"Jade Mother! You deserve to die!!"
Suddenly realizing what had happened, the Jade Emperor roared in fury and slammed both hands against his chest, releasing all his Great Dao Natal Treasures and edict power in one breath.
He tried to use them to withstand Xu Taiping's and the Demon Race's ensuing blade force and fist force.
Whoosh-!
Amid an ear-piercing shriek of tearing air, Xu Taiping's Water-Cutting Blade, charged with threefold blade force, suddenly cleaved through the air and struck the Jade Emperor's back.
Bang! Bang, bang, bang...!
Although the Jade Emperor had applied dozens of layers of edict power and several powerful treasures to himself in one breath, none had fully manifested because he had deployed them too hastily.
Boom!!!
With a tremendous crash, the edge of Xu Taiping's Water-Cutting Blade sliced through the defenses of every edict and treasure, cleaving the Jade Emperor's body diagonally in two from the shoulder.
And the fist force the Demon Race had been building for so long struck that broken body with a punch at precisely that moment.
Bang!!!
Amid a thunderous, ear-splitting collision, the Jade Emperor's broken body exploded into a cloud of blood mist under that punch.
The sight filled Lin Buyan with delight:
"The Jade Emperor! He's been defeated!!"
Rumble...!
But Lin Buyan's words had barely fallen when this expanse of the heavens began shaking violently. Vast swathes of purple radiance gathered from the sky canopy, enveloping that mass of blood qi entirely.
Xu Taiping and the Demon Race advanced to stop it, but both were driven back by the terrifying edict power contained within that radiance.
At that moment, the Jade Emperor's voice rang out from within the radiance-
"Bastards! Bastards! A pack of bastards! You dared scheme against This Emperor!!"
Xu Taiping's expression darkened as he said: