Chapter 2507 Trump Cards

“Lin Xun, you’ve always been too arrogant. Had you heeded Elder Luo Shentu’s words, you wouldn’t have ended up in this situation.”

From afar, Luo Ling watched Lin Xun being engulfed by countless forces and couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.

Three Ancestors of a Path from the Sixth Heaven Domain had taken action together. How could they be compared to ordinary Ancestors from the Great Thousand Worlds? Each of them stood at the pinnacle of the Ancestor realm and wielded Emperor-grade treasures and supreme divine arts. In this universe, who would dare oppose them?

Meanwhile, other experts of the three immortal imperial clans, having retreated like Luo Ling, were not idle. They activated various formations and set up powerful battle arrays. Clearly, they feared Lin Xun might still use some secret technique to escape.

“Brother Lin!” Yue Duqiu’s eyes burned with fury.

He was about to charge forward when Xiang Xiaoyuan stopped him. “If you go, you’ll be killed in an instant. You are just throwing away your life!”

Yue Duqiu’s face was dark with worry. “How can I stand by and watch Brother Lin fall into such peril?” His eyes gleamed with determination. “I still have trump cards. I can fight!”

“Wait,” Xiang Xiaoyuan said firmly. “When the time comes, we’ll strike together with our trump cards. If we act now, we’ll only alert them, and it’ll bring disaster upon us all.”

She paused, her gaze turning steely. “When the time comes, I’ll make the move. With my identity, they won’t dare to kill me. You must take Brother Lin and escape. Flee as far as you can.”

Yue Duqiu trembled inwardly. How could he not understand? Xiang Xiaoyuan clearly intended to risk her life to protect Lin Xun.

𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

“He may be talented, he doesn’t know his limits. In the end, he’s doomed to die.” Wen Taolue’s voice was cold and indifferent as he swung the bronze halberd. A thousand-foot long blade of light swept across the battlefield, as if tearing heaven and earth apart!

Luo Shentu said nothing, and just raised the Star Chasing Staff and struck it repeatedly. Instantly, countless stars roared forth, surrounded by terrifying arcs of purple lightning. They blotted out the sky as they rained down upon Lin Xun.

Rumble!

It was as if heavenly punishment had descended, like an ancient thunder god casting his divine whip. The void was filled with nothing but ferocious and wild purple lightning, carrying boundless destructive might. The barrage came in the hundreds, in the thousands.

Heng Xingzhou’s beast-hide drum rumbled endlessly, its deafening beats like a downpour. The rhythm turned into golden sound waves that filled the sky, suppressing the spirit, shaking the mind and instilling an eerie and oppressive dread.

The three Ancestors had unleashed their full might!

In an instant, Lin Xun was thrust into an unprecedented desperate situation. The combined might of their attack was so terrifying that it made onlookers despair! Xiang Xiaoyuan and Yue Duqiu clenched their fists, their bodies tense as bowstrings.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Countless attacks struck around Lin Xun, flooding the world with apocalyptic power in an instant. The surging power even penetrated and struck the earth.

The ground cracked and crumbled, a thousand-foot wide pit forming where he stood, its depths unfathomable. Even the ninety-nine stone steps and the Great Taiyi Hall trembled from the impact.

“He’s dead?” someone cried out in glee.

Under such a terrifying assault, even Ancestors would be reduced to ashes. How could a mere Lin Xun survive? Everyone looked up...only to witness a scene beyond belief.

Amid the light rain and turbulent currents...

Lin Xun’s figure loomed. Above his head hovered the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron, and from within it shot out a divine flame as black as ink, like a long suppressed ancient beast now set free. A terrifying aura erupted, obliterating the combined attacks of the three Ancestors in an instant.

The extinguishing law flame! It finally appeared!

This was the divine flame born from the collapsed law power at the end of the last epoch. Formed from countless fragments of shattered laws, it had once instantly incinerated Ancestors like Heng Tianshuo, burning their bodies and spirits to ashes and scattering even their souls.

Even though only a single wisp had been released and it was seemingly insignificant and tiny, it radiated a terror beyond imagination.

As that wisp of extinguishing law flame appeared, heaven and earth seemed to turn into a colossal furnace. An endless torrent of searing heat erupted, reducing the void to a black hole. Light twisted and shattered, while the rain of dao light was instantly vaporized.

Wen Taolue, Heng Xingzhou, and Luo Shentu all turned ashen as they sensed fatal danger looming over them. Without hesitation, they each activated their trump cards.

“Overbearing!”

“Rise!”

“Descend!”

A green landscape painting, a shimmering jade seal, and a bronze umbrella crackling with lightning were summoned by Wen Taolue and the others without hesitation. These treasures were exceedingly rare and precious, their true trump cards. Unless faced with a life-and-death crisis, they would never dare to bring them out.

Boom

!

The next moment, the entire world was engulfed in a flood of terrifying divine brilliance. The surging power churned like a raging sea, wild and unstoppable. Even the faintest wisp of that power could grind the sun and moon to dust and tear through heaven itself!

Just watching from a distance made everyone’s scalps tingle and bodies tremble. The aura was simply too terrifying. No one dared approach, otherwise it would mean certain death.

However, in just an instant, the dazzling divine brilliance and raging torrents of power suddenly began to wither, as if set ablaze and vaporized. Bit by bit, they disintegrated into ashes, scattering into nothingness.

Amid the storm of forces, Lin Xun’s figure could still be vaguely seen! Unbelievably, he was still alive.

“How is that possible?” Luo Ling and the others widened their eyes in disbelief.

Lin Xun actually survived the combined ultimate strikes of so many experts. This completely exceeded everyone’s expectations. Could it be because of that wisp of black flame?

Hearts pounded wildly.

What shocked them even more was the reaction of the three Ancestors Wen Taolue, Heng Xingzhou, and Luo Shentu. All of them were roaring in fury, their faces contorted with rage and pain, as if their hearts had been cut.

Their treasured weapons had been damaged.

A charred hole had been burned through the green landscape painting. The jade seal’s brilliance had dimmed, marred by black scorch marks. Furthermore, the bronze umbrella that was brimming with lightning had been reduced to just its handle...

Even Xiang Xiaoyuan and Yue Duqiu who were in the distance were stunned.

That wisp of black divine flame...how could it be so terrifying?

“Extinguishing law flame!” Wen Taolue muttered hoarsely, his face ashen.

“Kill! I’ll kill him myself!” Heng Xingzhou roared. Seeing his ultimate treasure destroyed made his heart bleed.

“I swear I’ll tear him apart with my own hands...” Luo Shentu’s eyes burned with hatred.

Boom!

The three Ancestors charged forward again like madmen, clearly provoked by what had just occurred.

“You think I only have one wisp of extinguishing law flame?”

At that moment, Lin Xun finally raised his eyes from inside the storm. His eyes were like bottomless abyss, as if could devour all things and reign supreme over the cosmos, tinged with an undeniable mockery.

Rumble!

The Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron tilted slightly, and another wisp of extinguishing law fire shot forth, like a thread of ink-blank lightning, seemingly insignificant at first glance.

However, the moment it appeared in the world, it was as if the God of Fire had descended. It swept across the heavens and the three thousand worlds, unleashing an unbelievably terrifying incinerating force that set off a sky-shattering tidal wave of destruction!

Before this flame, all power and divine art were like ants, utterly powerless, unable to withstand a single strike.

“There’s more?”

“Damn it!”

“Open!”

Amid furious roars, the three Ancestors suppressed the fear in their hearts and pushed their cultivation and power to the absolute limit.

Chaotic currents rampaged across the sky, thunder and lightning poured down like rain, divine radiance surged in every direction, and even the void itself trembled and cracked. The world was thrown into utter chaos.

Unfortunately, before the might of the extinguishing law flame, all of it was as fragile as paper!

Boom!

The Star Chasing Staff in Luo Shentu’s hand was reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye. She let out a shrill scream as her clothes caught fire and her body was instantly engulfed in flames. In that perilous moment, her primordial spirit managed to escape and fled in a desperate attempt to survive.

However, Lin Xun had already arrived!

Clang!

The Limitless Abyss Dao Sword that was sharp and peerless like a divine weapon forged from immortal gold slashed down.

Pu!

Luo Shentu’s primordial spirit was cleaved in two before engulfed by a torrent of deadly sword qi. Someone just a step away from entering the path of immortality had her body incinerated by a single wisp of extinguishing law flame and her primordial spirit completely obliterated!

An uproar exploded. Everyone felt as if they were going insane.

Unfortunately, Wen Taolue and Heng Xingzhou had no time to react. The extinguishing law flame clung to them like maggots gnawing on bone. The moment Luo Shentu perished, they too suffered grievous injuries.

“How can the extinguishing law flame be this powerful?” Wen Taolue roared in panic.

It wasn’t that he had never seen this divine flame, but instead he had never witnessed anything so domineering, so bizarre, so far beyond comprehension.

At this moment, he poured all his cultivation into resisting the incinerating force. His eyebrows and hair burned away, his body cracked open, and even the bronze halberd in his grip melted into a stream of molten metal. His appearance was utterly tragic.

Swoosh!

With a flash, Lin Xun appeared behind Wen Taolue.

“So aggressive!”

Wen Taolue truly lived up to his reputation as a battle-hardened Ancestor of a Path. Even when caught in a perilous situation, he reacted in an instant, summoning twelve bronze shields. Each one was imbued with the power of boundary seals and restriction, capable of withstanding a full-force strike of an Ancestor!

However, how terrifying was Lin Xun’s strength at this moment? As he activated the Dao Immeasurable Bottle within the Limitless Abyss Sword Cauldron, the power of his strike instantly doubled!

Crack!

The twelve bronze shields all shattered down the middle, splitting apart mid-air like rags sliced cleanly by a pair of scissors. A flicker of disbelief flashed across Wen Taolue’s face.

Then, a thin line of blood appeared at the center of his brow. It trickled down past his nose, chin, chest, until, in the next instant, his entire body split in two in the air!

A high and mighty Ancestor was cut down by Lin Xun’s sword!

Boom!

Then, as the extinguishing law flame swept in, Wen Taolue’s split body disintegrated into ashes, leaving not even a trace behind.

“How is that possible...”

“No! This isn’t real!”

In the distance, the cultivators of the three Immortal Imperial Clans looked as if they were on the verge of a mental collapse. They panicked, their expressions filled with terror and disbelief, completely unable to accept what had just happened before them.

The scene was far too terrifying. Far too bloody. Luo Shentu had just perished, and now Wen Taolue was slain moments later. It all happened within a few blinks of an eye, so fast that almost no one had time to react.

Xiang Xiaoyuan and Yue Duqiu, who were originally prepared to intervene at a critical moment to rescue Lin Xun, were now standing dazed.