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In fact, the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's senses were correct; in his perception, his opponent had indeed weakened. Their soul strength had fallen to less than half of his own. This ultimate being, split from the eldest son—let's call it the Ultimate Eldest Son—was most powerful in its soul force. Its soul strength was roughly equivalent to the combined strength of ten trillion ordinary human souls. This was a height even Venerables could hardly reach.

After all, there was once an adult eldest son who wiped out a civilization renowned for its powerful souls. And he wiped out such a civilization effortlessly. Furthermore, there were eldest sons who, relying on their own souls, sustained an entire civilization of humanity in endless cycles of reincarnation for tens of thousands of years. If their physical bodies hadn't been damaged by the fall into the sun, this cycle could have continued indefinitely.

With such a vast source of soul essence, even without any soul-path killing techniques, just by relying on the power of its essence, it could pose a certain threat to the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.

However, this kind of attack also inflicts 1000 damage on the enemy and 800 damage on oneself. If it is used by someone who is good at Soul Dao killing moves, the strength is still quite good. Even the Giant Sun Immortal Zombie would have to use some means to subdue it. But unfortunately, the eldest son does not have enough resources to refine Soul Dao Immortal Gu. Even if he temporarily buys or exchanges resources, it is difficult to gather enough raw materials.

As a result, this greatest advantage could not be brought into play. And now that this greatest advantage has disappeared out of thin air, it has instead made the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable feel a bit of pressure, which makes him a little uneasy.

If he had the memories of his previous reincarnation, he wouldn't doubt why he felt uneasy. After all, in his past life, someone had become a Great Dream Immortal Venerable, yet was relentlessly pursued and attacked by his own teacher, to the point that he dared not even leave his house. He was arguably the most tragic Venerable in history, despite possessing strength far surpassing any previous Venerable. His newly born Dream Dao ability was almost unbeatable, yet he couldn't defeat a Quasi-Immortal Venerable, and was even completely overwhelmed, utterly powerless, only able to escape.

The thing he's facing now is basically the guy who was the unlucky Dream Immortal Venerable in the last reincarnation, sent to fight in his place.

Previously, the eldest son had been continuously weakened, his soul hidden within him, waiting to be eradicated from chaos. Now, it gradually shrinks its territory and gathers together. As the eldest son's body suffers physical damage, his soul is also affected, and the connections between the different parts are no longer so close. Your current state in the spiritual world means that the various spiritual worlds are becoming increasingly distant from each other. Those highly polluted spiritual worlds can now be separated, and the experience of consciousness between different spiritual worlds can be traversed more easily.

Thus began a time-travel operation to purify souls. A large number of salvageable consciousnesses were pulled from the chaotic world and then transported to worlds that had been transformed into habitable ones. Those worlds that had completely fallen into chaos were gradually severed from their connection to the evolved worlds.

This process had been subtly influencing the eldest son all along. It involved constantly separating the eldest son's conscious memories from his confused ones, allowing him to deceive himself. The effect was naturally optimal, so much so that when the ultimate life form was finally created, the ordered soul within the ultimate eldest son's body had already occupied 30% of his total soul. The ratio of chaos to order was no longer as extreme as before. The eldest son naturally wanted to cram in more soul power, but the body's capacity was limited. He could only distribute his soul power among his other clones, mobilizing it collectively when needed.

The physical separation objectively exists, which affects the soul battle within the Ultimate Firstborn. Although the Order Firstborn, aided by the fallen from the underground base, holds an absolute advantage in terms of the number of consciousness entities, destroying the chaotic soul in a short time is still difficult. Fortunately, their numbers allow for more actions to be taken simultaneously. While they cannot defeat or destroy it, they can squeeze the uncontrolled chaotic soul out.

That's why the scene just now happened. Immortal Venerable Juyang suddenly felt that his opponent's soul strength had been greatly weakened, but in an instant, he also felt that his opponent had become more dangerous.

The soul of the eldest son of chaos was forced out, forced to take over the second strongest body. He quickly absorbed several of his own clones, strengthening the body to a point where it could barely support his soul. However, reclaiming the body of the ultimate eldest son was impossible. Everyone was currently suppressed by the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable; his ability to escape by leaving his body was already a testament to his extraordinary strength. Any further maneuvering was simply impossible.

As the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable watched as Lan Nuo led the various wills of the underground base to jointly control this body, the unease in his heart made him determined to take action and destroy this uncontrollable factor first.

There were too many otherworldly souls and bodies on the scene. They could all be used as pawns to destroy the Destiny Gu, and he didn't mind taking out one or two first.

Just as he was about to make his move, Ultimate Lanno had already activated his hidden trump card within this body.

Previously, with the help of his eldest son, he had diligently modified this body with the help of many consciousnesses. Through his eldest son's biotechnology, which in some aspects even surpassed that of the Mountain and River Republic, he created this ultimate body with potential that was 3 points higher than Lanno's original body.

Blue light flowed through every detail of his body in an instant. In the skin, bones, muscles, and hair of this body, every cell was engraved with nanoscale Dao traces, possessing a precision even more exaggerated than that of a chip. The number of passive killing moves that this body could automatically unleash alone reached tens of thousands. The number, intensity, and complexity of the active killing moves that this body could unleash were unimaginable to those at the same realm.

More importantly, within his abdomen, boundless天地气 (heaven and earth energy) converged, forming the energy core of his entire body like a vast ocean embracing all rivers. A super immortal aperture, comparable to the fusion of ten extraordinary bodies, had been successfully condensed. A significant portion of the time that the people of Black City had painstakingly bought him was used to achieve immortality. Although he could still defeat many immortals with his fifth-stage physique, the threshold of immortality was indeed a qualitative leap, especially for those with stronger combat abilities and talents. This qualitative leap was even more dramatic. The difference in combat power before and after the leap was like heaven and earth. First and foremost, he could now use the Immortal Gu himself, instead of relying on others. Furthermore, he still had six unsold Immortal Gu stored within him. Although they were all sixth-stage, their potential impact was immense. More importantly, nearly 1 Immortal Origin Stones from the Immortal Gu he had previously sold remained with him. While this was only a drop in the ocean compared to what he had sold, it meant he had room to maneuver.

However, this gave Ultimate Lanno room to maneuver. The terrifying multiplier that could be displayed at the fourth tier of cultivation truly posed a threat to the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable. This was the source of that dangerous intuition. At this moment, the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had already made his move. With just a flick of his finger, there was an illusion that the entire sky was pressing down, instantly plunging Ultimate Lanno, who had just displayed immortal aura, into the incredibly frozen ground.

At this moment, he was still considering holding back, considering how much power he should leave for his future self to fight for immortality. He did not use his full strength in this finger strike, at most using the equivalent of enough power to instantly kill an eighth-level cultivator. However, the feeling of this finger strike was obviously wrong.

It wasn't that the opponent was too hard; rather, it felt as if the opponent didn't exist. Even though his specialty was using his luck to lock onto the opponent, he couldn't possibly use the ability to hide in a spatial rift. Theoretically, it was impossible for him to dodge.

However, the battle-experienced Immortal Venerable Giant Sun quickly realized what had just happened.

"What exactly did you just do? Did you erase yourself from time?" The powerful will of the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable allowed him to recall everything that had just happened. For a brief moment after their contact, he completely forgot the existence of the ultimate being before him, and even his other memories changed, leaving him confused. He was confused about why he was here, and why he had used such a powerful killing move. Although this confusion only lasted for a brief moment before disappearing, it meant that in that brief moment, the other party had disappeared from his memory. His first reaction was that it was a cosmic killing move. This world has a river of time, and everything exists in this river of time. Under normal circumstances, everything flows downstream, but in rare cases, one can rely on a powerful cosmic killing move to go upstream, or jump out of the river to look at the distant water.

However, theoretically, it's also possible to completely erase certain entities from this segment of the river of time, or to skip a period of time altogether, jumping directly from upstream to downstream, bypassing the intermediate process. Everything that just happened was as if he had deleted his own existence during that period.

Indeed, just as the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had imagined, Ultimate Lanno reappeared in his original position unharmed. Then, ignoring his passive suppression, he shook his head and said, "It's not as simple as being erased from the River of Time. The killing move I painstakingly developed directly involves cause and effect; it temporarily erases my concepts."

Based on our current research, this is theoretically an absolute defense, because you can't destroy something that doesn't even exist in this world.

Lanno was only telling half the truth, of course. During the period of self-deletion, it was indeed an absolute defense, unless the cultivators of this world could achieve the immortality they imagined. Leaving this world, it was indeed impossible to destroy an existence that did not belong to this world.

However, since it doesn't belong to this world during this period, it cannot interact with the information of this world in any way. It cannot interfere with this world in any way. Otherwise, as long as the possibility of such interference exists, it cannot be called absolute defense, because any interference is mutual.

One drawback of this is that Lano doesn't know if he'll be safe to return after ending his self-deletion. If he faces a continuous area-of-effect attack, he might be subjected to a saturation attack as soon as he returns, and he would never reveal this weakness to his opponent.

Ultimate Lanno evaded an attack powerful enough to instantly kill an eighth-rank immortal without sustaining a scratch, finally making Giant Sun Immortal Venerable realize that he might now be facing an evenly matched opponent. At least until the opponent exhausted its own immortal energy reserves, the opponent could stand on the same level as him.

"But at most tens of thousands of Immortal Essence Stones, how can that withstand such consumption?" Immortal Venerable Juyang shook his head. Lan Nuo was indeed strong, but his power was fleeting. 100 Immortal Essence Stones were equivalent to one Red Date Immortal Essence, 1 Immortal Essence Stones were equivalent to one White Lychee Immortal Essence, and one million Immortal Essence Stones were equivalent to one Yellow Apricot Immortal Essence. And his Yellow Apricot Immortal Essence reserves weren't even in the tens of thousands. In his eyes, the little stock in Lan Nuo's pocket was not even a drop in the ocean. The difference in quantity, a hundredfold with each revolution, was an insurmountable chasm between them.

However, Lan Nuo quickly shattered his expectations of the consumption of immortal essence. Right in front of the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, he crushed an immortal essence stone, and then a crystalline green light spread out along the edges of his body, as if the crystalline patterns on his body had grown out of his body. In just an instant, it wove together a ring-shaped levitation device with a radius of a thousand meters. As the high-energy particles inside the device rotated at high speed, the vast energy between heaven and earth was converging towards the ring at a speed beyond the imagination of ordinary immortals. It was as if a domino had been toppled. The immortal essence merely activated the Dao traces on Lan Nuo's body, and the Dao traces then connected with the Dao traces that already existed between heaven and earth. Using them to arrange and combine, he unleashed a killing move, instantly constructing a substance that truly existed in this world. By utilizing the real physical interaction between these substances and other substances, he directly gathered the energy between heaven and earth. Each time a domino was toppled, it would move several times the energy. With each successive toppling, the multiplier of this killing move would become so great that it could only be calculated using scientific and technological methods.

The Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's incredibly fast thinking speed, coupled with Lan Nuo's deliberate demonstration of the process, allowed him to clearly see how Lan Nuo used a single Immortal Essence Stone to mobilize the energy that required several White Lychee Immortal Essences to do.

Although this series of operations takes some time, given the opponent's proficiency, it is more than enough to be executed in actual combat. If it really comes down to a war of attrition, even if they win, the losses suffered by the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable will severely impact his original plan for immortality.

[To be continued]

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