Chapter 639: Chapter 614: Primeval Spirit Skeleton
"Nine-Headed Insect, it’s your turn now,"
Lu Ming’s gaze fell upon the Immortal Ancestor, and his terrifying aura had already locked onto the Immortal Ancestor.
The Immortal Ancestor was deeply frightened, feeling goosebumps all over his body, he couldn’t help but hastily retreat backward, flickering through the air over a hundred times, trying to escape Lu Ming’s aura lock.
But just then, Lu Ming’s eyes flashed as he glanced toward the distance, then he quickly retreated, appearing at Yin Xiantian’s side.
The Emperor of the Nine Worlds, along with the two other experts who were attacking the Ruler of Desolate Heaven, saw Lu Ming suddenly turn back and were greatly alarmed, involuntarily retreating for fear of Lu Ming’s attack.
Such was the terror of one man’s might.
"Lu Ming, I never imagined you could comprehend two Supreme Laws and still evade my senses, truly unexpected,"
a voice sounded from afar.
Before the voice even faded, a figure had already appeared on the horizon.
It was the Primordial Ancestor.
"Primordial Ancestor!"
The eight True Ones from Origin Continent immediately greeted him with respectful salutations.
The Primordial Ancestor didn’t even spare them a glance, but simply opened his mouth and inhaled, and the invisible energy surrounding heaven and earth converged towards his mouth.
It was what the Holy Ancestor had left behind after his death.
"The Holy Ancestor has been annihilated by me, and yet you could still devour him."
The complexion of Lu Ming changed slightly.
"Dust to dust, earth to earth, he rose from the Origin Continent, so naturally, everything should return to me,"
The Primordial Ancestor said indifferently as he stepped towards Lu Ming and the others, his face expressionless as if a divine being high above was looking down at the mortal world: "You block the passage between Origin and the starry sky, are you trying to trap me in Origin Continent? To let your families and disciples survive? Don’t you think that’s a foolish fantasy?"
"Attack!"
Without responding to the Primordial Ancestor, Lu Ming, Yin Xiantian, and the Ruler of Desolate Heaven communicated secretly through Spiritual Sense.
Suddenly, the auras from the three exploded mightily, reaching their peak, and intertwined with one another.
"Strike!"
Lu Ming exclaimed in a low voice as he waved his hand, sending a skeleton flying out.
This skeleton was grey all over, shaped like a human, but it only had an upper body, with its lower half, the legs, missing.
Moreover, the skeleton had a pair of bone wings on its back that stretched out to both sides.
Boom!
An indescribably terrifying and extreme aura burst forth from the skeleton.
Even True One State powerhouses like the Immortal Ancestor and Light Clan Imperial Ancestor felt suffocated by the strength of this aura.
Furthermore, upon appearing, the skeleton grew at an alarming speed, eventually transforming into a colossal giant, standing tall and filling the channel between Origin and the starry sky.
The skeleton’s right hand was holding a massive shield, equally huge, placed in front of it.
Seeing this skeleton, the Primordial Ancestor, who had always been calm and seemed to have everything under control, for the first time showed a significant change in his expression.
"Primeval Spirit Skeleton, how could you possess the Primeval Spirit Skeleton, where did you find it?"
The Primordial Ancestor could not help but exclaim, a trace of fear flashing deep within his eyes.
His mind involuntarily recalled a scene from the distant past.
In the distant past, before he was gravely injured and became the Origin Continent, he was pursued by the Primeval Spirit and fled to this place. Although he ultimately managed to kill the Primeval Spirit, he too sustained unimaginable injuries, nearly perishing, and fell, transforming into Origin Continent and the boundless starry sky.
Endless eons passed before he gradually recovered his consciousness and became the Primordial Ancestor.
Also, he discovered that because the boundless starry sky had been expanding autonomously, devouring the void, and absorbing some of the Primeval Spirit’s energy, the workings of fate became unpredictable.
Unpredictable fate held endless possibilities and could evolve into beings and Tianjiao beyond his imagination, cultivating to extremely high realms.
Therefore, he decided to use this to his advantage, encouraging law creation and obtaining the fruits of the path from the enlightenment of all beings.
And every once in a while, he would initiate a retreat in cultivation, using this to harvest the lives of the world, mending his injuries.
As long as he continued in this manner, he could not only fully heal his injuries but even improve his Cultivation Level further, surpassing his peak period.
Unfortunately, things don’t always go as planned, and unexpected changes forced him to accelerate his plans...
Moreover, he had spent endless eons searching for the Primeval Spirit Skeleton, but to no avail. He never expected the Primeval Spirit Skeleton would end up in Lu Ming’s hands.
"Of course, I got it from the void. So his name was Primeval Spirit, huh?"
Lu Ming responded.
The three of them hid behind the Primeval Spirit Skeleton, continuously pouring their power into its body, activating the power of the Primeval Spirit Skeleton.
"I could kill even a living Primeval Spirit, let alone just half a skeleton. You think you can stop me with this? Naive."
The Primordial Ancestor snorted coldly and slapped his hand down.
His palm became immensely large, squeezing the channel between Origin and the starry sky as it thundered towards the Primeval Spirit Skeleton.
However, as his hand approached, the shield in the skeleton’s hand emitted a dusky light, and terrifying roars could be heard from within.
Thud!
The palm strike from the Primordial Ancestor was firmly blocked by the shield.
"Primeval Spirit Shield."
The expression of the Primordial Ancestor darkened.
Primeval Spirit Shield, a weapon of the Primeval Spirit, ranked third in the Supreme True Treasure List.
In fact, the top three treasured items on the Supreme True Treasure List were not crafted by later generations of beings but belonged to the Primordial Ancestor and the Primeval Spirit.
Among them, the Creation Whip belonged to the Primordial Ancestor.
The Locking Heaven Ring and Primeval Spirit Shield belonged to the Primeval Spirit.
The Primordial Ancestor bellowed, launching several palm strikes in succession, but they were all solidly caught by the Primeval Spirit Shield.
Then the Primordial Ancestor reached out his hand and a long whip appeared in his palm.
As soon as the whip appeared, the void trembled and collapsed on its own, as if it were unable to withstand the might of the whip.
Following, Origin Sovereign, the Immortal Ancestor, and others could not help but continuously retreat.
Creation Whip!
However, Lu Ming and others discovered that the Creation Whip in the hands of the Primordial Ancestor was not intact, but broken into five sections, which the Primordial Ancestor had forcefully connected together with his immense power.
Zizz!
The Primordial Ancestor swung the Creation Whip, lashing it towards the Primeval Spirit Skeleton.
Where the long whip passed, nothing else was left.
The Creation Whip could create worlds as well as destroy them.
The strongest attack met the strongest defense after countless years, and they were about to clash once again.
Boom!
When the Creation Whip struck the Primeval Spirit Shield, a terrifying boom erupted. The channel between the Origin and the starry sky, including the Nine Layer Heaven and the Wild Ocean, shook violently, leading to a catastrophic upheaval.
Countless beings perished in this collision.
The dreadful sound waves caused the Immortal Ancestors and others behind them to turn pale and retreat repeatedly.
Behind the Primeval Spirit Skeleton, Lu Ming, Yin Xiantian, and The Ruler of Desolate Heaven trembled slightly.
Fortunately, their cultivation levels were profound and their strengths formidable, so they managed to endure it.
They held their ground.
The Primeval Spirit Skeleton did not budge an inch.
A slight sense of relief fell over Lu Ming and the others.
It seemed that the injuries of the Primordial Ancestor had not fully healed, his cultivation had not returned to its peak, and with the Creation Whip being broken, his strength was not as formidable as imagined.
With the Primeval Spirit Skeleton and the Primeval Spirit Shield, they could keep the Primordial Ancestor at bay, outside the passageway.
The face of the Primordial Ancestor darkened once more.
Then he continued to swing the Creation Whip, but it was consistently blocked by the Primeval Spirit Shield.
Afterward, he launched more than a dozen consecutive attacks, yet he failed to advance even an inch further.
"Hmph, do you really think that with such tricks, you can keep me at bay forever? The Primeval Spirit is the most powerful and malevolent being, inherently evil to the core. You may harness its skeleton, but its bones are continuously consuming your vital essence. With your level of cultivation, how many more years can you hold on, ten thousand, twenty thousand?"
"One day it will drain all your vital essence and reduce you to dust."
The Primordial Ancestor began his psychological warfare.
"There’s no need for you to worry about that. Every moment we can hold back is a victory," Lu Ming said.
The Primordial Ancestor’s gaze was icy, but he said no more and instead sat cross-legged in midair, withdrawing the Creation Whip.
He had just devoured the Yuan Tiandao but had not fully assimilated it. The Origin and all things had yet to fully merge.
He needed more time.
"You, continue the attack, exhaust their power, hasten the depletion of their vital essence," the Primordial Ancestor ordered the Origin Sovereign and others.
The Origin Sovereign, the Immortal Ancestor, the Emperor of the Nine Worlds, and others dared not disobey and all took action, launching their full force at the Primeval Spirit Skeleton.
Their power, however, was far inferior to that of the Primordial Ancestor wielding the Creation Whip and was easily blocked by the Primeval Spirit Shield.
But indeed, this action did accelerate the depletion of vital essence for Lu Ming and his companions.
After more than a dozen full-force attacks utilizing the Supreme Law, even the Immortal Ancestor and the others began to falter and had to stop to recover.
Meanwhile, Lu Ming and the other two also took the opportunity to regulate their breathing and restore their depleted essence.
In the end, though, their recovery rate could not keep up with their rate of depletion.
Once the Immortal Ancestor and the others had recovered, they attacked anew.
Thus, in the blink of an eye, a hundred years passed.
After a hundred years, the Primordial Ancestor, who had remained still, finally stood up and launched an attack himself.
...
Tang Feng, carrying the Yin Yang Qiankun Mother-Child Chart, traversed the boundless starry sky, with the mightiest power tore through the barrier between the starry sky and the Chaos Void, and entered the Chaos Void.
Upon entering the Chaos Void, Lu Yan immediately felt a suffocating pressure, as though a terrifying creature had locked its gaze upon him and was about to attack at any moment.
Aside from him, others who had reached the third step of creation felt the same way.
Fortunately, they were within the Yin Yang Qiankun Mother-Child Chart and, though they felt this sensation, they ultimately were not attacked.
"So this is the Chaos Void? The birthplace of the Dragon Alliance and of its leader, as well as the legendary land of exile," Lu Yan mused as his spiritual sense spread out, exploring the exterior.
The Chaos Void was tumultuous with roiling chaotic energy, creating various destructive territories.
But for Lu Yan, this was not much of a concern.
The Yin Yang Qiankun Mother-Child Chart halted in the midst of the chaos.
"Gentlemen, time waits for no one. I will be leaving to travel through chaos and the starry sky, to seek an opportunity for breakthrough," Ye Qing declared from atop the scroll, gazing into the distance.
"I, too, must travel the world in search of an opportunity for breakthrough," the Formation Ancestor followed, then his gaze settled on the metallic sphere, which was Qiuqiu. He said, "Qiuqiu, all these weapons are for you to consume, hoping that you too can break through soon and go assist Lu Ming."
With that, he waved his hand and a pile of weapons flew towards Qiuqiu.
Almost all the weapons were Creation Treasures.
Qiuqiu did not hesitate, opened its mouth wide, and gulped down all of the weapons.
"I have a few Supreme Treasures here, Qiuqiu, and they’re all for you," Tang Feng stepped forward and waved his hand, sending at least six Supreme Treasures flying towards Qiuqiu.
Not all of them were whole; some bore obvious signs of damage.
Over the years, they had slain countless powerful enemies, so naturally, they had acquired a substantial collection of Supreme Treasures.
Apart from the Formation Ancestor, others including Qiuqiu had one each, with many to spare.
Leaving this time, Lu Ming, in secret, handed a few unneeded Supreme Treasures to Tang Feng.
