A Nascent Soul Makes His Move
His natal Spirit Treasure Yi Wood Green Vine Bell, was positioned above his head to resist the Nascent Soul's evil energy, and it was too late to defend himself.
In that split second, without any hesitation or calculation, the renowned Golden Core Sect Master twisted his body forward in a bizarre manner, forcefully placing his heart directly into the face of that deadly blade!
He was willing to give his own life to give his son even a breath of life!
"Die! All of you, die!"
Song Yan roared, his short blade tearing through the air and already touching the cloth of Chen Changqing's robe on the back.
The Demonic Qi pierced through the flesh, and black blood instantly seeped out.
However, at the very last second, just a fraction of a second before the knife tip pierced his heart...
A small, white hand silently emerged from under Chen Changqing's ribs.
That hand was so small, it even had a bit of baby fat.
Yet this small hand, with its index and middle fingers gently separated, casually brought together in mid-air.
"Click."
A crisp, clear sound rang out, drowning out the thunder and the cries of swords.
Song Yan's face, contorted with ecstatic joy, froze completely.
He poured all his True Essence into the Blood-Transforming Infant-Eroding Blade, which was powerful enough to pierce through the protective aura of a peak Golden Core cultivator, yet it remained suspended in mid-air.
The tip of the blade was firmly held between those two delicate, jade-like fingers.
No matter how potent the demonic poison was, it was as if it had encountered the most solid divine iron in the world before those two little fingers, which were as smooth as mutton fat jade, and it couldn't even leave a trace.
"How... is this possible?!"
Song Yan's eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and his breath stopped.
Before he could sheathe his short blade, Chen Fan, who was perched on his father's shoulder, slowly turned his small face to the side.
In those once pure, dark eyes, the black and white Life-and-Death Millstone was rapidly reversing, and a desolate pressure that made heaven and Firmament tremble emanated a faint light from that six-year-old body.
"Hey, traitor."
Chen Fan spoke in a crisp, childish voice, but the indifference in his eyes was as if he were looking down on ants.
Damn it!
"Collapse!"
With a slight exertion of two little fingers, the top-grade Earth-rank demonic blade crumbled into countless fragments, like dried dough.
Song Yan's pupils contracted sharply, and the flesh and blood of his entire right arm were instantly shredded into dust by a terrifying and incomprehensible recoil force!
He opened his mouth to scream, but that delicate white hand had already lightly landed on the top of his head.
The gale suddenly stopped at that moment.
Above the sky, Dugu Ao and the Blood Fiend Old Monster, who had been watching the show with cold smiles, froze on their faces.
Chen Fan's chubby, white hand rested lightly on Song Yan's crown.
The next instant, Song Yan froze completely.
Before the ecstasy and ferocity in his eyes could fade, the light in his pupils was completely extinguished.
A ring of fine, gray-white ripples spread from between his brows. Within a fraction of a second of this ripple, the Qi and Blood, qi, meridians, and even the Golden Core deep within Song Yan's Dantian, which had been painstakingly cultivated for two hundred years, all vanished into lifeless nothingness.
A gust of wind blew.
This renowned elder of the Law Enforcement Hall, who had been famous throughout the Azure Cloud Sword Sect for decades, had his entire body, like rotten wood weathered by time for millions of years, silently turn into a handful of grayish-white powder, which scattered into the cracks of the floor tiles in the Spirit Spring Hall.
He died without a complete corpse; not even a fragment of his Primordial Spirit escaped.
The entire Spirit Spring Hall fell into an eerie silence.
The chilling killing intent that had been emanating from his back vanished abruptly, leaving Chen Changqing stunned.
He maintained his posture of bowing and protecting his own, with a few drops of demonic blood still remaining at the gap in the tear in his robe on the back. However, he seemed to be frozen in place, mechanically and slowly turning his head.
On the empty ground, there was only a handful of ashes that had not yet been scattered by the wind, and countless fragments of the Blood-Transforming Infant-Eroding Blade.
Look up further.
It was his own six-year-old son.
Chen Fan was looking down at his own fair and delicate hands, and casually nuzzled Chen Changqing's shoulder, as if he had just swatted away an annoying fly.
"Where is Song... Song Yan?"
Chen Changqing's throat felt as dry as if it had been rolled in sand, and his mind was blank.
A powerful cultivator at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm... just like that, gone?
Above the Firmament.
Dugu Ao sneer froze instantly, and the Seven-Star Annihilation Formation Diagram beneath his feet trembled violently, causing the sword light of thousands of the Mysterious Sword Sect disciples to shake violently.
"Turning into ashes from a distance... even Golden Core couldn't escape?"
Dugu Ao's eyes twitched wildly, and he let out a scream.
"Chen Changqing! What kind of monster are you hiding in the Spirit Spring Hall?!"
He doesn't believe it!
How could a six-year-old child who has just begun his enlightenment possibly destroy the Golden Core with a mere gesture!
Absolutely impossible!
It must be that the Azure Cloud Sword Sect exhausted its resources and used some ancient curse talisman, or that a dying Joyous Union Sect was resurrected!
However, the Blood Fiend Old Monster, hovering atop the hundred-foot- White Bone Warship, suddenly unleashed an unprecedentedly greedy divine light from his deep-set crimson demonic eyes.
"It's not possession..."
The Blood Fiend Old Monster leaned slightly forward, his withered fingers gripping the skeletal ship's gunwale tightly, his lips trembling violently with extreme excitement.
"Not a trace of death aura, the Divine Soul and body are perfectly integrated! That is... the Innate Law Imprint! This is Supreme Dao Embryo that fell from the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm, containing within it the Creation to become an immortal!"
The perception of a Nascent Soul cultivator in the Early Nascent Soul is far superior to that of Golden Core cultivator.
In that brief moment, the Blood Fiend Old Monster vaguely sensed a Dao Rhythm that Transcendence the Heavenly Dao's understanding of the Cangwu Realm.
Those are rules that the Golden Core stage cultivators cannot even touch; they are laws, they are the Great Dao!
If one could dissect a six-year-old mortal body and extract its natal divine bone, refining it into one's own nascent Nascent Soul Dharma Form, how could the Blood Fiend Old Monster possibly fail to break through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul, or even glimpse the threshold of the Deity Transformation stage?!
"Haha! Heaven has been kind to me!"
The Blood Fiend Old Monster laughed wildly, his hoarse and piercing laughter causing rubble to tumble down from the entire Sunset Glow Peak.
"Dugu Ao, you led your men to loot the Azure Cloud Treasury, and this Dao Embryo... belongs to me!"
Before he finished speaking, the Blood Fiend Old Monster no longer hesitated or held back. His withered chest suddenly swelled up, and he opened his mouth to spew out a blood-red banner that was entirely forged from the blood and spirits of countless Yin souls!
The most prized treasure of the Setting Sun Demon Palace —the Earth-rank supreme item, the Nine Nether Blood-Transforming Banner!
"Boom!!"
The blood-red banner fluttered, growing to a massive size of a thousand feet in the wind.
The sky was completely obscured by a thick, foul-smelling sea of blood, and the celestial pressure of the Early Nascent Soul crashed down like a waterfall from the heavens.
The entire Sunset Glow Main Peak sank several feet under this attack, and the already crumbling White Marble hall collapsed with a roar. Hundreds of Qingyun disciples were shaken to their knees by this oppressive force, coughing up their internal organs.
"Get out here!"
The Blood Fiend Old Monster pressed down with his withered claws in mid-air, and the thousand-foot sea of blood transformed into a sky-covering demonic hand covered with white bone spikes, carrying an overwhelming corrosive power that could destroy all life, and grabbed down at the father and son in the ruins!