Chapter 324: Battle of Gods and Demons, Dragon Emperor State, Fall of the King (I)

On the bustling streets filled with vehicles, a figure continuously darted along the road.

Screech!

𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

A luxury sports car weaved through traffic, causing the other drivers to curse incessantly. The two young men inside the car, however, cheered in response.

"Slowpokes! If you're not happy, catch me if you can!"

"Haha, Cos, those junk cars can't possibly catch up with us. They'll be left eating our dust."

Boom!

Suddenly, the sports car was sent skidding several meters to the side, half of it crumpled in as it crashed heavily into the roadside guardrail.

Chen Chu vanished after kicking the obstructing sports car aside, leaving the surrounding crowd gasping in shock.

He slowed his pace when he arrived at the city center. In the middle of a distant intersection stood a burly figure over two meters tall, resembling a small giant as it silently waited for him.

"No, idiot, move!" A truck driver yelled as his vehicle braked hard. He was unable to stop in time, and collided with Kaotoros.

Bang!

The truck caved in, the windows shattering into countless glass fragments, yet the burly figure remained unmoved. With a single arm, he grabbed the truck's front and flung it aside.

Boom!

The several-ton truck flew like a toy, smashing into a distant shop. The wall collapsed instantly, dust billowing, and the truck exploded.

Amid the screams and wails of the surrounding crowd, Chen Chu watched coldly from a few dozen meters away. His lips moved, and his voice sounded in his earpiece. "The target has appeared, but is stationary in the city center."

"We can't fight in the city center. General Rake, release your aura to drive it out of the city. Chu Batian, engage it and don't let it escape. Notify Miamir City Law Enforcement to evacuate people ahead along Chu Batian's path."

A terrifying aura exploded from the sky, carrying an overwhelming sense of dread as it approached with astonishing speed.

Kaotoros frowned, his voice booming. "I wanted to see the so-called human genius's strength, but it seems I'll have to crush your head next time."

Whoosh!

Kaotoros transformed into a shadow and disappeared, reappearing several hundred meters away in the blink of an eye.

Boom!

The ground beneath Chen Chu's feet collapsed within a meter's radius. Golden flames erupted from his body as he blasted forward, breaking the sound barrier with a supersonic boom.

Behind him, a long white trail roared, the sonic boom shattering car windows and whipping up fierce winds.

In contrast to Kaotoros, who silently moved at the speed of sound, Chen Chu's explosive, supersonic burst was far more destructive... and far faster.

With Agility exceeding 1,700 points, Chen Chu's full-power burst reached nearly twice the speed of sound, covering 700 meters per second. In mere seconds, he closed in on Kaotoros. The explosive speed was so shocking that even the demon king was stunned.

As a king-level entity, his speed exceeded ten times the speed of sound at his peak. However, in his current state, relying on demonic secret arts, he could only manage four hundred meters per second. Yet, this human genius was moving even faster!

Seeing this, Kaotoros grabbed a car with one arm, hurling it toward Chen Chu amid the screams of its occupants. The car flew through the air, accompanied by a roaring wind and an explosive shockwave.

As the car appeared before him, Chen Chu instinctively sidestepped rather than catching it to save the driver.

Boom!

The car hit the ground, exploding into flames. Simultaneously, a strange black light erupted, corroding and shattering the ground within a ten-meter radius.

"Corrosive power," Chen Chu noted with a frown before swiftly resuming his pursuit.

Wail!

The emergency sirens blared across Miamir City, causing initial confusion followed by panic in the streets.

"What’s happening?"

"I don't know, but we should seek shelter first."

"Watch out, there’s a monster over there..."

Boom, boom, boom!

Kaotoros continued to grab cars, trucks, and vans from the street, launching them like giant missiles at Chen Chu with terrifying force.

The two streets were soon engulfed in flames, cries, and screams. Chen Chu wasn’t able to get too close, instead being forced to maintain a distance of a hundred meters.

Kaotoros's eyes gleamed with a cold, cruel light, his actions calculated. However, he seemed to be afraid that Chen Chu would recklessly charge at him if he continued killing any more civilians, and began to deliberately steer clear of them.

Seeing this, Chen Chu chose not to attack immediately, his eyes coldly flickering.

The chase led them through most of the city, with any unfortunate car that blocked their path being blown apart to create blazing fires. As they approached the outskirts, Kaotoros suddenly stopped and turned abruptly, his dark demonic eyes opening wide.

When those demonic eyes locked onto Chen Chu, his perception shattered, transforming into a dark void. A colossal figure, towering thousands of meters high, descended with a devastating palm strike, causing the heavens and earth to collapse.

A soul attack!

Roar!

Behind Chen Chu, the vague roars of dragons and elephants sounded. A massive Dragon Elephant appeared, covered in spiky scales.

At the Dragon Elephant's forehead, a rune somewhat resembling a blade shone brightly, transforming into a gigantic blade that slashed toward the sky. It was the rarely used Blade of Void rune, capable of annihilating all illusory forces.

Boom!

The blade clashed with the demonic palm, both forces momentarily stalemating. Then, with a resounding explosion, the endless darkness shattered.

That illusory rune’s blade blocked my God-Destroying Demonic Eye. No, that rune is sharp, but it’s incomplete. It shouldn't have shattered my demonic eye's phantom. What truly broke the phantom was his soul power.

To unleash such power with a low-grade rune, his soul strength must be at least ten times that of a Sixth Demonic Mark being!

Kaotoros’s killing intent surged, eyes fixed on Chen Chu with hatred as if they were mortal enemies.

From another direction outside the city, an intensely evil blood aura emerged, closer to the Eight Heavenly Realm expert and causing their aura to pause.

With that distraction, Kaotoros no longer held back.

Boom!

An endless surge of black demonic qi erupted, and a terrifying force rose to completely obscure the sky, changing the color of the heavens and earth.

Amid the chaos, a thirty-meter-tall figure, clad in black scales and with a dragon tail, appeared like a hellish demon king.

No, it truly was a demon king from hell.

Crack, crack!

Under the manifestation of the king’s will, space itself seemed unable to bear the weight, shattering like glass. The surrounding streets continuously collapsed and sank.

"Shit, it's a battle between advanced fighters! Run!"

"Run!"

Those with knowledge along the streets turned pale, terrified as they gazed at the towering, menacing phantom. Under the oppressive aura, they fled in panic.

Luckily, this area was already near the city outskirts where buildings were less dense, and the emergency sirens had already reduced the number of people on the streets.

Standing under the demonic phantom, Kaotoros's figure swelled to five meters tall, his dark red eyes gleaming as he spoke in a low, rumbling voice.

"I originally didn’t want to deal with you, but you insisted on courting death. Most importantly, you possess such a vast soul power. According to the Great Demon God's Decree, any human genius with soul power exceeding five times the norm must be killed!"

According to the information from Akunus, this human genius had sharp perception but a combat power estimated to be only at the beginning stage of the Seventh Demonic Mark.

Even if the Eighth Demonic Mark expert who had been lured away returned at full speed, it would take several minutes, enough time for Kaotoros to deal with this human genius.

Boom!

With a slash from Kaotoros's demonic saber, a black saber light spanning over ten meters swept out two meters off the ground, covering a wide area.

The terrifying saber qi contained indescribable destructive power, collapsing streets, shattering vehicles, and turning any ordinary people unable to dodge into blood mist.

Simultaneously, the thirty-meter-tall demonic shadow mirrored the action, its enormous saber slicing through the sky and causing visions of torn heavens and shattered hell.

At the moment the slash was released, Chen Chu’s figure sank as he was locked by the king's will, unable to dodge or escape.

Boom!

Endless golden light erupted from Chen Chu, forming blazing flames that surged into the sky like a roused ancient beast.

Boom!

A golden halberd swept through the air, forming a defensive barrier and shattering the incoming saber qi with a powerful shockwave.

Boom!

The enormous saber clashed with the halberd, causing the ground to collapse in a twenty-meter radius around Chen Chu and forming a rift extending over twenty meters behind him. The aftermath destroyed everything in its path, including a ten-story building, reducing it to rubble with the residual force of the slash.

This was the power of the True Martial Phantom, or rather the demonic phantom forcibly condensed by the king's will, releasing destructive energy several times greater than normal. Such formidable power could not be withstood by an ordinary cultivator of the Seventh Heavenly Realm.

Yet beneath the dozens-of-meters-long demonic saber, the halberd radiating golden light remained unmoved.

Kaotoros pressed down on the halberd with both hands, his expression growing more ferocious as he growled.

Damn you, you tricked me!

Akunus had deceived him. This human genius’s combat power was far from the beginning stage of the Seventh Demonic Mark.

Empowered by the manifestation of the demon king's will, Kaotoros’ strength had increased over thirtyfold, reaching the middle stage of Seventh Demonic Mark. With the added demonic force, he could heavily injure a cultivator at the beginning stage of the Seventh Mark with a single strike, but...

An indescribable power erupted from Chen Chu, his arms trembling as he prepared to counterattack.

Boom!

Kaotoros flew backward like a cannonball, and the phantom retreated several steps with a thunderous crash, its saber shattered by the true dragon power.

Fragments emerged from Chen Chu's wrist, transforming into a splendid gold-red battle armor that covered his entire body. Behind him, four slowly rotating gears of various sizes hovered, with blue lightning dancing between them and golden flames burning brightly.

A blood mark emerged on his forehead, radiating endless red light that spread out to form a thirty-meter-diameter hellish scene of a river of blood.

Facing Kaotoros’ crazed killing intent, Chen Chu didn’t dare to be careless.