Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, I am your second master

Chapter 337 Arrival, Soul Clan Flees, Ancient Clan Remains

"Leave it behind? What arrogance! You are nothing but a remnant soul of a supreme being from back then. Today, I will take your remnant soul, which is worth at least ten million complete souls."

The Void Flame in the sky showed no fear whatsoever. The ancient emperor's remnant soul before him was merely a nine-star Dou Sheng, at the same level as him! Its combat power might not be as enduring as his!

This ancient emperor's remnant soul needs to be maintained by an array, and the core of the array that maintains it comes from the fighting emperor bloodline of the ancient clan!

boom-

With a flick of his finger, the Void Devouring Flame pressed down on the ancient clan elders on the ground, as if the finger were a pillar supporting the sky!

Just as the black finger was about to land on the great formation, a huge palm print came and collided with the black finger.

boom!

Instantly, a booming sound resounded throughout the heavens and earth.

Under that terrifying roar, some of the weaker ones coughed up blood on the spot, and some even had their eardrums burst, with blood flowing continuously from their ears, a truly miserable sight.

The two collided, and the giant finger and palm print dissipated simultaneously. The towering middle-aged figure also faded somewhat, clearly indicating that the previous move had consumed a great deal of energy.

"As expected, it's just a remnant soul. Let's see how many times you can withstand me!"

"Void Devouring Flame, I never expected you to grow to this level. Since that's the case, I'm even less likely to let you escape!"

The ancient emperor's remnant soul, towering above the heavens and earth, rapidly formed hand seals, causing the entire ancient realm to tremble. The energy of heaven and earth in the ancient realm converged towards the ancient emperor's remnant soul!

The remnant soul of the ancient emperor gathered all his energy in his right index finger.

"Ancient Emperor's Shattering Finger!"

At this moment, the remnant soul of the ancient emperor surged to its limit, and pointed out! The overwhelming battle qi condensed into a huge finger, covered with strange patterns, and then pressed down hard on the Void Devouring Flame!

Faced with that enormous finger, Void Devouring Flame's expression turned solemn, and he immediately transformed into a huge vortex.

"Void Devours Spirits!"

The enormous vortex completely swallowed up the fighting technique unleashed by the remnant soul of the ancient emperor.

After the attack, the remnant soul of the ancient emperor faded even further. The remnant soul frowned: "Spirit Devouring? Your devouring ability probably isn't entirely your own, is it? You must have devoured that evil race member, right?"

Void Devouring Flame transformed back into human form, a smirk playing on its lips: "I don't know what you're talking about."

The remnant soul of the ancient emperor's gaze turned cold and sharp: "Since that's the case, and it's related to that evil race, then you can't be spared even more!"

Void Devouring Flame remained expressionless, then burst into laughter: "Hahahaha, why don't you worry about your juniors? Your moves just now have already severely damaged them; you old bastard have almost drained their Dou Di bloodline!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, this appearance is somewhat similar to the Xiao clan from a thousand years ago! Hahahaha, I never expected it! I never expected that the Xiao clan, which your ancient clan looked down upon the most, would actually become like the Xiao clan!"

The remnant soul of the ancient emperor frowned, then looked down at the formation. At this moment, the ancient clan members were using their Dou Di bloodline to maintain the formation, and their cultivation levels were all declining. Some elders were even unable to maintain their realm.

The Dou Di bloodline is the foundation of an imperial clan; losing the Dou Di bloodline means losing everything!

"How could this be? There's still the Xiao clan? Are they descendants of Emperor Xiao? I never imagined that Emperor Xiao, the strongest among the eight of us back then, would be the first to fall!" The remnant soul of the ancient emperor possessed many memories from his previous life, so he naturally knew many secrets.

The Void Devouring Flame laughed loudly, "Soul Clan warriors, the time for slaughter has begun! I'll keep this old man in check!"

"As the Great One of Emptiness commands!"

The Soul Clan members immediately attacked the weakened Ancient Clan like wild beasts unleashed!

At this moment, the ancient clansmen were maintaining the great formation. Their Dou Di bloodline had been greatly depleted, and their strength had dropped significantly. They were unable to stop the Soul Clan members at all!

"How dare you! How dare you harm my imperial clan!" The remnant soul of the ancient emperor was also furious. If he still had any obsession, it was his descendants.

The remnant soul of the ancient emperor struck out with a palm at the soul race members. Before the palm print even landed, some of the soul race members were already shattered, but a giant black flame finger blocked the attack of the remnant soul of the ancient emperor!

"Old man, let's continue!" The Void Devouring Flame unleashed its attack, sticking to the remnant soul of the ancient emperor and preventing it from making a move!

Once the Soul Clan brats break the great formation, the foundation of this ancient emperor's remnant soul will be gone, and then we can just take him away!

boom-

Just then, a powerful sound of air being torn apart shattered the space of the ancient realm, and a huge dragon-phoenix avatar rushed in!

"Looks like we're not too late. As expected, the strength of the ancient clans is not something the Soul Clan can easily overcome."

The dragon and phoenix images dissipated, leaving only a man and a woman standing in mid-air.

"Huh? It's him!"

"Supreme Dragon Phoenix? A descendant of Emperor Xiao?"

The remnant soul of the ancient emperor and the Void Devouring Flame looked over at the same time. It was Xiao Li and Zi Yan who had arrived in the Ancient Realm at the same time. The two of them used the talents of the Ancient Void Dragon to directly break through the spatial barrier and rush in.

"The Soul Clan actually dared to directly annihilate the ancient clans; this is something I didn't expect. Since that's the case, then they shall all die!"

With a wave of his hand, Xiao Li completely wiped out the Soul Clan members around him!

"Nine-Star Dou Sheng late stage! How is this possible! Let's go!"

The Void Devouring Flame immediately sensed Xiao Li's aura, an aura identical to that of Soul Emperor and Gu Yuan! Late-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng!

Void Devouring Flame immediately used a secret technique to envelop the remaining Soul Clan elites in flames, and then broke through the air and disappeared!

Without even a breath, the Soul Clan members within the Ancient Realm vanished completely.

Even Xiao Li's Emperor-level soul couldn't detect it!

"Running so fast? What kind of technique is that?" Xiao Li was astonished.

"That's the Soul Emperor's ultimate escape technique. Once it's used, unless you're a Dou Di or the Supreme Dragon Phoenix behind you, no one can catch up with you."

The remnant soul of the ancient emperor spoke slowly.

"Oh? This senior, could you be the founder of the ancient race, the ancient emperor?" Xiao Li looked at the huge phantom.

"Indeed, I never expected that the descendants of Emperor Xiao could reach this level even without the bloodline of a Dou Di. They are truly remarkable. Just now, I heard what the Void Devouring Flame said: the Dou Di bloodline of the Xiao clan was exhausted a thousand years ago?"

The remnant soul of the ancient emperor spoke slowly, then looked down and sighed. The ancient clans were now in the same state. Although their Dou Di bloodline had not been completely exhausted, it was not much better. This time, summoning him out had caused too much damage to their Dou Di bloodline, making it too severely weakened.

Xiao Li nodded: "Yes, there is no longer any Emperor's Origin in the world? A thousand years ago, my ancestor Xiao Xuan wanted to use the incomplete Emperor Array in the Heavenly Tomb and the Dou Di bloodline of the entire clan to attack the Dou Di, but he failed."

"The Origin of the Emperor? What's that? Oh~ you mean that special energy needed to advance to the Dou Di realm, right?"

That thing comes from the upper realm; it's called spiritual energy!

The ancient emperor spoke slowly, dropping a bombshell on Xiao Li.

"Spiritual energy! Senior, do you perhaps know about the Great Thousand Worlds?"

The remnant soul of the ancient emperor was also shocked: "I didn't expect you to know? These young people nowadays are really something. It's a pity that I only have memories of the Dou Qi Continent. My original body lost contact after leaving the Dou Qi Continent and may have perished."

I can only tell you one thing: in ancient times, an evil race descended upon the Dou Qi Continent, and the Dou Qi Continent fought a fierce battle against that evil race! The Dou Qi Continent gradually declined because of that great war.

Back then, the eight of us were rising stars who dealt with the evil race on the continent. However, to prevent the evil race from finding the Dou Qi Continent, we sealed and exiled it, losing our connection with the Great Thousand World.

"The eight of us originally planned to bring the Dou Qi Continent here again after we had achieved success in our cultivation, but it seems we have failed."

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