Deep within a temporal rift, time was in disarray. Behind Deorus, a pair of energy-based crimson dragon wings, condensed from blood, spread wide, shielding it from the chaotic flow of time. However, the moment it entered the temporal rift, Deorus' face twisted in shock as it suddenly turned around.

There, time rippled violently. Chen Chu descended through time itself, shrouded in dark-golden brilliance. Most importantly, in one of his hands, he held a wisp of soul power.

"That soul... It's in your hands!" Deorus' eyes turned frenzied.

The two demon god puppets it had sent to the Blue Planet previously had carried two strands of its soul essence. One had already been destroyed, and the other had gone completely silent. At that time, Deorus already had a bad premonition, which was why it had acted with such caution.

However, time-type primordial treasures were simply too rare. If it could seize this one, its chances of survival in the upcoming war would increase dramatically. It would also be far more valuable to the potential resurrection of the Primordial Ancestor.

Besides, the target location wasn't far, only about four hundred thousand kilometers from the empire. That distance could be crossed instantly by burning its origin. Even if surrounded by two or three demon-god-level enemies, it could still use the rift to escape.

To its shock, this truly had been an ambush. Even worse, one of its demon kings had betrayed it, and most importantly, this human named Chu Batian had become even more terrifying. The time clone that had been destroyed during the battle in the forbidden zone had not only recovered, but had even condensed into a stronger clone.

Deorus suddenly felt as though today could potentially be the day it was destined to die. However, in the next breath, madness overtook its expression.How can I die here? I am one of the few demon gods in the entire Purgatory Clan to possess a time-based bloodline.

"Chu Batian, if you want to perish together, then I will grant your wish."

Boom!

Flames of blood-red fire violently from Deorus' body. As its bloodline and remaining soul origin ignited, its aura soared, momentarily restoring it to peak condition.

Roar!

A deafening cry, somewhat like that of a dragon's but not quite, exploded from within the blood-red light. Even the once-stable time nodes around them began to tremble under the immense demonic force. Time itself suddenly froze. A pure dark-golden halberd pierced through everything. The supreme power it radiated suppressed even the very flow of time.

Bang!

Deorus' true form was instantly torn apart, its dark-red blood spraying like a violent flood and dyeing the surrounding spacetime a dark red.

Before Chen Chu now stood a demon god that had once nearly annihilated him with a single palm on the Abyssal Battlefield, yet it could no longer withstand even a single strike.

Boom!

Only then did the aftershock erupt, shaking the fabric of time and space. Under the domination of overwhelming laws, the narrow temporal rift collapsed in an instant. Violent temporal tremors followed, forming rings of silver tsunamis that swept out in every direction. Deorus' shattered flesh and true form vanished within moments.

Standing unmoved amid the storm, a pair of magnificent, ethereal silver wings unfurled behind Chen Chu, like a steadfast reef in the midst of crashing waves. He lowered his head slightly, gazing at the strand of dark-red light held in his hand with cold eyes. "So that last desperate struggle was just a distraction?"

Everything earlier had been an illusion. Knowing it stood no chance, Deorus had never intended to fight to the death. Instead, it had used Chen Chu's power to shatter the temporal rift.

Now, scattered within the storm of time, Deorus' broken true form had splintered across different time nodes. Even with using that wisp of soul to track them, Chen Chu couldn't simultaneously cross all time nodes to destroy them all.

After all, neither Deorus nor Chen Chu truly controlled time. At most, they possessed divine abilities or bloodlines that touched upon time power. They weren't lifeforms capable of freely traversing time at will. They couldn't manipulate time, nor descend into it freely. Every entry into a temporal rift came with an immense cost.

This fragmentation left Deorus' soul and body incomplete; its strength would plummet below the demon god level. Without retrieving those missing fragments, its wounds would never fully heal. However, to Deorus, survival itself meant hope.

In that moment, it revealed an astonishing will to live. Unfortunately, its opponent was Chen Chu.

"Your power is too much of a threat. You must die today." In a deep voice, Chen Chu's semi-illusory demon god face turned toward it. At the center of his brow, a blood-red eye slowly opened.

Boom!

Violent temporal currents surged. High above, a crimson blood mark appeared, and endless torrents of blood gushed forth, staining the entire space-time red as the Supreme Hell descended. Under the joint forces of the supreme principle and the Supreme Hell, the fractured pocket of time began to stabilize.

Standing amid the entangled currents of time and hell, Chen Chu slowly raised the Eight Desolations Halberd. Strands of silver time power and crimson hell power coiled around it. The moment he swung it, the halberd's tip vanished without a sound.

Far away, at a different point in time, a blood-curdling scream echoed. A thousand-meter-long arm turned to ash under the strike of the halberd light, erased from existence.

With the power of Supreme Hell, Chen Chu could cross any location, realm, distance, even the boundaries of past and future. Combined with the time power of Temporal Reincarnation and the soul essence tracking Deorus' position, he precisely erased every fragment of Deorus' splintered true form scattered across dozens of time segments.

Desolate and lifeless, the earth crumbled, forming a crater hundreds of kilometers wide. At the center lay a grotesque, mountain-sized severed head nearly a kilometer tall. Around the crater's edge, over a hundred thousand broad-shouldered bearfolk, each more than ten meters tall and upright like men, slowly gathered in a circle, staring in awe and shock at the giant head lying at the bottom.

Just then, the sky trembled and space-time twisted. A colossal dark-golden halberd tip descended, spanning across time and space. In that instant, the entire world shook violently.

The overwhelming force rippled out over a hundred thousand kilometers. Within this region, tens of billions of bearfolk, whose civilization was in a feudal era, fell flat on the ground, trembling in fear.

"I refuse to yield!" A desperate, unreconciled roar echoed across the heavens and earth, but Deorus' final remaining head was engulfed completely in that strike.

Immediately after, a world-destroying force erupted. An entire continental plate was obliterated, along with the bearfolk aliens that had once inhabited and thrived in that region.

Amid the cataclysmic blast, a radiant Blood Moon slowly emerged, then finally crashed down in silence. The demon god entangled in causality with Chen Chu perished completely.

Deep within the time rift, Chen Chu slowly exhaled and retracted the Eight Desolations Halberd from the twisted folds of space-time.

At the same time, with a single thought, the shattered layers of the Heavenly Gates reappeared behind him, and he visibly shrank, returning to his normal true form size of ten thousand meters. His aura plummeted at once, and his breath turned faint.

Such an attack that spanned across time and space had exacted an enormous toll, even on someone like Chen Chu. Still, to suppress and execute such a troublesome demon god, the cost was well worth it.

Together with Kaodes, both demon gods of the Dark Demonic Morkaya Empire had fallen. In practical terms, it was tantamount to the annihilation of the nation, especially considering the empire's demon kings, great demon kings, and over ten million elite troops had already been mostly buried in the previous battle.

Deorus was now dead. It was time to return.

Boom!

Using the time clone he had left behind as a locator, Chen Chu locked onto his original time and place. With a single thought, he channeled the hell coordinates. Blood-red light surged around him, and behind him, an enormous Hell's Eye slowly emerged.

Yet just as the surrounding space and time twisted, countless world scenes flashed rapidly in reverse, Chen Chu's silver eye at the center of his brow suddenly opened, and he sharply turned to one side.

Hum!

In the gaze of his mind's eye, the world vanished. Endless streams of radiant light swept past him like a torrential flood.

Following a vague and mysterious intuition, Chen Chu focused on a single point within those flowing lights. Instantly, the power within his body began to drain at an alarming rate. At the same time, that point in the future expanded rapidly before his eyes, until it froze.

In the vision, the world was crumbling. Time and space were fractured. A woman radiating a terrifying aura stood tall within the void, facing off against giant void monsters that blotted out the sky.

Most importantly, Chen Chu found her face familiar.

"Shi Feitong!?"

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