I Can Extract Divine Power

Shen Bai unleashed a flurry of attacks, each one erupting like a volcano and surging outward.

The terrifying attacks carried an infinite might, shaking the surrounding palace halls to their foundations.

Faced with such terrifying attacks, the Sunset City Lord retreated repeatedly, the shock in his eyes growing more and more apparent.

’He’s only at the Unity Realm, yet he can fight me—someone capable of Overcoming Adversity and Attacking Upward—to a standstill.’

’Who’s the one truly Overcoming Adversity and Attacking Upward here, him or me?’

’Have I been lying dormant for too long? Are all the youths these days this terrifying?’

With every strike, the Sunset City Lord felt a terrifying power.

He had expected an instant kill, but to his surprise, he found he could barely keep Shen Bai suppressed.

"Boy, if you were to join me, you could be Asking for the Tripod and ruling the world with ease. Why are you so unwilling?"

"The world’s boundless power, beauties, and riches—all of it could be yours for the taking."

"Aren’t you tempted in the slightest?"

The Sunset City Lord continued his attempts to entice him.

Shen Bai gave the Sunset City Lord a look one might give an idiot. "Everything you’ve mentioned, I can already get for myself. Why would I need you?"

He wasn’t wrong.

As for power, his position as Prefecture Chief already put him in charge of the life and death of an entire prefecture.

A single word from him could make countless heads roll.

Beauties?

To say nothing of Red Makeup, even Amber alone was a peerless beauty anywhere she went.

As for riches...

With the first two, he could have as much wealth as he desired.

These were things he already possessed. The Sunset City Lord offering him what he already had was simply idiotic.

Power?

As for power, Shen Bai only needed time to cultivate it himself. He didn’t need to rely on someone who could betray him at any moment.

Seeing Shen Bai’s utterly implacable demeanor, the Sunset City Lord gritted his teeth. "If that’s how it is, then my only option is to kill you."

Previously, his plan had been to capture Shen Bai, use every means at his disposal to lure Red Makeup over, and then forcibly bind Shen Bai to her with a Deceitful Beast contract.

But now, he had changed his mind.

Since he couldn’t capture Shen Bai alive, his only choice was to kill him.

There would be other chances.

As long as Red Makeup never left Sunset City, he would still have a chance.

He had waited for so many years already; he could afford to wait longer.

At this thought, a solemn expression appeared on the Sunset City Lord’s face.

He backed away from the lingering shockwaves of their exchange. Behind him, the auras of over a hundred different Cultivation Techniques began to flash.

Each aura coalesced into a separate figure.

These figures then began to merge, and in an instant, the grand palace halls around them dissolved into nothingness.

The merged figure stood immense, as if holding up the heavens themselves, like a Qingtian giant radiating an aura of terrifying despair.

"With a hundred truths as my guide, I achieve Hundred Truths Unity! Between Heaven and Earth, my power is absolute!"

The Sunset City Lord’s face was grim.

This was his ultimate move, known as the Hundred Truths Assault.

It truly merged one hundred Cultivation Techniques, allowing all their power to converge into a single attack.

Back when he was still human, the Sunset City Lord never dared to use it. Doing so would have driven him mad, plunging him into eternal agony and inflicting incurable wounds.

But things were different now. He was an aberration.

The side effects were immense, but he could withstand them. The worst that could happen was falling into a prolonged state of chaotic consciousness.

But that didn’t matter. As long as Red Makeup was alive, he could eventually recover.

Today, Shen Bai would die!

He would be the only one to walk away victorious.

The Sunset City Lord raised his right hand, his fingers forming a sword, and thrust straight toward Shen Bai.

Under the force of the Sunset City Lord’s strike, everything in the vicinity seemed to grind to a brief halt.

The attack was so powerful it seemed to fracture Space itself, draining the world of all color.

Never mind a single cultivator at the Void Realm Peak—even ten of them would face nothing but annihilation before this strike.

"Impressive."

Shen Bai watched the finger thrusting toward him and felt a piercing pain between his eyebrows.

If that finger were to land on his brow, Shen Bai’s mind and Divine Soul would be annihilated, reducing him to a mindless husk.

Not only that, but the terrifying power would course through his entire body, reducing him to dust.

Shen Bai circulated his Qi to its absolute limit.

When Shen Bai looked up, his eyes were like deep whirlpools, holding an infinite terror within them.

A jade-like white light slowly began to rise. The glow of the thirty-two layers of his Flawless Ten Layers Body bloomed around Shen Bai, encasing him as if in white jade.

Just as the finger was about to connect, Shen Bai’s figure vanished.

Divine Thousand Miles—Instant Teleportation!

The next moment, Shen Bai appeared behind the Sunset City Lord and raised Cold Moon.

Blood-red Sword Qi erupted as a golden Dharma Aspect raised a fist that could shatter the heavens.

Dao Text descended like a great hammer, shadows moved like phantoms in the night, and an Array swirled into motion.

"A fine Body Technique, but not enough."

The Sunset City Lord didn’t turn around, letting out a soft sigh.

He continued pointing forward, yet the attack itself seemed to bend, its overwhelming pressure now bearing down on Shen Bai from behind.

Shen Bai paid it no mind.

The piercing pain between his eyebrows intensified, but he pressed his attack.

The white light of the Flawless Ten Layers Body converged on Shen Bai.

The light vanished from the rest of his body, all of it gathering to form a dense shield over the spot between his eyebrows.

The Sunset City Lord’s finger seemed to transcend Space, striking from an impossibly bizarre angle directly at the white light protecting Shen Bai’s brow.

Shen Bai’s Cold Moon pierced the Sunset City Lord’s chest as the golden fist slammed into his body.

Buddha’s Light and Sword Qi erupted, unleashing an invisible shockwave that swept over everything.

The white light over his brow began to shatter, layer by layer.

With each layer that shattered, the Sunset City Lord’s attack was infinitesimally impeded, yet its overall speed never faltered.

When the final layer of white light vanished, the finger came to a halt, its tip resting precisely on the skin between Shen Bai’s eyebrows.

Blood trickled from the spot and dripped to the floor, but the finger could not press a single fraction deeper.