79: Hunting the Overlord

As the Void Realm surrounding the Taishi Space was torn open by Immortal Master Azure Heaven's sword light, creating dark fissures, Xiao Zhuo's hand seals suddenly intensified!

"Go!"

The golden Taishi Space, carrying the Demon Abyss Passage, instantly completely separated from the Yuan Realm, as if dragged by an invisible giant hand, and plunged into the depths of the profound and violent spatial rift!

The edges of the spatial fissures twisted violently, rippling as if alive, slowly wriggling and closing, as if heaven and earth were naturally healing this hideous wound.

Just as the fissure was about to close completely—

Xiao Zhuo's finger seals flipped like lightning!

"Unleash!"

With a low shout, the Taishi Space that had plunged into darkness disintegrated with a roar, transforming into a sky full of brilliant golden starlight!

The vast golden glow, carrying the immense Divine Thought previously imbued by Immortal Master Azure Heaven, surged back like a breached flood!

At the same time, the Demon Abyss Passage, exiled to the depths of the fissure, trembled violently!

"Boom—!!!"

Terrifying Devilish Qi, viscous as ink and containing endless malevolence, erupted wildly like a venomous dragon suppressed for eons, instantly dyeing that dark Void Realm a murky purplish-black!

However, all this struggle was futile!

The closing spatial barrier, like the most solid dam, firmly blocked the surging Devilish Qi outside the fissure, not a single trace able to seep back into the Yuan Realm!

Xiao Zhuo and Immortal Master Azure Heaven's gazes met, and both saw a look of relief in each other's eyes.

Immortal Master Azure Heaven's brows, which had been tightly furrowed for two thousand years and etched with the vicissitudes of time, finally completely relaxed.

The wrinkles between his brows seemed to be smoothed by an invisible force, and a warm, flowing light faintly shimmered within them.

He slowly raised his hand, his long and well-defined fingers, with a barely perceptible tremor, gently rested on Xiao Zhuo's shoulder, his voice low but heavy as a thousand jun: "The Karma accumulated by the Taiyi Sect for a thousand years... today, it ends because of you. This kindness is heavier than mountains! From now on, no matter where you are, even in the Nine Netherworld, if you have any request, this old man... will not refuse even if it means ten thousand deaths!"

"Immortal Master, you overstate it. This Junior merely acted according to the situation and contributed a small effort," Xiao Zhuo bowed in return, the dark gold patterns embroidered on his sleeves fluttering in the turbulent airflow.

Immortal Master Azure Heaven looked at him deeply, said no more, but let out a long sigh and turned to walk back the way he came.

Xiao Zhuo followed closely and asked, "The Demon Abyss has been eliminated. May I ask, Senior, what are your plans next?"

"The Taiyi Sect shall naturally return to the world!" Immortal Master Azure Heaven's answer was firm and without hesitation.

"Then... before the Taiyi Sect officially returns," Xiao Zhuo's eyes flickered slightly, "could Senior tell me the current location of those two Demons who escaped earlier?"

"Oh?" Immortal Master Azure Heaven paused his steps slightly, looked sideways, "You want to pursue and kill them yourself?" He raised an eyebrow, then nodded understandingly, "Very well. Blood Night and Charm Without Color are both equivalent to Dominator Rank Middle Stage, possessing considerable strength and strange methods. They are indeed the best whetstones for you right now."

Xiao Zhuo heard this, and a barely perceptible arc curved at the corner of his mouth, but he did not explain.

Whetstones? What he valued were the massive Attribute Points contained within these two "stones"!

Returning to Taiji Hall, Immortal Master Azure Heaven waved his sleeve, and a clear light screen unfolded out of thin air.

On the light screen, more than twenty light spots of various sizes were scattered like stars on the Cloud Heaven Realm map.

Among them, two blood-red light spots were the most striking and dazzling!

At this moment, they were not gathered together, but like headless flies, they roamed separately across the vast Cloud Heaven Realm, seemingly searching anxiously for something.

The other smaller light spots represented scattered surviving members of the Human Race (such as Sun Yu and other Juniors who had been separated) and the remaining King-rank Demons.

Immortal Master Azure Heaven took out a warm Jade Slip, divine light flowing from his fingertips, and several profound runes were imprinted into it, then he threw it to Xiao Zhuo: "Xiao Zhuo, this Jade Slip has been inscribed by me with the core runes of the cloud heaven mirror. You only need to input your True Yuan to activate the map and pinpoint those two beasts. Go ahead and do as you please. With this old man guarding this realm, even if you are outmatched, with a single thought, I can teleport you back!"

"Thank you, Immortal Master!" Xiao Zhuo took the Jade Slip and bowed respectfully, his assessment of Immortal Master Azure Heaven's strength rising another level in his heart.

Withdrawing the terrifying Divine Thought that suppressed the Demon Abyss, and then wielding a Sacred Artifact like the cloud heaven mirror... Immortal Master Azure Heaven at this moment had probably truly controlled the entire Cloud Heaven Realm!

With such strength, he wondered whether the legendary Three Demon Ancestors of the Yao-Mo Clan were stronger or weaker than Immortal Master Azure Heaven?

However, these thoughts merely flashed through his mind.

Xiao Zhuo bid farewell to Immortal Master Azure Heaven, and the moment he stepped out of Taiji Hall, his entire being transformed into a golden lightning bolt tearing through the sky, speeding towards the southwest!

Southwest, deep within the ancient forest.

Charm Without Color sat curled up on a giant rock covered with greenish-black moss, her bare jade feet unconsciously crushing half a withered leaf.

The fresh scent of grass and trees mixed with the damp, cold mist permeated her nostrils, but it could not dispel the gloom and anxiety in her heart.

She had almost turned this Small World upside down, yet she had not found even the slightest spatial weak point for escape.

The world barrier of this realm was despairingly solid; even if she exerted her full Dominator Rank Middle Stage power, she could not shake it in the slightest!

Now, she could only wait anxiously here for Blood Night, as they had agreed beforehand.

In the entire Cloud Heaven Realm, only the two of them remained as Dominators on the Demon side, a predicament worse than ever before!

Whenever she recalled that colossal palm that had blotted out the sky and crushed nine Dominators with a single strike, she couldn't help but feel her Soul tremble!

Such power... she had only felt it from the Ancestors!

Buzz!

A chain ornament made of tiny bones on her wrist suddenly trembled violently!

Charm Without Color was startled and looked up sharply!

She saw the thick clouds above her head being brutally torn open by a domineering golden light, creating a huge crack!

"Who?!" Charm Without Color shrieked, and Devilish Qi erupted from her body! The bone chain on her wrist instantly disintegrated and reassembled, transforming into a black bone whip covered in ferocious barbs, which she clutched tightly in her hand!

A pair of eerie purple eyes were fixed on the golden light that tore through the clouds!

The next moment!

Rip—!

From within the golden light, a magnificent Saber Qi, seemingly condensed from the Nine Heavens thunder, carrying the domineering will to cut through everything, tore through the lingering clouds along its path and slashed down towards the giant rock where she was!

Almost at the same instant the Saber Qi appeared, Charm Without Color's bone whip in hand shot out like a venomous dragon emerging from the sea, letting out a sonic boom-like shriek!

The whip's shadow swelled against the wind, carrying the power to tear through the Void Realm, and fiercely lashed out at the golden Saber Qi!

Boom—!!!

The Saber Qi and the bone whip collided violently in mid-air!

Amidst the deafening clang of metal, thousands of dazzling sparks exploded like fireworks!

A visible circular shockwave suddenly spread out, shaking the sea of clouds above into a boiling turmoil, and sending leaves fluttering like rain in the ancient forest below!

Stalemate!

For less than a breath!

"Crack!"

The bone whip let out a wail, actually being forcefully repelled by the Saber Qi that contained supreme thunder power! The thunderous Saber Qi's momentum slightly decreased, but it still carried the domineering Saber Intent to destroy heaven and earth, slashing down towards Charm Without Color!

"Hmph!" Charm Without Color snorted coldly, her bare foot stomping on the giant rock, and her figure retreated rapidly like a ghost! Where her purple silk dress swept past, the ground violently churned!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Countless thick, thorny, poisonous vines burst out of the ground, instantly weaving into a death jungle!

The surface of the vines secreted a foul-smelling, viscous poison that dripped onto the ground, making sizzling sounds and corroding the rocky ground with rising smoke!

Xiao Zhuo's eyes were as cold as lightning, and the vast True Yuan within his body instantly converged frantically towards his left index finger!

The Heaven-Shattering Finger was ready to be unleashed!

His right hand's dragon blood saber was retracted, but his figure did not stop, transforming into an indiscernible golden electric light, ignoring the myriad of waving poisonous vines, chasing after Charm Without Color!

Innumerable giant vines, like awakened demonic snakes, with piercing whooshing sounds, coiled and lashed at Xiao Zhuo's figure from all directions!

However, Xiao Zhuo's figure only left a blurry afterimage in its original spot!

Instant Flash!

His true body had ghost-like passed through layers of vine blockade, suddenly appearing above the rapidly retreating Charm Without Color's head!

"Space Shattering Mark!"

A palm strike descended! The profound power of the Great Void Bright Palm was unleashed to its extreme by Xiao Zhuo at this moment!

Buzz!

The space around Charm Without Color instantly became like solidified amber! An invisible yet irresistible terrifying force firmly confined her evasion space!

"Damn Human Race! Do you really think this old lady is made of mud?!"

Seeing no escape, a hint of ferocity and determination flashed across Charm Without Color's alluring face! She suddenly opened her crimson lips—

Buzz!

A perfectly round primordial elixir burning with an eerie purple demonic flame instantly spewed from her mouth, hovering in front of her!

A terrifying energy fluctuation, capable of incinerating mountains and boiling seas, was rapidly brewing and compressing within the core of the primordial elixir!

"Haha! Just in time! You're really in a hurry to die!"

Xiao Zhuo, seeing this, was not alarmed but overjoyed, his eyes bursting with sharp light! His left index finger, which had already accumulated power to its peak, pointed out decisively!

"Heaven-Shattering Finger!"

Whoosh—!

A stream of black and white light, condensed to the extreme, as if capable of piercing through Yin and Yang, tore through space, instantly crossing a hundred meters! Its target was directly the core of the primordial elixir that was condensing destructive demonic flames!

"No—!!!" Charm Without Color's pupils constricted, letting out a desperate shriek!

Rumble rumble rumble—!!!!!!

An indescribably terrifying explosion erupted between the two!

A giant mushroom cloud, a mixture of purple-black demonic flames and destructive energy, shot into the sky!

The incomparably violent shockwave, like a world-ending tide, swept wildly in all directions from the center of the explosion!

Rumble rumble—!

The primitive forest spanning more than ten li was instantly flattened as if by an invisible giant hand!

Towering ancient trees turned to dust, hills and giant rocks were leveled! The scorching hot airwave and shockwave violently flung Xiao Zhuo, who was in mid-air, away!

Rip!

His clothes were instantly torn and mostly incinerated, revealing strong but heavily charred and burned skin underneath, with wisps of green smoke rising from the wounds.

Charm Without Color's primordial elixir was decisively detonated by his charged finger, its power almost equivalent to the full self-detonation of a Dominator Rank Middle Stage Demon!

Even though Xiao Zhuo had cultivated his Purgatory Demonic Body to the Dominator Rank level, making his Physical Body incomparably strong, and he was not at the core of the explosion, he still felt his Qi and blood churning, his internal organs shaking, and suffered some superficial injuries.

However, with his abnormal life recovery ability, these minor injuries would heal in an instant.

Xiao Zhuo stabilized his figure, and under his charred skin, flesh grew and regenerated at a visible speed.

He casually took out a green robe from his storage space and put it on, his powerful Divine Sense, like invisible tentacles, instantly probed towards the center of the explosion, which was still shrouded in violent energy and thick smoke.

The panel had not yet given a kill notification, so this succubus... must still be barely alive!

"Tsk, this really is... a bit too gruesome to look at," the feedback from his Divine Sense made Xiao Zhuo raise an eyebrow.

At the bottom of the huge crater at the explosion's core, he "saw" Charm Without Color.

This once enchanting and seductive Dominator succubus now had half of her head missing, revealing charred skull and some brain tissue.

Her body was only left with the part above her chest, and it was all carbonized black!

With her primordial elixir shattered, she had lost her source of power, and her Physical Body's repair ability was weakened to the extreme.

On her charred remains, only faint flesh was struggling to wriggle, but it couldn't even push open that hard carbonized outer shell, appearing incredibly miserable.

With a wave of Xiao Zhuo's hand, a powerful hurricane formed out of thin air, blowing away the purple demonic flames burning on the broken branches and dead wood in the deep pit.

He flashed, landing five steps in front of Charm Without Color's remains.

"Don't... don't kill... me..." Sensing the fatal killing intent, Charm Without Color's remaining half-face, her once captivating purple eyes, now held only extreme fear and pleading, her voice hoarse like a broken gong, "My Lord... spare me... this slave... is willing to surrender... to be your slave for all eternity... this slave... is skilled in... Soul-corroding and Soul-destroying secret arts... will surely..."

Hiss!

Her plea was not yet finished when a golden spike, condensed from pure Divine Thought, pierced through her shattered head like lightning!

Completely ending her last trace of vitality and unsaid flattery!

"Killed a Dominator Rank succubus, gained Attribute Points 64712."

A cold system prompt sounded in Xiao Zhuo's consciousness.

A hint of disdain flashed in his eyes as he withdrew his Divine Sense. Even on the verge of death, she still tried to use such crude methods to bewitch his mind, truly... wishful thinking.

Immediately, he took out the Jade Slip given by Immortal Master Azure Heaven, preparing to check the location of the other Demon, "Blood Night."

However, just as the Jade Slip map screen unfolded before him—

A nauseatingly thick smell of blood suddenly permeated the heavens and earth!

Xiao Zhuo suddenly looked up!

He saw that the southwestern horizon had, at some unknown point, been completely stained by a viscous, churning crimson blood cloud!

That blood cloud, like a boiling sea of blood, was sweeping wildly towards the scorched earth ruins where he was, with an overwhelming momentum!