Chapter 721 - 718: Rune Battle Armor

Chapter 721: Chapter 718: Rune Battle Armor

The several hundred Holy Dao Cultivators surrounding him immediately put distance between them. Without a moment’s hesitation, they unleashed their ultimate kill attacks at top speed, bombarding Jiang Jichen simultaneously from different ranges, angles, and directions.

In the next instant, the space around Jiang Jichen was completely drowned in a barrage of ultimate kill attacks.

Jiang Jichen had nowhere to run!

The barrage of ultimate kill attacks included the Space Locking Technique, which temporarily prevented Jiang Jichen from even using his Step Technique.

Under normal circumstances, even a genius Saint Eighth-Realm Cultivator would have met their end against such an assault.

But Jiang Jichen’s expression remained unchanged as the Azure Heaven Killing Array and the Soul Refining Banner appeared in his hands.

Ever since the Azure Heaven Killing Array and the Soul Refining Banner had developed their own Spiritual Sense, Jiang Jichen had never truly unleashed them.

All this time, he had only allowed them to continuously devour blood mist and absorb souls.

Just moments ago, they had devoured the blood mist and souls of two Supreme Realm experts and a group of Eighth Layer of the Holy Dao Cultivators. There was no telling how powerful they had become!

Jiang Jichen had restrained himself all this time, holding back from activating the Azure Heaven Killing Array and the Soul Refining Banner, just for this very moment.

Now, he raised the Azure Heaven Killing Array and the Soul Refining Banner and swept them across his surroundings.

The Azure Heaven Killing Array now possessed a Natural Spiritual Sense. Under Jiang Jichen’s full power, a wave of killing intent surged out, sweeping across the land.

Wherever the blood-red killing intent passed, all things turned to ash, and everything was reduced to nothing.

The boundless killing intent filled the sky, countless times stronger than it had been before.

It even possessed a trace of the aura of the complete Celestial Killing Intent, its power now beyond imagination.

With a single sweep of the Azure Heaven Killing Array, the terrifying ultimate kill attacks from every direction disintegrated into ash, vanishing into the void.

Yet the power of the Azure Heaven Killing Array was not spent. It continued its sweep across the battlefield.

SPLURT!

SPLURT!

As the killing intent raged, cultivator after cultivator exploded, turning into clouds of blood mist that drifted through the air.

"Ah... No! Help me!"

They let out desperate screams, but in the next moment, their bodies burst apart, and they died on the spot.

The ones annihilated by the Azure Heaven Killing Array were those who had been positioned closer to him.

The cultivators standing farther away watched this bloody, brutal scene, their hearts filled with nothing but boundless terror.

A sense of relief had just begun to dawn on them as they saw the power of the Azure Heaven Killing Array finally dissipate.

But in the next instant, their expressions changed, and they immediately tried to dodge and retreat.

But no matter how fast they were, how could they possibly outrun the ghastly, blood-colored wind unleashed by the Soul Refining Banner?

The Soul Refining Banner had developed its Natural Spiritual Sense after absorbing a sliver of a Celestial God Dharma Image’s Divine Soul.

Afterward, it had continuously absorbed the souls of numerous Holy Dao Cultivators, including those of two Supreme Realm experts.

Thus, the power of the ghastly, blood-colored wind was terrifying to the extreme, especially its unimaginable capacity for harming the soul.

Another wave of soul-reaping from the Soul Refining Banner felled more than two hundred cultivators, turning them into soulless corpses.

The scene was truly a mountain of bones and a river of blood.

Of the hundreds of Holy Dao Cultivators, only about twenty remained—the strongest group, led by Wan Shan, all at the Seventh Realm of Holy Dao.

Xuu Zhuang and Qian Zhijing were also unharmed. They had received a message from Jiang Jichen and had retreated far away at the earliest opportunity.

After all, the attacks from the Azure Heaven Killing Array and the Soul Refining Banner were indiscriminate.

Watching this scene unfold, Xuu Zhuang and Qian Zhijing’s faces were deathly pale, filled with disbelief.

The reversal of fortune had been so swift it defied their imagination.

"This... Boss is way too strong, isn’t he?"

"Yeah. Good thing I came to my senses and begged him to take me on as a follower. Otherwise, we’d definitely be dead right now!"

The two spoke, still in shock.

They still couldn’t calm their racing hearts.

It wasn’t just Xuu Zhuang and Qian Zhijing. Wan Shan and the other Seventh Realm of Holy Dao Cultivators were now staring at Jiang Jichen with incredibly complex expressions.

Their eyes were filled with boundless fear.

In their view, Jiang Jichen’s title, the Killing God, was well and truly deserved.

Before, they hadn’t put much stock in the rumors about him, assuming they were exaggerations.

But now, they felt the rumors hadn’t just been true—they had been understatements.

In a mere instant, hundreds of Holy Dao Cultivators had been reduced to a sky full of blood mist and a ground littered with bones.

Jiang Jichen’s merciless slaughter and brutal methods chilled them to the bone.

After their single strike, the Azure Heaven Killing Array and Soul Refining Banner floated leisurely back to Jiang Jichen and fell silent, temporarily unusable.

Wan Shan swallowed hard and said, "Everyone, don’t panic! Jiang Jichen’s great killing artifacts are temporarily disabled. He’s used up his tricks. There’s nothing to fear anymore."

"Think about it, gentlemen. With only twenty-odd of us left to split the treasures on Jiang Jichen, won’t we each get a much larger share?"

The group was still steeped in fear, but at Wan Shan’s words, their hearts stirred. What he said made sense.

’He’s right,’ they thought. ’There were hundreds of Holy Dao Cultivators before. Even if the loot was divided by strength, with so many people, our shares would have been tiny.’

’But now, with fewer people, our shares will be much bigger.’

"He’s right. Jiang Jichen must have consumed a huge amount of power to activate those two great killing artifacts. He must be weak now. This is our chance to kill him."

At that moment, a Holy Dao Cultivator with a keen eye saw through to Jiang Jichen’s current state.

It was true. Just as that man had said, activating the Azure Heaven Killing Array and the Soul Refining Banner had almost completely drained Jiang Jichen of his Spiritual Power and the Mental Power within his Divine Sense.

However, he wasn’t just a Spirit Cultivator. He was also a Body Cultivator at the Holy Body First Realm.

Therefore, even without his spirit cultivation abilities, his combat strength was still immense.

He put away his Holy Sword and brought out Sinking Mountain. Facing the surrounding Seventh Realm of Holy Dao Cultivators, Jiang Jichen gave a cold smile. "How could you possibly guess my limits?"

"Today, my heart is set on slaughter. This battle will not end until you are all dead!"

Jiang Jichen took a step forward, charging toward the nearest Seventh Realm of Holy Dao Cultivator.

His fighting style suddenly changed.

He now locked onto a single person with his Divine Thought, ignoring everything else to focus all his will and power on killing that one individual.

The man targeted by the Divine Thought had his expression drain of color. "This is bad! Help me!" he cried out.

He simultaneously dodged and retreated.

However, Jiang Jichen was faster, appearing right beside him.

"Die!"

Jiang Jichen shouted coldly as his Black Short Sword sliced horizontally while Sinking Mountain smashed down.

SPLURT!

CRACK!

The body of this elite Seventh Realm of Holy Dao Beastman Cultivator was sliced in two by the Black Short Sword, then crushed to pieces by Sinking Mountain.

At the same time, the others’ attacks arrived.

Jiang Jichen dodged, using his Seven-Colored Divine Sense and Illusory Indeterminacy to evade the vast majority of the attacks.

Still, some attacks landed on him.

Without hesitation, Jiang Jichen chanted a spell. The Divine Mysterious Ancient Texts flew out and opened.

Endless mystic runes flew out and landed on Jiang Jichen, instantly forming a suit of Rune Battle Armor.

VMMMM!

The attacks landed, but they only made Jiang Jichen’s body tremble slightly, inflicting minor injuries.

The vast majority of the Power of Destruction had been absorbed by the Rune Battle Armor.