Like a golden leaf in a storm, it tried its best to emit Buddhist light to stabilize the ship, but it was still dragged by the all-consuming power of the water, spinning dangerously, and slowly sliding towards the bottomless dark center.
The clash between the Buddha's light and the demonic devouring force erupted with a blinding brilliance like the Sun and a thunderous roar, becoming a tragic yet brilliant swan song in this scene of the world Return to the Ruins.
"Roar!!!"
As if to confirm his thoughts, a terrifying roar, indescribable in any worldly language, suddenly erupted from the deepest part of the unfathomable, all-consuming Demon Sea Eye!
This roar transcends time, carrying the overwhelming resentment suppressed for millennia; it tears through space, containing the primal violence of a barbaric era; and it carries a life-giving pressure that surpasses all living beings of this world, belonging to the predators at the top of the food chain!
The sound waves transformed into tangible, pitch-black ripples of destruction, spreading wildly from the center of the sea eye.
Wherever the ripples passed, the solid Void was like glass being repeatedly struck by a heavy hammer, cracking with a continuous series of crisp "cracks," revealing the cold and desolate cosmic background behind it.
"Damn brat! You ruined my grand plan! This Demon Sea Eye Immortal Burial Ground, which opens only once every thousand years and contains the key to immortality, has closed prematurely because of your disturbance, you ant! Even if I grind your bones to dust and imprison your soul in the Nine Netherworlds forever, it will not extinguish even a fraction of the hatred that has burned in my heart for billions of years!"
The message contained in the roar was as terrifying as the overwhelming rage.
Following closely behind was a terrifying blood energy that was extremely intense and savage, which suddenly erupted! This blood energy was extremely yang and strong, but it was full of the most primal wildness and predatory desires. In an instant, it engulfed the world and evaporated the remaining water vapor that had not yet been completely swallowed by the sea eye into a scarlet mist.
The overwhelming demonic energy erupted like billions of volcanoes erupting simultaneously, soaring into the sky and completely dispersing the thin clouds above Mars. Even the light from distant stars seemed to dim.
Without a doubt, this is an unparalleled demon saint who has survived since the Mythological Era and endured countless calamities! Its power is so great that its mere aura is enough to shatter the Dao heart of an ordinary Ancient Saint.
"BOOM!!!"
A devastatingly powerful, savage aura erupted, shaking the very foundations of the ancient star.
At the edge of that enormous black Demon Sea Eye, the rock layers and sealing runes, as solid as divine iron, began to crack! A colossal shadow, whose full form was obscured, burst forth from the very bottom of that all-devouring abyss, defying the overwhelming suction force!
Its force was so great that it seemed to overturn the cage that had imprisoned it for eternity! The land of the Yinghuo Ancient Star groaned under its unbearable weight, and the landmass in the Arctic region trembled violently, cracking open into bottomless ravines.
The surging demonic mist and aura were like a burst dam, Shrouding the Heavens sky and making it difficult to discern the true form of this demon saint for a moment.
Only from the depths of the thick fog could two enormous eyes, as large as blood-red suns, burn with a chilling, soul-freezing rage and cruelty, rapidly approaching from afar! Just being stared at by these eyes felt as if a mountain of billions of tons was pressing down on you, freezing the surrounding air into an iron plate.
This oppressive aura made Li Qingshan feel a sense of pressure that was almost tangible and directed at his skin, something he hadn't felt in a long time. It wasn't fear, but rather a burning heat and fighting spirit that quietly ignited deep within his blood when encountering an equally matched prey.
The starry sky was desolate; it had been far too long since he had encountered an opponent he could seriously "weigh" himself.
The demonic aura completely permeated the heavens. This demon saint, who had broken free of his seal, seemed to possess the ancient power to pluck stars from the sky with his bare hands and overturn galaxies with a flick of his palm.
Even before its true form was fully revealed, the energy fluctuations that swept in like a tsunami caused the entire Yinghuo Ancient Star to tremble slightly, the sand and gravel on the ground to leap, and boulders to tumble down from the exposed mountains in the distance.
"Roar!!!"
The third roar followed immediately, its sound even more piercing and its force even more ferocious! It was like ten thousand world-destroying thunderbolts exploding simultaneously in the heavens, or like a primordial beast breaking its last chain in a frenzied outburst.
The laws of this world seemed to be shattered and reassembled by this roar. The surging demonic energy boiled like a raging sea, instantly engulfing everything in Li Qingshan's sight, as if dragging him into a demonic world of darkness and violence.
The sound waves containing the laws of destruction condensed into countless invisible Heavenly Demon God-Slaying Blades, traversing the Void and slashing towards Li Qingshan.
However, these sonic killing techniques, which were enough to easily kill Dao-Slaying King, were easily dissolved and disintegrated into nothingness when they touched the naturally appearing, fluttering Wuji Apricot-Yellow Flag above Li Qingshan's head. The banner was imbued with the thick, unyielding Xuanhuang Mother Qi, as vast as the earth itself.
Li Qingshan stood unmoved at the center of the raging energy turbulence, like an immortal reef in a raging sea. His gaze was calm and cold, piercing through the layers of demonic mist as he scrutinized this peerless demon that had broken free of its seal.
He could clearly sense that the demon saint's blood and energy were terrifyingly vigorous, as if a sea of life was contained within his body, far more vast than the black ocean that had just devoured everything, and it was about to engulf this world.
Its power and killing aura far surpass those of the Primordial Royal Clan Ancestor King who broke free from the Divine Source. This is a true killing overlord who crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and endless conquests!
In the center of the surging, Shrouding the Heavens black mist, a colossal figure stood tall, coldly looking down at Li Qingshan, who was like a speck of dust beneath his feet. Apart from the two enormous, blood-red eyes hanging high in the sky, its true form remained shrouded in churning demonic clouds and boiling blood energy, making it difficult to discern its true nature.
However, Li Qingshan recognized his identity immediately and with absolute certainty.
Crocodile Ancestor!
The aura was the same as that of the terrifying figure I glimpsed in Mars moment when I escaped Earth in Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin and passed by Mars, but its power was even greater than before! This tragic aura, originating from real mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and having traversed countless twilight years, was unique and enough to shake the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
" Mars has long since become the greatest Bitter Sea and Burial Ground in this world!" The Crocodile Ancestor's voice rang out again, rumbling like thunder rolling across the sky. His anger seemed to be replaced by extreme cold, but his killing intent was as solid as ancient ice, locking onto Li Qingshan. "The entire former source star of life, its essence, its relics, and its boundless ancient Fortune have all been devoured and gathered by this Demon Sea Eye! I have guarded this place for more than ten years, deducing the secrets of heaven, waiting for the moment when this Demon Sea Eye opens once every thousand years, intending to enter."
I obtained that astonishing celestial treasure, enough to prove my supreme Dao and glimpse the Emperor's path, but at the last moment, you, an ignorant ant, completely disrupted the heavenly order, triggering a strange change in the sea eye. All my plans have come to naught!
Its voice was eerily calm, and its two blood-moon-like eyes were filled with cruelty and indifference, as if it were examining a doll about to shatter.
Despite the Crocodile Ancestor's overwhelming rage and terrifying killing intent, Li Qingshan remained indifferent.
He certainly knew what the depths of the Demon Sea Eye were like. It was connected to the ruins of an ancient Road to Immortality to immortality, one of the terrifying battlefields where the Undying Heavenly Emperor slaughtered Ancient Supreme at the end of the mythological era, and the legendary place where the Great Emperor Wushi and the Dao traces of the Undying Heavenly Emperor confronted each other for two thousand years.
The Great Emperor Wushi entered this Strange World, and the fleshy cocoon left behind by the Undying Heavenly Emperor Nirvana may still be slumbering deep within it.
Before he attains enlightenment and becomes an emperor, he would never rashly intrude into the ultimate Cause and Effect and deadly traps involving the Heavenly Emperor and the Great Emperor.
It should be understood that this was not Ancient Supreme who had severed himself and was now slumbering in a forbidden zone, but a true emperor-level being who stood at the pinnacle of the ultimate path and had once ruled over the ancient times.
If we act rashly and make too much noise, it might awaken the ancient emperors who are barely clinging to Life Forbidden Zone of the Big Dipper, causing the Dark Turmoil to arrive prematurely. That would be a truly catastrophic disaster, a catastrophe for all living beings.
Even if the Undying Heavenly Emperor is currently in his " Nirvana Period," and is in a weakened state, he is still beyond my ability to calculate.
Looking back to the end of the ancient times, when the Road to Immortality opened, the Undying Heavenly Emperor secretly stirred things up, deliberately provoking forbidden zones and instigating a divine war that swept across the heavens.
That battle was extremely fierce; even the Green Cauldron and the Immortal Ascension Cauldron were shattered, nearly burying a glorious era.
The Ancient Supreme launched Dark Turmoil to devour all living beings and prolong their own lives, while the Undying Heavenly Emperor was even more ruthless, using the Road to Immortality as a trap and the Ancient Supreme as his prey.
In the Primordial God War, he successfully hunted royal blood and bathed in supreme essence, thus completing a crucial Nirvana transformation.
Now, millions of years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the Road to Immortality for the Big Dipper will be opened once again.
The Undying Heavenly Emperor intends to replicate the ancient events, using the various deities as medicine to aid his own Nirvana and to live another Lifetime.
In theory, when it devours the royal blood, enters the deepest level of Nirvana, and transforms into a ball of flesh, that is when it is at its weakest and most vulnerable, a window through which it can be manipulated.
But that's relative to the Great Emperor. For a Saint, even with the strength of Great Saint, to try to scheme against the weakest being who has already walked the Red Dust Immortal Path through several lifetimes is undoubtedly like lighting a lamp in a latrine—it's courting death.
Only a "naive young man" like Crocodile Ancestor, who has been suppressed for thousands of years, is eager to gain power to break through, and is unaware of the ultimate terror within, would regard it as a mere " Immortal Burial Ground for immortals" and therefore hate him, this "troublemaker," to the bone.
Li Qingshan slowly raised his hand, stars seemingly rising and falling between his fingers, his calm voice piercing through the billowing demonic aura. "The tomb-guarding crocodile dares to speak of an immortal burial? The Fortune land in your eyes is nothing but an eternal killing field laid out by others. Today, I will settle this Cause and Effect completely on behalf of Sakyamuni."
Before he finished speaking, his aura suddenly changed, as if a slumbering primordial dragon had opened its eyes.
"Old Crocodile, do you still recognize any old friends?" Li Qingshan asked softly, his tone as indifferent as if he were chatting with a neighbor.
However, when the sound reached the Crocodile Ancestor's ears, it was like a resounding bell, clear and deafening, piercing through the overwhelming demonic aura and spatial ripples.
"It's you?" Crocodile Ancestor's blood-red eyes, as cold and piercing as a blood moon, suddenly trembled violently! First, a clear look of astonishment flashed across them, as if he had seen a phantom that should have been annihilated in the long river of time.
Immediately, that ancient, icy coldness seemed to "melt" in his eyes, replaced by a more intense, primal emotion—extreme greed and burning desire!
"Hahaha!!" A deafening roar of laughter, like billions of thunderbolts exploding in the sky, echoed throughout the entire Demon Sea Eye, a sound wave brimming with surprise and brutality. "It's actually that little Dragon Transformation Realm insect who escaped eleven years ago in that ghost coffin! And this, the Source Root of Mother Qi of All Things! Truly, boundless fortune, Fortune fate! Could it be that even Heaven pities my thousand years of suffering from sealing, and has specially sent you, this most precious immortal ingredient," to me personally, to compensate for the loss of the Demon Sea Eye's closure?
It recognized Li Qingshan, and even more so, it recognized the Xuanhuang Mother Qi Source that surrounded him and radiated an inviolable light.
For any being embarking on the path of cultivation, especially for an ancient demon saint like itself that yearns for a breakthrough, this is an unparalleled divine object capable of driving one's mind to madness.
Facing this ancient demon saint whose murderous aura swept across the heavens and earth and whose blood energy burned like a sea of stars, Li Qingshan merely grinned slightly, revealing a calm to almost indifferent smile, without responding to the greedy roar with words.
"Eleven years ago, Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin across the vast starry sky, and you actually managed to return here alive. This is truly beyond my expectations." Crocodile Ancestor's laughter subsided, and his voice became chilling and piercing again, like the cold wind from the Netherworld blowing through iron armor.