216: The power of a true immortal

Xiao Zhuo could feel that the space around him was locked by a terrifying will, and he would be mercilessly attacked if he made even the slightest movement.

But he didn't show any fear. The energy-transformed Qi and blood in his body surged, and his physique suddenly swelled to three meters. The ferocious black and red demonic armor instantly covered his body.

Heavenly Demon Hegemon Body activated!

blood god armor condensed!

His Physical Body strength surged, subtly reaching the limit of the Middle Thousand Worlds. A suppressive force from the Heavenly Dao instantly descended.

It caused Xiao Zhuo's still-surging Physical Body power to be stuck at a critical point.

A violent power comparable to a Quasi-Immortal surged within Xiao Zhuo.

"Roar!" Xiao Zhuo roared, no longer waiting. His figure flashed without causing the slightest spatial fluctuation, and he appeared beside the Immortal Envoy.

The Immortal Envoy's fingertip condensed a cyan-gold light, reacting with incredible speed, and pointed it at Xiao Zhuo, who had just appeared.

Xiao Zhuo, at this moment, was like a god and a demon. He spread his large hand and fearlessly grabbed directly at the pointing finger.

"You don't know dea..." A cold, mocking smile appeared on the Immortal Envoy's lips, but before he could finish his sentence, his eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost.

He saw a terrifying cyan-gold beam erupt from his fingertip, but the beam, upon hitting Xiao Zhuo's large hand covered in armor plates and blood flames, was continuously shattered.

The large hand pushed through the beam and reached for him.

Though surprised, the Immortal Envoy did not panic. He stepped on the Void Realm, a ripple flashed, and he had already retreated a hundred meters.

But before he could attack again, Xiao Zhuo had already caught up to him.

"Bang!"

A powerful and heavy punch landed, and the Immortal Envoy immediately fell downwards.

This was not the end. A black saber appeared in the hand of the figure clad in demonic armor, and a terrifying black and red saber light followed, slashing down.

"Lower Realm untouchables! Don't underestimate me!" The Immortal Envoy Chao Tian's face was distorted, filled with furious rage. This trip to the Lower Realm to collect the enlightenment tea tree was supposed to be an easy merit, but he didn't expect to encounter such a monstrous person from the Lower Realm.

"If not for the Heavenly Dao's suppression! I could crush this little brat with one finger!" He was furious in his heart, but no matter how aggrieved he was, he couldn't change the fact that he was being suppressed and beaten at this moment.

A hint of determination flashed in his eyes, and a golden rune shattered in Chao Tian's Sea of Consciousness.

A terrifying pressure rose.

Xiao Zhuo's figure, just about to give chase, paused. A sense of Danger Perception enveloped his entire body.

Danger Perception warned him frantically.

He didn't hesitate. Universe God Step instantly activated, and he turned and fled.

Just then, a hundred-meter-tall cyan-gold Qi flame rose from Chao Tian's body. An extremely powerful immortal force fluctuation swept across the entire Enlightenment Abyss. The saber light Xiao Zhuo had added directly shattered before this immortal force fluctuation.

"Boy! Forcing this Venerable One to this extent, you can be proud!" Chao Tian gripped his right hand, and an oddly shaped curved saber appeared in his hand. Countless immortal characters overflowed from the curved saber.

He raised his hand, and several cyan-gold saber lights streaked across the sky, slashing towards Xiao Zhuo, who had already fled ten li away.

Xiao Zhuo sensed the danger behind him. He wielded heavenly cleaver in his hand, unleashing several saber lights imbued with divine intent, but his rapidly moving figure dared not delay in the slightest.

As the saber lights collided, Xiao Zhuo's black and red saber light only blocked for an instant before shattering.

The cyan-gold saber light, however, only shrank a little.

And its speed surged, reaching Xiao Zhuo's back in the blink of an eye.

With a killing move upon him, Xiao Zhuo had no choice but to turn back and meet it. This attack had locked onto him, leaving no escape, only a head-on confrontation.

As heavenly cleaver was held horizontally, a drop of golden blood emerged from Xiao Zhuo's glabella and merged into heavenly cleaver. Instantly, the blade of heavenly cleaver extended by three feet, and the entire saber transformed into a black and red intertwined appearance, with an extremely dense aura of blood evil emanating from it.

This was a new application of Source Blood.

Xiao Zhuo's Source Blood had absorbed the essence and blood of many Cultivators in this realm, including many Tribulation Crossing Realm powerhouses. Its power at this moment was in no way inferior to a typical Earth-Grade High Grade demonic artifact.

Moreover, Source Blood is special, being both a Divine Ability and a Lifebound Treasure, possessing the ability to shapeshift. When imbued into heavenly cleaver, it subtly elevated this top-tier Earth-Grade Peak demonic weapon to a new level.

But just as Xiao Zhuo held the saber horizontally to block, the cyan-gold saber light struck.

"Clang!"

Like the clash of metal, Xiao Zhuo felt a massive force bearing down on him.

The blade of heavenly cleaver, which had barely entered the Heaven-Grade, instantly had a gap chipped out of it. Xiao Zhuo was struck as if by some giant object, a mouthful of rebellious blood surged up, and he was sent flying.

The cyan-gold saber light also instantly shattered.

Chao Tian's figure flashed in the sky, appearing at the spot where Xiao Zhuo was struck in the blink of an eye. Looking towards where Xiao Zhuo had fallen, he had a ferocious expression, snorted coldly, and pursued him through the air.

"Die! Die! Die!"

Chao Tian's face was distorted and ferocious, and cyan-gold flames burned deep in his eyes. This was the backlash from forcefully activating power that exceeded the limits of this realm!

He had only one thought in his mind - to utterly crush this damned ant before the power of the immortal talisman ran out and the Heavenly Dao's backlash descended!

Xiao Zhuo had just stabilized his backward-flying figure, not even having time to suppress his churning Qi and blood, when Chao Tian's figure, burning with terrifying cyan-gold immortal flames, appeared above him as if by instantaneous movement!

"Azure Emperor Severing Realm!"

The Immortal Envoy roared, and the oddly shaped curved saber in his hand erupted with a piercing cyan-gold sharp light that tore through the Void Realm. Before the blade arrived, the destructive cutting will had completely solidified and torn the space around Xiao Zhuo!

This saber strike contained a trace of true Immortal Dao Law, far surpassing any previous attack!

There was no escaping!

Blood light and silver light simultaneously burst forth in Xiao Zhuo's eyes! Heaven-Observing Divine Eye operated to its extreme, capturing the only fleeting weak point in that almost unsolvable saber momentum!

Heavenly Demon Hegemon Body was pushed to its Peak, and the blood god armor let out a mournful cry under the immense pressure!

"Block it for me!"

heavenly cleaver was held horizontally, blood flames burned wildly on the saber body, transforming into an extremely condensed black and red blood evil barrier, stubbornly meeting that realm-severing saber strike!

Clang — — ! ! ! ! ! ! !

An indescribably terrifying explosion!

Space, like a fragile glass mirror, violently exploded into a pitch-black void with a diameter of several tens of meters, centered on the point of collision of the two sabers! Violent spatial turbulence instantly surged in!

Pfft!

Xiao Zhuo was struck as if by an ancient divine mountain. The blood god armor all over his body cracked inch by inch, and the Heavenly Demon Hegemon Body skin beneath it instantly burst open with countless bloody wounds. Pale golden blood mixed with fragments of internal organs spurted out wildly!

His arm bones emitted a grating sound of shattering, and a gap on the heavenly cleaver blade spread wildly, almost breaking it!

His entire body, like a meteor, was fiercely cleaved by this saber strike into the muddy earth below, which was already stained with blood!

Boom!

The earth trembled violently, and a massive, bottomless pit instantly formed!

"Cough... cough cough..." At the bottom of the pit, Xiao Zhuo knelt on one knee, supporting himself with the shattered heavenly cleaver, barely managing not to fall.

His armor was broken, his flesh and blood were a bloody mess, pale golden blood continuously gushed from his mouth, nose, and all his wounds, and his aura was extremely weak.

If not for the terrifying vitality bestowed by the Heavenly Demon Hegemon Body and the Innate Blood God Body, and the Devouring Divine Body's full power to devour the Chao Tian immortal force that had invaded his body, this saber strike would have been enough to utterly annihilate him!

"Not dead yet?!" Chao Tian's eyes also cracked in the air, shedding cyan-gold blood. The backlash from forcefully activating immortal force had already begun to corrode the Origin of his immortal body.

He was both shocked and enraged, and there was an uncontrollable urgency!

The power of the immortal talisman was rapidly draining, and the cold, merciless suppression of the Heavenly Dao, like maggots clinging to bone, was furiously re-entwining him, trying to drag him back to that damned Half-step True Immortal Realm!

"Let's see how many saber strikes you can withstand!" Chao Tian went completely mad, recklessly swinging his saber again!

This time, it was no longer a single-target killing blow, but transformed into a sky-filling rain of cyan-gold destruction, like a celestial river pouring down, carrying immortal flames that incinerated everything, indiscriminately covering the deep pit!

Every saber light was enough to severely wound a Mahayana Peak Cultivator!

Boom boom boom boom boom — — ! ! !

Explosions as dense as drumbeats instantly submerged the deep pit and the surrounding hundreds of meters, utterly annihilating them!

The earth was repeatedly plowed, pulverized, and vaporized! Terrifying shockwaves mixed with cyan-gold immortal flames and spatial fragments formed a death zone! The entire Enlightenment Abyss was wailing!

At the bottom of the pit, Xiao Zhuo's figure was completely swallowed.

Only a faint, yet incredibly tenacious black and red blood flame could be vaguely seen, like a flickering candle in the wind, but it stubbornly continued to burn, constantly being impacted by the cyan-gold saber rain and immortal flames, flickering unsteadily and rapidly shrinking in size!

God-Slaying Blood Flame was frantically resisting, and the power of devouring transformed into countless tiny whirlpools, devouring the invading immortal force, but it was a drop in the bucket!

Every violent explosion caused the blood flame to violently sway, as if it would extinguish at any moment, yet in the next instant, relying on its owner's steel-like will and the Origin of his Divine Body, it stubbornly rekindled!

"Die die die die die!" Chao Tian, like a madman, frantically poured down the saber rain. He could clearly feel the vast immortal force within him rapidly receding like a tide, and the power brought by the burning immortal talisman was about to be exhausted!

The excruciating pain of the Heavenly Dao's backlash, like billions of steel needles, began to fiercely pierce his immortal soul!

"Why aren't you dead yet?! Why!" He roared in his heart, never having imagined that in a Lower Realm, he would be forced into such a desperate and pathetic situation by an ant who hadn't even crossed the threshold of the Immortal Dao!

Time! He needed time! If only he had one more breath! No, half a breath! He could utterly crush the opponent into dust!

However —

Buzz! ! ! !

A Heavenly Dao will, far grander, colder, and more irresistible than before, descended like billions of divine mountains!

Crack!

The boiling cyan-gold immortal flames on Chao Tian's body were fiercely extinguished as if by an invisible giant hand! The terrifyingly powerful Immortal Artifact curved saber in his hand instantly dimmed, letting out a painful wail!

"Pfft — — !"

Chao Tian was struck as if by a massive hammer, spitting out a large mouthful of cyan-gold blood containing the Origin of the Immortal Dao!

His aura plummeted like an avalanche, instantly weakening and being firmly suppressed back to the Half-step True Immortal Realm!

Even more terrifyingly, the terrifying Dao wounds and backlash caused by forcefully breaking through the limit erupted simultaneously like countless venomous snakes within his body and deep within his immortal soul, gnawing at him!

His face instantly turned ashen like golden paper, his figure swayed precariously in the air, his eyes filled with horror, pain, and intense unwillingness!

And below, at the center of the deep pit that had been almost pulverized into dust.

Amidst the swirling dust and chaotic energy, a faint but incredibly tenacious black and red blood flame, like a flickering candle in the wind, still stubbornly burned.

Beneath the blood flame, a figure almost unrecognizable as human, propped up by the cracked and seemingly about to shatter heavenly cleaver, swayed and shakily stood up again.