563: The first wave of competition

"Swish—!"

The space beneath his feet was like a calm pool of water into which a giant boulder had been thrown!

It exploded with a roar!!

A force of Void Realm distortion, extremely profound and carrying the Origin Law of shattering spatial barriers, erupted!

Ah Da's sturdy physique vanished from the spot almost instantly!

The next instant!

"Boom—!!"

Like the sturdiest wall of flesh and blood, he teleported directly to block a position half a zhang in front of Xin Yuelan!

The speed was extreme!

Even the expression of astonishment on Xin Yuelan's face had yet to freeze!

A circle of thick Divine Thought light shield, dense to the point of near-materiality and appearing in a grayish Chaos color, burned and erupted from Ah Da's body at a speed exceeding physical limits!

Layer upon layer!

It expanded instantly!

Boom-crack-crack-crack—!!!

The gray-gold torrent of destruction formed by the God Slaying · Nirvana Domain finally slammed fiercely into that thick gray Divine Thought light shield!

There was no earth-shattering explosion!

There was only a silent, Soul-freezing, paralyzing power of frenzied annihilation crushing, strangling, and grinding against each other!

The light shield vibrated violently!

Countless Mental Energy runes, invisible to the naked eye, were twisted, shattered, and dissipated by the impact of the gray-gold light!

The terrifying Divine Soul impact transmitted through the light shield still caused Xin Yuelan, who was close at hand, to let out an extremely painful muffled groan!

Blood lines burst from her seven orifices simultaneously!

It was as if her Nascent Soul had been pierced by thousands of red-hot steel needles!

Xin Yuelan's beautiful face was completely twisted and hideous from pain and monstrous humiliation!

She let out a demonic howl that seemed to tear the heavens and earth!

"Yao——Delong——!!"

And below!

Just at the moment when the God Slaying sword radiance fiercely struck Ah Da's shield and erupted into an earth-shattering Soul energy storm!

"Go!!!" Yao Delong roared at those behind him!

Pfft! Pfft!!!

Two brilliant silver-gray spatial light pillars suddenly shot up from the bottom of the cliff!

The figures of Qiong Shuang and Luo Yan were instantly swallowed and twisted by the spatial power, vanishing from the spot!

Only two rapidly dissipating spatial ripples remained!

Above the firmament!

The storm gradually subsided.

Only the residual destructive ripples from the energy collision remained, roaring silently in the Void Realm.

Ah Da slowly withdrew the gray Divine Thought barrier, which was covered in cracks and dimmed to the extreme.

His coarse hemp robes were slightly disheveled, and his eyes, originally murky like ten-thousand-year stagnant water, were now locked tightly on the figure below—standing alone on the scorched earth of scattered stones, holding a pitch-black sword, with golden flames burning around his body as if cast in a divine furnace!

Perfected Spirit Transformation Stage...?

For the first time, a clear expression of being moved appeared on Ah Da's calm, unruffled face!

That Fusion technique just now, which combined a Soul kill-move and a sword array Dao-destruction, contained a level of destructive will and Law refinement... let alone a Soul Transformation stage, even an ordinary Cultivator who had just entered the Void Refining stage would absolutely not be able to retreat unscathed when facing that kind of Divine Soul annihilation impact that struck directly at the root!

At best, their Divine Soul would be shaken and their Yang Spirit unstable; at worst, their dao foundation would crack and their Realm would slide!

Yet after this kid unleashed it... his aura was only slightly disordered?

Deep within those eyes burning with raging flames, there was pure calmness and even sharper killing intent!

"Young Miss."

His voice, low like a muffled drum, instantly crossed the space and rang clearly in the ears of Xin Yuelan, who was stepping on a lotus in the Void Realm behind him:

"This person is strange! Please retreat a hundred li to watch the battle! Wait for this old slave to go all out, capture and kill him, and I will definitely retrieve the Divine Embryo for you!"

Xin Yuelan's face, pale with a hint of fear and even greater malice, twitched.

Holding her Nascent Soul Sea of Consciousness, which was still in excruciating pain as if soaked in ice water, she bit her lower lip hard, forced down her churning blood Qi, and said hatefully:

"Good! Ah Da! Kill him! Remember—leave half a life!! I want to personally peel away his Divine Soul and burn it for one hundred thousand years! No! Bring him back to me! This Saintess... is going to feed him to that group of Archaic Soul-Devouring Filth Insects in the 'Chaos Demon Abyss'!!!!!"

The cold and vicious command carried a baleful intent that chilled one to the bone marrow!

The Void-Devouring Demon Mastiff beneath her feet let out a low growl, its three demonic heads spewing destructive purple flames, and carrying her, it turned into a dark golden rainbow tearing through the Void Realm, instantly flying hundreds of li away!

The center of the Void Realm battlefield!

When the last trace of Xin Yuelan's aura completely disappeared from the sensing range.

Hum!!!!

An unprecedented, heavy, and dense terrifying pressure, like the barrier of the world's Origin, erupted from Ah Da's resilient body like a world-destroying tsunami that had been accumulating for ten thousand years!

Crack-crack—!

Spatial folds, clearer than before, generated and collapsed naturally around Ah Da!

A power originating from a higher level, containing the Origin of "heaviness" and "order," and completely different from the sinister and Evil Path of the Demon Realm, was permeating!

That power carried a kind of ancient nobility that looked down upon all living beings and a cold, ruthless sense of "Law"!

Heavenly Realm! The power of the world dust Origin!

The gray-white plain axe in his hand was not filled with Devilish Qi, but on the axe blade flowed a clear, cold light that seemed capable of cutting through spatial structures, annihilating Chaos, and re-establishing order!

"Kid!"

For the first time, Ah Da used a tone of treating him as an equal, a solemnity that finally included the enemy at the same threat level, "Perfected Spirit Transformation Stage, forcing out eighty percent of this old man's strength... you are the first person in eternity!"

"Roar—!!!"

He took a fierce step forward!

The Void Realm beneath his feet emitted unbearable cracking sounds like shattered glass!

The seemingly plain-looking world dust axe in his hand was raised fiercely!

"Take my move—Void-Severing Sky-Rending Slash!"

The axe rose!

It seemed to trigger the entire battlefield's gravitational field to twist and collapse!

The gray-white axe light was not a torrent of energy, but a spatial fault line compressed to the extreme and visible to the naked eye!

The edges of this fault line flowed with cold light of annihilation, and wherever it passed, space itself was smoothly cut and collapsed like a fragile crystal mirror!

The speed was so fast it exceeded the limits of Divine Soul capture!

The target was locked directly on the hovering Yao Delong!

The power contained in this axe was enough to easily split a divine mountain!

Below!

"Well come!!"

Yao Delong roared and did not retreat!

The golden light around his body exploded instantly like a scorching sun!

The terrifying Physical Body power erupted, causing the ground beneath his feet to sink dozens of zhang again!

The magic power of the Perfected Spirit Transformation Stage was driven to the extreme!

At the same time!

"Hum!!"

The soul devouring true spirit sword in his hand erupted with an unprecedented screech!

It was as if hundreds of millions of remnant Souls of strong experts it had devoured were roaring simultaneously!

On the sword body, a circle of golden-red phantom halo, dense to the point of being blinding, burned like boiling lava!

Sword Technique—True Spirit Sword Attachment!

Striking directly at the Divine Soul!

Destroying the Primordial Spirit invisibly!

And further multiplying the power of the sword move!

But this was not enough!

Almost at the same instant the Soul devouring blood sword screeched!

"Hum!" "Hum!"

In the silent Dantian Qi Sea within Yao Delong's body, a mass of red sun rosy light, vast as the sea, and a patch of deep, nirvana-like twilight gray-gold suddenly rose!

The Rosy Seal Yin Yang Art was driven to an unprecedented limit by him frantically!

His feet stood apart, separating heaven and earth!

The long sword pointed diagonally at the heavens!

His left hand formed the Red Sun seal technique!

His right hand controlled the Nirvana sword Qi!

"Rosy Seal Yin and Yang—Dawn! Nirvana!!!"

A sword!

It appeared to be a single sword strike!