"Boom!"

The sharp axe light, emitting an endless aura of destruction, pierced through the karmic fire curtain, flickering. Qiu Taoguang's body, engulfed in intense Evil Qi, abruptly halted, then was directly split apart.

A dense blood rain poured out in an instant in the void, accompanied by the two severed halves of the corpse, scattering downward.

The bloody scent carrying thick Evil Qi spread wantonly in the fierce wind; the previously raging waves of karmic fire also lost control at this moment, scattering and collapsing into the wounded mountain forest below, instantly igniting a vast fiery sea.

"Ah!!!"

Thick smoke rose into the air, and from the blood rain came an extremely tragic scream.

Amid the blood-spraying, flying, severed corpse, weak Divine Soul fluctuations emerged, followed by an extremely ethereal figure desperately escaping.

The fear written on the indistinct face of the phantom, looking towards Jiang Shu standing in the void not far away, surged further in the phantom's gaze.

The terrifying power contained within the Panwu Heaven Opening Axe had far surpassed Qiu Taoguang's expectations, barely giving him any time to react, nearly being slain by a single axe!

It was only after his Divine Soul broke away from the remaining body that he suddenly realized Jiang Shu's formidable strength after breaking through the Vientiane Realm.

Even though he had obtained the Daoist Monarch of Great Disaster's Great Dao Inheritance, he was still utterly powerless in the face of the latter.

More decisively than the day he and Lord Heavenly Dragon led the Demon Sect and Demon Clan's True Inheritors and Commanders to jointly besiege Jiang Shu!

The transparency of the Divine Soul floating mid-air rippled violently, and Qiu Taoguang dared not linger any longer, screaming in fear, quickly activating the Disaster Dao to wrap his Divine Soul and flee madly to the distance.

But at this moment, Jiang Shu's indifferent gaze had already turned towards him.

"Escape?"

A trace of chilling intent flashed deep in his eyes, Jiang Shu coldly snorted, raising his hand towards Qiu Taoguang's phantom Divine Soul in the distance, his five fingers abruptly clenched!

"Boom!"

With his action, the Thunder Dao above him trembled violently, threads of brilliant lightning emerged, instantly condensing into a thunderous palm print filled with turbulent power!

Then, the lightning flared, and the thunderous palm print roared out, like a meteor chasing the moon, crashing down upon Qiu Taoguang's Divine Soul!

Feeling the destructive power emanating from behind, especially the grand thunder might which specifically restrained Divine Souls, Qiu Taoguang felt a surge of anxiety, his phantom Divine Soul involuntarily trembling.

"No! Jiang Taixuan! You can't kill me!"

"If you dare to destroy my Divine Soul Origin here, my Demon Sect will surely use all its power to fight you to the death!"

"Let me go! Jiang Taixuan, if you spare me, I, Qiu Taoguang, can swear a Heavenly Dao oath that the Demon Sect will never oppose your True Martial Sect again!"

"The Great Dao Inheritance I gained from the Demon Sect relics, I can also hand it all over to you!"

"Also..."

Faced with life and death, Qiu Taoguang's previous arrogance after breaking through the Vientiane Realm was utterly shattered, his pride as the Demon Sect's First True Inheritor obliterated, he could only shout hoarsely, offering tempting conditions in the hope that Jiang Shu would show mercy and spare him.

However, his intention was doomed to failure from the start.

Once war broke out between the Eight Great Sects and the Demon Sect and Demon Race, it was already a fight to the death.

It was not a battle for Dao sect orthodoxy, but a fight for life and survival, for territory.

Once they lost this battle, even the mighty True Martial Sect could fall apart and flee separately.

This was what Jiang Shu did not want to see.

This world was so real and cruel!

No matter how eloquently Qiu Taoguang spoke, he could only see Jiang Shu's unchanged expression, watching helplessly as the thunderous, raging lightning palm print crossed the void, completely engulfing his ethereal Divine Soul in an intense assault.

"No!!!"

Finally, under Qiu Taoguang's terrified gaze, the thunderous palm print roared in, thousands of lightning serpents burst forth, a cocoon of lightning gathered within, then expanded rapidly, absorbing Heaven and Earth Primordial Power like a whale drinking water, until the radiant light covered the sun, moon, and stars in the sky.

Within the Thunder Cocoon, countless raging thunder surged, refining everything anew.

The screams abruptly ceased, the sinister Divine Soul fluctuations belonging to Qiu Taoguang were barely audible now.

The Disaster Dao once belonging to the soul, under Jiang Shu's soul refining, faintly reappeared in the air.

Below, upon sensing Qiu Taoguang's Vientiane Realm aura vanish within the thunderous cocoon, Zong Yue's gaze nearly froze.

As Jiang Shu appeared and saved him, then commenced a fierce battle with Qiu Taoguang, he had envisioned the outcome of this fight.

Yet, the situation unfolding currently was something he had never imagined.

Seeing Qiu Taoguang, who could defeat him, the top prodigy of the Eight Great Sects, and even kill him directly, now being handled like a dead dog by Jiang Shu, Zong Yue couldn't help but feel an overwhelming sense of absurdity.

"He... Daoist Monarch Taixuan, has actually reached such a profound stage."

"How long has it been... Before, wasn't he still in the Primordial Pill Realm?"

Clenching his fists within his sleeves, Zong Yue raised his head to look at the imposing figure in the sky, his expression becoming unusually complex.