Every teleportation exacerbated his already weak body, and the wounds on his back burned like fire, each surge of blood bringing out fine fragments of golden sparks. The burning wings tore through the long sky, charring a series of blackened ravines beneath the continuous mountain range.
Jiang Shu’s form flickered between jagged rocks and withered trees, each teleportation bringing forth faint space ripples, his speed significantly slower than during his peak.
Sweat mixed with blood trickled from the corner of his forehead, seeping into the gaping wound on his back.
The Geng Metal Annihilation Power left behind by the Golden Roc’s last counterattack clung to him persistently, continuously destroying his meridians and further disturbing his already depleted blood and energy.
His face was as pale as paper, and every forced activation of the space power felt like a soul extraction, even causing double vision at the edge of his sight.
The small world rooted in chaos within him was spinning madly.
If it weren’t for the World Tree Seedling he obtained in the Star Ruins Realm.
With his newly established small world, he might have completely collapsed under such pursuit.
"Ugh..."
Jiang Shu let out a low moan.
The clear radiance emitted by the World Tree Seedling attempted to calm the two wildly violent forces ravaging inside his body.
The scorching blood poison from the Heaven-Burning, and the sharp annihilation left by the Golden Roc, but even with Taichu, Desolate, Creation, and Devouring Four Great Daos constantly running, the recovery speed still lagged far behind the damage under the stress and escape.
After an unknown period, the landscape ahead suddenly flattened, leaving only a vast, cracked red desert.
A clear view also meant no more complex terrain to utilize.
The ice-cold derision finally flashed through Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s fiery golden vertical pupils amidst the brutality.
He clearly saw the swaying figure in the cyan robe ahead and caught the sluggish and chaotic space shifting.
"Jiang Shu!"
Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s roar rolled over the desert like heavenly thunder, filled with undisguised cruel joy.
"Your road ends here!"
"Bone shard and divine soul, will all burn out here!"
No probing, nor any cat-and-mouse teasing.
His wings suddenly folded, his enormous magma body momentarily suspended a thousand feet in the air, dark red magma flowing within the gaps between his scale armor abruptly converged into a giant claw covered in thick red scales with magma patterns!
Buzz!
The giant claw remotely locked onto the staggering shadow below.
Within the palm, a pinpoint of extreme scarlet light popped into existence.
The red dot was less like a flame and more like a star core forcibly compressed to its limit—upon its appearance, space within several hundred feet twisted and collapsed inward, light devoured, leaving an absolute zone of darkness, instilling fear.
A destruction aura capable of reducing an ordinary Demon Venerable to ashes instantly, more refined than any previous attacks, nailed firmly on Jiang Shu.
This was Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s culmination of a lifetime’s grasp of the Fire Dao, a deadly intent to erase Jiang Shu’s existence from its roots in one blow!
Jiang Shu abruptly halted, unprecedented deadly chill froze the marrow.
He didn’t even have time to turn around, forced to pour all remaining forces, despite soul-tearing pain, onto his back, where layers of space folds instantly stacked up like pages forcibly torn from a space barrier book.
The World Tree Seedling’s radiance transformed into a resilient jade thin film covering his body.
In the end, the origin of the Devouring Dao within him was exhaustingly compressed, accompanying the Protective Dao to form a faintly rotating gray whirlpool ahead as the final guard.
This was his last frail barrier.
"Indeed, the gap is still too vast."
"Demon Venerable Late Stage, and Demon Venerable Middle Stage, are entirely different realms."
"Not to mention... this Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s bloodline, even among the Demon Race, belongs to the top tier."
"The most crucial of all, is his newly entered Chaos Hole Realm comprehension of the Space Dao, has not yet reached the supreme level; otherwise, surely could escape to the Human Clan’s camp."
Jiang Shu hesitated no longer, reaching the end of his tether, forced into a Two Realms Shuttle.
Yet as he witnessed the scarlet light within Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s giant claw in the void, enough to pierce stars, incinerate soul, about to solidify entirely, poised to erupt onto him with sparking intensity, a sudden change burst forth!
An extremely familiar aura to him suddenly broke through endless space, forcibly descending.
This is...
Thump!
An indescribably enormous dark golden palm shadow, without warning, consolidated at the vast sky.
The knuckles of this palm shadow protruded robustly like mountain peaks, the palm lines seemed to autonomously manifest and map out the divine patterns of the Great Dao laws, flowing with the supreme true intent of suppressing the Eight Desolations and carrying the Earth Vein.
The giant palm appeared like the projection of some mighty will blending with Three Thousand Great Daos, its solidity akin to pure gold casting, so dense that the entire sky skewed.
Upon the palm shadow’s appearance, time seemed abruptly grasped tightly by an invisible hand.
Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s claw palm destructive scarlet light abruptly frozen by this overwhelming descent from the skies!
Meanwhile, another attack followed closely.
Buzz!
A square and stark Great Seal broke through the void, appearing below the dark golden giant palm.
This Great Seal was entirely black, unknown divine material forged, marked with antiqued and mottled engravings flowing with mountain-like heavy earth yellow glow, exuding grand and immovable majesty.
The base relief depicted a mysteriously complex scroll, rolling mountains and galloping earth veins, the Daoist rules across the land circulating within, perpetually alive.
True Martial Earth-Sealing Seal!
This Great Seal appeared, expanding to a hundred feet expanse, carrying with it earth-crushing might, disregarding space barrier, like a star falling from primordial era, bearing down upon Heaven-Burning Ancestor hovering a thousand feet high.
Before the Great Seal reached, the vast, unstoppable suppressing force had already spread, causing the cracked red desert below to silently sink dozens of feet into a giant bowl-shaped pit!
"Old Taiwu!"
Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s roar of rage and shock exploded, fiery red hair stood on end, an enormous head thrown back to glare at that looming black seal overhead.
The supreme will and Great Dao laws within the palm impression and Great Seal, he knew all too well, it’s none other than that old fellow from True Martial Sect!
Just before the seal was about to hit, the madness in Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s eyes skyrocketed.
The dark golden palm’s suppression was strong, intending mainly to obstruct his fatal strike’s complete consolidation, the instant formed absolute suppression hadn’t reached its peak.
While the Earth-Sealing Seal was powerful, the landing point targeted himself, the suppression area was extensive, not precisely covering the entire battlefield.
In a critical moment!
Heaven-Burning Ancestor made the most decisive choice in an instant.
He didn’t immediately resist the Earth-Sealing Seal but instead, during the fleeting obstruction by the giant palm, recklessly sent the incompletely formed destruction light pillar towards Jiang Shu below.
"Taiwu, a mere avatar, you cannot protect him!"
A meticulously refined scarlet light pillar, like a burning drill, bravely pierced through the momentary delay caused by the dark golden palm’s pressure, also penetrating the layered space folds, carrying ultimate destructive power from the Fire Dao, fiercely nailed onto the hastily formed Devouring Whirlpool.
Puff Puff!
The space folds shattered like fragile glass, the Devouring Whirlpool halted abruptly, began to tremble, then forcibly ripped apart by the scarlet light pillar.
The remaining force of the light pillar, with soul-freezing heat, slammed onto the World Tree’s green radiance film.
Jiang Shu shuddered violently, he abandoned the Two Realms Shuttle, choosing to endure the impact.
Blood sprayed wildly again.
The protective World Tree’s radiance fluctuated immensely, the light visibly dimmed, his back robes instantly turned to ashes, exposing the charred wound beneath, even the bones showing scorching marks.
The massive impact hurled him fiercely towards the sinking desert crater, crashing down like a meteor.
Chapter 1227: 654: Supreme Sect Leader! The Descent of the Avatar! (Part 2)
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