"Shadow Fusion!"

With a loud shout from one of the black-robed figures, the others rushed towards him, turning into shadows and miraculously merging together!

Seeing the shadows slowly fuse and eventually transform into a giant shadow giant, Chen Lan was slightly taken aback.

Is this the divine technique of the Path of Shadows?

Just merging into a giant?

Why does it feel a bit rubbish?

And when the giant turned into his own likeness, Chen Lan was speechless.

"Kid, die!" the shadow giant spoke coldly, even its voice was identical to Chen Lan's, and the aura it emitted was the same as well.

Soon after, a gigantic thunderbolt divine spear appeared in its hand, perfectly replicated, and it thrust toward Chen Lan.

Seeing this, Chen Lan easily dodged and, sensing the opponent's strength, became somewhat interested.

Right now, it was as if he was battling his full-strength self, which was a perfect opportunity to test his strength and see if he could identify his own weaknesses. If he could identify his weaknesses, he could develop defenses against them and become truly invincible.

The shadow giant vanished, transforming into a bolt of lightning appearing behind Chen Lan, its voice emanating like the eerie Underworld: "Heh, kid, your Thunder Path is indeed useful."

"Is that so? Since it's useful, why don't you try it," Chen Lan chuckled lightly, turning around to thrust his spear, accompanied by terrifying supreme thunder, striking the giant.

As he expected, the thunder spear passed through the giant, unable to inflict any damage.

The giant's palm struck with immense force, imbued with myriad powers of the Great Dao, terrifyingly intense.

Upon seeing this, Chen Lan swiftly dodged. Others might not know, but didn't he know how terrifying his Dao Power was?

He hadn't discovered his own weakness, but he'd found the giant's weakness: every time it moved, its body became slightly transparent. Was there a time limit?

In his subsequent attacks, Chen Lan didn't engage with the giant but instead kept dodging. He knew how difficult he was to kill, so dragging out the time was the best option.

He hadn't imagined that the hardest enemy to kill would be himself.

"Damn it, are you just going to keep dodging?" the giant shouted angrily, its body already becoming illusory and transparent, no longer as dark as before, slowly fading.

Indeed, there was a time limit, and as its body faded, Chen Lan clearly felt the giant's strength waning.

Buzz!!!

Suddenly, Chen Lan sensed something, swiftly retreated, and turned his head to the left with a frown, only to see a red long sword, engulfed in flames, hovering in the air, its tip turning towards him and flying over again.

Seeing someone attempting a stealth attack, Chen Lan couldn't stand it, and with a spear thrust imbued with Thunder Dao Power, the spear tip collided with the sword tip, causing the long sword to explode into fragments scattered across the sky in an instant.

"Damn it!!"

An angry roar echoed across the sky, and Chen Lan turned around to see the Fire God Zhu Rong and the Water God Gonggong.

Have these two reconciled?

Chen Lan frowned at them, his killing intent rising.

"I didn't expect such strong opponents to exist in this world. Interesting," Zhu Rong said with a cold smile.

"Stop with the nonsense," Gonggong frowned and looked at Chen Lan: "Kid, hand over your magical treasure."

Upon hearing this, Chen Lan laughed, realizing that these two intended to seize his Thunderbolt Divine Spear—how naive.

"Want it? Then come and take it."

As soon as the words left his mouth, Chen Lan vanished in an instant, reappearing behind Zhu Rong, speaking calmly: "Since you want it, let me give it to you."

He then thrust his spear into Zhu Rong's heart, extinguishing him with just one strike, reducing him to ashes, his soul scattered, with no chance of revival.

Gonggong, who witnessed this, was startled, having not expected Chen Lan to be so terrifying, capable of wiping out Zhu Rong instantly.

Truly blinded by greed, their desires led to their demise!

Before Gonggong could plead for mercy, Chen Lan struck again, instantly killing him. He then looked calmly at the shadow giant: "Your time is running out."

At these words, the shadow giant fell silent. Yet in the next second, the giant astonishingly flew towards the sky.

Seeing this, Chen Lan was slightly taken aback—was it trying to escape?

Where was the grand intention it had at the beginning to kill him?

He pursued, but soon realized something was off.

The shadow giant was heading for the eye of the Blue Star Array. Since his cultivation had reached Daoist Venerable, he'd identified the array's eye but couldn't break through, so he left it alone.

It seemed the shadow giant knew the position of the array's eye and was deliberately heading toward it.

"The Patriarch said that if we can't kill Chen Lan, we should break the array with our bodies. Even if we can't breach it, we can create a hole big enough to let some people through."

"Yes, Chen Lan's strength is too great, replicating his strength reveals we can't compete. This is the only way."

"I hope our power can break it. This array of unknown ancient might is extremely intricate and powerful. Our Desolate Celestial Realm has tried to breach it for countless ages without success."

The shadow giant murmured as if several people were speaking.

As Chen Lan thought, these people were targeting the array, attempting to create an opening to let some through ahead of time.

"Don't even think about it!" Chen Lan quickly arrived in front of the giant. He would not allow these people to breach the array early—his current strength couldn't withstand the force of the Desolate Celestial Realm.

If the Desolate Celestial Realm sent over a dozen Daoist Venerables, he would surely die, rendering any talk of revenge meaningless.

"Kid, do you think you can stop us?" the shadow giant taunted, his brows radiating with brilliant light, the Celestial Eye manifesting and releasing terrifying divine techniques.

Chen Lan raised an eyebrow, familiar with the Celestial Eye Divine Techniques' power, second only to Yang Jian and the Heaven-Howling Dog—it's an extremely terrifying Great Divine Technique.

Without hesitation, Chen Lan quickly dodged, knowing full well the power of his Celestial Eye Divine Techniques. A full-power blast would leave the opponent half-dead at the same level.

Yet in dodging, the shadow giant ignored Chen Lan, accelerating toward the array's eye.

The speed was unprecedented, reaching outer space in an instant, where the Blue Star Array's eye was located.

"Breach the array at the cost of life!" a voice rang out, followed by more than a dozen voices in unison: "Breach the array at the cost of life!"

The shadow giant hesitated not a moment, colliding headlong into the array's eye in an attempt to break it with his body.

Boom!!!

As soon as his body touched the array, it disintegrated instantly, the spiritual power rippling outward, causing the entire Blue Star to tremble wildly.

Witnessing the shadow giant's sudden death, Chen Lan's face remained impassive. He fixed his gaze on the Blue Star Array, hoping it wasn't that fragile and could hold strong for a longer period.

He watched for a full seven or eight minutes, and the array showed no sign of change, remaining robust.

Chen Lan breathed a sigh of relief—it seems the array set by Pangu and other ancient beings was indeed highly reputed, withstanding even the self-destruction of several Daoist Venerables and a Supreme Emperor.

He invoked the World Map, absorbing all the Dao Rhythms generated by the shadow giant's self-destruction. Though not much, it allowed him to comprehend the Path of Shadows.

"May I ask, are you the Celestial Venerable Xiao Yao?"

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