302: Chapter 302: The True Phoenix's Nirvana

A line of fire streaked across the Void Realm, and wherever it passed, space silently split open, leaving behind a charred fissure.

Crimson-gold flames flowed along the edges of the fissure, unable to close for a long time, as if even the Heavenly Dao struggled to repair the wound scorched by the True Phoenix Flame!

In the bloody purgatory, those insidious demonic winds capable of eroding bones and dissolving souls, along with countless roaring, vicious demonic shadows, did not even have time to scream the moment they touched the line of fire; they were like thin paper thrown into a blazing inferno, instantly turning into wisps of green smoke, without even leaving a trace of ash behind—

Completely annihilated from between Heaven and Earth!

The line of fire did not slow down, like a judgment from the primordial era, precisely "cutting" into the core Law node of the Five Demons Killing Immortal Formation.

"Crack..."

A sound of shattering, extremely faint yet enough to make the five demons' souls tremble in terror, quietly resonated through Heaven and Earth.

This bloody purgatory, built by five Late Mahayana Stage powerhouses exhausting their demonic power and Laws, and which should have been indestructible, was easily torn apart by that slender crimson-gold line of fire, just like a hot knife cutting through butter!

The structure of the Formation collapsed inch by inch, and the violent backlash force surged back like a tsunami, instantly swallowing the five of them!

"Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!"

Five dull sounds of spitting blood rang out almost simultaneously.

The five demons, already severely injured by the breaking of the Formation, were now hit by this terrifying backlash force, and they all spat out large mouthfuls of pitch-black essence blood.

Their demonic power instantly became chaotic, their auras plummeted like a cliff, and their faces were filled with shock and despair.

In their eyes, there was no longer a trace of their previous arrogance and domineering nature; only fear that sank deep into their marrow remained, along with the ultimate awe of death!

They had thought Chu Changsheng was at the end of his rope and that their combined strength would be enough to suppress and kill him, but they never expected that he was still hiding such a terrifying trump card!

The True Phoenix Treasure Technique, which burns away all Laws, was naturally specialized in countering all insidious demonic powers.

Their proud Five Demons Killing Immortal Formation was fragile and vulnerable before this magnificent True Phoenix Flame!

"Retreat quickly!"

The leading demonic Elder reacted the fastest, roaring hoarsely with eyes splitting in anger.

He no longer cared about face or the mission; blood light surged around him, and his figure transformed into a miserable blood rainbow, about to flee in a panic into the distance.

The other four were also terrified, their souls flying away and spirits scattering, as they all unleashed their trump card escape techniques, turning into four streams of light and fleeing in all directions—

Wishing they could grow thousands of legs to escape from this god of slaughter wielding the True Phoenix Treasure Technique!

"Escape?"

Chu Changsheng's voice was as cold as frost, clearly reaching the ears of every demon through the surging crimson-gold flames, carrying a bone-chilling coldness, as if it were a soul-reaping sound from the Nine Netherworlds:

"Can you escape?"

Chu Changsheng's voice was as cold as ice, like a soul-reaping Sanskrit sound flowing from the deepest depths of the Nine Netherworlds Yellow Springs, every word tempered with bone-chilling coldness, exploding simultaneously in the ears of the five demons.

This coldness pierced through their eardrums and drilled straight into their Divine Souls, shaking them so violently that their escape lights instantly became chaotic, nearly freezing in mid-air.

Crimson-gold flames surged around him, and his figure was like a stream of light tearing through space and time, actually arriving before them despite starting later, instantly blocking the direct path of the demons' escape lights.

Without any superfluous flashy movements, he slowly extended his right hand—that hand which was still covered in blood and flesh, with bone splinters visibly protruding, was now wrapped in raging True Phoenix Flame; as the flames licked, it exuded a domineering aura that looked down upon the world.

Facing the terrified Elder with blood-red eyes, whose pupils had shrunk to the size of pinpricks, Chu Changsheng closed his five fingers slightly and lightly pressed down.

"Nirvana... Seal."

As the three words fell, they seemed to carry the primordial Dao rhyme of the beginning of Heaven and Earth.

A complex and profound ancient seal, woven from pure crimson-gold flames, appeared out of thin air before the Elder's brow.

Above the seal, a phantom of a True Phoenix circled and danced, stretching its neck and crying out; the terrifying Dao rhyme of burning Divine Souls and Nirvana extinction instantly permeated the area, pressing down until Heaven and Earth fell silent.

Puff—

The moment the seal fell, the demon's escape light suddenly stopped, as if firmly nailed down by invisible shackles.

He opened his eyes wide, his eyes churning with extreme fear and unwillingness, and his throat made a rattling sound, as if he had thousands of words he wanted to roar out, yet he couldn't even spit out half a syllable.

The next moment, crimson-gold flames erupted from the seal on his brow, instantly sweeping over his entire body like a prairie fire!

The miserable muffled groan was tightly choked in his throat; his entire body, along with the Divine Soul he had refined for ten thousand years, his indestructible demonic core, and even every trace of his existence in this life, dissolved inch by inch in that pure and violent True Phoenix Flame.

In the end, everything turned into the finest ash, drifting away with the wind between Heaven and Earth, without even a fragment of his remnant soul left behind.

Body and spirit destroyed!

Instant kill!

And the moment Chu Changsheng pressed out that seal, his figure had already transformed into a crimson-gold stream of light, appearing in another direction.

He looked at the demon fleeing wildly, not even daring to turn his head back, and flicked his finger.

Chi—

A spark of crimson-gold fire shot out, growing as it met the wind, instantly transforming into a palm-sized but incredibly majestic Fire Phoenix.

The Fire Phoenix chirped clearly, its feathers shimmering with brilliant light, its speed reaching the extreme, like a crimson-gold lightning bolt, instantly catching up to that person; immediately, like a meteor falling to the ground, it precisely plunged into his back.

"Ah——!!!"

A desperate, extremely miserable scream resounded through the sky; the person's massive demonic body suddenly stiffened in mid-air, and then crimson-gold flames rose from within.

The flames pierced through his body, burning his tendons and bones, devouring his Divine Soul; in just a few breaths, he followed in the footsteps of the blood-eyed Elder—

Turning into flying ash that filled the sky, dissipating without a trace.

Almost at the same time, short and miserable screams also came from the other three directions.

The sounds pierced through the Void Realm, but then stopped abruptly in an instant, as if they had never appeared, leaving only the crackling sound of the True Phoenix Flame burning the Void Realm.

The crimson-gold flames flashed and disappeared all over the battlefield, too fast for people to catch, fast like a fleeting crimson nightmare.

When Chu Changsheng's figure solidified again and hovered in mid-air, the five demons who had just been frightening to hear of had all fallen, leaving neither corpses nor bones, and their souls had flown away and spirits scattered!

Penta-kill!

Instant kill!

The whole process was breathtakingly fast, fast enough to make one's scalp tingle.

From the appearance of the True Phoenix Treasure Technique to the execution of the five demons, it was only a short two or three breaths of time!

Between Heaven and Earth, it was so dead silent that one could hear a pin drop.

Only the lingering warmth of the True Phoenix Flame was still scorching the Void Realm, making faint "crackling" sounds, and in the distance, the heavy, broken-bellows-like breathing of Saint Son Yao Wuyue, caused by extreme fear and despair, seemed particularly harsh in this dead silence.

All observers, whether friend or foe, felt a bone-chilling coldness rush from the soles of their feet to their crowns at this moment; their blood seemed to freeze, their scalps tingled, and their Divine Souls were so frozen they couldn't move.

"True Phoenix Treasure Technique!"

Another legendary supreme treasure technique!

And looking at the terror of its power, Chu Changsheng's mastery of this technique seemed to be no less than that of the True Dragon Precious Technique!

How exactly did he do it?

The opposing and conflicting powers of Dragon and Phoenix are a primordial taboo; how could he simultaneously control the treasure techniques of two Divine Beasts?

How many more trump cards and unknown secrets does he have?

Countless surging waves crashed in everyone's hearts, but no one dared to make a sound, fearing to disturb the figure standing in mid-air, covered in blood yet looking like a God of War descended to the world.

"Good! What a good True Phoenix Treasure Technique! What a good Chu Changsheng!"

Suddenly, high above in the sky, a deep and powerful angry shout, like the thunder of the Nine Heavens, exploded, forcefully breaking this deathly silence.

The one who spoke was none other than the Black Fiend Dragon King, dressed in a crimson dragon-patterned robe!

He took a step forward, and the Void Realm beneath his feet shook violently; spiderweb-like cracks spread in all directions, and the black dragon baleful Qi swirling around him surged and roared like a living creature, turning into thousands of hideous dragon shadows, baring fangs and brandishing claws, wanting to devour Heaven and Earth.

A pair of scarlet dragon eyes stared fixedly at Chu Changsheng below, who was wrapped in crimson-gold flames but whose aura was once again rapidly decaying; the killing intent almost solidified, turning into an invisible sharp blade, wanting to slice him into a thousand pieces!

"I thought you were just an ant who luckily obtained the True Dragon Legacy, but I didn't expect you to possess both Dragon and Phoenix techniques, touching upon a primordial taboo! Such a Heaven-Defying person must absolutely not be allowed to exist in this world!"

The Black Fiend Dragon King's voice rolled like thunder, carrying the pressure of destroying Heaven and extinguishing Earth, shaking the entire Heaven and Earth, changing the winds and clouds, and causing the sun and moon to lose their light.

On the other side, that Half-Step Immortal powerhouse whose aura was like an abyss and a mountain, and whose face was always shrouded in Chaos mist—Demon Venerable Yao Qingtian—also slowly spoke.

His voice was indifferent and ruthless, without a ripple, yet it sounded like a judgment from the Heavenly Dao, every word piercing the heart:

"Possessing heavy treasures is already an offense against the Heavenly taboo. Slaughtering Elders of my Myriad Demon Palace—this crime deserves death. Today, I, this King, will personally send you to your destruction."

The moment his voice fell, two terrifyingly peerless pressures, like two invisible great worlds falling from the Nine Heavens, descended with a boom!

In an instant, the winds and clouds rolled back, Heaven and Earth lost their color, and the flow of time seemed to slow down several times over.

On the battlefield, all Cultivators below the Undergoing Tribulation stage felt as if their chests were being crushed by billions of tons of giant rocks; breathing was difficult, and their Divine Souls felt like they were being pierced by thousands of steel needles, painful enough to make them want to shatter, and even their bodies were trembling, unable to stand upright.

When a Half-Step Immortal is enraged, Heaven and Earth change color!

The Black Fiend Dragon King and Demon Venerable Yao Qingtian, these two true high-level figures of the Myriad Demon Palace, giants standing at the Peak of this world, were finally completely enraged by Chu Changsheng's Heaven-Defying methods—and had developed the heart to kill him at all costs!

The crimson-gold flames around Chu Changsheng flickered violently under the terrifying pressure of the two Half-Step Immortals; their light dimmed by more than half, like a candle in the wind, as if they could be completely extinguished at any moment.

His broken body trembled even more violently; a fishy sweetness surged in his throat, and he once again spat out a large mouthful of blood mixed with pieces of internal organs.

Blood droplets splattered into the crimson-gold flames, sizzling and instantly being burned into nothingness.

His aura was weak to the extreme; his life fire was truly at the point of exhaustion, and the instant kill he had just performed by forcibly activating the True Phoenix Treasure Technique had almost overdrawn all his remaining vitality.

But he still stood tall.

Even if his body was tottering, even if his Divine Soul was on the verge of shattering, he still stood like a spear that had been tempered a thousand times and would never bend, standing proudly between Heaven and Earth—his spine straight, without a hint of bending.