Chapter 293: Chapter 291: One Sword’s Cold Light Across 19 Continents
BOOM—
The two sides were at daggers drawn, their terrifying killing intent colliding above the Celestial Vault.
The Ghost Emperor stood suspended in mid-air, a cloud of black mist swirling around him like a demon from the Nine Netherworld. His icy gaze fell upon Xu Canghai. "Xu Canghai, let’s fight!"
"As if I’m afraid of you?"
Xu Canghai laughed heartily, soaring into the air with a green battle halberd in hand.
Mengg Wanqing’s indifferent gaze swept over to Shaoyang Yu. "Shaoyang Yu, we never determined a winner in our fight last year. Let’s settle it now!"
"I’ve been waiting for this!"
With a calm expression, Shaoyang Yu shot into the sky.
"Attack!" Dugu Xue commanded with a wave of his hand.
RUMBLE!
The fifty thousand experts behind him flew out in unison.
Xing Haisheng gave a cold wave. "Go!"
"ROAR!"
"KILL!"
The experts of the Star Pavilion, Sun and Moon Pavilion, and Fiery Sun Sect all took to the sky.
Twenty thousand versus fifty thousand.
They fought without a trace of fear, prepared to bathe in blood!
Xing Haisheng and Dugu Xue locked eyes. Dugu Xue revealed a sinister sneer. "Xing Haisheng, do you dare fight me?"
"Why wouldn’t I dare?"
Xing Haisheng snorted coldly and soared into the air, engaging Dugu Xue in a fierce battle.
BOOM!
The moment they clashed, Dugu Xue, who had been full of confidence just a second ago, had his expression change abruptly. "How is this possible? Y-You... you broke through?"
He had originally been a sliver stronger than Xing Haisheng.
But now that Xing Haisheng had also broken through to the Peak of the Ninth Stage of the Heavenly Destiny Realm, they were evenly matched when they fought!
Xing Haisheng said proudly, "Do you still think I’m an easy win?"
"Damn it!"
Dugu Xue snorted, his expression savage. "So what if you broke through? I may not be able to defeat you, but can the experts of your Star Pavilion withstand the combined armies of our Seven Great Dynasties?"
"This..."
Xing Haisheng’s expression changed.
He glanced at the battle raging elsewhere. Under the siege of the Seven Great Dynasties’ experts, the warriors from the Star Pavilion, Sun and Moon Pavilion, and Fiery Sun Sect were being forced back step by step.
The Three Major Sects were already outnumbered. With the addition of Shan Yanlin, Wum Jiuling, and the others, the battle had become a complete rout.
In just a few moments, the number of fallen experts from the Three Major Sects had already reached the thousands.
His side’s three top experts were all tied down by their opponents, completely unable to provide reinforcements.
’If this continues...’
’Defeat is only a matter of time!’
"You dare get distracted while fighting me? Xing Haisheng, die!" Dugu Xue’s cold laughter suddenly rang out beside his ear.
’Not good!’
Xing Haisheng’s heart leaped in alarm, but it was already too late. He took a direct palm strike to the back from Dugu Xue.
"WAAGH..."
Xing Haisheng spewed a mouthful of bright red blood as he was sent flying backward, crashing hard onto the ground.
A battle between experts could be decided in an instant.
With Xing Haisheng heavily injured, Dugu Xue pursued him at top speed, materializing an ice cone in his palm. He thrust it down viciously. With a "PFFT," it pierced through Xing Haisheng’s shoulder. A second and third ice cone followed, pinning Xing Haisheng firmly to the ground.
"Hahaha, Xing Haisheng, so what if you broke through? But I won’t kill you right away. I want you to watch with your own eyes as every last one of your sect members is slaughtered!"
Dugu Xue sneered, and with a single point of his finger, he mercilessly destroyed Xing Haisheng’s Dantian.
"AARGH... Dugu Xue, you’ll die a miserable death..." Xing Haisheng’s eyes were bloodshot as he roared in despair.
"Go on, curse me! The more vicious your curses, the more thrilled I am!"
Dugu Xue sneered again, rose to his feet, and charged toward Xu Canghai. "Brother Ghost, I’ll lend you a hand!"
"Good!"
With the Ghost Emperor and Dugu Xue teaming up, Xu Canghai was also defeated. The Ghost Emperor’s Ghost Qi invaded his body, sealing his True Essence, and his Dantian was likewise destroyed. He was then tossed beside Xing Haisheng.
Next, the two charged at Shaoyang Yu.
Even though Shaoyang Yu had also broken through, he was not as strong as Xing Haisheng or Xu Canghai. Against the combined might of the Ghost Emperor and Dugu Xue, he was defeated within three moves.
All three top experts were captured.
Among them, Xing Haisheng and Xu Canghai had their Dantians directly crippled.
The experts of the Star Pavilion, Sun and Moon Pavilion, and Fiery Sun Sect lost all their will to fight and were brutally slaughtered by the experts of the Seven Great Dynasties.
In just three breaths of time, another five hundred fell!
Xing Haisheng’s eyes looked ready to split from their sockets. Watching Dugu Xue and the Ghost Emperor tear through his men like tigers in a flock of sheep, he roared with fury and despair, "Dugu Xue! Ghost Emperor! I won’t let you go, even if I become a ghost!"
"ROAR!"
Xu Canghai and Shaoyang Yu’s faces were masks of despair.
Dugu Xue sneered. "Scream all you want! Once I’ve killed all of them, it’ll be your turn!"
The Ghost Emperor cackled sinisterly, "I’m going to refine all of you into Ghost Servants, hahaha..."
The Three Major Sects had fallen into an unprecedented crisis.
But just as Dugu Xue and his forces were surrounding the remaining experts of the Three Major Sects, preparing to wipe them all out in one fell swoop...
Suddenly...
An incomparably terrifying fluctuation of aura erupted from within Celestial Relief City.
Above Celestial Relief City, a terrifying tribulation cloud spanning ten miles in radius was brewing. Purple-gold lightning rumbled within it, sounding like a stampede of a thousand armies.
SWOOSH—
A golden figure shot into the sky, flying directly into the tribulation cloud.
RUMBLE!
Boundless lightning crashed down, but before the golden figure, it was as fragile as tofu.
"Break for me!"
The golden figure threw his head back and roared, a sound even louder than the crashing thunder, and smashed a fist straight at the tribulation cloud.
BOOM—
The lightning shattered, the tribulation cloud exploded, and the terrifying Thunder Tribulation was forcefully dispersed by his single punch!
This scene left everyone fighting outside the city completely stunned. They all stopped, looks of utter shock on their faces as they stared at the godlike, towering golden figure. "H-He dispersed the tribulation cloud with a single punch? H-How is that possible?"
"I must be seeing things. Not even the Ten Great Venerables on the Venerable List are this terrifying, are they?"
"That person is... is it Jiang Chen?"
"How could it be him?"
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, a dark golden light surged around Jiang Chen’s body. Four immense and majestic golden Heavenly Destiny Palaces shot into the sky, hovering above his head.
A series of deep rumbles echoed out.
BUZZ—
The four Heavenly Destiny Palaces erupted with a sky-piercing golden light, and a fifth Heavenly Destiny Palace appeared.
Heavenly Destiny Realm Fifth Stage!
"T-This is what the Heavenly Destiny Realm Fifth Stage looks like?"
"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible..."
Everyone was completely bewildered.
Even Dugu Xue and the Ghost Emperor exchanged a look of horrified disbelief.
At that very moment...
The five Life Palaces transformed into a streak of golden light and returned to Jiang Chen’s body. His eyes swept toward the west city gate, two beams of golden light, so substantial they seemed tangible, shooting straight over.
They shone with the brilliant divine radiance of a blazing sun, making it impossible to look at them directly!
Jiang Chen’s body trembled. He looked at the mountain of corpses belonging to the disciples of the Three Major Sects, then at Xing Haisheng and Xu Canghai, their Dantians crippled. A monstrous killing intent began to brew, and a power even more violent than the tribulation lightning surged through him.
The Dustfall Sword had appeared in his hand at some unknown point.
Jiang Chen’s icy gaze fixed on Dugu Xue and the others. His expression was cold and detached as he spoke slowly, "For harming even a single hair on my brothers’ heads, I, Jiang Chen, will make you pay with your lives!"
The moment his voice fell,
Jiang Chen swung his sword. The First Technique of the Celestial Flame Sun-Devouring Slash—the Celestial Flame Cross Slash—arrived in an instant.
This sword strike was like the ultimate divine punishment delivered by a god from beyond the heavens!
This sword strike was as brilliant as the midday sun in summer, shining with a blinding radiance.
This sword strike was utterly unstoppable, sweeping away everything in its path.
Faced with that sudden, terrifying sword light, everyone’s eyes held nothing but absolute horror!
A single sword flash that truly chilled nineteen continents!
[Third update of the day. Little Tian is continuing on to the fourth. o(∩_∩)o]
