452: Chapter 452 The Last Stand

Lu Sheng made a decision.

His Dragon form began to shrink—reverting from ten meters back to human form.

Dark gold dragon scales still covered his entire body. Dragon horns. Dragon tail. dragon wings. Cross-shaped Pupils.

But his size had decreased.

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate saw this change.

"Giving up on the True Dragon form?"

"The True Dragon form is too big a target. Your Ice-Sealing Ray hits accurately." Lu Sheng flexed his shrunken body. The Dragon God Dao Body of the Spirit Immortal Realm was more flexible in human form.

"What are you trying to do?"

Lu Sheng didn't answer.

He retracted the dragon devouring spear into his storage space.

Both hands were now empty.

Left hand—the Law power of Chain Resonance condensed in his palm.

Right hand—the runes of the Chaos Dragon Claw glowed in his palm.

Both powers were prepared simultaneously.

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's brow furrowed. He sensed something was wrong.

"He's charging up a big move."

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's Ice Sealing Domain exerted full pressure again. The fifteen-hundred-meter Domain crushed toward Lu Sheng.

But this time, Lu Sheng didn't use his own Domain to resist head-on.

He contracted his Domain—from fifteen hundred meters down to—one hundred meters.

All Law power—concentrated within a hundred-meter radius around him.

Within that hundred-meter Domain—the Law concentration skyrocketed fifteen times over.

Within this hundred-meter range—Lu Sheng's Law concentration surpassed that of Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate.

"Domain Compression Overload?" Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate recognized this tactic. "You're giving up on a large-scale Domain confrontation to concentrate all your power in a small area—"

"Correct."

Lu Sheng's voice changed. It was no longer the tense and hurried tone of battle.

Instead, it was a calm that was cold to the bone.

"I'm going to kill you—within this hundred-meter range."

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's expression became solemn.

Within the hundred-meter range, Lu Sheng's Law concentration was higher than his. If he was pulled into that hundred-meter range—he would be suppressed.

"Then I won't go in."

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate maintained a distance of three hundred meters. The ice seal greatsword in his hand was ready to strike.

"If you won't come in, I'll go to you."

Lu Sheng moved.

It wasn't a dash.

It was—a Space Jump.

The Space Law manipulation of the Spirit Immortal Realm—allowed for short-distance Space Jumps.

The dark gold figure vanished from the spot—

And appeared fifty meters in front of Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate!

The hundred-meter compressed Domain—instantly enveloped Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate!

"You—"

Under the suppression of the compressed Domain, Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's Law circulation speed plummeted by thirty percent!

His reaction slowed.

Lu Sheng's left hand—pushed out a dark gold light sphere of Chain Resonance.

Simultaneously—the Chaos Dragon Claw of his right hand—slammed into his own spirit source core.

Origin Detonation.

Fifteen percent.

Boom—!!!

A terrifying energy exceeding the limits of the Early Stage Spirit Immortal Realm exploded from Lu Sheng's body.

But this time—he didn't let the explosive energy diffuse outward.

He used the compressed Domain—to concentrate all the explosive energy—in one direction.

Forward.

Toward Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate.

The dark gold light sphere led the way—the terrifying energy of the Origin Detonation pushed from behind—the two powers merged into one—forming a ten-meter-diameter dark gold pillar of destruction!

The pillar of light crossed the fifty-meter distance—

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate held the ice seal greatsword vertically before him. Seven layers of Ice Sealing Shields stacked up. The counter-thrust of the Ice Sealing Domain was at full power.

Not enough.

Far from enough.

The light pillar struck the first layer of shield—

Evaporated.

Second layer. Third layer. Fourth layer. Fifth layer. Sixth layer. Seventh layer.

All evaporated.

The ice seal greatsword—shattered.

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's Ice Sealing Domain—was crushed by the Law concentration of the light pillar.

The dark gold pillar of destruction—directly hit Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's body.

Within the light pillar, the blue-white elemental dao body—

Began to decompose.

Not a physical shattering. It was decomposition at the Law level. The dark gold Dragon God Law—carrying the destructive energy of the Origin Detonation—disintegrated Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's elemental dao body at the level of molecules, atoms, and Law particles.

"Aaaaaahhhhh!"

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate let out a heart-wrenching scream.

His body rapidly dissolved in the light pillar. Legs. Waist. Abdomen. Chest.

Disappearing section by section.

His spirit source core was exposed—that spirit source core, which had already shrunk to a third of its original size after multiple Origin Detonations—within the dark gold light pillar—

Cracked.

The spirit source core of a Spirit Immortal Realm—cracked.

Fissures spread outward from the center of the core. Blue-white Law light leaked from the cracks.

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's screaming stopped.

Not because it no longer hurt.

But because his vocal cords—had also been decomposed by the light pillar.

Only a head and a mangled torso remained. The spirit source core hung in the ruined chest cavity, covered in cracks.

The energy of the light pillar finally exhausted itself.

The dark gold light dissipated.

Silence returned to space.

Lu Sheng stood in place. His body was trembling violently—not from fear, but from the backlash of the Origin Detonation.

Fifteen percent of his spirit source capacity—gone.

Adding the previous five percent—his spirit source limit was down to eighty percent.

But he was standing.

He was alive.

Thirty meters ahead—the mangled remains of Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate drifted in space.

He wasn't dead yet.

The elemental dao body of the Spirit Immortal Realm—allowed him to maintain his final breath even in this state.

Lu Sheng walked over.

One step. Two steps. Three steps.

He reached Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate.

On Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's head—those blue-white pupils—were still looking at him.

His mouth moved silently.

Lu Sheng's Dragon Eyes read his lip movements.

"You won."

Lu Sheng looked at him.

"It's not that I won," Lu Sheng said. "It's that you lost."

The corner of Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's mouth—twitched.

It was a smile.

A smile of relief.

Then—the cracks on his spirit source core—completely spread.

It shattered.

Blue-white light surged from the shattered core—forming a brief aurora in space.

Within the aurora, Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's body—turned into countless blue-white Law particles—dispersing into the space of the Old God Abyss.

He vanished.

Completely and cleanly.

Lu Sheng stood in place.

The silence of space enveloped him.

He looked down at his hands. The dark gold dragon scales were stained with gold and blue-white blood—his own and Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's.

The heaven swallowing furnace activated automatically—devouring all the Law particles of Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate drifting in space.

"Ding! Spirit Immortal Realm-level Law Origin detected—devouring—"

"Ding! spirit source capacity recovering—three percent of the twenty percent permanent spirit source capacity loss—has been recovered—"

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's Law particles—could repair the permanent loss caused by Origin Detonation.

But Lu Sheng was in no mood to look at the System notifications.

His knees buckled.

And then—he knelt in space.

Not out of emotion. Not out of relief.

It was because—he was simply too exhausted.

Three ribs hadn't fully healed. The wound on his left waist was still seeping blood. His spirit source was down to twenty percent. His physical strength was near depletion.

He knelt in space.

Around him were the ruins of the Old God Abyss. Debris from the ancient battlefield. Fragments of shattered celestial bodies.

And that collapsing spherical space—without Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's Law to maintain it, the structure of the spherical space was rapidly disintegrating. The Origin energy of the remains of the spirit emperor began to leak out.

"Your Excellency—!"

Profound Sound's voice came from the distance.

He saw a figure rapidly approaching—Profound Sound.

Her face—was covered in blood. Her own blood. Having faced off against Qing Ming for over an hour, her body was covered in frostbite and abrasions.

But she was flying. Flying toward Lu Sheng with all her might.

"Your Excellency—where is Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate—"

Lu Sheng knelt in space. He looked up at the approaching Profound Sound.

He grinned.

"Dead."