Seeing their prized Divine Abilities so effortlessly shattered by Ancestor Tianmo, both Ancestor Xuepu and Ancestor Jinxiao were shaken to the core.
They finally realized that the one standing before them was the foremost figure of the Demon Race — a high-stage cultivator of the Divine Dao.
Ancestor Jinxiao's bloodshot eyes bulged as he roared: "Ancestor Tianmo! You unleash such savagery against us — so where was all this power when you faced the humans? Why didn't you show this much fight when you fought them? Is your bravado only good for bullying your own kind?"
Ancestor Xuepu let out a cold, sinister laugh. "Your Celestial Demon lineage acts against the tide, striking down your fellow demons. You're destroying our race's fortune with your own hands."
Ancestor Tianmo's expression remained indifferent. As though the two of them hadn't said a word, he replied flatly: "If you need to vent your tongues before you die, go ahead and enjoy it. After all, you won't have the chance much longer."
Ancestor Jinxiao clenched his teeth and let out a thunderous roar: "I'll fight you to the death!"
As he bellowed, his arms flared outward. His entire skeleton let out a series of cracking, popping sounds. His robes bulged as his bones jutted and his body swelled. Muscles knotted and surged across his frame, bulging outward one after another.
Ancestor Jinxiao's physical body was transforming at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In the blink of an eye, he had become a giant as large as a small mountain, his body forged of bronze and cast iron, brimming with explosive power.
Ancestor Jinxiao bellowed like a tiger and clawed at the void with both hands. A massive golden broadsword materialized in his grip.
He hoisted the broadsword high, golden light radiating in all directions. "Tianmo! Today, I'll settle this once and for all!"
His aura was overwhelming. His feet began to pound the earth, and the sheer force of his momentum was like a mountain range on the march, surging with raw power.
BOOM!
He brought the blade crashing down toward Ancestor Tianmo.
At this moment, Ancestor Jinxiao's manifested body was at least a hundred times the size of Ancestor Tianmo's. With a single downward strike, it seemed enough to tear apart the very ground where the Celestial Demon stood.
Ancestor Xuepu narrowed his eyes to a thin slit, as though weighing something in his mind.
CLANG!
Ancestor Jinxiao's ferocious slash was caught by a single finger from Ancestor Tianmo — stopped dead. Despite the fact that Ancestor Jinxiao's manifested body was a hundred times larger, the ratio between that colossal blade and that single finger was a full hundred to one.
Yet that slender finger held the enormous broadsword at bay with ease, barely showing any strain at all.
Ancestor Jinxiao erupted with fury, unleashing three or five consecutive strikes. Each one more violent than the last, each more devastating than the one before.
The slashes came in a frenzy of savage tides, attempting to shatter Ancestor Tianmo's Celestial Demon Domain.
But the strikes fell upon the domain as though cleaving into a flexible spatial barrier — impossible to breach no matter how hard he tried.
The sight made Ancestor Xuepu's eyelids twitch uncontrollably.
"Snow Waterfall! What are you hesitating for? Attack together — surround him!" Ancestor Jinxiao bellowed in rage, beckoning to Ancestor Xuepu.
Ancestor Xuepu acknowledged the call, but around his manifested body, a faint, misty aura had begun to form. This thin haze quickly blurred his physical form into obscurity.
Moments later, the misty aura burst outward, spreading in all directions like a blood-colored fog. And once the crimson mist dispersed, Ancestor Xuepu's manifested body had vanished entirely.
Ancestor Tianmo had been keeping a close watch on Ancestor Xuepu, but only to guard against a sneak attack. He never imagined that the old demon would suddenly disappear altogether.
"How is this possible?" Ancestor Tianmo probed in every direction, only to discover that within his own domain, Ancestor Xuepu's presence had truly ceased to exist.