In the Southern Region, the scorched volcanic cluster that had recently erupted in a standoff and witnessed astonishing phenomena has now returned to a state of deathly silence.
The air still held the lingering scent of chaos and the faint smell of lightning, while tender green shoots stubbornly sprouted from the scorched earth, creating a strange contrast.
The two sides that had been fiercely clashing were nowhere to be seen, leaving only the collapsed mountainside and the devastated earth, silently telling the story of what had happened here.
"Sizzle,"
Space was forcibly torn apart, and two incomparably powerful demonic energies erupted suddenly like volcanoes suppressed for millennia, instantly dispersing the chaotic aura remaining in the area.
A demonic aura, multicolored and ever-flowing, contained the profound mysteries of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth) and their cycles of creation and destruction. Wherever it passed, the Void seemed to be collapsing and reforming in a continuous cycle.
The other demonic aura was a deep blue tinged with black, domineering and fierce, carrying an ancient dragon's might originating from the wilderness, its boundless blood and qi sweeping across like a vast ocean.
The newly sprouted green shoots withered instantly, and the solidified magma below seemed to tremble slightly.
The light faded, revealing two Dao Body.
On the left is a person dressed in a five-colored feather robe. He is slightly thin and has a handsome face like a young man, but his eyes are clear and deep, as if reflecting the rotation of the five elements of heaven and earth.
He stood silently in the Void, surrounded by the Five Elements, as if he were the source and ruler of the Five Elements in this world.
It was none other than the Peacock King, Mighty Figure demon who had shaken the Eastern Wasteland eight hundred years ago and made many holy lands wary of him!
The man on the right is tall and strong, wearing ancient blue-gold armor with dragon patterns engraved on the plates, which shimmer with a faint light.
His face was rugged, with strong features, and a pair of crystal-clear jade horns on his forehead, faintly crackling with lightning, radiating a chilling aura of power.
His eyes seemed to gleam with lightning as they opened and closed, and his blood and qi roared like thunderclaps.
Just standing there, it resembled a humanoid True Dragon that could break free of its restraints and stir up the winds and clouds at any moment.
He was a demon king who was as famous as the Peacock King, and who roamed the Northern Region with his powerful body and dragon bloodline. He was ranked as the fourth of the Thirteen Great Bandits of the Northern Region, the Azure Flood Dragon King!
As soon as the two Mighty Figure demons appeared, their powerful divine senses swept across the entire area like mercury spilling across the ground.
"Gone?" The Azure Flood Dragon King's thick brows furrowed, his voice like muffled thunder, tinged with anxiety.
" Ruyu's distress message clearly points to this place! And there's still the lingering scent of those scruffy birds from the Ji Family!"
He clenched his fists, and a dark blue-black demonic aura swirled between his fingers, scorching the air with a sizzling sound.
The Peacock King's handsome face remained calm, but his eyes, which seemed to flow with the five elements, were as sharp as Heavenly Blade, carefully capturing every trace of the Dao principles remaining in the air.
"It has a faint aura of the Void Mirror. Although it has dissipated, its essence is extremely high. It is probably a high-level imitation of the Void Mirror."
Furthermore, there was a lingering, even more powerful, Daoist aura that seemed to transcend it, carrying a sense of the primordial chaos, encompassing all things.
He frowned slightly; he had never felt this kind of Daoist aura before—powerful and unfamiliar.
"Look there!" The Azure Flood Dragon King's gaze flashed like lightning as he pointed to a spot on the ground where faint traces of the Demon Emperor's bloodline remained.
The Peacock King moved and appeared beside the trace. He squatted down, his five fingers brushing across the ground, and Five-Colored Divine Light flickered slightly, as if recalling the remaining fragments of the scene.
"The person who made this move is incredibly cunning," a hint of seriousness flashing in his eyes. "Moreover, he took Ruyu and all the demons with him."
"Chase!" the Azure Flood Dragon King roared, his murderous aura soaring to the heavens.
"Whoever he is, daring to harm a member of the imperial family is to become my enemy!"
He sensed the faint, unique Daoist aura in the air, drifting away in a certain direction, and the presence of Yan Ruyu and the others traveling with him.
The Peacock King nodded, without saying anything more.
The two figures merged into the Void once more, tearing through space, and raced after the direction in which the aura had fled.
They felt both concern for Yan Ruyu's safety and fear and anger towards the mysterious person who had intervened.
Their strength should not be underestimated.
Crossing the Void, traversing mountains and rivers.
The two demon kings pushed their speed to the limit, alarming many cultivators along the way. However, sensing the terrifying demonic aura that was not concealed, no one dared to step forward to stop them.
They followed that increasingly clear and unique Daoist rhythm, heading north.
Finally, the aura stopped above a desolate mountain range near the Southern Region, tens of thousands of miles away from the Taixuan Sect.
"It's right ahead!"
A fierce glint flashed in the Azure Flood Dragon King's eyes as he locked onto the azure figure standing with his hands behind his back in the distant Void.
When they saw Yan Ruyu standing respectfully beside the young man in blue, her expression complex yet showing no signs of being restrained or coerced, they were surprised.
When they saw the demon tribesmen behind her, who were wounded but breathing steadily, both demon kings' pupils contracted sharply, and their hearts sank instantly.
The scene before them was far from the "kidnapping" they had expected, but Yan Ruyu's respectful demeanor made them suspicious.
" Ruyu!" The Azure Flood Dragon King's voice boomed like a bell, carrying urgency, anger, and a hint of barely perceptible confusion.
"But this person is holding you hostage? Don't be afraid, with me and the Peacock King here, no one can harm you!"
He took a step forward, Void beneath his feet hummed under his weight, the powerful azure demonic energy surging like a bursting dam.
It contained the violent power of a dragon and surged towards Li Qingshan.
The intention was to seize the initiative and test the waters.
Although the Peacock King did not speak, his clear eyes instantly turned as cold as ancient ice, and he locked his gaze on Li Qingshan.
Five-Colored Divine Light appeared behind him, like five celestial swords poised to strike and annihilate everything at any moment.
They received a distress message, but what they saw was this incomprehensible scene.
In any case, we must first ensure Yan Ruyu's safety and suppress this mysterious young human!
Facing the undisguised, furious pressure from the two powerful figures at the second level of Sendai, Li Qingshan remained unmoved.
The torrent of demonic energy, powerful enough to shatter the bones and tremble the soul of an ordinary Mighty Figure, approached within three zhang of him.
Like thin snow under the blazing sun, it melted and vanished silently, without even making him flinch.
He slowly turned his head, his gaze calmly sweeping over the imposing Peacock King and the Azure Flood Dragon King, their auras blazing with demonic energy. His tone carried a hint of indifference, as if he were looking at an ignorant junior:
"You two have quite the tempers."
"Arrogant!"
Seeing that the other party treated them so casually, as if they were nothing, the Azure Flood Dragon King could no longer suppress his anger.
"Hidden and secretive, you've taken the imperial heir hostage! Reveal your true forms!"
He stopped testing the waters and made his move directly.
One punch—simple, direct, and domineering!
There are no fancy or complicated variations, only the pure power of pushing the dragon bloodline to its limit!
Wherever the fist passed, the space emitted a piercing tearing sound, and a huge, solidified, scale-covered Azure Flood Dragon phantom materialized with the force of the punch.
It roared out, baring its fangs and claws, exuding a ferocious aura capable of destroying mountains and rivers, wanting to completely devour and crush Li Qingshan and the space he was in!
This is one of the Azure Flood Dragon King's signature techniques, the Flood Dragon Emperor Fist.
With this punch, he once withstood the magical weapon of a holy land elder; the power of a single punch was enough to flatten a giant mountain.
However, this punch was incredibly fierce, enough to make Mighty Figure expert of the same level take it very seriously.
Li Qingshan simply raised his right hand, his five fingers naturally spread, and gently pressed forward towards the roaring, approaching Azure Flood Dragon phantom.
The incomparably powerful Azure Flood Dragon phantom, imbued with the Azure Flood Dragon King's immense blood and demonic power, made contact with Li Qingshan's seemingly ordinary palm the instant it touched him.
It was as if we had crashed into an invisible, intangible, yet indestructible barrier between heaven and earth!
The dragon's head, imbued with destructive power, was the first to twist and deform.
Immediately afterwards, the enormous dragon's body shattered like glass thrown into a raging fire, making a series of crisp "crack" sounds as it broke into pieces!
Finally, to the disbelief of the Azure Flood Dragon King, his fist force and dragon shadow, powerful enough to shatter mountains, were revealed.
Like a dream, it vanished without a trace, turning into countless shimmering points of light.
Then a pure, overwhelming force surged back along with the force of the punch.
The shock caused the Azure Flood Dragon King's blood to surge, and he let out a muffled groan. His body staggered uncontrollably back more than ten miles before he could barely regain his balance. For the first time, a look of horror, as if he had seen a ghost, appeared on his face.
"What?!"
The Azure Flood Dragon King looked at his slightly trembling, numb fist, and then at Li Qingshan, who remained calm and composed, and his heart was filled with turbulent waves.
His angry attack was so easily neutralized, and the opponent even managed to inflict a minor injury from the recoil?
How is that possible?
"The five elements revolve, obliterating all laws!"
Just as the Azure Flood Dragon King was forced back and his mind was shaken, the Peacock King beside him made his move.
With his meticulous mind and broader knowledge, he immediately realized that the person before him was no ordinary person, and that his strength probably far exceeded their expectations.
He made his move without holding back, directly unleashing his ultimate divine power, the Five-Colored Divine Light!
The Five-Colored Divine Light that had been faintly visible behind him suddenly surged, and five Divine Rainbow of red, white, black, blue, and yellow shot into the sky.
It is no longer an illusory light and shadow, but a physical entity that embodies the most fundamental laws of the Five Elements in the universe!
Crimson divine light Burn Heaven and Boil the Sea, and can even melt the Void;
The white divine light, sharp as gold, cleaved through the sky, cutting through nothing.
The black divine light surged like turbid waves, corroding everything in its path;
The azure divine light plundered life force, withering the heavens and earth;
The yellow divine light, thick and heavy as the earth, suppressed the eight directions!
Five-Colored Divine Light intertwined and rotated, forming an enormous five-element millstone that covered the sky.
The Great Dao Runes were created and destroyed within it, emanating a terrifying aura that could obliterate all things, and they crushed down upon Li Qingshan!
This attack was the Peacock King's full strength, confident that even a Saint Lord-level figure had personally arrived.
We must be on high alert, for the slightest carelessness could result in it being swept away and reduced to ashes!
Faced with this powerful divine ability, capable of making even a Saint Lord-level figure change color and considered a trump card, Li Qingshan finally stopped standing still.
He took a step forward, and a natural flow of Daoist energy emanated from his body, as if he had merged with the world around him.
" The Five-Colored Divine Light is very good, however..."
In the beginning of chaos, before Yin-Yang were separated, how could the five elements have come into being?
He spoke softly to himself, his voice not loud, yet it seemed to contain profound truths of the universe, clearly reaching everyone's ears.
Immediately, he joined his fingers like a sword, with barely perceptible chaotic energy swirling around his fingertips, and casually made a light stroke towards the Shrouding the Heavens, crushing Five Elements millstone.
A thin, hazy current, seemingly originating from the very beginning of the universe, quietly emanated from his fingertips.
That airflow, though seemingly weak, appears to be the origin of all matter, a manifestation of the unity of all things.
It faced the immense Five Elements Millstone, powerful enough to obliterate a small world, the process silent yet the result breathtaking.
Like a red-hot blade cutting into solidified butter, the enormous Five Elements Millstone was easily split in two!
The five elements that make up the millstone groaned under the weight of the hazy primordial energy, instantly becoming chaotic, collapsing, and losing all their spirituality.
Those five beams of divine light, powerful enough to sweep away mountains and rivers and stabilize the universe, seemed to have encountered their natural nemesis.
The absolute suppression of rank caused the brilliance to dim rapidly at a visible speed.
Finally, with a "pop," like a bubble being punctured, it completely shattered and vanished into the world, as if it had never existed.
"Puff,"
With his supernatural powers forcibly broken, the Peacock King's body trembled violently under the pull of his energy, his face turned deathly pale, and he couldn't help but spit out a small mouthful of blood.
The Five-Colored Divine Light behind him flickered erratically, and his aura weakened considerably.
His gaze toward Li Qingshan was filled with unprecedented shock, horror, and a hint of indescribable fear.
The opponent's methods were completely beyond his comprehension. He sensed that the opponent's understanding of the Five Elements was far superior to his own, which was why he could break through them so easily!
Who... who are you?
Peacock King's voice was dry and hoarse, devoid of its previous coolness and confidence, only filled with disbelief.
When did such a terrifying being emerge in the Eastern Wasteland?
They suffered repeated setbacks, especially since the Five-Colored Divine Light, which made the Peacock King famous, was so easily broken by the opponent.
This shocked and enraged the Azure Flood Dragon King, and a sense of humiliation welled up in his heart.
"Roar! I don't believe it!"
He roared, no longer maintaining his human form. His bloodline burned wildly, and his body suddenly swelled, revealing part of his true form as Azure Flood Dragon!
A palm-sized, bluish-black scale that gleamed with a cold metallic light.
The enormous dragon tail, as thick as a mountain range, tore through the Void, carrying a terrifying force capable of shattering stars and churning the vast ocean, and lashed fiercely towards Li Qingshan!
The air was compressed by extreme force, producing a sonic boom-like roar—this was the Azure Flood Dragon King's strongest physical killing move.
With this move, he once shattered a powerful magic weapon that embodied both Tao and reason!
Li Qingshan did not dodge.
Faced with the dragon's tail, which was powerful enough to annihilate a cultivator at the Second Heaven of the Immortal Platform, he merely had a faint golden blood aura emanating from his body, as if he were draped in a hazy golden veil.
He simply raised his left hand, which transformed into a giant jade hand with its five fingers slightly bent into a claw shape, and met the terrifying dragon tail that was howling towards him without missing a beat.
"Bang!!!"
A deafening roar, as deep as the sound of two giant stars colliding, erupted, and a shockwave visible to the naked eye spread out in a ring, flattening the peaks of several mountains below!
The anticipated scenario of Li Qingshan being sent flying or even blown apart did not occur.
To everyone's astonishment, there was a gigantic dragon tail containing world-destroying power.
It was actually firmly and securely grasped in the palm of the enormous, seemingly fair and slender jade hand that he had transformed into!
A violent and incomparable force, powerful enough to overturn the earth, came from the dragon's tail, but in Li Qingshan's palm, it was absorbed and neutralized like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea.
They couldn't even make him bend his arm slightly.
His fingers tightened slightly.
"Roar!" The Azure Flood Dragon King let out a roar of extreme pain and horror, feeling as if his tail was not being grabbed by a hand.
Instead, it was restrained by the most solid and indestructible divine metal in the world!
No matter how frantically he urged the mighty dragon blood energy within his body, no matter how much he struggled and twisted.
Even the scales, which were flying Mars with excessive force, couldn't budge that hand an inch!
He heard his bones, which were countless times tougher than refined gold, creak and groan as the five fingers clenched, as if they were about to shatter completely at any moment!
Li Qingshan gripped the Azure Flood Dragon King's massive tail as if he were holding not a ferocious demon king, but an insignificant little snake.
He casually swung his arm.
"Boom!!!"
The Azure Flood Dragon King's massive body, as large as a mountain range, was completely out of control. It was lifted up by an indescribable and irresistible force, tearing through the sky.
Like a meteor falling to earth, it crashed heavily onto Desolate Antiquity mountain range hundreds of miles away, tens of thousands of feet high!
With a deafening roar, the entire mountain range collapsed and disintegrated from the middle, with countless boulders tumbling down and smashing deep craters into the earth.
The Azure Flood Dragon King was deeply embedded in the core of the mountain ruins, its demonic blood staining the rocks red. For a long time, no sound came out, and its aura became extremely weak.
The Peacock King felt a chill run down his spine, a cold sweat run through his heart, and his blood seemed to freeze.
The Azure Flood Dragon King's physical body was incredibly powerful, practically a humanoid savage dragon, yet in a pure contest of strength, he was tossed around like trash, utterly powerless to resist?
This completely overturned his understanding; after eight hundred years of seclusion, such a monstrous talent had actually emerged!
He knew that if he didn't fight to the death today, he and the Azure Flood Dragon King would probably perish here!
He let out a long roar, no longer caring about his origin, and suddenly forced out a mouthful of essence blood containing the origin of the five elements, spraying it onto the flickering Five-Colored Divine Light behind him.
Nourished by the essence blood, the Five-Colored Divine Light surged once more, even surpassing its previous brilliance. The beam of light slowly condensed and locked onto Li Qingshan!
This is the Peacock King's desperate attack, burning his very essence to inflict mutual destruction; its power far exceeds that of ordinary attacks!
That's enough.
Just as the five-colored beam of light was about to take shape, Li Qingshan finally spoke again.
He took a step forward.
With just one step, the world lost its color, and all paths groaned in despair!
Behind him, a hazy yet vast phantom world suddenly materialized and expanded!
The Splendid Mountains and Rivers stretches endlessly, within which a vaguely discernible Immortal King sits atop the ninth heaven, overlooking the mortal world with cold eyes, wielding supreme power over life and death;
A chaotic aura surged and churned, giving birth to a vibrant, naturally ethereal, and primordial Chaos Green Lotus within the Bitter Sea. Its leaves swayed gently, stabilizing the universe and giving rise to all things.
The two energies of Yin-Yang circulate endlessly, transforming into Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram that Shrouding the Heavens the sky, governing the cycle of life and death;
Countless blurry and distinct projections of " Other Selves " illuminate the myriad realms, each seemingly a mark of Li Qingshan in different times and spaces!
The Green Lotus Grows in Chaos, the Immortal King Descends Upon Nine Heavens, the Yin-Yang Life-and-Death Diagram, the Splendid Mountains and Rivers, Myriad Selves as One some of the supreme phenomena that exist only in legends, any one of which would be enough to create an invincible genius.
They blended together perfectly in a mysterious and unpredictable way, forming an absolute "domain of the Dao" that belonged only to Li Qingshan and seemed to be isolated from everything in the mortal world!
As soon as this Dao Domain appeared, it suppressed all the laws of heaven and earth in this place with an incomparably tyrannical attitude, and forcibly established new rules!
The beam of light from the Peacock King, which burned its own essence and fused the five elements, was enough to threaten even a peak Saint Lord of the Second Heaven of the Immortal Platform, and even a King of the third level of the Sendai Heavenly King would have to treat it with caution.
The moment it crashed into this Dao Domain, it was like being thrown into the boundless sea of Return to the Ruins, without even a ripple, before silently disintegrating and dissipating.
The terrifying energy contained within was instantly assimilated and absorbed by the Dao Domain, nourishing itself in return.
The Peacock King stood frozen in mid-air, his body ice-cold and his very soul trembling.
He felt that his connection with the outside world and the great Dao of Heaven and Earth had been completely severed and isolated by an irresistible force!
The Bitter Sea was deathly silent, the Dao Palace was dim, and even the Immortal Platform seemed to be frozen by ten thousand years of mysterious ice, unable to mobilize even a trace of magic power and Dao principles.
He was like a mortal stripped of all power, suspended in the air.
They could only watch helplessly as the terrifying Dao Domain, imbued with the Heaven-Opening and the annihilation of all heavens, enveloped them, their hearts filled with an unprecedented sense of despair and powerlessness.
This is no longer a difference in strength, but an absolute crushing defeat in terms of life level and Dao Realm!
Li Qingshan didn't even actually launch an attack; he merely manifested the Dao Domain formed by the fusion of his various supreme phenomena.
It was like a cage between heaven and earth, completely suppressing the two peerless demon kings who had roamed the Eastern Wasteland and caused headaches for countless forces!
All of this happened in the blink of an eye, from the two demon kings appearing menacingly and making their move, to the Azure Flood Dragon King being smashed into the ruins of the mountain range, his fate unknown.
The Peacock King was suppressed by the Dao Domain and lost all power to resist in just a few breaths.