Something is wrong. Their Star Powers can fuse? And after fusion, they unleash even greater power? But I've never heard of the Phoenix Form and Dragon Emperor Form being able to merge. Otherwise, wouldn't the Flame Emperor and Qing Emperor have been invincible if they had joined forces back then?

With only a slight hesitation, Sang Guo's body instantly emitted a potent Star Energy Fluctuation. The moment the fluctuation rippled out, he vanished.

BOOM!

A ripple shimmered through the void, and a figure was suddenly smashed out of it. Sang Guo's body flew backward, a look of horror on his face.

My Night Tour God Skill was broken without any warning... Not only was it broken, but I didn't even see how my opponents did it! How is this possible...?

At this moment, Wang Lan and Yu Ruoyun vanished. An instant later, they reappeared, flanking Sang Guo. Yu Ruoyun, now clad in radiant red armor, appeared even more majestic in her Dragon Emperor Form. She threw a punch straight at Sang Guo's face.

Sang Guo instantly raised his hand to block Yu Ruoyun's punch, his left hand, forming a blade, swiftly deflecting Wang Lan's incoming Sword of Light.

Yu Ruoyun's cheeks suddenly puffed, and a pillar of purple fire erupted. The purple hue of the flames told Sang Guo the temperature was approaching ten thousand degrees.

BOOM!

An afterimage seemed to flicker across Sang Guo's face as an invisible force erupted from him. It was like a powerful magnetic repulsion, instantly scattering Yu Ruoyun's flames.

Wang Lan was sent flying backward, transforming into a swarm of scattering butterflies. The Nether Butterfly's wings beat, its form flickering like stars in the night sky, each individual butterfly flashing at least ten times per second.

Sang Guo's eyes darted constantly, tracking the position of each Nether Butterfly's appearance.

Suddenly, an intense sense of crisis assaulted him from below. Wang Lan burst from the earth, his blade, glittering with Starlight, aimed for Sang Guo's lower body.

Sang Guo's form twisted abruptly, as if he had swapped positions with the space itself, instantly moving more than ten meters to the side. He had barely steadied himself when Wang Lan's Water Severing Knife descended upon his head.

"Sky Shock!" Sang Guo slapped a palm upwards. Suddenly, the surrounding space began to vibrate violently, as if caught within an ultrasonic device. Amidst the vibrations, the Water Severing Knife dissolved into a watery mist.

Just as Sang Guo breathed a sigh of relief, finally feeling he had stabilized the battle, a crimson figure appeared eerily in his peripheral vision. Yu Ruoyun punched fiercely toward Sang Guo's cheek.

BOOM!

The spatial vibrations ceased, and Sang Guo was sent flying backward again, crashing into the rock wall behind him. The rock wall shattered, debris flying everywhere. When the dust settled, it revealed a rich, crystalline deposit of Space Stone behind the fractured wall.

To think there are so many reserves of Space Stone here.

Sang Guo's body was firmly embedded in the Space Stones, cracks spreading through the stones behind him like a spiderweb.

Sang Guo gently wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. He had never imagined that he, Sang Guo, the Titled Strongman who struck terror into the hearts of nations, would one day be injured by two young people under twenty.

"Leader! Great Leader—!" Yells echoed from a passage on the side. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen Paradise Bird footsoldiers ran out.

"We found it, Great Leader! We've found the Time-Space Gemstone!" one of the Paradise Bird subordinates exclaimed excitedly, holding a twenty-centimeter square block of pitch-black crystal.

"So you really were looking for the Time-Space Gemstone!" Princess Aier cried out in shock, poking her head out from the ruins.

"Idiot!" Sang Guo slapped the fool presenting the treasure, causing his brains to splatter. He spun around, and a ripple spread through the void.

Before his figure could vanish, Wang Lan appeared out of nowhere and punched Sang Guo again, sending him flying.

BOOM!

Once more, Sang Guo slammed into the rock wall, leaving another human-shaped crater. Yet, even then, he did not release his grip on the Time-Space Gemstone.

"Think you can run? Did you ask for our permission?"

"Cough, cough, cough—" A soft cough sounded. Clutching the Time-Space Gemstone, Sang Guo climbed out of the man-shaped hole, a deep fist imprint on his chest. It was the mark of Wang Lan's enraged Great Blood Deficiency Fist.

Under Wang Lan and Yu Ruoyun's combined Dragon and Phoenix Auspicious state, even Sang Guo at his peak would not be their opponent, let alone now that he was gravely injured.

"Hand over the Time-Space Gemstone, and I can still escort you to the international court for trial. Otherwise... you'll be executed on the spot!"

"You two juniors, truly arrogant!" Sang Guo retorted with a sinister smile. "But... I wonder, did you happen to notice the activation devices built outside when you arrived?"

Sang Guo's words made Wang Lan and the others instantly recall the strange, portal-like structures they had seen in the open area before sneaking in.

"It seems you did... Do you know what those are? Giant Spatial Stone Activation Devices! If I'm destined not to escape with the Time-Space Gemstone, then let us all be lost to the turbulence of spacetime forever! HAHAHA—"

Sang Guo's mad laughter turned the faces of Wang Lan and the others deathly pale. At the same time, Wang Lan sensed faint tremors from outside, like the roar of an engine starting up.

"Not good! They've activated the devices!" Yu Ruoyun's face was also ashen.

Back at the Nine-layer Pagoda, a Space Stone pyramid, less than ten meters tall, had transported them to the seventh layer. In the Number Two Space, a five-meter-high Space Stone pillar had caused a Star Sea Realm expert to perish in the spatio-temporal turbulence, leaving the other two gravely injured.

And here, the amount of Space Stone was thousands, if not tens of thousands, of times greater! If this much Space Stone was activated, the resulting spatio-temporal turbulence would be enough to destroy heaven and earth! Forget the Phoenix Form and Dragon Emperor Form; they'd all be turned into mincemeat!

"Teacher, Aier, go destroy the devices!" Wang Lan roared. His mind connected with Yu Ruoyun's, and they both instantly unleashed their full power, striking the ceiling above.

BOOM!

An unimaginably colossal force surged skyward, piercing through hundreds of meters of geological strata. A beam of light shot straight into the clouds, creating a breathtaking spectacle in the Different Dimensional Space.

"Up!" Wu Shaohua knew he could no longer help his two students here. With a bellow, his body soared towards the sky.

"Do you think they'll make it in time?" Sang Guo taunted.

"Whether they make it or not, there should be enough time to kill you first!" Wang Lan was also infuriated. Everything had been under control, yet this madman had to cause trouble. Now, Wang Lan had only one thought: kill him. The moment his words fell, he appeared before Sang Guo, his hands a blur as his fists hammered down like a machine gun.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

A barrier suddenly twisted into existence around Sang Guo, seemingly distorting Wang Lan's attacks and deflecting most of their power.

But even the residual force of the attacks was enough to pulverize Sang Guo's internal organs, causing him to spurt blood wildly.

AARGH—

Sang Guo suddenly let out a furious roar, and the gate of his Star Palace exploded violently. From within the shattered gate, Starlight surged like an ocean tide, each crashing wave containing countless stars.

BOOM!

The violent energy blasted outwards. The explosive force from the detonating Star Palace sent Wang Lan flying backward. Yu Ruoyun rushed to catch him. Just as she embraced Wang Lan, the entire cavern suddenly collapsed.

Sang Guo plummeted into a seemingly bottomless chasm, disappearing from sight.

Wang Lan and Yu Ruoyun could fly, so naturally, they wouldn't be swallowed by the dark chasm beneath them. But the Time-Space Gemstone, clutched in Sang Guo's hand, fell with him.

"We're going down," Wang Lan decided instantly after a moment's thought.

"This chasm is strange. Who knows what's down there?" Yu Ruoyun voiced her concern.

"No matter what's down there, as long as the Time-Space Gemstone is there, we must brave it, even if it's a dragon's den or a tiger's lair," Wang Lan reminded her in a low voice.

Yu Ruoyun knew, of course, that the Time-Space Gemstone could open the Portal of the Demon World and allow the Demon Clan's armies into the human realm. She had only forgotten for a moment in her panic. With this reminder, she would insist on going down even if Wang Lan tried to stop her.

Star Power flared around them, and using the light it emitted, they rapidly descended. The depth of the enormous pit exceeded Wang Lan's expectations. They flew straight down for at least two thousand meters before reaching the bottom.

The chasm was so vast that even their fully unleashed Star Power couldn't illuminate their surroundings. It was as if they had landed in a world of pure darkness, existing alone.

"Fire Dragon Dance Skill." Yu Ruoyun suddenly activated an S-rank Star Martial Skill. It wasn't to attack but to control the fire dragon to roam and provide illumination.

Using an S-rank Star Martial Skill purely for illumination was a luxury only someone like Yu Ruoyun could afford.

As the fire dragon roamed, Wang Lan and Yu Ruoyun finally saw their surroundings. It was a basin-like valley, enclosed by sheer cliffs.

For ordinary people, such an environment would be an inescapable prison. But for the two of them, who could fly, it posed no significant problem. The only issue was the continued presence of many eerie statues.

The surrounding cliffs were densely covered with these statues. They were colossal, each one more than ten times larger than those Wang Lan had seen in the previous cavern.

"Is this a sacrificial altar of the Demon Clan? What do they sacrifice to?" Wang Lan wondered aloud.

"Ancient Demon Gods!" Yu Ruoyun replied softly. "The Demon Clan's societal structure is somewhat peculiar. They operate on a caste system yet possess a brilliant civilization.

"The upper castes hold absolute dominion over the lower-caste demons. They worship the Ancient Demon Gods, legendary beings said to be powerful enough to traverse interstellar space independently. However, these gods vanished into spatio-temporal turbulence during a great war hundreds of thousands of years ago. Through sacrificial rites, they hope to guide the Ancient Demon Gods back to lead them once more in conquering the universe.

"They revere individual power yet have also developed a technological civilization. These two aspects rarely coexist in human society. It's like... if the cultivation civilization of the Ancient Times hadn't been destroyed by the Demon Clan, perhaps we humans would never have developed a technological civilization, right?"

"There he is!" Wang Lan exclaimed. As the fire dragon swept past a cliff face, they had spotted a figure arduously climbing it.

Their minds linked, they shared the thought and instantly teleported to Sang Guo's position.

"Die!" Wang Lan roared, attacking.

CRACK!

Completely ignoring Wang Lan's incoming fist, Sang Guo slammed the Time-Space Gemstone into a recess in the wall.

BOOM!

Suddenly, a barrier rose from the wall, blocking Wang Lan's punch.

"HAHAHA... I never expected... I truly never expected the Demon Clan to have left a Time-Space Gemstone activation array here! HAHAHA... I originally thought we'd need to construct our own activation device to open the spatio-temporal portal.

"Wang Lan, Yu Ruoyun, you've lost in the end! HAHAHA... Tremble! Tremble and welcome the advent of the Demon Clan! The Jade Country is finished! Sky Blue Star is finished! Everything will be destroyed!"

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