Immortal Path to Heaven

Chapter 546: Can’t Coexist

A giant light suddenly appeared deep in a dark underground.

Inside the spacious burrow, which looked like a gigantic mountain was dug out of it, a humongous creature and an illusory figure could be seen.

The enormous creature was an underground lizard, which was also the well-known Ghost-clawed Venerable One among the Insects. It was staring at the glowing spot of nothingness in front of it at the moment, and a cruel look could be seen in its ice-cold eyes.

Nonetheless, its consciousness enveloped the entire underground. In particular, it paid extra attention to the illusory figure beside it.

This was because it was deeply in awe of how capable the Sky-devouring Devil God’s follower was.

In terms of absolute strength, the Ghost-clawed Venerable One did not think it was inferior to its opponent. Even so, discreetly lurking in an interspatial passage to kidnap a specific living being without being known was beyond its ability.

Back then, the Sky-devouring Devil God was known as the greatest devil god in the world, so much so that it could devour worlds.

Although the legendary Almighty Being had fallen, its believer still grasped some unbelievable secret techniques, such that even the Ghost-clawed Venerable One was astonished.

“How did you do it?” The Ghost-clawed Venerable One asked in a deep voice after a moment of hesitation.

The illusory figure let out a spine-chilling laugh and responded with another question, “Is that very important?”

“Hmph, your secret technique’s quite good, but you’re only half-successful.” The Ghost-clawed Venerable One sneered.

“Half-successful? What do you mean?” The illusory figure was surprised.

“You were supposed to only capture that little human, but you caught something else too,” the Ghost-clawed Venerable One ridiculed the illusory figure, “There’s a spirit beast inside too.”

“That’s impossible!” A fluctuation could be seen around the figure, which was evident that he was very affected. “That secret technique was left behind by my master. Unless one carries my master’s ability, one won’t be led here no matter what.”

“Oh, in that case, that spirit beast also has...” The Ghost-clawed Venerable One was stunned, and it mumbled.

Even though it released its mental power to verify it earlier, the prying process that only lasted for a split second caused it to consume many precious resources. Those consumptions felt like physical pains to the lizard, hence it gave up wanting to pry what was inside the flickering light.

The illusory figure looked deeply at the Ghost-clawed Venerable One and slowly calmed down.

He had not come in his real body. While he borrowed a treasure left behind by Sir Devil God to complete the magnificent feat of stopping people halfway, he did not know who he stopped. Instead, the Ghost-clawed Venerable One knew better.

At this moment, he only had one thought in his mind, ‘Is there more than one person from the lower realm that obtained Sir Devil God’s inheritance?’

Nevertheless, it was extremely difficult to be approved by the devil god. The illusory figure could not believe that 2 such living beings were continuously born in the lower realm, but it did not seem like the Ghost-clawed Venerable One was speaking carelessly. If that was the case, this was the only explanation he could think of.

The 2 powerful beings fell silent at the same time as though they were pondering about something.

There were other small lizards of different sizes in the cave too. They were not powerful but had gained wisdom, and they were the most potential younger generation among the Lizards.

The Ghost-clawed Venerable One had gathered them this time to let them witness an interspatial miracle.

This was because sensing such an intense change in space at a close distance would cause certain impacts on their bodies. Despite that, the impacts could also cause them to mutate. As long as a small lizard mutated, the observation would be worthwhile.

In terms of bringing up the younger generation, the Ghost-clawed Venerable One had truly racked its brain and went all-out.

All of a sudden, the light at the center of the cave became more intense and emitted more dazzling rays.

Apart from the Ghost-clawed Venerable One and the floating figure in mid-air, the small lizards squinted their eyes because their cultivation bases did not allow them to ignore such a harsh light.

The Ghost-clawed Venerable One’s eyes lit up, and it ordered softly, “The space is going to change soon, so sense it carefully.”

Many small lizards immediately concentrated. They endured the pain in their eyes and stared at the dazzling light without blinking at all.

The internal competition among the Insects was much crueler than the Humans’. The small lizards could only be in this cave because of the Ghost-clawed Venerable One’s grace, but if their performances were not worthy of that grace, they would only end up miserably.

Therefore, no matter how uncomfortable they were feeling, they dared not appear to be inferior to their partners.

“Pow...”

Without warning, a strange sound was heard coming from the light, then an electric light appeared.

“Hey?” The Ghost-clawed Venerable One widened its eyes and looked at the light in confusion. It clearly remembered that there was no flickering light in the peculiar space when it pried it earlier.

It was then when the illusory figure quivered. It finally sensed the fearsome and destructive power that filled the treasure, which traversed space to come here.

“Sh*t, quickly leave!”

As soon as the illusory figure roared, the treasure finally completed the traverse and jumped out from the light.

Next, thunderbolts with lethal energies were released. They were unbelievably violent and concentrated, by which their electric lights were released to every inch of space in the cave.

Ou Yangming’s ability was limited, after all. Even if he gave his all, he could not have gathered electric lights of such a scale.

In actuality, not to mention him, even Multi-armed King Kong could not have done this too.

Having said that, Ou Yangming was in a sealed, weird space when he released the Thunderbolt Rune. The space was filled with greater interspatial power, but the young fellow sent the Military Fire and the little red bird’s energies into the rune.

As such, the Phoenixes’ distinctive space property was fully unleashed, and the Thunderbolt Rune became a bottomless hole, which converted the endless interspatial power into more potent thunderbolts.

The space inside the treasure was sealed, but it could draw limitless power from the outside space to fill what it lacked inside.

When Ou Yangming left through the crack, the Thunderbolt Rune still existed and did not fully burst. Moreover, due to the sealed space, its power kept accumulating and flowed without restraint inside the space.

For the rest of the journey, the thunderbolt power inside the treasure’s space grew stronger. Fortunately, the treasure was unordinary and could bear the power until the end, or it would have exploded long ago, and nothing would be left of it.

When the treasure finally returned to its starting point, it instantly released everything inside.

Hence, what the Ghost-clawed Venerable One and the floating figure saw was not Ou Yangming and Big Yellow, but zapping thunderbolts, which seemed like the end of the world.

“Pow, pow, pow...”

Without any delay, every thunderbolt contained in the space was freed and formed unparalleled powers.

Being attacked by such powers, even the Ghost-clawed Venerable One was not safe because it was caught off guard. It held up its defensive shield right away, but its skin was still burnt, and its scales were cracked.

The small lizards in the cave suffered a more miserable fate. They had gained wisdom and were regarded as rising stars among the Lizards, but they could not survive such severe attacks from the thunderbolts. Amidst the thunderbolts, their bodies twitched as if they were dancing, and they somehow looked oddly fascinating along with the electric lights.

However, they were not moving on their own because it was due to the natural responses of their muscles under the stimulation of the thunderbolts.

As for themselves, they were already utterly dead when the first wave of thunderbolts struck them.

The floating figure in the void fluttered backward. It feared the thunderbolt powers very much and dared not get close to them at all.

That said, the thunderbolt powers were too potent. If his real body was present, he could use different methods to resist the lights, but only his projection was here.

The projection had incredibly wonderful control over powers, but he could not resist the savage and unreasonable thunderbolts.

Using an ant as an example—it could carry things heavier than its body by a few times, but it would be easily crushed if a car or a dog stepped on it.

The disparity between absolute powers could not be made up by sheer skills.

Thus, the projection yelled as he was not resigned to the outcome, but it suddenly exploded and disappeared.

The powers released by the thunderbolts were forceful, but they dispersed very soon.

When the rune gathered by Ou Yangming left the sealed environment, it finally fully released the powers that it previously absorbed. In the end, it exploded and vanished in the void too.

By the time the Ghost-clawed Venerable One opened its eyes and looked at the mess everywhere, as well as the countless dead descendants, it was furious.

It roared madly but turned to look, only to find that the illusory figure had disappeared.

The enraged Ghost-clawed Venerable One then turned to look at the secret interspatial treasure at the center of the cave. It gritted its teeth and approached the object to grab it, but as soon as its claws touched it, the object flashed and escaped into the void like a swimming fish.

After being stunned for a while, the Ghost-clawed Venerable One looked up and shouted with hatred. Its voice echoed in the entire underworld.

“Blood Shadow, there’s no way the Bloods and I can live at the same time—we can’t coexist...”

Its thunderous voice spread far and wide, causing the other insect to curl up their bodies, and they could not help but shudder with fear