566: Fall

He was not swallowed by the core of the explosion!

At the last moment, he burned his essence blood and World Dust Origin to construct a tattered domain barrier!

But that barrier was melted through in an instant! He was sent flying backward and tumbling like a kite with a broken string!

The powerful World Dust aura around him was torn and dissipated like rags! His hemp clothes had long since been burned to ashes!

Revealing a bronze body splattered with silver-glowing blood! Every wound was deep enough to see the bone!

Even more terrifying were the edges of the wounds, where countless gold-red strands of "Grand Sun True Intent" containing a scorching aura of annihilation were like maggots on a bone, frantically corroding and drilling into his body!

Annihilating his vitality! Gnawing at his incomparably sturdy Void Refining Law Physical Body!

“Pwah—!”

Another large mouthful of massive blood clots, almost condensed into solid silver crystals, was spat out!

The blood clots burned the moment they left his body! Turning into wisps of green smoke! The silver Law radiance was rapidly dimming!

Those cloudy eyes were finally occupied by unbelievable pain and... true fear!

He forced up a breath of nearly dissipated World Qi, struggling to look toward the churning destructive dust and the remaining molten core deep within the massive crater!

A figure!

As if tempered in an eternal furnace!

Half-kneeling on the crimson, scorching lava surface!

The tattered clothes on his body had long vanished, leaving only a pure golden, powerful body flowing with divine fire lava!

Countless hideous wounds were, at a speed visible to the naked eye, being—by the seemingly inexhaustible gold-red Solar Divine Fire within his body—

Burned, smelted, and recast to close!

The terrifying recovery power of the Great Sun Sacred Body was fully displayed at this moment!

Although his aura had also plummeted and withered, and the golden light around him flickered,

As if he were at the end of his rope and about to collapse, those eyes! The Battle Intent and the crazy flames within them!

Instead became even more violent! Even sharper! Staring fixedly at the figure flying backward through the void!

“Heh... heh...”

Ah Da breathed heavily; the destructive Grand Sun True Intent inside him was almost igniting and burning his World Dust Origin from its very Foundation!

“Origin... Divine Fire... Body Cultivator... Ultimate Realm... Monster...!”

He watched that golden figure struggling to stand up like a god or demon!

Watching the terrifying sight of divine fire steaming from his body and his injuries recovering visibly!

Watching those eyes locked onto him, burning with golden flames like a predatory Vicious Beast!

A never-before-felt, bone-chilling thought frantically seized him—

Escape!

If I don't escape now, I will definitely be worn to death by this kid today!!

...A hundred miles away, Jinling City!

Buzz— Buzz— Buzz—!

The entire massive city was wailing like a dying giant beast!

The city-protecting Formation, which hadn't been fully activated for hundreds of years, was now shining with extreme brilliance!

The “Hunyuan Black Tortoise Formation,” based on the shell of a thousand-year-old Black Tortoise and supplemented by thirty-six High Grade Spiritual Vein source Formation stones, was now letting out groans of being overburdened!

Dozens of Formation Eye hubs within the city! Spiritual light was frantically erupting at this moment!

Nearly three hundred urgently conscripted Nascent Soul old monsters all had faces as pale as paper, desperately pouring rolling Yuan Power into the hubs as if it cost nothing!

Sweat flowed down their faces like small streams!

Several white-haired elders were already withered in aura, with blood leaking from the corners of their mouths, clearly having injured their Origin!

“Hold on! Everyone hold on for me! The Formation base's tortoise shell has cracked by a third!”

The white-bearded elder guarding the Formation Eye core roared toward the sky, his voice trembling with a resolute and tragic air!

The millions of Cultivators and Mortals in all of Jinling City cowered under the swaying Formation light shield, like ants in a violent storm.

High in the sky above!

The constantly exploding Chaos shockwaves and the space rifts tearing through the sky,

Each time they swept over the light shield, they triggered a massive tremor throughout the entire city!

Countless buildings collapsed in the vibrations, as if doomsday had arrived!

“Good heavens! Who... who exactly is fighting?” someone slumped to the ground, clutching their head.

“Looking at the direction... it's ‘Falling Dragon Gorge’ a hundred miles away!

The last time Old Demon Hundred Refinements fought the Sect Master of the Heavenly Sound Pavilion, it didn't have such world-destroying power!”

A Golden Core Cultivator whispered with a pale face.

“Void Refining? I'm afraid even Void Refining isn't enough! This feeling... it's like the sky is falling!”

A Nascent Soul early-stage guard general stationed on the city wall stared fixedly at the terrifying ball of energy in the distant sky that was constantly expanding and contracting,

Dyeing half the sky in a mixture of crimson and black, his voice carrying unmistakable fear and bewilderment... The core of destruction, the edge of the giant crater.

Boom!

The divine fire on the surface of Yao Delong, who had just struggled to his feet, suddenly dimmed,

Deep within the largest open wound, one could even vaguely see glass-colored internal organs squeezing and trembling!

He gave a muffled groan and, without hesitation, flipped his palm again!

Chii!

Another yimu azure spirit pill, flowing with majestic Yimu vitality and with pill halos intertwined on its surface, was stuffed into his mouth!

He swallowed it forcefully!

Buzz!

Dense vitality instantly surged into his limbs and bones!

The flickering gold-red divine fire on his body was like oil thrown onto a fire, stubbornly burning once more, and the speed of his wounds closing increased slightly.

But his brows were tightly knit, clearly feeling a dull pain coming from his Dantian!

The medicinal power of this second Spirit Pill had decreased by at least thirty percent!

Forced overloading of tonics was nearing a backlash!

Above the sky!

“Wah—!” Ah Da spat out another large mouthful of blazing blood mixed with internal organ fragments and silver blood crystals!

He also tried to take the sacred healing pill he carried with him—

A “Creation Pill of Life” that emitted a deep green glow, as if it sealed a small forest of life!

But as soon as the pill entered his mouth and the surging vitality began to dissolve, it was incinerated by the rampaging “Grand Sun True Intent” inside him like a prairie fire!

It even triggered a counterattack from those true fires!

The intense pain made his face contort! Fear seeped into his marrow like venom!

“Go!!!”

He frantically activated his remaining World Dust power! His only remaining left arm slashed fiercely at the void!

A distorted space rift appeared instantly! He wanted to tear through the void!

Taking Xin Yuelan, who was already severely injured and unable to fight further, to escape into the spatial turbulence!

At the exact moment his mind was entirely focused on escaping! Just as a tiny gap appeared in his consciousness!

“Old dog! You want to leave?!”

Beside the giant crater below! Yao Delong, bathed in blood like a demon god, shot cold electricity-like glints from his eyes!

The killing intent that erupted in that instant condensed into physical ice spikes!

His right hand, which had been hanging down, formed a sword finger—and suddenly pointed at his own brow!

“Heart Sword Without Trace—Primordial Spirit Transforming into Sword!”

Chii!

Silent! Formless! Traceless!

A sword of the Primordial Spirit, purely condensed from the will of the Primordial Spirit, stripped of all redundant emotions, leaving only the pure Origin of annihilation and termination!

It condensed from the deepest depths of Yao Delong's Sea of Consciousness! Ignoring the gap of space! Surpassing the perception of thought!

This sword!

Does not slash the Physical Body! Does not break Magic Treasures!

It strikes directly at the spirit! Slashing down before the fluctuations of his Primordial Spirit's thoughts!

Ah Da's thought had just flashed to “escape,” and his consciousness hadn't even fully transmitted to his limbs!

“Bang—!!!!!”

A terrifying sound of shattering, perceivable only on the Soul level, like a glass world suddenly collapsing!

It exploded with a bang in the deepest part of his Sea of Consciousness!

Kacha kacha kacha—!!!

His Void Refining Primordial Spirit, which had undergone the baptism of Lightning Tribulation Laws and was as hard as ten-thousand-year divine crystal!

At this moment, when he was completely defenseless and his power had waned to the extreme!

It was like being squeezed by an invisible supreme hand! Instantly covered in billions of fine cracks!

The cracks spread, disintegrated, and diffused! Like a brilliant yet lethal Soul firework being ignited!

“No—!” An ultimate fear and pain, ten thousand times greater than the crushing of his Physical Body, completely submerged him!

His final thoughts were full of unwillingness, disbelief, and infinite regret!

The light in his eyes instantly froze and turned gray!

His powerful Physical Body was like a puppet with broken strings, all his aura plummeting and collapsing!

Finally freezing into an expression of absolute horror!

A powerhouse of the Heavenly Realm, a Void Refining venerable—Ah Da!

His Primordial Spirit was annihilated! His Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering!