Chapter 1114 - Life and Death

Han Wu and the Death God King stared in shock, immediately recognizing the World Tree as a treasure of the Forest Clan. The Forest Clan had ties to the Chaos Clan!

Burning with a mixture of fury and pain, Di Zangtian’s aura climbed ever higher as the tree revitalized him. Han Wu and the Death God King weren’t wrong. The World Tree was indeed a treasure of the Forest Clan that Di Zangtian had obtained at an enormous cost.

Its purpose was to fully restore his health and energy in a critical moment, and that’s exactly what it did. It poured every drop of its Life Energy into Di Zangtian and withered to nothing in return.

This granted Di Zangtian the strength to keep fighting. Once again gathering Chaos Energy, he drained the fourteen stolen elemental Jurisdictions dry, pouring in every ounce of power from his own elemental Jurisdiction on top of that.

A Chaos Energy even denser than before wrapped around his body and turned him into a giant. Han Wu and the Death God King, on the other hand, had been burning through energy at a ferocious pace. Their reserves were bottoming out.

If the fight continued to drag on, the two would die.

The Death God King drew a deep breath and, with the resolve of a man prepared to die, said, “Han Wu, leave and find reinforcements. I can buy you some time.”

The old fox, Di Zangtian, was simply too strong, having accumulated unfathomable reserves in his eons of life. Despite being the Divine Civilization’s strongest on paper, even the Death God King couldn’t withstand the relentless onslaught.

Even so, he didn’t lose hope. He believed Han Wu was more talented than himself. As long as Han Wu escaped, he could avenge him later down the line.

“I don’t abandon teammates,” Han Wu said with a firm shake of his head. “This fight isn’t over yet, and we won’t necessarily lose.”

Di Zangtian’s voice turned icy. “You think you have any chance of surviving after pushing me this far? Today, I will kill you. Not even the Divine Civilization’s Will can save you.”

The Chaos Energy giant charged at the Death God King’s remaining three Terminal Turrets. Once those were destroyed, Di Zangtian would go for Han Wu.

Han Wu reached out to the units in his divine realm. Some of the powerful ones, like Steely, had been deployed on the offensive and couldn’t return instantly, but his divine realm still housed other formidable beings yet to enter the fray.

The Origin of Mutation was the first to answer the call. Gritting his teeth, Han Wu sliced a chunk of flesh from his own body and fed it to Origin of Mutation. It was devoured without hesitation. After absorbing Han Wu’s genes, its form shifted dramatically into a second Defiant Dragon Emperor.

This imitation seemed weaker than the real thing, but that wasn’t the Origin of Mutation’s fault. Han Wu’s Defiant Dragon Emperor form was simply too powerful for the Origin of Mutation to fully sustain.

Even forcing himself into the form through Gene Lock, it could only manage one Macrocosm attack before burning out.

Next, V arrived piloting the colossal puppet, Supreme Power. Supreme Power had developed its own Armament Spirit under V’s long-term piloting and could fire off Mesocosm blasts. A single overcharged shot could wound a Macrocosm life form.

After that came the Great Dragons. Di Zangtian’s gaze snapped to Silver Dragon King Erebard the instant he appeared—not because of his strength, but because he carried the Chaos Jurisdiction.

The Chaos Clan descended from the Chaos God King. The sight of Han Wu commanding a being that wielded Chaos Jurisdiction felt like a deliberate insult to him and the Chaos Clan.

“Bring them all out. Show me every card you have. Today, I’ll slaughter every last one of your units!” Di Zangtian roared, crushing another Terminal Turret.

With two Terminal Turrets gone, his power surged further, the suppression letting up. Meanwhile, the Death God King’s aura weakened noticeably. The Dharma Manifestations were linked to his life, and losing two of them came with heavy backlash.

Han Wu’s face was grim. Every powerful unit in his divine realm had already been summoned. There was no one stronger left.

Suddenly, an egg shot out from within the Yinglong’s den and teleported onto the battlefield. It was the egg the Yinglong King had transformed into.

Han Wu was touched by its actions. It had shown no signs of hatching all this time, but in his darkest hour, it still came to his aid, willing to stand and fight for him.

At this point, Di Zangtian had already crushed the third Terminal Turret. The Death God King suffered further backlash and coughed up a mouthful of blood. His face was ashen.

“A hastily scrounged-together group of rabble. What makes you think you can fight me?” Di Zangtian sneered. His power climbed as he approached the Death God King’s last Dharma Manifestation. Once all four fell, his strength would fully recover, and crushing Han Wu and the Death God King would be trivial.

Han Wu recognized the urgency and commanded his units, “Follow my lead.”

He, the Origin of Mutation, and the Great Dragons gathered their dragon breaths. The Chaos Dragon Breath manifested before Di Zangtian once more.

That move had already burned Di Zangtian once, and he knew better than to meet it head-on this time. Instead, his gaze shifted to the Death God King.

While Han Wu and his allies charged up their breaths, Di Zangtian bypassed the fourth Dharma Manifestation and seized the Death God King in two enormous hands.

“Cancel your breath, or he dies.”

The Death God King was too injured from the backlash to resist. Di Zangtian toyed with him in his hands. While pissed, Han Wu couldn’t ignore the threat. The Death God King had shown him immense kindness. He couldn’t gamble with his life.

Han Wu ordered the Great Dragons and Origin of Mutation to disperse their gathered energy. The Origin of Mutation’s body couldn’t sustain another technique, and he reverted to his original form as the energy dissipated. Han Wu no longer had anyone capable of threatening Di Zangtian.

Di Zangtian laughed victoriously as he stomped the fourth Dharma Manifestation to pieces, his aura exploding to its fullest. With fourteen elemental Jurisdictions, the World Tree’s power, and his own Jurisdictions combined, his strength had reached the peak of the Macrocosm rank.

“I’ve done what you asked. Release the Death God King,” Han Wu said.

“Kid, when did I say I would release him? As a reward for your obedience, I’ll let you watch your precious Death God King die right before your eyes!” Di Zangtian broke his promise without a shred of remorse. His enormous Chaos Energy hand gripped the Death God King’s head and started to twist it off.

Han Wu could almost hear his bones cracking.

“I’ll kill you!” Han Wu roared, about to charge forward.

The egg was faster. It streaked toward Di Zangtian’s Chaos Energy hand in a blur of light.

Di Zangtian didn’t bother defending against an egg. At the last instant before contact, the egg unleashed its true power. Pure concentrated Dragon Fear radiated from within. The crystalline shell morphed in the blink of an eye, becoming countless blades that hacked into Di Zangtian’s Chaos Energy hand.

It only took one strike from the egg to sever the hand. The creature that burst from the egg caught the falling Death God King, saving him from the jaws of death.

Di Zangtian was stunned to discover that the hatched creature had the power of a Macrocosm life form. Han Wu similarly stared in disbelief at the powerful being. He had never seen it before, but it seemed more appropriate to call it the Yinglong Emperor than the Yinglong King.