Chapter 696 - 377: Dragon-slaying Platform, Dragon Slaying Skill
The feeling of being slain by that sword just now, even now, lingers in my heart for a long time without dissipating, making me feel like I would be sliced to pieces in the next moment, as if on the legendary Dragon-slaying Platform.
Although that painful feeling is illusory, it has a real experience. They are very clear that this time they might truly face calamity.
Where is this Isle Master Azure waves merely a newly stepped Nascent Soul Stage human cultivator as the intelligence suggested? Clearly, he is a truly powerful cultivator. They don’t even know where things went wrong, daring to overestimate themselves to provoke such a God of Killing.
A kind of fear and unease rising from the depths of the heart gradually spreads through the whole body, making their divine souls tremble, and they thoroughly regret it.
"Quickly, go!"
"This person can’t be resisted. Perhaps only the Dragon Emperor can handle..."
"Hurry and leave this place!"
The leader, Sea-covering Demon Monarch, is of the same thought, and the other three Nascent Soul Stage True Dragons are equally fearful and uneasy, with the feeling of being slain by a sword that penetrated deep within the soul just moments ago still vividly present.
Between life and death lies great terror. Whether it be a true dragon or an ant, in reality, there’s not much difference.
Fear nearly devours their heart spirit.
A thick shadow casts over them.
These few Nascent Soul Stage True Dragons at the moment no longer wish to oppose Zheng Yi or want to kill this Dragon Court’s great enemy.
In their minds, the only thought at this time is to quickly escape here, far from this terrifying human race cultivator.
Killed like dogs without a home, disheartened true dragons are rare even from ancient times to now.
It’s not their fault, the Immortal Slaying Sword Array is simply too terrifying. Although it’s merely a temporary outline constructed by Zheng Yi, it’s evolved according to the legendary first slaying array under heaven and earth.
This unparalleled killing array uses the inexhaustible deduction power of Taiyue Divine Venerable as its system, leveraging the Immortal Slaying Sword as the slaughtering mainstay.
For ordinary cultivators, not to mention confronting it normally, even a slight approach where they are perceived by that sliver of killing intent might immediately lead to their soul flying to oblivion, their flesh ripped to shreds.
As for the true purpose of this trip, it’s already been cast aside, discarded far into the clouds.
Several Nascent Soul Stage True Dragons no longer possess the nobility of holy beasts, slithering and moving their bodies like lost dogs all aiming to escape here swiftly.
They are even competing to see who can flee faster.
As for their companions, priority has shifted to second place.
After all, whosoever lags even a step behind shall die.
Looking at the desperate struggles and frantic fleeing of the few True Dragons, Zheng Yi’s face remains icy cold, without any expression.
At this moment, with the Immortal Slaying Sword Array activated, he has already transformed into the ultimate God of Killing, enveloping this unparalleled slaying array with his own divine soul intent.
Man and array are one.
Manipulating the Immortal Slaying Sword Array similarly consumes immense heart power.
Once the Immortal Slaying begins, slaughter proceeds first.
Subsequently, Zheng Yi executes the finger technique, and the four major elements of earth, water, wind, and fire change unpredictably, as if splitting heaven and earth anew, with a chaos world reborn. Other three sword aura outlines swallowed up with uncertainty, only the Immortal Slaying Sword hanging at the front left celestial gate moved.
With a clanging sound, lightning struck the sky, illuminating with a sword qi that seemed like a dragon’s roar.
The Immortal Slaying Sword shot straight up, bringing forth a sky full of sword aura, shooting straight toward the direction the Nascent Soul Stage True Dragons were fleeing.
Facing such an unparalleled slaying sword array, born for slaughter, even if a Nascent Soul Stage landed here, once enveloped by the sword array, they’d be no different from ants.
Dragon-slaying Platform, Dragon Slaying Skill.
With the rise of the Slaughter Sword Dao, there’s no difference among the souls slain under the sword.
The premise is, can Zheng Yi’s magical power authority cut through?
Unfortunately, for these few Nascent Soul Stage True Dragons, they happen to be within Zheng Yi’s ability to kill.
With a metallic clang, the celestial gate trembled, and the Immortal Slaying Sword suspended upside down shot to the sky, as if reopening the chaos, the killing intent surging to the heavens.
While the Nascent Soul Stage True Dragons were fleeing in terror, they suddenly felt a chill down their dragon spines, an indescribable, unprecedented terrifying feeling enveloped their hearts, as if a giant hand covered the sky, blocking the last sunlight.
They couldn’t help but glance back, only to find that in a split second, time and space seemed to have frozen.
Between heaven and earth, only the invisible, intangible, capable of annihilating all, terrifying slaughtering sword intent remained.
The sharp sound of the sword rose from behind them, filling deep into their dragon souls, making even the outline of their dragon-formed Nascent Soul Spiritual Bodies hard to maintain, the whole body in a state of disintegration like a thousand cuts.
Even though the sword blade hasn’t yet reached them, just relying on the sword intent, the indestructible dragon scales on their body seem to be about to break apart, their flesh slashed to pieces, becoming vulnerably fragile.
Fear surged to their hearts, making them more frantic.
Waving their flood dragon tails, their sinuous dragon bodies sliced through the void, splitting open the void with their four dragon claws, using all their might as if nursing strength, desperately fleeing into the distance.
However, from the center of the Sword Array erupted a terrifying aura, akin to a volcanic eruption, with an unstoppable momentum.
In an instant, a Nascent Soul Stage True Dragon, still frantically fleeing, suddenly felt a chill throughout its body. That death threat penetrating deep into the Dragon Soul followed closely. It abruptly turned back, only to see a black shadow streak right across its vision.
Suddenly, its huge body stiffened directly in place, and it plummeted from the sky like a giant mountain falling into the sea, stirring up violent waves.
Lying in the water, its winding massive body extended a thousand meters, completely devoid of strength. It only felt the world overturn, shocked to see its familiar body had turned into a headless corpse.
Blood spurted from the wound on its neck, while its head had vanished to an unknown location.
Subsequently, a wave of darkness descended. The enormous head of the Nascent Soul Stage True Dragon, as large as a hill, also crashed into the sea, bobbing up and down, leaving only pools of stirring blood remaining on the surface.
"Don’t stop!"
"Run, all of you!"
The Sea-covering Demon Monarch roared in terror once more, the dragon roar resonating across the sky—a sound of sorrow and desolation, mixed faintly with regret and fear.
Who could have imagined, combining the strength of four True Dragons, almost capable of sweeping away any major force in the East Origin Sea Region?
Yet here, they returned defeated, merely to deal with one person they ended up in such a dire situation.
How could this monster be a Human Race Cultivator? Clearly, they were a God of Killing from hell.
The Sea-covering Demon Monarch couldn’t even describe his current feelings, just overwhelmed with fear and regret. He never anticipated that things would deteriorate to this extent.
He even didn’t know how to handle the current situation.
The opponent’s Sword Array laid out was excessively terrifying.
The Sea-covering Demon Monarch, having roamed the Profound Celestial Cultivation Realm for hundreds of years, had never seen such a fearsome Unparalleled Killing Array.
In this scenario, even if he wished to risk his life and use his dragon body desperately to block that terrifying Sword of Slaughter, he probably couldn’t succeed.
More so, it was like an ant trying to shake a tree, or a mantis trying to stop a cart.
Besides, he was already terrified out of his wits by the lethal sword light, even if he had the heart, he lacked the power.
And at this moment, under Zheng Yi’s control, the Immortal Slaying Sword Array operated slowly, like a vast and precise machine, unaffected by external events yet still unwaveringly stabilizing Heaven and Earth, functioning according to its own rules.
The directions the Sword Array pointed towards amplified the Immortal Slaying Sword to the extreme, making this Spirit Treasure Sword seem like it had its own operating rules.
With a flash, it dodged the counterattacks of several Nascent Soul Stage True Dragons, then turned to slay the other two fleeing Nascent Soul Stage True Dragons.
It must be said, this Immortal Slaying Sword was incredibly sharp, reputed to be able to kill even Immortal Gods.
If it can slay Immortal Gods, then let alone a mere mixed-blood True Dragon evolving from Flood Dragon Bloodline.
Under the Immortal Slaying Sword Array, a Pure-blooded True Dragon could be slain, let alone people like the Sea-covering Demon Monarch.
In an extremely short time, the Immortal Slaying Sword flashed through the void, three exceedingly powerful auras, alongside a final despairing dragon roar, echoed across the sky and abruptly vanished.
The Sea-covering Demon Monarch already understood clearly what had transpired.
This signified that, in such a brief period, the three Nascent Soul Stage True Dragons that accompanied him to ambush and kill the great enemy of the Dragon Court, Isle Master Azure Waves, had bled over Deep Sea, perished on the spot, utterly dead.
"Why?"
"How could this happen?!"
"Why did such a thing occur?"
Still frantically fleeing, the Sea-covering Demon Monarch shouted inwardly, completely puzzled as to why things have escalated to this level.
Upon receiving the news of Zheng Yi’s return to the East Origin Sea Region, the Sea-covering Demon Monarch’s vast intelligence network had already mobilized.
He knew he had severely offended Zheng Yi, inevitably one of them must fall. Hence, although stationed quietly, he had commenced planning the assassination long ago.
Originally, after Zheng Yi unexpectedly escaped from his subordinates, the issue became a thorn in his heart.
If he hadn’t been interrupted by other issues and returned ahead of time, another strike would have surely exterminated Zheng Yi, this formidable great enemy, preventing the subsequent series of events.
Yet his arrogance forfeited the last chance to resolve Zheng Yi and further sacrificed the most outstanding offspring and juniors of their lineage like Jiao Changqing to Zheng Yi’s hands.
Even if Zheng Yi weren’t seeking him, he would still unhesitatingly seize any opportunity to eliminate Zheng Yi.
Although Azure waves Island had been tumultuous recently, garnering universal attention with all kinds of intelligence flooding in, saying this and that, on the surface, the Sea-covering Demon Monarch seemed unperturbed. But internally, he had already elevated Zheng Yi’s danger level to the highest.
Alongside the summary of news from Snow Mountain Realm, originally thinking he had valued Zheng Yi very highly, gathering four Nascent Soul Stage True Dragons this time to besiege a Human Race Cultivator who had recently stepped into the Nascent Soul Level, seemed unprecedented.
Yet unfortunately, it wasn’t until this moment did he realize, his self-righteousness merely led him to crash head-on into an iron wall.
The four Nascent Soul Stage True Dragons worked together, supposed to sweep all away, but now instead of seizing control effortlessly, they were driven to flee, even being one by one instantly killed.