Realm-Hopping Martial Master

This small wisp, however, is the concentrated essence of a hundred top geniuses of the Demon Race, utterly pure.

Like sweet rain falling upon parched earth, this vast and pure energy had barely entered Jiang Shu’s body when it was perfectly absorbed and divided by the four rules.

The Desolate Dao transformed the forces of destruction and descent into sharpening the Dao Foundation.

The Taichu Dao ignited a spark of original life force within, stimulating its Original Dao Source.

The Devouring Dao, like a whale gulping, effortlessly converted the pure energy into an ocean of its own mana.

The Creation Dao was the most active, much like a master craftsman using this perfect nourishment to rapidly repair and refine the damaged physique and sinew, even using it as a lead to feedback into the evolution of the Dragon Transformation Technique, making those bones more robust, and the Dragon Blood richer!

Jiang Shu’s actual cultivation level, that boundless power resting at the Daoist Venerable Early Stage, began to surge upwards with an almost aggressive momentum, as if fueled by endless resources.

The invisible barrier to the Daoist Venerable Middle Stage became clearly within reach; he could even sense the core of his inner world rejoicing, greedily sucking in this unprecedented nourishment.

Its speed far exceeded his secluded training.

At the same time, his exposed Demon Monarch Realm aura was also climbing steadily.

The gray ancient Dragon Scale Pattern thoroughly covered his entire body, and the sharp Dragon Horn grew branching tendrils, resembling an ancient species.

A dense, heavy Dragon Might naturally spread uncontrollably; despite trying to suppress it, it still caused the remaining violent energies nearby to faintly retreat.

This oppressive might clearly declared that his realm had instantly reached the Demon Monarch Middle Stage, swiftly approaching the Demon Lord Late Stage!

When the last Phoenix Clan young man with red hair, bleeding from the seven orifices and with dimmed Divine Fire, activated the mark to depart, Jiang Shu was the only figure left on the core Starfall Platform.

Alone!

Huang Ya, a Great Power at the Demon Venerable Late Stage Peak, witnessed all of this.

He watched elite after elite from various races, once brimming with hope, retreat disheveled, watched the descendants of Kunpeng, Phoenix, True Roar, and remnants of Chaos fall under immense pressure, his expression unchanging.

But when his gaze finally locked onto the only Gold Horn remaining at the center of the Starfall Platform, a flash of astonishment appeared on his age-weathered face, immediately giving way to an irrepressible delight, bubbling like magma within deep eye sockets.

Jiang Shu had held on for too long, far exceeding expectations even with pure bloodline support.

He observed the sturdy glow coursing through the dim Dragon Scales on the surface of the Gold Horn, saw his formidable Dragon Body unmoved amidst the chaotic energy tide, and sensed the steadily rising realm, now very close to the Demon Lord Late Stage, erasing prior calculations and evaluations.

"Excellent, excellent, excellent!"

He could no longer restrain himself, mouthing silently.

"Worthy of being one who triggers the Source-seeking Ancestor Mirror, possessing the Ancestor Dragon Bloodline. If only the Gold Horn had emerged earlier, Jiang Shu wouldn’t have carved out so much fame!"

The withdrawal of the last genius marked the gathering of the best planned nourishment. Now, the sole task was ensuring this singular, greatest hope.

The Gold Horn, suspected of holding the Ancestor Dragon Bloodline, smoothly completing the ultimate body refinement and sublimation!

Thinking of this, Huang Ya did not hesitate, his gaunt form flickered, crossing tens of feet instantly, and he sat cross-legged at the edge of the stone platform three feet behind Jiang Shu.

Placing his hands on his knees, the vast, deep demonic power within him began to flow, forming a dense, invisible force field, like the most loyal shield, silently enveloping over Jiang Shu.

Isolating the increasingly chaotic energy turbulence outside the Starfall Platform, carefully channeling and purifying the Ancient Star Residual Power and the Earthly Muddy Qi rushing towards Jiang Shu, to make them more stable and pure.

He was actually acting as a protector!

A strong one at the Demon Venerable Late Stage was now acting as a protector.

This was not a treatment that ordinary elite Demon Monarchs could receive.

Even Jiang Shu himself had never experienced such.

Naturally, Jiang Shu clearly sensed Huang Ya’s action.

His eyes involuntarily showed some tremor, well disguised.

The mountain-like protective intention isolated him completely from the external chaos, turning the surrounding turbulent energy flow gentle and controllable, becoming a more precise tempering and scour.

It seemed Huang Ya was aware of the trial’s difficulty.

Afraid of failing at the last moment.

"It’s fortunate the trial was experienced, my Dragon Transformation Technique made more progress. Even against a Demon Venerable Late Stage, there’s confidence to deceive!"

"Otherwise, with Huang Ya’s intent, even while protecting, a scan would discover something amiss."

Inwardly, Jiang Shu sneered, but outwardly, his Dragon face flawlessly simulated by the Creation Dao showed appropriate gravity and focus due to the rapid increase in power.

Within, the ocean-like power ceaselessly surged.

The real cultivation realm barrier was like a solid dike under countless giant hammers’ relentless pounding, cracks spreading, groaning under the pressure.

The Daoist Venerable Middle Stage realm was already within close reach.

The inner world unceasingly expanded, condensed, and compressed.

Jiang Shu already felt that, should he wish, he might seize this chance to directly charge into the Chaos Hole Realm Middle Stage.

However, this would almost exhaust the foundation of his World Tree.

Better to stay steady a while longer.

Besides, power here still flowed in endlessly!

Streams of pure Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi were born from within Jiang Shu’s world.

Every strand of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi surged with immense power.

Seeming to hold the potential to nurture endless vitality.

Within, the dozen Great Dao Lock Chains shone with unprecedented brilliance, each pulse resonating the entire body’s small universe.

The Dao Foundation was repeatedly flushed and solidified, sturdier than Eternal Divine Gold, and the Dao Rune within burgeoned under vast power, growing increasingly mysterious and unfathomable.

On the surface, the disguised Dragon Clan aura had also ascended to its utmost peak.

Nearer and nearer to the Demon Venerable Realm.

The dark-golden demonic power rushed like molten lava within the bloodline, converging within the spinal Dragon Bone.

The Dragon Might wafting about grew more imposing, beneath the gray Dragon Scales seemed countless tiny stars birthing and vanishing, each breath triggering imperceptible rhythmic pulses within the Abyss Earth Vein.

As energy howled, time quietly slipped away.

When the last surge of Ancient Star Residual Power accompanied by purest Earthly Muddy Qi surged into Jiang Shu’s body, as if injecting a chilling torrent into the boiling magma, the energy suddenly reached a critical point!

"Boom!"

Within Jiang Shu, the two forces, real and disguised, collided at their pinnacle state!

The barrier belonging to the Daoist Venerable Early Stage was finally thoroughly pierced!

A fresh and mysterious, vast and broad aura burst from his true origin within, instantly filling limbs, bones, and even every particle!

This aura, fleeting, was swiftly repressed and concealed by the Creation Dao, not leaking any trace externally.

But Jiang Shu knew, he had securely stepped into the Chaos Hole Realm Middle Stage!

Each movement gained over double previously in mastery of the Heaven and Earth Rules, the Dao Domain unfolded, covering even broader expanses, wielding terrifying Heaven and Earth Power.

Almost simultaneously, the pseudo cultivation of the Gold Horn’s exterior also reached its peak.

Great Dao like dragons encircled him, bursting with dazzling dark-golden light.

A majestic aura far purer and refined than before, laden with ancient Primordial Dragon Might shot skyward!

The gray Dragon Scales wholly hardened, akin to star remnants weathered through millennia, solid and cold, emanating both the breath of death and eternity.

The branched Dragon Horn on his forehead twined like gnarled branches of a Divine Tree, radiating a sensation of dominance over space and time.

Demon Lord Late Stage!