"Wang Changji? Is it not Wang Changji? Has the White Bone Evil God taken his body?" Upon seeing Lu Yan flee, Jiang Chen couldn't help but feel puzzled and asked Jiang Yan within the Celestial Palace.
Jiang Yan only said: "Perhaps so!"
...
Lu Yan fled in a streak of light, and the White Bone Sovereign seemed only then to realize that nothing could be done to turn back.
He turned to receive Chongxuan Chuliang's fist.
Amid a violent 'trembling', even his voice began to strangely quiver: "Submit to me, and I grant you immortality."
"It seems I can't wait any longer," Chongxuan Chuliang suddenly said calmly.
But not to the White Bone Sovereign.
He had been waiting for Yang Jiande, but Yang Jiande still had not appeared.
So he would wait no more.
At this moment, there was no regret in his heart, for he already knew Yang Jiande's capabilities.
Regarding the White Bone Sovereign refining the Calamity Source Avatar and sacrificing the Sacred Bone Body, Lu Yan had not only secretly informed him but also informed Yang Jiande.
In theory, Yang Jiande, as the ruler of the State of Yang, had more reason to stop this matter, yet he watched everything happen, waiting until the White Bone Sovereign was about to succeed, and did not act.
He used the souls of the State of Yang's people to wait for Chongxuan Chuliang's strike.
Since the man had made such a resolution, it was precisely to wait for the White Bone Sovereign's variable. He would not act until this evil god avatar had maximally consumed Chongxuan Chuliang.
Chongxuan Chuliang had long anticipated this.
But for some reason, he still felt a faint sense of regret.
However, such emotions were irrelevant to the battle, though fleeting, were cut away.
He then widened his eyes and for the first time 'properly' looked at the White Bone Sovereign before him: "I've been underestimated by you, this trash evil god!"
He shouted: "Bring me my blade!"
Military orders are like mountains, and this shout carried the weight of ten thousand tons.
From within the Autumn Kill Army's formation, a vast and overwhelming power of murderous aura surged toward the sky, instantly condensing into form.
A colossal war blade, a hundred yards in length, appeared high in the air. This blade had a high arc, its handle slightly curved, and when it appeared in the sky, it seemed to split the sky in two.
This was the famous blade Chongxuan Chuliang had long nurtured within his army, named [Life-Severing].
A blade's ferocity lies in its ability to sever a person's life.
No sooner had this blade appeared than it shot toward Chongxuan Chuliang at high speed.
In the process, its size grew smaller and smaller, yet its murderous aura grew heavier and heavier.
By the time it landed in Chongxuan Chuliang's hand, it was only of ordinary size, but its murderous aura was so dense that it seemed tangible, enveloping Chongxuan Chuliang's entire figure in a faint, mysterious light.
And Chongxuan Chuliang, gripping this blade, said no more, only bringing it down in a single, decisive slash!
"Foolish."
The White Bone Sovereign brought his palms together, expressionless, a pale, chilling glow emanating, just like a monk in prayer, with a certain sacred air.
This palm clamped down on the Life-Severing blade.
But in the next instant, the flesh of the palms completely dissolved, and then the hands suddenly flung open!
The war blade descended.
The White Bone Sovereign, who had gradually returned to 'normal' and was about to complete the final stage, was actually split in two by this single slash!
It was precisely because he detected that the White Bone Sovereign was slowly improving his body refinement progress even in this degree of battle that Chongxuan Chuliang had decisively taken the blade to break him.
But the White Bone Sovereign's left half suddenly reached out and pulled back his severed right half.
After the blade passed, the two halves merged back together again, and even the skeletal palm was once more covered in flesh and blood.
"The Sacred Bone Body is complete, this body is imperishable and immortal!" he declared.
At this moment, a voice rang out from within the Autumn Kill Army's formation: "This is the Bone Secret Art, the Flesh-Restoring Soul-Return Art! He is not truly immortal!"
It was Jiang Chen's voice.
Having been focused on the battle, he spoke up immediately to warn. Although that this art, when wielded by the White Bone Sovereign himself, could mend a severed body exceeded his imagination, regarding the Flesh-Restoring Soul-Return Art, he would never forget.
Moreover, there was still Jiang Yan within the Celestial Palace constantly reminding him.
And over there...
"I never believed it either!"
Chongxuan Chuliang reversed his grip and struck again.
This time, the White Bone Sovereign met it directly with his fist.
But the blade's fierce and peerless light split it straight through the center of the fist.
Crack, crack.
The sound of the war blade scraping against bone made one's teeth ache.
It continued forward, slicing the White Bone Sovereign horizontally.
His upper body was cut open, and once again, he grabbed his lower half.
At such a moment, he even turned his eyes and gave a cold, indifferent glance toward the Autumn Kill Army formation.
"A repugnant feeling," he said.
The ferocious blade struck again, this time dividing him vertically into four pieces.
Chongxuan Chuliang's eyes were fixed on the direction of the State of Yang's army; the opponent he truly valued was always there.
And the one before him was merely an incomplete evil god avatar.
Had it not been for waiting for him to absorb all of the State of Yang's calamity energy, leaving a clean territory for the State of Qi, he would never have allowed such an evil being to "live" until now.
The White Bone Sovereign's body, divided into four pieces, lay scattered before him.
Chongxuan Chuliang looked ahead, but his hand did not stop. The blade rose and fell.
"Let's see how you are imperishable!"
Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud...!
Blade shadows fell thick and fast, their sound a steady thud.
Right before the armies, he was like a butcher slaughtering a pig, picking up the Life-Severing blade and chopping the White Bone Sovereign into minced meat!
"Detestable. Sacred Body, just one step away."
A thought flickered through his mind.
This was such a genuine, such a clear emotion. It arose within the White Bone Sovereign's heart.
Then, something terrifying happened.
That pile of unrecognizable flesh on the ground actually began to flow like water. And it converged, gradually taking on a human shape.
At the same time, waves of cold, eerie winds rose around them, howling wildly, as if filled with ghostly wails.
Even the space seemed to be faintly trembling.
As if some mysterious power was about to descend upon this place.
"Is this avatar that important?"
For the first time, Chongxuan Chuliang furrowed his brow, and then he reversed the Life-Severing blade, running his hand along its surface.
Hum~!
The Life-Severing blade emitted a tremulous cry.
That was because Chongxuan Chuliang had at this moment imbued it with so much weight that even a blade as powerful as it was had some difficulty bearing the burden.
Then, the blade fell.
Boom!
As if the entire earth let out a pained groan.
Everyone who heard that sound was struck by a terrifying illusion, as if they too had been sliced in two!
The Life-Severing blade struck the ground, the eerie winds ceased, the ghostly wails stopped, and the force shaking the space was dispelled.
But beneath the blade...
There was a small flesh pouch.
The flesh pouch that had exploded earlier when the White Bone Sovereign resisted Lu Yan's attack!
The flesh pouch was instantly destroyed, not even a residue remained.
And most of his flesh and blood had already appeared far away, flashing as a white light.
Substitute a peach for a plum!
Chongxuan Chuliang raised his blade to give chase.
Just at this moment. Within the State of Yang's army, Yang Jiande rose directly from the ground and leaped high into the air.
And the grey-haired general within the army took up a long bow, drew it, and shot.
In the State of Yang, none were more skilled in archery than the Ji clan.
The entire army's formation power was mobilized, gathering in that instant in the hands of the white-haired general Ji Cheng.
Then, he actually used Yang Jiande himself as a long arrow, shooting him straight toward Chongxuan Chuliang!
Yang Jiande shot through the high sky, drawing a brilliant golden spear with a reverse grip, stabbing it straight down toward Chongxuan Chuliang.
This strike shook the clear sky with thunder, shattering stone and startling heaven!
"Chongxuan Chuliang! Years without meeting, one glimpse turns to life or death. Why don't you and I decide it here before the ranks, to the amusement of the three armies!"