Chapter 1064: Chapter 574: The Demon Venerable Strikes! A Ten-Million-Mile Escape!
Jiang Shu transformed back into human form and stood in the void, looking pensively at the collapsing array hub.
The liberated Earth Vein Spiritual Energy did not return to the heavens and earth but was instead entirely devoured by the Chaos Thunder Pool.
"The entire Demon Race’s efforts, in the end, benefited me."
He inspected his Dantian internally and discovered that the devoured Earth Vein Spiritual Energy had actually condensed into a dragon-shaped Dao Pattern on the surface of the Daoist Embryo.
The countless Great Arrays set up by the Demon Race inadvertently became nourishment for his own Great Dao refinement!
Originally, he had just advanced to the Late Stage of the Vientiane Realm, still quite a distance from the Peak of the Vientiane Realm.
Yet he could continually battle and defeat the Peak Demon Monarchs of the Demon Race.
This was because his understanding of the Great Dao far exceeded those Demon Monarchs.
But now, both his body and soul had undergone an entirely new transformation.
As if advancing fiercely in the ocean of suffering.
The three hundred and sixty-five acupoints no longer resembled stars but gradually formed into great suns, with colossal breaths resonating, waves of heat scorching his blood.
His entire body burst forth with golden light.
With each breath, his strength could potentially increase by one percent.
Sadly, this place ultimately still belonged to the Demon Race.
He hadn’t even fully refined the Great Dao.
Breathing greedily, Jiang Shu’s eyes slightly closed, his pores expanding and contracting, embodying a power of collapsing and reconstructing mountains and rivers.
Yet, only after a few breaths, suddenly, the Star Track Compass in his embrace violently trembled.
Jiang Shu looked down and saw that the constellation representing the Demon Race’s fortune began to twist and reorganize, the originally scattered array hub vaguely connecting into the shape of a Phoenix on the firmament.
The terrifying aura seemed to want to completely freeze the entire space.
Even the Primordial Power circulating within Jiang Shu’s being began to slow down.
"The Demon Race reacted so quickly?"
In an instant, Jiang Shu’s pupils suddenly enlarged, his body transforming, and the Desolate Star Halberd appeared in his hand.
Evidently, the Demon Race had definitely prepared additional arrangements in this place.
Thus, they could welcome the arrival of the Demon Venerable immediately!
At the trembling moment of the Star Track Compass, the Spiritual Energy throughout the cavern suddenly stagnated.
Space and time gradually solidified, immense pressure emerged throughout the heavens and earth.
Jiang Shu’s entire skeleton erupted with sounds akin to frying beans, and the Three Holy Embryos emitted sharp screeches within the Dantian.
This was the Power Dao’s instinctual warning of a fatal crisis.
"Crack!"
The cavern’s ceiling cracked with a web-like pattern, and blazing white flames poured down like a heavenly river.
These weren’t ordinary Nirvana Fires but Heaven-Burning Flames merged with the Demon Venerable’s aura.
Each flame reflected a terrifying phenomenon of collapsing heavens and earth.
Stars plummeted into Returning Ruins, continents sank into lava, Phoenixes cried in rebirth amidst the Nirvana Fire.
Before the flames even arrived, Jiang Shu’s right sleeve turned to ash, revealing skin covered in Dragon Scale Patterns, with blood vessels beneath his skin appearing like molten gold under the high temperatures.
The Dragon Clan bloodline within him sensed the oppression from a high-realm expert and desired to forcibly break free, yet was still defeated under the insurmountable gap between realms.
"Young one!"
A loud shout came from the void.
"Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable of the True Phoenix Clan!"
Jiang Shu’s pupils contracted to pinpoint size. The figure reflected in the Star Track Compass was shrouded in a Chaotic Fire Sea, and with the flick of three pairs of Phoenix Wings, a Space Storm was whipped up, the vertical eye on its forehead akin to a third blazing sun.
This being, which should have been seated in the Ancestral Land, was actually personally hunting a Vientiane Realm cultivator!
Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable’s third vertical eye suddenly inverted, and Jiang Shu instantly felt his blood boiling.
The fused Dragon Clan Essence Blood within him began to rebel, each drop transforming into burning steel needles rampaging through his meridians.
This was the innate suppression of higher-realm Demons over lower-realm Demons.
Within the Demon Race, bloodline symbolizes everything.
Even with immense opportunities, demons of lower-grade bloodlines would struggle to stand alongside the elites, or even the prodigies of the Strongest Race.
"It’s you, Jiang Shu? Did the little bastard come in a hurry to die just after ruining the Dragon Clan’s good deeds?"
The Phoenix Wings lightly shook, spanning a thousand feet, as five claws dug through the space like the Immortal Slaying Chopper.
In the critical moment between life and death, Jiang Shu’s Heavenly Spirit suddenly leapt from the Chaos Thunder Pool, and the little hands of the Three Holy Embryos formed Seals, the Taichu Dao Rhyme condensing into a dim shield.
Simultaneously, the blue Dragon Scale Pattern on his right arm lit up, and the Heavenly Escape Talisman bestowed by the Supreme Sect Leader was poised to strike.
"Taichu Dao?"
"Interesting."
The Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable’s claw halted three inches before the shield, vertical eye reflecting deep concentration.
The gap in their realms was enough for the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable to kill Jiang Shu in an instant, yet he felt an inexplicable presence within Jiang Shu that could severely wound him, prompting caution.
In that fleeting moment, Jiang Shu’s spine undulated like a Big Dragon, his right fist enveloped in thirteen Great Dao Embryos blasted forward.
"Qi Swallowing Vientiane Fist!"
The space shattered layer by layer wherever the fist’s edge passed.
This punch stirred resonance with the heavens and earth, and Vientiane phantoms were born and destroyed within the punch’s radiance.
Only, within the Vientiane Realm, this punch seemed unstoppable to the Demon Monarch.
Yet to the Demon Venerable, it was trivial.
The Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable’s gaze flickered with a hint of mockery, seemingly unfazed by the need to kill Jiang Shu immediately, instead retreating with wings flared, Phoenix feathers disintegrating into dust under the Fist Intent.
"A remarkable Power Dao, if we were in the same realm, I might not necessarily be your match."
"No wonder you could accomplish so much, even someone like the Dragon Venerable seeks desperately to kill you."
The realm difference between the two was vast, yet as the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable raised a hand to inspect the scorched claw tip, the vertical eye constricted fiercely.
The pure force contained within the punch reminded him of the ancient Panwu Heaven Opening legend.
