Chapter 1162: Giant Hand of the Abyss

Chapter 1162: Chapter 529: Giant Hand of the Abyss

Chapter 529

Xu Ran’s voice was still flat and calm, yet it made the Blood Demon feel as though it had fallen into an icy cavern of the Nine Netherworld.

“N-no… I wouldn’t dare! A misunderstanding, this is all a misunderstanding! Master of Dragon Elephant, I…”

The Blood Demon’s once-frenzied will had now been completely replaced by boundless terror. It wanted to explain, wanted to flee, but that Power which shackled heaven and earth rendered all its struggles utterly futile.

It couldn’t comprehend this at all!

The other clearly only had the aura of the Bone Forging Realm, so why could he freeze time and space with a single word, and smelt its Divine Techniques into nothing with a single grasp? What in the world was that Power? That wasn’t Law, wasn’t Divine Technique, but… a higher level of existence—a crushing suppression of the “Dao” itself!

Xu Ran gave it no further chance.

He lifted his foot, stepped forward, and lightly stamped down.

One step.

His figure ignored spatial distance entirely, appearing directly before the Blood Demon.

The Blood Demon’s flowing, blood-colored Crystal Stone body trembled violently.

Xu Ran extended his left hand—that ink-jade hand, warm and lustrous like fine jade, representing “life” and “creation”—and gently pressed it upon the Blood Demon’s body.

“Your Power… is not bad.”

“From this day forth, it belongs to me.”

As his words fell, Xu Ran’s left hand lit up with dazzling jade-colored Divine Light.

“‘Primordial Dao Bone Scripture’—Devour!”

“No—!”

The Blood Demon let out a howl of Despair.

It felt that the “origin of blood” within its body, something it had painfully cultivated for thousands of years and took pride in, was now madly pouring out in an irresistible torrent, being voraciously swallowed by that jade hand!

Its body grew dim and shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Meanwhile, Xu Ran’s aura climbed higher and higher!

“Bone origin essence: +5000, +6000, +7000…”

“‘Primordial Dao Bone Scripture’: Bone Forging Realm Great Success (85%)… (95%)…”

Boom!

An even more terrifying aura erupted from within Xu Ran!

Bone Forging Realm—Perfection!

In just a few breaths, a powerhouse at Burning Fire Realm Great Perfection had been alive and forcibly sucked into a “dried husk” by him! That blood-colored Crystal Stone body completely lost all luster, turning into a pile of useless powder that scattered with the wind.

The entire field fell into Deathly Silence.

Whether it was the Purple Lightning Legion, the Decayed Hand, or those hundred thousand desperadoes, their Soul Fires all seemed on the verge of being extinguished.

If Xu Ran smelting the Blood Hand with a single grip had filled them with shock and bewilderment—

—then him alive and draining a peerless Burning Fire Realm Great Perfection of the same realm had brought them something from the deepest depths of their souls… terror and collapse!

This was a devil!

No, something far more terrifying than a devil!

He could not only strip away your attacks, but also… treat your very being as the “provisions” for his next advancement!

“Thud!”

The leader of the Purple Lightning Legion, that proud Purple Flame Knight, was the first to tumble from his Nightmare Warhorse, his massive body heavily kneeling upon the ground, head buried deep.

“The Purple Lightning… pay respects to the Master of Dragon Elephant! We… were blind fools, our sins deserve ten thousand deaths! We implore our lord… for mercy!”

“The Decayed Hand… pay respects to our lord!”

“We… pay respects to the Master of Dragon Elephant!”

The sound of kneeling, like mountains collapsing and Tsunamis roaring, rose and fell in waves. This time, there was no trace of arrogance or greed, only the purest reverence and submission.

In this ossuary domain that recognized only Power, Xu Ran, in the most direct and tyrannical fashion, proclaimed his dominion to all who would come after!

Xu Ran watched all of this calmly, his eyes as placid as an ancient well.

He slowly withdrew his hand, feeling the surging Power within his body.

With Bone Forging Realm Perfection, his bones had entirely turned ink-jade in color, indestructible. And on his right arm, the hundredth Gui Xu demonic pattern, after absorbing the Blood Demon’s origin, finally completed its final metamorphosis, connecting with the other ninety-nine patterns to form a complete and mysterious… “Returning Ruins Demon Map”!

This Demon Map caused his “Great Dao Furnace” to soar in might by no less than tenfold!

“Rise.”

Xu Ran’s voice shattered the Deathly Silence.

“Since you have entered my Dragon Elephant Domain, you will abide by my rules.”

“This seat has said I would grant you a grand feast, and I will not go back on my word.”

His gaze swept across the hundred thousand desperadoes below, who were all trembling like cicadas in winter, and finally landed upon that fully formed super Grand Array.

“The time… has come.”

“Zhen Shan!”

“Your subordinate is here!” Zhen Shan replied with fervor, his lord’s might far surpassing that of the past!

“Transmit my decree. All living beings within the Dragon Elephant Domain, take your positions and prepare to receive… the baptism!”

“As you command!”

Xu Ran’s voice resounded throughout the entire Dragon Elephant Domain.

“Today, this seat shall fully activate the ‘Gui Xu Reincarnation Grand Millstone’!”

“Draw… the Bone Demon out of the Abyss!”

“With the Abyss as fuel, and heaven and earth as the furnace, we shall refine a supreme great elixir and scatter it across this realm!”

“Whether you ascend, or are destroyed, will depend entirely on your own fortune!”

As his words fell, he paid the crowd no further heed. His figure blurred, and he appeared at the summit of the Dragon Elephant’s leg bone, at the very center of that jade-white platform which pierced through heaven and earth.

He sat cross-legged, hands forming seals.

“Grand Array, arise!”

Rumble—!

With a single command, the entire Dragon Elephant Domain—this graveyard that had slumbered for countless ages—was fully awakened!

One by one, the array foundations embedded across the vast earth lit up with brilliant radiance. The Power of Extreme Cold from Nethercold Iron and the astral Power of the Star Demon Stones were instantly triggered, transforming into two colossal torrents of Energy—one black, one white—surging madly along complex array patterns toward the central Dragon Elephant leg bone!

The whole world changed color, Energy raging!

An unimaginably vast phantom of a super millstone, woven from light and array patterns, slowly emerged in the sky above the Dragon Elephant Domain and began to turn!