Chapter 191: Chapter 44: Close-Quarters Battle, Your Armor Is Really Something!

At almost the same moment when the Empress clashed with the Eye Spirit Sword Embryo.

The Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable had just arrived at the first level, and knowing his target, he instantly clenched his fist.

[Shrinking Ground]!

In an instant, he advanced to stand before the Desolate God Dragon, unleashing a punch.

"Inferior species, seeking death!"

The Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable suddenly attacked.

The Desolate God Dragon snorted coldly; compared to the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable’s massive form, he was smaller, but extremely robust.

The muscles on his entire right arm rippled and swelled like waves, and then, like a heavy cannon, roared out!

When the Desolate God Dragon punched, a dull, thunderous sound resonated in the air, echoing back and forth.

Within a few hundred meters, all the sand and soil on the ground rose, forming a visible circular shockwave.

Like waves, it rapidly spread from the fist’s edge towards the front, crashing against the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable’s fist in a flash.

"Boom——!"

Like heavenly thunder igniting earth fire, the collision center of the Desolate God Dragon and Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable’s fists instantly exploded violently, sweeping in all directions.

Large volumes of sand shattered and erupted, surging fiercely with the tidal waves toward the surroundings.

In the blink of an eye, an enormous circular pit over fifty meters in diameter formed, and the rumbling noise shook the entire desert!

The Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable was knocked back, blood splattering across the sky, and with a ’boom’ he slammed hard into the ground.

Meanwhile, the smaller Desolate God Dragon only took two steps back.

The disparity in hard power between the two was obvious.

The Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable could slaughter Tier Six like a chick, but facing Tier Seven was still too challenging.

Especially the Desolate God Dragon, considered extremely tough even among Tier Seven Abyssal Creatures.

However, the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable, lying on the ground, crushed the liver he had just obtained.

"Nothing but some cheap tricks!"

The Desolate God Dragon’s face turned pale but quickly returned to a rosy hue.

Being a Tier Seven existence, his wisdom was no different from ordinary people, even more brilliant.

He could instantly discern the essence of Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable’s punch.

The lost organ reappeared directly within his already strong body.

"It’s just power amplified by your special bloodline, but at your core, you’re weak, you can’t beat me!"

"Let’s fight and see!"

The Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable snorted coldly.

With the Demon God Bloodline within him, Chi You was aware he couldn’t outmatch the Celestial Emperor in sheer strength, but battles aren’t solely determined by numbers, as long as it hasn’t reached a crushing level.

Pure strength couldn’t decide the outcome of the battle.

His initially massive body quickly compressed.

As it condensed, the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable’s aura became more terrifying, his white robe shattering to reveal muscularity that was no less than that of the Desolate God Dragon.

’Chiyou Demon Body!’

’Vast Heaven Overlord Body Embryo!’

The two most terrifying enhancements stacked, while in the sky, the Medicine Ancestor muttered, "Medicine God Illusion!"

"Golden Needle World!"

In an instant, three Medicine God Illusions descended on the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable, instantly healing the wounds that had just appeared.

Simultaneously, strength, speed, and defense drastically increased.

Feeling the surging power within, the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable grinned, "Overlord Charge, Heaven-Slaying Fist!"

In a flash.

The Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable’s figure vanished abruptly, leaving only a black afterimage in place.

The sudden increase in speed caught the Desolate God Dragon off guard, and by the time the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable reappeared, he was already before the Desolate God Dragon.

The Desolate God Dragon’s eyes widened in shock.

The enhancement in that instant was so significant?

"Kill!"

With the Demon God Bloodline activated, anger surged within the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable’s chest.

His expression turned extremely ferocious.

Punching like a dragon, as the fist headed forward, the air compressed, exploded, and shattered layer by layer, forming a pure white wave of air flowing past the sides of the arm.

The fist aimed directly at the Desolate God Dragon’s face.

But the Desolate God Dragon, a master of close combat, instantly swung a punch to meet the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable’s ’Heaven-Slaying Fist’.

Rumble!

The next moment, their fists clashed, immediately producing an unimaginably destructive loud explosion!

The sand beneath the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable and the Desolate God Dragon instantly collapsed by hundreds of meters.

"Boom——!"

A sound like hundreds of air bombs exploding simultaneously reverberated.

Substantial turbulent currents surged like a roaring, galloping beast, flooding the surroundings overwhelmingly.

The fierce force struck and swept across the ground, lifting all the sand, directly forming a tornado storm covering nearly a hundred meters!

Only after several seconds did the sweeping storm reveal the collision center.

The two figures, each almost two meters tall, maintained a crouched, stepping, and fist clashing posture, like two giant beasts wrestling, motionless.

"Good guy!"

The Desolate God Dragon didn’t expect that this guy, not even reaching the Second Transformation, could match his strength after continuous enhancement.

"And what exactly is your ability!"

The Desolate God Dragon sensed that his ’Desolate Dragon Armor’ crafted with scales was being forcibly stripped away.

His face turned extremely grim.

"You guess!"

Black mist engulfed and absorbed a piece of armor into its body that had just fallen beside it, turning it into black gas.

[Heaven-Slaying Chi You——consumed ’Desolate Dragon Armor’, defense increased by 30%, earth resistance +20%, skill effects of ’Desolate Armor’ and ’Overlord Domain’ enhanced with ’Dragon’s Might’]

"Your armor is delightful!"

As they wrestled, the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable laughed wildly.

Hearing the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable’s taunt, the Desolate God Dragon’s face turned particularly grim.

He abruptly pushed in the wrestling punch, using the counter force to quickly distance himself from the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable.

Meanwhile, an earthen yellow glow surged, enveloping his entire body with flowing earthen light.

In an instant.

It directly solidified into earthen yellow armor, and his speed also increased.

Moreover, both of the Desolate God Dragon’s fists were covered with energy.

The Desolate God Dragon had discovered that any bodily contact resulted in losing something from his body.

It was too risky this way.

Bam! Bam!

One yellow and one black figure clashed in close combat with the sounds of breaking the sound barrier.

Two beams of light collided fiercely across the desert.

Fist against fist!

Leg axe against leg axe!

The terrifying sound of air rupturing created an endless wind pressure, and wherever the shockwave from their collisions swept, the ground formed terrifying tornadoes.

"Do you really think you’re invincible in close combat?!"

The Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable laughed wildly.

Then his arm muscles violently twitched again, and he let out a low roar, "True Dragon Body! True Dragon Claw!"

In an instant, the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable ferociously lunged a step forward, his arm swung down, the pressure of the violent air aiming to crush the Desolate God Dragon’s head.

"If it weren’t for your bizarre power! I would never fear you!!" The Desolate God Dragon instantly retreated, dodging the blow.

The Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable’s fist smashed into the desert.

The sandy ground began to shatter madly, with the surrounding gale growing increasingly terrifying.

Retreating, the Desolate God Dragon’s expression was grave, and he shouted coldly.

As a general under the Desolate God, the Desolate God Dragon had defeated countless opponents in close combat.

But in close combat, he couldn’t gain any advantage over this guy.

It wasn’t just the guy’s special abilities, even with a layer of energy separation.

He would still have his Abyssal Power cloaked over his fists stripped away after each collision.

The key was this guy seized the opportunity perfectly, with combat experience at the pinnacle.

And then there was... the Desolate God Dragon’s gaze fell on the Calamity Medicine Ancestor hovering in the sky in the distance.

"Who asked you not to have it! Blaming the hard ground when you can’t shit, if you had it, you could use it too!"

The Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable chuckled sinisterly.

As the Desolate God Dragon had just retreated, the Vast Heaven Daoist Venerable relentlessly pursued, letting out a low roar, "True Dragon Break!"