“It won’t last long.”
David told the truth, “I am injured and my vital energy has been greatly depleted. I can only last for twenty breaths at most.”
“Twenty breaths is enough.”
Ling Shuang raised her hand, and the silvery-white divine light of order condensed into a slender light sword in her palm.
The design of that lightsaber was completely different from the orthodox Daoist methods of the Twenty-Sixth Heaven, carrying an ancient and sharp killing aura. “I have been lying low for three thousand years, not to die here with you today.”
“Twenty breaths later, regardless of whether the fighting is over or not, we must withdraw.”
Heng Xuan had already led his men and charged forward.
With his full power unleashed at the sixth rank of Immortal Lord, the entire space of the secret realm was violently distorted.
Hundreds of inspectors formed the orthodox Heaven-Locking Formation, and the silvery-white divine light of order intertwined to form a huge net that covered the sky and closed in from all directions, sealing off all of David and Ling Shuang’s escape routes.
“David! Ling Shuang!”
Heng Xuan’s voice was like ancient ice, every word carrying a deep-seated killing intent, “One of you is a foreign rebel, and the other is a traitor who has been lurking for three thousand years!”
Today, you cannot escape! I will crush your bodies, drain your souls, and refine your foundations, then hang you before the gates of the Heavenly Palace for all eternity!
David wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his purple eyes swirling with a dark gray light.
He turned to Ling Shuang and said, “This idiot talks too much. You stay on the left, I’ll stay on the right, don’t waste your breath on him.”
Ling Shuang’s lips twitched almost imperceptibly. Without replying, she transformed into a silver streak and rushed towards the patrol envoy formation on the left.
David took a deep breath and activated all the remaining chaotic essence within his body.
A dark gray light surged around him, possessing the characteristic of devouring Daoist principles, layer by layer devouring, transforming, and weakening Heng Xuan’s oppressive aura of order.
He strode forward, charging towards the Sky-Locking Formation composed of hundreds of inspectors on his right.
The first wave of divine light of order collided with the origin of chaos, hissing and crackling like boiling water splashing on snow.
Although David’s Chaos Origin was severely depleted, his ability to devour Daoist principles gave him a natural advantage when facing the power of order.
The divine light of order emanating from those inspectors was devoured, disintegrated, and then fed back by the source of chaos, becoming nourishment for David.
He rushed to the front of the formation and struck out with his palm. A gray-black vortex exploded in his palm, sending dozens of inspectors flying.
“This kid is weird!”
As one of the inspectors was sent flying, he shouted, “He’s devouring our divine power!”
Upon seeing this, Heng Xuan’s expression darkened, and he moved instantly, unleashing a full-force palm strike of a sixth-grade Immortal Lord towards David’s back.
That palm strike carried the Heavenly Dao authority of the entire secret realm, and the silvery-white divine light of order condensed into a huge blade of light, carrying a terrifying power that could tear through the void.
Sensing the murderous intent behind him, David used the fragments of the Heavenly Spiritual Pivot to activate spatial teleportation, barely avoiding a fatal blow.
However, the aftershock of the light blade still struck his left shoulder, slicing off a large chunk of flesh, and grayish-purple blood gushed out.
“David!”
Ling Shuang called out from the left, her voice filled with suppressed anxiety, “Are you alright?”
“You won’t die!”
David gritted his teeth and replied, pressing his right hand on the wound on his left shoulder. The chaotic essence surged rapidly, temporarily sealing the wound.
His face paled slightly, but the murderous intent in his eyes intensified. “Hengxuan, is this all the fuck you’ve got? You think you can beat me up just because you outnumber me? Have you no shame?”
Heng Xuan’s face turned ashen from the scolding, and his sixth-grade Immortal Lord aura surged once more, turning the entire sky of the secret realm into a blinding, pale white by the silvery-white divine light of order.
Without further ado, he formed hand seals, activating the primal power of the Heavenly Palace of the World, drawing upon the remaining nodes of all the order formations within the entire secret realm, and converging all power into a single strike.
The power of that strike far exceeded David’s expectations.
Silvery-white beams of light converged from all directions, eventually coalescing into a giant sword of order hundreds of feet long, carrying terrifying power capable of crushing everything, and slashed down at David.
That sword strike contained Heng Xuan’s lifelong cultivation, the origin of the Heavenly Palace of the World, and the power of order of the entire secret realm, enough to instantly kill any cultivator below the sixth rank of Immortal Lord.