Elder Evil Bone’s eyelids twitched wildly. His withered palm clenched the white bone staff so hard that his knuckles turned white.
The storm in his heart raged more fiercely than anyone else’s!
The Soul-Devouring Heavenly Venerable’s solemn promise still rang in his ears.
Yet the mighty, murderous dragon army now filling the sky, and Chen Ping who radiated an aura deep as the ocean with no trace of injury, struck him like a resounding slap across the face and across the fate of the entire Heavenly Evil Sect!
“Stop panicking!”
Elder Evil Bone forcibly suppressed the terror and the urge to curse.
He roared, his voice carried by demonic essence in all directions to steady morale, “They are nothing but a bunch of overgrown lizards and one arrogant junior! With our Ten Thousand Souls Grand Array in place, even a Heavenly Venerable could not breach it easily! Form the array. Prepare for battle!”
Before his words had fully faded, Chen Ping moved.
He did not even glance at the seemingly solid resentful soul barrier, nor did he acknowledge Elder Evil Bone’s bluster. His gaze swept slowly across the sinister sect layout below like the most precise ruler, as if searching for something.
“Who is the Heavenly Evil Sect Master? Kneel and accept death at once.”
Chen Ping finally spoke. His voice was quiet, yet it strangely pierced the formation’s obstruction and the distance of space, reaching the ears of every waiting cultivator with an icy clarity.
“And the Soul-Devouring Heavenly Venerable who hides in the dark and dares not show himself. Sending ants to die while cowering like a turtle. Is this the extent of your methods?”
Disdain filled Chen Ping’s tone.
It had been a long time since he last felt this refreshed. In the past he was always hunted, always chased and beaten.
He would be half-dead before someone came to save him.
Now he needed no one. He had this dragon army. He could sweep unchallenged across the Nine Heavens.
The Heavenly Evil Sect? The Soul-Devouring Venerable? In Chen Ping’s eyes they were now mere trash.
He would lead the dragon army straight to the Thirty-Sixth Heaven.
Being named directly and hearing the undisguised contempt, Elder Evil Bone nearly exploded with rage. When had he ever suffered such humiliation?
Especially on his own sect grounds, in front of all his disciples!
“Chen Ping, you insolent junior! Enough of your arrogance!”
Elder Evil Bone slammed his white bone staff into the void, sending out circles of grey-black ripples. “You trespass upon our sacred ground and spew madness. Do you truly think the Heavenly Evil Sect is made of clay?”
“Leave at once and this sect master may pretend nothing happened. Otherwise, today you and your lizards will come but never leave. Your bodies and souls will be annihilated and become fresh fertiliser for my Ten Thousand Bone Withered Cliff!”
“Come but never leave?”
The corners of Chen Ping’s mouth curved into a faint, freezing arc, as if he had heard something hilarious. “With that flimsy turtle shell and the sorry bunch hiding inside?”
He wasted no more words. He simply raised his right hand and swung it gently downward.
“Old Black, break the array.”
“Roar! Leave it to me! I’ve been annoyed by that rotten shield for ages!”
Old Black let out an exhilarated roar that shook the heavens. The sound wave struck the resentful soul barrier like a physical blow, making fierce ripples spread across it.
Its mountain-like body arched. Dark light exploded around it. Destructive power gathered within the dragon’s frame as hundreds of streams of draconic majesty converged upon Old Black.
Then, like an arrow loosed from a bow or a falling primordial demonic mountain, carrying momentum that could crush everything, Old Black smashed straight into the thickest part of the grey-black resentful soul barrier!
“Ten Thousand Souls Protect the Body! Spiritual Devouring Rebound!”
Elder Evil Bone’s expression changed drastically. Not daring to be careless, he frantically poured power into his white bone staff, directing the entire grand array’s strength to concentrate at the impact point.
At the same time, the dozen-plus Heavenly Immortal elders behind him acted together, pouring their refined demonic essence into the formation!
