Chapter 1827: Beheading A Snake

“Did you think you could flee?”

While the three heads were attempting to flee, the engravings on the Earthly Sovereign Bell’s wall—the sun, moon and stars, the mountains, rivers and lands, the cities and villages, the people farming, fishing and hunting—abruptly came to life.

Countless images surfaced from the wall, flowed, and spread outward until they finally formed a gigantic painting that connected heaven and earth!

From the painting, one could hear the sounds of recital, see columns of smoke rising from chimneys, experience the hustle and bustle of cities, listen to the clanging of metals... it was a picture of humanity and the red dust, and it was overflowing with life and order.

𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Smoke and fire came from a house, and red dust came from the realm.

The three snake heads were flying quickly, but the gigantic painting was faster. In almost the blink of an eye, a boundlessly wide net had caught the three fleeing heads completely!

The snake heads hissed and howled in pain as the glorious painting of humanity and power of all living repeatedly ground away at their destructive, poisonous, and deadly energies. The heads themselves were rapidly disintegrating and crumbling away as well. In the end, they all turned into fine dust and left not a trace of their existence behind.

Despite having just ground three of the World Ender Jiuying’s heads to dust, the painting only grew stronger and brighter. In the painting, the mountains and rivers were shaking, and the red dust was rolling until suddenly, they manifested many formless ropes that wrapped around the World Ender Jiuying’s gigantic and crippled body and its six remaining heads. They could not be broken free.

“Release me! Release me!!!”

The World Ender Jiuying struggled with all its might as its six heads spat out its remaining wind, hail, thunder and lightning at the painting. However, the destructive attacks only elicited some ripples on the surface of the painting and failed to damage it in the slightest.

The painting might look illusory, but it possessed enough power to suppress any and all evil.

There was a saying called, “Kick the dog when it’s down.” So, Ye Qing took one step forward, crossed a vast amount of distance, and appeared above one of the World Ender Jiuying’s heads in the blink of an eye. The head beneath his feet looked horrible, and even now it was writing in pain and misery. Ye Qing’s eyes were ice cold though. There was no mercy in him, only infinite killing intent.

The next moment, Ye Qing slowly raised his right fist and gathered the fist intents of Suppression Hammer, Break Hammer, and Annihilation Hammer. They weaved and mixed wildly until they combined into an indescribably terrible power.

Pssh!

There was no flashy technique or unnecessary movement. Ye Qing simply threw a straight punch at the massive dark yellow nail embedded in the snake head’s vital spot.

There was a muffled spurt of gore, and the massive dark yellow nail groaned as if it could not bear the terrible fist intent. Then, it sank completely into the snake’s flesh like a sharp knife through rotten flesh!

The nailed head seized up all of a sudden and stopped struggling or roaring. The violence and brutality in its eyes rapidly receded like tidal waves until all that was left was emptiness. Its pupils dilated completely, and the light in its eyes vanished without a trace. Finally, it collapsed limply on the ground as if it had lost all of its strength.

That was the last time the head would ever move again.

Now, four of the snake’s heads were gone, and only five were left. They went utterly mad, bloodcurdling screams shaking the entire Blue Hole of Primal Chaos. More than pain, there was anger and defiance born from pure desperation.

“Kill him! Kill him!”

“Rip him apart! Crush him to paste and devour him!”

“The successor of the Earthly Sovereign...

must die!

”

The remaining five heads stopped fighting by themselves and ignored their injuries. Fueled by suicidal madness, they stopped retreating altogether and pounced toward Ye Qing from five tricky angles at the same time!

Wind, ice, fire, thunder, darkness. They unleashed all of their power without reserve and created a death zone of chaos and rampage.

Standing behind a curtain of dark yellow light, Ye Qing did not try to hide or dodge the combined assault. On the contrary, he advanced toward one of the heads and threw a punch at it.

The fist intent of Suppression Hammer enveloped the snake head and froze it in its tracks. Then, the power of Break Hammer exploded as he punched it squarely in the cheek.

BANG!

There was a loud bang, and the head’s neck bone cracked like it was just struck by a battering ram. It was helplessly and uncontrollably flung to the side.

Without pausing, Ye Qing turned around and threw another punch. He punched down at the snake head with a single horn glowing with dark purple light like he was beating a drum!

His fist ripped through the air like a meteor and struck the gnarly horn with perfect accuracy. The snake horn snapped in half just like that.

Not done yet, the fist intent of Annihilation Hammer flowed along the cracks and invaded deep into the head.

BOOOOOM—

Half of the hornless head and the poisonous fire gathering in its throat both exploded at the same time.

Smelly, ink green blood mixed with smatterings of brain matter and bones exploded in the air like fireworks. However, not one bit was able to hit Ye Qing because they were rapidly annihilated by the shockwaves of the fist intent.

“Roar...”

The remaining half of the head let out a painful hiss that sounded more like a whimper than anything.

While this was happening, a gust of smelly wind hit Ye Qing from behind. At the same time, a shadow enveloped his entire being.

Ye Qing reacted swiftly and decisively. Right before the snake’s mouth would clamp shut around him, he reached up and caught two of its thickest fangs with his bare hands, and stopped the head’s lower jaw with his legs. His muscles bulged like the gnarly roots of ancient trees.

“DIE!”

The snake head howled as it bit down with everything it got. Its strength was such that, despite being a three-hundred-meter-tall giant right now, he was curling up slightly from the sheer force crushing him from two different directions. His knees were bending slightly, and dark yellow streams were churning underneath his feet. The hands gripping the fangs were slipping as well, allowing the sharp tips to close in on its forehead little by little. It looked like it would pierce through skin at any moment.

Not only that, grayish black venom was bubbling like a swamp deep within the head’s throat. There were countless tattered corpses and rotten bones floating in the venom as well. They gradually joined into a split, twisted, and pale white tongue that was covered in livor mortis. The tongue then launched itself toward Ye Qing with a deathly power that could snuff out the mind and soul.

“You think you’re the only one who has a mouth?” Ye Qing did not panic though. Instead, he opened his mouth.

Inside his mouth, the exquisite-looking Li Fire Divine Wheel was rotating smoothly and shining brightly.

The next moment, pure, veluriyam fire blasted out of Ye Qing’s mouth and struck the inner area of the throat squarely.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle—

The venom that could erode all minds was instantly evaporated by the Nan Ming Li Fire. Even the tainted tongue created from rotten corpses and withered bones disintegrated inch by inch and burned into dust, leaving not a single speck of filth behind.

“AHHHHHH—”

Having lost its tongue and burned its throat, the head faltered and lost control of its strength as a matter of course.

“Now!”

Ye Qing abruptly tightened his grip. His blood ran like great rivers inside his body, and his muscles and bones popped like the roars of dragons and tigers.

“Open... up!” A low growl escaped his lips as veins popped all over his arms like gnarly roots. Then, he threw the snake’s upper jaw upward!

At the same time, Ye Qing raised his right foot. A vortex of dark yellow qi circling under his feet, he stomped down viciously at the head’s mandible.

Like an ancient god demon, he lifted the nine heavens with his bare hands and shattered the blue firmament with his foot.