248: Having exhausted their magic power, they broke into the forbidden area.

“No—!”

True Monarch Fu Hai let out a heart-wrenching roar!

His old face, twisted by greed, was now completely drained of color, leaving only ashen despair and madness.

He had fallen for it!

He had completely and utterly fallen for the trap!

This Little Beast was acting the entire time! He was not at the end of his rope at all!

All the weakness he had shown earlier was a carefully calculated bait, only to lure a greedy fish like himself to bite!

He had exploited his own eagerness to seize the great fortune of the heart of chaos origin, leading him step by step into this ancient killing formation that had already been seen through!

What a colossal humiliation!

He, True Monarch Fu Hai, had roamed the Endless Sea for thousands of years, serving as the leader of the Righteous Path Alliance. When had he ever suffered such ridicule?

To actually be played like a puppet by a Half-step Nascent Soul junior!

“Little Beast! Even if this old man dies, I will drag you down with me!”

True Monarch Fu Hai had gone completely mad.

The last trace of reason in his eyes was burned away by monstrous hatred and despair. He gave up on recalling his wailing Natal Dao Artifact and abandoned all possibilities of escape.

At this moment, the soul transformation dao fruit within True Monarch Fu Hai’s body, the crystallization of his thousands of years of cultivation and Dao, was resolutely ignited by him!

Boom!

A torrent of magic power, far more violent than ever before, filled with destruction and an aura of ending, erupted from his body like a roaring mountain and surging sea!

True Monarch Fu Hai’s Physical Body rapidly expanded at a visible speed. His skin, Meridians, and bones all cracked inch by inch, and dazzling deep-blue Divine Light burst forth from countless fissures.

He transformed into a blue sun about to explode, emanating a terrifying pressure that made even space tremble!

True Monarch Fu Hai was going to self-destruct!

The self-destruction of a peak Spirit Transformation Late Stage mighty figure, sacrificing all of his cultivation, Divine Soul, and Dao Fruit, possessed power sufficient to utterly shatter this already fragile Guixu space!

He wanted to drag everything around him, the five “allies” who were watching from the sidelines, and especially that Little Beast who had ruined his reputation, all into an abyss of eternal damnation!

“Madman!”

In the distance, Ji Changkong and Ancestor Xuan Ming, who were preparing to rush forward and grab a share, had their expressions drastically change. Their escape lights abruptly stopped in mid-air, tearing out piercing sonic booms.

Without a second thought, they frantically retreated backward, their eyes filled with horror and apprehension.

No one expected the situation to change so quickly, that True Monarch Fu Hai would be so decisive, directly choosing the most tragic and irreversible path of mutual destruction!

However, facing this threat capable of destroying everything.

A cold sneer flashed across Shen Yuanmo’s perpetually calm face.

“Want to self-destruct?”

“Have you asked my sword?”

The gray color of ending and annihilation on the blade of the great evolution immortal slaying sword in his hand brightened to its extreme at this moment, as if all the brilliance in the world had been swallowed by it.

There were no earth-shattering sword moves.

No world-destroying Sword Qi.

Shen Yuanmo simply slashed down with a plain, ordinary sword strike at the rapidly expanding body that was about to ignite heaven and earth.

This sword strike was silent, without light or shadow.

What it severed was neither the Physical Body nor the Divine Soul.

It ignored the surging destructive energy and the distorted space, in a posture that transcended Law and comprehension.

It directly cut into the invisible, intangible, yet truly existing Origin connection between True Monarch Fu Hai and his fiercely burning soul transformation dao fruit!

Crack!

A crisp snapping sound, not belonging to this material world, exploded deep within True Monarch Fu Hai’s Divine Soul!

Time seemed to freeze at this instant.

True Monarch Fu Hai, who was frantically expanding, had his world-destroying self-destruction momentum abruptly halt at the peak of its ascent.

The madness and determination on his face instantly solidified, replaced by an inexpressible blankness and emptiness.

True Monarch Fu Hai could clearly feel that he had completely lost all connection with the source of his cultivation, the Dao Fruit that had accompanied him for thousands of years.

That Dao Fruit was still within him, still burning, but it seemed to have become a dead object completely unrelated to him.

True Monarch Fu Hai had lost the right to detonate it.

And it was in this instant of rigidity that the sword light arrived silently.

That gray sword light lightly brushed across his neck, which was stiff from forcefully aborting the self-destruction, without raising the slightest trace of smoke or fire.

Pfft.

A large head shot into the sky, its face still retaining the last moments of blankness, incomprehension, and a hint of absurdity after comprehending life and death.

Immediately after, an unparalleled Sword Intent erupted within his body!

True Monarch Fu Hai’s headless massive body, along with his Dao Fruit that had just escaped his control and was still burning, was twisted, disintegrated, and annihilated inch by inch from the inside out by that destructive gray Sword Intent!

Life force, Dao marks, all traces of existence, were completely erased from this world by this single sword strike!

Another Spirit Transformation Late Stage mighty figure! Fallen!!

Killing two peak Spirit Transformation Late Stage mighty figures consecutively!

Shen Yuanmo’s astonishing and shocking battle record extinguished most of the greed and fury burning in the hearts of the five pursuers behind him!

What remained was a bone-deep chill and hair-raising terror!

But at the same time, Shen Yuanmo also paid a huge price for this.

Two consecutive uses of killer moves that surpassed his own limits, especially the final activation of the killing formation and slaying another Soul Transformation, almost completely drained the magic power in his body!

His throat sweetened, a mouthful of blood surged up, but he forcefully swallowed it back down.

Crack!

A crisp, unbearable cracking sound echoed.

The Chaos brilliance on the surface of his majestic and ferocious great five elements destruction glazed armor completely dimmed, and clear, spiderweb-like cracks spread from his chest, as if it would completely disintegrate into fragments in the next moment.

Shen Yuanmo’s face was as pale as snow, without a trace of color.

His figure swayed violently in mid-air, making it incredibly difficult to even maintain flight, almost causing him to fall from the sky.

He had reached his limit.

This time, he was truly at the end of his rope!

“He’s done for! Kill him! This time he’s really done for!”

Imperial Uncle of Great Qian Ji Changkong was the first to break free from that immense fear. His eyes burst forth with unprecedented brilliance, and greed once again overcame fear!

He saw it!

That powerful Dao Artifact battle armor was already on the verge of shattering, and this villain’s magic power was definitely at rock bottom! His current weakness was absolutely not a disguise!

heart of chaos origin!

How could such a Heaven-Defying divine object be coveted by a mere Half-step Nascent Soul?

Now was his weakest moment!

“Kill him! Seize back the divine object!” Ji Changkong roared sharply.

Old Monster Cang Xuan, Ancestor Xuan Ming, Dragon Emperor Ao Guang, and even Solitary City Ye, whose Sword Intent was wavering.

At this moment, driven by the supreme fortune of the heart of chaos origin, the flames of greed reignited in their eyes!

This was an opportunity not to be missed, a fleeting chance!

Shen Yuanmo forcefully suppressed the surging Qi and blood within him, not even glancing at the completely vanished True Monarch Fu Hai.

With a casual wave, he grabbed the dim Spirit Light of the Fu Hai Divine Seal and a storage ring, and without looking back, transformed into a tottering streak of light, frantically rushing towards the only exit of Guixu Divine Palace, the direction he had come from!

“Where are you fleeing to!”

“Little Beast, today you have no path to heaven, no door to earth!”

Seeing this, Ji Changkong and the others, unwilling to let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, each transformed into five piercing rainbows, chasing after him even faster than before!

The exit of Guixu Divine Palace, that massive azure space vortex, was already right before his eyes!

As long as he could rush out and return to the Endless Sea, with the vast sky and boundless sea, he would still have a glimmer of hope for survival!

A resolute glint flashed in Shen Yuanmo’s eyes as he desperately squeezed out his magic power, increasing his speed by another third!

Finally, just before the five world-destroying attacks from behind were about to reach him, he plunged headfirst out of that azure space vortex!

Light and shadow shifted.

The familiar, salty and moist sea breeze blew in his face.

Endless Sea! He had escaped back!

However, before Shen Yuanmo’s taut heart could relax for a moment, the instant he saw the scene before him, his pupils sharply contracted to the size of a needlepoint!

Beyond the exit of Guixu Divine Palace, it was no longer the calm sea area from before.

A vast, boundless black storm, as if capable of devouring heaven and earth, lay before him, slowly moving!

The storm reached the sky above and extended into the deep sea below. Within it was pure, light-devouring blackness.

Billions of black space cracks, billions of times thinner than hair, appeared and disappeared within it, emitting a “hissing” sound that made one’s Divine Soul freeze.

Wherever the storm passed, seawater was evaporated, reefs were crushed, and even light and Divine Sense could not penetrate it in the slightest.

It was a realm of absolute death, abandoned by the world!

annihilation space storm!

One of the three great forbidden lands of the Endless Sea!

A forbidden zone where even Great Perfection of Soul Transformation Cultivators who entered would surely die!

“Damn it!” Shen Yuanmo’s heart instantly sank to rock bottom at this moment.

The opening of Guixu Divine Palace had actually triggered the outbreak of this forbidden land!

Now he faced a death trap ahead and pursuers behind!

Just then, five figures filled with monstrous killing intent rushed out of the space vortex behind him, one after another!

When they saw the black storm, representing absolute death, and the dispirited, pale-faced figure in green robes before the storm, they were first stunned, then cruel, savage grins appeared on their faces.

“Hahaha! Heaven truly helps me! Heaven wants you dead; it’s not a crime of war!”

Ji Changkong laughed wildly towards the sky, his voice filled with the pleasure of controlling everything.

“Little Beast, with a dead end ahead and pursuers behind! Let’s see where you can escape this time!”

“Hand over the heart of chaos origin, and this Venerable can give you a quick death and leave your corpse intact!” Ancestor Xuan Ming let out a sinister, strange laugh, as if he had already seen Shen Yuanmo kneeling and begging for mercy.

The Domains of the five powerful experts, like five invisible walls, locked onto Shen Yuanmo from five directions, completely cutting off all his escape routes.

A desperate situation!

A truly desperate situation, with no path to heaven and no door to earth!

However, just when everyone thought Shen Yuanmo was doomed and about to break down mentally.

Shen Yuanmo slowly raised his head.

On his pale face, there was no despair; instead, he pulled out a cold and insane arc.

“Escape?”

“Who said I was going to escape?”

The moment his voice fell, under the instantly frozen, utterly terrified gazes of Ji Changkong and the others.

Shen Yuanmo resolutely turned around and actively plunged headfirst into that black storm, capable of annihilating all living beings!

His figure, without the slightest hesitation, was instantly completely swallowed by the endless darkness and destruction.