The Ultimate Evil Spear was pierced through, and the chest of the Shura Evil Spirit was also penetrated.

A deathly gray began to spread from the chest of the Shura Evil Spirit, feeling his heart rapidly withering, losing vitality and life force.

Without a moment's hesitation, the Shura Evil Spirit turned his left hand into a blade, slicing open his chest and cutting away all the withered, gray-colored flesh, organs, and bones.

Just watching this made Lu Yu feel pain, and he couldn't help but admire the Shura Evil Spirit.

If he had been in the same position, he wasn't sure he could have been as ruthless.

The Shura Evil Spirit's method seemed crude, but it was undoubtedly the most effective way, almost reducing the damage from the Great Annihilation Finger to a minimum.

The Shura Evil Spirit looked at Lu Yu expressionlessly. For the first time, there was a serious look in his eyes; he hadn't expected Lu Yu to inflict such serious harm on him.

He thought the powerful force Lu Yu had previously unleashed was his trump card, but it turned out he had an even more terrifying power.

The flesh he had thrown onto the sand quickly turned gray under the power of annihilation, and even the surrounding ground turned a deathly gray.

Lu Yu, holding the Demon-Breaking Saber in his left hand, flew up and stood at the same height as the Shura Evil Spirit. They exchanged a glance before reigniting their battle.

The power of the Divine Weapon shone brightly, and as the Shura Evil Spirit's strength grew, the flesh he had torn off began to regenerate, enveloping him in a crimson glow.

Blades of light flickered as intimidating gray finger shadows flew out, each making the Shura Evil Spirit wary.

He would rather take a blow from Lu Yu than be hit by the Great Annihilation Finger, even if it just grazed him.

Roar! A giant serpent-headed figure reappeared, and the Ultimate Evil Spear was fully unleashed, transforming into two gigantic pythons. The pythons' bodies had half a round hole, and when they merged, they formed a perfect circle matching the finger hole.

Pff~ The Great Annihilation Finger hit the serpent-headed giant, causing a violent fluctuation in its body, like an unstable image always on the verge of disappearing due to poor signal.

Ultimately, the serpent-headed giant stabilized and was not killed by a single blow from Lu Yu.

Lu Yu was somewhat surprised by this but also expected it. When the Great Annihilation Finger hit the Ultimate Evil Spear earlier, it did create a hole, but the spear did not undergo death-seal transformation.

This indicates that the Divine Weapon could resist the death-seal effect of the Great Annihilation Finger.

That the serpent-headed giant, formed by a Divine Weapon, could withstand the Great Annihilation Finger provided Lu Yu with insight that the Great Annihilation Finger was not invincible; with enough strength, even Martial Cultivators at the Core Formation Realm could resist its attack.

At most, the annihilation power accompanying the Great Annihilation Finger could cause them some trouble.

This was also related to Lu Yu's own strength. The Great Annihilation Finger allowed him to have power threatening the Core Formation Realm with his level in the Qi Sea Realm, which was already formidable and exaggerated.

Lu Yu believed that as his strength increased, the Great Annihilation Finger would eventually reveal its true power.

As the effect of the Great Annihilation Finger on the Shura Evil Spirit diminished, Lu Yu used it less against the serpent-headed giant; using it also had effects on himself, but so far, he couldn't tell if those effects were good or bad.

After this battle, Lu Yu estimated that his entire right hand's bones might turn black.

"Have you run out of spiritual power?" The Shura Evil Spirit speculated upon seeing Lu Yu use the terrifying attack less frequently.

In his mind, martial techniques of such terrifying power surely consumed a huge amount of energy. Lu Yu's ability to use it so many times was astonishing, and it was normal he couldn't use it anymore due to insufficient spiritual power.

In the eyes of Martial Cultivators at the Cultivation Binding Realm, those in the Qi Sea Realm and Core Formation Realm seemed to have unlimited spiritual power, but in reality, in battles at the same level, releasing a few powerful martial techniques almost exhausted their spiritual power.

Even if they could quickly recover spiritual power, they could only release some low-power martial techniques.

For Core Formation Realm cultivators, these "small-power" techniques that couldn't directly determine victory, were regarded as heaven-shattering and terrifying attacks by those in the Qi Sea Realm and Cultivation Binding Realm.

"Then let's end this!"

The Shura Evil Spirit raised his hand, and the two giant pythons converged into his hand, forming a massive Ultimate Evil Spear.

"Endless Fury!"

Galloping waves of blood-red spiritual energy surged towards Lu Yu, as if the world was being swallowed by an endless bloodwave rage; the golden light covering Lu Yu's body dimmed under the surge of Endless Fury.

His extremely resilient skin also began to show subtle cuts, like a scratched screen, with wounds accumulating continuously. Eventually, Lu Yu's body would be destroyed by the unending bloodwaves.

Now, the Shura Evil Spirit had no intention of holding back. He attacked with full force, hoping merely to leave Lu Yu's corpse intact.

"Blood Burning Secret Technique!"

"One Strike Must Kill! Asura Slash!"

Blade light cut through the bloodwaves, surging upstream.

With no defenses, Lu Yu struck the undefended Shura Evil Spirit, cleaving open the serpent-headed giant's chest to reveal the Shura Evil Spirit inside.

With a look of shock, the Shura Evil Spirit stared at Lu Yu, wondering if he no longer wanted to live, for he faced the Endless Fury without any defense.

While releasing Endless Fury, the Shura Evil Spirit couldn't defend himself, but he had never thought anyone could charge through the Fury to reach him.

Hence, he didn't need any defense.

"Great Annihilation Finger!"

The abundant spiritual power within Lu Yu surged into his right hand, and a clear gray index finger shadow appeared behind him, more powerful than any previous attack.

This was the true Great Annihilation Finger!

The Great Annihilation Finger pierced through the endless bloodwaves, hitting the serpent-headed giant. The death-seal power spread inward from the breached chest, turning the entire Shura Evil Spirit to a deathly gray.

To remove this death-seal power, he would probably have to cut off the entire front half of his body, in which case, he wouldn't survive.

The shock on the Shura Evil Spirit's face faded, with death-seal power spread on his visage, making him look pale.

Sometime unknowingly, the Endless Fury had stopped, and the Ultimate Evil Spear floated beside him, constantly bobbing up and down, with crimson light shooting out from the cracks on its surface.

"Let's die together." The Shura Evil Spirit said calmly.

Like inviting you to a mundane banquet, death became quite ordinary coming from his mouth.

Explode! A blood-red sun rose outside Yellow Sand City, and a thousand-meter-diameter mushroom cloud formed, visible to everyone within Yellow Sand City as it rose steadily.

"Cough cough~" A bloodstained figure crawled out from the edge of the explosion crater.

Lu Yu, covered in blood, stood up, and a few colorful glazed shards fell from his clothes; they were fragments of the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower.

The Shura Evil Spirit pulled him into a self-destruction; Lu Yu fled the center as quickly as he could but didn't evade all the damage.

At the expense of shattering the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower, Lu Yu survived the self-destruction of a Core Formation Realm powerhouse.

Lu Yu checked himself, with thirteen broken bones and various degrees of internal organ damage.

Fortunately, the heart, one kidney, and other organs had become a kind of void presence during the previous fight with the Ghost Hand, escaping damage in the self-destruction.

With his heart intact, even with injuries to other organs, Lu Yu could retain more than half of his fighting capacity.

Seeing his wounds starting to heal, Lu Yu swallowed a Healing Elixir and headed towards Yellow Sand City. Once close to Yellow Sand City, he could teleport into the Divine Weapon Pavilion Secret Realm using the Divine Weapon Pavilion disciple's token.

Only then would he be truly safe.

Whoosh~ The violent wind howled, scattering the mushroom cloud in the sky as the yellow sand swept towards Lu Yu. His face darkened as he watched the yellow sand engulfing his direction.

This wasn't a sandstorm; it was the commotion caused by a power above the Core Formation Realm.

"I will kill you to avenge Brother Sha Wu!"

Sha Tong's voice echoed from the sandstorm, with his eyes glowing in the color of yellow sand—majestic, inviolable, as if a deity had descended through his body.

From the moment Sha Tong appeared, Lu Yu sensed his presence. Sha Tong made no effort to conceal his aura and couldn't hide the formidable power he struggled to control.

Rumble~ Sha Tong stretched out his hand, sending a massive wave of yellow sand that formed a giant hundred-meter hand, slapping down on Lu Yu like crushing an insect.

The light yellow light shone from Lu Yu's legs, and his legs sank into the sand. Before the giant hand fell, he intended to sink completely into the ground.

Crack~ Lu Yu's face changed, realizing that his legs trapped in the sand were immovable as if grasped by the surrounding sand.

"This is... soul power!"