Projection of the Heavens: I prove my immortality through slaughter.

In the real world, the Heavenly Demon Lord was defeated, the demonic tide collapsed, and the star field crisis was resolved. Lin Xuan's main consciousness, like a commander who had completed the most important battle, entrusted the subsequent matters such as clearing out the remaining enemies and repairing the barriers to his instincts and the allied forces. The vast majority of his mind once again crossed dimensions and focused on the still unfinished battle in the Desolate Ancient Realm.

Outside the Ancient Wilderness, outside the Rock Tribe.

The situation on the battlefield has undergone a dramatic change.

When Lin Xuan's original consciousness returned, carrying the supreme killing will to slay the Heavenly Demon Lord and the profound state of "divine thought transforming into a thousand," the projection aura of the Desolate Ancient Realm surged once again! The star-destroying Dao rhyme surrounding him seemed to carry the coldness and vastness of the real starry sky.

The wound on his shoulder blade, inflicted by the Shadow Demon leader's sneak attack, healed rapidly under the cleansing power of faith and the suppression of his own will. The attached corrosion and soul poison were easily neutralized by the Daoist rhyme of Annihilation.

His opponents, the remaining Shadow Demon leader and the Hill Giant King, were gripped by unprecedented fear.

They witnessed the Fire Lizard King being instantly killed with a single finger, and they also felt the abnormal, terrifying, core-altering power of the projection before them. The Shadow Demon leader, in particular, with its keen senses born from the shadows, seemed to see in the projection's cold eyes a horrific scene of collapsing stars and the fall of demon gods!

"escape!"

This thought rose irrepressibly in the minds of the two powerful figures.

The Shadow Demon leader swayed, about to completely merge into the shadows and flee thousands of miles away.

The Hill Giant King roared, ignoring the imprisoned stone hammer. Its massive body emitted an earthy yellow light as it prepared to use its earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a magical technique) to sink into the earth.

"Want to leave now? Too late."

Lin Xuan's projection spoke indifferently. He did not pursue, but instead formed a profound hand seal in front of his chest.

"Our allies, if we don't act now, when will we?"

As he transmitted his thoughts, the warriors of the Houtu tribe, who had been lying in ambush for a long time, suddenly charged out from the deep underground behind the God-Demon Alliance and in the mountains on the flanks!

The leader was none other than Zhan Wushan! Wielding a massive stone axe engraved with savage totems, he roared as he charged out of the ground, cleaving a Thunder Wolf Clan leader who tried to stop him in one fell swoop! Behind him, the Wu Clan warriors, each brimming with blood and qi, charged fearlessly into the chaotic divine-demon alliance, instantly disrupting their formation!

This sudden attack from behind became the final straw that broke the camel's back for the allied forces of gods and demons. Already demoralized by the fall of their leader and the cowardice of their warriors, the allied forces instantly descended into even greater chaos, trampling each other and scattering in all directions.

At the same time, Lin Xuan's projected avatar moved. He ignored the fleeing ordinary allied forces and instead focused his attention on the Shadow Demon leader and the Hill Giant King, who were trying to escape.

He took a step, as if shrinking the distance to an inch, and instantly appeared on the head of the hill giant king who was about to sink into the earth.

"Power to Suppress Hell!"

The palm strike was not an attack on the physical body, but rather it triggered the pure law of "power," transforming into an invisible, immense pressure that, as if the entire earth were overturned, slammed down on the soul and bloodline core of the Hill Giant King!

The Hill Giant King let out a mournful cry of unwillingness. His massive body seemed to be nailed to the spot. His escape technique, which he had only halfway through, was forcibly interrupted. The earthy yellow light around him dimmed instantly, and golden blood overflowed from his seven orifices. His enormous aura rapidly weakened. He was actually suppressed by a single palm strike and lost the power to resist!

On the other side, the Shadow Demon leader's escape technique was even more bizarre, almost disappearing completely.

But Lin Xuan simply pointed towards that shadowy area.

"Starlight in Silence".

A faint, almost extinguished starlight shone from his fingertips and then silently disappeared into the shadows.

The next moment, the shadows in that area seemed to have been thrown into the core of a star, emitting a silent, extremely piercing shriek! All the shadow dimensions were forcibly illuminated, solidified, and then... returned to annihilation!

The shadow leader's blurry figure was forced to take shape in the pure, extinguishing light of the stars. It struggled and twisted frantically, but like ice and snow exposed to sunlight, its body and soul rapidly melted and vanished in a desperate scream, ultimately turning into nothingness.

In the blink of an eye, one person was suppressed and another was killed!

Just as the Shadow Demon leader was completely annihilated, deep within the distant Thunder Mountain Range, the ancient will of the innate god-demon Thunder Clan, which had been watching this place like a cold star, was finally completely enraged!

"You blasphemer...you deserve to die!"

A will containing endless thunderous fury descended with a thunderous roar, as if transcending time and space! It was not the original body, but a thunder incarnation formed entirely from the purest innate thunder essence!

This avatar was about a thousand feet tall, its entire body composed of purplish-black destructive divine lightning. Its face was exactly the same as Lei Ze's. Its strength had reached the limit of the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, and it had even touched the edge of the Divine Transformation realm!

This is a powerful avatar descended by Lei Ze after consuming his own essence, determined to annihilate Lin Xuan, the variable who has repeatedly challenged the majesty of gods and demons!

The moment the Thunder Avatar appeared, it triggered the Thunder Laws of the entire Ancient Realm. The vast sky was instantly covered by thunderclouds, and the destructive aura made even the witch warriors who were chasing the fleeing army change color.

However, facing this terrifying incarnation of thunder, Lin Xuan's projection, as well as Zhan Wushan who had just suppressed the Hill Giant King, did not show much surprise in their eyes. Instead, a cold glint of... a successful scheme flashed in their eyes.

"Finally... it's been lured out," Lin Xuan whispered.

All of this was part of his and the High Priest of the Houtu tribe's plan. Feign weakness to weaken the enemy, cripple its wings, enrage its true form, and ultimately… draw out this core avatar containing a portion of its essence!

"Witch Clan Secret Array, activate!" Zhanwushan roared.

Dozens of powerful Wu Clan warriors, who had been lying in wait in specific locations, simultaneously poured their immense blood and qi into the earth beneath their feet! Thick, earth-yellow beams of light, imbued with a primal aura, shot into the sky, instantly intertwining in the air to form an enormous "Hou Tu Sealing Array"!

This great formation does not have strong offensive power, but its ability to seal and suppress is one of the supreme secret techniques passed down through generations of the Witch Clan, specifically used to deal with innate gods and demons who control the power of laws!

Once the grand formation was complete, it was as if an invisible cage had been placed over this world! The raging lightning power surrounding the lightning incarnation was instantly suppressed to a great extent, as if it had been trapped in a viscous swamp, its movement becoming sluggish!

"Now!"

Lin Xuan's projection and Zhan Wushan moved simultaneously!

Zhan Wushan roared, pouring all his power into the stone axe in his hand, which transformed into a world-shaking, earth-yellow axe light, fiercely slashing at the legs of the thunder incarnation, aiming to destroy its foundation and intensify the suppression of the great formation!

Lin Xuan's projection once again unleashed the phantom of the Xuan Tian Demon-Slaying Sword, which was not a physical entity but even more terrifying! Although it was only a projection simulation and could not match even a fraction of the power of the real thing, the true meaning of the Dao of "annihilation" contained within it was real!

"Slay the demon!"

The sword shadows swept across the sky, no longer the power of the dazzling stars, but the ultimate "annihilation" aimed at the very source of energy and laws!

Under the powerful suppression of the "Hou Tu Sealing Formation", the Thunder Avatar moved slowly. Faced with this deadly situation of being attacked from both inside and outside and having opposing attributes, it let out an angry and unwilling roar, desperately mobilizing its primordial thunder power to resist.

However, everything was already destined.

The earthen-yellow axe light severed its thunderous feet, severing its connection with the earth (the will of the Thunder Swamp Mountains). The Annihilation Sword Shadow, like a skilled butcher dissecting an ox, ignored the raging thunder on the outside and cut directly into its core, forcibly... tearing apart the innate thunderous divine spark that contained a portion of the Thunder Swamp clan's origin and will!

"No--!!!"

The Thunder Avatar let out a final, desperate roar, its massive body collapsing into countless bolts of lightning that eventually vanished into the heavens and earth.

Lin Xuan's projection held a ball of purple lightning that was constantly leaping and flashing with the aura of destruction and creation—that precious fragment of innate godhood!

The Thunder Avatar was slain, and his divine status was stripped away!

In the Desolate Ancient Realm, the overall situation is settled!

The remaining allied forces of gods and demons completely collapsed and fled in disarray. Led by Lin Xuan's projection, the witch warriors of the Houtu tribe and the human cultivators of the Panshi tribe pursued their victory and reclaimed the entire territory spanning hundreds of thousands of miles that originally belonged to the Leize clan!

The human race's territory has expanded more than tenfold!

Lin Xuan's reputation as the "Mysterious Heavenly God" swept through the entire bottom of the Ancient Wilderness Realm like a storm, accompanied by his earth-shattering feats of killing a god (incarnation) and seizing his divine status. He became the true...dawn and faith in the hearts of countless oppressed races!

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