However, the moment Flaming Blade Duan River's Initial Tier Immortal Artifact, the Flame Saber, touched that colossal hand, the last glimmer of hope that had just risen in Flaming Blade Duan River's eyes instantly vanished!

Because, the very instant the Flame Saber made contact with the gigantic hand, the enormous hand clenched slightly. The Initial Tier Immortal Artifact, the Flame Saber, immediately emitted an earth-shattering sound, flashed with countless rays of light, disintegrated into innumerable dust particles, and then completely disappeared!

That was a genuine Initial Tier Immortal Artifact, the Flame Saber! It was the powerful Immortal Artifact that Flaming Blade Duan River had relied upon to build his reputation over thousands of years. It was one of the quite famous Immortal Artifacts among the dozens in the Central Divine Dynasty Western Region, and a potent Initial Tier Immortal Artifact passed down within the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect for ten to twenty thousand years!

Yet, this powerful and renowned Initial Tier Immortal Artifact couldn't even last a single moment against that colossal hand. It directly turned into countless dust particles and was utterly obliterated, as if it weren't an Immortal Artifact at all, but something made of paper, molded from mud, or simply an inflated balloon!

Seeing this, no matter how much Flaming Blade Duan River clung to a sliver of hope, he had to admit that this colossal hand undoubtedly belonged to a true High-Grade Earth Immortal!

Once he understood this, how could there be any hope left in Flaming Blade Duan River's eyes?

Moreover, he had just activated his Initial Tier Immortal Artifact, the Flame Saber, to attack the hand of a true High-Grade Earth Immortal...

"AAAAAHHH! I am not resigned! I, Flaming Blade Duan River, am not resigned! Why should a mere tenth-level Initial Tier Cultivator possess such astonishing opportunities! AAAAAHHH!"

Flaming Blade Duan River's face was ashen with despair as he roared in fury.

The next moment, countless cracks suddenly appeared on the enormous Immortal Body of this Late-stage Third Grade Earth Immortal, who had plotted against Lin Xuankong countless times. Those cracks looked exceedingly bizarre, as if Duan River had suddenly turned into a piece of porcelain on the verge of shattering...

At the brink of death, Flaming Blade Duan River self-destructed!

His Immortal Body exploded into hundreds of millions, even billions, of fragments. His Late-stage Third Grade Earth Immortal Golden Core, cultivated for thousands of years and nearly indestructible, was also utterly destroyed from the inside out in the self-detonation!

The reason Flaming Blade Duan River chose to self-destruct was certainly not out of courage, but because he was afraid. He feared this immensely powerful 'High-Grade Earth Immortal.'

In Flaming Blade Duan River's view, if he fell into the hands of a High-Grade Earth Immortal, even wishing for death would likely be an extravagant luxury!

He didn't want to endure thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years of torment...

Of course, just like the self-destructing Flame Spirit Sparrow King, the entire might of Flaming Blade Duan River's self-detonation was lightly squeezed and sealed within that colossal hand. Not the slightest trace of its power, nor the faintest sound of disturbance, spread outward. The death of this Late-stage Third Grade Earth Immortal was utterly silent...

"Flee! Scatter in different directions and flee! Quickly!"

The very instant Flaming Blade Duan River self-destructed and died, the Sect Leader of the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect suddenly roared.

Facing a true High-Grade Earth Immortal, this Sect Leader of the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect had absolutely no confidence he could escape...

Just as the twenty-odd Earth Immortals from the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect, including Great Elder Duan Qianchou, saw their expressions change dramatically and began fleeing in different directions propelled by True Essence, the colossal hand once again reached for an Earth Immortal from the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect. At that moment, the space before the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect's Fifth-Grade Earth Immortal Sect Leader shimmered, and a Spirit Vein Transference gate to the Celestial Demon Bone Secret Realm appeared. Then, this Sect Leader, who had just shouted for others to flee, dived headfirst into his own Celestial Demon Bone Secret Realm!

In his view, the Escape Speed of a High-Grade Earth Immortal was terrifying, comparable to a High-Grade Immortal Artifact. Against such speed, forget running your two legs off; even if you had twenty thousand legs and ran until every single one broke, it would be impossible to escape the clutches of a High-Grade Earth Immortal... The only possible chance of survival lay within the Celestial Demon Bone Secret Realm!

However, what terrified the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect's Sect Leader to his core was that in the brief time it took him to summon the Secret Realm Gate of the Celestial Demon Bone Secret Realm and slip through it, the colossal hand had already crushed eighteen Earth Immortals from the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect!

Among those eighteen Earth Immortals were First- and Second-Grade Earth Immortals solely focused on fleeing for their lives, as well as Third- and Fourth-Grade Earth Immortals who gritted their teeth and counterattacked as the colossal hand approached. However, whether they were desperately fleeing or frantically counterattacking, everything these eighteen Earth Immortals did seemed utterly futile!

In less than one-fiftieth of a breath, under Lin Xuankong's control, a single hand of Great Success Yu Zhen Bodhisattva's seventh-grade projection avatar had effortlessly crushed them, one after another! And this was achieved with Great Success Yu Zhen Bodhisattva's seventh-grade projection avatar using only one hand...

Seeing this, the moment the Sect Leader of the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect slipped through the Secret Realm Gate of the Celestial Demon Bone Secret Realm, his heart plummeted into despair.

Next, as expected, the scenes devoid of suspense continued to unfold.

After the eighteen Earth Immortals of the Fire Spirit Immortal Sect were completely crushed, their Divine Souls extinguished, within one-fiftieth of a breath, it was the turn of the ten Fifth-Grade Earth Immortals who had managed to flee just a fraction faster. Then, these ten Fifth-Grade Earth Immortals, proving to be virtually no different from the First, Second, Third, and Fourth-Grade Earth Immortals, were all caught by the colossal hand, squeezed, and annihilated...

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