Chapter 681
The Wrath of a Half-Step Demon Lord!
Although Jiang Shu had previously come into contact with a saint of the same realm as the Demon Lord.
But at that time, he had never truly understood the methods of a sage.
Ultimately, some flaws were still exposed, which were keenly noticed by the Burning Heaven Ancestor.
In the blink of an eye, the chaotic mind of the Heavenly Emperor was completely ignited and detonated by this familiar fluctuation.
All the explanations from the imperial palace and the claim that Jiang Taixuan was his "arch-enemy" were false. All that remained in his mind was boundless hatred and rage.
"Die!"
Almost at the same moment the roar was uttered, the figure of the Burning Heaven Ancestor had already vanished from the spot.
A gigantic claw covered in viscous, magma-like blood-red scales tore through the void, carrying an aura of annihilation that made the entire underground plain of Falling Star Abyss tremble. It struck first, reaching for Jiang Shu at the edge of the crack.
The speed was extremely fast.
It's as if it transcends time.
This is the crushing power of a half-step demon lord's rules.
"Burning Heaven Demon Lord?! What do you intend to do?!"
Jiang Shu's expression changed drastically.
He never expected that the Burning Heaven Ancestor would suddenly make a move at this moment.
Thinking of that phrase "Jiang Shu," could it be that my identity has been exposed?
The thought flashed through Jiang Shu's mind in a split second, and he didn't think about it any further.
The Burning Heaven Ancestor was too close to him. Under the pressure of the half-step Demon Lord realm, Jiang Shu knew he couldn't fight him head-on.
Although it's unclear how the Burning Heaven Ancestor discovered me, my primary goal now is to survive.
It's not time to travel between the two worlds yet.
Once he truly travels between the two worlds, his identity will be completely exposed.
But that's not the most important thing.
The important thing is that he may not be able to return to the Vast Wilderness for a long time.
Because the Demon Lord of Burning Heaven will surely be waiting for him here!
Jiang Shu said this in order to attribute the reason for Fentian's sudden attack to his somewhat clouded mind.
Without hesitation, he frantically poured in demonic power, attempting to accelerate the closure of the spatial rift.
But Burning Sky was even faster; its destructive claw shadow had already enveloped his back.
"The Demon Lord of Burning Heaven!"
The roar of the desolate cliff was a step slower than the attack of the blazing sky, but it was full of anger and decisiveness.
He had never met Jiang Shu.
There was no awareness of the Burning Heaven Demon Lord.
It was naturally assumed that the Demon Lord of Burning Heaven had lost his mind.
A vast demonic power, far exceeding his usual strength, erupted from his withered body. He transformed into a streak of gray-gold light and lunged at the arm that Fen Tian was grabbing at Jiang Shu. Unable to attack Fen Tian, he could only desperately try to block this fatal blow.
boom!
It was as if two stars had collided violently, with a sudden burst of blinding light accompanied by a deafening roar that shook the earth.
"puff!"
Huangya's figure was like a stone ball hurled by an ancient, savage god, shooting back at a speed even faster than when he lunged out.
His gray linen robe instantly carbonized and scattered, and the protective demonic light around him shattered like pieces of glass.
His emaciated chest visibly collapsed downwards, countless ribs were broken, and blood gushed from his mouth like a fountain, mixed with fragments of internal organs and a dim golden luster. The essence of his golden dragon bloodline was almost shattered. He slammed heavily against the cave wall behind him.
hum!
The rock wall lit up with countless ancient defensive runes, flashed violently a few times, and then shattered into large pieces with a crack.
The creature's body was deeply embedded in the rock wall, creating a huge human-shaped dent. Cracks spread like a spider web, and rubble fell down in a flurry.
His cloudy old eyes instantly lost all their luster, his breath was as weak as a candle flickering in the wind, and only blood foam mixed with fragments of internal organs was unconsciously oozing from his mouth.
This powerful demon was nearly killed by a single, enraged attack from the Demon Lord-level being, Fen Tian.
Even the array patterns on the stone wall that had remained unchanged for thousands of years were shattered.
"Burning Heaven... if you dare to kill Golden Horn, not only you... but the entire Phoenix Clan will pay with their lives!"
Embedded in the rock face of the desolate cliff, in the fading moment of consciousness, a black jade talisman, already crushed, silently vanished from the tattered sleeve.
An unstoppable surge of divine thought, symbolizing the highest level of emergency, instantly pierced through the endless abyssal rock layers and spatial barriers, shooting towards the core of the demon imperial palace.
"Roar!"
His attack failed to shatter Jiang Shu, but instead severely injured Huang Ya, who had blocked the attack. Fen Tian's rage intensified, like boiling oil poured onto volcanic lava.
He went completely berserk, and his white robe shattered in the raging air currents, revealing a terrifying demonic body covered in crimson scales and flowing with viscous demonic power.
"Jiang Shu... spare my life!"
Fen Tian completely ignored the desolate cliff embedded in the stone wall, whose fate was unknown, and locked his eyes on Jiang Shu, whose body was already halfway into the spatial rift.
Another intact claw swooped down from the air, freezing the space wherever it touched.
Time became viscous and stagnant under his claws, and the terrifying power of a half-step demon lord controlling time and space was revealed for the first time.
He wanted to completely crush this space, along with Jiang Shu within it, turning it into the most primordial dust.
The spatial rift was disturbed by this vast spacetime force, instantly becoming extremely unstable. Its contraction speed suddenly slowed down, and its edges began to twist and collapse.
A terrifying sense of crisis pierced Jiang Shu's soul like an ice pick.
His hair stood on end, and the terrifying shadow of death completely enveloped him.
Even if Fen Tian's furious, all-out attack, placed remotely on the spatial rift, was enough to tear him and the rift apart.
There was no time to think; the instinct for survival overwhelmed all other thoughts.
"burst!"
Under the terrifying lock-on of the Burning Heaven Demon Lord, Jiang Shu unleashed all his strength, unleashing the full power of his newly broken-through mid-stage Chaos Realm cultivation.
Although he still couldn't break free from the immense power that froze time and space, it was enough to make him frantically activate the life-saving items that Huangya had just given him.
hum!
The first thing to light up was the core condensed projection of the star coffin.
A hazy, abyssal light instantly enveloped Jiang Shu's entire body, with countless tiny, twisted runes flowing wildly within it, as if communicating with the core array eye of the Falling Star Abyss, thousands of miles away. A heavy, ancient, and ominous will, carrying the blood sacrifice of all spirits, descended across time and space, transforming into the most resilient shield.
This was one of the backup plans Huangya had to save his life.
Immediately afterwards, the Nirvana Feather, which was shrouded in crimson-gold flame patterns, shattered.
A surge of pure and boundless phoenix rebirth energy, brimming with endless vitality, erupted, instantly igniting Jiang Shu's dragon blood demonic power like firewood thrown into a volcano. This power surged wildly through his limbs and bones, strengthening his defenses on one hand, and frantically repairing the minute damage within his body that was on the verge of collapse under the terrifying pressure of the blazing heavens on the other.
boom!
The Heaven-Burning Extinction Claw slammed into Jiang Shu's back, which was enveloped by the light projected from the Star Coffin and the Phoenix Nirvana Flame.
An indescribable roar erupted.
A destructive energy surge, powerful enough to annihilate stars, swept out, but was confined within the solidified spacetime controlled by Fen Tian, repeatedly surging and shattering everything within it.
The incredibly tough, gray coffin-like light shield surrounding Jiang Shu emitted a heartbreaking sound like shattering porcelain, becoming cracked and dimming.
The Phoenix Nirvana Flame burned and repaired frantically, but it could only counteract a small portion of the destructive energy's penetration.
"Uh!"
A low groan escaped Jiang Shu's lips.
Even with two top-tier defensive treasures protecting him, it was still like a mantis trying to stop a chariot in the face of the pure destructive power of a half-step demon lord.
He felt as if an entire burning star had crashed into his back.
The protective demonic light shattered, and the skin covered with dark gold scales instantly cracked open, like countless terrifying cracks that revealed the bone on land that had been parched for millions of years.
Dark golden dragon blood mixed with shattered muscle fibers shot out like spraying gold dust.
Some of the dragon scales twisted and rolled under the crushing force of absolute power, and even turned into dust.
The powerful impact penetrated his body's defenses, shaking his internal organs. A metallic taste rose in his throat, but Jiang Shu forced himself to swallow the mouthful of Daoist essence blood, though his face instantly turned ashen.
The intense pain felt like millions of steel needles piercing his nerves.
This is not a disguise.
It was a serious injury caused by a real attack from a half-step demon lord level.
If his true realm hadn't already reached the mid-stage of the Chaotic Realm, and his physical body hadn't been tempered by various Great Daos and recently enhanced by the World Tree, making him far more resilient than ordinary demon lords, and if the Star Coffin and Nirvana Feather hadn't provided double protection, dissipating most of the destructive power, this claw would have definitely turned him directly into a bloody mist.
It's now!
The excruciating pain and the threat of death caused Jiang Shu's mind to focus to its peak in an instant.
In the instant that his defensive treasure blocked the most violent shockwave and his own body was not completely shattered, he seized that sliver of hope.
The slightest slippage in control of the frozen spacetime was unavoidable during the Burning Heaven attack.
"Breaking the Territory!"
Jiang Shu roared inwardly and crushed the other life-saving item in his hand without hesitation.
It was the Blood Talisman for Breaking the Domain, crafted from the essence blood of the Kunpeng given to it by Huangya.
scoff!
An incomparably sharp, condensed spatial crimson light, like a peerless divine sword being unsheathed, erupted from the blood talisman that Jiang Shu had crushed.
This crimson light contained the spatial origin power to annihilate all laws, completely ignoring the spatial confinement left by Fentian's rage.
puff!
The crimson light pierced precisely into the spatial rift that was already teetering on the brink of collapse, shaken by the Heaven-Burning attack.
Like a red-hot iron plunged into solid ice, the exceptionally solidified spatial barrier was instantly torn open by the primal power of the Blood Talisman of the Realm Breaker, creating an unstable gap just wide enough for one person to pass through.
Outside the crevice, chaotic and free-flowing void energy surged in.
"Feng Tian!"
In the agonizing pain of his severe injuries and the instant he broke through space with the help of the Blood Talisman of the Realm Breaker, Jiang Shu used all his strength to leave behind a shrill roar filled with anger and fear.
"The Imperial Palace will not let you get away with this!"
Before the roar subsided, he transformed into a wisp of dim golden light, trailing a trail of dark golden blood that sprayed through the air, and crashed into the narrow gap that had been forcibly torn open and was rapidly collapsing.
In the last instant before his figure disappeared, his cracked hand instinctively slammed the last wisp of spatial power unleashed by the shattering Blood Rune behind him.
His target was not the sky, but the rock wall that supported the cave and was covered with carvings of treasures.
boom!
A deafening explosion rang out.
The rock wall, already riddled with cracks from the impact with the desolate cliff, was further shattered by the residual power of the Blood Rune, causing large sections of runes and rocks to crumble like rotten wood being blown apart.
Countless fragments of stone and dust, mixed with spatial debris, rained down on Burning Heaven, who was about to strike again.
Smoke, dust, and gravel shot into the sky.
The chaotic spatial fluctuations distorted perception.
When Fentian roared angrily, his molten gold flames surged, instantly incinerating all the flying debris and dust into nothingness. There was no trace of the spatial rift in front of him.
All that remained was a massive spatial rift with its edges still flickering and unstable, a horrifying human-shaped crater in the cave wall, and a desolate figure trapped within it, blood still flowing from his mouth and nose, unconscious.
Jiang Shu disappeared.
Right under his nose, despite being covered in severe injuries, he forced his way out.
"Jiang Shu!!!"
The furious roar of the Heavenly Blaze echoed once again throughout the depths of the Falling Star Abyss, like the simultaneous wailing of billions of primordial beasts.
Crimson magma flowed from his seven orifices, and the entire underground cave trembled violently under the furious pressure of the half-step demon lord. The huge fragments of star remains hanging above shattered and fell to the ground, causing a series of roars.
His molten gold pupils were fixed on the remaining spatial aftershocks, filled with a madness that wanted to destroy everything and a resentment that was unwilling to accept defeat.
He could clearly feel that Jiang Shu's aura quickly dimmed and blurred after penetrating the spatial barrier, like a stone thrown into an endless ocean, disappearing in an instant.
Jiang Shu already possessed an extremely profound understanding of the Dao of Space, and now, having received the empowerment of the Myriad Spirits Forging Venerable Array, his mastery of space is now immeasurable. He could easily be lost without anyone noticing.
This also means that the Burning Heaven Ancestor has lost his last chance to pursue.
Burning Heaven's golden eyes were fixed on the chaotic void where Jiang Shu had disappeared. There were still dark and menacing spatial folds left there, like rags that had been torn repeatedly by an invisible giant claw.
Jiang Shu's aura completely vanished, like a drop of water merging into the vast ocean of void, leaving no trace whatsoever.
His rage, like molten lava from an abyss that had burned for millennia, surged wildly within his distorted, half-step demon lord body, causing his mind to become even more clouded.
"idiot!"
With a sharp roar, Fen Tian suddenly turned around and looked at the desolate cliff embedded deep in the stone wall.
The withered body crashed deeply into the cold rock wall covered with ancient runes, like a tattered sack nailed to a corner.
Ribs protruded menacingly from the collapsed part of his chest cavity, and dark golden blood mixed with fragments of internal organs flowed silently down the cracked stone wall, staining the mysterious array patterns carved beneath him into a filthy mess.
His head drooped, his cloudy whites rolled back, and his breath was as weak as a candle flickering in the wind, with only a sliver of instinctive demonic power keeping him clinging to life.
With a single step forward, Fen Tian's white robe crumbled into ashes, and his demonic body, covered in crimson scales, radiated a furnace-like heat.
Without even glancing at the wretched state of Huangya, he suddenly raised his giant claw, carrying a ferocious aura capable of annihilating stars, and mercilessly slammed it down on the powerless figure!
"If it weren't for you, you old good-for-nothing, blind and incompetent, how could we have suffered this calamity today!" (End of Chapter)