Savage beyond measure

Li Dao turned a deaf ear to their words. The Yin Flood Dragon beneath his feet seemed to sense his emotions.

"Rooaaar-"

A terrifying dragon roar shook the heavens. Pupils larger than a grown man stared fixedly at the crowd below.

"A fight to the death?"

"Then a fight to the death it shall be."

Li Dao's tone was utterly calm, as though he were discussing something of no consequence.

Yet the instant his words fell, the restless atmosphere froze.

Everyone stared at Li Dao in astonishment. None of them had expected him to meet them head-on.

Li Dao offered no further explanation. Why should he have to explain his actions to anyone?

The Evil Dragon Spear pointed straight at the crowd beneath him. As crimson light blazed from its tip, it vaguely took the form of an Evil Dragon.

It charged at the crowd below alongside the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon.

Three dragons attacked together. Their terrifying pressure made the many elders of Demon Spirit Lake and the Rain Clan feel death closing in.

Rumble-

Dust billowed in every direction, and the earth trembled. Those watching from afar could only hear one shrill scream after another coming from within the clouds of dust.

The bloody stench of blood splashing onto the ground drifted over as well.

Though they could not see what was happening inside, they knew it was a one-sided slaughter.

As the Law-Suppressing Stele in the air pressed lower and lower, the onlookers at the perimeter felt the pressure mounting, let alone the enemies beneath it.

Li Dao thrust the Evil Dragon Spear, striking a Rain Clan elder squarely on the wrist.

Crack-

Yu Su's gloomy old face instantly contorted with pain.

The sword in his hand fell to the ground. He rapidly retreated, looking around him, only to see severed limbs everywhere.

Blood mist filled the sky. Only he and Li Dao remained on the battlefield.

Li Dao drew back his spear and spun it at his side, flicking off the blood. He looked at Yu Su as though he were already dead.

Boom-

Rather than continue pursuing him, Li Dao raised a hand and pressed down in Yu Su's direction. The Law-Suppressing Stele hanging in the air descended toward him.

Seeing that Li Dao had not followed, Yu Su's heart, which had nearly leaped into his throat, settled a little.

Still, his divine power surged out like a tide. Not daring to delay in the slightest, he fled for his life.

"Is that Little Devil King finally running out of strength?"

He shouldn't be able to catch me now!

But before he had run even two li, an immense pressure fell upon him.

"Urgh-"

Blood seeped from the corner of his mouth. He looked up and saw the Law-Suppressing Stele shimmering with divine light, and his pupils abruptly contracted.

Splat-

The Law-Suppressing Stele descended, crushing him directly into a cloud of blood mist.

The vortices within the four Cave Heavens behind Li Dao rapidly absorbed the vital essence between heaven and earth.

As the blood mist gradually dispersed, his somewhat pale complexion improved.

Outside, everyone's eyes widened at the grisly battlefield revealed beneath the blood mist.

"Th-this..."

"He looks so young. Who would have thought he could be this savage!"

"We'd better not provoke someone like him! Otherwise, who knows when he might come battering down our doors!"

Seeing that Li Dao's battle had ended, the War Goddess curled her lips into a smile. She lingered no longer, swiftly turning to leave.

Chu Yang's eyes sparkled as he gazed at the youth standing proudly amid a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Admiration welled up within him.

His gaze gradually hardened with resolve. No matter what, he had to cling tightly to this powerful backer's thigh!

At the center of the battlefield, Li Dao was about to leave the Void God Realm when the record stele appeared before him once again.

Four hundred and thirty-three people slain. Reward: one Primordial Bronze Fragment.

Li Dao was somewhat surprised. He had not expected killing enemies to count as a record too.

This should mean truly killing them, not merely destroying their spirit bodies.

After a moment's thought, he tossed the question aside and wrote his information on the record stele with a few swift strokes.

Then he lingered no longer. The wings behind him spread, and he headed out of the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range.

Seeing Li Dao drenched in blood, no one dared obstruct him. They could only watch him leave with admiring gazes.

Shortly after he left, record steles bathed in divine light, their lettering powerful and coiling like dragons, rose once again throughout the various Cave Heavens.

Four hundred and thirty-three people slain. Reward: one Primordial Bronze Fragment!

Great Evil!

To hell with you, from Master Dao!

"Damn You, Daoist!" Seeing that Li Dao had set yet another record, cultivators who knew the Rain Clan and Demon Spirit Lake were going to kill him instantly erupted into an uproar.

Wherever they were, anyone who saw the words on the record stele was repeatedly stunned.

"The Rain Clan and Demon Spirit Lake both went to surround and kill him, and he still escaped? And he killed so many of them?"

"Savage beyond measure? He's certainly set a pair of records that no one can replicate!"

"Exactly. First he exterminated three clans, then he slaughtered over a hundred people. What a vicious streak!"

"I heard he's still a child. What will happen when he grows up!"

"I wonder who's stronger, this boy or Shi Yi, the Double Pupils One?"

When Li Dao had first broken two records and pushed beyond the limits, most people had merely treated it as a spectacle.

But with the appearance of the "Savage beyond measure" records, more and more people were already mentioning Li Dao in the same breath as Shi Yi.

Within the Cave Heaven world, when Shi Yi learned of the commotion outside, runes flickered one after another within his profound double pupils.

Behind him, the divine ring formed by ten interconnected Cave Heavens radiated a pressure that made the entire Cave Heaven tremble.

"An interesting boy. I wonder if he can withstand a thrust of my spear!"

With the appearance of this latest record, he, who had originally paid it no heed,

began to take some interest in Li Dao. Still, he scoffed inwardly at those outside who placed the boy on the same level as him.

"I haven't shown myself in quite some time. It seems those fools have forgotten the divine might of the double pupils!"

Elsewhere, within the Rain Clan, one of the parties involved, the atmosphere was deeply oppressive.

As Rain Clan elders and disciples died one after another upon the sacrificial altars, their hatred for Li Dao had already reached its peak.

The Rain King, the current head of the Rain Clan, sat in the great hall, his expression dark and ugly.

Listening to the elders below report their losses, he felt the fire of his anger climb higher and higher.

The pressure of his Array Formation cultivation unconsciously radiated from him. His gaze seemed capable of

killing, leaving everyone below trembling with fear.

"Search everywhere for that brat!"

"Unless we drink his blood and eat his flesh, how can we wash away the humiliation our clan has suffered!"

"And station men at the passage to the Starting Ground. The moment they see any trace of him, report it to me!"

Feeling the pressure radiating from the Rain King, the elders below exchanged glances. None dared say more; they could only voice their assent.

"We obey the Rain King's decree!"

A similar scene played out at Demon Spirit Lake. When Venerable Golden Spider heard of Li Dao's heinous deeds,

his murderous intent toward Li Dao likewise raged beyond his control, and he too ordered men to search the entire Great Wilderness for him.

Meanwhile, Li Dao, the instigator of it all, slowly opened his eyes to the familiar cave.

He slowly rose from the three-tiered sacrificial altar, a trace of weariness in his eyes.

After putting the altar away in his Cave Heaven world, he sat cross-legged on the ground and began to cultivate in quiet contemplation.

Though the great battle in the Void God Realm had come to an end, he still had many insights to sort through. This battle had given him considerable inspiration.