880: Chapter 881 Did I let you leave?!

"Your Dao power... how can it be so condensed and robust?"

Hall Master Li Gu growled in a low voice, his tone filled with shock and wariness.

When ordinary Cultivators break through, their Dao power is inevitably superficial and their Foundation unstable, requiring a long time to settle and polish.

Yet Heavenly King Chi Xiao showed not a single trace of the instability typical of a new Breakthrough; instead, his Dao power was heavy, condensed, pure, and overbearing.

It was as if he had already sat securely at the Third-level Heavenly Venerate Realm for countless years, his accumulation unfathomably deep!

Heavenly King Chi Xiao's gaze was indifferent as he remained silent.

Other people's Breakthroughs were a gradual, step-by-step ascent built up over time.

But his Breakthrough was a complete transformation, born from tens of millions of years of accumulated Foundation after being stuck at the ultimate Bottleneck!

It was a perfect Breakthrough blessed by the Supreme Heavenly Scripture!

His Third-level Heavenly Venerate Realm seemed one level lower than Hall Master Li Gu's, but in truth, his combat power, accumulation, and Dao Heart crushed those of the same Realm in every single aspect.

Before Hall Master Li Gu could react, Heavenly King Chi Xiao was already on the Move.

Without any superfluous Moves, he simply took a single step forward, and his figure crossed ten thousand miles of the Chaos Void. His speed was at the absolute limit, leaving behind a trail of crimson afterimages.

In an instant, he appeared right before Hall Master Li Gu. His iron fist, covered in the Slaughter Battle Armor, carried a world-destroying power as it smashed directly toward the other's head!

Even before the fist arrived, the incomparably overbearing slaughter Dao-might had already locked down all of Hall Master Li Gu's evasion space, cutting off every path of retreat!

Hall Master Li Gu's expression changed drastically, and a trace of horror flashed in his eyes. He no longer dared to harbor even the slightest bit of contempt.

"Presumptuous!"

He barked furiously, and the gray fog of deathly silence around him instantly collapsed inward, completely pouring into the dark-gray bone armor covering his body.

Crack, crack, crack—

Layer upon layer of thick bone armor stacked and rapidly condensed, its surface manifesting ancient and eerie skeletal patterns.

It exuded an ultimate defensive power. At the same time, countless bone blades sprouted from the Void Realm, swirling around his body to form an airtight bone-blade slaughter array, combining offense and defense into one!

His cultivation at the Fourth-level Heavenly Venerate erupted completely, and his Laws of Deathly Silence operated at full power, suppressing the surrounding Chaos!

Clang—!!!

The iron fist smashed violently into the center of the bone armor, sending an ear-splitting metallic boom exploding through the sky.

The terrifying force instantly swept through Hall Master Li Gu's entire body along the bone armor. The thick, solid bone armor immediately dented and burst, with cobweb-like cracks instantly spreading across the entire suit of armor.

Pfft!

Hall Master Li Gu's body shook violently. A sweet taste rose in his throat, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of gray essence blood.

His body flew backward uncontrollably and frantically, smashing through countless barriers of Chaos along the way.

He was horrified to the extreme. His blood surged wildly, and sharp, tearing pains radiated from his Dao body.

This power was simply not a combat strength that a Third-level Heavenly Venerate should possess!

Even a powerhouse at the Peak of the Fourth-level Heavenly Venerate might not necessarily possess such an overbearing and pure Physical Body slaughtering power!

"Heavenly King Chi Xiao! You hid your cultivation?!"

Hall Master Li Gu stabilized his backward-flying body and roared through gritted teeth, his eyes filled with malice and wariness.

He was absolutely certain that the person before him was no longer the taciturn Heavenly King Chi Xiao who had been stuck at the Peak of the Heavenly King Realm in the past.

After breaking through today, he had undergone a complete metamorphosis, possessing sky-shattering combat power!

Heavenly King Chi Xiao stood in the Void Realm, his robes fluttering. His expression was completely calm as he looked down indifferently at the battered and injured Hall Master Li Gu:

"Whether I hid it or not, you will know once you try."

As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his hand and clenched it.

Buzz—!!

The crimson-gold slaughter power filling the sky gathered rapidly, condensing in his palm into a long, narrow, and sharp blood-colored battle spear.

Dao runes capable of severing all laws flowed across the shaft of the spear, and its tip gleamed with a chilling light, exuding a sky-high killing intent. Just the aura it emitted caused the surrounding Chaos to completely freeze.

The moment the slaughter battle spear took shape, the killing intent in the entire Void Realm soared to its Peak.

Seeing this, Hall Master Li Gu's heart sank completely, and he no longer dared to hold back even a fraction of his strength.

His hands quickly formed hand seals, and obscure, ancient incantations resounded through heaven and earth.

"Silent Bone Prison, Ten Thousand Bones Devour the Heavens!"

Rumble—

In the depths of the endless Chaos, countless pale-white skeletons burst out from the ground, layering over one another and blanketing the sky.

They closed in from all directions, instantly constructing an boundless bone prison of deathly silence.

"I'd like to see how you, a newly ascended Heavenly Venerate, will break my Ten Thousand Bone Prison!"

Hall Master Li Gu's eyes were crimson, his killing intent boiling as he mobilized the bone prison with all his might to crush downward.

The sky-blotting white bones pressed down ruthlessly toward Heavenly King Chi Xiao, intending to trap and kill him, grinding him into dust!

Facing this ultimate killing Move that was enough to trap and kill a Fourth-level Heavenly Venerate, Heavenly King Chi Xiao stood in the center of the bone prison holding his blood-colored battle spear, his expression still calm without any panic.

He slowly raised his hand, pointing his battle spear diagonally toward the heavens.

"I cultivate the Slaughter Dao; in my life, I have severed all laws and shattered all illusions."

"How dare mere skeletal illusions attempt to trap me?"

Though it was a soft shout, it contained the ultimate confidence of tens of millions of years of slaughter Dao Heart!

The next moment, Heavenly King Chi Xiao violently swung his spear!

Boom!!!

A crimson-gold spear glow spanning tens of thousands of miles pierced through the air—sharp, overbearing, and pure!

No complex Profound Truths, no fancy variations, only the ultimate slaughter that forged ahead to shatter everything!

The blinding spear glow instantly tore through layers of white bone barriers. Those fiercely malevolent bone Dragons, bone soldiers, and bone mountains...

...were as fragile as thin paper before this spear glow, instantly crumbling into a sky full of flying ash!

The Ten Thousand Bone Prison that enveloped heaven and earth was completely shattered with a single spear strike!

With undiminished momentum, the crimson-gold spear glow carried an unrivaled power as it whistled straight toward the pale-faced Hall Master Li Gu!

Witnessing the crimson-gold spear glow that tore through heaven and earth, Hall Master Li Gu was so terrified that his soul almost scattered.

In his haste, he poured all of his life's cultivation into the battered bone armor on his chest, resisting with all his might.

"Boom—!!!"

The moment the spear glow slashed down, the bone armor cracked inch by inch, and the terrifying force directly penetrated his body.

It blasted him backward like a shooting star, smashing him heavily into the turbulent currents of Chaos ten thousand miles away.

He struggled to climb up, his chest caved in, wild spurts of gray bone-blood spraying from his mouth as his aura instantly withered to the absolute extreme.

"How is this possible... I am completely no match for him..."

Flee! He had to flee!

This thought flashed like lightning through his remaining sanity. If he stayed any longer, he would undoubtedly die today!

With this thought, a glint of decisiveness and madness flashed in Hall Master Li Gu's eyes. He suddenly clawed his hands toward his own crown and tore ruthlessly!

"With my ten thousand years of dao foundation, I burn my Divine Soul Origin—Forbidden Art: Bone Escape!"

The skin all over his body cracked inch by inch, and countless gray-white bone dust burned, mixed with essence blood.

It transformed into a ball of eerie ghostly fire, enveloping his battered body as he prepared to forcibly tear open the Void Realm and flee!

This forbidden art was extremely overbearing. Once cast, it would greatly reduce one's Lifespan, but in exchange, it granted an almost unresolvable escape speed that could cover ten thousand miles in an instant!

The ghostly fire flashed, and Hall Master Li Gu's figure was already ten thousand miles away, seemingly on the verge of completely disappearing into the depths of Chaos.

However, at the very instant he was about to escape into a crack in the Void Realm, a hand that was white as jade, slender, and perfect...

...reached out from who knows where, lightly slapping down from beyond the Void Realm.

"Slap!"

A crisp, resounding slap echoed through the Chaos.

Hall Master Li Gu, who was in the middle of casting his forbidden art and fleeing for his life, was like a fly swatted by an invisible giant hand.

He tumbled violently out of his high-speed escape light, rolling over and over in an extremely wretched state.

Half of his cheek was a bloody mess with shattered bones. He was slapped so dizzy that his Divine Soul was almost scattered.

Immediately after, a cold, indifferent voice drifted over, ringing clearly in his ears:

"Did I say you could leave?"