Heaven-Surpassing Divine Emperor

Outside Heaven-Soaring Sacred City, Jiang Chen hovered in the air, a single hand holding Black Yama’s bloody head. All around was dead silent!

Under the Celestial Demon Army’s siege, the retreating experts of the Black Demon Army were completely routed, their defeat like a landslide.

The Celestial Demon Army, fearless of death, gave relentless chase.

They let no enemy escape!

The nine Vice Generals led numerous masters in a siege against the Celestial Demon Marshal and his ten thousand Union Palace Realm soldiers. They held the upper hand and were on the verge of shattering the Marshal’s Battle Array. But at that exact moment, news of Black Yama’s death arrived, and horrified looks spread across their faces.

"This is bad! The General is dead."

"Fall back!"

The faces of the nine Vice Generals changed drastically.

Their cultivation levels were between the Sixth and Eighth Stage of the Human King Realm. Even if they joined forces, they were no match for Black Yama.

How could they possibly face Jiang Chen, the man who had killed Black Yama?

Jiang Chen’s lips curled into a disdainful sneer. "I said it before. Today, the entire Black Demon Army will be a funeral offering for the souls of the dead. Did you really think you could escape?"

"Celestial Demon Army, hear my command! Leave none from the Black Demon Army alive!"

Jiang Chen raised his arm, pointing the Spirit-Slaying Sword from afar.

ROAR!

One after another, the Celestial Demon Combat Puppets roared at the sky, their Evil Qi soaring.

Their will to fight grew ever more frenzied!

The Black Demon Army, in contrast, had lost all morale.

As one side waned, the other waxed.

The Celestial Demon Army already had the advantage. They instantly began to crush and pursue the Black Demon Army with overwhelming force.

Just as Jiang Chen had said—leave none alive!

As for the nine Vice Generals and a dozen or so other Human King Realm experts, they were trapped within Jiang Chen’s Thunder Realm. The world around them was shrouded in lightning.

Vast and mighty thunder boomed, filling the space between heaven and earth.

Wielding the Spirit-Slaying Sword, Jiang Chen was like an unrivaled Killing God. He possessed Sword Intent fused from the Four Great Fusion Secrets, on top of the Time Freeze from his Secrets of Time.

He was practically invincible!

Wherever he passed...

Not a single expert could withstand one of his strikes.

All were slain!

Not one was left alive!

"No, don’t come any closer..."

"My father is the Six Mountains Sword Venerable’s personal guard! You can’t kill me..."

"My family is a high-level noble house in the Six Mountains Dynasty! I can give you so, so many Spirit Crystals! Spare me..."

One by one, the terrified experts begged Jiang Chen for mercy.

Not long ago, every one of them had been a proud, cold, and heartless executioner who slaughtered people like cattle and regarded human life as worthless.

But now...

They were all groveling for their lives.

Jiang Chen’s gaze was ice-cold, without a shred of pity. He said flatly, "Did those innocent commoners not beg you for mercy too? Did you ever spare them?"

"No, we’re not the same as them!"

"We are nobles, high and mighty! They’re just common trash, lowly peasants! They’re nothing but insignificant ants."

The five remaining Vice Generals knelt in a row before Jiang Chen, kowtowing and begging for their lives as they tried to justify themselves.

"Hahahaha..."

Jiang Chen threw his head back and laughed, his voice thick with scorn and contempt. His gaze turned sharp as it fell upon them, and he spoke, word by word, "Lowly peasants, insignificant ants? Sorry, but in my eyes, you aren’t worth a single hair on their heads. You... don’t even have the right to be ants!"

SWOOSH—

A four-colored sword light pulsed outward.

Five heads flew high into the air.

Jiang Chen raised his arm. His Divine Thought Power formed invisible chains, suspending each and every head behind him.

Jiang Chen strode through the void.

He raced across the battlefield, his body exuding an incomparably sharp Sword Qi. The Sword Qi became a surging storm that swept across the land. Wherever it passed, the heads of the Black Demon Army experts were severed.

A dense cluster of heads hung behind him.

One thousand...

Two thousand...

Ten thousand...

Twenty thousand...

A full five hundred thousand bloody heads floated behind Jiang Chen in a dense, macabre cloud. Every head’s eyes were wide open, filled with the unwillingness and despair of a soul that could not rest in peace.

The scene was truly terrifying!

Even the rescued members of the Heaven-Soaring Saint Sect felt their skin crawl as they watched the young man walking through the air, followed by the gruesome trail of severed heads.

GULP!

Lui Yifa swallowed hard, his gaze fixed on the five hundred thousand floating heads behind Jiang Chen. In a shocked voice, he stammered, "B-Boss, what is he doing?"

Everyone else could only shake their heads.

Only the Black Emperor stared wide-eyed at the god-like, demon-like youth. His eyes shone with a brilliant light. "That’s right. This is how a man should be. The path of the Martial Dao has always been a road of slaughter, paved with mountains of corpses and a sea of blood. A single general’s success is built on ten thousand bleaching bones. To reach the peak of the Martial Dao, one is fated to climb a Celestial Ladder built from countless bodies."

"To kill one is a crime, to slaughter ten thousand is to be a hero. To slaughter nine million is to be a hero among heroes."

"A hero among heroes walks a different Dao, seeing through a thousand years of fame and false virtue. In this life, I’ll let my might be shown. I love not praise, but a fearsome reputation, killing a million without a flicker of remorse. Better to be hated and gnashed at by the masses, than to live a life where no one curses my name."

"Look back five thousand years—which hero was not a killer?"

The Black Emperor’s face was alight with excitement as he recited the "Song of Slaughter"!

A man must kill, and kill without mercy!

For every slight, he must kill; a slaughter beyond count!

At this moment, Jiang Chen was like an unrivaled Killing God, walking between heaven and earth. He trod upon a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, wielding the Murdering Demon Sword...

The Jiang Chen of this moment would make even a Human Emperor tremble in fear!

Jiang Chen hovered in the air, his cold gaze falling on Lui Yifa and the others. He said in a deep voice, "Little Black, Afa... I’m leaving the Heaven-Soaring Saint Sect to you!"

"Jiang Chen!" "Boss! Where are you going?"

Everyone was startled.

’Is Jiang Chen leaving?’

Jiang Chen’s gaze was frigid as he looked to the west. Behind him, five hundred thousand heads hung in the air. His robes whipped about him, and his killing intent soared. "The Six Mountains Dynasty destroyed my Sect, slaughtered my disciples, and cruelly murdered tens of millions of innocent people. I’m going to demand an explanation from the Six Mountains Sword Venerable!"

"What?"

"Sect Master, you mustn’t be rash!"

"The Six Mountains Sword Venerable is an expert in the top ten of the Celestial Venerable List! And the Six Mountains Dynasty is the most bloodthirsty and warlike of the Ten Great Dynasties on the Eastern Continent. You can’t put yourself in such danger!"

The crowd tried to persuade him one after another.

Even the Black Emperor was taken aback. He hesitated, "Jiang Chen, won’t you reconsider?"

"There’s nothing to reconsider!"

Jiang Chen’s gaze was sharp as he slowly shook his head.

The last time, the Black Dragon King led his troops to attack the Cloud Domain, bringing devastation to its people.

This time, Black Yama descended upon the Cloud Domain, slaughtering tens of millions in a single battle and nearly annihilating the Heaven-Soaring Saint Sect.

’What if there is a next time?’

Who could imagine what other madness the Six Mountains Dynasty was capable of?

Jiang Chen didn’t dare gamble the future of the Heaven-Soaring Saint Sect and the lives of the Cloud Domain’s countless innocent people. Rather than wait passively, it was better to take the initiative.

’So what if I have to face the Six Mountains Sword Venerable?’

’I still have my own trump cards!’

Jiang Chen immediately left the Celestial Demon Army behind, placing it under the Black Emperor’s command. He himself took the five hundred thousand heads of the Black Demon Army soldiers and traveled west, striding through the air.

His sword pointed toward the Six Mountains Dynasty!

[Fourth update. One more to come, Little Tian is writing it now!]