Zheng Fei, though he claimed indifference to pain and death, was nonetheless startled. The formidable nature of the Evil Retribution Divine Ability had kept him from facing a true challenge for far too long.

Almost every opponent, upon learning of his power, would flee at the first opportunity, seeking escape above all else.

Where was one who would readily engage in a battle to the death, even without reaching a point of no return?

He had witnessed such desperation before, but only when all hope was extinguished. No one, with a viable path still open, would willingly trade their life for another’s.

And so, when his left leg was severed, he had still managed a laugh.

When his abdomen was pierced, he had instinctively loosened the constraints on his blade, a subconscious urge to allow Jiang Wang an escape route.

But when Jiang Wang’s longsword continued its relentless cut, his laughter died in his throat!

On other fronts of the battlefield, Yan Zi and Li Shou were similarly gripped by shock, yet they were too far to offer timely aid.

Their earlier retreat had taken them too far!

Amidst the swirling palm winds and flashing knife light, Jiang Wang and Zheng Fei stood in terrifying proximity.

They were almost face to face, their eyes locked in a silent confrontation.

In Zheng Fei’s gaze, Jiang Wang saw confusion and pain. In Jiang Wang’s eyes, Zheng Fei found only a chilling calm – the deep, still flow of water.

All the pain, the struggle, the thought, were buried deep beneath the surface. This young man, once he had made his decision, would not turn back.

Zheng Fei, eyes wide with alarm, opened his broad hands and reached for Jiang Wang’s shoulder, a desperate attempt to halt this person’s madness. Yet, Jiang Wang’s sword-wielding hand only tightened its grip!

Blood overflowed from Jiang Wang’s own lips, while Zheng Fei’s face was half-streaked with gore.

And within Zheng Fei’s body, a terrifying surge of sword qi, swift as lightning, twisted and converged into a single point, directly piercing his Five Mansions Sea and striking towards his Heaven and Earth Isolated Island!

Rumbling!

The dreadful sword qi howled like a tornado within the Five Mansions Sea, directly colliding with Zheng Fei’s Heaven and Earth Isolated Island. The Five Mansions Sea erupted in chaotic waves, unable to stem the assault!

“I am going to die!” Zheng Fei, his Dao Yuan in disarray, cried out in a lost voice.

Jiang Wang’s sword had already plunged into his Five Mansions Sea, a clear intent to end him here.

Did this person not realize that under the backlash of the Evil Retribution Divine Ability, he would be gravely wounded even if he survived? With two more adult demons present, what difference was there between serious injury and death?

Truly mad!

But what would become of Jiang Wang after this, Zheng Fei couldn’t comprehend for the moment. All he knew was… he seemed to be on the verge of death!

And so, his voice carried a trace of a whimper.

It was the fear of a child facing danger.

He loved to play, and he did not want to die.

Jiang Wang’s face remained impassive.

He performed seemingly mad actions, yet his heart was a cold, clear calculation.

These individuals were not entirely wrong; he certainly had no intention of perishing with Zheng Fei.

What kind of person was Zheng Fei? How could he be worth perishing alongside Jiang Wang!

The evil of the adult demons was a fact, and their strength was equally undeniable.

Even if his stance seemed fierce, his actions decisive,

It was merely the price he had to pay to defeat these formidable opponents.

Fighting to this point, he had already discerned two manifestations of the Evil Retribution Divine Ability’s backlash. One occurred at the corresponding point of injury, and the other was a wound mirroring the inflicted damage, though the ultimate effect was tempered by the victim’s own defenses.

Based on his prior probing, the conditions for Zheng Fei’s Evil Retribution Divine Ability were not yet fully met in this battle. The backlash wound was less severe than the injury he inflicted upon Zheng Fei.

However, with his “meat armor,” Zheng Fei’s physical defense was astounding, and the ultimate injuries sustained by both might still be comparable.

In other words, even if the Evil Retribution Divine Ability’s conditions were not entirely met, killing Zheng Fei while doing so could very well lead to his own demise.

Exchanging a severed leg for one of Zheng Fei’s was a consideration for maximizing the benefits of the exchange, effectively using one of his legs to obtain two of Zheng Fei’s from both Li Shou and Zheng Fei… and also to further probe the Evil Retribution, gaining “knowledge” of this divine ability.

After confirming his understanding of the Evil Retribution Divine Ability’s backlash amplitude and range, he decisively plunged his sword into Zheng Fei’s abdomen!

Piercing the abdomen was not the primary objective, nor was escaping Zheng Fei’s grasp. If Zheng Fei could trap him with Li Shou’s aid now, they could do so again, and at that point, he might still have had an opportunity to fight back.

His true objective was Zheng Fei’s Heaven and Earth Isolated Island!

This was a spur-of-the-moment combat choice.

He believed that no part of his own flesh could be tougher than Zheng Fei’s, protected by his meat armor.

But within a cultivator’s system, his Heaven and Earth Isolated Island was incredibly stable.

This was thanks to his powerful Heaven and Earth Gate and the blessings of Origin he had received in the Senhai Source Realm.

As a cultivator’s Heaven and Earth feedback after opening the Heaven and Earth Gate, the Heaven and Earth Isolated Island suppressed the Five Mansions Sea and bore the rest of the Dragon Path Meridian; its importance was undeniable.

Zheng Fei was already in the Outer Building Realm, and his Path Meridian Dragons had already entered the Hidden Star Sea, but the suppressive role of the Heaven and Earth Isolated Island on the Five Mansions Sea still persisted.

Furthermore, Jiang Wang’s five inner mansions all possessed divine ability seeds and were illuminated by the light of five divine abilities, making his Five Mansions Sea far more stable than Zheng Fei’s. Although the Cloud Top Immortal Palace was more dilapidated than before, it also contributed to suppressing the Five Mansions Sea.

Based on these considerations, he chose to directly penetrate the Five Mansions Sea with sword qi!

His precise intention was to collapse Zheng Fei’s Heaven and Earth Isolated Island, shake his Five Mansions Sea, shatter his gall, and maximize his own remaining combat strength.

But in the eyes of outsiders, this series of actions was a truly hardened heart, determined to perish with Zheng Fei.

Having already penetrated the Five Mansions Sea and attacked the Heaven and Earth Isolated Island, what could be more indicative of fierce killing intent?!

Yan Zi was utterly astonished, feeling as though she had encountered a complete madman. Adult demons didn’t cherish the lives of others; this person didn’t even cherish his own. She couldn’t imagine how she would cope if she were in Zheng Fei’s situation.

And Li Lao Si, whose heart was burning with anxiety, made a more direct choice.

This man, who was like a belated echo insect, always followed behind Zheng Fei, saying “exactly, exactly.” This man, who was abnormally alert in battle and always maintained a sufficient distance from Jiang Wang.

Looking at Zheng Fei trembling with fear under Jiang Wang’s sword, his eyes instantly turned red.

Unable to approach the battle group in his haste, he directly backhanded and plunged a claw into his own chest, actually grabbing his beating heart.

“Pain, third brother!”

He shouted like this, and with a single squeeze, he crushed that heart!

Jiang Wang, who was in the process of destroying Zheng Fei’s Heaven and Earth Isolated Island, jolted violently, and a mouthful of fresh blood immediately sprayed onto Zheng Fei’s face.

He truly had not expected Li Shou to have such deep feelings for Zheng Fei.

Who would have thought that two people, capable of all evils and utter madness, would surprisingly possess “emotion”?

These two completely inhuman individuals unexpectedly revealed a glimmer of humanity.

Just now, his heart had truly shattered!

He was entirely relying on his Dao Yuan to forcibly gather it, barely maintaining the circulation of his blood… if not for timely treatment, it would soon collapse.

The Perishing Together Divine Ability similarly hadn’t fulfilled all its release conditions, and the backlash amplitude was vastly disproportionate. So, while Jiang Wang was injured to this extent, the injury Li Shou suffered himself would only be heavier!

Li Shou was embracing a determination to die to save Zheng Fei!

Jiang Wang pushed away the still turbulent and unsettled Zheng Fei with a shove, seizing the opportunity to withdraw his longsword, dragging a broken leg, scattering a trail of fresh blood, and stepping on the green cloud as he lunged towards Li Shou once more.

Li Shou’s emotions for Zheng Fei were so deep; he decided to fulfill them!

Perhaps some could see the glory of humanity in Li Shou’s actions, but Jiang Wang saw only opportunity.

Killing Zheng Fei was originally an illusion; he merely wanted to temporarily incapacitate Zheng Fei and, in this gap, seize an opportunity to fight and kill the relentless Yan Zi.

And Li Shou, risking his life to save Zheng Fei, while severely injuring him, had also allowed the battlefield situation to evolve further.

He made a decisive choice.

This counter-attack was too sudden, too firm.

So fast that even the bystander Lin Xian couldn’t react, and Yan Zi, still engaged in the fight, couldn’t pursue in time!

One moment, he was fiercely intent on perishing with Zheng Fei, his sword piercing Zheng Fei’s abdomen; the next moment, he decisively pushed Zheng Fei away and counter-attacked Li Shou!

His heart was shattered, his mouth was still overflowing with blood, he had a broken leg… but flying rapidly through the air, he was as free as a green bird!

Free and self-assured.

And Li Shou, who had just personally crushed his own heart and curled into a ball from the pain, had just sensed the sound of wind approaching when he rapidly straightened up—

He was instantly impaled by a longsword that entered through his crown, passing through him without obstruction!

Boom! Boom!

His Star Building shattered, his Five Mansions collapsed, and his Tongtian Palace instantly crumbled like mud!

The fourth Flesh-Slicing Adult Demon died in a way no one could have anticipated, so easily!

And Jiang Wang himself suddenly flipped over, like a bird with a broken wing, falling towards the ground.

A burst of intense pain erupted from his crown, shooting down his spine, spreading throughout his body, causing him to almost cry out in agony, yet he fiercely endured.

Only then did he remember that Zheng Fei and Li Shou had already taken the Balanced Blood. Now it seemed that the divine abilities of both sides had a certain degree of commonality, and Li Shou’s body also carried some effect of the Evil Retribution Divine Ability.

But fortunately, amidst a million misfortunes…

He had once, out of a moment of kindness, saved the sole bloodline of the Feng family, preventing Zheng Fei and Li Shou’s Balanced Blood from being fully completed.

The “balance” in Li Shou’s body and the effect of the Evil Retribution, in the end, could not compare to the true Evil Retribution.

Just as he was about to fall to the ground, Jiang Wang stopped his descent.

At a distance of only three feet from the ground, he suddenly flipped his body upright, his gaze calm, directly facing the charging Yan Zi!

“Hoo, hoo!”

Jiang Wang was panting heavily.

His body was covered in injuries, his remaining form was in decline, and his face was stained with blood and filth.

He didn’t know when his Sword Immortal Person state had dissolved, perhaps when he was in close combat with Zheng Fei, or when he pierced Li Shou’s crown with his sword?

He looked so weak that anyone could easily kill him…

He seemed like a single straw could knock him down, a gust of wind could make him sleep forever.

But that single gaze of his rawly forced the adult demon who revealed her face to a halt!

In a trance, Yan Zi suddenly realized that the heavily panting, injured person before her…

Was not some weak and fragile thin young man.

But the true strong one who had slaughtered Huan Tao and Li Shou, two adult demons!

Two of the four adult demons were gone; did she and the most evil adult demon still have a chance to kill this person?

Yan Zi hovered in the air, involuntarily looking towards Zheng Fei.

The foolish, fat man was standing on the ground, his Heaven and Earth Isolated Island almost shattered by a single sword strike, his Five Mansions Sea still in turmoil. After being pushed away by Jiang Wang with a palm, he had fallen back to the ground, swayed for a while, and then stood steady.

At this moment, he was staring blankly at Li Shou.

Or rather, Li Shou’s corpse.

The “exactly, exactly” guy who had followed behind his backside all day, agreeing with every word he said, obedient to him, rarely contradicting him… both a follower and an echo insect, Li Shou, had just died like that.

Without even leaving a last word.

That single sentence, “Pain, third brother!”, when he shattered his heart to save Zheng Fei, had unexpectedly been the last sentence of his life.

Forever no other words.

To save Zheng Fei, he had activated the Perishing Together, almost suicidal, to stop Jiang Wang.

This directly led to his weakness, thereby giving Jiang Wang the opportunity to pierce and kill him with a single sword.

This thin man, who had rarely had his own opinions from beginning to end, showed his opinion at this very moment.

Zheng Fei opened his mouth, seeming to want to say something, but not a single word came out.

Few people knew that Li Shou was truly his younger brother.

Not the kind of sorting between adult demons like Zheng Old Three and Li Old Four, but a truly existing blood relation.

They were born of the same mother, blood connected.

Their father, in his early years, was a scholar, but he wasn’t good at studying and was expelled after several years. He went into business, losing money at everything he tried. Later, he sank into gambling, losing all the family property again.

He spent every day at the gambling table, and when he came down, he would soak in the wine jar.

Their mother also often abandoned them, having affairs with others outside.
His father’s family had relatively strong clan influence in the area. After his mother’s affair was exposed, the adulterer was drowned in a pig cage.

Because he and Li Shou were still young and needed care, their mother was allowed to live.

The clan needed people, and his father also opened his mouth and “forgave” her.

But his father’s forgiveness was more like keeping a long-term worker who provided gambling money.

From then on, he abused and beat his wife and children every day.

At the slightest dissatisfaction, he would resort to punches and kicks. Hitting “that,” hitting the “wild seed” — he suspected Li Shou was the adulterer’s seed.

His mother couldn’t bear the torment and, one morning, after making breakfast for them brothers, she jumped into the river.

Zheng Fei still remembered that they had eaten red braised pork that morning, beautiful like the New Year. His mother had said that when they grew up and earned more money, they could eat red braised pork every day.

After leaving the door, she came back wrapped in a straw mat.

Young as he was, he didn’t understand the meaning of death. Only from then on, he and his brother lived with their father.

Their mother’s death was like a stone falling into water, causing momentary ripples, but it soon returned to its original state; nothing changed.

Their father didn’t change, instead becoming worse. Sometimes, he would remember and bring back two steamed buns; sometimes, he would forget and leave them hungry. He often beat young Li Shou until he was covered in injuries.

He would always go to the neighbors’ homes to beg for food, but later the neighbors would close their doors when they saw them.

He didn’t know whose “seed” Li Shou was exactly, he only knew Li Shou was his younger brother. 999 novel m.999xs

He didn’t dare to stop his violent father, he only knew to pounce on his younger brother and block the blows with his body when he was being beaten.

“Hit me, hit me, Father hit me! I’m not afraid of pain. I’m really not afraid, ha ha ha!”

He would laugh like that every time. He remembered his father used to like to watch him laugh, saying he was fat and chubby, very cute, and laughed like a meat bun.

But his father…

Just hit both children together.

Using fists, using shoe soles, using sticks…

This one was an unfilial son, that one was a wild seed. Both were evil obstacles left behind by that cheap woman to harm people. Otherwise, born with great talent, how could he have become drunk and sunk into the wine jar, how could his luck be so bad.

Until he was nine years old…

He laughed as he stabbed through his father’s throat, and that pair of scissors had been handed to him by his younger brother.

They escaped from that place.

For many years after, he never forgot his father’s eyes at that time. Was it hatred, pain, poisonous resentment, or some other ghostly thing.

Always looking at him.

He wasn’t afraid.

He wasn’t afraid of pain, not afraid of death, not afraid of his father, afraid of nothing.

He still followed his father’s surname, Zheng, and his younger brother then took their mother’s surname, Li.

How many years had it been?

How many years had this follower, this bug, stuck by his side? They had walked a long road together, done many things, played for a long time…

Zheng Fei didn’t know what his mood was at this moment.

He only felt that this was truly not fun.

Too not fun!

This was the most uncomfortable game he had ever played in his life.

He didn’t notice Yan Zi’s gaze, he couldn’t notice.

He looked at Li Shou, whose breath was completely gone, still feeling this was a joke.

“Li Old Four, pretend… heh heh… playing dead, right?”

“He’s not playing dead. Why don’t you come closer and see for yourself?” Jiang Wang’s voice rang out.

The voice was calm, thus appearing more real, more powerful.

He was stating a fact.

Only then did Zheng Fei turn his head and look towards Jiang Wang, who was standing not far in front of Li Shou.

Tears immediately rolled out.

“I want to eat you!”

He used the tone of a sulking child to say such terrifying words. Holding his chopping knife, he charged over like a wall of meat.

The air around him distorted, buzzing sounds jumping as a terrifying power boiled.

He was truly crying very sadly, very grief-stricken, his nose and eyes all wrinkled together.

And Jiang Wang, expressionless, held his sword and met the charge.

There was not the slightest trace of sympathy in his heart.

He didn’t care how deep the emotions between Zheng Fei and Li Shou were, he didn’t care what they thought, just as Zheng Fei and Li Shou had never cared about the feelings of others.

He only knew that the purest evil should die the most thoroughly.

He would not hold back, nor would his hand tremble.

Between life and death, he wanted these human demons to all be on the side of death!

The cries of the knife and the howl of the sword intertwined in the chaotic stone valley, like metal and armor clashing, a thousand armies overwhelming.

Jiang Wang’s sword was like the bright moon on autumn water, Zheng Fei’s knife was a great river.

Knife and sword collided, sending out the most violent sound.

Jiang Wang and his sword were chopped and sent flying!

In mid-air, he sprayed out another mouthful of fresh blood.

His heart was already shattered, entirely relying on his cultivator’s body, temporarily suppressed by the Tongtian Palace, forcibly using Dao Yuan to maintain blood circulation.

Facing the full-powered Zheng Fei, he simply couldn’t block him.

In this direct collision, he was completely chopped and sent flying.

Under the immense pressure, his muscles were all trembling slightly.

It was an expression of pain, and also of dispersing the pressure.

Power returned drop by drop, Jiang Wang, in the midst of pain, continuously confirmed his body’s state.

Five Mansions Sea, Tongtian Palace, muscles, bones…

Up to now, except for the fifth inner mansion which was still being explored, the rooms opened inwards in the other four inner mansions all numbered three thousand.

To gain insight into oneself is like understanding the universe,

Although the mysteries of the human body require a lifetime to explore, compared to cultivators of the same realm, Jiang Wang could confidently say – he had gained much.

Only by understanding Zheng Fei while simultaneously possessing such clear awareness and judgment of himself, did he dare to withstand the backlash of the Evil Karma Divine Ability, pierce his abdomen with a sword, and strike his Heaven and Earth Isolated Island.

In the moment he was chopped open by the knife, he floated in the air like a leaf falling from a branch, his hand already pulling back his longsword.

Still flying backward, he suddenly paused in the air, then his momentum flipped. His body turned like a flood dragon, a sword rose like a bright moon, sword energy violently shone out, and his momentum surged like longing.

With a single style of Longing Sword, he directly chopped towards Yan Zi!

Yan Zi, who was waiting for an opportunity, was suddenly startled. For a moment, even the Dao technique she had prepared scattered, and her figure flashed, leaving behind afterimages as she flew, like flowing wind scattering… she simply didn’t have the courage to engage in battle.

Fear was continuously deepening within her.

Before entering the valley, Jiang Wang forcing back their mountain-pouring sword had already instilled fear in her.

And from the start of the battle until now, she, this notoriously exposed-face human demon, had been driven away by Jiang Wang’s swords again and again, like driving cattle and sheep, early on branding a mark of fear.

She completely felt Jiang Wang’s firm killing intent, and this killing intent was most firmly verified by the deaths of Huan Tao and Li Shou.

Those dangerous premonitions were absolutely not false, her escape was not cowardice, Jiang Wang truly wanted to kill her, and truly had the ability to kill her!

She was only seeking an opportunity.

An opportunity to surround and kill, an opportunity for a sneak attack, an opportunity to delay, even an opportunity to escape.

Just like this moment, she could only retreat.

Jiang Wang had already foreseen the result. With a single flick of his longsword, a perfect round bright moon rose here and fell there, turning its momentum incomparably naturally, and once again crashed towards Zheng Fei.

If only considering combat strength, Zheng Fei, who had Evil Karma and was not lightly injured, should be dealt with last.

Yan Zi, whose combat strength was relatively intact, should be prioritized.

But in Jiang Wang’s view, this terrifying exposed-face human demon was the cowardly and weak one in this fight.

She possessed powerful divine abilities but lacked a powerful will.

Or perhaps, her defense line on her will had already been broken.

Compared to the Ten Thousand Evil, Flesh Cutting, Head Chopping, this exposed-face human demon was indeed the one who cherished her life the most.

Her collections were rich, and her body techniques were wonderful.

But when paths converge, the competition is one of “bravery.”

For Jiang Wang, in a situation where his body state was already weak, Zheng Fei was the opponent he needed to prioritize.

Zheng Fei was a terrifying opponent!

His head-on collision with Zheng Fei was not, of course, to be chopped and sent flying by a single knife; supplementing his “knowledge” was what he sought.

He needed to know what state Zheng Fei was in now, what changes there were in Zheng Fei’s power, speed, and divine abilities.

For this, he did not hesitate to take risks.

At this time, Zheng Fei’s eyes were stained with blood intent, his face ferocious. The fat meat all over his body gradually took on a bloody color, and his breath was violent and crazy, likely entering some kind of fierce state.

Holding his knife and chopping towards Jiang Wang, his posture was like an extreme butcher chopping pig bones, both ruthless and accurate.

Killing people was a game, it was too simple, and also a too natural thing.

With this one knife, he only wanted to regain happiness.

He didn’t care about others; he only wanted to know if he himself was happy or not!

Between life and death, he had no other pursuits.

This was his Dao!

Building his Outer Building with “happiness” as his Dao path.

The distant star dome, the light of the four holy buildings, fell into the chaotic stone valley, bathing Zheng Fei’s body.

The Anger Fire Secret Technique silently collapsed, and the Five Senses Hell was completely broken by the starlight.

This knife followed the Dao and did not allow Jiang Wang to escape.

Jiang Wang indeed did not plan to escape.

He even charged forward, meeting the attack head-on. His gaze was calm, as if he wanted to go to his death hand in hand with Zheng Fei. He waited until the knife edge reached his face before tilting his head to the side!

The knife edge scraped his cheek as it fell, directly cutting off his right ear.

Jiang Wang seemed not to feel the pain. As he tilted his head, he had already leaned forward, crashing into Zheng Fei’s arms with extreme toughness, and once again pierced his abdomen with his sword!

Zheng Fei’s huge body instantly stiffened!

He fell directly towards the ground!

His Heaven and Earth Isolated Island had once again suffered heavy damage!

One ear exchanged for a knife from the Dao path. One sword killed the Heaven and Earth Isolated Island.

An equal exchange was not Jiang Wang’s combat principle. So long as Longing Sword pierced the abdomen, it was already out. You were like electricity passing through the air, the sword light flashing continuously.

In the moment Zheng Fei’s Five Mansions Sea was turbulent, he severed the tendons in both his hands and his right foot!

Zheng Fei tried to forcibly connect them with his Dao Yuan, but Jiang Wang’s sword energy followed up precisely, cutting and shattering those Dao Yuan.

Zheng Fei, whose Five Mansions Sea was turbulent and whose limbs were severed, simply fell to the ground with a boom.

Under the influence of the Evil Karma Divine Ability, Jiang Wang almost stuck to him, falling together with him.

This was an incomparably risky choice.

It had been like this from the beginning.

If Zheng Fei’s knife had deviated an inch, or if he had been a breath slower in avoiding it. That knife would not have only cut off his right ear, but would have directly split open his forehead.

What kind of confidence and courage was needed to tilt one’s head to the side when facing the attack?

Striking the Heaven and Earth Isolated Island with a sword was already a risky attempt.

The sword light that chopped towards Zheng Fei’s hands and feet was even more difficult and thrilling.

Solely by relying on several exchanges to probe the backlash strength of the Evil Karma Divine Ability, in a situation where Zheng Fei’s meat armor was already broken, he controlled the attack to just cripple Zheng Fei’s four limbs, while the backlash power was not yet sufficient to completely sever his own four limbs –

What kind of precise control was needed for this?

The slightest misjudgment or inaccurate force could have resulted in more than just Zheng Fei lying on the ground.

But even with such perfectly executed swords, the tendons in his own four limbs were actually mostly broken, just temporarily connected with Dao Yuan.

In this state, although Zheng Fei was temporarily dealt with, it was hard to say how he would fight the exposed-face human demon.

But the instant Jiang Wang fell to the ground with Zheng Fei, he borrowed the fat of Zheng Fei’s body for a bounce, suddenly looked towards Yan Zi, his right eye instantly flowing with red-gold light, his left eye instantly becoming a piece of red!

With the Red Heart Divine Ability, he controlled the Dry Yang Pupil!

He wanted to solve this last human demon with an all-out divine soul battle!

But Yan Zi’s reaction was similarly swift. Almost at the same time Jiang Wang chopped down Zheng Fei and bounced off and turned his head, that delicate face instantly flowed like water, with slight ripples of light, revealing a sharp face.

And that wave of light continued to expand, her entire person actually hiding inside the wave of light, thus disappearing.

No residual sound was heard, no residual shadow was seen.

She had actually used another piece of her “treasure,” hastily escaping!

With Huan Tao and Li Shou both dead and Zheng Fei firmly suppressed, she simply had no courage to confront Jiang Wang face to face!

Her courage had long since collapsed under Jiang Wang’s repeated advances and pursuits.

The breath of the exposed-face human demon thoroughly disappeared in the chaotic stone valley. Jiang Wang, however, did not completely relax. He merely temporarily retracted the Dry Yang Pupil, then casually controlled his sword qi to once again cut open Zheng Fei’s Dao Yuan.

Under the influence of the Evil Retribution Divine Ability, this sword qi also acted upon himself.

Falling downwards, face up.

His excellent body control allowed him to take over his flesh body the instant he fell, and with a move, he sat down with a thud beside the lying Zheng Fei.

At this time, the bloody color on Zheng Fei’s body had retreated. Although still fat and foolish, he was already two sizes smaller.

He opened his innocent, panicked eyes and looked at Jiang Wang.

“I hurt, Little Jiang, I hurt.”

He cried out like a child.

Jiang Wang calmly looked at him, his divine soul crashing into his Tongtian Palace, lifting the Single Rider Breaking Array Diagram, initiating a divine soul level attack.

In the dizziness brought on by the Evil Retribution Divine Ability’s backlash, he once again stirred his sword qi, preventing Zheng Fei from recovering his ability to move.

Intense pain transmitted from his four limbs, but Jiang Wang’s face remained unchanged. He barely managed to temporarily connect his right hand with Dao Yuan, gripped Long Xiang Si, and pierced Zheng Fei’s neck!

At the same time, blood sprayed from his own neck.

He remained unconcerned, only once again cutting open Zheng Fei’s Dao Yuan with his sword qi. Under the Evil Retribution Divine Ability’s backlash, his own hands also hung powerlessly…

This was an abnormally bloody, abnormally ice-cold, and yet full of courage scene.

Cruelty to others requires no courage, only violence; cruelty to oneself, only then requires courage!

Jiang Wang’s method of dealing with Zheng Fei was very “dumb,” and also very simple.

Originally, at the Qing Yun Ting mountain gate, after witnessing the divine abilities of Zheng Fei and Li Shou, his only thought was to turn around and escape if he encountered these two human demons later. Because he truly didn’t know where the flaw was, didn’t know how to cope.

In this hard battle that could not be avoided today, he only found a “flaw” that wasn’t truly a flaw—

The Evil Retribution Divine Ability required sufficient conditions to complete an equal or exceeding backlash. Up to now, the backlash power it formed was weaker than the harm Jiang Wang inflicted upon Zheng Fei.

Jiang Wang then maximally exploited this point. While preserving his own life, he abolished Zheng Fei’s fighting ability, created difficult-to-heal wounds. And then allowed him to slowly lose blood and worsen his wounds over time… until death!

The backlash of the Evil Retribution Divine Ability was only related to the harm Jiang Wang inflicted at the time of attack.

And Zheng Fei apparently had not yet realized this point.

He stared dead at Jiang Wang, and because blood spurted from his neck, he made a sound of “hehe”: “Little… Little Jiang. We will… die together.”

Jiang Wang’s injuries were not optimistic. If Zheng Fei was on the verge of death, then he was also in a half-dead state.

But his voice was still calm.

It was the composure of someone who held everything in their grasp.

“Not right.” As he once again struck with sword qi, allowing Zheng Fei’s wounds to continue to worsen, he said lightly, “Only you will die. Because what kills you is not me, but your wounds and time.”

The Evil Retribution Divine Ability returned all harm, but it could not return time!

But Zheng Fei seemed unable to hear these words any longer.

In his ears, there seemed to be countless voices, crying, begging for mercy, pleading, wailing…

All voices surged towards him together.

He had spent his entire life pursuing happiness, searching for lost childlike innocence. But the pain in his body was hard to bear, as if he had returned to childhood, to the storm-like blows and kicks that rained down…

He was in so much pain he wanted to cry out, but no sound came out.

He didn’t know how long had passed, long enough to re-experience a lifetime.

Blood also overflowed from his eye sockets.

His blurred eyes looked towards the sky, and in a trance, he saw that skeletal face—Li Shou had been underfed since childhood, and had never grown well.

Later, no matter how much meat he bought for him to eat, he still didn’t get fat.

“Old Four…”

He said “hehe hehe”: “I don’t hurt, I’m not afraid of pain, hehe hehe hehe…”

His breath dissipated point by point.

He died just like that, with his eyes open.

The fresh blood beneath his body almost converged into a small stream…

Lin Xian, hidden to the side with his innate disorder array, stared at this scene in a daze.

The deaths of Huan Tao and Li Shou, and the escape of the exposed-face human demon, all gave him an abnormal sense of unreality.

Especially the process of Jiang Wang sitting by and quietly waiting for Zheng Fei to die made him feel inexplicably peaceful. Far removed from the shock of the bloody killing that preceded it.

It was like watching a youth in meditation, with a calm heart.

Violence and composure coexisting so harmoniously.

This world-class battle, which he couldn’t describe, after the extreme splendor and violence, finally left only a youth covered in scars, quietly sitting alone, a solitary figure.

Until the breath of the Ten Thousand Evil human demon thoroughly disappeared, Lin Xian suddenly realized—

Just now, he had personally witnessed the legend!!!

This was the most peak battle among all recorded battles of the Inner Mansion realm from ancient times until now.

This was a battle that surpassed the immortal legend of the Heavenly Mansion old man!

Dao Calendar, year three hundred ninety-one, ninth month, twenty-fifth day, Broken Soul Gorge, Chaotic Stone Valley, Yellow River Chief Jiang Wang of the Inner Mansion realm, faced the four great human demons of the Outer Building peak realm: Ten Thousand Evil, Flesh Cutting, Exposed Face, and Head Chopping—

He drove away one, and slaughtered three with his sword.

He proved himself to be the first Inner Mansion cultivator, ancient and modern!

From ancient times until now, tracing back thirty thousand years, one hundred thirty thousand years, three hundred thousand years…

In the Inner Mansion realm, Jiang Wang is first.

Reading through the blue history, there is no one like this!