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What do they take me for?
At this moment, the Crimson Mother was utterly enraged.
The sudden assault by enemies had forced her to reveal her trump cards, rendering all her plans futile and severing her path to becoming a God King. This already drove the Crimson Mother into madness.
Now, Xu Yuan was putting on an act, discussing the distribution of spoils after killing her right in front of her with Yuan Kong and the other three. It was as if they didn't even consider her a threat.
At this moment, the Crimson Mother felt an impulse to self-destruct.
So you think you can play tricks?
I don't believe you can completely detach yourself from everything around you.
If I destroy everything, without anything to rely on, you will surely die!
However, the Crimson Mother quickly calmed down.
She suddenly realized a crucial point.
Today, Xu Yuan came with the mindset of death.
He was even actively seeking death.
Trading her life for Xu Yuan's would be too costly.
Even if it came to a desperate fight, she must at least exchange one of Yuan Kong's group.
However, as the Crimson Mother entertained this thought, Yuan Kong and the others had already swiftly evacuated from the center of the battlefield.
At this moment, everything around them began to change.
Runes emerged from space.
The crimson runes seemed to belong to the Crimson Mother's methods, but upon seeing these runes, the Crimson Mother herself felt a sense of horror.
This power was entirely hers!
Sure enough, Xu Yuan was seizing the remaining plane power of the Crimson Realm.
The explosion of the Crimson Star had deprived the domain of its origin, and the entire Crimson Realm's power was slipping out of her control. Now, Xu Yuan was vying with her, further shortening her already brief period of control.
This wasn't what frightened her the most. What truly terrified her was that Xu Yuan seemed to require no adaptation phase; he could immediately use the plane's power to wield her forces of destruction and abyss.
Remember, she was the plane master, using the plane's power for cultivation and battle, not the other way around.
Within the plane, only the characteristics rendered through her long-term control existed.
However, as soon as Xu Yuan took over the plane's control, he immediately employed her powers of destruction and abyss.
How could she remain calm?
Especially now, when the Crimson Mother herself was already far from a peaceful state of mind.
"Impossible!"
With a cry of alarm, the Crimson Mother wielded the Crimson Halberd, unleashing both destructive and abyssal powers.
These two forces intertwined on the Crimson Halberd, distinctly flowing into each of the two curved blades at the halberd's tip.
At the tips of the curved blades, the two forces erupted and collided at the halberd's spearhead.
BANG!
An ultimate spear beam burst forth.
This strike landed directly on cosmic space.
The characteristic of Abyssal power to ignore defenses indeed gave the Crimson Mother's strike a chance to attack Xu Yuan's essence—the will left behind after his physical death.
However, Xu Yuan wouldn't meet it head-on.
The runes shifted rapidly, spinning to form a massive storm that trapped the Crimson Mother within, along with the surrounding space.
The spear beam struck cosmic space, causing energy fluctuations from the collision. In cosmic space, runes filled with abyssal aura emerged, forming a barrier that held the spear beam at bay.
Compared to countering with the devouring power of the Hunyuan Spear, the direct clash between abyssal powers was more straightforward.
The runes transformed into an abyssal barrier, blocking the Crimson Mother's strike. On the Hunyuan Spear, the four spirit souls each occupied a corner, forming a grand array. As their lights flashed, the four spirit souls merged into one.
Huan Xing transformed into a starry sky where stars twinkled like interactions between neurons. The starry sky shrank to the size of a human head, forming the head.
Shan He restructured itself, with the pen body extending into a torso and limbs, forming the body.
Xing Jun's original eyes condensed into a celestial eye, landing on the forehead of the Huan Xing-transformed head.
Yao Yao fused the consciousness of the spirit souls together, using the celestial eye formed by Xing Jun as the 'sea of spirit' inheriting their consciousness.
To be precise, it was a fusion of five spirit souls, with Jue acting purely as a weapon.
The spirit soul body composed of the spirit souls wielded the spear and thrust forward.
As the spear thrust forward, the spirit soul body teleported behind the Crimson Mother.
"Get out of my way!"
The Crimson Mother saw that this wasn't Xu Yuan's power.
It seemed to merely be something subordinate to Xu Yuan, and aside from the super divine artifact itself, she looked down on every part of this spirit soul body.
However, as the Crimson Halberd clashed with the Hunyuan Spear, she revealed a shocked expression.
How could this be?
Stronger than when Xu Yuan himself wielded the spear!
This isn't logical!
If Xu Yuan knew her mental change, he would undoubtedly sneer.
Xu Yuan's death was merely physical.
His consciousness remained.
Moreover, his body's power hadn't been wasted—it had integrated into the vortex of Jue's core. Additionally, the other four spirit souls simultaneously absorbed all the energy released when Xu Yuan's body collapsed.
At that time, not only did the energy from Xu Yuan's own transformation merge into the vortex of the Yuan Vortex Spirit Furnace, but also the vast amount of energy produced by the explosion of the Crimson Star.
Now, the combined power of the spirit souls who had absorbed this energy naturally rivaled Xu Yuan's own.
After all, Yao Yao and the others had followed Xu Yuan all along. Xu Yuan never abandoned them, devising inhumane cultivation plans for the soul beasts.
For a single spirit soul, absorbing Xu Yuan's power might be challenging, but with all the spirit souls working together, it was achievable.
Each spirit soul inherited different aspects of Xu Yuan's power, along with the excess explosive energy devoured under Jue's assistance. Thus, the comprehensive power of the spirit soul body naturally surpassed Xu Yuan wielding the spear himself.
At this moment, Xu Yuan felt reassured.
He simply used abyssal and destructive powers as support, countering the Crimson Mother's outburst while aiding the spirit soul body.
As time passed, and the spirit soul body became more adept in combat, Xu Yuan no longer needed to assist. His consciousness resided in cosmic space, observing this battle.
For his own spirit souls, Xu Yuan had indeed done his best.
He had cultivated his spirit souls to the pinnacle.
Just his spirit souls alone had reached the limits of the soul master world.
The spirit soul body continuously fought with the Crimson Mother.
Since Xu Yuan exited the battle, the two sides had reached a stalemate.
As time passed, the plane power controlled by the Crimson Mother dwindled, making it harder to suppress her injuries. The side effects from the self-destruction of the Crimson Star overwhelmed her.
Accompanied by numerous negative states, the Crimson Mother fell into a disadvantageous position.
The spirit soul body acted like a playful child, constantly experimenting with its strength.
Even multiple fatal opportunities were deliberately missed to gain more combat experience.
Xu Yuan didn't rush them; instead, he always maintained a watchful stance.
Time flowed.
This battle lasted three days and nights.
The fluctuations of their battle affected an area comparable to a stellar system, even—
"Mutual destruction?" Xu Yuan muttered softly.
The Crimson Mother suddenly revealed madness.
Though trading lives with Xu Yuan wasn't worth it, this spear and these spirit souls were genuinely preserved.
Exchanging them wouldn't be a loss either!
She went completely insane.
At this moment, she no longer harbored any hope of survival.
Her body rapidly expanded, not exploding, but instantly gaining overwhelming power. The super divine artifact, the Crimson Halberd, shattered, and three gemstones detached from it, reverting to three divine artifacts.
The three divine artifacts simultaneously froze space.
One gemstone-shaped divine artifact released a tremendous oppressive force.
Another unleashed a fierce mental storm, momentarily disorienting the five spirit souls' consciousness.
The last gem emitted a white light, breaking apart the space.
Space itself seemed sacrificed, unleashing a powerful energy surge rather than weakening the Crimson Halberd.
Amidst successive eruptions, the Crimson Mother swung the Crimson Halberd, fiercely sweeping towards the spirit soul body.
"Do you think I don't exist?"
Xu Yuan's calm voice rang out.
The Crimson Mother cried out again.
"Impossible!"
Freezing space and mental storms seemingly targeted the spirit soul body, but in reality, they aimed to prevent Xu Yuan from intervening at this critical moment.
The experienced Crimson Mother couldn't have forgotten that Xu Yuan was still assisting nearby.
However, the mental storm had no effect on Xu Yuan.
At this moment, he was merely a consciousness residing in cosmic space, without a tangible spiritual body.
This was the Path of Will.
When Jue's achievements were unveiled to the world, Xu Yuan didn't stop. He offered his second path.
Distinct from the path of bloodline cultivation, beyond the ultimate Weapon Spirit, there was the road of indestructible will.
Runes manifested, forming layers of shields that delayed and weakened the Crimson Mother's attacks.
Simultaneously, Xu Yuan's will merged into the spirit soul body, commanding it to counterattack.
The Hunyuan Spear surged forth, controlling the grand momentum of heaven and earth.
It was as if he had returned to the initial period of learning spear techniques.
Spear thrusts moved heaven and earth.
Only then, it was a small region's power expanding to encompass an entire star domain.
The Hunyuan Spear met the Crimson Halberd.
At this moment, the brilliance of the stars seemed obscured, and the entire world appeared split into two colors.
On one side was Xu Yuan holding the Hunyuan Spear, a chaotic mix of black and white.
On the other side was a crimson blend of destructive and abyssal powers.
As time passed, the crimson side was assimilated, rapidly contracting until the figure of the Crimson Mother emerged.
"No! Impossible!"
Despair tinged the Crimson Mother's voice.
BANG!
The universe transformed into a chaotic scene.
The mixed power of black and white filled cosmic space, adding mystery to the monotonous black cosmos.
Yuan Kong and the others appeared.
"Xu Yuan."
The expressions of Yuan Kong and the others were complex.
In this great battle, although the three of them played roles, they were ineffective at crucial moments.
They even felt ashamed to claim the fruits of this battle.
"Three of you, distribute according to the previous plan. As for Douluo Planet, I hope you can fulfill your recent promises," Xu Yuan spoke, stepping forward to pick up the scattered Crimson Halberd in the universe.
He carefully examined this super divine artifact.
"There is no trace of the Crimson Mother's power left in it. Her remaining power within the super divine artifact should have been placed in her final gamble."
Xu Yuan gazed at the three dimmed gemstone artifacts, forming a hypothesis.
This was true resolution to die.
The Crimson Mother was genuinely obsessed with achieving God King status. Though she committed sins, her obsession with becoming a God King was real. She was already half-mad when the Crimson Star exploded, wavering between prolonging her existence to seek a new path or perishing to make Xu Yuan and the others pay.
As the spirit soul body fought her with prowess surpassing Xu Yuan's former self and Xu Yuan oversaw the battle, she finally abandoned the former and chose the latter.
However, her goal of mutual destruction was limited to the five spirit souls composing the spirit soul body.
Thus, even the last hope she left in the super divine artifact was mobilized.
Because she intended to plunge with the spirit soul body into a star and detonate it.
Unfortunately, she miscalculated.
"This Crimson Halberd is also my spoils of war."
Xu Yuan retrieved the Heavenly Sacred Splitting Abyss Halberd and placed it alongside the Crimson Halberd.
Runes emerged, merging into the Crimson Halberd in the form of the two powers mastered by the Crimson Mother.
Yuan Kong and the others didn't interrupt Xu Yuan but quietly watched him study this super divine artifact.
After studying for over half an hour, the Crimson Halberd in Xu Yuan's hand suddenly disassembled.
Seven divine artifacts dispersed.
This left Yuan Kong and the others watching dumbfounded.
It's disassembled?
But how to reassemble it after disassembly?
This concerned the method of nurturing super divine artifacts.
Nurturing super divine artifacts was extremely difficult, but attempting with divine artifacts was relatively feasible. Perhaps this method was the only way for these half-step God Kings below God King level to obtain super divine artifacts suited to them.
As everyone knows, disassembly is easy, but reassembly is hard.
Xu Yuan disassembled the Crimson Halberd into seven divine artifacts—how would he reassemble it?
"Combining super divine artifacts isn't that difficult."
Xu Yuan pieced the separated seven artifacts onto the Heavenly Sacred Splitting Abyss Halberd.
The spear-shaped divine artifact, which served as the main body of the Crimson Halberd, was forcefully inserted into the handle section of the Heavenly Sacred Splitting Abyss Halberd by Xu Yuan.
Although it appeared violent, it was actually smooth—an integration.
All components of the Crimson Halberd were based on crimson power, namely destructive and abyssal powers.
And the Heavenly Sacred Splitting Abyss Halberd was also composed of abyssal power.
Therefore, fundamentally, there was a way for them to fuse.
Xu Yuan didn't find anything outrageous about it. He excelled in various fusions and separations. After handling it for over half an hour, having previously made guesses and witnessed firsthand the Crimson Mother's process of extracting three super divine artifacts herself, he naturally understood much of it.
If Yuan Kong knew what Xu Yuan was thinking, he would likely explode mentally.
Could the principle behind nurturing such a powerful weapon really be figured out in such a short time?
Xu Yuan's fusion process was swift. After integrating the spear-shaped divine artifact into the Heavenly Sacred Splitting Abyss Halberd, its abyssal power significantly increased—the spear-shaped divine artifact was fundamentally abyssal power.
With the slight destructive power from the spear-shaped divine artifact as guidance, Xu Yuan began fusing the other 'components' into the Heavenly Sacred Splitting Abyss Halberd.
This added the 'destruction' power to the Heavenly Sacred Splitting Abyss Halberd from scratch. Thus, the integration of each divine artifact elevated the Heavenly Sacred Splitting Abyss Halberd's presence to another level.
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