Projection of the Heavens: I prove my immortality through slaughter.

"My hand! The Heaven-Burning Halberd!"

Yun Huang let out a beast-like roar of pain. His right wrist was a bloody mess, the Destructive True Intent like a malignant tumor, frantically eroding his meridians and life force, preventing the wound from healing. What terrified him even more was that the clan's supreme treasure, the Heaven-Burning Halberd, was uncontrollably plummeting towards the raging energy turbulence below!

Having lost the Heaven-Burning Halberd, his strength plummeted by more than half! Meanwhile, his opponent, Lin Xuan, was staring at him with icy eyes, his killing intent palpable.

An unprecedented sense of crisis gripped his heart, and Yun Huang finally put away all his arrogance and contempt, replacing it with a kind of madness and rage driven to the brink of despair!

"Lin Xuan! I want you dead!!"

He roared, ignoring the excruciating pain in his right hand, and with a swift grab of his left, a spare crimson spear appeared in his grasp. Simultaneously, the power of his bloodline surged wildly, causing his already formidable aura to erupt again, temporarily suppressing the injury to his wrist! Like a madman, he charged towards Lin Xuan with the spear, the tip condensing into a point of extremely compressed dark red light—the forbidden technique of the Rift God Clan—the Blood-Burning Star-Shattering Spear! While its power was inferior to the Heaven-Burning Halberd, at the cost of burning his bloodline, it was enough to threaten a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator!

Faced with this desperate attack, Lin Xuan's eyes remained calm. His virtual divine spark had already calculated Yun Huang's possible reaction. He did not choose to take the blow head-on, but instead retreated swiftly, while his divine sense, like an invisible hand, swept towards the falling Heaven-Burning Halberd!

"Don't even think about it!" Yun Huang's eyes were bloodshot. How could he allow the clan's treasure to fall into enemy hands? He forcibly changed his move, sweeping his spear light across, attempting to intercept Lin Xuan's divine sense.

However, Lin Xuan's move was a feint! In the instant that Yun Huang was distracted by the interception, his main body used the force of the recoil to rush at an even faster speed toward a dangerous place he had already noticed at the edge of this star field—a slowly rotating natural vortex that exuded a destructive suction force!

The vortex was only a hundred miles in diameter, yet it emitted terrifying fluctuations of law; the gravitational distortion at its core was enough to tear apart the physical body of a Golden Core cultivator! It was a well-known forbidden zone in this void!

"Trying to escape in this dangerous place? Dream on!" Yun Huang was blinded by anger and greed (to reclaim the Heaven-Burning Halberd), and with his confidence in his own bloodline forbidden technique, he ignored everything and chased after Lin Xuan, rushing towards the edge of the star vortex!

The two chased and fled, instantly reaching the edge of the vortex's gravitational influence. A terrifying suction force sluggished Lin Xuan's escape light, causing his body to involuntarily slide towards the center of the vortex.

Yun Huang was also affected, but by burning his bloodline and surging his power, he was able to barely resist the suction force. His spear once again condensed terrifying power, and he grinned maliciously as he thrust it towards Lin Xuan's back, who seemed powerless to escape the star's pull: "Where do you think you're going to run! Die!"

Just as the spear's edge was about to strike him, Lin Xuan's "panicked" and struggling figure suddenly steadied! He turned around abruptly to face Yun Huang, his face showing not fear, but rather a cold smile of triumph.

"Who told you I was running away?"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly formed a strange hand seal with both hands. The spiritual power of the peak eighth level of Foundation Establishment in his body was running wildly in an unprecedented way. The Minor Completion Destruction True Meaning no longer emanated outwards, but instead converged inwards, combining with the computing power of the Virtual Godhead, triggering the spatial laws within a hundred feet around him!

"Shifting Stars and Changing Space!" This was a risky move he hastily created based on the incomplete theory of space displacement from the magical civilization within the virtual godhood, combined with his own understanding of destruction and space!

At the same time, several extremely subtle destructive sword energies that he had previously quietly placed on several meteorites at the edge of the star vortex were simultaneously activated!

"Buzz—!"

Centered on Lin Xuan, space underwent an extremely brief but violent distortion and folding! He, the rapidly approaching Yun Huang, Yun Huang's determined Blood-Burning Star-Shattering Spear, and the several destructive sword energies that were triggered, all seemed to have their positions forcibly swapped by an invisible hand in that instant!

Yun Huang felt a blur before his eyes, and the surrounding scenery changed drastically! Lin Xuan, who was originally in front of him, disappeared, replaced by the Star Vortex Core Abyss, which was close at hand and exuded a terrifying suction force! The Blood-Burning Star-Breaking Spear light he thrust out with all his might, as well as the several tricky destructive sword energies that came at him, mostly fell into empty space, while a small portion was deflected and absorbed by the Star Vortex's gravitational field, which instead aggravated the energy disorder of the core!

What terrified him even more was that he found himself on the edge of the area where the star's suction force was strongest. The powerful tearing force made the power he gained from burning his bloodline seem so insignificant, and his body uncontrollably slid towards the abyss of death!

"No!!!" Yun Huang roared in despair, desperately channeling his spiritual power in an attempt to break free. But the gravitational pull of the star vortex was a force of nature, how could it be so easily resisted?

Lin Xuan, with the help of the instantaneous displacement and spatial recoil of the "Star Shift," narrowly escaped the strongest suction range of the Star Vortex. Although his face was pale and his breath was fluctuating, clearly indicating that the use of this technique was extremely taxing, he was steadily suspended in a relatively safe area.

He coldly watched Yun Huang struggle at the edge of the star vortex like a flying insect caught in a spider web, and pointed his finger like a sword at the Burning Sky Halberd, which was still falling but had been slightly deflected by the gravity of the star vortex, and gestured from a distance!

The virtual deity precisely calculated the gravitational trajectory, and a gentle spiritual force, like a thread, cleverly wrapped around the shaft of the Heaven-Burning Halberd. Taking advantage of a tiny fluctuation in the star vortex's gravitational field, it suddenly pulled the halberd out of its falling trajectory!

"Whoosh!"

The crimson Heaven-Burning Halberd transformed into a streak of light and landed in Lin Xuan's hand. The halberd felt heavy in his hand, its blade icy cold, but the immense divine power and scorching will contained within it startled Lin Xuan. The eternal divine flames swirling around the halberd's blade attempted to burn his palm, but were forcibly suppressed by the Lesser Completion of Destruction True Intent.

The magical artifact has changed hands!

"Lin Xuan!! I will haunt you even as a ghost! The Rift God Clan will tear you to pieces!!" Yun Huang went completely mad upon seeing the Burning Heaven Halberd stolen, uttering the most vicious curse. He struggled, attempting to self-destruct his golden core and perish together with Lin Xuan.

However, under the terrifying gravity of the celestial vortex, he couldn't even manage to self-destruct. The powerful gravity tore at his flesh, and cracks began to appear in his sturdy divine battle body, with blood constantly seeping from his seven orifices and skin.

Holding the Heaven-Burning Halberd, Lin Xuan coldly stared at Yun Huang, who was struggling on the brink of death, without a trace of pity. To be merciful to the enemy is to be cruel to oneself.

He slowly raised the Heaven-Burning Halberd. Although he could not fully unleash its power, its weight, sharpness, and the destructive intent infused within it were enough.

"I'll take your life, and this halberd."

As soon as he finished speaking, he exerted force in his arm and hurled the Heaven-Burning Halberd like a javelin at Yun Huang, who was struggling in the Starry Vortex!

This time, it wasn't supernatural power, but the purest force and the throw of destruction!

The Heaven-Burning Halberd transformed into a dark red lightning bolt that tore through the void, ignoring the chaotic gravity, and pierced through Yun Huang's chest with unparalleled precision!

"puff--!"

Yun Huang's body stiffened abruptly. He looked down at the halberd blade that had pierced his chest, his eyes filled with endless resentment, unwillingness, and disbelief. He, a genius of the Rift God Clan, a talent unseen in a thousand years, possessing the Heaven-Burning Battle Body and wielding the clan's treasure, had actually... perished at the hands of a Foundation Establishment stage rogue cultivator?!

The next moment, Xingxuan's terrifying gravity erupted completely, tearing his physical body, along with the pierced golden core, into the finest particles, annihilating them in the absolute darkness of Xingxuan's core.

Yun Huang, a true disciple of the Rift God Clan—annihilated in both body and soul!

Lin Xuan reached out and summoned the Heaven-Burning Halberd, which flew back and landed in his hand. The divine blood that had stained the halberd had been purified by the power of the Star Vortex. He looked at the powerful halberd, then at the slowly rotating Star Vortex that was devouring everything, and a slight ripple stirred in his heart.

This battle was fraught with peril. Had it not been for the use of this natural star vortex to set up a deadly trap, killing Yun Huang, who possessed the spiritual treasure, head-on would have been virtually impossible.

He sheathed the Heaven-Burning Halberd, suppressed the surging blood within him, and dared not linger here. With Yun Huang's fall, the Sky-Splitting Clan would inevitably react even more strongly; this place had become a hotbed of conflict.

He determined the direction and sped off into the depths of the quicksand star belt.

The vortex continued to spin slowly, as if nothing had happened. Only the lingering energy fluctuations and the stench of blood in the void told the story of the thrilling counterattack that had just taken place.

Lin Xuan's fearsome reputation and battle record are destined to shake this star field once again with the change of ownership of the Burning Sky Halberd.

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