Chapter 137: The Shocking Appearance of the God Burial

"Senior Brother, the rest is up to you!" The elder holding the frosty, chilling sword said anxiously to his senior, who was still rapidly forming hand seals.
It turned out that these two men practiced different paths: one cultivated the Ultimate Ice Dao, while the other focused on the Ultimate Fire Dao. The two of them possessed a combination technique known as the Dual Heavens of Ice and Fire, boasting terrifying offensive power. Within the realm of Quasi-Sage powerhouses, very few could withstand their combined strike.

Hearing his junior’s urging, the elder increased the speed of his hand seals instantly. One could only see a blur of overlapping and shifting finger shadows; ordinary people could not possibly decipher the seals he was forming.
In the blink of an eye, a complete set of hand seals was finished and thrust entirely into the Heaven-Measuring Ruler, which had already shrunk to several zhang in size. At this moment, the ruler had turned completely deep purple and was still twisting and shifting.

Accompanied by a fierce shout from the elder, the Heaven-Measuring Ruler shrank and transformed into a deep purple needle-like shape. Its tip was as fine as a hair, while its base was only as thick as an adult's arm. Standing two zhang tall, purple flames danced around the needle-like ruler, and the scorching high temperature baked the surrounding space into wisps of white steam!

The elder brought his fingers together into a sword shape and gestured vaguely at the demon's head from a distance. The ruler, now transformed into a needle, flashed and arrived directly above the demon's head. With a humming vibration, its sharp tip pierced a thumb-sized spatial hole into the fabric of space. Meanwhile, the elder holding the freezing sword saw that his senior had finished preparations and tossed his cicada-wing-thin sword to the side of the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

"Ice and Fire dual realms, fuse..." the two elders shouted in unison, each forming a hand seal and driving it into their respective weapons.
Upon receiving the hand seals, the two supreme ancient treasures—one of extreme cold and the other of extreme fire—both emitted a resonant tremor. In a trance-like phenomenon, they miraculously fused together, forming a bi-colored needle weapon of ice and fire. The two auras of extreme cold and extreme fire intertwined, generating an entirely new force. This newly born energy was extremely volatile, and a terrifying aura swept outward, forming a circular, invisible pressure field that billowed in all directions.

"Dual Heavens of Ice and Fire, go..."
Following the angry shouts of the two elders, the needle-like weapon, suspended dozens of zhang above the demon's head, flashed as if teleporting and struck straight at the apex of the demon's head!

"Crick..."
The several-inch-thick ice sealing the demon's body surface actually began to fracture. As one place cracked, it seemed to act as a signal; the thousand-zhang-tall demon's body began to develop dense cracks. With the spread of these fissures, rings of invisible shockwaves diffused outward from within the demon's body, incessantly bombarding the thick ice on its surface.

The demon could already sense that the combined strike of the two elders had reached a terrifying level capable of harming it. If it were at the height of its power, such a world-shaking attack wouldn't even warrant a second thought. But today was different from the past; currently, it was a tiger fallen from the heights and bullied by dogs, and its previous bravado was merely a front. Expecting it to take action and eliminate the three Quasi-Sages was utterly unrealistic.

Right now, its thousand-zhang stature was merely its true dharma body. Aside from unleashing immense physical strength, it could not easily deploy any profound techniques. If it used a few high-consumption techniques, it might truly never recover to its peak.
However, faced with a terrifying blow that could severely injure it, it was forced to use its newly recovered energy to retaliate.

"Boom!"
Amidst a massive, explosive sound, the ice on the demon's body was finally shattered into countless fragments, scattering like a torrential shower of giant ice meteors into the azure ocean.
Just as the demon shattered the ice enveloping its body, the dual-natured strike of ice and fire arrived at the top of its head.

The demon's pair of purple pupils instantly turned pitch-black and deep. "Roar..." A piercing howl burst from the demon's massive maw, and powerful soundwaves rolled toward the azure firmament, sending muffled rumbles like crashing heavenly thunder echoing across the sky.
An illusory, nearly transparent gray lightning bolt shot out from the demon's mouth, instantly positioning itself right above its head and blocking the dual attack of ice and fire in the nick of time.

"Not good, it is the Power of Retribution!"
The ice-cultivating elder's expression shifted drastically as he blurted out in shock.

"Ice and Fire, pierce for me..."
The fire-cultivating elder wore a ferocious expression, thick spiritual essence pouring from his palms to infuse into the giant ice-and-fire needle from afar.
After his initial shock, the ice-cultivating elder frantically poured the spiritual essence within his body into the needle-shaped weapon from a distance as well!

"I never expected the combination of your ice and fire to produce such terrifying might. But if you wish to harm this demon, you are still far too naive!"
The demon opened its blood-fed mouth and inhaled violently, once again swallowing the azure seawater into its body.

"Senior Brother, the final strike—shatter this demon's currently weakened retribution!"
The ice-cultivating elder said this, forming a strange hand seal with both hands, his eyes flickering as he looked at the fire-cultivating elder.
"Very well! As brothers, even if we lose some cultivation today, we must destroy its demonic retribution!"
The fire-cultivating elder similarly formed the exact same hand seal.
After exchanging glances, the two men thrust their respective hand seals into the giant ice-and-fire needle. Immediately after, a heaven-shaking hum resonated across the cosmos.

The two-zhang-large ice-and-fire needle vibrated violently, as if struck by a tremendous impact, and fiercely crashed into the gray lightning hovering above the demon's head.
Struck by the dual onslaught of ice and fire, the gray lightning of demonic retribution merely wobbled slightly before stabilizing. On the contrary, the ice-and-fire needle was eroded significantly by the retribution power radiating from the gray lightning, and its icy-fiery radiance dimmed by several shades.

"Ice and Fire, pierce again..."
"Pierce... pierce... pierce..."
Accompanied by the continuous angry roars of the two elders, the two-zhang ice-and-fire needle dragged a trail of afterimages, frantically stabbing and battering the gray lightning of retribution.

Under the storm-like bombardment of the ice-and-fire needle, the gray lightning above the demon's head became increasingly transparent, and its color faded significantly. Sensing the change in the retribution power above its head, the demon roared, and thick, deep-gray evil qi spewed forth from the crown of its head, pouring madly into the lightning.

Meanwhile, in the distance, the entire body of the red-faced elder had completely merged into the giant's phantom projection. Following his integration, the thousand-zhang giant phantom began to shrink drastically: eight hundred zhang, five hundred zhang, three hundred zhang, until it finally settled at one hundred zhang!

Condensed to one hundred zhang, the facial features of the human-shaped giant phantom had become distinct. Yet, the facial features revealed were identical down to the last detail to the red-faced elder.
Simultaneously, the moment the hundred-zhang human figure condensed, an overwhelming and supreme momentum emanated, and an incomparably thick divine aura permeated the entire heaven and earth.

"Hmph... To think they would rely on fusing with a divine soul to temporarily possess the power of a god! Tsk, tsk. Such a subpar method actually appears. Could it be that human martial artists in the present world have declined to such an extent that not even a single divine-tier powerhouse exists?"
The demon, still busy consolidating the gray lightning above its head, sneered mockingly upon witnessing the red-faced elder's transformation.

"Boom!"
After dozens of consecutive attacks, the ice-and-fire dual needle had been eroded by a small section due to the retribution power on the lightning. However, fueled by the continuous injection of spiritual essence from the two elders, its brilliance and momentum remained terrifying.

Realizing they could not shake the gray lightning, the two elders communicated via divine sense in their urgency and made a final decision: they intended to use one last strike to drain as much of the demon's energy as possible.
"Ice and Fire dual elements, explosive strike..."
The two Quasi-Sage elders shouted in sync, each pinching a seal formula and, in a moment of telepathic unison, striking it into the giant ice-and-fire needle.

The needle, flashing with dual-colored light of ice and fire, vanished like an illusion and reappeared high in the sky. Then, guided by the slicing hand gestures of the two elders, it flashed once more and struck the gray lightning!
Following a heaven-shaking explosion, the energies of ice and fire instantly swallowed the demon's body. The tyrannical forces of extreme cold and extreme fire wreaked havoc across the demon's frame.

The primary target of these two tyrannical energies was the demon's head. First, the force of extreme cold encased the head in ice, which was then instantly melted by the extreme fire, scorching the newly frozen scales with scorching heat.
In the blink of an eye, the demon's head underwent several transformations. Finally, amidst an immensely furious roar, the ice-and-fire extreme cold energy covering the demon's entire body was driven out by a massive shockwave.

Looking at the demon now, white steam was venting from its entire body. Aside from the dissipating frost, this steam was generated by the scorching heat!
After suffering this blow, the gray lightning above the demon's head had turned completely translucent, though it had not dissipated. In truth, the retribution power belonging to a higher-tier demon would never truly vanish, for the so-called demonic retribution was an absolute, supreme heaven-defying technique bestowed upon the Abyss clan by mysterious forces.

Every demon regarded non-demon living beings as livestock reared for harvest. Even the Tianyuan Continent, where Leng Tian had lived in his past life, had once suffered an enclosure and harvesting operation by Abyss demons.
Any world invaded by demons would eventually transform into a dead realm, and all life within that world would be devoured clean by countless demons.

Shadow demons devouring divine souls already struck fear into all living things, but Abyss demons were tens of thousands of times more terrifying and cruel. Not only did they devour divine souls, but they did not even leave behind flesh and blood. Like swarms of locusts, wherever they passed, not a single blade of grass remained.

The world-shaking commotion here could not reach the outside world, but Leng Tian, who was wandering idly through the Ancient Realm, was utterly stunned by the scene before him.
A towering stone tablet encircled by nine colors tore through space and appeared above Leng Tian. The heavy, surging momentum made even Leng Tian, protected by astral qi, feel as though he were about to be crushed, causing his powerful physique to tremble incessantly.

"What kind of power is this? Is it the power of a god?"
His complexion turning slightly pale, Leng Tian gazed at the nine-color-encircled stone tablet in a trance. He sensed a momentum that could shake the heavens and earth—an aura he had previously felt only from the ten-thousand-zhang giant within the mysterious space!

"Boss, there are words on the stone wall!"
Prompted by Judah, Leng Tian immediately let tricolor light swirl in his eyes, focusing his gaze upward toward the stone tablet in the sky. At this single look, his heart suffered a massive shock, and he couldn't help crying out in alarm:
"It's actually this—the Burial God Stele!"