Seeing this, Void Sandalwood bared its teeth in a grimace.

Outside the domain, Shi Jin's expression turned somewhat grave.

"You've lost," said Void Sandalwood.

"It's far too early... for you to declare that."

"We will be the victors." Shi Jin hadn't expected Void Sandalwood to survive two rounds of limit-breaking bursts. But they had anticipated this scenario—they had already considered what to do if two bursts still failed to finish Void Sandalwood.

"Hm?" Shi Jin's words made Void Sandalwood, whose body was also on the verge of collapse, pause. The exchange just now had left it in bad shape too, but it couldn't fathom what Shi Jin meant.

BOOM!!!

The next instant—

Void Sandalwood's eyes nearly burst from their sockets.

Because from the direction Eleven had fallen, an incomparable surge of energy suddenly erupted—a truly horrifying aura!!

After the second burst, Eleven had shrunk straight back to its normal state and its body had urgently entered absolute sleep. Of course, because Unstoppable and the other skills had squeezed its potential so hard, the absolute sleep's effects were greatly reduced and nowhere near enough to restore much of Eleven's stamina. But that didn't stop the skill, combined with the earlier effects of the Undying Golden Body, from bringing Eleven back to a state where it could barely control its own body.

At this point, Eleven and Shi Jin absolutely refused to simply concede and walk away. Right now, in potential, in will, in physique, Eleven had reached its absolute limit and could fight no more. But for the sake of victory, they still had one trump card they could play—a power that belonged to Eleven and that it could still command.

Eleven directly summoned forth the demon-god power sealed at the very depths of its Source of Stamina.

Though this Meteor Yak power was not enough to complete its evolution, not enough to awaken a new skill, at this critical moment it was the only strength Eleven could draw upon. Unable to fuse it, it would use it as a one-time consumable—just like the natural energy it absorbed, just like the bug using the power of equipment!

Truthfully, Shi Jin didn't want Eleven to use this power. After all, this unfused power was different from the Golden Lightning, which could be replenished—without finding a Meteor Yak, every use diminished it. But with Eleven's evolution still far off, keeping it stored was just keeping it idle. Better to spend it where it counted. Once they secured the training rights to the Void Emperor Ruins, they could grow stronger soon enough—so spending a portion now wasn't a loss.

BOOM!!!!

"Eleven—Demon-God Form," Shi Jin called out.

Black flames erupted skyward from the falling Eleven, leaving Void Sandalwood gaping. In Demon-God Form, Eleven retained the normal size of an Iron-Eating Beast, yet its energy fluctuations were in no way inferior to the giant-form burst from before!!

The third round of eruption—Demon-God Power!

Mid-fall, Eleven's eyes snapped open. Its whole body was clad in black hardened matter, and the Demon-God Power became black lightning coiling around it. In that moment, Void Sandalwood cursed aloud with abandon.

BOOM!!!

"AWOOO!!!" Eleven grew gigantic again, becoming an indescribably colossal behemoth. Enraged, Void Sandalwood frantically condensed spatial blades and hurled them at Eleven. This time, Eleven had only simple hardening—but hardening fused with Demon-God Power was like the demon-god body of a Meteor Yak itself, unbelievably tough. On top of that, the spatial domain was now unstable and Void Sandalwood's power was near its limit, so it could not fully tear apart this demon-god body.

In Demon-God Form, Eleven's consciousness was extremely dim. Drawing on the Demon-God Power, it once more activated Hardening, Gigantification, and Unstoppable, while its giant fist gathered Quaking Void fluctuations, sweeping up a sky full of black flame and lightning, and smashed a punch toward Void Sandalwood within the domain!!!

BOOM!!!!!

As the fist fell, the white Quaking Void fluctuations were stained black as well.

A colossal sound, all but world-shattering, rang out—and at the same time made Void Sandalwood feel a power capable of destroying everything!

Amid the deafening quake, with a "crack," the spatial domain shattered outright. The space of the Void Emperor Ruins cracked as well, like a broken mirror, black lightning-like fissures spreading endlessly!!

Demon-God Hardening, compared to ordinary Hardening, gave far greater amplification to the power of Quaking Void. Even brute force—brute force that in Void Sandalwood's eyes had no technique at all—made this technique-devotee feel an immense threat!

In an instant, space shattered like flowers in a mirror and moon in water. The blow, carrying terrifying power, pulverized everything, sweeping up unparalleled quaking force—and at the same time devouring toward Void Sandalwood, sealing off this unstable space so that it had nowhere to flee!!

"Are you two monsters—?!" Void Sandalwood, momentarily dazed from the shattering of its domain, now wanted nothing more than to curse at the top of its lungs.

"Sequence Eleven, my ass."

What kind of creature could pull off three rounds of burst damage back to back, each one stronger than the last?

Monster was the only word he could find for the beast on the other side.

"Spatial... Severance!!!"

BOOM!!

Void Sandalwood struck back again, yet even at the pinnacle of its sublimated Spatial Sword Dance, it could not cancel out that force.

With a rumbling crash, black spatial rifts wove together, and the immense shockwave of spatial force surged into the clouds, tearing a black chasm a hundred meters long across the sky in an instant!!!

In the process, to keep itself from being mangled too badly, Void Sandalwood directly drew on the power of the Ruins Lord, using the void energy within the ruins to shield itself!!!

BOOM!!

Amid the terrifying shockwaves, Void Sandalwood had vanished from sight. Across from it, the colossal Demon God Eleven peered through the smoke at a sphere of void hovering in midair. The next second, the sphere dissolved into motes of light, and from within, a mantis—its injuries no lighter than Eleven's, green blood streaming from its body—slowly fell from the sky.

As it fell, Void Sandalwood screamed in agony, utterly incapable of fighting on, feeling as though every bone in its body had been pulverized to powder, the pain unbearable.

That big brute across from it looked no less battered than itself. Did it not hurt too?!

THUD!!!

A moment later, Void Sandalwood hit the ground, hissing and screeching.

Endless void energy poured frantically into its body, mending it, yet still it kept rolling about.

"So... does this count as my win?" At that moment, Shi Ying's voice rang out, and the rolling Void Sandalwood stiffened, its body jerking to a halt as it looked over.

"You win!! Owww!!! That last kid was a liar—didn't he say there were no stronger beastmasters? How the hell is your Sequence ranked, was it drawn up blind? Is it higher number means stronger?" Void Sandalwood kept wailing. It didn't welch on the bet—or rather, it too had been hoping someone would beat it.

That way, it wouldn't have to carry out the task the Void Emperor had left it here to do. It could stop suppressing its level, break through to Overlord-class, and go search for the Void Emperor that the outsiders said had gone missing.

"A monster is a monster. Of all the Grade Six beastmasters I've ever seen, you're the most—" Void Sandalwood was about to say something when Shi Ying's blue summoning array appeared, calling forth a Ginseng Baby, which scampered quickly toward the big fellow Eleven across the way.

Void Sandalwood paid the Ginseng Baby no mind, its gaze fixed instead on the color of Cen Yu's summoning array.

Blue... blue... blue...

This brat wasn't a Grade Six beastmaster—he was a fucking Grade Five beastmaster!!