Somewhere in the mountain range outside the War God Temple.
Inside a cave abode.
Qin Hao was compressing the Ice Attribute Extreme Realm Spiritual Power within his body.
By cultivating the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art, he could compress his Ice Spiritual Power into rice-grain-sized pellets, then release them in an instant to freeze his enemies.
This minor divine ability was called Blue Ice Flash.
Qin Hao cultivated the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Art, an enhanced version of the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art. Naturally, the rice grains he condensed were more effective than Blue Ice Flash.
With the spiritual power currently in Qin Hao's body, he could only condense one hundred Blue Ice Flash pellets, each radiating an extremely dangerous aura.
To increase their power, Qin Hao even fused the pellets together and compressed them further.
He discovered that at most, five pellets could be condensed into one. Any more than that would cause them to collapse.
Boom!
Suddenly, a vast Spiritual Sense akin to Heavenly Might appeared and swept across the entire Huofen Kingdom.
This ocean-like Spiritual Sense carried an innate pressure.
Wherever it passed, all living beings felt their minds roar and their bodies tremble. They felt like ants gazing up at the heavens.
"Hmm? Nascent Soul Transformation Stage Spiritual Sense?"
Qin Hao alone felt no fear. Instead, he ruthlessly slammed back with his own Extreme Realm Spiritual Sense.
Bang!
Against someone like Nado, who also possessed Extreme Realm Spiritual Sense, Qin Hao's Spiritual Sense was far inferior. However, this ordinary Nascent Soul Transformation Spiritual Sense could not compare to Qin Hao's Extreme Realm Spiritual Sense.
If not for the fact that his Extreme Realm required his cultivation to reach the necessary level before it could become invincible, that single blow would have obliterated the owner's Spiritual Sense rather than merely shattering it.
"Hmph!"
A muffled grunt rang out as the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor's massive figure appeared between heaven and earth.
He looked coldly into the distance and thought, I found him. This child is merely at the early Soul Formation stage, so how can his Spiritual Sense be this powerful? It is not the slightest bit weaker than mine at the Early Infant Transformation stage.
Moreover, within his Spiritual Sense, I sensed a force of destruction that made my heart tremble!
Could it be... that he has already obtained the Heavenly Reversal Bead? Otherwise, how could this child have undergone such a terrifying transformation?
According to what his Clan Members had said, Qin Hao had only been a late Nascent Soul stage Cultivator when he entered the Outer Realm Battlefield!
In less than ten years, he had actually successfully reached Soul Formation, and his Spiritual Sense could even contend head-on with his own.
If the other party had not encountered some great fortune, this would have been impossible.
Thinking that all of this had been brought about by that bead, intense killing intent immediately surged in the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor's eyes.
"This child must die!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor snorted coldly and shot forth like a comet crashing into the earth. He blasted apart the clouds overhead and descended above the mountain range.
At that moment, Qin Hao stood with his hands behind his back, hovering above a mountaintop as his robes stirred in the clouds. He watched the approaching figure.
"You are the Giant Demon Clan's Old Ancestor, aren't you?"
Qin Hao asked, "May I know why you have come looking for me?"
"That's right. Old Man is the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor grinned. "Kid, you are only at the early Soul Formation stage. You actually aren't afraid of Old Man?"
He was tall and powerfully built, his bright eyes like two peerless blades, incomparably sharp.
"You are only at the Early Infant Transformation stage, not the Early-stage Asking Peak. Naturally, there is nothing to fear."
Qin Hao's expression remained calm.
With the Slaying Luo Art, he had no reason to fear an Early Infant Transformation Cultivator like this man.
"What an arrogant junior!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor stared straight at Qin Hao, his gaze as sharp as swords. "Hand over Wang Lin's bead, and I can leave you an intact corpse!"
"The bead?"
Qin Hao wore a strange expression as he asked, "You do not actually think that I became what I am today because of some bead, do you?"
Having read the original work, he knew very well how useless the Heavenly Reversal Bead was.
Aside from providing Spirit Liquid in the early stages and altering the flow of time, it was basically just a hiding place in the later stages.
At most, it allowed Wang Mazi to see the Third Step ahead of time.
Other than that, it had no further use.
"Whether it is in your hands or not, you will not escape death today!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor abruptly reached out with one massive hand, grabbing at Qin Hao as swiftly as lightning.
Whoosh!
With a thought, Qin Hao directly sent out a single azure rice grain.
At the same time, his body shot backward.
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor was extremely overconfident and slapped his palm directly onto the rice grain.
Buzz!
In an instant, the rice grain shattered and transformed into waves of deep blue ripples that spread in all directions.
In the blink of an eye, the mountain range had become a blue world of ice crystals.
Whether flowers, grass, trees, rocks, or streams, everything was Ice Sealed. Even the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor was frozen within deep blue ice crystals.
Although Qin Hao had begun retreating the instant it happened, he was still covered by that power and felt his entire body stiffen.
Fortunately, this was his own Extreme Realm Spiritual Power. Qin Hao recovered in an instant.
"Extreme Realm!"
Qin Hao shouted in a low voice. His Extreme Realm Spiritual Sense surged out wildly, transforming into streaks of Blood Lightning that shot toward the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor.
Crackle!
The Blood Lightning entered the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor's body and immediately rushed toward his Sea of Consciousness.
At that moment, within the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor's Sea of Consciousness, a massive Nascent Soul sat cross-legged.
"Courting death!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor's Nascent Soul abruptly opened his eyes and reached out to point at the Blood Lightning.
Bang!
The Blood Lightning was instantly shattered, but it did not disappear. Instead, it entered the Nascent Soul's body and began madly destroying his Spiritual Sense and divine soul.
"Ah!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor let out a miserable scream. The pain originating from his soul was even more intense than being sliced apart a thousand times, leaving him in unbearable agony.
Although he was at the Nascent Soul Transformation Stage and Extreme Realm Power could not directly kill him, it still inflicted immense damage upon his divine soul.
"Damn Qin Hao! Old Man will kill you!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor roared, and a mighty force akin to Heavenly Might instantly poured forth from his body.
Under that force, the Extreme Realm Spiritual Sense was immediately swept away and forced back.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
At the same time, the deep blue ice covering the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor's body began to collapse.
Whoosh!
Without the slightest hesitation, Qin Hao threw another rice grain over just as his opponent was about to break free from the Ice Seal.
As for Qin Hao himself, he repeatedly teleported away and vanished.
Bang!
Only after Qin Hao disappeared did the ice layers completely shatter.
"Qin Hao, you actually forced Old Man to use precious Immortal Power! Old Man will definitely skin you alive, tear out your tendons, and ignite your divine soul in a Soul Lamp to burn for hundreds of millions of years!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor was enraged beyond measure. His body instantly expanded, transforming into a giant more than thirty meters tall.
It was no wonder he was furious.
To deal with the Extreme Realm Spiritual Sense and Extreme Realm Spiritual Power, the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor had spared no expense in using precious Immortal Power.
Ever since the Immortal World had shattered, once Cultivators on Cultivation Stars exhausted their Immortal Power, it was difficult to replenish unless they used Immortal Jade.
People on Vermilion Bird Star could hardly obtain Immortal Jade. They could only venture into the shattered Immortal World to acquire a small amount.
Originally, he had planned to save his Immortal Power for breaking through to the Mid Infant Transformation stage.
But now, it seemed that in order to obtain that bead, he had no choice but to expend Immortal Power against Qin Hao.
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