Instantly Killing a Late Daluo

"Today, not only will I make enemies of the Phoenix Clan, I will also use the lives of you two old bastards to honor my brothers' blood!"

The instant his words fell, Dijiang moved.

He neither used any flashy spells nor brought out a magic treasure.

He merely took a step forward.

"Whoosh!"

Space Law activated.

Dijiang's figure vanished from where he stood.

"Not good! Retreat!"

The two Phoenix Clan elders were, after all, Late Daluo experts with abundant combat experience. The instant Dijiang disappeared, an intense sense of mortal peril engulfed their Primordial Spirits.

Without the slightest hesitation, the two retreated sharply while summoning their respective bonded Spirit Treasures: a crimson treasure mirror and a feather fan blazing with Southern Bright Flame, tightly guarding their bodies.

Yet before Dijiang, who had mastered Space Law, distance was nothing more than a joke.

"Too slow."

A cold voice abruptly rang beside the ear of one elder holding the mirror.

The elder turned his head in horror, only to see a pale, slender hand ignoring the protective divine flames and Spirit Treasure radiance he had taken such pride in. It pierced straight through space and seized his throat!

"Urgh..."

The elder's eyes bulged as he desperately circulated his mana in an attempt to resist, but Dijiang's fingers were as immovable as Pangu Divine Mountain.

"Your body is too weak."

Dijiang coldly uttered four words, and his five fingers suddenly tightened.

"Crack!"

A crisp sound of breaking bone rang out. That Late Daluo Phoenix Clan elder had his neck crushed alive by Dijiang!

"Boom!"

Violent Space Law surged through Dijiang's fingertips into the other's body, instantly shredding his internal organs. Even the Primordial Spirit trying to flee was ground into dust within the spatial tempest!

One strike—an instant kill of a Late Daluo!

A deathly silence filled heaven and earth.

Below, Zhu Rong and the others, who had been preparing to watch their eldest brother display his might, were all dumbfounded.

They knew their eldest brother was powerful, but they had never imagined that killing an enemy across two minor realms would be as easy as crushing an ant!

"You... what kind of monster are you?!"

The other Phoenix Clan elder holding the feather fan had already been frightened out of his wits.

Watching his companion's corpse tumble down like a rag sack, he could not even summon the thought of revenge. He abruptly turned, reverted to his true form—a pure-blooded fire phoenix with a wingspan of tens of thousands of zhang—and madly burned his origin blood essence as he fled for his life toward Undying Volcano.

"Did I say you could leave?"

Dijiang stood in the void and did not even bother to pursue him.

He raised his right hand, and a dazzling point of silver light glimmered at the tip of his index finger.

"Space, fold."

Buzz—

The fire phoenix, already tens of thousands of li away, suddenly discovered in terror that no matter how desperately he beat his wings, the scenery around him did not change in the slightest.

The space ahead of him was like a sheet of paper folded infinitely upon itself. The faster he flew, the denser those folded spaces became.

Then Dijiang lightly swept his finger downward.

"Space, sever."

"Rip!"

A spatial rift, thin as a strand of silk yet black and profound to the extreme, appeared without warning along the fire phoenix's path.

"No—!"

Accompanied by a despairing scream, the enormous fire phoenix slammed headlong into that spatial rift.

There was no blood spraying, nor was there any earth-shaking roar.

That Late Daluo pure-blooded fire phoenix was like tofu sliced by the sharpest blade. His massive body was instantly cut cleanly into two, the severed surface smooth as a mirror!

The two halves of the corpse fell from the sky and crashed heavily into the Ten Thousand Mountains, kicking up dust that filled the heavens.

Two Phoenix Clan elders, dead!

Dijiang calmly withdrew his hand, as though he had merely done something utterly insignificant.

With a sweep of his sleeve, he collected the two Phoenix Clan elders' corpses, blood essence, and the Spirit Treasures they had left behind.

These were pure-blooded divine beasts of the Late Daluo realm. Whether used to forge artifacts or temper his younger siblings' bodies, they were all supreme materials.

Only after finishing all this did Dijiang turn and descend before Zhu Rong and the other two.

"Big Brother!"

Zhu Rong grinned, ignoring his injuries as he eagerly rushed forward. "Your Space Law is too powerful! Those were Late Daluos, yet you sliced them apart as easily as chopping vegetables!"

Zhu Jiuyin and Tian Wu also looked at Dijiang with faces full of reverence.

Dijiang looked at the wounds on their bodies, deep enough to expose bone, and slightly furrowed his brow.

"Leave first," Dijiang said in a deep voice.

Then, with a wave of his hand, the power of Space Law wrapped around their bodies, and in the next second, they vanished from where they stood.

"Who dared to kill my clan's elders on Phoenix Clan territory? Do not let this clan chief catch you, or I will surely make you pay a painful price!"

A sharp voice carrying a trace of chill rang out. Immediately afterward, a woman in a fiery-red robe appeared where Dijiang and the others had just departed from, her noble and graceful face frosted with cold.

Elsewhere, Dijiang had already shifted Zhu Jiuyin and the others tens of millions of li away.

The six siblings landed in a mountain forest. Dijiang's face was deathly pale and his blood and qi were in turmoil, but in the blink of an eye, he forcibly suppressed the chaotic blood and qi within him, and his complexion returned to normal.

Looking at Zhu Jiuyin and the others, he turned his hand over and took out two drops of blood essence he had collected earlier, along with several immortal herbs, then handed them over.

Only after the three had consumed the immortal herbs and their auras had somewhat stabilized did Dijiang ask, "What was the matter with that Seven-Colored Fire Li Stone? How did you end up so close to Undying Volcano?"

Zhu Rong scratched his head and chuckled. "Big Brother, you can't blame us for this. We were wandering around in the east just fine, but the commotion caused by the Seven-Colored Fire Li Stone's emergence was too great. I could smell the aura of Flame Origin from far away."

"My hands got itchy for a moment, so I dragged Second Brother and Tian Wu over to take a look. Who knew that just after we broke the formation and got the stone, those two old bastards jumped out?"

Zhu Jiuyin added with a bitter smile, "Big Brother, this Seven-Colored Fire Li Stone was condensed from an innate supreme Flame Origin. It will be of immense benefit to Zhu Rong's Southern Bright Flame. If he can fully refine it, Zhu Rong's cultivation will surely rise another step."

Hearing this, Dijiang's gaze fell upon the crystal stone radiating seven-colored rosy light, and he nodded slightly.

"Since it is a fortuitous opportunity, keep it safe."

Dijiang pondered for a moment, then raised his eyes toward Undying Volcano. The sky there had already been dyed dark red by endless Tribulation Aura and firelight.

"This is not a place to linger."

Dijiang's expression was grave. "Those two elders died here, and the Phoenix Clan's higher-ups will soon notice. If we draw out a Phoenix Clan ancestor in the Quasi-Saint Realm, we will be in serious trouble."

"Let's go. Leave the Southern Continent first."

Dijiang did not hesitate. Space Law activated once more, enveloping Houtu, Xuanming, and the injured Zhu Rong and the other two. They vanished from the spot in an instant, leaving behind only a scorched wasteland strewn with devastation.