Chapter 1568: Instant Crippling
Beihan Shenjun was indeed stunned there, actually forgetting to announce the victory and defeat for a long time. Only when Nanhuang Chanyi's voice reached his ears did he truly come back to his senses, his face somewhat ugly for a moment.
"Oh?" Beihan Chu's eyes moved, looking at Nanhuang Chanyi with a rather strong novelty. He had never known that Nanhuang Chanyi actually had such a side. In his impression, she was clearly like water, cold and quiet, like wind, gentle and delicate, sometimes not appearing before others for several consecutive years.
And behind him, Bubai Shangren's gaze was fixed on Yun Che. The blow that Yun Che had just heavily slammed onto Qi Hanshan had clearly released the profound force of a fifth-level Divine King! One's own aura could be concealed or suppressed through special profound artifacts. But the released power could never be faked. It was undoubtedly the profound energy of the Divine King Realm, fifth level, also proving that Yun Che's cultivation was indeed a fifth-level Divine King... But the power released with this fifth-level Divine King's force was far more powerful and domineering than what they... than what these powerful Divine Lords knew by many times!
"Xi Xu Qi Hanshan defeated... Nanhuang Yun Che wins." The voice of announcement finally sounded, but the tone was clearly different from any previous one.
"Wh... what happened?" "Sect Master Qi... how did he lose? Isn't this kid surnamed Yun only at the fifth level of Divine King?" "Fake, right... Could it be that Sect Master Qi was careless? But even if he was that careless, it shouldn't be..."
With Beihan Shenjun's announcement, the heart-stopping silence was finally broken, and whispers arose, then grew louder, gradually becoming uncontrollable.
Amid the noise, Beihan Shenjun looked at Nanhuang Chanyi and said coldly, "Nanhuang lost all nine battles, isn't that ugly enough? Now it's just Qi Hanshan being careless and underestimating the enemy, revealing a flaw, gifting you one victory, and you're already getting complacent? That's a bit too unsightly."
At this point in the Zhong Xu battle, Beihan City still had five people to send out, Xi Xu Sect and Dong Xu Sect each had three, while Nanhuang... only Yun Che, who was standing in the battlefield. Although a strange variable had suddenly appeared in the battle situation, with such a huge gap, this variable could not possibly have a substantial impact on the outcome. Nanhuang's bottom-place ending was still fated, with no other possibility... It only slightly salvaged a bit of face.
Nanhuang Chanyi did not respond.
"Next match, Dong Xu goes!" Dong Xu Shenjun swept his gaze and said, "Xue Ci, you go." Dong Xueci was startled for a moment, his brow furrowed: "Good! I can't wait to personally teach him a lesson."
"Don't underestimate the enemy." Dong Jiukui said in a deep voice. "Don't worry, I'm not the kind of fool like Qi Hanshan." Dong Xueci left a word, leaped up, and landed in the battlefield.
When Yun Che and Qi Hanshan faced each other, everyone treated it as a joke, and that match ended too fast, too sudden, they didn't even see how Qi Hanshan lost. And this time, all the spectators widened their eyes, afraid to miss any detail. They wanted to confirm whether everything that had just happened was a fleeting illusion.
Looking at Yun Che, Dong Xueci slowly shook his wrist: "Yun Che, we meet again. How does it feel to be a dog for Nanhuang? Oh, speaking of which, you seem to have a little skill, no wonder Nanhuang was so eager to take you in. Unfortunately, in my Dong Xu, you are just a discarded piece we disdain to keep."
Yun Che had no reaction.
"Come on, use all the tricks you used to ambush Qi Hanshan." Dong Xueci said with a smile. "Let me properly see the great ability of a fifth-level Divine King!" His words and expression were full of contempt, as if facing a negligible ant. But in reality, his heart was by no means as relaxed as it appeared on the surface... He was not blind; the scene of Yun Che heavily injuring Qi Hanshan with one blow had caused a great psychological impact on anyone. But deep in his consciousness, he certainly did not think he could not defeat Yun Che... After all, he was only a fifth-level Divine King! That kind of absurd event could only happen once. As long as he was sufficiently serious, how could he lose? These words were meant to anger Yun Che, but the Yun Che in his sight was like a rigid stone sculpture, completely unresponsive to his words. A pair of dark pupils actually made him inexplicably feel a kind of unwarranted palpitation.
In the Nanhuang battle formation, Nanhuang Chanyi glanced lightly at Qianye Ying'er, who had been resting with closed eyes and never looked at the battlefield, and suddenly spoke: "You seem not worried about your young master at all."
"..." Qianye Ying'er remained silent, utterly disdainful of responding. She was willing to let Yun Che debase her at will, but aside from Yun Che, there were very few in this world that she would deign to look at directly.
Clang! A sharp sound rang out on the battlefield. A long black blade materialized from nothingness in Dong Xueci's hand, while countless black blade lights materialized from nothingness, cutting dark ripples in the space around him.
"Hmm? Big brother actually revealed the Ghost Ruins Blade right from the start? Is he going to kill Yun Che in one face-off?" Dong Xueyan showed confusion. The Ghost Ruins Blade was one of the Dong Xu Sect's flagship demon blades. Even for Dong Xueci's strength, it required considerable consumption to wield it.
"Hmph, you still think Yun Che is just an ordinary fifth-level Divine King?" Dong Xu Shenjun said, his voice quite low. "Does Father King think big brother will lose to him?" Dong Xueyan was startled, then retorted.
"It better not be!" Dong Xu Shenjun's voice grew deeper: "Otherwise..."
Boom! The demon blade swung, and a terrifying dark wave immediately rolled up on the battlefield. In an instant, the light dimmed, and a storm rolled with man-eating blood-and-bone dark demonic breath, directly covering the space where Yun Che was.
"Dual laws!" Many exclamations sounded around the battlefield. This was the simultaneous release of darkness and storm, two power laws, but combined and controlled without any difficulty, nearly perfect, causing all the Divine Lords to look sideways.
"No wonder he was chosen as Young Master by Dong Xu Shenjun, his talent is indeed astonishing." "Within his power, there is faintly some meaning of a Divine Lord!" Bubai Shangren suddenly spoke. He glanced at Dong Xueci, and his always dull eyes finally flashed a momentary approval: "In a thousand years, he might have the possibility of achieving Divine Lord."
"This generation of the Dong Xu Realm also has many talents emerging." Beihan Chu smiled. "But in comparison, this person named Yun Che is much more interesting."
Dong Xueci stepped forward, each step heavier than the last. The power of darkness and storm completely sealed the space where Yun Che was. And Yun Che did not move, as if completely suppressed. The strength Dong Xueci erupted was surprising, but facing a fifth-level Divine King, this scene always felt somewhat exaggerated.
Dong Xueci no longer issued words of intimidation and contempt. He stopped walking, leaped up, and both storm and darkness erupted simultaneously. The demon blade in his hand also slashed down abruptly in the dark storm, tearing a shocking black scar in the air. It was clearly aimed directly at Yun Che's life!
Darkness, storm, demon blade... any one of them was terrifying beyond compare, let alone simultaneous eruption. Maliciously killing in the Zhong Xu battle would likely incur sanctions. But if he could directly slay Yun Che, he would accept even being expelled from the battlefield... No one had ever made him so displeased!
Puff boom! A completely unreserved heavy slash landed on Yun Che, who had made no move and seemed unable to break free from suppression, but it passed through his body and crashed straight to the ground.
"Wha..." This blow, Dong Xueci had put all his strength into it. Caught off guard, he stumbled forward sharply. The fully erupted darkness and storm spread out a huge field of destruction. Under the pervasive darkness, no one could see what was happening inside.
Dong Xueci slashed empty, falling face-first to the ground. And beside him, a figure moved like a ghost, reaching out an arm and taking the demon blade from his hand lightly and casually.
As the demon blade entered his hand, it let out a struggling screech. A black flash flickered on Yun Che's hand, and the blade's struggle instantly turned into trembling submission... And Dong Xueci, he had completely lost the soul connection with the demon blade.
In that instant, Dong Xueci was so horrified he almost lost his soul. He whirled around, staring at Yun Che who was inches away... Around him, the storm was howling, darkness was devouring, but his entire body was unharmed, not even a trace of his clothes being lifted could be seen, as if his own power was just a useless illusion to him.
"Id... iot." Yun Che said lowly, and punched Dong Xueci, who was completely frightened stiff, in the chest.
The sound of sternum breaking was clear to the point of deafening. His internal organs shattered in an instant, and a terrifying blast wave burst out from his back... He felt his body being pierced. His peak Divine King body was actually pierced by a single punch... a single punch from a mere fifth-level Divine King!?
But his body was firmly fixed in place, not flying backward, until Yun Che reversed his hand and slammed the demon blade out. Crack!! The blade slammed heavily onto Dong Xueci's face. A spray of blood mist exploded on his face. Dong Xueci let out a demon-like shriek, flew sideways, and crashed into the Dong Xu battle formation.
In the few moments under the darkness, no one could see what happened. They had clearly seen earlier that Yun Che was being suppressed by Dong Xueci's dual law power, and until the demon blade approached his body, he had no power to resist. But in an instant, the one spilling blood and flying out from the black light was not Yun Che, but Dong Xueci! Together flying out was the demon blade that had just been in his hand, condensed with his ultimate power!
"Xue Ci!" "Young Master!!" The entire Dong Xu battle formation was horrified. A group of people rushed out together. Dong Xu Shenjun teleported in an instant, scooping Dong Xueci out of the air. Sensing his injuries, his face immediately turned extremely ugly.
"Fa...ther...King..." Dong Xueci barely retained consciousness, but his half-open eyes were completely hollow... Clearly, he had only taken one punch from Yun Che... Clearly, he was just a fifth-level Divine King... Nightmare... This must be a nightmare!
"Shut up!" Dong Xu Shenjun growled in a low voice, his palm covering Dong Xueci's chest. The Divine Lord's aura surged down fiercely, trying to suppress his injuries. But his body was trembling, his whole being filled with chaotic anger and killing intent, on the verge of completely losing control at any moment.
Dong Xueci's injuries would not kill him. But they had crippled him for the most part!! Even if he poured the entire sect's and the entire Dong Xu Realm's most top resources onto him, his cultivation would never again be able to step into the Divine Path. And a Xuan practitioner who cannot enter the Divine Path is no different from a waste in the Middle Star Realm, and even in the entire Northern Divine Region.
Dong Jiukui quickly arrived. He sensed something wrong with Dong Xu Shenjun, quickly swept his spiritual perception, and his face instantly changed drastically.
"Big brother... how is he?" Dong Xueyan rushed over at top speed, panicked.
Dong Jiukui was stunned for a long time before saying weakly: "Cri...ppled..."
Boom— Like a dull thunderclap ringing in the minds of the Dong Xu crowd, shocking them all into a daze. Dong Xueci, lying there, trembled all over, his wide eyes instantly bursting with bloodshot streaks. Crippled... These two words came from no one else, but were spoken personally by Dong Jiukui! It meant that he was truly crippled, completely crippled, with no possibility of recovery! Having become a waste, he would no longer be the Crown Prince of Dong Xu. His status, his life's height would instantly and forever fall into the darkest abyss. No one would ever look up to him, envy him, or fear him. Instead, he would become a piece of trash that even the most ordinary, the most humble Xuan practitioner could mock, despise, and pity!
"Ah..." Dong Xueyan's face turned pale. She was utterly disheartened: "No... impossible... it can't be true..." Suddenly, her eyes sharpened, and she let out a tearful roar: "Yun Che... it's Yun Che! How dare he make big brother... Father King, kill him, you must kill him!"
Slap!! Dong Xu Shenjun abruptly turned around and slapped Dong Xueyan across the face, sending her flying far away. The resounding slap was so loud it almost echoed throughout the battlefield.
Dong Xu Shenjun's face was livid. He panted heavily and said: "If it weren't for you all being arrogant, ignorant, and foolish, acting on your own to expel him, he should have been a member of our Dong Xu battle formation. How would he have gone to Nanhuang!"
"This is all... the consequences of your own actions!!"
"Ugh... ah... ah..." Dong Xueci let out inhuman, despairing groans, his body trembling madly like a dying larva. Dong Xueyan covered her half-pale, half-bloody face, collapsed on the ground motionless... But by now, there was no longer even a chance for regret.