Chapter 3418 – One Sword Defeats a Divine Emperor
Huang Qi stared at Jiang Chen, a faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth and killing intent filling his eyes. At this moment he no longer intended to leave this guy any room at all. Kill him, destroy the Profound Wind Sect: for his Zhongxing Sect, the Linhe Boundary was only a matter of no great importance.
“It seems you have no idea how difficult your situation is right now. Then let strength do the talking.”
Huang Qi’s hand moved, and a Weeping Blood Divine Spear was gripped in it, its spear light pointing straight at Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen smiled coldly, held the Heavenly Dragon Sword and stood proudly without moving an inch.
“Hand over your life!”
Huang Qi shouted furiously. Spear shadows filled the void, with a world-destroying divine might that was matchless under heaven. A shadow of gloom fell over the faces of everyone in the Profound Wind Sect.
“It looks like this time Senior Brother Jiang Chen is more likely to lose than win.”
“This guy is too terrifying, isn’t he? How did Senior Brother Jiang Chen offend him? This is too frightening.”
“Hard to say. I believe that even if Senior Brother Jiang Chen loses, it won’t be too ugly.”
“Come on, have a little faith in Senior Brother Jiang Chen, would you?”
Everyone watched eagerly, hoping Jiang Chen could become powerful, protect the Profound Wind Sect, and become the one and only guardian deity in their hearts.
Merciless spear shadows danced across the sky. Huang Qi was like a peerless god of war, towering above the void, almost completely sealing off Jiang Chen’s escape route. Jiang Chen now had nowhere to hide. Facing a hundred thousand spear shadows, he seemed to have given up, as if facing death.
But at this moment, Jiang Chen smiled calmly. The sword in his hand finally moved. It was soul-shaking. Wherever the sword passed, there was a deafening sound like a piercing hum that could split mountains. With one sword, Huang Qi was knocked back directly. The endless spear shadows turned into a sky full of mist, completely collapsed and dissipated into the void. At that scene, everyone fell silent, their breathing extremely heavy. Jiang Chen’s sword was simply too stunning. It was so fast they could not even find his figure. Beneath the sky full of spear shadows, it turned into a streak of flowing sword light that cut through thorns and brambles and shattered every illusion. When the spear shadows were extinguished, the sword shadow took their place. Jiang Chen’s sword had already spanned the summit of the sky and come slashing down.
The brilliance of that sword changed the color of heaven and earth. The momentum of that sword stirred the winds and clouds. Before the spear in Huang Qi’s hand could even fall, it had already been knocked flying by Jiang Chen.
Huang Qi’s face was deathly pale, utterly shocked. When he lowered his head, the divine spear had already left his hand, and Jiang Chen’s sword shadow had already landed in front of his chest.
Whoosh—
Although many had already rated Jiang Chen’s strength highly, they had still not expected that this one sword of Jiang Chen’s would deliver a killing stroke.
One sword defeats a Divine Emperor!
Huang Qi felt suffocated, pained, conflicted. His expression shifted so much that even he could hardly make sense of it. Had he lost just like that? He was the Zhongxing Sect’s supreme genius, the kind seen once in a hundred thousand years! He had gone into seclusion for ten thousand years, broken through to the Divine Emperor Realm, looked down on all heroes, and become a genius disciple admired across the Central Region Divine Land. He was the treasured disciple held in the palms of the sect’s elders and sect master. How could he lose? How could he possibly lose?
All of this kept churning in Huang Qi’s mind. He had once gone alone into the Ghost Domain and swept through it invincibly. Who else but him! He had looked down on countless geniuses and become the one and only among monstrous talents. Yet today, he had actually lost to Jiang Chen, who came out of some remote corner, a piece of garbage who should have been trampled under his feet. All of it seemed so unreal, so suffocating.
“The Zhongxing Sect, I will set foot on it. But killing you means nothing. I want you to see with your own eyes the Zhongxing Sect destroyed at the hands of me, Jiang Chen. That will be the day you die.”
Jiang Chen smiled faintly. But for Huang Qi, it was an enormous humiliation, even more painful than being killed.
It was a naked insult. He had swept across the Divine Lands, yet lost to him in a single move. The might of that one sword was something he still could not comprehend. How could this guy be so strong? Now Jiang Chen was actually not killing him and was letting him return to the Zhongxing Sect. He actually wanted to go up to the Zhongxing Sect for revenge, to avenge this bunch of ants of the Linhe Boundary? For Huang Qi, it was simply a fool’s dream. But Jiang Chen’s indifference stung every one of Huang Qi’s nerves. No matter what, he was already Jiang Chen’s defeated foe.
Huang Qi clenched his fists tightly. This was even more bitter than being cut down outright. The veins bulged on Huang Qi’s face, which was as dark as water. Today he was destined to flee the Linhe Boundary in defeat.
“I, Huang Qi, will engrave today’s humiliation in my heart forever.”
Huang Qi turned and left, turning into a streak of light, because he had no face left to stay here. Staying any longer would only let more people laugh at him, a Divine Emperor piece of trash.
Jiang Chen’s single sword had almost destroyed all of Huang Qi’s confidence. All his years of pride had shattered along with it and vanished like smoke. It could be said that Jiang Chen had used the most vicious way to knock Huang Qi off his pedestal. He had needed no tricks at all to deal countless crushing blows to this conceited, arrogant supreme genius.
“We won? Senior Brother Jiang Chen won! Hahahaha, our Profound Wind Sect is saved!”
No one knew who shouted it first, but it swept up the entire Profound Wind Sect. Countless people wept with joy. Countless people looked up at their Senior Brother Jiang Chen and could not help bowing in worship. That domineering air looking down from the summit of the sky was something they could never reach in this lifetime.
The Profound Wind Sect was saved. Jiang Chen had become the Profound Wind Sect’s only life-saving straw. He had driven everyone away and slain those merciless executioners, and the Profound Wind Sect had suffered not a single casualty. At this moment, it was the pride of every one of them.
“Jiang Chen, what a Jiang Chen!”
Xuan Qingming said with great relief, his heart rising and falling, unable to settle. If not for Jiang Chen, the Profound Wind Sect would long since have been razed to the ground without a single survivor. If not for Jiang Chen, the sect’s orthodox lineage would have been wiped out completely. If not for Jiang Chen, how could they be here talking and laughing? If not for Jiang Chen…
Yang Jian and Man Shuai both sighed, yet with joy they could not hide. They were happy that the Profound Wind Sect had been saved; they sighed because Jiang Chen’s back was forever something they could never hope to catch up to. So it had been, and so it was now.
“When will we ever be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Jiang Chen?”
Yang Jian said with a bitter smile.
“That day will come. I firmly believe it.”
Man Shuai’s eyes blazed. He had long since made Jiang Chen the goal he strove for.
“I don’t believe it, hahaha.”
Yang Jian laughed unrestrainedly, and Man Shuai’s face instantly turned very sour as he glared at Yang Jian.
No one could know how terrifying Jiang Chen was, just as no one had known when Jiang Chen would return. The moment he returned to the Profound Wind Sect, he filled everyone with confidence a hundredfold.
The sect’s great banner fluttered in the wind. Jiang Chen was like a god who could not be profaned, an incomparable existence for the Profound Wind Sect.