Chapter 1234: 658: Don’t Jeopardize the Emperor Palace’s Eternal Foundation! Transforming Into a Sacrificial Offering!

The few high-ranked great demons standing in the shadows within the hall dared not even breathe, the intangible pressure causing their demon bones to creak."Useless!"

Dragon Venerable’s voice was like the low screech of ages-old ice grinding together, each word carrying an anger that threatened to freeze souls and delivering a substantive spirit shock directly onto the Heaven-Burning Ancestor below.

"Heaven-Burning, despite cultivating for ten thousand years to reach the late stage of Demon Venerable, you can’t even handle a mere newly ascended Daoist Venerable. Repeatedly escaping from your grasp and even injuring the array hub!"

"Useless!"

Dragon Venerable’s voice was terrifyingly low, each word like a meteoric impact wrapped in icy fragments.

"And those four useless ones, four demon venerables unable to stop a novice in the Mixed Cave Realm."

"And at Thousand Streams Creek, you personally attended, yet allowed the Human Clan to defeat and destroy the array within my Demon Race’s core territory."

"Taiwu Daoist Venerable, that’s nothing but an avatar... Why do you fear him!"

Dragon Venerable’s claws, covered in dark gold scales, slowly lifted from the armrest of the throne, below was the sound of black jade powder cascading.

"Ten thousand years of cultivation, only to become a joke?"

Dragon Venerable trembled with anger, his voice tinged with a bit of quivering.

He has lived a long time, seen many things, long trained his mindset to remain unflustered even before collapsing mountains.

But the actions of the Four Fierce Array and Heaven-Burning Ancestor were simply too outrageously defiant, each move by Heaven-Burning Ancestor proving his foolishness, Dragon Venerable could hardly bear it, wishing to kill Heaven-Burning Ancestor directly.

Standing below the steps, Heaven-Burning Ancestor let out a muffled groan.

Upon the red scale armor at his shoulder blade, a square indentation deeply visible to the bone slowly oozed viscous golden red lava.

It’s a wound left by enduring the True Martial Earth-Sealing Seal, the earth’s will within continues to erode the flesh, every pulsation pulling at the surrounding Daoist rules, the pain causing his lava-like eyes to twitch.

His throat rolled with a scorching low growl forcibly pressed down, only stiffening his back to say deeply:

"It was my failure, but Jiang Taixuan possesses the Space Folding Divine Technique, along with several mighty Daoist rules like Taichu, Desolate, Creation to guard his body, finally that True Martial Seal came too viciously, hard-locking seventy percent of my demonic power..."

Heaven-Burning Ancestor’s voice grew quieter as he spoke.

He had never thought that a mere new Daoist Venerable would have so many methods.

This was not a matter of his lack of skill.

Even any Daoist Venerable at the middle stage of the Mixed Cave Realm would have been turned to dust by him long ago.

It’s truly that this Jiang Shu has completely surpassed everyone’s understanding!

"Enough!"

Dragon Venerable’s roar carried a substantial sonic impact, crashing against the columns making them hum.

Thick black aura around the throne instantly boiled, coalescing into several ferocious phantom dragons coiling and roaring.

"Negligence?!"

"Two array hub spiritual roots shaken, the Four Fierce Array even died by your hands!"

"You think one sentence ’this child possesses divine techniques’ can dismiss this?"

A pin drop could be heard in the hall.

Demon Monarchs standing in the shadows dared not let their demonic power flow, fearing their souls would be crushed by the accumulated Dragon Might.

From on high, Phoenix Venerable’s frigid voice pierced the solidified oppressive atmosphere.

"Heaven-Burning is inept, yet all blame does not rest upon him."

Sitting on a vice throne carved of red crystal phoenix bone, a wisp of pale separation fire danced relentlessly at her fingertips, reflecting her golden eyes without ripple.

"What truly deserves vigilance is the speed at which that youth from the Human Clan has mastered the Dao."

"From Daoist Monarch to Mixed Cave in under three years, the battle at the Sand Sea array hub, using cultivation in the nascent Mixed Cave Realm to break through the Four Fierce Array’s block, and even suppress earth ant, this combat power was far beyond us in our youth."

"Each of you might consider, if in the same realm encountering him, what that scene would be like."

"He’s destined to grow to our level."

"His fortune might be greater than we imagined."

The silent Kunpeng Demon Venerable’s form concealed within a warped indigo vortex, only a low and distant voice echoed forth like the reverberation from depths of the ocean abyss.

"Phoenix Venerable implies this Jiang Shu conceals secrets beyond ’Breaking Realm’ itself?"

"Or could it be that his fortune itself relates to Daoist Master?"

"Only thus can it explain why he could ascend so many realms in such a short time. His cultivation time cannot be so little."

"Indeed."

Phoenix Venerable’s fingertip separation fire suddenly crushed, scattering into starlight.

"I’ve always suspected he harbors secrets, or how else could he simultaneously master so many supreme Daos and still maintain such rapid cultivation speed?"

"Knowing he’s already matured, using conventional methods to suppress is a lesser strategy; either lay bare the Emperor Palace’s foundation to thunderously strike, betting Human Clan’s other Daoist Venerables are a step slower to intervene, or..."

He raised his eyelid, red pupils sweeping across the venue.

"Preemptively ignite the Ten Thousand Spirits Casting Venerable core and test it."

"Ignite the core?!"

In a corner, an ancient Turtle Venerable covered in dark green moss lowly growled, its decaying shell trembling.

"The great array hasn’t completed yet, fractures stirred by Jiang Shu even cracked a few array hubs, numerous passages to devour spiritual nature are damaged."

"Forcibly activating the array now, the enhancement is truly limited."

"You must know, according to our layout, the Ten Thousand Spirits Immortal Formation will continually absorb the Demon Race’s fortune, not just Demon Venerable, even entities comparable to Demon Lord could emerge in the future."

"Now urging the array is losing the substance for a shadow."

These words incited a buzzing of divine thoughts among the demon venerables.

Forcibly activating an incomplete Ten Thousand Spirits Immortal Formation carries too much risk.