Chapter 776: Zuo Wentian Strikes, the Red Dragon Assists

Being targeted by an Abyss Lord of the Emperor Martial Realm was definitely not something to be happy about.

No matter how confident Shen Lang was, he wasn’t arrogant enough to think he could face an Abyss Demon of the Emperor Martial Realm with his current cultivation and trump cards.

Inside this Dragon Scale Divine Hall, the Abyss Lord’s claim that he had ten thousand ways to annihilate Shen Lang was no empty boast.

If he had a choice, Shen Lang would much rather this fiend wasn’t so “concerned” with him…

The problem was, this Abyss Lord was legendarily ruthless and cunning.

How could Shen Lang possibly believe a word he said?

‘This fiend has wasted all this time talking to me over a single Soul Thought. It seems this wisp of a Soul Thought is incredibly important to him… That means the injuries Taotie and the others gave him are likely far more severe than I imagined. He’s probably wary of Taotie and the other Emperor Martial Realm Powerhouses, so his true self doesn’t dare to show up easily.’

‘So, he went to all this trouble to possess Mu Feng with a wisp of a Soul Thought just to plot against me… It all makes sense now! His true self doesn’t dare to make a move, he’s seriously injured, and for the time being, he can’t do anything to me… Otherwise, why would he resort to mere threats?’

Having figured this out, a flicker of light crossed Shen Lang’s eyes. He spoke with feigned hesitation, “If I let this wisp of your Soul Thought go, will you really let me off?”

The blood-red light in the Abyss Lord’s eyes flared as he looked down on Shen Lang and said, “Of course! This entire Dragon Scale Divine Hall is my domain. I am the Dominator here. Why would I lie to a puny human like you?”

Shen Lang’s gaze shifted uncertainly. After a long moment, he seemed to make up his mind. “In that case… alright. I hope you will be a Lord of your word. This junior has offended you. I hope Your Lordship won’t hold it against me.”

As he spoke, Shen Lang took two steps forward.

“Good, good. A wise man knows when to yield. You…” The Abyss Lord was overjoyed, but before he could finish his sentence, Shen Lang’s mouth opened. With a flash of golden light, a golden bead was already right in front of him!

The golden bead was fast and vicious, carrying a Buddha Light that the Abyss Lord found repulsive and agonizing. The Abyss Lord wanted to dodge or resist, but he was pinned tight by the Death God Nail and Duanmu Xie’s Locking Chains, unable to move at all!

BANG!

Like a bolt of golden lightning, the Star Moon Bodhi Prayer Beads instantly slammed into the Abyss Lord’s chest!

An endless Buddha Light illuminated the entire passage. The Abyss Lord let out a blood-curdling howl as immense clouds of white smoke billowed from his body. His aura instantly weakened by a large margin!

The Star Moon Bodhi Prayer Beads were the natural bane of evil creatures and Soul Bodies, and the Boneless Relic in Shen Lang’s possession was especially formidable. This single strike was enough to make the Abyss Lord howl in unending agony!

“Heaven and Earth Lock!”

The moment the Star Moon Bodhi Prayer Beads struck, Shen Lang immediately pushed his hands forward and chanted a Spell. Chains formed from Netherworld Qi and Vermilion Bird Divine Fire shot out!

The Cultivation Techniques he had learned from the Thousand Soul Hall weren’t suitable for the Human Race to practice and could only be used after reaching the King Martial Realm. For the old Shen Lang, they had been little more than subjects of research.

But now, facing this wisp of the Abyss Lord’s Soul Thought, they proved to be incredibly useful!

The two chains flew out, dancing up and down like Flood Dragons. Wielding unimaginable power, they weaved through the Abyss Lord’s body, forming a bizarre Array Map that bound him even tighter!

After doing all this, Shen Lang willed it with his Divine Thought, and the Star Moon Bodhi Prayer Beads in the air flared with light once more, smashing down violently on the Abyss Lord’s head!

Shen Lang let out a fierce roar, pulled his hands apart, and then thrust them forward. “Star Absorption Technique!”

A massive, rapidly spinning vortex immediately materialized between his hands!

Within the dark passage, sand and stones flew as clouds of qi churned violently!

The Abyss Lord’s Soul Thought let out a sharp cry as it was dragged forward by an unimaginable force!

The originally massive phantom was immediately stretched into a long, thin line, just like a python!

One half of it was still inside Mu Feng’s body, pinned firmly by the Death God Nail.

The other half was instantly sucked to a point less than three meters from Shen Lang!

“Human, you dare to trick me!”

A tyrannical aura shot to the sky. The Abyss Lord’s voice was laced with slaughter and destruction, but also with terror!

“You’re the one being played for a fool!”

Shen Lang said grimly, his Divine Thought simultaneously directing the Star Moon Bodhi Prayer Beads to furiously smash the Abyss Lord’s Soul Thought while he used all his strength to activate the Tai Chi Diagram!

Just like that, the Star Absorption Technique and the Abyss Lord’s Soul Thought actually reached a stalemate…

However, under the continuous assault of the Star Moon Bodhi Prayer Beads, the Abyss Lord’s power was constantly diminishing!

With Shen Lang gritting his teeth and pushing the Tai Chi Diagram to its limit, the Abyss Lord was finally dragged over, inch by inch.

The Abyss Lord, realizing how dangerous the black-hole-like vortex was, struggled with all his might to pull away, but he only got closer and closer to Shen Lang!

Just then, an unprecedented sense of crisis welled up in Shen Lang’s heart!

It made the hair on his entire body stand on end!

Though his Divine Thought detected nothing unusual, Shen Lang’s comprehension of the world’s Momentum suddenly surged. It was as if a unique pair of eyes had grown inside him, allowing him to see a colossal, world-blotting hand reaching down to grab him from the center of the Dragon Scale Divine Hall above!

“Duanmu Xie!”

Shen Lang roared!

“AWOOO!” Duanmu Xie threw his head back and howled, shaking his hands wildly!

At that exact moment, the two massive Locking Chains in Duanmu Xie’s hands suddenly churned, wrapping around the Abyss Lord’s neck!

The other end then suddenly snapped free from Duanmu Xie’s hands, whipping out like a bolt from a powerful crossbow!

The two enormous Locking Chains, which had been pulled taut, were now flung out with the speed of lightning, far surpassing even Shen Lang’s Star Moon Bodhi Prayer Beads!

With a deafening BOOM, they slammed viciously onto the Abyss Lord’s back!

Amidst a surge of black qi, the Abyss Lord shrieked. His aura diminished once again, and he was dragged another meter into the vortex created by the Star Absorption Technique!

The next second…

SWISH SWISH SWISH!

Duanmu Xie’s massive figure left a series of afterimages in the passage, rushing behind the Abyss Lord with a piercing, sky-breaking whistle!

“Netherworld Corpse Qi Wave, Sixth Floor—Furnace Burning Dao!”

A palm wreathed in black flames shot out. Duanmu Xie’s full-power strike landed squarely on the Abyss Lord’s back in an instant!

BOOM!

A sound like a clap of furious thunder exploded, making Shen Lang’s eardrums ache and his mind ring. He almost felt like cursing out loud!

The Abyss Lord screamed. Pincered between the Star Absorption Technique and Duanmu Xie, he no longer had any strength to resist!

PCHT!

As if a piece of cloth were being torn, the stretched-out end of the Abyss Lord’s Soul Body snapped off right where the Death God Nail was.

With a SLURP, it was sucked into the vortex Shen Lang had created!

Shen Lang stumbled back several steps, slamming hard against the wall. He gasped for breath, drenched in sweat!

Within the deep, dark passage, all finally fell quiet…

If Shen Lang hadn’t been injured and had been at his peak, perhaps none of this would have been so difficult.

But when it came to things like this, what choice did he have?

The moment Shen Lang’s body hit the wall, he immediately slapped it with his palm, his body shooting to the other side like a bolt of lightning!

While still in the air, Shen Lang made a gesture with his hand, recalling the Death God Nail from Mu Feng’s head and the Star Moon Bodhi Prayer Beads from the air.

The Star Moon Bodhi Prayer Beads immediately embedded themselves in Shen Lang’s forehead, releasing an immense Buddha Power that enveloped him completely!

At the same time, Shen Lang’s right hand trembled. All the Netherworld Qi gathered within the Tai Chi Diagram flowed like a great river into the sea, pouring completely into the Death God Nail in his hand!

As expected…

Just as Shen Lang finished, and as Duanmu Xie, perplexed by his actions, was about to ask a question, Zuo Wentian’s fierce shout echoed in his mind, “Master, be careful!”

Immediately after, a pressure even more immense and powerful than before swept out from the very wall Shen Lang had just crashed into!

A huge portal materialized on the wall, revealing a vast, boundless, pitch-black space!

From within that space, a colossal hand that seemed capable of blotting out the heavens and the earth reached out to grab Shen Lang!

At that moment, the very void seemed to shatter. Between heaven and earth, there was nothing but this one terrifying hand!

“Human, die for me!”

The Abyss Lord’s savage and tyrannical voice echoed from the space within the portal. It sounded as if it came from the far shore of the cosmos—unreal, yet ringing clearly in Shen Lang’s ears!

At this moment, even someone as powerful as Duanmu Xie was trembling all over, unable to move even an inch!

“Wentian… One Slash!”

Zuo Wentian’s incomparably arrogant voice rang in Shen Lang’s mind. The next second, the light around Shen Lang’s body flared, violently pushing back the utterly overwhelming pressure and finally allowing him to breathe!

Shen Lang seemed to see the figure of a man in robes whiter than snow, standing proudly as he condensed his entire life’s cultivation into a single slash…

A peerless saber light erupted from Shen Lang’s body!

This saber light was completely unlike one from an ordinary powerhouse…

It didn’t cause the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi to roil, nor did it have any other flashy effects.

But it was majestic and magnificent, like the Demon Saber Heaven-Opening. Just looking at it would leave one in a daze, wanting to look away yet forgetting how, until in that moment… there was nothing left in their eyes but this single slash!

The power of this saber light was far inferior to that of the demonic hand reaching for him, but in Shen Lang’s eyes, he could already see the hand being split in two by this one slash!

At the very same instant Zuo Wentian’s slash landed on the black demonic hand…

A terrifying, thousand-mile-long Red Dragon shot out from somewhere within the space of the giant portal!

“Celestial Dragon Devouring Destruction!”

A calm, composed, and seemingly young voice rang out as the Red Dragon opened its maw and bit down on the giant arm!

CRACK!

SHHNNK!

At almost the same instant the Red Dragon bit through the arm, Zuo Wentian’s peerless slash split the black demonic hand in two!

Faintly, Shen Lang thought he heard a pained howl from the Endless Abyss…

It was a howl of a soul being torn asunder, of power being severed—a pain that pierced to the very marrow!

The unimaginable pressure…

…vanished without a trace in an instant!