Chapter 1051: Chapter 567: The Name Jiang Shu! (Part 2)
Even those scout squads would have their senses obscured on the way here, and even if you searched through their memories, you still wouldn’t be able to find any clues or intelligence.
Yet they were still discovered by these members of the Human Clan.
Fortunately, it hadn’t caused too much damage or casualties.
"That’s Jiang Shu!"
Among these Demon Race experts, someone recognized his figure, their voice thick with fear.
Jiang Shu!
For the Demon Race, this name lingered like a nightmare.
Especially for those demons who had barely survived his hands; the moment they heard his name, it was like running into a living nightmare.
The Demon Race’s morale had been shattered by him; countless experts and soldiers had died to him. Not even a single Avatar of a Demon Venerable was able to kill him—on the contrary, it was heavily injured by him and fled in utter disgrace.
Just one man had become a towering mountain pressing down over the hearts of all demons.
The Demon Race’s experts racked their brains trying to kill him, yet during this period they simply couldn’t find any trace of him, and many people speculated that he had already returned to the Human Clan.
But in that battle that decided whether the Human Clan could force its way into the Chaotic Demon Sea, they did not see Jiang Shu’s figure, and all the ambushes and arrangements they had laid in their own rear elicited no response.
Thus many experts suspected that Jiang Shu had likewise been grievously wounded in the battle with the Demon Venerable Avatar, perhaps even injuring his very foundations, which was why he had been shut away in seclusion for so long.
Yet today this figure appeared once more, and his aura was even stronger than before.
How was that possible?!
"Jiang Shu, I was just looking for you!"
An angry roar exploded like thunder, the clouds within a radius of a hundred li instantly torn to tatters by the shockwaves.
The sea’s surface collapsed three zhang downward with a boom, countless Sea Beasts bursting into blood mist under the sound waves.
The leading youth stood in midair, the Nirvana Fire dancing in his gilt-gold pupils scorching fine cracks into space itself. Thirty-seven Phoenix True Feathers unfurled behind him like a peacock spreading its tail, each ancient feather inscribed with Ancient Phoenix Seals that breathed out suffocating Nirvana Dao Rhyme.
"Deputy Sect Master, be careful. This man is a world-shaking prodigy of the Demon Race who became famous long ago. By seniority, he should be the older cousin of that Lord Heavenly Phoenix you killed. As early as several hundred years ago, he had already advanced to become a Demon Monarch."
A Vientiane Late Stage Elder transmitted with Divine Sense.
He had gone through countless battles on the battlefield, and had heard of some of the Demon Race’s powerhouses. He knew how powerful this youth was.
"A True Phoenix Pride?"
Jiang Shu’s interest was piqued as he looked at that handsome man.
The man wore a suit of Heavy Armor, like a blazing flame in human form.
"He doesn’t look like much. Far inferior to that so‑called lord."
"I just don’t know, between you and him, which of you is stronger."
The Void twisted and warped under the True Phoenix Pride’s wrath, red gold flames spouting from his seven orifices, burning the entire stretch of space scarlet. Layer upon layer of air melted like wax and dripped down, revealing the distorted Chaotic backdrop behind.
Those molten droplets plunged into the sea, actually boiling an expanse of a hundred li into a roiling cauldron.
"Such arrogance!"
Zheng Huanglie was enraged to the point of laughter, the Red Cloud Sword in his hand erupting in a three‑thousand‑zhang Nirvana Fire Pillar that burned the Void.
"Today I’ll use your Daoist Body as firewood, to honor my younger cousin’s spirit in heaven!"
Jiang Shu raised his halberd indifferently, thirteen black‑hole vortices on the Desolate Star Halberd spinning in reverse.
As the Returning Ruins Patterns lit up one after another, the shattered space within a hundred li began to collapse of its own accord, tearing the Nirvana Fire Pillar into a sky full of drifting sparks.
"Noisy."
The Chaos Thunder Pool leapt out from his Heavenly Spirit, its thunder liquid condensing into nine chains entwined with Taichu Dao Rhyme.
Every chain pierced through the Void, dragging along with it the Chaos Phenomenon of stars being annihilated.
Zheng Huanglie’s forearms surfaced with Red Bone Armor, and the True Phoenix shadow behind him suddenly solidified.
That phantom had three heads and six wings, and on the central head there grew a third vertical eye. As that pupil turned, it actually froze the Chaos Lock Chains in midair.
Jiang Shu’s brows lifted slightly.
The tip of the halberd lightly tapped the Void, and golden ripples manifested from the Law of Power spreading out in layers.
The frozen chains suddenly swelled a hundredfold, Returning Ruins Patterns surfacing across their lengths, actually beginning to devour the binding power of the True Phoenix’s vertical eye.
There was nothing more to say between them.
The Human and Demon Clans had long since become mortal enemies, so there was naturally no need for words. From the moment Jiang Shu and the True Phoenix Pride had just begun to clash, the powerhouses of the True Martial Sect had already engaged the other Demon Race experts.
Meanwhile, the melee a thousand li away had already entered a white‑hot stage.
Thunder Shock Daoist Monarch was wreathed in the shadow of a Thunder God, and each swing of his thunder‑gleaming twin sabers brought down nine layers of thunderstorm, blasting apart the Protective Gang Qi of a Demon Race Vientiane expert.
The Four Symbols Battle Formation formed by the True Martial Sect Elders was even more savage. As the Azure Dragon and White Tiger phantoms crisscrossed and pounced, the Demon Race soldiers were turned into sheets of blood mist.
"Form the Heaven-Burning Phoenix Dance Formation!"
Eight experts of the True Phoenix Clan suddenly slit their wrists, Essence Blood sketching out a burning Array Map in the Void.
The instant the Formation completed, the entire sea area boiled and evaporated. Endless steam gathered into Fire Phoenix forms, pouncing toward the Human Clan’s battle formation.
"Parlor tricks."
The purple-robed Elder sneered as a shadow that seemed capable of devouring heaven and earth rose from the Array Hub. The Fire Phoenix images reflected in its light suddenly froze, then turned around to bite their masters instead.
The Phoenix Guards were caught off guard and backlashed by their own Formation; three of them were instantly turned to charcoal and fell.
Zheng Huanglie caught the tragic sight of his clansmen from the corner of his eye, his vertical pupil contracting sharply.
"How dare you!"
His answer was the shrill scream of Jiang Shu’s fist tearing space.
Jiang Shu merged man and fist into one, transforming into a Dark Gold Meteor as shards of space automatically converged along his path, coiling into spiral blades.
Huanglie swung his sword horizontally to block, Red Cloud Sword crashing against the fist, detonating a blinding white sphere of light like a Fixed Star going supernova.
Clang!
Spiderweb cracks crawled across the Red Cloud Sword’s blade, and Huanglie’s tiger’s mouth burst into a spray of red gold blood.
But instead of retreating he advanced, the True Phoenix phantom behind him suddenly splitting into nine, each phantom forming a different Dharma Seal.
Nine scarlet suns rose over the sea, their terrifying heat evaporating the seawater into a vacuum zone a thousand li in diameter.
"Nine Yang Heaven-Burning?"
Jiang Shu sneered. As his left hand closed on the air, the Chaos Thunder Pool flipped upside down.
The Returning Ruins Patterns floating within the thunder liquid suddenly wriggled like living things, forming pitch-black vortices on the Thunder Pool’s surface that corresponded to the nine scarlet suns.
When the ninth scarlet sun descended, the entire world plunged into an eerie silence.
The onlookers saw Jiang Shu’s Thunder Pool expand into a heaven‑shrouding Chaos Grinding Plate. The instant the nine scarlet suns fell into the plate, they were ground apart into the most primordial Fire Dao Great Dao Rhyme.
"I’ll give it back to you."
He raised both hands lightly, and from the Qi Blood Grinding Disc spurted a Nirvana Fire rain laced with Taichu Aura.
Huanglie’s pupils shrank violently, and the Phoenix Pattern Pendant on his chest suddenly exploded, transforming into a red Light Shield that barely blocked this backlash.
"It’s time to end this."
Jiang Shu’s voice suddenly detonated in Zheng Huanglie’s Sea of Consciousness.
Huanglie jolted to the realization that the surrounding space had long since been silently sealed off by Returning Ruins Patterns, and the thirteen black‑hole vortices had unknowingly woven into a cage.
Even more terrifying, the Nirvana Fire within his body actually started surging out of his control, reversing its flow along his meridians toward the cracked Red Cloud Sword in his hand.
"Phoenix Ancestor above!"
Zheng Huanglie bit through the tip of his tongue, the Essence Blood he spat out condensing in the Void into a blood‑red phoenix egg.
At the instant the shell shattered, an aura surpassing the Vientiane Realm shot straight into the sky, and one could vaguely see half a Chaos‑wreathed Phoenix Claw probing out of the Void.
Thunder Shock Daoist Monarch, who was locked in battle with three Demon Race Vientiane experts, suddenly shouted.
"Be careful, it’s the True Phoenix Clan’s Nirvana Forbidden Technique!"
Jiang Shu heard this, yet remained utterly unhurried.
The Desolate Star Halberd suddenly flew out of his hand, disassembling in midair into billions of fragments inscribed with Returning Ruins Patterns.
Each fragment precisely embedded itself into a Void node, forcibly pinning that Chaos Phoenix Claw in the rift between the present world and the Void.
"It’s a decent method, but I wonder how much power it actually holds."
The Three Holy Embryos leapt out from Jiang Shu’s Heavenly Spirit, their tiny hands forming a Supreme Treasure Seal.
The Taichu Dao Rhyme accumulated over a million years in the Land of Returning Ruins erupted with a boom, transforming into strands of immense Power, pouring into the Power Dao and manifesting as a hazy Giant Axe that cleaved down at the Phoenix Claw.
Panwu Heaven Opening Axe!
A tooth‑aching tearing sound reverberated across the land.
The part of the Chaos Phoenix Claw struck by the axe light began to rapidly disintegrate, while Huanglie spewed blood laced with sparks from all seven orifices.
He frantically drove his bloodline to maintain the summoning, only to discover in horror that his Nirvana Fire was being assimilated by some higher‑tier force.
He had never encountered anything like this before!
