"Hmm?"
The old man from Hellfire Hall was alarmed!
The voice did not come from the seven Void Reversions around him, but from beside his feet!
This Nascent Soul realm brat was not knocked unconscious by his spirit consciousness!
How was that possible?
The old man from Hellfire Hall frowned.
Suddenly, he smelled the aura of death!
That aura had been getting closer over the years as time passed.
However, he had never sensed such a strong aura of death!
It was as though he would die here the next moment!
How could Genying Zhenjun threaten him?
Without time to think, the old man from Hellfire Hall wanted to get up and retreat immediately, leaving the dangerous place beneath his feet.
All of a sudden!
Two white and strong palms appeared on the withered wrist of the old man from Hellfire Hall, gripping him tightly like iron pincers!
He struggled instinctively but could not break free!
The old man's expression changed starkly as he swept his gaze.
Green veins popped out on the palms that gripped his wrist.
His bones had mutated and sharp claws grew from his fingertips. Scarlet scales grew faintly on the back of his hands in a sinister manner!
The old man from Hellfire Hall looked over instinctively and his pupils constricted.
The green-robed man who should have fainted had already sat up. His black hair had disappeared and was replaced by a head of scarlet hair that was as red as blood!
The green-robed man's eyes shone with a demonic glint and he exuded a shuddering aura!
"You're a demon …"
The old man from Hellfire Hall had just spoken when he was interrupted by another voice.
It was only two words but they made his heart skip a beat!
"Barren!"
Before his sentence was finished, an extremely strange Dharmic power fluctuation appeared in the void.
With the green-robed man as the center, gray ripples appeared beneath the feet of the old man from Hellfire Hall, enveloping him like water ripples!
Initially, the old man from Hellfire Hall could have escaped the range of the gray ripples. However, his wrist was gripped tightly by the green-robed man.
With just a slight pause, his entire body had already sunk into the gray ripples.
It was a strange feeling.
It was as if he had fallen into a swamp, and his body became somewhat heavy.
Immediately after, the old man from Hellfire Hall seemed to have sensed something as his eyes widened in shock. His body began to tremble uncontrollably!
"Life … Yuan!"
The old man from Hellfire Hall opened his mouth with a ferocious expression. His voice trembled as though he was experiencing immense fear.
He was nearing the end of his life. His Qi and blood had deteriorated severely, and his body was thin and weak.
But now, the little bit of flesh left on his body was drying up at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, his entire body was only skin and bones!
"My … longevity …"
Hellfire Hall seemed to want to roar hysterically, but its voice became hoarser and lower until it was silent!
His round eyes had already become dull and lifeless. Even his eyeballs had withered!
The glabella of the old man from Hellfire Hall flickered and a spirit consciousness fluctuation surged. It was as though the Essence Spirit in his sea of consciousness wanted to make a final struggle.
But soon, there was no more movement.
The old man's life aura had already vanished without a trace!
The seven Void Reversions of Hellfire Hall watched helplessly as the old man from Hellfire Hall withered away in a single breath, leaving only a skeleton with no lifeforce left in his body!
The seven of them were dumbfounded with disbelief in their eyes.
The entire process happened too quickly and the seven Void Reversions were stunned for a moment, unable to recover from their stupor.
The gray ripple had already spread to their sides.
Initially, the seven Void Reversions did not feel anything when they were within.
But soon, their expressions changed!
Their lifespans were decreasing!
Although it was not fast, the decrease was irreversible!
Right then, the green-robed man who was initially sitting on the ground leaped up. He was tall and his clothes were tattered as scarlet scales grew on his body!
His scarlet hair danced and demonic qi surged with a murderous aura. It was as though he was an ancient demon that wanted to devour the world and slaughter all living beings!
"W-Who are you?!"
A Void Reversion asked with a trembling voice, his face pale from fright by the sudden turn of events.
The scarlet-haired demon was none other than Su Zimo!
Although the process of killing the old man from Hellfire Hall, the Dharma Daojun, seemed simple, he had actually planned it for a long time.
Ever since the old man from Hellfire Hall appeared, Su Zimo had been thinking about how to escape with Nangong Ling and the other two.
No matter how he thought about it, he could not come up with a foolproof plan.
Later on, he noticed something.
The old man from Hellfire Hall exuded a rich aura of old age, as though he did not have long to live!
That was the reason why Su Zimo deliberately provoked the old man from Hellfire Hall with words such as how he did not have much lifespan left and would not be able to live for long.
Nangong Ling thought that Su Zimo was already prepared to die and was satisfied with his words before he died, so she scolded as well.
Little did she know that Su Zimo was trying to find out the background of the old man from Hellfire Hall!
Indeed, the old man from Hellfire Hall fell for it and revealed that he still had 80 years of lifespan.
The old man from Hellfire Hall could not be blamed for that.
Although he had lived for 10,000 years, he had never heard of Genying Zhenjun being able to control a power that could affect the Dharma Daojun!
Furthermore, it was an irreversible power that could deplete one's lifespan!
He was not the only one. In Tianhuang Mainland, there was probably no one who would believe that a Nascent Soul cultivator could already control such power!
That was also the terror of the Mystic Classic of the Twelve Demon Kings of the Great Wilderness!
Of course, there were many strange and mysterious runes in the demonic art, Barren, that Su Zimo could not understand.
Furthermore, he was restricted by his cultivation realm and could not unleash the true power of Barren.
Furthermore, the closer one was to the center of the gray ripples of Barren, the faster one's lifespan would decrease.
Therefore, Su Zimo did not dare to act rashly.
He could only wait for an opportunity.
He wanted the two of them to be close enough so that the old man from Hellfire Hall would not have any chance to escape!
The truth was as Su Zimo had expected. After releasing Barren, the first reaction of the old man from Hellfire Hall was to retreat.
However, Su Zimo had already gripped the old man's arms tightly and made it difficult for him to break free!
Of course, even if he was close to the center of the gray ripples, his lifespan would only decrease at a rate of a hundred years per breath.
For a normal Dharma Daojun, he would have enough time to react or even counterattack within a single breath!
A single spirit consciousness of the Dharma Daojun was enough to kill Su Zimo!
However, it was different for the old man from Hellfire Hall.
In a single breath, his remaining 80 years of lifespan were expended!
Although the entire process was short, the probing from the beginning, the waiting in the middle, and the final attack would have resulted in two completely different outcomes if any of the steps went wrong!
The demonic art, Barren, could not unleash its true power and could only be considered as a strange move.
For example, right now, within the range of the gray ripples, a Dharma Daojun died on the spot but the seven Void Reversions did not have much of an impact!
Firstly, the seven Void Reversions were slightly further away and their lifespans decreased at a slower rate – 80 years per breath and 50 years per breath.
Secondly, the seven of them were only slightly more than 2,000 years old. Compared to their lifespans of 5,000 years, they could be considered to be at their peak!
The reduction of their lifespans by one or two breaths had too little of an impact on them!
Of course, as long as the old man from Hellfire Hall was killed, the remaining seven people would no longer be a threat to Su Zimo!
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