Chapter 1243: 662: The Demon Race’s Scheme, Changes in the Great Array (Part 2)

His gaze was fixed on Xuan Ming, as if he wanted to take in everything about Xuan Ming. The fist light in his hand, blazing like the sun.

One punch with Qi Swallowing Vientiane, carrying the power of the Power Dao, struck horizontally down.

It seemed as if the entire world would be blown apart by this punch.

"Hmm..."

In the void above, Xuan Ming, who initially thought that capturing and killing Jiang Shu this time was a sure thing, was momentarily stunned.

Before he could react, two Daoist Venerables rushed over, the true main support from True Martial Sect and Dan Fu Sect.

Even he could not gain the slightest advantage when they joined forces.

Adding to that was the mysterious Jiang Shu with fist light blazing enough to rival the power of a Demon Venerable at the middle stage.

A trace of retreat appeared in Xuan Ming’s deep eyes.

This place can no longer be stayed at!

Once Xuan Ming made up his mind, he decisively turned his body illusory, intending to blend into the surrounding space folds twisted by his power, using the highest level Sky Escape Technique to flee.

He even did not forget to extend his claw to the Venomous Sand Scorpion Demon Venerable suppressed by his domain below, wanting to take a capable subordinate with him.

"Want to leave?"

A voice cold to the extreme, like a tangible sonic cone, pierced through the chaotic energy turbulence, stabbing into Xuan Ming’s perception.

Just as Xuan Ming was distracted guiding the Venomous Sand Scorpion Demon Venerable, in the instant the space ripple just spread out.

Jiang Shu took a step out, amidst the booming fist light.

A light difficult to describe exploded instantly in the depths of his eyes!

The Qi Swallowing Vientiane Fist was meant to cover up his grand technique!

Silently and without a trace, a completely transparent, light-distorting, and space-bending slight fluctuation, like an invisible blade cutting through water, ignored all the chaotic energy fields and space folds between the two, shooting precisely at Xuan Ming’s forehead.

Xuan Ming felt a fright at the moment Jiang Shu’s pupil light appeared.

Having cultivated the Space Dao, he was most sensitive to space fluctuations, and he could sense the terrifying lethality of this pupil light.

No way to avoid it!

"Boom!"

It was as if his mind was heavily struck.

Along with it, the Demon Venerable’s origin world was also shaking.

He saw his already half-illusory figure violently tremble, the forehead light flashed intensely, and an almost invisible thin crack instantly spread, then was forcibly suppressed by his strong cultivation.

Yet the trace of crystalline blood and fragmented divine soul fragments scattered around the crack was unmistakably clear.

Everything around seemed to be shaking slightly.

It should be noted that for battles between Daoist Venerable and Demon Venerable, even a slight distraction can lead to a real calamity!

The power of the Void Soul Splitting Void Pupil Light not only lies in tearing the divine soul itself but also instantly disrupts Xuan Ming’s absolute control of space.

His Sky Escape Technique directly failed, with half of his body merged into the space fold being forcibly "shaken" out, staggering back several steps, each step leaving spiderweb-like cracks in the void.

"Go!"

Without any hesitation.

Although this strike did not affect him significantly.

The divine soul could slowly recover, and in a sense, this was only a slight injury.

But if he holds onto such an injury and fights against three Daoist Venerables.

Even he would face the risk of falling!

Cannot gamble!

Anyway, this time, his task was already completed.

As for Jiang Shu... just leave it to that guy Fen Tian to handle.

Being part of the Kunpeng Clan, he knows what kind of monster Fen Tian has become now.

His cold, frenzied gaze swept over Jiang Shu, with a more dazzling silver brilliance erupting from his body than when he was urging the black hole.

At the cost of burning part of his origin blood, he forcibly stabilized the chaotic space, with hundreds of Great Dao lock chains behind him flashing continuously, and with one hand sharply slashed towards the void!

"Sizzling!"

A huge space fissure, deeper than any previous space crack and flashing with ominous black-silver light, was forcibly torn open by him!

The other end of the fissure was an unsettling unknown turbulence.

At the moment the fissure formed, with another claw, he viciously grabbed the Venomous Sand Scorpion Demon Venerable he nearly guided over, completely ignoring the terrified eyes and pleas of the Sand Scorpion Demon Venerable, he brutally pulled it over, using it as a thick meat shield!

He was even not stingy to inject a strand of violent mana into the Sand Scorpion Demon Venerable’s body, causing its demon essence within to instantly become out of control and expand.

"My lord..."

The Venomous Sand Scorpion Demon Venerable only managed to let out half a terrified scream before being hurled like a giant sandbag towards Jiang Shu, who was intending to pursue.

Jiang Shu’s figure flickered slightly, avoiding the incoming Sand Scorpion Demon Venerable, or rather a Dao Rhyme bomb about to explode, his hand’s fist seal mercilessly blasted out, hitting it in mid-air and causing it to explode.

A violent explosion sounded, with the shockwave that radiated further obstructing Jiang Shu’s pursuit.

In less than a breath’s time of delay, Xuan Ming’s entire figure had already turned into an imperceptible silver line, bringing with it hard-to-soothed space ripple fluctuations, plunging into that deep space fissure.

The fissure closed like a beast’s mouth in an instant, leaving only a cold breath of powerful space cutting and a faint trace of a bloody smell.

"So decisive indeed."

Jiang Shu snorted coldly, the Shui Huan Gloves flashing, gripping full force towards that lingering space ripple.

A muffled thunderous sound came from the void, the space structure of that area forcibly twisted and destroyed, as if tearing apart a tattered piece of drawing paper.

However, ultimately a step too slow, Xuan Ming’s escape technique combined with the resoluteness of self-damaging the essence blood allowed him to successfully escape into the deeper chaotic turbulence, completely losing his trace.

Only faintly sensing the direction of his escape, it was towards the heart of the Demon Domain.

Jiang Shu hovered in mid-air, feeling the residual mixed wave of space annihilation force and bloody soul energy at Xuan Ming’s last disappearance, with eyes as cold as ice.

This fellow’s divine soul was severely injured, but with the Kunpeng Clan’s foundation.

It won’t take long for him to recover.

When he returns, this Kunpeng Demon Venerable will definitely not make a simple move like today.

However, the most important thing right now isn’t the Kunpeng Demon Venerable who fled.

Jiang Shu immediately cast his divine sense at the huge fissure that should have been the array hub core.

Instantly appearing at the core area of the fierce battle just now.

The array hub fissure once guarded by Xuan Ming and several Demon Venerables still existed, emitting eerie chills and strange space fluctuations that seemed capable of capturing souls, with complex runes around intermittently appearing, seemingly still operating.

However, when Jiang Shu’s powerful divine sense was unreservedly probed into it, trying to find and destroy the origin core of the array hub.

He found that the probe of divine sense was like a stone sinking into the sea, the interior of the seemingly deep fissure was actually emptiness!

The array hub of the Ten Thousand Spirits Casting Venerable Array is not fixed, it could be a piece of jade, and might be a non-physical gas, but they all exude a hideous malice.

Yet at this moment in front of Jiang Shu, except for a mess, there’s nothing else.

Only after his divine sense carefully swept over each energy node and space fold around the fissure did he slowly discover a clue.

The edge of the fissure carried extremely subtle traces of space shifting Daoist rules, powerful and ancient, with the unique attribute of penetrative layered space of the Kunpeng.

These traces were still new, absolutely made not long ago.

In other words, completed during the time he and Xuan Ming were fully engaging, unable to distract and thoroughly probe this place.

"Utilizing the cover of night to move the grain, the Demon Race’s layout, as expected, isn’t this simple."

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Shu speculated the objective of the Demon Race.

The array hub at the Desolate Sand Sea, once an important node of the Ten Thousand Spirits Casting Venerable Array, had been destroyed by him before.

Although its body wasn’t severely damaged, it became exposed before the Human Clan.

The Demon Race should’ve anticipated long ago that after capturing the Ten Thousand Streams Creek, the next step for the Human Clan would likely be to completely remove the huge thorn on the Desolate Sand Sea front line.

Therefore, at this array hub revival point, they preemptively made arrangements.

Xuan Ming was stationed personally, not just to guard this place.

But also responsible for, in times of crisis, quietly using his space divine power to transfer the true array hub core ahead of time.

Leaving merely a simulating operation, consuming the remaining energy to maintain an appearance, a shell to mislead the Human Clan!