Chapter 49

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Title: Clash of Two Titans

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In the battlefield, chaotic battles were still ongoing everywhere in the Burial Gorge.

As time flowed by, more and more experts were eliminated or died. Old Charl and Ria were still fighting intensely, while the other protector of Shun, Da fought against the other enemies.

Naturally, the battle everyone paid the most attention to, was none other than the battle between Shun and Monoshiki.

These two fought in a separate battlefield where there were no others in it. They didn't use any divine weapons, each having their own pride. This battle, had to be won with their individual strength.

Their bodies flowed with fearsome law energies, nobody could break past the domain of the other to kill their enemy. However, Monoshiki seemed to be more carefree. The nine silhouettes stood with arrogance and under their combined attacks, Shun's defenses would be broken through sooner or later.

"If you don't use any more ultimate technique, you soon won't have a chance to do so later." Monoshiki was now not too far away from Shun. He smashed apart a palm imprint as he coldly spoke.

"I wish to see the true depths of your strength." Shun calmly replied, he continued to unleash violent attacks, as a towering devil light radiated from him, forming layers of devil armor.

Behind him, a diagram appeared drawing int he energy of the small world into his wings, futher strengthening his chakra and making him look even more evil.

The devil energy in his surroundings churned wildly, even his red eyes looked like that of the devil, becoming extremely bloodthirsty, on the verge of insanity as he entered an absolute berserk state.

"You are like a human-shaped monster." Monoshiki's gaze turn cold. He could let it slide when Shun exuded that overwhelming demonic chakra. But now, he seemed to have completely devilized himself, as his aura climbed upwards unceasingly.

"Devil Transformation - Devilization. He actually used that." The countenance of the Blackstone Devil King changed. He knew how terrifying Devilization was. Shun was staking everything he had on this battle.

The devilized Shun let out a thunderous roar as he punched out with both fists, manifesting baleful devil beasts that wanted to tear the sky apart.

Monoshiki folded a hand seal. The light screen behind him began to materialize even more divine weapons, pouring their energy into him. The Monoshiki now was like the strongest weapon in human-form. With a slash of his hand, a sword appeared, slashing through the sky, slaying the greater demons. Stabbing out with his finger, spears manifested, penetrating through everything.

"In order to deal with a human-form monster like you, how can I not have some preparations? I said it before, this time around, I wouldn't fight you to waste time if I didn't have absolute confidence." A supreme emperor might emitted from Monoshiki.

Right now, a shadow of a supreme emperor appeared and was gradually merging with him as one.

At this moment, he was an ancient emperor, having access to techniques and arts so powerful that he could split the world apart.

"They can actually still grow stronger?" The spectators felt their hearts trembling. The Shun and Monoshiki earlier were already terrifying enough but that was not their limits yet. An even stronger combat prowess could be sensed from both of them.

Shun was completely in devil form, while Monoshiki was like an emperor of the ancient times. Who were they? Why were their techniques so unbelievably powerful? They seemed to have no end of methods.

Such characters, maybe even emperor-ranked powers wouldn't be able to nurture someone like them.

Perhaps only True Kings and True Emperors could.

"There's a high possibility that they came from the outer realms." Some intelligent devil expert speculated.

There were many in the battlefield fighting using chakra energy. Although there were also chakra arts on the Myriad Devil Islands, they were extremely limited in comparison to devil arts.

Also, given how strong Shun and Monoshiki was, and the fact that even their protectors were so powerful, this guess was only logical.

If they came from the outer realms, they definitely wouldn't be from ordinary powers and would have extraordinary backgrounds.

Within the battlefield, Shun and Monoshiki's battle shocked everyone. Even for those who were currently fighting, all of them stopped to observe this clash of the strongest.

They felt their hearts shaking as they spectated. It was simply too terrifying, Shun was a human-shaped battle beast, while Monoshiki was a human-shaped war weapon. Every collision between them had the power to break even the skies.

The devil-form Shun punched. A simple punch of his had the power to destroy the void. Dragons of darkness manifested, intent on devouring everything in existence.

Monoshiki responded with a finger strike, shattering everything that came in contact with it.

"BOOM!"

Shun stepped on the ground, blasting out with his palms. Monoshiki's hands folded more seals and with a wave of his hand, he seemed to open up a brand new world, causing the nearby space to completely collapse. The light-screen shattered as a chaotic current ravaged the surroundings.

"Where's your strongest attack?" Monoshiki roared. Everything around him disintegrated.

In the past, he walked towards Shun step by step before he unleashed his ultimate killing technique. But now, he strode forth with even more confidence and arrogance.

"RUMBLE!"

Shun's chakra sea only had a type of light left. Or more accurately, it was the absence of light - complete and total darkness.

The black-colored devilish might enveloped this entire space, robbing it of its light.

Monoshiki stared at the gigantic form of Shun as he coldly spoke, "Are you even in control of yourself? Are you sure you can restrict me in that form?"

As he spoke, he lifted his palms and slashed apart the darkness. Before Monoshiki, a supreme emperor sword appeared, summoned from the void.

This sword itself was like the void, all attacks aimed at it would disappear into nothingness. There was nothing which could come into contact with the sword.

Monoshiki's expression was incomparably solemn. Boundless energy was concentrated within his sword. He stared at Shun as his eyes gleamed with sharpness, "If you still don't unleash your strongest attack, you won't have any chance left."

As the sound of his voice faded, his sword radiated millions of beams of light, so blinding that many people couldn't look straight at it. There were even some with weaker cultivations who bled from their eyes. It was like just this sword intent alone, was sufficient to injure chakra aea experts. How terrifying was this?

Monoshiki's strength, his laws, his domain energy, were all infused into the sword. This wasn't a divine weapon, but was something materialized purely from his energy. It was something more frightening compared to divine weapons.

"How strong." The devil experts in their area all retreated with explosive speed. They could sense that if the aftershock of the battle touched them, they might die here.

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Outside the platform, many of the spectators stood up as their hearts pounded rapidly while they stared at the scene. The battle between these two grew more and more intense.

"As the sword lands, the battle would be concluded." Old man Kan sipped his wine as he calmly spoke.

"If the sword lands, would that young man still be able to survive?" There were some who felt regret for Shun.

Although they didn't experience for themselves the might of this sword, these devil kings could tell its power just from seeing it from afar.

"The battle has yet to end, who knows if Shun would have a trump card." The Blackstone Devil King had a grim expression on his face. Although he said it this way, his heart was filled with worry.

Xin felt as though she was the one in the battlefield. She was incomparably nervous as she stared at that figure while she prayed in her heart, "Sir Shun…"

She has never imagined that a person whom she just met with once, would give her such a deep impression.

In the battlefield, Shun faced the sword directly. His devilized chakra sea emitted darkness. The light within the darkness was like the starry skies at night, cascading its faint light to the ground. His eyes were ice-cold, staring at the sword of Monoshiki.

"What is that?" At this instant, the spectators could see a dark shadow leaving Shun's body, fading to the back, completely merging together with the darkness.

The devil emperor's eyes narrowed, staring at the scene.

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Next, Monoshiki's sword slashed down.

As the sword descended, from top to bottom, a large crack appeared in the air. Shun's body was as though it was split in twain by the force of that attack.

Monoshiki stood with his sword in his hand, staring at the figure that was slashed apart by him. His eyes were calm yet he sighed softly in his heart. Although Shun was someone he had to kill, after killing him, Monoshiki actually felt slightly regretful.

It was extremely rare to come across a worthy opponent like Shun. If they weren't in conflict because of what happened in their faction, maybe they could've been rivals.

A strong opponent would give you pressure and motivation. That, coupled with a strong will, would enable one to break their limits as they grew in strength quicker.

After this battle, where else would he still be able to find such a strong opponent?

When all the dust settled, Monoshiki suddenly frowned. Abruptly, an extreme sharpness gleamed within his eyes. He lifted his head and peered into the darkness.

Within that boundless darkness, an immensely violent and powerful demonic might could be felt boring down from the sky.

A huge vortex of darkness engulfed this entire space, even for Monoshiki's spatial law energy, it was absorbed as well.

"As expected, I still underestimated you." A voice rang out in Monoshiki's mind.

He didn't think about how Shun had managed to evade him.

Failure was failure, he would think about it only after this battle has concluded!