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

The spatial barriers peeled away like shattered mirrors, and two blindingly bright streaks of light—one black and one blue—smashed directly through the final obstruction between the ruins and the mundane world. Like two reverse-falling meteors, they crashed brazenly into the skies above Tokyo!

The moment these two presences, which transcended the rules of the world, appeared in the mundane realm, the entirety of Tokyo fell into a vacuum.

The crowds of people fleeing the city in panic were forced to the ground by this terrifying pressure. They looked up, watching those two figures in the sky as they continuously collided, separated, and collided again at supersonic speeds.

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

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

In mid-air, Zhou Huai fought with increasing madness.

Clad in the abyssal blood war armor burning with dark-gold demonic flames, he resembled an invincible demon god emerging from the depths of Hell. With every swing of the abyssal blood dragon spear, forged from dragon bone and dragon teeth, a thunderous explosion followed.

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

Zhou Huai laughed wildly, pushing Xiang Yu's Indestructible Demon God power and Yasuo's Thunder Sword Intent to their absolute 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 and slammed violently into the Empress's massive, mutated body.

In contrast, the Extreme Ice Empress's situation had reached its lowest point.

Especially after being forcibly driven out of the ruins by Zhou Huai and exposed to the air of the mundane world, her aura was like a punctured ball, plummeting at a visible rate!

The dark blue Alligator Snapping Turtle scales covering her body began to peel off under the suppression of the mundane world's Laws, oozing foul-smelling black blood. Every movement /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ of her massive, bloated, and mutated body became sluggish and strained.

"How can this be... How can the suppression from the rules of the mundane world be this strong?!"

The Empress awkwardly parried Zhou Huai's frantic onslaught in mid-air. Her face, half-human and half-turtle, had long since turned deathly pale from excessive exhaustion.

She had once been a god who dominated everything in the ancient era, but now, under the skies of this mundane world that should be governed by the Heavenly Dao, even breathing felt like a stabbing pain.

"You still dare to be distracted?!"

Zhou Huai keenly captured the opening in the Empress's movements.

A flash of ruthlessness crossed his eyes, and the space beneath his feet rippled. Using Great Sage Li Er's Shrinking the Earth to an Inch, he vanished from his spot!

The next second.

SQUELCH—!!!

The scalp-numbing sound of flesh being torn open suddenly rang out ten thousand meters in the air!

Zhou Huai's figure appeared like a ghost in the Empress's right-side blind spot. There were no flashy Spells, only extreme violence and speed!

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

The spear transfixed the shoulder bone and emerged from her back! The nether flames dancing on the spear tip frantically scorched her flesh and Soul!

"Aaaagh—!!!"

The Empress let out a shrill, agonizing scream as her massive body convulsed violently in mid-air.

Pain, accompanied by the weakness of power being drained away, flooded her sanity like a tide.

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

With a single arm, Zhou Huai exerted force, hoisting the Empress's massive body and pinning her in the Void Realm. He sneered, "Weren't you just talking about extracting my Soul and skinning me? Why are you like a dead dog now?"

Blood dripped down the spear shaft. The Extreme Ice Empress trembled all over as she looked at the dragon-horned faceplate, which resembled a demon god, so close to her.

No...

I cannot die here!

The Empress's eyes widened, and the figure of a man echoed frantically in her mind.

The man who had broken the shackles of the Heavenly Dao and awakened her from an eternal 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 can't just die like this!

I still have to overturn this world with him... I absolutely cannot die at the hands of a mundane ant like you!!!

Her intense desire for survival and morbid obsession allowed the Empress to burst forth with a surge of strength like a final radiance at this moment!

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

The Empress recklessly burned her remaining Soul Origin, and even the remnant Soul of that pseudo-divine rank Alligator Snapping Turtle within her was sacrificed on the spot without hesitation!

BOOM—!

A Law of absolute zero, more overbearing than any before, erupted directly from her pierced wound!

This Law of Extreme Cold was not meant for attack at all, but for sealing!

Zhou Huai felt the arm holding the dragon spear stiffen. Immediately after, space within a thousand-meter radius came to a standstill!

Even the air, light, and time itself were completely frozen in that instant!

A super-giant Extreme Ice Prison emitting an eerie blue light formed with Zhou Huai at the center, sealing him along with his armor within a world of extreme ice!

CRACK!

Taking advantage of the less than half-second gap while Zhou Huai was sealed, the Empress ignored 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. She didn't even dare to look back, dragging her mangled, half-collapsed body as she transformed into a shrill blue afterimage, fleeing toward the distant horizon with all her might!

Flee! As long as she could escape this place, as long as she could find Mr. Duan, she would still have hope of survival!

However, she had forgotten.

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

Just as the Empress, dragging her heavily injured body, had escaped less than a few kilometers—

RUMBLE—!!!

A violent thunderclap that seemed ready to shatter the entire vault of heaven rang out from above her head!

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

She saw that deep purple thundercloud, which had been brewing over Tokyo for hours and had reached the Peak of suppression, finally open the cold, merciless eyes of the Heavenly Dao at this moment!

The will of heaven had been waiting all along!

It was waiting for this violator 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, waiting for her to be completely exposed under the sky that it governed!

"No... NO!!!"

The Empress let out a roar.

But the will of heaven showed no mercy.

CRACK—BOOM!

Tens of thousands of thick purple lightning bolts poured down like a waterfall of heavenly punishment!

These lightning bolts intertwined and darted through the air, transforming in a mere breath into a terrifying purple electric net that blotted out the sun and emitted the Law of Destruction!

Carrying the supreme power to lock down space and obliterate all variables, the electric net descended upon the fleeing Empress!

"OPEN UP!"