This will was filled with ancient nobility, an inviolable pressure, and contained a violent fighting spirit sufficient to shatter stars.

The chaotic fragments of battlefield Dao Rhyme around it, like iron filings attracted by a magnet, frantically converged towards it, merging into its immense body.

"Middle Stage Venerable?!"

Zhan Feng’s voice was filled with disbelief and horror.

The intensity of this aura far surpassed the previous Demon Lord, even faintly touching upon the mysteriousness of higher-level laws.

More terrifying was the purity of its power origin, the refinement of its Dao Rhyme, the vastness of its pressure, seemingly containing the core imprint of the slaughter laws of this Ancient Battlefield!

Corpse... no, now it should be called an ancient image. It wasn’t in the form of a grotesque demon, though enormous, its skeletal structure vaguely similar to humans could be discerned.

Wearing ancient and tattered bronze armor, despite being covered with the scars of time and large cracks, it exuded the resilient sheen of indestructibility.

In its only remaining arm, it held a gigantic war spear, entirely black, seemingly forged from concentrated star remains.

The war spear had been broken in that ancient battle, leaving only half of the spear shaft. The dark light swirling at the break, like it could swallow all the brilliance of stars, emitted an aura of despairing annihilation.

It spoke no words, its eye sockets, where blue flames danced, merely locked onto the uninvited guests who had intruded upon its resting place.

The broken spear lifted, its motion slow as if raising a continent.

Then, silently and invisibly, it thrust towards the battle formation where everyone stood.

No dazzling light explosions, no deafening sonic booms.

Only the space ahead of the broken spear, fragile like a glass mirror, was pierced through by a massive, black passage with edges burning in blue flames, by an invisible "point-breaking" force.

A pure, star-annihilating Dao Rhyme, like an invisible destructive torrent, poured through the space hole directly towards the battle formation’s center.

Quick!

Quicker than extreme!

Yet carrying an ancient and precise deadly intent!

"Unable to block, disperse!"

Jiang Shu’s pupils contracted wildly, he warned sharply.

But it was too late.

The seemingly slow thrust of the ancient hero image contained power beyond the battle formation’s instantaneous endurance limit.

The battle formation’s light screen, which gathered the residual power of everyone, extinguished silently like a soap bubble upon contact with the star-annihilating Dao Rhyme.

Puff, puff, puff!

The three envoys closest, without uttering a scream, had their protective Spirit Light effortlessly pierced through, their bodies twisted and compressed as if thrown into a black hole, finally disintegrating into scattered dust.

Not a trace of life essence blood was left.

"Roar!"

Zhan Feng’s eyes turned scarlet as he let out a thunderous roar,

His fury was not over his companions’ deaths but was instead completely incited by this power, awakening his ferocity like a wild dragon.

Without any intention to retreat, as the destruction torrent was about to sweep over Yu Sha and the blue-clad young girl, his entire dark golden blood roared and burned, his entire being seeming to rise an inch, muscles knotted like ancient bronze, and the Bronze Battle Axe in his hand burst into unprecedented fierce green light.

"Open it for me!"

Zhan Feng roared madly, pouring all his power and bloodline might into the War Axe.

He did not evade or defend but chose the most savage, direct way, boldly slashing towards the devastating star-annihilating Dao Rhyme.

This was the strongest interpretation of the utterly fierce and rigid essence of axe Dao!

The axe light, like a practiced bolt of lightning, like heaven-opening thunder, fiercely cleaved upon the invisible annihilation Dao Rhyme torrent.

Clang!!

A soul-tearing clash of metal resonated through the air!

Zhan Feng’s enormous body was struck as if colliding with the star sea, his tiger’s mouth exploding instantly, the Bronze Battle Axe echoed with painful wails, its blade burst open with a massive breach under that terrifying annihilation force.

His entire being flew back as if cut from a string, blood spurted wildly from his mouth, drawing a bleak line of blood in the air, crashing heavily into a heap of chaotic rocks dozens of yards away, stirring up clouds of dust.

His full-force strike merely bought Yu Sha and the blue-clad young girl a slight chance to catch their breath.

"Brother!"

Zhan Yun was filled with shock and anger.

But she didn’t have time to divert her attention to Zhan Feng’s condition because the terrifying ancient image’s second strike had arrived.

This time, it was a seemingly simple sweep.

The broken spear’s half shaft seemed to transform into a sky-piercing pillar, carrying the world-crushing force of an ancient heavenly sky, sweeping horizontally towards them.

Where the spear shaft passed, space shattered inch by inch, forming a distorted void rift river.

No way to evade, only withstand!

Zhan Yun let out a long cry, the sound like dragon chant and phoenix chirp.

The Bronze Battle Axe in her hand transformed into a long green spear, bursting forth in that instant with a green light piercing the heavens, the spear shaft rapidly rotating, inspiring a violent green Gang Wind, forming a spiral wind drill that tore through space, the spear tip condensing an almost everything-piercing extreme shine, aiming right at the side edge of the sweeping broken spear.

Azure Dragon Breaking Void!

This was an exceptionally strong spear intent that Zhan Yun had comprehended, breaking the surface with a point.

Clang!

The spear tip precisely hit the strongest part of the momentum of the spear shaft’s sweep, an ear-piercing screech almost piercing the eardrums.

Zhan Yun only felt an indescribably vast force surge into the spear shaft like a tidal wave.

Her arm joints exploded with unbearable pressure, half of the Protective Gang Qi shattered in an instant, stunned as if struck by lightning, her feet plowing two deep grooves, her body retreated like a projectile, each step crushing a large piece of Crystal Stone, a sweet metallic taste surged up her throat, but forcefully suppressed.

Jiang Shu did not resist at the first moment.

In the instant of the terrifying spear thrust, his entire mind was locked onto the ancient image.

Heart of Space pulsed with unprecedented frequency, like the most precise detector, frantically scanning, analyzing the flow trajectory of the other’s boundless Dao Rhyme.

Under immense pressure, his Sea of Consciousness was clear.

Just when Zhan Yun’s spear blocked, the huge force collision caused a brief disturbance in the Dao Rhyme condensed within the image.

Jiang Shu’s eyes exploded with brilliant spirit light, like stardust burning.

"Armor crack, three inches below the neck!"

"Weakness!"

These words were like thunder, exploding in Zhan Yun’s ears as she struggled to steady herself.

No explanation needed, Zhan Yun instantly understood.

In that terrifying moment when the broken spear had just swung away her green spear, just as the old force had dissipated and new force was arising, this extremely short gap caused by the other’s incomplete Spiritual Wisdom, Zhan Yun moved!

Taking advantage of the retreating momentum, her body twisted like weightless catkins, wrist flying, the green spear traced an exquisitely angled arc in the air, no longer pursuing fierce might, but focusing all power into one extreme penetration point.

Green light flashed and disappeared, faster than visual capture.

The spear tip aimed at the edge of the image’s broken bronze armor, near the largest crack on the neck.

This spear sought not to harm, but to accurately pierce the gathered power into the crack’s interior, to disrupt the connection of the core Dao Rhyme.

Almost the moment Zhan Yun’s spear struck, Jiang Shu’s three figures simultaneously appeared.

His true body heavy as a mountain, chaos lightning surged violently on the Desolate Star Halberd, the Panwu Heaven Opening Axe image recondensed, transforming into a giant axe of purple-gold lightning, carrying destructive will intent to shatter Qiankun, cleaving towards the image’s knee joint.

Jiang Shu’s real purpose was not to genuinely harm the other’s indestructible body, but to force it to defend under the imposing attack.

On both sides, two Jiang Shu mirror images constructed completely of Space Power appeared instantly.

Identical Desolate Star Halberds, identical Law of Power and Taichu Dao Rhymes intertwined!

They didn’t participate in attacks, but their figures flickered, instantly closing the distance with the image.

To interfere and bewilder, making the other’s weak Spiritual Wisdom unable to accurately lock onto Jiang Shu’s true ultimatum kill strike immediately.

And under the cover of the space mirror image closing the distance, Jiang Shu’s true body silently vanished.