The Strongest Sword

Yue Yang brutally thrashed Wu Yi, then pulled out that small, exquisite dagger...

"You can give your last words now!" Yue Yang glanced at Evil Fire, who was deliberately being ignored in the distance. He knew Evil Fire would not accept defeat and would surely summon an even more powerful war beast to turn the battle around.

Through tonight's battle, Yue Yang wanted to formally gauge just how strong he had become.

Defeating Wu Yi and Evil Fire had never seemed difficult to Yue Yang. But while he could still keep the situation under control, he wanted to create more difficulties for himself, experience as many challenges as possible, and thereby enrich and temper his combat experience. Bloody battles were merciless, and the world was ever-changing. Even with decent potential, if he did not train more in ordinary times, then should he encounter a truly powerful enemy, things would not go well for him. He might even lose his life.

Yue Yang did not know how strong the experts of this world truly were, but after emerging from the black hole space, he had learned one fact: Dragon Soaring Continent had once possessed, at the very least, a supreme expert capable of easily defeating Empress Fei Wenli and even sealing her away for ten thousand years...

Were all those experts dead now?

Yue Yang felt the answer should be no.

Even if Dragon Soaring Continent no longer had such supreme experts, the Heaven-Piercing Tower probably did. And if the Heaven Realm, said to be accessible only to Saint-rank warriors, truly existed, could it possibly lack supreme experts?

Naturally, Yue Yang did not believe his current self could contend with an expert capable of sealing Empress Fei Wenli for ten thousand years. So what he needed to do now was cultivate without cease and grow stronger without cease!

Stronger, and then stronger still—he had to become stronger than everyone else!

This was Yue Yang's greatest wish!

With an innate cultivation art like the Innate Formless Body-Breaking Sword Aura, Yue Yang had never worried about his future. Yet he still hoped to surpass himself through even more diligent cultivation and battle awareness, reaching more powerful realms faster. Rock, Iron Frenzy, Wu Yi, Evil Fire—people like them were stepping stones on his path of growth... Trample over their bodies and advance toward greater strength, toward higher heights. That was what he needed to do most right now!

"Spare me!" Before Wu Yi could finish speaking, a dagger had already been nailed into his mouth, piercing straight through the back of his head.

"Hmm, those were very concise last words!" Yue Yang shrugged casually.

The watching warriors were speechless.

Everyone knew Wu Yi would not survive, but before this, no one had imagined that a Level Three High-Rank Hero like Wu Yi would meet such an end.

Wu Yi's eyes rolled back, and he died instantly. The War Eagle that had been circling the sky in panic immediately betrayed its contract after its master's death. Flapping its wings, it shot into the sky and vanished into the darkness, fleeing for its life.

"Now you're the only one left, Evil Fire!" Yue Yang looked toward the silent Evil Fire. This guy should still have some strength left. What other trump card did he have?

"I know I won't survive tonight, but I'll make you accompany me in death! Let me tell you, as long as there are people and blood, I can summon a terrifying Demon King capable of destroying all of White Stone City... Hahaha, hahahahahaha..." Evil Fire's laughter was filled with evil, chilling and sinister enough to make everyone's skin crawl.

What exactly was Evil Fire trying to do?

A shudder rose in the hearts of the watching warriors. A terrifying Demon King capable of destroying all of White Stone City?

It would probably take, at the very least, a demon beast at the level of a Golden King Beast to accomplish that, wouldn't it?

The guard captain reacted fastest. Drawing the sword at his waist, he shouted and called for everyone to rush forward together and stop the already-mad Evil Fire. Yet just as everyone leaped down from the pavilion, they saw countless black fireballs emerge around Evil Fire's body.

They flickered faintly, like ghost flames.

Evil Fire burst into wild laughter and swept out both hands. Countless black flames scattered in every direction like meteors, shooting toward the warriors charging at him and the singing girls on the Happy Forest pavilion.

"Ah..."

Anyone struck by the strange black flames immediately caught fire from head to toe.

The weak singing girls became blazing human torches one after another amid agonized screams. Before they could struggle or cry for help, they exploded and died, blood and severed limbs splattering everywhere.

What was terrifying was that the blood and broken limbs continued to burn.

The ground and walls splashed by them also quickly burst into fierce flames and kept burning.

Some warriors dodged away, clearly avoiding the attacks, yet the black flames seemed alive and actually tracked them automatically, repeatedly slamming into them with popping sounds. Other than the few warriors who reacted fastest, no one was spared!

The guard captain drew his sword and slashed, striking a black flame.

The blade that had struck the black fireball began to burn as well, turning red-hot and impossible to hold. Seeing this, the few surviving warriors and the guard captain went pale with terror. "Heavens, this is hellfire—unquenchable hellfire... What Evil Fire summoned must be a devil from hell! It's over, it's over, we're all finished!"

Several black flames flew toward Yue Yang as well.

With a casual gesture, the transmigrator shattered them with finger winds and sent them rebounding to the ground. Black flames ignited the surrounding bricks and stones.

The faint red light barrier in the distance, however, completely ignored the burning black flames. More than a dozen fireballs splashed against it one after another, vanishing in an instant as though sinking into the sea. The light barrier remained completely unharmed, which reassured Yue Yang somewhat.

Evil Fire looked at Yue Yang and let out a sinister chuckle.

He drew a sharp curved blade from his waist and, before Yue Yang's eyes, viciously sliced open his own chest and abdomen, spilling his organs and intestines all over the ground.

"All life and blood, I offer to the Demon King Hashin whom I worship! Your humble believer uses blood and soul as the offering, calling for my lord's descent! My lord Hashin, destroy this land and display your boundless might!" Evil Fire swung his blade, shredding his own organs and tossing them into the air. His expression was utterly crazed, and his eyes shone with extreme fanaticism.

"..." Yue Yang frowned slightly. He focused completely, preparing to meet the demon beast about to be summoned with all his strength.

"Kill Evil Fire, quickly, quickly!" The guard captain's eyes had already gone red with urgency.

"Roar!" The surviving warriors suppressed their terror and charged forward together.

"Too late! Hahahaha, you'll all accompany me in death! We'll meet again in hell, and when we do, I'll treat you well!" Evil Fire laughed maniacally. With a boom, his body exploded into countless fragments of bloody fire. Several surviving warriors who had been about to attack him with their swords were immediately blown apart, their bodies reduced to a rain of flesh.

The guard captain was severely wounded and fell to the ground, vomiting blood continuously.

Across the entire battlefield, apart from Yue Yang and the unconscious Bright-Eyed Thief, only he remained alive out of a hundred people...

His right leg had been splashed by black fire, and the flames rapidly spread.

"Aaah!" Gritting his teeth, the guard captain swung his sword and forcibly cut off his entire right leg. Then he used both arms to drag himself away from the burning ground, screaming hoarsely at Yue Yang, "Run! Get far away from White Stone City immediately! Evil Fire used a life sacrifice to summon a hell demon! Run! This place will become hell at once!"

As the guard captain cried out in terror, space suddenly tore open where Evil Fire had exploded.

A huge teleportation gate slowly appeared.

What made Yue Yang's heart race was that the enormous gate, nearly ten meters tall, was still not large enough to contain the hell demon trying to squeeze out from within.

Two huge arms covered in blood-red scales and spikes, with hands blazing in hellfire, forcibly pulled apart the crimson teleportation gate, seemingly trying to make it larger so the creature could emerge faster from the distant Demon Abyss onto this land of Dragon Soaring Continent. If he allowed this terrifying monster to crawl out successfully, Yue Yang would be a complete idiot.

He had been waiting for an opportunity, and now was simply a heaven-sent chance to ambush his opponent!

"Binding Chain!" Following the thought that arose in his heart, Yue Yang used Little Wenli's Binding Talent on the terrifying demon.

What shocked him was that the Binding Chain, which could bind a Bronze Bull and Rock Golem for more than ten seconds, now sent Yue Yang the message that it would last less than one second.

Within one second, he had to launch an effective attack, or the Binding Chain would fail.

Without the Binding Chain, the terrifying demon would immediately emerge, and White Stone City... would be finished.

Yue Yang was confident he could escape the terrifying demon's pursuit, but the beautiful woman and the little girl lived in White Stone City. Nothing could happen to them!

"I'll kill you!" Yue Yang's eyes glittered like starlight. For the first time since transmigrating, he unleashed his strongest attack. The Innate Formless Body-Breaking Sword Aura erupted at full force. Rainbow light flashed between his arms and spun around his body as all his innate true qi condensed to its limit at a single point, forming a sword of destruction. Aimed at the terrifying demon's body still beyond the teleportation gate, aimed at its heart, it thrust forward viciously.

If this sword strike landed, Yue Yang was confident it could instantly kill a War Kodo Beast with exceptionally tenacious vitality, or a Mammoth Elephant.

This was also Yue Yang's strongest sword strike at present!

What would happen if it struck the terrifying demon? Would it severely wound the enemy, or have no effect at all?

Yue Yang could not tell, but this was already the greatest combat power he could unleash! The Binding Chain, the hundredfold strength enhancement of the giant shadow, and the strongest sword of the Innate Formless Body-Breaking Sword Aura...

After this sword, would it be victory? Or defeat?