357: The flawed jade is the king (96).

A genuine Nine Lotus Great Sage, a top expert of the Soul Hall named Soul Flame, was just like that, dragged into a dark void by that giant hand appearing out of thin air.

A Nine Lotus Great Sage couldn't even manage to resist; even if it happened suddenly, that giant hand was simply too terrifying.

Soul Flame's roar of terror and resentment before death echoed in the void for a moment before being completely swallowed, leaving no further sound.

This eerie and terrifying scene made the remaining three experts present—whether it was Wang Yun, Xuan Yuan, or Spirit Wind Master—feel a chill throughout their bodies.

That was a Nine Lotus Great Sage, an existence standing at the very peak of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, not some random cat or dog that could be handled at will.

Looking across the myriad worlds of the heavens, every move of such a figure was enough to shake a great realm.

Yet before that giant hand, all his struggles and all his Saint Might seemed so laughable and powerless.

"A Supreme?!"

Xuan Yuan's voice was trembling; those two words made his entire body lose strength.

He had thought this mission would encounter obstacles, and even thought Wang Yun might have hidden trump cards.

But he never dreamed he would encounter a terrifying existence suspected to be at the Supreme level here, in this chaotic Boundary Sea.

Fear instantly swallowed him, and his pride and Battle Intent as a Nine Lotus Great Sage vanished without a trace.

"Escape!"

This thought appeared simultaneously in the minds of both Xuan Yuan and Spirit Wind Master.

They could no longer care about besieging and killing Wang Yun, nor could they care about the dignity of a Great Sage or the mission of the "Hall."

Staying alive was the most important thing.

However, while they wanted to escape, that unknown existence did not seem inclined to let them go.

The pitch-black void into which Soul Flame had been dragged did not close.

Instead, an even more terrifying, vast aura surged out, causing the entire Boundary Sea to solidify.

Then, the thing revealed its true face.

It was a colossal remains, slowly emerging from that pitch-black void.

It seemed to occupy the entire empty starry sky; broken stars beside it were as tiny as dust.

Every bone emitted an ancient aura, and the Emperor Dao Law inscribed upon them transformed into visible golden divine chains.

This should have been a sacred and majestic sight, but due to one detail, it appeared incredibly eerie.

The eye sockets of these remains were empty, two bottomless black holes.

But right in the center of its forehead, a slit abruptly cracked open.

An eye slowly opened from that slit.

It was a Double Pupil.

The moment Wang Yun saw that Double Pupil clearly, his mind was shaken to the core.

He recognized this Double Pupil.

It belonged to the cloth-robed man with a gentle temperament he had encountered when he was Jun Yun.

That man also possessed an identical Double Pupil.

Wang Yun didn't know what had happened to this cloth-robed man.

For his remains to actually appear in this boundless Boundary Sea, where even Great Emperors could get lost.

What alarmed him even more was that as the remains swallowed Soul Flame's flesh and Divine Soul and became increasingly complete, the pure Emperor Dao Law upon it were instead constantly dissipating.

Replacing them was a spiteful and sinister aura.

At this point, Xuan Yuan and Spirit Wind Master could no longer afford to think about such things.

As the feeling of being restricted loosened slightly, they each brought out their bottom-of-the-barrel life-saving trump cards, their expressions resolute.

"Break for me!"

Xuan Yuan roared, actually detonating the extreme dao saint weapon in his hand, the Lightning War Spear.

Billions of bolts of lightning instantly exploded, and the destructive power forcibly blasted open a brief passage to the outside world at the edge of this restricted Boundary Sea.

Xuan Yuan's figure turned into a streak of light, charging into that passage without hesitation, not even daring to look back as he vanished instantly.

On the other side, Spirit Wind Master crushed an ancient jade talisman.

The moment the jade talisman shattered, a blurred Emperor Shadow emitting Supreme might emerged, enveloping him.

That Emperor Shadow directly tore through the Void Realm, carrying Spirit Wind Master away from this land of death.

The two Nine Lotus Great Sages thus fled miserably using their respective trump cards.

Only Wang Yun remained here, facing that terrifying Double Pupil remains alone.

The Double Pupil on the forehead of the remains slowly turned, finally landing on Wang Yun.

Divine light swept over once again.

This time, Wang Yun had no way to dodge.

From those pupils, he felt a boundless hatred—a hatred not directed at him, but at the entire world and all living beings.

As the pupil light swept over Wang Yun, he felt his vision blur, and the entire world began to twist and peel away.

In the blink of an eye, he had arrived in a completely strange and bizarre space.

This was a gray, void-like space with no sense of direction.

Countless divine items floated around, emitting enticing treasure light.

There was Immortal Gold and Divine Iron, long lost and a fist-sized piece of which was enough to make Great Sages fight over it.

There were Supreme Saint Medicines rooted in the void, flowing with seven-colored radiance.

There were even several extreme dao saint weapons emitting faint Saint Might, floating quietly.

But these peerless treasures, without exception, were all deathly imprisoned by giant gray hands formed from pupil power, their treasure light dimmed.

Wang Yun even saw the Great Sage Soul Flame, who had just been swallowed.

At this moment, he was being seized by over a dozen pupil-power giant hands; his Saint body was covered in cracks, and Saint blood flowed, only to be continuously absorbed by those giant hands.

His Saint Power surged, and the extreme dao saint weapon he had brought in, a Flame Spear, erupted with powerful Divine Might, constantly striking the surrounding giant hands.

His resistance was indeed effective, as several giant hands showed cracks under his attacks.

But just as he was about to break free, more gray giant hands, several times more than before, emerged from the void and attacked him again.

One, two, ten, a hundred... the densely packed gray giant hands completely suppressed all his resistance.

The wail of the Flame Spear sounded, and the light on the spear's body rapidly dimmed.

This Nine Lotus Great Sage instantly fell into despair.

Then, a gray giant hand also discovered the "intruder" Wang Yun and grabbed toward him.

Wang Yun's eyes turned cold, and he immediately activated all his Saint Power.

His hand already gripped the hilt of the peerless sword, prepared to draw the sword and fight back.

He knew very well that his strength and Soul Flame's were roughly equal; once caught, his fate would be no different.

Right at this critical moment.

Chii!

A thick, emerald-green giant vine full of life aura suddenly shot out from the void.

The giant vine directly wrapped around Wang Yun's waist and yanked him backward, narrowly avoiding the grasp of that gray giant hand.

Wang Yun was pulled to a relatively safe area by the giant vine.

He steadied himself and looked up.

He saw an exquisite woman standing there quietly.

She wore a verdant green dress, and her entire body was surrounded by dense life dao rhyme.

Wang Yun was startled.

He was very familiar with this woman.

She was the last Bloodline of the Vegetation Lineage.

The Hundred Flower Maiden.