Heaven-Surpassing Divine Emperor

The Despair Realm.

This is the gifted domain of a Dark Martial Soul. Within the Despair Realm, even an ordinary Human King Realm Powerhouse would find it difficult to lock onto their opponent’s position.

To be inside it...

...was to passively endure attacks coming from unknown directions.

No matter how one fought back, it was impossible to strike the enemy.

Helplessness and despair would quickly overwhelm the mind of anyone trapped inside, causing them to lose their will to fight.

Qiann Daomo had used this Despair Realm to slay countless powerhouses.

However...

today, he had met an extraordinary opponent.

Jiang Chen’s mind was as clear as a mirror, as cold as ice, and as firm as iron. His will was unshakable!

How could a mere Despair Realm make him truly despair?

SWISH!

A peerless Sword Aura, dazzling beyond compare, erupted from the Despair Realm like a Qingtian pillar of light connecting heaven and earth.

It forcefully sliced the Despair Realm apart.

BOOM...

The entire Despair Realm was cleaved in two under the impact of this Sword Aura.

As the Despair Realm shattered,

the smug smile on Qiann Daomo’s face froze. A look of astonishment and a flush of red appeared on his once calm and icy face. With a sudden cry of ”WAH!”, he spat out a mouthful of blood, his eyes filled with disbelief and uncertainty as he stared at the young man strolling leisurely out of the Despair Realm.

Qiann Daomo’s face was a mask of disbelief. ”You... you actually managed to get out of the Despair Realm?”

”What’s so difficult about it?”

Jiang Chen said flatly, ”Since it’s a domain, it must have a limited range. Your Despair Realm is vast, and you constantly shift its position based on my movements, creating the illusion that I’m perpetually trapped in Darkness. Although I couldn’t pinpoint your location inside the domain, I was able to determine its size after moving around several times. Escaping, naturally, couldn’t have been simpler!”

”I... I never thought it could be done like that?”

Qiann Daomo’s expression was incredibly ugly, dark and uncertain.

He never imagined that the Despair Realm he was so proud of would be so pathetic in Jiang Chen’s eyes.

A cold killing intent flickered in Qiann Daomo’s eyes. ”Even without the Despair Realm, I can still kill you!”

”Even your Martial Soul Talent is useless against me, and you still think you can kill me? That’s just wishful thinking. Since you’ve already let me experience your Martial Soul Talent, you should have no regrets dying at my hands!”

Jiang Chen spoke slowly, his tone flat, but his gaze grew colder as he stared at Qiann Daomo. ”Qiann Daomo,” he said faintly, ”when you’re in the Underworld, don’t forget that the one who killed you was named Jiang Chen!”

SWISH!

A magnificent Sword Qi Lotus suddenly appeared in front of Jiang Chen.

With a swing of his Spirit-Slaying Sword,

the light on this Sword Qi Lotus grew even more brilliant, its petals—formed entirely from Sword Qi—slowly unfurled.

The Sword Qi Lotus instantly flew toward Qiann Daomo.

Qiann Daomo snorted coldly and unleashed several peerless blade auras in succession.

Jiang Chen smiled coldly. With a flick of his wrist and a tilt of his blade, the petals of the Sword Qi Lotus shot out, beginning to circle around the lotus.

As the lotus petals spun...

they transformed into shields, colliding with the black blade auras. The sound of PENG PENG PENG was incessant.

At the same time...

the Sword Qi Lotus had already flown, unnoticed, right in front of Qiann Daomo.

”Explode!”

The corner of Jiang Chen’s mouth curled up as he spoke faintly.

”Not good!”

Qiann Daomo’s expression changed drastically. He tried to dodge, but it was already too late.

RUMBLE—

Petal after petal shot out from the spinning Sword Qi Lotus, raining down on Qiann Daomo like a torrential downpour. Each petal was in fact an incredibly sharp strand of Sword Qi. Under the continuous assault of the petal-like Sword Qi, gruesome and glaring wounds burst open all over Qiann Daomo’s body.

Blood flowed freely from his torn flesh.

After all the petals had detached from the Sword Qi Lotus, only a bare Lotus Platform remained.

Jiang Chen snorted. ”Clear Lotus Burst!”

He thrust his Spirit-Slaying Sword down.

The Lotus Platform’s rotation speed surged. With a WHOOSH, it tore through the air, spinning, and in an instant, it was beneath Qiann Daomo’s feet.

”Not good... Qiann Daomo, run!” Duann Shuiliu, who was watching from the side, shouted, his face contorted in alarm.

”Huh?”

Qiann Daomo, who was desperately fending off the petal-like Sword Qi, was startled. He instinctively looked down, his expression changing drastically. ’Damn it, I have to get out of here!’

A dark light pulsed around his body as he prepared to use the Shadow Escape Technique to get away.

However...

Jiang Chen was one step faster!

With a flick of his longsword, waves of azure sword energy surged out from the Sword Qi Lotus Platform.

The Sword Qi was as flexible as vines.

FWOOSH! FWOOSH! SWISH!

The azure Sword Qi shot skyward, forming a cage that bound Qiann Daomo tightly within.

Immediately after...

an incredibly dazzling azure light flashed from the Sword Qi Lotus Platform.

The azure light grew more blinding, larger and larger.

It coalesced into a cyan Light Cocoon, enveloping Qiann Daomo. The Light Cocoon pulsed violently, expanding and contracting, before suddenly erupting with a deafening BOOM. The entire cyan light mass shrank abruptly, then expanded to its absolute limit, exploding into fragments of cyan True Essence.

RUMBLE!

As the cyan Sword Qi Lotus Platform exploded, violent gales swept across the land.

Wherever the brutal winds passed, even buildings were uprooted, swept high into the air, and then shredded by the peerless Sword Qi.

Qiann Daomo, who bore the brunt of the attack, was even more grievously wounded.

”WAH...”

His body was flung backward out of the storm. His right hand was completely blown off, a mangled mess of flesh and blood. His legs were also shredded, leaving only splintered bone. His entire body was covered in gruesome, glaring wounds, like a skeleton stripped of its flesh, as he shot backward, face up, into the distance.

With a loud BOOM, Qiann Daomo crashed heavily into a building a thousand meters away.

The entire building collapsed from the impact, sending dust and rubble flying—a truly shocking sight!

BANG!

The shattered roof fell.

It smashed to pieces, kicking up a cloud of dust.

From within the billowing dust, a blood-soaked Qiann Daomo staggered out. His legs were nothing but splintered bone, yet he floated in mid-air. He leaned on his Battle Blade with one hand. Half of his face was stripped of flesh, revealing stark white bone, and the eyeball in his left socket looked as if it might fall out at any moment.

He glared at Jiang Chen with venomous hatred. ”You... you actually did this to me? I’ll kill you! I’ll tear you limb from limb...”

”You weren’t my match at your Peak, and you think you can kill me now? Qiann Daomo, prepare to die!” Jiang Chen’s expression was frigid.

He was just about to strike.

But Duann Shuiliu flickered and appeared in front of him, saying with a grim expression, ”As long as I’m here, you won’t kill him!”

”Is that so?”

Jiang Chen raised an eyebrow, a cold smile on his face. ”If I want to kill him, you can’t stop me!”

Before the words had even left his mouth, and before Duann Shuiliu could react, Jiang Chen’s figure blurred and reappeared in front of Qiann Daomo. He struck out with his palm, aiming for Qiann Daomo’s head.

If this palm strike landed, Qiann Daomo would surely die!

”How dare you?!”

Duann Shuiliu’s eyes widened in fury. With a roar, he swung his Battle Blade through the air, unleashing a peerless blade aura!

The blade aura arrived in an instant, about to strike Jiang Chen’s back. At this critical moment, the corner of Jiang Chen’s mouth lifted. His figure suddenly blurred. The blade passed through his afterimage and sliced down from above the stunned Qiann Daomo’s head, cleaving him in two!

”What?”

Duann Shuiliu was completely dumbfounded.

Jiang Chen had already dodged to the side. He tutted and taunted, ”See? I told you that you couldn’t stop me! Just like how I couldn’t stop you from killing Qiann Daomo!”