Chapter 1828: Only Kill, Not Deliver

Bang!

There was a muffled bang that resembled a drumbeat. Ye Qing’s stomp was so strong that it broke the snake head’s mandible.

“ROAAAARRRR—”

The snake head let out a muffled groan and lost its strength in an instant.

Not one to waste an opportunity, Ye Qing ripped the two fangs right out of the snake head’s mouth!

“You want to eat me?” Ye Qing casually tossed the teeth aside and stared at the snake head with a pair of missing fangs and a dislocated jaw. He said indifferently, “You don’t deserve to.”

As soon as he finished, Ye Qing raised his head and clenched his right fist. Then, he threw an Annihilation Hammer upward.

There was no awe-inspiring mirage. There was only pure, unbridled strength. The punch struck the shattered palate head on!

BANG!

There was yet another muffled bang, and the snake head’s palate and remaining half of its head exploded into a shower of blood and bones at the same time.

Ye Qing did not bother to look at the headless neck any longer. Instead, he cast his gaze at the other head that was sent flying by the wind of his punch and was currently trying to shake the dizziness out of itself.

He raised his right fist above his head and made a grabbing motion at the gigantic dark yellow bell above his head. Then, he pulled.

Buzz—

Like a sun that was pulled out of the sky by a giant, invisible hand, the Earthly Sovereign Bell crashed down on the dizzy head with the power to suppress realms.

RUUUUMMMBBBLLLEEEE—

The head didn’t even get to let out a scream before it was crushed. Literally, its scale, flesh, blood and bones all mixed together into an indistinguishable ball of gore while smelly, ink green blood rained in the Blue Hole of Primal Chaos.

“I’m not done yet!”

Ye Qing let out a cold grunt and took a step forward. He instantly appeared above the ball of gore and grabbed the still shining Earthly Sovereign Bell with his bare hand. The bell immediately shrank small enough to fit on his palm, though it was still heavy enough to collapse space itself.

Wielding the palm like an unbreakable hammer, Ye Qing swung down on the mutilated head and its neck again and again.

Thunk!

Thunk!

Every strike shook the bottom of the Blue Hole of Primal Chaos. Dark yellow light accompanied every smattering of gore. The remains of the head kept caving and disintegrating until finally, it all turned into powder.

With this, the World Ender Jiuying had lost another head!

Now, the World Ender Jiuying had lost six of its nine heads, and its three remaining heads were gripped by unprecedented terror and despair.

At this point, it became impossibly clear that there was no winning this battle. If it kept fighting, it would die. It was as simple as that!

The three remaining heads exchanged glances with each other, and ruthless determination flickered in their vicious pupils. The next moment, all three heads opened their mouths at the same time and spat out thick, insoluble gray fog.

The fog rapidly spread to the surroundings like ink in clear water. It instantly blocked out light and sound and plunged the bottom of the blue hole into impenetrable chaos.

While its enemies were blinded, the World Ender Jiuying sneakily withdrew backward and hid himself in the fog. It was trying to escape.

“Really?”

Wielding the Earthly Sovereign Bell, Ye Qing’s ridiculing voice pierced through the thick fog and reached the World Ender Jiuying loud and clear. “Don’t you think it’s far too late to try and make a break for it?”

Still standing where he was, Ye Qing held the Earthly Sovereign Bell’s image with his right hand and threw a straight punch with his left.

There was no deafening boom or stunning impact this time. Instead, the punch felt ancient like the creation of the world.

Wherever his fist traveled, the thick, insoluble fog was split into two like Primal Chaos was cut into two by Pangu’s axe. Clear qi rose upward and revealed a clear sky, whereas murky qi sank downward and formed dirty sediments.

The punch had forcefully ripped apart a straight passage through the gray fog, and at the end of the passage was none other than the World Ender Jiuying who had just created the fog and was still trying to hide itself!

𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

His fist intent was as vast as it was unstoppable. It appeared later, but fulfilled its objective first. It imprinted itself right on top of a snake head.

Pssh—

There was a muffled pop, and the snake head exploded like a rotten watermelon that was struck by an invisible hammer. Its flesh, blood, bone, and the desolate fog it contained were instantly ground into nothingness by the fist intent.

“Argh—mer... mercy!”

The two remaining heads of the World Ender Jiuying had lost all viciousness at this point. Only fear and despair remained in its four remaining vertical pupils as it begged, “I... I’m willing to submit to you... I’m willing to serve as your eternal slave...”

“Slave?” Ye Qing raised his eyebrows as if he just heard a funny joke. “I don’t need a slave!”

Ye Qing blurred and flowed freely in the six places!

Even his sagely companions only saw a blur before Ye Qing reappeared at the center of the two heads like a phantom. He was so fast that the World Ender Jiuying never managed to react in time.

He spread his left hand and aimed his left palm at the still panicking and hissing snake head. Then, he clenched it slowly.

His movement looked slow and gentle, but it really clenched the snake head and the space it existed in all into his palm. Sun, moon and stars seemed to flicker between his fingers, and all of the cosmos seemed to exist within his grasp. The space surrounding the snake head instantly solidified and collapsed inward into an invisible cage, trapping the head firmly despite its mighty struggles.

At the same time, still holding the Earthly Sovereign Bell with his right hand, Ye Qing threw a punch at the snake head that was attempting to bite him from his right flank.

The punch was empowered by the Earthly Sovereign Bell’s immeasurable power to suppress realms. Even more, it was empowered by his own overwhelming fist intent. Hence, it was like the collapse of heavens or the fall of the sun!

Thunk—!

There was no scream. There wasn’t even too much of an impact.

The Earthly Sovereign Bell struck the snake head squarely, and the next moment, both the head and its neck soundlessly melted, crumbled, and disintegrated soundlessly into nothing. It looked like melting snow under the sun.

The shower of gore was instantly vaporized and annihilated by blazing dark yellow and domineering fist intent. Not even a speck of dust was left behind.

In just the blink of an eye, the infamous and monstrous Stranger of the Four Evils, the World Ender Jiuying, had just one head left, and it was currently trapped in the spatial cage Ye Qing had created with his left hand. It was struggling futilely and roaring soundlessly in despair:

“Mercy... forgive me...”

Its voice was full of begging as it struggled inside the spatial cage, “I... I am willing to become your eternal slave... all I ask... is that you let me live...”

Ye Qing looked down on the begging snake head beneath his palm and uttered coldly, “Are you deaf? I only kill villains and monsters, not deliver them from suffering!”

As soon as he finished, Ye Qing clenched his fingers and caused the spatial cage to contract inward!

CRACK—!

There was the sound of bone cracking and a short, despairing hiss, and the next second, only silence remained.

One last burst of awesome power from Ye Qing’s palm later, the final snake head and the fragments of consciousness remaining inside its skull were completely ground into nothingness.

After all nine of its heads were slain, the gigantic snake body that spanned heavens-know-how-long collapsed as if it had lost all of its pillars and vitality. Like a collapsing mountain range, it plunged into the deeper darkness below and stirred up an endless number of undercurrents.