Chapter 724: Slay Them All

“What’s going on? That guy… he actually made a move?”

When Serpent the Sixth was cleaved in two by Yang Xiao’s blade and fell to the ground,

the expressions of Serpent the First and his men, watching from a distance, all changed.

Just like Serpent the Sixth, who was stunned even in death, they were all completely taken aback. They never imagined that this fellow, a mere Divine General Peak, would actually dare to attack.

What’s more,

his sneak attack had been a success.

Serpent the Sixth’s Immortal Body was destroyed.

“Serpent the Sixth was too careless. His opponent used a surprise attack and a decent Divine Soldier to ambush him. But no matter who he is, anyone who dares to attack one of my subordinates is a dead man!”

Even now,

Serpent the First and his men still didn’t take Yang Xiao seriously.

They just thought he had gotten lucky with a sneak attack.

That was the only reason Serpent the Sixth had died on the spot.

But what happened next made their gazes burn with intensity.

Because…

They saw it.

The body, which had been cleaved in two, suddenly transformed into two streams of light that surged into the jet-black Divine Sword in Yang Xiao’s hand.

In that instant,

the men who had just been uninterested in Yang Xiao…

…their eyes lit up.

“It’s a special Divine Soldier! One that can devour Immortal Bodies! Tsk, tsk. Serpent the Sixth has really suffered a catastrophic loss this time. Without his Immortal Body, he can’t be resurrected, not even by the Ten Great Immortal Monarchs. All that’s left is his Immortal Dao Will. He can still possess another body, but he’ll have to start his cultivation from scratch.”

A thought stirred in the minds of Serpent the First and his men.

They, as Immortal Cultivators, were different from Martial Cultivators.

Although Martial Cultivators could be resurrected thanks to their Divine Soul Brand, the cost was considerable.

Furthermore, the fusion of a Divine Body and a Divine Soul was far more intimate than that of an Immortal Body and an Immortal Dao Will. Consequently, when a True God died in battle, it was usually because their Divine Soul had been annihilated. Otherwise, they could have easily used the power within their Divine Soul to reconstruct their Divine Body.

Therefore,

as long as their Divine Soul remained intact,

a True God was not considered truly killed.

But if the Divine Soul was annihilated,

they were considered dead, even if their Divine Body remained.

This held true even for those with Heroic Spirits.

But Immortal Cultivators were different. The unique nature of the Immortal Dao Will made it incredibly difficult to extinguish. However, this also meant the Immortal Dao Will could not fully integrate with their Immortal Body.

This deprived them of the near-immortality that Martial Arts True Gods possessed—the power to be reborn from a single drop of blood and reconstruct their Divine Body as long as their Divine Soul remained.

However,

it also made them far more difficult to kill permanently.

Once a Martial Arts True God’s Divine Soul was destroyed, their death was certain.

For them, however, having their Immortal Body destroyed…

…was merely like dying once.

They wouldn’t be completely dead. Unlike Martial Arts True Gods, who needed a Divine Soul Brand to be resurrected, their indestructible Immortal Dao Will allowed them to live again, provided they could find a suitable new body.

This was why the influence of the Immortal Dao was constantly growing.

It was incredibly difficult to kill them in any true sense of the word.

Furthermore, its cultivation methods were far easier than those of the Martial Dao.

In the eyes of Immortal Daoists, this advantageous Cultivation Dao was far superior to the Martial Dao. Many Immortal Cultivators believed the only reason the Immortal Dao hadn’t completely surpassed the Martial Dao was that no Immortal Cultivator had yet managed to ascend to the rank of Dominator.

To become an existence on the level of an Immortal Emperor.

This was why all the true geniuses who aspired to the Realm of Dominator had no intention of pursuing the Immortal Dao.

At the very least, most such geniuses wouldn’t even consider it until they could see a clear path to the Emperor Level within the Immortal Dao.

But by that same token,

and for that very reason,

no matter how powerful the Immortal Cultivators became, the true titans among the Martial Cultivators never took them seriously. At best, they were regarded as just another Saint Emperor Level power.

And while a Saint Emperor Level power was indeed at the apex,

the Martial Dao already had four Saint Emperor Level powers.

So, naturally, no one felt that the Immortal Cultivators posed any real threat to the Martial Cultivators.

However,

none of this was a concern for Serpent the First and his men.

Their gazes,

right now, were fixed on the mysterious man before them, burning with intensity.

So much so that they overlooked a crucial detail.

Namely, Serpent the Sixth’s Immortal Dao Will.

It seemed to have disappeared as well.

It hadn’t escaped.

That was right.

After killing Serpent the Sixth, Yang Xiao had also activated the Mysterious Furnace Cauldron within his body, directly absorbing the man’s Immortal Dao Will.

He hadn’t come here just to kill Immortal Cultivators.

His more important goal was to absorb Immortal Dao Will, both to increase his own Physical Strength and to empower those mysterious markings.

This power.

For Yang Xiao, it was by far the fastest way to drastically increase his strength.

Therefore,

after killing Serpent the Sixth,

he had openly absorbed the man’s Immortal Dao Will, devoured his Immortal Body, and was now striding toward Serpent the First and his men.

And this action…

…infuriated Serpent the First and his men.

“Arrogant! How utterly arrogant! But for the sake of that special Divine Soldier he’s holding, I will deal with him personally this time. The rest of you stand aside and watch. Just don’t let him escape.”

Serpent the First had spoken.

He was taking action personally, of course, because he was afraid his subordinates would try to claim the special Divine Soldier for themselves.

After all,

even an ordinary Middle Grade Divine Weapon was enough to stir greed in their hearts.

To say nothing of a special Divine Soldier like this, one worth at least ten times more than an ordinary Middle Grade Divine Weapon.

It could absorb Immortal Bodies and convert them into power.

It was clearly a profoundly mysterious Divine Soldier.

Serpent the First was determined to have it.

In fact,

he had already decided to leave immediately after seizing the sword.

That way, Xuyang Immortal Monarch would never find out.

And try to take this Divine Soldier.

After all,

this weapon was comparable to an Upper-Grade Divine Weapon.

Even Xuyang Immortal Monarch himself only possessed a single Upper-Grade Immortal Artifact. If he found out about this sword, it was almost certain he would take it for himself.

How could Serpent the First possibly pass up such a Supreme Treasure?

Seeing his orders,

the other six Immortal Marquises didn’t dare to disobey, even though they were mad with envy and desperately wanted the Divine Soldier for themselves.

They could only stand guard to the side, sullen and resentful,

blocking off any escape route for Yang Xiao.

But what happened next left them utterly stunned once again.

Because…

The Divine General Level opponent, who they were sure Lord Serpent the First could easily dispose of…

…was still dispatched with a single slash.

Lord Serpent the First’s Immortal Body was brutally cleaved in two.

It was as if…

…there was no difference at all between the Immortal Venerable Level Lord Serpent the First and the Immortal Marquis Level Serpent the Sixth.

But in reality,

they were a full tier apart—a tenfold difference in power!

“How is this possible?”

Instantly,

all six of them,

stared at the scene before them, completely dumbfounded.

And at that very moment,

the sword in Yang Xiao’s hand,

once again pulsed with a jet-black light.

Six men.

One slash.

All of them were slain by Yang Xiao.

And then,

their Immortal Bodies transformed into streams of light, surging into the Bloodthirsty Divine Sword to be devoured. The Bloodthirsty Divine Sword’s aura intensified once more.

It wasn’t a huge increase,

but Yang Xiao could sense that his Lifebound Divine Weapon had grown stronger nonetheless.

Moreover,

the power that fed back into him pushed his Heaven and Earth Origin Flame one step further,

nearly reaching the peak of the early stage of the Blue Flame First Revolution.

He was not far from the middle stage of the Blue Flame First Revolution.

Of course, the greatest harvest,

was clearly the eight strands of Immortal Dao Will. Although he couldn’t assimilate them right away,

Yang Xiao believed,

that these eight strands of Immortal Dao Will would be enough to increase his strength by the power of more than one thousand Flood Dragons.

He only needed to annihilate a few more squads,

and the day he could condense the power of ten thousand Flood Dragons into a single, true Great Dragon would not be far off.

‘Ten thousand Demon Flood Dragons can form one Flood Dragon. Ten thousand Flood Dragons can form one Great Dragon. And to reach the True Dragon Realm from a Great Dragon only requires one hundred of them. By that calculation, the power of a single Great Dragon is likely comparable to the Demigod Realm.’

Yang Xiao smiled faintly.

His Divine Thought Sense swept out in an instant.

Immediately, dozens of Immortal Dao Squads within a radius of a hundred thousand li became aware of his presence.

Among them,

at least a dozen squads immediately began to rush toward his location.