Nihility Devouring Flame had never expected that his trip to Heaven Hall of the Hall of Souls, meant solely to harvest the Soul Origin accumulated over ten thousand years, would lead him headlong into such an inescapable net and a brutal ambush!
What shook him even more was that this sudden, fatal strike had come from Xiao Ling—the so-called "remnant of the Xiao Clan" mentioned by Hun Tiandi!
Nihility Devouring Flame had long heard of this man.
Although he had remained entrenched deep within the Hall of Souls, he had still paid attention to Xiao Ling's rise. He knew that this descendant of the Xiao Clan possessed the ability to fuse Heavenly Flames and controlled several of them. He had long harbored the thought of seizing and refining every Heavenly Flame within Xiao Ling once he had grown strong enough.
But in his eyes, Xiao Ling had been nothing more than a newly emerged ant. Even with Heavenly Flames in hand, he could never have matched him, the second-ranked flame on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. He had never taken him seriously.
Who could have imagined that the ant he had scorned would advance so rapidly in strength!
That thunderous strike of Void Grasp had been so overwhelmingly powerful that it had directly gravely wounded him, letting him taste the threat of death for the first time in countless years!
Without giving Nihility Devouring Flame even a moment to catch his breath, Xiao Ling's figure had barely stabilized in the void before his fingers rapidly formed an incomparably sharp and profound seal. He then brought two fingers together like a sword, their edge pointing directly at the battered Nihility Devouring Flame below.
"Starfall Sword Array, arise!"
His low shout shook heaven and earth. The surrounding void suddenly exploded as boundless Dou