Chapter 798 - 797: Jiang Xinglan’s All-Out Sword Strike! Actually Killed Chu Sheng?

What Jiang Xinglan cared about most was his appearance and his image as a prodigy.

Having his face ruined by a mosquito was worse than death itself.

"Damn you, mosquito! I’m going to kill you!"

"I’ll grind your bones to dust!"

Jiang Xinglan summoned the Star Sword again. He gripped it with both hands, channeling all his Divine Power into the blade.

The Star Sword transformed into what looked like a burning Light Saber, erupting with furious flames.

The light from the blade intensified severalfold, radiating a terrifying, predatory aura.

"Die!"

Jiang Xinglan roared and swung at Chu Sheng with all his might.

The blade-wind tore through the air with world-ending power, as if to tear Chu Sheng to shreds.

Chu Sheng was a little surprised.

’He hadn’t expected Jiang Xinglan to be so ruthless.’

’Just like the Sakura Emperor, he’d completely abandoned his pride.’

When Chu Sheng had used Amaterasu’s Flame against the Sakura Emperor,

the emperor had escaped only by tearing off a layer of his own skin.

’After all, people from the Sakura Country are ready to commit seppuku at a moment’s notice. For them, being shameless is perfectly normal.’

’But Jiang Xinglan was clearly a pretty-boy prodigy who relied on his looks.’

’To think he’d just throw his vanity away like that.’

’What a ruthless guy!’

Chu Sheng mused.

"Your willingness to just toss your pride aside like that truly amazes me, Lord Mosquito!"

"Lord Mosquito is impressed! Truly, I’m impressed!"

As he spoke, Chu Sheng even brought his two front legs together, mimicking a cupped-fist salute.

Jiang Xinglan, who was channeling his Divine Power with all his might, nearly choked on his own breath and died on the spot!

He opened his mouth to retort.

But there was nothing wrong with what Chu Sheng had said; he had no idea how to argue back.

"You..."

Jiang Xinglan pointed his longsword at Chu Sheng, his chest heaving with rage.

Since he couldn’t win a war of words with Chu Sheng, Jiang Xinglan decided to just shut up.

He focused on channeling his Divine Power even more furiously, and the power emanating from his sword intensified.

He now had only one thought in his mind: to kill Chu Sheng with a single strike and shut it up for good.

Faced with Jiang Xinglan’s all-out Attack, Chu Sheng grew a little more serious.

He didn’t block it head-on, nor did he dodge.

Instead, he quietly summoned an Outer Body Avatar that was a perfect replica of himself, leaving it in his original spot.

His true body, meanwhile, quickly used Formless Myriad Phenomena, a skill taught by Immortal Venerable Shi Xi.

He completely concealed his form and aura, silently drifting to one side.

The Outer Body Avatar was a perfect, 100% copy of Chu Sheng’s true body.

It was essentially flawless.

Besides, Jiang Xinglan’s rage meter was already maxed out. The only thing he could see was the "mosquito," and his mind was consumed with the thought of hacking it to pieces.

He completely failed to notice Chu Sheng’s sleight of hand.

He swung the Star Sword, pouring all his Divine Power into it, and viciously slashed at the "Chu Sheng" in the original spot.

’The Outer Body Avatar’s body is too small. It’s not good for tanking an Attack, and it won’t draw enough fire.’

So, Chu Sheng commanded the Outer Body Avatar to immediately transform its shape.

BOOM!!!

The Outer Body Avatar’s body began to expand wildly.

In the blink of an eye, it grew from a mosquito the size of a fingernail into a giant, five-hundred-meter-long mosquito.

Its metallic carapace blotted out the sun, radiating an overwhelming sense of pressure.

The real Chu Sheng, meanwhile, used the avatar’s enormous body to completely capture Jiang Xinglan’s attention.

Silently beating his wings, he quickly flew out of Jiang Xinglan’s Attack range and hid nearby, waiting for an opportunity.

Seeing Chu Sheng suddenly transform into a five-hundred-meter-long giant mosquito, Jiang Xinglan froze for a second.

’But since a mosquito could cultivate to the Void Refining Realm, it’s already in the category of a Demon Beast.’

’It’s not surprising that it can change its size.’

Without a hint of hesitation, Jiang Xinglan continued his full-power slash toward the giant mosquito.

To increase the power of his strike and ensure a one-hit kill, he even burned a portion of his Original Divine Power and infused the Star Sword with his Divine Soul Power.

It could be said that this was the strongest Attack he could unleash at his current Realm.

Even a Cultivator at the Integration Realm Peak would be gravely injured, if not killed, by this strike.

The Star Sword transformed into a massive, thousand-meter-long Sword Aura that tore through the sky.

Carrying terrifying destructive power, it landed heavily on the giant mosquito’s dorsal carapace.

BOOM!!!

A cataclysmic explosion shook the heavens and the earth.

The shockwave radiated in all directions, forcing the onlookers to shut their eyes against the blast.

The Star Sword’s aura struck Chu Sheng’s metallic carapace as if it were cutting through soft tofu.

SQUELCH.

The five-hundred-meter-long body of the giant mosquito was instantly split in two, cleaved down the middle from head to tail.

Dark green blood rained from the sky, drenching the ground with a nauseating stench.

The two halves of Chu Sheng’s massive body struggled in the air for a moment, its wings fluttering a few times.

Finally, they fell lifelessly to the ground.

THUD! THUD!

The two massive impacts sounded like mountains crashing to the earth, kicking up a sky-blotting cloud of dust.

The two halves of the corpse lay on the ground, completely still, their aura gone without a trace.

’Dead???’

Jiang Xinglan remained frozen in his Attack stance, too stunned to process what had just happened.

Just a moment ago, Chu Sheng had been completely dominating him. It suppressed him with its Law, overwhelmed him with its power, and even ruined his face.

It had made him question his very existence.

’And now, with just one strike?’

’Chu Sheng is dead?’

It felt unreal to Jiang Xinglan.

’Is this mosquito playing another trick?’

He gripped his sword and slowly approached Chu Sheng’s enormous corpse.

He planned to inspect it carefully to see if Chu Sheng was just pretending to be dead.

Just then, the low gasps and murmurs of the onlookers could be heard.

"That mosquito... Did Jiang Xinglan kill it?"

"The body’s right there, split in two. How could it be fake!"

"Sigh. In the end, the gap between their Realms was just too big. It couldn’t be helped."

"Yeah, if that mosquito were in the same Realm as Jiang Xinglan, even just the Integration Realm Early Stage, it could have definitely held its own, maybe even won."

"It’s a shame. The Void Refining Realm is just too weak before the Integration Realm."

"A prodigy is a prodigy. Jiang Xinglan is still powerful. That final Attack was so commanding."

Hearing these discussions, Jiang Xinglan stopped walking toward the corpse and slowly straightened his posture.

’That’s right.’

’I’m an expert at the Integration Realm Peak, the number one prodigy of Luoping City’s younger generation.’

’Chu Sheng is merely at the Void Refining Realm First Layer.’

’I’m almost two full Grand Realms above him.’

’With such an absolute difference in power, isn’t it only natural that I’d kill him in a single strike?’

’There’s no need to doubt it at all!’

Jiang Xinglan realized he’d just been so thoroughly suppressed by Chu Sheng earlier that it had made him paranoid.

After all, Chu Sheng had repeatedly blocked his attacks and held the upper hand, giving him the false impression that the mosquito was incredibly strong.

But in reality, Chu Sheng was just relying on his unique racial abilities and bizarre Divine Skills to get by with cheap tricks.

’The moment I got serious and used my full power, wasn’t he killed instantly?’

Now, seeing the corpse of the enlarged Chu Sheng, Jiang Xinglan also had a moment of understanding.

He understood why his Law of Gravity had been useless against Chu Sheng before.

’If Chu Sheng had been in this five-hundred-meter form and endured a hundred thousand times gravity...’

’No, a mere thousand times gravity would have been enough to crush it into a paste!’

’So it turns out it was just using its tiny mass to evade my gravity. All just petty tricks.’

"Hmph! So after all that, it turns out all its moves to block my attacks were just cheap, opportunistic tricks."

Jiang Xinglan snorted. His face was a bloody mess, but his arrogance had returned in full.