System Possession, One Sword Shocks the Gods

165: A desperate counterattack, the origin of the ancestral symbolWu Gang’s pressure at the Peak Ninth Level of Disha Realm was like a literal black tide, enveloping the entire street! The four Black Fiend Cult Elders behind him were also experts at the Seventh and Eighth Layer of the Disha Realm. Their auras were linked, and Demonic Astral Power surged, blocking all of Ye Chen’s paths of retreat. The surrounding pedestrians had long since scattered in terror, leaving a large open area to watch from a distance; no one dared to interfere in the affairs of the Black Fiend Cult.

“Fifth Layer of the Disha Realm? Hmph, I don’t know what secret method you used to conceal it, but since you dared to kill an Elder of my cult and take my son’s treasure, today is the day you die!” Wu Gang’s eyes were vicious. Although he couldn’t see through Ye Chen’s specific cultivation, he was confident that with his absolute crushing power, he could reduce him to ashes. He didn’t even bother to ask about Ye Chen’s background; in this Filthy Earth Black City, if you killed someone, they stayed killed!

Before he had even finished speaking, he already made his move! Without the slightest probe, his first strike was a killing move!

“Black Fiend Heaven-Swallowing Palm!”

Wu Gang let out a roar as the Demonic Astral Power around him boiled. A pitch-black giant palm that blotted out the sun condensed instantly. Within the palm print, countless resentful Souls seemed to wail, emitting a terrifying fluctuation that swallowed light and corroded Spiritual Qi as it slammed down toward Ye Chen! Wherever the palm wind passed, the stone slabs of the street cracked inch by inch, turning into powder!

This palm contained the full power of his Peak Ninth Level, and its power far exceeded the previous Cold Old Man’s Profound Yin Soul-Searching Claw; it was enough to instantly crush an ordinary Eighth Layer Earth Fiend Realm Cultivator into meat paste!

The other four Elders also attacked simultaneously. Four sharp Demonic Astral Power strikes, like venomous snakes emerging from their holes, sealed off the spaces to Ye Chen’s left, right, and rear, giving him no possibility of evasion!

Facing this certain-death situation, instead of fear, a cold flame burned in Ye Chen’s eyes. He no longer suppressed his cultivation, and the aura of the Seventh Layer of the Disha Realm Middle Stage erupted! Although it was still two minor Realms lower than Wu Gang’s, that pure and condensed Chaos Gang Qi, carrying the rhythm of Chaos, caused Wu Gang’s pupils to shrink suddenly!

“Seventh Layer of the Disha Realm?! No wonder...” Wu Gang was shocked, but his killing intent grew even stronger! This boy absolutely could not be allowed to live!

However, just as the pitch-black giant palm was about to fall and the four attacks were about to strike his body, Ye Chen moved!

He didn’t choose to clash head-on with Wu Gang’s Heaven-Swallowing Palm, nor did he care about the four flanking attacks. From the very beginning, his target was the weakest of the four Elders, a Seventh Layer Earth Fiend Realm Elder positioned relatively far back!

“Chaos Limitless Steps!”

His footwork was extremely profound, and his figure seemed to transform into a twisted gray line of light. In the blink of an eye, he actually passed through the gaps in the dense attacks! His speed reached the extreme, leaving a faint afterimage in his original spot!

“What?!” The targeted Seventh Layer Earth Fiend Realm Elder only felt a blur before his eyes, and Ye Chen had already appeared before him like a ghost! He could even clearly see those eyes beneath the cloak, cold as an eternal frozen abyss!

“Die!”

The guixu sword had been unsheathed at some point, its blade flowing with misty gray Chaos currents. Carrying the True Intent of Judgment and the power of Guixu annihilation, he thrust the sword straight forward, simple and direct! The speed of the sword surpassed the Elder’s mental reaction!

“Puchi!”

The protective Demonic Astral Power was pierced through like paper! The tip of the guixu sword accurately entered his glabella!

The shock on this Elder’s face froze instantly, his eyes quickly dimmed, and all his life force was annihilated in an instant under the Guixu Sword Intent! An instant kill!

Almost at the same moment Ye Chen killed the Elder, Wu Gang’s terrifying Heaven-Swallowing Palm and the attacks of the other three Elders slammed heavily onto the afterimage and the position where he had originally stood!

“BOOM—!!!”

The ground shook violently, and dust shot into the sky! A giant pit several meters deep appeared on the street, and the violent energy shockwave caused the buildings on both sides to sway incessantly!

“Fourth Brother!” The other three Elders’ eyes nearly split from rage, filled with both shock and fury.

As the dust settled, Ye Chen’s figure appeared thirty meters away, standing with his sword held out, his robes fluttering, completely unharmed! Only at his feet lay the corpse of the Elder, who had a single red mark on his forehead and had already breathed his last.

“What a strange movement technique! What a fast sword!” Wu Gang’s face turned ashen, and a storm of shock rose in his heart. He hadn’t expected the opponent’s cultivation to exceed his expectations, and his movement and attacks to be so bizarrely sharp! A Seventh Layer of the Disha Realm killing someone of the same level in an instant? This was simply unheard of!

“Form the Three Talents Demon Fiend Formation! Trap him!” Wu Gang was an established powerhouse after all; he immediately suppressed his shock and shouted sternly.

The remaining three Elders reacted quickly, immediately stepping into profound positions. Demonic Astral Power interlaced, instantly forming a triangular black light barrier that enveloped Ye Chen! Within the barrier, the demonic energy was grim, and Evil Qi condensed into countless sabers, spears, swords, and halberds that frantically attacked Ye Chen from all directions, while a powerful binding force attempted to restrict his movements!

As for Wu Gang himself, he stood outside the Formation, his hands rapidly forming seals as an even more terrifying aura condensed on him! He was going to use a stronger secret method for a one-hit kill!

Inside the Formation, facing endless demonic fiend attacks and spatial binding, Ye Chen’s eyes remained calm. He swung the guixu sword, his sword light like a wheel, shattering the incoming demonic fiend weapons. He expanded his Chaos Domain to resist the erosion of the Formation. However, this Three Talents Demon Fiend Formation was quite powerful; set up by three Seventh and Eighth Layer Earth Fiend Realm Cultivators together, it was enough to trap and kill a Ninth Layer Earth Fiend Realm. He felt immense pressure, and his Chaos Gang Qi was being consumed rapidly.

He couldn’t let this drag on!

His gaze locked onto an energy node of the Formation, specifically the position maintained by that Eighth Layer Earth Fiend Realm Elder!

“Judgment! Breaking the Illusion!”

He shouted low, pushing his True Intent of Judgment to the extreme. The guixu sword turned into a pale gold sword light that pierced through falsehood and judged right from wrong. Carrying an unstoppable determination, it struck fiercely at that node!

“Block it for me!” The Eighth Layer Elder maintaining the node roared, pushing his Demonic Astral Power to its limit to condense a thick Ghost-Head Shield in front of him!

“Crack!”

The pale gold sword light collided with the Ghost-Head Shield. The shield only held for a moment before it shattered! The sword light’s momentum slowed slightly, but it remained sharp, instantly piercing through the Elder’s chest!

“Ugh, ah!” The Elder let out a shrill scream. A bowl-sized transparent hole appeared in his chest, his Demonic Astral Power dissipated, and he fell to the ground dead!

The Three Talents Demon Fiend Formation was instantly broken!

The other two Elders suffered a backlash, both spitting out blood. The light barrier of the Formation flickered violently before collapsing!

At the exact moment the Formation broke, Wu Gang, who was outside the Formation, had finished his secret method!

“Little bastard, to be able to force this seat to use this technique, you can be proud of yourself! Nine Nether Yellow Springs Finger!”

Wu Gang’s face was distorted as he pointed a finger! At the fingertip condensed a point of extreme darkness, as if it were connected to the Nine Serenities Hell, emitting a deathly aura that froze the Soul and annihilated life! A black finger beam, as thin as a hair yet causing the surrounding space to collapse and twist, ignored the distance and arrived before Ye Chen in an instant!

The power of this finger far exceeded the previous Heaven-Swallowing Palm, containing a trace of the death rule’s True Intent from the Tiangang Realm! It was Wu Gang’s ultimate trump card!

Fast! Ruthless! Precise! It was impossible to avoid!

Ye Chen had just broken the Formation; his old strength had been spent, and his new strength had not yet been generated. Facing this certain-death finger, he seemed to have fallen into a dead end!

The intense crisis of death stimulated every nerve in Ye Chen’s body! His pupils contracted to the extreme, and the Chaos Gang Qi inside him circulated frantically at an unprecedented speed, even triggering that chaos ancestral talisman deep within his Qi Sea!

“I can only go all out!”

A look of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes. He no longer held anything back, preparing to forcibly trigger the Origin power of the chaos ancestral talisman to withstand it! Even if it meant exposing a great treasure or suffering a backlash, he couldn’t care less!

However, at this critical juncture—

A sudden change occurred!

The incomplete map of the nirvana demonic palace he had just purchased in his robes seemed to be triggered by the extreme deathly demonic intent contained in Wu Gang’s Nine Nether Yellow Springs Finger. It actually spontaneously emitted a faint, dull yellow light! A wave of ancient, chaotic, yet somehow guiding energy suddenly spread out!

At the same time, Ye Chen felt as if a subtle connection had been established between himself and the fragmentary map. On the map, the mark that looked like a demonic eye seemed to come to life, faintly pointing in a certain direction!

And Wu Gang’s lethal Nine Nether Yellow Springs Finger, the moment it touched this dull yellow light, actually seemed to be interfered with, its trajectory shifting by an extremely tiny margin!

It was this hair’s breadth of difference!

Ye Chen had a sudden flash of inspiration and violently tilted his body!

“Ssh!”

The black finger beam grazed his left shoulder, bringing a spray of blood and leaving a wound so deep that the bone was visible, with deathly energy swirling around it! Intense pain hit him, but he had ultimately avoided his vitals!

“What?!” The cruel grin on Wu Gang’s face froze instantly. He looked at the fragmentary map emitting the dull yellow light in disbelief. “The Demon Palace fragmentary map?! It actually...”

Before he could finish his sentence, Ye Chen had already seized this fleeting opportunity!

Enduring the intense pain in his left shoulder and the erosion of the deathly power, his figure shot up. The guixu sword turned into a gray lightning of death, no longer attacking Wu Gang, but heading straight for the two Seventh Layer Earth Fiend Realm Elders who were injured by the Formation’s backlash and had not yet recovered!

The sword light was like a dragon, and the intent of Chaos Judgment descended!

“Puff! Puff!”

Two heads filled with shock soared into the sky! Blood sprayed everywhere!

In the blink of an eye, the four Elders were completely wiped out!

Ye Chen turned around with his sword, his blood-stained robes snapping in the wind. His cold gaze was like a sharp sword, piercing straight at the ashen-faced, shocked, and furious Wu Gang.

The situation had reversed in an instant!