Rumble—!

Eight colossal meteors wreathed in dark green flames abruptly tore through the darkness above!

Carrying the terrifying might to destroy the heavens and earth, like judgment from the depths of Hell, they crashed down fiercely toward this vast expanse of skeletal earth!

The entire space trembled violently under this terrifying coercion!

"Ooh..."

For the very first time, that aged voice let out a painful groan.

The next second.

The eight meteors accurately slammed into the surrounding writhing dark red flesh walls!

The earth shook and the mountains quivered!

The dark green flames instantly ignited the massive flesh walls like a prairie fire!

The blazing inferno burned frantically, emitting a sizzling crackle!

The flames were extremely bizarre; instead of burning the physical body, they directly pierced through the thick flesh walls and acted upon the deeper soul!

"Ah—!"

A scream, several times more shrill than before, violently burst forth!

The brilliant golden light blooming from the huge Pendulum of Life actually dimmed slightly at this moment.

"Damn it!"

"Damn it!!!"

That aged voice was filled with boundless fury and venom!

In fact, Gandalf's Meteor Fire Rain would normally have been hard-pressed to inflict damage on this exotic beast.

However.

Who could have predicted that his flames carried the special effect of the Soul-Devouring Netherflame.

Which could burn the soul.

Furthermore, right now was its weakest moment when its soul and physical body were undergoing Fusion anew!

This strike had exceptional results!

Even Thor, who was locked in fierce combat with countless tentacles, could clearly feel that the strength of those dark red tentacles, which should have been incomparably tough, had weakened by more than just a little bit!

"Good opportunity!"

A sharp glint flashed in Thor's eyes!

He let out a heaven-shaking roar toward the sky!

Boom—!

A surge of blue thunder, several times more violent than before, violently erupted from within his body!

He raised Mjölnir high, and the violent thunder power surrounding his body poured madly into it like a hundred rivers converging into the sea!

"Get... lost!"

Roaring, he violently swung the warhammer in his hand forward!

A huge crescent-shaped thunder blade left his hand!

Wherever it passed, space shattered inch by inch!

The dark red tentacles entangling him were instantly torn apart by the violent thunder power the moment they touched the thunder blade, turning into scattered bits of flesh all over the sky!

Without a moment's hesitation, Thor transformed into a dazzling blue bolt of lightning and soared into the sky!

He raised the warhammer high, infusing it entirely with the turbulent thunder within his body!

He ruthlessly smashed it down toward the huge Pendulum of Life!

Bang—!

A deafening loud noise burst forth!

The massive Pendulum of Life was actually sent flying backwards by this single hammer blow!

The brilliant golden light blooming upon it completely receded at this moment!

Hiss—!

A wisp of ink-black transparent specter was violently shaken out from within the Pendulum of Life!

The specter's form resembled a whale shrunk countless times.

At this moment, it was suspended mid-air, its crimson eyes staring fixedly at Thor and Gandalf below, filled with boundless fury and venom!

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"You all deserve to die!!!"

Never could it have imagined.

That the resurrection ritual it had plotted for who knows how many years would actually be interrupted by these two damned ants joining forces!

Lacking the specter's control.

The massive Pendulum of Life began to rapidly shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Eventually, it turned into a golden pendulum clock only about a meter tall, quietly suspended mid-air.

It was exactly the same as the fake ones encountered earlier on the island!

"Right now!"

Thor's eyes lit up!

Knowing his chance had arrived!

However, the exotic beast's soul clearly had no intention of giving him this opportunity!

"Die!"

It let out a sharp roar!

From the surrounding writhing dark red flesh walls, hundreds of thick dark red tentacles split off once more!

Overwhelming the sky like a surging crimson wave, they swept toward Thor!

Not only that!

At this very moment, without warning, the two massive flesh walls above and below began to slowly close in!

That posture clearly intended to grind Thor into minced meat!

Seeing this, Thor's expression changed slightly.

He had no choice but to give up the Divine Artifact close at hand, pulling back to dodge the crushing flesh walls and the endless siege of tentacles!

Meanwhile, the exotic beast's soul turned into a streak of black smoke, preparing to drill back into the Pendulum of Life to continue its resurrection ritual!

However, right at this moment.

In the distance, a calm voice rang out once again.

"【Forbidden Spell: Meteor Rain!】"

Holding a staff, the person had dark green flames frantically condensing at the tip of the staff once more!

A cooldown of twenty-something seconds was just that unreasonable!

Rumble—!

Eight colossal meteors wreathed in dark green flames tore through the darkness once more and crashed down fiercely!

The exotic beast's soul, which was already about to drill back into the Pendulum of Life, didn't even have time to react before it was forcefully knocked out by the meteors falling from the sky!

"Ahhh—!"

It let out a series of screams several times more shrill than before!

The pain of its soul being burned almost completely swallowed its consciousness!

Most crucially!

The first wave of Soul-Devouring Netherflame had yet to extinguish, and the second wave was already here!

With the two flames overlapping, their power increased by far more than several folds!

The massive dark red flesh walls instantly transformed into a dark green sea of fire!

Just at this moment.

The already dead carcass of the colossal beast abruptly and without warning opened its blood-red maw, which was vast enough to swallow mountains!

Whoosh—!

A terrifying suction force violently erupted!

Endless seawater poured backward frantically, as if it had found an outlet for release!

In just a brief moment.

This vast skeletal earth inside the exotic beast was completely submerged by the surging seawater!

Although the Soul-Devouring Netherflame attached to the flesh walls was still burning underwater.

Its power was evidently much smaller.

Seeing this, Zhou Huai gave a slight smile.

"Just what I wanted."

The next second.

Controlling Gandalf, a turbulent stream of water magically appeared beneath his feet like a skateboard, supporting his body as he rapidly darted toward the location of the Pendulum of Life!

The golden pendulum clock was currently suspended quietly within the seawater.

However, just the moment before Gandalf could approach.

An even swifter bolt of blue lightning arrived first despite starting later!

It was actually Thor!

Bathed in thunder light, his underwater speed was actually three tenths faster than Gandalf's!

However, Zhou Huai was well-prepared for this.

Calmly raising the Eternal Judgment in his hand, seven-colored brilliance frantically condensed at the tip of the staff!

In his mouth, the incantation had long since reached the final syllable!

"【Forbidden Spell: Thousand Mile Ice Seal!】"

Hum—!

A terrifying chill capable of freezing the soul violently erupted from the tip of his staff!

At this very moment, without warning, the vast expanse of sea ahead of Thor condensed into a gigantic piece of seven-colored ice crystal!

And Thor happened to be trapped right in the dead center of the ice crystal!

【Ice Prison Cage】!

Not only that!

Thor only felt as though his brain had been filled with lead, becoming incomparably heavy!

Even his thoughts became much more sluggish!

【Sluggishness】 effect!

This was the terrifying aspect of the S-rank aberrant ice, heart of aurora!

This series of changes occurred in merely a split second!

Yet it bought Gandalf ample time!

Controlling the current beneath his feet, he rapidly approached the golden pendulum clock and grabbed it fiercely.

Afterwards, he turned tail and ran!

Meanwhile, Thor, trapped within the Ice Prison Cage and under the influence of the 【Sluggishness】 effect, stood stunned for a full second.

Only then did he let out a heaven-shaking roar!

"Gan... dal... f!!!"

Stunned for another second.

He finally remembered what he was supposed to say.

"Don't... run!!!"

Stunned for yet another second.

"The... Pendulum of Life... is mine!!!"