As the giant hand came down, Tang Jie's original body rushed in, raising his six arms to hold it back.
In the past, the original body would have been strong enough to resist.
But this time, as the original body's six arms thrust upward, the Blood River Behemoth roared, "Out of the way!"
With a frenzied bellow, the behemoth's giant hand erupted with crimson light. It slammed into the original body, and Tang Jie felt an unprecedented force that sent him flying.
The behemoth reached out, grabbed the original body, and threw him to the ground, the earth quaking at the impact, after which the behemoth stomped down with a foot. It was a savage and smooth series of actions, devoid of its earlier clumsiness.
After merging with the Blood River avatars, the behemoth had become both much stronger and also immensely more intelligent in battle.
Tang Jie instantly began to fight back against the behemoth, but even six arms swinging couldn't stop the ceaseless offensive of the behemoth, and its prodigious strength had the original body staggering back. Seeing that he was no match, the original body could only beat a hasty retreat. The Blood River Behemoth did not give chase, instead swinging a fist and creating a powerful blast of wind that howled across the world and struck Tang Jie's original body, causing him to vomit blood.
Blood spurted out of his mouth and descended like a crimson waterfall, leaving everyone aghast.
The Blood River Behemoth sneered in disdain. "Trash! You understand what true power means now, right? Now that I've merged with the behemoth, my power has reached the apex in both physical and law power, the powers complementing each other! It's not something you can contend against!"
"Is that so," the distant avatar Tang Jie softly said.
The Blood River Lord was shaken by his tone.
He was no stranger to this sort of tone, and every time Tang Jie spoke with this tone, it meant he was about to do something that would give him a headache. Whenever the Blood River Lord heard this tone, he instinctively tensed. "What other tricks do you have?"
Tang Jie smiled, a smile that made the Blood River Lord shiver.
By this point, even though he had just been fighting a Spirit Ring kid, this kid had so many hidden cards, was so strong, and had made the Blood River Lord suffer so many times, that he had long since stopped treating him as a mere Spirit Ring cultivator. Even a smile from Tang Jie made him feel nervous—a fact which was certain to have many people guffawing if they were to find out.
Tang Jie shrugged. "It's nothing. It's just that I also happen to know this trick of yours."
What?
In the middle of the Blood River Lord's shock, the avatar Tang Jie ascended into the air, turned into a crimson streak of light, and flew toward his original body, just like the Blood River Lord had done with the behemoth.
The light soon disappeared into the original body, upon which a look of happiness appeared on the face of Tang Jie's original body, like a father welcoming home a prodigal son, or a brother finding his long-lost twin.
The merger of the two bodies seemed to complete this lifeform, as if one had finally found their other half. It was a sort of feeling that was difficult to describe.
Everyone saw the brow of the towering original body relax, his entire attitude changing. It was like the clouds had opened up, allowing the sun to illuminate the world once more.
The sensation filled Tang Jie with power like never before.
He looked down at himself and muttered, "Yes, this is the real me, the complete me!"
"No! How is this possible?" On the other side, the Blood River Lord let out a crazed howl of shock and disbelief.
Tang Jie looked at the Blood River Lord and smiled. "As I said before, what you know, I know too!"
The Dao of Parting and Merging!
Tang Jie had spent all that time and effort in the valley studying the Dao of Parting and Merging precisely for this moment.
After being separated for many years, he could now take back what he had once paid, and besides, he also obtained a profit far in excess of his cost.
Now that the original body and avatar had fused, Tang Jie's strength began to rocket upward.
His original body had originally been at the peak of the middle Diamond Body, but it now broke through this threshold and entered the later stage of the Diamond Body, the power of the avatar pushing him almost all the way to greater attainment before finally stopping.
A single Spirit Ring avatar naturally couldn't empower him this much, but as these were two bodies of the same origin merging together, they created an effect that was greater than simple 1+1. Moreover, they had gained many blood gems from killing all those Blood River avatars, and what the avatar couldn't consume had been left in reserve, and now, it was all being absorbed. Tang Jie was rapidly rising, reaching levels of power he had never imagined. Power radiated off his body, causing the Blood River Lord's jaw to drop.
He shook his head. "No, so what if you've gotten stronger? You're still no match for me!"
He had essentially merged together two half–Soul Transformation avatars into the Blood River Behemoth, which was better than Tang Jie's single Spirit Ring avatar no matter how one did the math. He didn't believe that Tang Jie's merged form could surpass him.
He once more swatted a giant hand at Tang Jie, seeking to turn this bastard into a pancake!
"Awooo!" Tang Jie threw his head back and howled before charging at him.
Giant and behemoth clashed, with a collapsing world as the backdrop to their mortal combat.
The Treasure Paradise was still being drawn into the Mountain River State Diagram. More and more patches of void were appearing, then being swiftly filled in by the surrounding space. The world was dying, and the Mountain River State Diagram was expanding. Within the diagram, He Chong's trio watched in dumbfounded shock as the world grew larger.
Battling giants, a collapsing world, shattering space, seething earth—these apocalyptic sights made everyone else despair over their chances of survival. Liu Qianyi and the other representatives were stunned and dazed, not knowing where to go.
At this moment, Zuo Quanming suddenly pointed into the distance. "Look, over there!"
Everyone looked at where Zuo Quanming was pointing and saw a giant spatial fissure.
This was one of the spatial fissures that the Blood River Lord had opened, but there were no longer any flesh pillars writhing within it. The sword spirit's attacks had broken down these pillars, and the Treasure Paradise had been cut away from the domain barrier and was beginning to draw away from it. This was why it was no longer the domain barrier, but the void, behind the spatial fissure.
"We can leave the Treasure Paradise from there!" Zuo Quanming shouted.
"But that's the infinite void!" Liu Qianyi shouted.
"It's better than waiting here to die." Surprisingly, Na Shan supported Zuo Quanming's plan. "Although it's the void, it shouldn't be far from the Blood River Domain. If our luck is good, we might be able to find the way back to the Blood River Domain."
"Once we enter the void, we won't be able to orient ourselves, and a small error could lead us to being off by a huge margin. I'm afraid getting back to the Blood River Domain won't be that easy," Shui Yao worriedly said.
There was something she had left unsaid: the Dao of Space was constantly changing, and things weren't as simple as they thought. You couldn't say that since the Treasure Paradise had been linked to the domain barrier before, the fissure had to come out near the Blood River Domain now that the Treasure Paradise was free. Rather, it was highly possible that this small movement had caused that fissure to jump through countless worlds, and one would appear far, far away from where they wanted. Of course, Na Shan might have realized this and just been practicing the art of self-consoling.
They all clenched their teeth and finally decided to risk the void. At least it was better than staying in this world, where they risked dying to the calamity, being obliterated in the void, or else dying in the battle of those two giants.
They had just set off when a rumble came from the horizon.
An object flew out of the distance, rising high like the sun and illuminating all around it. It was Divine Genesis.
Tang Jie sought to take the Treasure Paradise, and Divine Genesis was merged with the Treasure Paradise. Thus, the process of taking the Treasure Paradise was the same as the process for subduing Divine Genesis.
But Divine Genesis was a natural Dao armament, a god among Dao armaments, and its power was far beyond mortal imagining. Even if it wasn't a combat-type Dao armament, its Great Dao laws were not something an ordinary person could fight against.
It felt threatened and had shown itself, and as its light shone, this chaotic world was shaken. Mountains floated into the sky, flames fell to the ground, rivers flowed in the sky, and grass and trees grew in the clouds as all the laws of the world were thrown into disorder. Everything became eerie and quiet, and the fleeing representatives froze in shock and confusion.
Only Liu Qianyi understood a little. Gazing at Divine Genesis which shone like the sun, Liu Qianyi muttered, "It's Divine Genesis. It's trying to stabilize and restore the world."
"Can it do it?" someone asked.
If Divine Genesis could do this, then they might not need to risk the void.
Liu Qianyi shook her head. "I don't know. Divine Genesis creates all things, and the power of the Great Dao is unfathomable. In terms of power, Tang Jie is definitely weaker. The problem is that it isn't human. It has no life or intelligence, only knowing how to create life but not how to respond to the situation. The final outcome is hard to predict."
The Blood River Lord also grew excited by the appearance of Divine Genesis. "Haha, I can't believe I forgot about this. Tang Jie, with Divine Genesis to keep things tamped down, you can't take the Treasure Paradise!"
"Tsk." Tang Jie sneered. "What I can't take is the Qian Kun Bag, but I can take the mountains, rivers, and soil. Divine Genesis can hold down the world, but it can never keep every stalk of grass or mote of dust! Even if I can't gobble up the Treasure Paradise in its entirety, I can still hollow it out!"
He pointed at the sky, and the Mountain River State Diagram began to madly suck in again, but this time, rather than the spatial fabric, it was only targeting the physical matter of the Treasure Paradise.
As expected, Divine Genesis couldn't deal with this. It could stabilize space, but that was because it was merged with the Treasure Paradise. It could do nothing if something wanted to take every plant and tree in the Treasure Paradise. If it had this function, how could anyone who entered the Treasure Paradise take anything with them?
Even so, the countless wills of the creatures within the Treasure Paradise warned Divine Genesis of the threat of this seizure—this was no ordinary taking of treasure, but the seizure of all physical matter within the Treasure Paradise!
It wanted to fight back, but alas, there was nothing it could do besides create treasure. The lack of intelligence was perhaps its only weakness. In its panic, instinct took control. It began to unleash its light, and then a shocking scene played out.
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