Chapter 589: The Annihilation of Green Lion Crown Prince’s Primordial Spirit! The Shackles Above the Sea of Clouds! The Taboo of the Giant Human Face!

What had originally been an ordinary martial cultivation technique had now acquired divinity.

“Trying to refine the malevolent qi within my demon blade? In your dreams!”

Seeing that there was no time to retrieve the blade, Green Lion Crown Prince hastily formed seals with his hands and silently chanted a heart mantra.

Boom!

The blood-malevolent qi erupted violently. Yet before it could spread, it was seized by an invisible giant hand. This hand was none other than a manifestation of Li Yanchu’s astral qi. The giant hand clenched the mass of malevolent qi tightly within its palm.

Li Yanchu fled outward using Teleportation Arts.

Meanwhile, Green Lion Crown Prince’s eyes turned icy cold, filled with bone-deep hatred. This young man had slaughtered all the demon clans who had come to celebrate his enlightenment. He had also severed the demon blade he had painstakingly refined. And now, he was even refining the blood-malevolent qi within that blade to strengthen himself.

“Damn it, this is going too far!” Green Lion Crown Prince roared in fury, completely ignoring the captive human race present at the scene. He chased straight after Li Yanchu, charging out.

Two streaks of light pursued one another across the sky. But the azure divine light behind had to halt from time to time, forced to deal with the harassment of the Jiaoslayer.

After slaying the Flood Dragon Demon King earlier, the Jiaoslayer’s killing intent had grown even more intense. Speaking of which, although the blade had been given this name, no one had expected it would actually slay so many flood dragons.

Its killing aura was now overwhelming, capable of crushing all resistance like rotten wood.

Green Lion Crown Prince possessed the body of a demon immortal. The three hundred-thousand-merit-points divine artifacts alone could not truly stop him. But causing interference and delay was still no problem.

At last, during this chase, Li Yanchu rapidly refined the sea-like mass of blood-malevolent qi, and a hint of joy surfaced in his heart.

Originally, coming to Shituo City had seemed like a losing deal no matter how he looked at it. Who would have thought that Green Lion Crown Prince himself would deliver a demon blade straight to his doorstep!

He came to a halt, his astral qi fully perfected. With a light wave of his hand, a gigantic palm formed from astral qi descended from the heavens.

Green Lion Crown Prince’s gaze turned icy. His hands formed seals, and a vague phantom shadow appeared behind him. It looked somewhat similar to Li Yanchu’s Martial Dao manifestation.

The shadow gradually became clearer; it was a massive azure male lion. The lion threw back its head and roared toward the heavens, firing a beam of divine light from its mouth. The beam collided with the gigantic palm.

However, the palm formed from astral qi did not stop, nor was it shattered. It merely wavered slightly before continuing its descent and grabbing Green Lion Crown Prince directly.

Green Lion Crown Prince drew in a deep breath. The Green Lion phantom behind him grew increasingly solid. He struggled with all his might, trying to break free from the giant hand condensed from astral qi.

Li Yanchu flew over while gripping the Jiaoslayer. His hand rose and fell in one clean motion.

Green Lion Crown Prince’s expression turned dark. If this strike landed, he would likely perish on the spot today!

A thought flashed through Green Lion Crown Prince’s mind. He activated a supreme Teleportation Arts, slipping directly out of the giant hand.

He then merged with the azure male lion phantom behind him. A colossal lion, dozens of zhang in size, appeared. It was enormous beyond comparison, and its demonic aura was surging sky-high.

It charged straight toward Li Yanchu. Its sharp claws possessed the power to split mountains and rend stone. This was his true body, the Green-Maned LionGreen!

Boom!

Green Lion Crown Prince was violently knocked back.

Before Li Yanchu seemed to be an invisible barrier, like walls of bronze and iron. Even with his demonic body, he could not break through it.

Li Yanchu lightly threw a punch. In an instant, the sky before Green Lion Crown Prince was filled with countless fist shadows.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Semi-transparent fists slammed into his body one after another at a blindingly fast pace.

Green Lion Crown Prince’s massive body had nowhere to evade those overwhelming fist images, and his protective divine light shook violently under the assault.

Li Yanchu donned the talismanic armor, and his blood and qi were amplified once more. His current blood-qi realm was already comparable to a third-realm Yang Spirit expert. For a hundred-thousand-merit-points talismanic armor to enhance one’s blood and qi was an exceedingly rare boon.

The Eight Trigrams Mirror hovered high in the air. A beam of divine light shone upon the area around Green Lion Crown Prince, freezing his movements in place.

Li Yanchu flew over with the Jiaoslayer in hand.

Blade light flashed, and one of Green Lion Crown Prince’s legs was severed cleanly at the knee, causing blood to gush forth like a flood.

A demon immortal’s body was tyrannically strong, yet he was not skilled in recovery techniques. In pain, he opened his bloody maw wide and lunged toward Li Yanchu, trying to swallow him whole.

This mouth was an innate divine ability; legend said that his ancestors could swallow a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers in a single bite.

Li Yanchu’s eyes turned cold. Behind him appeared a towering Martial Dao manifestation, mirroring his movements exactly.

Boom!

Dazzling blade light flashed, and Green Lion Crown Prince’s body was instantly cleaved in two.

That powerful demon-immortal physique actually withstood the mysterious rhythmic force carried by the Jiaoslayer; it did not disintegrate into dust.

Green Lion Crown Prince let out a furious roar. From within his massive demonic body, a streak of azure light shot forth; this was his primordial spirit!

He had not been slain in a single strike of body and soul by Li Yanchu; at the very last moment, he managed to escape.

The thoughts of a primordial spirit moved with terrifying speed, and within the blink of an eye, it was already before Li Yanchu.

The astral qi before Li Yanchu could not stop a primordial-spirit escape. Even the talismanic armor had little effect against such an attack!

However, Li Yanchu carried a hundred-thousand-merit-points Clearheart Jade Pendant upon his body.

A Daoist azure light flared to life.

Clang!

Green Lion Crown Prince’s primordial spirit was blocked outright. Crashing into it left him dizzy and disoriented.

“Five-Lightning Pure Yang, True Law of Heaven and Earth! Kill!” Li Yanchu shouted coldly.

Boom!

Heaven-sent thunder struck down. This was exactly what he had been waiting for, the moment Green Lion Crown Prince activated his primordial spirit.

Lightning Arts inflicted far greater damage upon the primordial spirit than upon the physical body. When cultivators let their primordial spirits leave their bodies, they feared thunder above all else. When summer lightning roared, it often meant total annihilation of soul and spirit.

Li Yanchu carefully sensed the aftermath. Green Lion Crown Prince’s primordial spirit had indeed been shattered; his soul had scattered to the winds.

For such a wounded primordial spirit, six enhancements of the Five-Lightning Talisman were more than enough to erase it completely.

Soon after, Green Lion Crown Prince’s demonic body also slowly dissipated. As if it had never existed at all.

Li Yanchu slowly raised his head and looked toward the sky.

“I’ve slaughtered every demon in this city, let’s see what other tricks you can pull.” His voice was not loud, yet it rang clearly up into the heavens.

The rolling sea of clouds responded like a thunderclap. High above the sky, dark clouds suddenly churned!

All the demonic aura within Shituo City surged upward toward the heavens. Gradually, it coalesced into an enormous human face.

That face was exceedingly eerie; upon seeing it, one felt it was strangely familiar, yet also utterly unfamiliar. It was as if the facial features of countless acquaintances had been fused together. It made one certain they had seen it somewhere before.

The cultivators within Shituo City who witnessed this scene couldn’t help but gasp in shock. They had employed various means to sneak into Shituo City, and they cautiously searched for the faintest clues.

Yet unexpectedly, a fellow cultivator who had entered the secret realm alongside them caused a massive upheaval, slaughtering every demon at Green Lion Crown Prince’s banquet and even beheading Green Lion Crown Prince himself. This had already shattered a certain balance, drawing forth a celestial anomaly.

The human face was enormous beyond comparison; as it gazed down upon the entirety of Shituo City, it exuded an overwhelming sense of pressure.

Minghe arrived at a spot and looked up at the gigantic human face in the sky. His heart couldn’t help but tighten!

“Could it be that Fellow Daoist Li’s actions have summoned some kind of taboo?!”

Minghe silently speculated.

Normally, whether entering a ghost town or a demon kingdom undergoing a mysterious resurgence, one could not drastically alter the original course of events. Only by following the established flow could one find the opportunity to leave. Otherwise, one would invite an indescribable, terrifying calamity.

Yet this fellow Daoist Li cared nothing for such things, he directly slew Green Lion Crown Prince, the fourth most important figure in the Shituo Kingdom, and slaughtered every demon in the city who had come to attend the banquet.