Venerable Gu Tuoya was the strongest beneath the Supremes. He had arrived bearing a Quasi-Immortal Sword, yet he had not even stirred a single ripple before his sword was destroyed and he was killed!
Meanwhile, Taiyan Holy Land had been so frightened that it had summoned a Supreme and shut down the Teleportation Array!
This... this was terrifying!
"It's over... completely over..."
"Even a Supreme wouldn't dare oppose him..."
"He intimidated a holy land into submission. Was this the terror of a Demon Venerable?"
For a moment, everyone present was plunged into despair.
How were they supposed to escape now?
"No... impossible... impossible!"
Ling Xian trembled at this moment, trembling from head to toe.
How could even a Supreme retreat...
This was unacceptable!
"Alas... I never thought I would ultimately die here today..."
Qing Luo, the Saintess of Immortal Music Pavilion, let out a long sigh. Even Taiyan Holy Land, which still had a living Supreme, had avoided battle rather than dare to fight. Immortal Music Pavilion was merely a Supreme Force, and its strongest remaining expert was only a Venerable...
They were even less capable of opposing the enemy!
On the other side, Long Ziyin was completely stunned.
The sword in her hand clanged as it fell to the ground.
She was practically scared witless!
"Supreme... Supreme, we are your heirs! Your heirs!"
Huo Mingxuan dropped to his knees with a thud!
Huo Xuanfei also immediately knelt, and the two of them kowtowed deeply to the Demon Venerable!
Lihuo Demon Venerable merely stared blankly at them before saying, "Since you inherited my path, you shall become my slaves..."
He raised a hand, and Huo Mingxuan and Huo Xuanfei suddenly let out shrill cries.
Their souls were actually pulled out of their bodies!
He injected black energy into their souls!
Then their souls were returned to their bodies!
The two of them foamed at the mouth and convulsed all over. When they awoke once more, they were neither human nor ghost—they had become Demon Slaves!
"You may become the leader of my slaves..."
The Demon Venerable's gaze shifted to Huo Ling'er.
Huo Ling'er had already cultivated the Holy Fire Eyes, so of course she could not escape the Demon Venerable's notice!
In that instant, Huo Ling'er felt a terrifying aura descend upon her. It was a power that left her despairing and utterly unable to resist.
At that very moment, she exerted all her strength and suddenly waved her hand, flinging out a Scroll!
The instant the Scroll appeared, it shot into the heavens of its own accord. Wherever it passed, the demonic beasts formed from the black flames filling the sky were all destroyed into nothingness!
A Scroll hung in the sky and slowly unfurled!
All eyes were fixed upon it, and everyone looked up in unison!
The Scroll finally opened. Within it was actually a Fire Phoenix undergoing Nirvana!
Reborn from endless flames, it carried ten thousand kinds of holiness and a thousand divine mights!
That Fire Phoenix looked exactly like a living divine beast!
The instant the Scroll opened, a terrifying aura that blotted out the heavens and earth swept across this land. Within the Secret Realm, bricks and tiles shattered inch by inch, while the demonic beasts filling the sky all turned into nothingness!
It destroyed everything!
In that instant, everyone felt as though they were facing a terrifying Immortal Venerable!
"No..."
"What kind of power is this... It surpasses the Supremes..."
"Is that a painting by a Deity?!"
Several thousand people could not help but prostrate themselves in worship!
Even the green light in Lihuo Demon Venerable's eyes began to flicker.
He suddenly let out an enraged roar and waved his great hand. Countless auras gathered together, and in the blink of an eye, he merged with the terrifying Blackfire Demon Dragon in the sky, roaring as he charged toward the Scroll!
At this moment, the might of the Blackfire Demon Dragon increased tenfold!
Yet the Fire Phoenix within the Scroll suddenly let out a phoenix cry!
The instant the cry rang out!
An invisible true flame appeared!
The Blackfire Demon Dragon charged upward, but as the phoenix cry rose and the true flame manifested, its enormous and terrifying black-flame dragon body split apart!
Lihuo Demon Venerable's body was blasted into nothingness!
In an instant, heaven and earth cleared!
Within the Secret Realm, the arrays were gone!
Only the Scroll remained, standing proudly in the firmament!
The Fire Phoenix undergoing Nirvana within the Scroll seemed to be intimidating the desolate Earth.
At this moment, the entire Cangli Mountain Range fell silent. All the beasts prostrated themselves, and even the taboos kept quiet!
Only after a long while—
The phoenix cry faded into the distance, the true flames dissipated, yet an aura of supreme holiness still enveloped this region!
At this moment, everyone prostrated themselves before the Scroll, their reverence utterly sincere!
"A Deity!"
"A Deity's handiwork!"
"This is true Divine Manifestation!"
They were incomparably excited, even more so than when the array of Lihuo Supreme had been broken!
Only after a long while did the Scroll slowly descend, landing in Huo Ling'er's hands.
Huo Ling'er stared at the Scroll in her hands. At this moment, her delicate body trembled—trembled utterly.
Beside her, Yu Qishui and Wei Yushan were both dumbstruck, staring with their mouths agape as if they had been petrified!
They knew Senior Li was terrifying, but... they had never imagined he could be terrifying to this extent!
The might of the Demon Venerable had forced a holy land into silence and made a Supreme retreat.
Yet Senior Li had slain him with nothing more than a casual stroke of his brush!
And the painting's power had not even been displayed to one-thousandth, one-ten-thousandth of its full extent before the Demon Venerable had been destroyed...
What kind of realm, what kind of handiwork, did that represent?
"It's simply unimaginable... Senior Li... what kind of existence is he, exactly?"
Just thinking about it made Yu Qishui's scalp go numb!
Previously, they had actually imagined Senior Li to be at the Mahayana Stage or the Venerable realm...
That was simply the greatest blasphemy against Senior Li!
Blasphemy!
His heart pounded with fear. Fortunately, fortunately, Senior Li was magnanimous and had not bothered with ants like them...
"I knew it! Nothing could escape Senior Li's grasp!"
Mu Qianning was incomparably excited. She clenched her fists. Whenever she thought of Li Fan, she felt that none of the world's dangers were worth worrying about at all.
At this moment, the several thousand people within the Secret Realm also turned to look at Huo Ling'er in unison!
Huo Ling'er was the owner of the painting...
"This old man represents the Wind Kingdom Royal Family in paying respects to the Goddess!"
An old man suddenly spoke in a trembling voice and knelt before Huo Ling'er!
With him taking the lead, everyone else followed suit!
"Greetings, Goddess!"
"Greetings, Goddess!"
All the forces, great and small, present knelt down and submitted!
Huo Ling'er was somewhat bewildered for a moment.
At Immortal Music Pavilion, Ling Xian looked at Huo Ling'er, his eyes filled with complicated emotions, humiliation, bitterness, and envy...
Beside him, Immortal Music Pavilion's Saintess Qing Luo was silent for a moment before also gracefully saluting and saying, "Greetings, Goddess."
Greetings, Goddess!
Even the Saintess of a Supreme Force was this respectful!
Qing Luo was exceptionally intelligent. At a glance, she could tell that Huo Ling'er's cultivation was not high. Yet she had easily broken through the barrier earlier, and later had killed the Demon Venerable with a single painting... This clearly meant that behind Huo Ling'er stood an existence of immense terror!
At the very least, that existence was an Immortal!
And even if that painting was an immortal-grade treasure, it had certainly been painstakingly refined by an Immortal. There were only a few such items in the entire Profound Heaven Realm. For Huo Ling'er to be able to carry such a painting here, she had to be an Immortal's personal disciple!
Calling her Goddess was completely appropriate!
Likewise, the several thousand people present came from countless major forces. The reason they respectfully knelt was because they revered the one behind Huo Ling'er!
Even the people from Dragon Profound Sect were dumbstruck.
Many of them completely lost their composure at this moment. Their knees went weak, and they knelt on the ground, not daring to lift their heads!
Long Ziyin's eyes widened as she stared at Huo Ling'er. Her mind thundered, turning utterly blank!
It was over... She had brought disaster upon her sect!
She had once indulged her subordinates in taking liberties with the Sect Master of Lihuo Sect—the servant of that existence...
She had once said that before Dragon Profound Sect, the existence behind Lihuo Sect was nothing at all...
Earlier, she had captured Huo Ling'er and had nearly destroyed Huo Ling'er's cultivation with the Spirit Severing Nail...
The more she thought about it, the paler her face became, until even her legs began to tremble.
Thud!
She fell to her knees and said, trembling, each word distinct, "Goddess, Ziyin was wrong!"
"Please be magnanimous, Goddess, and forgive Ziyin. Forgive my sect!"
She lowered her head, and the sweat on her forehead fell like soybeans!
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