Chapter 1067: Chapter 575: At the End of the Road! Run, Why Aren’t You Running Anymore?_2
Immediately, Jiang Shu’s five fingers suddenly clenched, and the Blood Scale Demon Monarch’s eyeball abruptly burst.
The Taichu Dao Rhyme surged upward through the meridians, forcibly extracting the curled Demon Soul from the Sea of Consciousness.
The surface of that dark crimson soul was covered in reversed scale patterns, twisting frantically like a live fish dropped into boiling oil.
The Chaos Thunder Pool emerged from the Heavenly Spirit, and the Three Holy Embryos floating in the Thunder Liquid greedily absorbed energy. The cracked Power Dao Embryo began to gradually repair, although it hadn’t fully restored to peak condition, at least not appearing on the verge of shattering.
"Crack!"
The Blood Scale Demon Monarch’s spine suddenly broke, and the entire body cracked like a dried terracotta warrior.
Jiang Shu stomped on the chest cavity with his left foot, causing bone fragments mixed with visceral remains to splatter onto the array patterns on the city wall.
The defense runes painted with Demon Beast Essence Blood wriggled like living creatures, greedily absorbing the Demon Monarch’s flesh and blood.
Each rune lit up with a blood glow, and a dull heartbeat echoed from the altar in the center of the city, as if an Ancient Giant Beast was awakening.
When the last strand of blood qi entered the body, Jiang Shu staggered and leaned against the city wall.
"Boom!"
A crimson-gold hole suddenly melted into the sky, and the third vertical pupil of the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable hovered like a blazing sun.
Where the gaze landed, the blood talismans on the city wall spontaneously combusted, and the Qing Shi bricks melted into a glazed liquid in the high temperature.
The hair on the back of Jiang Shu’s neck stood on end, and the Star Track Compass in his arms emitted a mournful wail as it neared breaking.
The Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable was about to attack again!
Although his recent actions had been extremely cautious, even escaping for a while.
But in the eyes of the Demon Venerable, even the slightest leak of his aura would be instantly detected!
"He used a Great Technique!"
Despite being a powerful Demon Venerable Late Stage, the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable couldn’t possibly traverse such a long distance relying on his physical body alone in such a short time. The only possibility is that he activated a powerful Great Technique to traverse countless spaces and arrive beside him.
Damn it!
Jiang Shu grabbed the Heavenly Escape Talisman without hesitation.
In his current state, facing the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable, he was surely doomed unless he used the Two Realms Shuttle!
The Heavenly Escape Talisman lit up with a golden glow.
A space passage suddenly appeared before Jiang Shu, and he thrust his entire body into it.
Countless space turbulence slashed across his body repeatedly like steel knives.
In the past, the void’s tear wouldn’t have bothered him, unable to breach his protective Dao Rhyme.
But now, he was too weak, and the space turbulence sliced into him, causing excruciating pain, exploding into countless golden hues before his eyes, with even some blood seeping from his pores.
The triple retaliation was destroying his body, with cracked wounds revealing no fresh blood, only a gray Dao Rhyme desperately sustaining him.
The impact of his fall shattered the subterranean water veins.
Jiang Shu floated in the dark river, with the Chaos Thunder Pool instinctively protecting its master. The explosion of lightning light as Thunder Liquid hit cold water was blinding.
He grasped a bronze chain protruding from a rock crevice, brushing his thumb over the Demon Race’s forbidden writings engraved on it.
Jiang Shu never acted without preparation, so before coming here, he meticulously reviewed all intelligence regarding the Demon Race and immediately recognized the Demon Suppression Chain used by the strongest race for imprisoning high-realm Fierce Beasts.
Following the chain, eighteen Bronze Human Statues stood in the depths of the cave, with each head suspended with a blood-colored talisman dripping viscous liquid, forming a miniature blood pool on the ground.
"Sacrifice?"
Jiang Shu’s heart pounded, though no fresh blood burst forth.
These statues weren’t dead objects, but vessels for the Demon Race warriors whose remnants were left behind for specific reasons.
They emitted strange fluctuations, causing the surrounding cold water to hum and reverberate. Listening for too long would disrupt one’s mind, and those with unsteady spirits could even be harmed.
The deepest statue suddenly turned its head, its amber vertical pupil reflecting Jiang Shu’s battered figure.
These remnants were generally refined by the Demon Race using techniques from the Demon Sect, possessing overwhelming blood qi and resentment, capable of accurately locking onto the Human Clan’s aura, and once detected, would explode comprehensively.
Eighteen Demon Monarch auras simultaneously soared, blasting the dark river’s surface with giant waves over a hundred zhang high.
Jiang Shu’s expression remained calm, advancing instead of retreating, the Desolate Star Halberd sweeping and carving dark gold arc light.
The space fluctuations originated from the halberd tip.
Despite the brief encounter with the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable, during that life-and-death moment, he achieved a greater comprehension of the Space Dao.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The bronze human statues that can fight against the Daoist Monarch of Vientiane Realm were no match in Jiang Shu’s hands.
Jiang Shu grasped at the void with his right hand, and an elixir leaped into his palm.
It melted at the entrance into a scalding hot stream, pouring into the vital organs along the throat.
The overwhelming medicinal power rapidly repaired the shattered meridians.
"It’s still not enough!"
He roared and charged into the array of human terracotta warriors, the gray axe light from the peak of his fist smashing through three puppets.
At this moment, he had to fight quickly and decisively!
Amidst the flying bronze fragments, Jiang Shu suddenly glanced at the mysterious ice coffin on the altar.
The aura leaking from the crack of the sarcophagus lid made the Chaos Thunder Pool tremble violently.
It was an existence older than the Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable, as if countless eyes were watching him from beneath the ice layer.
"The second array hub!"
Before the joy in his eyes could surface, the rock layers overhead exploded with a roar.
The sharp claws of Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable pierced through a hundred-zhang rock wall, the claw wind slicing the underground water vein in half.
Jiang Shu suddenly dodged, his figure transformed into nine residual shadows before the flames could touch him.
Eight of them were pierced by Heaven-Burning’s Fire Feather, while the true body used the force to pounce toward the icy coffin.
His right leg suddenly spontaneously ignited, the Nirvana Fire reversed its flow along the meridians, burning half of his flesh into a translucent glaze.
"Die!"
The third vertical pupil of Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable burst forth with golden light, and the Heaven-Suppressing Sword Seed leaped out from Jiang Shu’s embrace!
The Sword Qi sealed by the Supreme Sect Leader of Hidden Sword Sect rolled back like a star river, the pitch-black sword glow piercing through Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable’s left wing.
For the first time, the powerful Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable let out a painful howl, the Phoenix Blood evaporating the dark river into a massive void.
Jiang Shu seized the opportunity to thrust the Desolate Star Halberd into the coffin’s crack, simultaneously unleashing the Devouring Dao and Taichu Dao.
Boom!
The ancient corpse of the Dragon Clan sealed in the coffin was refined into ashes before it could awaken.
The entire Earth Vein trembled violently, the surge of spiritual energy reducing eighteen human statues to powder.
Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable’s roar was cut off by the collapsing rock layers, and Jiang Shu leapt into the Earth Vein’s fissure during the haze.
This time he didn’t use the Heavenly Escape Talisman; it only has one last opportunity for use, and he must seize the perfect moment.
In the space turbulence, Jiang Shu traversed at the fastest speed.
His vision fringed with crimson, the spatial rifts encountered along the way were forcibly resisted with his flesh body, every passage through felt like millions of steel needles piercing through every pore.
In just a few breaths, Jiang Shu emerged from a space, falling by the magma lake.
The temperature here was extremely high, the crimson crystal clusters growing on the rock walls converting geothermal energy into pure Fire Spirit Qi.
He arduously crawled toward the crystal clusters, his fingertips barely touched the surface before emitting a burnt smell.
The Chaos Thunder Pool detected energy and instinctively leapt out from the Heavenly Spirit to devour the crystal clusters.
Upon internally viewing the Dantian, he unexpectedly found Nirvana Dao Pattern of the Phoenix Clan appearing on the surface of the Three Holy Embryos.
That was a mutation from absorbing too much Heaven-Burning Flame.
Ripples suddenly appeared on the surface of the magma lake. A bronze altar rose at the center, with the gem embedded in the beast head incense burner on the altar seeping Dragon Blood.
When Jiang Shu’s gaze fell upon the Reversed Scale at the center of the incense burner, his entire blood suddenly boiled.
This was a purer origin than Ao Jin at the Demon Monarch Peak Realm!
"Indeed, if I hadn’t come here, I would have had to use the Two Realms Shuttle. But now it seems there’s still room for one more attempt."
"If I can absorb the essence blood of a Dragon Venerable..."
The array hub must be guarded by the essence of a Demon Venerable Realm expert, but it’s challenging for the Demon Race to extract enough residual souls for guarding, so they can only forcibly squeeze out essence blood from powerful experts at the Demon Venerable Realm for guarding.
The cost of this is self-evident.
He forcibly endured the excruciating pain as he swam toward the altar, the magma burning his wounds with a "sizzle" sound.
Just as his fingertip was about to touch the incense burner, the rock wall behind him suddenly shattered.
Heaven-Burning Demon Venerable descended with overwhelming Fire Feather, the wound on his left wing still dripping golden blood.
"Run, why aren’t you running now?"
