496: Chapter 496 Slaying the Immortal Lord with a Sword!

"You are quite the Prodigy."

As the voice faded, there was a moment of silence from the other side of the crack, as if the Brahma Demon Ancestor was re-evaluating the true combat strength of the Golden Immortal before him.

"However, for the next palm strike, let's see what you use to block it!"

The massive black-gold palm paused slightly, then the demonic runes flared, emitting a faint, dark glow as if billions of Demon Dragons were roaring within it.

This palm strike was no longer as casual as before; it carried a more terrifying and purer 'Heavenly Demon Origin Law' as it descended upon Lu Yuan once again. This time, the giant palm not only covered the space but also locked down time.

Lu Yuan's pupils contracted sharply. He could clearly perceive that the surrounding space had locked him firmly in place like solidified amber, and the passage of time had become exceptionally slow; it would take him several breaths just to blink.

There was no escaping this!

At this moment of life and death, there was no despair in Lu Yuan's eyes, only a cold, near-maniacal madness.

"Art of Self-Transformation!"

Lu Yuan's hands moved rapidly to form seals. As his fingers danced, trails of immortal light emerged, and the immortal power within his body burned violently like boiling water, sending waves of burning pain through his Meridians.

Every acupuncture point on his body was glowing, as if every single cell in his body was burning.

Since he couldn't win now, he would borrow power from the future!

Under the life-or-death pressure of facing an Immortal Lord, he forcibly pushed this ancient Immortal Emperor Cultivation Technique to an unprecedented limit.

The "Future Self" that he could previously only barely manifest was now frantically absorbing power from the River of Time.

"Hum—"

The "Future Self" beside him, which had originally been somewhat illusory, suddenly erupted with a blinding light. This light contained endless fragments of Dao principles, as if dozens of Laws were intertwining and recombining within it.

Through the Art of Self-Transformation, Lu Yuan had forcibly crossed the River of Time and extracted a trace of Dao Fruit power from himself at a future point in time!

This feeling was akin to touching the threshold of a taboo.

Lu Yuan felt his consciousness rising continuously, piercing through layers of space-time barriers, and seeing himself at countless time nodes—some were comprehending the Dao, some were fighting, some were sitting in meditation to Cultivate, and some were engaged in Artifact Refining or setting up formations.

He selected the future node with the strongest aura and reached out to grab that figure!

"Boom!"

The phantom of the Future Self suddenly solidified, as if a real person had descended.

Under the augmentation of this future Dao Fruit, the aura on his body began to climb frantically at an incredible speed.

With every level it climbed, the surrounding space collapsed further, and the aura of the Reincarnation Law surged endlessly in the Void Realm.

Peak Golden Immortal... Half-step Immortal Lord...

It even faintly emitted a trace of supreme might capable of contending with an Early Stage Immortal Lord!

This might was a domineering force that transcended the Dao; it seemed as if even the Laws of this starry sky were trembling slightly before this power.

"What... what is this evil technique?"

The Brahma Demon Ancestor on the other side of the crack sensed the change in the Future Self, and for the first time, shock flowed from his giant demonic eyes.

A Golden Immortal could actually borrow the power of a Half-step Immortal Lord? What grade of Cultivation Technique was this? Even their Yao Race's top-tier ancient scriptures probably couldn't achieve such a Heaven-Defying feat!

A strong sense of unease rose in the Brahma Demon Ancestor's heart. He felt that the Golden Immortal before him, who seemed like an ant, was breaking through the Realm barrier in some incomprehensible way and forcibly touching the power at the level of an Immortal Lord.

"Slash!"

The Future Self, having completed its transformation, had eyes that were cold to the extreme.

There was not a shred of emotion in those eyes, only pure killing intent and the indifference of the Dao Laws.

He gripped the massive purple-gold sword, which had been transformed from the other shore immortal boat, with both hands.

The great sword was about nine feet long, its entire body flowing with purple-gold light, and the runes on the blade flickered constantly, as if countless worlds were being born and dying within it.

Infused with the power of a Half-step Immortal Lord, this Low Grade Immortal Artifact erupted with a sword cry capable of tearing through the heavens.

As the sword cried out, the Void Realm shattered!

The starry sky for a hundred miles around trembled violently from this sword cry, and the meteorites floating in the air exploded one after another, turning into storms of energy.

The Future Self leaped up, his speed reaching the extreme; even Lu Yuan's true body could only catch a glimpse of an afterimage.

Facing the descending giant palm of the Immortal Lord, he crossed a distance of several tens of thousands of feet in one step, raised the sword high with both hands, and then—

Slashed down with one sword!

"You seek death!"

The Brahma Demon Ancestor was furious. He never expected that this Golden Immortal's Incarnation would dare to take the initiative to attack him! This was simply the ultimate provocation to his dignity as an Immortal Lord!

"Brahma Demonic Sound! Nine Nether Great Rending Slash!"

From within the giant palm, a demonic sound capable of shattering a Golden Immortal's Primordial Spirit erupted.

The demonic sound contained the will and resentment of countless Brahma Demon Race members, like billions of vengeful ghosts shrieking, enough to cause the mind of any Cultivator below the Immortal Lord level to collapse.

At the same time, the five fingers transformed into five pitch-black heavenly blades, carrying the might to tear apart the Dao, and collided fiercely with the Future Self's great sword.

"Clang—!"

The starry sky exploded!

Within the Future Self's sword light, not only was the extreme Space Cutting Law contained, but it also fused with six rotating Reincarnation black holes.

The six black holes swirled within the sword light, forming a massive Reincarnation formation that dragged everything nearby into it.

"Space-Time Cutting! Six Paths of Reincarnation Sword!"

The Sword Qi and the demonic hand engaged in the most brutal slaughter in the starry sky.

With every collision, large swathes of the starry sky collapsed.

Starlight was shredded, turning into a tidal wave of energy that spread in all directions.

The Star Domain for a thousand miles around trembled in the aftermath of this battle, as if the apocalypse had arrived.

Although the Future Self only possessed the might of a Half-step Immortal Lord and this state could not last, relying on the profound mysteries of the two supreme sword techniques, it had actually forcibly blocked that giant hand of the Immortal Lord!

The sword light was like a waterfall, and the Reincarnation was like an abyss!

In that instant, the Future Self seemed to transform into the sole Dominator between heaven and earth, slashing at the demonic hand sword by sword, with each strike precisely cutting into the weakest point of the Devilish Qi on the demonic palm.

"Sshhh!"

Amidst a crisp sound of friction, the Future Self's Sword Qi actually cut through the layer of "Heavenly Demon Origin Law" defense covering the giant palm, leaving a sword mark deep enough to see the bone on the palm!

The sword mark was about three feet long, with the flames of the Six Paths of Reincarnation burning at the edges, constantly eroding the surrounding Devilish Qi.

"Drip..."

A drop of dark golden blood from the Immortal Lord dripped from the wound.

This drop of blood was as heavy as ten thousand jun, and as it fell into the starry sky below, it directly crushed dozens of barren, dead stars, triggering a series of interstellar explosions.

The light of the explosions illuminated the entire Star Domain.

"Ah!"

The Brahma Demon Ancestor let out an angry and painful roar.

As a dignified Immortal Lord, he had actually been injured by an ant's Incarnation? This was simply a supreme humiliation!