Chapter 6230 Shadow Clutch
The gate creaked open, and a tide of dark energy poured into the world. Even the air trembled.
This oppressive aura didn’t just threaten to crush the spectators—it felt capable of shattering the flame realm forged by the Primal Chaos Vermilion Bird itself.
Heaven and earth shuddered. The black gate’s power seemed ready to tear the world apart.
“Long Chen, you arrogant little ant! Now that this curse energy is gone, I’ll show my true strength!”
Long Biluo’s nails gleamed coldly. With a sudden sweep of her arm, a razor-thin black line split the void, stretching beyond sight.
Then, space screamed and tore open into a gaping wound.
“Heavens!”
The spectators were all horrified. Just what kind of power was this? It was beyond their comprehension.
None of the five-hundred-flame divine sprouts believed they could withstand even a glancing blow from that strike. One touch, and they’d be nothing but dust.
“Long Chen’s dead now.”
“I wonder if Long Biluo has the power to break the innate bead. If so, we might still have a chance,” muttered someone.
If Long Chen won, they wouldn’t have the ability to compete for the Primal Chaos Vermilion Bird’s legacy.
However, if Long Biluo won, they would still have a chance. After all, she was not part of the divine bird race and therefore couldn’t claim its legacy.
Previously, Kun Wufa had secured her assistance. If not for Long Chen, Meng Qi, and Cloud interfering, he could have already obtained it.
If any one of them could earn Long Biluo’s support, perhaps they would succeed. The question was—what could they possibly offer to an expert of her caliber?
“Long Chen, do you see? This is me at full power. How can an ant like you block me?!” taunted Long Biluo.
From high above, Long Biluo looked down on Long Chen. The gaping spatial crack beside her was like a wound in the heavens. She radiated the aura of someone utterly unstoppable.
In response, Long Chen stared at her indifferently. Even such a terrifying display failed to draw the reaction she desired.
“I’ll admit, you’re a skilled fool,” she spat. “But once I rip you to pieces, I want to see if you can still wear that expression!”
Slowly, she raised her hand, her claws aimed directly at Long Chen. Behind her, the black gate quivered, and Sovereign flames blazed on her palm.
“Shadow Clutch!”
Her shout split the air as she clenched her hand.
The next moment, the world shuddered, and space itself collapsed around Long Chen. Out of the void, a massive black hand materialized, so vast it seemed to envelop the entire world.
No one could dodge it. No trick could evade it.
As the black hand closed, the space around Long Chen rapidly compressed. Spatial energy clashed against Long Chen’s astral energy.
“This is a clash of brute power. Victory or defeat is about to be decided.”
“If Long Chen falls, that means Long Biluo has the strength to ascend to the scales... How many other monsters like her exist in the heaven region’s battlefield?”
If there were more monsters, the likes of these normal geniuses would never even get close to competing.
The hand continued to close. The stars orbiting Long Chen trembled, and even his five astral gates shook.
“A nine star heir? Astral Hegemon Body? Unrivaled in your realm? What a joke!” Long Biluo sneered. “Your era is over! Are you still lost in your faded glory? Today, I’ll wake you up!”
The black hand gradually solidified as Sovereign flames ignited on it.
Spatial cracks webbed around Long Chen, but the space didn’t shatter—it was as if the hand itself forbade the world from breaking until it crushed him and everything within.
“Incredible,” someone murmured. “Even Long Chen can’t move once Long Biluo summons her manifestation.”
Long Chen had already shown frightening power, yet here he was, trapped so easily. The gulf between them seemed vast.
“But... doesn’t he look a bit too calm? Does he still have some trump card?” someone asked, noticing that Long Chen didn’t seem to be panicking or afraid at all.
“A complete merger of Jiuli bloodline and Sovereign flames,” Long Chen finally spoke, his voice steady as stone. “Impressive—but nothing more.”
His composure made Long Biluo uneasy. She snorted and poured more dark energy into her attack.
“You can still talk big with death right at your throat? Shadow Clutch is a divine art from the primal chaos era—its depths are beyond you! I have reached major mastery in it, and no one beneath the Divine Sovereign realm can—”
“Sixth gate, Gate of Vision—open!”
Long Chen’s voice boomed like a god’s decree, cutting off her words.
BOOM!
The five astral gates shifted, making way for a sixth.
When it opened, its astral energy fused with the other five, forming a vast six-pointed star diagram. In an instant, Long Chen’s astral energy ignited, and an incredibly vast power surged out of him.
On the other hand, Long Biluo’s giant black hand exploded, transforming into scattering runes.
Long Chen’s astral energy crashed against heaven and earth, like a starry river pouring down from the cosmos.
Including Long Biluo, everyone was sent flying.
Ripples of power swept out in waves, flipping the world itself. Many experts were thrown all the way to the flame world’s boundary.
“I... can’t move!” shouted one of them.
The ripples slammed them into the barrier. Before they could recover, a second wave hit, threatening to tear them apart. Then came the third, and the fourth—each more crushing than the last.
The barrier cracked under the strain.
BOOM!
The vast flame world shattered, unable to contain Long Chen’s astral might.