516: Qinglian Falls

"You...how do you know my name?!" Qing Lian shrieked, a protective green lotus in his hand shattered by Hao Duo's punch, causing his Qi and blood to churn.

"Hmph!" Hao Duo's eyes flashed with a black glint, not answering, but increasing his offensive by thirty percent. He threw a punch, and the Great Dao of Darkness solidified into a roaring Demonic Dragon, charging straight at Qing Lian, "A Severed Corpse of a fallen Saint, dares to question me?"

Qing Lian was thoroughly enraged, and at the same time, felt a deadly crisis.

He knew that if he didn't use his trump card now, he would surely fall here today!

"You're going too far! saint position, manifest!"

A brilliant green light burst from his glabella, and the green light orb containing the Saint Dao Law reappeared!

As the light orb emerged, a vast Saintly might permeated the area, causing ripples in the Void Realm of the boundary wall.

Qing Lian's aura surged, and the originally clear green Dao light was imbued with a magnificent and sacred intent. He pointed his fingers like a sword, gently at the Demonic Dragon.

"Green Lotus Purifies the World!"

An incomparably massive green lotus, formed by the condensation of Dao runes, suddenly bloomed, and pure, flawless purifying Holy Light swept out, colliding with the ferocious Demonic Dragon!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!

The Demonic Dragon let out a painful roar, its massive body visibly dissolving and evaporating in the purifying Holy Light!

Hao Duo grunted, his figure retreating several thousand miles. A good portion of the Devilish Qi around him was purified, appearing slightly dim.

He looked at the green light orb suspended above Qing Lian's head, radiating infinite Saintly might. His eyes showed not fear, but rather an expression of "just as I expected," and... an even more intense greed and mockery.

"Indeed... it's a part of the Yuan Gu Creation saint position..." Hao Duo stabilized his figure, wiped away a trace of black blood from the corner of his mouth, and locked his gaze on Qing Lian like an eagle, "What a pity, a pearl covered in dust! In your hands, it truly disgraces the power of this saint position!"

He took a deep breath, and the Devilish Qi around him became extremely restrained. His entire being seemed to transform into a black hole that swallowed all light, with only his eyes shining terrifyingly bright.

"Do you know that even with a partial saint position, a weakling is still just a weakling!" Hao Duo's voice was cold and clear, carrying the indifference that pierced through eons, "You are far inferior to Yuan Gu back then! Though he fell, he once, by his own strength, battled several Saints, causing the Immortal-Demon Realm to wither! And you three Severed Corpses, guarding a treasure mountain for eons, only know how to fight amongst yourselves... pitiful and laughable!"

Qing Lian was struck as if by lightning, his face pale: "You...who exactly are you?! Why do you know so much about ancient matters?!"

Hao Duo said no more. He slowly raised his hands, and a destructive power far more terrifying than before awakened within him.

In the Void Realm behind him, a blurry demonic figure seemed to appear, treading on the star river and annihilating the universe with his palm.

"Hand over the saint position!"

Before his voice faded, Hao Duo moved.

He took a step, and the entire Void Realm of the boundary wall trembled. The blurry demonic figure merged with him, transforming into a dark finger-light that pierced through the ancient netherworld, pointing at Qing Lian's glabella!

This single finger seemed to transcend time, ignore space, and contained the terrifying Concept that all existence would eventually drown in oblivion!

Qing Lian's pupils contracted, sensing an unprecedented threat of death.

He frantically activated the sacred status light orb above his head, and infinite creation Saint power surged out, setting up layer after layer of barriers in front of him... However, where the dark finger-light passed, the layers of barriers, even with the saint position's enhancement, only lasted for three breaths before shattering one after another.

Fortunately, this also bought Qing Lian time. Three breaths of time, for a powerful being of this level, was enough to do too many things.

Almost simultaneously with the shattering of the barriers, a vast green light also shot out from in front of Qing Lian.

It collided with the finger-light, and under the impact of the terrifying energy fluctuations, even the boundary wall of the Nirvana Realm, which had been reinforced by Saints, began to ripple.

The two forces were almost simultaneously exhausted. Qing Lian's face was slightly pale, and a faint golden blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

He had endured successive major battles, coupled with the backlash of his Origin and the extreme overload of the saint position, and had long suffered severe Dao injuries.

At this moment, he could no longer hold on.

A look of dejection appeared in his eyes. He looked at Hao Duo in the distance, who had his two fingers together and a cold smile on his lips, and a surge of fear welled up in his heart.

Under his horrified gaze.

Another finger-light, no less powerful than the previous one, was pointed out again.

The terrifying dark light beam instantly engulfed Qing Lian.

When the finger-light disappeared, only a sacred status light orb radiating a holy aura and a green lotus seed remained in place.

Hao Duo's figure flickered, and he quickly took the light orb and the lotus seed into his hands.

Looking at the light orb in his hand, a hint of joy flashed in Hao Duo's eyes, but it quickly faded.

He closed his eyes, his Divine Sense expanding wildly outwards.

But after only a moment, a look of surprise appeared in his eyes.

"There are no other battle fluctuations?" he muttered to himself, with a hint of astonishment in his tone.

Putting away the sacred status light orb and the lotus seed, Hao Duo's figure flickered and disappeared.

A moment after he disappeared, a figure slowly stepped out of the Void Realm.

It was Xiao Zhuo.

He looked at where Hao Duo had disappeared, a playful smile playing on his lips: "Indeed! Revered Master, you are the deepest hidden one in the Immortal-Demon Realm!"

Just as Hao Duo and Qing Lian were fighting, he had already arrived. For him, the saint position was not important. He wanted to prove his Dao through strength, and the saint position of others held little meaning for him.

His pursuit of the Three Severed Corpses was, firstly, to avenge the plot against him, and secondly, to learn the location of the Nirvana Realm's Origin from the mouths of the Three Corpses.

Two of the three Severed Corpses were already in his hands, which was enough to obtain the Origin's location.

Compared to obtaining the last sacred status light orb, he was more curious about how much his nominal Revered Master had hidden.

And the result did not disappoint him.

Hao Duo's strength was even slightly stronger than that of Emperor Hao Tian.

Otherwise, even with injuries, Qing Lian, as a Peak Quasi-Saint with a sacred status light orb, would never have fallen so easily at his hands.

In fact, Qing Lian couldn't even use his ability to reconstruct his body and was directly killed.

This showed that Hao Duo's strength had already reached the true limit of a Quasi-Saint.

He could even pose a threat to Xiao Zhuo.

But it was only a threat.

Xiao Zhuo wielded the Great Dao of Time and Space, possessed the Legacy of the Primordial Great Saint's Spirit Group Divine Ability, and his own Free and Natural Heavenly Art was absolutely the strongest Cultivation Technique below a Saint.

He also stood at the very Peak among those below a Saint, and his combat power was even stronger than Hao Duo's, not weaker.

He was just curious about what Hao Duo planned to do if he couldn't find Red Heaven and Golden Source.

When Hao Duo had first taken him in, he had ulterior motives, and Xiao Zhuo suspected it was related to this Nirvana Realm.

Xiao Zhuo's figure once again merged into the Void Realm, following Hao Duo's departure.

On the other side, Hao Duo had left the far eastern boundary wall and had appeared above the Forbidden Sea.

He hovered in the Void Realm, his gaze sweeping around.

After a moment, he seemed to find a direction and transformed into a black light, plunging into the sea.

Xiao Zhuo's ethereal figure slowly appeared as well, watching Hao Duo disappear into the seawater, and followed him down.

The two figures successively rushed into the Forbidden Sea.

Hao Duo was in front, and as his figure passed, the surrounding seawater was easily parted.

From afar, countless sea beasts seemed to sense some great terror, and they all fled from this sea area.

This sea area was extremely deep, and the abyss below seemed much more profound than other areas of the Forbidden Sea.

But with the escape speed of a Quasi-Saint, Hao Duo quickly appeared at the bottom of a sea abyss.

At the pitch-black bottom of the abyss, a faint, pale light began to glow with Hao Duo's arrival.

A magnificent divine palace appeared at the bottom of the sea abyss.