54: King Yanhuang

At the same time that Phoenix Spirit was battling the Shadow-Winged Vulture and beginning to condense her Life Soul.

Lin Dao, who had been hidden deep within the Void Realm watching everything, slightly raised his eyes and looked toward the distant horizon.

"Have they finally found their way here..."

He spoke in a flat tone, as if he had long expected this.

In the next moment, the Void Realm in front of him rippled like water, and a figure slowly stepped out.

The newcomer was a middle-aged man dressed in a dark red robe; his face was handsome but bore a trace of eerie paleness, and his crimson hair was like burning flames.

He didn't exude any powerful aura, yet standing there, he seemed to merge with the entire world, giving off an unfathomable feeling.

His gaze first swept over Phoenix Spirit, who was condensing her Life Soul below, and a flash of surprise crossed his eyes.

Immediately after, his gaze fell upon Lin Dao.

"Your Excellency, quite the impressive methods."

The crimson-haired man spoke in a low voice, carrying the majesty of one long accustomed to a high position.

"It was Your Excellency who wiped out the Heaven-Burning Sparrow clan of Crimson Flame Ridge, wasn't it?"

Lin Dao stood with his hands behind his back, his expression unchanged:

"What if I did?"

"The Heaven-Burning Sparrow clan was a subordinate under my command."

The crimson-haired man's eyes gradually turned cold.

"Your Excellency wiped out the Yao Race of my ridge without rhyme or reason; shouldn't you give me an explanation?"

He was one of the true Dominators of this outer region of the Demon Domain, a powerhouse whose cultivation had reached the Dao Tribulation Realm, Third Level—King Yan Huang!

His true form was a rare fire beast possessing the Bloodline of the ancient Vicious Beast "Huodou," and his strength was heaven-shaking.

He had investigated for a long time the matter of the high-level Yao Race in Crimson Flame Ridge being wiped out in a single thought by a mysterious powerhouse.

Finally, following some clues and the increasingly dense Phoenix aura on Phoenix Spirit, he had found this place.

Lin Dao looked at King Yan Huang, a faint arc curling at the corners of his mouth:

"An explanation? What kind of explanation do you want?"

King Yan Huang's gaze swept over Phoenix Spirit below, a flash of greed passing through his eyes:

"Hand over this girl who possesses the Phoenix Bloodline to this king and then cripple your own cultivation; then, this king might consider sparing your life."

He couldn't see through Lin Dao's specific Realm, but he felt that Lin Dao shouldn't exceed the Dao Tribulation Realm. Moreover, this was his home turf.

As a Dao Tribulation Realm powerhouse, he was confident he could crush the opponent.

The Phoenix Bloodline was quite an unexpected pleasant surprise!

Hearing this, Lin Dao gently shook his head, as if he had heard something ridiculous.

"You want my Disciple? And you want me to cripple my own cultivation?"

He slowly took a step forward.

With just this one step, the peaceful aura around him suddenly changed!

A vast, ancient, and terrifying pressure that seemed to transcend the myriad Daos of the heavens erupted like a slumbering primordial beast awakening!

The surrounding Void Realm groaned under this pressure, shattering inch by inch!

His cultivation at the Nirvana Realm Fifth Level, was fully revealed!

"Just based on a little Huodou descendant like you?"

Lin Dao's eyes became cold and indifferent, like a deity looking down upon an ant.

"You think you're worthy?"

Feeling the terrifying aura from Lin Dao that far exceeded his expectations, the composure on King Yan Huang's face vanished instantly, replaced by extreme shock and horror!

"The Nirvana Realm Middle Stage?! How is this possible?!"

He cried out in alarm, warning bells ringing frantically in his mind!

He had originally thought the opponent was at most in the Dao Tribulation Realm, with a cultivation similar to his own.

He hadn't expected the opponent to be at the Nirvana Realm Fifth Level!

This had completely exceeded his control!

"A misunderstanding! Senior, this is a misunderstanding!"

King Yan Huang instantly changed his tune, attempting to smooth things over.

Facing a powerhouse at the Nirvana Realm Middle Stage, he didn't dare to be the least bit arrogant.

"A misunderstanding?"

Lin Dao's eyes remained cold.

"You coveted my Disciple and wanted me to cripple my own cultivation, and now you want to brush it off with just a 'misunderstanding'?"

He wasted no more words, directly raising his right hand and pressing down toward King Yan Huang from a distance.

"Since you've come, then stay."

A colossal, sky-blotting hand condensed entirely from Chaos Qi currents appeared out of thin air.

As if carrying the weight of the entire world, it pressed down upon King Yan Huang's head!

Beneath the palm, Laws solidified, and space was sealed!

There was no escape!

King Yan Huang's face changed drastically as he felt a fatal crisis!

He roared, no longer caring about anything else, and instantly manifested part of his true form.

He transformed into a hundred-zhang-tall Vicious Beast that resembled a giant dog but was covered in burning dark red flames, exuding an aura of disaster and ill-fortune—a Huodou!

"Roar! World-Incinerating Calamity Fire!"

It opened its massive mouth and spat out a torrent of dark red flames capable of incinerating mountains, boiling seas, and triggering calamities, meeting the Chaos palm!

However, that calamity fire, which would make even a fellow Dao Tribulation Realm Cultivator treat it with utmost seriousness, was unexpectedly annihilated in the blink of an eye upon contact with the Chaos palm, as if it had met its natural nemesis.

The Chaos palm ignored everything and continued to press down!

"No!!!"

King Yan Huang let out a desperate roar.

Desperately burning his essence blood and Origin, he unleashed various life-saving Divine Abilities as if they cost nothing.

But in the face of such an absolute power gap, everything was futile!

BOOM—!!!!

The Chaos palm pressed down completely!

King Yan Huang's massive Huodou true form, along with his terrified and desperate Divine Soul, disintegrated and dissipated instantly within the Chaos Qi currents, like a sandcastle washed away by a wave!

A great Demon King of the Dao Tribulation Realm, Third Level, had fallen just like that!

Body and soul were utterly destroyed!

Lin Dao slowly withdrew his hand, as if he had merely swatted a bothersome fly.

The surrounding Void Realm slowly repaired itself, as if nothing had ever happened.

He didn't even look at where King Yan Huang had disappeared, turning his gaze downward once more.

There, Phoenix Spirit's Phoenix Life Soul had already reached the most critical moment of condensation.

Crimson-gold light reflected across the heavens and earth, and a brand-new, powerful Life Soul Realm aura was slowly being born.

"Not bad."

Lin Dao nodded slightly, a hint of satisfaction appearing in his eyes... Phoenix Spirit floated in mid-air, her eyes tightly closed, with crimson-gold flames swirling and rising around her like living things.

Behind her, that Life Soul, condensed entirely from pure flames and the true intent of the Phoenix, was becoming increasingly clear and solid!

Making a Breakthrough so openly in the Demon Domain, Phoenix Spirit didn't have the slightest worry; she believed that Lin Dao would protect her safety.

This Life Soul was almost identical to her true form, only more majestic and noble.

The flame rune at the center of her brow was like a true Divine Seal, with profound Law fluctuations flowing through it.

The pair of flame wings on her back were fully spread, every single feather distinct and burning with the inextinguishable Crimson-Gold Divine Fire!

A supreme aura that transcended all fires, as if coming from the primordial past, uncontrollably radiated from this forming Phoenix Life Soul.

Like a giant boulder thrown into a calm lake, it instantly broke through the boundaries of the Bone-Eroding Fire Forest and spread toward the wider world of the Demon Domain!

This aura, for the Yao Race—especially those whose Bloodlines contained a trace of avian or fire-based origins—was simply like a sun rising in the darkness.

Filled with unparalleled temptation and... a fatal attraction!