The Monkey King Who Knew When to Yield, One Slash of Cicada Song, the Imperial Homeland, Bai Ze!

[One slash slew the serpent who ruled the Northern Plains!]

A Great Demon King of the Dao Embryo Dharma Aspect realm had fallen.

[Back then, when Xiang Teng offended the Clear Void Hall of the Righteous Dao, its hall master invited fellow cultivators into the frozen plains and seized the Arctic seas, yet they could not harm him in the slightest.]

[Only after he provoked the Three Truths Lineage and its sect master entered the Northern Plains was he forced to stay out of Yu Province in the Central Lands for three hundred years.]

[A Great Demon King like him had countless descendants in his lair and demon generals as numerous as clouds under his command. He held dominion over his territory and struck awe across the Northern Plains.]

[Whenever the Righteous Dao began a confrontation with the Demon Sect, they had to watch the north. Intelligence on Xiang Teng and the other Great Demon Kings was always delivered straight to the desks of each sect master.]

[Even in the East Sea, such a being would have been a colossus ruling his own domain.]

[Yet in just a few breaths—]

[He was dead, his Dao extinguished.]

[The opponents fighting Duanmu Xiwei and Shi Jinghong both broke off at once. They stared at the ice crystals scattering across the sky, struck speechless.]

[The white-robed Daoist walked forward, wind stirring his sleeves, his broad robes billowing as though he trod on clouds and frost.]

[His voice came, clear and mild. "Weaker than I thought."]

[Behind him, the Taihua Sect disciples fell deathly silent. Then they erupted in cheers that shook the heavens. "The sect master is invincible! The sect master is invincible!"]

[Yuan Shujian and Qi Ling of Mount Fangcun exchanged a glance. Their earlier worry had vanished, leaving only shock beyond