Chapter 1228: 655: Late Stage Battle! The Power of the Avatar!

"Boom!"The whole world was shaking.

All life within a thousand miles turned to ashes in this battle.

Neither the Supreme Sect Leader nor Jiang Shu had anticipated it.

The Heaven-Burning Ancestor acted so decisively!

Despite suffering severe injuries from the Supreme Sect Leader of True Martial Sect and paying the price of half a life, he was determined to unleash a fatal strike, completely suppress and kill Jiang Shu!

No one would expect a mighty Demon Venerable at the Late Stage, even with potential to reach the Peak, to make such a choice.

Just to kill a newly advanced Daoist Venerable of the Chaos Hole Realm.

Simply inconceivable.

It’s known that as one progresses in Chaos Hole Realm or Demon Venerable Realm, cultivation becomes increasingly difficult.

As one’s self-created world becomes more stable and improved, it requires vast resources to support the advancement.

Even those with unmatched talent face slow progress at these stages.

Anyone who advances to Chaos Hole Realm Daoist Venerable or Demon Venerable of Demon Race was invincible in their youth.

But reaching this stage often takes hundreds or even thousands of years for a single step forward.

Although Jiang Shu is now in the Early Stage of Chaos Hole Realm, some Daoist Venerables or Demon Venerables believe that he requires considerable time to reach the Late Stage.

Exchanging half a life of a Late Stage Demon Venerable for Jiang Shu’s life.

From a certain perspective, it’s entirely unworthy.

Yet, the Heaven-Burning Ancestor did it.

This suggests that within the Demon Race, Jiang Shu poses a strategic threat perhaps greater than some Late Stage Daoist Venerables of the Chaos Hole Realm!

"Boom!"

The battle between Daoist Venerable and Demon Venerable level occurs only within a fraction of a second.

No time for any contemplative thinking.

As the crimson beam was about to shatter the green membrane and invade Jiang Shu’s vital organs, destroying his Dao Foundation.

The hundred-zhang True Martial Earth-Sealing Seal descended like a mountain, crashing solidly into the Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s enormous arms covered with Molten Rock Scale Armor, crossed defensively above his head.

Unimaginable sound of metal clashing resounded through the universe. At the collision’s center, exploded a phenomenally visible circle of profound yellow shockwaves, accompanied by landslides and earth-shattering booms, swiftly swept through the desolate plains.

Clouds in the sky were shredded apart, the shattered earth brittle and crumbling. Layers overturned and exploded, forming a terrifying basin ten times larger than before, spanning a thousand miles. Space was pounded by an extreme force, hammering out a circle of intricately black ripples.

"Do you truly think this can stop me?!"

The Heaven-Burning Ancestor let out an ear-piercing roar combined with pain and fury.

His enormous molten rock body seemed struck by an invisible giant hammer, forcibly pressed down hundreds of zhang.

The protective divine flame flickered wildly, the red scales on his right arm cracking inch by inch, like charred rock peeling, revealing beneath a molten lava with a slightly dim earthy hue, terrifying muscles.

A drop of scorching gold-red blood trickled down from the corner of his mouth.

Resisting most of the True Martial Earth-Sealing Seal’s power to seize a fleeting chance to kill Jiang Shu.

The price was enduring an earth-crushing blow, nearly cracking his arm bones, shaking internal organs.

Below the pit bottom, dust and rubble filled the air.

Jiang Shu was drenched in blood, kneeling with one knee, gasping heavily, his green robe tattered like bloody cloth, while the world tree seedling’s radiance slowly mended the terrifying scorched wound on his back. The desolation and Taichu power within are difficultly eradicated and expelled under the joined forces of the radiant Creation Dao.

Though his current appearance looked miserable, there was more than a fleeting pain in his slightly drooping eyes, an icy calm of surviving after catastrophe.

He knew the World Tree Origin had shielded him from the core erosion of Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s perilous fatal ray.

The burn marks on his flesh looked frightening, but hadn’t fundamentally harmed his Daoist Body, only needing an introspective healing period, to restore his excessively depleted vital energy and divine soul. With his Mixed Cave Space and World Tree heritage, these flesh and muscle injuries could soon heal.

The focus now, is he’s saved.

No need as previously thought, for Two Realms Shuttle.

"Bullying a junior, is this the prowess of the Demon Race?’’

A calm and deep voice with supreme authority echoed in the heavens, each word clear and resonant like mighty bells, instantly quelling the space turbulence after rampant energy clashes, even calming the swirling dust.

A figure silently appeared on the edge of the enormous pit, standing between the bottom of the pit with Jiang Shu and the enraged Heaven-Burning Ancestor.

The person was not tall, wearing a white robe embroidered with golden threads portraying sun, moon, mountains, and rivers, yet standing before Jiang Shu like an Ancient Divine Mountain.

The Supreme Sect Leader of True Martial Sect, Taiwu Daoist Venerable!

There he stood, with breath unmanifested, but the terrifying pressure emitted by Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s massive tyrannical demon body seemed to collide against an invisible, intangible yet indestructible barrier, unable to penetrate further.

Centered on him, the scarred, ravine-ridden red desert seemed to gain an additional tranquility and stability.

The Heaven-Burning Ancestor hovered mid-air, his burning wings stirring a hot gale, eyes flickering with angry golden flames, hatred almost materializing and erupting.

Looking at the seemingly ordinary figure in gray robe at the pit’s edge, then glancing at the bottom where Jiang Shu’s chaotic breath but intact Dao Foundation was quickly recovering, the gigantic head subtly twitched.