Chapter 1220: Who Are You, Really? (2)

They were fighting fiercely here, battling to the point of bloodshed, only to have someone steal the largest piece of the cake right under their noses?!

Moreover, this person…

“Daoist Monarch First Heaven? No… Second Heaven?!” The voice of the Black Armored Knight was filled with doubt and uncertainty, “How is this possible?! How can a mere Initial Tier Daoist Monarch withstand the infusion of Evil Qi’s source?!”

“His Dao… is peculiar!” The ten thousand eyes on the mass of flesh with myriad eyes stared fixedly at Xu Ran, as if trying to see through him, “His aura of the Great Dao unexpectedly perfectly harmonizes with the ‘reverse’ intent of the Godslaying Blade!”

“Kill… him!” The Sewn Giant roared in anger, its simple mind unable to comprehend the complexity of it all; it only knew that its ‘food’ had been snatched!

Boom!

It suddenly hurled the giant bone axe in its hand towards Xu Ran with great force!

The giant axe tore through the sky, carrying terrifying power capable of tearing the heavens and earth asunder, turning all it passed into nothingness!

This strike was enough to instantly kill any cultivator below Daoist Monarch Fifth Heaven!

Yet, facing this world-destroying blow, Xu Ran didn’t even open his eyes.

Just as the giant bone axe was about to land on him.

Clang——!

A crisp sword hum rang out from the blade of the Godslaying Blade!

A tiny streak of blood-colored Sword Qi flashed across the blade, moving so fast that it struck the edge of the giant bone axe with impeccable precision!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a slight ‘crack’.

The terrifying weapon that was formed from countless god and demon bones and resentment began to crack inch by inch from the point of impact, and finally, with a ‘boom’, it completely turned into a skyful of bone powder!

“What?!”

This time, even the Black Armored Knight and the mass of flesh with myriad eyes let out cries of shock!

The Godslaying Blade… was actively protecting this person?!

This was no longer a simple harmony; it was as if… it had recognized him!

This supremely fierce weapon, silent for countless eras, from which even Daoist Monarch pinnacle experts could only cautiously draw scattered energy, had… recognized a master?!

In that brief moment of their shock, Xu Ran’s aura ascended to a peak once more!

Daoist Monarch Second Heaven… Perfection!

Boom!

Another resounding breakthrough!

Daoist Monarch Third Heaven!

A vast wave of energy spread out from him, forcing even those three pinnacle Daoist Monarch experts to retreat repeatedly!

Finally, the blood-colored divine dragon that had entered his body gradually became illusory and eventually completely merged into Xu Ran.

The tide of Evil Qi subsided.

The deathly silence of ages returned between heaven and earth.

Xu Ran slowly opened his eyes.

The depths of his eyes were no longer clear but were tinged with a faint blood color, as if two pieces of Corpse Mountain Blood Sea were floating within. When he looked at those three scavengers of the Sea of Realms, his gaze was calm but carried a bone-deep… indifference.

It was the look of a superior looking down on inferiors!

He slowly rose, feeling the unprecedented powerful force roaring within him, a cold curve forming at the corner of his mouth.

Though he had not yet recovered to the peak of Fourth Heaven, the realm of Daoist Monarch Third Heaven, along with the Dao Foundation rebuilt by the ‘reverse’ Dao Principles, which was several times stronger than those at the same tier, and… the Godslaying Blade behind him, though broken, could still wield a trace of divine power!

These three fellows before him, it seemed… were no longer a threat.

“Finished fighting?”

Xu Ran spoke indifferently, his voice not loud, yet clearly spread across the entire battlefield.

“Now, it’s my turn.”

These five words, ordinary and unremarkable, devoid of smoke and fire, seemed to contain some magic of enacting what was spoken. As they left Xu Ran’s mouth, the ancient battlefield shrouded in Evil Qi for countless eras fell silent in an instant.

The wind ceased, that wailing gale became docile in this moment.

The Evil Qi stopped, the blood-colored mist that surged like seas and rivers solidified like amber.

Even the murderous intent and fury boiling over the three scavengers, notorious figures even in the Sea of Realms, seemed to be seized by an invisible hand!

Their pupils shrunk to the extreme in that instance.

Not because of Xu Ran’s Daoist Monarch Third Heaven aura. For them, Third Heaven was still something as insignificant as an ant, something they could crush at will.

What terrified them was when Xu Ran spoke those words, the towering “Godslaying Blade” behind him let out a slight, yet seemingly heaven-shaking… sword hum!

Clang!

This sword hum was not loud, not piercing, yet it felt like the pluck of the strings of the Great Dao, containing a supreme ‘reason’. But this ‘reason’ was not the ‘order’ of heavenly reason, but a kind of ‘inverse reason’ that severs all fetters and destroys all rules!

Under this sword hum, the Black Armored Knight felt the murderous Great Dao he prided in was trembling, as if a subject met a monarch! The mass of flesh with myriad eyes simultaneously shed ghastly green blood tears, its curse divine thought that disturbed torn laws forcibly severed from the Heaven and Earth Laws by this ‘inverse reason’! The Sewn Giant let out a cry of agony, its overwhelmingly powerful flesh howling with every inch, as if this will was deconstructing and reversing it from the most fundamental level!

“Who… who are you really?!” The voice of the Black Armored Knight carried a tremor of fear for the first time. His hand gripping the black spear bulged with veins, yet he found even the courage to attack was being worn away by this sword hum.

This was beyond a clash of power levels; it was… absolute suppression on the essence of life, or rather, on the rank of ‘Dao’!

Xu Ran did not answer.

He merely slowly raised his right hand, extending a finger.

At the tip of his finger, a trace of weak blood-colored light swirled, gathered, and finally formed into a blood-colored Sword Qi about an inch long, seeming almost solid.

This Sword Qi was small, weak, utterly insignificant next to that towering Broken Sword, like dust.

But the moment it appeared, the Black Armored Knight, the mass of flesh with myriad eyes, and the Sewn Giant, these three pinnacle Daoist Monarch experts, all simultaneously felt an unprecedented crisis of death! It was as if an ancient fierce beast that had slumbered for eons had just opened its eyes to look coldly at them.

“Flee!”

This thought screamed wildly in the minds of the Black Armored Knight and the mass of flesh with myriad eyes! They were scavengers of the Sea of Realms, desperadoes who licked blood off blades, their intuition for danger deeply ingrained in their bones. They had no doubt that if they were even touched by that small sword Qi, their end would be far worse than the destruction of their Divine Souls!

Without any hesitation, the Black Armored Knight’s black cape suddenly exploded, transforming into countless howling demonic shadows escaping madly in all directions, while his true body turned into a stream of black light ten times faster than before, fleeing into the depths of the Sea of Realms!

The mass of flesh with myriad eyes was even more decisive; its enormous mountain-like body exploded with a thunderous roar, transforming into ten thousand eyeballs! Each eyeball was wrapped with a wisp of its source divine thought, shooting into different void fissures like a green meteor shower. This was its lifesaving Divine Technique ‘Myriad Thoughts Transformation’, as long as one eyeball escaped, it could, at great cost, recreate its true form!

Only the not-so-intelligent Sewn Giant reacted a half beat too late. It merely followed its battle instinct, roaring as it smashed its massive fist composed of countless corpse arms towards Xu Ran! This punch invoked all its Qi Blood and Power, collapsing vast sections of space with its force, forming a pitch-black, destruction-breathing void!

Facing the varied reactions of the three strong cultivators, Xu Ran’s expression remained that indifferent calm.

His gaze didn’t even acknowledge the two who had fled, instead falling on the mountain-like giant fist that crashed towards him.