The Heavenly Wood God was severely wounded by that surprise attack and was blasted flying. The Battling Buddha gave chase and swung his staff in pursuit while making a self-introduction.

The Heavenly Wood God was not interested in hearing the Battling Buddha's self-introduction, but he was astonished by the power he was displaying.

"Fallen Star Emperor Wood!" In the face of the oncoming Battling Buddha, the Heavenly Wood God clapped his hand together and summoned a series of black trees with their tree trunks intertwined.

The density of this wood was frightening, and its mass was comparable to some small planets. All of them crashed through the air toward the Battling Buddha, making even space tremor and twist.

However, even wood as fearsome as this was easily smashed into smithereens by the Battling Buddha's staff. He was like a War God among Buddhas; his power was completely unreasonable, and he was unstoppable.

The Heavenly Wood God was astonished to see this. It didn't make any sense…

Back when the Heavenly Temperature God had fought the Battling Buddha, the latter was no match for the former. In contrast, the Heavenly Wood God was no weaker if not stronger than the Heavenly Temperature God. So why was it that he was having so much trouble fighting the Battling Buddha?

Could it be that he had used some sort of mystic technique that would incur an extremely heavy price?

No, if that was the case, his sensory abilities as a Heavenly God would have most definitely alerted him to that!

Then maybe his cultivation base increased?

That wasn't the case either; he was still at the Dao Integration Pinnacle Stage!

What could it be? What could be the cause behind the Battling Buddha's sudden increase in power?

The Heavenly Wood God looked around the battlefield to find that not only had the Battling Buddha become more powerful, even Michael and Yun Mengying seemed to have received significant power boosts too.

Had they somehow been buffed?

"Heaven Crushing Staff!"

A massive golden staff destroyed the Fallen Star Emperor Wood up ahead, before crashing down upon the Heavenly Wood God once again with boundless might. The Heavenly Wood God hurriedly unleashed a punch to meet the golden staff. As soon as the two attacks clashed, he felt like his entire arm was about to be shattered by an extremely monstrous power. At the same time, his body was blasted away by brute force before crashing heavily into the ground, where he created a huge crater in the earth.

"Impossible… How could you have become so much more powerful in such a short time…" The Heavenly Wood God supported himself up with his hands in the crater. He was just about to struggle to his feet when his eyes suddenly caught sight of the black veined patterns on the ground. There seemed to be no origin to these patterns, nor any indication of where they were going. They were infinitely vast and fused perfectly with this world, so it was very easy to miss them if one wasn't paying particular attention to them.

"Could it be…" A thought occurred to the Heavenly Wood God and shock appeared on his face.

The Battling Buddha was already rushing toward him once again, but the Heavenly Wood God was staring intently at the black veined patterns on the ground. After focusing his eyes to a very high degree, he discovered that there seemed to be some type of invisible power that was moving and flowing into the Battling Buddha's body.

It was also in that instant that he finally figured out how the Battling Buddha had become so much more powerful.

It was all because of that Heaven Crushing Formation!

That's right, it was that super spell formation that the Heaven Crushing Sect had created to crush the heavens; the one that was unimaginably vast and encompassed the entire Tai Chu Continent!

Who would have thought that this formation could surreptitiously lend its power to the heavenly disciples? That was certainly something that the Heavenly Wood God had not anticipated! The Heaven Vanquishing Formation was already enough of a headache, but now, even the Heaven Crushing Formation was striking against them?

"Little green brat, eat this!" The Battling Buddha was upon him again as he swung his immensely powerful Golden-Banded Staff.

The Heavenly Wood God took the attack head-on before hurtling back in retreat again.

"Hahaha… You're so weak, little green brat. I haven't had such an easy time fighting a Heavenly God for a long time!" The Battling Buddha suddenly chortled with glee.

The Heavenly Wood God almost threw up a mouthful of blood upon hearing this.

He wasn't the weak one; it was just that his opponent was using hacks!

The Battling Buddha didn't give the Heavenly Wood God a chance to say anything. He continued to unleash a barrage of staff strikes upon his enemy. "That's what you get for flexing! Don't you feel ashamed to flex when you're so damn weak? My name doesn't matter to you, eh? Then let me brand my name into your soul!"

Boom boom boom…

The Golden-Banded Staff crashed down violently over and over again, rocking heaven and earth in the process.

Meanwhile, far away from Yue Tong City, at a place that had already exceeded the range of vision of Dao Integration Stage super mighty figures, there were two figures moving extremely quickly, one after the other.

The Heavenly Yin Yang God was frantically running for his life and had even used a mystic technique that was extremely harmful to his body. Even so, An Lin was still able to keep up and slowly close down the gap.

"What kind of monster is this? How could he be so powerful? It would be a nightmare for any Heavenly God to encounter him alone…" The Heavenly Yin Yang God's body had transformed into an intertwining streak of black and white light, hurtling over the heavens like a shooting star. However, there was an even more dazzling ball of fire in hot pursuit, as if it were a meteorite that would destroy the world. Furthermore, it was extremely fast and devastatingly powerful, aiming to crush the shooting star in the most brutal manner.

"You killed Wang Chen, so I'm definitely not going to let you live! You must pay with your life!" An Lin snarled with a vicious expression.

The Heavenly Yin Yang God didn't dare to flex anymore, and he focused all of his energy on fleeing.

"You're getting careless!" An Lin suddenly roared as he stomped a foot into the air. The atmosphere caved in like a funnel as a result, and his body was further accelerated. He put two fingers together and slashed them through the air toward the Heavenly Yin Yang God.

A pure golden streak of light parted the heavens. This was the sharpest metal, imbued with the paramount laws to cut and slice; metal that was capable of severing all things. It struck the gap between the black and white streaks of light with unerring accuracy, severing some sort of invisible connection. The two intertwining streaks of light suddenly became unstable, before exploding in unison, revealing the Heavenly Yin Yang God's true form.

The Heavenly Yin Yang God was given a massive fright, but before he could do anything, An Lin's fist was already upon him.

"Five Elemental Body… Mountain Quaking Fist!"

Boom!

A massive golden fist projection fell with devastating power.

The Heavenly Yin Yang God let loose a cry of pain. He felt like something had struck his back, immediately following which a boundless power crushed him in a frenzy. He began to plummet from the sky before crashing heavily down onto the earth.

"I've finally caught you." A cruel smile appeared on his face. "Now then, let me show you who I am and whether I have what it takes to command you…"

He held his Evil-Slaying Sword and descended from the sky.

The Heavenly Yin Yang God struggled to his feet, with yin in one hand and yang in the other. He abruptly brought his hands together, and a yin-yang formation began to surge toward An Lin. In the process, it was expanding at an insane rate, as if it were threatening to encompass the entire heaven and earth.

"Heavenly God Technique, Yin Yang Heavens!"

In that instant, An Lin saw an image in the yin-yang formation where all things in the world were being destroyed. Those who abided by the Heavenly Yin Yang God's will survived, while those who didn't were killed.

"Nice party trick." An Lin wielded his Evil-Slaying Sword, and darkness that obscured the entire heavens erupted forth as he lashed out at the yin-yang formation. The sword intent of absolute darkness tore through the abstruse yin-yang formation in the most brutal and unreasonable manner.

The Heavenly Yin Yang God was completely dumbfounded upon seeing this. "How could this… That was my…"

Before he had a chance to finish his sentence, countless black veined patterns began to spread over the earth. These patterns extended in a frenzy before crawling up the Heavenly Yin Yang God's body. Those were the manifestation of countless dao.

Tear!

The Evil-Slaying Sword fell like a black streak of light, slicing the Heavenly Yin Yang God cleanly in half!

An Lin was like a supreme master of all dao as he stood before the Heavenly Yin Yang God. He was situated at the center of the countless dao patterns, and boundless dao intent could be seen in his eyes. "Six Strikes of the War God, Dao Sword!"