High in the sky.
Qin Hao advanced, and with every step he took, he teleported thousands of miles.
He had come into the sky mainly because he did not want their battle to cause any damage to the ground.
Just as Qin Hao was about to teleport again, the void before him suddenly twisted.
A massive palm emerged from within. Its lines were distinct, its fingerprints resembling winding river channels. Immortal Power flowed within it as it descended with overwhelming force, accompanied by a purple-black vortex that spread like a millstone capable of destroying the world.
Whoosh!
Qin Hao immediately retreated at high speed and once again brought out the Rice Grain.
However, before the Rice Grain could release its icy-blue radiance this time, it was directly swallowed by the purple-black vortex.
"Nine Nether Yellow Springs Flame!"
Seeing this, Qin Hao formed a hand seal with his right hand and fiercely pointed forward.
"Boom!"
The ice-attribute Extreme Realm Spiritual Power within him frantically transformed into a cluster of deep-blue flames.
Strangely, the flames emitted not waves of heat, but an utterly frigid power.
At this moment, as the icy flames appeared, even the clouds in the sky were frozen into blocks of ice.
The instant the flames appeared, they transformed under Qin Hao's control into an icy-blue flaming dragon.
The giant dragon opened its blood basin mouth and collided with the incoming palm.
"Rumble!"
Violent collisions boomed through the sky dome, echoing between heaven and earth like exploding thunder, deafening to the ears.
The deep blue and pitch-black powers were incomparably terrifying. As they clashed, they unleashed a vast force like Mountain Collapse and tsunami, blasting cracks into the empty space itself.
The black Annihilation Wind scattered everything in the sky and only gradually dissipated after a long while.
"Blue Ice Flash, Yellow Springs Ice Flame... and cold-attribute spiritual power cultivated through the Yellow Springs Ascending Aperture Art!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor stepped forward, his gaze icy. "You are not from the Soul Refining Sect. You are from the Yellow Springs Sect!"
The Yellow Springs Sect was a sect within a Level 5 Cultivation Nation on the Vermilion Bird Continent.
The sect had now declined, but in the past, it had once become a force second only to Vermilion Bird Country on Vermilion Bird Star.
That was because the Yellow Springs Sect had been founded by Second Generation Vermilion Bird Situ Nan.
Third Generation Vermilion Bird had betrayed Situ Nan to an outside-world expert, resulting in Situ Nan and that expert perishing together.
After Situ Nan disappeared, the Yellow Springs Sect also suffered the ruthless suppression of Third Generation Vermilion Bird.
By now, the strongest person in the Yellow Springs Sect was only at Early Infant Transformation, just like the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor.
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor possessed a trace of Ancient God bloodline, and his physical body was extraordinarily powerful. Thus, his combat strength surpassed that of the Yellow Springs Sect's current Old Ancestor.
If Qin Hao had been from the Soul Refining Sect, the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor would still have held some reservations. But since he was from the Yellow Springs Sect—
The final trace of apprehension in the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor's heart completely vanished.
"Roar!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor roared, and his body expanded once more, growing from more than ten zhang tall to several dozen zhang.
The current Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor resembled a primitive Giant Spirit God. His blood energy surged into the heavens, filled with oppressive force.
That terrifying aura made countless Cultivators and ordinary people below tremble uncontrollably and kneel upon the ground.
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor clenched both hands, and a Sky-Opening Great Axe immediately appeared in his grasp.
"Brat, this axe was left behind by the Progenitor of my Giant Demon Clan. It is a Pseudo Immortal Treasure. Back then, he wielded this axe and slew three Early-stage Asking Peak Cultivators in succession. To die beneath this axe, you can smile even in the underworld!"
"Rip!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor gripped the Sky-Opening Great Axe and chopped downward. The blood-colored axe light was unstoppable, tearing apart the sky dome itself. Its rumbling echoed without end, as though it would refine earth, water, fire, and wind before opening heaven and earth anew.
"As expected of a Pseudo Immortal Treasure. It truly is terrifying!"
Qin Hao once again unleashed the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Flame to block it.
However, the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Flame offered no resistance against the Sky-Opening Axe light and was directly cleaved in two.
Then, the axe light fell upon Qin Hao without obstruction.
There was not the slightest fear on Qin Hao's face. Instead, a hint of mockery and disdain appeared.
"Not good, I've fallen for a diversion!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor's expression drastically changed. After the axe light fell, the Qin Hao before him turned into a wisp of cloud and smoke, dispersing between heaven and earth.
Clearly, the Qin Hao before him was fake, condensed through a divine ability rather than his true main body.
"Clang!"
Suddenly, a heaven-shaking Sword Light appeared behind the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor.
Carrying the power to destroy heaven and earth, it slashed toward the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor.
It was the Slaying Luo Art!
This strike had appeared at precisely the right moment.
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor had just used Immortal Power to activate the Pseudo Immortal Treasure, the Sky-Opening Great Axe, and unleash an attack when this Sword Light appeared.
At this moment, the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor had no time at all to use Immortal Power again and launch a second strike.
"Innate Divine Ability!"
The Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor let out a low roar. Veins bulged all over his body as though he were enduring unimaginable agony.
"Rumble!"
A massive vortex suddenly appeared behind him and began spinning continuously.
In an instant, an incomparably terrifying suction force surged forth from within it.
Clearly, the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor intended to use the Giant Demon Clan's innate divine ability to counter the Slaying Luo Art unleashed by Qin Hao Main Body.
"Rip!"
However, the Giant Demon Clan's innate divine ability, which could send away other Cultivators, was directly sliced apart upon coming into contact with the Sword Light unleashed by the Slaying Luo Art, vanishing on the spot.
"Aah!"
Then, the remaining force of the Slaying Luo Art struck the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor without weakening, causing his enormous body to collapse instantly into a mass of Blood Mist.
The Slaying Luo Art could even cut through laws, so naturally it could kill the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor.
Only the Pseudo Immortal Treasure in the Giant Demon Clan Old Ancestor's hand and his storage bag remained.
The fact that his storage bag had remained was naturally due to Qin Hao's control.
"Whoosh!"
With no one controlling them, the Pseudo Immortal Treasure Sky-Opening Great Axe and the storage bag immediately fell toward the ground.
Qin Hao hurriedly teleported forward and caught them in his hand.
"Now I have another weapon!"
Qin Hao held the Sky-Opening Axe as streams of blood-colored light emerged from it and entered his body. His black hair fluttered without wind, while his aura rose frantically.
At this moment, Qin Hao's temperament changed drastically. It was as though, upon grasping the great axe, he had transformed into someone else.
Qin Hao felt incomparably powerful, as though he could split heaven and earth apart with a single swing of the axe.
"With this Pseudo Immortal Treasure, even without using the Slaying Luo Art, I should be able to severely wound ordinary Early Infant Transformation Cultivators!"
A Pseudo Immortal Treasure was a divine weapon second only to an Immortal Treasure.
Unlike Immortal Treasures, which could only be activated with Immortal Power, Pseudo Immortal Treasures could be driven by either spiritual power or Immortal Power.
It could be said that it was perfectly suited to the current Qin Hao.
If he were given a genuine Immortal Treasure, Qin Hao would instead be unable to use it.
However, a Pseudo Immortal Treasure still required Immortal Power to unleash its true strength.
But Qin Hao's Extreme Realm Spiritual Power had already reached the utmost limit of spiritual power in terms of rank, and it was not much inferior to Immortal Power.
Therefore, when he used Extreme Realm Spiritual Power to activate a Pseudo Immortal Treasure, the effect was close to the power produced when Nascent Soul Transformation Stage Experts activated one with Immortal Power.
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