While the player is in Battle Through the Heavens, the system is in The Great Ruler

Chapter 380 One Emperor and One Ancestor Battle Against Heaven!

"Wow, a big one has arrived!"

Lin Dong narrowed his eyes, his previous relaxed smile vanished, and a hint of seriousness flashed across his gaze.

The top ten beings in the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan's Heavenly Demon Emperor sequence are all extraordinary. They are terrifying opponents comparable to the late-stage peak level of the Saint-grade Heavenly Supreme in the Great Thousand World, and are truly giants standing at the pinnacle of the power pyramids of the two worlds.

The Demon Emperor who slays the heavens before him, merely standing there, exudes an extreme sharpness born from his instinct for slaughter, which already makes the eight-colored spiritual power within his body feel a clear threat.

Xiao Yan also shifted his gaze from the weakened Black Eclipse Heavenly Demon Emperor to the gaunt figure blocking the way, who resembled a living killing machine.

In his deep eyes, the previously calm flame seemed to burn even more intensely. A Heavenly Demon Emperor among the top ten—indeed, worthy of serious attention.

"Looks like the warm-up is over."

Xiao Yan spoke calmly, and the temperature of the flames around him, which had been restrained, began to rise steadily, making the shimmering luster in the void more and more obvious.

Lin Dong grinned, but the smile was no longer relaxed; instead, it was filled with the excitement and fighting spirit of facing a formidable foe: "Perfect! One isn't enough, two will do!"

As soon as the words were spoken, the two of them locked onto their respective targets without even exchanging any words.

Xiao Yan took a step forward, his figure seemingly merging into the omnipresent flames, and in an instant appeared above the Black Eclipse Heavenly Demon Emperor's head.

He looked down at his opponent, whose arms were severed and whose breath was unsteady, his voice calm yet carrying an undeniable air of judgment: "Your life ends here."

The Black Eclipse Demon Emperor sensed the fiery aura locking onto him, his demonic eyes flashing with ferocity, filled with shock and rage. He knew there was no way out now, only a fight to the death!

"You want to kill me? Not so easy! Open the Bone-Corroding Demon Realm!"

The Black Eclipse Demon Emperor roared, ignoring his injuries, and unleashed his primal demonic energy.

A viscous, swamp-like dark domain, filled with endless white bones and corrosive demonic energy, suddenly expanded outwards from him, attempting to devour Xiao Yan within it.

At the same time, Lin Dong's figure appeared like a ghost directly in front of the Demon Emperor Zhan Tian.

He didn't act immediately, but instead observed the other's long, black sword-wielding arms with great interest, feeling the almost tangible cutting sensation.

"Not bad."

Lin Dong nodded, as if appraising a work of art. He then moved his wrist, and eight-colored spiritual light slowly surged from his body, intertwining and evolving behind him, transforming into a magnificent phenomenon resembling the beginning of chaos. "However, having only a sword is not enough."

For the first time, the Demon Emperor Zhan Tian slowly raised his bowed head. From beneath the shadow of his hood, two crimson lights shone, coldly locking onto Lin Dong.

He didn't say anything, but his arms, which had transformed into long swords, slightly adjusted their angle.

The next moment, countless fine black cracks silently appeared in the space around him, as if even the space itself could not bear the slash he was about to unleash.

Almost simultaneously, within a radius of about ten feet around Lin Dong, a series of crisscrossing, almost transparent, fine traces suddenly appeared.

These marks did not appear out of thin air, but were temporary imprints left after space was cut by something extremely fast and unimaginably sharp.

Click! Click!

Fine, crisp cracking sounds rang out one after another, like glass shattering. The invisible protective aura around Lin Dong was actually cut by these "sword marks" that appeared out of nowhere, causing it to flicker and ripple violently across its surface!

The attack had already begun, but it was so fast that even its trajectory was difficult to track. The Demon Emperor of Heaven had already unleashed his first strike before Lin Dong had even finished speaking!

Bang bang bang!

Lin Dong frowned slightly, his body glowing intermittently. Although he was not injured for the time being, the speed of the opponent's blade and the strange way of attacking him were indeed beyond his expectations.

He remained calm. In the blink of an eye, the eight-colored spiritual energy within his body surged and vibrated in a mysterious rhythm.

With a soft "hum", the protective aura suddenly contracted inward, becoming several times more solid, and a layer of chaotic color flowed on its surface, as if it could dissolve all laws.

The penetrating cutting energy, upon striking this layer of solidified chaotic spiritual light, vanished as if it had been thrown into the sea.

At the same time, he shifted his feet, and his figure seemed to transform into a blurry stream of light, making countless extremely subtle dodging and force-dissipating movements within a small space.

Each movement precisely avoided the most intense point of the invisible blade, absorbing the first wave of thunderous strikes with minimal cost.

As the explosions subsided, Lin Dong's spiritual light remained stable, though his aura rippled slightly. He raised his eyes to look at the gaunt figure in front of him, who seemed to have never moved, a hint of admiration flashing in his eyes. He slowly said, "As expected of the patriarch of the Blade Demon Clan—such a fast blade."

His tone was plain, yet it carried an acknowledgment of the skill of the strong.

The Demon Emperor's blade, in terms of speed and unpredictability alone, has reached a state of perfection. If he had not already grasped the power of space to an extremely deep level and possessed incredibly sharp spiritual senses, he would probably have suffered a loss just now.

"However, speed alone is far from enough!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Dong's spiritual energy surged and erupted from his body, accompanied by a deafening dragon roar.

A colossal azure dragon aura coiled around his body, its scales shimmering with a cold, metallic luster. The dragon's might was immense, and it finally coalesced in his right arm, transforming into a ferocious and enormous azure dragon claw!

At the same time, he made a fist with his right hand, and violent silver lightning poured out from his palm like a waterfall. Instead of scattering, it transformed into countless lifelike and ferocious lightning pythons, which swiftly wrapped around the blue dragon claw.

Lightning and dragon shadows intertwined, the azure dragon roared, and the lightning python danced wildly, colliding fiercely with the elusive spatial blade marks!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Violent energy explosions erupted continuously in the void between the two, tearing space to shreds.

While the Azure Dragon's light and the power of thunder were indeed formidable and could shatter most incoming attacks, the Heaven-Slaying Demon Emperor's blade was simply too fast, too cunning, and too unpredictable!

There were always some incredibly tricky angles that easily pierced through the Azure Dragon and Thunder Python's defenses, leaving deep marks on Lin Dong's protective aura. Although they didn't break through his defenses, they still caused Lin Dong's blood and qi to tremble slightly.

In just a few breaths, the two had exchanged hundreds, even thousands of blows. Although Lin Dong had not been defeated, he was suppressed by the endless, seemingly inexhaustible rapid blades and could only rely on his powerful spiritual energy and dragon body to withstand the attacks, making it difficult for him to launch an effective counterattack.

"Tsk, this is actually a bit tricky."

Lin Dong raised an eyebrow, but there was no fear in his eyes; instead, his fighting spirit intensified. With a thought, the azure dragon's light and the sky full of lightning pythons suddenly retracted.

"Looks like we need to get serious."

He murmured something, slowly raised his hand, and gently clenched it in the air.

hum!

An indescribable, strange fluctuation suddenly emanated from his palm, followed by a burst of dazzling eight-colored light. Within the light, something slowly emerged.

It was a glass bowl about a foot in size, crystal clear and shimmering with light, as if it were carved from the purest glass in the world.

The surface of the glass bowl is not smooth, but is engraved with eight ancient and mysterious runes of various shapes.

These eight runes seemed to possess a life of their own, constantly flowing and changing on the surface of the glass bowl, sometimes transforming into raging, leaping lightning, sometimes into quietly burning flames, and sometimes solidifying into translucent ice—

The Eighth Patriarch's Glazed Bowl!

This is a peerless sacred artifact that Lin Dong painstakingly crafted, using the original power of the eight ancestral symbols he controlled as a foundation and incorporating various rare and precious materials.

The moment it appeared, it caused the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles to tremble violently, emitting a humming sound as if it were submitting!

The sheer power of that fluctuation even temporarily suppressed the omnipresent, sharp blade intent of the Heaven-Slaying Demon Emperor.

For the first time, the two scarlet eyes of the Demon Emperor Zhantian showed a clear fluctuation as he stared intently at the Eight Ancestors' Glazed Bowl. His pair of jet-black longsword arms subtly adjusted their posture, becoming even more refined and dangerous.

However, just as Lin Dong was preparing to activate the Eight Ancestors' Glazed Bowl and truly fight against this top ten powerhouse, a cry rang out: "Ah!!!"

A heart-wrenching scream, filled with extreme pain, resentment, and fear, suddenly came from the other end of the battlefield!

The dark area shrouded in the Bone-Eating Demon Realm had now been completely burned away and purified by an endless, magnificent sea of ​​fire.

In the center of the sea of ​​fire, Xiao Yan's figure slowly emerged. In his hand, he held a ball of pitch-black demonic soul that was tightly sealed by countless flame runes and was still struggling and twisting. It was the demonic soul of the Black Erosion Demon Emperor!

The massive demonic body of the Black Eclipse Demon Emperor had already been reduced to ashes scattered across the sky by the combined burning of the Pure Lotus Demon Flame and many other strange flames, leaving not even a trace behind.

Emperor Yan Xiao Yan had completely suppressed and stripped away the demonic soul of a Heavenly Demon Emperor in such a short time!

Xiao Yan casually put away the struggling demonic soul, as if it were just a trivial item. He looked up, his gaze traversing the void, landing on Lin Dong, who was confronting the Heaven-Slaying Demon Emperor, and then glancing at the increasingly dangerous, withered Blade Demon.

He took a step forward, and a fiery lotus bloomed beneath his feet. His figure appeared beside Lin Dong as if by teleportation, reflecting the eight-colored radiance emanating from the Eight Ancestors' Glazed Bowl.

"Brother Lin, it seems you've run into a tough one."

Xiao Yan spoke calmly, but flames around him rose again, locking onto the Demon Emperor Zhan Tian in front of him.

Lin Dong grinned, weighing the Eight Ancestors Glazed Bowl in his hand: "Perfect, I just took out my weapon, and this one looks tough. Want to join in?"

"Of course." Xiao Yan nodded, a wisp of brilliant imperial flame quietly leaping from his fingertip.

Two peak powerhouses from a lower plane stood side by side. One held the Eight Ancestral Glazed Bowl, its eight-colored light flowing through the heavens and earth; the other held the Emperor Flame, which burned the eight wastelands.

Opposite them, the Demon Emperor Zhan Tian, ​​who had remained silent all along, finally uttered his first words since his arrival.

His voice was hoarse and dry, like two rusty blades rubbing against each other, devoid of any emotional fluctuation, only a bone-chilling coldness and indifference: "Trash—"

These two simple words, it's unclear whether they are a assessment of the imprisoned Black Eclipse Demon Emperor's weakness, or a contempt for his failure to complete his mission.

As soon as he finished speaking, his two scarlet eyes suddenly blazed brightly, and a killing intent far purer and more refined than before locked onto Xiao Yan and Lin Dong in front of him.

Facing two equally matched and formidable enemies, the Demon Emperor Zhan Tian held nothing back.

He shattered the void with his feet, his two long, black sword-wielding arms crossed in front of him, assuming a simple yet profoundly murderous stance. The next instant, his entire withered body seemed to transform into an invisible blade of light, vanishing in an instant!

The speed was so fast that it merged with the omnipresent sharpness of the blade, as if it were everywhere!

"Well done!"

A flash of fire appeared in Xiao Yan's eyes, and instead of retreating, he advanced. He formed an ancient and profound hand seal in front of his chest, and thousands of strange flames around him surged wildly toward his brow like rivers flowing into the sea.

A supreme aura, surpassing all other flames, erupted from his body!

"Fire God!"

A deep shout rang out, and behind Xiao Yan, a towering fire giant dharma image suddenly condensed, standing on a fire lotus, wearing a robe of ten thousand fire gods, and with a face that was seven parts similar to his!

The giant's eyes seemed to reflect the origin of all flames in the world, majestic, vast, and infinitely blazing.

This is the peerless divine power created by Xiao Yan after comprehending the true meaning of ten thousand flames and integrating his life's cultivation: Flame God!

As soon as the Flame God Dharma Form appeared, it stretched out a giant palm of flames as big as a mountain. Ten thousand flames swirled in the palm, evolving into a terrifying power that could burn the sky and boil the sea, and slammed down fiercely towards the omnipresent sharp blade intent!

Wherever it passed, space was scorched into a distorted vortex!

Almost at the same time as Xiao Yan made his move, Lin Dong also moved.

Instead of using the Eight Ancestors' Glazed Bowl to attack directly, he lifted it high above his head. The glazed bowl hovered above his head, and the eight ancestral runes shone brightly at the same time, projecting down eight-colored beams of light that enveloped Lin Dong.

"Eight Talisman Hands!"

Lin Dong let out a low shout and slowly extended his hands. Under the infusion of the eight-colored light pillars, his palms also took on a glass-like luster, and within his palms, the power of the eight attributes condensed and flowed in a perfectly balanced manner.

The left hand represents Yang, containing the power of thunder, fire, primordial chaos, and space, intense and fierce; the right hand represents Yin, containing the power of ice, darkness, devouring, and life and death, profound and unfathomable.

Yin and Yang revolve, and the eight elements are in harmony!

He thrust out his palm, seemingly slowly, yet it seemed to propel the power of the entire world.

A crystal-clear, giant glass hand engraved with eight-colored runes appeared out of thin air. Within the handprint, eight forces were constantly generated and circulated, carrying the vast power to suppress all laws and destroy all things, forming a perfect pincer attack with Xiao Yan's Flame God Giant Palm!

Faced with this terrifying combined attack from both sides, which could instantly cripple even an ordinary peak Saint-level cultivator, the Demon Emperor Zhantian's scarlet eyes remained as cold as ever.

"Ten Thousand Blades — Return to Ruins"

The voice was extremely hoarse, as if it were squeezed out from the deepest part of the netherworld.

The next moment, centered on the point where he disappeared, the entire locked space area suddenly transformed into a sea of ​​blades!

Countless jet-black blades of light, varying in length and shape, appeared out of thin air. Each one was refined to the extreme, containing absolute sharpness capable of severing all things and destroying life.

Centered on the will of the Demon Emperor of Heaven, they spun, strangled, and coalesced wildly, ultimately transforming into a single, heaven-and-earth-connecting...

A jet-black tornado composed purely of destructive sword intent!

The Blade Intent Tornado clashed violently with the Flame God's Giant Palm and the Eight-Character Glazed Hand without any fancy moves!

Rumble!

An indescribable storm of destruction swept across the sky for millions of miles in an instant.

The piercing light and the deep darkness intertwined and annihilated each other wildly, and the energy tide spread outwards madly, even flattening several layers of mountains on the distant land below by the aftershocks!

At the eye of the storm, three figures were simultaneously thrown backward.

The light of the Flame God Dharma Image behind Xiao Yan dimmed slightly, and the flames flickered. The Eight Ancestors Glazed Bowl above Lin Dong's head trembled, and several fine white marks were left on his glazed palms.

The terrifying dragon of sword intent surrounding the Heaven-Slaying Demon Emperor had dissipated, and his gaunt figure reappeared, with several charred marks and ice crystal cracks appearing on his black robe.

His long, black sword-wielding arms were also wreathed in a wisp of strange fire and eight-colored spiritual light that was difficult to dispel, clearly indicating that he had not fared well in the previous clash.

In a fierce and all-out battle, neither side managed to gain a clear advantage!

The Demon Emperor Zhan Tian slowly straightened up, his scarlet eyes sweeping over Xiao Yan and Lin Dong. His hoarse voice rang out again, carrying a hint of cold confirmation: "Very good—you are worthy of my remembrance."

Before he finished speaking, his two scarlet eyes flickered slightly, as if he were weighing his options.

The strength displayed by Xiao Yan and Lin Dong, especially their perfectly coordinated attack, made him realize that even he would find it difficult to win in a short time, and that even the slightest carelessness could put his life in danger.

While the extraterrestrial demons are indeed fearless, the Heavenly Demon Emperor, one of the top ten in the hierarchy, understands the preciousness of life even more.

Without the slightest hesitation or harsh words, the Demon Emperor Zhan Tian's figure suddenly became illusory, as if merging with the spatial rifts around him that had not yet fully healed.

The next moment, his figure, along with the not-yet-completely-healed spatial rift, was wiped away as if by an invisible hand, disappearing completely from the spot.

He withdrew, and with a clean and decisive departure, without any hesitation.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong stood side by side, not giving chase. The vast aura surging around them slowly subsided, and the Flame God Dharma Image and the eight-colored glazed light gradually dissipated.

The two exchanged a glance, both seeing a hint of seriousness in each other's eyes. This Heaven-Slaying Demon Emperor was extremely powerful, decisive in his actions, and definitely not someone to be trifled with.

"He got away."

Lin Dong rubbed his chin, not too disappointed. "This guy's knife is indeed powerful."

"Top ten in the rankings, truly deserving of the title."

Xiao Yan nodded slightly, his gaze fixed on the direction where the Demon Emperor Zhan Tian had disappeared. "After this battle, the extraterrestrial evil race will likely pay even more attention to the Northern Territory. The real tough battles may be yet to come."

They knew in their hearts that forcing back the Demon Emperor Zhan Tian had already achieved their strategic goals, relieved the crisis in the Northern Territory, severely injured or even captured a Demon Emperor, and deterred powerful enemies from beyond the realm.

Do not pursue a desperate enemy, especially on the edge of an overseas battlefield where the enemy's situation is unclear and there may be other ambushes.

Below on the battlefield, countless cultivators looked up at the two towering figures in the sky, their eyes filled with relief at surviving the calamity and boundless reverence.

The Flame Emperor and the Martial Ancestor joined forces to force back the Demon Emperor Zhan Tian, ​​who was ranked among the top ten. Such a feat will surely shake the entire Great Thousand World!