# 550
**Chapter 551 – Slaying a God**
Beneath the gloomy, overcast sky, Wind God Shu and Desert God Set concealed themselves within the clouds, looking down at the shattered city moving eastward.
In the direction the city was heading, countless “mysteries” were rushing in. These powerful beings that dwelled within the mist, now like sharks scenting blood, surged madly toward the broken city.
Two hundred… three hundred… four hundred…
Dark figures blanketed half the sky like ink-black storm clouds.
“Now, he won’t have time to swing his sword at us,” Shu said calmly. “We just need to wait until he’s worn down by this endless tide of beasts. Then we take the city.”
Set glanced at him. “When it comes to dirty tricks, you’re the expert.”
“As long as we complete the Sun God’s mission.”
Shu spoke indifferently.
*Ding——!!!*
At that moment, a clear sword cry pierced the heavens.
A streak of snow-white sword light shot out from the Fengdu Law, tearing through space and racing straight toward them.
Shu and Set’s expressions changed simultaneously!
“Why is he coming here?!” Shu exclaimed. “Is he abandoning the people in the city?”
Set’s face darkened. “I take it back. Your trick… doesn’t seem so effective after all.”
*Whoosh——!*
A figure in black robes, sword in hand, surged through the sky on a tide of sword intent.
Zhou Ping’s body had already turned nearly translucent, but even so, his eyes still blazed with sword light too sharp to look at.
Shu and Set keenly sensed that Zhou Ping’s aura had completely changed.
Before, Zhou Ping had been a mortal who knew he couldn’t slay gods, yet still chose to fight with his back to the wall—his body radiated desperation, a willingness to throw everything away.
But now—
He exuded a killing intent like never before.
No desperation. No recklessness. Just pure, unfiltered killing intent.
His gaze, his aura, the humming sword in his hand—
All seemed to say:
*Gods,*
*I, Zhou Ping,*
*have come to kill you.*
This intense, pure killing intent, combined with the fierce and unprecedented Sword Law, made Shu and Set tremble uncontrollably.
It was fear.
For the first time in eons, they feared a human.
No—this was no longer human.
He was a sword walking the earth, forged to slay gods.
Shu, feeling the murderous intent crashing toward him, turned pale and instinctively took half a step back.
Set glared at Zhou Ping as he approached, then caught Shu’s retreat from the corner of his eye. Fury flashed in his gaze. “What are you afraid of? He’s just a vessel about to shatter. Together, we can make even other gods retreat—let alone a single human!”
Shu hesitated, conflicted, but finally stepped back into place.
A faint smile tugged at Zhou Ping’s lips.
“Human, what are you smiling at?” Set asked coldly.
Zhou Ping’s smile faded. He lifted his head slowly, meeting Set’s eyes.
“I laugh at your stupidity. Your arrogance.”
“Ridiculous,” Set sneered. “You think gaining the power of Law lets you kill gods? In your current state, how many more times can you use it? Once? Twice?”
Zhou Ping gripped his sword and answered calmly, “Enough to kill you.”
He raised the sword in his right hand—
Sword intent rose.
Wind and clouds stirred.
Howling gales spiraled beneath his feet, whipping his robes. Crisp sword cries echoed through the sky.
Boundless Law power surged into Zhou Ping’s body.
*Boom! Boom! Boom!*
As the Sword Law poured in, bursts of blood mist erupted from his body. Flesh turned to Dao, dissolving into the air.
Yet the hand holding the sword didn’t tremble.
His eyes blazed brighter than ever.
A terrifying Law fluctuation radiated from within him!
Every Law in heaven and earth had its purpose.
The Law of Nether governed death and rebirth; the Law of Life governed nature and creation; the Law of Time governed past, present, and future… These primordial Laws maintained the world’s balance.
But there was one exception.
The Sword Law Zhou Ping had carved into the Great Dao was man-made. It served no function in the world’s order.
It existed for one purpose only:
To slay gods.
It was a Law created solely to kill deities.
When unleashed without restraint, every god targeted by its blade would feel its overwhelming pressure.
Set, the Desert God, was no exception.
This god-slaying Sword Law pressed down on him far more heavily than he’d imagined.
The instant Zhou Ping raised his sword, boundless sword intent locked onto Set. It felt like a deadly arrow poised above his head, ready to fall at any moment. The terrifying force even stalled his divine power for a moment.
Now, Zhou Ping raised his sword high.
The blade hummed.
A brilliant flash of sword light burst in his eyes!
With no flourish at all, he slashed downward.
*Boom——!!!*
Endless sword energy erupted like a volcano, transforming into a pillar of light that split heaven and earth. It flashed forward.
The mist that had shrouded the land for a hundred years churned violently, ripping apart to form a vacuum corridor dozens of miles long.
Zhou Ping stood at one end.
Set and Shu at the other.
Set swiftly clapped his hands together. Endless sand poured from his cloak, forming a hundred-meter-tall sand beast that shielded him.
At the same time, a *Vast Desert* realm unfolded behind the beast like a massive shield.
The sword light streaked across the sky, its blinding radiance turning the gloomy heavens white.
Within that brilliance, the sand beast’s roar abruptly ceased. A clean slash hundreds of meters long appeared across its body, the cut perfectly smooth.
The Sword Law shredded every grain of sand. The towering colossus might as well have been paper.
Then the *Vast Desert* realm itself began to quake, cracks spider-webbing across its sandy borders.
Set’s pupils shrank.
The next instant, the realm was cleaved in two and collapsed entirely.
Set’s body rapidly dissolved into sand—but too late.
The sword light swept through his half-formed sandy head. The Sword Law shattered his Sand Law, interrupting the transformation. Sword energy flooded the heavens.
A splash of crimson blood arced across the sand, tracing a shocking red line.
A head with wide, disbelieving eyes flew high into the air…
The Sand Law crumbled piece by piece.
Today,
Great Xia’s Sword Immortal Zhou Ping,
slayed a god with a single sword.