347: After the oriole, there is the hunter.

"The divine treasury key rightfully belongs to this Venerable One!"

Accompanied by that venomous, ear-piercing laugh, enough to scratch one's Divine Soul, a gigantic bone claw ignored the obstruction of space.

In an instant, it had appeared above the beast hide map, fiercely grabbing down at it!

Before the pale white finger bones truly descended, the Death Law it carried had already compressed the space below, distorting and indenting it, forming a visible black vortex.

An aura of destruction surged forth.

It seemed that the divine treasury key, representing supreme Opportunity and capable of driving countless powerful beings mad, was about to fall into the hands of this mysterious old monster.

Deep within the clouds above the Nine Heavens, Shen Yuanmo still made no move.

His gaze pierced through the cloud cover, overlooking everything below, his eyes as indifferent as a Heavenly God watching a farce whose ending was already known.

Just as the pale white fingertips of the sinister bone claw were about to touch the beast hide map.

An anomaly occurred again!

"Hmph! How dare a sneaky rat act presumptuously before this King!"

A cold snort, not quite a sound, but more like a Nine Heavens divine lightning bolt, exploded without warning in the deepest part of every living being's Divine Soul!

This voice contained an undeniable dominance and majesty, a kingly aura that commanded the world!

Immediately after!

A massive fist print, entirely scarlet and seemingly condensed from the purest Flame Law, tore through ten thousand miles of sky!

It swept across from the distant eastern horizon!

Above the fist print, raging flames soared, and where the fist pointed, the Void Realm in front was scorched, collapsing inch by inch, twisting and deforming, as if it would completely incinerate and boil this entire world!

The terrifying pressure emanating from it was in no way weaker than that sinister bone claw!

Another Half-step Void Return!

Boom—!!!

The scarlet fist print and the sinister bone claw fiercely collided in mid-air!

There was no earth-shattering roar as expected.

The world, at this moment, fell into dead silence.

Only a ripple of energy, interwoven with pure deathly gray and blazing firelight, silently spread out in all directions!

Silence is the ultimate destruction!

Wherever the ripple passed, within a hundred-mile radius of the primeval forest, whether it was ancient trees requiring dozens of people to embrace or indestructible towering rocks.

All were silently pulverized into dust under that violent energy!

The earth was forcibly scraped away by a layer a hundred zhang thick!

For hundreds of miles around, the entire area trembled and wailed violently under this single blow!

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

The Loose Cultivators and Yun Family survivors below, who were already immobilized by the pressure, couldn't even let out a scream under the impact of the terrifying energy aftermath.

Their bodies were instantly shattered into a sky full of blood mist.

Then, even the blood mist was completely evaporated and annihilated by the extreme high temperature and Death Qi!

An instant, total annihilation!

Only that Void Shadow Leopard at Great Perfection of Soul Transformation, its survival instinct overriding the fear deep within its Soul.

The moment the collision occurred, its form suddenly blurred, and it desperately burned its Origin.

It forcefully merged into a deeper spatial interlayer, narrowly avoiding the core of the deadly shockwave.

But even so, it was still grazed by the edge of the sweeping aftermath.

A shriek, unlike a beast's roar, echoed through the clouds. Its massive body was forcefully blasted thousands of zhang out of the spatial interlayer, crashing into the depths of a distant mountain range.

The mountain collapsed with a roar, dust shot into the sky, its fate unknown!

"Scarlet Flame Lion King! How dare you ruin this Venerable One's good deed!"

That hoarse, venomous voice, due to this attack, became shocked and furious!

In the sky, the black rift was torn wider again by the violent energy!

A terrifying figure, clad in a wide black robe, with only a skeletal body remaining and two clusters of eerie green ghost flames burning in its eye sockets, slowly emerged from the rift.

He was the owner of that bone claw, the Old Demon White Bone.

A bone demon who had Cultivated for countless years, transforming from death to life, and stepping into the Half-step Void Return Realm!

And on the eastern horizon opposite him, a massive fire cloud also appeared, dyeing half the sky a magnificent scarlet.

Above the fire cloud, a mighty male lion, also over a hundred zhang in size, burning with fierce flames all over its body, its mane flowing like molten lava, was slowly approaching with elegant yet majestic steps.

Every step it took in the Void Realm left behind an unceasingly burning flame imprint that lingered for a long time.

The Scarlet Flame Lion King!

Another overlord of this mountain range!

Also a terrifying existence at the Half-step Void Return level!

"Old Demon White Bone, when did it become your turn, you maggot from the gutter, to run wild in this territory?"

The Scarlet Flame Lion King's voice was full of kingly dominance and disdain.

"Since this divine treasury key appeared in this King's territory, then it belongs to this King!"

"Bullshit!"

The Old Demon White Bone was so enraged that his Soul fire flared three feet high, the eerie green flames almost gushing from his eye sockets as he cursed loudly.

"You stupid lion who only knows how to bask in the sun! This treasure was clearly discovered by this Venerable One first! How dare you try to snatch it from this Venerable One?!"

"What if I snatch it?"

The Scarlet Flame Lion King glanced at him disdainfully, two streams of scorching fire spewing from its nostrils, burning two holes in the Void Realm.

"Dissatisfied?"

"Then let's fight!"

"Fight then! Do you think I'm afraid of you?!"

The Old Demon White Bone roared, Death Qi soaring around him, transforming into gray-black venomous tornadoes, contending equally with the sky-filling firelight!

Two terrifying Half-step Void Return existences confronted each other from a distance in mid-air.

Terrifying Qis collided wildly in the Void Realm, causing the entire world to change color, with lightning flashing and thunder rumbling, and Laws becoming chaotic!

A great battle was on the verge of breaking out!

And just as the attention of the two Half-step Void Return powerhouses was focused on each other.

No one noticed.

The divine treasury key, which should have been the center of the storm, causing two Half-step Void Return powerhouses to fight fiercely and countless beings to turn into ashes.

Was, under the cover of the energy turbulence from that earth-shattering collision just now.

Gently swept away by a barely perceptible wisp of Chaos Qi, seemingly completely integrated with the surrounding chaotic spatial fluctuations.

Silently, it vanished from its original spot.

High in the sky, deep within the clouds.

Shen Yuanmo played with the ancient beast hide map he had just acquired, his expression indifferent.

The map was extremely light to the touch, with a peculiar texture; it felt less like beast hide and more like some kind of warm jade.

The faint spatial Law fluctuations on it were now clearly perceptible at his fingertips.

He didn't even need to use his Insight into Origin talent anymore to clearly feel the Dao-Grade spatial beacon hidden within, pointing towards an unknown divine treasury.