The sun was setting, and the sky grew dim.
Deep within the Jiuli Mountain Range, upon a stretch of crimson earth, lay the Celestial Demon Ruins.
An elder with the bearing of a celestial being looked down with indifference, as if gazing upon a swarm of ants.
Opposite him stood a team of a dozen or so people, all trembling with their heads bowed, too afraid to meet the elder’s gaze. Only Shen Daoxing stood calmly in the very center of the group.
Qin Muhe’s tone was cold and detached. He pointed toward the crimson gate inside the grand hall and looked coldly at Shen Daoxing. "Enough nonsense. You. Get in there."
Shen Daoxing glanced at the red gate, his expression calm. "It’s dangerous in there. People die."
He then gave Qin Muhe a meaningful look. "Are you sure I have to go in?"
Qin Muhe, however, had lost his patience, his face terrifyingly grim. "I said, enough nonsense. If you don’t go in, you die right now."
As he spoke, he took a step forward. Everyone felt the air around them thicken once more. The already immense pressure intensified, as if another colossal mountain had descended upon them.
The faces of Chu Guifeng, Ma Wan, Qian Gui, and the others flushed a deep red under the strain.
Yet Shen Daoxing, standing in the middle of the group, seemed completely unaffected. He looked at Qin Muhe and shook his head with indifference.
In the next instant, a brilliant white light flared.
A palm-sized jade seal materialized above Qin Muhe’s head.
"A parlor trick. You dare show off your meager skills before me?"
Qin Muhe merely glanced up at the Venerable Dharma Seal, completely unimpressed.
Mysterious runes manifested on his body as he suddenly swiped a hand through the air, sending an invisible force rushing toward Shen Daoxing.
But at that moment, the Venerable Dharma Seal descended.
The pure white light was blinding.
Qin Muhe’s Protective Golden Light shattered like thin paper on contact.
BANG!
With a heavy thud, the Venerable Dharma Seal smashed directly into Qin Muhe’s face.
"Huh???"
Qin Muhe froze, his eyes slowly widening as he finally realized something was wrong. But by then, his face had already been smashed out of shape. With a BANG, he was sent flying high into the air, carving a graceful arc across the sky.
While still airborne, Qin Muhe froze for a moment before it dawned on him. "Good! Excellent! You brat! To think you could actually injure me. I was too careless!"
Instantly, Qin Muhe flew into a towering rage.
The golden light around him erupted, and his body began to grow and swell, bit by bit.
Heaven and Earth!
However.
In that very instant.
"Venerable Invincible, Huangliang’s Moment!"
Shen Daoxing’s magnetic voice rang out.
The birds soaring high in the sky froze in place.
The shattered rocks hanging in the air stopped moving.
Qin Muhe, still airborne and yet to fall, was also bizarrely suspended in mid-air.
Chu Guifeng, Ma Wan, Qian Gui, and the others could only stare, wide-eyed and motionless.
It was as if everything in the world had come to a sudden halt. All sound vanished.
Unhindered, Shen Daoxing leaped up, appearing beside Qin Muhe in a single bound.
Shen Daoxing raised the Great Ming Demon Sparrow high.
ZZZT! ZZZT!
Black arcs of electricity crackled, and the surrounding space distorted, suddenly stretching long, then flattening out.
Without a moment’s hesitation, he brought the Great Ming Demon Sparrow crashing down.
It cut a graceful black arc through the sky.
’???’
Suspended in the sky, Qin Muhe could only watch as the massive black sword before him grew larger and larger. He realized what was happening, but his body felt bound by some unknown law, completely unable to move.
The next moment, everything returned to normal, resuming its motion.
Shen Daoxing had already landed, now standing behind Qin Muhe.
SQUELCH!
A crimson Blood Arrow shot into the sky.
A deep Sword Mark suddenly appeared on Qin Muhe, running from his shoulder to his abdomen. His entire body was thrown into the air before crashing heavily to the ground with a THUD.
His unfinished Heaven and Earth technique was instantly broken.
"You brat..."
Qin Muhe looked down at the horrifying wound on his body in disbelief.
From that single strike, he could sense it—this brat before him was only at the Spirit Transformation Ninth Layer. Even if he had comprehended the power of the Extreme Dao, he was still just in the Spirit Transformation Realm.
And yet, a mere Spirit Transformation brat had managed to injure him.
Suddenly, Qin Muhe was consumed by rage. He, an expert of the Earth Profound Realm, had been injured by a brat from the Spirit Transformation Realm. If word of this got out, he would become a laughingstock.
’How outrageous!’
Instantly, the golden light around Qin Muhe flared, and his body began to grow larger once more as he unleashed Heaven and Earth again.
However, he had barely swelled to half his intended size when the world around him froze again. It was as if time itself had been hit by a Restriction, and nothing could move.
Venerable Invincible, Huangliang’s Moment!
In the next instant, Shen Daoxing appeared before him once more.
ZZZT! ZZZT!
Black arcs of electricity crackled as the surrounding space suddenly distorted.
Then, just as the surroundings returned to normal and everything began to move...
SQUELCH!
Another crimson Blood Arrow shot high into the air.
Another horrifying wound had appeared on Qin Muhe, this one slashing from his shoulder down to his opposite hip.
Qin Muhe’s half-activated Heaven and Earth technique instantly deflated like a punctured fish bladder, shrinking him back to his original size.
"???"
Qin Muhe stared, stunned. "You..."
The colossal Spiritual Power within his body erupted, radiating a brilliant light. An unparalleled force was about to be unleashed.
However, Shen Daoxing wasn’t about to give him that chance.
His figure flickered.
Venerable Invincible, Huangliang’s Moment!
Shen Daoxing once again appeared behind Qin Muhe.
The seven-colored Profound Platform within his body spun rapidly. Black arcs of electricity flashed as a surging torrent of Venerable Power poured out, converging on Shen Daoxing’s upraised hand.
"Sword, come!"
In the blink of an eye,
a jet-black longsword, condensed from Venerable Power, appeared in Shen Daoxing’s hand.
"Venerable Taboo, Kunlun Duanyue!"
KRAKA-THOOM!
Black lightning flashed.
Shen Daoxing swung the sword down.
The strike seemed casual, yet in that instant, the very space around him seemed to stretch and warp with the motion.
Then.
A colossal beam of sword light, vast enough to cleave mountains and span the heavens, shot forth, flashing across the sky in an instant.
Suddenly!
The entire space seemed to shift, as if it had been cleaved in two.
Qin Muhe’s round head flew high into the air. All that remained was a headless corpse, which crashed to the ground with a BOOM, gouging a deep crater and leaving not a single trace of life.
From the moment Qin Muhe was sent flying by the Venerable Dharma Seal to the moment his headless body hit the ground, only a single breath had passed.
Shen Daoxing had moved so fast that all the onlookers saw was Qin Muhe suddenly flying up, followed by a few black shadows flashing around him. Then, his head just... flew off.
Before anyone could even see how Shen Daoxing had attacked, he was already back among them.
And in the next moment, Qin Muhe’s headless corpse crashed to the ground.
An instant kill!
An expert of the Earth Profound Realm, instantly killed just like that!
"???"
Chu Guifeng.
"???"
Ma Wan.
"???"
Luo An, Luo Xi.
"???"
The veiled woman.
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