Eternal Emperor's Path to Ascension

A blood red avatar over a thousand feet tall rose from beneath, an old man floating inside of it. Red lightning interweaved around the avatar as it released terrifying waves of Demonic Energy, influencing the natural laws of heaven and earth.

There was no doubt about it. It was Ancestor Blood Fang.

Floating up with the avatar to the same level as the Heavenly Feather Crimson Monarch before him, he glared at her coldly before speaking, "It's been a while, Vermillion Bird. No great cultivators from Kunlun to protect you this time?"

Ancestor Blood Fang's voice reverberated through the clouds, directly challenging the prestige of the Heavenly Feather Crimson Monarch.

She was a proud Vermillion Bird, after all. A direct descendent from the lineage of True Phoenixes, the rulers of the skies.

"SCREECH!"

She let out a shrill scream, the Vermilion True Flames spreading out in all directions, burning down the fabrics of space itself as the natural laws and heavenly rules struggled to maintain stability in the mortal world.

"Ancestor Blood Fang! Just because you're at the peak of the Third Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm, don't think you can bully a Vermillion Bird slightly lower in cultivation base!"

The Heavenly Feather Crimson Monarch snorted coldly, a sphere of fiery Sun Essence combined with the Vermilion True Flames forming in her beak before she spat it out in the direction of Ancestor Blood Fang.

*Whoosh!*

The sphere illuminated it's surrounding hundreds of miles with celestial light as a trail of scorching flames was left behind in the air, burning down everything in its way.

At this moment, the Heavenly Feather Crimson Monarch's cultivation base fully exposed itself, having already reached the Second Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm from the First Stage during her and Ancestor Blood Fang's last encounter.

The power gap between the two that was incomparably vast before was no longer as great, since Ancestor Blood Fang was still only at the Third Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

One had to know that each stage in the Tribulation Transcendence Realm was both a qualitative and quantitative change in a cultivator's power level and life force. The Heavenly Feather Crimson Monarch, being inherently stronger than average humans of the same level as a Divine Beast, adding her True Phoenix Bloodline on top of that, was enough to make her capable of fighting across minor realms.

Ancestor Blood Fang's pupils constricted as he let put an angry roar, "So what if you have broken through to the Second Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm? Just a bigger ant, not worth mentioning!"

The huge blood red avatar struck out with a palm strike, a terrifying sea of Demonic Energy converged together to create unstoppable momentum, aiming at the massive sphere of flames.

*Boom!*

As the two forces of opposing paths collided, skyquakes spread throughout the clouds and the natural laws trembled, on the verge of collapsing.

A battle between Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivators was always devastating. If it took place in any small worlds in the Myriad Worlds, the impact wouldn't be limited to just a single universe.

As the explosion slowly subsided, the Heavenly Feather Crimson Monarch's feathers glowed, turning into multiple colors as she let out a loud screech.

"SCREECH!"

The five colored feathers glowed with a mystical light, appearing extremely elegant and profound before the light suddenly shot out towards Ancestor Blood Fang.

The latter's eyes slightly widened in shock, and even a hint of fear appeared in them "Five Colored Southern Lights! You have actually cultivated the Five Colored Southern Lights!"

As soon as he uttered these words, a look of desperation appeared on his face as he began to use up all of his Demonic Energy to condense a strong barrier around him, daring not to be careless.

This was completely beyond his expectations.

Five Colored Southern Lights, the Innate Divine Power of the Vermilion Bird Race.

Just the fact that it is a Divine Power already puts it among the top tier methods in the entire Lower Realm, but being the Innate Divine Power of the Vermilion Birds is more than enough to elevate the horrors of this Divine Power to the top even among Divine Powers.

Innate Divine Powers have been comprehended and perfected generation by generation, and only the truly talented successors of these Divine Powers can awaken their true strength.

And since the Heavenly Feather Crimson Monarch has cultivated the Five Colored Southern Lights, her strength must have gone through extreme metamorphosis. In other words, it wasn't impossible for her to completely suppress or even kill Ancestor Blood Fang using the Five Colored Southern Lights!

Damn it... I'm afraid this Vermilion Bird's true strength using the Five Colored Southern Lights may have already reached the mid stages of Tribulation Transcendence Realm!

There's no point in struggling, I need to get out of here!

With this thought in mind, Ancestor Blood Fang immediately took out a small shield and a talisman from his Storage Ring, slapping the talisman onto his forehead and throwing the shield into the air, which instantly formed a blue barrier of sorts around him.

By this time, the majestic Five Colored Southern Lights had already clashed against the shield numerous times, and cracks began to appear on the shimmering surface of the shield. Ancestor Blood Fang's heart sank at the sight.

The shield was the only Rank-9 defensive Dharma Artifact, or to be more precise, it was the only Rank-9 Dharma Artifact which he had spent a great amount of effort to obtain. It had helped him greatly, and was capable of even withstanding dozens of strikes from cultivators at the Sixth Stage of Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

Yet now, it was already on the verge of breaking apart in just a few relentless strikes of the Five Colored Southern Lights. It could be seen from this how powerful this Innate Divine Power of the Vermilion Bird Race was.

Ancestor Blood Fang couldn't just sit back and do nothing as his demise drew nearer.

In an instant, he burst out with Demonic Energy as the talisman on his forehead activated, granting him terrifying speed as he immediately fled thousands of miles away, moving through the void.

The shield Dharma Artifact of his was already full of crack, and it's light had dimmed. It probably couldn't withstand another array of attacks from the Five Colored Southern Lights.

The talisman could only last for a minute, but it greatly enhanced his speed, so it didn't matter much. By the time it's effects wore off, he would've already arrived on the Eastern Continent.

However...

At this moment, his instincts as a cultivator went off, as if reminding him of approaching danger. He immediately checked his surroundings with his Divine Sense, having already accelerated to the top speed which he could maintain for some time.

What entered the range of his Divine Sense left him speechless and horrified.

It was the Five Colored Southern Lights.

They were actually following him, and that too with speed not any less than his own. On the contrary, it was even faster than him!

It was just now that he truly understood why Innate Divine Powers, or Divine Powers in general, were so feared even among high level cultivators. This was the first time he encountered an enemy who could use a Divine Power, and it was a Vermilion Bird no less.

He suddenly regretted his decision of wanting to settle the scores with the Heavenly Feather Crimson Monarch.

But there was no room for regrets now. The Five Colored Southern Lights were approaching him, and he felt the aura of death slowly encroach around his body.

Before he could think of anything, the Five Colored Southern Lights collided against the shield around him again, dimming it's spirituality even more. Another blow and it would completely fall apart.

"No — Impossible! I can't die here...—"

Ancestor Blood Fang's let out an angry roar before a stream of five colored celestial light rushed towards him from behind, shattering the shield as it dissipated into the void. The celestial light also pierced through Ancestor Blood Fang's body, forming a bloody hole in his heart.

His momentum abruptly slowed down before stopping as his corpse fell from the sky, and the next second, it was completely destroyed by the power of the Five Colored Southern Lights rampaging inside of his body.

Shortly after, the Heavenly Feather Crimson Monarch finally arrived on the scene, a cold look on her face. Ancestor Blood Fang was dead. She could sense it by the lingering breath of death around this place. And it wasn't just his body which was destroyed by her Five Colored Southern Lights.

Even the Nascent Soul of Ancestor Blood Fang was severely damaged, and it would have no chance of escaping to find another body. When he's taken to the Netherworld and reincarnated, there was a high chance that he would become a mentally ill person in many of his next lives to come unless he chanced upon a fortuitous encounter.

It was a pity the Five Colored Southern Lights couldn't directly annihilate his Nascent Soul. But this fate also wasn't any good than complete annihilation.

The Heavenly Feather Crimson Monarch was satisfied with it. Her revenge was complete now.