Jiang Wang, having grasped the essence of certain techniques, swiftly drilled a deep pit into the earth beneath him.

Without delay, he summoned forth the Vine Snake Entwine Wall to shield himself, and upon its surface, grafted the Eat Flower.

In an environment like the Sand Sea, the Vine Snake Entwine Wall was clearly not the optimal choice, but in the urgency of the moment, Jiang Wang had no time for more elaborate preparations.

He couldn’t possibly rely solely on One Sword Become Round to withstand a sandstorm of such terrifying magnitude, could he?

With no solid footing, he would inevitably be swept away.

How much confidence, how profound a destiny would that require?

The sky and earth were obscured by rolling yellow sand, and all things were swept away from sight.

From the gap left in the Vine Snake Entwine Wall, he could see that the positions where the Tian Clan members stood were instantly scoured out into deep pits, with massive amounts of sand and stone lifted into the sky.

However, the Tian Clan, having collectively formed that ‘Stone Tomb’ like Dao technique, remained as steadfast as a mountain range.

Jiang Wang noticed that the ‘Stone Tomb’ seemed to possess some connection to the earth veins. Beneath the ‘Stone Tomb’, countless root-like tendrils extended downwards, firmly protecting the sand and soil below, like the roots of a colossal tree gripping the ground.

Such a Dao technique, while its application was quite limited, was perfectly suited for this moment. It was highly probable that it was specifically developed for this type of environment!

Jiang Wang lacked the ability to develop such a temporarily targeted Dao technique. He could only repeatedly strengthen the Vine Snake Entwine Wall, striving to extend it downwards, while simultaneously urging more Eat Flowers to grow.

The Vine Snake Entwine Wall, imitating tree roots, anchored itself to the ground, while the Eat Flower could, during the resistance, consume more sand and stone, thereby reducing the pressure.

The plan was sound, but…

As the sky-and-earth-connecting sandstorm surged forward, the pit where Jiang Wang was located instantly became a high slope, and in the very next instant, the entire Vine Snake Entwine Wall was simply swept up into the high sky!

The Eat Flower, having just opened its mouth, was directly crushed and burst apart.

And the Vine Snake Entwine Wall, in the high heavens, did not even last for a single breath before directly collapsing and scattering.

Jiang Wang was swept into the sandstorm!

His reaction was swift, but after all, his preparations were insufficient.

The Vine Snake Entwine Wall was also incapable of dealing with this kind of situation.

The instant the Vine Snake Entwine Wall collapsed and scattered, Jiang Wang’s left hand was already continuously shooting out Flame Flowers, exploding the approaching flying stones.

His right hand ceaselessly wielded his sword. Whether chopping or slicing. He struggled to maintain his balance in the storm.

The sandstorm was like a rapidly rotating colossal millstone. At this moment, if he lost his center of gravity, he would instantly be ground into minced meat.

If it were Su Qi Yun, perhaps he could leap freely within the heart of this sandstorm. Jiang Wang’s body technique was not yet sufficient.

Endless wild sand and flying stones, possessing sufficient lethality in the storm, although not deliberately targeting him, were nonetheless almost everywhere.

Fortunately, Flame Flower was an instant-cast Dao technique inscribed in his Tongtian Palace, and his sword technique was further embedded in his bodily instincts. This was the only way he could barely hold on.

But continuing like this was absolutely not good!

Who knew how long this sandstorm would continue, and its intensity was also increasing.

Amidst the flying sand and walking stones that covered the sky and blocked out the sun, Jiang Wang quickly made a decision.

He disregarded the consumption of his Dao Yuan, continuously using Flame Flower to clear a path, with his sword technique as a second line of defense, ready at any moment to cut off any danger that Flame Flower could not block.

He advanced towards the center of the sandstorm!

This massive sandstorm was like a dust dragon, connecting heaven and earth. It continuously rotated, yet any tornado always possessed an eye of the wind.

Fenglin City Dao Academy’s Wang Changxiang was most skilled in the Blow Breath Tornado Dao technique, and Jiang Wang naturally had an understanding of this.

Within this colossal sandstorm, Jiang Wang for the first time witnessed creatures native to the Sand Sea – swept into the sandstorm along with the flying sand and walking stones.

A bald vulture with claws like hooks, just a short distance in front of Jiang Wang, was struck by the wild sand and turned into a sieve. Before its corpse could even fall, it was swept by the wild wind and became part of the flying sand and walking stones.

Powerless in the face of the sandstorm were not only this seemingly ferocious bald vulture.

Jiang Wang also saw golden-footed centipedes, huge yellowish-brown toads… and a white-tailed scorpion.

That scorpion, upside down in the wind, in its panic, still did not forget to raise its stinger and thrust at him.

It was indeed fierce.

Jiang Wang did not even bother with it. The wild wind blew, and that thrust deviated to who knew where.

Any creature capable of surviving in the center of the sandstorm was certainly not weak.

Jiang Wang also had no mind to seek trouble. As long as they did not block his path, they would not interfere with each other. ‘Squeezing’ towards the eye of the wind was not a simple task, because the further inwards one went, the more violent the wind swirl became.

But Jiang Wang had no choice.

The more violent it was, the closer he was getting.

Like a fish swimming upstream, exerting force for a leap at the end of the river. Jiang Wang crashed into the ‘eye of the wind’.

Within this violent center, everything was yet so peaceful.

Inside and outside seemed like two different worlds.

Then he saw, in the center of this terrifying sandstorm, a creature shaped like a caterpillar, but its entire body was earth-yellow, and as large as a giant python, freely drifting and swimming, like a fish in water.

Moreover, it simply lowered its head and made eye contact with him.

The sandstorm covered the sky and earth, rolling forth.

Within the Dao technique form of the ‘Stone Tomb’.

One person asked: “Was there some movement inside the sandstorm just now?”

Tian Chang said: “Perhaps it was some wild beast from within the Sand Sea? Everything was swept up into the sky.”

This colossal insect, with its brown, highly bulging eyes, its body segmented section by section, appeared abnormally fat.

One person and one insect only made eye contact for a single breath of time before this giant insect suddenly opened its enormous blood-basin mouth.

Jiang Wang could clearly see the dense, interlocking teeth within the bloody maw. Even a large stone thrown in would be bitten into fragments.

In what was likely the giant insect’s throat, a group of whirlwinds was rapidly accelerating.

And a terrifyingly strong suction force firmly fixed Jiang Wang’s body shape.

Jiang Wang resisted with all his might, his Dao Yuan surging frantically. Even a fifth of his Heaven and Earth Isolated Island floated up, yet his body remained uncontrolled, approaching that bloody mouth.

His fingers moved at lightning speed, forming seals. Densely packed Flame Sparrows appeared before him, not a single one managing to escape before being swallowed into the giant mouth for the first time.

His body in the center of the storm, the ‘sound’ of the Eight Sound Flame Sparrow was fundamentally difficult to hear, but countless Flame Sparrows, having entered the insect’s belly for the first time, successively exploded.

Jiang Wang let out a breath. It was fortunate that this giant insect possessed no intelligence.

With or without intelligence was a completely different matter, a world of difference.

As long as it possessed intelligence, even the weakest spirit deserved reverence.

If it could manipulate the sandstorm and also possessed intelligence, Jiang Wang’s next step would be to consider how to escape.

Manipulating the dense Flame Sparrows to explode successively within the giant insect’s body, the giant insect did not die on the spot as Jiang Wang had imagined.

Apart from its huge body swaying in the air, it did not even spit out a single mouthful of blood, and it was still trying to swallow and suck Jiang Wang.

No wonder it dared to swallow anything; it definitely had a very tough stomach.

But after all, it had also been affected. The suction force was no longer as strong as before.

Jiang Wang silently sensed the Flame Sparrows within the giant insect’s belly, controlling their explosions with alternating sudden increases and decreases in frequency, greatly extending the giant insect’s adaptation time.

At the same time, he simply gave up resisting, his entire person quickly being ‘sucked’ towards the front of the giant insect.

Just as he was about to enter its mouth, Jiang Wang pulled his body up, holding his sword horizontally before his eyes, and gracefully pulled it open.

Books cannot finish resentment and hatred, Dao cannot exhaust the written intent and romance.

The Down-and-Out Scholar’s Sword!

This sword was precise to the extreme, cutting the giant insect’s two eyes exactly in half from the middle.

*Bang bang bang.*

His body transformed into a Flame Stream Star, Jiang Wang instantly shot upwards at high speed.

He avoided the green sticky fluid spraying out from inside the giant insect’s eyeballs, and at the same time, also avoided the giant insect’s insane revenge – at the same time as the giant insect’s eyes were cut open, the sandstorm’s intensity suddenly decreased by several degrees. And in the eye of the wind, the space around the giant insect’s body was instantly filled with densely packed wind blades.