Free Web NovelChapter 374: Chapter 361: The Immortal Celestial Saber Shows Its Divine Might Again
Sensing more than ten powerful auras rapidly approaching from the distance, Shen Lang led the four Bone Demons a few dozen meters forward, putting some distance between them and the place where Shu Lan and the others were hiding.
Then he leaped into the air and landed on Bone One’s shoulder.
He crossed his arms, looked ahead indifferently, and said, "The newcomers have formidable Cultivation, and there are quite a few of them. Go all out. Don’t hold back."
"Don’t worry, Boss. After these few months of Cultivation, our own Cultivation has grown much stronger. These guys are the perfect whetstones for our blades!"
Bone Two said, tapping the Giant Blade in his hand.
The other Bone Demons also let out sinister laughs, stirring up gusts of eerie wind that made the surroundings a bit chilling.
Just then, a thunderous RUMBLE echoed from the distance, as if a Giant were sprinting through the mountain forest at full speed!
A savage aura drifted over from that direction, causing Shen Lang’s gaze to shift slightly.
A moment later, someone from that direction bellowed, their whole body infused with Power, "Which master dares to harm someone from my Beast Emperor Palace!"
The voice arrived before the person!
Though several miles away, the moment the sound wave reached them, it made the blood and qi of Jie Fengqing and the others inside the Concealing Array churn, and expressions of pain appeared on their faces!
"So... so powerful! From so far away, the sound wave alone could kill someone!"
Jie Fengqing and the others exchanged a glance, their faces filled with horror.
"And that’s with the Array blocking some of it. Without this Array, we probably couldn’t have withstood that single roar!" Zhan Wuji’s eyes were wide, and he felt his blood boil as he stared intently at Shen Lang, who stood not far away on the Bone Demon, his back to them.
Shen Lang stood on the Bone Demon, steady as a rock, unmoving.
Just as everyone was reeling from the shock, the rapidly running Giant in the distance finally came into view!
It wasn’t a Giant, but a giant ape nearly twenty feet tall!
"A Three-Clawed Snow Ape!" Jie Fengqing shrieked, his breathing becoming ragged.
This was a type of Demon Beast that inhabited the Western Wilderness Snow Cave. It possessed immense strength and was savage and brutal.
Ordinary apes have five toes on their claws, but this Three-Clawed Snow Ape had only three. Its claw tips were coated in a strange poison. Whether human or animal, if scratched enough to draw blood, the wound would quickly fester and spread throughout the body, ultimately leading to death as the poison attacked the heart.
This Demon Beast had a tyrannical nature. Even within its own kind, it would fight incessantly to the death. It was considered nearly impossible to tame into a Spirit Beast.
Unexpectedly, someone from the Beast Emperor Palace had actually managed to tame one and bring it here!
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The Three-Clawed Snow Ape’s eyes were crimson. Upon seeing Shen Lang and the four Bone Demons, it let out a furious roar, leaped into the air, and pounced down on Shen Lang with the force of a falling mountain!
At the same time, a middle-aged man in green robes sitting on the Three-Clawed Snow Ape’s shoulder shot into the air.
While in mid-air, a pair of wings unfurled from his back, and he clawed at Shen Lang, moving even faster than the Three-Clawed Snow Ape.
A Gang Feng raged, sharp as blades against the skin!
"Senior Brother!" Inside the Concealing Array, Shu Lan clasped her hands tightly, her palms slick with nervous sweat.
Facing the unparalleled, ferocious Momentum of the Xuanwu Realm Powerhouse and the Three-Clawed Snow Ape, Shen Lang’s body stood as straight as a spear. He drew his saber, and he struck!
His Essence, Qi, and Spirit, along with all the Spiritual Power in his body, were channeled into the Immortal Celestial Saber. ’The saber is me, and I am the saber!’
Black energy surged from the Immortal Celestial Saber. The slash it produced was as black as ink, like a bolt of black lightning splitting the sky. Descending from above, it instantly shattered the man’s giant claw in mid-air and cleaved him in two!
As the black energy annihilated the shower of blood, the saber’s light had already struck the roaring Three-Clawed Snow Ape!
"SPLURT!"
The scene repeated itself. The giant ape, nearly twenty feet tall, was instantly split in two. It even stumbled forward another five or six meters before crashing to the ground!
"..."
The group hidden within the Array was completely stunned.
They had originally thought that even though Shen Lang was powerful, he would surely be in for a bitter fight against a Xuanwu Realm Powerhouse from the Beast Emperor Palace.
No one would have ever thought...
...that with just a single, casual slash—just one slash—a Xuanwu Realm Powerhouse and the heart-stoppingly Fierce Beast, the Three-Clawed Snow Ape, would be cleaved in two!
They hadn’t even put up the slightest resistance. The astonishing duo of man and Demon Beast were now just corpses on the ground.
For a moment, everyone was lost in a daze.
Especially Jie Fengqing and Zhan Wuji, who knew a little about Shen Lang. Their mouths fell open, and they were too stunned to close them.
As the onlookers stared blankly, two more people with Demon Beasts charged forward.
"Kill!"
Shen Lang roared and charged to meet them.
He swung the Immortal Celestial Saber, its power terrifying to the extreme, and reaped the lives of the people from the Beast Emperor Palace.
A one-sided slaughter unfolded, leaving corpses strewn across the field!
Not long after Shen Lang had first obtained the Immortal Celestial Saber, when his Cultivation was still a far cry from what it was now, he had killed Xuanwu Realm Fifth Heaven Martial Artists with a single slash each.
Now, his Cultivation was even greater, his Spiritual Power was several times what it had been a few months ago, and his Sword Intent had reached a new breakthrough.
The Xuanwu Realm Martial Artists from the Beast Emperor Palace arrived one after another, like moths to a flame, falling completely into a terrifying nightmare of being slaughtered.
They didn’t even have a chance to escape...
If the people from the Beast Emperor Palace had known anything about Shen Lang and had gathered their forces from all sides before attacking, Shen Lang might have truly been forced into a bitter struggle.
Especially since the Ghost King was with Nalan Ziyun, Shen Lang currently lacked the ability to fly.
If they had just flown into the sky, created distance, and stayed outside the Immortal Celestial Saber’s attack range, Shen Lang would have been absolutely powerless against them for a while.
If Shen Lang didn’t have a despair-inducing Imperial Artifact like the Immortal Celestial Saber... even with his formidable Sword Intent, killing a powerhouse at Xuanwu Realm Fifth Heaven or above would have taken considerable effort.
If the four Bone Demons’ auras didn’t seem to be only around the Xuanwu Realm Second Heaven, and if Shen Lang didn’t look like he was only seventeen or eighteen... the experts from the Beast Emperor Palace wouldn’t have been so unlucky as to rush to their deaths one by one.
However, there are no "what ifs" in this world.
More than ten Xuanwu Realm Powerhouses—a lineup that would be intimidating anywhere, a significant force for any Profound Iron Level Influence—had all fallen in resentment at the hands of this one God of Slaughter, Shen Lang.
By the time the people who arrived later finally began to understand what was happening, it was too late.
Of the sixteen Xuanwu Realm Powerhouses who had rushed over from the Beast Emperor Palace, only five remained!
And as they fled, Shen Lang used his otherworldly speed to catch up to two of them, cutting them in half at the waist with two slashes!
The Immortal Celestial Saber, in concert with his Sword Intent, displayed a power that made even Shen Lang’s own blood boil.
When the Sword Qi it emitted annihilated the Martial Artists from the Beast Emperor Palace, it instantly devoured the Spiritual Power and Essence Blood from their bodies, then coiled back and was absorbed into the Immortal Celestial Saber!
This devouring function seemed somewhat similar to Shen Lang’s Tai Chi Diagram.
Below, the Bone Demons went all out, frantically hunting down the Beast Emperor Palace disciples, their slaughter plunging the world into darkness, accompanied by ghastly shrieks.
Above, the three remaining Xuanwu Realm Powerhouses, their courage shattered, pulled away and engaged Shen Lang in a war of attrition with long-range attacks.
The group in the Concealing Array was completely numb. As they watched it all unfold, their minds went blank...
Just as the slaughter below began to calm down, with Shen Lang and the three Xuanwu Realm Martial Artists in the air at a stalemate, something terrifying was happening at the Profound Dao Sect.
Xue Shiyin, clad in a green silk dress, walked through the air and came to stand atop the Profound Dao Sect’s Sect Protection Array.
She stomped her foot lightly, and a tremendous BOOM spread throughout the Profound Dao Sect, making the entire sect tremble violently!
Everyone raised their heads to look at the sky!
The once-peaceful Profound Dao Sect suddenly erupted with a series of CRACKLES, like a few drops of water falling into a pot of boiling oil.
"Someone is attacking the Sect Protection Array!"
Countless people came out and raised their heads to look at the sky!
Their faces were all filled with utter horror.
The Profound Dao Sect’s Sect Protection Array was a linked network of eighty-one separate arrays, one for each of its Nine-Nine Eighty-One Peaks. It was built during the sect’s golden age, when the founding ancestor invited a mysterious, peerless powerhouse to create it. Its defensive power was said to far surpass even the Sect Protection Array of the Imperial Dragon Sect, a Spirit Copper Level Influence.
It had gone almost unused for so many years. No one expected a woman who looked like a young girl to suddenly appear and attack the Sect Protection Array!
"Just where did this powerhouse come from?"
Amidst the clamor, four elderly men in different attire materialized out of thin air in the sky above the main peak, Heaven-Reaching Peak.
The four men were inside the Sect Protection Array, standing below Xue Shiyin. They vaguely formed a defensive formation as they bowed in unison to her.
The man in the center spoke respectfully, "This junior is Jiang Haitian of the Profound Dao Sect, and these three are my junior brothers. May I ask what business Senior has at the Profound Dao Sect? If you have any orders, please just give the word!"
Xue Shiyin glanced at the four from the Profound Dao Sect and said with a faint smile, "Don’t be so nervous. I’m here to find someone. You can open the Sect Protection Array now."
"Heh, seeing is truly believing. Legend has it that your Profound Dao Sect once had the support of a peerless powerhouse to lay down a supremely strong Protective Array. I didn’t believe it before, but after testing it just now, I see it’s true!"
Xue Shiyin’s voice was a little hoarse, not clear and melodious like Xue Dangdang’s, but it was filled with a magical power that no one dared to question.
Jiang Haitian and the other three looked at each other, not knowing how to respond.
A Sect’s Sect Protection Array is of utmost importance. How could they just deactivate it on command?
Besides, this woman’s origins were unknown; they had no idea where she came from. What if she had ill intentions toward the Profound Dao Sect...
"Hm?" Seeing the strange expressions on the four men’s faces, Xue Shiyin’s own expression turned cold. "What, do I need to repeat myself? Or do you believe I can’t break this blasted Array?"
"Hmph. This Array may be powerful, but a powerful Array needs a powerful person to control it. The four of you are merely at the Third and Fourth Heaven of the King Martial Realm. Trying to stop me is just wishful thinking. If you don’t mind, I could try playing with it for a bit..."
Xue Shiyin opened her right hand. The sky immediately roiled with wind and clouds as the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi frantically gathered toward her palm, forming a terrifying, massive vortex in the Azure Vault...
An incomparably terrifying move, ready to be unleashed at any moment!
