Chapter 69: Asura’s Wrath

Lin Feng didn’t wait for the three stitched together juggernauts to close the final ten paces.

"Asura’s Wrath!"

He swung the Rage Forged Cleaver down with everything his Qi foundation could muster.

BOOM!

A terrifying, razor thin crescent of compressed crimson killing intent erupted from the heavy blade. It tore across the slick root platform like a falling blood-moon, howling with the accumulated malice of every beast Lin Feng had slaughtered in the swamp.

The shockwave slammed dead center into the leading juggernaut. There was no clash of steel against bone. The crimson arc sliced cleanly through the monster’s towering, stitched together torso, bisecting it from shoulder to hip and vaporizing the glowing necromantic core buried inside its chest.

The massive creature didn’t even get to roar before its two halves collapsed into the black mud in a shower of rotting flesh and severed dark chains.

Before the remaining two juggernauts could adjust their stride, the secondary blast wave from the strike crashed into them. The concussive force sheared the left arm off the second monster and shattered the kneecaps of the third, sending both titans skidding violently across the roots. Worse yet for them, the violent spike of pure killing intent washed over their stitched together minds, locking both anomalies in a state of rigid, twitching soul-stun.

Lin Feng staggered back two steps, planting the tip of his cleaver into the wood to keep himself upright. He coughed, tasting blood at the back of his throat as his meridians throbbed from the sheer qi drain. One swing had burned through nearly half his reserves.

"Now!" Lin Feng barked, gesturing sharply with his chin. "They’re frozen!"

Yu Mei didn’t waste a single breath asking how an brat had just pulled off a technique like that. Her eyes flashed with cold pragmatism as she lunged forward, channeling the remainder of her earth elemental qi into her iron spear. She leaped onto the downed second juggernaut’s chest and drove the spearhead straight down through its skull, shattering its dark core before the soul-stun could wear off.

Beside her, Bai Yan and Su Qing moved in seamless, lethal synchronization.

"Form array!" Su Qing called out, her silver sword tracing a blinding arc that severed the third juggernaut’s remaining tendons.

Bai Yan followed immediately behind, her muscular frame glowing with dense spiritual qi as she delivered a devastating, double-palm strike straight into the monster’s exposed ribs. Behind them, a dozen Orchid Veil disciples surged forward, their interlocking sword beams piercing the crippled juggernaut from every angle until its necrotic chains snapped and the hulking corpse crumbled into the water. The left flank was saved.

Across the basin, the Heretical Corpse Refiners froze, their chanting faltering in sheer disbelief. Their three strongest creations,monsters meant to crush an entire sect vanguard had been dismantled in less than five breaths.

[Shock and panic detected — Targets: Heretical Necromancers]

[Ambient battlefield conversion bonus active]

[Rage Value: +11,400]

[Rage Value: +6,850]

[Current Rage Points: 128,300]

"Push forward!" the Orchid Veil Sect Master commanded from the center of the clearing, her voice ringing like a war drum. "Do not let those heretics regroup!"

Freed from defending the perimeter, the Orchid Veil disciples let out a fierce battle cry and surged into the mist. Tight silver sword formations carved effortlessly through the remaining undead swamp beasts, turning the chaotic defense into a one-sided purge.

Lin Feng rolled his aching shoulders, letting the lingering residual hostility from the dead juggernauts trickle up the hilt of his cleaver to soothe his burning pathways. He glanced up toward the center of the caldera and grinned.

High above the mud, Shen Murong’s towering, vine woven form was trembling with unhinged fury as she watched her necromancers get slaughtered below. Every time she tried to lunge downward to wipe out the human disciples, Bai Xuan drifted into her path, forcing her back.

Lin Feng cupped a hand around his mouth, projecting his voice across the roaring battlefield.

"Hey! Big Vine Lady! Up here!" Lin Feng shouted, waving his blood streaked cleaver.

"Just so we’re clear again, I technically upheld my end of the bargain! Trying to murder me now is a massive breach of deal!"

Dead silence fell over the center of the basin for a fraction of a second. Even Bai Yan and Su Qing paused mid-stride, staring at Lin Feng as if he had completely lost his mind. Above them, Bai Xuan let out a booming, amused snort that rattled the nearby trees.

Shen Murong, however, snapped. Realizing that centuries of bitter scheming, dark rituals, and careful manipulation had just been undone by a mortal’s shameless legal technicality, the corrupted swamp spirit lost every shred of sanity she had left.

[Extreme existential fury detected — Target: Shen Murong]

[Killing intent threshold exceeded!]

[Rage Value: +28,500]

[Current Rage Points: 156,800]

"I WILL TEAR YOUR SOUL INTO A MILLION PIECES AND FEED IT TO THE MUD!" Shen Murong shrieked, her voice warping into an inhuman, overlapping chorus of nightmares.

Abandoning her human like silhouette entirely, the dark spirit violently pulled every single drop of corrupted qi in the swamp inward. Black water erupted from the pools in towering geysers. Thousands of thick, iron-hard vines, jagged bone thorns, and rotting ancient roots twisted together around her, swelling her body into a colossal, multi headed leviathan of darkness that blotted out the gray sky.

The sheer pressure of her transformation flattened the surrounding reeds and forced every mortal cultivator in the caldera to drop to one knee, gasping for air.

Above the monstrous leviathan, Bai Xuan stopped floating. The ancient white beast unfurled its massive, pristine wings to their full, breathtaking span, whipping the toxic swamp fog into a violent gale. The star like blue gem embedded in its forehead blazed with blinding, celestial radiance, unleashing a counter-wave of pure, suffocating gravity that cracked the basin floor beneath them.

Two powerful titans locked gazes across the trembling sky. With a deafening roar that shook the very foundations of the Veiled Orchid Swamp, the corrupted leviathan and the Ancient Beast lunged straight at each other.