235: Slaying the Ancient Clan's Divine Son

"Your path ends here." Lin Yuan's voice sounded like a death sentence.

The chaos wings behind him flapped violently! [Void Shuttle] activated! His figure vanished instantly, reappearing like a ghost inches away from Ice Without Absolute! Raising his right arm, he pointed his fingers like a sword. A speck of Chaos Heart Light at his fingertip was compressed to the extreme, its edges entwined with wisps of gui xu runes. He tapped lightly toward the core Ice Soul Rune at the center of Ice Without Absolute's brow!

"Chaos Return to Ruin Finger!"

This finger's speed surpassed the concept of time that had been slowed by the freezing ice!

Ice Without Absolute only felt a great terror that ended all things and annihilated everything instantly lock onto his Soul Origin! He wanted to retreat, to detonate all the ice crystal runes, to summon the projection of his clan's Sacred Artifact... but there was no time for any of those thoughts to even arise!

Puff!

The fingertip lightly touched the Ice Soul Rune on his brow.

Time seemed to freeze for a moment.

Crack... Crack-crack... A crisp shattering sound, like a frozen river thawing, spread from the core, most brilliant Ice Soul Rune on Ice Without Absolute's brow! Cracks instantly covered all twelve runes across his body!

"Argh—!"

Ice Without Absolute let out a shrill, inhuman scream. His entire body, like an ice sculpture struck by a heavy hammer, exploded! He turned into a sky full of shimmering blue ice crystal powder, drifting down. Not even a shred of his remnant Soul remained! Only that Eternal Silence Ice Soul Spear, which was about to dissipate, let out a mournful chime before completely shattering into nothingness.

The current Saint of the Ice Soul Ancient Clan, fallen!

The Chaos Arena fell into a dead silence. All the spectating Prodigies, regardless of which combat zone they were in, seemed to feel that chill and trembling from the depths of their Souls. Lin Yuan had actually killed a peerless successor from an Ancient Clan with a single finger on the Divine Realm battlefield!

Upon the Star Stele, Lin Yuan's name erupted with a blazing golden light that pierced through the Chaos, instantly overshadowing all other flickering names, like the sole Dominator star in the Chaos void!

Space twisted again for transport. When Lin Yuan's figure solidified on the next battle stage, his opponent was already waiting.

The Saint of the War Demon Hall, Zhan Qiong!

He did not trigger heavenly phenomena like Ice Without Absolute. He simply stood there, clad in a set of hideous bone armor that covered his entire body and flowed with dark red blood-light. The eyes beneath his helmet were like two balls of burning Hell blood-flames. A pitch-black, ancient-looking Heaven-Painting Halberd, its edge constantly dripping thick dark-gold blood, was casually propped on the ground by him. The halberd's body was carved with countless pained and twisted faces of demon gods; their silent wails formed physical spiritual shockwaves that constantly washed over the surroundings.

Zhan Qiong's aura was heavy, profound, and restrained to the extreme. He was like a primordial volcano about to erupt, or a bottomless abyss blood-sea. The gaze he turned toward Lin Yuan held no anger or fear, only a Battle Intent so pure it was like he was sizing up a prey worth destroying with all his might!

"Very good." Zhan Qiong's voice was hoarse and low, like two pieces of divine metal rubbing together. "That waste Ice Without Absolute finally let you warm up. Now..." He slowly raised the blood-dripping demon halberd, pointing its tip directly at Lin Yuan. An Asura Battle Intent, powerful enough to make even a Hunyuan Realm Early Stage expert's Divine Soul sting and blood boil, erupted!

"Let this Saint see if you can block my 'Myriad Tribulations Asura Dao'!"

Before his voice finished, Zhan Qiong's figure suddenly blurred! It wasn't high-speed movement; rather, his entire being seemed to instantly merge into that blood-dripping Heaven-Painting Halberd! The demon halberd let out a Soul-shattering shriek, turning into a dark red blood-light that tore through the Chaos, shooting toward Lin Yuan!

Wherever the halberd's tip passed, space silently annihilated, leaving behind a pitch-black crack that wouldn't heal for a long time! Even more terrifyingly, the countless wailing demon god faces on the halberd's body seemed to come alive, detaching themselves and turning into billions of twisted, roaring blood-colored demonic shadows that instantly filled the entire ten-thousand-foot battle stage! These demonic shadows were not illusions; each one contained substantial killing intent and foul power that corroded the Divine Soul. They entangled, bit, and fused with each other, transforming in the blink of an eye into a boundless, churning, and roaring Asura Blood Sea!

The blood sea was foul-smelling and viscous, with waves reaching thousands of feet high. Every drop of blood was as heavy as a mountain, containing the terrifying power to bury gods and demons! Billions of demonic shadows drifted and roared in the blood sea, forming a tide of demonic sound capable of tearing apart a Myriad Dao Realm expert's Soul! Zhan Qiong's true body had vanished, completely merging into this 'Myriad Tribulations Blood Sea God-Burying Array' condensed from his own Asura Battle Intent and the resentment of ten thousand demons! The blood sea was him, and he was the blood sea! This strike pushed his own Dao and Law to the extreme, turning his body into an array to bury everything!

"Myriad Tribulations Blood Sea! Turning his body into an array! Zhan Qiong is going all out from the start!" A chorus of gasps rang out from the viewing area.

"The foulness and killing intent contained in this blood sea specifically counter the Divine Soul and Dao Heart. No matter how strong Lin Yuan's Great Dao of Life and Death is, it will be hard to block this pervasive erosion!"

Facing this Asura Blood Sea that sought to bury gods and destroy the Dao, the speck of glazed Chaos Heart Light in Lin Yuan's eyes flickered slightly, yet he remained unperturbed.

"Break."

Lin Yuan gave a low shout and pointed his fingers like a sword. At his fingertip, a point of destructive light—formed by the frantic entanglement and extreme compression of grayish-white and emerald green—ignored the violent energy turbulence and spatial distortion. He pointed it across the void toward the core of the Asura true body: an Asura Demon Heart that pulsed incessantly like a dark red crystal!

"Life and Death Inverse Chaos Finger!"

This finger contained the supreme true intent of reversing life and death and returning myriad tribulations to ruin. It was faster than the Asura's blade and crossed the barriers of time and space! It was not a physical attack, but the ultimate annihilation at the level of Law!

Puff!

The destructive point of light from his fingertip, like a drop of water falling into boiling oil, silently merged into that violently pulsing Asura Demon Heart!

Time seemed to freeze for a moment.

The ten-thousand-foot Asura true body, which was frantically slashing down with its blood blades, suddenly froze in mid-air! The three thousand arms that the blood sea hadn't finished condensing seemed bound by invisible chains, and the slashing motion came to a dead stop! On the three hideous, roaring faces, within the six burning blood-flame eyes, that destructive Battle Intent was like a doused fire, instantly replaced by an extreme shock, blankness, and... fear!

Crack... Crack-crack... Fine and crisp shattering sounds came from within the Asura true body, like a delicate glazed vessel disintegrating. The dark red bone armor covering its entire body, centered on the Demon Heart, was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks! Within the cracks, it was no longer destructive blood-light, but emerald green vines transformed from the life-force of his left eye and grayish-white ice crystals transformed from the deathly silence of his right eye, frantically spreading, intertwining, and clashing!

"No—!!!" Zhan Qiong's roar, filled with endless pain and indignation, exploded from within the Asura true body, but it carried an irreversible weakness and decay.

Boom!!!

The ten-thousand-foot Asura demonic body, like a star detonated from within, exploded violently! There was no flying flesh and blood, only billions of Law-turbulence streaks mixed with emerald green life-force, grayish-white deathly silence, and dark red destruction, shooting out frantically in all directions like fireworks out of control! The violent energy impact slammed hard against the spatial barriers at the edge of the battle stage, producing a deafening roar. The barriers distorted severely, nearly being torn apart!

The light dissipated, and the energy turbulence settled.

In the center of the battle stage, only Lin Yuan's figure remained standing, his black robes fluttering in the turbulent airflow.