Chapter 3521: Bad Reputation

The blast of wind swept both Old Salamander and Cheng Gong away.

A huge fissure snaked across the ground, causing the edges of the Umbral Deep to collapse and fragments to fall into the unknown depths.

The watching cultivators’ mouths fell slack. "Emperor Wu Slayer?"

"A criminal with eight black spirits? Even the legendary Emperor Wu Slayer came?"

"This is ridiculous..."

Beyond the Umbral Deep, within the Wisdom Domain, Mr. Li relaxed slightly. Since Emperor Wu Slayer, or Emperor Slayer, had arrived, there was still a bit of hope for this battle.

Further away, Old Yu was as calm as ever. He showed no surprise at Emperor Slayer’s appearance.

The Day of Offering was fast approaching, which meant that all Seven Seraphs had to be appointed before that. While Emperor Slayer could not become a Seraph himself, his intervention was necessary. Someone must have paid a shockingly high price to summon him.

There was only one place where Emperor Slayer could be found in the current Spirit Nidus.

The battle at the Umbral Deep had caused some people to feel pressure. The situation regarding the Third Boss had to be reassessed, or else no one would be able to feel at ease.

Lu Yin stood on the ground itself. Smoke and dust swirled about as he confronted Emperor Slayer head-on.

The new arrival was a massive beast, clearly another cultivator who had undergone a beast-form Spirit Rebirth. His appearance signaled Lu Yin that the Primal Beastland was ready to truly go all out. He might have to visit the domain and destroy the cursed place.

Wait, what’s this guy's name? Emperor Wu?

Lu Yin heard the onlookers’ conversations, and a strange expression appeared on his face.

Emperor Wu

Slayer

? Emperor Wu is one of the Seven Seraphs and ruler of Primal Beastland, and this guy’s name is Emperor Wu Slayer? Is he even from the Primal Beastland?

Tian Ya sent a message to Lu Yin. "Third Boss, this guy is called Emperor Wu Slayer or Emperor Slayer. He's a criminal with eight black spirits and a Dukkhan. He betrayed the Primal Beastland, and he once fought against Emperor Wu to be the ruler of the domain but ended up losing. He's never accepted his loss and has continued to be an enemy of the Primal Beastland, as well as an enemy of the Ascendant Hall. He is incredibly powerful and very difficult to deal with."

Old Tao also spoke up, "Third Boss, you must be careful of Emperor Slayer's mouth! He can release a lethal attack."

Lu Yin observed Emperor Slayer, and the beast studied Lu Yin in turn. The massive eyes swept over the region surrounding the Umbral Deep, and he then shouted, "Old Salamander? You came here, too? And lost? Is that... Bao Qi? Is he dead? What a shame, I really want to snap the necks of all Seven Seraphs, and even the High Seraph, haha!"

The beast’s deafening voice echoed through the Umbral Deep. The noise caused all who heard it to feel a bit dizzy. It was simply too loud.

Lu Yin clasped his hands behind his back while silently looking up at the beast.

Emperor Slayer laughed for a bit before looking back at Lu Yin. "So, you’re the Grandverse Manor’s Third Boss? You haven’t had an easy battle here, have you? Old Salamander’s always been a schemer, and yet you still managed to kill Bao Qi and defeat Old Salamander. That’s pretty impressive, but things end here. I’ll give you some bad news: I’ve come here to beat you, hahahaha!"

Deafening laughter rang out again, and some stars even shattered.

The many spectators stared on in stupefaction. This beast was so arrogant! No wonder he called himself Emperor Wu Slayer—he was even more arrogant than the Third Boss. The Third Boss had defeated numerous powerful opponents and had proven his right to stand tall. Many believed that only the High Seraph could stand against Lu Yin. Despite that, did Emperor Slayer want to beat him in an instant?

Wait, he just arrived. He doesn’t know what just happened

.

Everyone quickly realized the same thing, and they started to look at Emperor Slayer with strange expressions.

Cheng Gong’s eyes sparkled.

Old Salamander chuckled. The Third Boss had already captured Nian Xian, Wu Jin, Dao Kinshi, You Xia, and Wraithmother. Everyone else who had participated in the fight was gone, which meant that Emperor Slayer had no idea how many experts had already been defeated. The beast believed that the Third Boss had only fought against Old Salamander and Bao Qi. Things were about to get interesting.

Given all that had happened before, if Emperor Slayer used his full strength, he was guaranteed to expose the Third Boss's true limits.

Lu Yin looked up at Emperor Slayer, who was still cackling.

Beat me? This guy deserves a good beating.

Emperor Slayer looked back down at Lu Yin. "What's the matter? Scared? You’ve never seen such a powerful beast-form Spirit Rebirth before, have you? Hahaha, don’t worry! Today, this Emperor Slayer only came here to beat you up. That guy paid me to just beat you. If that idiot Emperor Wu were here instead, I'd probably have to kill him. Same for that little hypocrite, the High Seraph. I'd have to kill him too.

"Just thinking about them makes me angry! Brat, if you make me mad, I might just have to make your beating a few more times worse."

Everyone listened to Emperor Slayer's arrogant boasting, but no one stopped him or even tried to warn him. This was because he had absolutely no friends or allies.

He was an enemy of Emperor Wu’s Primal Beastland, and he had also been rejected by the Ascendant Hall. He had even been added to the Black Spirit List, and after that, whenever he appeared, he had offended someone. Eventually, he had become truly friendless. There was no one in the entire Spirit Nidus who would help Emperor Slayer. If not for how skilled he was at escaping, he would have died long ago.

He was a rare criminal with eight black spirits, few of which had appeared throughout the entire history of the Spirit Nidus. He was an enemy of the entire megaverse.

After hearing Emperor Slayer’s boasts, Lu Yin arched a brow. "Paid you? Who paid you?"

Emperor Slayer snorted disdainfully. "Even if I hate those miserable wretches who hide behind the scenes, I still have a few standards. I won’t tell you anything about them. You’ll have to guess for yourself. It appears that you’re not very well-liked, huh?"

Everyone was left speechless. There was absolutely no one in the entire Spirit Nidus who was more reviled than Emperor Slayer.

Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed. "I’ll offer you a deal as well."

Emperor Slayer guffawed. "You want to beg for mercy? Impossible. I, Emperor Wu Slayer, have standards! If I take someone’s payment, I’ll finish the job. You’ll have to wait for next time. Don’t worry, you won’t die. You’ll just feel a bit of pain."

The beast lifted a leg and stomped down onto Lu Yin while shouting, "Old Salamander, watch carefully! I, Emperor Slayer, am much stronger than that idiot Emperor Wu!"

Boom!

The ground shattered, and the Wisdom Domain itself trembled. Many people were unable to stay upright, but they still made sure to not look away.

Emperor Slayer looked beneath his foot, but there was no one there.

Lu Yin abruptly appeared in front of the beast, moving at the speed of time to kick at Emperor Slayer's head.

The beast was startled. "The power of time?

"You want to kick me? Learn from me first. Brat, you’ve impressed me!"

Lu Yin’s foot struck the empty air, much to his surprise. This was the law of Near and Far .

Emperor Slayer was surrounded by sequence particles, and the overwhelming number caused many people’s scalps to go numb. This was the result of Emperor Slayer’s eons of effort cultivating his sequence technique.

Emperor Slayer was nearly equal to Emperor Wu, and he was from the same generation as Yuan Qi. He was an ancient powerhouse.

While avoiding Lu Yin’s kick, Emperor Slayer’s massive body had moved with surprising agility. He appeared behind his opponent, a clawed paw forming a fist that punched forward.

Lu Yin spun around and retaliated with his own fist.

Boom!

The sound of the collision shook the universe and tore the void apart. Stars shattered as countless spatial cracks webbed out from the point of impact. Multiple layers of space fractured, and everything nearby was simply crushed.

Emperor Slayer’s body sank into the ground, his paw twisted and his face shocked. "You?"

Lu Yin sneered. "The deal I was going to offer you was to beat you up and then make you tell me who paid you."

Infinity flowed through Lu Yin as he pressed against the beast’s paw.

𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Emperor Slayer’s massive body was forced further underground, and he let out a howl of anguish.

Lu Yin was above the beast as he dropped a foot down with terrifying power, causing even more stars to explode. Emperor Slayer was blasted deep into the ground.

The land was shattered, and the region surrounding the Umbral Deep became completely unrecognizable. Bao Qi’s corpse fell, buried underground without a trace.

Beneath the surface, Emperor Slayer roared, and a black light erupted from his body, shooting into the sky above.

Lu Yin looked down at the black light.

Is that... anti-gravity?

He punched down, letting the anti-gravity counter Lu Yin’s terrifying physical strength. An enormous paw shot into the sky at Lu Yin. "Brat, you're too arrogant and evil!"

Lu Yin raised a hand and manifested Dust World’s soil. A landmass formed, and it slammed down.

Boom!

Another loud impact echoed. The black anti-gravity field twisted before tearing apart, which sent Emperor Slayer plunging back down.

He roared as an even denser black light shot into the sky, shattering the landmass formed from Dust World’s soil.

The moment the landmass shattered, the black light suddenly reversed momentum. With unbelievable speed, Emperor Slayer punched at Lu Yin again. This was not him moving quickly, but rather him ignoring distance entirely.

Lu Yin clenched a fist as he used Extremes Must Be Reversed. His body withered even as Wielder - Indestructible battle force shrouded his fist and Infinity flowed through his body. Then, his fist shot out.

There was yet another deafening crash, and blood sprayed across the sky. The beast’s paw had been ripped apart, and it flew away while blood streamed from it like rainfall.

As Emperor Slayer and Lu Yin passed by each other, the beast’s right forelimb had been severed.

Massive eyes flickered in shock.

Impossible

.

Lu Yin unclenched his fist as he slowly turned his head around to look back at Emperor Slayer. This strength had surpassed the limits of the megaverse.

When the two had first clashed, Lu Yin had sensed that Emperor Slayer’s strength had reached the limit of the megaverse, much like the Megalith and the Pridebeast. Because of that, Lu Yin had never underestimated his opponent. Emperor Slayer’s last punch, which had used both gravity and anti-gravity, had pushed the power of his attack beyond the limits of physical strength, even if only just. Even if their strength was not at all comparable, the fact that Emperor Slayer had surpassed that limit placed him in the same realm of physical strength as Lu Yin.

In both the Tianyuan and the Spirit Nidus Megaverses, Emperor Slayer was the third being that Lu Yin had encountered, after the High Seraph and True God, whose physical power had surpassed the limits of the megaverse.

Yu Shan was unable to surpass that limit, even after using the Nine Heavens Transformation. Of course, there had been a significant gap between him and Lu Yin well before that.

Down on the ground, Old Salamander was half buried in the shattered earth. He stared up at the sky, having witnessed Emperor Slayer’s defeat. The beast had lost to the Third Boss in terms of brute strength.

This was something that Old Salamander had not anticipated.

If the Third Boss’s strength had not surpassed the limits of the megaverse, even if he was still able to defeat Emperor Slayer, it would not have been through pure strength. In a competition of physical might, who besides the High Seraph with his Nine Heavens Transformation or Emperor Wu was stronger than Emperor Slayer?

Despite that, the beast had still been overpowered.

The Third Boss still had not been pushed to his limit. Just where was it?

Emperor Slayer turned around to stare at Lu Yin.

"Think again," Lu Yin warned in a low voice.

The massive beasts suddenly opened his mouth, and endless darkness formed a beam that shot at Lu Yin. "Emperor Slaying Cannon!"

Lu Yin dodged, but the black beam suddenly expanded. It was as if the universe had been replaced with a black cross-section that instantly surrounded Lu Yin.

He moved and shifted through the beam, even reversing time by one second. After that, he used Inverse Step to appear behind Emperor Slayer’s head.

The beast was badly startled. Could his attack really be avoided like that?

Lu Yin’s foot snapped out again, and this time, Emperor Slayer’s head was slammed into the ground. The black beam being emitted from his mouth shot into the earth, and it ripped a massive chunk out of the Wisdom Domain.

That location just happened to be where Mr. Li and Young Master Yu were.

When he saw the black beam shooting at them, Mr. Li grew alarmed, and he quickly grabbed Young Master Yu and evaded the attack.

Young Master Yu was badly shaken. He knew that he was not the same as the Third Boss. If that black beam struck him, Young Master Yu would die without question.

Mr. Li was just as frightened as his charge. Emperor Slayer was very powerful, even for a Dukkhan. While all of the Seven Seraphs were Dukkhans, very few were capable of defeating Emperor Slayer.

Mr. Li had no confidence that he could do so himself, especially not if Emperor Slayer used his trump card.

The beast felt pain in his head, and he turned around to look. He saw Lu Yin kicking him once more, but Emperor Slayer had already learned his lesson, so this time, he immediately dodged.

Lu Yin’s foot struck empty air again. He looked to the side and spun around to throw a palm strike, but the beast also dodged that attack. Lu Yin continued attacking, but no matter what he did, he could not land a single hit.