Slaughter

"Tell me... could a demonic path big shot who arrived aboard such an enormous warship have... come from the divine dynasty?"

"What kind of question is that? Do we look like we've ever left Heavenly Moon Commandery? We don't even know how vast Heavenly Moon Commandery is, so how could we know what the divine dynasty is like?"

After a brief silence settled over heaven and earth, discussions filled with shock, wonder, envy, and confusion erupted throughout Storm City.

As for Su Fan, they could only describe him as a "true dragon of the nine heavens."

From having no cultivation three years ago, he had reached the point where he could clash head-on with the Jun Clan, one of the Desolate Domain's five supreme powers.

His astounding talent, comprehension, and cultivation speed were one thing, but he could even have such a demonic path big shot come bearing gifts late at night. Comparing oneself to others really could drive one to death with frustration.

Atop the immortal skull.

Jun Wudao stood with his hands behind his back, his black robes billowing sharply. His cold, handsome face betrayed nothing, his expression neither sorrowful nor joyful. There was only calm, as still as the deep sea.

A stillness that chilled! A stillness that terrified!

"Good friends?"

"Hahahaha... yes! We're good friends, the kind of good friends... bound by life... and death!"

At those words, Jun Wudao burst into wild, crazed laughter. His eyes were as sharp as icy blades, his face twisted and terrifying, like someone possessed by madness. He was utterly frightening!

A moment later, Jun Wudao's expression abruptly changed. A cold glint sharpened, and boundless killing intent surged as his chilling voice rang out, low and endlessly indifferent:

"After all... he was the one... who slaughtered my entire clan... leaving only me alive..."

The moment those words fell, all of Storm City sank into absolute, deathly silence.

At that moment, the whole world seemed to have entered the bitter cold of deepest winter. An icy chill blanketed everything, and cold winds howled across the sky.

Rumble!

Suddenly, countless thunderclaps began roaring and exploding wildly across the cloud-covered heavens. Bolts of lightning, like serpents of thunder, lashed recklessly through the night, as though they would tear the firmament apart.

Atop the immortal skull, Jun Wudao's proud, solitary figure radiated boundless indifference. His eyes were cold and fierce, his expression filled with killing intent and icy chill!

Jun Wudao swept his gaze across the surroundings. Then he slowly raised his right hand and, a moment later, gave a light wave forward. An indifferent voice, devoid of all feeling, abruptly rang out:

"Kill!"

"Leave no one alive!"

"Yes..."

In the next instant, the million-strong Asura Army standing behind Jun Wudao answered in unison, their voices resounding through the ten directions and nine heavens like a great bell from ages past!

As their words fell, the sounds of figures tearing through the air echoed between heaven and earth.

A million Asuras moved as one, plunging from the Nine Nether Rebirth Boat toward Storm City in an instant. Surging ripples of power shook all directions.

The million Asuras descended, blotting out the sky, while an evil, savage, brutal presence rippled throughout the heavens.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

In an instant, the slaughter began!

"Stop! My lord! There must be some misunderstanding here! There must be some misunderstanding!"

As he watched the countless terrifying monsters descending from the sky, Su Changqing felt a chill from the depths of his soul.

Three heads! Six arms! Nine eyes!

What kinds of monsters were these?

At that moment, Su Changqing trembled with utter terror. He simply could not understand how his son had offended an existence like this.

Wiped out his clan?

Impossible!

Among the countless terrifying figures descending from the sky, there was not a single monster... whose cultivation Su Changqing could see through!

Su Changqing did not believe that his weak son could have wiped out the entire clan of such a group of monsters, whose cultivation was so powerful that he could not fathom it.

Wait?

This was bad. Wiped out his clan?

Jun Prefecture! The Jun Clan?

"Gasp! Y-you... you're from the Jun Clan... one of the Desolate Domain's five supreme powers?"

Recalling the news Su Fan had sent back that day, Su Changqing's pupils contracted, and he could not help asking in a trembling voice.

Looking at the black-robed man standing atop the white skull, Su Changqing's heart began to pound. Surely it couldn't be such a coincidence?

Surely not?

Yet his answer was a thirty-thousand-meter blood-red hand manifested by an Asura. Terrifying bloody light surged from it, as though every wisp contained horrifying power that made hearts tremble, as though a single wisp could annihilate everything between heaven and earth!

Boom!!!

Suddenly, space trembled!

A thunderous roar reverberated!

With boundless, overwhelming terror emanating from it, that thirty-thousand-meter blood-red hand came crashing down on Su Changqing from above!

"Pfft!"

Faced with the towering, thirty-thousand-meter bloody hand manifested by that Asura, Su Changqing, who had reached Soul Nascent Great Perfection, did not even have the slightest chance to resist. He was instantly smashed into a mist of blood that dissipated between heaven and earth.

The Asura did not spare so much as a glance at Su Changqing, whom he had smashed into bloody mist. With a flicker, he charged toward Zhao Wuyan and Liu Shan.

Seeing the Asura hurtling through the air toward them, Zhao Wuyan and Liu Shan instantly felt their scalps go numb and their hair stand on end. Terror and despair welled up from the depths of their hearts and souls!

But they were, after all, figures who ruled over their own territories. Although the Asura's terrifying methods had shocked them, neither had any intention of begging for mercy.

They knew that even if they knelt and begged, these monsters would not spare them. That much was clear from the annihilating blow with which that monster had just killed Su Changqing. Gritting their teeth, the two began to overflow with tremendous fighting spirit!

"These demons are determined to wipe out our Storm City! Everyone of the Zhao Lineage, follow me and kill!"

Zhao Wuyan roared, brimming with killing intent. He unleashed his full cultivation and charged straight at the Asura, with hundreds upon thousands of Zhao Lineage elders and disciples behind him.

Like Zhao Wuyan, Liu Shan wore a face filled with killing intent and a resolve to die. Together, they attacked the Asura from the left and right, as though staking their lives against him.

"Crimson Cloud Palm!"

"Annihilation Finger!"

Two furious roars resounded in all directions. The void cracked, and spatial black holes spread continuously, as though the end of the world had arrived!

Both were experts at the peak of the Soul Infant Realm. The might of their attacks was simply indescribable!

"Kill!"

Zhao Wuyan's icy voice rang out. In a flash, he had already attacked his way to the Asura's side!

Liu Shan was no slower, following closely from the other side. Their pincer attack completely sealed off the Asura's retreat!

Yet, in the very next instant.

To Zhao Wuyan's horror, he suddenly discovered that he could no longer breathe. A large blood-red hand had appeared around his neck, clamping tightly around his throat!

The same was true of Liu Shan.

The Asura had merely reached out casually and grasped at the air, seizing Zhao Wuyan and Liu Shan by their throats just like that. In his hands, the two were like little lambs awaiting slaughter!

"Cough, cough, cough!"

"Y-you... who exactly are you? Your grudge is with Su Fan of the Su Lineage. Why drag innocent people like us into it?"

"We've never offended you!"

Zhao Wuyan clutched the Asura's hand tightly, his face flushed red and his feet kicking wildly as he struggled frantically and demanded answers.

As for Liu Shan?

His face had long since filled with despair, and he had given up struggling. He could not understand why everything had turned out like this.

Who were they? Why were they killing innocent people like them? Su Fan had slaughtered that black-robed man's entire clan, but what did any of that have to do with them?