System Possession, One Sword Shocks the Gods

81: Fighting hordes of demons aloneYe Chen’s figure was like a falling star crashing into the earth, slamming heavily into the center of the City Lord’s Mansion square. Where his feet landed, the hard bluestone slabs instantly turned to powder. A ring of invisible airwaves, mixed with dark Chaos Sword Intent, boomed outward, forcing several Dark Hall Deacons and Blood Blade Leaders who were closing in to retreat repeatedly, their expressions changing drastically!

”Kaiyuan Realm Eighth Level?! No, this aura...” A Blood Blade Leader felt the terrifying sword pressure emanating from Ye Chen—deep as an abyss and carrying the Guixu Concept—and a flicker of suspicion flashed in his eyes. According to intelligence, this boy was only at the Kaiyuan Realm Fifth Level. Even if he had a fortuitous encounter in the Secret Realm, it was impossible to improve so quickly. Furthermore, this Sword Intent... was completely different from before!

”Kill him! You must not let him near the core!” Atop the tower, Elder Blood Dove, who was currently entangled with Liu Qingfeng’s Sword Qi, let out a shrill roar. His energy arm swung violently, sending a condensed blood-colored claw print through the air toward Ye Chen’s back!

At the same time, on the square, three Kaiyuan Realm Eighth Level Dark Hall Deacons and two Kaiyuan Realm Seventh Level Peak Blood Blade Leaders simultaneously erupted with their strongest Evil Qi and deathly intent. Blade light, sword shadows, palm prints, bone spikes... five incomparably sharp attacks sealed off all of Ye Chen’s evasion space from different directions, vowing to blast him to death instantly!

Facing this pincer attack that could be called a desperate situation, Ye Chen’s eyes were as cold as ten-thousand-year-old profound ice, without a hint of panic. The guixu sword in his hand let out a low roar that seemed to come from the primordial wilderness, and the Chaos airflow upon the blade spun frantically at an unprecedented speed!

He did not choose to dodge, nor did he choose to block any of the attacks.

Instead... he slammed the guixu sword into the ground beneath his feet!

”Guixu — Attraction, All Laws Nirvana!”

With the guixu sword as the center, a larger and deeper Chaos vortex with a diameter of ten zhang suddenly took shape! Within the vortex, the dark gold core shone brilliantly, and countless fine dark red devouring patterns writhed like living creatures, emitting a terrifying suction force that seemed to swallow the world!

The moment those five attacks from all directions entered the range of the Chaos vortex, they were like clay oxen entering the sea. Their speed plummeted, and the vast energy they contained was forcibly torn, decomposed, and devoured by the vortex! Blade light dimmed, sword shadows shattered, palm prints dissolved, and bone spikes disintegrated!

Even Elder Blood Dove’s blood-colored claw print, when it touched the edge of the vortex, seemed to fall into an invisible quagmire. Its power was greatly reduced, and it was eventually shredded and annihilated by the rotating Chaos airflow!

”What?!”

”This is impossible!”

The faces of the five attackers changed wildly. They felt their own spiritual power and even the martial will contained within their attacks being frantically devoured and dismantled by that bizarre vortex! This was not a normal confrontation of Sword Intent at all, but a fundamental suppression and deprivation!

”His Sword Intent... can devour our power!” a Dark Hall Deacon cried out in horror.

And at the very moment their offensive was blocked, their minds shaken, and their old strength was spent while new strength had yet to arise—

Ye Chen moved!

He pulled out the guixu sword, his figure vanishing from the spot like a ghost. Under the enhancement of the Nirvana Sword Intent, his Grand Void Roaming Dragon Steps were so fast they exceeded the limits of visual tracking!

*Puff!*

A Blood Blade Leader felt a chill at his throat. Looking down, he saw a small hole had appeared in his throat at some unknown time. The Nirvana Sword Intent instantly annihilated all his life force, and the horror in his eyes froze as he slumped to the ground.

Ye Chen’s figure was like a scythe wielded by the God of Death. Under the cover of the Chaos vortex, every time he flashed, an enemy was bound to fall!

”Watch his movement!” another Blood Blade Leader warned sharply, frantically waving the scimitar in his hand to splash out a sky full of blood-colored blade light in an attempt to block him.

However, Ye Chen simply pointed his fingers like a sword and struck from a distance.

Cloud Breaking Sword Finger—or rather, it was the Cloud Breaking Finger infused with the Guixu Concept!

A fine, dark gold finger force laced with Chaos airflow arrived later but struck first, ignoring the dense blade light and accurately piercing the brow of that Blood Blade Leader! The power of Nirvana Devouring contained within the finger force instantly turned his Divine Soul and Physical Body into nothingness!

In the blink of an eye, two of the five attackers were gone!

The remaining three Dark Hall Deacons were scared out of their wits. No longer caring about attacking, they all used life-saving escape techniques to try and flee this death zone.

”Can you escape?”

Ye Chen’s cold voice sounded in their ears like a life-claiming mantra. He slashed the guixu sword three times through the air!

Three fine Chaos sword threads appeared out of thin air, as if crossing the distance of space, instantly catching up to the three escapees and sinking into their backs.

The three Dark Hall Deacons’ bodies suddenly froze, their faces filled with despair and unwillingness. Then, their bodies weathered like sand sculptures and dissipated into nothingness.

From the moment Ye Chen landed until the five Late Stage Kaiyuan Realm experts were all executed, only a few short breaths had passed!

Fast! Ruthless! Accurate!

The Guixu Sword Intent had just shown its edge, yet it already displayed such terrifying and peerless power!

Elder Blood Dove on the tower watched with eyes nearly splitting from rage and shock! He had completely failed to expect that after not seeing him for a short time, Ye Chen’s strength would actually explode to such a degree! That bizarre Sword Intent was practically the nemesis of his blood-evil power!

”Little beast! This Elder wants you dead!”

Elder Blood Dove went completely mad. Ignoring the sharp sword qi slashed by Liu Qingfeng, he forcibly burned his blood essence. His energy arm instantly expanded, turning into a giant blood claw that blotted out the sun, carrying overwhelming resentment and a fishy wind as it clawed down at Ye Chen’s head! This strike contained an angry blow at the Earth Fiend Realm level, its power far exceeding anything before!

At the same time, the pulsing dark red core crystal in the center of the square also seemed to be stimulated by Blood Dove’s madness. It pulsed even more violently, emitting a dark red light that spread out like a tide. Wherever it passed, the ground corroded, the air twisted, and even space became unstable! The few survivors who had been forced into corners by Liu Qingfeng’s sword domain suddenly felt their pressure double, their situations becoming critical!

Facing this blood-evil giant claw from above and the dark red corrosive energy spreading from below, Ye Chen’s expression became solemn to the extreme.

He could feel that although the guixu sword could counter and devour these energies, the opponent’s blow was after all an angry strike from the Earth Fiend Realm. The magnitude was too great; if he took it head-on, he would inevitably be heavily injured! And once he was held back, if the core crystal was completely activated or other reinforcements from the Dark Hall arrived, the consequences would be unimaginable!

He had to settle this quickly! He must destroy the core at any cost!

A flash of determination crossed his eyes, and from deep within his Soul, that ancient sword phantasm once again sent forth a strand of pure and ancient Sword Yuan! At the same time, he crushed the last of the two remaining strands of Sword Qi in the sword containment pendant within his robes!

”Elder Liu! Help me!”

He let out a violent shout, and all the power he had just gathered, along with that brilliant and righteous Sword Qi erupting from the sword containment pendant, was entirely poured into the guixu sword!

The guixu sword let out a stirring sword hum that seemed capable of splitting heaven and earth, and the Chaos light upon the blade became incandescent to the extreme! Ye Chen gripped the sword with both hands and slashed out a Chaos Sword Aura that spanned heaven and earth toward the blood-evil giant claw above and the dark red energy below!

”Guixu — Heaven-Opening!”

This sword was no longer simple devouring and annihilation, but carried a supreme will to split the Chaos, divide the clear and the turbid, and re-establish order! Wherever the sword qi passed, space seemed to be plowed open into a bottomless trench. All energy, matter, and even rules returned to the original ”nothingness” before this sword!

*Rumble—!!*

The Chaos Sword Aura collided violently with the blood-evil giant claw and the dark red energy! There was no stalemate, no aftershock of an explosion! The moment the blood-evil giant claw touched the sword qi, it melted and dismantled like snow under the sun! The dark red energy tide spreading below was also split down the middle by the sword qi, rolling back toward the sides!

The sword qi’s momentum did not decrease, acting like a heaven-opening giant axe as it slammed heavily into the pulsing dark red core crystal in the center of the square!

*Crack—!!!*

A crisp sound of shattering rang through the entire city, as if exploding in everyone’s hearts!

The surface of that massive, constantly pulsing dark red crystal was instantly covered in spiderweb-like cracks! The terrifying energy contained within it suddenly spiraled out of control, emitting a blinding blood light!

”No—!!!” Elder Blood Dove let out a desperate roar.

The crystal exploded with a bang!

A destructive shockwave of dark red energy, like a nuclear explosion, spread frantically in all directions with the crystal as the center! Ye Chen, being the first to be hit, was sent flying by this terrifying force despite having the guixu sword to protect his body. He spat out a large mouthful of blood while in mid-air, his aura instantly becoming withered!

The entire City Lord’s Mansion square, along with the surrounding buildings, was flattened under the impact of this explosion as if wiped away by an invisible giant hand, turning into a field of ruins!

The barrier of the Blood Sacrifice Spirit Sealing Array also flickered violently a few times due to the core being destroyed before it shattered completely!

”Ye Chen!” Seeing this, Liu Qingfeng did not bother to pursue the equally battered and wretched Elder Blood Dove who had been caught in the explosion. With a flash of sword light, he caught the heavily injured and falling Ye Chen.

And at the moment the barrier shattered, the dozens of dark red pillars of light supporting the Formation throughout Liuyun City also dimmed and collapsed together!

The core of the ”Demon Summoning Grand Array,” which the Dark Hall had painstakingly managed, was completely destroyed by Ye Chen’s life-risking strike!

However, neither Liu Qingfeng nor the barely stabilized Ye Chen had any joy on their faces.

Because, in the center of the core crystal’s explosion, above the ruins that had been completely leveled, a deeper and darker space rift that seemed to connect to the Nine Hells was slowly opening... An evil will far more terrifying, ancient, and cold than the Myriad Sword Demon Puppet or Elder Blood Dove was slowly permeating out from that rift... The Dark Hall’s true trump card, or rather, the existence carried by that so-called ”mobile carrier”... seemed to have been prematurely... awakened by the destruction of the core!