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And so, both sides fell into a brief silence.
The faceless angel suddenly tilted its head in confusion. "How strange. Although this space is somewhat… special, my perception of time should not be wrong. By now, the god realm should have self-destructed and opened this space from the outside."
Hearing this, Huo Yu'er realized their plan and immediately grew tense.
Although her divine domain was constructed to be as solid as a fortress—impervious to attacks below the Supreme God King level—if the core of the god realm were to explode, the sheer power of such an explosion would leave even Huo Yu'er uncertain of her chances.
"Never mind. Though I don't know why there's no activity outside, this little girl must be nearly out of strength. Let me take your divine position and savor it," the faceless angel sneered wickedly.
At this moment, though Huo Yu'er felt uneasy, her gaze remained resolute. With one hand rapidly forming various seals, she coldly declared, "If you can do it, come and try!"
"Heaven·Meteor Annihilation!"
"Earth·Hundredfold Shackles!"
"Thunder·Divine Retribution!"
"Wind·Eternal Flow!"
"Water·Abyssal Void!"
"Fire·Mountain Incineration!"
"Marsh·Eternal Slaughter!"
"Mountain·Eternal Seal!"
In an instant, countless phenomena erupted within Huo Yu'er's Supreme Samsara Life and Death Platform.
Meteors rained down from the sky, gravity increased a hundredfold or more, corrosive waters flooded everywhere, and flames that burned everything surged relentlessly toward the faceless angel.
Even the weakest of these attacks could instantly obliterate an ordinary high-tier God King.
However, to the faceless angel, it seemed like a mere joke. Despite the relentless barrage assaulting its divine body, not a single scratch appeared on it.
Seeing this, Huo Yu'er's expression darkened to an extreme degree.
She quickly realized why her earlier Dao Great Mill had failed to inflict significant damage—it was due to the faceless angel's extraordinary divine body strength.
But to think that Huo Yu'er would simply give up? That was a dream!
Having endured immense hardships since childhood, even with her initially low aptitude, Huo Yu'er had been willing to risk her life for vengeance for her mother. How could she possibly give up because of such a minor setback?
If conventional attacks couldn't kill the enemy, then why not let this entire space collapse along with them?
"Time is king, space is supreme! Today, I, Huo Yu'er, will stake everything!" Huo Yu'er's heart roared furiously, her eyes blazing with madness.
As someone who had ascended from the Space God to a God King, Huo Yu'er's greatest strength naturally lay in spatial manipulation.
Yet, her success and downfall were tied to her divine domain.
The essence of a divine domain was to construct a space and then crush the opponent with absolute divine laws. However, this also restricted Huo Yu'er's most terrifying spatial attacks.
But now, having decided to go all out, Huo Yu'er no longer cared about the backlash from shattering her divine domain. Even if it meant facing severe consequences, she would take down this disgusting creature!
She absolutely couldn't let it harm her beloved husband any further!
Huo Yu'er leapt down from midair, planting herself firmly on the ground. Then, with a thought, she teleported herself to the very center of her divine domain.
Plunging the Samsara Judgment into the ground caused the entire divine domain to tremble violently!
The faceless angel clearly sensed the buildup to Huo Yu'er's ultimate move and was momentarily startled. No longer interested in toying with her, it unleashed its demonic claws in all directions, creating a vacuum around Huo Yu'er's attacks.
But it was too late.
Though Huo Yu'er's attacks only delayed it for a few seconds, the entire divine domain belonged to her. As she mobilized the core of her domain, her final devastating technique completed its loop.
Huo Yu'er glanced at the faceless angel with disdain and flipped it off with both hands.
"Pay for your arrogance!
Divine Domain Technique·Reversal!!!"
In the blink of an eye, Huo Yu'er's once azure sky turned blood-red. An ominous and violent surge of divine power rippled uncontrollably.
The faceless angel keenly noticed that the previously unshakable divine domain was now violently fluctuating. It seemed possible to open a spatial passage.
But something didn't feel right.
As the spatial stability loosened, instead of returning to its original state, it began emitting chaotic spatial turbulence.
Faceless Angel: !?
In this situation, if it attempted to create a spatial passage, the faceless angel knew that even in its current state, the chaotic spatial forces would fling it to an unknown location. This was far from ideal for its goal of seizing Huo Yu'er's divine position.
After a brief moment of consideration, the faceless angel decided to continue pursuing Huo Yu'er's divine position.
After all, mere spatial turbulence was nothing but a minor inconvenience given their current physical condition—not a threat.
But just as the faceless angel extended its demonic claws toward Huo Yu'er, it realized that aside from her super divine artifact, the Samsara Judgment still embedded in the ground, Huo Yu'er herself had vanished without a trace.
"Where is she!?"
The faceless angel was shocked.
The answer was obvious. While Huo Yu'er intended to use the collapse of her divine domain to unleash an incredibly powerful attack to annihilate the faceless angel, she wouldn't place herself in danger. Naturally, she had escaped to the outside world.
Meanwhile, Huo Yu'er, back in the god realm, formed another intricate seal. As the seal took shape, her already pale face turned even whiter.
"Crush! Supreme Samsara Life and Death Platform!!!"
With her command, the surface of the divine domain, already riddled with cracks, completely shattered. Yet, the changes beneath the crimson glow emanating from within remained obscured.
The faceless angel, still trapped inside the divine domain, immediately sensed danger. A crushing gravitational force, far exceeding what it had experienced before, pressed down from all directions. Instantly surpassing thousands of times normal gravity, it continued to skyrocket, pinning the faceless angel in place.
Outside, in the blink of an eye, a divine domain that had once spanned over a thousand meters shrank to the size of a marble in a child's hand.
Yet, no god dared to underestimate it.
The divine power fluctuations emanating from it far surpassed the comprehension of ordinary gods.
It was as if it were a seed of destruction!
Seeing the divine domain in this state, Huo Yu'er wasted no time thinking and turned to flee.
This kind of destructive reversal—from creation to annihilation through extreme rule evolution—would gravely injure even her if she stood too close!
But in her panic, Huo Yu'er stumbled into a warm embrace.
Ye Wen's gentle voice reached her ears. "You reckless little girl. If I had arrived a moment later, you'd be in serious trouble."
Before Huo Yu'er could fully process this, Ye Wen used his spatial abilities to teleport them to a distant location.
Back at the site of the god realm, a blinding crimson light illuminated the universe, forcing both Ye Wen and Huo Yu'er to squint.
Ye Wen remarked admiringly, "What a splendid fireworks display! A fitting celebration for my complete return. But next time, don't be so reckless. If I hadn't come to support you, you might have sustained serious injuries, and someone could have taken advantage of that."
Listening to Ye Wen's sweet words, Huo Yu'er's previously pale face flushed slightly. Avoiding his gaze, she muttered softly, "I understand, hubby. But you have no idea how disgusting those two God Kings are. They merged into one inside my domain, and no matter how many conventional law attacks I threw at them, they wouldn't die. In the end, I had no choice but to use extreme spatial forces to try and eliminate them."
Ye Wen nodded knowingly. Facing such an opponent, holding back was not an option.
But soon, his expression changed. Tightening his hold on Huo Yu'er, he teleported them again in another direction.
Caught off guard by this sudden change, Huo Yu'er quickly realized something was amiss and stared incredulously at the figure that had ambushed them.
"How is this possible! Why are you two unharmed?" Huo Yu'er exclaimed in disbelief.
Clearly, the faceless angel that had attacked them no longer had the leisurely mindset of a cat playing with a mouse. Now, it was solely focused on killing them and seizing their divine positions.
But as the demonic claws rushed toward them, Ye Wen's eyes remained calm and unruffled.
The faceless angel's attack passed through them without causing any harm.
Illusionary Law·Displacement Mirage.
"Somewhat impressive. But without the world's enhancement, all you can manage now are these petty tricks."
The faceless angel muttered as if to itself, using the opportunity to lock onto Ye Wen's true position and charge again.
But undoubtedly, its attack missed once more.
Faceless Angel: ???
When the faceless angel displayed such profound confusion, it wasn't that it was the problem—it was Ye Wen who was the issue!
Though Ye Wen's Illusionary Law was indeed profound, it did not reach the realm of a Supreme God King. Thus, after briefly losing track of him, they were able to quickly reacquire Ye Wen's position.
But the second attack missing again was quite challenging to their understanding.
However, considering they had broken free from the domain's restrictions, their forced rule-locking ability through Kindness and Evil laws should work. So, the faceless angel roared to the heavens, using the Kindness and Evil laws to lock onto Ye Wen once more.
Though the faceless angel successfully locked onto Ye Wen, it froze rigidly in place.
It was trapped again!
There stood Ye Wen, calmly gazing at it from afar. His tranquil eyes revealed no emotional fluctuation, looking at the faceless angel as if it were an insignificant ant.
The faceless angel was formidable, but compared to the Ancestral Formless Demon Saint, it fell far short.
Merely relying on physical attacks and rule-locking—such primitive methods—was truly insulting.
Moreover, with just a glance, Ye Wen discerned why the faceless angel hadn't been severely injured by Huo Yu'er's earlier spatial explosion.
This creature wasn't merely a fusion skill of the Kindness and Evil God Kings; its very composition fused their super divine artifacts into its body, granting it extraordinary damage resistance.
An interesting concept, but that was all it amounted to—that was Ye Wen's evaluation.
After all, given sufficient time and materials, crafting divine armor that amplifies one's strength while maximizing defense was far superior to transforming oneself into such an unnatural form.
But everything has its limits. Against Huo Yu'er's spatial self-explosion—a sacrifice made by a Supreme God King—even the faceless angel wasn't as unscathed as it appeared.
While Ye Wen could forcibly annihilate the faceless angel, it would be too troublesome. Instead, he decided to take a shortcut.
Snapping his fingers, Ye Wen placed the god realm's core—which the Kindness God King had earlier wondered why it hadn't exploded—into a prepared cage.
Ye Wen smiled warmly. "This is your bomb. Don't go throwing it around carelessly."
Faceless Angel: ???!!!
Upon seeing the god realm's core, the Kindness God King within the faceless angel emitted a soul-deep wail.
Evil: Enough chatter! Think of a way! Didn't you initiate the explosion? Stop it now!
Kindness: Shut up, you fool! This one has control over time laws and froze the explosion at the last second! How do you expect me to stop it in such a short time? Never mind that—quickly focus all our energy on defense! Otherwise, this fusion skill won't hold, and things will get much worse!
Their fleeting exchange caused the faceless angel to exhibit unprecedented tension. Its muscles tensed to the extreme, and its eight wings expanded fully before transforming into shields, completely enveloping the faceless angel.
At that moment, the god realm's core finally detonated!
Ye Wen exhaled lightly, his eyes narrowing as he gazed at the colossal cube barrier radiating intense white light.
"Ah, quite the nerve-wracking spectacle. Who would've thought I'd set off such massive fireworks just upon my return.
Such a commotion surpasses any previous parallel plane invasion. It seems my plan to keep fishing in troubled waters in this world is no longer viable."
By now, Huo Yu'er had somewhat recovered. Smiling coquettishly, she said, "Don't worry. When the time comes, I'll return to help you. Don't underestimate me, hubby. I've led for many years in my world—I'll definitely be useful."
But deep down, Huo Yu'er had no interest in power.
What she was thinking was that the decisive battle had finally arrived. Having gathered so many sisters, she was sure to secure a place in the household.
Still, she felt guilty about her actions and couldn't help but feel apprehensive. In the depths of her heart, hidden from Ye Wen's sight, she secretly contemplated whether to pull off another stunt.
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