Instantly Killing a Late Great Principal

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

The moment his words fell, Dijiang moved.

He used no flashy techniques, nor did he bring out any magic treasure.

He merely took one step forward.

"Whoosh!"

Space Law activated.

Dijiang's figure vanished from where he stood in an instant.

"Not good! Retreat!"

The two Phoenix Clan elders were Late Great Principal experts with abundant combat experience. The instant Dijiang disappeared, an intense sense of mortal danger enveloped their Primordial Spirits.

Without the slightest hesitation, the two retreated at top speed. At the same time, they brought out their respective natal Spirit Treasures—a crimson treasure mirror and a feather fan burning with Southern Bright Flame—protecting themselves tightly.

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

"Too slow."

His icy voice abruptly sounded beside the ear of one elder holding the treasure mirror.

The elder whipped his head around in horror, only to see a pale, slender hand ignoring the protective divine flames and Spirit Treasure radiance he had been so proud of. It pierced straight through space and seized his throat!

"Urgh..."

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

"Your physical body is too weak."

Dijiang coldly spat out those four words, and his five fingers suddenly tightened.

"Crack!"

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

"Boom!"

Rampaging Space Law poured into his body through Dijiang's fingertips, instantly shredding his internal organs. Even his Primordial Spirit, which tried to flee, was ground into dust within the spatial storm!

One strike—an instant kill of a Late Great Principal!

A deathly silence filled heaven and earth.

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

They knew their eldest brother was strong, 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, was already scared out of his wits.

Watching his companion's corpse plummet like a torn sack, he could not even summon the thought of revenge. He abruptly turned, transformed into his true form—a pure-blooded fire phoenix with a wingspan of tens of thousands of zhang—and frantically 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 without even bothering to give chase.

He raised his right hand, and a blinding silver glint lit up at the tip of his index finger.

"Space, fold."

Buzz—

The fire phoenix, already tens of thousands of miles 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 before him was like a sheet of paper folded without end. The faster he flew, the denser that folded space became.

Then Dijiang lightly drew his finger downward.

"Space, sever."

"Rip!"

A spatial fissure as thin as a thread, yet black and profound to the utmost extreme, appeared without warning in the fire phoenix's path.

"No—!"

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

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

That Late Great Principal pure-blooded fire phoenix was like tofu sliced by the sharpest blade. His enormous body was instantly cut neatly into two halves, the severed surface smooth as a mirror!

The two halves of his corpse fell from the sky and crashed heavily into the Ten Thousand Mountains, raising clouds of 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 gathered the corpses, blood essence, and remaining Spirit Treasures of the two Phoenix Clan elders into his possession.

They were pure-blooded divine beasts at the Late Great Principal stage. Whether for refining treasures or tempering his younger brothers' and sisters' bodies, they were peerless materials.

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

"Eldest Brother!"

Zhu Rong grinned, ignoring his injuries as he eagerly rushed forward. "Your Space Law is far too powerful! Those were Late Great Principals, yet you cut them down as easily as chopping vegetables!"

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

Seeing the wounds on them that were so deep bone showed through, Dijiang frowned slightly.

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

Then, with a wave of his hand, the power of Space Law enveloped their bodies, and the next moment they vanished from the spot.

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

A sharp voice carrying a hint of chill rang out. Immediately afterward, a woman in a fiery red robe, noble and magnificent in bearing, appeared where Dijiang and the others had just departed, her face frosty.

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

The six siblings landed within 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 forcefully suppressed the chaotic blood and qi within him, and his complexion returned to normal.

Looking at Zhu Jiuyin and the others, he flipped his hand 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 stabilized somewhat did Dijiang ask, "What was going on with that Seven-Colored Fire Li Stone? Why did you go so close to Undying Volcano?"

Zhu Rong scratched his head and chuckled. "Eldest Brother, you cannot blame us for this. We were wandering around in the east just fine when the Seven-Colored Fire Li Stone's emergence caused such a huge commotion. I could smell that Flame Origin aura 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, "Eldest Brother, this Seven-Colored Fire Li Stone was condensed from an innate supreme-grade Flame Origin. It will be of immense benefit to Zhu Rong's Southern Bright Flame. If he can refine it completely, his cultivation will surely rise another step."

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

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

After pondering for a moment, Dijiang 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. The Phoenix Clan's upper ranks will soon notice. If they draw the attention of a Phoenix Clan ancestor in the Quasi-Saint Realm, we will be in serious trouble."

"Come, let us leave the Southern Continent first."

Dijiang did not hesitate. Space Law activated once more, carrying Houtu, Xuanming, and the injured Zhu Rong and the other two as they instantly vanished from the spot, leaving behind only a scorched land riddled with devastation.