The Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python

"Xiao... Zhan..." Her red lips parted slightly, the two words falling like ice beads onto the ground. They still carried a bone-chilling coldness, yet quietly mingled with an indescribable complexity and... a hint of inquiry. Her figure swayed slightly, seven-colored radiance flowing like a dream, instantly merging into the space. Only a brilliant afterimage remained before she vanished in an instant.

At the summit of the Demon Peak of Bones!

Under the strike of the Burning Heaven Holy Seal, Gu You Saint had suffered heavy injuries, and the explosive power Xiao Zhan had unleashed as a newly ascended Dou Zong was also exhausted in this battle. The flame phoenix wings behind him dimmed instantly, and the dragon-scale armor around his body flickered unsteadily, like a candle in the wind. His aura fluctuated violently, falling from the Dou Zong realm back to the peak of Dou Huang. His face was as pale as paper, and his body swayed slightly; clearly, he had paid an unimaginably heavy price for that strike.

"Ant! This Saint... shall see you annihilated, body and soul!!!"

Tens of thousands of feet away, amidst the ruins of the collapsed bone mountain, came the furious, maddened roar of Gu You Saint, shaking the heavens and echoing endlessly! A more terrifying, chilling aura erupted, carrying a destructive intent that disregarded all costs. Pale white soul flames surged out like a volcanic eruption, instantly scattering the bone dust filling the sky! Gu You's figure hovered in the air once more, his right arm severed at the shoulder. At the stump, pale soul flames burned and twisted frantically, attempting to reshape the limb, yet they were firmly obstructed by the lingering Dragon-Phoenix Holy Might and Chaos True Meaning, unable to succeed! Although his aura was not as peak as before, the killing intent burning within his swirling, pale-white vortex eyes was like a cold, sharp blade, enough to freeze one's soul!

He spoke no more, pointing his remaining left hand toward Xiao Zhan from afar! At his fingertip, a pale white light point, condensed to the extreme and presenting the pure essence of "Nirvana," shot out silently. It was like the kiss of death, carrying endless destruction and despair!

"Nirvana... Soul Finger!"

The beam was as thin as a silk thread, yet it moved faster than the limits of thought. Wherever it passed, space annihilated silently like thin paper, leaving behind an eternal, pitch-black trail, as if carved by the hand of the Grim Reaper himself. An absolute, deathly silence that froze life and erased existence instantly locked onto the exhausted Xiao Zhan, leaving him nowhere to hide! This was a desperate, killing blow unleashed by Gu You Saint in his fury, containing his core Nirvana Rule, determined to completely erase Xiao Zhan!

There was no escaping, no blocking; all resistance seemed to have become futile!

"Father--!" Xiao Yan's pupils shrank, his eyes filled with terror and helplessness. The Chaos Fire Seed danced frantically in his palm, releasing towering flames, but it was too late to rescue him. He could only watch helplessly as the fatal strike closed in!

Just at this critical, life-or-death moment!

"Hmph!"

A cold, arrogant snort, as if descending from the nine heavens, exploded like a thunderclap at the summit of the Demon Peak, causing the very air to tremble!

The space in front of Xiao Zhan rippled like water, as if stirred by an invisible hand. A graceful figure shrouded in seven-colored radiance appeared out of thin air before everyone's eyes, like a fairy crossing through time and space! It was none other than Queen Medusa, reborn from her cocoon, her demeanor peerless!

She raised her jade hand slightly, her slender fingers like orchids, and flicked them gently toward the incoming Nirvana Soul Finger!

Hum!

A point of energy, condensed to the extreme and shimmering with seven-colored glaze, shot out like a teleportation, precisely striking the Nirvana Soul Finger, as if arranged by the clever hand of fate!

Sss--!!!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no deafening roar, only a faint, barely audible sound, like a drop of morning dew, yet it contained endless power and mystery!

The moment the seven-colored glazed light touched the Nirvana Soul Finger, it was like a collision between a star and the dark night, yet it yielded a completely different result! The terrifying beam, which contained the Saint's Nirvana Rule and could easily erase a Dou Zong powerhouse, vanished silently before the seven-colored glaze, as if it had never left a trace in this world!

The remaining power of the seven-colored glazed light transformed into a tiny, brilliant stream of light, instantly piercing through layers of space and shooting like a sharp arrow toward the furious Gu You Saint tens of thousands of feet away!

Gu You Saint's swirling, pale-white eyes shrank violently, as if his soul had been seized by invisible fear! A boundless warning, stemming from the instinct of life, instantly enveloped his entire body. Before he could even think, his remaining left hand hastily erected layers of pale soul flame barriers in front of him, like building lines of desperate defense!

Puff!

The seven-colored glazed light cut through all barriers like a heated knife through butter, striking precisely in the center of Gu You Saint's chest, as if it were the precise judgment of fate's hand!

"Urgh--!" Gu You Saint let out a muffled groan, his body swaying violently like a lone boat caught in a gale! At the spot on his chest where the light had struck, a tiny seven-colored glazed mark appeared, rapidly spreading fine cracks like a spiderweb! A tyrannical, seven-colored energy containing the essence of devouring and annihilation gnawed at his Saint essence like a maggot in the bone! Though not fatal, it brought continuous, excruciating pain and a constant drain on his essence, leaving him in agony!

"Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python?! And... a complete form?!" Gu You Saint stared fixedly at the graceful figure shrouded in seven-colored radiance, his voice filled with unbelievable horror and a trace of deep wariness! This pressure, originating from the depths of her bloodline, made even him, a Saint, feel an unprecedented threat, as if facing the most irresistible existence in heaven and earth!

Queen Medusa hovered in the air before Xiao Zhan, her seven-colored palace attire fluttering in the wind like flowing neon in the sky. Her purple-gold eyes swirled with seven-colored divine light, like exotic flowers blooming in a deep galaxy, gazing coldly and majestically at Gu You Saint in the distance. She did not strike again, yet that supreme pressure from the primordial era, combined with the terrifying strength that had effortlessly annihilated a Saint's strike just moments ago, acted like an invisible giant hand, forming the most powerful deterrent that caused the heavens and earth to change color!

The pain of erosion continued to radiate from the seven-colored cracks on Gu You Saint's chest. At his severed arm, the Dragon-Phoenix Holy Might and Chaos True Meaning remained stubbornly intertwined, causing his essence to drain away like a breached river, impossible to stem. He stared fixedly at Queen Medusa within the seven-colored radiance, his gaze like a torch, as if wanting to see through her. Then, he looked at Xiao Zhan behind her, whose aura was unstable but whose eyes were cold, at Xiao Yan below who was eyeing him like a tiger with Chaos flames dancing in his palms, and at Xiao Yi Xian, whose aura was becoming increasingly mysterious and unfathomable, like mist.

"Good... very good!" The fury in Gu You Saint's swirling, pale-white vortex eyes gradually subsided, replaced by a bone-chilling resentment and deep calculation. "Xiao Zhan... Medusa... and those two little brats carrying the aura of the Immortal Hall... This Saint has noted you all! This hatred and grudge, I shall return it a hundredfold another day!"

"The Soul Hall... shall be at odds with you all... until death!"

The cold voice seemed to come from the nine nether hells, carrying endless resentment and curses that echoed across the summit of the Demon Peak. Before the sound had fully dissipated, the pale soul flames around Gu You Saint suddenly erupted, surging like a volcanic eruption! Space twisted violently under this terrifying power, as if being wantonly kneaded by an invisible hand. His figure gradually blurred, like ink dissolving in water, illusory and unreal, until he finally vanished completely into the twisted ripples of space, leaving behind only the chest wound deeply eroded by seven-colored cracks, the constant dissipation of his essence, and that cold, bone-chilling warning of resentment that lingered in the air for a long time.

The Saint... had finally retreated!

Silence once again enveloped this riddled, devastated Demon Peak of Bones. Only the Chaos Demon Flame licked at the bones, making a "crackling" sound like the whispers of death, along with the heavy, rapid breathing of the survivors, telling of the heart-stopping events that had just transpired.

Xiao Zhan gazed at the graceful back shrouded in seven-colored radiance before him, feeling that familiar yet now even more unfathomable cold pressure. A weak, faint arc appeared on his blood-stained lips, and his hoarse voice carried a trace of relieved exhaustion and emotion:

"You... have finally awakened..."