“How about I take both of your lives?!”
Chu Kuangren said emotionlessly.
As soon as he finished speaking, a layer of chill enveloped everything between heaven and earth, seemingly turning the rainwater into a sky full of blades.
At that, Li Ze flashed him a cold eye. “You want to kill me? Do you know that I have the unknown lands backing me?!”
“I do, but what’s the issue if I kill one?”
“I’d like to see you try.”
Li Ze scoffed.
The moment he raised his arm, an immense amount of spiritual qi amassed at the very heart of his palm and turned into a giant spiritual qi bird that swooped out with great speed!
There was even terrifying lightning energy that circulated above this bird.
“Thousand Beasts Art, Thunderbird!!”
Chu Kuangren merely lifted his hand nonchalantly when he saw that.
He battered out a palm attack fiercely. With this blow, the sky full of rain instantly dropped downward, pulverizing that so-called Thunderbird!
This power made Li Ze squint in terror.
“What incredible power!”
“He’s indeed the famed Chu Kuangren.”
Li Ze muttered to himself in shock.
The Nine-Headed Snakelet underneath him also let out a high-pitched yowl, and the rain around suddenly converged into a water spike that struck out.
The Nine-Headed Snakelet may not have recovered his full strength, but since he could control water and fire energy and it was currently the monsoon season, this unusual water spike was something anyone could block off that easily.
Chu Kuangren lifted his arm again, summoning the earth qi which formed into a Godly Mountain and smashed its way out. In a split second, it crushed the water spike into nothing but water mist.
“Is that all of the Nine-Headed Snakelet’s power?” Chu Kuangren supported himself to stand up with one hand and said, with a hint of mockery in his eyes.
An almighty ancient wild beast would never endure such torment. As such, the Nine-Headed Snakelet howled angrily in response. Suddenly, the rainwaters of the huge storm froze into countless water spikes, and along with the raging wind, they swooped towards Chu Kuangren’s direction.
Chu Kuangren then took out the Lingering Song guqin.
He plucked on the strings, and with a loud zing, the guqin Daoist Rhyme was unleashed. In the face of this guqin music, the water spikes that swept across the whole sky shattered, one after another!
“Profound Carillon Resonance!”
Chu Kuangren plucked on one string and an incredibly terrifying sound wave spread out, brutally smashing onto the heads of the Nine-Headed Snakelet.
One of the Nine-Headed Snakelet’s heads was struck so hard that it became dizzy.
The remaining eight heads stared at Chu Kuangren fiercely. As if enraged by his act, they charged at him viciously with their teeth flashing.
Seeing the beast going berserk, Li Ze, who was standing atop of the Nine-Headed Snakelet’s head, had no choice but to rise and retreat some distance away to sit this one out.
He glanced at Chu Kuangren, who was being attacked by the Nine-Headed Snakelet, and sneered. “Chu Kuangren, you’re too full of yourself. The Nine-Headed Snakelet may not have recuperated most of his strength, but his combat strength is still a force to be reckoned with. Even a peak Great-Sage would find this very difficult to deal with. ”
“As for you? You’re definitely going to die!!”
The Nine-Headed Snakelet was an ancient wild beast that had extraordinary strength. Although its body had been dead for several hundred thousand years, it had gained half its original power after absorbing a massive amount of blood and flesh essences from the Nine Head Clan.
From Li Ze’s point of view, there was no way Chu Kuangren would be able to fight the beast.
In fact, Chu Kuangren kept on playing the guqin music, releasing waves of guqin Daoist Rhyme that continuously bombarded the Nine-Headed Snakelet. Although he was able to block off the beast’s vicious bites, he had still exhausted quite an immense amount of his spiritual power.
“Lan Yu, you stand down first.”
“Alright.”
Lan Yu nodded gently before he started to retreat about several thousand meters back.
Chu Kuangren stashed away his Lingering Song guqin.
In a split second, the Descendant Self Sword unsheathed itself. An incredibly dazzling purple sword ray surged skywards and struck the Nine-Headed Snakelet’s head.
The moment the sword ray rubbed against the scales, numerous sparks ignited…
Eventually, the sword ray’s sharpness sliced through the snake scale’s defenses, and a large amount of blood spurted out like a geyser. It was as if it was raining blood.
One of the Nine-Headed Snakelet’s eyes was slashed open right there and then. The pain was so intense that it made the Nine-Headed Snakelet howl in anguish.
“I’ll eat you up. Eat you up!”
“I’ll make sure that I devour you!!”
The Nine-Headed Snakelet growled loudly. The excruciating pain triggered his ferocious qi, and all nine heads started to swing in the air. In an instant, the weather started to change and the whole place was shrouded by an ominous Daoist Rhyme.
One of the Nine-Headed Snakelet was spouting flames, and another was spouting black jets of water. No matter fire or water, its power was extremely scary. Even normal sages would be seriously injured if any of those brushed against them.
Chu Kuangren cast his Phantom Light Strike Technique, evading those attacks with incredible speed. Then, by activating his thought, surges of sword qi began to spread, interweaving high up in the air, and form many sword qi clones.
Before long, hundreds and thousands of sword qi clones had surrounded the Nine-Headed Snakelet.
The Nine-Headed Snakelet was baffled.
“Is this an Emperor Technique? An Emperor Technique that makes clones?”
Not far away, Li Ze felt astonished too.
He could clearly feel the power of those sword qi clones. Every one of them was least an Honorable. With the combined forces of these thousands of sword qi clones, it was only a matter of time before the beast would be dissected into pieces.
“I can’t believe Chu Kuangren has such a cultivation technique. No wonder he was able to beat four empyrean walkers in one breath. Such power is indeed beyond imagination.”
“How is it possible for there to be a sky-pride in the outside world with this level of power?!”
Before he met Chu Kuangren, everything that Li Ze heard about the outside world was all sourced from various rumors or the intel that was gathered.
However, after today’s meeting, he realized that Chu Kuangren’s combat strength was way more terrifying than what he had imagined. It was absolutely horrifying!
“Destroy him.”
Chu Kuangren said calmly as he looked at the Nine-Headed Snakelet.
At that command, the thousands of sword qi clones dashed towards their target instantaneously and a huge amount of sword qi was blasted at different points of the Nine-Headed Snakelet’s body.
“D*mn this, d*mn you!!”
The Nine-Headed Snakelet was so cheesed off that its nine heads constantly spouted flames and water.
Despite that, ferocious sword qi waves were constantly blasting its body too. The Nine-Headed Snakelet’s body may be extremely sturdy, but the sword qi clones that Chu Kuangren had cast were not weak either. Moreover, each sword qi clone held a treasured sword in their hand.
Each sword was the most top-notch Honorable weapon!
Some of them were even Sacred Swords.
After all, these swords had been left in the Emerald Sword Case to refine for so many years. So coupled with Chu Kuangren’s ever-increasing cultivation base, any iron would turn into an Honorable weapon.
This was the scary part about the Emerald Sword Case!
A normal cultivator could only foster two or three weapons, but with the Emerald Sword Case, Chu Kuangren was able to keep an infinite number of swords. As long as the swords stored were not above the Emperor-Grade, Chu Kuangren could keep as many swords as he wanted!!
Soon, gashes of bloodied cuts were found on every inch of the Nine-Headed Snakelet’s body. Although the cuts were not deep, there were way too many of them and they covered the Nine-Headed Snakelet’s body almost entirely, painting his snake scales in bloody red color.
Facing the combined attacks of the thousands of sword qi clones, the Nine-Headed Snakelet was reminded of the time when he was laid siege by the Founding Emperor of the Royal Azure Dynasty.
The reminiscence of this moment infuriated the Nine-Headed Snakelet to its limit. The ferocious qi on his body spread open in successive waves like the tide as appalling surges of fire and water Daoist Rhyme erupted!
Under the sheer force of this Daoist Rhyme, the sword qi clones in the sky all disintegrated like bubbles, and the longswords that were held in their hands dropped onto the floor.
Not far away.
Li Ze breathed a sigh of relief. “Indeed, even with Chu Kuangren’s strength, he cannot kill this Nine-Headed Snakelet. The Nine-Headed Snakelet may look distraught now, but the injuries that he sustained were only small. It wouldn’t affect his combat strength too much.”
At that thought, he looked toward Chu Kuangren’s actual body.
