Chapter 800: Defeat for Ghost Wei!
The five ferocious venomous beasts that had terrified countless cultivators were all dead.
Completely dead.
Not one of them had managed to endure even a single round of Li Yun’s Ten Thousand Slaughter Sword Art.
The spectators were stunned.
Many had believed that Old Ghost Wei’s greatest reliance was nearly impossible to break below the Spirit Manifestation Realm.
But now, under the crushing power of Li Yun’s seventy percent Slaughter Sword Intent and the Ten Thousand Slaughter Sword Art born from it, those supposedly invincible beasts had simply been slaughtered outright.
Old Ghost Wei’s face turned deathly pale.
"Impossible."
He screamed in disbelief. "The Devouring Extinction Five Venom Beasts. How can they die so easily?"
Li Yun looked at him coldly.
"Because your beasts are not invincible," he said. "And before true slaughter, they never stood a chance."
As those words fell, the remaining slaughter swords that had not been used on the five venomous beasts turned at the same time.
All of them locked onto Old Ghost Wei.
Old Ghost Wei’s entire body turned cold.
Only now did he realize something that made his soul tremble.
Li Yun had not only intended to kill the beasts.
He intended to destroy him as well.
"No."
Old Ghost Wei roared furiously.
He madly circulated his essence qi, and devilish energy surged out of his body to form layers of protection around him. At the same time, he struck out with both palms, trying to block the incoming slaughter swords.
But it was useless.
The moment the first slaughter sword struck, his defensive qi shattered.
The second pierced his palm.
The third cut through his shoulder.
The fourth tore through his chest.
Then the rest arrived.
One crimson sword after another pierced through Old Ghost Wei’s defenses and body. Blood sprayed wildly into the air. His essence qi crumbled, his devilish energy was crushed, and the fierce confidence on his face was completely replaced by terror.
The pressure of seventy percent Slaughter Sword Intent descended upon him like a mountain of blood and corpses. It crushed not only his body, but also his will. Under that terrifying aura, his resistance seemed laughably weak.
He could not stop the swords.
He could not avoid the swords.
He could only be engulfed by them.
Boom!
A final burst of crimson Sword Qi erupted.
Old Ghost Wei’s body was blasted backward like a ragdoll and flew directly out of the arena. He crashed heavily onto the ground outside the stage, blood pouring from his body. His face was pale as paper, and his aura was in complete disorder.
The battle was over.
Li Yun stood quietly on the arena, holding his sword.
Around him, the remaining wisps of crimson slaughter aura slowly revolved before sinking back into his body. Behind him lay the corpses of the five venomous beasts, each cut apart by the slaughter swords.
Silence spread through the venue.
No one spoke for several breaths.
The result of this battle had been too overwhelming.
They had expected a fierce fight.
They had expected Old Ghost Wei’s Devouring Extinction Five Venom Beasts to force Li Yun into a desperate situation.
𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮
Instead, what they had witnessed was complete domination.
Li Yun had not struggled.
He had not been cornered.
He had simply released his seventy percent Slaughter Sword Intent, used Ten Thousand Slaughter Sword Art, slaughtered all five venomous beasts, and then crushed Old Ghost Wei in the same flow of attack.
Everything had been one-sided.
Everything had been merciless.
At last, an elder in the audience exhaled slowly and said in a low voice, "Old Ghost Wei’s beasts were terrifying, but against Li Yun’s Slaughter Sword Intent, they were nothing more than prey. This battle was decided the moment Li Yun drew his sword."
On the ground below the arena, Old Ghost Wei struggled weakly. His eyes were filled with resentment, terror, and disbelief.
He had wanted to use this battle to destroy Li Yun and announce himself as the strongest among the Four Devil Princes.
Instead, he had been utterly crushed.
"He actually won again."
"What terrifying observation, judgment, and speed of execution are needed to do something like this? Li Yun is truly frightening."
"Even Old Ghost Wei, who possessed the Devouring Extinction Five Venom Beasts, lost to Li Yun. This fellow might not stop at the top ten. He may truly have the qualifications to challenge the top five."
Li Yun’s unexpected victory once again shook everyone.
Up until now, Li Yun had already achieved nine consecutive victories. Among those defeated by him were experts like Old Ghost Wei and Absolute Sword Path. He could already be called the greatest dark horse of this Heaven’s Chosen Assembly.
By this point, unless the three super-tier experts or figures like Xie Wushang, Su Zimo, and the First Knight acted, it would be difficult for anyone else to pose a real threat to him.
Before the shock Li Yun brought to everyone could fade, the next match caused another stir and left countless people stunned.
Su Zimo had actually lost.
Moreover, he had not lost to one of the three super-tier experts, nor had he lost to Xie Wushang or the First Knight. He had lost to Man Tao of the Ancient Wild True Sect.
In this battle, the strength Man Tao displayed alarmed everyone.
Of the Ancient Wild True Sect’s Twelve Primal Forms, Man Tao had mastered eight of them, excluding the two that had been lost to history. That alone was impressive, but what truly shocked everyone was that he had actually fused six of those True Forms.
Within the Ancient Wild True Sect, mastering a True Form and fusing a True Form were completely different concepts.
In the same realm, a cultivator who had fused six True Forms could easily defeat a cultivator who had mastered nine True Forms without fusing them. Comparing the two was like comparing heaven and earth.
Fusing six True Forms was at least ten times more difficult than mastering eight.
Even during the most glorious era of the Ancient Wild True Sect, the number of people who could achieve such a feat in the Heavenly Core Realm would not exceed three in total.