Before the words had even faded, Zhou Huai was struck heavily by the Empress's tail, which was burning with Origin energy, and he was smashed into a collapsing iceberg.

The abyssal blood war armor was covered in shocking claw marks and frost, but in an instant, he rose into the sky again, wreathed in violent demonic flames, and clashed with the Empress once more!

"Damn it! Do you really think I'm made of clay!"

Seeing that the two of them wouldn't listen to reason and that the ruins were about to collapse, Chun could no longer sit still.

She bit the tip of her tongue and her hands rapidly formed an ancient and complex seal in front of her chest. Her entire body erupted with an emerald green Law of life that was more dazzling than the sun!

Accompanied by a sharp cry, Chun did not hesitate to consume half of the life Origin of this Clone, thrusting her ten fingers into the icy ground beneath her!

Rumble—!

The earth trembled violently! Countless dark green ancient vines, hundreds of meters thick, rose madly from the ground!

These ancient vines contained the power of the wood Law and spatial stabilization. As if they possessed their own consciousness, they rushed toward the terrifying spatial cracks in the sky!

Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!

The tough ancient vines pierced directly into the barriers on both sides of the void, then tightened frantically, forcibly and crudely stitching together the sky of the ruins that was about to fall apart!

The world that was originally teetering on the brink of collapse stopped its countdown under the forced intervention of this massive life force.

After doing all this, Chun's face was as pale as paper, and her figure became somewhat ethereal.

She pointed at Zhou Huai, who had just been forcibly pulled away in the high sky, and roared in exasperation:

"Zhou Huai! You bastard, listen up!"

"The world of these broken ruins has been smashed to pieces by the two of you clashing! I can only suppress this space for three minutes at most!"

Chun's voice became shrill with anxiety: "Once three minutes are up, the World Tree will wither, and the space will completely collapse!"

"At that time, the raging high-dimensional spatial turbulence will grind everything here into nothingness! If these ruins completely collapse, you, and that broken dragon of yours, might end up dying here along with this ugly monster, with both your body and Soul obliterated!"

"Three minutes?!"

In mid-air, Zhou Huai wiped the black poisonous blood that had splashed onto his dragon-horned visor, his breath hitching.

He looked down at the earth below, which was already nearing its breaking point, and his expression shifted from wildness to extreme solemnity.

Even the chance for the System to resurrect him would be completely erased by the spatial turbulence!

"Enough! Three minutes is enough for me to send her on her way!"

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

"Hahaha... three minutes?"

The mutated Empress nearby let out a wheezing laugh. On her tattered profound ice tortoise shell, a heart-palpitating blue light condensed: "Overconfident human! I will dig out your heart and freeze it into a slushie within thirty seconds!!!"

At the same time, in Tokyo City outside the ruins.

The gray sky seemed to have collapsed in one section, weighing heavily on everyone's hearts. Millions of people who were being evacuated in panic on the streets suddenly stopped in unison, clutching their chests, feeling an inexplicable palpitation.

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

Countless terrified gazes looked past the rows of skyscrapers, all turning toward the direction of the Ise Grand Shrine.

In the sky, purple lightning, so thick it looked like dripping blood, gathered and did not disperse. They did not strike down but instead rolled and moved through the clouds like giant pythons, emitting the ruthlessness and coldness of the will of heaven, seemingly waiting silently for the outcome of this cross-dimensional battle.

If that Dominator of the old era won, this purple lightning filling the sky would surely descend as divine punishment to destroy the world!

If the Heaven-Defying Zhou Huai won, how would the Heavenly Dao choose?

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

The gale howled, blowing the little girl Natsume Rinku's hair into a mess. She gripped the rooftop railing tightly, gazing anxiously at the distorted space in the distance, her small face pale.

"Lord Nakamura..." Natsume Rinku swallowed, her voice trembling in the wind, "The Aura coming from in there is simply like a world-destroying demon... do you think Master... will win?"

Standing to the side, Nakamura Shinichiro stood with his hands behind his back, the gale making his suit flap loudly.

Hearing this question, he turned his head. In his eyes, which had been completely remodeled by the Alien Parasite and held a faint glimmer in their depths, there was not a single trace of doubt.

"Naturally!" Nakamura Shinichiro nodded with certainty, his tone carrying the arrogance of a fanatical believer, "The Master will surely win!"

"But..." Natsume Rinku bit her lip, "The pressure that came out just a moment ago made the ancient Bloodline inside me wail. That monster seems to have fused with something incredible!"

"There are no buts!"

Nakamura Shinichiro interrupted her coldly, his gaze returning to the Ise Grand Shrine, a proud sneer curling his lips: "In front of the Master, whether it's some ancient god or some ruins of the old era, they are all nothing but chickens and dogs!"

He paused, a flash of regret in his eyes as he looked down at the bustling megacity beneath his feet.

"The Master's victory is inevitable. However, it's a pity for this Tokyo City." 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

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

"The intensity of the battle inside has already surpassed the limit that the ruins' space can withstand." Nakamura Shinichiro pointed at the visible black cracks at the edge of the sky, "Once the Master slays that monster, the ruins will shatter."

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

Natsume Rinku gasped: "Then we..."

"Stop dazing!" Nakamura Shinichiro turned around abruptly and barked, "Immediately issue a death order to the Self-Defense Forces and all subordinates! Even if you have to use a whip, drive these idiots out of the city center! We need to hurry and evacuate the crowd!"

"Yes!" Natsume Rinku nodded heavily.

She took one last look back toward the Ise Grand Shrine, offered a silent prayer in her heart, and then turned to follow Nakamura Shinichiro as they ran quickly toward the stairwell.

"Quick! Move faster! If you don't want to die, run to the suburbs!"

"Don't take your luggage! What do you need that junk for if your life is gone!"

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

Time passed minute ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) by minute in this atmosphere that was suppressed to the extreme.

Several full hours passed.

The purple thunderclouds in the sky not only did not disperse but instead pressed even lower, and even the static electricity in the air made people's skin sting.

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

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

Rumble—!!!

Without any warning! The entire Tokyo City began to shake madly!

This was no ordinary earthquake; it was like a magnitude ten earthquake that destroyed everything! It was as if an invisible giant hand from the abyss had grabbed the foundation of this century-old city from deep underground and then violently flipped it upward!

"Aaaah! Help!"

"The ground is splitting! Run!"

Shrill screams instantly tore through the sky!

In the most prosperous commercial district in the city center, the thick asphalt road surface cracked inch by inch like fragile cookies! A black abyss several thousand meters long and bottomless split open in the city center along the direction of the Ise Grand Shrine, like a bolt of lightning!

Countless hundred-story skyscrapers snapped and collapsed under this terrifying power capable of tearing through dimensions!