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However, what they didn't know was that Jin Luosha's advantages extended far beyond just "Divine Weapon Hosting" and "Sacred Sigil." The first-generation super phantom beast from the Twelve Sages was also a treasure that could significantly lower the threshold to the Saint Realm. Morova had crossed into the Saint Realm in just three months because of this. Jin Luosha's phantom beast, the evolved "Sacred Angel," naturally had an even greater effect. Coupled with the replenishment of her innate combat energy and the absolutely pure combat energy obtained through the "Golden Fruit," Jin Luosha's journey to the Saint Realm was far smoother and more straightforward than anyone else's. It could be said that if it weren't for her average talent in martial arts, someone like Chen Xuanfeng, Xi Luo, or the other young Saints wouldn't have lingered at the level of Sword Master for so long—they would have long since attained the power of the Saint Realm.

Today's climactic battle offered Jin Luosha yet another chance to rise.

The "Sacred Spear Quinilon" and the "Frostmourne" were originally a pair of evenly matched, opposing weapons. Their previous owners had used them to cultivate the "Six-Star Demon-Slaying Formation," which gave these weapons the trait of constantly stimulating each other's power and spirit. Additionally, the "Sacred Angel Sigarette" had the characteristic of an angel's soul—the stronger the darkness and death aura, the more it could unleash powerful and pure light energy. The interplay of these two forces spurred Jin Luosha, who was already halfway into the Saint Realm within Hades' domain, the "Death Black Box." Finally, when the domain shattered and the girl witnessed her beloved severely injured and falling into the sea, this overwhelming emotional jolt thrust her fully into the Saint Realm. With the sudden surge of power, she managed to block the final attack from the three Saints.

However, this was also her limit. Having just entered the Saint Realm, she hadn't even mastered her domain. The previous move had exhausted all her mental strength, and anyone present could have killed this youngest Sword Master in a few moves, reclaiming humanity's sixth Sacred Sigil.

Just as the four present thought of this, Tan Yueer, who had been silent, suddenly shouted, "Watch out, beneath the sea..."

She had no time to explain, for as she spoke, the sea beneath them underwent a cataclysmic change. The once-blue sea suddenly blazed with light, as if a sun were about to rise. Countless beams of light pierced through the layers of water, shooting upward. At the same time, a terrifying, apocalyptic aura erupted into the sky, causing both the sky and the sea to feel an almost despairing stagnation.

Sword and Blade United Strike.

In an instant, without Tan Yueer's explanation, everyone knew what they were about to face. Although only Morova had personally experienced the power of this move, everyone had witnessed the aftermath of Chen Xuanfeng's second use of this divine technique, which had slaughtered half of the strongholds in the southern continent at the Green Water River Valley's ruins. Thus, no one dared to face this attack head-on.

Without hesitation, though puzzled as to how the half-dead wolfman could unleash such a divine technique again, the four human Saints, being exceptionally intelligent, immediately understood the situation. They realized that their earlier relaxation due to their opponent's severe injury, coupled with Jin Luosha's ascension to the Saint Realm, had diverted their attention, causing their plan to closely monitor the wolfman and prevent him from using his divine technique to fail completely. With Morova's prior experience as a warning, no one intended to confront this attack directly. The only thing to do now was to escape the area of effect before the divine technique fully activated.

With this in mind, the four immediately moved swiftly in four different directions to escape.

As they began to move, the sea erupted with a boiling roar. Tens of millions of snow-colored sword lights and blade energies burst forth from the sea, carrying billions of tons of water, forming a massive bulge hundreds of meters high and several kilometers in diameter, as if an island were rising. Then, the water burst like a bubble, forming a deep, concave crater. The violent and swift sword lights and blade energies finally broke free from the sea, sweeping toward the fleeing four.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom—"

Intense explosions resounded from the sea. The four escapees couldn't flee the range of "Snowragon's Fall" fast enough and had to turn back to defend while retreating. The colossal energy clashes sent the sea into a frenzy. This was the third time Chen Xuanfeng had used this divine technique, and its power was naturally more refined and controlled than the previous two times. However, attacking four Sword Saints at once inevitably divided his power, and as the four retreated further, the pressure they faced diminished. In the end, they narrowly escaped, and none were killed.

However, the four were not in good condition. The most severely injured was naturally Hades, the "Death Knight," who was already in poor condition and had been specifically targeted by Chen Xuanfeng. Having previously orchestrated most of Chen Xuanfeng's injuries, he bore the brunt of the attack, suffering at least dozens of cuts and breaking more than a dozen bones. He vomited blood and fell unconscious.

Carol and Tan Yueer, one wielding three epic-level divine weapons and the other skilled in dissipating immense power, managed to retreat despite taking several heavy blows. Although they were not fundamentally harmed, Sword Saints cannot receive magical or divine healing, so it would likely take them months to recover fully. Thus, even though Chen Xuanfeng had ceased his attack, they did not turn back but continued fleeing toward the mainland.

Morova was naturally in the best condition. His phantom beast armor, still intact, absorbed most of the damage, and having previously experienced "Snowragon's Fall," he suffered only minor injuries. However, with the other three unable to fight, he dared not linger. His eight wings flapped, and he swiftly turned in the air, scooping up the unconscious Hades from the sea before fleeing far away.

None of the four looked back, so they did not see the strange phenomenon slowly emerging from the sea on Chen Xuanfeng's body. Otherwise, with their intelligence, they might have deduced how Chen Xuanfeng had recovered his combat strength so quickly without using light magic. It was precisely because humanity remained unaware of this reason that Chen Xuanfeng was able to escape his death sentence in the future, ascend to the Saint Realm, and ultimately lead to the rise of the "Wolf of the Blue Sky," who swept across the human world, resulting in a tripartite division of the land.