Chapter 519: Demon Vine

The moment the Blue Marsh Demon Vine entered the Astral Realm, a silver-white chain coiled toward it.

The 'Chain of Heaven (Fake)', captured from the Battle of the Adriatic Islands, rapidly extended using the ubiquitous astral power here, covering the Blue Marsh Demon Vine from head to toe in an instant and firmly locking its divine power.

This colossal creature, transformed into a black dragon, showed no fear. It simultaneously launched thousands of demon vines, surging toward Li Mochen from all directions. At the same time, vast green mists spread, covering the entire battlefield in an instant.

'Li Mochen' responded with crimson flames.

If the Medici family were here, they would be astonished. Even without using 'Light Demon No. 8', Li Mochen could still wield the 'Molten Fire' divine authority.

This caused the green clouds filled with toxic mist and spores, and even the wooden vines, to ignite from within.

"Unbelievable. You've truly mastered the 'Molten Fire' divine authority?"

Anthony Braden, watching as a projection, showed an incredulous expression. He had not yet connected the magic tower 'Fate's Domain' to this place.

"I wonder what else in this world you can't do—whoa, is that the 'Lightning' divine authority? No, there's something else—"

A massive purple lightning pillar struck from the magic tower tens of thousands of miles away.

This was the 'Magic Plasma Cannon', one of the three main weapons of the 'Fate's Domain' magic tower. Thanks to the Chain of Heaven's restraint, the shot precisely hit the Blue Marsh Demon Vine's body, causing nearly a tenth of its form to disintegrate and collapse.

Anthony knew the 'Magic Plasma Cannon' of 'Fate's Domain' was powerful; its thirty-two energy pools allowed the plasma cannon's might to rival forbidden spells.

But the Blue Marsh Demon Vine before them possessed abilities no less than those of a deity. So, the power of a single 'Magic Plasma Cannon' shot alone could not have severely wounded it to such an extent.

Li Mochen had clearly used the authority of lightning to amplify the plasma's power, even twisting the laws of physics, allowing the vast lightning to spread and ravage within the Blue Marsh Demon Vine's body, paralyzing its massive form.

Yet Anthony sensed another power beyond this, making his expression even more solemn.

—Was that the divine authority of 'Fate'?

It shouldn't have reached the level of divine authority, but it was very close.

'Li Mochen' had no leisure to converse with Anthony; his battle with the Blue Marsh Demon Vine had reached a fever pitch. With the Chain of Heaven and black vines intertwined, their forms were completely entangled.

The Blue Marsh Demon Vine had transformed from its original dragon form into a massive humanoid creature, wielding twin swords and continuously striking at Li Mochen.

The latter, on one hand, was relieved that the Blue Marsh Demon Vine had never devoured a pure-blooded Titan giant or other demigod-level mythical beings in its life; on the other hand, he went all out, counterattacking with overwhelming force.

The 'Scarlet Dragon Armor' restored his strength nearly to its peak. With the ultimate 'Power Domain', the equally ultimate 'Vigor Domain', and the 'War Divine Authority', each of Li Mochen's strikes carried the style he had when challenging Tao Ran. The still-damaged dragon-slaying holy sword 'Lafayette' was unstoppable, wrapped in crimson flames, causing the Blue Marsh Demon Vine's weapons, condensed from its own demon vines, to constantly shatter and collapse. Within less than twenty seconds, he severely wounded the Blue Marsh Demon Vine's 'core' several times, forcing it to repeatedly reconstitute its body.

This demigod creature possessed boundless vitality. Though seemingly at a disadvantage in the fight, it cared little for bodily damage. No matter how severe the injury, it could recover in an instant.

Yet the clash of their divine authorities was more perilous than their direct combat.

Although the Blue Marsh Demon Vine's intellect was dull, at most comparable to a five- or six-year-old human child, its use of divine authority was nearly instinctual. In the contest of life-and-death divine authority, it almost completely overwhelmed Li Mochen, who lacked the 'Yin-Yang Life-Death Mirror'. The latter could only rely on the 'Fate's Domain' magic tower and his Fate Domain, which was close to 'divine authority', to barely hold his own.

About fifteen seconds into the fierce battle, Li Mochen finally completed the forbidden spell reliant on the 'Scarlet Dragon Armor'.

"Thunder of Godslaying!"

As a thin purple lightning bolt leaped from Li Mochen's fingertip and struck the Blue Marsh Demon Vine's body, the seventh 'Magic Plasma Cannon' shot from the 'Fate's Domain' magic tower also arrived.

In that instant, nearly half of the Blue Marsh Demon Vine's body was disintegrated and annihilated. But this time, the demigod creature did not recover immediately; instead, its body contracted, emitting a muffled wail.

Anthony Braden watched this scene without surprise. 'Thunder of Godslaying' was one of two powerful forbidden spells carried by the 'Scarlet Dragon Armor'. In the Barbarossa era, this powerful spell made all demigods and archangels on the Church's side tremble. Even the seven Angel Kings were wary of it.

It could split into hundreds or thousands of bolts, destroying an army of tens of thousands of angels, or converge into one, shattering a god's soul and will.

Especially when combined with the 'Scarlet Dragon Armor's god-slaying power and other divine authorities, Emperor Barbarossa could slaughter gods at will.

Thus, in that era, when the Church fought against the Holy Roman Empire's army, they either deployed several Angel Kings to prevent Barbarossa from casting forbidden spells or relied on vast angel armies to drain the 'Scarlet Dragon Armor's power.

So, the battle between these two sides was already decided the moment Li Mochen completed 'Thunder of Godslaying'.

But the true difficulty of this battle only arrived at this moment.

The Blue Marsh Demon Vine's dull intellect should have realized it was no match for Li Mochen and that the chance of obtaining bait from him was negligible. Next, this demigod creature would surely do everything in its power to escape.

And the Blue Marsh Demon Vine's characteristics allowed it to retain immense survival capabilities even after leaving its land and entering the Astral Realm.

At this point, any single spore left behind would cause Li Mochen's efforts to fail.

Before Anthony Braden's eyes, the Blue Marsh Demon Vine began its escape. Thousands of demon vines extended from its body, piercing the space-time barrier between here and the Dark World, releasing its seeds of life there.

But Li Mochen remained unhurried. He visualized the 'Divine Cloud Spirit Fortune Purple Gold Tower' and made his wish—he would completely kill this Blue Marsh Demon Vine, whose true name was 'Patricia Sandman Lavinia Maddock'!