# Chapter 654: Blood Massacre
"Yun Che? Which... which Yun Che?"
"The consort of the Cangfeng Imperial Clan... the one who single-handedly overturned our Phoenix God Sect three years ago... which other Yun Che could it be?!" Feng Feiheng said through gritted teeth.
"But didn't he die three years ago inside the Primordial Mystic Ark?" Qi Zhencang and Duan Qinghang looked utterly incredulous. "Besides, back then Yun Che's profound strength was at the Earth Xuan Realm, with combat power comparable to late-stage King Xuan... but this person's strength has actually reached a point where even the Forty-third Elder..."
"I want to know why even more than you do!" Feng Feiheng roared through clenched teeth, his pupils still dilated to the extreme. "But that is Yun Che... no mistake about it!"
"...What should we do now? If he really is an Emperor Lord..."
"Retreat!! Of course we retreat!" Feng Feiheng shouted hoarsely. "Unless you foolishly believe that an army of several hundred thousand can contend with someone at the Emperor Lord realm!!"
Originally, he had planned to muster his courage and use his status as a Phoenix Elder and the prestige of the Phoenix God Sect to negotiate with this terrifying Emperor Lord who had suddenly appeared. But upon realizing that this person was actually Yun Che, he no longer had even the slightest trace of such thoughts... Three years ago, Yun Che had dared to face the entire Phoenix God Sect alone on their own territory. Even when confronting the Phoenix Sect Master and a crowd of Phoenix Elders, he had not been at all inferior in momentum.
His talent and strength were incomparably formidable, and his temperament—unyielding and fierce—had reached its absolute limit.
Back then, Yun Che, who had only been at the Earth Xuan Realm, had dared to face the Phoenix God Sect alone. Now, he... would he be the type to fear the reputation of the Phoenix God Sect like an ordinary person?!
Especially given the aura of resentment emanating from him that made heaven and earth tremble!
Qi Zhencang's face twitched, but without hesitation he raised his Sound Transmission Jade and bellowed: "All troops retreat... full speed retreat!!"
Qi Zhencang's urgent command left most of the commanders stunned on the spot, almost thinking their ears were playing tricks on them. Various voices of doubt came back to Qi Zhencang: "R-rettreat? Because of this... one person?"
"Bastards!" Qi Zhencang roared in fury. "He's not one person... he's an Emperor Lord!! AN EMPEROR LORD!! The Forty-third Elder died at his hands without even being able to resist just now! Are all your eyes blind?! All troops retreat... retreat at maximum speed immediately!!"
Before Qi Zhencang could even lower his Sound Transmission Jade, he suddenly felt a chill all over his body. He looked up instinctively and saw the golden figure slowly descending from the city wall... A raging, resentful, violent aura suddenly pressed down upon his heart and soul, causing the blood in his entire body to stop instantly under extreme suppression. Throughout the battlefield, the six hundred thousand strong Shenhuang army and the Cangfeng army—now withered to less than fifty thousand—all felt their entire bodies turn cold at that same instant... Even Tianxia Diyi's face showed deep shock and terror.
This was the first time on the Tian Xuan Continent that Yun Che had released all of his killing intent without reservation, completely and utterly. It was so intense that it seemed to have materialized into physical form, so ferocious that every single person felt their hair stand on end, their bodies and souls as cold as if immersed in an icy pool.
"All of you... DIE!!"
Red light flashed in Yun Che's hand as the Heaven-Defying Sword appeared, sweeping forward.
BOOM!!!
Yun Che merely swept his sword once—no flourish, no profound art—yet it brought a thunderous roar as if heaven and earth were collapsing. Ahead of Yun Che, the ground was completely shattered. Amidst the dust flying everywhere, several thousand Shenhuang soldiers were sent flying by this overwhelmingly powerful profound energy storm. Before they could even let out a desperate cry, they burst into scarlet blossoms of blood, splattering with fragments of severed limbs and flesh as they bloomed brilliantly in the air. The vast land was quickly stained a piercing red by the blood.
With a single sword strike, three thousand Shenhuang soldiers... dead without intact corpses!!
Qi Zhencang and the others, positioned in the central army, were far away, but this sight still shocked him nearly out of his wits. He clutched his Sound Transmission Jade tightly and roared with all his strength: "Retreat... all troops... AHH!!"
In the midst of Qi Zhencang's terrified shout—dozens of times more panicked than before—Yun Che's figure had already closed in with unbelievable speed, his enormous crimson greatsword blazing with scarlet profound light and an aura of indescribable violence, crashing into the Shenhuang army that had not yet recovered from the previous scene.
BOOM!!!!
A roar like a world-shaking divine thunder completely drowned out everyone's hearing. Instantly, the light became extraordinarily dim... It was not because dark clouds had suddenly gathered in the sky, but because the land for several entire miles around had been completely ripped up, sending hundreds of thousands of Shenhuang soldiers hurtling into the sky thousands of feet high. For a moment, heaven and earth seemed utterly overturned. The ground collapsed in fissures, and the sky was filled with dark soil and terrified, screaming Shenhuang troops. But those screams of terror lasted only the briefest instant—their bodies were completely obliterated in this violently extreme greatsword storm, crushed finer than dust.
WHOOOOSH...
The soil and sand that filled the sky fell back down in a dark mass, but not a single one of the nearly one hundred thousand Shenhuang soldiers who had been thrown up could fall... because what fell was only extremely fine, fragmented flesh and blood. Not a single corpse, not even a complete finger was visible.
When the upturned land finally settled completely, the color of the ground was no longer grayish-yellow, but a shocking dark red, mixed with countless equally shattered red armors and weapons. Above the land, spatial fissures twisted with a "sizzling" sound under the still-lingering force of the greatsword.
The vast battlefield—in an instant, truly just an instant—had turned into a hell of blood, fear, screams, and wailing. The dead had no intact corpses; the living trembled, shrieked, and nearly had their hearts burst from terror... Countless among the Shenhuang troops not caught in the attack collapsed to the ground, their pupils constricted. They could not stand, and even their souls seemed to have been frightened out of their bodies.
Suffocation—extreme oppression and suffocation. The Cangfeng troops before the city gates had their eyes wide open, wondering if they were dreaming. Their most hated Shenhuang army had been annihilated in large swaths in an instant. They should have been excited... but the scene before them pressed upon them a terror and fear no less than what the Shenhuang troops felt. Even Feng Yunlie, who had long been prepared to die, stared wide-eyed, unable to come to his senses for a long time.
Xiao Yun watched the rain of blood falling from the sky, the endless shredded corpses, and the ground instantly dyed red. He had made a great resolution, but his body swayed violently. Then he turned around abruptly, pressing his hand tightly over his face, which was as pale as paper: "I can't do this... I really can't do this..."
Tianxia Diqi quickly hugged him and comforted him: "It's okay... it's completely okay. The Big Brother Yun I like was always someone too kind to harm even a small animal. If you really became like Big Brother Yun, I... I would be afraid instead. So it's really okay..."
Tianxia Diyi's face had also turned extremely ugly. He turned his head away, not even daring to look at the battlefield that had become a sea of blood, and murmured: "There actually exists such terrifying killing intent in this world... huff..."
As military commanders, Duan Qinghang and Qi Zhencang had spent most of their time in the national army and had never seen the true might of an Emperor Lord. They watched helplessly as one hundred thousand troops... a full one hundred thousand troops... died under a single sword strike from Yun Che!
Not even the slightest chance to struggle or resist... Not even intact corpses, not even a place to be buried!!
This Shenhuang army, which could conquer the world, sweep through the six kingdoms, and boasted the highest-grade equipment and top-tier talent on the entire Tian Xuan Continent—before this person, they weren't even a group of ants!!
Though seasoned in countless battles and with hearts like solid rock, at this moment their spirits crumbled... Qi Zhencang stumbled backward in terror, then fell heavily onto his rear, and roared like a madman: "Retreat... retreat now!!"
Qi Zhencang's roar nearly tore his throat. The Shenhuang soldiers, trembling in fear, also woke from their nightmare as if shocked, letting out strange cries as they frantically fled backward... Once the mental defenses had crumbled, and even the commander had been scared out of his wits, this army of several hundred thousand could no longer care about military discipline. They scattered like headless flies, desperate only to get as far away as possible from the terrifying demon who had descended from the sky. In an instant, they were utterly routed, and untold numbers died in the trampling.
But Yun Che, filled with hatred to the heavens and with his killing intent out of control, would not stop just because they fled. His eyes bloodshot, he soared into the air. The Golden Crow Flame rapidly condensed above, swelling to several dozen feet in the blink of an eye, appearing from afar like another blazing red sun in the sky.
"Blazing Sun Burst!!"
The crimson "sun" in the high sky exploded, raining down the Flame of Destruction everywhere. This was Golden Crow Flame—the Flame of Destruction that had killed even Phoenix Elder Feng Feiying upon contact—how could ordinary Shenhuang soldiers possibly withstand it? The scarlet flame fell, blotting out the sky. Every soldier touched by the flame was instantly engulfed in red fire, reduced to a pile of charcoal... or even completely incinerated into nothingness.
Screams, weeping, roaring, terror, and the sound of burning... interwove into a terrifying funeral dirge of hell above the battlefield.
As the "invincible" Shenhuang army, they had swept through the Cang Feng Empire all the way to the imperial capital. Taking the Cangfeng Imperial City was supposed to be as simple as reaching into a pocket. They never dreamed—even in their nightmares—that they would encounter such a powerful and utterly cruel demon. Feng Feiheng urged his Phoenix profound energy to its limit, his speed already maximized. The sounds around him made him feel as if he were trapped in a nightmare. Then, he suddenly felt a chill all over his body. Turning his head instinctively, he was horrified to see Yun Che less than thirty feet behind him.
Feng Feiheng's pupils dilated sharply. Gritting his teeth, he unleashed "Phoenix Flame Incinerates the Heavens," blasting all his Phoenix Flame toward Yun Che.
Yun Che's expression was as dark as a death god from hell. Facing Feng Feiheng's attack, he casually flicked his Heaven-Defying Sword... The powerful Phoenix Flame touched the force of the greatsword and was instantly shattered into sparks scattering in the air. The profound energy storm stirred up by the greatsword was almost unaffected, whistling through the air as it slammed heavily into Feng Feiheng's chest.
BANG!!
Feng Feiheng spat out three mouthfuls of blood and tumbled to the ground. Before he could get up, Yun Che grabbed him by the back of the collar and lifted him. An icy sense of death came from behind.
"I... I am Feng Feiheng... the Nineteenth Elder of the Phoenix God Sect... you cannot kill me..." Every muscle and nerve in Feng Feiheng's body trembled violently. "Otherwise... otherwise the Phoenix God Sect will not let you off... WAAAAAGH!!"
BOOM!!!
Amid Feng Feiheng's desperate and miserable screams, a flame exploded on his back, scattering this once-arrogant Phoenix Elder into flaming fragments that flew in all directions.