The Martial Ancestor Revealed
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The Martial Ancestor!
The Desiccated Corpse was none other than the Martial Ancestor!
When the Crimson Robe Sword Ancestor cried out, shock reverberated through all who heard it.
Savage beasts roared, fierce birds beat their wings. The Doomsday Heavenly Halberd in the sky tore toward the Martial Ancestor on the primordial earth.
The power of time enveloped the Martial Ancestor, seeking to drain his battle prowess, to reduce him to a weak and youthful form.
"Boundless Heavens, World-Annihilating Star Sword!" the Crimson Robe Sword Ancestor roared.
Under the sweep of his divine consciousness, a hazy star domain materialized around him—a mustard seed containing a mountain, as ten thousand stars condensed within a ten-zhang radius. The depths were impenetrably vast, the fluctuations of divine power terrifying beyond measure.
It was indistinguishable from a true star domain. Every star within it transformed into a sword beam, all converging at a single point, all aimed at the Martial Ancestor.
Now, their very survival hung in the balance. They had no choice but to fight with everything they had, and they could only use divine abilities—physical force was useless here.
Both Ancestral Gods' divine abilities converged on the Martial Ancestor.
The White Bone Ancestral Sovereign, Original Sin—trapped in a desperate plight—was finally freed. He too unleashed a terrifying divine art, intoning: "World of Sinking, the World Itself Sinks!"
The power of the Death World surged forth, immeasurable and overwhelming, all of it gathering into the broken bone blade in his hand. This was the technique they called the sinking of the world, to be manifested through this blade named Sinking.
The broken bone blade burst into flames—fierce black netherfire that stained the entire sky a horrific black, drowning the Martial Ancestor within it, seeking to make that world and the Martial Ancestor sink together into deathly stillness.
Three Ancestral God-level experts simultaneously struck the Martial Ancestor with their supreme divine abilities!
The Martial Ancestor was beset by three layers of terrifying power!
The innermost power was naturally Li Huiyou's Time Reversal divine ability. It had already trapped the Martial Ancestor in a primordial realm of heaven and earth, an oppressive pressure seeking to devour his divine soul and force him into decline.
"Thinking you can drive me back to my youth? I fear you miscalculated. I stand here and let you cast your art!"
The Martial Ancestor's withered frame truly did not move an inch. He let the terrifying radiance wash over him, the vast divine power assaulting his martial body.
In the process, his appearance changed rapidly. The dry, yellow hair swiftly turned black and glossy. The frail, emaciated body gradually swelled, filling with explosive power.
The Martial Ancestor was returning to his prime, letting the power of time push him backward!
But as the Martial Ancestor grew younger, Li Huiyou watched in horror. The Martial Ancestor's physical state stopped changing. The full might of his divine art could no longer affect that martial body.
At the same time, that young, powerful combat form began to exude, faintly visible, an energy fluctuation that made even Ancestral Gods feel dread.
"Li Huiyou, what are you doing?!" the Crimson Robe Sword Ancestor shouted in fury and alarm.
"Fool!" the White Bone Ancestral Sovereign Original Sin roared. He felt a powerful, ominous unease.
"Thank you for pushing me to my peak state," came the Martial Ancestor's voice. Though his words were plain, the pressure they carried was suffocating.
A Nine-Heaven Ancestral God had reappeared in the world!
Li Huiyou had inadvertently forced the Martial Ancestor back to his prime state.
Now, that once-withered figure had become powerfully robust. The bag of bones was a thing of the past, now covered with life-filled flesh and blood. The dried, yellow skin had transformed into a bronze complexion, sparkling with crystalline, precious light—extraordinarily vigorous.
The Martial Ancestor had transformed from his skin-and-bones state to a peak state of surging life force. His frame had become tall and imposing, once again embodying the invincible grace of the Nine-Heaven unparalleled Martial Ancestor!
Black hair cascaded naturally over his shoulders, covering most of his face, but could not hide eyes like cold stars—two beams of dazzling divine light filled with heart-stopping power.
Li Huiyou went from shock to unease to terror. He knew he had caused a disaster. He had not driven the Martial Ancestor back to his youth but had instead pushed him back to his former peak.
It was temporary—but lethal!
Who could resist a Nine-Heaven Martial Ancestor?
In years past, four of the Otherworld's greatest Ancestral Gods had joined forces. In a formation that maximized heaven and earth's advantage, Babra and another Ancestral God had fallen; the other two had been grievously wounded.
Now, how could they possibly resist?
"Time Reversal!" Li Huiyou cried out in terror. He poured out his divine power, desperate to drive the Martial Ancestor from his prime back to youth.
But that martial body stood motionless in the sky. The tidal waves of divine power surged against him, but he did not move at all, like an immovable rock of ten thousand jun, set there by no power that could shake him.
Li Huiyou's strongest divine art could not affect the Martial Ancestor in the slightest. Those divine powers were like ordinary waves, merely washing over the Martial Ancestor's body.
A Martial Ancestor to inspire terror in all—his physical form at this moment was absolutely invincible. Few in heaven and on earth could shake it!
"Had your fill of striking?" The Nine-Heaven Martial Ancestor looked down on Li Huiyou. His plain words radiated absolute authority.
"You—" Li Huiyou turned and fled, charging toward the horizon.
But the Martial Ancestor's great hand had already reached out. With a bang, he seized the cyan light in the sky, clenching it in his grasp.
Even a formidable Otherworld Ancestral God could not break free. The Martial Ancestor's pure physical strength had imprisoned him there!
Crack!
Li Huiyou's mighty divine consciousness shattered. His soul force crumbled. The Martial Ancestor crushed his Ancestral God soul in his bare hand.
This kind of terrible divine power was too dreadful. Even Ancestral God-level experts would tremble in fear—a casual grasp could destroy an Otherworld Ancestral God!
Li Huiyou was crushed to pieces in the Martial Ancestor's hand. The first layer of divine radiance collapsed completely.
The second layer of divine power surged in—the Crimson Robe Sword Ancestor's hazy star domain, where every star had become a sword beam, piercing toward the Martial Ancestor.
But the Nine-Heaven Martial Ancestor's martial body had reached a level of hardness that defied belief.
As tens of thousands of sword beams swept in to kill, the Martial Ancestor did not dodge. The divine law summoned star swords, all of them striking his body. That combat form gleamed with a bronze radiance, shattering every sword beam.
Then the Martial Ancestor simply struck a palm in the void—a gesture combining the Hand of the Supreme Being with a dragon-shaped claw, its power vast and immeasurable!
In an instant, that hazy star domain collapsed. Every star within shattered. An aura of annihilation poured out of the star domain. The mustard-seed mountain—the hair's-breadth star domain—was about to explode.
If that happened, even the Most Evil Place would cease to exist. After all, that was a whole starry sky!
The Martial Ancestor's palm pulsed violently, then reached into that starry sky. He instantly reduced all the stars to ash, then drew a line with his hand, sending the place back to its primordial chaotic state. Everything slowly faded into nothingness.
The Crimson Robe Sword Ancestor was stunned with terror. No one understood better than him how terrible a star domain's explosion would be. Yet the Martial Ancestor had forcibly suppressed it with his bare physical body.
This truly filled him with dread. A Nine-Heaven Martial Ancestor had reappeared in the world, his battle power unmatched by any.
To kill him, it would take what it did in the past—four or five of the greatest Ancestral Gods joining forces to suppress the unparalleled Martial Ancestor.
"Escape beyond the heavens, to the eternal unknown!" The Crimson Robe Sword Ancestor tried to flee, desperate to leave this terrifying place.
But it was not possible!
Before the Nine-Heaven Martial Ancestor, unless one was a supreme Ancestral God, no one could escape the palm of this invincible combat form.
The Martial Ancestor's great hand reached out, directly grabbing the Crimson Robe Sword Ancestor from the void. That stretch of heaven and earth shattered instantly. With a twist of his fingers, the Crimson Robe Sword Ancestor's Ancestral God war soul shattered.
Its shattered divine power and erupting divine consciousness—like Li Huiyou's—were all seized in the Martial Ancestor's left palm.
Killing an Ancestral God-level expert was like snapping a straw—a flick of the fingers, a single thought.
The White Bone Ancestral Sovereign Original Sin had already seen the signs and fled first into the sky. But the "World Sinking" divine art he had cast still enveloped the area.
The Martial Ancestor strode through the void. His towering body walked the sky as if on level ground, crossing through the "Sinking World." That entire region collapsed instantly, then cleared in a flash.
This was the Nine-Heaven invincible martial body—eternal, undying, everlasting. The physical form alone had reached a power so great it could not be increased, shattering the "Sinking World"!
Bang!
The Martial Ancestor's right hand shot out. His five fingers vibrated together, shooting out five beams of divine light. The Sinking Bone Blade in the White Bone Ancestral Sovereign Original Sin's hand shattered into dust in the sky, vanishing without a trace.
At the same time, the Martial Ancestor's physical speed exceeded all limits. He appeared before Original Sin, raised his hand, and pressed down with force. The terrifying sounds of "crack-crack-bang-bang" rang out—the White Bone Ancestral Sovereign Original Sin's bone body was cracking!
Boom!
The Martial Ancestor's palm reached out and snatched the soul-fire from within the pure-white skull, clutching it in his right hand.
Crack!
The Ancestral Sovereign's soul shattered. The Martial Ancestor held the soul force and divine consciousness firmly in his palm!
In the distance, everyone was stunned to the extreme. Was this the true Martial Ancestor? The combat power of a Nine-Heaven expert was truly unrivaled in the world!