Chapter 1696: Killing a King

Chi Meng was ferocious, and he attacked like mad.

Earlier, a paltry little Immortal Lord had forced him back repeatedly. He felt utterly disgraced, and he’d built up a bellyful of anger. Now that the situation was finally turning in his favor, he longed for nothing more than to rip Su Yi into countless pieces.

“Die!” Chi Meng’s voice boomed like thunder.

The illusory Denglong stuck to him like a shadow as he swung his palm, tearing apart the skies. That tyrannical power made even the other Immortal Kings gasp.

But it was at that moment that the humming of a sword swept forth like the tide.

Like thunder reverberating throughout the nine heavens and the ten earths!

Su Yi’s sleeves shook, and a streak of sword qi shot out of his right hand. It was ninety feet long, and it looked like a section of misty cloud cut out of the blue dome of heaven.

It had an ethereal charm about it, but when it shot forth, terrifying sword force permeated the air.

The sky wailed. Heaven and earth dimmed.

Beneath this strike, even the turbulent, chaotic battlefield descended into a strange, unnatural silence.

It was as if the power of this strike had intimidated all of creation!

When this strike burst forth…

Splurt!

The illusory Denglong’s massive paw strike popped like a soap bubble.

Sword qi continued ahead, its power undiminished, like an axe through bamboo, smoothly piercing the Denglong’s heart!

Bang!!!

A low, muffled impact rang out.

The massive Denglong was ruthlessly pinned to the sky, its massive frame trembling uncontrollably.

When the sword qi’s power erupted, the Denglong exploded into bits. Immortal King Laws scattered like rain and poured down like a waterfall.

Chi Meng suffered the resulting backlash. He hacked up blood and let out a low muffled grunt as he staggered back on his feet, clutching his chest. It was as if Su Yi had stabbed him in the heart together with the illusory Denglong.

In the blink of an eye, his face was covered in sweat and deathly pale.

The entire area was in uproar. The sheer power of Su Yi’s strike left them rooted to the spot and wide-eyed with astonishment.

One slash, and he broke Immortal King Chi Meng’s innate divine ability and dealt him massive damage!

This simply overturned their perception of reality.

“He… He just broke one of history’s ironclad rules by defeating an Immortal King!” murmured Gong Nanfeng. For some reason, he felt despondent.

At first, he took Su Yi for an expert of the same level, and he figured he had a shot at surpassing him sooner or later.

But now, he realized on a visceral level just how enormous the gap between him and Su Yi really was.

After all, this entire battle had been a true clash of the Grand Dao. Neither Su Yi nor Chi Meng had ever once relied on external treasures.

Even so, Su Yi managed to deal an Immortal King a massive blow. How could Gong Nanfeng not be startled?

It wasn’t just Gong Nanfeng, either. The other unrivaled Immortal Lords were stunned. The sheer shock left them rooted to the spot, their hearts shaking.

As for the Immortal Kings? Their expressions filled with bewilderment and uncertainty. All of them looked solemn.

An Immortal Lord all of them had initially dismissed had dealt Chi Meng a massive setback in a direct confrontation!

Who’d dare believe such a thing? Who could even imagine such a thing?

“Holy—!” Zhuo Yun was so startled that his jaw practically fell off. “Shen Mu is seriously this strong!?”

This time, he didn't rely on the Stele of Heaven’s Will to control the Laws of heaven and earth. Instead, he relied on his own power to deal massive damage to an Immortal King!

Tang Yuyan and Tang Lingqi couldn’t help but gasp. They still didn’t know that Su Yi had reached the Void Realm and that he was already a True Immortal. They subconsciously assumed he was still a Universe Realm Immortal.

It was thus easy to imagine how astonished they were.

Su Yi had just suppressed a true Immortal King of the Yao Path!

As the crowd descended into uproar, Su Yi arrived beneath the dome of heaven and charged at Chi Meng. He was as calm and casual as ever, and his robes fluttered around him. They were woven out of Divine Illusion Ice Silk, so no one could discern his true cultivation base.

Even so, the way everyone looked at him shifted completely!

“Do you really think I’m helpless against you, you pipsqueak?” Chi Meng roared in fury. His hair was disheveled, and his expression was hideous and contorted as he drew a glistening, snow-white battle axe and swung it at Su Yi.

The Meteor Axe!

This was an Immortal King treasure full of the wondrous power of the Laws and forged from all manner of wondrous immortal materials. They said a single strike could knock a star out of the sky!

This was Chi Meng’s natal treasure. He’d nourished it within his body for countless years, and its power was far beyond most Immortal King treasures.

Boom!

The Meteor Axe swung through the sky, its edge glinting as white as goose feathers. A bone-chilling, icy wind blew through heaven and earth, and a destructive aura swept outward.

When the axe fell, it struck with enough force to split both heaven and earth!

There was no denying that Chi Meng was much stronger with his weapon in hand, and his momentum was far fiercer.

Alas, although he didn’t know it, Su Yi had already gotten a feel for his abilities, and he had no intention of drawing this fight out any longer.

He was like a cat who’d gotten his fill of toying with a mouse. Now, it was time to make his kill.

Whoosh!

Su Yi neither fled nor dodged. Instead, he charged directly ahead, his fingers shifting as if strumming a zither. A series of rapid-fire blasts rang out, like the beating of a drum.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

With every impact, the Meteor Axe trembled, and some of its Laws broke.

Each impact took a terrifying toll on its wielder, too. The power transmitting through the axe was as tyrannical and sharp as the edge of a sword. Chi Meng’s vital energy was on the verge of collapse!

By the time the ninth strike ended, the Meteor Axe flew from Chi Meng’s grip. It could no longer withstand the impact!

Chi Meng coughed up blood once more, and his face paled. His Immortal King-level defenses were on the verge of falling into disarray.

His face paled as he suddenly realized that Su Yi wasn’t using his full strength earlier. Were that not the case, he could never have lost so quickly after drawing his weapon!

Meanwhile, Su Yi seized the opportunity to swing his palm and strike Chi Meng in the chest.

Bang!!

The tyrannical impact crushed Chi Meng’s defensive power, scattering a rain of light. Chi Meng was sent flying back, like a kite with its strings cut. There was now a startling, palm-shaped indent in his chest.

“This…” The crowd was dumbstruck.

When Chi Meng took out the Meteor Axe, everyone assumed that the battle was about to turn in his favor. No one could ever have imagined that Su Yi would be so domineering as to destroy Chi Meng’s treasure and send him flying in a single strike!!

Su Yi didn’t stop there, either. He shifted through the air, appeared in front of Chi Meng, and slashed at his head, using his finger as a sword.

“Stop——!” someone bellowed, but their weapon arrived even faster than their voice. It appeared out of nowhere, and it was aimed right between Su Yi’s eyes.

Too quick! It almost seemed as if... this strike had been planned well in advance!

If Su Yi didn’t stop, the flying sword was sure to pierce him right between the eyes.

But then, something unbelievable happened.

No one even saw him move, but Su Yi’s left hand grabbed the flying sword by the hilt right in the nick of time. It stopped barely millimeters from his forehead.

Clang!!

Splurt!

The flying sword wailed, shook, and flew backward. The entire ambush attempt instantly fell apart, scattering a rain of light.

Meanwhile, Su Yi’s right hand continued its descent, taking Chi Meng’s head!

All of it happened so fast that most of those present couldn’t even react in time. By the time they realized what was happening, Chi Meng, a Yao Immortal King of Jade Firmament Immortal Palace, had already parted ways with his head. His red blood splattered the blue dome of heaven!

It took the crowd a moment longer to realize that Su Yi had killed Chi Meng

and

blocked an assassination attempt at the same time!!

The crowd was so startled that they broke out in cold sweats. They felt as if they’d been plunged into an icy abyss.

It was just too terrifying. Life and death were determined in an instant. The sheer murderous intent within that strike was simply overwhelming!

Thud!

Chi Meng’s headless corpse crashed down to earth and transformed back into a massive Denglong. A waterfall of blood gushed from the stump of his neck, permeating the scarred earth.

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

The crowd’s hearts shook. They had a hard time believing what they were seeing.

How domineering had Chi Meng been? He announced that he’d force Su Yi to prove his innocence before he even returned from the Divine Hunt!

Yet by the time the curtains fell on this grand battle, his head and body had parted ways. He’d died full of hatred on the battlefield!

Who wouldn’t have been astonished?

It was as if time had frozen.

Just like that, an Immortal Lord cut down an Immortal King!?

It just didn’t seem real. It was too unbelievable, to the point that even the Immortal Kings were dumbstruck.

A deathly silence fell over the air. The sound of the wind came to a halt.

Only the dense, pungent smell of fresh blood permeated the air.

This scene was sure to embed itself deep within the hearts of everyone here to witness it. They’d remember it for the rest of their lives.

In the present-day Immortal Realm, Great Realm experts couldn’t leave seclusion, so Immortal Kings were like hegemons. Other immortals could only gaze upon them from afar.

Yet now, an Immortal King had died at the hands of an Immortal Lord!

Moreover, in the last moments before his death, he couldn’t even struggle!

All of this came as far too heavy a blow. If they hadn’t seen it with their own eyes, they would never have believed it.

Su Yi stood in the air, robes billowing around him. He didn’t have so much as a hair out of place.

That’s right.

From beginning to end, he was never even injured!

It seems that ordinary early-stage Immortal Kings are already helpless against me…

Su Yi muttered to himself.

After this battle, he’d gotten a rough sense for his current strength. He knew that Chi Meng was just an ordinary early-stage Miracle Realm Immortal King. He was far inferior to top Immortal Kings.

In Wang Ye’s memories, a few particularly extraordinary Immortal Kings had the heaven-defying power to outshine older-generation Immortal Kings even in the early stage of the Miracle Realm.

When Wang Ye was in the early-stage Miracle Realm, he was one such extraordinary Immortal King. He’d successfully slain even late-stage older-generation Immortal Kings. Others said he was almost perversely strong.

But Su Yi wouldn’t compare himself to the early-stage Miracle Realm Wang Ye. After all, he’d only just barely broken into the early stage of the Void Realm…

Without any further thought, Su Yi turned and fixed his cold, distant gaze on his next target.

Li Beique!

An Immortal King of the Church of Supreme Oneness, and the one who’d tried to assassinate him with that flying sword!