Chapter 727 726: Intercept and Kill

"Hm? Someone's here?"

Zuo Yu and Yao Yueye's expressions changed, and they scanned their surroundings with grave looks.

Their Divine Thoughts swept across the area, but they found no trace of anyone.

Zuo Yu said, "We must be paranoid. There's no one here."

"No. Don't you think it's too quiet?" Yao Yueye asked in a low voice, a wise glint in his eyes.

"Quiet?"

Zuo Yu froze for a moment before realization dawned.

This was the Azure Sky Sea, thousands of kilometers from Heaven's Edge Island. It was already part of the Desolate Sea, which should have been teeming with Demon Beasts.

But there wasn't a single Demon Beast in sight.

The only explanation was that a power terrifying enough to scare them all away was present.

"Hahaha, as expected of the High-Tier Spirit Emperor, Jiang Chen! Such keen Perception Power is truly admirable!" As a cold laugh echoed, the void before them rippled, and a figure stepped through the air.

Yebo, clad in dark cyan, flickered into view before Jiang Chen and the others.

His eyes, filled with a grim, crimson light, locked onto Jiang Chen, brimming with cold malice. "Jiang Chen, you've finally arrived. I have been waiting for quite some time!"

"Gyeh heh heh, and me!"

Amid the sinister laughter, Demon Plow also tore through the void, appearing beside them.

Two masters, both comparable to the Emperor Realm Perfection Level.

It was as if they had long expected Jiang Chen's group to appear here.

Zuo Yu's expression flickered, his eyes wide with shock and disbelief. "How could you possibly know about this place? This is a secret passage of Heaven's Edge Island. Only Master and a few Elders know of it. Even I only learned about it as we were leaving! Why were you waiting here?"

Zuo Yu was Duann Tianya's Direct Disciple.

His status in Heaven's Edge Sea Pavilion was comparable to that of an Elder, yet even he hadn't been fully aware of this secret passage.

The fact that Yebo and Demon Plow were already waiting here was simply impossible for him to accept.

"Heh heh, Jiang Chen, you must have guessed by now, right?" Yebo laughed sinisterly.

Jiang Chen took a deep breath, his expression grim. He glanced at Zuo Yu, then fixed his cold gaze on Yebo. "I never thought Duann Yu would actually conspire with monsters like you."

"Duann Yu? H-How could it be him?" Zuo Yu was utterly shocked.

Duann Yu!

He was the beloved youngest son of his master, Duann Tianya, the lord of Heaven's Edge Sea Pavilion! How could he possibly cooperate with the Yaksha and Demon Flood Dragon Races and leak their location?

At the thought that Duann Yu had likely betrayed them, Zuo Yu's face grew even paler.

Yebo shrugged and laughed nonchalantly. "We're just each getting what we need. I want the young dragon, and he wants you dead. We have a common goal!"

"Enough with the nonsense."

Demon Plow's malicious gaze swept over Jiang Chen. "By this time next year, we'll be marking the anniversary of your death!"

Yao Yueye's expression changed in an instant. A tyrannical wave of energy erupted from his stooped frame as he said in a low voice, "Master, you go first! I'll hold them off!"

Demon Plow roared with laughter, his voice dripping with derision. "None of you are getting away!"

SWISH!

A strange black crystal appeared in his hand, and he suddenly crushed it.

BOOM—

The black crystal exploded into particles of shimmering black dust that scattered in all directions, forming a massive black Array. The perimeter of the Array was a huge circle of black light that covered a radius of a hundred li. Within the Array, a giant Hexagram glowed with a cold light.

VMMMM!

Under the shroud of this bizarre Array, flight in this region of space was completely sealed!

"Gyeh heh heh, I laid this Sky-Banning Array long ago just to kill you. Jiang Chen, die!" Demon Plow roared, black energy billowing around him as he charged at Jiang Chen.

Black light pulsed in his hand, forming into a terrifying black dragon claw.

He swiped it viciously at Jiang Chen. "Black Dragon Shattering Heaven!"

A tearing claw mark materialized in the void, shooting toward Jiang Chen.

"Master, look out!" Yao Yueye's expression changed as he rushed toward the black dragon claw.

But Jiang Chen was even faster.

In a flash, he had already moved past Yao Yueye. Extremely pleased with Yao Yueye's loyalty, Jiang Chen's lips curled into a smirk. "Old Yao, just sit tight and wait. I'm about to prepare an Emperor Realm Peak Level Emperor Yuan Pill for you!"

"Huh?"

Yao Yueye shuddered, his face a mask of shock.

'An Emperor Yuan Pill from an Emperor Realm Peak expert?'

His gaze instinctively fell upon Demon Plow.

Demon Plow was also furious. He was the Ninth Supreme Elder of the Demon Flood Dragon Race, a being of tyrannical strength and revered status, yet in Jiang Chen's eyes, he was nothing more than a future Emperor Yuan Pill?

"Junior, you are too arrogant! Just die!" Demon Plow roared, his other hand also transforming into a dragon claw and swiping forward.

Jiang Chen snorted and raised a hand to meet the attack. "Demon Plow, just obediently become the ingredient for my Emperor Yuan Pill!"

SWISH!

His palm struck out through the air.

Yebo froze, then burst out laughing. "What an idiot! He's actually trying to match the Demon Flood Dragon Race in physical strength? That's like throwing an egg against a stone!"

"Dragon Battle Star Field!"

Jiang Chen sneered. A purple-gold light pulsed on his arm, and with a series of SWISHING sounds, it coalesced over his limb, transforming it into a purple-gold Azure Dragon Claw. In the next instant, it smashed into Demon Plow's black claw. A deafening BOOM shook heaven and earth, as if the sun and moon themselves were spinning in the sky.

The purple-gold light erupted, vast and brilliant, transforming into a heavenly aurora of the same color.

Within the purple-gold aurora, Jiang Chen's five fingers seemed to transform into five colossal dragons soaring through the Azure Heaven, unleashing an incomparably terrifying power.

RUMBLE...

Under the assault of the purple-gold light, Demon Plow's black claw shattered like an eggshell against stone. Crack after crack spread across its surface.

It shattered, piece by piece.

"No—!"

Demon Plow let out a sky-shattering roar, his eyes filled with utter shock.

The body of an Emperor Realm Peak Demon Flood Dragon was comparable to a Saint Tier High-level Profound Weapon and could even withstand a few blows from a Demigod Weapon. Yet under Jiang Chen's claw, it was as fragile as tofu.

This was simply inconceivable!

Yao Yueye was dumbfounded. "..."

Zuo Yu was stupefied. "..."

Yebo, who had just been so smugly mocking Jiang Chen, was utterly speechless. "Th-th-this..."

"Dragon Battle Star Field!"

Jiang Chen pressed his advantage, closing the distance until he was practically on top of Demon Plow. The purple-gold dragon claw shot out once more.

VMMMM!

The void trembled as the purple-gold claw landed squarely on Demon Plow's chest.

"ARGH—!"

Demon Plow shrieked in agony.

His chest burst open, revealing five gruesome claw marks that had torn through flesh and Scale Armor to expose the stark white bone beneath. Blood gushed out, spraying across the sky and falling like a torrential, sanguine rain. The pungent stench of blood filled the air.

Demon Plow's figure shot backward, and he came to a stop several kilometers away in the void. He stared at Jiang Chen, his expression dark and uncertain.

His eyes, like two orbs of ice, radiated a bone-deep chill. "I don't even remember the last time I bled. Jiang Chen, you will pay the price for this!"

He wiped a hand across the blood on his chest, then extended his tongue to lick the crimson stains from his claws. His eyes were incomparably cold.

As black energy pulsed around him, a terrifying dragon's roar erupted. ROOOOAR! Demon Plow shot into the sky, shrouded in a terrifying black light. His body swelled, transforming into a ten-thousand-zhang Demon Flood Dragon. His eyes, now like two blood moons, locked onto Jiang Chen as his voice boomed like rolling thunder, deafening all with a single word: "KILL!"