Chapter 528: Chapter 354: The Boundless Hand—Slaying Yinghuai!

"Boom!!"

The gray thunder fell fiercely, like a celestial tribulation, and the Yinghuai Great Demon’s face changed drastically. A strong feeling of dread rose from deep within his soul, as if the celestial tribulation for breaking through to the Daoist Embryo was falling at this moment, with a huge sense of crisis surging over him like a tide.

But at this moment, he had no time to think further. The gigantic ancient tree anomaly behind him suddenly trembled, and a branch resembling a coiled Flood Dragon abruptly detached and fell into his body, merging with him.

"Boom!"

Thunderlight swiftly struck down, shattering everything within the gray aura.

The body of the Yinghuai Great Demon couldn’t withstand it and exploded violently, turning into dust.

Yet among the debris, there was no red blood spray, only clusters of black wooden chips bursting forth.

The Wooden Locust Disaster Relief Seal!

The Yinghuai Great Demon’s life-saving seal.

When this seal is activated, it forcibly extracts a part of the coagulated ancient tree anomaly, merges it into his body, and transforms into a Wooden Locust Substitute to withstand an extreme attack, thus averting disaster.

This Wooden Locust Substitute is remarkably resilient, capable of withstanding virtually any attack from the Golden Core Realm.

However, this method has one downside: the "branch" extracted from the anomaly cannot recover within a short period of time; it requires numerous heavenly materials and earthly treasures to potentially re-condense.

It’s a disaster-avoidance method that comes at the cost of damaging the anomaly, draining the pond to catch fish.

If not absolutely necessary, he would never resort to using this technique.

But at this moment, Gu Yuan’s strike was extremely powerful and terrifying, forcing him to use this method in panic.

"Boom!"

This method was indeed his life-saving technique; as the thunderlight dissipated, his true body fled several miles away, unharmed.

His face remained rosy, his mana abundant, showing no signs of weakness.

Only the ancient tree anomaly behind him, nearly a thousand feet tall, lost a portion of its coiled branch, its height shrinking from nearly a thousand feet to eight hundred feet, as if sliced off.

"Zheng!"

But just as his true body stabilized, the sound of a sword resounded again between heaven and earth.

The Yinghuai Great Demon looked up, only to see endless spiritual qi gathering behind Gu Yuan like a sea of clouds, enveloping a dazzling sword pill, appearing at first glance like a Great Sun converging, speeding towards him like a meteor.

Moreover, behind Gu Yuan, the swirling thunder mist rolled, within which an anomalous "Thunder Great Sun" phenomenon formed.

Within this anomaly, peculiar dao charm seemed to flow, making the sword light, already bright as a sun, three times stronger, surrounded by countless thunderbolts, resembling thousands of Thunder Flood Dragons, accompanying the sword light, charging together.

"What kind of anomaly is this?!"

The Yinghuai Great Demon couldn’t help but exclaim.

Anomalies change with dharma seals; such mysterious phenomena are truly unheard of.

"Good, good, good!"

But right now, there was no time to ponder deeply; he knew that unless he fought desperately today, escape would be difficult.

With a tremble of his shoulders, a turtle shell jade bottle, bearing mysterious artifact patterns, suddenly floated out.

This jade bottle was forged from turtle shell, its spiritual light flashing brightly, already at the pinnacle of high-grade treasure, touching the threshold of spiritual treasure.

As the bottle appeared, it instantly emitted a huge aura, enveloping the Yinghuai Great Demon within.

This aura was as thin as a cicada’s wing, seemingly breakable with a single poke, but inside, a Profound Turtle’s virtual shadow moved continuously, exuding a peculiar spirit charm.

"Boom!"

The sword light arrived in an instant, slashing at the turtle shell aura, its immense force capable of crushing mountains and severing ridges, but as it landed in the thin as cicada’s wing aura, it seemed like a mud ox entering the sea, with all sword qi vanishing without a trace.

But this was not without cost; the virtual shadow of the Profound Turtle within the aura swelled like a balloon, seemingly about to explode in the next moment.

Spirit-Devouring Jade Armor Bottle!

This high-grade treasure was crafted from the remnant shell of a later-stage Great Demon’s Spirit-Devouring Profound Turtle after its death, capable of absorbing any attack that falls upon it.

Even forces surpassing the Profound Turtle itself would be temporarily swallowed into its belly, not unleashed.

In daily magical combat, the Yinghuai Great Demon relied on this artifact to gain an edge, able to absorb numerous techniques sent by late-stage Golden Core cultivators into the bottle.

Yet the jade bottle, which could usually withstand multiple technique assaults from ordinary late-stage Golden Core cultivators, now faced a crisis of breaking upon a single encounter.

This sword light’s power was too terrifying, unlike anything a newly advanced late-stage Golden Core cultivator could unleash.

But the Yinghuai Great Demon never intended to rely on the bottle to block the opponent.

All he needed was a moment’s respite.

"Grow, grow, grow!"

He pulled out a golden "bean seed," and with a fierce toss toward the opposite side, began chanting incantations.

"Boom boom boom!!"

In an instant, the earth rolled and cracked open, a golden ancient tree rising from the depths.

Initially just a three-foot sapling, in a blink, it grew a hundred feet, a thousand feet, blocking out the sun like a mountain.

The tree trunk stood straight like a sword, radiant as if cast in gold, with six giant golden leaves swaying above, exuding a strange dao charm.

"Buzz buzz buzz!"

Meanwhile, the Spirit-Devouring Jade Armor Bottle could no longer withstand the bombardment of sword qi across the sky, exploding into countless pieces, with the raging sword qi ripping through the sky and earth.

"Swish!"

Yet just before the Spirit-Devouring Jade Armor Bottle exploded, the Yinghuai Great Demon stepped forward, his body like water, directly merging with the thousand-foot ancient tree.

"Boom! Boom!"

Sword qi blasted, hitting the golden ancient wood, but it only emitted the sound of metal clashing against iron, without breaking through.

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