172: The Holy Might Returns, Turning the Tide

Above the Pill Tower Holy Domain, the silent battlefield was shattered by a bone-chilling declaration! The green-robed figure, tearing through the void and treading on light, stood like a steadfast anchor in the sky. Chaotic currents naturally flowed around him, and the vast Saintly might of a Three-Revolving Dou Saint swept across the eight directions like a tangible tide! The Heavenly Stellar Array, which had been on the verge of collapse, miraculously stabilized its light barrier under the protection of this formidable pressure!

"Xiao...Xiao Chen?! How...how could you still be alive?! And...this aura..." Soul Destruction Heaven, stepping on a Netherworld Bone Dragon, his pupils constricted to needlepoints, his voice filled with unbelievable horror! He clearly felt that the pressure Xiao Chen was now exuding was several times stronger than it had been months ago in the Soul Burial Mountain Range! It was a qualitative leap, as if he had been reborn!

"Impossible! Even if he didn't die, there's no way he could have broken through to a Three-Revolving Dou Saint in such a short time! And this aura...it's definitely not an ordinary Three-Revolving Dou Saint!" Beside Soul Destruction Heaven, the two black-robed elders, whose auras had reached the early stage of a Fifth-Turn Dou Sheng, also had drastic changes in their expressions, their eyes filled with solemnity and apprehension. They felt a sense of oppression from Xiao Chen that originated from a higher level of life!

"Chen'er! (Saint Xiao!)" Inside the Heavenly Stellar Array, Xuan Kongzi, His Majesty Emperor Yan, Flame Heart, and others, after a brief moment of stunned silence, erupted into deafening shouts of joy! The despairing gloom was completely dispelled by this sudden ray of hope! Flame Heart, in particular, had tears streaming down her beautiful eyes—it was the joy of surviving a catastrophe, and even more, the deep-seated yearning of her heart!

"Teacher, His Majesty Emperor Yan, everyone...I'm back." Xiao Chen's gaze swept over the familiar yet weary faces within the array, finally resting on Flame Heart's tear-streaked face. His eyes softened for a moment, then turned into an icy, bone-chilling killing intent, locking onto Soul Destruction Heaven and the Two Netherworld Elders outside the array. "From now on, leave it to me."

His voice was calm, yet it carried an undeniable, absolute confidence!

"Arrogant!" Soul Destruction Heaven suppressed the fear in his heart and roared, "So what if you got lucky and broke through? A mere Three-Revolving Dou Saint, daring to speak so brazenly in front of us! Today, I'll let you, this ignorant boy, truly experience what despair is!"

"Two Netherworld Elders! Attack with me! Let's finish this quickly and crush him!" Soul Destruction Heaven roared at the two black-robed elders beside him. He knew Xiao Chen's strangeness and growth rate well and absolutely couldn't give him any more opportunities!

"Yes!" The two black-robed elders responded simultaneously, and their three auras instantly merged! The Netherworld Erosion Heaven Array's light surged, and billions of wailing resentful souls converged, forming three colossal phantom images of the Netherworld Ghost Emperor that blotted out the sky! The aura of each phantom image was comparable to a Fourth-Turn Dou Sheng at their peak! The three Ghost Emperors simultaneously extended their gigantic Netherworld claws, tearing through the sky, carrying terrifying death qi that corroded souls and extinguished life, and fiercely clawed at Xiao Chen from three different directions! The ferocity of the attack caused space to collapse in large sections!

This was the Soul Hall's combined secret technique—Three Emperors Devouring Souls! Its power was enough to severely wound or even kill an ordinary Fifth-Turn Dou Sheng!

Facing this world-destroying strike, the hope that had just risen in the hearts of those within the array instantly climbed back into their throats! Flame Heart even cried out in alarm: "Brother Chen, be careful!"

However, Xiao Chen remained unmoving, a hint of disdain even flashing in his eyes.

"An ant trying to shake a tree, ridiculously overestimating itself."

He slowly raised his right hand, fingers slightly spread, and gently pressed down towards the three howling Netherworld giant claws.

"Chaos Sacred Realm, suppress!"

There was no earth-shattering energy explosion, only an invisible, intangible domain power, as if it could stabilize the universe and suppress all laws, quietly spreading out with Xiao Chen at its center! The space within a hundred zhang around him instantly transformed into an independent Chaos Sacred Realm! Within this realm, earth, water, fire, and wind operated on their own, the clear and turbid separated, and laws were spontaneously generated!

The three immensely powerful Netherworld giant claws, the moment they entered the range of this Chaos Sacred Realm, seemed to fall into an invisible quagmire! Their speed drastically decreased! The death qi and resentment contained within them were rapidly purified and assimilated by the active chaotic qi and Origin Qi within the sacred realm! The giant claws became ethereal and transparent at a visible rate!

"What?! Domain transforming into a realm?! How is this possible?!" Soul Destruction Heaven and the Two Netherworld Elders were aghast! Domain transforming into a realm was an ultimate state that only high-tier Dou Saints (usually Six-Turn and above) could touch! It meant that one's comprehension of their own laws had reached the level of creating a miniature world! How could Xiao Chen, a mere Three-Revolving Dou Saint, achieve this?!

"Shatter." Xiao Chen softly uttered a single word.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

The three Netherworld giant claws, under the absolute suppression of the Chaos Sacred Realm, shattered like fragile glass, inch by inch, turning into scattered death qi that was finally completely devoured by the chaotic qi! They vanished into thin air!

Effortlessly, the killing intent was resolved!

The entire scene was dead silent! The Soul Hall army was mute, and the Anti-Alliance members within the array were dumbfounded!

"This...is this the power of a Three-Revolving Dou Saint?!" Venerable Feng's voice was dry, filled with disbelief.

"No...this isn't an ordinary Three-Revolving Dou Saint..." Xuan Kongzi's eyes were burning, filled with immense excitement and relief. "Chen'er's foundation...his sacred realm...has already transcended common sense!"

"My turn." Xiao Chen's eyes turned cold, and his figure instantly vanished! The next moment, he appeared like a ghost before one of the black-robed elders (one of the Two Netherworld Elders)!

"Not good!" The black-robed elder was scared out of his wits, frantically channeling death qi to condense a Netherworld Bone Shield in front of him!

"Chaos Heaven Opening Fist!"

Xiao Chen unleashed a simple and direct punch! On the fist's edge, chaotic currents condensed into the phantom image of a Heaven-Opening Axe Blade, ignoring spatial distance, and directly struck the bone shield!

"Boom—!!!"

A dull, thunderous roar! The Netherworld Bone Shield, which was strong enough to withstand the attacks of a Fifth-Turn Dou Sheng, couldn't even hold for a single breath before it exploded! The force of the punch continued unabated, fiercely striking the black-robed elder's chest!

"Pfft—!"

The black-robed elder's protective death qi shattered like paper, his chest instantly caved in, and blood mixed with fragments of internal organs spurted out! His eyes were filled with extreme terror and disbelief, and his body flew backward like a kite with a broken string, his aura like a flickering candle in the wind, instantly weakening to the extreme!

One punch! Severely wounding a Fifth-Turn Dou Sheng!

"Second Brother!" The other black-robed elder's eyes were bloodshot, and he roared as he pounced, pointing his Netherworld Yellow Spring Finger at Xiao Chen's back!

Xiao Chen didn't even turn his head, striking out with a backhand finger! The starlight and chaotic qi intertwined at his fingertip!

"Star Annihilation Finger!"

"Hiss!"

The finger winds collided! The black-robed elder's Netherworld Yellow Spring Finger glow melted instantly like ice and snow meeting the sun! However, Xiao Chen's finger wind swept through like a broken bamboo, directly piercing through his finger bone, and the residual force even blew his entire arm into a bloody mist!

"Ah—!" The black-robed elder let out a shrill scream and staggered back!

In a flash, two Fifth-Turn Dou Saints, one severely wounded and one crippled!

Soul Destruction Heaven was terrified! He finally understood that the Xiao Chen before him had completely grown into a monster he couldn't comprehend! His strength was definitely comparable to a Six-Turn Dou Sheng!

"Escape! Must escape!" Soul Destruction Heaven no longer had any will to fight, turning to tear open space and flee!

"Trying to leave now? Too late!" Xiao Chen's cold voice was like a declaration from the Grim Reaper! His figure moved again, space folded, and he instantly blocked Soul Destruction Heaven's path! The Chaos Sacred Realm fully unfurled, completely sealing off tens of thousands of feet of surrounding void!

"Xiao Chen! How dare you kill me?! His Majesty Hun Tiandi will never let you off!" Soul Destruction Heaven roared, his voice betraying his inner weakness despite his outward fierceness.

"Hun Tiandi? He'll soon be joining you." Xiao Chen's eyes were indifferent. In his palm, chaotic currents wildly converged, forming a gigantic chaotic seal that seemed capable of suppressing all the heavens and myriad realms!

"Chaos...Heaven Opening Seal!"

The great seal descended, laws solidified, and space-time froze! Soul Destruction Heaven struggled desperately, unleashing several life-saving treasures, but in the face of the supreme seal intent that could open worlds and stabilize the universe, all resistance was futile!

"No—!!!" In Soul Destruction Heaven's desperate roar, the chaotic great seal crushed down! His body and soul were completely pulverized, purified, and turned into nothingness!

The Vice Hall Master of the Soul Hall, Soul Destruction Heaven, had fallen!

The remaining severely wounded black-robed elder, seeing the dire situation, burned his vital blood, transforming into a streak of blood-light, and frantically fled deep into the Netherworld Erosion Heaven Array, using the power of the array to escape in disarray.

With their commander fallen and an elder fleeing, the Soul Hall army's morale instantly collapsed, turning into a chaotic mess!

"Anti-Alliance members! Follow me...kill!" Xiao Chen stood in the void, his voice like thunder!

"Kill—!!!"

The Anti-Alliance army, which had been accumulating strength for a long time, erupted in an earth-shattering roar, surging out of the Heavenly Stellar Array like a breaching flood, chasing after the retreating Soul Hall army! The situation instantly reversed!

Xiao Chen had returned, turning the tide with his own strength!