"Impossible! No—this can't be! What is that thing? How could it have become such a monster?!"
Tia Thorn's face drained of color; all trace of her former confidence vanished, leaving only terror and bone-deep shock.
In the blink of an eye, countless God-Emperor realm experts from Skycloud Palace had already fallen, and even the God-Venerable powerhouses were either slain or gravely wounded.
She never could have imagined—never in her wildest dreams—that her own Skycloud Palace headquarters would become her grave! The barrier she set up to trap others had become her own cage, locking her in for the kill.
Die!
With Chaos Arm and Absolute Cleave unleashed, Evan Chu cut down more than a dozen God-Venerable experts in a single sweep.
Now, wielding the power of five Star Marks with flawless control, Evan Chu suffered no backlash—his God Infant would never again be inexplicably harmed.
The outer battlefield was a blood-soaked hell. With the Elemental Spirit Beast Legion crushing the enemy, Frostbane Divine Palace’s warriors fought fiercer with every blow, unleashing overwhelming barrages—enemy powerhouses fell in droves.
Explosions and screams echoed without end. Thunder crashed down relentlessly from above, while surging divine fire completely suppressed the darkness domain—spelling doom for Skycloud’s forces.
Bathed in the dense power of seven elements, Evan Chu’s strength soared. With an utterly invincible stance, cutting down foe after foe, he charged straight at Tia Thorn.
"Tia Thorn! I know you’re not like the rest—kill you, and your God Infant might still survive. If you want a clean death, spill every last secret. Leave nothing out!"
Otherwise, you won’t even leave behind a corpse worth burying!
Evan Chu leveled his sword at Tia Thorn. She might have late peak God-Venerable cultivation, but in his eyes, she was already dead—there was no other ending for her.
"Heh. Good. Very good! Hahahaha…"
Tia Thorn’s laughter was crazed and bitter. Earlier, she’d fought against several top experts, but even just two fire-elemental spirit beasts had left her battered and humiliated.
She might have destroyed those fire-elemental spirit beasts, even scattering their elemental spirits, but she’d paid a heavy price herself.
"You really are the kind of man I appreciate, Evan Chu. Impressive—truly! You want to kill me? Go on, do your worst!"
"You don’t know your place!"
Evan Chu spun the Frostbane Divine Sword into a dazzling sword-flower, unleashing a terrifying beam of Stellar Power that exploded against Tia Thorn’s body.
"Speak! Tell me—who is this Spirit Lord, and what’s the real story behind these corpse-puppets?"
"Want answers? Come play with me—crawl into my bed, battle me for three hundred rounds, serve me well, and maybe if I’m satisfied, I’ll tell you."
"Shameless!"
Evan Chu seized the void, and with his mastery of elemental power, dozens more bolts of thunder suddenly veered, all blasting straight at Tia Thorn. Divine fire also erupted around her, burning fiercely.
Fireshift, Watershift, Goldshift, Thundershift, Windshift, Earthshift, Woodshift—all seven, now at the seventh layer, thanks to the nurturing of elemental spirits in the Timewheel Bracelet and Evan Chu’s bitter cultivation!
At this terrifying level, even a late-stage God-Venerable couldn’t hope to endure!
Just the fury of thunder and the smelting divine fire had Tia Thorn writhing in agony, as if thrown into the depths of hell.
It wasn’t that Evan Chu was needlessly cruel, eager to torment a woman—this woman’s heart was vicious, her schemes poisonous, and she’d repeatedly dared to touch his reverse scale!
"Speak, and I’ll give you a clean death!"
"Heh, a clean death? I’ll give myself one!"
Tia Thorn summoned her last ounce of divine power, igniting her Godblood Lineage and burning her life force to ashes.
"Young Master, fall back! That kind of desperate move—watch out, she could hurt you!"
The Black Qilin had kept a close watch on the battle, intent on protecting Evan Chu. So the moment Tia Thorn unleashed her final move, he shouted a warning.
"She thinks she can hurt me? Not a chance! Let her taste true heart-gnawing pain!"
Dark-element power! Even at just the fifth layer, Evan Chu’s mastery—amplified by Chaos—was fiercer than any God-Venerable who specialized in darkness!
"Aaaah!"
Tia Thorn’s skin, beauty, even her organs were corroded by Evan Chu’s dark-element power—her agony was instant and unbearable.
"My face, my face…" Tia Thorn saw her beauty destroyed and snapped, driven utterly mad.
Boom!
A massive explosion erupted from her body. Two newly joined rogue God-Venerables from Frostbane Divine Palace were blasted apart, their bodies destroyed, leaving only their God Infants fleeing for their lives.
Silver Dragon and Jade, caught near the blast center, were battered by the shockwave and suffered heavy injuries.
As for the Elemental Spirit Beasts—even with dozens wiped out in the explosion, Evan Chu didn’t bat an eye.
As long as the Elemental Spirit controlling the Elemental Behemoth remained unbroken, given time, the legion of Elemental Spirit Beasts could always be reborn in endless waves.
What mattered most now was this—who was the mastermind behind Skycloud Palace, the Spirit Lord pulling all the strings? And what dark secret bound Skycloud Palace to Heavenblade Sect?
And how had these powerhouses clawed their way back from death? Besides his third junior brother, were there other ancient corpses from Frostbane Divine Palace still in enemy hands?
Were there even more hidden monsters waiting in the shadows? And what kind of fiend could command corpse-puppets forged from the flesh of fallen gods?
Evan Chu wanted answers to every last question—only by exposing the truth behind the War of the Gods could he get justice for himself and those betrayed!
Only then could he uncover everything, and win justice for himself, for the Primordial Dragon, and for the Netherworld Lord!
Otherwise, even if Frostbane Divine Palace crushed every rival and ruled the God Realm, it would mean nothing.
The slaughter raged on, brutal and ceaseless. The corpse-puppets, possessed by ancient powerhouses, knew neither exhaustion nor fear.
The world was plunged into darkness, blood mist swirling everywhere—countless died here. Many Frostbane Divine Palace God-Kings and God-Emperors fell, but those who survived were the true elites, the final champions!
Skycloud Palace’s losses were even heavier. By now, not a single God-Emperor survived; the last dozen late-stage God-Venerables, knowing all hope was lost, detonated themselves in a desperate bid to drag down Frostbane Divine Palace’s experts.
But with Evan Chu, Old Goldwing, and Shadow combining their terrifying speed, almost none of the enemy managed to complete their self-detonation.
Boom!
With one last, earth-shattering sword strike, Evan Chu shattered the guardian light-shield, and the palatial complexes of Skycloud Palace below were obliterated—reduced to ruins.
"From this day forward, Skycloud Palace is erased from the God Realm’s rolls! Frostbane Divine Palace takes another step toward unifying the divine world!"
"Palace Lord mighty! Invincible in the God Realm!"
"Lord Frostbane! Unite the God Realm!"
As Evan Chu made his declaration, the powerhouses erupted in cheers. But only Evan Chu himself knew—the destruction of Skycloud Palace was just a surface purge. The true crisis was far from over...
Just as he was pondering his next move, a thunderclap roared across the sky. At first glance it looked like Heaven’s Punishment Divine Thunder, but on closer inspection, it was a figure streaking toward them at breakneck speed!
"Haha, congratulations Senior Brother! My heartfelt congratulations!"