The instant the void split open, even Burning Heaven Demon Venerable hadn't expected Jiang Shu to act so decisively.
His entire figure abruptly vanished from sight.
"Damn it! Brat! Even if you flee to the ends of the earth, you—"
A flame that incinerated everything around it burned the Space Channel to ashes. The Heaven-Escaping Talisman in Jiang Shu's hand was affected as well, and his entire body shot out of the Space Channel, crashing onto the wasteland, covered in blood.
The dragon-scale markings on his right arm had dimmed, and the Heaven-Escaping Talisman in his hand had lost much of its glow. Clearly, he could only use it twice more.
The biggest trouble was the tracking mark Burning Heaven Demon Venerable had left behind. It gnawed at his soul like a maggot burrowing into bone.
But Jiang Shu's lips curled into a cold smile.
The two killing moves he'd just unleashed had proven that he could, after all, injure a Demon Venerable. If he could advance a little further, he might yet accomplish the impossible.
Demon clouds gathered on the distant horizon. Jiang Shu forced himself to his feet.
After all, he hadn't come to the Demon Race with only the Heaven-Escaping Talisman as a trump card.
Gray Dao patterns flowed over his skin. Jiang Shu took several deep breaths, completely concealing himself within the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Moonlight poured like water as Jiang Shu sat cross-legged in a hollow tree.
The Three Sacred Embryos formed hand seals, forcing out the remnants of the Sky-Burning Blazing Flames inside him little by little.
Each wisp of flame that left his body turned into a tiny phoenix, struggling and shrieking, before being devoured and refined by the Chaos Thunder Pool.
"Dao Fire at the Demon Venerable level