The Shining Star Above The Heaven-Chapter 602: Dangerous?

Pierced!

Thud!

Aldrian’s sword was supposed to pierce Zhang Haoran at this moment, but he realized he was too optimistic. The sword stopped before its tip could touch Zhang Haoran’s body, blocked by armor that turned out to be a high divine-grade artifact.

Zhang Haoran, now having time to react, attacked Aldrian with a palm strike from his other hand. His palm was coated with a kind of curse that, even with the slightest touch, would hinder Aldrian in this battle.

Realizing that his attack had already failed, Aldrian teleported again to create distance. But the summoned beasts followed with their attacks. He couldn’t catch a break as they kept pressing him. He teleported again, this time much farther, causing the beasts to lose track of him for a second before spotting him in the distance.

They wanted to pursue him, but then heavenly lightning appeared on Aldrian’s body, rumbling with great force. Black energy also exuded from him, merging with the lightning and giving it a new, terrifying aura. The heavenly attribute fused with the attribute of the underworld.

It was as if this lightning had come from the underworld itself, meant to punish sinful souls, punishment through a lightning strike from the ruler of the underworld. He had used this combination in the past, and he would use it again now with full power.

The heavenly lightning and death laws twisted together, creating a force so overwhelming that even the summoned beasts trembled in its presence. Cerberus in particular froze when it sensed the death laws emanating from Aldrian. Its body trembled and rooted itself to the spot, as if unwilling to attack.

Aldrian, unleashing the full power of his domain, let loose the lightning infused with death laws. He spread it through spatial cracks that suddenly tore open across every part of his domain. The entire space was riddled with rifts, and from the void, both the beasts and Zhang Haoran could sense the terrifying power of the heavenly lightning.

A second later—

Rumble!

The sound of a thunderclap roared as heavenly lightning burst from every spatial crack. At this moment, the entire area within Aldrian’s domain resembled a violent lightning storm, only without a single drop of rain.

The lightning itself was the rain, striking the ground and everything nearby with relentless fury.

The scene looked as if the apocalypse had descended upon the world. The summoned beasts, despite their formidable defenses, could not withstand the heavenly lightning. Once it touched their bodies, they were not only electrocuted, the death laws woven into the lightning were also attacking their souls.

This combination of heavenly lightning and death laws struck both body and soul at once, rendering their defenses nearly useless.

Zhang Haoran also had to teleport repeatedly to avoid the strikes, sensing the dreadful power contained within the death laws. This lightning could even corrode the durability of a divine-grade artifact. ƒreewebɳovel.com

There was a reason why death laws were special laws that only divine beings could comprehend. Death laws could affect anything in the universe, though their impact still depended on the comprehension of the one who wielded them.

Zhang Haoran had sensed them once before, from his god, Tarius, who also comprehended death laws, an experience that revealed their terrifying effects. Now, he sensed death laws again, but this time from someone with a mortal body. It was still something he couldn’t understand, but he no longer cared.

What he needed to focus on was how to defeat Aldrian.

As he teleported to evade the lightning striking all around him, he could already tell that many of his summoned beasts had succumbed to death.

The barrage of heavenly lightning, each strike carrying the strength of the peak Emperor stage, was impossible to keep defending against. Their bodies were struck again and again until their defenses gave out, and the lightning tore through them without mercy.

They couldn’t evade it either. With their massive bodies, dodging was nearly impossible, and even after transforming into human form, they were still hit. The lightning was simply too fast. One by one, the beasts dropped dead, but even then, their corpses continued to be struck. The lightning kept falling until their bodies turned to ash, leaving behind nothing but scorched, ruined land.

Zhang Haoran wanted to approach Aldrian, to attack the source of the lightning directly, but the sheer intensity of the barrage made it nearly impossible. Even if he managed to get through and reach him, Aldrian’s body was within the lightning itself. There was no opening, lightning layered around him like armor, forming a protective shell made from heavenly lightning.

Yet the barrage still did not stop, as if Aldrian had a massive reservoir of energy hidden within his mortal body. This was another thing Zhang Haoran couldn’t understand. Did Aldrian possess unlimited energy, or something?

He never seemed to show any sign of exhaustion, even after unleashing techniques that, by all logic, should require an immense amount of energy.

This lightning storm, for example, each strike carrying the strength of the peak Emperor stag, was not something that could be sustained with a small amount of power.

Aldrian had already maintained this technique for fifteen seconds, and in that time, the lightning had obliterated all the summoned beasts and was now focusing entirely on Zhang Haoran.

Realizing this, Zhang Haoran decided to use another trump card. He suddenly stopped moving and allowed the lightning to strike his body. He felt a slight jolt as the artifact he wore absorbed the brunt of the impact.

As expected, the lightning was powerful enough to affect even a high divine-grade artifact. The fact that he could feel even a trace of the shock was proof that this combination of heavenly lightning and death laws was truly deadly, even with high divine grade artifact.

However, Zhang Haoran managed to endure the lightning barrage for a few moments, just enough time to take out an artifact. In his grasp appeared a transparent sphere with a single eye sealed within it. He pointed the eye directly at Aldrian.

The eye glowed red for a few seconds before the artifact shattered. But despite its destruction, Zhang Haoran grinned. He had succeeded. Though he had to stop and take multiple lightning strikes in the process, he had managed to activate the artifact on Aldrian. Scorch marks had already begun forming on the surface of his armor, but it was still worth it.

Aldrian had no idea what Zhang Haoran had just used on him. Before he could think further, he suddenly felt something binding his dantian and soul. His energy flow faltered, restricted by a force he couldn’t see. He could also feel his soul being suppressed by something invisible and unnatural.

"A curse?" he thought.

He instantly realized that what was binding him was indeed a curse, and a powerful one at that. It bound both his dantian and his soul, causing him to lose control of his technique.

The lightning storm slowly began to disperse as he focused on dealing with the curse first. It did more than block his control over energy, it also exerted a negative influence on his soul. At this moment, his soul was under direct attack, and his mind was clouded with negative thoughts.

He saw his followers suddenly appear around him, staring at him with eyes full of hatred. All the faces he knew were now looking at him with expressions he had never seen before, expressions filled with loathing, directed solely at him.

"Why are you leaving us? Why did you leave us to die?" the illusion of Feng Xuanyan said to him.

"You have abandoned us. You have abandoned us," Long Shentian said.

"Where were you when we needed you? You abandoned us!"

"You are—"

Many negative remarks were thrown at him. He tried to ignore them, but the curse made him clutch his head as pain throbbed through his head. The curse on his soul was truly strong, it created a powerful illusion that affected his mental state. He knew this was only an illusion, but their words still hurt him deeply.

Suddenly, he saw Zhang Haoran already standing right in front of him, sweeping his spear toward him, specifically at his neck. He intended to decapitate him in a single, clean strike.

"Die."

But before the spear could reach Aldrian’s neck, he had already teleported to a much farther distance from Zhang Haoran.

Zhang Haoran, who had only swept his spear through empty space, was stunned and couldn’t help but feel astonished. Aldrian could still use his technique, even though he couldn’t access his dantian?

The artifact he had used was a curse-type artifact given to him by Tarius. A one-time-use item designed to curse a specific target within its line of sight. It was said to contain powerful Anathema laws, capable of inflicting torture and misfortune upon whoever was cursed.

The curse did more than bind the dantian and soul, it also affected karma. Over time, it would bring misfortune to the victim’s surroundings.

Once someone was marked by this curse, they lost access to their dantian and would suffer nightmares every second of their life. And the curse didn’t stop with the victim, it also influenced the surrounding environment and anyone connected to them. All of them would be affected by the curse’s misfortune.

A truly strong and terrifying curse, Zhang Haoran doubted anyone in this heaven could escape from it once they were struck by it.

Aldrian should no longer be able to access his dantian, so how was he still able to teleport?

Zhang Haoran prepared to teleport toward Aldrian to attack again, but then he heard Aldrian’s voice.

"To dirty my followers’ figures with this ugly illusion—"

BOOM!

Suddenly, Aldrian’s body erupted with a surge of powerful energy and aura. The force of it stirred the wind across the entire area, forcing Zhang Haoran to shield himself.

A golden light burst from Aldrian, shining brilliantly, as a massive, transparent golden avatar began to form around him. The avatar’s towering figure stretched into the sky, forcing Zhang Haoran to lift his gaze just to see its face. His eyes widened in shock as he looked up at the colossal figure.

The avatar’s face was Aldrian’s, but it wore a crown and regal armor, as if he were an emperor.

"Your fate has been sealed," Aldrian said, his voice filled with authority.

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