“Bang—!!!”

As the three-minute time limit approached, the ruins of the Ise Grand Shrine finally let out a final, mournful wail amid its total collapse.

The spatial barriers peeled away like a shattered mirror, and two streams of light, dazzling to the extreme—one black and one blue—crashed directly through the final barrier between the ruins and the present world, charging aggressively into the skies above Tokyo like two retrograde meteors!

The moment these two auras, which surpassed the rules of the world, manifested in the present world, the entirety of Tokyo fell into a vacuum.

The frantically fleeing crowds in the city were forcefully pressed to the ground by this terrifying coercive pressure.

They raised their heads, watching the two figures in the sky constantly colliding, separating, and colliding again at supersonic speeds.

With every clash, a visible circle of white shockwaves rippled through the sky, causing the glass curtain walls of the skyscrapers below to shatter in massive sheets.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

High in the air, Zhou Huai grew even more fanatical the more he fought.

Wearing the abyssal blood battle armor burning with dark golden demonic flames, he was like an undefeated Demon God who had slaughtered his way out of the depths of Hell.

The abyssal blood dragon spear condensed from dragon bones and dragon teeth in his hand emitted sonic booms with every swing.

"Old hag! You couldn't do anything to me in the ruins, and now that you've rolled out, let's see how much longer you can act arrogant!"

Zhou Huai let out a wild laugh, driving Xiang Yu's power of the Undying Demon God and Yasuo's thunder Sword Intent within his body to their limits.

"Void-Piercing Dragon Spear—break for me!!!"

The black spear radiance, carrying Gandalf's Soul-Devouring Nether Flame, transformed into a roaring black dragon that violently smashed toward the Empress's massive, mutated body.

As for the Extreme Ice Empress, her condition at this moment was extremely terrible.

Especially after being forcibly driven out of the ruins by Zhou Huai and exposed to the air of the present world, her aura was plummeting at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like a punctured balloon!

The dark blue Alligator Snapping Turtle scales originally covering her body began to peel off under the suppression of the present world's Laws, oozing foul-smelling black blood.

Every movement of her massive, bloated, and mutated body became sluggish and hindered.

"How could this be… Why is the suppression of the present world's rules on me so strong?!"

The Empress awkwardly parried Zhou Huai's frantic and fierce attacks in mid-air, her face—half-human and half-Alligator Snapping Turtle—having already turned unusually pale due to excessive consumption.

She had once been a deity who dominated everything in ancient times, but now, under this sky of the present world that should have been governed by the Heavenly Dao, she felt a stabbing pain even when breathing.

"You still dare to be distracted?!"

Zhou Huai sharply captured the flaw in the Empress's movements.

A fierce glint flashed across his eyes, ripples arose in the space beneath his feet, and his entire body directly used Great Sage Li Er's Shrinking the Earth to an Inch, disappearing on the spot!

The next second.

"Splat—!!!"

A scalp-numbing sound of flesh tearing suddenly rang out ten thousand meters in the air!

Zhou Huai's figure appeared like a ghost in the Empress's right blind spot.

There were no fancy Spells, only ultimate violence and speed!

That abyssal blood dragon spear, carrying swirling abyssal demonic flames, pierced fiercely through the Empress's right shoulder with unstoppable momentum!

The long spear pierced through her shoulder bone and protruded from her back!

The nether flames leaping on the tip of the spear frantically burned her flesh and Soul!

"Ughahahaha—!!!"

The Empress let out an extremely shrill scream, and her massive body violently twitched in mid-air.

Pain, accompanied by the weakness of her strength being pulled away, submerged her sanity like a tidal wave.

Through that distorted face, Zhou Huai clearly saw this once-defiant ancient powerhouse.

Zhou Huai exerted force with a single arm, propping up the Empress's massive body and nailing her in the Void Realm, sneering, "Didn't you want to extract my Soul and strip my skin just now? Why are you like a dead dog now?"

Blood dripped down the shaft of the spear, and the Extreme Ice Empress trembled all over as she looked at the dragon-horned mask resembling a Demon God right before her eyes.

No…

I cannot die here!

The Empress opened her eyes wide, the figure of a man echoing frantically in her mind.

The man who broke the shackles of the Heavenly Dao and awakened her from the endless Seal.

The man who had promised her that he would take her to witness a new world and grant her eternal glory!

I haven't seen Duan yet… I cannot die just like this!

I still have to subvert this world with him… I must never die at the hands of an ant of the present world like you!!!

A strong desire to survive and a morbid obsession made the Empress erupt with a strength akin to a flash in the pan at this moment!

"Extreme Ice World—Absolute Sealing Domain!!!"

The Empress desperately burned her remaining Soul Origin, and even the remnant Soul of the Quasi-God Level Alligator Snapping Turtle inside her body was sacrificed on the spot without hesitation!

"Bang—!"

An absolute zero Law, more overbearing than any previous time, directly erupted from her pierced wound!

This frigid Law was not for attacking at all, but for sealing!

Zhou Huai only felt the arm holding the dragon spear stiffen, and immediately after, the space within a radius of one thousand meters stagnated!

Even the air, light, and even time were completely frozen in this split second!

An ultra-giant extreme ice prison emanating a dim blue light formed with Zhou Huai at its center, sealing him along with his armor in an extreme ice world!

"Crack!"

Taking advantage of the less-than-half-a-second gap while Zhou Huai was sealed, the Empress disregarded the pain of her broken bones and forcibly pulled her body off the abyssal blood dragon spear!

Large amounts of black blood sprayed across the sky, and not even daring to look back, she dragged her tattered, near-collapsing upper half of the body, transforming into a shrill blue afterimage as she fled for her life toward the distant skyline!

Escape! As long as she could escape here, as long as she could find Mr. Duan, she would still have hope of surviving!

However, she forgot.

In this present world, the one who wanted to obliterate her was never just Zhou Huai alone.

Just when the Empress dragged her heavily injured body and had just escaped less than a few kilometers—

"Rumble rumble rumble—!!!"

A burst of violent thunder that threatened to shatter the entire firmament sounded from directly above her head!

The Empress instinctively raised her head and looked toward the sky.

She saw that deep purple thundercloud, which had been brewing over Tokyo for hours and suppressed to the extreme, finally opening the ruthless eyes of the Heavenly Dao at this moment!

The will of heaven had always been waiting!

It was waiting for this rule-breaker of the old era to be driven out of the ruins by Zhou Huai, waiting for her to lose the protection of the spatial barriers, and waiting for her to be completely exposed under this sky governed by it!

No… No!!!

The Empress let out a hiss.

But the will of heaven showed no mercy.

"Crack-snap—bang!"

Tens of thousands of thick purple thunders poured down like a wild waterfall of divine punishment!

These thunders intertwined and shuttled through mid-air, and in just a breath's time, they transformed into a terrifying purple electric net that blotted out the sky and emitted the Laws of destruction!

This electric net, carrying the supreme might of sealing space and obliterating all variables, enshrouded the fleeing Empress!

"Break for me!"