Hengsheng appeared from concealment mode and conjured a wooden hand to intercept Jin Da-Shan’s movement, pinning him to the ground and preventing him from moving.
'Fellow Daoist Jian, quickly leave!' Hengsheng sent a sound transmission, urging Jian Zixuan to flee with the seal as he sensed the wooden hand wouldn't be able to restrain Jin Da-Shan for much longer.
Jian Zixuan quickly moved toward the exit upon hearing this and sent Hengsheng one last message.
'Fellow Daoist Lan, please remember to leave the rift before it closes.'
Hengsheng sensed the mental connection severed as Jian Zixuan left the sanctum.
The wooden hand pressing its palm against the ground cracked, and then…
Jin Da-Shan’s giant form burst forth, shattering the wooden hand.
"ROAR!" Jin Da-Shan roared in fury upon sensing that the seal was gone. His eyes turned red as he glared at Lan Hengsheng. If he had a hate list, Hengsheng would now be at the very top.
"MEOWWWWWW!!!" Yunsu, now recovered, leaped at the giant and immediately resumed their battle.
Hengsheng no longer let Yunsu fight alone. He jumped into the battle, joining forces against the evil giant!
The Timbergrasp Cycle glowed with an intense green light, conjuring a thousand wooden hands from the ground that grasped Jin Da-Shan’s limbs one by one, restricting his movements.
Yunsu tearing the giant's abdomen with her sharp claws dragged his organ off.
The giant struggled against the wooden hands, trying to rip them off one by one, but to no use. Realizing this, he decided to shrink to human size for greater mobility.
Unrestrained by the wooden hands, he quickly flew toward Hengsheng, raised his axe, and swung it down. The axe enlarged and struck at Hengsheng.
Hengsheng's eyes glowed with an intense golden light, then shot out a solar blast against the axe blade, melting it. He then formed a white shield using pure Qi to intercept the incoming claw of the Rakshasa!
Hengsheng was knocked back from the impact. He still could not match Jin Da-Shan's strength, but he sensed that the other's strength had weakened, as Jin Da-Shan could no longer keep up with Yunsu's strength.
The giant cat Yunsu came from behind, bit Jin Da-Shan's human-sized body, and swallowed him whole. But it did not end well—her body was ripped in half from the inside by the axe!
"YUNSUUU!" Hengsheng roared. Even though he knew she was fine, the scene still triggered him.
With tremendous anger driving him, he fully supplied his Spiritual Qi to the Divine Artifact. Even if his own strength could not match the opponent, the Divine Artifact was not just for show!
"WOOD!!!" Hengsheng roared.
Countless wooden dragons emerged from the ground, throwing themselves at Jin Da-Shan, biting his limbs, and wrapping their wooden trunks around his body.
"AHHHHHHH!!" Jin Da-Shan screamed as he struggled to destroy the wood restraining him with brute force!
"FIRE!!!" Hengsheng shouted.
The wooden dragons restraining Jin Da-Shan's body turned a blazing red, and then—all at once—every wooden material exploded!
Jin Da-Shan's body exploded into thousands of pieces.
Hengsheng knew it was not over. In fact, it would never be over as long as the sanctum continued supplying power to Jin Da-Shan—he was unkillable in this place.
The pieces of flesh scattered across the sanctum's floor twitched and began to reform into thousands of mini Jin Da-Shans, each wielding a tiny axe.
Despite their ridiculous appearance, each one possessed the power of a low-tier 4 power level, making them a formidable army for Hengsheng. They quickly swarmed toward Hengsheng, determined to get rid of him immediately.
"LAN HENGSHENG!!!!!" Thousands of mini Jin Da-Shans roared in unison.
Hengsheng's expression turned grim as he took a battle stance. He then unleashed a World Shatter Palm to crush the approaching enemies!
A portion of the mini Jin Da-Shan army was struck by the massive palm Qi, sending them flying backward, while the rest had already reached Hengsheng, engaging him in fierce combat!
Hengsheng broke into a sweat as he slowly found himself being pushed back by their overwhelming numbers.
"MEOWWWWWW!" The cat roared!
Yunsu, having reconnected her body, rejoined the fight. Seeing the small creatures running around the battlefield, her primal instincts kicked in!
She leaped and slapped the mini Rakshasas with her paws, ripping them apart with a sharp fang. With Yunsu's help, the pressure on Hengsheng eased severalfold.
The exchange blow between the 2 sides continued…
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The colossal heavenly fist manifested in midair, sending an invisible pulse like a tidal wave toward the gigantic, 300-meter-tall Rakshasa, who had three heads, six arms, entirely golden skins, and a fearsome appearance.
This fearsome Rakshasa was the ultimate form of Jin Da-Shan when he was on the verge of defeat a while ago. At that moment, Jin Da-Shan decided to completely merge with the countless souls within his body, including his very own soul, to become an entirely new entity.
The new entity—The 3 heads 6 arms Golden Rakshasa calls itself 'Jin Dara'.
However, the new form didn't help him escape this situation because Hengsheng continued to drain the sanctum of its Dimensional Essence, rendering the Rakshasa weaker and weaker. After ten more minutes of battle, the Rakshasa's strength had once again fallen to the same level as before the merging.
Right now, the Rakshasa's strength was equal to Hengsheng's, allowing him to fight the demon head-on!
The Heaven's Pulse Fist sent destructive waves of pulses one after another toward the opponent, each wave tearing apart the Rakshasa's body and soul. Every time the Rakshasa resurrected, it was immediately crushed into pieces again.
The colossal heavenly fist faded from above as it ran out of Qi. Hengsheng's eyes narrowed as he noticed that the heaven-grade technique was not as effective here in the rift compared to when he had used it against the God Spawn's army. At that time, the move had been hundreds of times deadlier.
'Did it become weaker because the presence of Heaven and Earth here are thin?' Hengsheng wondered.
The Golden Rakshasa began to regenerate slowly, from Hengsheng's belief, it would take the Rakshasa around ten seconds to form a whole body and another 10 seconds to reach its peak condition.
"Meow…" Hengsheng gazed at Yunsu with pity. She had been fighting hard for so long. Even though she no longer feared fatal injuries, there was a limit. After all, she was not truly immortal. Throughout the fight, the damage to her life essence had accumulated, and now it was starting to show on the outside as her regeneration had slowed significantly.
Hengsheng picked up the poor cat and gently petted her fur with concern.
"Meow?" Yunsu asked, confused by what he was doing.
"You don't have to fight anymore. It will be dangerous if your life essence runs low," Hengsheng said.
"Meow… mew…" Yunsu mewed, expressing her desire to help in the battle, worried that her human might be beaten by the enemy.
"No need to worry, I've got this handled! Why don't you take a little break? Once everything is settled, we can treat ourselves to something delicious, sound good?" Hengsheng said with a comforting smile.
"Meow….." Yunsu nodded, clearly exhausted as well. This fight was the first time she had gone all out , excluding the simulator.
Hengsheng hugged the cat before the Origin energy from his System World enveloped her body and drew her inside. She appeared in her cat planet within the Origin World, safe and away from the battle.
Hengsheng gazed at the Golden Rakshasa, which was standing up with difficulty.
The Golden Rakshasa's 3 heads also gazed back at Hengsheng, its six eyes turning red, filled with hatred and anger. It swept its eyes around, searching for the hateful cat, but could not find her. It smiled.
"Looks like the cat knew its fate and ran off, leaving you to die alone." Jin Dara smirked.
"Run away from you? You are not even a real thing," Hengsheng said. With his [Heavenly Insight Mode] and his knowledge, he assumed a theory about the truth of this place. The sanctum was, in fact, just a remnant of a ruined dimension—a destroyed world.
This place was actually similar to his System World, a separate dimension, but it was even worse than his. The dimension's essence here was ruined and did not hold any real essence just a shell of its former self, devoid of any real power and presence. This place was just an illusion of the past.
So, Jin Da-Shan… no, now he was Jin Dara, who was bound in this place, was also an illusion.
Unfortunately for Hengsheng, in this supernatural world full of beings that could destroy mountains and seas with a whim, an illusion in this world was not without any real effect. A high-level illusion might be able to turn around an illusion into reality.
Hearing Lan Hengsheng's words, the Golden Rakshasa did not waste any more words to argue, as its life and death depended on how quickly it could kill the opponent. It sensed that the sanctum had begun to become unstable due to some method deployed by the opponent.
The six golden axes appeared in the six hands of the gigantic body of Jin Dara. Then, he flew across the distance, swinging the giant axes at the tiny human on the floor.