Chapter 278: All Experts Emerge

The moment the voice fell, the black mist surrounding the great hall churned, then suddenly condensed into several pitch-black giant pillars hundreds of zhang in diameter, which collided fiercely with the attacks of the group with an unstoppable momentum.

"Boom—"

"Huo Yun Lao Zu? That old fellow from the Flower Sect..." The voice sounded extremely puzzled, but quickly turned into rage.

The sound that shook the heavens and earth made the entire mountain range fall silent.

"Do you really think my Soul Hall cannot destroy your Burning Flame Valley and Flower Sect?"

"You lot are truly..."

A figure resembling a withered bone appeared before the group, two rays of sharp light shot out from his pupils, and he glared at the group with chilling killing intent.

"Utterly foolish!"

"Seeking your own deaths!"

Huo Yun Lao Zu and the others did not change their expressions; since they dared to stand here, they naturally had no intention of hiding their identities, and they did not believe that the Soul Hall would have the spare strength to attack their respective sects after today.

At this moment, the Great Heavenly Venerable's gaze was instantly drawn to a familiar young man in front of the others, "Who are you?"

After being puzzled for a moment, intuition told the Great Heavenly Venerable that he had definitely seen this unfamiliar expert before!

The next moment, a voice mixed with shock and disbelief resounded through the heavens and earth: "You are Yao Chen?!"

Then came a burst of disdain: "So you aren't dead yet!"

"Not only that, but you were lucky enough to break through to Dou Sheng. Capturing you this time should be a great achievement!"

Upon hearing this, Yao Lao crossed his arms and smiled, sizing up the Great Heavenly Venerable from head to toe, and said calmly: "Great Heavenly Venerable, you want to capture this old man?

Just you alone this time, I'm afraid that's not enough!"

"Oh!" The Great Heavenly Venerable was almost laughed at by anger, "Not enough with just me?!"

After so many years, he would actually be mocked for his cultivation by a junior?

He had sensed Yao Lao's cultivation the moment he made his move just now; he had only just broken through to a Two-Star Dou Sheng. Even if he added a few Half-Saints and this One-Star Dou Sheng, Huo Yun Lao Zu, so what?

At this time, Yao Lao added another sentence: "But you are lucky; at least you will die in a blaze of glory, and the Soul Hall Hall Master will know that you died for the Soul Hall."

Then the corners of his mouth lifted slightly: "You won't die in obscurity like that old ghost Gu You!"

"Jie jie jie!" Hearing this, the Great Heavenly Venerable sneered repeatedly.

"Very good! Very good!"

"I didn't think that after not appearing in the Central Plains for a long time, a bunch of juniors would dare to jump around in front of me!"

"Truly..." the Great Heavenly Venerable said gloomily: "A sight to behold in a long life!"

"Jie jie jie~"

Regarding the Great Heavenly Venerable's threats, Yao Lao chose to ignore them, and just like that, in front of the Great Heavenly Venerable, he said to the others:

"This old man and old man Huo Yun will deal with this Great Heavenly Venerable, the others..."

"Finish it quickly!"

The group nodded in agreement, spread out their figures, and quickly began a massacre of the Soul Hall experts below.

Although, compared to other Soul Hall branches, the Ren Dian had a very large number of experts, with nearly a hundred Venerable Elders and Heavenly Venerables rarely seen in the outside world, and countless Soul Hall Protectors and Soul Envoys beneath them, these Soul Hall experts were fighting on their home turf.

But under the combined efforts of several Saint Realm experts, they could not organize any effective resistance at all; they were completely fodder for mowing down, and even running away became a luxury.

Suddenly, bursts of miserable wails reached the ears of the three people in the standoff, and their expressions were different for a time.

The Great Heavenly Venerable's face, which was already extremely terrifying, became even more gloomily frightening, while Yao Lao and Huo Yun Lao Zu wore gratified smiles.

"Die for this Venerable!" A crystal-white, jade-like bone long knife suddenly appeared in the Great Heavenly Venerable's hand, and the ghost fire in his eyes jumped violently.

"Bone Prison!"

The Great Heavenly Venerable slashed down in anger, and an endless, chilling bone prison emerged from beneath his feet, guided by the blade light, and enveloped Yao Lao and the other who were waiting in full battle array.

Facing the Great Heavenly Venerable's menacing attack, Yao Lao's expression also became solemn.

His first battle after becoming a Dou Sheng was against the Great Heavenly Venerable, an old-school expert, and he was even fighting above his level; even with Huo Yun Lao Zu assisting him, Yao Lao still felt immense pressure!

Yao Lao flipped his palm, and a bone-white flame emitting a chilling cold rose up, then his hand seals changed, and a thousand-zhang-large flame giant dragon appeared in the sky.

"Go!" Yao Lao gave a cold shout, and the circling giant dragon bared its fangs and brandished its claws as it lunged toward the endless bone spikes.

"Boom!"

The giant dragon and the bone prison collided in mid-air, shaking pitch-black cracks into the surrounding space, and they remained tightly deadlocked.

However, as time passed, that flame giant dragon gradually showed signs of decline and became increasingly weak.

"Jie jie jie~" Seeing victory in sight, the Great Heavenly Venerable could not help but sneer.

"What an arrogant fool who doesn't know his own limits!"

Yao Lao acted as if he hadn't heard, and had been focusing on manipulating his own flame.

Finally...

The giant dragon, which had become illusory, let out a wail, and then suddenly vanished into nothingness, "Jie..."

Before the Great Heavenly Venerable could reveal a cruel smile, a fiery, explosive voice suddenly rang out:

"Nine Dragons Devouring Heaven!"

As the voice fell, nine silver flame long dragons swooped down from the firmament, then surrounded the heavily damaged bone prison, opened their bloody maws, and bit down continuously. Before long, that originally enormous bone prison disappeared without a trace.

The Great Heavenly Venerable's smile stiffened on his face, and he cast a murderous gaze at Huo Yun Lao Zu, who had a playful expression and was toying with the nine dragon-shaped flames in his hands.

"Sorry, your bone prison doesn't seem to be of much use," Yao Lao chuckled.

The reason Yao Lao and Huo Yun Lao Zu were the ones to strike was naturally because of the Exotic Fire they possessed; such supreme treasures that could incinerate all things in heaven and earth and purify evil were quite troublesome for the experts of the Soul Hall.

This was also the confidence Yao Lao and the others had to challenge those of higher status.

"Is this your trump card?"

To the surprise of the two, the Great Heavenly Venerable suddenly revealed a strange smile and asked with extreme disdain.

"Since that's the case, I'm afraid all of you will have to stay here today!"

Before the two could even react, the Great Elder's voice, like an old tree, spread across the entire battlefield, amplified by Dou Qi:

"Still not attacking!"

Yao Lao and the others frowned as they looked at the battlefield below; even the others who had been clearing out the small fry stopped what they were doing, their Soul Power constantly sweeping toward the surroundings.

Suddenly...

"Hehe~" A white-haired old man dressed in blood-colored robes suddenly appeared below, leaning on a cane and walking step by step toward Yao Lao and the others.

The surging aura on his body clearly revealed the other party's identity—a Dou Sheng!

"Another Dou Sheng expert?" Huo Yun Lao Zu whispered.

Yao Lao took over the conversation with a serious expression: "Not just a Dou Sheng, but a Two-Star Dou Sheng; he is no weaker than this Great Heavenly Venerable!"

Only to hear the Great Heavenly Venerable say gloomily: "I would like to see if you can still leave this Ren Dian alive today!"

"My Soul Hall is not something that any Tom, Dick, or Harry can offend!"

The blood-robed old man had a gentle smile on his face, but the bloody stench all over his body indicated that he was not as kind as he appeared.

"This old man is Saint Blood Shadow!" Noticing the slightly confused looks of the others, his facial muscles twitched, "It seems no one remembers this old man's prestige anymore!"

"But that is not an important matter; since you are bugs who came to provoke my Soul Hall, then..."

"Please, everyone, go to your deaths now!"

"Oh? Go to our deaths? We two haven't agreed to that yet!"

As the blood-robed old man's voice fell, two more calm voices rang out in the ears of the Great Heavenly Venerable and his companion.

Immediately following, two figures, one black and one blue, appeared in front of the blood-robed old man; they were none other than Xiao Tie and Xiao Ya.

"I wonder if we brothers are qualified to be this senior's opponents!"

"Rest assured, we won't let your Soul Hall down." Xiao Tie's mouth curled into a wide arc, appearing quite ferocious.

"You really are well-prepared!" The smile on the blood-robed old man's face slowly vanished, red light flickering in his eyes; he had not expected there to be two more Dou Sheng experts in the group this time.

The field fell into silence once again.

Finally, a breeze gently brushed across everyone's faces...

"Attack!"

A new round of collision began once more!