The black-robed leader had all his attention fixed on the beast clan members in front of him. He never expected someone to launch a vicious attack from the side and rear, let alone someone with such terrifying strength!
By the time he sensed the bone-chilling killing intent and the unparalleled sharp sword energy, it was already too late!
In his haste, he could only hold the Myriad Souls Banner horizontally in front of him, desperately urging his demonic essence. Ghostly shadows overlapped heavily on the banner’s surface as he tried to block the strike.
However, in the face of Chen Ping’s strongest sword attack, which fused multiple laws and was driven by chaotic immortal power, his defence was as flimsy as paper!
“Chi!”
There was no earth-shaking explosion, only a faint sound, like fabric being torn.
The five-coloured sword energy, like a hot knife cutting through butter, effortlessly pierced through the heavy black qi protection of the Myriad Souls Banner. Then, with impeccable precision, it penetrated straight through the black-robed leader’s forehead!
The black-robed leader’s movements froze instantly. His face still bore an expression of shock and disbelief, his pupils rapidly losing focus.
In the next moment, his body, like a sand sculpture eroded by wind, began to show countless spiderweb-like cracks starting from his forehead. With a “peng” sound, both his body and the divine soul within were completely annihilated, turning into flying ash!
Only the damaged Myriad Souls Banner and a storage ring clinked as they fell to the ground.
Silence!
A deathly stillness!
The ferocious grins on the faces of the remaining four black-robed men froze in an instant, replaced by boundless fear and horror!
They had not even seen clearly how the attacker had appeared, yet their strongest leader had already been killed in seconds!
The two beast clan members were also stunned. The dazed feeling of having survived a calamity left them momentarily forgetting to react. They stared blankly at the tall and upright figure who had suddenly appeared, dressed in a cyan robe and holding a long sword dripping with blood.
Chen Ping established his authority with a single sword strike and did not pause. The Dragon-Slaying Sword let out a pleased light hum as he moved with the sword!
“Space-Time Domain, activate!”
With him at the centre, the space within a ten-zhang radius slightly distorted. The flow of time became viscous and slow!
The four black-robed men, whose strengths ranged from the second to fourth grade of the Heavenly Immortal realm, immediately felt as if they had fallen into an invisible quagmire. Every movement became extremely difficult, and the circulation of demonic essence within their bodies grew obstructed and sluggish!
“Die!”
The icy word escaped Chen Ping’s mouth.
Sword light rose again, like the scythe of the God of Death, tracing fatal trajectories within the confined space-time domain.
“No!”
“Spare us!”
The shrill screams and pleas for mercy abruptly cut off.
As the sword light flashed, four heads soared into the sky, bearing expressions of terror and despair.
The headless corpses swayed and collapsed. Blood gushed out like fountains, staining the ground red. Their divine souls had just attempted to flee when they were shredded to pieces by the lingering sword qi within the domain.
From the moment Chen Ping appeared to the complete annihilation of the five disciples of the Myriad Souls Demon Sect, the entire process took only three to five breaths!
Clean and decisive, like thunderbolts!
Chen Ping stood holding his sword, his robes fluttering, unstained by dust.
He slowly turned around and looked at the two beast clan members who were still in shock.
At this moment, Chen Ping felt excellent!
Yet reason told him not to become blindly confident or show off.
Otherwise, he might easily suffer a setback.
“Th… thank you, senior, for saving our lives!”
The tiger-patterned man reacted first. Enduring intense pain, he struggled to kneel on one knee. His voice trembled slightly due to excitement and his injuries.
The leopard-tailed woman quickly followed suit and knelt, her eyes filled with gratitude and awe.
“No need for excessive courtesy.”
Chen Ping raised his hand in a virtual gesture of support. A gentle force lifted the two of them up.
His gaze swept over the corpses on the ground and the damaged Myriad Souls Banner, his brows slightly furrowed. “You mentioned earlier that they are from the Myriad Souls Demon Sect? That they often come to seize your beast soul crystal veins?”
“Exactly!”
The tiger-patterned man said through gritted teeth, “These demon spawn have become increasingly rampant in recent decades! Not only do they hunt down lone members of our clan in the outskirts and extract their souls to cultivate evil arts, they also covet the beast soul crystal veins deep within the mountains! Senior, you…”
Chen Ping did not answer immediately. He walked to where the black-robed leader had been annihilated and used his divine sense to retrieve the storage ring and the damaged Myriad Souls Banner from afar.
His divine sense forcibly broke through the remaining restrictions on the storage ring. Inside, apart from some commonly used demonic path pills, materials, and a not particularly large amount of spirit stones, there was nothing of great value.
There were no clues about the Soul-Devouring Venerable or the core secrets of the Myriad Souls Demon Sect.
His gaze fell on the remnants of blood, flesh, and lingering soul aura from the black-robed men that had not yet fully dissipated.
