As a Divine Dao Ancestor of the Fire Demon lineage, Blazing Sun Ancestor had participated in countless battles of all sizes over the ages. He had witnessed grand spectacles beyond measure, but something as bizarre as today's situation was a first for him.
Watching his companion fall captive, he realized that today's circumstances were far from favorable. Without a moment's hesitation, he rallied his divine sense, preparing to fight with everything he had — to stake his life.
At this moment, Blazing Sun Ancestor was clearly entering a berserk state. His entire body resembled a volcano brimming with colossal energy, on the verge of eruption at any instant.
That suffocating sense of imminent explosion was something Jiang Chen's sharp perception picked up on immediately.
Jiang Chen's divine sense stirred, and he sent a voice transmission to all present: "Everyone, be careful. This old demon is about to resort to a life-or-death technique. Don't press too close."
The reason the demon race was so difficult to deal with in battle was their utter lack of restraint. They would fight recklessly and unreasonably, and sometimes even unleash forbidden arts of terrifying magnitude.
Once such forbidden arts were deployed, their destructive power was immense, typically resulting in devastating consequences.
From Blazing Sun Ancestor's posture, it was obvious he intended to use one of these forbidden arts — perhaps even a technique that would take them down together. It wasn't that Blazing Sun Ancestor truly intended to throw his life away; it was merely a pose, a stance of putting himself in mortal danger to find a way out.
Often, when he struck such a desperate pose, the enemy would inevitably feel fear, creating openings that he could exploit for a sliver of survival.
Throughout his career, Blazing Sun Ancestor had faced near-death situations more than once. This kind of all-or-nothing fighting style was far from his first time using it.
The Four Divine Beast Spirits trusted Jiang Chen completely. Upon hearing his warning, they heightened their vigilance to the utmost. Their control over the domain remained intact, but they reduced their offensive pressure, maintaining a certain distance from Blazing Sun Ancestor — ensuring that even if he self-detonated his primordial spirit, the fallout would be manageable.
This, of course, considerably eased the pressure on Blazing Sun Ancestor.
However, the controlled domain did not dissipate. It continued to impose its formidable restraint upon him.
Since the Four Divine Beast Spirits had pulled back their attacks, the burden fell more heavily on Jiang Chen to compensate.
The Grand Crystal Lamp hovered above Jiang Chen's head, radiant and brilliant, its light growing ever more dazzling. Beams of crystalline radiance poured forth in increasing volume, spreading across the domain layer by layer.
Jiang Chen, too, had realized that Blazing Sun Ancestor was attempting to use this desperate gambit to carve out a chance at escape.
Naturally, Jiang Chen had no intention of letting him slip away. He pushed the Grand Crystal Lamp to its absolute limit. The powerful crystalline light formed layer upon layer of luminous barriers, continuously reinforcing the domain and pressing Blazing Sun Ancestor's test of endurance ever further.
These barriers overlapped like the petals of a blooming flower, stacking upon one another to amplify the domain's control. Blazing Sun Ancestor attempted to break free of the domain several times, only to be repelled each time by its formidable defensive power. On more than one occasion, he came tantalizingly close to breaking through, but under the suppression of the Grand Crystal Lamp's radiance, he always fell just short by the narrowest margin.
Blazing Sun Ancestor was beside himself with fury. His companion had already been captured and removed from the battlefield. Now he was no different from a cornered beast, resisting with maddened desperation.
A cornered beast's struggle was a wretched thing.
Blazing Sun Ancestor unleashed every Divine Ability at his disposal, drawing upon virtually everything he had ever mastered in his lifetime. One moment he transformed into a raging inferno, burning with wild fury, attempting to use the sheer force of his flames to sear a hole through the spatial domain.
Yet this domain was under the combined control of the Four Divine Beast Spirits, containing the highest principles of heaven and earth within it. It was a technique Jiang Chen had derived through the profound mysteries of manifesting the myriad heavens, then refined together with the four spirits. Such a method was absolutely beyond the grasp of any human on the Divine Abyss Continent.
With every passing moment of the battle, Blazing Sun Ancestor's heart grew heavier with dread.