The flash of a blade sprang up behind him, sweeping toward his neck.
Li Zhentian only felt as though time had been stretched infinitely long. He watched the blade slash tear through the void, vanish into it, then suddenly emerge at his neck. Wherever its light passed, even space was cleaved in two, revealing the endless chaos beyond the heavens.
Li Zhentian's eyes suddenly blazed!
At the very least,
In that instant,
He had beheld the magnificent sight of the void shattering.
That much meant he had no regrets.
Li Zhentian's head flew into the sky, tracing an arc before falling amidst the Celestials locked in chaotic battle.
The forces on both sides, who had already been watching this battle closely, were all stunned.
Then someone cried out on the spot:
"Dead!"
"Li Zhentian is dead!"
In an instant, invisible terror spread without end among the Grotto-Heaven Celestials. Li Zhentian had been second only to the Devil Master within the Grotto-Heavens.
Even the Devil Master, when other Earth Immortals were available, would not touch him for certain reasons. That alone showed how formidable he was.
Who would have thought that Li Zhentian, who had originally been evenly matched with Shen Yi, would suddenly collapse like a mountain in defeat and be beheaded by Shen Yi in one stroke!
Either Shen Yi had been playing the pig to eat the tiger all along.
Or, just as the rumors said, that bastard Shen Yi, who excelled most at breakthroughs in the heat of battle, had broken through in battle again, again, and again!
Whichever it was, all the Celestials felt a despair as though the heavens themselves had come crashing down, engulfing the entire battlefield.
Li Zhentian's cultivation had already been beyond their reach. Now Shen Yi had beheaded him with a