Legs spread wide, Wang Zhong let out a roar.
"Roar!"
The great hammer descended with world-ending might. Wang Zhong stretched out his arms, like a giant holding up the sky, preventing its collapse.
Where they clashed, the ground beneath Wang Zhong completely caved in and shattered.
The heavens shook and the earth trembled, mountains of gold and pillars of jade toppled, and a terrifying shockwave swept outwards.
"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"
Such a fearsome blow had almost completely depleted Tang Chen's hard-won strength, but the force unleashed by such an all-out strike was absolutely terrifying.
As far as the eye could see, everything was destroyed, and a massive humanoid black hole was extremely conspicuous.
"To withstand my Great Sumeru Hammer with your bare body, I don't believe you can still be alive!"
Tang Chen panted, speaking intermittently. Suddenly, he clutched his head, roaring madly.
"Ah!"
"Damn it, you damned beast!"
The Crimson Nine-Headed Bat King, which had been parasitic within him, seemed to believe Wang Zhong had surely died from that blow and wanted to reclaim the body.
However, Tang Chen at this moment had regained his original sanity and would not let it succeed so easily.
He circulated his Asura divine power, constantly resisting it. But the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat King was exceptionally powerful, and Tang Chen, having been greatly depleted by the previous move, was no match for it.
Just as he was about to fall into disadvantage again and have his body taken, a faint sound of small stones shifting made both Tang Chen and the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat King, who were locked in struggle, tremble.
The sound of shifting stones grew more distinct, eventually ringing non-stop like the tolling of a bell.
The earth trembled, and an extremely terrifying power gathered within the humanoid crater. The surging aura and pressure made Tang Chen's heart turn cold.
Sensing that Wang Zhong was not dead, the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat King once again subsided, ceasing its struggle with Tang Chen.
"Cunning beast, you think you're safe by hiding inside my body!"
"If I die, you will die too!" Tang Chen roared, scornfully denouncing the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat King's actions.
The earth's tremors intensified, and all the remaining people in the Slaughter City felt a sense of impending doom.
Something extremely terrifying was about to emerge from beneath the ground!
But to their astonishment, when the trembling reached its limit, it suddenly subsided. And before Tang Chen's gaze, Wang Zhong suddenly leaped out of the humanoid crater.
The moment Tang Chen saw Wang Zhong appear, his pupils contracted, and he let out a despairing, wry smile. "Unscathed!"
"My proudest strength and martial soul are not even qualified to leave a scratch on him!"
"The world's number one weapon martial soul, invincible on the ground, is a complete joke!"
"But you won't make me, Tang Chen, die at the hands of a reasonless beast like you!" Tang Chen gritted his teeth, his eyes burning with rage.
"Slaughter Domain!"
"Asura Divine Sword!"
Endless blood intent, and the purest crimson erupted from Tang Chen's body. A red domain enveloped Wang Zhong entirely, turning heaven and earth blood-red.
His remaining soul power burned and boiled. Strands of blood seeped from the corners of his mouth. Tang Chen held the Clear Sky Hammer horizontally. A stream of blood-red soul power coiled around the Clear Sky Hammer, and cracks spread across the hammer before it shattered and fell.
After the Clear Sky Hammer shattered, a terrifying black and red sword, two meters long, appeared in Tang Chen's hand: the Asura Divine Sword!
"Kill!"
Tang Chen roared and shot forward, thrusting the sword directly.
The long sword pierced through his chest. Its unparalleled sharp sword qi almost split the blood-red world in half.
"Pierced through the heart by the Asura Divine Sword! I don't believe you still won't die from this!"
Tang Chen, with blood on his lips, roared almost madly.
In the years past, he had never felt as powerless, even desperate, as he did now. All his methods had failed to even injure the opponent, and his arrogant pride and absolute confidence in his own strength had been torn to shreds.
This sword was his final, all-out strike. After this, his life and death were entirely in the opponent's hands!
Wang Zhong slowly lowered his head. His blood-red eyes were calm and placid, like a vast, unmoving ocean. The killing intent and ferocity within them suddenly boiled upon seeing Tang Chen, surging as if to tear him apart.
But within the boiling killing intent and ferocious eyes, Tang Chen discovered a pure land, where there was no wind, no waves, as still as a stagnant pool.
"You, you, you..."
Tang Chen abruptly released his grip on the sword and staggered backward. That gaze sent a chill from the depths of his soul.
"This level of injury is still far from enough to kill me!"
When the Asura Divine Sword appeared from Tang Chen's hand, Wang Zhong's rationality returned, or rather, he was guided. Amidst the endless killing intent, he found an incredibly calm great path.
Asura!
Under Tang Chen's gaze, Wang Zhong grasped the hilt of the Asura Divine Sword at his chest and slowly drew it out, drawing a spray of blood and revealing a clean wound.
But the wound healed in an instant. Wang Zhong held the Asura Divine Sword in his right hand, gently stroked its edge with his left, wiping away the blood. A slight smile played on his lips, and he whispered, "A Xiu, you were right."
"We really do get along well!"
These words made Tang Chen tremble. He thought of a possibility!
The opponent had gained the Asura Divine Sword's recognition!
"How is this possible, how is this possible? Even I have been stuck at the eighth trial for so many years. How could he, who doesn't even have the Slaughter God Domain and whose reason was overwhelmed by killing intent, leap over the first seven trials and gain the Asura Divine Sword's recognition!"
Years of hard work were surpassed by the opponent in a single encounter. Tang Chen was going mad.
As if to confirm this possibility, the Asura Divine Sword held by Wang Zhong trembled violently. It was joy, it was delight, it was excitement.
"In endless slaughter, to maintain one's original heart, this is the essence of killing, and the essence of Asura!"
As the words fell, an ancient, majestic, and terrifying blood-red demon god tore through the void and descended, spanning the sky. The surging pressure was like a vast, boundless ocean, powerful and vast.
Wang Zhong held his sword and raised his head, looking at the colossal demon god spanning heaven and earth. His tone was calm and confident.
The immense killing intent, obtained from the little fox and capable of drowning the world, was now poured out from within him without reservation, transforming into a blood-red sea that completely engulfed the Slaughter God Domain he had unleashed!
Killing intent transformed into a sea of blood!
The demon god spanning heaven and earth also opened its eyes at this moment. They were blood-red, infinitely cold, and filled with majestic killing intent. These eyes were identical to Wang Zhong's, but in these eyes lay majesty and coldness; there was no madness. The ferocious demon god extended its massive palm towards Wang Zhong.
Wang Zhong stepped onto the demon god's palm, quietly looking up at the colossal demon god's eyes spanning heaven and earth. His gaze was incredibly calm.
"Slaughter God! Slaughter! Asura!"
"These three domains are external manifestations of the application of killing intent and bloodlust to different degrees!"
"Slaughter God, killing for the sake of killing! Slaughter, killing out of pleasure! Asura, killing because they deserve to be killed, so we kill!"
As these three sentences were uttered, blood-colored lightning descended from the sky, striking the boundless blood-red sea of killing intent. The demon god stood there silently, its gaze fixed on Wang Zhong. Golden light began to flicker within its eyes.
The blood sea trembled, and an invisible fluctuation emanated from its surface. A peculiar, bone-white domain centered on Wang Zhong, re-covering the entire blood-red world.
"Slaughter God Domain!" Tang Chen exclaimed in disbelief, looking at the domain beside Wang Zhong.
The Slaughter God Domain, which could only be condensed by traversing the Hell Road, had been formed by Wang Zhong in just three sentences!
However, the changes had only just begun. Under his gaze, the bone-white domain transformed into a bloody hue, finally becoming as thick as blood.
"Slaughter Domain!" Tang Chen trembled, his voice also shaking.
But this blood-like domain changed again. Within the Slaughter Domain, a blood-red sun hung in the sky, mountain peaks erupted from the ground, and a blood sea surged endlessly.
"Impossible! Impossible!"
"Asura Domain! How could the Asura Domain be on him! This isn't a domain that gods can touch!" Tang Chen screamed wildly. He had completely lost his mind.
His ideals, his beliefs, his desires, and his goals had been snatched away by another in this very moment.