Chapter 565 The Power of the Ancient Demon King
They realized what had just happened.
Cold sweat had been covering the back of the Prison King Spirit Official for some time now. This [Great Extinction Chaos Annihilation Heavenly Light] was a mixed divine power.
Even a cultivator at the Void Refinement stage couldn't perform this technique alone, yet the Heavenly Demon Lord managed to release it once through a clever trick.
This thing is so powerful that it can severely injure even a Dao Integration cultivator if it hits them head-on.
Therefore, this trump card was indeed unexpected.
These top cultivators from the lower realms are even more difficult to deal with than those who have reached the Void Refinement stage in the True Spirit Realm; each and every one of them is a cunning and treacherous old fox.
Fortunately, I am a cut above the rest.
At this moment, he no longer cared about the consumption of the Pure Lotus Immortal Qi. With a slight smile, he waved his hand and directly entered the Ice Prison Realm!
At the entrance to the Sword Sect.
Just as the old tortoise's aura faded, several spatial rifts suddenly opened, and the Prison King Spirit Officer reappeared, wielding the Void Banner.
Upon seeing this, the old Taoist Taixu gripped his long sword tighter.
He secretly transmitted his voice.
"If we can gather the power of the world once more, are you confident that you can kill him again?"
The Demon Lord of Refining Heaven shook his head in response.
"That warship is under too much load. Even if it can accumulate the power of the world once more, it will not be able to use the power of the heavenly light again."
"I never expected that this person would have such a lifelike ability to create clones."
The two communicated via telepathy.
However, once the true body enters the Ice Prison Realm, even if the Prison King Spirit Official can only unleash the power of the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, it can still achieve complete domination through its extremely high essence.
He laughed.
"What, are you surprised to see me? You ants, ungrateful for the immortal's teachings, yet you still dare to defy the will of the immortal palace."
"If the ancient demon breaks the seal, the entire human race in all the heavens will suffer. You really have no sense of the big picture. You should not have passed down the orthodox path of cultivation in the first place."
"Hmph, what a joke!"
Venerable Taixu snorted coldly.
"Just because someone else thinks about the bigger picture, does that mean I, the Ice Prison Cultivation Realm, have to be sacrificed? On what grounds? How many resources does the Immortal Palace give you to work so hard? Don't tell me you're doing this for free."
"If you are staying here for the greater good, then pretend I never said anything."
These words were spoken.
The prison king and the spirit official were speechless. After all, it was none of their business, and anyone could stand on moral high ground and criticize them as long as they weren't the ones being sacrificed.
This is a very popular topic.
"You are all eloquent and deceitful, but I will surely annihilate your bodies and souls."
Despite making one harsh statement after another, no real results were achieved. The Prison King and Spirit Official had clearly learned their lesson and this time chose to target the weakest link.
He was an expert in the art of space, and his mastery of the Great Void Escape Technique was unparalleled. The Great Void Escape Technique of the Five-Colored Holy Lord was taught to him by him.
Now is the time to put it to use.
The purplish-black vortex wormhole swallowed him up, while another large hole opened up behind Dan Chenzi, and the Void Banner suddenly stabbed out. Dan Chenzi's face tightened.
His natal spiritual treasure, the Xuanwu Flowing Light Cauldron, rapidly expanded, trapping him within and protecting him completely.
"--anti!"
A piercing metallic clang rang out.
The immense force sent Dan Chenzi flying backward.
Venerable Taixu teleported in sync, his pure white sword light tearing through space and slashing fiercely at the void wormhole. However, it quickly closed and reappeared on the path where Dan Chenzi had been stabbed away.
Void Handprint!
With a single, powerful strike, the prison king and his cauldron were captured by the prison king and his spirit official, and a spiderweb-like spatial rift invaded them from within.
Dan Chenzi's screams nearly shattered the clouds for miles around.
The person and the cauldron were shattered into countless pieces. The moment his primordial spirit escaped, it was swallowed by a giant mouth in the void, chewed a few times, and then completely vanished.
"Junior Brother Dan Chen!"
Venerable Taixu's eyes turned bloodshot, filled with grief and indignation. Yet, he instantly discerned the other party's purpose and, disregarding his anger, hurriedly shouted.
"Junior Brother Chunyang, run!"
Chunyangzi was startled.
Both he and Dan Chenzi were at the fifth level of the Nascent Soul stage, while the Prison King Spirit Official was at the peak of the Void Refinement stage, though he only dared to unleash the strength of the peak Nascent Soul stage due to the rules of immortals.
But his peak level is far superior to that of Lian Tian and Tai Xu, making him arguably the strongest Nascent Soul cultivator! He can maintain perfect timing and unleash the strongest combat power of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Dan Chenzi was killed instantly, so how much better off could he be?
It swiftly transformed into a streak of golden sword light and fled into the distance.
but.
The Prison King Lingguan did not appear behind Chunyangzi.
The Yellow Spring Demon Lord, who was watching the battle, felt a chill in his heart. His spiritual senses frantically warned him that a void wormhole had appeared behind him, and the banner spear once again pierced through space.
The Demon Lord of Refining Heaven was on guard, and his sudden appearance was unexpected.
As the demonic flames rose, they transformed into a black fiery fist, colliding fiercely with the banner spear. After a violent explosion, the opponent retreated immediately after the attack.
"Pure Yang!"
It's another example of a feint attack.
It can be said that as long as the cultivators cannot restrict his Great Void Technique, no one can catch up with him. As long as this tactic is maintained, the cultivators will only be defeated one by one.
Chunyangzi felt a chill run down his spine.
He immediately realized that escaping was useless and moved toward the direction of Venerable Taixu, but how could his escaping technique, which arrived in an instant, be faster than him?
Just as the void wormhole opened and Chunyangzi was about to walk right into it, Wang Yu couldn't help but intervene.
No matter how pessimistic he is about the outcome of this battle, he will still take action when needed.
"Secret Technique: Heaven's Lock, Taiyin Pupil Technique: Empty Moon!"
Double space lockdown.
The Heavenly Lock technique is a secret art that condenses spatial chains. The longer the chain, the better the effect. There is almost no upper limit to its effect. After years of accumulation, his silver chain can almost seal off half a continent.
The Void Moon Pupil Technique is also a fifth-order spatial restriction pupil technique.
The combination of the two, while unable to completely eliminate the Great Void Technique of the Prison King Spirit Official, can make it extremely sluggish, preventing it from being cast instantly.
This gap gave Chunyangzi a rare opportunity to react.
The Pure Yang Spirit Sword slashed forward suddenly, using the momentum of the retreating force to fly backward.
Venerable Taixu finally caught up.
His eyes seemed to blaze with boundless fury, and he paused for a moment in thought.
The sword light instantly cleaved the sky.
This is the fifth-order perfect divine power - Heaven-Slaying Sword Drawing Technique!
The void wormhole shattered instantly, breaking the escape technique. The Prison King Spirit Official fell from it in a slightly disheveled state, with blood seeping from his chest, indicating that the sword strike had truly injured him.
His face instantly turned extremely gloomy.
He was injured... This was not a good sign. These natives were already extremely wary of him because of the difference in strength, and they dared to launch a siege against him even though they knew it was suicidal.
It is clear that this group of people were lawless.
But once this invincible golden body is broken, these people... will probably become even more frenzied, no longer thinking about defense and counterattack, but taking the initiative to attack!
As expected.
Upon discovering that he was bleeding, the Demon Lord of Refining Heaven suddenly burst into laughter.
"Traitor, you too are made of flesh and blood, and you will die if you are killed! I will make you understand the true meaning of the Path of Refining Heaven!"
The next moment.
A deep darkness spread from Lian Tian's body, forming a dark and eerie domain, into which the Nascent Soul realm [Lian Tian] quietly merged.
The Prison King Spirit Official was completely enveloped, as if he were trapped in a corrupting domain, his clothes and hair were disappearing, and his skin turned crimson.
It is clearly resisting this refining power.
"A mayfly trying to shake a tree!"
The Prison King Lingguan snorted coldly and clenched his right hand tightly.
Hundreds upon hundreds of silver blades cleaved through the air, centered on the fist, shooting out in all directions. The Heavenly Refining Domain was shattered in an instant, and at the same time, another great divine power was unleashed.
"The Void Buries the Heavens Finger".
The purplish-black finger, imbued with the aura of death, pointed towards Chunyangzi. Venerable Taixu quickly dodged to block it, summoning a gray-white tower shield to block the path of the Burial Heaven Finger.
The result was that the magical treasure that had accompanied him for countless years was crushed into pieces, and the aura of death swept over him.
Venerable Taixu hurriedly threw out another fifth-grade mid-level chessboard spiritual treasure, but its radiant appearance vanished in an instant, and the spiritual energy within the artifact disappeared completely.
The spirit treasure, having lost its spiritual power, was knocked away, but the Burial Heaven Finger was also completely blocked.
The Prison King and the Spirit Official are indifferent to the Dao.
"Let's see how many times you can withstand this!"
That's all.
With a series of flicks of both hands, he unleashed three consecutive Void Burial Heaven Finger techniques, causing both the Refining Heaven Demon Lord and the Great Void Venerable to look quite grim.
Are we about to lose?
No... absolutely not!!!
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Rewind to when the righteous and demonic paths first clashed.
As the second most powerful figure in the demonic path, the Earthly Fiend Demon Lord, with the tacit approval of the Sword Sect, used earth-moving techniques to escape into the depths of the Floating Immortal Mountain.
His target was already set: the Ancient Demon of Life sealed within the Immortal Mountain!
However, this place was completely different from what he had imagined.
The interior of what should have been a mountain of earth and rock contained a large amount of pink flesh and blood, growing deformed hands, legs, heads, torsos... and without exception, all of them were in human form.
The interior of the floating fairy mountain is hollow.
Moreover, it was completely covered by deformed flesh and blood, which meant that the seal itself was not very stable, and the power of the ancient demon had long since seeped out, which is why the strange appearance of the flesh and blood domain was formed.
Walking on a blood-soaked carpet of pus and blood.
Even the Earthly Fiend Demon Lord, with his vast knowledge and experience, felt a wave of discomfort. The sweet fragrance in the air was refreshing and could even slightly enhance his life essence.
That's incredible.
He suspected that this might be the reason why the Sword Sect's Nascent Soul stage cultivators lived long lives.
However, thinking of the task assigned by the sect leader, he had no intention of refining life energy here. Instead, he moved forward at full speed and quickly arrived at the center of the mountain.
It's surprisingly clean here.
On the restored ground, a hellish gate stands in the center, with fang-like things above and below the entrance. This "gate of hell" actually resembles the gaping mouth of some kind of creature.
A plain-looking young man sat upright at the tongue.
Wearing a linen shirt and gray trousers, with cloth shoes on his feet, he even waved with a smile when he saw the Earthly Fiend Demon Lord arrive.
Earthly Fiend Demon Lord: "..."
He also had the same question that Wang Yu had when he faced the Frozen Demon: how could the ancient demon's body have consciousness?
As a precaution, he shut down his hearing.
He took out a bright red heart from his storage ring and threw it toward the Gates of Hell. This object was the key to breaking the seal of the Ancient Demon of Life, and it came from ancient times.
At that time, the Blood Demon broke free from its seal and fought fiercely with the cultivators of the lower realm. However, the Blood Demon's immortality allowed it to maintain its peak combat power even after being torn into pieces.
This heart comes from the original Blood Demon body that was dismantled in ancient times, and the power it contains is enough for the Ancient Demon of Life to break the seal.
However, the heart, once thrown out, hovered between the upper and lower jaws of the Gates of Hell, as if blocked by an invisible barrier.
Upon seeing this, the Ancient Demon of Life leisurely stood up.
He tried to take the heart, but as soon as he got close, the gates of hell closed, and the young man in hemp clothing was instantly shredded into pieces. Blood flowed freely, and the gates of hell opened again.
The Earthly Fiend Demon Lord was astonished to discover that another young man in hemp clothing emerged from deep within the throat, recklessly continuing to try and seize the heart.
Then he died again, and a third young man in hemp clothing emerged from the depths of the door.
The Earthly Fiend Demon Lord couldn't help but swallow.
This strange situation made him even more wary, so he quickly retreated to the edge of the central area and silently watched the young man in hemp clothing repeat his actions over and over again.
What he didn't realize was that as time went by...
The number of deaths of the young man in hemp clothing is increasing, and the deformed flesh and blood are rapidly transforming into the appearance of the young man, and are constantly shrinking.
This is causing the texture of the rocks in the central area to become increasingly fleshy and muscular.
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The battlefield above the Sword Sect.
With the appearance of the three Heaven-Burial Finger strikes, Chunyangzi and the others were trapped in a hopeless situation, with no way to avoid or stop them!
Taixu and Liantian would not risk being severely injured themselves by using their physical bodies to forcibly resist.
We still need their help to kill the Prison King Lingguan.
This raises a choice: should we prioritize the long-standing friendship and offer assistance, or should we consider the greater good and sacrifice our comrades...?
In that instant.
Their choice was essentially no different from that of Asgard.
A classic train problem.
However... the change also happened in an instant.
A bloodied and mangled beast suddenly burst through the rock strata of the floating immortal mountain and swallowed the three Heaven-Burial Finger techniques whole without saying a word.
The next second, it exploded into a rain of blood.
But the crisis was subsequently resolved.
The Prison King Spirit Official stared in astonishment at the scene. Sensing a familiar aura, his face darkened as he exclaimed, "Have you truly released the Ancient Demon of Life? This is utterly absurd!"
Although the ancient demon appeared, he relied on the authority of the Prison King and Spirit Official.
He could be exempt from the rules of immortals and unleash the power of the peak of the Void Refinement stage, but with the ancient demon breaking the seal, his dereliction of duty was a foregone conclusion.
Wait until the Celestial Palace notices.
He was determined to take responsibility for this matter, and given the existence of the Heavenly Light of Extermination, he believed that the release of the ancient demon was merely a false message deliberately spread by the cunning natives.
Unexpectedly, these people had made two preparations.
"Damn it."
The Ancient Demon of Life seemed to have also smelled the "stench" of the Immortal Palace cultivators, and without needing the Earthly Fiend Demon Lord to communicate with it, it took the initiative to attack.
The young man in hemp clothing suddenly appeared in mid-air.
He stuck out his scarlet tongue and licked his lips.
"It's delicious."
The Prison King Spirit Official was greatly alarmed upon seeing this. He took out thirty-six Void Banners, which instantly formed a Void Sealing Array.
Forcibly suppress it.
At the same time, the aura of a peak Void Refinement cultivator was released without any concealment, and he instantly appeared behind Chunyangzi, his large hand suddenly covering the top of the other's head.
"The Secret Technique for Wedding Gowns, Increase!"
Chunyangzi's expression showed struggle, but he quickly calmed down. With the unrestrained infusion of Prison King Spirit Official's cultivation, his strength increased rapidly.
He instantly reached the Void Refinement stage, and thunderclouds rapidly gathered in the sky. The Prison King Spirit Official's cultivation also dropped to the mid-Void Refinement stage.
No one knows what he intends to do.
(End of this chapter)
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