Executioner White used the explosive step to skid past Man Tian and clawed at his back.
His hand was suddenly cleaved off as if by an invisible blade, but he didn't react and attacked with the bloody stump.
Man Tian was still sweating after using his ultimate move. He turned to block the attack and was blasted away by an explosion.
His skin was charred black in several areas, and his hair was singed.
Executioner White clicked his tongue when he saw Bian rushing toward him.
"Doesn't that guy feel pain?"
He turned to Han Yan, who was rapidly retreating using a sublime movement technique.
Executioner White knew he couldn't reach her with his explosive steps and clapped his hands together, using the same move as before.
His palms exploded, and his fingers flew toward her like missiles.
Han Yan was no longer the same as before. Learning from her earlier experience, she left the range of the fingers in haste.
Executioner White turned to smile at Bian, causing him to feel a sense of foreboding.
With a blue flash, he disappeared and reappeared behind Han Yan, who had just dodged the barrage of fingers.
"Han Yan, behind you!" Bian screamed out.
She brandished the diamond greatsword as she rapidly retreated, but Executioner White wasn't so keen on letting her go.
He formed a claw and charged forward, sending five laser explosions at her.
Han Yan blocked the attack with the diamond greatsword.
A mistake.
The laser explosions, which could bypass Bian's defense, went through the diamond greatsword and Han Yan.
Five bloody holes appeared on her body as strength seemed to leave her.
Her attack had also rendered the Perpetuity Halo useless, leaving Executioner White open again.
He sacrificed his arm to charge an explosion and sent it toward her at the same time that Bian reached them.
Bian instantly chose to save Han Yan rather than attack the Executioner.
It seemed like he had a choice, but actually, he didn't. Executioner White hadn't used time skip.
Han Yan's fusion came undone, separating her and the Holy Angel.
The angel shared her injuries, bearing several burns and a missing leg.
Han Yan was also missing a leg and an arm. It looked like she gave some of her injuries to the angel, then she returned it to her soul sea to recover.
"Why isn't he attacking us?" Han Yan asked.
Her body was damaged, but her eyes were shining like stars. Obviously, she wasn't willing to admit defeat.
"For the same reason he was laughing hysterically earlier. He is stalling for time."
Bian landed gently on the ground.
"He is waiting so he can have the teleportation and time skip ready for when he needs it."
Bian summoned Tyrant, while Man Tian arrived and summoned the Golden Growler.
They couldn't send Han Yan away as she would be targeted by the Executioner. They had to keep her close to protect her.
Things were getting even more troublesome. Bian let out a heavy breath and decided it was time to retreat.
Executioner White caught his subtle gesture and teleported right in front of them.
Both Bian and Man Tian rushed at him, but then he used time skip, arriving in front of Han Yan unscathed.
Bian couldn't believe his eyes, the Executioner had actually used both time skip and teleportation.
This meant he would be defenseless for a dozen or so seconds once Han Yan attacked.
It also meant he was going in for the kill, aiming to take out Han Yan before they could even put her on the golden growler.
Tyrant attacked with the halberd in a rising motion, but it was useless. The attack phased through the Executioner who was in time skip.
Finally, Han Yan leaped from her position, not retreating but advancing towards the Executioner.
'You thought I was out, just because of my injuries.' Han Yan disregard her safety and summoned the Golden Vambrace Blade.
Bian and Man Tian silently got into position, it looked like Executioner White had misjudged Han Yan and was about to pay dearly for it.
Bian didn't believe this was the case entirely, but there was little he could do to change the situation.
Man Tian prepared to use his ultimate move again, so did Bian and Tyrant.
Seven seconds left for teleportation and ten seconds for time skip.
Han Yan's Blade attacked the Perpetuity Halo around Executioner White. She retreated at a very fast speed even with her missing limbs.
The while halo was torn open once more, leaving Executioner White bare.
"Now!"
Three devastating attacks that had been brewing were unleashed in a second.
Man Tian who was standing in the sky, sent down a palm which seemed to bear the weight of the world.
Bian charged at him with unnatural speed, ready to use super spank on him.
Finally, Tyrant used his unique skill.
Just as the holy angel could fuse, he could enter his ultimate state, where his power would increase exponentially.
With a grunt, his fifteen meter frame reduced down to three.
It didn't look like he had shrunk, but rather his body was compressed to withhold devastating force.
His black horns, spiraled and thickened as he shrunk, shining dark light.
His muscles looked terrifying under his skin, all operating at maximum capacity, without care for his well being.
"JUGGERNAUT SHIFT!"
A deep voice resounded.
The berserk blade, Aeonshard didn't shrink with him. Instead, his grip on the handle tightened, breaking and deforming the part he held to fit in his arm.
With a mighty push of the ground, he appeared on the other side of Bian with the Executioner in their middle.
"Annihilation!"
The halberd fell towards the Executioner, who was scared witless, bringing death with it.
Five seconds till teleportation, eight till time skip.
"You lose!"
Bian smiled as his palm was just about to touch the Executioner.
But then, he heard him say something, in a gentle whisper.
"Overclock..."
BANG!!!
The flood gates were opened as his Perpetuity Halo surged like a tide drowning Bian and everyone else.
The Indigo light which spread for miles was suddenly cut off at its source once Bian was enclosed in the Perpetuity Halo.
The rest of their actions were in vain.
The halberd pass through him in a literal sense.
His body regenerated as soon as it was damaged causing the halberd to look like it phased through him.
Bian's palm landed on his ribs.
A visible wave of disintegration moved through the Executioner and disappeared.
Man Tian's Palm lost the support of the world once it was in the Perpetuity Halo.
The attack collapsed before it even reached him.
Then the Executioner's body began glowing a bright white, the brightest he had ever seen.
Bian was visibly shaking.
"How..."
Executioner White just smiled.
That look of realisation and despair the others had, it was quite pleasing to look at. He couldn't see Bian's eyes as his head was hung down, but that didn't matter, he had won.
The moment he saw Bian preparing to flee, he knew he couldn't let that happen. He used both teleportation and time skip to lure them all towards himself.
And now, with the Overclock and his new understanding of Break Six Skies, he was going to make the biggest explosion ever.
A true supernova.
"How dare you!"
Bian finally looked up, his eyes causing Executioner White to shiver.
His originally black pupils were a furious indigo colour, as if an inferno was trapped within them.
"To think the Emperical Aura is being suppressed, by the likes of you!"
The mere thought angered him to no bounds.
He didn't know where his anger came from, but...
Suppressing the Emperical Aura?
Such heresy could not be tolerated.
Accompanying the mystical sound of glass breaking, his tenth self gene lock came undone as yelled.
Argh!!!
The Emperical Aura exploded popping the Perpetuity Halo like a balloon.
It didn't just spread wantonly, it extended to the very ends of the sanctuary, dousing everything and everyone in it.
Executioner White who was preparing to explode suddenly vomited blood.
'When I was in his aura, mine was utterly suppressed. But when he is in mine, this happens?'
Executioner White felt wronged.
The time for teleportation was over.
He teleported as far as he could, running away at full speed.
Three seconds left till time skip.
"I understand it now!"
Bian used all his energy without reserve.
Watching the sequence and smallest details around him.
He poured both Yin and Yang energy into a ball, a suppressive element binding the circumference.
A bright green petrification fire coalesced into one ball and a dark red hell fire coalesced into another, in opposite places.
The petrification flame was surrounded by destructive golden lightning and the hell flame was surrounded by furious sharp wind.
A thin layer of pure frost energy curved in the middle of both sides, forming an S shape.
It separated the petrification lightning combo, from the flame wind combo.
From afar, the ball looked like a colorful Yin Yang sign, disrupting the space around it.
"YIN AND YANG, CONVERGENCE OF THE SIX ELEMENTS!"
In a second, the attack was formed and launched moving at a fraction of the speed of light and appearing before the Executioner in a moment.
"Wai-"
He couldn't even complete a sentence as the attack made impact and detonated.
KABOOM!!!
The explosion took on a cone shape
The power of the attack was concentrated burning the atmosphere above and the ground beneath.
Feeling like it wasn't enough, Man Tian followed behind with Tyrant who was a step slower.
Bian had already collapsed to the ground beside Han Yan, he couldn't lift a finger and the three inner pillars had gone to rest.
The most he could do was to keep the Emperical Aura active.
Executioner White wasn't dead yet, he was just reduced to burnt flesh bits and sparse blood particles, yet even these could regenerate.
Man Tian also knew they were at the final junction.
Without the Perpetuity Halo to instantly heal him, they didn't have to worry about a bunch of bits performing time skip or teleportation.
"TIAN SKY STRIKE!"
The palm strike gathered the particles and dust suppressing them to one area.
"AGAIN!"
Man Tian struck again.
"A~GAIN!"
"A~GAIN!"
"A~~~GAIN!"
The five attacks drained all his energy and layered with the original one suppressing, if not outright destroying the particles left.
Last to arrive was Tyrant.
Executioner White wasn't the only one who could turn mass to energy.
While he used an advanced art to do so, Tyrant could do the same using pure force.
He used both hands and summoned force beyond his measure.
"UTTER ANNIHILATION!"
The berserk blade shattered due to the extreme speed and power applied in a fraction of a second.
If Bian was present and used the dongxuan sutra to count the particles, he would find that the mass of the halberd had reduced after Tyrant swung it.
E = mc²
That missing mass turned to energy.
A halberd light of pure energy wiped out the remains of Executioner White once and for all.
A pillar of white light surged into the skies, signifying their victory.
Once Bian saw the sign, he couldn't hold on any longer and fainted.