This was not mere temporal lag, but a higher-level fusion of spatial confinement and temporal stasis!
It completely sealed him within this absolute cage!
At the same time, a colossal hand formed entirely from the purest, darkest demonic qi materialised out of thin air above Chen Ping’s head.
The hand blotted out the sky and sun. Its palm lines were as clear as ravines, its nails sharp as divine weapons, and within its centre countless vengeful souls seemed to struggle and howl, emitting an aura of destruction that devoured and corroded everything.
The hand slowly pressed downward. Even before it truly landed, the terrifying pressure already forced the bones throughout Chen Ping’s body to emit teeth-grinding groans. His protective spiritual energy flickered violently like a candle in the wind, on the verge of collapse at any moment.
“Chen Ping!”
“Mr Chen!”
Seeing this, Liu Xue and Yan Nantian split their eyes in fury! They could feel the horrifying power contained within that demonic palm, an absolute force more than capable of crushing a peak Heavenly Immortal realm expert with ease!
If Chen Ping were struck, he would have no chance of survival!
“I’ll fight him to the death!”
Yan Nantian roared madly, no longer caring about the heaven-wide gulf between himself and Soul-Devouring Venerable.
He forcibly ignited his life-bound demonic essence. His aura erupted like a volcano, demonic patterns shining across his skin, even oozing beads of blood!
He formed seals with both hands and bellowed, “Yama World-Exterminating Seal!”
A black great seal radiating endless death and destruction condensed above his head. Upon the seal, the gates of hell seemed to open as ten thousand ghosts wailed!
This was the ultimate forbidden divine ability of Yama Heaven Sect. Using it once exacted a tremendous price, but at this moment Yan Nantian had thrown caution to the wind!
Carrying an unstoppable momentum, the black great seal smashed straight towards the demonic palm pressing down on Chen Ping!
On the other side, Liu Xue also suppressed the trembling of her soul and pushed the technique inherited from Heaven Gate to its limit.
She gripped her sword with both hands, holding it upright between her brows. A decisive light flashed through her clear eyes.
A pure, vast sword intent carrying awe-inspiring righteousness soared into the sky, attempting to disperse the surrounding demonic atmosphere.
“Heaven Gate Sword Art, Judgement!”
With a delicate shout, the ice-blue longsword in her hand transformed into a dazzling pillar of light that pierced the heavens and earth.
Within that pillar, the illusory shadows of immortal palaces and towers faintly appeared, bearing the supreme will to judge evil and purify the world. Following closely behind Yan Nantian’s Yama World-Exterminating Seal, it slashed towards the heaven-blotting demonic palm!
Faced with the all-out attacks of the two, Soul-Devouring Venerable did not even lift an eyelid. He merely added the slightest extra weight to the descending hand.
“Mayflies shaking a tree, overestimating yourselves.”
“BOOM, !!!”
The first to collide was the Yama World-Exterminating Seal with the demonic palm.
The expected fierce clash did not occur.
The world-exterminating great seal, which condensed all of Yan Nantian’s lifetime cultivation and burning demonic essence, melted the instant it touched the demonic palm like ice meeting blazing sun. It could not even stir a single ripple. Amidst a heart-palpitating “sizzle” sound, it was rapidly corroded, disintegrated, and devoured by that demonic qi refined to the utmost!
Even the laws of death contained within the great seal were forcibly crushed and assimilated by the demonic palm!
“Pfft, !”
His divine ability forcibly broken, Yan Nantian suffered a thunderous strike. He spewed a mouthful of blood, then flew backwards like a kite with its string cut, crashing heavily into a distant wall and embedding deeply within it, fate unknown.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Xue’s judgement sword light infused with Heaven Gate righteousness also slashed onto the demonic palm.
“Sizzle, !”
This time, some noise finally rang out.
The pure sword light violently clashed with the utmost evil demonic qi, erupting in blinding radiance and chaotic energy currents.
The Heaven Gate technique indeed possessed a certain restraining effect on demonic qi, causing the downward momentum of the demonic palm to pause briefly. Many of the wailing vengeful soul shadows at its centre also dissipated under the sword light.
