
Shi Hao hurled the Law Pool forward, its resonant *clang* intercepting the sudden assault.
The Annihilation Elder’s crimson wolf head bore two massive black horns that glowed ominously. Their collision with the Law Pool shattered space, draining the Boundary Sea dry.
**”Roar!”**
A roar that shook the cosmos!
At their level, most maintained human forms, rarely resorting to true bodies. Yet the Annihilation Elder had unleashed his primal ferocity.
**”Roar!”**
The bellow echoed across the Boundary Sea, reverberating through time itself.
In the distance, fallen kings crumbled under the sonic onslaught, their bodies disintegrating before exploding. The sea’s surging waves cleansed the firmament.
Simultaneously, nine tails erupted from the Annihilation Elder’s lupine form, lashing toward Shi Hao like colossal serpents bent on rending the cosmos.
Shi Hao recoiled, his breath catching. These were no mere tails—they were nine true dragons, ink-black and grotesque, their maws bristling with fangs.
The Annihilation Elder had revealed his full, monstrous truth.
Each tail terminated in a draconic head!
Now Shi Hao recognized his foe’s lineage.
**Nine Netherworld Hound!**
One of the Ten Calamities, a legend among legends.
This ancient being, who had weathered countless epochs, was none other than the progenitor of his kind.
While his descendants allied with the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, he stood as a titan of the Boundary Sea’s far shore.
Elsewhere, battles neared their end.
The White-Robed Empress, peerless in grace, moved with lethal precision—an immortal sovereign from beyond the heavens. She was the first to claim victory, shattering the golden-armored woman’s body with her bare hands.
Her palms, fair as jade, unleashed transcendent light, shaking heaven and earth. Even Shi Hao, locked in his own duel, felt its reverberations.
**”Boom!”**
The White-Robed Quasi-Immortal Empress gave chase, her divine seals crushing the golden warrior’s fragmented form.
**”Pfft!”**
Her crystalline palm struck down, reducing her foe to bloody mist that bloomed across the Boundary Sea.
Yet Quasi-Immortal Emperors were nigh unkillable. A wisp of soul-fire shrieked, clutching at scattered bones and flesh as it fled toward the River of Time.
After two days and nights, hers was the first battle concluded.
**”Roar!”**
In the distance, the silver-haired man howled in rage and desperation—his own plight dire, battered by the figure wielding the colossal cauldron.
“Die!”
The cauldron’s master, though shrouded in haze, exuded overwhelming dominance—a pre-creation sovereign whose might oppressed all realms.
**”Boom!”**
His fists, blazing with golden light, shattered eternity itself.
After two days of combat, the silver-haired man’s arms were drenched in blood, his hands spasming around his halberd. Now, a devastating blow sent his body convulsing.
The end had come.
As the cauldron descended, crushing the halberd, its master’s golden fists pierced the silver-haired man’s chest. With a brutal twist, his body exploded.
**”Pfft!”**
Blood painted the Boundary Sea.
**”Boom!”**
The cauldron’s master surged through the crimson mist, his divine seals pulverizing the fleeing soul-fire.
The silver-haired man’s fractured spirit, clinging to bone and flesh, attempted to escape into the River of Time.
But the cauldron’s maw yawned wide, its radiance devouring all.
“You dare?!” the silver-haired man shrieked, struggling desperately. Trapped within the cauldron, even a Quasi-Immortal Emperor would be refined over eternity.
“Dare? Today, you die.”
**”Boom!”**
The cauldron blazed, its nine-colored immortal metals and primordial mist engulfing the soul-fire.
“Kill!”
The silver-haired emperor, once invincible, writhed in humiliation. Yet his fate was sealed.
The White-Robed Empress descended like a goddess, her palm striking with cataclysmic force.
**”Pfft!”**
His soul-fire scattered, his remnants sucked into the cauldron.
“Seal!”
The cauldron’s master, eyes blazing like lightning, finalized the imprisonment.
Far off, the elder wielding the Ruler of Heaven trembled. Already crippled by the Timeless Bell, he turned to flee.
**”Clang!”**
The bell’s toll shattered his lower half, leaving only his torso to plunge into the River of Time.
**”Bang!”**
The White-Robed Empress struck from afar, her palm reducing his remains to dust.
Yet his soul, clinging to the Ruler of Heaven, escaped.
A battle for the ages had concluded—one future Quasi-Immortal Emperor captured, his doom assured under the trio’s relentless refinement.
Yu Di, Hong Di, and Cang Di blanched. The trio’s might was terrifying—they slaughtered emperors!
Thankfully, these beings hailed from the future, unlikely to interfere further.
Even the Annihilation Elder shuddered. The future had birthed monsters.
**”Roar!”**
But he had no time to dwell. His duel with Shi Hao had reached its zenith.
“Kill!”
Shi Hao’s eyes sharpened into blades. Unleashing supreme divine might, he sought to annihilate the Nine Netherworld Hound.
**”Pfft!”**
In one motion, his radiant golden hands seized several draconic tails—and tore them free.
“Ahhh—!” The beast’s agonized roar shook the heavens.
Most of his power lay in those tails.
**”Pfft!”**
Blood geysered thirty thousand feet as Shi Hao ripped them away, then hammered the Hound’s body with devastating punches.
Fissures spiderwebbed across its form.
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