Powerless!

"Whoosh~~~"

In the distorted, multicolored passage, Zhou Hao sensed the unseen connection to his soul and traversed the void ahead.

"Fortunately, I left behind a wisp of flesh to create a clone, otherwise I would have had to rely on breaking the teleportation array to enter the Earth Ruins Realm this time."

A single hair or a strand of flesh from Void Return Divine Demon can be transformed into an avatar. As long as they do not engage in battle, the divine power contained within is enough to allow the avatar to exist for more than ten years.

He left behind a physical clone at that time to investigate the message of the Five Village Temple Temple's token, the "Heaven-Earth Spirit Mirror," in the immortal camp. Now, it serves as a spatial coordinate to guide the direction of traversing the void.

Soon, sensing that his physical clone was getting closer and closer, Zhou Hao had a thought and manipulated the Cosmos Diagram to break through the passage, appearing in a silent void.

"There might be spies from the Shaoyan Clan in the Immortal Camp, and this place is perfect." Zhou Hao looked ahead, where a vast and boundless continent stretched into the distance, and millions of miles away on the other side were four Floating Island bases belonging to the Great Xia World.

At this moment, he was enveloped by the Cosmos Diagram, and the distance was far enough that he was not worried about any powerful figures discovering the spatial fluctuations here.

"Senior Sister Xuan Guang and the others were attacked near Blackwater Lake. Master said that before she died, she used a secret technique to throw her storage magic treasure into Blackwater Lake. Blackwater Lake is the lair of the Nightmare Dragon Emperor, and even the Shaoyan Clan dares not easily venture in." Zhou Hao spread his consciousness outwards, probing towards the distant main continent.

Since mastering mental power, the scope of his mental perception has long surpassed that of ordinary true immortals and gods.

Even in the Earth Ruins Realm, the invasion of this eerie and chilling power still spread across millions of miles.

"Hmm? Where's Blackwater Lake?" Zhou Hao compared the map of the Earth Ruins Realm that the Third Prince had given him, and was surprised to find that the forbidden zone for cultivators marked with heavy colors was actually just a barren mountain range in his perception.

"Enveloped and shielded by an array? The array is quite impressive, but it's useless against me." A cold smile appeared on Zhou Hao's lips.

At this moment, his consciousness was scattered and diffused, and he was far away from the Blackwater Lake in the heart of the main continent. His consciousness detected that he was no different from an ordinary celestial being there.

Now, having determined the location of Blackwater Lake by comparing it with the surrounding terrain, he immediately focused his mind and concentrated on one place. The sealing formation was immediately exposed and clearly seen by him.

"They're all old acquaintances." First, the three celestial immortals who maintained the magic array, Withered Wood, Devoted Heart, and Golden Cloud, appeared clearly in his eyes. Then, as his consciousness continued to penetrate, the Blackwater Lake, which was shrouded in the magic array, also appeared before him, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

Within the grand formation, a black-robed figure exuding a chilling aura gripped a black banner, controlling sixteen demonic corpses clad in black armor with blue faces and fangs, along with a Nine-Headed venomous insect monster, as they frantically attacked a colossal giant covered in scales.

The scaly giant was enormous; the Blackwater Lake, thousands of feet deep, only reached its knees.

Its pair of scaled wings, which spread out from its back, were tens of thousands of feet long, like two giant blades. They easily cut the two winged rhinoceroses in half at the waist. Then, a pair of sharp claws shot out and swiftly crushed the heads of the two demonic corpses, turning them into black mist that flew back into the black banner in the black-robed figure's hand.

"Hahaha..." The scaled giant's dragon-like head revealed a mouthful of sharp teeth, letting out a thunderous laugh that shook the heavens and the earth. "With the methods of you insignificant cultivators, you dare to act so presumptuously in my Blackwater Lake?"

The laughter rolled like waves, causing the surrounding heaven and earth to tremble. The remaining demonic corpses and poisonous insect monsters that were besieging him were affected by this and were momentarily afraid, no longer daring to advance.

"Nightmare Dragon Emperor, we have no intention of offending you this time. We are only looking for a lost magical artifact. If you let us find it, we will leave immediately." A shelled insect with sixteen blade-like legs parted its shell to reveal a golden-robed man with a single horn.

"Everything in Blackwater Lake is mine. If you want treasures, you can take them as you please, as long as you can defeat my obstruction. But if you can't, then leave them here as part of my collection," the scaled giant Nightmare Dragon Emperor laughed wildly.

"Damn it!" Poison Ugly Heavenly Immortal roared in fury, "You're Necro Race, and magic weapons are useless against you!"

"I won't give it to you even if it's useless, hahaha..." The Nightmare Dragon Emperor laughed heartily. For it, toying with cultivators who came for treasures was the greatest pleasure in its Changsheng, besides increasing its power.

Seeing this, Zhou Hao sighed inwardly.

The Necro Race are really stupid; they were completely fooled by the Poison Ugly, yet they think they're the ones playing tricks on others.

Under his mental influence, he could clearly see that there was another figure in the Blackwater Lake who had concealed all his aura with a magical artifact, and was searching everywhere for magical artifacts of cultivators that showed signs of Origin Power fluctuations.

"It seems that Poison Ugly hasn't found Senior Sister Xuan Guang's storage magic treasure yet." Zhou Hao felt a little relieved and used the Cosmos Diagram to break through the void and head towards Blackwater Lake.

The Shaoyan Clan spared no expense this time, with three Celestial Immortals setting up a formation to seal off Blackwater Lake. This formation was comparable to those used by many other forces to guard their strongholds.

Not only can it block the detection of celestial beings' minds, but it can also prevent people from traversing the void and sneaking in. To achieve this, it must be at least a pure yang level magic array.

Brush!

Ripples spread across the wasteland, and Zhou Hao, dressed in a yellow robe, appeared in mid-air.

The closest Withered Wood Heavenly Immortal sensed the spatial fluctuations and immediately turned its head to look.

"Zhou Hao? How could he arrive so quickly..." The thought had barely formed in his mind when he saw Zhou Hao calmly extend his palm and strike forward.

The palm rapidly grew larger, transforming into a gigantic, golden hand. At the center of the palm, the oval-shaped Divine Pattern, resembling a chicken egg, expanded, drawing in boundless Origin Power from heaven and earth. Numerous energies, including metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, converged, as if a vast world was being born.

"Boom!"

A giant golden hand slammed directly onto the sealing array.

Rumble~~~

The formation set up by the three celestial immortals of the Shaoyan Clan clan shattered instantly, turning into more than ten ancient magic flags that flew far away.

The Withered Wood Heavenly Immortal, bearing the brunt of the attack, watched helplessly as the golden palm crushed down. The immense power seemed to freeze him completely, and with a 'poof,' his body collapsed and disintegrated, leaving not even a trace of his soul behind, turning to ashes and vanishing into nothingness.

"Not good."

"The formation has been broken."

The Obsessive Heart Heavenly Immortal and Golden Cloud Heavenly Immortal were connected to the great formation. When the formation broke, they suffered a backlash and their faces turned pale.

But when they looked at the broken formation, their eyes nearly popped out of their sockets in shock.

"Withered Wood!!"

The fact that a Shaoyan Clan Celestial Immortal, who had lived since the ancient era of gods and demons, had been completely annihilated left the Shaoyan Patriarch, the Poison Ugly Heavenly Immortal, who witnessed this scene from afar, utterly stunned.

"How could he be so strong? Even with a magic array blocking his way, he could break through the array with a single palm strike and kill the Withered Wood along with it?" Poison Ugly Heavenly Immortal was filled with disbelief.

But even if he didn't want to believe it, he had no choice but to accept reality.

"Run!" Poison Ugly Heavenly Immortal telepathically warned Obsessive Heart Heavenly Immortal and Golden Cloud Heavenly Immortal.

Given Zhou Hao's ferocity, even I might not be able to withstand a single blow from him, let alone the two of them.

"Right."

"Run!"

The Obsessive Heart Heavenly Immortal and the Golden Cloud Heavenly Immortal immediately realized what was happening and used their escape techniques to flee for their lives.

Zhou Hao, however, split himself in two, walked leisurely, and casually clapped out two palms, as if crushing bedbugs at will, turning the two Shaoyan Clan Celestial Immortals into ashes.

"Damn it!" Helpless and forced to watch Poison Ugly Heavenly Immortal's eyes were bloodshot and her pupils were red.

How many Celestial Immortals has the entire Shaoyan Clan accumulated over countless years?

Three people perished in the blink of an eye.

It happened right before my eyes.

"Zhou Hao, you first forced Xuanji to his death, and today you killed three of my Shaoyan Clan Immortals. This is an irreconcilable feud! I will definitely kill you, kill you!" the Poison Ugly Heavenly Immortal roared.

"You're the one who deserves to die! From the moment your Shaoyan Clan ambushed my Mysterious Heaven Sect's Celestial Immortals, killing Senior Brother Jade Dragon and Senior Sister Xuan Guang, it was destined that one side of us would be wiped out." Zhou Hao said coldly, "These three Celestial Immortals are just the beginning. I'm determined to destroy your Shaoyan Clan!"

"You? In ancient times, I, Shaoyan Chou, roamed freely across the land, and no one dared to say they could kill me." Poison Ugly Heavenly Immortal's eyes flashed with ferocity. Sitting on the back of the carapace insect, he directly withdrew from the battle to besiege the Nightmare Dragon Emperor and faced Zhou Hao, looking as if he was ready to fight to the death.

The Nightmare Dragon Emperor seemed to enjoy watching the show, making no attempt to stop it. He focused on fighting the dozen or so demonic corpses controlled by the black-robed figure and the remaining few poisonous insects, only glancing at Zhou Hao with interest out of the corner of his eye.

"Trying to put on an act and stall for time in front of me?" Zhou Hao scoffed. "Do you think I'm some stupid Necro Race?"

"What?" Poison Ugly Heavenly Immortal was shocked. His clone, which had concealed its aura at the bottom of the lake, saw a flash of blood-red light before its eyes, and its head was separated from its body.

The head tumbling in the water only showed another Zhou Hao, wielding a blood-red blade and dressed in a black robe. He put the storage magic treasure he had just found into his palm, and then everything went black before his eyes, and the clone turned into a pool of blood.

"So close, so close!" The Poison Ugly Heavenly Immortal was filled with endless rage and resentment.

He had already refined the bracelet and his consciousness had seen the Heaven-Earth Spirit Mirror within it.

But it was just a hair's breadth away, and Zhou Hao snatched it from his grasp again.

He had seen hope, only to have it shattered in an instant; this disparity nearly drove him mad.

More importantly...

Heaven-Earth Spirit Mirror has fallen into Zhou Hao's hands, is there any hope for me to take it back?

A sense of powerlessness arose in the heart of the Poison Ugly Heavenly Immortal.

Adjusting status...