429: The thief who stole the fire must be killed!

Su Han's entire right palm was deeply embedded within that mass of incessantly flowing, dark red liquid energy.

There was no filthy sensation as one might imagine; instead, it was a feeling of extreme danger, a scalding heat and crushing weight akin to grasping the core of a concentrated star!

Energy, so massive it was suffocating, surged violently into his arm, and every inch of his meridians groaned as they were forcibly stretched to the point of tearing!

The scene before his eyes seemed to have been cast into a raging fire, shaking violently, and at the edges of his blood-red vision, subtle ripples of spatial distortion began to spread.

"Argh—!"

A roar, suppressing inhuman pain, erupted from the depths of Su Han's throat.

Beneath the skin of his arm, dark red light flowed like lava, instantly spreading to his shoulder, transforming his entire right arm into a gauntlet of flowing crimson energy veins.

At the core of that red light settled a black as deep as the Void Realm, emitting a chill capable of freezing the Soul and a heat that could incinerate all things.

This was not a mutation of his limb, but rather a powerful battle form temporarily constructed from extreme energy!

Sharp, crimson-black energy spikes sprang forth from his five fingertips with a metallic clang, flickering with a lethal radiance that tore through the air.

"Thief who steals fire! You must be executed!"

The ancient will within Bi Yao was thoroughly enraged, its voice like a cold wind sweeping across the Nine Nether Ice Plains.

Her right hand, scorched by the energy, did not retreat; instead, it formed a mysterious and complex ancient seal!

In an instant, the Yin Sha Qi between heaven and earth gathered frantically!

Nether flames, deep as ink, rose around Bi Yao—no longer mere Nether Death Qi, but energy flames that had ignited after being condensed and compressed to the extreme!

These flames were bone-chillingly cold; wherever they passed, space itself seemed to freeze, developing subtle, pale cracks!

She thrust her arm fiercely toward Su Han— "Nether Annihilation: Finger of Withering!"

A beam of light, only as thick as a thumb yet so pure it seemed as if a segment of the Nether core had been severed, shot through the air—silent, yet impossibly fast!

There was no sound at all, only a concept of all things "aging," "dying," and "ending" along its path, spreading frantically!

The beam itself manifested a strange state of "annihilation"; any light or energy that touched it seemed to lose the very meaning of its existence and immediately returned to nothingness!

Danger! A sense of danger at the level of Law, far exceeding any physical attack, enveloped Su Han!

At this critical juncture of life and death, the violent and contradictory energy in his right arm, along with his own spirit and will, which had been pushed to the limit, responded in unison!

Instinct drove him to raise his energy-transformed right arm to block his front, his five fingers splayed—not in defense, but with a resolute will to tear heaven and earth asunder as he fiercely clawed at the beam of annihilation!

"Roar—!!!"

A low, inhuman roar exploded from Su Han's chest!

His distorted right arm instantly erupted with a brilliant crimson-black radiance!

The five energy spikes at his fingertips instantly elongated and warped, transforming into five coiled, spiraling, and hideous crimson-black energy Dragon shadows!

These Dragon shadows existed between the physical and the ethereal; the Dragon heads opened maw-like black holes, their cores formed by the very energy vortex where heat and cold intersected!

"Tribulation Dragon Destruction Claw!"

The five Tribulation Dragon shadows roared, imbued with a violent will to drag all things, tangible or intangible, into a vortex of destruction, and ferociously collided with the beam of annihilation!

Boom!!!

It was not the thunderous roar of a physical collision, but the silent shockwave of two extreme energy Laws fiercely clashing!

Time seemed to freeze for an instant at the point of impact!

On one side was the ultimate withering that annihilated all things, returning them to nothingness.

On the other was the destructive Dragon claw, a fusion of burning and ice tribulation, forcibly shattering everything in its path.

At the center of the impact, space collapsed inward like a shattered mirror, forming a momentary singularity that devoured all light and sound!

Immediately after, a blinding surge of energy, brighter than the sun, erupted violently from that singularity!

The shockwave was not a tremor of air, but a sweeping storm of energy!

The dark green dress on "Bi Yao" whipped backward in the violent gale of energy, and the ground beneath her feet cracked silently, spiderweb-like fissures spreading out.

She let out a muffled groan, her face suddenly turning several shades paler.

The beam of annihilation was forcibly coiled by the five Tribulation Dragon shadows, the terrifying power of annihilation and the crimson-black Tribulation power frantically consuming and annihilating one another!

Cracks appeared on the surface of the beam, while the Dragon shadows also began to disintegrate and dissipate!

The residual waves of the beam, scattered by the Tribulation power, swept across the surrounding flora and rocks; those objects instantly lost all color, withered, decomposed, and dissipated into primordial dust.

"Pfft—!"

It was as if Su Han had been struck by a giant hammer from the heavens; his already severely injured body could no longer withstand this terrifying impact. He spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fine crimson-black energy particles, and was sent flying by the violent shockwave, crashing heavily into a massive boulder and smashing a human-shaped crater into it! (End of chapter)