344: Chapter 344 Tearing the Red-Haired Fire Slave Apart, the Ascension Jade Tablet is Finally Completed!

The massive, fiery red iron hammer carried a rolling heat wave, smashing down toward Su Yang's head in an instant.

The air was violently distorted by the high temperature of the hammer; even before it struck, the metal floor beneath Su Yang's feet had already begun to turn slightly red and soften.

Pressed by this immense force, the surrounding lava pool surged into waves five or six meters high, splashing against the stone walls with an ear-piercing sizzling sound.

Standing his ground, Su Yang slightly raised his left hand, fingers pressed together, and lightly struck out with a palm toward the fiery red iron hammer that was several times larger than his entire body.

This palm strike seemed soft and weak, but the moment it touched the hammer, a burst of bright white Mutated Pure Yang True Fire erupted.

"Boom—!"

A deafening metallic collision exploded within the grotto, the sound waves making Qin Xueji's ears go numb and her chest feel heavy as she stood on the stone steps behind.

That massive iron hammer, capable of smashing a small mountain, was actually forced to a halt in mid-air by Su Yang's single palm strike.

On the fiery red hammerhead, dense Formation runes flickered wildly, attempting to resist the erosion of the Pure Yang True Fire.

But under the terrifyingly high temperature of the mutated lightning fire, these runes lasted for less than two seconds before melting away like fragile frost meeting a blazing sun.

"You want to kill me with this kind of strength?" Su Yang looked up, his eyes as calm as a pool of stagnant water.

The Red-Haired Giant's eyes, made of lava, suddenly constricted.

He let out a beast-like roar, and the remaining three iron chains rattled loudly as he pulled them. Due to the excessive force, the skin on his shoulders split open, and what flowed out was not blood, but a golden liquid.

"Suppressor... die!"

The giant's voice was hoarse as he gripped the hammer handle with both hands and pressed down with all his might.

Su Yang gave a cold snort, and his palm suddenly exerted force, his fingers gripping the edge of the iron hammer.

"Crack!"

A crisp sound of metal shattering rang out.

Before Qin Xueji's terrified gaze, the giant hammer forged from an unknown divine iron actually had a chunk crushed out of it by Su Yang's bare hand.

Immediately after, Su Yang's right leg produced a piercing sonic boom as he delivered a heavy downward kick onto the giant's wrist.

Bang!

The Red-Haired Giant's arm, thick as a roof beam, bent directly into a bizarre angle.

The giant hammer flew out of his hand and crashed heavily into the nearby lava pool, splashing a large amount of scalding sparks.

The giant's massive body staggered backward, crashing into the dark red stone pillars behind him, causing rubble to fall from the entire grotto's ceiling.

Mary held Long'er in her arms, hiding at the edge of the stone steps to watch the spectacle.

Long'er held a Dark Gold Lightning Soul in her hand, munching on it with a crunching sound while shouting unclearly, "Go, Brother! Beat up this bad-tempered bearded man!"

Seeing Long'er's carefree attitude, Mary couldn't help but reach out and pinch her little face. "You little rascal, this bad bearded man is your family's guard. Aren't you worried he'll be beaten to pieces?"

Long'er stuck out her tongue and replied in a childish voice, "He's always mean to me and won't let me play in the pool. He's so bad!"

In the center of the battlefield, the Red-Haired Giant had completely fallen into a frenzy.

He opened his mouth and took a sharp breath toward the lava pool below.

Splash!

A column of lava was sucked directly into his mouth.

As the lava entered his body, the red hair all over his body actually turned into a blinding bright gold. His size increased once again, and he even faintly exuded the terrifying pressure of the Late Stage of Soul Transformation.

He forcefully snapped the remaining three iron chains; the broken links whipped against the ground, gouging out several deep furrows.

"This kind of life-risking technique is somewhat interesting."

Su Yang finally took his right hand out of his pocket.

He grasped the Void Realm with his right hand, and the asura blood blade appeared out of thin air, carrying a soaring Killing Intent.

After several previous evolutions, the blade was now deep purple, with blue lightning and golden flames flickering across its surface.

The giant brought his fists together, smashing toward Su Yang with the force of ten thousand tons, like two falling meteors.

Su Yang's figure flickered, turning into a golden afterimage, and instantly passed through the gap between the two massive fists.

"Die."

In mid-air, Su Yang swung his blade with a backhand.

A fifty-meter-long blood-colored blade glow sliced through the sky, bringing with it the scalp-numbing wails of vengeful ghosts.

This strike was incredibly fast; in Qin Xueji's eyes, only a streak of blood-red light could be seen flashing by.

The Red-Haired Giant's chest, covered in a hard horny layer, was sliced open like tofu before the asura blood blade.

Golden liquid mixed with sparks gushed out, staining Su Yang's white coat with a layer of bright color.

The giant let out an earth-shattering scream.

He looked down at his sliced-open chest, the light in his lava eyes beginning to tremble violently.

Su Yang gave him no chance to catch his breath; his figure pivoted in mid-air, and his toes stepped heavily onto the giant's shoulder.

His left hand formed a claw and stabbed directly into the flesh of the giant's neck.

"Get down there!"

Su Yang roared, his entire body's spiritual power erupting as he slammed downward with all his might.

The Red-Haired Giant's multi-ton body was slammed head-first into the churning lava pool below by Su Yang's violent push.

Boom!

The lava pool was smashed into a huge crater, with scalding liquid splashing everywhere.

Su Yang followed up with a blade strike onto the surface of the pool.

The violent Pure Yang Lightning Fire instantly ignited the entire pool of lava.

With a muffled explosion, the giant's aura completely vanished within that burst of fire.

A few seconds later, the lava returned to a state of calm.

A fist-sized crystal core, burning with deep purple flames, slowly floated to the surface.

Su Yang reached out and pulled the crystal core into his hand.

"Dragon Emperor Fireseed, it's a decent fuel." Su Yang didn't even look at it, tossing it directly into the System space.

Stepping through the Void Realm, he walked step by step toward that dark red altar.

At the top of the altar.

That fragment, covered in black patterns, was emitting a faint, eerie light.

Su Yang reached out his hand, and the moment his fingertips touched the fragment, a cold sensation spread throughout his body.

"The final piece is in my hands."

Su Yang picked up the fragment. At that moment, the three fragments already collected in his Sea of Consciousness flew out automatically, hovering in mid-air.

The four fragments attracted each other like magnets, making crisp clinking sounds.

"Buzz—!"

A dazzling milky-white pillar of light shot up from the center of the four fragments, piercing straight through the thick rock layers at the top of the cavern.

Within the pillar of light, the four fragments underwent a perfect Fusion, transforming into a greenish-white jade plate as round as a full moon.

The ascension jade plate!

On the surface of this complete jade plate, a flowing holographic map of the mortal realm appeared.

The map continuously zoomed in and out, finally locking onto the highest point of the Kunlun Mountains' main peak—Yuxu Peak.

There, a red dot of light was flickering wildly.

"So the entrance to the true Ascension Formation is at the summit of the main peak."

Su Yang held the jade plate in his hand, feeling an extremely vast power of the Law of Space circulating within it.

Bai Li walked down the stone steps and came to Su Yang's side, her purple eyes also filled with a hint of excitement.

"Hubby, since the jade plate is now at Perfection, should we head back?"

Bai Li asked softly, reaching out to help straighten Su Yang's slightly disheveled collar.

Su Yang put away the jade plate and looked back at Mary, who was still holding Long'er.

"No rush. Since we're here, let's scour the Dragon Emperor Hall once more. That old red-haired guy was guarding such a large altar; there must be more stock underneath."

Su Yang's gaze fell on the crevices beneath the altar, where the aura of Top-Grade Spirit Stones was faintly emanating.

Just as Su Yang was about to move to flip over the altar.

His Divine Sense suddenly stirred.

An extremely faint fluctuation, yet one carrying a hint of a familiar cold aura, came from a shadow at the outermost edge of the cavern.

Someone was watching!

Su Yang's eyes turned cold, and with a flick of his right hand, the asura blood blade transformed into a purple light and shot out directly.

"Squelch!"

The blade's glow vanished into the shadows.

A thin, small Old Daoist Priest wearing a gray Daoist robe stumbled out from behind the rocks.

His left arm had been severed by the blood blade, and black Death Qi permeated the wound.

"Mercy! Master Su, have mercy!"

The Old Daoist Priest knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately, his forehead thumping against the metal floor.

Su Yang teleported in front of him, looking down at him from above.

"A remnant of the Celestial Masters Sect?" Su Yang's tone was icy.

This old man carried a strong aura of lightning and fire; although it was very faint, it definitely couldn't escape Su Yang's eyes.

"This lowly one... this lowly one is just a deacon responsible for gathering external intelligence for the Celestial Masters Sect. I've long wanted to break away from those hypocrites!" The Old Daoist Priest trembled all over, his voice shaking.

"I've come to deliver a message! The Old Ancestor of the Celestial Masters Sect has emerged from seclusion, and he's waiting for you at the summit of Yuxu Peak! He also captured... captured those women from Jiangzhou City!"

"Boom!"

An extremely violent Killing Intent instantly exploded from within Su Yang's body.

Impacted by this, the lava pool in the entire cavern erupted into pillars of fire over ten meters high.

Su Yang grabbed the Old Daoist Priest by the neck, lifting him into the air, the Pure Yang True Fire in his eyes nearly spewing out.

"Say that again, who did he capture?"

The Old Daoist Priest's feet dangled in the air, his face turning a deep liver-purple as he struggled to speak, "It's... it's two ladies named Ye Yuqing and Liu Waner... and a Big Black Flower, they've already been trapped by the Old Ancestor using the 'Nine Dragons God-Locking Formation'..."

"Crack!"

Su Yang didn't waste any words; he exerted force with his fingers and directly crushed the Old Daoist Priest's throat.

He casually tossed the corpse into the lava pool and turned to look at Bai Li and Chu Ling.

"These old fogies... it seems they really don't want to live anymore."

Su Yang's tone was unusually calm, but Bai Li, who had been with him the longest, knew that this was a sign that Su Yang was truly enraged.

"Qin Xueji, lead the way. No matter what he has arranged on Yuxu Peak, today I will make him understand what it means to die without a whole corpse."

Su Yang took a step forward, his figure vanishing instantly from the spot.

Within the hall, only a string of golden afterimages that had yet to dissipate remained.

...

At the same time.

The main peak of Kunlun, the summit of Yuxu Peak.

The cold wind howled, and the air here was so thin that ordinary people simply couldn't breathe.

In the center of a massive white marble plaza stood nine giant pillars engraved with thunder runes.

In the center of the Formation composed of those nine pillars, Ye Yuqing and Liu Waner were tied together, their faces pale.

And at their feet.

Da Hei, who was originally massive in size, had now shrunk to two meters in height and was letting out continuous cries of pain.

Its vines were tightly constricted by nine golden lightning chains; with every flash of lightning, a piece of the metal scales on its body would shatter.

A middle-aged man wearing a purple Daoist robe, with a head full of silver hair and a lightning-glowing longsword on his back, stood at the edge of the cliff with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance.

He spoke slowly, his voice spreading across a hundred miles through his True Qi.

"Su Yang, I am Lei Yangzi of the Celestial Masters Sect. Within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, bring the ascension jade plate and get up here to receive your punishment."

"If you are even a second late, I will first slay these two women to sacrifice to the Formation."