One-Slash Kill

"What the hell is that?" The other kings who had also emerged from the cave noticed the flames gathering in the sky!

They instinctively sensed that something was wrong!

"I bet it's those stinking human Daoists and monks who go around slaying demons and vanquishing monsters again! Do you really think I'm afraid of you?"

"Today, let this human be a sacrifice to mark our alliance! What do you all think?" The Demon King of Havoc roared with laughter, then raised the executioner's greatsword in his hand and pointed it straight at Jiang Zhe!

"Brother Havoc is right!"

"It's been a long time since I tasted the flesh and blood of a human cultivator!"

"Exactly, exactly! I'm sick of eating mortals! I hear human cultivators have spiritual power in their flesh, blood, and meridians. Eating them is tremendously beneficial!"

The demon kings around him all retained human forms, but they bore demonic features to varying degrees: antlers, snake scales, transparent wings as thin as a cicada's, and so on.

In other words, these demons were at least thousand-year great demons. In some lesser places, calling them demon kings would have been no exaggeration.

"Take a slash from your granddaddy!" Having received the praise and admiration of the demon kings, the Demon King of Havoc laughed. Then he bent his legs slightly and shot into the air like a rocket, raising the Flame Saber high in both hands!

He looked ready to split Mount Hua with a single stroke!

The Demon King of Havoc came at him like black lightning, but Jiang Zhe showed no sign of panic as he faced the incoming attack. He held the Flame Saber by its recessed grip, shaped like a recurved fang.

The Flame Saber tilted slightly, its tip touching the Demon-Sealing Seal inscribed with the character "slash"!

[Slay evil and vanquish monsters, melt into the raging flames, vanish in the dawn light!]

[Flame Saber's Demon-Sealing Slash Card! Demon-Sealing Slash!]

The incantation for using the Flame Saber echoed in Jiang Zhe's mind. The next second!

All the power in the Demon-Sealing Seal engraved with "slash" gathered in the Flame Saber in an instant!

Then Jiang Zhe raised the Flame Saber in one hand and swung it forward!

Scarlet flames instantly streamed out along the path of the blade, as though the sound of a dragon's roar flickered through the air!

Then saber Qi wrapped in orange and cyan slammed into the Demon King of Havoc at a speed that seemed like teleportation!

The instant the saber swung out, the Demon King of Havoc's face twisted!

Only by facing it firsthand could he feel just how terrifying the temperature of those flames was. It was as though they would burn away half his soul!

Most importantly, the slash was so fast that there was no chance of dodging it!

On top of that, his body was in midair, leaving him unable to evade. He could only grit his teeth and tighten his grip on the executioner's greatsword!

He let out a furious roar, seemingly to bolster his own courage, and demon Qi gathered on the executioner's greatsword!

As he unleashed his full power, it seemed as though a massive demon cloud had blotted out the sky!

Everyone below had their eyes fixed on the clash, whether they were the lesser demons of Water Battle Cave itself or the other great demon kings who had come to pay the Demon King of Havoc a visit.

Even the gray monkey, half his body hidden in the underground waterway, had his eyes fixed on it.

Then came the instant the flames met the black Qi!

Boom!

A violent sonic boom exploded in midair, and white waves of power spread in every direction like ripples on water!

The scorching flames burned the demon Qi, producing a foul, rank stench, but no one paid it any mind.

Every gaze turned vacant as they stared blankly at the figure, a full three zhang tall, clad in armor and bearing a weapon!

This was especially true of the lesser demons under the Demon King of Havoc. In their minds, their lord was invincible!

But the scene before them now had shattered their view of the world!

The Demon King of Havoc, whom they remembered as invincible under heaven, hung motionless in midair. The demon Qi around him burned in the flames, making it look as though a red sea of fire had appeared!

At the very center of that sea of fire, a faint mark had appeared on the body of the thousand-year great demon, the Demon King of Havoc-a mark colored orange and cyan!

Even the Demon King of Havoc's gaze went blank as he stared at the red armor standing a hundred meters before him.

At last, his gaze shifted to the executioner's greatsword in his hand, a weapon made of thousand-year black iron and comparable to a spiritual treasure.

A thin, multicolored mark had appeared down its center.

Boom!

The flames' fury erupted in full at that moment, burning and blasting away every trace of demon Qi!

Like the last straw that broke the camel's back, the marks on the Demon King of Havoc and his executioner's greatsword began to give way!

First came the greatsword, splitting in two in an instant. Molten iron began to run from the cut.

The Demon King of Havoc followed immediately after, his body cleaved in two!

Then the flame power accumulated at the cut and detonated!

It blasted the two halves of the Demon King of Havoc's body apart in midair. Until the moment he died, disbelief and bewilderment filled his eyes!

[Mission complete: Host gained 5,000 merit points]

Jiang Zhe's face lit up when he heard the system notification. Five thousand merit points meant five low-tier draws!

A single low-tier draw had given him the Green Lotus Core Flame! What might he draw next?

Forcing down his anticipation and excitement, Jiang Zhe turned his gaze to the remaining lesser demons and the other demon kings.

"Ah! Lord Demon King of Havoc is dead!"

"Run!"

"Lord Green Snake King, save me."

"Great Immortal, spare me! Great Immortal, spare me! I was forced into it all. I've never harmed anyone. The Demon King of Havoc made me do it."

The area around Water Filth Cave instantly descended into chaos. Some lesser demons rushed to the other great demon kings for protection, while others were so frightened that they went limp, dropping to their knees and admitting defeat.

Of course, there were also lesser demons who were relatively loyal to the Demon King of Havoc. They howled that they would avenge him, picked up stones from the ground, and hurled them at Jiang Zhe in the sky.

Unfortunately, before the stones could even reach Jiang Zhe, the flames surrounding him burned them to powder.

The gray monkey in the underground river stared blankly at the sky. He had imagined many possible outcomes!

Jiang Zhe and the Demon King of Havoc might have been evenly matched, or Jiang Zhe might have been forced to flee after the great demon kings ganged up on him.

But he had never imagined that the Demon King of Havoc would be killed in a single slash at their very first encounter, before he could even reach his benefactor!

It was only when the Demon King of Havoc's charred body fell from the sky and landed not far from him that the gray monkey came to his senses.

Looking at what Jiang Zhe had done, he could not help letting out an ape-like roar, excited beyond measure!

The other demon kings' expressions changed slightly. The Demon King of Havoc was the strongest of all the demon kings on Flower-Fruit Mountain. It was precisely because of this that they had not dared refuse his invitation.

But even the Demon King of Havoc had been killed in a single slash. What the hell could the few of them do?

Without the slightest hesitation, the great demon kings hurriedly gathered demon Qi, intending to flee.

But an immensely imposing voice suddenly rang out beside their ears.

[Flame Fist]