Chapter 613: Divine Bone, Desperate Situation (8K, seeking monthly votes)

At the same time, the middle-aged soldier had already killed his way into the Ancient Demon leader's cave dwelling.

Accompanied by the middle-aged soldier's eruption, that Ancient Demon leader soon fell into a desperate situation.

Over this past year, not only had Li Hao received great improvement, but the middle-aged soldier's strength had also advanced by leaps and bounds, not only recovering to his peak but also improving.

"Roar!"

Within the Ancient Demon territory, as Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier broke in, these sleeping Ancient Demons were suddenly alarmed, hurriedly roaring and gathering close, wanting to form an array to resist.

But this instead gave Li Hao a faster harvesting speed.

The residual sword was like light and shadow, its object manipulation speed reaching the level of ten thousand miles in an instant, and in the Dao of Object Manipulation controlled by Li Hao, it was like a swimming fish in space, not causing sonic booms, but like a silent death scythe.

The gathered Ancient Demons fell before Li Hao like wheat being harvested.

The Primordial Spirit followed to kill, its speed even faster. More than three hundred golden meridians made the Primordial Spirit emit a faint golden luster all over, like a God condensed by true power.

Just a few minutes.

In this Ancient Demon territory, corpses were left everywhere.

That Ancient Demon leader was easily killed by the middle-aged soldier, and afterwards, he turned to kill the Second-Rank Ancient Demons, avoiding these Second-Rank Ancient Demons causing harm to Li Hao.

But while Li Hao was slaughtering Third-Rank Ancient Demons, he was also slaughtering Second-Rank Ancient Demons. Now, these Second-Rank Ancient Demons were also killed in the blink of an eye before him, unable to pose a threat.

Looking at the Ancient Demon corpses everywhere, Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier looked at each other, both seeing the joy in each other's eyes.

Not only was it harvesting so many ingredients, but more importantly, they both saw the hope of being able to slaughter their way through the ancient road.

"Rest first, don't rush. Wait until we eat all these, our strength should be able to improve again."

The middle-aged soldier said to Li Hao.

Li Hao also had the same intention.

Immediately, parking the bronze chariot in this Ancient Demon leader's territory, Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier became kings of the mountain again, eating and drinking here.

"Next time, leave one alive to see the situation outside."

The middle-aged soldier sat down to rest and said to Li Hao with a smile.

After a year of getting along, and having encountered danger in the Zheng Demon's place earlier, Li Hao's assistance, coupled with the companionship of the journey now, all made him secretly remember this friendship.

Compared to their first meeting, where he viewed Li Hao as a junior, now, the two were already in a relationship of both teacher and friend.

He taught Li Hao his battle tactics, secret techniques, combat experience, and so on, all taught without reservation.

"Hmm."

Li Hao nodded, picking an Ancient Demon to cook first to fill his stomach, then finding stones nearby, using the sharp claws and bones of the Ancient Demon to carve.

Now, his painting Dao and cooking Dao experience had reached the tenth stage of perfection, needing heart-mind comprehension to continue improving.

And fishing Dao was at stage 7, chess Dao at stage 8.

Both of these required certain conditions to accumulate experience.

For the remaining poetry, music, and carving, Li Hao could only choose carving to pass the time, and he could also harvest experience.

Life on this ancient road battlefield was indeed too boring, leading Li Hao to do nothing but carve besides eating and drinking every day.

And this also allowed his carving experience to accumulate rapidly, especially carving Ancient Demons, which could gain a large amount of experience, and carving the middle-aged soldier also brought Li Hao a huge amount of experience.

Now, his carving Dao was also gradually catching up to the fishing Dao and surpassing it, reaching stage 8.

"Wait until my carving skills are more mature, I'll carve a huge stone statue for you and stand it here to prove you fought on this ancient road."

Li Hao said to the middle-aged soldier.

Hearing this, the middle-aged soldier laughed freely, "This place has long been desolate. Who is there to see it standing here? I don't care about these empty names."

"Time is long, there will always be descendants who know."

Li Hao smiled lightly. As an old soldier who had fought countless years here, he wanted to leave the other's traces here.

The middle-aged soldier knew Li Hao's intention and didn't say much, but his eyes were even more yearning for the outside.

Li Hao let him see the hope of getting out, and hope was like the most intense poison in the world. Once touched, there would be a feeling of impatience and urgency.

But after all, he was a True Immortal, and he still restrained himself. Although there was great hope at the moment, he always had a shadow in his heart, worrying that there were Ancient Demon leaders here.

Time flew by.

The number of Ancient Demons in this third Ancient Demon territory was also three or four hundred. Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier ate for more than half a year before absorbing them all.

Half a year passed, and Li Hao's carving Dao experience also accumulated to the perfection of stage nine.

Besides this, the greatest improvement belonged to the Primordial Spirit.

Originally more than three hundred golden meridians, not long after Li Hao ate for a month, they increased to 360, and afterwards, they seemed to reach a certain perfection, unable to increase anymore.

Li Hao continued to eat the flesh of many Ancient Demons, but there was no reaction. But Li Hao could feel that the Primordial Spirit wasn't saturated and was still strengthening, its momentum becoming heavier.

It just didn't condense any new golden meridians, but as Li Hao ate that Ancient Demon leader, under the rich soul nourishment and impact, Li Hao's Primordial Spirit underwent a transformation. The golden meridians couldn't be controlled and gathered, actually forming a tiny divine bone within the Primordial Spirit!

This divine bone was the size of a fingernail, very small, but like a golden relic seed, containing terrifying soul power fluctuations.

The Primordial Spirit was transformed from the soul, and the soul's essence was the name of the soul after cultivation and strengthening.

Mortals had souls, extremely fragile, dying when life ended.

And cultivators reaching the Shenyou Realm could have their souls leave their bodies, called the soul. If the physical body died, they could also possess a mortal body and resist the invasion of some demon arts of demons.

The stronger the soul, the clearer the martial artist's head and the more energetic they were.

When the soul was cultivated to the extreme, it was the Primordial Spirit, belonging to soul transformation, but in essence, it was still a soul, and the soul wasn't a physical entity, but soul energy.

But now, within Li Hao's Primordial Spirit, 360 golden meridians contracted and gathered, and under the extreme transformation of thick soul power, it actually turned into a divine bone that was almost like a physical entity!

This divine bone was extremely clear. Li Hao could feel that it contained terrifying power that made one's heart tremble.

Not only Li Hao experienced such a change, but the middle-aged soldier did too.

Both of their Primordial Spirits underwent transformation, condensing divine bones.

"Legend has it that the soul is cultivated to the end, it is a True God!"

When the middle-aged soldier condensed the divine bone, he was extremely excited and said to Li Hao: "The end of the soul is like this. I heard that only Immortal Emperors can cultivate it. It is extremely terrifying. Just a trace of soul thought pressure is enough to make all things bow and make Immortals and Gods tremble!"

Li Hao had long detected that when the golden meridians appeared in the Primordial Spirit, he had already broken through the extreme realm bottleneck and was walking toward the final realm of the soul.

It was just that, at present, this final realm of the soul was extremely difficult.

Although a divine bone was condensed before his eyes, this was gathered from 360 golden divine meridians.

He didn't know how many divine bones needed to be condensed to reach the end of this road.

But regardless, being able to break through the extreme realm bottleneck and walk on the road of the final realm was already better than countless people in the world.

After condensing the first divine bone, the Ancient Demon flesh Li Hao ate later could condense golden meridians again.

Once the last Ancient Demon was eaten, Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier sat on the bronze chariot again and drove toward the territory of the fourth Ancient Demon leader.

Although their strength had increased violently, neither of them was careless, still sneaking in quietly, exploring the situation clearly, and then surrounding and slaughtering them.

This time, Li Hao left two survivors, and the middle-aged soldier didn't kill that Ancient Demon leader, just suppressed it, and then interrogated it.

What surprised Li Hao was that this Ancient Demon actually had great backbone, and under the threat of death, it still didn't loosen its mouth about the situation outside.

However, the middle-aged soldier clearly had a way. Seeing he couldn't pry open the other's mouth, he directly used his Primordial Spirit to forcibly plunder and explore the other's memory.

This method was somewhat cruel, but more reliable. He had originally planned to interrogate first, then use the Primordial Spirit to plunder memory to verify the truth.

Moreover, although memory plundering was effective, it would make the memory fragmented and incomplete, and the information plundered would also be intermittent.

However, from these fragmented memory fragments, the middle-aged soldier still obtained a bad piece of news: there were indeed Ancient Demon leaders sitting in town on this ancient road, and there was more than one! This result made the middle-aged soldier's heart cold. He wanted to search for news of the True Realm outside from inside, but in the fragmented memory, there was more slaughter, as well as the situation of that great battle back then. There was absolutely no memory about the outside world. This Ancient Demon leader seemed to have been locked here since the end of that great battle and hadn't left again.

The middle-aged soldier explained the situation he had explored to Li Hao, his expression somewhat heavy.

Li Hao had long been mentally prepared for this. Although the situation was bad, it was already much better than before.

At least before, they couldn't even deal with the Ancient Demon leaders, only shrinking at the canyon exit. Now, they could easily slaughter these Ancient Demon leaders.

Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier continued to settle in this territory.

Half a year later, the Ancient Demons in this territory were also eaten empty by the two, and they then went to the next territory.

Time flew by.

By the time they wiped out the sixth Ancient Demon leader's territory, Li Hao had been here for three years.

Within his body, golden meridians had condensed to 360 again, and he was gestating the second divine bone.

Besides this, Li Hao's carving Dao had also improved to stage nine.

The works he carved were no longer simple carvings, but precious secret treasures.

Like the small Ancient Demons carved, they could possess the Ancient Demon's soul attack methods. Although not as strong as the Ancient Demons, wearing them on one's body was enough to resist some soul-type attacks.

The carved knives and swords were comparable to forged divine weapons and also possessed special power poured in by Li Hao's Dao power.

Li Hao felt that if his carving Dao reached the tenth stage, he might be able to carve Dao Tribulation Emperor Weapons!

Since ancient times, Dao Tribulation Emperor Weapons had been gestated by heaven and earth. If he could carve them out, even if Li Hao had no martial power, he would become a guest of honor for Sages.

"In the memory of this Ancient Demon, they seem to be preparing for battle recently. War has broken out outside again, and that leader will summon them at any time. Once summoned, they will inevitably discover the anomaly here."

The middle-aged soldier said to Li Hao.

This was an important piece of intelligence obtained from the memory of the sixth Ancient Demon leader.

These Ancient Demons were all like an army, and they didn't dare to have the slightest resistance toward Ancient Demons of higher ranks. The class consciousness of the Ancient Demons was even more strict, and they didn't dare to betray.

Li Hao's expression was solemn. Hearing the other say, the Ancient Demon leader was an existence beyond the First-Rank Ancient Demon, with an extremely high status among the Ancient Demons, comparable to True Monarchs among Immortals and Gods!

Such an existence was formidable in strength, by no means something True Immortals could deal with.

Coupled with the fact that Ancient Demons were inherently stronger than Immortals and Gods of the same realm, the more formidable the Ancient Demon, the more terrifying the innate secret techniques they possessed.

"This is also good news."

Li Hao said.

The middle-aged soldier couldn't help but look at Li Hao.

Li Hao looked at him and smiled: "You weren't worried about the outside? Now at least you know there are other Immortals and Gods outside, and the great battle back then didn't completely destroy the True Realm."

The middle-aged soldier was startled, couldn't help but come back to his senses, his eyes suddenly brightening.

Yes, this Ancient Demon wanting to summon meant there was war outside.

It was just that he didn't know if it was the human race coming to attack or other races.

In the True Realm, besides the human race, there were other races. The True Realm was vast and boundless, with ten thousand races standing.

And the Ancient Demon race was the common enemy of the ten thousand races.

"It seems that there are still people who know about this battlefield."

The middle-aged soldier murmured.

While speaking, his eye sockets were actually somewhat moist.

Li Hao was slightly startled. Having spent three years together, this was the first time he had seen the other actually shed tears.

Facing Ancient Demon slaughter, he didn't even blink when injured, yet at this moment, his eye sockets were red.

Li Hao tried to put himself in the other's shoes and couldn't help but remain silent.

Fighting here for countless years, full of despair for the outside, yet now discovering that the outside hadn't been completely wiped out, and this battlefield hadn't been forgotten.

"It seems we also have to hurry. This is a rare opportunity to escape."

Li Hao said.

The middle-aged soldier came back to his senses, looking at Li Hao, his emotions excited, nodding earnestly.

After Li Hao finished speaking, he couldn't help but look back at the road he had come from.

His eyes flickered slightly, staring for a moment, then withdrew his gaze.

In the following days, Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier's speed of eating and drinking increased.

In fact, reaching their level of strength, they could live even without eating or drinking, sleeping in the open and absorbing heaven and earth energy to survive.

And eating and drinking was just pure enjoyment. Like now, besides enjoyment, it was more to absorb the soul power in the Ancient Demon flesh to improve their strength.

Three months later, Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier struck again.

This time, the middle-aged soldier explored to the fourteenth Ancient Demon territory and discovered that there were actually two Ancient Demon leaders, but he didn't stop there. After informing Li Hao of the situation, he struck directly.

Compared to the first time, two Ancient Demon leaders appeared, which put him and Li Hao in danger. Fortunately, Li Hao's improvement exceeded the middle-aged soldier's expectations, killing many Ancient Demons and winning an opportunity for him, which allowed them to turn danger into safety.

Now, two Ancient Demon leaders no longer posed a threat to the middle-aged soldier.

With the middle-aged soldier's strike, Li Hao also killed into the Ancient Demon territory.

Hundreds of Ancient Demons, Li Hao didn't have the slightest stage fright, instead having a feeling of a wolf in a sheepfold.

He manipulated the residual sword to kill out, four swords in total, all found along the way from the cave dwellings of other Ancient Demon leaders. Four swords flew together. With Li Hao's current Primordial Spirit power, he could manipulate them easily and at extremely fast speeds.

In the blink of an eye, the four swords slaughtered into the Ancient Demon group.

They hadn't formed an array to reinforce the leader when they were ambushed from behind by Li Hao, sweeping across the whole way.

And after their Primordial Spirits separated, Li Hao's Primordial Spirit swiftly killed out.

These Ancient Demons were terrified, jointly displaying innate secret techniques, large swaths of black mist enveloping over.

Li Hao's Primordial Spirit erupted with scorching golden light, killing directly into the black mist. That golden aura burned through the black mist. In terms of Primordial Spirit strength, Li Hao felt that he was now even stronger than the Ancient Demon leader.

Soon, this territory fell.

The middle-aged soldier left one survivor to explore the reason, discovering it was another Ancient Demon leader who had come to discuss the summoning with the other.

The two felt increasingly urgent. After eating, drinking, and resting for a few days, they continued to kill toward other Ancient Demon territories.

Li Hao received all these Ancient Demon corpses into the Heaven and Earth Space.

By the time they killed to the tenth Ancient Demon territory, Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier chose to rest temporarily.

Li Hao cooked the Ancient Demon leader first, eating the leader before eating the Second-Rank Ancient Demons, accelerating the improvement of their strength.

These Ancient Demons were huge in volume, like a mountain. Although Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier were already at the glutton level, fully digesting and absorbing, they could only barely eat half a body a day.

"If such a situation is detected, and the Ancient Demon leader comes personally, you should flee directly back to the Emperor's Pseudo-Realm."

In the territory, the middle-aged soldier was eating roasted meat, but his face was heavy.

Hearing his words, Li Hao pondered: "Do you have a way to deal with it now? If you can deal with the Ancient Demon leader, I can try to hold back other Ancient Demon leaders!"

The middle-aged soldier was slightly startled, not expecting Li Hao to have such courage.

"Even if your Primordial Spirit improves, the Ancient Demon leader is at the True Immortal level. You should know how big the difference is between Immortal power and the power in your body. A wisp of Immortal power is enough to crush a majestic peak."

The middle-aged soldier shook his head. Although Li Hao's strength had improved rapidly these days, from initially barely killing Third-Rank Ancient Demons to now being able to slaughter hundreds of Third-Rank Ancient Demons alone, and even easily killing Second-Rank Ancient Demons, having such strength as a Sage-level cultivation was already extremely top-tier.

If it were in the True Realm of the past, a monster like Li Hao would be enough to apprentice to those top sects.

"Moreover, you don't even have a decent weapon. The residual weapons in your hand, although they were once Immortal Artifacts, have long been dull. They are sharp enough to kill Second-Rank Ancient Demons, but you can't even cut the skin of a First-Rank Ancient Demon!"

Li Hao knew this point. He could easily slaughter these Ancient Demons, and the sharp residual weapons in his hand also contributed, but he didn't intend to use these to deal with the Ancient Demon leader.

He planned to use his Primordial Spirit to attack and hold back directly. If the middle-aged soldier could deal with the Ancient Demon leader, he felt he could barely create a one-on-one opportunity for the other.

The premise was that the information the other said at the moment was useful, and the number of Ancient Demon leaders on this ancient road was only seven or eight left.

"Moreover, with my current strength, I can't compete with the Ancient Demon leader. That is an existence comparable to the True Monarch level. You aren't an Immortal or God, you don't know how big the gap is between True Immortal and True Monarch."

The middle-aged soldier sighed. He knew Li Hao's idea, willing to take such a risk, was to help him slaughter his way out.

As for Li Hao, he wasn't a True Immortal, and at worst, he could retreat to the pseudo-realm.

And he had nowhere to retreat.

Li Hao frowned slightly. The other was a True Immortal and couldn't enter the Land of the Sages.

Listening to the other's statement, it was a chaotic law formulated by that Immortal Emperor Tianyang for his own pseudo-realm.

True Immortals couldn't enter.

But from the pseudo-realm, True Immortals could walk out.

Only out, not in. This resulted in the middle-aged soldier being unable to retreat to the pseudo-realm, only able to survive in the battlefield between this True Realm and the Emperor's Pseudo-Realm.

Back then, that Immortal Emperor formulated this chaotic law to protect the descendants within his own pseudo-realm. It was just that with his fall, now countless years had passed, and this chaotic law had gradually weakened, which also led to a gap being created on the Gate of Xuanpin.

"If all these Ancient Demons are eaten, do you feel you can break through?"

Li Hao asked.

Hearing this, the middle-aged soldier's eyes revealed hesitation. This time, slaughtering several Ancient Demon territories in succession, they had harvested a large number of Ancient Demon corpses.

If they were all eaten, their strength would inevitably erupt again, but whether they could break through, he had no certainty in his heart.

Moreover, now he had a premonition that there didn't seem to be much time left for them to continue eating and drinking.

That summoning could come at any time.

This made the middle-aged soldier feel bitter in his heart. Originally, he had come to assist, but instead, it had become his death warrant.

If there were no war, there wouldn't be a summoning, and he and Li Hao could have secretly killed these Ancient Demon leaders one by one. If they were all killed and eaten, he had the confidence that he would inevitably be able to break through to True Monarch.

After all, he had settled here for too long, too long.

All that was missing was rich Immortal power.

"Try your best. Regardless, your retreat is the pseudo-realm. Don't hesitate when the time comes."

The middle-aged soldier said to Li Hao.

That summoning could come at any time. He had already prepared to fight to the death at any time, at least to strive for an opportunity for Li Hao to escape.

Li Hao nodded. Facing uncertainty, the best way was not to think too much and do what they could do first.

And what they could do at the moment was eat and sleep, sleep and eat.

Under the two's strenuous absorption, their Primordial Spirits were also growing rapidly, and the second divine bone was condensed.

Besides the divine bone, Li Hao felt that the Immortal power accumulated in his body was also extremely thick. In the Ultimate Immortal Transformation, this power could be mobilized and turned into majestic Heaven and Earth power.

And this power, Li Hao felt, no Sage could withstand.

Time flew by.

As Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier worked hard to eat and drink every day, half a year passed.

The Ancient Demon flesh accumulated earlier hadn't been eaten yet. To prevent the summoning from descending at any time, Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier drove the bronze chariot again, continuing to kill toward other Ancient Demon territories.

In the words of the middle-aged soldier, one didn't know whether tomorrow or an accident would come first, so kill more Ancient Demons first.

He hated these Ancient Demons from the bottom of his heart.

Many of his comrades-in-arms and relatives had fallen into the hands of these Ancient Demons, and even their souls hadn't been able to escape, with no opportunity for reincarnation.

As Li Hao and the middle-aged soldier killed their way to the fourteenth Ancient Demon territory and were resting, suddenly, a Second-Rank Ancient Demon flew into this territory.

The middle-aged soldier detected it first and immediately took action to capture it, but discovered that this Ancient Demon was somewhat different, with a huge battle flag on its body.

And this Second-Rank Ancient Demon was captured by the middle-aged soldier. Seeing the tragic scene in this territory, in its eyes, it was full of the corpses of its own kind, like purgatory.

"You, you..."

This Second-Rank Ancient Demon was incomparably shocked. There were actually humans here?

The middle-aged soldier plundered its memory and then killed it.

"Damn it, this is a messenger."

The middle-aged soldier's face suddenly turned ugly.

The purpose of this Ancient Demon coming here was to rule all Ancient Demons, and the leader was summoning them to prepare for battle! Now, the fourteen Ancient Demon leaders resting on this ancient road had all been slaughtered by them. Soon, that Ancient Demon leader would discover that the majority of its subordinates had been lost, and it would inevitably notice him and Li Hao.

"It's too late. I haven't broken through yet. If that leader detects it, both you and I will be finished. You hurry back to the pseudo-realm."

The middle-aged soldier immediately said to Li Hao, simultaneously looking at the Ancient Demon corpses everywhere, "You take these corpses too. Only you can cook them. Leaving them here will just rot."

Saying this, his expression was somewhat complex.

It was hard to see hope, yet it was about to be extinguished like this.

This was an irresistible disaster.

Li Hao's face was also not very good. He didn't expect time to be so tight. If they had been given a few more years, waiting until they had eaten all the Ancient Demons in their hands, the middle-aged soldier might not have had no possibility of breaking through.

The hope of life was right before their eyes, yet it suddenly extinguished, which made Li Hao somewhat unable to accept.

But before his eyes, there was absolutely no other way.

"Go, don't hesitate. In the few years before I die, being able to make a friend like you, I can be considered to have died without regrets."

The middle-aged soldier patted Li Hao's shoulder, revealing a smile to him.

Li Hao remained silent, thinking about other possibilities.

The middle-aged soldier seemed to understand what Li Hao was thinking, but shook his head slightly. Having fought here for countless years, his state of mind was relatively pessimistic, and at this moment, he no longer held any hope.

He didn't expect that the war outside would become the last straw that broke him.

The thing he had been longing for had now become the obstacle to his path of life.

The middle-aged soldier wanted to send Li Hao away, driving the bronze chariot and returning to the canyon exit.

The two returned to the place where they had first met.

It was just that, before they could say anything, suddenly, a roar came from the sky.

Immediately after, Li Hao suddenly felt a majestic evil intent, and a stinging pain that pulled at his internal organs. That was a powerful soul power. Before it even got close, it made him feel a chill all over, and his body produced discomfort.

Was this the Ancient Demon leader?

"Terrible!"

The middle-aged soldier's face changed drastically, not expecting this Ancient Demon leader to detect them so quickly.

He soon realized that he had overlooked one thing: there must have been something on that messenger's body. The other had just died, and that Ancient Demon leader might have detected it, so it rushed over immediately.

"Bastard!"

In the sky, an Ancient Demon with a volume of thousands of feet rushed over. Its body no longer looked like a ferocious bat, but like a headless human demon.

Behind it were four pairs of fleshy wings, and at its chest were two monster mouths, but its lower body was a snake tail.

Seeing that the majority of its subordinates on the ancient road had disappeared, this Ancient Demon leader was furious to the point of its eye sockets turning red.

War was imminent, yet such a big fire had broken out in its own backyard, making it go crazy.

"Run!"

The middle-aged soldier said urgently to Li Hao.

At the same time, his whole body erupted with Immortal power, a silver crack appearing on his forehead—that was his Immortal Seal.

He revealed his Primordial Spirit, pulled out his ancient sword, and a pause flashed in his heart. He knew that once this step was taken, both he and the old partner in his hand would be buried here.

But, it was only for an instant, and he stepped out resolutely, saying to Li Hao behind him: "Don't worry about me, live well. I believe that one day, you will be able to step out again!"

"If there is such a day, don't forget to go to the Guangya Sect and find a woman with the surname Li."

"Just say I waited!"

He said this, and without looking back

He said this, not looking back, and with a sense of tragedy, charged toward the ancient demon leader.

Li Hao, however, felt his mind shaken. Facing that ancient demon leader, his powerful Primordial Spirit, which he had cultivated and improved over these three years, felt as insignificant as an ant.

This feeling was even more desperate than when he first arrived here and saw that ancient demon leader.

"Not one of you is getting away!"

The ancient demon leader roared ferociously. It was just about to use its troops, but as a result, its troops had been killed, leaving it furious and frustrated.

It released a terrifying pressure, and suddenly, the space-time between heaven and earth seemed to be frozen.

Li Hao immediately felt his body fall into stiffness, unable to move, and his Primordial Spirit was also suppressed within his physical body, unable to be unleashed.

Besides this, the power between heaven and earth was also completely solidified; the only things that could move were the middle-aged soldier and that ancient demon leader.

But the middle-aged soldier's movement speed was also extremely slow, like walking against a storm, extremely difficult.

Li Hao struggled hard, wanting to erupt with his Extreme Realm, but his physical body had no movement at all, and the power within his body was suppressed.

Such means exceeded his understanding, and a trace of madness appeared in his eyes.

Was he going to die here? As Li Hao struggled hard, attempting to restore his movement, the ancient demon leader's attack landed on the middle-aged soldier. With just one claw, it suppressed him to the ground, pressing a deep pit into the earth.

"So that's how it is, a peak True Immortal, already close to a True Monarch. No wonder you could kill so many of my subordinates. Damn you, you deserve to die!"

The ancient demon leader was furious beyond compare, grabbing the middle-aged soldier's body and beating him like a madman, but it did not kill him directly, instead wanting to make him die in extreme pain.

The middle-aged soldier spat out blood, and his Primordial Spirit was also burned by the opponent. The power within his Primordial Spirit was being constantly absorbed. He knew this was the ancient demon's method to turn his Primordial Spirit into nourishment.

He swung his sword like a madman, but the weapon could not break through the opponent's skin.

After more than a dozen blows, the light of the middle-aged soldier's Primordial Spirit dimmed, and the divine bones upon it also faded.

"Such Primordial Spirit strength is truly delicious. And that Sage-level guy, his Primordial Spirit doesn't seem weak either. I want to crush your souls bit by bit!"

The ancient demon leader said angrily, directly using its soul to transmit its meaning. It wanted to let these two humans die in terror and despair.

Boom! Just at this moment, a sound of breaking through the air suddenly rang out from the horizon.

Immediately following, a spear glow shot over suddenly from ten million miles away.

That spear glow carried a spiral-like momentum and light, piercing through as it rotated, rubbing the void into a distorted vortex storm.

The ancient demon leader's pupils shrank, somewhat terrified; it hadn't expected the opponent to arrive so quickly.

It hurriedly turned to parry, but its sharp claws were pierced by this spear.

Immediately following, a red shadow from the horizon stepped over as if teleporting repeatedly.

With black hair flying, wearing fresh red battle armor, and eyes cold and sharp, it was a female general.

She raised her hand, and the long spear that had pierced the ancient demon leader was retracted. Holding the red-tasseled spear, her gaze was haughty as she swept across the canyon.

When she noticed the situation here, her gaze landed on the bronze chariot beside Li Hao. When she saw the structure of this chariot, her eyes flickered, and she immediately recognized it as a product of that distant era, actually still retaining power.

Her gaze swept past Li Hao, and seeing he was only at the Sage level, her brows couldn't help but twitch slightly.

"Die!"

Afterward, she attacked quickly, holding her spear and charging toward the ancient demon leader.

(End of chapter)