Those who reincarnate must die.

Using his ability to warp space, the Wrathful Iron Jaw turned what should have been a fierce battle into a comical game of hide-and-seek. {What? You don't know yet? | Read COM, read error-free chapters | Go Google it now!} In this kind of attrition, Zhang Lang was practically just circling around his opponent, with no chance of a direct confrontation.

What is he trying to do? The spatial distortion does prevent me from touching him, but it doesn't harm me either. What's the point of dragging out a battle where we can't even touch each other?

Just as Zhang Lang was trying to break through his opponent's ability, suddenly, the expression of the Divine Wrath Iron Jaw changed slightly, and a smile appeared on its face. Then, its dragon eyes looked at Zhang Lang.

This glance was quite alarming; Zhang Lang immediately felt as if he were being targeted by a wild beast.

He's about to attack!

Without needing words, Zhang Lang instantly understood his opponent's intentions.

If you want war, then let's fight!

Zhang Lang gathered his strength and launched a series of Void Moon Steps, charging fiercely towards his opponent.

The Wrathful Iron Jaw also unleashed an astonishing aura, baring its mouth and spreading its arms as it charged toward Zhang Lang.

The two top experts' speeds instantly surged to their limits. However, just as they were about to collide, Zhang Lang's direction changed abruptly, bypassing the Divine Wrath Iron Jaw and heading towards the depths of space.

Another space distortion?

Zhang Lang didn't expect his opponent to resort to such a trick at the last moment. However, because he was charging too fast, Zhang Lang couldn't stop in time. He could only look back and see that the Divine Wrath Iron Jaw had also bypassed him and headed towards the desolate land.

Zhang Lang instantly understood the other party's intention.

He was stalling for time. He was just stalling me for time so that I wouldn't interfere with the Chen Clan's actions!

Although he had considered this, Zhang Lang had already used up all his chances of using the Void Moon Step, and before the cooldown period ended, he could not change direction and could only continue flying into the depths of the universe!

In the meantime, Ironjaw of God's Wrath had already returned to the ground.

At this moment, the Chen Clan had completed the ritual. The white ape lying on the ground was convulsing, and a tangible red energy crystal condensed and shone on its chest with the aid of the instrument.

Seeing this, the Wrathful Ironjaw grinned excitedly and walked over...

After cooling down, Zhang Lang, who had already flown deep into the universe, finally turned around and slowed down by stepping on the moon in the void to return.

After traversing the vast expanse of space, he finally returned to the desolate planet and landed in the direction he remembered.

boom!

Zhang Lang crashed beside the molten pit. The Chen Clan members were nowhere to be seen at the bottom of the pit; only a withered white ape remained, devoid of any life.

Zhang Lang stepped forward, raised his hand, and touched the white ape's corpse. The corpse collapsed and disintegrated, turning into dust that scattered in the wind.

It was completely annihilated.

What about the Chen Clan? What about the Divine Wrath Ironjaw?

Zhang Lang unleashed his full power, instantly covering the entire planet, and soon located the figures of the Chen Clan.

These guys actually split up and fled in different directions, with the furthest one already thousands of kilometers away.

Zhang Lang snorted coldly, and used his explosive power to lock these guys in place from a distance.

Sensing their movements were restricted, the Chen clan members did not panic; they seemed to have anticipated this and immediately attempted various attacks. However, faced with Zhang Lang's overwhelmingly powerful explosive force, they were utterly powerless to resist.

Thirteen people… There are only thirteen in the entire world. There's no sign of Divine Wrath Iron Jaw, nor of that Arrogant Flame Golden Eyes… Could it be…?

He immediately scanned the entire world again and discovered an astonishing fact.

The portal he used to arrive has disappeared!

Zhang Lang was terrified. He immediately leaped into the air and transformed into a zigzag line as he rushed toward the nearest member of the Chen clan.

As Zhang Lang descended from the sky, terror filled the eyes of this Chen clan member, who even attempted to raise his weapon to commit suicide. However, Zhang Lang subdued him first, grabbing the man's head and slamming him to the ground.

"Tell me, what happened to the teleportation portal? Where is Ao Yan Jin Tong? Where did Shen Nu Tie Jia go? What exactly is your plan?"

"Kill me! The moment we entered this world, we were prepared to die!" This member of the Chen clan was quite defiant. Zhang Lang snorted coldly and snapped one of its bones: "Answer my question!"

The Chen Clan member gritted his teeth in excruciating pain, but uttered no further groan. Zhang Lang intensified his efforts, but no matter how much he tortured him, until the man finally succumbed to his injuries and breathed his last, Zhang Lang received no information whatsoever.

"Next!"

Zhang Lang discarded the corpse, which was no longer human, and came to the next member of the Chen clan.

He refused to believe that these dozen or so people were all made of iron!

And so, one after another, members of the Chen clan were tortured to death by Zhang Lang. Finally, when he found the ninth one, this guy could no longer hold on and revealed the truth to Zhang Lang.

"The portal to time and space has been sealed..." The battered and bruised Chen Clan member gritted his teeth, gasped for breath, and trembled as he said, "Our Chen Clan split into two groups. One group, led by Ao Yan Jin Tong, lured the white ape to the portal and then lay in ambush nearby. While you were fighting the white ape, they entered the human world and then temporarily sealed the portal."

"What about the other group?" Zhang Lang's lips twitched.

"The other group is us. We're waiting for the outcome of your battle with the white ape, and then we'll extract endless essence from it..."

"Unlimited Essence?" Zhang Lang frowned. "What's that?"

"It is... an energy crystal that can help people break through attribute limitations, a super-level enhancement that even the altar cannot provide..."

"As expected!" Zhang Lang gritted his teeth and said, "This white ape is a monster whose fire attribute has broken through its limits!"

"Yes..." the Chen Clan explained, trembling, "The maximum attribute a Reincarnator can reach through the altar is 9999 points. Beyond that, one can only find Infinite Essence. According to our research, there should be five creatures in the Great Thousand Worlds that have broken through the limit of a single attribute. Infinite Essence can be extracted from them. This white ape possesses Infinite Fire Essence."

"But it's too powerful; we can't extract it, so we can only lure you into fighting it. According to our intelligence, although you haven't broken through your limits, your combat power is comparable to a monster that has broken through a single attribute. Your probability of defeating the white ape is 7%..."

"You're lying!" Zhang Lang ripped out a rib from the Chen Clan member, causing him to scream in agony.

"I didn't, I was telling the truth..."

"What about the Divine Wrath Iron Jaw? How do you explain that?" Zhang Lang sneered, "His strength is above mine; he's more than capable of dealing with the white ape."

"Lord Ironjaw of Divine Wrath?" Upon hearing this name, the Chen Clan trembled: "That's not his true form, just a projection we summoned!"

"Projection?" Zhang Lang was startled.

"Yes, Lord Divine Wrath Iron Jaw is the master of the number one altar of the Chen Clan, and the strongest reincarnator in the entire Chen Clan and even the entire altar! No one knows how many years he has been in the altar, only that he reached the limit of all attributes many years ago, and since then, he has been collecting the infinite essence of various worlds."

"But for some reason, the altar seems to be very wary of Lord Ironjaw of God's Wrath, imposing all sorts of restrictions on him that are much stricter than those on ordinary reincarnators. Now, it is difficult for him to travel freely between different worlds, so we can only summon his projection."

"The projection is a part of Lord God's Wrath Iron Jaw, but it cannot unleash his full power, and its existence time is also limited. If a battle occurs, it will consume more of its existence time, and the more intense the battle, the faster it will consume."

"Therefore, although Lord Divine Wrath Iron Jaw's projection is stronger than the white ape, it's still unknown whether it can last until the end of the battle. Moreover, after winning, time will be needed to organize the ritual to extract the essence, and by then, he probably won't live to see the essence appear. And if the extracted essence isn't absorbed immediately, it will quickly dissipate, drifting to some world or possessing some creature, making it difficult to find again... So..."

"So, you're letting me deal with the white ape to buy time for God's Wrath Ironjaw?"

Now Zhang Lang understood completely why the Divine Wrath Iron Jaw had refused to fight him head-on, instead relying on its power to distort spacetime to outmaneuver him. Because a direct confrontation would greatly diminish his lifespan!

You cunning old man!

"He's absorbed the essence and left this world?" Zhang Lang looked at the Chen Clan member before him. "How many attributes has he broken through?"

"As far as I know, he broke through the earth and water attributes before, and with the fire attribute this time, he has broken through three attributes in total. I heard that he also found the metal attribute essence many years ago, but it seems that he failed to absorb it later, and the whereabouts of the metal attribute essence are unknown."

"Metallic essence?" Zhang Lang frowned. "When did that happen?"

"I heard this rumor shortly after I became a hero, five years ago. If this is true, it must have happened many years earlier..."

Zhang Lang frowned: "Then let me ask you, how do you reopen the portal to this world?"

"Well... the Golden Eyes of Arrogant Flame has only temporarily sealed the portal. It can only last for two or three days at most, and then it will open naturally."

"Two or three days...isn't there a faster way?"

"I really don't know..."

Seeing that he couldn't extract any more information, Zhang Lang gave him a quick death. He then searched for the remaining members of the Chen clan, but still found nothing more…

Left with no other choice, he returned to the spot before the portal and looked at the obscured spacetime rift.