With a single slash, Lu Chen killed the Bone-Forging Realm Great Demon, the Red-Scaled Alligator General, and the entire shallows fell into a brief, deathly silence.
The mountainous red demon body crashed to its knees in the muddy water, its head split down the middle, dark red demon blood streaming out.
Only a moment earlier, this Bone-Forging Realm Great Demon had acted as though nothing could challenge it, declaring that it would catch the entire younger generation of Qu River in one net.
Now, it had fallen utterly silent.
Everyone saw it happen.
The Water Demons besieging the humans saw it too.
After that brief silence-
Someone was the first to react, suddenly raising his saber, his voice warping with excitement.
"The Red-Scaled Alligator General is dead!"
That cry was like a spark tossed into a pan of hot oil.
The next instant, the entire crowd erupted!
"The Red-Scaled Alligator General is dead!"
"Lu Chen slew a Bone-Forging Realm Great Demon!"
Shout after shout soared into the sky.
The fear and despair that had hung over the crowd were swept away in an instant.
Everyone stared at the black-clad figure standing with saber in hand in the middle of the shallows, their eyes filled with undisguised shock and fervor.
That was a Bone-Forging Realm Great Demon!
A monster that even Meng Tingxue, Xue Ping, Tie Shaoxiong, and the other prodigies had barely been able to budge.
Yet Lu Chen had killed it with a single slash!
"Kill!"
Xue Ping was the first to react.
He cut down a fish demon that had just climbed over the gunwale. Blood splashed across his face, but he could not spare a moment to wipe it away. Instead, he roared at the top of his lungs.
"The Red-Scaled Alligator General is dead!"
**"Brothers, why