Chapter 1239: 660: Free-for-All! Kunpeng! (Part 2)

The next moment, the folded space abruptly closed. Bam!

Like a muffled thunder exploding inside a sack, the intense shockwave was forcibly locked within the twisted internal space and emitted a deep boom, which was then quickly crushed and devoured by endless space turbulence.

The mighty body of the Melted Crystal Lizard Demon, along with the explosive power of the Melted Crystal Core, was compressed and ground until it finally disappeared into nothingness.

Only a few strands of twisted air ripples swayed briefly at the spot, then completely calmed.

The entire process was as swift as lightning; from when Jiang Shu appeared at the nest entrance and was attacked, deployed the Space Domain, instantly slew the Poison Scorpion Demon Venerable, to using space folding techniques to "store" the self-detonation of the Melted Crystal Lizard Demon, all within less than a quarter-hour!

Among the same realm, Jiang Shu was the pinnacle of combat power.

"These two guys seem a bit off."

Jiang Shu silently thought to himself.

These two demons, though in the Demon Venerable Realm, their mastery of space control and their own accumulation, even in the Demon Monarch Realm, would barely qualify as experts. How can they attain the position of Demon Venerable?

Or perhaps, the Demon Race has some unconventional means.

To forcibly elevate some Demon Monarchs’ realm?

The top of Blood Evil Rock fell into dead silence.

Below, the Human Clan squad seized the time gap created by Jiang Shu’s instant clearance of top threats.

The Demon Soldiers defending under the rock pillars, having lost their command and the pressure of high-level power, quickly collapsed under the fearless assault of Tie Shan, Lei Yan, and others, forcibly tearing open the eastern encirclement’s barrier.

"The gap is open!"

Lei Yan, engulfed in purple lightning, severed the last resisting Demon Monarch’s head and roared in the distance.

"All forces press forward!"

"Cut through the Sand Sea!"

Hong Yue’s booming command, resonating throughout the battlefield, exploded over the Desolate Sand Sea like rolling thunder!

The Human Clan’s main army, long held back in the distance, suddenly surged like a dam bursting, unleashing a flood of tens of thousands of radiant streaks—a steel torrent driven by a tumultuous war cry, fiercely pouring into the core defense zone of the Desolate Sand Sea via the breach in Blood Evil Rock ripped open by the squad.

The torrent of iron and fire, blood and light, instantly washed a massive blood-colored wave over the Sand Sea.

A larger storm was just beginning.

However, Jiang Shu did not partake in this sweeping torrent assault.

His Divine Sense, like an invisible deep sea, cautiously explored the position of the array hub core.

His perception was extraordinarily keen, immediately sensing an extremely subtle yet primordial vast aura, like a great beast awakening in the deep sea, firmly entrenched around the array hub core.

This aura was unlike the violent nature of the Heaven-Burning Ancestor, nor the fierce coordination of the Four Fierce Array, but a condensed, supremely refined space power, as if the region’s space had been completely mastered, transformed into an independent void ocean.

At the edge of this "ocean," lay three relatively weaker yet undeniable auras, like a shark group in the deep sea guarding a king.

"There’s a master."

Jiang Shu’s voice was deep and calm, clearly reaching Lie Yang Daoist Venerable’s ears over the True Yuan surging battlefield.

Lie Yang was a Daoist Venerable companion on this mission, from Dao Yi Sect, famous for his pure and violent Taiyang True Fire.

Upon hearing, Lie Yang Daoist Venerable’s expression tightened, his Divine Thought swept over and also caught the oppressive force like the pulse of space itself.

"Very tricky, at least the Middle Stage Peak, perhaps nearing the Late Stage threshold."

"Seems like the Kunpeng Clan; this pure Void Dao Rhyme is unique."

"Given the situation, we can’t retreat. Kill!"

Jiang Shu’s eyes flashed with cold light as he spoke,

"The Kunpeng Demon Venerable’s power is unmatched among other Demon Venerables. Even if I enter, I may only manage to engage in combat. I’ll need you, Daoist Venerable, to request reinforcements, and then we’ll proceed together; I’ll deal with the Kunpeng, and you stall the remaining three Demon Venerable."

Lie Yang Daoist Venerable’s realm surpassed those three Demon Venerable slightly, even if unable to kill them, he could hold them off.

"Indeed!"

Lie Yang Daoist Venerable’s body was surrounded by blazing Divine Flame, like another small sun rising.

"I’ll tear open the guards, you seize the chance to neutralize the array hub!"

Boom!

Without hesitation, the two transformed into space-severing streaks, one ink-green as a dragon, the other blazing white like the sun, instantly traversing over ten miles, pouncing directly at the area engulfed by invisible space force.

Their speed was extreme, the raging air currents along the way surged open the crowds of battling Demon Soldiers and Human Clans.

On the ground, a gigantic fissure encircled by blood-colored runes, resembling a beast’s open throat, exuded filth and dead silence, mixed with the aura left by forcibly extracted vast spirituality.

At the depths of the fissure lay the core of the Ten Thousand Spirits Casting Venerable Array.

Just as Jiang Shu and Lie Yang Daoist Venerable’s figures were about to rush into the fissure.

Buzz!

An indescribable pulse exploded from the fissure depths like a detonation!

Jiang Shu felt the void ahead suddenly transform into a deep sea quagmire, sticky and sluggish, with countless invisible space folds, like resilient threads, layer upon layer entangling, firmly pulling his rapidly advancing figure.

His prideful Space Shifting faced unprecedented suppression, akin to a rule binding in this area!

Almost simultaneously, the blazing Taiyang radiance beside him abruptly dimmed.

"Hah!"

Lie Yang Daoist Venerable’s roar echoed.

Jiang Shu’s gaze swiftly shifted, only to see a figure suddenly appearing in front of Lie Yang Daoist Venerable, as if he belonged there, revealed only when the space "flowed" to this point.

The newcomer was tall, wearing a deep blue robe as deep as the night, adorned with the dark luminous flow of stars extinguishing.

His appearance seemed young, yet carried the cold solitude of glaciers over million years, his eyes were the purest silver-white, seemingly devoid of emotion, containing only coldness and control.

He raised his hand, fingers splayed, and gently pressed towards the rampaging direction of Lie Yang Daoist Venerable.

No earth-shattering sound, only the unbearable groan of space itself.

The Taiyang True Fire engulfing Lie Yang Daoist Venerable, capable of scorching mountains and boiling seas, silently collapsed before him, as if an invisible force pressed it into an unseen funnel.

The fire expertly compressed, its color instantly turning from blazing white to dangerous dark gold, its power seemingly condensed to the extreme, unable to erupt, instead continually weakening amidst the collapse, as if devoured by the void in the palm of the mysterious blue figure!

Jiang Shu’s heart tightened, his brow slightly furrowed.

Devouring Dao?

No, this seemed a more intrinsic space annihilation.

"Xuan Ming!"

Lie Yang Daoist Venerable’s expression greatly changed, squeezing out the two words from his teeth, his voice filled with disbelief and grave astonishment.

Evidently, he recognized the formidable presence before him.

The powerful figure from the Kunpeng Clan referred to as "Xuan Ming" showed no emotion, his silver-white eyes indifferently sweeping past Jiang Shu bound by space folds, landing back on the strenuously resisting Lie Yang Daoist Venerable.

"Dao Yi Sect’s Daoist Venerable is still lacking in skill."

The icy voice sounded like space friction, as his palm vaguely pushed again.

"Ah!"

Lie Yang Daoist Venerable, as if struck by thunder, groaned heavily, as if hit by an invisible giant hammer, the dark gold flame compressed to the limit around him could no longer maintain stability and collapsed violently.

The collapsing flame not only failed to form a counterattack, but reversed back to Lie Yang Daoist Venerable under an invisible power, slammed him like a cannonball fiercely towards the ground.

Boom!

The earth trembled, Lie Yang Daoist Venerable was slammed into the yellow sand depths, forming a gigantic charred pit, the pit walls even showing a crystalline glaze-like form, smoke and dust surged skyward.

Although he immediately struggled to stand up from the pit, his red robe shattered, blood oozed from the corner of his mouth, his aura noticeably dropped a notch, clearly significantly injured.

Just two strikes, a magnificent Human Clan Daoist Venerable, was directly overwhelmed by Xuan Ming with no chance for retaliation!

Simultaneously as Xuan Ming repelled Lie Yang Daoist Venerable with thunderous methods, three streaks of light, like sea serpents long lurking on the side, shot abruptly from the giant fissure’s edge, directly pouncing at Jiang Shu.