Daqin Zhentiansi

Yan Feng's body instantly grew to three zhang in size, dark golden light soared into the sky, the power of the Chaotic Demon Ape erupted, and the Xuanxing Zhenyue Staff transformed into a golden rainbow that tore through the heavens and earth, slamming fiercely into the two black lights!
Tie Tang directly revealed his true form as a hundred-zhang-tall demonic eagle, with iron feathers like knives. His wings stirred up tearing gales, and his sharp claws, carrying the pressure of a Venerable, lashed out at the other two with a piercing sound of air being torn apart!

"Boom! Boom!"

The cudgel's shadow, the eagle claw, and the black light collided, unleashing a terrifying shockwave that shook the space and sent rubble flying!
However, the Blackwater Serpent that attacked was clearly prepared!

Just as Yan Feng and Tie Tang made their move to intercept, an extremely cold aura suddenly locked onto Tie Tang!
"Old man Tie Tang, get out of my way!"

The current patriarch of the Blackwater Serpent Clan, a ferocious giant serpent even larger than Xuan Yue and with an aura reaching the Venerable level, emerged halfway out of the void, holding a pale, sinister bone spear that exuded an ancient and savage aura in its mouth!

This bone spear, taken from the remains of some terrifying mythical beast, has a faint, eerie light at its tip, as if it could devour all life!
"Divine Beast Sky-Splitting Spear! Suppress!"

The serpent chieftain roared, and the pale bone spear flew out of his hand!
The bone spear swelled in the wind, instantly transforming into a hundred-foot-tall behemoth. Countless black water chains wrapped around its body, carrying a terrifying power that could imprison the void and tear apart souls. It transformed into a pale white streak of light and fiercely stabbed towards the giant eagle body that Tie Tang had transformed into!

Tie Tang's pupils shrank as he sensed the terrifying aura emanating from the bone spear, a power capable of threatening his life. He dared not be careless, letting out a sharp cry as his black feathers were instantly covered with a layer of dark light stronger than divine iron. He crossed his wings to protect himself, pouring his boundless demonic energy into the spear without reservation!

"Bang——!!!"

The bone spear slammed into Tie Tang's crossed wings!

The anticipated earth-shattering explosion did not occur. Instead, the tip of the pale bone spear shone with a dark light, and countless black water chains instantly coiled around it like living creatures, binding Tie Tang's huge eagle body and wings tightly and pinning it in mid-air!

An immense, ancient suppressive force spread out. Tie Tang struggled fiercely, his Venerable Realm demonic energy surging violently, causing the water chains to rattle and the space to shatter, but he was unable to break free for the time being!
The strange power contained in the bone spear was not only heavy, but was also frantically eroding his protective demonic energy and vitality!
This spear was forged from the bones of a divine beast and is the most treasured artifact of the Blackwater Serpent clan!
With this treasure in hand, even a Venerable Realm expert can be temporarily trapped!

"Great Elder!"

The Ironfeathered Eagle Clan warriors were utterly terrified!

Seeing this, Yan Feng roared and tried to come to the rescue, but he was tightly entangled by the other two powerful Black Water Serpent Elders. Although the power of the Chaos Demon Ape was fierce, he could not break free for a while!

Taking advantage of the moment when Tie Tang was temporarily trapped by the divine beast's bone spear and Yan Feng was restrained—

Three figures, like ghosts, tore through the space filled with rosy clouds and landed silently in front of the Nine Apertures Profound Cauldron, surrounding Zhang Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged!
These three individuals all possessed profound and unfathomable auras, clearly indicating that they were all at the peak of the Saint Realm!

His body was covered in dark scales, clearly indicating that he was the Supreme Elder of the Blackwater Serpent Clan!
Their eyes were sinister and greedy as they stared intently at the radiant alchemy cauldron and the seemingly unguarded figure in black ink standing before it.

The old snake demon, with its vertical snake eyes and withered face, licked its lips with its forked, scarlet tongue, its voice hoarse and grating, filled with undisguised killing intent and greed:

"Zhang Yuan! Hand over the alchemy furnace and the Blood Marrow Rejuvenation Pill, and I'll spare your body! Otherwise... you'll be annihilated, body and soul!" A chilling killing intent instantly locked onto Zhang Yuan, as if a freezing hell had descended upon him.

The Danxia landforms remained dazzling, the exotic fragrance grew stronger, and the humming of the Nine Apertures Mystery Cauldron reached its peak.

Zhang Yuan sat cross-legged in front of the cauldron, his divine fire wings slowly retracting. He did not look up at the three Black Water Serpent Supreme Elders who were revealing their murderous intent, but calmly stared at the cauldron's mouth, which was gushing with rosy light, as if the elixir about to be produced was more worthy of attention than the murderous situation before him.

A barely perceptible smile seemed to curve the corners of his mouth.

The hum of the Nine Apertures Profound Cauldron reached its peak, and the lid trembled violently, as if it would be completely shattered by the divine object nurtured inside in the next second!

The rosy clouds shone with countless rays of light, and the auspicious air was so rich and intense that it almost turned into liquid. It was a creation so powerful that even the mythical beasts of the primordial world would go crazy for it!

Before the cauldron, Zhang Yuan finally slowly raised his eyelids.

His movements were slow, yet carried a strange rhythm, as if the entire tempo of the battlefield was being controlled by his single glance.

Deep within those pitch-black pupils, there was no shock, no anger, no fear, only a bottomless chaos, and within that chaos, a chillingly cold mockery suddenly ignited...

"Noisy."

The two simple words, like ice beads falling onto a jade plate, clearly pierced through all the roars, howls, and explosive sounds of energy in the canyon, reaching the ears of every living being with a chilling indifference.

Before the words were even finished, the withered old snake had already unleashed its deadly attack!
His withered, bony claws suddenly ripped forward!
"Xuanming Bone Corroding Claw!"

The withered old snake's "Mysterious Bone-Eating Claw" and the sturdy serpent demon's destructive punch arrived at Zhang Yuan's side almost simultaneously!

The viscous, dark green poisonous claws, carrying a bone-corroding and soul-destroying venomous aura, ripped out hearts and skulls, while the giant fist covered in Xuanming Heavy Armor slammed towards the temple with a violent force capable of shattering mountains and splitting peaks!

The poison gas and the force of the punches had eroded the space in front of Zhang Yuan, leaving black marks and creating a white sonic boom wall!
Death seemed to have arrived in an instant.

However, at this critical moment——

Zhang Yuan remained completely still while sitting cross-legged, not even lifting his eyelids.

"Om-!"

A layer of jade-like light, refined to the extreme and flowing with chaotic colors, appeared around him without warning, like a protective mirror formed from the purest black jade in an instant!

The halo was only an inch thick, yet it contained a powerful and eternal truth that was impervious to all laws!

This is precisely the great divine power of the twelfth level of the "Mysterious Jade Returning to Truth Technique"—the Mysterious Jade Undying Light!

"laugh--!!!"

The highly venomous, bone-corroding claws fiercely gripped the chaotic jade light!
The anticipated shattering of the light shield and the flying blood and flesh did not occur.

The ear-piercing, dense corrosive sound was like a red-hot iron being plunged into ice water, ringing out wildly.

The dark green poisonous light, carrying the cursed power to erode the soul, surged towards the seemingly weak chaotic jade light.

However, no matter how raging the poison was or how much the curse permeated, the halo merely swirled slightly, dissipating all the corrosive power into nothingness, without even causing a ripple!

The sinister grin on the withered old snake's face froze instantly, turning into unbelievable horror!
This killing move, powerful enough to erode even the protective true essence of an ordinary Saint Realm cultivator, couldn't even break through the opponent's thin layer of aura?!
Almost at the same time that the Xuan Yu Undying Light clashed with the Bone-Eroding Claw, the destructive punch of the burly snake demon elder beside Zhang Yuan, whose scales were the thickest and whose aura was the most violent, arrived!

Wherever the fist passed, the air was compressed into a solid white wall of air, emitting a muffled sonic boom!
This is the ultimate manifestation of pure power, enough to pulverize the head of a Saint Realm being with a single punch!
Faced with this potentially fatal and devastating blow, Zhang Yuan finally made his move.

He merely tilted his head slightly, his gaze never leaving the Nine Apertures Profound Cauldron before him, which was bursting with radiant light and buzzing at its peak. He simply raised one hand.

That hand, with its long, slender fingers and mysterious dark gold patterns subtly flowing beneath its skin, seemed to contain the power to create the world. It calmly and precisely met the Xuanming Heavy Fist, which was even larger than its entire body!

The ultimate power!

The Thirteenth Level of the Heavenly Gang Refining Form Technique: The Power of Origin!
"Bang—!!!" A deep, muffled sound that made your heart stop!
Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

The giant fist, covered in thick Xuanming armor and powerful enough to shatter stars, struck Zhang Yuan's seemingly tiny palm as if it had crashed into the hardest core of the entire primordial land!
There was no roar, no shockwave, only the purest and most primal collision of forces!
“Crack!”

The sickeningly loud, extremely dense sound of bones cracking rang out like popping beans!

The ferocity on the face of the scaly snake demon was instantly replaced by boundless pain and horror!

His entire arm, covered by the Xuanming Heavy Armor, was repeatedly struck as if by an invisible, massive hammer, starting from his fist. The scales shattered inch by inch, and his flesh and bones crumbled, twisted, and deformed piece by piece!
It spread all the way down to the shoulder blades!

"what--!"

A bloodcurdling scream, so shrill it was inhuman, had just escaped its throat.

Zhang Yuan's seemingly casually raised hand suddenly closed with his five fingers together!
fast!
We're almost there, beyond the reach of imagination!

Like five giant pincers forged from divine metal, they instantly gripped the broken, twisted, and bloody severed end of the snake arm!
Then, tear downwards!
“Sizzle——!!!”

Amidst a tearing sound that made one's scalp tingle, Zhang Yuan ripped the entire thick arm of the scaly, muscular snake demon, along with half of its shoulder, from its massive body as if tearing a rag!
The dark green snake blood, like a burst dam, mixed with broken internal organs and bone fragments, gushed out, instantly turning the ground beneath him into a terrifying dark green swamp!

A pungent, fishy odor filled the air.

The serpent demon's enormous body seemed to have its spine removed, and it collapsed to its knees with a thud.

The remaining arm futilely reached for the empty, severed shoulder, its enormous snake-like eyes filled only with boundless pain and utter bewilderment. The screams abruptly ceased, leaving only the gurgling sound of air leaking out.

ruthless!
hot!
So brutal it freezes your soul!
This bloody and violent scene caused the last snake demon elder, whose aura was deep and mysterious, to freeze abruptly, his vertical pupils filled with boundless fear as he was about to launch a sneak attack and condense a poisonous curse!
His "Ten Thousand Poisons Devouring Heart Curse," which he had been preparing to unleash, was stuck in his throat, unable to advance or retreat!

The withered old snake was greatly shaken, and the power of the Xuanming Bone-Eating Claw was slightly hindered!

The sight of his companion being instantly crippled terrified him!
In that instant when his mind faltered—

Zhang Yuan made a move!

For the first time, his seated figure lifted off the ground!
Without getting up, merely sitting cross-legged, it was as if he had teleported!
Only a fading afterimage remained in place!

The next one ten-thousandth of a second!
He appeared like a ghost directly in front of the burly, scaled snake demon who was kneeling on the ground in excruciating pain from his severed arm and had temporarily lost all defenses!

He remained seated cross-legged, yet his posture carried an air of cold indifference, as if he were above all living beings.

A hand, shrouded in dark gold chaotic divine runes, lightly pressed down on the top of the giant snake's head as if swatting a fly!

"The ultimate power can shatter heaven and earth."

The cold words were like the pronouncement of death.

Beneath his palm, the power of the Nine Heavens contained within the body of the Chaos God and Demon, combined with the Chaos Origin, erupted with a thunderous roar!
The ultimate limit of power.

Broken Star!

There was no dazzling light, no surge of energy.

Only the purest, most restrained, and most concentrated destructive power, like billions of invisible divine needles, pierces through in an instant!
The massive, scaled snake demon's kneeling body suddenly stiffened!
His ferocious snake head, covered in thick, hard scales as tough as divine iron, burst open like a watermelon bursting from the inside by an invisible force—without warning.

"puff!"

Blasted!

Red, white, green... a mixture of hard skull fragments and broken scales, like exploding blood-red fireworks, suddenly sprayed out in a radial pattern, covering the ground and rock walls within a radius of several feet!
Its massive, headless snake body convulsed violently a few times before crashing to the ground, its dark green blood gushing out like a stream.

A Blackwater Serpent Grand Elder at the peak of the Saint Realm was treated like a clay chicken or a clay dog ​​by Zhang Yuan, his head being crushed with ease!
Both body and soul are destroyed!

fast!
too fast!
From Zhang Yuan raising his hand to meet the attack head-on, to tearing off the arm, and then teleporting to press down on the head and crush it, the whole process was completed in the blink of an eye!
violent!

Cruel!

Destroy everything!

In the canyon, apart from the alchemy cauldron still emitting a low hum, all the sounds of fighting and roaring seemed to be abruptly cut off by an invisible hand!

Whether it was Tie Tang struggling wildly and being locked by the bone spear, or Yan Feng fighting the enemy and roaring continuously, or the warriors of the two races fighting bloody battles, or even the remaining two Blackwater Serpent Supreme Elders, their movements froze for a moment!
Time seemed to freeze, leaving only the gurgling sound of blood spurting from the headless snake corpse, and the figure sitting cross-legged on the pool of blood, his black robes spotless, bringing all living beings a suffocating fear from the depths of their souls!

The greed and murderous intent on the faces of the withered old snake and the snake demon elder with his profound aura had long been replaced by boundless horror and fear.

As they looked at their companion's shattered head and the figure sitting cross-legged on the pool of blood like a demon god, a chilling cold instantly froze their very bones!

"Weird, monster!"

The serpent elder, with his deep and sinister aura, trembled, and the poisonous curse he had condensed completely dissipated. He instinctively wanted to retreat.

But would Zhang Yuan give them a chance to catch their breath?

The seated figure disappeared again!
This time, his target was the withered old snake whose mind had been disturbed and whose Xuanming Bone-Eating Claws were now sluggish!

The withered old snake was terrified, and its emaciated body burst forth with unprecedented speed, trying to transform into a streak of black water light to escape.

However, Zhang Yuan was even faster!

He appeared directly in front of the old snake's escape light, still in a cross-legged posture, with his left hand's five fingers spread out, pressing down in the air towards the old snake!
"The Mysterious Jade Returning to Truth Seal!"

"Om-"

A massive, ancient, majestic Dao seal, seemingly formed directly from primordial chaos jade, instantly solidified atop the withered old snake's head!

On the Dao Seal, intricate and profound runes flowed, radiating an unparalleled will to suppress eternity and return to the origin!

This is the ultimate divine power of the thirteenth level of the "Mysterious Jade Returning to Truth Technique"! (End of Chapter)