Black Mountain did not slow down at all—in fact, he completely ignored the wounds on his body.
He was a combat cultivator, so his physical body was more resilient than ordinary Lords. Death Butterfly’s attack seemed terrifying, but in reality, it only caused him superficial wounds rather than any actual damage.
After taking the brunt of this attack with his physical body, Black Mountain bypassed the Ninetails Lynx and Death Butterfly, his body entirely covered with blood.
Although both the creatures were within arms’ reach, he still did not retaliate by attacking them.
This was because he knew even a second’s delay might cause him to be trapped by the encircling imperial monsters.
Although he had never before in his life experienced this injustice of being unable to fight back despite being attacked, Black Mountain chose to use reason to suppress his fury.
He knew very well that he might die here if he made even the slightest mistake.
What he did not notice was that just as he bypassed the two imperial monsters obstructing his way, Lin Huang’s mouth curled up in a faint smirk.
A second later, Black Mountain saw blood-red arcs of light surging toward him in quick succession.
His mind instantly panicked because he had seen this move previously—in fact, Spy had been killed by this technique.
‘Do I brace for it, or do I dodge?’
Both choices flashed through Black Mountain’s mind for only a moment before he twisted his body aside without hesitation.
The reason he chose to dodge so decisively was that his body was instinctively sending out furious warning signals.
If he met this attack head-on, even if he were not killed, he would definitely be severely injured.
In truth, his instincts were not wrong. Although Lin Huang had currently only mastered a level-1 Sword seal still, this level-1 Sword seal was not compounded with ten thousand levels of sequence power like before, but with over fifty thousand levels.
This attack exceeded most middle-rank Lords with twenty seals in terms of power—more so even than many middle-rank Lords with thirty seals.
The instant Black Mountain moved, he did not dare stop. Instead, he diverged from his current direction and tried to escape.
When he lifted his head, he saw countless bloody-red arcs raining down on him like a torrential storm.
He switched directions again without hesitation.
However, the other end was also blocked by blood-red arcs like a sky full of stars.
Naturally, Lin Huang was the one who attacked first.
The ten million or more God Weapon flying daggers were like a giant hemispherical wall that covered the entirety of the starry heavens, blocking Black Mountain’s way forward.
Black Mountain scanned with Divine Telekinesis and realized it impossible for him to keep forging ahead.
He steeled himself and turned around right away, charging in the direction of the several God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls.
The way forward was blocked, so he could only escape by turning back.
He was also taking a gamble!
He was betting on Lin Huang not having more telekinetic flying daggers, or not being able to control more telekinetic flying daggers.
However, he did not see that the instant he turned around, Lin Huang’s smile became more pronounced.
Ignoring the Ninetails Lynx and Death Butterfly’s fresh wave of attacks, he passed the two of them again.
At that moment, the remaining eight God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls arrived in succession.
Divine Sun Tree compounded ten levels of Holy Fire Dao seal, its branches lashing at Black Mountain’s body.
This attack practically caused Black Mountain to feel that his physical body had reached its capacity for enduring high temperatures. Even as a middle-rank lord-level combat cultivator, his body was shriveling. It felt as if all the moisture and fat content in his body were being squeezed out by the intense heat.
Enchanted Fairy’s assault hit him a moment later.
That terrifying chill—way below zero degrees celsius—could even freeze time and space.
Frost climbed up Black Mountain’s body immediately. Even the speed of his movement slowed down.
At that moment, Creation Clock attacked as well.
It utilized a time-stopping skill, and added the power of pausing time—as strong as shackles and compounded with a level-10 Dao seal—to Black Mountain’s body.
Black Mountain’s body suddenly ground to a halt. When he saw Shackle Serpent appear, however, his pupils contracted suddenly.
This was the “imperial monster” that had immobilized Spy’s body earlier when he had been killed.
Black Mountain roared in fury and forcibly shook off Enchanted Fairy and Creation Clock’s layers of restraints.
The instant Shackle Serpent attacked, Black Mountain’s body expanded to several times its size. He threw heavy punches with both fists in Shackle Serpent’s direction.
At that moment, the Destructive Divine Mammoth trumpeted and lashed out with two feet at Black Mountain’s fists, taking the brunt of the attack.
However, the Destructive Divine Mammoth was sent flying thousands of kilometers away when it collided with the attack.
Lin Huang raised his brows when he saw Black Mountain’s body enveloped in vital blood energy, eyes spurting blood-red flames.
“He used a fire element Dao seal to ignite vital energy, blood, and Divine Power?”
In terms of strength alone, that earlier punch was at least six or seven times more powerful.
After sending the Destructive Divine Mammoth flying with one hit, Black Mountain did not continue fighting. Instead, he launched into the air with both legs and fled several times faster than before.
His initial speed was already very swift. Now that it had increased several dozen times, apart from the Ninetails Lynx, the rest of the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls could not catch up with him.
The Ninetails Lynx had not been able to do anything to Black Mountain when it had joined forces initially with Death Butterly; now, on its own, it was doomed to fail.
However, Lin Huang did not intend to let Black Mountain go just like that.
He shook his sleeves lightly, and blood-red electric arcs shot out in quick succession.
In an instant, they had amassed to over ten million in number.
They surged toward Black Mountain again, intercepting him and immediately blocking his way, forcing him to turn back.
The God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls caught up in pursuit once more.
The Ninetails Lynx, which was the first to arrive, cast a spatial bind without hesitation. It knew its attack had a limited effect on Black Mountain, so it chose to use its control skills to prevent him from escaping again.
However, Black Mountain—having ignited his vital energy, blood, and Divine Power—had increased more than a level in terms of ability. In an instant, he had freed himself from Ninetails Lynx’s spatial bind.
He was intending to flee again when the Destructive Divine Mammoth attacked in a rage.
It was livid at being sent flying in the attack earlier.
It displayed almost one hundred and twenty percent of its power in this attack, charging toward Black Mountain.
Black Mountain threw a punch again, and the Destructive Divine Mammoth was sent flying once more.
However, the distance was clearly less this time. It only shot back some two hundred kilometers.
After being momentarily impeded by the Destructive Divine Mammoth, Black Mountain was surrounded again by the remaining nine God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls.
Under the continuous siege from Divine Sun Tree and the rest of the Combat Souls, Black Mountain rapidly became exhausted from fighting back.
He kept his gaze fixed on Shackle Serpent to prevent himself from falling victim to its technique. As for the other Combat Souls, he countered them as much as possible, trying his best to reserve Divine Power for his escape.
Black Mountain’s several attempts to break free were futile. However, the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls could not do anything to him even after taking turns to attack him.
Both sides fell into a stalemate.
Now that the battle on Steel Fist and Epic Player’s side was in its last stages, Lin Huang finally stopped merely watching from the sidelines.
It was not that he was deliberately toying with Black Mountain. He was just using him as a means of gauging the current abilities of his ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls.
At this point, he had basically seen everything necessary, and he already had an idea of their capabilities.
It was useless for the battle to continue like this.
Lin Huang finally took a hand in the proceedings.
Dozens of telekinetic flying daggers found their way through the fighting to the scene of battle where Black Mountain and the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls were.
Black Mountain immediately became nervous and did not dare to delay any further.
To Black Mountain, the pressure from the thirty-odd telekinetic flying daggers far exceeded the pressure from all ten God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls taken together.
The reason was that he knew Lin Huang was his most powerful enemy here.
Although he did not quite understand why Lin Huang did not activate all of his telekinetic flying daggers at once, he did not dare underestimate him in the least.
He did his best to dodge whenever he saw the telekinetic flying daggers coming. If he were unable to evade them, he threw heavy punches to knock them aside.
After several rounds, the thirty or more telekinetic flying daggers had failed to gain even an inch of ground.
Right as Black Mountain was considering how he might find an opportunity to escape, he suddenly felt a tightening around his four limbs.
A second later, even his neck was entwined by threads.
He panicked. Only after a careful scan with Divine Telekinesis did he discover that his limbs and neck were now bound by telekinetic threads.
He had not noticed this earlier at all.
He tried hard to struggle free, but he could not move at all.
One must know that Lin Huang’s Divine Telekinesis strength was already at peak upper-rank lord-level.
As soon as they saw Black Mountain’s body abruptly stop as if he were tied up and dangling in midair, the God’s Figurine’s Combat Souls immediately knew that it was Lin Huang who had done that.
This time, Shackle Serpent finally found an opening to attack. It was the first to launch an assault and did not hesitate at all.
Black shackles began forming out of thin air on Black Mountain’s body.
As the black shackles appeared, Black Mountain could only sense his Divine Power fading rapidly, including even the secret skills he used in the battle earlier. His body reverted to its original form.
At the same time, he realized that he could no longer sense the Dao seals within his body, his god sequence chains, his God Rule Powers, or even his God Territory.
That very instant, he finally realized why Spy—who had claimed that even ultimate-rank Lords could not kill him—had been killed.
In that split second, he felt utter despair.
He knew that he was finished.
An instant later, he saw the attacks of the “imperial monsters” coming at him in succession, and his consciousness went dark immediately.
He did not even know which attack finally killed him.
