Tao Zhengtian retreated a thousand meters before stabilizing himself. He stared at the glowing Tie Ta in shock as disbelief flooded his face. He could sense that Tie Ta was not very powerful. He was not a 16th Star expert at the very least, yet he was able to casually unleash such a terrifying attack with such strength. At the same time, the axe he had swung out possessed a wondrous ability that was similar to a soul attack. This was the first time he had seen something like that in the sea realm.
He also understood that if it were not for the fact that he had reached the peak of the Eighth Heavenly Layer of the Holy Emperor and his soul was much more powerful, it would have been impossible for him to react in such a short amount of time against the powerful battle intent in the axe. If he had reacted a little slower in that short amount of time, he would not have just been knocked back. He would have been heavily injured at the very least.
"Just where did this expert come from? And what kind of heaven-defying cultivation method does he practise?" Tao Zhengtian cried out inside. For such a terrifyingly powerful expert to remain completely unknown in the sea realm, Tao Zhengtian found it very strange.
However, before Tao Zhengtian could think of anything else, Jianchen charged over from afar. He stabbed his Emperor Armament at Tao Zhengtian with a layer of Chaotic Force, firmly keeping Tao Zhengtian busy, preventing him from saving the other Holy Emperor experts.
"Tao Zhengtian, I'll show you the power of a Saint Tier Battle Skill!" Nubis bellowed out. Vast amounts of energy revolved around him as he moved his arms in a wondrous pattern. He was using his modified Saint Tier Battle Skill.
Nubis was currently pale. He had been blown away by Tao Zhengtian's palm strike earlier, so he was quite injured. However, he was still a beast of antiquity after all. Although his physical defenses were not as great as Jianchen's, they were still extremely powerful. His injuries did not affect his battle prowess.
Nubis' Saint Tier Battle Skill was clearly extraordinary. Even with his strength at the Fourth Heavenly Layer of the Holy Emperor, he was unable to use it instantly. He needed a few seconds to charge it up. A dense layer of golden energy surged out of Nubis' body, rapidly revolving around him. Although it seemed to be the same color as the energy Tie Ta used, that was only on the surface. In reality, the energy Nubis and Tie Ta used was worlds apart. They were completely different types of energy.
"Rise of the Dragon and Snake!" Nubis roared at the sky. The golden energy around him condensed at that moment, turning into a huge, golden dragon. With a loud dragon's roar, the snake-like golden dragon rose into the air and charged at Tao Zhengtian with the pressure of the world. It dealt with Tao Zhengtian together with Jianchen.
Nubis' Saint Tier Battle Skill had reached the Seventh Heavenly Layer of the Holy Emperor, but even so, Tao Zhengtian was still able to deal with Jianchen and Nubis' Saint Tier Battle Skill at the same time with ease. Every time he swung his spear, the golden dragon would be cleaved in half. However, Nubis' Saint Tier Battle Skill contained a sliver of the Golden-striped Silver Snake's essence, so it was clearly different from regular Saint Tier Battle Skills. The golden dragon did not disperse after being cleaved in half. Instead, it reassembled in an extremely short amount of time and continued to sweep toward Tao Zhengtian.
On the other side, Tie Ta had already arrived before the crater Tao Lin had created. He swung his axe down mercilessly with a smear of golden light, completely ending Tao Lin's life.
Tao Zhengtian's body trembled violently when Tao Lin was killed. A sliver of sorrow appeared on his face. He wanted to go and save Tao Lin, but Jian Chen and Nubis kept him busy. Moreover, Tie Ta was so close to Tao Lin. Even if he used his divine hall, it would be too late. As a result, he could only watch Tao Lin die right before his eyes. There was nothing he could do.
Tie Ta accepted Tao Lin's Space Ring and arrived beside Qing Yixuan. He said in a low, muffled voice, "Leave this to me. Go help Jianchen."
Qing Yixuan said nothing. She nodded and left her opponents to Tie Ta. She turned around and charged toward Tao Zhengtian.
Tao Zhengtian finally felt a sliver of pressure with Qing Yixuan's addition. The Holy Emperors on his side were dying one after another. Every time a Holy Emperor died, a Holy Emperor would appear in the Turtle clan's camp to deal with him. As time went on, he would face more and more opponents, which would make dealing with them even more difficult.
Tao Zhengtian knew that he could not let things drag on like this any longer. The longer this went on, the more severe the losses would be. On the other hand, although some of the experts of the Turtle clan were injured, none of them had died.
"People of the Tao family, enter the divine hall immediately!" Tao Zhengtian called out. His voice drowned out the explosions from the battle between the Holy Emperor experts, reverberating through a radius of a hundred kilometers.
Tao Zhengtian tossed a simple divine hall into the air.
The divine hall expanded with the wind, turning into a huge, majestic divine hall in the blink of an eye. It gave off a desolate presence and was filled with the marks of time. Clearly, it had existed for a very long time.
The divine hall landed on the ground and immediately produced an extremely heavy thud. The ground violently shook as the doors to the divine hall were wide open. Its tremendous size was like a tough fortress, blocking out the violent shockwaves of energy that poured down from the sky. The large space in front of the divine hall became a safe zone.
Seeing this, the scattered members of the Tao Family who were still fearfully avoiding the powerful energy torrent seemed to have grabbed onto a life-saving straw. They all rushed into the temple with the fastest speed they could reach.
A dazzling golden light bloomed in the air as Tie Ta swung his axe at a black-robed old man with lightning speed. The old man possessed the strength of the Fifth Heavenly Layer of the Holy Emperor, but he was heavily injured in his battle with Qing Yixuan. As a result, he was powerless to block Tie Ta's attack. Just when his soul was dazed by the powerful battle intent, the golden axe cleaved his head in half.
At this moment, four of the nine Holy Emperor experts of the Tao family had been slain by Tie Ta. Only five remained, but they all became extremely stern without any exception. They no longer possessed the great confidence they had when they faced the experts of the Turtle clan.
The ancestor of the Moxi clan was filled with regret. If he had known earlier that the Turtle clan was so powerful, he would have never agreed to the marriage alliance with the Tao family no matter what, nor would he have worked with the Tao family against the Turtle clan. His Moxi clan had suffered extremely heavy losses against the Turtle clan because one of the four Holy Emperor experts that Tie Ta had slain was a member of the Moxi clan.
"Let's enter the divine hall." Tao Zhengtian called out with a sunken face. He stopped fighting and swung his spear as hard as he could to force back Jianchen and Qing Yixuan. Afterward, he immediately retreated and entered the divine hall with a flash. The other four Holy Emperor experts did not slow down either. They all moved as quickly as they could and entered the divine hall at the same time as Tao Zhengtian.
The door to the divine hall suddenly slammed shut and the huge divine hall rose from the ground, quickly reaching a thousand meters in the air.
"Ancestor, let us in …" Over a thousand weaker clansmen of the Tao family did not manage to enter the divine hall in time, so they all begged. Their faces were filled with despair. A few of the smarter people immediately turned around and fled when they saw that it was impossible to enter the divine hall. They fled even further away, both to avoid being hunted down by the experts of the Turtle clan and to avoid being affected by the shockwaves from the battle between the two sides.
Tao Zhengtian did not leave with the divine hall. Instead, he quickly descended toward Jianchen and the others from a thousand meters in the air. He wanted to use the toughness of the divine hall to fend off Jianchen and the other Holy Emperor experts.
Jianchen sneered when he sensed Tao Zhengtian's intentions. He said, "Tao Zhengtian, do you really think that you're the only one with a divine hall?" With that, the divine hall of the Eight Wastelands appeared in Jianchen's hand. It immediately turned into a huge divine hall that was no smaller than Tao Zhengtian's divine hall.
Jianchen, Nubis, Tie Ta, Qing Yixuan, Tai Dou, Lan Jing, Xin Pian, and Mochas all entered the divine hall in a flash. Under Jianchen's control, the divine hall of the Eight Wastelands shot up into the sky at an extremely fast speed. It seemed like it was about to collide with the divine hall of the Eight Wastelands.
Although the divine hall of the Eight Wastelands had been destroyed by Kaiser of the Beast God Continent, it possessed the ability to automatically repair itself. After such a long period of time, the divine hall of the Eight Wastelands had not completely recovered, but eighty percent of it had been repaired at the very least. It did not seem damaged at all from the outside.
Boom!
With a violent rumble, the divine hall of the Eight Wastelands and the divine hall of the Tao family violently collided in the air. The powerful force of the collision knocked the two divine halls away.
The two divine halls remained unscathed. The violent collision did not even leave behind a mark on them.
The two divine halls hovered high in the sky at the same time after the collision. Both sides understood that unless they possessed strength as great as the Holy Emperor, neither of them would be able to do anything to the other.
"Ruler of the Turtle clan, I never thought that you would have a divine hall as well," Tao Zhengtian's cold voice rang out from the divine hall of the Tao family.
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