Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension Chapter 1408: 756: Annihilating the Demon Horde, One Finger of the Tribulation Demon (Part 2)

In an instant, the Extermination Immortal Array that they had set up was shattered into fragments by that monstrous entity, while the Demon Corpse Commander serving as the array's core was wiped out by one devastating punch, completely eradicated!

“Hurry, run away! If we manage to survive and escape, we have to report this to the Emperor right away. The Human Clan has birthed yet another defiant genius. We must not allow this individual to keep advancing!” A panicked Void Realm Demon Elder shouted in fear as it fled desperately.

Yet, it failed to detect a massive silhouette materializing silently right over its head from thin air.

When the demon elder finally picked up on the overwhelming aura above it, fiercer than a blazing sun, its fading awareness merely caught sight of a glowing golden hand crashing down abruptly.

Bang!

A Void Realm Demon Elder, on par with a Half-Immortal of the Void, got smashed flat by that single palm strike, its demon soul crumbling under the sheer brutality, reduced to nothing but dust and vapor!

Having crushed a Void Realm Demon Elder as if it were nothing more than an insect, Zhao Sheng then triggered Space-Time Teleportation without delay, materializing overhead of yet another Demon Elder and bringing down his palm once more.

Regardless of how desperately the foe resisted or battled to survive, it couldn't endure that palm and perished on the spot, denied any real opportunity to fight back.

In this manner, Zhao Sheng swiftly overtook the escaping Void Realm Demon Elders, and not a single one survived even a solitary slap from him!

With the eighteen-zhang Ruyi Golden Body invoked, Zhao Sheng's might had surged to such heights that even he couldn't gauge his full strength anymore.

At present, the space all around struck him as exceedingly brittle, so delicate that the tiniest motion could seemingly tear right through the barriers of space-time.

Should he accidentally apply excessive “force,” there was a risk of tumbling back into the starry sky of the current era.

To him now, the divide separating the Void Realm from the modern world resembled a flimsy layer of paper, easily breached by a simple notion.

Sigh~

Golden radiance banished the shadows, as Zhao Sheng focused his mind,

Next, he stretched out his will field, promptly gathering an assortment of alien crystals in various sizes, every one boasting more than 512 sides.

Zhao Sheng effortlessly tucked nine alien crystals away into the Sumeru Space, preparing to retract the Dharma Golden Body!

The very next instant, his expression shifted abruptly, his robust arms snapping up to shield his head, while brilliant thunderous glow erupted, weaving into multiple layers of the Thunder Domain and erecting a threefold “barrier” alongside Divine Thought and Will Field.

“Who has the audacity to strike and kill my demon descendants!”

A majestic demonic voice, booming like divine fury, reverberated across the emptiness, and as the Dark Sky appeared to crumble, the immense obscurity abruptly shrank into a lone “black hole.”

Beyond the “black hole,” a circle of crimson glow emerged out of nowhere, like a bloodshot gaze, cold and pitiless, as though some unfathomable entity was staring through a tiny slit, gazing down at the insignificant bugs beneath.

The circumstances flipped at a staggering pace!

Zhao Sheng, who had been casually dispatching multiple Void Realm Demon Elders moments ago, was now reduced to just another “ant.”

A deep-seated dread welled up within Zhao Sheng's core, as if a looming disaster was on the verge of striking him!

This mysterious force was overwhelmingly fearsome, able to snuff out his primordial spirit with nothing but a whim!

Cave Void Demon Emperor?

No way, this level of being is no less than a Tribulation Realm Demon Venerable!

“Hm? It turns out no one violated an oath to act!… A heaven-defying prodigy? Perish!”

Zhao Sheng's spirit quaked; that majestic demonic voice bypassed every shield, surging straight into the Purple Mansion Soul Sea and rattling his Primordial Spirit until it nearly shattered.

The instant “perish” rang out, Zhao Sheng's Divine Soul almost fractured, a wave of mortality crashing into his heart and pushing him toward insanity.

All at once, a subtle crimson gleam dropped from a far-off space-time, morphing into a torrent of blood that overwhelmed the Dark Sky, swallowing the flailing golden colossus.

This blood torrent shattered the space-time divide in a flash, flooding into the starry sky of the now, then ballooning a thousand times over into an endless Blood Sea, which vaporized Planet No. 2 and the vast expanse of hundreds of thousands of miles around it in mere moments.

Right as the enigmatic Tribulation Demon sought to verify Zhao Sheng's identity, a wrathful bellow erupted from a remote space-time, chased by a brilliant sword beam that sliced through the third stratum of the Void Realm.

“Luo Ye, how dare you violate the oath and target a human cultivator from a lower realm! Shameless, face my blade!”

“You little Yang Jian punk, so what if I did strike? What will you possibly do about it?”

With the voice resounding, the blood-red eye flickered out of sight in an instant, along with its actual body, vanishing via teleportation to parts unknown!

The brilliant sword beam tore through the third layer of the Void Sky, yet it arrived just a beat too slow, missing its chance to hit the Tribulation Demon.

Hmph!

A chilly huff originated from the heart of Near Heaven, and then an astonishing sight played out as the brilliant sword beam divided into a pair, promptly cleaving the Blood Sea apart and bisecting two Demon Stars into quarters.

Afterward, the brilliant sword beam arced back and disappeared without a trace in the next heartbeat.

The Blood Sea exploded in fragments, with lingering crimson rays scattering over half a galaxy before gradually fading away under the sway of the Taoist Law.

Once the galaxy settled back to calm, almost a third of the substance from Planet No. 2 and Planet No. 1 had evaporated into nothingness, their outer shells transformed into a crimson lava ocean, the exterior bubbling with noxious dark fumes as it swiftly hardened.

Puff!

Right then, from the depths of Earth’s Core, a withered humanoid skeleton abruptly emerged from the Magma Sea, its skeletal frame radiating sinister blood glow while also gleaming with vivid golden and purple luster, the sockets in its cranium sparking with sharp, horrifying intelligence.

Fresh layers of muscle sprouts and veins kept budding across the bone surface, plainly developing into solid flesh and vital organs.

While handling multiple tasks, Zhao Sheng quelled the agonizing torment buried in the soul sea, meticulously cleansed the leftover demonic energy, and spurred the reformation of sinews and the five organs.

A complete four hours passed before he mostly reconstructed a full physique, even if a notable amount of strange demonic energy lingered inside.

Sigh!

Inside the seaside cavern, the bare-skinned Zhao Sheng abruptly released a foul, murky breath of blood, his whole epidermis radiating a pristine, watery thunderous sheen.

After barely escaping this ordeal, his Primordial Spirit integrated even more seamlessly with every one of his Primordial Cells, his Mana and Original Spirit on the brink of total fusion, barely separable.

His cultivation surged forward dramatically, leaping from the Returning to Void Seventh Layer straight to the middle of the Eighth Layer all at once.

This advancement far exceeded what he had anticipated!

It was only now that Zhao Sheng grasped the proper method for progressing in the Returning to Void Realm, coming to see that simple seclusion for training alone wouldn't suffice to reach the Unification Realm. True insight into the Tao, grasping one's authentic essence, stands as the only true avenue to transcendence!

A few days afterward, Zhao Sheng ventured far into the Earth’s Core, at last locating Ji Tiandu, Hundred Birds Taoist, and several companions concealed inside the B2 Virtual Realm Fortress.

Thanks to the dense crustal layer protecting them, they had fortuitously dodged the disaster, though they bore grave wounds, with no fatalities among them.

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