Pain came from his neck.
The Dao Robe Quasi-sage fell into the sea of fire, reaching to cover his neck with his hand. There was a viscous liquid on his hand, accompanied by a strong bloody smell.
There was still lingering sword intent that ached slightly, like small thorns pierced into his body.
"Damn!"
The Dao Robe Quasi-sage yelled angrily. He stood up from the sea of fire, tore half of his Daoist robe, stared at Chen Xia in the high sky, and gnashed his teeth, "You didn't run away after all!"
"How could I run away and not kill an old bastard like you?" Chen Xia asked back, holding his sword.
"Who was the one that left earlier?" The Dao Robe Quasi-sage asked again.
"You don't need to know that," Chen Xia shook his head and looked towards Wang Yangzi, "Time is limited, let's finish this quickly!"
"Alright," Wang Yangzi nodded. His expression was somewhat shocked. When Chen Xia told him about this method earlier, he thought Chen Xia was joking. He didn't expect that Chen Xia had really glimpsed the threshold of transcending the mundane and entering sagehood, and had even taken two steps towards it.
The Dao Robe Quasi-sage was also gnashing his teeth in appraisal.
In principle, if Chen Xia had only glimpsed the threshold of transcending the mundane, he wouldn't have such killing force. But the absurdity was that his transcending the mundane was not the same.
It was enlightenment of three Daos to become a sage!
And from the killing force just now, the grade of his flying sword was also not ordinary, it should be a top-grade Half-Immortal Sword!
Such a character was a genius among geniuses.
The Dao Robe Quasi-sage suddenly lamented that it would be great if Chen Xia was a cultivator from their realm.
What a pity there was no such thing as if.
He stopped the bleeding and raised both hands upwards. The entire sea of fire howled as it rose high up, seeming to replace this sky, wanting to burn Chen Xia and Wang Yangzi together.
"Draw your sword!" Chen Xia shouted, his body turning into thunder as he charged upwards holding his sword.
Wang Yangzi put all his spiritual energy into action, his sword light overtaking Chen Xia's sword light, striking first!
With a swoosh!
The sea of fire's thousands of feet high wall blocked his strike first before counterattacking, intending to annihilate Chen Xia.
Buzz!
Wang Yangzi slashed open the encircling thousands of feet firewall with another sword light, creating a gap for Chen Xia to charge through.
The Half-Immortal Sword led the way. Its dazzling sword light whistled.
The flames along the way did not impede it at all. This strike was still going towards the Quasi-sage's head.
The Dao Robe Quasi-sage pressed down with his hand behind him and coldly snorted, "Previously caught off guard, I let you succeed. Don't think you can still injure me!"
In the sea of fire, a palm the size of heaven and earth condensed and patted towards Chen Xia.
Chen Xia held his sword with both hands. A crimson flash appeared in his left eye, the corners of his lips widening into a sudden smile. He roared loudly,
"Don't fucking block my way!"
His sword slashed onto the giant fiery palm, leaving cracks and openings.
And in that instant, Wang Yangzi had arrived in front of the Dao Robe Quasi-sage. With blazing flames on his hand, his sword slashed at the head.
To deal with Wang Yangzi, the Dao Robe Quasi-sage could only give up on dealing with Chen Xia and defend with all his might against Wang Yangzi.
After all, Wang Yangzi was also a Quasi-sage. He didn't dare be careless either.
Chen Xia waved with one hand, grabbed a thread of time, and slashed with his sword,
Seizing the opportunity.
So his figure arrived almost together with Wang Yangzi before the Dao Robe Quasi-sage.
It was two swords slashing down simultaneously!
Amidst the majestic sea of fire, ten beams of crisscrossing sword lights burst out, seemingly slicing open the entire sea of fire!
Flaming orange-yellow blood sprayed in the air between the heaven and earth.
The Dao Robe Quasi-sage fell into the sea of fire again. There was an extremely deep ten character wound on his chest, with lingering rampaging sword intent that incessantly tore apart his flesh and depleted his spiritual energy.
Clenching his teeth, he barely stood up while cursing repeatedly, "Damn sword cultivators, damn, damn!"
Why would there be such unreasonable existences in the heaven and earth?
Wang Yangzi could still make sense since he was a Quasi-sage. But why was Chen Xia's killing strike also so ruthless, even more painful than Wang Yangzi's. The sword intent still hadn't faded away until now.
Chen Xia would probably become a Quasi-sage soon at this rate.
Judging by his current progress of transcending the mundane and entering sagehood, he was only half a step away from becoming a Quasi-sage. He killed the number one ranked genius under the Tribulations Severing stage like butchering pigs.
Such talent was simply horrifying.
The Dao Robe Quasi-sage coughed violently twice. Vital essence and blood sprayed out from his mouth, his strength already somewhat depleted.
Being heavily injured by Wang Yangzi's sword and Chen Xia's two swords, especially the two strikes from the Half-Immortal Sword, the pure sword intent within was not something an ordinary Quasi-sage like him could endure.
If it was one-on-one, he could easily kill Chen Xia.
But there was an extra Wang Yangzi.
A Wang Yangzi evenly matched with him.
So the extra Chen Xia determined the victor.
The conclusion had been set from the moment he fought Wang Yangzi alone.
Sword cultivators had always been extremely fast at killing.
He shouldn't have stayed and fought. Now seriously injured with erratic vitality, it was even harder for him to escape.
Wang Yangzi came over with raised sword, preparing to deliver the final blow.
Unresigned to die like this, the Dao Robe Quasi-sage gnashed his teeth. Blazing flames erupted from his body as the sea of fire surged into a huge wave intending to overwhelm them as his final counterattack.
Wang Yangzi retreated hundreds of feet with his sword then swung hard. His sword flame welcomed and resisted the flame wave as he gritted his teeth to withstand it.
Chen Xia stood in the starry sky. His left hand reached out. Greyish white brilliance appeared and probed in the void. It suddenly stopped as if it had found something. First a pause, then he gently pulled.
His right hand fiercely threw out the Half-Immortal Sword to invert and fall into the void, vanishing without a trace.
Chen Xia then pinched his right hand's index finger and thumb together, forming what seemed like an eye. Within it was the distant reflection of the Dao Robe Quasi-sage.
Buzz.
It was like the Dao Robe Quasi-sage heard the cry of a sword beside his ear. Frowning, he looked around but saw nothing.
Tinnitus?
An illusion?
He wasn't too sure.
Buzz!
Extremely loud.
The Half-Immortal Sword suddenly shot out from in front of him. Like abruptly appearing from the long river of time, it seized the moment of his greatest weakness to directly stab into his chest!
Orange-yellow blood gushed out nonstop, first splattering onto the flying sword before spraying across the starry sky.
The Dao Robe Quasi-sage stared blankly at Chen Xia in the celestial dome.
He finally understood why sages who comprehended the Great Dao of Time could be on par with sword Dao sages.
Truly difficult to guard against!
A clear long roar came from the void.
Covering half the starry sky, an enormous True Dragon's head peered out from the void. With head tilted back, it swallowed the Dao Robe Quasi-sage. Its huge vertical pupils glanced obliquely, sizing up Wang Yangzi.
The Half-Immortal Sword flew out from between the True Dragon's teeth and returned to float by Chen Xia's side.
The True Dragon's neck visibly made a swallowing motion before burping contentedly not long after.
It was quite a mouthful after all.
Such a Quasi-sage existence could supplement considerable nutrients for the Celestial Dragon True Body. Its next appearance probably wouldn't be limited to just a dragon head.
The 50% of Wang Yangzi's sword intent returned. His body grew tall again as he appraised Chen Xia and couldn't help but say,
"Admirable."
He truly couldn't see through Chen Xia.
This move was clearly a high-level scheme.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
and couldn't return to the real world. Finally, I gave up and decided to go with the flow, only to discover that writing a diary could make me stronger. Since no one could read it, Su Luo wrote freely, daring to pen anything and everything. Female Lead #1: "Not bad. This diary helped me steal all the protagonist's opportunities. I just want to get stronger." Female Lead #2: "I don’t care about reaching the peak of the cultivation world. Right now, I just want to enjoy the chaos." Female Lead #3: "What? Everyone around me is a spy? I’m the Joker Demon Lord?" ... It’s so strange. Why is the plot completely off track, yet the ending remains the same? Are you all just messing with me?!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
