One Blade Drawn, Who Could Stand Against It?

Cultivating a deduced method that perfectly matched one's own body did not actually consume much Demonic Creature Lifespan, but deducing a Cultivation Method Martial Skill was truly agonizing. It easily cost several hundred years of lifespan.

Still, this was only reasonable. After all, even an extremely simple Cultivation Method Martial Skill might be impossible for an ordinary Martial Artist to create in their entire lifetime.

Throughout the ages, many profound and unfathomable Sect-Guarding Cultivation Methods had taken hundreds or even thousands of years to form, after countless outstanding geniuses within their sects had continuously deduced and improved them.

Chen Fan himself was not some heaven-defying genius with extraordinary comprehension and transcendent talent.

With the aid of his Golden Finger, he had used Demonic Creature Lifespan to spend several hundred years deducing the Body Tempering Fist and Draw Sword Slash in his possession, raising them to another level. That alone had been extremely difficult!

When all was said and done, it had only cost him several hundred years of Demonic Creature Lifespan. He could earn it back by killing a few more Demonic Creatures, while his increase in strength was solid and genuine!

In the blink of an eye.

From the moment Chen Fan began deducing the techniques to the moment he mastered Blade Intent at the Great Perfection Level and cultivated the deduced blade technique, Heaven and Earth One-Blade Cut, to perfection, no more than an instant had passed.

Yet in that instant, his strength had undergone a world-shaking transformation!

"To survive after taking a strike from my club? You've got some skill."

"Then take another!"

Howling Moon roared furiously. Transforming into a nine-foot-tall wolf-headed humanoid, his muscles bulging all over, he gripped the Wolf Fang Club tightly and smashed it viciously toward Chen Fan!

Just now, Chen Fan had held the advantage in offense, while he had merely blocked in a panic. Even then, the two had been evenly matched. Now that he had gathered his strength for a strike and taken the initiative, Chen Fan could not possibly block it!

He seemed to have already seen Chen Fan being smashed into minced meat by his Wolf Fang Club. The imagined scene lifted the corners of his mouth, revealing a cruel smile!

"Heaven and Earth One-Blade Cut!"

Chen Fan shouted sharply. Holding the Meteorite Iron Blade, he unleashed the Great Perfection Level Heaven and Earth One-Blade Cut. His Innate Body connected with the energies of heaven and earth. Although he could not draw them into his body, he could guide them to empower his martial skill.

He unleashed Blade Intent at the Great Perfection Level. Standing between heaven and earth, he seemed to have transformed into a blade himself—a blade capable of battling all things beneath heaven and earth!

Whoosh!

The Meteorite Iron Blade swept across the sky like flowing water and collided violently with the Wolf Fang Club in Howling Moon's hands. In the end, the Meteorite Iron Blade in Chen Fan's grip cleaved the Wolf Fang Club in two as easily as a knife slicing tofu. The broken edges were smooth as mirrors.

The Blade Intent of Chen Fan's Meteorite Iron Blade did not diminish. It shot straight toward Howling Moon's chest. With a puff, the blade pierced directly through his chest, and the sharp Meteorite Iron Blade emerged from his back!

"Th-this... how is this possible?"

Howling Moon stared wide-eyed and spoke in utter disbelief.

[Killed a Spirit Aperture Realm First Heaven wolf demon. Stole its remaining lifespan: 218 years!]

"Blade Intent!"

"Chen Fan comprehended Blade Intent!"

"He's actually a Blade Dao Genius!"

Lu Xuenning could not help crying out when she saw the scene before her.

"Not only that, but the blade he used just now resembles Draw Sword Slash. Its power, however, far surpasses Draw Sword Slash. If my guess is correct, he has already pushed this ordinary blade technique to an entirely new height!"

"Breaking through in the midst of battle, growing braver and stronger the more he fights—is this what an unparalleled genius is?"

Huang Chengyue could not help sighing in amazement as well.

Seeing Chen Fan kill Howling Moon, one of the Black Mountain Three Demons, with a single blade strike, everyone could not help but grow excited.

"Establish merit and fame, slay demons and banish evil—the time is now! Kill!"

For a time, morale soared. Five hundred County Soldiers, nearly a hundred Jinyiwei, and more than a hundred Constables and Yamen Runners charged toward the Demonic Creatures and began slaughtering them. The remaining three hundred County Soldiers, meanwhile, took all the bows and arrows in the county and began firing at the Demonic Creatures as if their lives depended on it.

Some Demonic Creatures at the Spirit Concealment Realm First Pass were directly shot full of holes and turned into porcupines after several dense volleys of arrows.

The Demonic Creatures at the Spirit Concealment Realm Second Pass and Third Pass did not dare be careless in the face of the arrows blotting out the sky. Although the arrows could not take their lives, they could pierce their flesh and leave them wounded!

"Second brother!"

"Second brother!"

Tiger Demon Mountain Lord and Three Eyes cried out in alarm when they saw Chen Fan kill Howling Moon with a single blade strike.

In the next moment, the two exchanged a glance and charged straight toward Chen Fan!

They knew that today's matter could no longer be settled peacefully!

The tiger demon rose onto its hind legs and extended its forepaws, the tiger claws as sharp as steel blades, pouncing straight at Chen Fan. With such a mighty and heavy palm strike, even Cao De at the Spirit Aperture Realm would be smashed into a mist of blood!

Clang!

Chen Fan raised his blade to block. The tiger claws collided with the Meteorite Iron Blade, sending sparks flying in every direction. Then Chen Fan twisted the blade's edge and slashed diagonally. Terrifying Blade Intent struck Tiger Demon Mountain Lord directly in the chest, sending him flying backward!

The Meteorite Iron Blade left a wound deep enough to expose bone across Tiger Demon Mountain Lord's chest. In an instant, Demonic Blood drenched half his body.

"Demon Eye!"

Three Eyes roared furiously. The vertical eye between his brows shone with intense black light, firing a beam straight toward Chen Fan's head. Chen Fan raised his blade to block, but when the black light blasted into the Meteorite Iron Blade, it actually dented the supposedly indestructible blade deeply!

This was Chen Fan's first time seeing a magical attack in this world—or rather, it should be called a Demonic Art Divine Ability!

If his guess was correct, Three Eyes had opened the Glabella Acupoint and, with the aid of a secret method, created a vertical eye between his brows.

He cultivated an eye technique and launched attacks with his own demonic power. Its might was truly extraordinary!

Upon seeing Chen Fan block his attack with his blade, the vertical eye between Three Eyes' brows once again burst with black light. Beam after beam of black light shot toward Chen Fan without pause.

Chen Fan held the Meteorite Iron Blade, seemingly becoming one with both man and blade. Each time, he managed to block Three Eyes' attacks while continuously closing in on him!

"Had enough?"

"My turn!"

Chen Fan leaped into the air and thrust his blade toward the vertical eye between Three Eyes' brows. The sharp blade radiance pierced into the eye with unerring precision. Then, exerting force with his hand, Chen Fan drove the Meteorite Iron Blade straight through Three Eyes' head.

[Killed a Spirit Aperture Realm First Heaven ape demon. Stole its remaining lifespan: 227 years!]

"Third brother!"

Tiger Demon Mountain Lord roared furiously. Clutching the enormous wound in his chest, he rose to his feet and glared at Chen Fan with bared teeth.

He had truly never imagined that tiny Ping'an County would conceal a true dragon. Although Chen Fan had not broken through to the Spirit Aperture Realm, he possessed the strength to kill those in the Spirit Aperture Realm.

His terrifying, peerless blade technique was simply too shocking!

One blade drawn, who could stand against it?

To be honest, he was somewhat regretful now. If they had chosen to let bygones be bygones, the three brothers should still have been cultivating under Lord Willow on Black Mountain.

If experts from Longyuan Prefecture truly came, they could also choose to—

"Don't be anxious. It'll be your turn soon."

Chen Fan carried the Meteorite Iron Blade and walked straight toward the tiger demon.

"Roar!"

The tiger demon let out an enraged roar and pounced toward Chen Fan in a desperate struggle. Chen Fan merely extended his palm and pressed it directly against the tiger demon's enormous head.

"Get down!"

Chen Fan exerted force with his palm, pressing the wounded tiger demon into the ground and grinding it against the earth. No matter how fiercely the tiger demon struggled, it could not break free from Chen Fan's restraint!

"Be good. Don't move."

Chen Fan spoke in a flat tone. As he said this, he directly brought his blade down and chopped off the enormous tiger head.

Thus, the renowned Black Mountain Three Demons all died beneath Chen Fan's blade.

[Killed a Spirit Aperture Realm First Heaven tiger demon. Stole its remaining lifespan: 199 years!]