353: Chapter 353 The Power of a Half-Step Golden Immortal!

But with every beat, the strange frequency it produced felt as if it were stepping directly on the hearts of every living being within a ten-thousand-mile radius.

Even someone as strong as Lu Yuan felt the blood and Qi within his body surging violently in sync with this rhythm; his chest felt tight, and he nearly coughed up blood.

Those Cultivators with weaker cultivation were even more directly shaken by the sound of the heartbeat, their hearts bursting as they died.

"Crack!"

Finally, when that black heart rose to its highest point, it seemed unable to withstand the terrifying power suppressed within it for ten thousand years any longer.

Accompanied by a crisp sound of fracturing, the heart exploded with a bang!

A downpour of black blood rained from the sky, corroding the earth.

In the center of that torrential rain of blood, a terrifying Fiendgod, ten thousand zhang tall and towering between heaven and earth, slowly stepped out from the void.

He was clad in a set of ancient armor forged from black Dragon scales, with every scale shimmering with a dark light of destruction.

On his head grew a pair of curved, sharp, giant ram horns that seemed capable of piercing the heavens.

Behind him, two pairs of sun-blotting black demonic wings slowly unfurled; every flap whipped up a spatial storm within the Void Realm.

His face was hidden within a mass of writhing black mist, making it impossible to see clearly, save for those crimson eyes which, like two blood moons, radiated an aura of pure tyranny, endless slaughter, and the ultimate destruction of all things.

The obsession Incarnation of an ancient Demonic Path Golden Immortal—Demon Venerable Rahu!

This terrifying existence, who had once stirred up a monstrous Demonic Calamity in ancient times, had finally revived! Although his Origin was greatly damaged from being sealed for a full ten thousand years, and he was currently under the forced suppression of the Xuanhuang Realm's Heavenly Dao Laws (which could only accommodate Profound Immortal Perfection at most), he could only exert the combat power of a half-step Golden Immortal.

For the living beings of the current Xuanhuang Realm, this was still a dimension-reducing strike sufficient to destroy the world!

"Jie jie jie... Ten thousand years! A full ten thousand years! This Venerable One has finally seen the light of day again!"

Demon Venerable Rahu slightly tilted his head back, greedily breathing in the Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth.

He laughed wildly to the heavens, his voice laced with endless resentment and excitement, sounding like ten million broken gongs clanging in one's ears simultaneously—extremely piercing, stabbing straight into the Soul.

He suddenly lowered his head, his crimson gaze like blood moons piercing through the vast distance, instantly locking onto Gu Qingxue and the other women who had just settled the Disciples and were preparing to steer the immortal boat to retreat.

"Such fresh blood and Qi... such pure True Immortal Origin... This Venerable One has just awakened and happens to need nourishment.

These fresh blood-meals all belong to this Venerable One!"

Demon Venerable Rahu gave a sinister laugh, stuck out his crimson tongue to lick his lips, and violently flapped the sun-blotting demonic wings behind him.

"Boom!"

Without using any Divine Ability, merely relying on the pull of his aura.

A terrifying pressure belonging to a half-step Golden Immortal traversed the distance of space, descending like a hundred thousand immemorial divine mountains falling from the sky at once, pressing down ruthlessly upon the other shore immortal boat.

"This is bad!"

The faces of the seven women standing on the deck of the immortal boat, including Gu Qingxue, Yaochi Holy Mother, and Su Yueli, suddenly changed drastically, their color draining away.

Under this terrifying pressure that exceeded their cognitive dimensions, they felt the True Immortal Law that originally circulated freely within their bodies being forcibly frozen in an instant, and their spiritual power stopped flowing.

This feeling was like a Mortal facing a volcano about to erupt.

They even found breathing to be incomparably difficult; the space around their bodies seemed to be completely welded shut, and they felt as if they were pinned firmly in the void by invisible nails, making even moving a single finger a pipe dream.

"Absolute suppression of power... is this the power of a Golden Immortal..." Gu Qingxue bit her lip until blood flowed, attempting to use the pain to gain a sliver of ability to move, but it was in vain; a trace of despair irrepressibly rose in her eyes.

"Roar! Kill! Kill them all for Lord Demon Venerable!"

Just as the women were in despair, a blinding golden figure suddenly lunged out from behind the shadow of Demon Venerable Rahu's massive body.

It was none other than the Sky-Swallowing Lion Emperor who had fled in panic earlier!

At this moment, his state was strange to the extreme.

His eyes were so crimson they seemed about to drip blood, and his entire body was shrouded in black Devilish Qi ten times denser than before.

Under the forced infusion and pollution of the Demon Venerable's aura, he had actually completely abandoned the rationality of the Yao Race and fully demonized! As a price, while overdrawing his life, his strength had actually skyrocketed to the terrifying level of being close to Profound Immortal Perfection!

He transformed into his massive original form of a Nine-headed Lion, each head opening a bloody maw that reeked of a foul wind.

Carrying a cruel smile devoid of reason, he turned into a streak of gold-and-black lightning that tore through the sky, frantically pouncing toward the immobile Gu Qingxue and the others on the deck!

"Don't you dare hurt my mother!!!"

In the distance, Lu Li's eyes were nearly splitting; the corners of his eyes were literally torn by extreme anger and anxiety, leaking shocking amounts of blood.

He had just achieved a Breakthrough to True Immortal, and his Realm was inherently unstable, but the moment he saw that completely maddened Sky-Swallowing Lion Emperor pouncing toward Gu Qingxue and the others, he didn't even have time to think, recklessly burning the newly born True Immortal Law within his body.

"Move for me!" Lu Li roared frantically in his heart.

Bracing against Demon Venerable Rahu's terrifying half-step Golden Immortal pressure, which felt like a hundred thousand ancient divine mountains pressing down on his head, every bone in his body emitted overburdened popping sounds.

He forcibly operated the Xing Character Secret, pushing his speed to the limit of what he could endure, turning his entire being into a brilliant streak of light burning with golden blood and Qi, attempting to block his mother at a speed that would allow him to arrive first despite starting later.

"Struggling like an ant—how eyesore. Begone!"

Demon Venerable Rahu's mountain-like body suspended in mid-air; he didn't even lower his head to glance at Lu Li, his crimson eyes, like two blood moons, showing only endless indifference and mockery.

In the subconscious of this ancient Demonic Path Golden Immortal, a junior of the Human Race who had just stepped into the True Immortal Realm was no different from a flying insect by the roadside.

He merely raised his thick demonic arm, covered in black Dragon scales, with extreme nonchalance and waved it toward the direction Lu Li was charging, as if shooing a fly.

"Bang—!!!"

Even the air was instantly drained by this wave, forming a zone of absolute vacuum.

A surge of pitch-black demonic power, overwhelming and carrying the ultimate Law of destruction, slammed ruthlessly into Lu Li's chest without any pretense.

Lu Li's Innate Chaos Body Physical Body, which he took pride in and was sufficient to kill Profound Immortals across Realms, was actually as fragile as porcelain before this casual strike from a half-step Golden Immortal.

He only felt an irresistible, majestic force pierce through his internal organs, and his protective golden light shattered inch by inch.

"Pfft—!"

Lu Li spat out a large mouthful of golden blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, his whole body flying backward like a kite with a broken string, at a speed even faster than when he came.