Chapter 1423 - No One Can Save Whoever I Set My Mind to Kill

“Chen Fan, go to hell!”

A thunderous shout broke the silence on Mount Nether.

Swish, swish, swish.

Countless gazes whipped toward the source of the voice, for the name it carried struck like a lightning bolt in their ears: Chen Fan.

Rumble!

The air exploded, primeval qi surged like waves. A colossal hand stretched across the heavens, reaching greedily for a secluded corner of Mount Nether.

Chen Fan’s heart dropped the moment he heard the thunderous shout. And the very next moment, he sensed a crushing force descend on him. The sky dimmed with a deafening boom, and he saw a gigantic hand blotting out the light, clawing straight for him.

“Damn it!” Chen Fan cursed under his breath.

He had hidden himself well in the remotest corner with his aura fully suppressed, yet he had been exposed. Worse, the one who discovered him was none other than Gai Huang.

Chla!

Chen Fan’s palm spewed out sword light that cleanly cleaved the oncoming colossal hand.

“Chen Fan! It really is Chen Fan!”

“Oh boy, I can’t believe he actually dared to show up! What guts he has!”

Forced out into the open by Gai Huang, Chen Fan instantly became the focus of countless hostile gazes.

“It’s him!”

Xiao Ruyue, Li Yu, and the others were slightly taken aback when they saw him. The very man causing upheaval in the Immortal Conferral Ancient Realm was someone they had met before.

“So he’s the one they call Chen Fan?”

The alliance leaders of the Twin Prides Alliance, Xuan Yang and Xuan Xing, also looked at Chen Fan, their eyes flickering.

Despite being descendants of a Sage, they were also a bit interested in the Immortal Emperor’s legacy that Chen Fan supposedly had. However, they didn’t consider it as precious a treasure as others did. The only reason they wanted it was because it was right in front of them.

Although they hadn’t personally pursued Chen Fan, they did send their seventh and eighth-stage half-immortal subordinates to hunt him.

All of a sudden, Chen Fan felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles. He felt like a pack of wolves was ready to pounce on him and eat him whole. His heart started beating a bit faster, but he didn’t feel any fear.

Chen Fan’s gaze turned to Gai Huang, as the latter had come with a group.

𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

“Gai Huang!”

The leader of his group was a youth with an aquiline nose. He emitted a wild aura, with peak eighth-stage half-immortal realm cultivation. He was Fan Tianying, the alliance leader of the Heavenly Falcon Alliance, and he was ranked sixteenth on the Immortal Conferral Leaderboard. [1]

Although the Heavenly Falcon Alliance wasn’t part of the Five Absolutes, they were definitely one of the strongest forces in the ancient realm. Their strength was second only to the Five Absolutes, making them famous in the ancient realm.

What surprised Chen Fan was that Gai Huang had joined their ranks. Then again, with his cultivation, the Heavenly Falcon Alliance would never refuse him, nor would the Five Absolutes. After all, he was a peak sixth-stage half-immortal, so he was already an expert feared across the realm.

Chen Fan also sensed that Gai Huang had advanced to the seventh-stage half-immortal realm. That firmly placed him among the higher echelons.

Gai Huang gazed at Chen Fan, his killing intent laid bare.

Chen Fan had killed his younger brother, Gai Youdi, and destroyed the Eclipse Alliance he had painstakingly built. Worse, despite endless pursuit, Chen Fan had not only survived but grown stronger, earning fame throughout the ancient realm.

Recently, Gai Huang had learned of fresh calamities: the Hua Alliance and the Apex Mystic Alliance had both been annihilated by Chen Fan, and several seventh-stage experts had also fallen by his hand. The news struck Gai Huang like a hammer, leaving him in despair.

A year or two ago, Chen Fan could only flee before him, relying on sheer speed to survive.

But now, Chen Fan’s power eclipsed his own, leaving Gai Huang not only incapable of vengeance but forced instead to guard against Chen Fan’s looming retaliation.

Fortunately, he had joined the Heavenly Falcon Alliance. Making use of its strength, his cultivation had progressed a step further, reaching the seventh-stage half-immortal realm. Now, he wouldn’t have to be afraid of Chen Fan, as he had an alliance backing him.

“Gai Huang, I was looking for you everywhere!” Chen Fan’s eyes burned with open killing intent.

Chen Fan believed that the rumor about his “Immortal Emperor’s legacy” was likely spread by Gai Huang behind the scenes. It was intended to turn the masses against him and use them as tools to bring him down. How petty; how vicious.

“Chen Fan, you bastard, you killed my little brother. This grudge will only end in blood, and you will die today. Go to hell!” Gai Huang shouted as he stepped forward. His aura was deep like the sea, law power tumbling and roaring like a storm.

After breaking through to the seventh-stage half-immortal realm, Gai Huang had gone through a complete transformation. He was more than ten times the force he once was.

In the Immortal Conferral Ancient Realm, only a seventh-stage cultivator could be called a true powerhouse, free to roam without restraint. A peak sixth-stage master could only claim a mountain and call it dominion. There were numerous sixth-stage martial artists—numerous, but not significant.

Rumble!

Gai Huang arrived in front of Chen Fan in an instant with a blood-red spear in hand. The spear tore through space, and a large pocket of air directly collapsed. He thrust his spear toward Chen Fan, its tip seemingly wrapped in the might of a continent.

“Kill me? You? You spread the fake rumors about the Immortal Emperor’s legacy, didn’t you? How vicious of you! I was hunted nonstop because of you. Now I’ll settle every account, old and new. I’ll send you to reunite with your dead brother.”

Chilling light shot out of Chen Fan’s eyes. It turned into numerous sharp swords and rushed towards Gai Huang, bombarding the approaching blood-red spear.

“Die!”

Naturally, Chen Fan didn’t expect this attack to kill Gai Huang. It was simply unrealistic.

Blinding golden light blossomed from Chen Fan, as if he had transformed into a golden ancient god. He stepped forth, making heaven and earth tremble, and unleashed a punch. The space roared as the terrifying fist force destroyed Gai Huang’s attack overwhelmingly.

Rumble!

The torrent of fist force seemed to exist in a realm of its own, unstoppable, surging onward straight toward Gai Huang.

Although Gai Huang was already a seventh-stage half-immortal, his breakthrough was recent. Chen Fan, on the other hand, already wielded strength beyond the seventh stage; his combat power rivaled that of the eighth. Against such might, how could Gai Huang hope to resist?

Reality struck Gai Huang like cold water, snapping him awake. The person he was facing was a ferocious character who could kill a seventh-stage half-immortal realm.

Watching as the stream of terrifying fist force closed in on him, Gai Huang felt suffocated, and his mind was frozen in fear, and he went limp. He could only ask for help from Fan Tianying.

“Alliance Leader, save me!”

“Brat, stop!”

A falcon’s high-pitched cry erupted from Fan Tianying as he punched. It turned into a falcon and swooped toward Chen Fan, trying to save Gai Huang.

“No one can save whoever I set my mind to kill!”

With that, the stream of terrifying fist force tore through everything and landed on Gai Huang, blowing him up into a mist of blood.

1. Tianying literally means heavenly eagle or falcon. ☜