Crushing Giant City

‘I could pull down mountains with my might, and my spirit overshadowed the world…’ This was the truest portrayal of Xiao Chen in that moment. He tore up a two-thousand-meter peak, held it aloft with one hand, and hurled it toward the colossal city before him.

The two-thousand-meter mountain was a deep reddish-brown. It occupied so much of the sky that it cast a vast shadow on the earth, hurtling down like a gigantic meteor streaking across the heavens, carrying with it heaven-shaking fluctuations.

Even before the giant mountain truly crashed into Giant City, the land was already trembling. The terrifying energy fluctuations split the earth’s surface into huge fissures, and countless shattered rocks shot up into the air.

‘BOOM!’

The two-thousand-meter Dead Mountain descended with irresistible force, slamming into the earth. In an instant, it buried Giant City beneath it. A surge of tremendous energy erupted; blinding light swept across the sky.

Everything ahead was shrouded in dazzling radiance. Waves of terrifying energy surged skyward, the earth shattered, and the entire region seemed on the verge of utter collapse and destruction. The overwhelming power rolled outward in all directions, destroying everything in its path.

Where Giant City once stood became a source of annihilation. Brilliant beams of light continuously exploded outward, spreading in every direction.

Even observers from afar felt their hearts tremble. The earth was utterly shattered, splitting into several terrifying chasms that stretched far into the distance.

Sha Polang stood dumbfounded, speechless with shock, unable to believe his eyes. The most majestic city in the eastern outer regions of the continent had been destroyed in an instant. Such power filled him with awe.

When everything finally calmed, Giant City was history. It had vanished completely, leaving behind only a corner of rubble and a massive basin.

The strength of the Perfected Man realm was truly terrifying. With a casual wave of his hand, he had erased Giant City from the face of the earth, forcing Sha Polang into reverence.

‘Who?!’

Several figures shot up from the ruins into the sky. The three kings of the eastern region—the Giant King, the Hundred War King, and the Beast King—were all here, charging into the heavens.

In addition, there was a white-bone skeleton carrying four murderous swords on its back. It stood with terrifying composure, motionless amidst the ruins, not moving an inch.

‘Old Yellow… he was really killed by that bastard Giant King!’ Sha Polang was furious, for he saw the seven-colored broken sword in the Giant King’s hand—it belonged to Old Yellow.

‘Sha Polang, I was just looking for you. I’ve already reserved your skull for my pet’s chamber pot…’ But when the Giant King saw Xiao Chen, his expression clearly froze. Shocked, he said, ‘The Divine Race…’

Xiao Chen walked forward step by step through the void, his hair black as ink, his eyes deep and bright. Though he lacked any intense energy fluctuations, the aura he exuded was soul-shaking, enough to make anyone tremble.

‘You killed Old Yellow and made his yellow-diamond skull into a chamber pot?’ Even though Xiao Chen didn’t speak, Sha Polang couldn’t help but ask again, wanting to confirm.

‘That’s right.’ The Giant King quickly composed himself. Though he had already sensed that this flesh-and-blood member of the Divine Race had come with ill intent, things had already reached this point—there was no turning back. With that powerful white-bone skeleton carrying four murderous swords backing him, he felt no fear.

‘Then all of you can die!’ Sha Polang was enraged; his spiritual fluctuations were intense.

‘Die? I think that’s you.’ The Giant King was full of contempt. With one of the Sovereign’s great generals as support, what did he have to fear? Even if Sha Polang had the Divine Race backing him, he would still need to tread carefully.

Xiao Chen had not spoken a word from start to finish, but now he responded with action. With a single step spanning a thousand zhang, he was already close to them, and his palm lashed out.

The Giant King was terrified. He immediately fled, flying toward the white-bone skeleton on the ground.

The Hundred War King, however, was the first to bear the brunt. Unable to dodge, he directly struck back with his divine abilities. Black demonic clouds roiled, and thousands upon thousands of white bone claws reached out from the black mist, grasping at Xiao Chen.

But against a powerful cultivator at the Perfected Man realm, all this was futile. Xiao Chen’s jade-like palm directly shattered the demonic clouds, crushing every bone claw into dust. In the end, that palm filled with demonic power even tore through the void and struck the Hundred War King.

In an instant, the Hundred War King vanished into ash!

This was a truly terrifying result. In one exchange, he had effortlessly eliminated one of the three eastern overlords.

At the same time, Xiao Chen stood motionless in the void, but his left hand had already reached out, as if possessing unfathomable divine power. His crystalline, jade-like palm expanded to the size of a mountain, swiftly grabbing at the fleeing Beast King.

The void shattered. The giant hand actually caught hold of the Beast King. In the sky, it squeezed with force; the sound of bones breaking was harsh and grating. The Beast King’s spiritual fluctuations were filled with terror, but they lasted only a moment before there was no further sound.

The Beast King was crushed in that giant hand, turned into a cloud of bone dust that scattered down through the air.

The result was stunning. Sha Polang was completely dumbstruck. The Giant King, who had successfully fled to the ground, trembled in fear. Such an opponent was simply too terrifying. If the white-bone skeleton beside him, with its four swords, could not stop him, then today he would surely be annihilated—body and soul.

Xiao Chen landed, standing amidst the ruins facing the white-bone skeleton. ‘Lord Tongtian?’

The white-bone skeleton stood there like a fossil, unmoving. It sent out a mental fluctuation: ‘Dust returns to dust, ashes to ashes. Lord Tongtian is dead. I am not him.’

Xiao Chen’s heart sank. If it was not him, how could it know that name? He stared at the white-bone skeleton and said, ‘A destined battle is unavoidable.’

‘Clang!’

The four murderous swords on the white-bone skeleton’s back shot into the sky, erupting with dazzling light. They separated into four directions, and then the formation diagram emerged, floating above the white-bone skeleton’s head, swirling with chaotic light.

The Zhuxian Four Swords and the formation diagram—both were here!

‘Ya-ya…’ Keke had seen Lord Tongtian in person back in the day. With the formation diagram overhead and the four swords arrayed, he was unmatched, rarely bested even among Half-Ancestors. The little one was about to rush over with Paradise Lost to help.

‘No need.’ Xiao Chen motioned for Keke and Sha Polang to fall back, facing the white-bone skeleton alone. After his flesh-and-blood rebirth, he feared no strong enemy.

The great battle erupted!

This was the most breathtaking battle Xiao Chen had ever fought in the Death World.

The white-bone skeleton was immensely powerful, far surpassing the Fish-Leap realm fire-seed beings. It had reached the Perfected Man realm, on par with super-evolutionary five-colored skeletons. Moreover, it controlled the Zhuxian Formation Diagram and the four swords, granting it combat power that inspired dread.

The Zhuxian Formation was known as one of the five strongest killing formations in the history of the World of Immortality. Its power was unimaginable. Even after the Calamity of the False Gods, the formation diagram and murderous swords were no longer at their prime, they were still terrifying, possessing the force to destroy heaven and earth.

Facing this famous formation, Xiao Chen did not presume too much. He held a War Sword in his right hand and the Dragon Clan Sacred Tree in his left, battling the white-bone skeleton.

This was the most intense battle in the outer regions of the continent in centuries.

The Zhuxian Formation Diagram slowly rotated above the white-bone skeleton, emitting hazy chaotic mist. The four swords—Slay Immortal, Kill Immortal, Trap Immortal, Extinguish Immortal—stood in four directions, unleashing beams of terrifying light that swept the area.

Xiao Chen’s War Sword also shot out piercing sword light that reached the heavens, while the Dragon Clan Sacred Tree radiated endless auspicious rays and multicolored glow, illuminating half the sky.

This was a peak confrontation in the outer regions of the Death Continent. Dazzling sword light tore heaven and earth apart; auspicious rays and multicolored radiance lit up the eastern region. Powerful energy fluctuations swept across the land, and countless fire-seed beings trembled in fear, prostrating themselves in worship.

The white-bone skeleton was calm and composed, shattering the earth with each blow. Then it flew into the sky. The formation diagram above its head was hazy with mist, and the four swords opened and closed with great force. Chaotic sword light was unstoppable, breaking through eighty-one layers of seven-colored light screen from the Dragon Clan Sacred Tree.

But the palm-tall Dragon Clan Sacred Tree seemed to have inexhaustible energy. Streams of multicolored radiance swept outward without end, dyeing the Death World’s gloomy sky with magnificent colors.

This earth-shaking battle lasted an entire day and night. Xiao Chen and the white-bone skeleton fought across a thousand li. The two powerhouses seemed to have endless strength, battling relentlessly, destroying three cities along the way.

‘Dang!’

Xiao Chen finally knocked aside one of the swords with the Dragon Clan Sacred Tree, breaking into the Zhuxian Formation. The War Sword in his hand slashed diagonally at the formation diagram wreathed in chaotic light.

‘Sss!’

The knocked-away Immortal-Slaying Sword flew back, and the other three murderous swords also swept in with destructive sword light. But having finally torn open a gap, Xiao Chen was not about to retreat. He went straight for the Zhuxian Formation Diagram.

The white-bone skeleton’s bone palm made a light motion, distorting the void and throwing space into chaos, allowing the diagram to escape disaster.

‘Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!’

Seven-colored light swept out, rolling back the four swords. At the same time, Xiao Chen vibrated the Origin Heavenly Sound to attack the white-bone skeleton at close range within the formation.

The ‘Weng’ sound shook heaven and earth; the death aspect within life and death surged out overwhelmingly. The Dragon Clan Sacred Tree’s seven-colored light temporarily blocked the four swords. With the terrifying Heavenly Sound at such close range, the white-bone skeleton was brought to the verge of danger.

‘Seal!’

In a critical moment, the white-bone skeleton grabbed the formation diagram floating in the sky and placed it before itself. At the same time, its eyes shot out two beams of destructive light that directly struck Xiao Chen’s body, ignoring spatial distance.

Xiao Chen quickly vibrated the life aspect of the ‘Weng’ sound to dissolve the calamity of destruction.

‘Go!’

At the same time, Xiao Chen swung the Seven-Colored Sacred Tree, fixing the formation diagram. The two stuck firmly together.

With the formation diagram pinned, the Zhuxian Formation could no longer function, and the four swords were no longer as ferocious.

With the killing formation broken, Xiao Chen naturally had free rein to battle. He unleashed the Reverse Dragon Seven Steps, the Four Killing Moves, and the ‘Weng’ sound simultaneously, engaging the white-bone skeleton in fierce combat.

This was the strongest opponent Xiao Chen had encountered in the Death World. The white-bone skeleton was versed in many divine techniques, and it took another half-day of intense battle before Xiao Chen could knock away all four swords.

The two powerhouses then engaged in unarmed combat, each displaying their divine abilities and combat techniques.

In the end, the four Killing Moves—Reverse Chaos, Demon Suppression, Collapse, and God Slaying—were unleashed together, merging into one. In the sky, an illusory world appeared, within which seemed to descend several divine steles.

Although they were only phantom images, the vast aura still caused souls to tremble. Under this strike, the earth shattered, and the white-bone skeleton’s body was broken in many places.

This was a grueling battle—Xiao Chen’s peak battle in the Death World.

‘Are you or are you not Lord Tongtian?’ Facing the largely shattered white-bone skeleton, Xiao Chen could not help asking again, because at this moment he was no longer certain.

‘What does it matter if I am or not? Everything will eventually turn to yellow earth.’ Even on the verge of destruction, the white-bone skeleton was extremely calm, gazing into the deepest part of the continent. It said, ‘In this world, there was originally no Lord Tongtian. I am merely a projection of the Sovereign from the chasm depths of the continent, combined with the thoughts of mortals.’

‘What are you saying?’ Xiao Chen stared at it.

‘If you want to know more, I will be waiting for you at the Primordial Demon City deep within the Death Continent.’ The white-bone skeleton’s figure began to grow ethereal, and the Zhuxian Formation Diagram and four murderous swords also turned from solid to insubstantial.

Though Xiao Chen reacted swiftly and trapped it with the Eight Aspect Worlds, he ultimately could not prevent the white-bone skeleton from vanishing.