Chapter 366: The Ancestor's Power! Xiao Hong's Merit!

In an instant, every cell in his body was telling him.

Danger!

Danger!!

Danger!!!

That was a terrifying existence beyond his current level!

Moreover, it had taken a strange interest in him, casting its gaze from an unfathomably distant place. Just a single gaze, and still separated by an unfathomable distance, yet it made him feel an incomparably heavy pressure, as if an impassable chasm lay between their powers.

One must know that the strength of his current state was due to some unknown intense reaction that surpassed his power at any other moment. Even a True Immortal would still fall beneath his claws, and if given more time, dying by his claws would be no strange thing!

Yet, under the watch of that gaze, he still felt a fatal danger! That was absolutely not something the current him could withstand!

The gap between the two was simply too vast!

This was the first terrifyingly powerful being beyond his imagination he had encountered on his journey. The other party was so strong that he did not even know what realm it was in, nor how vast the gulf between them was.

Baichuan's heart sank. Just a phantom, just a gaze, and he already felt it was impossible to contend with!

So this is the Lingneng Clan's "Ancestor"—truly powerful enough to make one feel a little suffocated…

Baichuan narrowed his eyes, gazing at that ethereal figure like a banished immortal, and let out a long sigh.

Compared to the True Immortal Guyue, that bearing was even more worthy of the words "immortal," "True Immortal."

He was shaken by the supreme being from the starry sky, yet at the same time a wild ambition rose within him. So living beings truly could become powerful to such a degree—the exaggerated distances of the endless starry sky were no longer a barrier; a single gaze could traverse endless distance. Wouldn't its true power mean that anywhere in the universe could be reached?!

The realm the other party stood in—he too wanted to climb up and see the scenery there.

'My apologies, it was my oversight. I did not expect this worthless traitor to possess a paper imbued with the Consciousness Projection power of that Laoshu…'

'We must retreat. That one is not someone we can deal with right now…'

Just then, Lingxin's voice, long absent, suddenly came through.

Consciousness Projection power?

Baichuan's gaze shifted, keenly catching a piece of information revealed in Lingxin's words. Was the other party's current state what he was thinking?

But this was not the time to think about that. What concerned him more was that Lingxin seemed to have some anticipation of the current situation, as if she was not surprised by her own state at all, as if she had long foreseen that she would surely be able to defeat the True Immortal Guyue!

The only thing that surprised her was that Guyue, for some unknown reason, possessed a paper imbued with the Lingneng Clan "Ancestor's" projection power. This special paper seemed exceedingly rare and precious, not something Guyue at his current level should possess.

As thoughts flashed through his mind, Baichuan also rose with the intention to retreat. Whether by his own feeling or by Lingxin's words, he understood that the enemy's strength was not something he could currently contend with. The other party was far beyond Guyue's caliber. Even just a Consciousness Projection that Lingxin spoke of was countless times stronger than Guyue!

In truth, Lingxin's heart was also a mess at this moment. Based on her understanding of that stinking… this generation's child mouse, the other party would not care about the Lingneng Clan or a resource star under the Lingneng Clan's banner at all. The entire Lingneng Clan in the other party's eyes was nothing more than a convenient tool to fulfill its needs—lose it and make another.

Let alone a mere small resource star under this faction, even if that resource star was formed from the world she once belonged to, it would be the same.

After all, in the other party's eyes, she was nothing more than an overestimating junior. If not for her being a newborn calf unafraid of the tiger, losing all sense of propriety and actually presuming to provoke the other party, she would not have been lightly punished and fallen into such a predicament.

Now that the punishment had been carried out, whether she lived or died depended on her own fortune. If she died later, she could not blame others—it was her own doing. Even the elders of the clan would have nothing to say.

Entering this remote Desolate Domain, opportunities did exist (though she had only encountered one so far, and it had brought her the child mouse), but crises existed as well.

Therefore, according to her original plan, as long as she cooperated with this special Star Beast descendant to kill that traitor, she could break free in one stroke.

But she had not expected that the child mouse's Consciousness Projection would appear here.

It shouldn't be…

In truth, if Lingxin had seen the child mouse's expression when Guyue once offered up a certain Blood-colored Crystal, perhaps she would not have been surprised.

She had calculated everything, but in the end, lacking sufficient information, she had failed to consider the special nature of the "Star Beast descendant" Baichuan she had chosen.

Because of this, the "Ancestor" who should not have appeared here, appeared here!

'As you say, how should we retreat?'

Baichuan kept his expression unchanged, even manipulating the destructive energy surging from his entire body, making preparations to attack as a disguise.

'I…'

"Interesting. Thy state is truly strange…"

"Hast thou and that little sapling finished thy conversation?"

But before Lingxin could finish, the phantom observed Baichuan for a moment, then suddenly spoke and interrupted everything, as if able to detect the secret exchange between Baichuan and Lingxin!

Immediately, that towering figure stretched out a large hand with slender, distinct joints. The gray, ancient, simple sleeve robe billowed without wind, swelling at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if the heavens themselves were about to be covered! A vast suction force akin to a planet's gravity emerged from within, seeming about to draw in Baichuan's massive light form, along with the entire world and even this entire space, into that tiny sleeve robe!

"Danger!"

The instant the voice sounded, Baichuan sensed something was wrong and was about to muster all his destructive power into an attack to resist. Yet an unexpected scene appeared before Baichuan—the surging torrents of energy he had unleashed were as if frozen, turning into a curtain of light fixed in the void.

And he himself, along with the space he was in, was the same—as if frozen by something, unable to move at all!

As if before the other party, he was not an existence that could easily destroy planets, but an ordinary weak mosquito trapped in amber or a spider's web, whose every resistance could be stripped away with the slightest effort!

Even the terrifying energy that had just achieved countless merits was extinguished before this power sufficient to "freeze" space. It was a power beyond Baichuan's comprehension at this realm that fundamentally fixed all matter undergoing intense reactions, so the energy that had been gushing forth endlessly naturally could no longer collide.

The other party's practiced handling of this gave Baichuan a vague sense that the other party was extremely familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of this power!

Lingxin's unfinished words had no possibility of continuation, falling completely silent, as if she had never appeared, going offline once more. Whether it was because her remnant Spirit was specially attended to by the "Ancestor" when frozen together, preventing her from transmitting words, or whether she had escaped by some special means, was unknown.

"Damn it!"

Knowing the moment of danger had arrived, Baichuan frantically vibrated his own power—the Characteristic power, the eerie blue-purple destructive energy, and all the various abilities he had previously obtained. He could be said to have used every trick he had to try to break free, but in the end it was all futile!

For some unknown reason, he always felt that when his power responded to his movements, it was countless times slower than usual, giving a strange feeling of seeming fast but actually slow.

But he could not figure out what was happening, as if something was hindering his thinking. His entire consciousness seemed to sink into a fog, as if he had forgotten something and could not react.

The gap between the two was simply too vast!

Watching the heaven-and-earth-covering sleeve robe roll in, in that instant, struggling Baichuan caught a fleeting glimpse and could even faintly see within that seemingly ordinary sleeve robe a world of bright mountains and clear waters, birds singing and flowers fragrant, full of life!

Palm Sun and Moon, Universe in the Sleeve—nothing more than this!

"Hahaha…"

"Damned fellow, no matter how strange you are, in the end you still fall before the 'Ancestor,' into my hands!"

Seeing the "Ancestor" achieve merit in one strike, Guyue revealed a triumphant smile, his eyes full of smugness. Of course, before the "Ancestor" he still did not dare be too rampant, merely laughing silently, silently telling his tale.

At the instant the crisis was about to close in, within the world inside Baichuan's planet-body.

Baichuan couldn't feel the strangeness within himself at this moment, but let's not forget that this planet-sized body still had a thread of connection to Xiao Hong — the boundless Light Point Power that had been forged into flesh and blood also contained a portion created by Xiao Hong.

At this moment, Xiao Hong beside Baichuan's main body, who was intimately familiar with Baichuan, abruptly detected a strange force interfering with Baichuan, causing his movements and consciousness to slow by several beats, yet it deceived Baichuan's original awareness, hindering his thinking.

This sense of difference was transmitted through the entire planet-sized body that burned with intense reaction, reaching its body as well, causing it to feel the same discomfort.

At the same time, this force made it feel somewhat irritable, especially since it was affecting him, which made it feel even angrier.

Subconsciously, this discomfort drove it instinctively to channel its own power into Baichuan's consciousness merged within the "field" of the planet-sized body, transforming into a clear roar with a milky tone.

In an instant, under that clear roar carrying protection, Baichuan's entire consciousness was as if washed by cold water, expelling some kind of influence, and he instantly sobered up!

What entered his eyes was that exaggeratedly unfurled sleeve that seemed to contain the world — although its suction was still very powerful, it no longer had that sense of being impossible to resist, and the speed of swallowing heaven and earth was no longer as he had seen before, arriving in an instant to completely devour him, but instead, before the destructive power gushing out from him, it was being ground forward inch by inch.

At this moment, he didn't know what augmentation he had received, but he felt his consciousness was clearer and more exhilarated than ever before! Matters he couldn't figure out in the past were now understood in an instant.

At this point, he suddenly realized — the opponent was indeed powerful, powerful enough to easily crush him, but the power the opponent was currently exerting through a projection, though strong, absolutely could not directly reach a crushing posture; his current power absolutely could not be underestimated!

It's just that the opponent seemed unusually familiar with this power, knowing its characteristics and weaknesses, so from the moment "Ancestor" appeared, it had been invisibly trying to apply various pressures on him, trying to give him the impression that it was impossible to fight! To achieve the effect of overwhelming presence and subduing the enemy without fighting, making him voluntarily give up all resistance and be captured by the means it employed.

The power "Ancestor" was currently using was a power that acted upon consciousness! The more fear the target had toward it, generating thoughts of being invincible, the more pronounced its effect!

And throughout the entire process of deployment, it was formless and shapeless, silent and soundless, impossible to guard against!

One careless moment, and one would fall into its trap!

Because you simply cannot tell which is illusion and which is real!

How close! How close!

Upon understanding, Baichuan immediately felt a surge of gratitude — in past battles, it was always either fist hitting flesh or power clashing head-on; when had he ever encountered such bizarre combat methods? If not for Xiao Hong's keen vigilance in detecting and reacting, he would have suffered today!

Xiao Hong has rendered great service!

Thinking this in his heart, Baichuan also rose with a surge of anger. For some unknown reason, his consciousness became strong and elevated, and he found that driving that destructive power had become slightly easier. Gazing at the sweeping sleeve, Baichuan suddenly launched a counterattack!

Boundless eerie blue-purple destructive energy surged together and Burst forth, erupting even more violently from his planet-sized massive body. At this moment he had no clever methods, the only thing he possessed was that the quantity of destructive energy was extremely astonishing! Enough for him to wield freely!

"Swoooosh……"

A sound like flowing water suddenly rang out — it was the appearance of a destructive energy tide capable of drowning the world!

The boundless energy tide struck everything wantonly, destroying in all directions — it was a light bright enough to illuminate the entire world! Even though this power was not as terrifying as the incoming sleeve, under the boundless quantity, it ultimately wore it down inch by inch until it vanished!

"What?! Impossible?!"

Watching the sleeve gradually disappear, Guyue, who had previously shown an expression of satisfaction, was stunned, staring at this scene in disbelief — again! Again!

Where exactly did this monster come from? Clearly, just a moment ago when fighting him, he had appeared to be at a disadvantage, but in the blink of an eye he had broken through all his methods and even crushed him!

Now, now facing the invincible "Ancestor," why is it the same again?! Clearly just a moment ago he had been waiting to be captured, yet in the blink of an eye an incomprehensible reversal occurred!

Where exactly did this monster come from!

Is there anyone who toys with people like this!

Next, is it going to replay that scene from before on him?!

He absolutely could not believe it — this was "Ancestor"!

……

"Ehh~~"

The phantom "Ancestor," unaware that its subordinate Guyue was on the verge of collapse internally, also let out a slightly surprised sound at this sight.

It seemed it had not expected that its certain capture would be seen through by the opponent.

Moreover, the 【Fear of Battle】 it had been imposing on him from the very beginning seemed to have been broken for some unknown reason.

"Thou seemeth more interesting than I imagined……"

The phantom blinked its eyes, finding the situation more interesting than it had imagined.

It raised one index finger, upon which a heart-palpitating ghostly light began to shine……

……

(End of this chapter)