"Boom!"
Violent energy rampaged, tearing the space into black cracks. Immediately afterward, a blood-stained figure flew out from within.
Seeing Lin Xuan flying backward, the corners of Seven Kings Hall's mouth slowly curved upward, its aura constantly rising. It was not a demon of this realm to begin with, and having obtained even stronger power, it could perfectly unleash even greater strength.
Therefore, when Seven Kings Hall attacked, its power was extremely terrifying and highly condensed. Even Lin Xuan could not find a weakness to break through.
Moreover, because it harbored anger and intended to vent its spleen, Seven Kings Hall was particularly ruthless. Lin Xuan could not effectively resist at all. It was only because Lin Xuan's life was tough; any other powerhouse below the Revolving Wheel Realm would have been directly killed by that force.
What goes around comes around. Back then, atop Hundred Dynasty Mountain, Lin Xuan, wielding a sword, forced Seven Kings Hall to personally kill Zhou Tong, the controller of the Space Ancestor Symbol that it had painstakingly controlled, and even lost the Space Ancestor Symbol. It could be said that Seven Kings Hall had been holding back a bellyful of fire.
Now that Seven Kings Hall had found an opportunity, it naturally wanted to deal with Lin Xuan properly to vent its hatred. When attacking, Seven Kings Hall was much more ruthless towards Lin Xuan than towards Bo Xuan.
"Hmph!"
Seeing Bo Xuan trying to step forward to stop it, Seven Kings Hall could not help but snort coldly. With a wave of its sleeve, a powerful surge of demonic energy erupted, directly forcing Bo Xuan back.
In the next moment, Seven Kings Hall flashed and arrived in front of Lin Xuan. On its pair of demonic palms, dense demonic energy continuously gathered, vaguely seeming to have two strange demonic eyes converging in the palms of its hands.
Lin Xuan's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he held his sword horizontally in front of him, not having time to use any sword techniques, only able to withstand this move head-on.
"Heh, Sword Saint? Is it very strong? Failing to capture you on Hundred Dynasty Mountain back then doesn't mean you have the strength to compete with this Hall!"
Seven Kings Hall's eyes turned cold, and then, a demonic palm with a pair of strange demonic eyes on it slammed down on the long sword.
"Boom!"
Terrifying power instantly poured down from the pair of demonic palms, causing Lin Xuan's shoulders to sink and his arms to bend. But immediately afterward, the pair of strange demonic eyes opened at this moment.
In the pair of scarlet, strange pupils, two black demonic lights shot out. At such close range, Lin Xuan had nowhere to hide.
"Chih!"
The two black demonic lights instantly pierced through Lin Xuan's shoulders, leaving two thumb-sized holes in his shoulder blades.
"Hmph!"
Lin Xuan groaned, but did not take this opportunity to retreat. He knew very well that even if he retreated now, Seven Kings Hall would still chase after him. Compared to that, it was better to take this opportunity to hold back the opponent in front of him.
In the next instant, Lin Xuan's eyes narrowed. Not only did he not retreat as Seven Kings Hall had expected, but he instead reversed his body, tightly gripping one of its demonic palms with one hand, and with a twist of his right wrist, he swung his long sword and stabbed towards it.
This sudden change caused Seven Kings Hall to be slightly stunned. However, because it was stunned, Lin Xuan would not have the slightest hesitation. The speed of his sword swing was even faster.
The Seven Kings Hall, which had reacted, had its eyes sink, and its right arm suddenly exerted force, directly reversing and holding Lin Xuan's palm, and the other demon palm wanted to resist the long sword in Lin Xuan's hand.
However, just as its strength was incomparable to Lin Xuan's, in terms of swordsmanship, Seven Kings Hall was far from being comparable to Lin Xuan.
Between the waving of the long sword, it directly avoided the demon palm of the Seven Kings Hall, and then, under the control of Lin Xuan, the long sword actually drew a strange arc, stabbing towards the demon palm of the Seven Kings Hall that was holding his palm.
Faced with this sword, Seven Kings Hall did not dare to take the palm of its avatar head-on, and had to let go of the palm that was holding Lin Xuan's wrist.
But at the moment when Seven Kings Hall let go, Lin Xuan turned his hand and clasped its demon palm, and the long sword in his right hand once again drew an arc, actually stabbing towards a certain part of the lower right abdomen of the Seven Kings Hall avatar.
Seven Kings Hall's face changed instantly when it saw this. It didn't know if Lin Xuan's sword was a coincidence, but it didn't dare to gamble, because there, was stored the mass of demonic energy belonging to the Otherworldly Demon Emperor. If that mass of demonic energy leaked out, the strength of its avatar would directly drop to the ordinary Reincarnation Realm.
An ordinary powerhouse of the Reincarnation Realm could not survive in front of the Sword Saint and the controller of the Darkness Ancestor Symbol, as well as the reincarnated Ice Master.
At the moment, Seven Kings Hall did not care about anything else, and directly reached out to block it.
"Ding!"
The long sword struck the Seven Kings Hall's arm, actually emitting a sound of metal clashing, but it was because the demonic armor condensed from demonic energy was too sturdy, making it difficult for Lin Xuan to break through with his current strength.
However, at the same time as Lin Xuan and the Seven Kings Hall exchanged blows, Bo Xuan, who had been directly forced back, had already attacked from behind the Seven Kings Hall. The dense power of darkness caused the demonic energy within the Seven Kings Hall's body to begin to stir, as if it were a nemesis.
The Seven Kings Hall suddenly exerted force in his arm, instantly shaking away the long sword in Lin Xuan's hand. Then, he forcibly twisted his body and struck out with a palm towards Bo Xuan behind him.
"Boom!"
Violent power swept out in all directions, and the powerful energy fluctuations caused the space to ripple for a while.
After forcing back Bo Xuan, the Seven Kings Hall prepared to attack Lin Xuan again. However, at this moment, two black and white slabs of unknown material suddenly appeared out of thin air, located in the space above the heads of the Seven Kings Hall, Lin Xuan, and Bo Xuan.
The moment the black and white slabs appeared, extremely powerful suppression fell upon the Seven Kings Hall, causing his aura to drop significantly in an instant.
Sensing the external force falling, the Seven Kings Hall suddenly looked up, but the next moment, the Seven Kings Hall's pupils shrank, and he exclaimed.
"This is, the Heaven and Earth Gate? How is that possible?"
The Seven Kings Hall couldn't believe that he would see the Heaven and Earth Gate from the Ancient Divine Object Ranking here. That was a divine object that followed the Ice Master back then. Beneath the black and white gates, countless Otherworldly Demon powerhouses had fallen.
The most crucial thing was that the Seven Kings Hall had previously surveyed this space. At the Ice Ancestor Symbol, there was only a Heaven Gate guarding it. If the Heaven and Earth Gate were present, the Seven Kings Hall's mere clone would not have been able to enter silently, let alone forcibly move the entrance of the space channel to the Eastern Xuan Region.
But now, the Heaven and Earth Gate suddenly appeared, which was simply terrifying.
The most crucial thing was that the master of the Heaven and Earth Gate was the Ice Master, and the reincarnated person of the Ice Master was on the scene. Moreover, the Heaven and Earth Gate had a spirit, it was a complete divine object, no different from the Primordial Banner.
The Seven Kings Hall had already spent a great deal of effort to suppress a Primordial Banner. Otherwise, how could he be barely restrained by Bo Xuan and Lin Xuan while fighting two against one? Normally speaking, with the Seven Kings Hall's combat power, he would have completely crushed them.
Turning his head to look at Ling Qingzhu, the Seven Kings Hall's pupils suddenly shrank, and a few traces of horror flashed in his eyes.
"Two Ice Masters?"
Under the gaze of the Seven Kings Hall, Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu each formed hand seals, and a special aura swept out from their bodies, merging together and surging towards the two great gates above their heads.
What made the Seven Kings Hall even more puzzled was that Ling Qingzhu, who was clearly the reincarnated person of the Ice Master, did not control the Heaven Gate belonging to the Ice Master. Instead, she controlled the Earth Gate that did not possess a spirit. Moreover, what made the Seven Kings Hall even more puzzled was that there seemed to be a spirit on that Earth Gate as well?
Could a Spiritual Treasure simultaneously nurture two spirits?
However, this question only flashed through his mind. Compared to the problem of the Heaven and Earth Gate, the Seven Kings Hall was even more shocked by the fact that the aura of the Ice Master on Ying Huanhuan and Ling Qingzhu could actually merge.
Both of them possessed the aura of the Ice Master. One possessed the Ice Ancestor Symbol, and the other controlled the Heaven Gate.
For a time, the Seven Kings Hall couldn't even distinguish who was the Ice Master. After all, both of them possessed the aura belonging to the Ice Master, and both had the divine object belonging to the Ice Master as proof.
Just as the Seven Kings Hall was stunned, two black and white energies fell from the Heaven and Earth Gate, spreading out in all directions.
In the blink of an eye, a huge black and white barrier formed, enveloping Lin Xuan, Bo Xuan, and the Seven Kings Hall within it.
After the lightcover formed, the black and white colors suddenly surged strangely. Then, they faded away, no, not faded away, but merged together, becoming a colorless barrier.
After the barrier completely merged into the space, the black and white Heaven and Earth Gate fell from the sky, and then, it also merged into the space. Subsequently, countless black and white gates appeared and disappeared in the space, and the position of each appearance was different.
The Heaven and Earth Gate, the Heaven Gate is life, and the Earth Gate is death, but life and death are only a thought away. Therefore, not only must one find the location where the Heaven and Earth Gate appears in time, but also determine which gate is the exit.
But Lin Xuan would not give the Seven Kings Hall this opportunity. The long sword silently probed out, and at the moment when the Seven Kings Hall was stunned and suppressed by the Heaven and Earth Gate, the long sword suddenly pierced into the Universe Bag on the Seven Kings Hall's body.
"Chih!"
The moment the long sword forcibly probed in, the Seven Kings Hall was alarmed. Although the suppression by the Heaven and Earth Gate had diminished the Seven Kings Hall's aura considerably, it was still not something Lin Xuan could contend with.
However, Lin Xuan did not hesitate. Before the Seven Kings Hall could react, the long sword, regardless of what it had disturbed, directly pried outwards.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
In the next moment, two streams of light flew out from the Universe Bag. At the same time, Lin Xuan immediately released his palm and met the furious Seven Kings Hall with a palm strike.
"Boom!"
The moment the two palms collided, Lin Xuan could clearly feel that the power emanating from the Seven Kings Hall's demonic palm had decreased significantly. At least, enduring it did not put him under particularly great pressure.
Using this force, Lin Xuan immediately retreated. At the same time, Bo Xuan directly chased after the two streams of light.
One of them appeared to be a banner, but it was bound by dense demonic energy, making it difficult to see its true appearance. The other stream of light seemed to be a severed arm.
This puzzled Bo Xuan somewhat. However, upon seeing the severed arm, Bo Xuan realized that it was definitely not simple.
The banner was easy to understand; it was just a relatively important treasure, but nothing more. He had seen many treasures, but a severed arm that the Seven Kings Hall had specially collected was very unusual.
Immediately, Bo Xuan unhesitatingly chased after the severed arm. After forcing Lin Xuan back, the Seven Kings Hall immediately turned its head to look. Upon seeing Bo Xuan's movements, its expression suddenly changed.
However, the Seven Kings Hall was not an ordinary being. Upon seeing Bo Xuan's actions, it understood that it would probably be difficult to forcibly retrieve it from its opponent's hands. At this time, the most important thing was to cut its losses, and perhaps it could be exchanged later.
The Seven Kings Hall was very clear that if it put all its effort into seizing the Demon Emperor's severed arm, it would definitely make Bo Xuan and the Ice Master and others realize the preciousness of the severed arm, making it even more difficult for it to retrieve.
Moreover, if it focused its energy on the Demon Emperor's severed arm, Lin Xuan would definitely not be idle, and it probably wouldn't get the Primordial Banner either.
Immediately, the Seven Kings Hall hesitated briefly before directly chasing after the Primordial Banner. Lin Xuan, who had originally planned to retreat back to the banner after stabilizing his figure, had no choice but to give up upon seeing the Seven Kings Hall's actions, and instead, together with Bo Xuan, chased after the severed arm.
Outside the barrier, Ling Qingzhu and Ying Huanhuan, standing together, frowned slightly as they looked at the severed arm and the banner bound by demonic energy.
"Senior Sister, is that the Primordial Banner?"
"Indeed, it seems that the Seven Kings Hall has just obtained this Primordial Banner."
Ying Huanhuan said softly, but after speaking, her gaze shifted away from the Primordial Banner. For her, the Primordial Banner was nothing special; she had seen many of them. In comparison, the severed arm was even more shocking to Ying Huanhuan, who was the Ice Master.
"That severed arm should be the arm of the Otherworldly Demon Emperor that was severed by Teacher back then. What exactly is the Seven Kings Hall trying to do by taking it away?"
Ying Huanhuan both understood and did not understand the scheming old fox that was the Otherworldly Demon Emperor.
Even as an enemy, Ying Huanhuan had to admit that the Otherworldly Demon Emperor was full of tricks, a perfect match for Lin Xuan, who seemed to be able to see through everyone's minds.
Ying Huanhuan had not originally cared about the matter of the Otherworldly Demon Emperor having his arm severed by Teacher back then, but after seeing the severed arm that the Seven Kings Hall had specially sought out, Ying Huanhuan subconsciously felt that something was wrong.
The Otherworldly Demon Emperor was a scheming old thing; he never did useless things. Back then, Teacher had burned his Reincarnation Realm in order to seal him, but he was severed an arm just before being sealed.
Now that she thought about it, this severed arm was very likely intentionally left behind by the Otherworldly Demon Emperor in order to leave behind some special means, but what exactly were those means? Ying Huanhuan could not imagine.
Because Ying Huanhuan did not understand the Otherworldly Demon Emperor either, or rather, perhaps only Lin Xuan would understand him, besides the Otherworldly Demon Emperor himself, right?
"The Otherworldly Demon Emperor's severed arm?"
Ling Qingzhu was shocked upon hearing this. Although she herself did not understand, she had information about the Otherworldly Demon Emperor from the memory inheritance she had obtained from Ying Huanhuan. He was the true number one powerhouse during the ancient calamity, and even Teacher Symbol Ancestor was slightly inferior in terms of strength alone.