104: The might of the blazing sun

Just as the four stepped onto the plaza, the pained faces on the twisted stone tablet snapped their eyes open! Billions of blood-colored gazes filled with madness, malice, pain, and the desire for destruction locked onto the intruders like physical arrows!

Boom!!!

The space of the entire plaza shook violently! That massive will was like a slumbering primordial demon being startled awake, its violent mental impact sweeping forth like an apocalyptic tsunami!

"Not good! Retreat!" Grand Sage Han Li shouted sharply. Her ice crystal scepter erupted with an unprecedented cold light, attempting to freeze that invisible mental impact.

However, the impact was too terrifying! Her Absolute Cold Qi could only slow it by a fraction!

Sage Xuan Ji's defensive array patterns shattered layer by layer like paper! Grand Sage Long Zhan roared, protected by a dark gold dragon shadow, yet even he was struck until his Divine Soul shook and blood seeped from his seven orifices! Starlight chains vibrated wildly around Sky Dome Old Man, and tiny cracks appeared on his withered body!

"Ants... disturb... sleep... swallow... Soul!" A chaotic, overlapping voice filled with the shrieks of billions in pain exploded directly in the depths of their Souls!

The twisted stone tablet suddenly erupted with a sky-high pillar of black-red Resentful Evil Qi! Within the pillar, countless malevolent blood-colored Soul shadows condensed, transforming into a giant hand composed of pure negative energy that blotted out the sky!

This giant hand contained the terrifying power to annihilate Divine Souls and pollute Laws. Ignoring the distance of space, it clawed down ruthlessly at the four great experts who were locked by the mental impact and whose Divine Souls were in turmoil!

The shadow of death was heavier than ever before! As strong as they were, facing this mysterious existence, they felt as small as candles in the wind!

This was not a confrontation on the same level at all! If this giant hand fell, the four of them would surely have their Divine Souls extinguished.

At this critical moment!

"Lì——!!!"

A clear phoenix cry, capable of piercing gold and cracking stone and burning down the Nine Heavens, tore through the lead-gray sky of the Burial God Ancient Domain without warning!

This sound was so high-pitched, so noble, and contained a terrifying majesty that could incinerate the heavens and command all fires to submit!

The moment the sound rang out, the blood-colored giant hand condensed from Resentful Evil Qi suddenly stalled as if it had met its nemesis! The countless blood-colored Soul shadows forming the hand let out terrified shrieks, and their forms began to destabilize!

Next, an indescribably brilliant and blazing light descended from the heavens!

That was not light; it was the ultimate of fire! It was the Origin that incinerated all things! The sky seemed to be ignited as endless red-gold flames poured down like a collapsing heavenly river!

Everywhere the flames passed, the frozen spatial Resentful Evil Qi, the thick Netherworld Death Qi, and even the ancient clouds were instantly evaporated and purified! The temperature at the core of the Burial God Ancient Domain instantly soared to a level capable of melting divine iron!

In the center of the endless divine flames, an incredibly elegant and majestic figure descended.

Heaven-Burning Vermilion Bird—Yan Xi!

The might of a Quasi-Emperor was as deep as an abyss and as heavy as a prison, suppressing all eternity!

Just by hovering there, the terrifying heatwaves and the pressure of the incinerating Laws she emitted made the space at the core of the Burial God Ancient Domain groan under the burden.

The pressure on Sky Dome Old Man, Sage Xuan Ji, Grand Sage Han Li, and Grand Sage Long Zhan suddenly eased. The terrible mental impact was easily dispersed by Yan Xi's pressure.

They looked at the sun-like existence in the air with utter shock, waves of astonishment crashing in their hearts!!

Yan Xi's burning Solar Wheel Eyes indifferently scanned the violently twisting, silently shrieking mysterious existence below.

"Noisy." The cold and majestic female voice was like a divine oracle from the Nine Heavens.

Without any extra movement, she simply raised a graceful claw burning with divine flames and lightly pressed down toward the enraged Resentful Stone Tablet.

Boom—!!!

A giant fiery claw composed entirely of Heaven-Burning Divine Flame, covering the entire sky, appeared out of nowhere! This claw was condensed to the extreme, containing the supreme Laws of incinerating all techniques and purifying all filth!

How could its power be merely a hundred times stronger than that resentful giant hand?

Chi—!!!

The blood-colored giant hand, condensed from eternal resentment, Evil Qi, and divine fragments, which could easily obliterate a Saint, could not even last a moment before the Heaven-Burning Divine Flame! It was instantly ignited, decomposed, and purified! Countless agonizingly wailing Soul shadows were reduced to ashes in the divine flame!

The giant fiery claw's momentum remained unchecked as it slammed heavily onto the main body of the twisted Resentful Stone Tablet!

"Roar——!!!" The stone tablet let out an extremely shrill scream. The entire tablet twisted and expanded violently, erupting with even thicker black-red Resentful Evil Qi in an attempt to resist. However, it was all in vain!

The Heaven-Burning Divine Flame, Yan Xi's Natal Divine Fire, was extremely yang and fierce, specifically countering all dark and filthy things! Moreover, she was personally taking action from the Quasi-Emperor Realm!

The divine flame burned the stone tablet mercilessly. The resentment and Evil Qi composing the tablet were rapidly evaporated and purified as if they had met their nemesis. Those painfully struggling faces twisted, melted, and vanished in the flames. The volume of the stone tablet shrank and faded at a pace visible to the naked eye!

With just one strike! The terrifying existence that had brought the four great experts to the brink of despair saw its aura plummet instantly. Its form became illusory and transparent, as if it would completely dissipate at any moment!

In its chaotic and violent will, an emotion called "fear" was clearly transmitted for the first time! It frantically retracted its power.

Yan Xi retracted the giant fiery claw, not pursuing to completely obliterate it. She floated in the air, red-gold divine radiance flowing around her like a monarch patrolling her territory, her majesty inviolable.

"Your pain stems from resentment. However, this world is not a place for you to vent."

Yan Xi's cold and majestic voice rang out again, "My Master has decreed: This place shall be opened as a trial ground for all races. You are not to take the initiative to attack them."

Her voice carried the power of Laws that brooked no question, etched into the Origin of the mysterious existence like a brand.

The violently twisting, illusory, and transparent stone tablet suddenly stalled. On the faces of the mysterious existence, the madness and pain seemed to freeze for a moment.

At the core, the weak but resilient obsession belonging to the living seemed to be forcibly awakened into a sliver of clarity under the impact of the Quasi-Emperor's pressure.

"...Trial... no... attack..." The chaotic and overlapping voice was intermittent, filled with struggle and resentment, but even more so with submission in the face of absolute crushing power.

It felt Yan Xi's power to incinerate all things, and even more so, it felt the unfathomable and terrifying aura of the "Master" behind her, which made it tremble from its Soul! To resist would mean complete annihilation.

To be able to take a Quasi-Emperor Realm expert as a servant, one could not imagine how terrifying the person behind her was!

"I... promise... Those who enter... their cultivation must not exceed the Law Realm."

Finally, a weaker but slightly clearer mental fluctuation emanated from the depths of the stone tablet.

Simultaneously, an invisible ripple of rules spread out from the stone tablet, instantly enveloping the entire core area of the Burial God Ancient Domain.

An invisible barrier formed, barring any living being attempting to forcibly enter this area with a cultivation level exceeding the Law Realm.

Under absolute power, the agreement was reached.

Yan Xi nodded slightly. Her burning Solar Wheel Eyes took one last look at the four great experts below, who were shocked into silence.

"This matter is concluded. You all, take care of yourselves."

The cold voice fell. Her figure transformed into an eternal flame that tore through the sky, instantly disappearing above the Burial God Ancient Domain as if she had never appeared.

Only the lingering terrifyingly high temperature and the aura of purifying all evil in the air proved that the shocking scene just now was not an illusion.

On the plaza, there was a deathly silence.

Grand Sage Han Li's hand, tightly gripping the ice crystal scepter, trembled slightly, her fingertips cold.

The luster of the dark gold dragon scales on Grand Sage Long Zhan was dim, and his heavy breathing exposed the waves of shock in his heart.

The jade whisk in Sage Xuan Ji's hand drooped. His eyes were dazed as he murmured, "What kind of expert is this... that mysterious woman... and the Master she spoke of..."