Chapter 4836  On The Losing End?

"Dammit!"

A low, ancient chant rumbled from his chest as his Earthen Tyrant Body awakened fully, his flesh turning dense and earthen, veins glowing with layers of brown-gold karmic sigils. Each sigil represented accumulated karmic virtue, compacted into a terrifying mountainous authority. His body no longer felt like flesh and bone but like a walking continental mass, every movement dragging the Will of the land with it.

At this stage, it was even comparable to a Divine Technique, causing the heaven and earth to tremble.

He stepped forward in the air, and the ground way below him collapsed into a huge crater.

It did not crack but collapsed, folding inward as if the world itself was bowing under his weight. Mountains within tens of thousands of kilometers shuddered, their peaks bending as layers of Earth Laws were forcibly stripped from the terrain and compressed into his strike. Rivers reversed their flow, dust and stone levitating before being crushed into microscopic grains.

"Karmic Earth Burial - Sky-Sinking Palm."

Borges thrust his hand downward.

In that instant, karma manifested.

Invisible threads of cause and effect converged, wrapping around the target area as the earth itself rose in layers. Within it echoed the cries of buried ages built on top of the earth, the resentment of dead civilizations, and the weight of uncountable lives that had once relied on the land.

The palm descended.

Heaven and earth trembled violently.

Spatial layers folded under the pressure.

The Spectral Gloomveil Rabbit clone vanished without resistance, erased so completely that not even soul residue remained.

Yet… Venerable Knight Borges's expression darkened.

His pupils constricted as karmic feedback returned to him… empty.

The threads of earthen-karma, which should have latched onto the true source, dissolved midway. His attack did not lead to the karmic destruction of the true body.

His expression was not good as he thrust his body forward and flew to the destination. It took him a few minutes to make it there. He had felt it was useless, and indeed, there was no sign of the Divine Emperor of Death.

Looking at the skies, the clouds of the divergent's tribulation were also dispersing, even though signs remained, heaven and earth energy thinning greatly. This area supported an Empyrean's daily rate of consumption easily, but right now, it found it hard to support even an Early Immortal Emperor.

When he made it to the destination, he saw three other Venerable Knights. His expression was solemn as he appeared near them and asked in a somber tone.

"Did we fail?"

"…"

The Venerable Knights remained silent, including Venerable Knight Lussandra, who was missing a leg and had many wounds on her body. Even one of her eyes was scratched, wounded by Illumina.

It put a dent in her beautiful face, but she seemed unworried and undisturbed.

Venerable Knight Walritch appeared weary. He looked old but was extremely strong. He opened his mouth icily, "The Divine Emperor of Death fled too fast. I suspect he possesses a replica of the Space-Time Quintessence Ring."

"No way…" Venerable Knight Borges looked taken aback, grunting, "Ugh, could it be that the Heavenly Blight Hall's Leader gave the Divine Emperor of Death his treasure?"

"How can that be possible?" Venerable Knight Walritch shook his head, "They're lifelines for them, so they wouldn't be willing to part with them. There are some reports stating that the Divine Emperor of Death was wearing a strange ring that is of spatial-attribute, even in the recent secret realm that led to the Elemental Dimension. I suspect it is a new or an ancient replica from the True Void Greater Realm."

"If it were in the secret realm, how could it be so powerful enough to escape our senses? Wasn't the secret realm only limited to Immortal Emperors? Even if the replica could ignore restrictions, it surely wouldn't be at Exalt Grade, no?"

"I suppose it has already been improved to Exalt Grade after he came here." Venerable Knight Lussandra interrupted, her lips pursing, "He even threw out a Primarch Stage expert from it, blocking my Moon Piercing Arrow, powered by the Verdant Destruction Eclipse Bow. I even shot it twice, expending a huge amount of energy to shoot from hundreds of billions of kilometers away, but they were blocked and thwarted by Illumina Lunarisse. She even wounded me to this degree and succeeded in injuring one of my eyes in a last-ditch effort to seal my arrows."

"Dammit! She really held all four of us at bay with her clone technique." Venerable Knight Borges looked incensed.

He was pissed that a mere beast held them back for so long. A True Exalt Beast that was comparable to an Alpha Exalt wasn't their opponent at the same cultivation stage. It was a pity that their prowess was limited by the layer limit, allowing them to stand on nearly equal grounds.

Regardless, he wasn't bothered about that at the time. Only a few minutes of difference, yet it proved fatal as they let the Divine Emperor of Death escape.

"I can't believe that little rabbit got to this level incredibly fast." Venerable Knight Avarros looked confused.

"Wait, all of our karmic attacks failed against her?" Venerable Knight Borges's eyes widened.

Venerable Knight Borges crushed the last Spectral Gloomveil Rabbit clone beneath his palm, even employing a karmic technique combined with Earth Laws.

However, he could sense the karmic technique failing to reach Illumina's true body. Was that also the case for the others?

With the others being silent, it seemed like it was the case.

Venerable Knight Lussandra's gaze flickered, "The Spectral Gloomveil Rabbit is also adept at fleeing since it is capable of thwarting karmic attacks. It is a predator in the Shadow Dimension, not a prey. Hence, our karmic attacks won't work easily since she would just hide in the proverbial karmic shadow world. Moreover, we're at the same level, restricted by the layer limit. It would be hard to harm her with karmic techniques."

"Besides, it wouldn't be difficult for her to have immense gains there in addition to guarding herself easily."

The other Venerable Knights frowned before Venerable Knight Walritch gave a careful glance at her.

"Why didn't you use your clone technique?"

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