Chapter 756: Strong Counterattack (Part 3)

"Bang!"

Before his voice even faded, Zhou Huai was fiercely struck by a tail-whip from the Empress that burned with her Origin, smashing his entire body into a collapsing iceberg.

The abyssal blood battle armor was covered in shocking claw marks and frost, but in the blink of an eye, he soared into the sky carrying berserk demonic flames, engaging the Empress in fierce combat once more!

"Dammit! Do you really take this lady for someone made of clay?!"

Seeing that the two of them refused to listen to reason and the ruins were on the verge of collapse, Tsubaki could no longer sit still.

She bit the tip of her tongue, her hands rapidly forming an ancient and intricate seal in front of her chest, bursting with the emerald-green Wood Law that was even more dazzling than the sun all over her body!

Accompanied by Tsubaki's delicate cry, she spared no expense, sacrificing half of this Clone's life Origin, and thrust her ten fingers into the ice surface beneath her!

"Rumble—!"

The earth trembled violently! Countless dark green, heaven-reaching ancient vines hundreds of meters thick crazily rose from the ground!

These ancient vines contained the Wood Law and the power of spatial stabilization. As if endowed with independent consciousness, they rushed toward those terrifying spatial rifts in the firmament!

"Splat! Splat! Splat!"

The tough ancient vines forcefully pierced into the barriers on both sides of the Void Realm, then tightened wildly, forcibly and brutally stitching together the firmament of the ruins that was on the verge of shattering!

Under the forcible intervention of this immense vitality, the originally crumbling world stopped its countdown to collapse.

After finishing all this, Tsubaki's complexion was as pale as paper, and her figure became a bit more illusory.

Pointing at Zhou Huai high up in the air who had just been forcibly separated in distance, she roared in exasperation:

"Zhou Huai! You bastard, prick up your ears and listen well to this lady!"

"The world of this damn ruin has been blasted into smithereens by the two of you exchanging blows! At most, I can only suppress this space for three minutes!"

Tsubaki's voice became shrill with anxiety: "Once the three minutes are up! The World Tree withers, and space completely collapses!"

"By then, the rampaging high-dimensional spatial turbulence will grind everything here into nothingness! If these ruins completely collapse, you, along with your broken dragon, might end up dying here together with this ugly freak, your body and Soul completely destroyed!"

"Three minutes?!"

Mid-air, Zhou Huai wiped off the black venom splashed onto his dragon horn face mask, his breathing pausing for a moment.

He lowered his head to glance at the earth below, which was already on the verge of breaking its limit, his gaze shifting from unbridled wildness to extreme solemnity.

Even the chance of resurrection by the System would be completely wiped out by the spatial turbulence!

"Enough! Three minutes are enough to send her on her way!"

Zhou Huai held his breath, the Aura on his body frantically compressing into the shaft of the abyssal blood dragon spear!

"Hahaha… Three minutes?"

Not far away, the aberrant Empress let out a leaking sneer. On her tattered mysterious ice tortoiseshell, a heart-palpitating dark blue light condensed: "Overconfident human! Within thirty seconds, I will dig out your heart and freeze it into a slushie!!!"

Meanwhile, Tokyo outside the ruins.

The gloomy firmament seemed to have collapsed a piece, pressing heavily upon everyone's heart. The millions of people frantically evacuating the streets suddenly stopped in unison, clutching their chests as they felt an inexplicable palpitation.

That was a tremor originating from the depths of the Soul!

Countless terrified gazes crossed the forest of towering skyscrapers and simultaneously looked toward the direction of the Ise Grand Shrine.

In the sky, the purple lightning, so dense it seemed to drip blood, gathered and refused to disperse. Instead of striking down, it rolled and slithered like giant pythons within the clouds, exuding the ruthlessness and chill of the will of heaven, seemingly silently waiting for the outcome of this cross-dimensional battle.

If the Dominator of the old era won, this sky full of purple thunder would surely descend a world-destroying divine punishment!

If Zhou Huai, who acted in a Heaven-Defying manner, won, how would Heavenly Dao choose?

At the top of a skyscraper dozens of kilometers away from the Ise Grand Shrine.

Gale-force winds howled, blowing the little girl Natsume Rinku's hair into a mess. With both hands clinging desperately to the rooftop railing, she gazed anxiously into the distorted space in the distance, her small face deathly pale.

"Lord Nakamura…" Natsume Rinku swallowed a mouthful of saliva, her voice trembling in the fierce wind, "The Aura emanating from inside is simply like a world-destroying demon… Do you think Master… will win?"

Nakamura Shinichiro stood aside with his hands behind his back, the fierce wind whipping his suit loudly.

Hearing this question, he turned his head. In those eyes that had been completely modified by the Alien Parasite and faintly flickered with a dim light deep within, there was not the slightest trace of doubt.

"Naturally!" Nakamura Shinichiro nodded with certainty, his tone revealing a fanatical, believer-like arrogance, "Lord will definitely win!"

"But…" Natsume Rinku bit her lip, "The coercion emanating from that single instant made the ancient Bloodline inside my body wail. That monster seems to have undergone some incredible Fusion!"

"No buts!"

Nakamura Shinichiro coldly interrupted her, casting his gaze back toward the Ise Grand Shrine, a proud sneer curving the corners of his mouth: "Before Lord, whether it is any ancient deity or any ruins of the old era, they are nothing more than clay chickens and pottery dogs!"

He paused, a trace of regret flashing in his eyes as he looked down condescendingly at the bustling mega-metropolis beneath his feet.

"Lord's victory is certain. It's just a pity for this city of Tokyo."

"What do you mean?" Natsume Rinku was stunned for a moment.

"The intensity of the battle inside has already exceeded the limit that the ruin space can bear." Nakamura Shinichiro pointed at those visible black cracks at the edge of the sky, "Once Lord slays that monster, the ruins will shatter."

He sighed: "This century-old ancient city is afraid it won't hold up."

Natsume Rinku gasped a breath of cold air: "Then we…"

"Stop dazing off!" Nakamura Shinichiro suddenly turned around and shouted sternly, "Immediately issue a death order to the Self-Defense Force and all subordinates! Even if you have to whip them, drive this group of idiots out of the city center! Let's seize the time to evacuate the crowd!"

"Yes!" Natsume Rinku nodded heavily.

She glanced back one last time at the direction of the Ise Grand Shrine, silently prayed a word in her heart, then turned around and followed Nakamura Shinichiro, running quickly toward the stairwell.

"Hurry! Move faster! Those who don't want to die, run to the suburbs!"

"Don't take your luggage anymore! When your life is gone, what do you want those junk things for?!"

In the streets and alleys, the Eternal Night Guild's forces here converged with Tokyo's defense forces, roaring hysterically. The crowd, like crowded ants, fled in all directions amidst despair and panic.

Time ticked away second by second in this atmosphere that was depressing to the extreme.

A full several hours passed.

The purple thunderclouds in the firmament not only failed to disperse, but pressed even lower, and even the static electricity in the air made people's skin feel a stinging pain.

This eerie stillness was like the final dead silence before a storm arrived.

Just the moment when everyone thought the disaster might have subsided—

"Rumble—!!!"

Without any warning! The entire city of Tokyo began to vibrate crazily!

This was not an ordinary earthquake; it was like a magnitude 10 massive earthquake that destroyed everything! It was as if an invisible giant abyssal hand reached up from deep underground, grabbed the foundations of this century-old ancient city, and fiercely jerked it upward!

"Ahhhhh! Help!"

"The ground is splitting open! Run!"

Piercing screams instantly tore through the firmament!

In the most prosperous commercial district in the center of the city, the heavy asphalt pavement fractured inch by inch like fragile biscuits! A black abyss several thousand meters long and bottomless split open in the center of the city like lightning along the direction of the Ise Grand Shrine!

Countless skyscrapers over a hundred stories high snapped at the waist and collapsed with a bang under this terrifying power capable of tearing dimensions apart!