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Chapter 1028 Slaying the God, The Curtain Falls

boom--

In the fifth universe, a violent roar resounded, and with the High Priest's energy, planets transformed into magnificent fireworks.

For a time, all spirits in the universe wailed in agony. The High Priest controlled the power, so that some planets even had living beings left behind.

That's why the eruption of lava, the apocalyptic scene that swallowed up the crowd, and the endless screams made Lu Ran's expression grow colder and colder.

"Look, you're angry again, and your knife strikes are less accurate."

As the high priest spoke, he dodged to the side and entered the inner circle, slamming into Lu Ran's chest like an iron mountain. Then, he stretched out his arm and delivered a series of short punches, cracking Lu Ran's body and soul.

"Have you no shame?"

Lu Ran questioned, "Many of these humans believe in gods, they are people who believe in you angels."

"That's a strange question."

The high priest smiled, now more composed than ever. Without Tianyan's coordinated attack, his pressure had lessened considerably, and he had now recovered from all the injuries that had affected his mobility.

As he spoke, he still had the energy to point his finger at the starry sky. Each time he pointed, a planet exploded, and countless lives vanished in the fireworks.

"The Omni-King and I are the rulers of everything. Their lives exist because of our mercy. Besides, since the Omni-King has decided to erase all universes, these people are going to die sooner or later."

The high priest said, “In that case, what’s wrong with killing some now? Your childish anger over something like this only shows your inferiority as a human being.”

"What kind of bullshit idea is that!?"

Lu Ran angrily retorted, "This world was created by the Dragon God, and you are nothing but thieves, yet you dare to speak so presumptuously about life and death!?"

His sword strikes became even more ferocious, but as the High Priest had said, his accuracy was decreasing, making it easier for the High Priest to dodge.

“Thief? You still don’t understand. Just like the rise and fall of dynasties in human society, the one sitting on that throne is the emperor, just as I am the High Priest and the Omni-King is the king of everything.”

The high priest said, "It's just a matter of the victor taking all."

"is it?"

Lu Ran's voice was gloomy, like a volcano about to erupt.

"Isn't that right? Once I kill you, I can unseal the Omni-King. Then the Omni-King can erase everything and start over, or maybe we can just get rid of all cosmic beings this time. Anyway, there are two Omni-Kings now, so they can play by themselves."

"The high priest said."

"How pathetic..."

Lu Ran said something.

The high priest inexplicably recalled the dragon god's words, causing his emotions to fluctuate. "You can only talk the talk. You will be forever silenced as the loser, while I, as the victorious god, will reign supreme in this world."

"No, I just think you're pathetic, it has nothing to do with winning or losing."

Lu Ran said, "You've said a lot, about the world, the angel race, all living beings, and the Omni-King, but you haven't said what you want. As the Dragon God said, you're just a pathetic beast who has lost his dreams."

The high priest's face darkened, and he punched Lu Ran in the face, deforming Lu Ran's face and shattering his true spirit along with it.

"You all keep talking about your dreams, are you all children?!"

The high priest's voice rose several decibels, and his attacks became increasingly ferocious, relentlessly assaulting Lu Ran's true spirit, even attempting to shatter the merging soul.

"I don't know, I'm just a personality created through temporary fusion."

Lu Ran retreated while defending, looking for an opportunity to counterattack. Blood kept spilling from his body, but it was also being healed. "But I know that man named Lu Li. He's just a child. Aizen is very mature. He always says that Lu Li is sometimes childish."

"You are clearly two different types of people, how can you merge? Humans are truly ridiculous."

The high priest mocked.

"No, you don't understand. Aizen said that Lu Li is childish, but he doesn't think there's anything wrong with that. Children's stubbornness is mostly simple and honest. It is precisely because of this childish obsession that they become the people they want to be."

Lu Ran said, "Whether we are the same type of people or not does not affect the harmonious coexistence of humans. Just as Aizen appreciates Lu Li's naivety, Lu Li admires Aizen's maturity and wisdom."

He was beaten so badly by the High Priest that he coughed up blood and his limbs flew through the universe. Seeing this, the cosmic beings clenched their fists, and some even shed tears of despair.

Lu Ran's body was dismembered and his soul was dissipating, but his eyes grew brighter and brighter.

"Nonsense! How could such a relationship exist!?"

The High Priest commented on Lu Ran's words with only two words, then attacked Lu Ran, beating him like a rag doll. At the same time, he did not control his energy and power, inflicting massive damage on living beings passing through the universe.

"Ha ha……"

Lu Ran coughed up blood as he was struck in the starry sky, yet he laughed, "That's why I said you don't understand, that's why the Dragon God said you're pathetic..."

He found an opportunity in the starry sky to slash the High Priest in reverse, causing blood to spurt from the High Priest's shoulder. "This kind of relationship certainly exists, it's called...friendship."

"friend!?"

The high priest's voice sounded absurd, as if he had heard some strange answer.

In the instant his thoughts were in disarray, Lu Ran unleashed an even more ferocious slash, forcing the High Priest to gather his energy to defend, and his slash was sent flying an unknown distance.

"call--"

Lu Ran exhaled a deep breath of stale air and then inhaled a large gulp of fresh air. His body had been injured and repaired countless times, and his spirit and soul were quite exhausted, but his eyes were becoming brighter and brighter.

"Then I'll show you."

Lu Ran's voice was calm, "What is the power of friends?"

As he spoke, his soul shone with light, and his aura achieved a unity between rage and tranquility, like a top-tier martial artist who had finally reached the pinnacle of his cultivation.

At this moment, Lu Li completed his Free and Easy Ultimate Skill.

Willful and self-centered, carefree and unrestrained. As Lu Li and Aizen's true spirits burned together, the information from their memories was transformed into pure power, causing Lu Ran's aura to rise steadily.

In just a short moment, Lu Ran's overall attributes broke through 280 points, truly reaching the ninth-order realm, with a total of 281 points in overall attributes.

"You two actually... sacrificed your true spirits simultaneously while in a fused state!?"

The High Priest seemed to have witnessed the most absurd thing. Of course, he knew that the true spirit of living beings contained enormous energy. To put it more broadly, the birth of parallel worlds and the other High Priests were actually all parts separated from the true spirit.

However, according to the fundamental laws of this world, the splitting of the true spirit's power when a parallel world is born is a natural phenomenon, and it is impossible to activate the hidden potential within the true spirit on one's own.

Even a powerful dragon god, who created the world and had the deepest understanding of the laws of the extraordinary, could only temporarily burn his true spirit to obtain basic energy to seal the Omni-King and the Grand Priest. He could not temporarily enhance his own power to gain extraordinary strength to crush his opponents.

But now the human before the High Priest has done it, not just by one person, but by two people simultaneously, in a state of fusion.

This is simply a fantasy, because if a human were to accidentally achieve this, burning their true spirit to unleash their potential, the High Priest could consider it a coincidence, or that the suicide of a desperate person had gained the support of destiny.

It's already absurd enough that two people could do it at the same time, let alone the fact that Lu Ran is now a fusion body. This requires the two people inside him to cooperate perfectly without any resistance and to have absolute trust in each other in order to release their true spirits and burn together.

The facts were already laid bare before the High Priest: Lu Ran had truly succeeded. He simultaneously burned the true spirits of Lu Li and Aizen, sacrificing his memories to temporarily gain extraordinary power and break through the final barrier.

Is it really that unbelievable?

Bathed in golden light, Lu Ran's martial arts aura was naturally perfect. In a flash, he was already in front of the High Priest.

The High Priest instinctively threw a punch in retaliation, but Lu Ran grabbed it with her raised left hand. With a pull and a twist, Lu Ran caused the High Priest to lose his balance.

Immediately afterwards, he gripped the Demon Moon with his right arm and slashed upwards, severing the High Priest's arm, and a large amount of blood splattered across the starry sky.

Lu Ran didn't hesitate for a moment, nor did he give the shocked High Priest a chance to react. Now their numerical gap had been narrowed infinitely, and the new "Free and Unfettered Skill" allowed Lu Ran's combat skills to reach the peak of the Saint Transformation level at this moment!
Lu Li's innate combat intuition guides Lu Ran's combat, allowing him to instinctively make better judgments in equally exquisite exchanges.

That's not just about judging the merits of the current move, but also about predicting the situation hundreds of moves into the future.

That was a completely different kind of Ultimate Skill from the Grand Priest's. The Grand Priest's Ultimate Skill allowed for perfect dodging and perfect parrying, but that was an automatic judgment based on the current situation of the confrontation.

Lu Li's fighting instincts guided him to make judgments and steer the battle toward a future more favorable to him.

This is similar to how outstanding Go players can often calculate dozens of moves ahead to arrive at the optimal solution.

For Lu Li, everything was natural. He didn't need to think; he only needed to follow his instincts to make the best choices in battle and lead the outcome to victory.

Thus, the battle in the starry sky quickly revealed the advantages and disadvantages, and Lu Ran's counterattack made the High Priest feel increasingly troubled.

From the initial evenly matched contest to the later defensive approach, and then he even felt that he could no longer find any weaknesses in Lu Ran's defense.

He felt as if he were sitting on a mine cart that was sliding down into an abyss called death.

"impossible!"

The High Priest roared in disbelief across the universe, his composure completely gone, "How could I... be killed by a human!"

"Do not……"

Lu Ran's swordplay grew increasingly fierce, yet it was also perfectly natural, as if the advantage in this battle was a given, suppressing the High Priest as he continued to fall into the abyss of death. "They are two humans."

As soon as he finished speaking, amidst the attention of countless cosmic beings and countless tears of sorrow or excitement, Lu Ran unleashed a deadly slash.

In that instant, his spiritual will soared to an unprecedented peak.

Never before in the universe has there been such a swift blade, so swift that it could reverse cause and effect; nor has there ever been such scorching fury, threatening to consume the lives of gods.

The black and white sword light pierced through several universes, but the extended sword light only produced spectacular sights and did not harm any planets.

Only within three feet of him did the blade sever the head of the supreme god.

In the next instant, Lu Ran and the High Priest passed each other, and countless blades flashed and disappeared again, annihilating every cell and soul of the High Priest.

Lu Ran's figure seemed to pass through the blood mist and then suddenly stop. Only the gale that followed in the universe blew by, fluttering his black clothes and dispersing the blood mist, as if it were the end of an era.

A long silence fell over the universe. Then, from all corners of the twelve universes, the sound of sobbing arose from living beings. The sound grew louder and louder, and the sorrow seemed to gather into a galaxy that flowed through the universe.

This river of sorrow flows through all living beings, yet it also blends with cheers—the joy of surviving a catastrophe.

From some unknown planet, someone first shouted, "Martial Saint!"

Subsequently, the name of the Martial Saint spread throughout the galaxy, as if a new god had been placed on the supreme throne.

As the Dragon God said, gods are born out of people's respect, not from those who are high above themselves.

Lu Ran heard the cheers of all living beings in the starry sky, staggered, and then turned into two people.

After separating, Lu Li and Aizen both gasped for breath. The battle after their fusion had placed a great burden on their souls, not to mention that they had both burned their true spirits at the end, which made them appear very weak.

Despite surviving the catastrophe, the twelve universes were not erased by the Omni-King, but too much tragedy was wrought upon them.

The sixth universe was completely destroyed in the battle between the Dragon God and the Omni-King. All the powerful beings in the first, fifth, and twelfth universes died in battle. The Grand Priest erased large areas of star fields in each universe. Only a few planets in their universes remained intact.

The powerful beings of Universe 7 had considered joining the battle. For example, Goku and Vegeta had already fused into Vegito and wanted to participate. However, Lu Ran and the Grand Priest switched battles too quickly, and Vegito's current strength was simply not enough to keep up.

Lu Li and Aizen exchanged a glance in the starry sky, both seeing the weariness in each other's eyes.

They won, but the result was tragic. The Dragon God sacrificed himself to seal away two Omni-Kings and a High Priest, and they lost so many lives to defeat just one High Priest.

Lu Li and the Dragon God hadn't exchanged many words, but seeing this respectable senior sacrifice himself for the sake of all living beings, he couldn't help but feel sorrow.

He and Aizen had just defeated what was perhaps the strongest martial arts expert in the world, but he felt no joy whatsoever.

The price of victory was too high, and they received no warning, not even after killing a high priest, and for which they gained much world exploration points.

They won, but the Dragon Balls no longer exist in this dimension. They defeated a Grand Priest, but this world... still harbors countless Grand Priests and the Omni-King.

(End of this chapter)