Godly Furnace Devours Heaven, Ninth Heavenly Venerate, You Can Do Nothing!

"Phew... phew..."

High in the sky, Xiao Yao gasped for breath, his face deathly pale.

The Carefree Seal he had unleashed with the full force of his strength had nearly drained all the Immortal Family Mana and soul power within him. At this moment, waves of weakness washed over him like a tide.

Yet when he saw the might of that strike, like heavenly punishment itself, a satisfied smile still appeared on his face.

"The power of this move... did not disappoint me. I can still refine it further!"

Opposite him, at the heart of the explosion, a figure so ethereal it was nearly transparent slowly emerged. It was none other than the Soul Hall's Ninth Heavenly Venerate!

He was in an utterly miserable state!

The pale blue robe that symbolized his noble status had long since vanished. His entire soul body was covered in horrifying, spiderweb-like cracks, as though the slightest touch would shatter him completely!

Those eyes once filled with arrogance and indifference now held nothing but endless madness and... disbelief!

"Heaven Tier! It is absolutely a Heaven Tier Dou Technique!!!"

Like a madman, he pointed at Xiao Yao and let out a shrill, distorted, miserable roar!

"You... you actually know a Heaven Tier Dou Technique?! You are merely a Dou Zong! Yet with the strength of a Dou Zong, you can unleash a Heaven Tier Dou Technique with such terrifying power!!"

"How is that possible?! That is absolutely impossible!!!"

He could not understand it! Nor could he accept it!

Heaven Tier Dou Techniques were things that existed only in legend for ninety-nine percent of the people on the Dou Qi Continent! Even to the Soul Clan, they were incomparably precious, each one a treasure that guarded the clan! Even his true body could not claim with certainty that he could use one even once.

Yet now, a brat from the fallen Xiao Family in some remote empire had used a Heaven Tier Dou Technique with the strength of a Dou Zong! This utterly overturned everything he knew!

"Heh. How could a frog at the bottom of a well know the height of the heavens and the vastness of the earth?"

Xiao Yao smiled proudly, his voice full of disdain.

"Good! Good! Good!" The Ninth Heavenly Venerate was enraged beyond measure, venomous light flashing in his eyes. He immediately noticed Xiao Yao's weakened state and sneered. "Boy, I must admit, you truly are a monstrous genius seen once in ten thousand years! But now, what else can you possibly do?!"

The two Protectors beside him, including Protector Wu, sprang into action, greed instantly bursting from their eyes!

Strike him while he was weak and take his life! Even a tiger fallen to the plains would be bullied by dogs!

This was a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity to kill a future great enemy!

The two of them grinned viciously and transformed into black mist, pouncing toward the exhausted Xiao Yao!

Yet Xiao Yao's face still bore that calm, mocking expression.

He could not even be bothered to look at those two insignificant clowns. He merely shouted in his heart.

"Grandpa Lu, help me!"

"Buzz—!!!!"

In an instant, the phantom of a sacred Eight Trigrams Furnace, unimaginably vast as though it could contain the entire heaven and earth, burst forth from behind Xiao Yao and covered the skies!

Purple-gold radiance flowed across the furnace, Great Dao runes shone, and an ancient, boundless divine might descended with a roar!

The mouth of the Eight Trigrams Furnace opened wide, aimed at the world before it!

The next moment, the enormous furnace phantom inhaled violently like an awakened primordial divine beast!

It drank in the world like a whale swallowing the sea!

Within a thousand miles, all Heaven and Earth Energy—whether violent fire energy or gentle water energy—lost control at that moment, transforming into torrents of dazzling multicolored energy that were madly devoured by the phantom of the Eight Trigrams Furnace!

And after being transformed by the Eight Trigrams Furnace, that Heaven and Earth Energy became the purest, most fundamental energy, pouring without end into Xiao Yao's already depleted body!

At that moment, his Innate Dao Body displayed its heaven-defying power!

Almost instantly, the pallor on his face gave way to a healthy flush once more! His completely exhausted mana and soul power had actually returned to their peak state!

This scene left the three Soul Hall members opposite him utterly dumbfounded!

"Th-this... what is that?!"

As the Ninth Heavenly Venerate stared at the sacred and majestic phantom of the Eight Trigrams Furnace, the trace of panic that had just died down in his heart surged forth wildly once more! Yet his eyes held even more... boundless greed!

"A divine artifact from the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking??! No! Even the Pill Emperor Sacred Cauldron, ranked first on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking, could not possibly possess such heaven-defying divine might!"

"What... what kind of divine artifact is this? If I obtained it...!"

For a moment, he instead became completely calm!

"Jie jie jie..."

A spine-chilling shriek of laughter came from his ethereal mouth.

"Good! Good boy! You really have... brought this Venerable one surprise after surprise!" Madness glinted in his eyes. "You are continuously strengthening my clan's resolve to kill you! From this day onward, my Soul Clan will truly begin to take you seriously! You... had best spend your remaining days counting them carefully!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yao merely smiled and dug at his ear.

"Are you done, trash?"

"If you are, I can send you on your way!"

The moment Protector Wu and the other man saw Xiao Yao instantly return to peak condition, along with that terrifying divine furnace, they had already begun thinking of retreating. They even burned portions of their souls in pursuit of a slim chance at survival!

But to their despair, they discovered that the surrounding space had long been completely locked down by an invisible force. They did not even have the right to flee!

The Ninth Heavenly Venerate suddenly burst into wild laughter. His already ethereal soul body abruptly began to burn!

He had actually begun directly burning this Dou Zun avatar, forcibly stirring the laws of space and opening a pitch-black spatial passage leading to an unknown place!

He grabbed Protector Wu, intending to throw him into the passage and bring him back to investigate everything that had happened today!

"Opening a spatial passage right before my eyes? You have some nerve!"

Xiao Yao sneered and directly unleashed the supreme Divine Ability from the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, one capable of overcoming all enemies!

"Eight-Nine Arcane Arts—Netherworld Passage, Space Annihilation!"

He pointed remotely at that pitch-black spatial passage!

An invisible force of spatial laws from a higher level descended in an instant!

That already unstable spatial passage suddenly twisted violently. Countless incomparably sharp silver spatial blades formed crazily out of thin air within it, crossing and grinding everything apart!

"Ah—!"

"No—!"

Only two utterly miserable screams had time to emerge from the passage. Not even a trace of bloody mist spilled out before all signs of them vanished!

The Ninth Heavenly Venerate's roar, filled with endless resentment and unwillingness, rang out from the other side of the passage.

"You little bastard! Just wait for this Venerable one! The next time my true body descends, I will tear you into ten thousand pieces, extract your soul, and refine your spirit! I will make you beg for life and beg for death!"

Xiao Yao stood proudly in the void and called out toward the slowly closing spatial rift.

"I will be waiting!"