If the third seal breaks, in the very next moment the Supreme Emperor's divine sense will surge into Quinn Shepherd's Spirit Embryo Treasury, shattering his divine sense, erasing his consciousness, and turning Quinn into another version of himself!
The Heaven-Origin Tri-Duel imparted by Shu Jun is almost instantly shattered by the Supreme Emperor's divine sense—its strength far exceeds all expectations.
Yue Tingge and Logan Cross are tense to the extreme. Looking up, they see the Supreme Emperor's phantom clashing with the Heavenly Emperor seal, and in the end, the Supreme Emperor's phantom prevails, shattering the final seal of the Heaven-Origin Tri-Duel.
The Heaven-Origin Tri-Duel taught by Shu Jun is not the same as the version Quinn Shepherd has reformed. After Quinn's improvements, the final gate of the Heaven-Origin Tri-Duel is modeled on the Ancient-God Heavenly Emperor, making it countless times stronger than the traditional version—yet even this is easily broken by the Supreme Emperor's divine sense.
However, after passing through three layers of seals, the Supreme Emperor phantom formed from divine sense has also grown much weaker.
Yue Tingge looks up toward the sky, watching as the Supreme Emperor's phantom draws ever closer, pressing down so hard that the starry sky within Quinn Shepherd's Spirit Embryo Treasury trembles like the surface of water.
Yue Tingge and Logan Cross channel their divine sense and yuanqi in a steady stream, causing their bodies to swell larger and larger.
Whoosh—
Their Primordial Spirits descend first, entering Quinn Shepherd's treasury and landing atop the taiji diagram, merging with their earlier avatars.
One of them is at Emperor's Throne consummation, the other at High Heaven Hall Stage. With their Primordial Spirits present in person, they far surpass Quinn Shepherd's own Primordial Spirit.
Compared to them, Quinn Shepherd's Spirit Embryo appeared extremely tiny and insignificant.
Outside, the Supreme Emperor's phantom descended, invading the Spirit Embryo Treasury. Its gigantic face looked down, curiosity flickering in its eyes as it examined Quinn's treasury.
“Just a dead man, and yet he dares to stir up trouble?”
Yue Tingge roared, his Primordial Spirit with yuanqi swirling into a layer of Heaven Palace behind him—majestic and vast. His Primordial Spirit rose straight up to meet the Supreme Emperor's phantom head-on.
At the same time, Logan Cross, saber in one hand, soared into the sky, slashing at the Supreme Emperor.
Although neither of them were divine sense experts, their cultivation was substantial. Even if their divine sense wasn't as strong as the Supreme Emperor's, they were confident they could put up a fight.
Just as the two of them leapt upward, the Supreme Emperor's divine sense surged forth. Wherever it passed, their divine sense instantly collapsed, unable to withstand a blow!
With their divine sense shattered, their spell-arts lost control, yuanqi turned chaotic, and their Primordial Spirits plummeted from the sky, hearts filled with shock.
"Close-quarters Primordial Spirit combat!" Yue Tingge shouted.
Logan Cross understood—since spell-arts couldn't counter the Supreme Emperor's phantom, only direct Primordial Spirit combat might defeat it.
However, in battle, Primordial Spirits are usually used to cast spell-arts from a distance, blasting the opponent. Close-quarters Primordial Spirit combat is a major taboo.
After all, Primordial Spirits aren't physical bodies, but energy forms forged from Spirit Embryos and souls. If they're slain by the enemy, the soul is utterly annihilated!
But with the current situation, they can't think of a better plan—only close-quarters Primordial Spirit combat might allow them to defeat the Supreme Emperor's phantom.
The Supreme Emperor's phantom is formed from divine sense, and likewise has no physical body. His divine sense contains no yuanqi, his spell-arts lack power, and he has no sharp divine weapons—he shouldn't be able to do much harm to Primordial Spirits.
The Supreme Emperor's figure dives down, Yue Tingge and Logan Cross's Primordial Spirits rush forward, about to strike—when suddenly, dragon roars and tiger howls erupt, and vicious flood dragons burst from the Supreme Emperor's body, attacking the two!
"Is this the visualization spell-art that Shepherd Venerable spoke of? A spell-art visualized from divine sense?"
Logan Cross and Yue Tingge are stunned—this method of forming spell-arts is completely different from their own cultivation system; it's an entirely different system!
Nowadays, most spell-arts are built on runes; spell-artists learn various runes, use yuanqi to shape them, and countless runes combine to form different spell-art structures.
As early as the beginning of the Dragon-Han Era, spell-artists studied ancient gods and demigods, researched the runes on their bodies, understood their meanings, and organized rune systems.
For example, the Four Spirit spell-arts come from the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise—four innate ancient gods. Nether spell-arts come from Tu Bo, Xuan spell-arts from Heaven Duke. There's also the Earth Mother Yuanjun's spell-art system, the Zhou-Tian star-god spell-art system, and many others.
This cultivation method has lasted for a million years.
—The only paths outside the rune system are acquired Daos, such as Sword Dao, Saber Dao, Painting Dao, Martial Dao, and Music Dao. These are acquired, not innate, and have no runes.
But the spell-arts displayed by the Supreme Emperor's phantom break out of this system, belonging to the divine sense visualization system—visualizing dragons, phoenixes, gods, and demons to assist in battle!
Logan Cross and Yue Tingge have seen Quinn Shepherd visualize fine wine, delicacies, beauties, and even a divine dragon, but Quinn never used divine sense visualization to fight.
Now, seeing this fighting method firsthand, they are truly shocked.
The divine dragon visualized by the Supreme Emperor's phantom is countless times stronger than the one Quinn Shepherd visualized; it has a physical body, as powerful as a Jade Capital Stage master, and fights fiercely and fearlessly.
For a time, the sky is filled with the sounds of dragon roars and howls!
Logan Cross and Yue Tingge are formidable—they slaughter the dragons, and dragon heads and bodies keep falling from the sky, crashing onto the taiji diagram. Yet, the next moment, the dragon corpses vanish, turning into torrents of divine sense that soar up and re-form into dragons, attacking again.
No matter how much they kill, it's never enough. Anxiety grows in their hearts—the Supreme Emperor's divine sense is too strong. In this situation, they fear they'll be worn down and die here, unable to stop the phantom!
The Supreme Emperor's phantom splits off part of its divine sense to block them, shrinking even further, and continues toward Quinn Shepherd. Just then, an altar appears in the sky, blocking its path. Upon the altar, a huge head opens its eyes, its empty mouth opening and closing, laughing: "Supreme Emperor, long time no see!"
The diving Supreme Emperor's phantom halts, gazes at the incomplete head, and asks in surprise: "Shu Jun, one of the Three Kings of the ancient era? You're still alive?"
That's right, I'm alive!
Divine sense surges from Shu Jun's giant head, transforming into a colossal Creator. Tucking his own head under his arm, he laughs: "Surprised, aren't you? I actually survived that battle! Supreme Emperor, I'm here—get lost!"
The Supreme Emperor's phantom snorts coldly, saying indifferently: "You're just a defeated general of mine—do you dare speak of courage?"
Pah!
Shu Jun sneers: "Supreme Emperor, if you hadn't gathered all the clans to visualize you back then, could you have defeated the Three Kings and become emperor? Don't leave today—I'll battle you for three hundred rounds!"
The Supreme Emperor's phantom chuckles: "Your body is broken, your divine sense hasn't recovered—why would I need three hundred rounds to defeat you?"
His body shudders, splitting into two. One Supreme Emperor phantom faces Shu Jun, while the other heads toward Quinn Shepherd.
Shu Jun shouts angrily: "Underestimating me? I'll show you my Three-Enclosure Upper Sense System!"