Just now, although the short burst from the Desolate Heaven Halberd shook the core of the Gravity Field, tore through the Poison Fire Giant Flood Dragon and the Frozen Extinction Layer of the Ice Chi, even causing a collapse in space, it did not truly harm the Origin of the Earth Ant. At this moment, a more powerful gravity pressed in from all directions, like an invisible mountain of billions of tons slowly closing in.
The splashing sand froze in the air, even the speed of the gushing Space Turbulence bizarrely slowed down.
The massive figure of the Earth Ant slowly rose from beneath the collapsing dunes, its earth-yellow Scale Armor shimmering with somber Earth Vein runes, twin eyes blood-red, locking tightly onto Jiang Shu.
"Die!"
The low growl of the Earth Ant was like muffled thunder from the depths of the earth, and the gravity multiplier soared sharply.
The attacks of the Golden Roc Three Fierce in this suddenly intensified Gravity Field increased in speed and power, rising several more levels, like a rain of destructive arrows shot forth by a giant slingshot, tearing through the brief chaos and descending on Jiang Shu from all angles!
This attack carried the determination to kill, to completely grind down the hard bone that was Jiang Shu.
The terrifying sense of oppression caused even the bones within Jiang Shu’s body to moan, his circulating Spiritual Power stagnating under the pressure.
His gaze was cold and sharp to the extreme, like quenched ice.
The threat of the Heaven-Burning Ancestor hung like a sword above his head, a single misstep spelled doom beyond redemption!
In this critical moment, Jiang Shu’s mind raced, the Mixed Cave Space within him boomed with a tremor.
The World Tree Seedling rooted in the center of his Dantian swayed elegantly, emitting a rich Space Dao Rhyme, instantly augmenting his Divine Thought.
He gritted his teeth against the stiffness caused by the gravity’s sluggishness, and did not, as the Four Evils expected, swing the halberd to clash head-on again.
Suddenly, his left hand pressed fiercely before him!
"Shui Huan!"
"Buzz!"
The palm of his left hand, emitting a faint starlight-like glow, engraved with countless fine traces of Space Dao, suddenly shone brightly, as a more condensed and tyrannical Microscopic Space Domain erupted from the center of Jiang Shu’s palm.
This domain, as tiny as dust, was exceptionally powerful, actually withstanding the terrifying gravitational oppression from the Earth Ant that covered a hundred miles in an instant.
Space instantly solidified, those golden beams, ice spears, and poison fire twisting the sight before Jiang Shu froze abruptly for a moment a mere foot from his face.
Especially that thickest horrible green poison fire column, its trajectory compressed by the solidified space, its speed suddenly decreased.
However, the cost of doing so was huge.
The sleeve on Jiang Shu’s left arm instantly exploded into smithereens, his arm bones issuing a light cracking sound under the unbearable weight, using the Shui Huan Gloves to forcibly cancel part of the Gravity Field and delay multiple attacks, all backlash was absorbed by himself!
A mouthful of reverse blood surged up his throat, forcefully swallowed back down.
Yet, this struggle secured that life-and-death split-second opportunity!
"Kill!"
Jiang Shu’s roar pierced through the solidified space, filled with determination and the aura of slaughter.
His eyes, like lightning, instantly penetrated the layers of spatial barrier, locking accurately onto the Earth Ant Demon Venerable situated on the hovering dune, trying to crush him into pulp with an all-out gravity Great Technique!
His right arm lifted sharply, holding as if grasping an invisible shaft in the void.
The surrounding scene abruptly transformed; it was not real light and shadow but an embodiment of Dao Origin in his will!
Inside the Mixed Cave Space, the Power Dao runes shone wildly like exploding fixed stars, insights arduously gained from the Eternal Tower, the life and order essence of the World Tree Seedling flowing...
At this moment, rather than merging like Qi Swallowing Vientiane Fist, it condensed in a more extremely primal, purer form.
A vague yet immensely large ax image began to shape in the grip of Jiang Shu’s right hand.
This was no real weapon, but an embodiment formed by fusing Power Dao as bone, space and sharpness as blade, desolation and solitude as soul, supplemented by the ability to suppress and reshape through Devouring and Creation!
Panwu Heaven Opening Axe!
The moment the ax shadow appeared, time seemed to halt.
The oppressively squeezing Gravity Field paused as if struck by a sudden realization; the on-rushing Golden Roc Feathers, Icebound Spears, Horrible Green Poison Fire, all were intimidated by the intangible force of the ax shadow, their speeds reduced once more.
The Earth Ant felt itself locked by an overwhelmingly dominant will, its blood-red pupils constricting to the extreme.
A fear of pure power’s crushing terror, rooted deep in its bloodline, instantly surged.
It instinctively wanted to withdraw its domain, to defend itself.
But it was already too late.
Jiang Shu’s right arm muscles bulged, blue veins coiled like a dragon, his whole being like an ancient titan splitting the heavens, channeling all his essence, spirit, and the mighty Daoist Venerable Power into the ax shadow, slashing in the most brute, direct manner towards the Earth Ant!
"Die!"
There was no blinding light, only the ultimate silence.
The trail carved by the ax shadow, a deep dark rift silently tore open the void.
This rift consumed all surrounding light and heat, as if even space itself was severed and stripped apart.
The might of the Panwu Heaven Opening Axe was not just in destruction, but in the rift wrought by its ax momentum, severing space, returning all to the Returning Ruins.
This split cut through the space, like the sharpest blade, ignoring distance to instantly cross to the Earth Ant’s crown.
The Earth Ant managed only a short cry mingled with shock and fear, urging the Earth Vein runes on its Scale Armor to their limits, forming a massive shield a hundred yards thick, infused with Earth Vein Mystic Yellow energy, before itself as a barricade.
Shhh!
The dark ax shadow fell on the Mystic Yellow Earth Vein Shield, a lifetime’s cultivation and bloodline Great Technique of the Earth Ant concentrated, like a hot knife through butter.
The Mystic Yellow Earth Vein Shield, reputed to be the strongest defense among the Four Evils, under the Panwu Heaven Opening Axe, bearing space severance and pure power crushing Daoist Rules, barely held for a moment before silently splintering from its center!
The ax shadow’s force did not stop, following the score, cutting heavily onto the Earth Ant’s mountain-like body!
From the massive single horn, to the spine covered in thick Scale Armor, to the stout limbs and engorged belly...
Splurt!
Like tough leather sliced open by the sharpest great blade!
The Earth Ant’s massive demon body, along with its incredibly solid Demon Bone, was split into two by the dark ax shadow.
Golden Demon Blood gushed like a breached torrent, instantly dyeing a large swath of sand sea below.
The boundless demonic power within had no chance to unleash a final counterattack; it was engulfed by the terrifying residual power of the Panwu Heaven Opening Axe, reducing itself and the surrounding space to nothing in an instant.
The Gravity Field that suppressed Jiang Shu suddenly shattered and dispersed.
The core cornerstone sustaining the combined attack mechanism of the Four Evils, was utterly smashed in the most brutal manner by Jiang Shu’s desperate strike with all his cultivation.
The Earth Ant Demon Venerable, fallen!
The Earth Ant’s cleaved golden demon body crashed heavily into the sand sea, raising a storm of blood-tinged sand.
Its death arrived too swiftly, so swiftly that the Ice Chi’s ice spear had just regained speed, the Golden Roc’s feathers were still trembling, and the poison fire column shot from the Fire Flood Dragon was less than three feet from Jiang Shu’s face.
Yet, with the core array hub broken, the combined strike momentum also collapsed.
However, Jiang Shu felt no relief in heart. The moment he slayed the Earth Ant, a floating sensation surged within him like a tidal wave.
This time, wielding the Panwu Heaven Opening Axe to its extremity, the backlash was even fiercer than forcefully solidifying space with the Shui Huan Gloves.
His Daoist Embryo stung in pain, and there was a temporary stagnation in his Spiritual Power flow.
Worse still, he could distinctly feel beneath the gray-white sand, detected by the World Tree Seedling, the core of a cross-border anchor point that had resonated with the will of the Desolate Sand Sea as the Golden Horn Demon Antelope fell, suddenly lighting up!
A familiar yet terrifying heat and ferocious will to incinerate all things, like imminent erupting volcanic magma, was swelling rapidly, breaking through the void towards him!
Indeed, this familiar aura was that of the Heaven-Burning Ancestor.
The same Heaven-Burning Ancestor who once chased him across the heavens and earth, leaving him nowhere to escape.
A top-tier master of the Demon Venerable Late Stage!
He was about to descend any moment!
Chapter 1215: 648: Breaking Through the Encirclement! A Life-and-Death Escape! (Part 2)
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