Chapter 1041: Chapter 562: Returning Ruins Heaven-Seizing Technique, Evolving the Halberd Technique!
The chains coiling around the halberd’s body, each link engraved with the unique Decay Dao Patterns of the Land of Returning Ruins.
"Slash!"
A simple straight thrust, yet it triggered a tremor of time and space.
The moment the halberd tip touched the star carcass, an explosion from a million years ago and annihilation from a million years hence occurred simultaneously.
The woman was horrified to discover that the star carcass, summoned through sacrificing her lifespan, was being restored to a chaotic state, as if the Daoist Embryo had never been born!
"Is this... Taichu Gui Yuan?!"
Her Protective Gang Qi shattered like thin paper.
"Just a few days’ time, how could you cultivate Taichu Law to such a realm?!"
The words came to an abrupt halt.
The devouring black hole awakened on the battle halberd had already drawn her lifelong cultivation into threads, turning even the poisonous mist barrier into nutrients that surged into Jiang Shu’s Dantian.
The mechanical leader took the opportunity to retreat a thousand miles, a sharp buzzing coming from beneath the liquid mask.
He tore open his chest, revealing the blood-colored cube pulsating at its core.
This was the highest masterpiece of mechanical civilization.
Civilizational Seed.
"You cannot kill me."
The surface of the cube revealed a three-dimensional map of Returning Ruins.
"This body is but..."
The sound of the battle halberd piercing the cube was crisp.
Jiang Shu’s palm pressed on the mechanical leader’s Heavenly Spirit Cover, and the Law of Power flowed back up through the nanotubes, extracting the deeply hidden data consciousness out of the body.
"A petty trick of the Mechanical Clan, yet you dared to try to deceive my perception?"
Jiang Shu’s whole body’s blood and qi burned fiercely, transforming into a vision of a Golden Lotus rising from the earth, the Dao Rhyme on his body shooting straight into the clouds, connecting with the Law Origin in the sky, making a whistling sound.
"Tenth Realm Late Stage?!"
"How is this possible, how is it possible!"
The data stream squealed in an attempt to reorganize, yet was suppressed by Jiang Shu with supreme force, producing a mysterious resonance with the Returning Ruins Dao Rhythm.
"What is this?"
Jiang Shu frowned, looking at the coffin that had suddenly appeared not far away.
This was a bronze coffin, covered with verdigris formed by the passage of time, rapidly devouring the Dao Rhyme emanating from Jiang Shu, before shattering with a roar.
A jade scroll engraved with gear-shaped patterns passed through the broken void, and directly entered his brow.
In the torrent of massive information, a scene of light splitting chaos froze in the depths of his Sea of Consciousness.
"Returning Ruins Heaven-Seizing Technique," using Decay Dao Rhyme as fuel, transforms space extinction into a sharp blade.
Jiang Shu suddenly realized that this coffin was the Innate Great Technique born of the Land of Returning Ruins.
Successive generations of Wind Cloud Pride competed for Dao Rhyme here, essentially accumulating power for this great technique, born to seize tribulation.
Humans, the Mechanical Clan, the Star Sky Giant Beast...
All the greed and slaughter were mere sacrifices for the jade scroll to choose its master.
"So that’s how it is."
This great technique, is the root of all skill.
Punches or halberds, both can be wielded.
Merely closing his eyes for a moment, this great technique transformed into a halberd technique in his mind.
He summoned the Desolate Star Halberd, gently caressing the halberd’s body, causing million-mile spaces in the Land of Returning Ruins to tremble simultaneously.
"Then let the blood battle to come sharpen this halberd!"
In the extreme distance, dozens of figures drawn by the battle’s ripples were tearing through the void.
Jiang Shu stood with halberd in hand, behind him emerged the chaos phenomenon from the opening of the Returning Ruins.
The true slaughter had only just begun.
"He obtained the opportunity, if we join forces, we can surely kill him!"
The first sword light that attacked came from the east, the Sword Cultivator stepping on a green lotus, and before the sword edge even arrived, there was already the sound of star rivers circulating.
Jiang Shu lightly flicked the halberd blade, the Decay Dao Rhyme flowing backward along the sword momentum, and the Green Jade Sword, nurtured for a thousand years, suddenly crawled with rust, the Sword Spirit wailing as it turned into bronze fragments.
"My lifebound longsword!"
The Sword Cultivator’s eyes were about to burst, yet the halberd blade had already pierced through the Protective Gang Qi.
In his final sight, his lifebound essence blood was being devoured by the fierce beast patterns awakened on the battle halberd.
The second wave of attack was even more perilous.
The nine-headed Xiang Liu soared from the north, each head spewing forth a different attribute of poisonous mist.
Jiang Shu suddenly plunged the halberd shaft into the void, space fragments that had lain dormant in the Land of Returning Ruins for a million years suddenly boiled, like billions of blades slicing through Xiang Liu’s body.
The poisonous blood had yet to touch the ground before being refined into nine emerald crystal cores by the Chaos Thunder Pool.
"Not enough, not enough!"
Jiang Shu licked the bloodstains at the corner of his mouth, the battle halberd swept horizontally, cutting out dark gold arc light.
Where the arc light passed, seven assassins hidden within the space layers were simultaneously revealed, their meticulously prepared star magnet bombs not yet detonated, were reverted back to primitive ore by the decaying Dao rhyme within the arc light.
Suddenly, deep space split open with web-like patterns, the true powers finally descended.
The newcomer was clad in mysterious heavy armor, the surface of the armor floating with a star map actually made up of living stars.
With each step he took, illusions of star systems’ creation and destruction swirled beneath his feet.
"To force me to take action personally, you should feel honored."
From under the heavy armor came a sound like muffled thunder, star chains fell from the void, each chain’s end tied to a burning fixed star.
"These are the hundred thousand stars refined by the Star Domain Graveyard, let’s see how many you can swallow!"
Jiang Shu knew this being, a star sky giant beast lived for untold years, innately close to the law of power and space law, was one of the very few ancient monsters capable of matching the Wind Cloud Pride in several ages, his father has reached the pinnacle in the realm of venerable, just half a step away from becoming a saint!
Reflected in Jiang Shu’s pupils was the falling star rain, yet the corner of his mouth curved up crazily.
Behind him, thirteen black holes suddenly collapsed into one, the halberd erupted in a roar that shook the heavens.
When the halberd tip touched the first star for an instant, desolate Dao rhyme spread like a plague, the star core energy that accumulated over a million years withered to ash in a flash.
"Impossible!"
For the first time, the heavy armored powerhouse showed shock, his prideful star chains eroded and disintegrated at a visibly fast pace.
When he tried to retreat, he found that the surrounding space had already been penetrated by desolate and Taichu Dao rhyme, even the protective star map began to peel away.
The sound of the battle halberd piercing through the star armor was like the shattering of porcelain.
Jiang Shu pressed a single hand against the opponent’s helmet, letting the devouring black hole drill through the gaps of the armor, forcibly extracting the Star Domain Graveyard-Origin hidden within.
The heavy armored powerhouse let out an unwilling roar, his body washed by Dao rhyme turned into a bronze statue, then crushed to powder by space turbulence.
Yet he did not die or fall to Dao ruination, rather, he fled far away under the protection of an extremely strong light, when Jiang Shu saw this, he immediately punched out, disturbing space, seemingly stalling even time.
He had already begun to tentatively grasp the Time Law.
However, that light was too strong, not affected in the slightest, continuing its rush far away, disappearing in an instant.
That was the life-preserving method given to him by his father, even an ordinary venerable cannot kill him.
The distant spectators finally shivered in fear. They saw the dark gold battle halberd evolving; with each person it killed, the halberd blade gained a Returning Ruins pattern.
When the ninth pattern lit up, all space fragments in the Land of Returning Ruins began to bow towards the battle halberd, as if subjects meeting their king.
Jiang Shu suddenly thrust the battle halberd into the void, the decaying Dao rhyme within thousands of miles converged like a hundred rivers.
His aura escalated step by step, behind him the chaos phenomenon emerged faintly with the shadow of a bronze coffin slowly opening.
When the coffin lid was completely lifted, the ultimate mystery of the Returning Ruins Heaven-Seizing Halberd finally awakened.
Wherever the halberd blade pointed, space ceased to exist, all things returned to ruins!
The last enemy turned to flee but was pierced through the back by the light of a blade he had just slashed.
He was horrified to realize that the move supposed to land on Jiang Shu had instead broken through infinite space.
"Venerable...?"
Before his words finished, all trace of his existence was erased, as if never born in this cosmic domain.
"Still far from venerable, just barely starting."
Jiang Shu gently caressed the halberd shaft, watching the Land of Returning Ruins return to silence.
The inheritance within the jade scroll now truly complete, those formidable enemies that died in battle, were merely sacrifices for the Desolate Star Halberd’s first sharpening.
He gazed deeper into the Deep Space Sea, knowing the true arch-enemies haven’t arrived yet.
But at this moment, the hum of the battle halberd in his hand was already impatient to drink even stronger blood.
Too far away.
Jiang Shu sighed softly.
The black-robed man’s intelligence firmly imprinted in his mind, he knew the precise locations of almost all fortuitous encounters, but the Deep Space Sea was too vast for him to manage them all.
"Land of Sanctification..."
