Chapter 1406 - Blood Primeval Fruit in Hand, Breakthrough

“Die!”

Chen Fan clenched his fist, and starry light swirled around him, mingling with dazzling strands of gold. His strike descended like a blazing star crashing through the heavens: brilliant, unstoppable, and terrifying to behold.

“You’re courting death!”

Wind Fiend’s expression changed. The sheer might of Chen Fan’s punch made his chest tremble violently, an invisible pressure weighing down on him until it felt suffocating.

Thankfully, he wasn’t completely powerless despite having suffered heavy injuries. A saber appeared in his grasp. Activating it, he unleashed a terrifying streak of saber light.

Every ounce of potential within him had been forced into this desperate counterattack—his one chance to wound Chen Fan heavily.

Bang!

The punch and saber met. The fist was as hard as iron and sent the Wind Fiend’s saber flying out of his grasp, torn away by the overwhelming impact.

Yet the fist did not falter. It pressed forward with unstoppable momentum, driving straight toward Wind Fiend's chest.

Chen Fan hadn’t spent the last three months just getting chased. His cultivation had reached the peak of the middle stage, making his combat strength comparable to a fifth-stage half-immortal. The only reason he still wasn’t fighting the two fiends together was that their combined strength was comparable to a sixth-stage half-immortal.

He did not regard either of them as a threat, especially not Wind Fiend, crippled by his injuries. Even burning his potential dry, the Wind Fiend still fell short.

“What?”

Wind Fiend was astonished. Ignoring the torn flesh of his palms, he thrust both hands outward, hastily weaving a qi wall before him.

But Chen Fan’s fist crashed into it at once, shattering it. The barrier could not slow him for even an instant before the strike landed squarely upon Wind Fiend.

Bang!

Crack, crack, crack!

A dull thud echoed, followed by the sickening crack of bones splintering one after another.

“

Pfft

!”

Wind Fiend spat out a mouthful of blood. His chest caved in from Chen Fan’s punch. His ribs had shattered and stabbed his organs.

“How... how could this be?” Wind Fiend’s gaze fixed on Chen Fan, wide with disbelief.

The one who had once been their prey now stood before him like an unstoppable monster. This was impossible. How could Chen Fan, a mere Void Immortal, possibly beat him half to death with a single punch? Even in his injured state, such a reversal should have been impossible.

“Think about it in hell!” Chen Fan sneered coldly as he took another step forward. Blinding golden light shone on his fist and swept out with a suffocating aura.

“Stop!” An extremely furious roar came from afar. The older brother, Black Fiend, had come.

But Chen Fan never paused. His fist slammed into Wind Fiend once more.

Boom!

The nearly lifeless body trembled; a faint groan slipped from Wind Fiend’s lips before his vitality was utterly extinguished. He collapsed, dead on the spot.

Even in death, Wind Fiend’s eyes were wide open in disbelief. He could not accept that his end had come so swiftly.

Moments ago, he and his brother Black Fiend had brimmed with ambition, dreaming of capturing Chen Fan once the Blood Primeval Fruit was in their grasp. They envisioned soaring cultivation, riches, and glory: the world itself bending beneath their feet after breaching the immortal realm.

𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

However, all of that turned out to be merely wishful thinking.

They were not the hunters but the hunted. He had never imagined that behind them lurked a fisherman with an even wider net—an oriole striking at the mantis, seizing everything in one swoop.

In the end, everything he and Black Fiend had fought for became Chen Fan’s gain. Wind Fiend’s final thought was not fear but fury and deep, searing indignation.

Yet no matter how indignant he felt, it was meaningless.

Chen Fan cared nothing for disbelief or outrage. He seized the Blood Primeval Fruit and Wind Fiend’s fortune.

“You... How dare you!”

Black Fiend looked at Chen Fan furiously, pointing at him. His towering figure trembled violently, as if his anger were overwhelming him.

The bond between the two brothers had been forged over hundreds of years. Their relationship was so profound that ordinary men could never fully comprehend it. To see his younger brother beaten to death before his eyes drove Black Fiend into a blood-red frenzy.

Yet alongside his fury came disbelief.

How was this outcome not nonsensical? Even if his younger brother was heavily injured, how could a mere Void Immortal brat possibly be a match for his younger brother?

Chen Fan wasn’t worried about Black Fiend. Now that Wind Fiend was dead, and the beast leaders had heavily injured Black Wind, there was nothing left for Chen Fan to fear.

In truth, even if Black Fiend had been at his peak, Chen Fan would not have bowed to him, much less now.

If the elder brother had truly been overwhelming, Chen Fan would never have survived a month of pursuit by the Black Wind Dual Fiends.

“You’re courting death!”

Black Fiend was so furious that his rage soared to the sky. Power erupted from his hands, condensing into a vortex of qi that spiraled with destructive force before blasting toward Chen Fan.

Chen Fan smiled coldly. He grabbed Wind Fiend’s saber and unleashed an earth-shattering strike, wiping out this surge of energy.

“Die!”

Black Fiend had already closed the distance. His fist tore through the air with terrifying force, the pressure alone enough to rend the sky and leave a gaping hole where it struck.

Chen Fan didn’t receive the attack head-on.

Black Fiend had already gone berserk at this point, igniting his blood essence without a care for the consequences. His aura peaked, advancing to the peak of the fifth stage, becoming comparable to the aura of a sixth-stage half-immortal.

“

Hmph

!” Chen Fan snorted coldly. A cold gleam shone in his eyes. After evading Black Fiend’s attack, he took out the Blood Primeval Fruit, opened his mouth, and swallowed it.

At once, a faint, coppery scent spread in the air. The fruit dissolved into a torrent of energy that flooded his veins, rushing violently through his limbs and bones. Even his heart pounded as if it might burst from his chest.

Chen Fan hurriedly channeled the Heaven and Earth Furnace to absorb and refine this vast amount of energy. Simultaneously, he suppressed the energy lest the overwhelming power tear him apart from within.

“Little bastard, you dare!”

Black Fiend’s eyes bulged with rage, tears of blood streaming down his face.

He and Wind Fiend had risked their lives to snatch the Blood Primeval Fruit, and now he had to watch as Chen Fan ate their trophy right in front of him. This was simply unforgivable.

“

Ahhh

, bastard! Scoundrel! I’m going to refine you into human elixir. You couldn’t possibly absorb it all. I’ll rip it out of you and feast on you, bite by bite!”

Black Fiend’s expression turned incomparably savage, like he was an evil spirit from hell.

He was not only crying tears of blood. His heart was also bleeding.

The Blood Primeval Fruit was supposed to be his. The spiritual fruit that should have helped him break through to the sixth or even seventh-stage half-immortal realm. He and his brother had risked everything for it... only for Chen Fan to snatch it away and consume it before his helpless gaze.