Immortality Cultivation

Chapter 266: Fierce Battle with the Nascent Soul Ancestor [2]

Opposite him, after Fang Hao swung that axe, his face instantly turned as pale as paper. His aura withered rapidly, and his figure swayed, as if he would fall from the sky at any moment. Yet, his gaze remained fierce, staring fixedly at the Sun Family Old Ancestor. The battle heaven axe in his hand pointed diagonally at the ground; although its brilliance was restrained, the unyielding Battle Intent did not diminish in the slightest.

On the other side, "Old Jin," having been sent flying, also rushed out from the ruins of the mountain forest. It flew back to Fang Hao’s side again. Although its arms were more severely damaged and its spiritual light flickered uncertainly, it still loyally blocked in front of Fang Hao, its red-glinting eyes coldly locking onto the Sun Family Old Ancestor.

For a moment, the situation in the sky fell into a strange stalemate.

The Sun Family Old Ancestor was not seriously injured, but his mind had been shaken, and he felt a deep wariness toward Fang Hao’s strange battle heaven axe and his reckless, death-defying fighting style. Moreover, the Middle Nascent Soul Stage Puppet, although damaged, had not completely lost its combat capability.

Fang Hao, on the other hand, was at the end of his rope. His Qi was almost exhausted, his Divine Soul was exhausted, and his Physical Body was heavily injured. He was relying entirely on a streak of ruthlessness and the faint warmth transmitted from the battle heaven axe to hold on. But beside him, there was still a Middle Nascent Soul Stage Puppet capable of threatening the Sun Family Old Ancestor.

Two people and one Puppet stood in a standoff in the air at the edge of the Black Dragon Mountain Range, separated by a hundred zhang. A wild wind howled, whipping up the dust and smoke below, and the atmosphere was so heavy it felt like it could drip water.

The Sun Family Old Ancestor’s expression shifted uncertainly. He stared fixedly at Fang Hao, especially the dark golden battle heaven axe in his hand, with greed, killing intent, and wariness intertwined in his eyes. This brat had too many secrets! That battle heaven axe was definitely a treasure far beyond imagination! And that Middle Nascent Soul Stage Puppet...

"Little bastard..." The Sun Family Old Ancestor wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his voice ice-cold and bone-chilling. "I have to admit, I underestimated you. However, that swing just now exhausted all your strength, right? Now, what else do you have to fight me with?"

He slowly raised the Flying Sword in his hand, pointing the tip directly at Fang Hao, his killing intent rising once more: "Hand over that battle heaven axe and the method for refining the Puppet, and I can leave you an intact corpse!"

Fang Hao panted heavily, his chest heaving violently. Hearing this, he grinned, revealing a blood-stained, incomparably cold smile: "Old dog... you want it? Come and take it yourself!"

Before the words left his mouth, he abruptly stuffed the last few Medicinal Pills capable of instantly restoring Qi into his mouth. At the same time, with a thought, the red light in the eyes of "Old Jin" beside him flared violently, and it once again fearlessly lunged at the Sun Family Old Ancestor! As for himself, he forcibly gathered his last trace of Qi, turned, and dove headfirst toward the deeper, darker, and more chaotic area of the Black Dragon Mountain Range below!

He never intended to fight the Sun Family Old Ancestor to the death! That axe swing just now, including releasing "Old Jin" to tangle with him, was all to create an opportunity to escape into the Black Dragon Mountain Range! Only by entering that lawless, chaotic land would he have a glimmer of survival!

"You’re courting death!" Seeing Fang Hao trying to escape again, and in such a weak state, the Sun Family Old Ancestor was instantly enraged. He used his Flying Sword to blast away the lunging "Old Jin," not bothering with the Puppet, and transformed into a green rainbow, chasing after Fang Hao in a rush! He absolutely could not let this brat escape into the Black Dragon Mountain Range! The situation inside was complex; once he hid, it would be difficult to find him again!

However, just as he was about to catch up to Fang Hao and his Flying Sword was descending again, Fang Hao, who was about to fall from exhaustion, saw a flash of madness and cunning in his eyes. He suddenly turned around, opened his mouth toward the pursuing Sun Family Old Ancestor, but instead of making a sound, he spat out an invisible and intangible—yet condensed with his final Divine Soul power, carrying a Concept of intertwined ice and fire, chaotic and twisted—Soul-Shocking Spike!

This was his trump card Divine Soul attack secret technique! It was a secret technique hidden within the War Heaven Scripture obtained in the Savage Secret Realm. This was the first time he had used it. Facing a Cultivator with a higher Realm than his own, it would consume a great deal, and the backlash would be severe, but at this moment, to save his life, he couldn’t care about that!

The Sun Family Old Ancestor was caught off guard. All his focus had been locked onto Fang Hao’s Physical Body and that battle heaven axe; how could he have expected that a Golden Core junior, in such a heavily injured and exhausted state, could still unleash such a strange and vicious Divine Soul attack? He only felt his Sea of Consciousness ache violently, as if it had been fiercely pierced by a red-hot iron needle, and also as if it had been frozen for an instant by ten-thousand-year cold ice. The scene before him appeared to flicker and twist for a split second!

Although with his powerful Nascent Soul Stage Divine Soul, this Soul-Shocking Spike only made him dizzy for less than half a breath, but it was just that half a breath!

Fang Hao used his last bit of strength to retrieve the wobbling "Old Jin" into his storage ring, and then, like a bird with broken wings, he plunged into the dense, dark, and seemingly all-consuming primeval forest of the Black Dragon Mountain Range below, instantly disappearing from sight.

"Ah—! Little thief! I swear to tear you into ten thousand pieces!!!"

Half a breath later, the Sun Family Old Ancestor recovered from the dizziness and let out an earth-shattering roar that shook the surroundings. His face was livid, and his Divine Sense frantically swept toward the mountain forest below, but he only felt countless chaotic and mixed auras. Fang Hao’s aura had disappeared without a trace, like a clay ox entering the sea!

He, a Peak Early Nascent Soul Stage Old Ancestor, with a large group of elites, had actually let a heavily injured and exhausted Golden Core junior escape into the Black Dragon Mountain Range right under his nose!

A supreme humiliation! An irreconcilable enmity!

The Sun Family Old Ancestor hovered in the sky at the edge of the Black Dragon Mountain Range, his face terrifyingly gloomy. His terrifying Spiritual Pressure was released without reservation, scaring the low-level Demon Beasts at the edge of the mountain range into trembling and fleeing in all directions.

He stared fixedly at the dark forest below, as if he wanted to see through every inch of land. After a long while, he took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his churning blood and anger, and squeezed an ice-cold, bone-chilling order through his teeth to the Sun Family Golden Core Cultivators who had arrived shortly after:

"Send a message! Notify the Family, mobilize all available forces, and seal off all exits on the periphery of the Black Dragon Mountain Range!"

"Order the black market to place a bounty on this brat! Anyone who provides accurate tracks will be rewarded with one hundred thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones! Anyone who brings his head will be rewarded with one million, and will be allowed to enter our Sun Family’s secret treasury to choose one treasure!"

"Send people into the mountain, search it inch by inch for me! I want to see him alive if he’s alive, and see his corpse if he’s dead!"

"Also," cold light flashed in the Sun Family Old Ancestor’s eyes, "Investigate! Investigate clearly for me, what is the origin of the battle heaven axe that the brat used at the end! And where did the method for refining that nascent soul puppet come from!"

He didn’t believe that a heavily injured and exhausted brat could hide for long in this man-eating Black Dragon Mountain Range! Even if he had to dig three feet into the ground, he would drag this little thief out, pull out his soul and refine it, to vent the hatred in his heart, and more importantly, to obtain all the secrets on him!

As one order after another was issued, a tighter and more cruel hunt and search for Fang Hao quietly began in this chaotic land known as the Black Dragon Mountain Range.

At this moment, Fang Hao, after plunging into the mountain forest, barely used his last bit of clarity to find a concealed natural tree hole. After hastily setting up a few Restrictions to isolate his aura, his vision went black, and he completely lost consciousness. He was too heavily injured; his Qi, Divine Soul, and Physical Body were all exhausted to the limit. That final Soul-Shocking Spike had caused even more severe damage to his Divine Soul.

Before passing out, he consumed a yin yang harmony pill, and his last thought was: Black Dragon Mountain Range... I’ve arrived... I just hope... I haven’t just left the wolf’s den only to enter the tiger’s lair...

Darkness completely swallowed him. Only the battle heaven axe he still gripped tightly in his hand emitted a faint and persistent dark red glow in the shadows of the tree hole.