486: Fierce Battle with Rock Daozu

"Never!"

From the Eternal camp, the Sword Box Elder, who bore a sword box on his back, suddenly opened his eyes.

The ancient sword behind him "zheng"-ed, unsheathing three inches, and a Sword Qi that traversed the Chaos instantly cut off the Giant Serpent Dao Ancestor's path. Where the Sword Qi passed, even time seemed to freeze.

He was the only Human Race Dao Ancestor present, and seeing his rising junior, he naturally couldn't let him perish here.

"Your opponents are us."

The beautiful woman in palace attire gently stroked the bronze lamp, and the lamp flame suddenly surged.

Three thousand lines of fire intertwined into a net, forcing back another Celestial Sun Ancestor who sought to break through.

A smile played on her lips, but her eyes were chillingly cold: "Want to leave? Have you asked about this empress's 'Three Thousand Realms Burning Lamp' first?"

The Aura of the Dao Ancestors from both sides clashed with a roar!

"Rumble—"

The entire Chaos Sea seemed to be stirred by an invisible giant hand, forming countless terrifying whirlpools.

Within those whirlpools, Sword Qi surged at times, poisonous mist permeated at others, and even phenomena of world creation and destruction flashed alternately.

This was a collision of Dao Origin, where every wisp of escaping energy was enough to annihilate a Half-Ancestor.

"Get lost!"

The Eight-Winged Dao Ancestor suddenly attacked, his eight crystal wings slashing down like celestial blades. Each strike carried the power to destroy worlds, carving eight Eternal ravines into the Chaos Sea.

The five Eternal Dao Ancestors on the opposite side, though outnumbered, cooperated seamlessly.

The Sword Box Elder led the offense, his ancient sword fully unsheathed, Sword Qi falling like a milky way; the beautiful woman in palace attire controlled the field, her lamp flames transforming into thirty-six thousand chains; the other three Eternal Dao Ancestors displayed their Divine Abilities, and for a time, they managed to firmly hold back the eight Celestial Sun Ancestors.

However—

"Om!"

A Celestial Sun Ancestor, who had remained silent and resembled a rock, suddenly disintegrated.

This sudden disintegration created a momentary gap in the blockade, and his body transformed into a streak of light, breaking through the obstruction of the five Eternal Dao Ancestors and heading straight for Xu Qing, who had transformed into a Chaos Divine Dragon!

It turned out that whether it was the Giant Serpent Dao Ancestor or the Dao Ancestor blocked by the beautiful woman in palace attire, they were merely a diversion from the Celestial Sun side. The one truly sent to deal with Xu Qing was the Dao Ancestor of Rock.

"Not good!"

The Sword Box Elder's expression changed drastically. He wanted to pursue but was desperately entangled by three Celestial Sun Ancestors.

The Dao Ancestor of Rock, having broken free, reshaped his body during his rapid flight, transforming into a million-zhang giant, covered in dense, ancient runes.

Each of these runes represented a destructive Dao, and when he fully unleashed his Dao Ancestor's Aura, the surrounding Chaos Qi condensed into pitch-black crystals.

"Junior! Die!"

A furious roar echoed across the battlefield. The Dao Ancestor of Rock had already locked onto the rampaging Xu Qing. In his giant hands, he wielded two world-splitting giant axes formed from supreme Dao, their blades wreathed in terrifying sharpness capable of severing Karma.

"Good timing!"

Xu Qing let out an earth-shattering roar. Facing the attacking Dao Ancestor of Rock, he neither dodged nor retreated, but instead met him head-on.

His million-zhang Dragon body churned in the Chaos Sea, every scale emitting blinding divine light. His Dragon tail, like a celestial whip, tore through the Void Realm, lashing fiercely at the two world-splitting giant axes.

"Clang—"

The instant the axe blades collided with the Dragon tail, a visible circular shockwave exploded with a roar.

The terrifying sonic boom cleared the Chaos mist for hundreds of millions of miles around, revealing the pristine void beneath.

The space at the center of the collision was like fragile glass, first developing spiderweb-like cracks, then completely collapsing, forming a continuously expanding black hole of destruction.

"Boom!"

The Dragon and the giant were both sent flying backward by the recoil.

Xu Qing crashed through seven floating dead stars, his Dragon tail scales shattered, scattering a sky full of Chaos blood rain; the Dao Ancestor of Rock, on the other hand, slammed into a chaotic current, several gaps appearing on his axe blades, and the runes on his body flickering erratically.

After stabilizing himself, Xu Qing suddenly shone with brilliant light. As his Dragon body contracted, he reverted to his original form.

His green robe fluttered as he stood atop the Chaos waves, the starry river vortex in his eyes spinning rapidly, his gaze fixed on the Dao Ancestor of Rock like a glutton seeing a delicacy.

"Such abundant Dao Origin..."

Xu Qing murmured softly, his fingertips unconsciously tracing through the Void Realm, leaving a trail of Chaos sparks.

The Dao Ancestor of Rock was intimidated by this gaze, feeling a shiver as if he had been locked onto by a natural predator.

He roared in fury, his voice shattering the surrounding stars: "Arrogant junior! This Ancestor will chop you into mincemeat!"

The two world-splitting giant axes were raised again, and all the ancient runes on their bodies lit up.

With each rune that lit up, the axe blades surged tens of thousands of feet, until finally, the twin axes were comparable in size to stars.

The Dao Ancestor of Rock's arm muscles bulged, and the Dao of destruction coiled around the axe blades as he brought them down on Xu Qing's head!

"Die!"

This axe strike split the Chaos Yin and Yang!

Where the axe blades passed, the clear and turbid Qi separated, evolving into a brief phenomenon of the primordial creation of heaven and earth.

In the battlefield below, millions of soldiers from both races who couldn't escape were instantly vaporized by just the residual shockwave.

Several Half-Ancestors tried to save them, but their newly erected shields shattered like paper, and their own Dao Bodies were annihilated along with them.

Xu Qing, however, advanced instead of retreating, forming hand seals. Behind him, a Chaos Great Sun suddenly appeared.

Within the Great Sun, countless Sword shadows floated, each containing a different Sword Dao true meaning.

The instant the giant axes descended, he pointed his fingers like a sword and lightly tapped: "Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Void."

"Boom—"

The Chaos Great Sun exploded with a roar, countless Sword shadows converging into a greyish Sword Qi that violently collided with the world-splitting giant axes!

The moment of impact, time seemed to stand still.

Immediately after, a shockwave ten times more terrifying than before erupted.

The entire Chaos Sea was forcibly split in two: one half evolved into a vibrant world of brilliant star rivers, the other transformed into a deathly realm where all things were extinguished.

The floating stellar debris and battlefield fragments were all swept into the vortex of this Dao collision, turning into the most primordial Dao Principle dust amidst the extreme light and heat.

The figures of Xu Qing and the Dao Ancestor of Rock flickered in and out of sight within this destructive storm. Each exchange caused new dramatic changes in the Chaos Sea.

At times, Sword Qi crisscrossed for millions of miles, severing countless Chaos waves; at others, axe light cleaved the heavens, carving ravines that pierced through the Void Realm... This extraordinary battle had already become the most dazzling spectacle of destruction in the Chaos Sea!

In the distant Chaos battlefield, the dozen or so confronting Dao Ancestors had all stopped, holding their breath and fixing their gaze on the battle zone between Xu Qing and the Dao Ancestor of Rock.

"Good! Good! Good!"

The Sword Box Elder, who bore a sword box on his back, exclaimed "Good" three times. The ancient sword in its sheath hummed with excitement, making the star patterns on the sword box shine brightly.

In his eyes, which had witnessed countless vicissitudes, a rare surprise now gleamed: "When did our Human Race produce such a Prodigy? To be able to contend with a Dao Ancestor at the Half-Eternal realm and not be defeated!"

The bronze ancient lamp in the beautiful woman in palace attire's hand "poof"-ed, bursting forth with a brilliant lamp flower that made her graceful face flicker between light and shadow.

Her red lips parted slightly, her fingertips unconsciously caressing the three ancient characters "Three Thousand Realms" on the lamp body: "Old Ghost Jian, your Human Race truly produces an endless stream of talents!"

Her words were full of envy.

The Sword Box Elder smiled, appearing profound and unfathomable.

A Dao Ancestor enveloped in starlight suddenly chuckled, his laughter carrying a hint of exhilaration: "Look at the faces of those old monsters opposite, hahaha!"

"Trash!" The world phantoms on the Eight-Winged Dao Ancestor's crystal wings continuously shattered, and blood-colored light dyed the surrounding Chaos crimson.

His voice was like metal scraping, making the Void Realm hum: "A dignified Dao Ancestor, can't take down a Human Race junior?!"

The most somber was the humanoid shadow. The darkness on his body surged violently, at times forming a hideous Ghost Face, and at others transforming into the struggling outlines of suffering beings: "This child... must not be allowed to live!"

On the other side!

Opposite Sword Slaughter, the Black Crystal Blood Flame Clan's existence's eyes flickered. He recalled that a few days ago, their Ancestor seemed to have mentioned a Human Race Prodigy, which was clearly the person before him, though at the time, their Ancestor had been very dismissive.

But now, it seemed he needed to remind their Ancestor.