He... He Swallowed the Ancestral Soul?

"An apparition who hides his head and shows his tail dares to steal the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit of our Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan?" The obscure yet vast aura around Huang Xuan suddenly surged severalfold at this moment.

As Huang Xuan made his move, the other four Dou Venerates immediately erupted with powerful, vast auras as well, their momentum shooting straight into the heavens.

The black shadow laughed disdainfully. The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had fewer Dou Venerates than the Ling Clan, and their quality was even worse. Wiping them all out would be effortless.

Among them, the strongest was only Huang Xuan, a Five-Star Dou Venerate.

"I don't want to waste time with you." Moving at incredible speed, the black shadow turned and delivered a kick, kicking a Two-Star Dou Venerate to death on the spot.

His incomparably powerful physical strength was displayed to the fullest at this moment.

Huang Xuan and the others stared dumbfoundedly at the dead Dou Venerate, their minds utterly blank.

Since when had Dou Venerates become so easy to kill?

Seeing the black shadow rapidly closing in, Huang Xuan and the others quickly came to their senses and hurriedly used their trump cards.

As the strongest person present, Huang Xuan naturally stood at the front. He clenched his fist, and brilliant Golden Light surged forth. A huge golden fist seal nearly several dozen zhang wide formed in an instant, then blasted toward the black shadow approaching atop the altar with an irresistible domineering force, like thunder from the ninth heaven. Wherever the fist seal passed, deep explosions rang through the air.

"Heaven Phoenix Overbearing Fist!"

Looking at the fist seal streaking through the sky, the black shadow disdainfully raised a hand and casually struck out with a strange black palm seal nearly a hundred zhang large.

"Annihilation Palm."

The palm seal carried a mysterious, deathly black color, wreathed in black mist that made hearts palpitate. Like Mount Tai, it weighed heavily on everyone's hearts as it slowly approached.

With just one palm strike, it utterly destroyed Huang Xuan's Heaven Phoenix Overbearing Fist and continued bearing down on Huang Xuan and the others!

In Huang Xuan's eyes, this black palm seal was like Death's scythe, wantonly reaping their lives!

"Not good, stop it!" A Two-Star Dou Venerate roared, releasing all of his cultivation and unleashing the strongest attack of his life at the black palm seal.

Yet before that black palm seal, this attack was simply too insignificant. It only made the black palm seal pause for a moment before it continued onward.

The Two-Star Dou Venerate watched the black palm seal draw near with a face full of despair, before it swallowed him whole.

The power of a single palm was boundless!

Swallowing one Two-Star Dou Venerate was not enough. After all, that black palm seal had not been targeting him. The Two-Star Dou Venerate had merely happened to stand in its path. Its goal was to wipe out Huang Xuan and the others!

"Buy me some time!" Huang Xuan looked at the other Dou Venerates. At his words, the remaining Dou Venerates all looked extremely grim as they reluctantly stepped forward.

"Heaven Demon Phoenix Roar!"

Two Dou Venerates stepped forward without hesitation, simultaneously unleashing sonic attacks in an attempt to stop the black palm seal.

But the sonic attacks could not even shake the black palm seal. The next moment, it slapped them both to death.

Huang Xuan's expression turned extremely grave as he watched this scene.

No one could withstand that single palm strike. Just what cultivation did this person possess?

Huang Xuan looked elsewhere and saw that the White-Haired Man had long since finished preparing. He let drops of purple blood fall, whereupon they floated before him.

He dipped his fingers in the blood and lightly traced through the air before him. Moments later, a strange rune appeared out of thin air in the sky.

The instant this rune appeared, a faint phoenix cry seemed to echo throughout heaven and earth.

"With blood as the pact, with the pact as the rune, awaken the Ancestral Soul!"

The White-Haired Man knelt reverently in the sky. As his words fell, the rune suddenly erupted with dazzling light. The radiance poured down from the heavens and slowly descended upon the Crimson Plains.

Boom!

The earth suddenly trembled, and the Heaven Phoenix skeleton upon the plains actually began to wriggle slowly.

As the skeleton moved, an ancient and desolate aura of inheritance quietly spread forth.

"The residual power of the Ancient Heaven Phoenix?" The black shadow watched the scene, then glanced at Huang Xuan, who had dared to take his Annihilation Palm head-on.

Huang Xuan's aura was now extremely unstable. His clothes were tattered all over, and blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

"S-So strong." Huang Xuan looked at the black shadow in extreme terror.

He was a Five-Star Dou Venerate, yet under that palm strike, he had possessed no ability to resist and had nearly lost his life.

However, when he sensed that ancient aura slowly rising and enveloping the White-Haired Man's body in the sky, his expression brightened. With a cold sneer, he looked at the black shadow.

"No matter who you are, you are dead today. Anyone who dares steal the possessions of our Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan is destined not to live long."

Golden Light suddenly flickered in the White-Haired Man's eyes. With a raised hand, a vast beam of golden light carrying terrifying power capable of destroying heaven and earth shot directly toward the black shadow.

"Haha! It really is power left behind by the Ancient Heaven Phoenix! Wonderful, absolutely wonderful!" The black shadow laughed wildly, and the black currents swirling around him grew even more solid.

He pointed a finger at the path of the vast Golden Light and softly uttered a word.

"Space Collapse!"

The vast Golden Light was instantly swallowed by the collapsing space, vanishing to who knew where.

"How is this possible?!" Huang Xuan's face twitched violently. That strike had been empowered by the residual power of the Ancient Heaven Phoenix, yet it vanished after a single exchange?

But with the help of the Ancient Heaven Phoenix's Ancestral Soul, the White-Haired Man no longer felt any fear. He clenched his hand again, and dazzling Golden Light surged from within his body. Then he threw a punch. A clear phoenix cry resounded, and a golden Heaven Phoenix rapidly formed. With one beat of its enormous wings, the entire sky shook.

Such a display was no longer something an ordinary Dou Venerate could withstand.

Once the golden phoenix formed, it beat its wings and shot toward the black shadow, blotting out the sky and sun. Beneath its massive shadow, an irresistible feeling arose in everyone's hearts.

This power—the power of the Ancient Heaven Phoenix—was simply too terrifying.

Faced with such a horrifying spectacle, little did they know that the black shadow was incomparably delighted. His mouth beneath the shadow of his black robe suddenly opened wide. With one inhale, a terrifying suction force arose between heaven and earth, sucking everything into his mouth, including the Ancestral Soul's power within the White-Haired Man.

"What?!" The White-Haired Man stared dumbfoundedly at the scene as helplessness slowly crept across his face.

"He... he swallowed the Ancient Heaven Phoenix's Ancestral Soul? Has he gone mad?"