The Great Sage activated by special effects was very strong, but not invincible, because there was an absolute time limit.
Counting it up, from when Jun Changxiao entered the Nine Layers of Hell and returned to Star Meteorite Continent then came back seemed to be only a few months—summoning him twice was indeed a bit frequent.
Put simply:
First summon, Monkey Brother’s energy was full, combat power super strong.
Second summon, though still maintaining state, the energy consumed last time hadn’t fully recovered, so he could only forcibly carry the staff and perform on stage.
Actually during the earlier melee, Monkey Brother specifically picked soft persimmons from the various planar powerhouses to pinch, and didn’t target the Fortress Lord.
Why?
Because the opponent’s strength was somewhat strong, his current state didn’t allow engaging him.
Monkey Brother was also quite clever—encountering a tough one, he first used his aura to intimidate, then after resolving a bunch of small fry, fled.
This set of operations preserved the Monkey King’s reputation while also intimidating planar warriors.
Of course,
Please don’t question the Great Sage’s strength—blame only that Gou Sheng flipped his card too frequently, making him unable to handle it.
If given sufficient rest time, next time he made a powerful appearance, he would definitely hold two watermelon knives and hack from the Southern Heaven Gate to Penglai East Road, hacking until even gods trembled and ghosts shivered.
This wasn’t the point.
The point was, once the Great Sage exited stage, he put Jun Changxiao on the platform!
“Damn it!”
Gou Sheng roared internally: “If I’d known you couldn’t handle it, I would have used other trump cards!”
The purpose of using the Great Sage set special effect was to resolve the Fortress Lord without acting personally, then preserve stamina to tour various planes.
Now it was fine—only took care of the reinforcing powerhouses, still had to personally go into battle. If he’d known, might as well have used the Difficult-to-Retract Blade and saved the special effect.
Jun Changxiao said regretfully: “Wasted a trump card for nothing.”
“Whoosh whoosh!”
Just then, powerful airwaves pressed over from the distance, carrying two blade lights.
“Bang! Bang!”
Jun Changxiao summoned the Heaven-Dominating Spear to dissolve the blade energy, but was also shaken back.
What the hell!
How did that guy get stronger!
The system said: “After all, he was in his own territory earlier, didn’t dare freely explode and destroy buildings. Now that his home is destroyed, he naturally won’t have scruples anymore!”
Right.
The Fortress Lord now had no scruples whatsoever!
He had only one thought in his heart—to obliterate the detestable guy who destroyed the Starry Sky Fortress and comfort the spirits of generations of predecessors!
“Die!”
“Whoosh whoosh!”
The two fine-quality scimitars swung out, gathering blade lights stronger than before.
The Fortress Lord had completely erupted in anger, completely at full power. The strength he displayed was clearly stronger than before, also making Jun Changxiao deeply realize the opponent was the strongest enemy he’d ever encountered in life!
After all, he was the final BOSS in the mortal world.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Jun Changxiao swung the Heaven-Dominating Spear, spiritual energy seemingly transforming into two roaring dragons charging forth, mutually destroying with the pressing blade lights.
“Swish!”
“Clang!”
“Swish!”
“Clang clang clang!”
The Fortress Lord pushed his mastery of space to the extreme, frequently teleporting, frequently attacking. Watching warriors fundamentally couldn’t capture it, could only witness light flashing in the universe, patches of space being cut apart!
Jun Changxiao wasn’t weak either—clad in the Great Sage set, wielding the Heaven-Dominating Spear, meeting moves with counters as he fought, the solemnity surging in his eyes becoming increasingly intense.
“Heavenly Illusion Sacred Transformation!”
“Whoosh whoosh!”
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”
Just then, the Fortress Lord deployed profound martial techniques again. One could see violent airwaves howling in the combat area, gathering into eight massive dharma forms at eight different positions, then raising their right palms and uniformly pressing toward Jun Changxiao!
“Crack crack crack crack!”
The eight palm prints carrying substantial aura pressed forward. The cosmic space with structure stronger than planes immediately couldn’t withstand it, beginning large-scale shattering. The shocking scene made warriors from various routes draw in cold breaths!
“Swish!”
Jun Changxiao made a decisive decision, transforming into flowing light shooting skyward.
“Boom!”
However, just after breaking through the encirclement, two palm prints pressed over first, one from the right one from the left, squeezing him in the middle.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
The other six palm prints pressed over in succession, stacking on the previous palm prints, causing frequent booming sounds, rippling out powerful energy waves, space shattering even more visibly!
Mo Shangsheng’s eyes widened.
These few brief exchanges between the Fortress Lord and Jun Changxiao far exceeded the earlier soul form’s one-against-many in scene rendering, momentum and other aspects—absolutely a mortal heaven-destroying earth-extinguishing level battle!
“Fortunately this battle is in cosmic space. If it were on a continent, just these eight palm prints closing would bring destruction sufficient to annihilate living beings and shatter the plane!”
“Legend says the Fortress Lord’s strength has reached Upper-level Void-Breaking. Seeing today, indeed the words are true!”
“Why would a powerhouse of this level remain in the mortal world and not ascend to the upper realm?”
As everyone discussed, the stacked palm prints gradually dissipated. Jun Changxiao appeared in view with disheveled hair, strong battle intent flashing in his eyes, the Heaven-Dominating Spear in his hand bursting with dazzling brilliance.
“…”
The Fortress Lord’s face became ugly.
He’d deployed another trump card again, yet this guy was still perfectly fine!
“Whoosh whoosh!”
Jun Changxiao suspended in the shattered starry sky raised his head, the corner of his mouth lifting in a smile. Scorching flames surged skyward, surrounding temperature rapidly rising.
“This is… Fire Soul Spirit!”
The Fortress Lord had heard from the child envoy, but now truly seeing an attribute born in the mortal universe, his heart still had extreme shock!
He knew better than anyone that warriors possessing spirit seeds, as long as no accidents occurred, shattering the void and ascending to the upper realm was an ironclad certainty!
Under the enveloping sky of flames, Jun Changxiao’s entire person could be called powerfully extreme, and the Heaven-Dominating Spear in his hand also began being enveloped by waves of pitch-black attribute.
“Evil Spirit!”
The Fortress Lord’s mouth twitched.
Having one spirit seed was already very impressive, yet this guy actually had two—simply wanting to ascend to heaven and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun!
“What is that?”
“Fire and demonic attributes?”
“Should be stronger than those, should be more profound…” Saying this, the speaking powerhouse’s expression froze, then exclaimed in shock: “Could it be spirit seeds from the mortal universe!”
“What?!”
Everyone opened their mouths wide in shock.
“Whoosh whoosh!”
Just then, Jun Changxiao, fully erupting with both attributes, shot explosively forth. Because flames constantly enveloped his entire body, he was like a huge fireball fiercely smashing over.
“Bang!”
Just as he approached the Fortress Lord, the scorching flames suddenly exploded. That pitch-black Heaven-Dominating Spear, carrying sky-filling sparks, pierced through the void.
“Crack crack crack!”
Under the flame explosion and evil force disturbance, space was mercilessly cut apart.
“Clang!”
The Fortress Lord stacked both blades together, using the blade surface to receive the spear tip.
Jun Changxiao withdrew the spear, carrying sky-filling flames and evil to launch the most terrifying offensive!
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
In an instant, the two flickered and collided in the vast cosmic space, various powerful spiritual energies freely permeating, space stirred into broken fragments, especially the burning budget making one want to cry.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
As the battle became increasingly fierce, surrounding meteorites shattered into nothingness piece by piece. The various planar powerhouses lying on distant meteorites, feeling the aftershock waves becoming stronger, stood up one after another and fled faster than rabbits.
“These guys!”
The Fortress Lord thought with extreme annoyance: “All playing dead!”
“Crimson Heaven Raging Flame Slash!”
Suddenly, Jun Changxiao swung the Heaven-Dominating Spear fiercely down from above, immediately forming a massive slash seal gathered from Fire Soul power.
Before this, his cultivation instantly surged, the power of deployed techniques also rapidly increasing!
“Whoosh whoosh—”
The towering battle seal rapidly pressed down!
“Ten Thousand Laws as Boundary!”
The Fortress Lord furiously spread both hands, as if grasping the void, violently pulling it before him. A materialized barrier immediately gathered in front.
“Boom!”
A deafening explosive sound suddenly rang out, towering flames spouting forth, shocking distant warriors into stunned chickens.
This level of battle was absolutely never before seen in life!
“Whoosh whoosh!”
The scorching flames gradually dissipated. The defensive barrier existing before the Fortress Lord had shattered, his entire person appearing extremely disheveled, breathing also becoming rapid.
“Swish!”
Jun Changxiao standing in the air raised the Heaven-Dominating Spear, saying flatly: “It ends.”
“Buzz! Buzz!”
The shattered cosmic space suddenly trembled slightly, gradually manifesting seven different colored special attributes, then surging from all directions to gather at the spear tip, forming a seven-colored vortex shape.
The Fortress Lord felt intense crisis in his heart!
Not good!
Must retreat quickly!
“Swish!”
The Fortress Lord didn’t hesitate at all. Sensing danger, he rapidly fled toward a certain direction.
Jun Changxiao didn’t pursue, merely pointing the spear tip continuously gathering energy toward the area where the opponent disappeared, saying flatly: “I’ll give you three counts to escape. If you survive, consider yourself lucky!”
“One, two, three!”
He didn’t cheat, didn’t speed up, counting at the most normal speaking pace, then coldly shouted: “Seven Profound Radiant Light Break!”
“Swish—”
The seven-colored energy beam gathered at the spear tip waiting to be released immediately shot forth, seemingly instantly penetrating one hundred and eight thousand li in the distant lens.
“Puff!”
The Fortress Lord who had fled far enough suddenly halted his body in place, eyes gradually widening, then with difficulty lowered his head, discovering his chest had been penetrated by the seven-colored beam!
As his consciousness was about to dissipate, he wasn’t thinking about dying soon, but what that guy just shouted?
Right!
He shouted Seven Profound Radiant Light Break!
Right!
It was the profound secret manual fragment he’d obtained long ago but could never comprehend.
He’d even suffered heavy injuries because of this thing, preventing him from ever reaching peak condition!
“My… my fragment…” The Fortress Lord said with extreme difficulty, turning his head: “So… so it was you… who stole it…”
Just as he finished speaking, consciousness and soul completely dissipated, his entire person falling head-first into the starry cosmos.
“Swish!”
Jun Changxiao raised his hand, gathering a ball of flame and throwing it.
“Boom!”
Finally, under the personal witness of warriors from various planes, the powerhouse representing the Starry Sky Fortress’s absolute authority completely exploded into powder, then drifted toward the endless cosmic depths.
“Whoosh!”
Having completely obliterated the Fortress Lord, eliminating the poison point of possible future resurrection, Jun Changxiao breathed a sigh of relief, turning to shout at the fleeing planar powerhouses: “Meeting in the universe is great fate—in the future, this Jun will definitely visit each of you at your doors!”
“Sect Master Jun!”
City Lord Mo transmitted: “I’ve already compiled a list of all continents that came to assist the Fortress Lord, with detailed records of their addresses and starry sky region locations.”
A true divine assist.
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