Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

The Blood Crystal Maha Sword has sunk into the Blood Essence Pool at the deepest part of the Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace.

The Sanskrit characters on the sword lit up, channeling the strange Maha power within the sword into the Blood Essence Pool.

A very thin golden line formed in the center of the Blood Essence Eye.

This is the fusion of the power of two top-tier third-grade magic treasures, forming a completely new divine ability.

Blood Essence Golden Eyes.

As the golden eyes opened, an invisible and intangible strange power instantly descended upon True Monarch Gray Owl.

The gray flames burning around him suddenly paused, then instantly went out of control.

This was a backlash; the gray flames surged back from his body, rebounding and igniting all his magical power.

Gray Owl True Monarch let out a shrill scream that was inhuman, and his whole body was engulfed by his own gray flames.

The core of the Blood Crystal Maha Sword is that strange Maha power, which is specifically designed to trigger the backlash of a cultivator's blood energy and magical power.

If True Lord Gray Owl had not burned his source, the power of Maha might not have been able to be obtained so easily.

However, he was currently in a state of burning his source, and the magic power within his body was operating in the most violent way. The power of Maha happened to trigger a backlash of magic power at his most vulnerable moment.

This dealt him a fatal blow.

Lin Zhao naturally wouldn't let this opportunity slip by.

With a thought, the Four Symbols Heavenly Gang Sword, propelled by lightning, transformed into a beam of four-colored spiritual light and flew out through the air.

Despite the excruciating pain of the backlash from his origin, True Monarch Gray Owl met the attack with his gray longsword, which was filled with purple spiritual light.

As the swords clashed, the gray longsword shattered inch by inch, and the Four Symbols Heavenly Gang Sword pierced through the blade, penetrating the protective aura of the Gray Owl True Monarch, entering through his chest and emerging from his back.

A hole the size of a bowl appeared in the chest of the Gray Owl True Monarch, and silvery-white lightning exploded from the hole, spreading along his body to his limbs.

His Dharma body began to disintegrate from the inside, and gray spiritual light gushed out from the cracks in his body.

Gray Owl True Monarch looked down at the hole in his chest, seemingly unable to believe that he had been defeated by a Core Formation cultivator.

He tried to struggle a bit more, his remaining magical power still trying to gather and maintain the shape of his body.

But Bai Jing didn't give him a chance.

The grotesque demonic patterns raised on her bone armor all lit up.

She stretched out her left hand, her five fingers spread, and the demonic patterns on the white bone armor transformed into dozens of white bones, piercing into the broken Dharma body of the Gray Owl True Monarch. They began to frantically devour the remaining spiritual power of the Dharma body, and even the fragment of the Gray Owl True Monarch's soul attached to the Dharma body, all of which surged into the armor along the white bones.

Gray Owl Lord's struggles grew weaker and weaker until he finally lost all ability to resist.

She completely devoured the nascent soul body, along with all the power attached to it.

Bai Jing retracted her scythe, and the magical runes on her bone armor disappeared back into the armor surface, leaving only a faint, ethereal glow.

She exhaled, her scarlet eyes sweeping over Lin Zhao.

Lin Zhao also put away the sword formation and gave Bai Jing a deep look.

In today's battle, she devoured all the remaining spiritual power of the two Nascent Soul Dharma Bodies, Azure Eagle Dharma Body and Gray Owl True Monarch.

The demonic path is born from devouring heaven and earth; indeed it is.

No wonder the Nine Nether Demon Sect is not accepted by the dominant forces; its ability to turn all the power of its enemies into its own nourishment is truly terrifying.

Only the Cangyuan Immortal Cultivation World, with its profound foundation, could suppress the Nine Nether Demon Sect; in any other world, it would have been completely devoured long ago.

Lin Zhao didn't say much.

Now is not the time to discuss this; there is still a tough battle ahead.

Tianhao's side is fast, it's about to collapse again.

In the short span of half a cup of tea, that young Hou had shattered the millions of skeletons left behind by Bai Jing into pieces.

The fragments of bones covered the sea surface in a thick layer, rising and falling with the waves, like a gray-white snowfield.

The Hou's golden fur stood on end, its ferocious aura even more intense than before, and its pair of dark golden eyes were filled with rage.

Clearly, the skeleton army had not harmed it in the slightest, but had thoroughly enraged it.

Without uttering a single unnecessary word, the two vanished in a flash and reunited with Tianhao.

The three people surrounded the Hou in a triangular formation.

Bai Jing met it head-on.

Tianhao kept them in check from the sidelines.

The True Yang Spirit Shield was raised again, and the blazing sun totem on its surface lit up once more. The Bright Sun Pearl emitted countless white rays of light, creating numerous light barriers around the Hou, restricting its movement space.

Lin Zhao was in the rear.

The Four Symbols Heavenly Gang Sword Formation unfolded once more, and the silver-white array covering dozens of miles spread out on the sea surface again. The four symbols of the Heavenly Gang condensed and took shape in the array, ready to pounce at any moment.

With the three of them working together, this formation is capable of putting up a fight against even ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators.

But Hou was not afraid at all.

It slammed its claw onto the white bone armor, causing the magical runes on the armor's surface to flash wildly. Bai Jing was sent flying several miles away, leaving a deep claw mark on the armor.

She glanced down at the claw marks, her expression grave.

The power of this claw strike was even greater than the strongest attack of the Azure Eagle Dharma Form.

She didn't even see how the hound's claws came at her; it was too fast.

Is this a Hou?

Tianhao's light barrier was also torn apart by a claw. Hou swept its tail and smashed into the True Yang Spirit Shield. Tianhao and the shield were smashed into the sea, splashing up a water column hundreds of feet high.

Lin Zhao's sword light poured down like a torrential rain. The sword wings of the Heavenly Vermilion Bird, the sword breath of the Heavenly Azure Dragon, the sword light of the Heavenly White Tiger, and the sword energy of the Heavenly Black Tortoise—the four symbols attacked in turn, and countless sword energies completely engulfed the figure of the Hou.

But when the sword energy dissipated, not even a white mark was left on the Hou's scales.

Lin Zhao gritted his teeth. He was, after all, a sword cultivator, wielding a fourth-tier sword magic weapon, and his attack power was among the top in his class.

But when facing the Hou, his sword energy felt like it was just tickling it.

The Hou is not only unbeatable in defense, but its attacks are equally terrifying.

Its speed was so fast that even the spatial teleportation enhanced by the white crystal and the Heavenly Netherworld Demonic Qi couldn't keep up—it had no casting animation, just pure physical explosive power.

Its claws possess a terrifying power capable of tearing through space, leaving behind dark claw marks in the air that linger for a long time with each swing.

It also possesses supernatural powers; the dark golden flames it spews from its mouth carry a temperature that can incinerate everything, and the white bone shield released by the white crystal is evaporated into nothingness the moment it comes into contact with the flames.

The golden light shooting from his eyes could penetrate any defense. Lin Zhao used his Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace to withstand a golden light, and a huge hole was punched into the palace, which was a top-grade third-tier defensive magic weapon.

The most terrifying thing is its roar.

The Hou raised its head, opened its huge mouth, and let out a deep roar that seemed to shake the spiritual power of heaven and earth.

At the same time, all three felt their spiritual energy circulation pause for a moment, and the light of the golden core in their dantian dimmed, as if something had suppressed the circulation of their spiritual energy.

That is a suppression of the very source of life, a natural pressure exerted by the Hou, as the embodiment of divine will, on all living beings.

In other words, all three of them were secret disciples, with at least the foundation of top-grade Golden Core, which is why they were able to withstand this pressure. If it were an ordinary high-grade Golden Core cultivator, they wouldn't have been able to move at all.