Chapter 1065: Chapter 574: Demon Venerable Takes Action! A 10 Million Mile Escape! (Part 2)
What’s even more terrifying is that the other twelve Great Daos are not simply stacked, but perfectly unified by some higher level of power.
This is a battle between life and death.
Jiang Shu took the opportunity to activate the talisman in his hand, and the Heavenly Escape Talisman tore the space and appeared on the other side of the cave, avoiding the aftershock of the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable’s attack.
That punch just now consumed a full twenty percent of his blood essence, but the effect far exceeded expectations.
To cause even minor injuries to a Demon Venerable, part of it was certainly because the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable wanted to see how capable Jiang Shu was and intentionally did not dodge, but it is enough to see how terrifying this killing move that incorporates Taichu Dao Rhyme is.
"I underestimated you."
The Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable’s third vertical pupil suddenly emitted a blinding golden light, reflecting a future scene where Jiang Shu was dismembered by a thousand blades.
This is the unique "Reflecting Reality" Divine Skill achieved by a Chaos Hole Realm expert after mastering the Time Dao. Once locked on, it will collapse toward a predetermined future.
At the moment of life and death, the phoenix carving on the Desolate Star Halberd suddenly came to life.
With a stroke of luck, Jiang Shu poured all his remaining blood essence into the halberd. The Great Dao Rhyme and Nirvana Fire merged, unexpectedly burning a path of survival in a desperate situation.
Taking advantage of this brief instant, he stomped and shattered the rock layer, the Power Dao connecting his entire body, his left arm muscles swelling threefold.
"Panwu Heaven Opening Axe!"
Gray axe light condensed from the void, and every acupoint on his body was stirring his entire blood essence.
This strike drained all of Jiang Shu’s power. Wherever the axe blade passed, even the Heaven-Burning Flame was split in two. A thousand-zhang space fissure appeared at the top of the cave, with earth vein spiritual energy pouring down like a breached flood.
The Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable’s face remained extremely calm.
The Demon Venerables have already comprehended the Space Dao, equivalent to the human Chaos Hole Realm.
No matter how strong Jiang Shu is, he’s just at the Vientiane Realm.
At this point, he just wanted to see what other tricks Jiang Shu had.
He easily raised his Phoenix Wings, blocking in a cross.
The axe light clashed against the wing bones, sparking dazzling fire, leaving only a dent on his Divine Feather, which was comparable to a Dao Artifact.
However, the Taichu Dao Rhyme contained within the axe light gradually eroded his Dao Origin!
"What is this?!"
The Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable looked at the gradually whitening feathers at the wing tips, his vertical pupil showing some surprise.
Given Jiang Shu’s realm, being able to injure his physical body was already a miracle, let alone eroding the Nirvana Fire.
This attack clearly touched the Dao Origin.
It seems, this Jiang Shu, really cannot be allowed to live.
Once Jiang Shu comprehends the Space Dao and ascends to the Chaos Hole Realm, even for their Demon Race, there will likely be a Demon Venerable downfall!
Taking advantage of the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable’s distraction, Jiang Shu directly activated the Heavenly Escape Talisman.
At the instant the void was torn, even the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable hadn’t expected Jiang Shu to be so decisive.
His entire figure suddenly disappeared from his view.
"Damn it! Brat! Even if you escape to the ends of the earth..."
A flame that burned everything incinerated the space channel, even affecting the Heavenly Escape Talisman in Jiang Shu’s hand. His entire body shot out from the space channel and fell onto the wilderness, covered in blood.
The Dragon Scale Pattern on his right arm was dim and dull, and the Heavenly Escape Talisman in his hand had already lost its brightness, obviously only able to be used twice more.
The most troublesome thing was the tracking mark left by the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable, gnawing at his Divine Soul like a bone-deep abscess.
But Jiang Shu’s lips curled into a cold smile.
The two killing moves just now had already proven that he had some ability to injure a Demon Venerable. As long as he can take another step forward, he might be able to achieve something against heaven.
Far away, demon clouds gathered on the horizon, and Jiang Shu struggled to stand.
After all, he came to the Demon Race, and the trump cards in his hand were not just the Heavenly Escape Talisman.
Gray Dao Patterns flowed on his surface, Jiang Shu took a few deep breaths and completely concealed himself within nature’s spiritual energy.
...
Moonlight like water, Jiang Shu seated cross-legged in a hollow tree.
The Three Holy Embryos made seals with their small hands, slowly expelling the remaining Heaven-Burning Flame from his body.
Every wisp of flame leaving the body turned into a miniature phoenix, struggling and shrieking, ultimately swallowed and refined by the Chaos Thunder Pool.
"Indeed, the Dao Fire of the Demon Venerable level is extraordinary. Just the flames he casually pulled nearly burned me alive."
"I really don’t know what level this old phoenix holds among the Demon Venerables."
Jiang Shu coughed out a blood clot tinged with sparks.
Were it not for his merging with the Taichu Dao, just the residual fire poison would have been enough to destroy his meridians.
He stroked the Star Track Compass, the edge of which lit up with faint blue light.
That marked an earth vein node! Based on his recent understanding of the earth vein, there should be a secondary array hub set up by the Demon Race nearby.
He did not know where he was now, nor how far the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable was from him, but this Heavenly Escape Talisman was a Supreme Treasure bestowed by the Supreme Sect Leader, ensuring his teleportation to a relatively safe area.
It’s just a pity that the process of this teleportation was clearly interrupted by that old phoenix. His injuries were extremely serious.
Now, Jiang Shu had no strength at all, barely finding a relatively hidden cave, sitting cross-legged on the ground, voraciously absorbing nearby Dao Rhyme to replenish himself.
An hour later, following the compass’s guidance, Jiang Shu arrived at a dried-up riverbed.
In the center of the riverbed stood nine slanted stone pillars, their surfaces covered in twisted demon script.
As he stepped into the formation circle, the stone pillars suddenly seeped viscous blood beads, and blood vessel-like patterns emerged on the ground.
"Formation?"
Jiang Shu lightly touched the blood patterns with his fingertips, immediately pierced by the resentment within.
These patterns were clearly drawn with the blood essence of living beings, each stroke imprisoning countless screaming souls.
He drove the Desolate Star Halberd into the array hub, the Devouring Dao like a hungry python devouring blood energy.
As the formation crumbled, a scene suddenly flashed through Jiang Shu’s Sea of Consciousness.
Numerous half-demons were pierced through their clavicles with chains, suspended above a massive flesh and blood furnace...
"So that’s it!"
Jiang Shu came to a sudden realization. The Demon Race used various sacrifices to keep the formation running, no wonder they could evade the Human Clan’s detection.
Without hesitation, he activated the Taichu Dao Rhyme, thoroughly purifying this evil array, converting it into Power of Great Dao to nurture himself.
However, at the moment the blood patterns disintegrated, the Dragon Scale Pattern on Jiang Shu’s body suddenly burned with intense pain.
The dried blood stains on the riverbed started wriggling like living creatures, sketching out a complete phoenix totem on the cracked soil surface.
Each of the nine slanted stone pillars seeped out viscous blood beads, each drop landing with a piercing wail like a baby’s cry.
The Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable had caught up so quickly!
The dragon scales on Jiang Shu’s body were deliberately activated by him, able to sense the approach of powerful figures from the Demon Race in the shortest time, serving as an excellent early warning.
"You lowly worm, you run fast."
A crackling sound echoed from the sky as space was torn apart, blazing flames pierced the clouds, instantly turning the water vapor within a hundred-mile radius into a white mist.
Jiang Shu saw his shadow distort and deform on the cracked riverbed, as if invisible flames were scorching his soul.
"Boom!"
The Heaven-Burning Fire Feather fell with the boom of the Heavenly Dao, the riverbed collapsing layer by layer like fragile tofu.
In the deep pit exploded where Jiang Shu originally stood, a Substitute Puppet twitched in the golden flames, its skin revealing Dragon Scale Patterns identical to his own.
The strangest part was that these puppets suddenly shed bloody tears from their eyes, giving a grim smile to Jiang Shu’s real self, who had fled an unknown distance before they were reduced to ashes.
This was a Death Replacement Puppet gifted to him by the Supreme Sect Leader of the Heavenly Puppet Sect, essentially a living life, allowing it to deceive the senses of a Demon Venerable expert.
Jiang Shu stood on the ridge, blood oozing from his nose and mouth, the Star Track Compass spinning furiously in his palm.
The Three Holy Embryos floating in the Chaos Thunder Pool had dimmed, the embryo representing the Power Dao covered in fine cracks on its surface.
During the purification of the array, the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable arrived, forcing Jiang Shu to divert a significant amount of his focus to respond.
The resentful souls imprisoned within the blood patterns launched a frenzied counterattack before dispersing, almost contaminating his Dao foundation.
"I must escape!"
He wiped away the blood oozing from his eyes; the surrounding air was scorching hot.
This was a sign of the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable’s pressure altering the weather, even the exhaled white breath condensed into hot mist in the air.
The Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable might catch up again!
