Ascension Dragon Technique!

Xu Ping transformed into a scarlet dragon shadow, moving at such speed that it surpassed the limits of Divine Sense detection, leaving only a slowly dissipating afterimage in place.

Xu Ping’s body had already shattered layers of air barriers, brutally forceful as he directly rammed through the Ancient Demon with red scales, who momentarily lost vigilance due to spitting out insect clouds.

The Ancient Demon didn’t even have time to react, only feeling a wild and domineering force, accompanied by draconic might, harshly crash into its body, causing its blood to surge and making it stagger!

The next moment.

The scarlet dragon shadow had already appeared between the destructive swarm of insect clouds and Shan Tianyou!

Boom!

The scarlet true dragon collided forcefully with the pitch-black insect torrent.

There was no envisioned energy explosion, only an extremely dense, teeth-gritting sound of "crack" breaking.

The scarlet dragon shadow emitted a mournful cry, shattering with a roar, reverting into Xu Ping’s figure.

Ascension Dragon Technique was actually broken!

But that magnificent insect cloud, powerful enough to devour a late-stage cultivator, was also forcibly halted by this sacrificial blow, its surging momentum was paused.

This momentary obstruction was already a matter of life and death for a cultivator like Shan Tianyou.

He snapped back to reality, desperately activated his ancient mirror, shedding layers of clear radiance, retreating urgently.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Xu, for saving my life!"

Shan Tianyou, having narrowly escaped death, spoke with a slight tremble in his voice, his eyes filled with gratitude and lingering fear.

The other Human Race cultivators also silently breathed a sigh of relief.

If a late-stage cultivator had indeed been slaughtered, they would likely have had to flee in panic.

At this moment, Xu Ping gave a slight nod, indicating that it was nothing.

However, all his attention was already firmly locked onto the beautifully terrifying figure ahead.

His blood slightly stirred, mana surged endlessly, his divine sense intensely focused.

Xu Ping knew that if he did not hold back this Divinity Transformation-level demon, today at the God Burying Bay, it would be the collapse of the Outer Sea Human Race.

"Interesting..."

The beautiful woman did not immediately attack, her enchanting eyes scanned Xu Ping from head to toe, her mouth curving into an increasingly playful smirk.

"Just a mid-stage Nascent Soul, yet your Divine Sense and Divine Techniques rival the late stage, even surpassing it."

"Such aptitude would be considered rare even in my Holy Race."

Her voice carried a lazy magnetism but contained a cold killing intent, "Devouring you would further enhance this incarnation of mine."

Xu Ping remained expressionless, only slowly raising his hand.

Seventy-three magic swords buzzed to life again, weaving into a tightly knit sword array before him.

"Devour me?"

Xu Ping’s voice was calm, "Let’s see if you... have the teeth for it!"

Upon hearing this, a flash of blackness passed through the beautiful woman’s starry eyes, as black insects swarmed the skies in an instant.

Seeing this scene, Xu Ping’s expression grew extraordinarily grave.

The sword array, facing this swarm, could perhaps slightly impede its momentum, but would hardly harm its essence, merely exhausting mana.

If caught and entangled, the magical treasures’ glow would quickly dim, and his flesh would be gnawed to nothing!

A different approach was necessary.

In the depths of Xu Ping’s eyes, an extreme and deathly gray slowly rose.

A force capable of reducing all to oblivion erupted from within him!

"Annihilation!"

Xu Ping extended his fingers like a sword, pointing from afar.

A grey-white divine light, not dazzling and even somewhat dark, burst forth from his fingertips, silently crashing into the surging pitch-black insect cloud!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no brilliant splendor.

The moment that grey-white divine light touched the insect cloud, it seemed like nothing more than a pebble tossed into water, rippling slightly.

Yet, those bizarre black insects, normally resistant to magical treasures, seemed to have all life and vitality instantly drained, their tiny compound eyes dimming to dullness.

They fell in droves, like autumn leaves swept away by the wind, rustling down from the sky.

In the blink of an eye.

A dense "black rain" fell between Xu Ping and the beautiful woman!

The rain of insects hadn’t yet hit the sea surface and transformed directly into exceedingly fine gray powder, dispersing with the wind, as if it had never existed.

"Effective!"

Seeing this, Xu Ping finally exhaled a long breath, having held tight, feeling a slight ease in his tension.

This Life and Death Divine Light truly was extraordinary; no matter how strong the defense, it directly stripped vitality.

If even this technique couldn’t deal with this bizarre swarm, then today he would likely have to use all his trump cards to endure.

At this moment, the ever-composed beautiful woman’s peerless face finally revealed a noticeable change.

A trace of astonishment and surprise flickered through her enchanting eyes, her delicate brows furrowed slightly.

"Desperate?"

With her eyes, she naturally saw that such divine techniques often came with great costs, usually using the caster’s life span and primordial qi as fuel; the greater the power, the more terrifying the consumption.

In her view, this act was no different from drinking poison to quench thirst.

"I want to see, how much life span does a mere lower realm Nascent Soul like you have to squander, how long can you withstand such consumption!"

The beautiful woman’s lips curled into a cold, mocking smile.

She parted her red lips again.

This time, a more immense and denser swarm of pitch-black insects surged forth like a breached dam, intent on exhausting Xu Ping through sheer volume!

Seeing this scene, Xu Ping felt not fear but joy, even a trace of cold mockery flashed across his mind.

Competing with him in endurance?

To see who has more resources?

This was simply courting death!

Not to mention that after having cultivated Life and Death Divine Light to the Perfection stage, his control over its power had reached the Transformation Realm, the consumption far lesser than outsiders imagined.