Chapter 2562 - Routed and Defeated

The howling wind dispersed the remnants of destructive power lingering in the air.

All eyes were on the two figures standing beneath the dome of heaven. The onlookers were dazed, astonished, and bewildered.

Just who had won this unparalleled showdown?

“You chaos fiends’ talents are truly enviable,” sighed Su Yi. He drew his finger along the flat of the Sword of Proximity, and its intense humming quickly calmed down.

He’d thought he’d be able to kill Fiend Lord Xuan E with that attack, but in the end, he couldn’t do as he intended. Fiend Lord Xuan E had managed to defend himself.

Fiend Lord Xuan E said hoarsely, “Quickly, call for the Chaos Kings. You... are no match for him!”

WIth that, he broke into hacking coughs, and his forehead silently split. Startling golden blood poured from the wound.

Everyone was astonished to discover that Fiend Lord Xuan E’s life force was rapidly flowing away!

Fiend Lord Xuan E was defeated?

All of the chaos fiends looked as if they’d been struck by lightning. They found this hard to accept.

At the same time, Fiend Lords Bai Ye, Chang Liu, Lun Shan, and Qiu Tu shot over to Fiend Lord Xuan E’s side and looked him over with obvious concern.

“It doesn’t matter whether you call for help or not. I’ll visit Heaven-Trampling Palace either way,” said Su Yi. He flicked the flat of his sword, then leaped forward and attacked once more.

His Daoist robes were covered in blood... but almost none of it was his!

The battle had been fierce, and he’d indeed been forced back repeatedly. He was injured, yes... but not severely. It wasn’t enough to affect his ability to fight.

Boom!

Countless blue flowers fell like rain, filling the sky. They blanketed heaven and earth, forming countless flower-shaped barriers. Together, they enveloped the space around Su Yi completely.

Fiend Lord Chang Liu had attacked.

Meanwhile, he solemnly issued orders. “Bai Ye, take Lei Jue, Xuan E, and run! Send word to the Heaven-Tramping Chaos King!”

“Understood!” Fiend Lord Bai Ye nodded, then stirred up a blue celestial current that swept up her injured companions, Lei Jue and Xuan E.

But just as she was about to leave—

Boom!!

The countless blue flower barriers shattered.

A streak of sword qi descended from the heavens, flashing through the air and forcing Fiend Lord Chang Liu back.

Su Yi seized the opportunity to attack.

Kcch!

Where the Sword of Proximity pointed, the ends of the earth were close at hand. He cleaved through the celestial waters as if they were made of rotten wood.

Fiend Lord Bei Ye had been just about to flee when she staggered back into view. That sword qi had almost ripped her throat open!

Her face paled, and her body broke out in cold sweats.

Fiend Lords Lei Jue and Xuan E suffered the impact too. Both of them staggered on their feet.

Bang!!!

Practically simultaneously, Su Yi waved his sleeve, his left hand suddenly striking the dome of heaven. The sky split into pieces, forcing Qiu Tu’s diminutive figure back into view once more!

“Die!” Fiend Lord Lun Shan charged and attacked from behind.

But it was as if Su Yi had eyes on the back of his head. His sword rotated in his grip, and he struck the air behind him.

A streak of sword qi rose into the heavens, sending Fiend Lord Lun Shan’s mountainous figure flying backward.

All of this happened in a flash. Fiend Lord Chang Liu stood in Su Yi’s path, Fiend Lord Bai Ye tried to flee with their injured allies, Fiend Lord Qiu Tu tried to launch a sneak attack from the shadows, and Fiend Lord Lun Shan attacked from behind.

But Su Yi crushed all of their attempts at once!

It all happened too quickly. The way the onlookers saw it, it was over by the time Su Yi’s figure had finished flashing through the air.

It was then that Su Yi said calmly, “All of you can forget about leaving until we’ve determined a victor!”

Whoosh!

His voice had only just rung out when he charged at Fiend Lord Xuan E. His enemy was weakened. This was the perfect opportunity to strike!

“Hah!” Fiend Lord Chang Liu roared, and a dazzling blue flower of the Grand Dao rose into the air, scattering a rain of light that swept toward Su Yi.

Fiend Lords Bai Ye, Qiu Tu, and Lun Shan fought with their lives on the line, using the trump cards and treasures they kept in reserve.

But... it was to no avail. Even the strongest of them, Fiend Lord Xuan E, was already badly injured and barely clinging to life.

“Break!” Su Yi swung his sword, and sword qi poured down. It was just a simple strike, but it tore through his enemies’ attempts to encircle him.

Meanwhile, he blurred into a beam of flowing light, arriving before his nearest opponent, Fiend Lord Lun Shan, in a flash.

Boom!

He raised the Sword of Proximity, the mysterious, unfathomable power of the heart gathered around its blade.

All three of Fiend Lord Lun Shan’s heads roared in unison, and his remaining arms each raised an elemental treasure, as if to create a cycle of the five elements. This was a defensive technique, and it seemed it would soon blanket the sky and blot out of the sun.

But it never got the chance. Su Yi blasted through it in an instant.

His sword qi was just too forceful and tyrannical. It even shattered three of Fiend Lord Lun Shan’s remaining arms, reducing them to powder.

And when it landed, it destroyed one of his three heads, as well as his entire lower body!

Splurt!

A waterfall of fresh blood gushed from the wounds.

𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Fiend Lord Lun Shan grunted in agony, his shrieks shaking the heavens.

Fiend Lord Chang Liu rushed in at a critical juncture, each hand gripping a jade-like knife. Blade light swept forth like the tide, and countless blue flowers bloomed.

When the flowers exploded in front of Su Yi, they were incomparably dazzling and resplendent.

As well as incomparably terrifying!

Su Yi blocked them head-on; he didn’t want to miss this opportunity to cut Fiend Lord Lun Shan down!

An earsplitting impact rang out. Su Yi’s figure bore through the countless flowers of the Grand Dao like an unstoppably sharp knife.

Fiend Lord Chang Liu was sent flying!

Meanwhile, practically simultaneously, the Sword of Proximity rumbled and boomed, then pointed at the distant, fleeing Fiend Lord Lun Shan.

This is bad!

Chills coursed down Fiend Lord Lun Shan’s spine, and his hair stood on end.

He turned to look, only to see a streak of sword qi descending from the heavens, as bright and clear as autumn waters. It didn’t have so much as the slightest flourish.

A moment later, his field of view shifted, and he saw a headless corpse dripping blood. Its six limbs had been severed, and only one of its three heads remained, lolling limply from its shoulders.

That... that’s my body!

He’d only just realized this when everything went dark, and awareness fled him completely.

The distant onlookers watched as Su Yi’s strike landed and Fiend Lord Lun Shan’s head flew through the air. He never even got the chance to dodge!

Boom!

A massive impact rang out. Fiend Lord Lun Shan’s body and severed head exploded with a spray of blood. He’d died explosively, destroyed in both body and soul!

For the first time since the battle began, a Fiend Lord comparable to a Half-Step Eternal had perished!

This bloody scene shook everyone present.

“How is this possible!?” The chaos fiends cried out. The whole area was plunged into upheaval.

Fiend Lord Liao Yuanshan and the others’ eyes widened. They were so excited that they almost burst into applause.

Sword Venerate Su... is ferocious!

But it wasn’t over yet.

The moment he slew Fiend Lord Lun Shan, Su Yi shot through the air and attacked Fiend Lord Bai Ye.

Fiend Lords Chang Liu and Qiu Tu couldn’t concern themselves with anything else. They fought back like mad, trying to intercept him.

But it was to no avail. Su Yi’s momentum was just too overwhelming. Wherever his sword pointed, none could stand in his way. Their attempts to intercept him failed to block even a single hit.

Meanwhile, Fiend Lord Bai Ye’s will to fight crumbled beneath Su Yi’s gaze. She shrieked and fled, too terrified to even concern herself with her badly injured allies.

The onlookers were astonished once more.

A Fiend Lord is seriously fleeing in panic?!

None of them had ever even considered this possibility.

Only those directly involved understood how terrifying the pressure of being targeted by Su Yi really was. It wasn’t just that their bodies and souls were under threat; they felt as if a sword were striking their hearts, leaving them on the verge of collapse!

Why had Fiend Lord Lun Shan died so brutally?

It wasn’t that he was weak, but that the mysterious power of the heart imbued in Su Yi’s strike had slammed into his Dao Heart, leaving it on the brink of collapse!

When the Dao Heart shook, the mind was dissolute, and a dissolute mind went to weakness.

It was for this reason that Fiend Lord Lun Shan didn’t manage to defend himself in time earlier. From the outside, it seemed like he’d just stood there waiting to die, letting Su Yi take his head with ease.

This was outside of Su Yi’s expectations, too. He sighed to himself.

This is what cultivating your strength while neglecting the heart gets you. You simply break down in the face of a lethal threat.

How strong were chaos fiends? Their talent, bloodlines, innate divine abilities were enough to crush cultivators of other races, and they were gods from the moment of their birth. They were lofty and superior. Who wouldn’t have envied their talent?

But their hearts lacked the tempering typical of a Half-Step Eternal.

It was because he’d discovered this weakness that Su Yi managed to overwhelm his opponents. After all, he’d already condensed a Heart Soul!

Such a high-level Dao Heart was so rare that Countless Dao Lords longed to condense a Heart Soul even in their dreams.

When it came to targeting others’ Dao Hearts, Heart Souls were all but invincible!

It wasn’t that Su Yi’s cultivation base was overwhelmingly superior to his opponents, but that they were no match for him in a battle of the heart!

As Su Yi’s thoughts raced, he decisively gave up on pursuing Fiend Lord Bai Ye. Instead, he shifted positions and attacked what remained of Fiend Lord Lei Jue’s soul

Fiend Lord Lei Jue tried his utmost to dodge and flee, but Su Yi had completely locked onto him. There was nowhere to run.

Fiend Lords Chang Lie and Qiu Tu didn’t just sit back and watch. They attacked Su Yi from the sides, but Su Yi broke their full-force pincer attack with ease. They could in no way hold him back.

A heaven-shaking scream rang out as Fiend Lord Lei Jue’s soul was annihilated and dispersed. He was the second of the Fiend Lords to die in battle!

All of the onlookers were astonished.

“Attack together! Quickly!” Fiend Lord Chang Liu bellowed.

The other chaos fiends naturally dared not be negligent. All of them attacked at once. Half charged into the battlefield to surround Su Yi, while the other half charged at Liao Yuanshan and the others!

Su Yi was just about to focus on eradicating Fiend Lord Xuan E when he saw this. His brow furrowed.

He’d saved Liao Yuanshan earlier. He naturally wouldn’t just watch them die now.

But if he rushed to their aid, his earlier advantage would cease to exist. The Fiend Lords would seize the opportunity to escape!

But it was then that a burst of soft laughter emanated from afar.