Kunpeng's Interception, the White Lotus Shows Its Might

"Fellow Daoist Zhen Yuanzi, there is no need for concern. When soldiers come, generals block them; when water comes, earth dams it."

"Let us slow our escape a little. I would like to see just what capabilities this Kunpeng of the Northern Underworld possesses."

With that, Li Qingxiao deliberately slowed his pace. Even Zhen Yuanzi could not help but feel secretly alarmed by such boldness in luring the snake from its hole.

The three of them continued traveling through the chaos at an unhurried pace.

After traveling for several hours, they had already moved far beyond the Saint's sacred grounds surrounding Purple Heaven Palace,

yet they had not entered the embryonic membrane barrier of the Primordial World.

This place was a lawless fault zone within the chaos,

where chaotic storms raged and roared all around them, while earth, water, fire, and wind annihilated one another madly.

Just then, a sudden change erupted!

"Whoosh—!"

The violent, disorderly Chaos Current around them was abruptly frozen by a bone-chilling surge of Nine Nether Yin Qi!

Across tens of thousands of li of empty space, countless massive Northern Dark Mystic Ice formations instantly condensed,

like ancient icebergs crashing together from every direction, completely sealing off the space occupied by the three of them!

"Hehehe... you old bastard Hong Yun, and that white-robed little wretch, I have been waiting here for a long time!"

Amid a shrill, venomous cackle, space within the dark wind and black mist ahead was forcibly torn apart by a pair of sharp claws.

Ancestor Kunpeng stepped through the air!

At this moment, he had already manifested a terrifying half-human, half-roc Dharma form.

With every flap of the blue-black wings behind him, which blotted out the sky and sun, countless ice blades swept through the air.

His scarlet eyes were fixed tightly on Li Qingxiao and Hong Yun, while the killing intent around him nearly froze this stretch of chaos solid.

"If not for you, you bastard, firing a sneak attack and reflecting Zhunti's attack, damaging my aura, how could those shameless Westerners have exploited my weakness?!"

Kunpeng pointed at Li Qingxiao and roared himself hoarse, then shifted his venomous gaze toward Hong Yun.

"And you, you idiot! You wanted to play the good guy, yet you brought disaster upon me!"

"Today, I will tear out both your souls and cast you into the Nine Nether Yinfire, so that you can neither live nor die, suffering eternal damnation!"

Before his words had even faded, Kunpeng had already descended into utter madness.

"Die!"

He let out a piercing screech that split stone and metal, unleashing his innate divine ability in fury:

[Northern Dark Nether Roc Claw]!

In an instant, the Chaos Current was forcibly ripped apart, and a terrifying giant claw wreathed in ghostly green poisonous radiance and Northern Dark death qi

descended from the Ninth Heavens with world-destroying power, clawing viciously at the Earth Book's barrier of light!

"BOOM—!!!"

The giant claw collided with the Earth Book barrier, erupting with an earthshaking crash.

Though the Earth Book was a Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure and its defensive power ranked among the finest in the Primordial World, its foundation lay in connecting to the Primordial World Earth Veins.

Now that they were within the chaos, far from the Primordial World itself, the Earth Book's defensive power had been greatly diminished.

Under Kunpeng's hate-filled strike, the earthen-yellow barrier darkened violently, cracking with countless tiny fissures.

Zhen Yuanzi, who was controlling the formation, grunted heavily as his blood and qi churned within him, his face instantly turning several shades paler.

"Kunpeng! You go too far!"

Seeing his old friend injured while protecting him, Hong Yun, who had still harbored a trace of guilt, finally flew into a true rage.

Even a clay figurine had three parts temper, much less a dignified Daluo Golden Immortal!

With an angry roar, he poured the full force of his perfected Mid Great Encompassment Golden Immortal cultivation into his body without reservation,

directly drawing upon the first wisp of Innate Crimson Cloud Origin within him!

Vast crimson origin clouds swept forth, filling the heavens and covering the earth as they transformed into Nine Heavens Soul-Scattering Crimson Sand.

Every grain of crimson sand was formed from the fusion of innate fire essence and primordial spirit baleful qi, specially capable of wounding a cultivator's primordial spirit.

Like a crimson sandstorm sweeping through the chaos, it surged toward Kunpeng to grind him apart.

"Trifling tricks!"

A trace of disdain flashed through Kunpeng's eyes.

As the fastest being in the Primordial World, why would he fear such large-scale spell coverage?

The wings behind him suddenly shook.

"Soaring Ninety Thousand Li!"

Kunpeng's blue-black wings flapped fiercely, and his enormous body transformed into thousands upon thousands of afterimages within the chaos,

moving so quickly that even a Daluo Golden Immortal's divine sense could not lock onto him.

Not only did he perfectly evade the strangling crimson sand filling the sky, he also used his ultimate speed and spatial teleportation

to eerily circle around the Earth Book's defensive blind spot!

"Whoosh!"

Space shattered, and Kunpeng's true body appeared like a ghost directly above Li Qingxiao!

"I'll kill you first, you beast who ruined my plans!"

Kunpeng's face twisted savagely. His roc claw, capable of crushing even a supreme-grade postnatal spirit treasure,

shot straight toward Li Qingxiao's crown with a piercing sonic boom!

In his eyes, this white-robed independent cultivator might be somewhat strange, but his cultivation was certainly inferior to Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi.

He would kill this man first to vent his fury, then slowly deal with the other two!

Yet in the face of this fatal strike, Li Qingxiao did not even raise his head.

He merely lifted his eyelids slightly, a cold sneer curling across his lips.

"A clown leaping about."

"Buzz—!"

At the life-or-death instant when the poisonous claw was less than three inches from Li Qingxiao's crown,

a sacred, flawless pillar of light erupted from above his head, piercing through the gloom of chaos!

The [Twelfth-Grade Purifying White Lotus] revealed its divine might!

The instant the White Lotus bloomed, boundless World-Cleansing Divine Light burst forth, like a pure white sun rising within the chaos!

Its utterly pure and sacred purification domain expanded violently in all directions in an instant!

The Northern Dark yin demon qi that Kunpeng had been so proud of, upon touching that Purifying White Light,

did not even possess the right to resist. With a series of sizzling sounds, it rapidly melted away and collapsed!

"What?! What kind of spirit treasure is this?! Could it be a Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure?!"

The savage grin on Kunpeng's face instantly froze, while danger warnings screamed madly within his heart.

The moment his innate demonic claw touched the white light,

he felt his dharma power draining away frantically, while even his primordial spirit suffered searing agony!

"You only realized it now? Too late."

A cold gleam burst from Li Qingxiao's eyes as his Mid Great Encompassment Golden Immortal dharma power erupted completely like raging waves.

He formed a hand seal with one hand, drawing upon the White Lotus's inexhaustible world-cleansing origin,

and condensed a [Heaven-Opening World-Cleansing Seal] radiating vast heavenly might in his palm.

Li Qingxiao's divine sense had long since locked onto Kunpeng's aura through the White Lotus. He accurately anticipated the path Kunpeng would take as he tried to retreat through space,

then pushed out his palm, stamping it fiercely onto Kunpeng's chest before he could pass through the void!

"Bang!!!"

A deep, bone-cracking sound exploded through the chaos.

The World-Cleansing Divine Light, containing the dharma power of a perfected Mid Great Encompassment Golden Immortal and the origin of a Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure,

surged madly into Kunpeng's body through his chest like maggots clinging to bone.

"Argh—!!!"

Kunpeng let out an incomparably miserable scream.

The protective qi around his body crumbled inch by inch, while the Northern Dark Yin Fiend Dao Foundation he had painstakingly cultivated for hundreds of millions of years rapidly melted beneath the devouring World-Cleansing Divine Light!