Chapter 168 - 85: All Things Return to the Origin, One-Hit Kill

Chapter 168: Chapter 85: All Things Return to the Origin, One-Hit Kill

"Kneel!"

HUMMM—!

Following Jiang Xuan’s Imperial Decree and the sudden intensification of Gravity, the Molten Rock Demon could no longer support its own massive weight.

BOOM...

With a thunderous crash, its body slammed heavily onto the ground.

ROAR...

Though it roared defiantly and struggled desperately to rise, Jiang Xuan, standing tall in the sky, was like a great mountain. He pinned it down, and no matter how it thrashed, it could not get back up.

Of course, under normal circumstances, this was all Jiang Xuan could do.

After all, this was a Spirit Core Late Stage Demon Beast, and an Elite Level one at that.

Its defense was too strong. While Jiang Xuan could use his suppressive ability to knock it down and keep it there, he lacked the power to break through its defenses and shatter its core here in the Volcanic Area.

Furthermore, continuously maintaining his ability and the immense Gravity was no easy task for Jiang Xuan, whose Primordial Sea had not yet fully transformed.

Fortunately, All Things Return to the Origin did not just draw on Jiang Xuan’s power. It could absorb anything between Heaven and Earth, including his enemies.

Like a black hole wandering through the cosmos, it could devour anything it encountered, whether meteorites, planets, or entire rivers of stars.

At that moment, the Gravity vortex in Jiang Xuan’s palm was absorbing all of the Molten Rock Giant Demon’s flame Energy, compressing it into a thirty-centimeter, white-hot Fireball.

The ferocious power contained within the Fireball made Dong Hao and Su Linyin break out in a cold sweat just from proximity, their hearts pounding in their chests.

Even Jiang Xuan himself couldn’t help but feel a sense of dread.

’This Fireball could blow me to bits!’

Fortunately, he didn’t have to maintain it for long, nor did he have to detonate it at close range.

Once the Fireball was fully formed, Jiang Xuan slowly lowered his arm. The next moment, he aimed it at the Molten Rock Giant Demon, which lay sprawled on the ground, still struggling fruitlessly to rise.

AWOOO!!!

This sight struck terror into the Molten Rock Giant Demon.

It stopped struggling to get up. Instead, it frantically gathered the surrounding molten Energy, thickening its lava armor layer by layer in a desperate attempt to withstand the fatal blow.

Jiang Xuan remained impassive, his expression cold. He calmly aimed the white-hot Fireball at the Molten Rock Giant Demon, his hand shifting from an open palm into a flicking gesture. The Fireball, now condensed with immense Energy, was the bullet he was about to fire.

Jiang Xuan performed the motion with deliberate slowness. This wasn’t for show—he simply didn’t dare to move any faster.

All Things Return to the Origin had gathered far too much Energy, and it was the most violent and volatile kind: flame Energy.

If Jiang Xuan were even the slightest bit careless, he wouldn’t be blowing up the Molten Rock Giant Demon—he’d be blowing up himself.

Unwilling to die from such a ridiculous mistake, Jiang Xuan was exceedingly careful.

Of course, thanks to his calm and composed expression, Dong Hao and Su Linyin failed to notice any of this.

They only saw Jiang Xuan, the man who had subdued the Molten Rock Giant Demon with a single Imperial Decree, as the very picture of a master. His current actions seemed to embody the effortless grace and serene confidence of an unparalleled expert.

WHOOSH!

While the two were lost in their reverie, Jiang Xuan gave a gentle flick of his finger. With a mere thought, he launched the white-hot Fireball suspended before it.

"Let’s go."

After launching it, Jiang Xuan didn’t spare it a single backward glance. He simply turned, led the other two away, and headed in the direction of the Daoist.

This gesture only further convinced Su Linyin and Dong Hao that he possessed the true bearing of a master.

’He doesn’t even need to see the result to know he’s already won... He’s truly a peerless prodigy!’

Still lost in admiration, Dong Hao and Su Linyin, who were being pulled along by Jiang Xuan’s Gravity, subconsciously glanced back.

And then, a scene of both stunning beauty and profound shock unfolded before their eyes.

WHOOSH!

The white-hot Fireball shot forward like a streak of light, pierced straight through the Molten Rock Demon’s defenses, and detonated inside its body.

This part wasn’t particularly surprising. Having seen the terrifying Energy contained within the white-hot Fireball, they knew the Molten Rock Demon stood no chance of withstanding it.

What truly shook their Heart Spirits and left them dumbfounded was the phenomenon that followed the explosion.

BOOM—!

When the Fireball launched by Jiang Xuan exploded, it didn’t bloom into an ordinary cloud of fire.

The exploding flames that filled the sky and the rings of destructive fire spreading outward instead condensed into a giant, phantasmal fire tree, shimmering with resplendent light.

A fantastical fire tree, dozens of meters tall and with lush branches and leaves, that in the very instant of destruction, bloomed with countless incandescent white flowers.

At this moment, the phrase ’Fire Tree and Silver Flower Nightless Heaven’ was seared deep into their minds and the core of their Soul Spirits with a profound and overwhelming shock.

They were so stunned, and the sight of the Fire Tree and Silver Flowers was so magnificently, tragically beautiful, that even after Jiang Xuan had carried them hundreds of meters away, they were still staring blankly behind them, unable to snap out of their daze.

And they were far from the only ones astonished and shocked by the scene.

Not to mention the academy students who had already departed, but out in the world, on the viewing platforms, the many Cultivators who had just witnessed this battle were utterly silent.