505: Immortal Root

The woman's face was deathly pale, as if all the blood had been drained from her body. For three full breaths, her mind was blank, with only the emptiness and sharp pain of her Dantian being forcibly torn apart screaming madly.

Immediately, boundless terror, like ice water poured over her head, made her suddenly sober!

Following that, monstrous resentment and unacceptable fury instantly engulfed her. She suddenly looked up, her beautiful eyes blood-red, almost spitting fire, wishing to incinerate the enemy who had stolen her Foundation!

However, when her gaze met Xiao Zhuo's eyes...

Those eyes were as deep as an ancient cold abyss, so indifferent that they lacked any human emotion, only absolute calmness that overlooked all beings and saw through rules.

All her hatred and anger, like ice and snow meeting a scorching sun, instantly melted and disintegrated, leaving only a fear that originated from the deepest level of life, making even her Soul tremble!

It was the instinctive trepidation of an ant looking up at the sky, a mayfly facing the vast sea!

"You are very lucky," Xiao Zhuo said indifferently, his voice calm but carrying the majesty of a Heavenly Dao decree. Every word seemed to be directly branded onto the woman's Divine Soul. "Your Spiritual Root is of great use to me. Don't worry, I won't take it for nothing."

Before he finished speaking, with a flip of his palm, three hundred and sixty Spiritual Root Runes, already prepared and shimmering with five-colored auspicious light, flew out. Like living stars, they self-assembled and structured at a dazzling speed between his fingers.

First, they condensed into a basic Spirit Group, then they drew upon earth, water, fire, and wind, evolving the Five Elements Origin, and finally, they merged with a rumble, forming a perfectly harmonious, endlessly circulating, five-colored light mass flowing with Innate Dao rhyme and Chaos Qi!

A majestic and vast immortal root Qi, transcending all other Spiritual Roots, permeated the air, causing the surrounding space to tremble slightly.

"The Great Five Elements immortal root can evolve the Foundation of a world and control the creation and destruction of the Five Elements, enough to attain a Great saint position. This is your compensation."

He flicked his finger, and that Great Five Elements immortal root, containing Supreme fortune and capable of causing countless powerful cultivators to fight over it, transformed into a brilliant stream of light and entered the woman's already empty Dantian.

Vast and gentle, yet incomparably domineering Five Elements immortal root Qi instantly surged out, permeating her limbs and bones, repairing her injuries at an unprecedented speed, filling the void of power, and even reshaping her Dao Foundation.

This Foundation was even more profound, vast, and had infinite potential than her original Time Spirit Root!

The woman was utterly stunned, feeling the reborn, seemingly infinitely powerful new strength within her. The immense disparity made her mind waver, and for a moment, she didn't know whether to hate or to thank.

Xiao Zhuo, however, no longer spared her a glance, as if what he had just done was merely a casual act.

With a flick of his sleeve, spatial fluctuations like water ripples enveloped him, instantly teleporting him a thousand li away.

Almost at the same instant the woman disappeared!

An extremely terrifying, cold, ancient, and utterly primordial greedy will, like a Vicious Beast that had slumbered for countless epochs suddenly awakening, crossed unknown layers of spatial barriers and temporal rifts. Like a poisoned arrow locking onto its prey, it carried an annihilating malice and firmly locked onto him!

Even though he now possessed vast spiritual energy comparable to a Peak Great Luo, or even half a step into the quasi-Saint threshold, under this naked lock, he still felt a chill down his spine, his Divine Soul palpitated, as if being targeted by a natural predator, and a huge, suffocating sense of crisis descended with a crash!

The great terror arrived as expected!

The Chaos light in Xiao Zhuo's eyes surged again, piercing through the Void Realm like a sharp sword, forcibly suppressing the trace of coldness that had risen in his heart.

From the moment he began to pursue the mysteries of Spiritual Roots and perceived the Origin power contained within the Runes, he had already deduced countless possibilities, including the scene before him.

He had long anticipated this!

His fingertips danced like phantoms, and the initial Space-Time Spiritual Root in his Dantian was the first to fly out, instantly disassembling into the most fundamental silver Spirit Script.

Immediately after, countless Runes from other Spiritual Roots poured out like a flood! The three thousand Great Dao Runes around him, like golden stardust summoned by the Supreme, suddenly boiled, then frantically combined, arranged, and sublimated along an abstruse trajectory containing Supreme truth!

In an instant, they formed over a hundred powerful Spirit Groups, each with a different Aura, yet perfectly integrated and interconnected, emitting a majestic Aura capable of shaking all the heavens and myriad worlds and dimming the stars!

He stood proudly in the Void Realm, his robes fluttering without wind, Dao rhyme circulating around him, like an ancient divine mountain, facing the unknown, terrifying threat that had crossed space and time, and spoke coldly, his voice shaking the nine heavens:

"I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Before his voice fell—

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The sky above Holy Spirit City suddenly shattered like Glass, violently tearing open three enormous Void Realm crack, their edges permeated with destructive energy!

Each crack was a hundred zhang long, like a wound where the sky had been forcibly torn apart!

Boom!

A distant, vast, and terrifying Saint might, as if capable of crushing all things, first surged out from one of the crack!

A towering skeleton, dark gold all over, with countless ancient Runes carved on its bones, holding an ancient war spear that was broken in half but still exuded a tragic Evil Qi, stepped out!

White flames burned fiercely in its eye sockets, overlooking all beings, like a death monarch returned from an ancient battlefield!

Following that, from another crack, scorching Qi waves rolled, turning half the sky red!

A man with an extremely rugged build and fiery red hair, like burning flames, stepped out.

He was a spiritual body, yet incredibly solid, surrounded by tangible raging flames and the Great Dao of Destruction. When his eyes opened and closed, there seemed to be scenes of volcanic eruptions and star annihilations!

He merely stood there, and the surrounding space began to twist and collapse, as if unable to bear his weight!

And from the last crack, emerged a young man dressed in a green robe, with a handsome and elegant appearance, like a Young Master on a spring outing.

A faint smile played on his lips, his eyes clear yet unfathomably deep, his steps leisurely, as if he wasn't walking out of a Void Realm turbulent flow, but strolling in his own courtyard.

However, the Saint might emanating from him was the most peculiar, ethereal yet omnipresent, as if merged with the entire heaven and earth and the unseen rules, unfathomably deep!

The moment these three appeared, boundless Saint might, like three raging seas, stacked together and crushed down!

The entire Holy Spirit City wailed, the earth cracked, countless buildings trembled, and those with weaker cultivation directly collapsed to the ground, unable even to look up!

"Three Saints?!" Xiao Zhuo's pupils contracted, but his actions were even faster, his fingertips already blurring into afterimages. The hundred-plus Spirit Groups around him frantically combined, deduced, and evolved at an unprecedented speed!

However, these three uninvited guests subtly confronted each other with their Qi, wary of one another, yet with a cat-and-mouse playfulness, watching Xiao Zhuo's actions with interest.

They actually had no intention of interrupting him.