Chapter 747: Complete Victory?
The sky was vast and clear without a wisp of cloud, but looking from Liuyun City, the eastern sky was shrouded in a layer of thick darkness, so gloomy it felt as if it was about to collapse. Just a single glance at it made one's heart feel a long-lasting oppression.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The unceasing rumbling came once more from the east, heavier than before—one could even feel an intensely violent and wild aura.
"It's starting again," Tianxia Diyi murmured, a look of astonishment once more appearing on his face.
"Xue'er!" Xiao Lingxi's heart could not stay calm. The renewed rumbling made her unable to endure any longer. She tightly gripped Feng Xue'er's snow-white robes: "Take me over there quickly! They really can't keep fighting. Their grudges, at its root, is because of me. One is Xiao Che, and the other is someone who saved me twice. If anything happens to either of them, I will never be at peace for the rest of my life! Xue'er... please take me there, I beg you!"
"But... but..." Feng Xue'er's heart was also in a state of anxiety. She had even felt the urge to rush over more than a dozen times.
"Xue'er, Xiao Che doesn't want me to get close because he's afraid of accidentally hurting me. But if Xue'er protects me, even if I get much closer, nothing will happen. And... Xue'er, you're also worried about Xiao Che, right? They've been fighting for so long, that's really enough. If they continue, what if... what if..."
Feng Xue'er's already shaky resolve crumbled entirely. With her current strength, not only could she protect Xiao Lingxi from the aftershocks, but she could even keep her safe from the combined attacks of Yun Che and Fen Juechen. "I... I understand. Little Aunt, you must hold onto me tightly."
Feng Xue'er's snow-white hand gently swept, lifting Xiao Lingxi's body, and in a gust of fragrant wind, she flew at great speed toward the dark sky in the east.
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"His aura has suddenly become so chaotic, and it seems a bit out of control. It appears the aftereffects of forcibly fusing such powerful demonic profound energy in a short time are far more severe than I expected... Or did I overestimate him earlier?"
Yun Che dragged the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword, rapidly closing in on Fen Juechen, who had been blasted far away. He had thought that formally engaging him would inevitably be a tough battle, but instead, he had gained the upper hand from the start. In the subsequent exchanges, Fen Juechen was not only suppressed across the board, but his profound energy aura also grew increasingly chaotic and weaker. After dozens of sword strikes, he was already injured both internally and externally—and quite heavily.
Such a process and outcome were something he had never expected beforehand. It even made him feel that his prior caution and planning were somewhat unnecessary.
"Don't slack off. His power is definitely not limited to this. Cripple him with all your strength!" Mo Li said in a low voice.
By this time, Yun Che had already closed to within twenty zhang of Fen Juechen. The Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword came crashing down on Fen Juechen with the force of a sky-covering momentum.
Fen Juechen's gaze was as savage as before. The bloodstains scattered across his face and body made him even more horrifyingly brutal. Faced with Yun Che's terrifying heavy sword strike, this time Fen Juechen did not forcefully resist head-on. Instead, a flash of black light appeared on his body, and he suddenly dodged diagonally backward.
Fen Juechen's speed was already inferior to Yun Che's, and now with his profound energy in disarray and his body heavily injured, his speed was even more compromised. It was not easy for him to evade Yun Che's attack. He barely managed to sidestep Yun Che's first strike, but the second sword was already slamming into his chest, forcing him to mobilize all his profound energy and raise his black sword to block.
Boom!!
Fen Juechen's body vibrated violently with the trembling of space. As before, the profound energy he poured into his black sword, upon colliding with the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword, scattered like a spirit terrified, causing the heavy sword force that could have been withstood to press down fiercely... Amidst the loud noise, his body flew out like a cannonball, crashing heavily into the seawater.
"AHHHHHHHHH!!"
The next instant, Fen Juechen burst out of the water carrying a thick column of water. His gaze became even more ferocious. Most of the blood vessels in his arms were ruptured, trembling so violently that he could barely hold his black sword. His blood-stained face twisted, and the black profound light radiating from his body also twisted... At this moment, his aura was like that of a demon thoroughly enraged, having lost all reason, leaving only bone-deep hatred.
"I... am actually so pathetic..."
"How... could I... be defeated... by you!!"
Fen Juechen murmured, his voice hoarse and gloomy like an evil ghost from hell.
"AHHHHH... Night Demon Burial Heaven!!"
Fen Juechen let out a shrill roar. The black profound light on his body suddenly exploded, and a row of towering waves surged skyward, carrying a darkness that covered heaven and earth and pounced toward Yun Che.
This move, Night Demon Burial Heaven, was a special dark devouring domain. When Fen Juechen first used it, Yun Che had forcibly broken free. Now, with Fen Juechen's profound energy greatly depleted and chaotic, the same Night Demon Burial Heaven was several times weaker.
The world around Yun Che instantly turned pitch black, but he was not panicked. The Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword in his hand ignited with blazing Golden Crow flames and then swept out fiercely. With the sword's wild swings, the newly formed dark domain was easily cut open with crimson ravines, riddled with holes in the blink of an eye.
Although the searing Golden Crow flame light tore through the domain layer by layer, it did not suppress the darkness that blotted out the sky and sun. At that moment, a chilling aura, as if from the Nine Netherworlds, suddenly shot toward Yun Che from behind...
Under the cover of the dark domain, and with its aura perfectly integrated into the domain, it still did not escape Yun Che's perception. However, he did not choose to evade far away. He only slightly shifted his vital point, allowing the cold light to approach...
Bang!!
A black sword shrouded in black light slashed into Yun Che's right shoulder. The blade easily pierced his skin, but when it touched his bone, it produced an extremely muffled impact—the feeling transmitted back to Fen Juechen was as if he had struck a rock a thousand times harder than refined steel. The strike, which he had expected to cut off Yun Che's arm, could advance no further.
Yun Che's bones, infused with the Dragon God's Marrow and tempered in the space of eighteen months, could be said to be the strongest existence in all of Tian Xuan Continent.
At the same time, the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword tore through the darkness and struck Fen Juechen solidly... On the crimson sword body, a strange red light that Yun Che had not noticed also blasted into Fen Juechen's body along with the violent profound energy.
Boom!!!!
Even in his peak state, a full-force strike from Yun Che's Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword would severely injure Fen Juechen. Amidst the loud noise that shook the sea surface, more than a dozen of Fen Juechen's ribs snapped simultaneously, his chest caved in, and his entire body flew out like a kite with a broken string, letting out a miserable roar of pain.
"AHHH!!"
Blood spurted from Fen Juechen's chest. When his briefly lost consciousness returned, an extreme wave of pain drowned his nerves and soul, making him almost unbearable.
Why... does his sword have such terrifying power...
I only took one strike... why does it hurt so much... as if even my soul is being torn apart...
The extreme pain tore at Fen Juechen's soul and fiercely stimulated his bestial nature. He forcibly halted his nearly broken body, ignoring the severe wounds on his chest. Black light surged across his body, and the surrounding dark aura crazily converged toward him, forming a dark vortex as deep as a black hole before him.
"Yun... Che!" Fen Juechen's voice was so painful and hoarse it no longer sounded human: "I will... tear you... to pieces!!"
With the dark vortex, Fen Juechen roared and pounced at Yun Che, determined to expend everything to bury Yun Che forever in this merciless darkness.
Yun Che did not retreat. He slowly raised both arms, and the flames on the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword instantly became blazing, changing from crimson to a dazzling pure gold!
"Golden Annihilation!"
Under the cover of darkness, the golden flame light still burned brightly, not suppressed in the slightest.
The moment the golden sword light touched the black vortex, only a very faint rumble was heard. In an instant, the terrifying black hole-like vortex was sliced open by the golden flame light almost without resistance, split neatly in two, turning into two dark torrents that scattered past Yun Che's body. The golden sword light continued forward, crashing into Fen Juechen's black sword.
This time, the black sword was not bent by the impact. Instead, after an extremely brief pause, it continued forward, piercing through the sword body and striking Fen Juechen's chest fiercely. In an instant, the golden light madly erupted, and the heavy sword force along with the Golden Crow flame power ruthlessly blasted into Fen Juechen's body.
"WAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!"
A miserable scream nearly tore the sky apart. Fen Juechen turned into a human torch burning with golden flames, flying far away, with large splashes of blood wildly scattering in the air, shocking to behold.
Chi...
Fen Juechen's body plunged into the seawater. A vast amount of steam rose into the air, and a hundred zhang area of the sea almost instantly boiled. Yet the flames on Fen Juechen's body still did not extinguish... The Golden Crow Flame was not something seawater could put out.
Two broken sword halves also fell into the sea at almost the same time, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Pain... unspeakable pain eroded Fen Juechen's entire body. Almost every cell felt as if it were being sliced by a thousand blades. This pain was even comparable to the process of forcibly absorbing the demon source back then...
Even so, his will did not collapse. He desperately released his power, extinguishing the Golden Crow Flame on his body. He sank several hundred zhang before the flames finally went out completely. His entire body was burned beyond recognition.
But how could physical pain compare to the agony of the soul?
His body continued to sink in the seawater, motionless as if frozen. His eyes were filled with pain, hatred, unwillingness, and humiliation...
I obtained such powerful power...
Why... still can't kill him...
Why am I still defeated so humiliatingly...
Why is it like this...
Revenge... the only meaning of my life... For revenge, I went through hell... paid the most severe price...
Could it be that I can't even fulfill this one meaning...
No...
How could I... be defeated by him... How can I be defeated!
Fen Juechen's body was still sinking, but he finally moved. His right arm slowly rose, and on his fingertip, a nearly pitch-black blood bead slowly overflowed. His gaze fixed on the blood bead, and he let out a murmuring whisper: "Devour Heaven Swallow Sun... Eternal Night Without Light..."
Above the sea, Yun Che did not blast Fen Juechen out of the water. He silently watched the sea surface, his expression grave. Because he was beginning to feel something was off.
It was too easy to severely injure Fen Juechen to such a degree.
Even the wound on his right arm was deliberately taken in order to land a heavy blow on Fen Juechen.
It was too easy, out of the ordinary.
Thinking calmly, when he was only dodging and defending, Fen Juechen's power aura and dark attacks were terrifying every moment. But once he formally engaged him... his profound energy continuously weakened and became chaotic, and the power of his dark attacks also steadily decreased.
Even if his profound energy was unstable, it shouldn't have spiraled out of control to this extent in such a short time.
What's going on?
"Be careful!" Mo Li suddenly spoke coldly: "He's not so easily defeated. Although his injuries are quite severe, he still has a lot of remaining strength, and it seems he wants to release it all at once."
"Mm, I can feel it." Yun Che's gaze toward the depths grew more focused, and the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword in his hand reignited with flames.