Chapter 447 Defeating Them One by One, the Two Ancestors Fall

The Ice Soul Ancestor's corpse lay on the ground, and before her ice-blue blood could finish flowing out, it was swept away and evaporated by the chaos qi flow.

The field fell into a deathly silence.

The Flame Emperor Ancestor and the Thunder Marsh Ancestor stared fixedly at the corpse, their eyes a mix of shock, anger, and fear.

Dead.

One of the three great Dao Ancestors, Ice Soul, was dead just like that.

Dead at the hands of an outsider from beyond the realm.

Dead so cleanly, so... insignificantly.

After a brief silence, the Thunder Marsh Ancestor was the first to explode:

"You monster—!!!"

Thunder erupted all around him, his purple hair danced wildly, and the Lightning Halberd in his hand carried the power of world destruction as it thrust straight at Nightmare's face!

"Pay for this Ancestor's life with yours!!"

This strike, launched in fury, possessed power far exceeding any previous attack! Wherever the tip of the halberd passed, space did not merely shatter; it was directly reduced to nothingness!

Nightmare, however, simply stepped aside.

Indifferently, he stepped aside.

The Lightning Halberd grazed past his clothes, and the lightning aftershocks from the tip tore his sleeve but did not harm his flesh.

The Thunder Marsh Ancestor's pupils constricted—how was this possible?! At such close range, with such a violent strike, he could actually avoid it so easily?!

"Your halberd is too slow."

Nightmare's voice was calm as his right hand shot out like lightning, seizing the Thunder Marsh Ancestor's wrist that held the halberd.

*Crack.*

The wrist bone shattered.

The Lightning Halberd fell from his hand.

The Thunder Marsh Ancestor gave a muffled groan, clenched his left fist, and swung it toward Nightmare's face with the force of ten thousand thunderclaps!

"Seeking death!"

Nightmare neither dodged nor yielded, throwing out a punch of his own!

The two fists collided.

*Boom—!!!*

A terrifying shockwave exploded in a ring! The ground below was forcibly scraped away by three feet!

The Thunder Marsh Ancestor's expression changed drastically as he could clearly feel the pitch-black flame on the opponent's fist was frantically devouring his thunder Origin!

"Let go!" he roared, attempting to pull his fist back.

But Nightmare's fingers were like iron pincers, firmly gripping his fist.

"Just now, you were having quite a lot of fun."

Demonic Flame flickered in Nightmare's eyes:

"Now, it's my turn."

He joined his left fingers like a blade and stabbed straight toward the core of the Thunder Marsh Ancestor's Dantian!

The Thunder Marsh Ancestor was horrified and pushed his protective lightning to its limit with his other hand, transforming it into a lightning shield in front of him!

*Clang—!!*

The finger-blade struck the lightning shield, producing a piercing metallic ring!

The shield did not break.

But in the next instant—

"Reverse Path Convergence: Pierce."

At the tip of the finger-blade, the pitch-black Demonic Flame suddenly condensed into a single point and drilled into the weakest part of the lightning shield like a venomous snake, penetrating through!

*Puchi!*

The finger-blade sank three inches into the Thunder Marsh Ancestor's Dantian!

"Ah—!!" The Thunder Marsh Ancestor let out a shrill scream of agony; he could feel his dao foundation core being frantically eroded and torn apart by that black flame!

"Flame Emperor! Save me!!!" he shrieked.

In the distance, the Flame Emperor Ancestor had long since been stunned.

From Nightmare stepping aside to avoid the Lightning Halberd, to seizing the wrist and breaking the bone, to the finger-blade piercing the abdomen—the entire process took no more than three breaths.

It was too fast.

So fast that he simply didn't have time to react!

Hearing the Thunder Marsh Ancestor's cry for help now, he finally snapped awake and pounced forward, gritting his teeth:

"Let him go!!"

Crimson-gold flames transformed into a towering sea of fire, sweeping toward them!

Nightmare didn't even look at him, merely flicking his left hand:

"Begone."

A wall condensed from pitch-black Demonic Flame appeared out of thin air, forcibly blocking the sea of fire three zhang away!

The Flame Emperor Ancestor attacked frantically, the sea of fire churning, yet he remained unable to break through that black wall!

Meanwhile, on this side.

Nightmare's finger-blade had completely pierced through the Thunder Marsh Ancestor's Dantian.

"It's over."

He softly uttered those two words and then twisted his wrist.

*Boom!!*

Demonic Flame erupted from within the Thunder Marsh Ancestor! His body expanded like it was being inflated and then burst inch by inch, turning into a sky full of purple light motes that dissipated into the chaos qi flow.

Only a single crystal core, flowing with the charm of thunder Dao, remained floating in the air.

The Thunder Marsh Ancestor had fallen.

Nightmare collected the crystal core, turned around, and looked at the Flame Emperor Ancestor, who was still frantically attacking the black wall.

The wall dissipated.

The Flame Emperor Ancestor's movements froze as he stared blankly at the purple crystal core in Nightmare's hand, then looked at the Ice Soul Ancestor's corpse on the ground.

Two against one.

No, now it was one-on-one.

And that "one" was him.

"You..." The Flame Emperor Ancestor's voice trembled, "What kind of thing are you?!"

Nightmare didn't answer, merely walking toward him.

One step, two steps.

His pace was steady, neither fast nor slow.

Yet the Flame Emperor Ancestor retreated step by step as if he were seeing a ghost or a god.

"Don't come any closer!" he roared, condensing a Crimson-Gold Fire Seal in his palm, "Even if this Ancestor has to burn my dao foundation, I will take you down with me!"

Nightmare did not stop his pace:

"You can try."

A flash of madness appeared in the Flame Emperor Ancestor's eyes, and he gritted his teeth, about to detonate the fire seal—

In the next second.

Nightmare's figure vanished.

When he reappeared, he was already behind the Flame Emperor Ancestor.

"Too slow."

As the voice sounded, his right hand had already seized the back of the Flame Emperor Ancestor's neck.

The Flame Emperor Ancestor's entire body froze; before the fire seal in his hand could be detonated, it was enveloped by Demonic Flame and silently annihilated.

"You..." he spoke with difficulty, "This Ancestor is a Chaos Dao Ancestor... how could I..."

"Ancestor?"

Nightmare interrupted him, his voice calm:

"Is that supposed to be strong?"

His five fingers tightened.

*Crack.*

The neck bone shattered.

Demonic Flame surged in through his arm, completely devouring and refining the Origin, Divine Soul, and dao foundation within the Flame Emperor Ancestor's body.

The corpse fell, turning into fly ash.

Only a crimson-gold crystal core and a Storage Pouch remained.

Nightmare took the crystal core and swept his Divine Sense into the Storage Pouch—inside, besides some resources, there was also a crimson-gold Jade Slip.

"The Flame Emperor Ancestor's Legacy..."

He put away the Jade Slip and looked up into the distance.

There, the remaining elites of the three great tribes were already dumbfounded. Seeing the three Ancestors fall one after another, they instantly collapsed and fled in all directions!

Zuo Feng and the others were about to give chase.

"No need to chase them."

Nightmare spoke:

"Clean up the battlefield and take control of the Origin Pool."

He turned and looked at the two Ancestor crystal cores still floating in the pool, as well as the mountain-like piles of Origin Liquid by the poolside.

"From this day forward—"

He rose into the air, standing above the center of the pool, his voice echoing throughout the entire Origin Holy Land:

"The Chaos Origin Pool belongs to the Nidao Alliance."

"Violators—"

His gaze swept across those fleeing figures, Demonic Flame flickering in his eyes:

"Will be executed without mercy."