I, Old Devil Li, Will Slaughter My Way Through the Thousand Sect Grand Competition!

"What have you cultivated?" Zhao Jiuxiao growled.

Yin and yang flowed, saint and devil separated by a single thought.

At this moment, Li Daochen was like a god and a devil, making it impossible to tell what cultivation technique he had practiced!

Call him righteous, and devil flames raged around him!

Call him a devil, and holy light shone everywhere!

"The Dao of killing you!" Li Daochen spoke with murderous intent as the Xuanyuan Emperor Scripture roared into motion.

Since his rebirth, this was his true strongest state.

Zhao Jiuxiao's face twisted.

At this moment, he had no choice but to admit that he was inferior to Li Daochen.

But.

"Even if I'm inferior to you, I'll still slay you!"

Now that he had entered the Dragon Gate, his strength would keep growing as time passed. He had no fear of continuing the fight with Li Daochen.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The mountain range seemed to turn upside down, as though it might shatter at any moment.

The commotion Li Daochen and Zhao Jiuxiao caused was so great that it could be sensed for a thousand miles around.

Boom!

Devil dragon and holy dragon markings flowed over Li Daochen's body. He made no attempt to defend, attacking with everything he had.

Bang!

Zhao Jiuxiao was knocked out of the mountain range and crashed hard onto a plain.

His face was deathly pale.

"This won't do. If we keep fighting like this, I'll die for sure!"

Zhao Jiuxiao flew into the distance without hesitation.

He needed time to stabilize his cultivation realm, so he used the Heavenly Flood Dragon Soaring Technique to push his speed to its limit.

Li Daochen burst after him, pursuing without hesitation.

"Since you're fleeing, there's ten parts death and no chance of survival for you!" Li Daochen cried out.

Not only did he give chase, he also madly refined the Evil Dragon Pearl within his body.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Li Daochen was also extremely fast. Every time he caught up to Zhao Jiuxiao, he delivered a vicious slash with his sword.

His strength was soaring, while Zhao Jiuxiao was growing weaker and weaker.

One incense stick's worth of time passed.

The two crossed nearly half the second layer.

Some heaven's chosen saw them and were dumbfounded, then sucked in sharp breaths.

Li Daochen was hunting down Zhao Jiuxiao, the eastern region's foremost heaven's chosen?

They weren't dreaming, were they?

In a canyon!

Zhao Jiuxiao burst out in a sorry state.

Bang!

Like a fierce beast freed from its cage, Li Daochen pursued him relentlessly.

Zhao Jiuxiao had the illusion that Li Daochen had smashed the canyon behind him to pieces!

It wasn't real, but it showed Li Daochen's overbearing bearing at this moment, as if no one but him could prevail!

Boom!

During the pursuit, Li Daochen even reached the Divine Ability Sixth Layer!

Zhao Jiuxiao looked back, his eyes nearly splitting with fury.

To tell the truth, his conviction and pride had nearly been shattered!

The youth pursuing him filled him with endless pressure!

It was much like the feeling he had when he first met a cultivator as a child, his whole body filled with helplessness.

At this very moment.

Zhao Jiuxiao knew he had been utterly defeated!

Rather than counterattacking, Zhao Jiuxiao was now thinking more about how to survive Li Daochen's sword.

Zhao Jiuxiao was proud, but he also knew when to hold on and when to let go.

He didn't want to die!

Only by living would he have a chance to surpass Li Daochen!

He could cultivate in a Saint Sect, and a broader stage was waiting for him...

If he died, everything would come to nothing!

"I've never suffered a defeat since I first emerged. How can I die after a single defeat, without being given even one chance?"

His face savage, Zhao Jiuxiao raced toward the third layer.

He knew that the experts of the various sects should be watching from the fourth layer by now.

Zhao Jiuxiao understood full well that his own threats were useless now; they would only make Li Daochen even more determined to kill him!

The weak... had no right to threaten anyone!

But!

His sect, the Northern Nether Dragon Fish Sect, the foremost sect in the eastern region, did!

Although the cultivators on the fourth layer couldn't come down, sometimes the words of an expert were a tremendous deterrent.

He had to reach the third layer!

Behind him, Li Daochen's eyes were murderous. He could guess what Zhao Jiuxiao was thinking.

But.

So what!

No matter who came, they couldn't save someone he, Li Daochen, wanted to kill!

The fourth layer.

Just as Zhao Jiuxiao had expected, most of the sects were indeed watching the third layer.

Although many sects, unlike the Karmic Fire Lotus Sect and the True Talisman Profound Sect, had no way to know whether their disciples were alive or dead.

But Zhu Lingye and Xie Tianfu were both dead, so the Thousand Sect Grand Competition was surely more dangerous than before. How could they not pay attention?

"It's about time. Usually, they would start arriving on the third layer around now." Wu Aocang, sect master of the Karmic Fire Lotus Sect, watched with a cold gaze.

Ever since learning of Zhu Lingye's death, there had not been a trace of a smile on his face, and the temperature around him had dropped considerably.

Wu Aocang was determined to see who had killed his sect's Sacred Physique!

Nearby, Liang Yuzhou of the True Talisman Profound Sect was thinking much the same.

It was far from easy to raise a heaven's chosen, especially one like Xie Tianfu, who would have been fully capable of inheriting the position of sect master!

The death of such a disciple, to put it seriously, concerned the sect's very succession. It was a matter that could only end with one side dead!

Only the remaining constraints of the Thousand Sect Grand Competition had kept trouble from breaking out already.

"More opportunities have appeared in the Yunmeng Dragon Grotto this time than usual. I wonder how things are on the lower three layers," the sect master of the Heavenly Wilds Sect said.

"There's a place where multicolored light swirls. A supreme treasure is bound to emerge there within the next few days. But the pressure there is exceptionally terrifying. We need to bring more people, or there may be danger," the sect master of the Nine Artifact Sect said gravely.

He had a premonition that a great treasure would emerge there.

"There's no hurry. Let's first ask what happened down below!" the sect master of the Heavenly Wilds Sect replied.

Beside them, Xu Nantian, sect master of the Dragon Fish Sect, was somewhat distracted.

At this moment, he was undoubtedly the most anxious of them all.

"Little ancestor, please kill fewer people..." Xu Nantian prayed.

The more he thought about it, the more convinced he became that Zhao Jiuxiao had killed Zhu Lingye.

All he could do now was pray that Zhao Jiuxiao had only killed a few...

Time passed.

Yet no heaven's chosen came up.

They couldn't help growing restless.

Something was wrong!

This was far too abnormal!

"Something must have happened on the two layers below." The sect master of the Nine Artifact Sect grew increasingly uneasy. Qi Muyang and Qi Kongyue were his sons, so he was even more concerned. Unfortunately, he had no way to learn whether his two sons were alive or dead.

Methods like the True Talisman Profound Sect's life-bound spirit talismans and the Karmic Fire Lotus Sect's life-bound lotuses were exceptionally rare!

But just then.

At the entrance leading from the second layer to the third, ripples spread across the glowing curtain of the portal.

"Someone's coming up!"

They stared wide-eyed.

Soon.

Bang!

A disheveled figure fell through. It was none other than Zhao Jiuxiao.

It wasn't that the heaven's chosen below wouldn't come up, but that they had been frightened by Li Daochen's pursuit of Zhao Jiuxiao and didn't dare approach.

The many sect masters and grand elders stared blankly at Zhao Jiuxiao. For a moment, they couldn't even recognize which heaven's chosen he was!

Zhao Jiuxiao was in a truly miserable state!

Part of his left arm had been chopped off!

His hair hung loose, and his face was so caked with blood and grime that his features were impossible to make out.

Xu Nantian was startled. The more he looked, the more familiar the figure seemed.

And the next moment.

Zhao Jiuxiao looked up and roared, "Sect master, save me!"

His roar shook the heavens, carrying across the third layer and reaching the fourth.

Xu Nantian's expression changed drastically.

It was Zhao Jiuxiao!

But... who could have beaten Zhao Jiuxiao so badly?

What kind of joke was this?!

The others were also dumbfounded for a moment.

How had the eastern region's foremost heaven's chosen ended up like this?

He was in such a miserable state!

They instinctively assumed that Zhao Jiuxiao had encountered some danger in the Dragon Grotto's lower layers.

But the next moment.

Boom!

Li Daochen burst out and pinned Zhao Jiuxiao beneath one foot.

Pfft!

Zhao Jiuxiao vomited blood, his face growing even more savage. "Sect master, save me!"

He did nothing but keep shouting those same four words!

Xu Nantian: "..."

The assembled experts: "..."

Ye Hua: "..."

He felt as though his old eyes were playing tricks on him!

Yun Wanyi: "..."

She felt she could no longer protect Li Daochen!

Yun Wanyi's expression changed, but while everyone was still stunned, she quietly slipped away.

The night before the Thousand Sect Grand Competition, Li Daochen had sought her out and said that if he caused a major commotion at the competition, he hoped she would wisely protect herself and run when she needed to, without worrying about losing face.

At the time, Yun Wanyi hadn't cared at all.

Now, she wanted to give Li Daochen a beating!

And at this moment.

"Stop right there, damn it!" Xu Nantian roared, his voice reaching the third layer.

Li Daochen didn't even raise his head.

"If you dare kill him, my Northern Nether Dragon Fish Sect will exterminate eighteen generations of your ancestors!" Xu Nantian growled again, his face twisting slightly.

But.

Li Daochen still paid him no heed. The Dragon-Slaying Sword in his hand had already begun to unleash a terrifying sword force, breaking through Zhao Jiuxiao's final defense.

The many experts' expressions changed.

This brat's guts truly reached the heavens!

He treated even Xu Nantian's threat as though he hadn't heard it.

Xu Nantian's fury surged to the heavens, and he was also starting to panic.

If Zhao Jiuxiao died, not only would the Dragon Fish Sect suffer a devastating loss, but it would also incur the displeasure of the Saint Sect expert who held Zhao Jiuxiao in high regard!

He couldn't help roaring, "Do you know that a Saint Sect expert has taken an interest in Zhao Jiuxiao? If you kill him, you won't just enrage my Northern Nether Dragon Fish Sect, you'll also offend the Saint Sect! When that happens, you'll be utterly doomed beyond redemption!"

Swish, swish, swish... The assembled experts turned to Xu Nantian in disbelief. They had never heard of this before, and for a moment they were filled with doubt and alarm.

But.

A hoarse voice pulled them back to reality.

"So what?"

As Li Daochen spoke, his Sword Qi soared into the clouds, settling life and death with a single thrust that pierced Zhao Jiuxiao's heart.

Zhao Jiuxiao's eyes widened, full of resentment and despair. He reached out, trying to grasp something, but his hand fell limp halfway there.

Only then did Li Daochen look up at Xu Nantian, his cold eyes utterly fearless.

Then, unhurried, he put away Zhao Jiuxiao's corpse and slowly retreated through the portal behind him.

Everyone stared in a daze.

Li Daochen was far too calm.

Though the portal shone brilliantly, the scene still looked like a hunter successfully killing his prey, then retreating calmly and silently into the shadows.