It had to be said that even with only twenty to thirty percent of his cultivation restored, the Blood Sun Demon Emperor's power was not far behind the great emperors of the human race.
A typical peak ninth-level Emperor Realm cultivator would be fortunate to escape with their life against the Blood Sun Emperor in his current state, let alone stand and fight.
The enormous palm print bore down from above, but
He plunged downward and vanished into the earth in an instant.
"Pointless!" The Blood Sun Demon Emperor's voice was cold and detached. His other hand raised the Blood Sun Demon Blade and, like a farmer tilling a field, slashed repeatedly into the ground.
Crash, crash!
The rocky terrain crumbled like tofu beneath the Blood Sun Demon Blade's strikes, and deep trenches opened up one after another.
"He escaped that deep?" The Blood Sun Demon Emperor was mildly surprised. At this point, he had to admit that this young man was no ordinary opponent.
Though the Blood Sun Demon Emperor had only thrown out a handful of moves so far, every single one had been a signature technique — the very arts that had made him famous.
They were incomparable to his peak condition, of course, but against a half-step Emperor Realm youth, the Blood Sun Demon Emperor had assumed from the start that victory was all but assured.
Yet reality was cruel. He had deployed so many deadly techniques, and still he could not bring this young man down. Though the youth had used power-boosting talismans, in the Blood Sun Demon Emperor's eyes, the entire thing was still inconceivable.
After all, he was an ancient Demon Emperor. According to what the Cuihua Pavilion Master had told him, the cultivators of the modern era were far weaker compared to those of antiquity.
The truly powerful human cultivators had left behind almost no legacies within human territory.
The Cuihua Pavilion Master's intelligence had given the Blood Sun Demon Emperor tremendous confidence. In the ancient era, the Blood Sun Demon Emperor had been nothing more than an ordinary war general among the demon race — not even close to a commander, let alone a Demon Ancestor.
He had originally worried about whether he should reveal himself even after recovering to his ancient peak. But the Cuihua Pavilion Master had told him that no Heavenly Powerhouse had been heard of in human territory for many years.
In fact, it was now widely believed throughout human territory that no Heavenly Powerhouses remained. The truly powerful ones had all, due to the laws of the realm, either shattered the void and departed to other planes, or vanished into other mysterious places.
These words had been a tonic for the Blood Sun Demon Emperor's courage, and they had bred contempt for the cultivators of the current era in his heart.
But when the very first young man he encountered after seeing the light of day again turned out to be this troublesome, this tenacious — and he had deployed virtually every powerful手段 he possessed without being able to take him down — the Blood Sun Demon Emperor was beginning to harbor a grudge against the Cuihua Pavilion Master.
What was more,
The Blood Sun Demon Blade hacked down with frenzied abandon. Wave after wave of terrifying blade energy tore through the terrain, practically turning the entire area upside down.
Yet no matter how fearsome his blade energy, he could not unearth
"Boy, whether you flee to heaven or burrow to hell, this emperor will drag you out and devour you alive!"
The Blood Sun Demon Emperor, frantic with rage, transformed into a cloud of blood and plunged directly underground. Clearly, his hatred for
At this moment,
He knew that with the Blood Sun Demon Emperor's divine sense, it would only be a matter of time before his presence was detected by scent. So there was no point in trying to hide.
As for the Ice Fire Demon Lotus —
At this level of combat, unless he upgraded the Ice Fire Demon Lotus to the Emperor Realm as well, there was virtually no hope of using it against the Demon Emperor in its current state.
After all, his current combat power came entirely from the Emperor's Armored Talisman and the Emperor's True Force Talisman. The Ice Fire Demon Lotus had not received any corresponding enhancement.
The Danxiao Formation Disc could simulate ten great formations. Without time for careful deliberation,
He never expected the formation would be able to trap the Blood Sun Demon Emperor. His goal was simply to momentarily restrict him — just long enough to launch a single attack.
Whether or not he could actually kill the Blood Sun Demon Emperor,
"Brother Dragon, stay hidden for now. Wait until I call on you, and we'll strike together. Win or lose, it all comes down to this!"
Whether it was the Emperor's True Force Talisman or the Emperor's Armored Talisman — in the end, they were merely talisman-boosted cultivation, not genuine Emperor Realm attainment. His equipment across the board could not keep up, meaning his combat effectiveness could never truly compare to that of a true Emperor Realm powerhouse.
That meant his opportunities in this battle were extremely limited.
Precisely because those opportunities were so scarce, so slim, was
The Blood Sun Demon Emperor descended with murderous fury.
The Blood Sun Demon Emperor was not particularly skilled in underground combat, but he was bold by virtue of his ability, eager to chase down