Chapter 1580: Ancient Mystery, Drawing the Bow at the Third Step

However, today, he encountered Wang Lin, who had realized the Origin of True and False!

Wang Lin did not open his eyes at all. In the instant that the core of the Xu Shen Venerable's Clone—that formless mass of Qi—retreated, and the moment the man in green robes approached, only to see the Xu Shen Venerable being torn apart and looking back in terror, Wang Lin kept his eyes closed and raised his right hand, pointing a finger at the center of his brow.

With this gesture, golden light erupted, and a drop of golden blood seeped out from the center of Wang Lin's brow, which he grasped in his right hand.

The moment he grasped the blood, a bow materialized within Wang Lin's body. As soon as it appeared, an Aura of slaughter filled the starry sky, and Wang Lin seized it in his hand.

The Li Guang Bow could not be used again without that golden blood. In reality, after his Immortal Bloodline was forced out back then, this bow had already fused with the blood, and the arrow was also contained within it.

However, this blood ultimately belonged to Wang Lin. As long as the blood was in his hand, he could rely on the connection in the ethereal void to summon the Li Guang Bow, use it, and fire that earth-shattering arrow!

With this bow in hand, given Wang Lin's cultivation, he feared neither heaven nor earth, nor any Cultivator!

This bow was Wang Lin's most powerful trump card at this moment!

With his eyes closed, Wang Lin held the bow with his left hand and pulled the bowstring with his right, pointing it from afar at the fleeing Xu Shen Venerable before pulling the string taut.

With a hum, the starry sky rippled, as if it were about to collapse—or rather, it had already begun to collapse. Centered on Wang Lin, the starry sky roared and disintegrated layer by layer.

The Xu Shen Venerable let out a silent shriek as a deadly crisis permeated the air. He fled frantically, merging into the heavens and earth, and vanished outside the Vermilion Bird Star in the blink of an eye.

The man in green robes also fled in terror, tearing open a Rift and stepping into it.

And those tens of thousands of Cultivators who had already scattered and were fleeing throughout the Kunxu Star Domain—they had already broken formation and did not know what was happening outside the Vermilion Bird Star, but in that instant, they clearly felt a deathly sensation from their very Souls.

"With this arrow, I will reclaim Kunxu!" Wang Lin said, his eyes closed and his voice calm. On the drawn bowstring, an arrow with a ring-shaped tip suddenly appeared from the void, instantly solidifying into a real arrow!

Once the arrow appeared, Wang Lin's right hand suddenly released. The moment he let go, a heaven-shaking hum echoed, the starry sky trembled and underwent a violent collapse. The bowstring snapped back, imparting an indescribable force into the arrow, sending it whistling outward!

Under the power of this arrow, the starry sky collapsed once more, forming a series of endless black hole Vortexes. As they churned, the arrow unleashed an indescribable might of heaven and earth.

No one could block this arrow!

As the arrow flew, a ripple appeared in the starry sky, and the body of the man in green robes was forcefully pushed out from the distance. He turned his head in terror, only to see a massive ring whistling toward him from behind. His face turned pale, and despair filled his eyes. This time was not like the illusionary realm of the past where he had sent a projection; this time, he had come in his true form!

If he died this time, his Dao would truly be extinguished!

With no time to think, the arrow approached in an instant. The man in green robes roared to the heavens in a desperate bid for survival, performing Hand Seals and spitting out a mouthful of blood. Regardless of the cost, he deployed all the power of his Origin at the end of his life before him.

He even tore open his incense power realm, taking out all his incense power spirits without leaving a single one behind, and fused them into his blood. This transformed into layers upon layers of ice, numbering in the hundreds of thousands and millions, covering his body. With cracking sounds, his body was continuously encased, and in the blink of an eye, he became a massive block of ice comparable to a Cultivation Planet.

Just then, the arrow arrived. As soon as it touched the ice as vast as a Cultivation Planet, the ice layer instantly collapsed. The man in green robes at the core felt his despair deepen. He slammed a palm against the center of his brow, forcefully shattering his own Clan Seal to convert it into more power, trying to resist this life-and-death tribulation!

But in the end, with a loud noise that echoed throughout the entire Kunxu Star Domain, the arrow pierced through the ice and swept past. After it passed, the ice collapsed. The man in green robes inside shuddered, spat out blood, and his Physical Body was directly shattered. His Primordial Spirit tried to flee, but it also shuddered and died.

This was the first empty profound Cultivator to die since the war began!

There were many Outer Realm Cultivators within the Kunxu Star Domain, but at this moment, every single one of them felt the threat of death. The arrow traveled in a straight line, but ring-shaped ripples spread from its tip, rippling circle by circle across the entire Kunxu.

Any Cultivator touched by these ripples shuddered, their Physical Body immediately collapsing and dying.

In the eastern part of the Kunxu Star Domain, a group of hundreds of Outer Realm Cultivators, suddenly seized by palpitations, were chasing dozens of fleeing remnants of the Inner Realm. Those dozens of Inner Realm Cultivators were pale, each one seemingly at the end of their rope.

"Fight them! Even if we die, we will die in our homeland!" A middle-aged man among the fleeing group laughed miserably in despair, suddenly turning around, ready to choose self-detonation.

But just then, a ripple came from the starry sky and passed through the bodies of these dozens of people without causing them any harm. Yet, to their astonishment, they saw the hundreds of Outer Realm Cultivators chasing them from behind let out shrill screams as the ripple swept over them, all of them collapsing and dying.

In the southern part of the Kunxu Star Domain, there were two Outer Realm Cultivators whose cultivation had already reached the Heaven-Man Five Decay. Grinning, they suppressed the uneasy palpitations in their hearts and chased a youth ahead, who was pale and covered in blood.

But in that instant, the ripple echoed, and the two grinning Outer Realm Cultivators shuddered and collapsed with a boom, leaving behind the youth who stared at everything in a daze.

In the western part of the Kunxu Star Domain, on a Cultivation Planet that had already fallen, the various sects within had been wiped out, and it was occupied by Outer Realm Cultivators. Among these Cultivators, some had become bloodthirsty and were actually slaughtering Mortal cities, laughing maniacally amidst the screams.

There were even a few Outer Realm Cultivators who had captured attractive female Cultivators from the various sects on this planet, intending to refine them into Cauldrons to take back to the Outer Realm to sell.

But just then, the ripple echoed and swept across this Cultivation Planet. After the ripple passed, every single Outer Realm Cultivator on this Cultivation Planet shuddered violently and collapsed, one by one, into flesh and blood.

In the northern part of the Kunxu Star Domain, thousands of Outer Realm Cultivators turned into thousands of long rainbows, heading straight for the edge to go to other Star Domains to assist in the war. But as these thousands of long rainbows sped along, they collided with a ripple. Once the ripple passed, the thousands of long rainbows collapsed, and there were no survivors.

The same events and the same scenes occurred simultaneously in every part of the Kunxu Star Domain. Under the sweep of this ripple, the number of Outer Realm Cultivators who died was staggering!

At the junction between the Kunxu Star Domain and the Cloud Sea, the formless mass of Qi that the Xu Shen Venerable had turned into condensed back into a human figure amidst the blur. His face was gloomy, his eyes filled with terror, and he rushed forward.

"With that arrow, who can kill him!!! Damn it, if not for this arrow, I would at most be injured, and it wouldn't be impossible to kill him, but… but… why does he have this bow and arrow!!!"

"Venerable Master, you made a grave mistake when you gave away that bow back then!!! With this bow and arrow, who in the Inner or Outer Realms can do anything to him!!"

"I will not participate in this war anymore. If this Clone of mine can survive, I will merge it into my original body and leave immediately!" The Xu Shen Venerable was terrified to the extreme. As he fled, seeing that he was about to enter the Cloud Sea, he intended to leave through the gap in the Cloud Sea and return to the Outer Realm. He had already made up his mind never to come to the Inner Realm again!

However, in that very instant, the Xu Shen Venerable's face changed drastically. He turned around abruptly. In the starry sky behind him, the space roared and collapsed, and an arrow broke through the starry sky, whistling directly through the Xu Shen Venerable's body with unimaginable speed and an Aura that made it impossible to dodge, evade, or resist.

With a boom, the Xu Shen Venerable's body collapsed, his Aura disintegrated, and he vanished into thin air.

The moment his Clone died, in the Primordial Stars of the Outer Realm, within a Star Domain filled with boundless mist, a shrill scream rang out. The mist that filled this Star Domain rapidly contracted, eventually forming a human figure. This figure was none other than the original body of the Xu Shen Venerable.

He spat out a mouthful of blood, his body staggering back a few steps. As he looked up, deep apprehension appeared in his eyes as he gazed into the distance toward the Inner Realm.

In the Kunxu Star Domain, outside the Vermilion Bird Star, Wang Lin opened his eyes. The bow in his hand dissipated, and the arrow returned from the void, merging into the golden blood in his right hand.

Raising his right hand, he pressed the blood against the center of his brow and flew straight up toward the empty profound Vortex that had not yet dissipated.

His Third Step condensation was still lacking the final sliver.

Not far away, Zhou Jin was the only Outer Realm Cultivator present who had not been killed by the ripple. His body trembled, and he dared not move, watching as Wang Lin stepped into the Vortex, frantically absorbing the power of the empty profound gate within it.

"So powerful… He… he has actually become so powerful!" Zhou Jin's mind went blank, his face ashen.

Not only him, but on the Vermilion Bird Star at this moment, the thousands of Inner Realm Cultivators were also stunned, unable to believe the scenes that had just unfolded!

"Seal Venerable… This is the Seal Venerable, the hope of our Inner Realm's war!" Nan Yunzi's eyes were filled with excitement. He had cultivated for many years and should not have been like this, but the scene just now, whether it was the Ten Thousand Empty Bone Gate or the power of that arrow, was enough to shake him.

Situ Nan laughed loudly, looking at Wang Lin in the distant Vortex, a look of excitement in his eyes.

"Glory to the Seal Venerable!" It was unknown who shouted first, but one after another, the thousands of Cultivators all began to shout excitedly. Behind them stood the statue of Wang Lin on the Vermilion Bird Star, its eyes looking up at the starry sky, revealing an Aura of majesty that viewed heaven and earth like ants!

However, only Wang Lin knew that his Heavenly Tribulation, the Third Step Heavenly Tribulation, was about to arrive.