True Body
"Xiao Fan... you... you're not dead?!"
Chen Changqing's voice was rough, as if he had swallowed sand and gravel. He reached out his blood-stained hand to grab Chen Fan's shoulder, instinctively trying to pull the child behind him.
"Back off! That's the Supreme Being... that's a great demon Heavenly Five Declines!"
Chen Fan did not turn around.
He had half a blade of grass in his mouth, and snapped the stem in two with a snap.
"Dad, hold on tight."
The child's voice was calm, without the roar of a spirit stirring within, yet it pierced through the thunder and howling, landing on the earth.
"Watching my son kill someone."
Standing at the back, the Grand Elder Mo Wendao, covered in blood, had his mouth agape, wide enough to fit a spiritual fruit, and his expression was blank.
At the summit of the sea of clouds, the enormous, eerie green eyes of the ten-thousand-foot-tall demonic Dharma Form suddenly contracted.
The enormous phantom of the Supreme Cangming leaned slightly, piercing through numerous spatial rifts, and locked onto the eleven-year-old boy on the lapis lazuli steps.
Even with his Half-Step Void Refinement Divine Sense, he still couldn't see any spiritual root aptitude in Chen Fan. There was no spiritual sea, no Golden Core, and no Nascent Soul Dao Principles. He was as pure as an unmined, stubborn rock.
But this stubborn Mortal Body not only walked out of the Fallen Immortal Ancient Plain, but also casually shattered his Origin Source Wind Blade!
"The Ancient Plain, ancient Death Fiend Qi beneath the Abyss... was it you who unleashed it?"
The ten-thousand-foot-tall Dharma Form spoke, its voice booming like thunder, bringing with it a nauseating stench of corpses and a chilling wind.
"You ignorant little brat, hiding your head and tail, daring to bark at me under the guise of the ruins of the ancient immortal site!"
In Cangming's view, this boy possessed absolutely no magical power, leaving only one possibility.
He may have accidentally triggered a remnant killing array left behind by Ancient Immortal at the Abyss bottom of the abyss, or stolen some kind of one-time boundary-breaking talisman!
Humans are, after all, just humans.
"Die!"
The ten-thousand-foot- Dharma Form, enraged to the point of laughter, brought down its withered, claw-like right hand from the heavens.
Boom!
The pitch-black death energy solidified into a sky-covering demonic hand spanning three thousand feet. The palm lines resembled crisscrossing rivers of blood, interwoven with the most insidious of the Heavenly Five Declines: "Flesh Decay" and "Lifespan Decay."
Before the palm print landed, the lapis lazuli slabs at the edge of the welcoming floating island shattered into dust, the great formation collapsed, and even the space was compressed into spiderweb-like black cracks!
"It's over..."
Han Mo, the Grand Elder of the Myriad Phenomena Academy, collapsed in a large pit a hundred feet away, closed his eyes, tears streaming down his face.
This palm strike carries the power of heaven and earth; let alone an eleven-year-old child, even ten late-stage Deity Transformation cultivators bound together would only suffer annihilation of their Divine Soul.
Millions of trembling cultivators and mortals throughout the city were plunged into utter despair in that instant.
Chen Changqing gritted his teeth until they shattered, and was about to activate the broken nascent Nascent Soul that had been finally suppressed, even if it meant self-destruction, to shield his son from this immense pressure.
However, Chen Fan made a move.
He didn't even draw his sword; he simply held the rough, broken, sheathed Broken Saber in his hand, back of the blade facing upwards, and casually flicked it towards the sky.
Buzz!
There were no earth-shattering supernatural phenomena, only a faint, almost invisible gray-white ripple spreading from the surface of the scabbard.
Within the Divine Kingdom, the Black-and-White Millstones slightly reversed half a circle.
The earth-shattering demonic hand, carrying the power to destroy the world, seemed to Void eerily the moment it touched the gray-white ripples.
The anticipated cataclysmic event did not occur.
On the contrary, the Ten-Thousand-Year Death Fiend Qi, which was powerful enough to corrode the physical body of a peak Nascent Deity Transformation, was like a swarm of ferocious sharks that had smelled blood and found their home, and it went out of control in an instant!
The billowing, pitch-black death energy of the Five Decays transformed into a massive tornado hanging upside down in the Firmament, roaring as it broke free from the control of the Dharma Form's palm, and violently surged into the area within three feet of Chen Fan's body like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea.
The miniature Divine Kingdom Miniature Divine Kingdom rapidly absorbed the energy, and the newly formed "Five Declines Dao Seed" deep within it trembled slightly, joyfully devouring and purifying all the extremely Dao Rhythm that had come to it.
Not only did the massive demonic palm fail to strike even a fraction of its size, but its core laws and Yin Death Fiend Qi were also completely drained!
Puff!
The demonic hand, now devoid of the support of laws, crumbled into dust like withered mud in the wind, disintegrating into countless gray-white particles that drifted away with the breeze.
The world was completely silent.
Han Mo suddenly opened his eyes, his eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets.
The gray-robed old woman from the Taiyin Demon Sect, who had broken three of her own ribs, trembled violently with her withered lips, as if she had seen a ghost in broad daylight.
"How is this possible... absorbing the Heavenly Five Declines?!"
Above the sky, the ten-thousand-foot- Dharma Form trembled violently, and even cracks appeared in the Void at its chest due to the great damage to its Origin Source.
At this moment, the Divine Soul of the Supreme Cangming suffered an irreversible backlash. The ghostly green flames in the eye sockets of his Dharma Form leaped wildly, and thick, foul-smelling black blood suddenly gushed from his mouth and nose.
Who are you?!
A sharp, piercing roar tore through the Firmament, Supreme Cangming completely lost his composure.
That was the Five Decaying Death Fiend Qi he had forged over three thousand years, using countless living beings as Furnace! An ordinary Nascent Deity Transformation cultivator would have their Dao Foundation rot if they were even slightly tainted by it, yet this eleven-year-old child swallowed it all like water?!
"An old monster possessing a body? True Immortal from the upper realm descending to earth?! What kind of demonic art do you cultivate?!"
Chen Fan lowered his eyes, patted the slightly charred Tier Two Diamond Talisman on his chest, and spoke in a completely flat tone.
"Dead men don't need to know so much."
The moment the words left his mouth, the lapis lazuli ground beneath Chen Fan's feet suddenly shattered.
Fast! Faster than the limits that the Cangwu Realm's space could contain!
Without the aid of Escape Light, it was purely the terrifying physical energy unleashed by the Demon God Dao Embryo that shattered heaven and earth, allowing the eleven-year-old figure to directly pierce through the ninefold sound barrier.
The sky was torn open like a brocade, leaving a white gash thousands of feet wide!
Clang!
The rusty, Broken Saber was finally drawn three inches from its sheath at this moment!
Boom!
Within the Divine Kingdom, the Five Declines Dao Seeds resonated completely with the Millstone, unleashing a gray-red sword-like rainbow that made the entire universe's rules tremble, like a line of death light cleaved from the primordial chaos of the universe, tearing through the nine heavens!
"Cut!"
With a single word uttered, the Void collapsed.
The Nine Netherworlds Life-Swallowing Great Formation, which was inverted above the Divine City, was ripped open with a gaping hole ten thousand feet wide, like brittle paper, by this single strike.
The blade's light shot upwards against the sky, ignoring the towering black mist protecting the Dharma Form, and slashed straight across the chest of the ten-thousand-foot-tall evil demon Dharma Form!
Sizzle!!
The enormous, mountain-like Dharma Form remained frozen in mid-air.
The next moment, a thin, grayish-white line of life and death spread from his left chest to his right rib. Then, the Half-Step Void Refinement Dharma Form, which had roamed the Southern Nation for nine thousand years and struck fear into the hearts of countless great sect patriarchs, was cleanly severed in two from his chest!
"Ahhh!!"
A piercing, venomous scream resounded from the summit of the towering Divine Mountain.
The Dharma Form collapsed, transforming into a torrential downpour of deathly energy. A gaunt, short old man with black spots all over his body tumbled out of the ruins of the Divine Mountain in a sorry state.
The Supreme Cangming Sea has manifested!