Nine Heavens Martial Emperor

The two sealers had been looking down on Lin Hao just moments before. To now deploy both of their Divine Souls against an injured man could be described as both making a mountain out of a molehill and being excessively cautious.

Even Lin Hao himself hadn’t expected this turn of events.

However, Lin Hao was unafraid.

In the moments just past, Lin Hao had not only been using an imperial art to mend his body, but had also been continuously working to summon his Divine Soul.

He had been injured the first time because his Divine Soul hadn’t emerged. Naturally, Lin Hao wouldn’t make the same mistake again.

Just as the two sealers deployed their blood moon Divine Souls, Lin Hao successfully summoned his own.

The two sealers attacked, once again draining the air and turning the surrounding area into a vacuum.

Two crimson moons hung in the air, radiating a powerful and utterly terrifying aura of annihilation.

But a sharp glint flashed in Lin Hao’s eyes. A tiny human figure leaped from his body and stretched its hands out to meet the two blood moons.

Bathed in the glow of the blood moons, the hands became a translucent crimson, so clear that even the tiny blood vessels and bones within were plainly visible.

Such a pair of tender little hands... Forget a Soul Gathering Realm Martial Artist; even a novice who had just begun to practice martial arts could shatter them to dust with a single finger flick.

But the moment this tiny figure appeared, a sudden chill emanated from the two sealers.

The chill shot up their spines and into their skulls, making both of them shiver uncontrollably.

The next moment, a scene unfolded that left the two sealers utterly stunned.

The two small hands had somehow stopped the blood moons!

The two blood moons were their Divine Souls! A Divine Soul’s power was far more terrifying than that of the Martial Artist themself, and yet this tiny figure had stopped them.

This was beyond their comprehension.

And then, their minds went blank.

Because with a mere shudder of those little hands, the two blood moons were instantly annihilated!

Annihilating Divine Souls with a single tremor!

PFFT!

With their Divine Souls annihilated, the two sealers were sent flying backward as if struck by lightning, spraying a bloody mist into the air.

With the Divine Souls gone, the world was once again freed from darkness.

As the two sealers flew backward, the Divine Soul above Lin Hao’s head moved.

The True Self Divine Soul moved both its hands, then jabbed a finger forward.

The two sealers were still hurtling backward, but this gesture made their hair stand on end. They could feel the threat of death.

They wanted to move but discovered in horror that their bodies had been immobilized, able to do nothing but continue flying backward in a straight line.

Both roared in unison, their bodies glowing as they began to burn their bloodline!

Burning their bloodline allowed them to momentarily regain control. They then shot sideways at an unimaginable speed, crashing down on opposite sides.

Hundreds of meters behind them, two mountain peaks exploded, turning to dust.

Shattering mountains with a single finger!

The two sealers were horrified.

Lin Hao’s Divine Soul was in his own image! For a casual point of its finger to possess such power... It was simply too terrifying.

They had only deployed their Divine Souls because their formidable Spiritual Sense had warned them that something was amiss with Lin Hao. They did it to leave nothing to chance.

They had thought that Lin Hao would be, if not dead, then at least critically injured. They never, ever imagined this would be the outcome.

But what truly made their skin crawl was this: they had been watching Lin Hao closely from the very moment he was injured. They hadn’t sensed the slightest fluctuation in the world’s primordial energy. Yet Lin Hao had somehow recovered his cultivation without them noticing at all, and in such a short period.

They were experts of the Spirit Transformation Realm! Even with their cultivation sealed, their Spiritual Sense remained. The fact that Lin Hao’s actions had completely eluded their Spiritual Sense was a terrifying thought.

And that terrifying Divine Soul... It struck a deep, primal fear into their hearts. It was simply unimaginable.

And in the next moment, their eyes widened even further.

They had seen the Divine Soul’s true form.

Though small, the Divine Soul was clearly a miniature version of Lin Hao.

"A True Self..." Before they could finish, they vanished from the face of the earth. Lin Hao’s True Self Divine Soul had struck again.

Again, it was just a point of the finger. This time, the two didn’t even have a chance to resist.

The True Self Divine Soul radiated a terrifying aura, one that could suppress the myriad heavens throughout the ages.

Where the two had stood, nothing remained but a single medicinal pill and two spirit storage rings.

Fortunately, only they were here. If anyone had witnessed this battle, Lin Hao’s name would have undoubtedly spread across the entire Ancient Road in record time.

For Lin Hao to single-handedly kill two sealers at the Sixth Layer of Soul Gathering Realm was a display of power sufficient to shake the entire Ancient Road. After all, his opponents had been Martial Artists with the true strength of the Spirit Transformation Realm!

However, while Lin Hao had succeeded in killing them, the price he paid was extremely steep.

As the True Self Divine Soul returned to him, Lin Hao’s face turned deathly pale, and his body swayed, on the verge of collapse.

Looking at the still-unconscious Yao Yue not far away, Lin Hao gritted his teeth, mustered the last ounce of his strength to rush over, and placed a restrictive seal on him.

THUD.

Having done this, Lin Hao didn’t even have time to pick up the spirit storage rings and pill left by the two sealers before he collapsed to the ground.

The Divine Soul’s attack had just about drained every last bit of Chaos True Essence from Lin Hao’s body.

Although the True Self Divine Soul was small, its attacks were supremely powerful, and the energy they consumed was unimaginably immense.

Now, Lin Hao barely had the strength to lift a finger.

With tremendous effort, Lin Hao took out the Divine Spring and drank it.

’This is the Starry Sky Ancient Road. If I don’t recover my strength quickly, death will be the only thing waiting for me.’

Lin Hao was keenly aware of this.

As the Divine Spring entered his system, Lin Hao recovered a sliver of strength. He hurriedly collected the spirit storage rings and the pill, then began to recover his True Essence.

This time, Lin Hao circulated the imperial art, and rich primordial energy of heaven and earth came flooding in from all directions.

Before long, a rumbling started within Lin Hao’s body, and then the very world around him seemed to vibrate.

The distant Ancient Trees rustled. On closer listening, the rumbling from within Lin Hao’s body was surprisingly in perfect sync with them.

A jolt went through Lin Hao; he felt as if he had grasped something.

But it was too ethereal and illusory, without root or shadow. Lin Hao couldn’t make sense of it.

Just as he was about to try and grasp it again, a voice interrupted him.

"Lin Hao, what have you done?!" It was Yao Yue, now awake. He looked around and saw no sign of the two sealers. Then, remembering the restrictive seal on his body, he panicked.

Lin Hao had only recovered ten or twenty percent of his power, but now that Yao Yue was awake, he naturally couldn’t continue.

Hearing this, Lin Hao opened his eyes and stared at Yao Yue with a cryptic half-smile. "Take a guess."

"Damn it! They actually dared to run!" Yao Yue erupted in fury.

He wouldn’t have believed in a million years that the two of them could have lost to Lin Hao, but now, it seemed to be the only explanation.

Lin Hao shook his head and said flatly, "They’re dead."

"Dead?" Yao Yue froze, then burst out laughing. "Lin Hao, you think you could kill—"

Yao Yue’s voice died in his throat. In Lin Hao’s hand were two spirit storage rings and a medicinal pill.

Yao Yue was all too familiar with where those items came from.

Yao Yue’s eyes suddenly bulged wide.