Chapter 572: Annihilation
"Time, it's the origin of time. His blood-rebirth speed is almost instantaneous!"
"Time can even accelerate blood-regeneration? That's just insane. Even if you kill him instantly, he can come back in an instant. How do you kill someone like that?!"
"Exactly, it means he's undying."
Countless people thought of Li Hao's methods, all left speechless with shock, but soon after, an intense sense of joy rose up.
This meant that such a peerless genius could survive. Even a Xianjun like Jin Fengling couldn't kill him!
Outside the Imperial Platform, the Da Meng Clan members were all stunned, then felt excitement and joy, their eyes shining bright.
"It's not time acceleration, it's time ferrying!"
Those from the Da Meng Clan here were all powerful clan members, several in the upper Xianjun Realm, and they could faintly tell that Li Hao's method was definitely not just simple time acceleration!
"His time origin seems close to breaking through the fourth layer, almost reaching the fifth layer of the origin realm!"
The Da Meng Lord froze, his eyes showing surprise and delight.
Time ferrying, this was far scarier than time acceleration. Li Hao's regeneration didn't rely on speeding up time but instead ferried his blood to the future ahead of time. Even if his body was shattered, he would still exist at the next moment in the future!
This way, unless someone could erase all the past and future spacetime he controlled, Li Hao simply couldn't be killed!
For a mere True Immortal, this life-preserving ability and technique were ridiculously overpowered!
With Li Hao's combat power, even just shattering his body required using real strength, let alone erasing the past and future spacetime.
"That guy…"
Outside the Imperial Platform, Jian Xin's pupils shrank, his fingers clenched unconsciously. In that desperate situation, the other party actually found a way out, growing stronger as he fought. Their previous clash still wasn't the other guy's limit!
To simultaneously destroy past and future spacetime? That meant Li Hao was nearly invincible against any True Immortal!
Next to him, Ming Yue was also frozen, a little dazed. That guy seemed to have achieved invincibility among True Immortals! She had thought only Senior Brother Jian Xin and herself could do it.
"Time-space ferrying… Looks like he really can't be killed now!"
On the other side, an old ghost clan member whispered, his expression heavy with some shock.
For such a terrifying monster to emerge in the Southern Region, if they cultivated him with all their strength, his future would be limitless.
In that moment, a different thought sprouted in his heart. If he could bring this youth back to the Ghost Clan, and the clan leader personally took him as a disciple, this youth would surely become one of the Ghost Clan's top experts in the future.
One must know, this youth's primordial spirit was even scarier than Gui Lingyue's. Practicing the Ghost Clan's secret arts, he was the most suitable!
At that thought, he quickly bit his tongue, sent his primordial spirit into the Tian Dao Mixed Infant within his body, and, under the faint interference of Tian Dao power, secretly sent this news across countless spacetime, delivering it to the Ghost Clan in the Northern Region.
"Can't be killed?"
Beside him, Gui Lingyue heard the old ghost clan member mutter and was dumbfounded, staring at him in shock.
She herself couldn't see through the brilliance of Li Hao's move, but the old ghost clan member was a Ghost Clan Xianwang expert, with amazing insight and judgment. Watching this True Immortal disciple's battle, he could naturally see through countless secrets and wouldn't misjudge.
"Hao Tian…"
Next to her, Gui Lingshuang gazed at the youth, silently repeating that youth's name in her heart, committing it deeply to memory.
Even if she herself went on stage now, she might not be able to kill him. He was just a True Immortal, a True Immortal who had cultivated for a hundred years!
While countless people were in shock, Li Hao traversed through Jin Fengling's blood mist, giving him no chance to regenerate. With a wave of his hand, his palm was like a blazing furnace, using heaven and earth as a stove. Pure chaos divine flames sprang forth, cooking the blood mist into ashes.
Miserable howls and furious roars came from the blood mist that was constantly melting like ice. Sometimes Jin Fengling's head would just start forming in the blood mist, but it would collapse and burn away like melting wax, thoroughly annihilated.
In the void, only a golden primordial spirit remained, standing amidst the attacking divine flames, with its power rapidly draining.
He looked at Li Hao with shock and rage, his eyes almost spitting fire. Li Hao had actually destroyed his physical body, and completely, not even leaving a chance for blood regeneration!
Now, only his primordial spirit remained. Sure, with his soul trained to the primordial spirit realm, he could exist forever between heaven and earth even without a body—let alone that he'd broken through the extreme of the primordial spirit—but without a body, he'd lose over seventy percent of his power.
"You deserve to die!"
Jin Fengling roared, tearing through space, drawing out one immortal weapon after another.
A mysterious and exquisite Vermilion Bird Fire Shield merged into his primordial spirit, transforming into a phoenix-feather cloak on his body, bathing him in firelight.
Then a Golden Eagle Divine Bow appeared in his hand. The bow opened like an eagle's wings, instantly condensing a primordial spirit-shattering arrow, locking onto Li Hao.
Li Hao's eyes didn't change, deep and dark. He stepped out, and the sound of breaking air suddenly rang out, creating a distorted shrill screech in the void, like an eagle's cry tearing through the sky, rapidly swooping to grab him.
He felt a cold sensation on his primordial spirit's head, intuition screaming of extreme danger. He immediately twisted with all his movement techniques, almost vanishing, dodging the arrow.
But the arrow pierced through his nearly ethereal body, still leaving a searing force behind, making Li Hao's primordial spirit feel a trace of burning pain—it actually inflicted a slight wound!
This was a top-tier immortal weapon specializing in attacking primordial spirits, extremely terrifying.
If used to slay ancient demons, it would be an unrivaled divine weapon!
"Xuan Ying Soul-Breaking Bow, it's actually that immortal weapon!"
"One of the Jin Dynasty's top immortal weapons, specialized in countering divine cultivators and ancient demons!"
Divine cultivators are those who train the primordial spirit to its peak, abandon the physical body, and cultivate only the path of the spirit.
"There are seven terrifying immortal weapons in the Southern Region, specialized in countering ancient demons. I can't believe one is right here before our eyes."
On the mountain peak, Gui Lingyue's face suddenly changed, feeling terrifying pressure from the golden bow. Even the ghost power in her body was shrinking a little, with a sense of fear.
"Soul-Breaking Bow, difficult to break a true god. That youth is already getting close…"
The old ghost clan member squinted, speaking in a low voice.
On the Imperial Platform, Li Hao dodged the arrow and immediately charged out in pursuit. The Five Absolutes Imperial Sword slashed out again, seemingly drawing all five sources around and condensing them into a single sword strike, capable of breaking through all things extended from the five sources.
But when the sword light struck the phoenix robe on Jin Fengling, a raging sea of fire erupted, blasting outwards. Within the flames, a vermilion bird made entirely of fire charged at Li Hao—this was actually a top-tier offensive and defensive immortal treasure.
Li Hao triggered the treasure's defense, reversing the sword light to slash at the vermilion bird fire manifestation.
The fire manifestation shattered, the sword light faded away, but Li Hao almost didn't hesitate at all, stepping out for a second strike, slashing out a second sword.
Meanwhile, Jin Fengling's primordial spirit staggered back slightly from the shock, his expression drastically changing as he quickly drew a second arrow.
This arrow was even faster, like a golden flying arrow, hitting Li Hao's head in an instant.
The golden arrow pierced through his body, but nailed a golden figure out from within—Li Hao's primordial spirit.
But Li Hao's primordial spirit gripped the tail of the arrow, stopping it from piercing through. His hand, holding the arrow's tail, started to smoke as if burning, and his primordial spirit power drained rapidly.
"Die!"
Li Hao roared in fury, flinging away the arrow. His primordial spirit and physical body merged again as he charged after Jin Fengling.
Even though his primordial spirit was forced to manifest for just a brief moment, separated from his body, it threw the Southern Region into another silence. On the mountain peak, countless geniuses stared, shocked speechless, unable to close their mouths.
On Li Hao's primordial spirit, dazzling golden bones were packed densely together. Even though it was just a brief pause, everyone clearly saw there were at least five hundred! Earlier, even the ghost clan genius Gui Lingyue only had a few dozen!
"That… that guy's primordial spirit…" Gui Lingyue was stunned.
Beside her, Gui Lingshuang's gaze was fixed, fingers clenched tight.
The old ghost clan member in front of them wasn't surprised, having already seen the strength of that youth's primordial spirit. He just sighed, "He's already close to the threshold of a True God…"
True God—the final stage of the primordial spirit. The power of this final stage could stand above heaven and earth, even called half-step Emperor Realm!
But to actually achieve it was extremely difficult. Li Hao was only close to the threshold; behind the threshold lay the path to becoming a True God! Still, in the True Immortal Realm, reaching this level was already unimaginable.
Even in the ghost clan, if someone at the peak of Xianjun Realm glimpsed this step, they'd already be considered a top genius, worthy of all-out cultivation!
Bang!
Li Hao's third sword slashed out, but once again was repelled by the phoenix robe, and the rebounding Vermilion Bird made Li Hao's whole body burn, his flesh constantly breaking and regenerating.
Fortunately, he could ferry through time. Even if his physical body was burned away now, he'd reappear and strike again.
Bang, bang, bang!
Sword after sword, Li Hao fought out from the time ferry, bathed in the blood light of his old body, unleashing terrifying thunderous sword Dao.
The phoenix robe on Jin Fengling's body was shining dimmer and dimmer. The rebounding Vermilion Birds grew weaker and weaker, until they couldn't kill Li Hao anymore.
"You!"
Jin Fengling was shocked and hurriedly drew his bow, but every time could only injure Li Hao's primordial spirit, never truly piercing through to destroy it!
In a blink, he was forced by Li Hao's onslaught to the edge of the Imperial Platform.
Looking at that youth's angry, deep black eyes, Jin Fengling felt a strong threat of death for the first time. Even though his family was right here and even the clan leader was watching him, he had a feeling he couldn't escape.
"What are you two standing there for? Kill him!"
Jin Fengling couldn't hold back, roaring angrily at the two white-haired youths.
The two looked uneasy, sensing something was wrong. While Jin Fengling's life or death didn't matter to them, and all three joining hands would invite ridicule, the power Li Hao revealed now meant that if they stood by and watched Jin Fengling fall, with only the two of them left, neither could possibly kill Li Hao alone.
Whoosh!
They couldn't care about appearances now, and acted at once.
But Li Hao was even faster. The instant Jin Fengling roared, he struck out with three consecutive swords, pouring all his immortal Power of the myriad star meridians into every blow.
With such a rapid triple surge of all immortal Power, strange light and shadow shifted across the Imperial Platform, the void warping as if collapsing under the force.
Bang!
The three swords fell, and with the third, only a faint flame flickered on the phoenix robe before it was finally torn open, slicing Jin Fengling's primordial spirit through the chest.
Jin Fengling was horrified—his top-tier immortal treasure had actually been ruined by Li Hao! He hadn't even been able to display the weapon's full power, but it still shouldn't be destroyed by a True Immortal!
"You!"
He screamed in rage and shock, but Li Hao's primordial spirit appeared at that moment, then shot forward like a god soaring a thousand miles, instantly appearing before Jin Fengling's primordial spirit, pressing down with his palm.
His gilded primordial spirit hand seemed to swell to fill the sky in Jin Fengling's eyes. He was trapped in Li Hao's palm space, with no time to break free before the palm came crashing down.
A terrifying primordial spirit force burst out. With a shrill scream, Jin Fengling's primordial spirit quickly faded into nothing.
"Fengling!"
The Fengling Clan members saw this and turned pale, rushing toward the Imperial Platform, but were blocked by the barrier array.
The Da Meng Clan members snapped back to themselves and quickly moved up, stopping them from breaking the array by force.
While both sides confronted each other in a tense standoff, Jin Fengling's primordial spirit was already erased by Li Hao's palm, killed on the spot!
A True Immortal slaying a Xianjun, right in front of everyone's eyes—the Southern Region fell silent. Countless people stared in a daze, at a loss for words.
The two white-haired youths who had rushed over also looked shocked, eyes wide with disbelief.
Jin Fengling was a fourth-stage Xianjun, with a body full of top immortal treasures, yet he'd actually been killed by Li Hao!
That Lumo Sword, locked in combat with the Taowu Immortal Weapon, was already burning through the power of ancient demon remnants to keep up. But now, with Jin Fengling's fall, its power instantly dropped. The Taowu Immortal Weapon chopped it down, demon energy scattering from the sword, leaving it heavily damaged.
The Taowu Immortal Weapon, seeing Li Hao unharmed, didn't hold back. It dove down, snatching up the Lumo Sword in a swirl of sword Qi, crushing it and absorbing its essence into its own blade, its aura growing even more sinister.
Far away in the Jin Dynasty imperial capital, a noblewoman suddenly stood up, her stunning face pale as death, even without rouge still enough to turn the world upside down.
Li Hao turned, his gaze sweeping toward the two figures rushing in. The killing intent in his eyes hadn't faded as he sent a thought to the Taowu Immortal Weapon.
"Kill!"
The Taowu Immortal Weapon gave a low howl in response, rushing at the white-haired youth with a roar.
The white-haired youth's face changed instantly. Before, the barrier array that sealed the Imperial Platform was Li Hao's cage—now, it seemed to have become their cage, trapping them in the same arena as this fierce monster!
"Work together, kill!"
The other youth reacted fast, quickly pulling out his own immortal weapon. At this point, reputation no longer mattered—only by joining forces could they hope to deal with Li Hao.
The white-haired youth also brandished his immortal weapon, another top-tier immortal weapon, not quite as powerful as Jin Fengling's Lumo Sword, but not much weaker.
But as soon as their immortal weapons clashed with the Taowu Immortal Weapon, they were immediately suppressed, cracks quickly spreading across their blades.
"How is this possible?"
The white-haired youth was stunned, only now realizing how terrifying that immortal weapon was, like an ancient fierce beast out of its cage.
Li Hao raised his hand, gripping the Xuan Ying Soul-Breaking Bow Jin Fengling had just held.
At that moment, the Taowu Immortal Weapon was right above him, fighting with the two immortal weapons. They were tangled in a fierce battle, the collision unleashing terrifying waves of power.
Li Hao stood bathed in golden light, holding the Soul-Breaking Golden Bow, looking like a god.
He raised his hand, set the bow upright, drew the string, and formed an arrow.
When the golden arrow appeared, both white-haired youths' faces changed drastically.