Draw the Sword, Slay the Evil Flood Dragon!

Zhao Xuantian stared, dumbstruck, as though he were dreaming.

Seven great demons had actually been wounded by a single sword strike!

In that instant, those demons seemed to have lost all ability to move, allowing the golden sword light to sweep across their eyes.

It was simply bizarre!

It was as though Lu Chen had taken control of their bodies.

Or as though that single sword had struck a venomous snake squarely on its vital inch.

One move had shattered their entire attack.

"I told you that you were no good. You truly are no good. What a pity—only seven came."

Lu Chen spoke as he fought.

Not a single one of these demons had reached the Demon King realm.

Forget the Demon King realm—even the ninth level of the Golden Body realm was beyond them.

Still, credit where it was due.

Their Merit Points were indeed quite substantial.

As demon after demon was slain, the savage bull on the ground was terrified to the extreme. It suddenly regained its ability to move, flipped over and rose to its feet, revealed its true form, and fled directly into the distance.

But its eyes had been blinded and its spiritual force shattered. As it fled, it was like a headless fly, charging wildly about without being able to distinguish any direction.

"Lord Young Demon King, save me! Moo!"

It let out a wild bull's bellow, the sound deafening.

Terrifying black soundwaves spread into the distance like it was calling for powerful reinforcements.

"There are more demons?"

Lu Chen narrowed his eyes and stared at the massive savage bull rampaging about. His body shot into the sky, carrying an incomparably sharp aura, and he instantly appeared above the bull's head.

His robes billowed around him, his expression cold and his features handsome.

Like a young god standing high above all else.

Zhao Xuantian was shaken to the core and hurriedly flew after him as well.

"Call for help. Let me see what sort of reinforcements you can summon. If no help comes, I'll dismember you, stew you into beef, and share you with the other humans. However you treated those humans, I'll treat you the same way a thousandfold, ten-thousandfold!"

Lu Chen's voice was icy.

When he looked at this savage bull, he had already regarded it as a dish.

Along the way, he had seen many villages and towns reduced to ruins, devoid of life.

When he had arrived earlier, he had even seen from afar this savage bull eating humans alive.

How could he possibly let such a beast die painlessly?

"Moo!"

The enormous savage bull was utterly panicked, still letting out wild bull bellows. Waves upon waves of black soundwaves swept through the surroundings, smashing through dense forests and mountain peaks like rotten wood.

The scene was exceptionally terrifying.

Coldness filled Lu Chen's eyes. Suddenly, he drew his saber and hurled it fiercely downward.

Whoosh!

Boom!

The black demonic saber descended like a deathly bolt of lightning shot forth by a ghost, viciously nailing the enormous savage bull to the ground with a thunderous boom.

The Black Savage Bull let out waves of shrill screams, its body no longer able to move in the slightest.

Vast Level Five Blade Intent pressed down upon it like a hundred thousand mountains, suppressing its flesh and soul. Every inch of its flesh burned with stabbing pain, as though it were being sliced by a thousand blades.

"Lord Young Demon King, save me! Hurry and save me..."

The Black Savage Bull screamed in agony.

Its body was as large as a small hill, yet it had been firmly pinned down by a black blade just over a meter long. The sight was indescribably bizarre.

"Keep calling. Every breath, I'll carve a piece of flesh from your body. If it doesn't appear for a quarter of an hour, I'll carve you for a quarter of an hour—until I slice you alive into nothing but white bones."

Lu Chen's voice was cold.

Splurt!

With a wave of his hand, invisible Blade Qi flashed past in an instant.

Blood immediately sprayed from one part of the Black Savage Bull's body, and something flew high into the air. The pain filled its eyes with terror, making it tremble as its cries became even more shrill.

"Moo..."

A large black strip of flesh flew high into the air, dripping scarlet blood, before Lu Chen drew it into his hand.

"This thing is pretty good. I'll take it back to soak in liquor!"

Lu Chen casually tossed it to Zhao Xuantian.

Zhao Xuantian caught it in his hand, his gaze trembling as shock filled his heart.

Ruthless!

Utterly ruthless!

Killing a man is no more than making his head touch the ground, yet Lu Chen had treated a great demon like this.

He had sliced this thing right off it.

This was a bull whip!

A true tonic of the highest order!

But then again, all along the way, this great demon had slaughtered villages and wiped out towns, devouring humans alive. When had it ever regarded humans as worthy of notice?

It had not even spared pregnant women.

It was a beast drenched in blood!

Since it was a beast, cutting off its bull whip to steep in wine for humans was nothing, was it?

Boom!

All of a sudden, waves of terrifying aura, like mountains roaring and seas crashing, surged from the world ahead, kicking up endless sand and flying stones. The air wailed as even space warped along with it.

Rolling Demonic Qi swept forth like ocean tides, blotting out the sky and covering the earth, nearly engulfing the entire world at once.

In the foremost area, a twisted spatial gate had appeared.

Within the spatial gate, two enormous lights lit up. Each was as large as a door panel, carrying a cold, intimidating aura as they swept over the outside.

It seemed to be checking whether there were any experts outside.

When they saw that only Lu Chen and Zhao Xuantian were outside, and saw the Black Savage Bull nailed to the ground and howling in agony, a chilling glint immediately surfaced in those twin lights.

"Roar!"

A deafening dragon roar rang out.

The next moment, an incomparably peerless Black Flood Dragon suddenly burst out of that space. Its immense body gleamed with metallic luster.

Its scales were pitch-black and savage, as though forged from the rarest and most precious metal. Murderous intent billowed from it as its body abruptly rose upright.

A single horn grew from its head, and it had four claws.

Each claw had four talons.

This was a standard Flood Dragon!

Its upright body stood at least several dozen meters tall.

"Human, you dare injure my subordinate. You have some nerve!"

A frigid, sinister voice came from the Black Flood Dragon's mouth.

Its dragon eyes were exceptionally cold, as though they could peer straight into the depths of one's spirit, making people involuntarily shudder with terror.

"Lord Young Demon King, save me, save me..."

The Black Savage Bull let out a pained roar, blood pooling beneath it.

Cruel, icy light flickered in the Black Flood Dragon's eyes. Its mental power swept through the surroundings once more, and after confirming that there were no human experts of the Dharma Aspect Realm nearby, a savage curve gradually appeared at the corners of its mouth.

"You see me, yet you still dare not kneel?"

Whoosh!

Invisible mental power condensed into a beam, carrying terrifying pressure and force as it shot straight toward Lu Chen.

This was the innate divine ability of its race!

It could destroy a person's spirit without a trace.

Boom!

Lu Chen's clothes fluttered and his long hair streamed behind him. Within three meters around him seemed to be an invisible barrier, tightly enveloping his body. The instant the terrifying mental attack drew near, it was automatically rebounded.

"So you were the one probing humanity from behind the scenes?"

Lu Chen asked.

"Hmm?"

The Black Flood Dragon's gaze narrowed. It unleashed another powerful mental attack, charging directly at the strand of mental power that had rebounded.

A muffled boom erupted between them.

Space rippled and twisted in waves.

"Who are you?"

The Black Flood Dragon spoke in a sinister voice. "To block one strike from me, you cannot be some nobody. State your name!"

"Was it you who incited the other demons to massacre humans?"

Lu Chen asked again.

"Young Demon King, sir, he's Lu Chen—the human prodigy, the newly appointed Blade Emperor! Kill him, quickly!"

The savage bull was still howling in agony.

"Lu Chen?"

A flicker passed through the Black Flood Dragon's eyes as it finally recalled him.

A figure from the human race who had risen to fame lately!

Boom!

Cunning as it was, it suddenly opened its mouth and spewed out a vast cloud of black mist, thick with fierce corrosion, which surged straight toward Lu Chen.

Dense, deadly poison was mixed within it.

Even Golden Body Realm experts could not withstand this poison. Once struck, they would rapidly weaken.

After spewing the black mist, its enormous, savage body abruptly dove downward, rumbling deeply as every one of its vicious scales glimmered with black light.

"Die!"

Its eyes were cruel.

It slashed a claw viciously down at Lu Chen below.

However!

Whoosh!

A brilliant sword light instantly shot into the heavens, as though it had become the only thing between heaven and earth.

Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art!

Third form!

Rumble!

A sheet of dazzling, snow-bright divine light soared skyward, carrying a surging, razor-sharp aura. Like a massive Golden Divine Sword, it sought to cleave through everything.

In just a single exchange, the countless clouds of black mist spewed by the flood dragon were forcibly scattered.

Then, the flood dragon saw a terrifying sight that made its heart and gall split apart.

The dazzling divine light seemed like dozens of brilliant divine suns exploding at once, carrying an incomparable sharpness as it slashed fiercely toward its body.

Before it even truly drew near, the flood dragon's pitch-black, hard scales had already begun to shatter, bursting with blood.

Its pupils contracted.

It instantly felt as though catastrophe was bearing down upon it.

"Not good!"

At that critical moment, it used every trick it had and turned to flee at top speed toward the spatial gate behind it.

Who said Lu Chen was only in the Golden Body Realm?

What kind of joke was this?!

This sword art was more terrifying than any Dharma Aspect Realm expert it had ever seen.

He was a monster!

Lu Chen was playing the pig to eat the tiger!

He had to be a Dharma Aspect Realm expert.

The flood dragon roared inwardly as it charged desperately toward the spatial gate.

A distance of merely several hundred zhang, ordinarily insignificant, now seemed to stretch for ten thousand miles—distant beyond reach.

"Damn tail, move faster!"

Boom!

Amid its terrified, frantic flight, the dazzling golden light finally slashed viciously into its body. Waves upon waves of force erupted, and the enormous impact surged into the sky, nearly blasting apart the clouds.

"Ah!"

A painful shriek rang out.

The deafening rumble whipped up a raging gale of more than ten degrees.

Countless residual strands of Sword Qi exploded outward in every direction, sweeping through everything like dry weeds before a storm, destroying all in their path.

The ground within dozens of li shook violently and was ravaged by the terrifying Sword Qi.

The Black Savage Bull nailed to the ground let out an even more shrill scream. Its body was as if flayed by a bone-scraping divine blade; its hide and flesh instantly became a bloody blur, blood spraying everywhere.

Its eyes were filled with utter terror.

Even the mighty Young Demon King was no match for this human!

Within that terrifying radiance, its body had been cleaved apart!

Yes!

The Black Flood Dragon ultimately did not escape disaster.

Under Lu Chen's Tenfold Combat Power and Level Five Sword Intent, combined with the supreme Sword Draw Slay Heavens Art, it was cleaved cleanly in two by a single strike. Its formidable defenses might as well have been nonexistent.

Countless shattered scales whirled through the air.

Its shrill dragon roar reverberated through the sky.

Sheets of deep purple blood sprayed in every direction like a torrential rain.

This was genuine flood dragon blood!

It contained both immense power and virulent toxicity. The instant it struck the ground, it corroded the surrounding earth into a complete mess, hissing and smoking.

Rumble!

The Black Flood Dragon's severed body crashed down from the air, producing thunderous roars like mountains toppling and jade pillars collapsing. Its upper half in particular writhed madly like a venomous serpent that had been cut in two, its cries shrill and its agony extreme.

That sword strike had not merely severed its flood dragon body.

It had also pulverized every one of its internal organs.

As it twisted in misery, great clumps of minced flesh flowed out from its body...

Only because its life force was so vigorous had it survived.

Had it been any other demon, it would have died long ago.

"It hurts! It hurts so much! My body, my precious body... Ah... it's been split in two... my precious body..."

The flood dragon rolled miserably on the ground, howling without end.

You injured a powerful flood dragon. Merit Points +7000!

A line of text appeared.

Lu Chen drew in a light breath, feeling the emptiness within him rapidly begin to recover again. Only after some of his true qi and mental energy had returned did he take a step forward and slowly walk ahead.

Behind him, Zhao Xuantian had long since gone nearly numb, staring in stunned horror.

That was a Young Demon King!

An existence comparable to a human Half-Step Dharma Aspect Realm!

Yet it had been destroyed with a single sword strike!

In his estimation, if Lu Chen wanted to take down this flood dragon, he would at least have needed dozens of exchanges in a fierce battle before finding an opening and striking with his sword to defeat it.

But what had happened?

Just one sword strike.

"His swordsmanship truly is even more terrifying than Dugu Wudi's..."

Zhao Xuantian's heart churned violently.

"Enough. Your precious body will become my trophy along with you!"

The true qi and mental energy within Lu Chen had finally recovered to roughly full capacity. Looking at the Black Flood Dragon struggling violently on the ground, the Golden Softsword at his waist shot from its sheath once more.

The severed Black Flood Dragon instantly sensed an incomparably intense crisis of death. It struggled and roared with all its might, producing deafening cries as it tried to flee.

But it was utterly useless.

Whoosh!

Splurt!

Endless purple blood sprayed out. Its enormous head, larger than a thatched cottage, flew high into the air, its face filled with terror and confusion before crashing heavily in the distance with a muffled boom.

You killed an evil flood dragon. Merit Points +9000!

Lu Chen looked at the panel before him again.

This time, the gains were truly unprecedentedly enormous!

With a flick of his sword, he hooked out a thick purple dragon sinew from the neck of the headless flood dragon and grasped it in his hand. "This is not bad. I'll take it. I hear a flood dragon is treasure from head to toe. Zhao Xuantian, how do you plan to deal with the rest?"