Chapter 803: Cripple Both of Them!

BOOM!

Unsurprisingly, the Ice Shield Yin Tianchou had hastily summoned couldn’t withstand Shen Lang’s strike. It shattered instantly! The overwhelming Fist Gang pierced through the frost and slammed into Tianchou’s left shoulder, blasting his rapidly retreating body backward.

SWISH SWISH!

Even as Tianchou fell back, his legs whipped out, unleashing a flurry of kicks at his pursuer! The sharp, piercing sonic booms generated by his thrashing legs made Monk Bu Se and the mysterious woman’s hearts skip a beat.

“Hmph!”

With a cold snort, Shen Lang brought his fists down fiercely upon Tianchou’s ankles. The gale force of these two punches was so intense that it evacuated all the air in their path, tearing out two terrifying, elongated vacuums!

THUD THUD!

Two muffled impacts rang out. Tianchou groaned in pain as his entire body was smashed into the ground, exploding a shower of gravel and sand into the air. Slamming his palms into the earth, he attempted to use the recoil to distance himself from Shen Lang.

Unfortunately, he was a step too slow.

Spinning around, Shen Lang raised his right foot high. Like a descending cleaver, his leg chopped through a Magic Shield and landed squarely on Tianchou’s left calf!

CRACK!

The gruesome sound of fracturing bones burst forth as Tianchou unleashed a heart-wrenching scream. Yet, even amidst the agonizing pain of his crushed bones, Tianchou’s upper body rebounded off the ground. He had not entirely collapsed just yet. As he bounced up, he violently twisted his torso and hurled two daggers straight at Shen Lang’s face.

They were at point-blank range, and Tianchou had thrown them with all his might the very moment his calf bones were pulverized. The speed was unimaginable; the angle, impossibly tricky!

In that split second, Shen Lang’s body trembled as the power of his Chaos Divine Body bloomed. An invisible wall of air instantly materialized before him. The two faintly glowing daggers pierced the barrier but became hopelessly stuck, as if plunged into thick mud!

Tianchou never expected Shen Lang’s Cultivation to be so formidable that a mere external release of power could yield such incredible Defense Power. With a shrill cry, he concentrated every ounce of his remaining strength into his right fist and blasted it toward Lang’s chest.

“A dying struggle!”

Shen Lang curled his fingers into a claw. Wreathed in Thunder Power, he caught Tianchou’s incoming fist with lightning speed! Tianchou’s full-body power Burst out, but it popped like a fragile soap bubble, yielding no further reaction.

Before his opponent could even process this, the power of Shen Lang’s Chaos Divine Body surged once more. His lightning-clad claw squeezed down hard.

CRACK CRACK!

A chilling sound emanated from Tianchou’s captured fist. His blood-curdling screams echoed across the second-tier platform once more. His hand had been crushed to a pulp! The agonizing wails were so loud they even drowned out the clash between the two Emperor Martial Realm Late Stage experts on the other side of the battlefield.

“Amitabha, Amitabha.”

As a monk bound by compassion, Bu Se could only repeatedly chant the Buddha’s name upon hearing such a gruesome sound.

Meanwhile, Duan Chenfeng tried multiple times to rush over and help, but Duanmu Xie had him pinned down tightly, leaving him entirely unable to intervene. Because of his distraction, he suffered several heavy blows from Xie’s Corpse Emperor’s Copper Coffin, causing him to violently vomit blood.

Shen Lang snapped Tianchou’s leg underfoot, then crushed his wrist. He then grabbed this so-called peerless genius of the White Banner Lineage and slammed him ruthlessly into the earth! Following that, Lang unleashed a barrage of kicks, shattering every Magic Shield orbiting Tianchou’s body.

Channeling the third move of the Five Emperors Dragon Fist, he smashed a punch directly into Tianchou’s chest.

Despite the astonishing Defense Power of Tianchou’s Battle Armor, it was completely useless against a Cultivation Technique like the Five Emperors Dragon Fist, which was a Transcendent Emperor art. With just that single strike, the armor fractured and disintegrated entirely! Taking the brunt of the blow, Tianchou continuously coughed up blood. He couldn’t even muster a scream anymore.

The arrogant and domineering Yin Tianchou could never have imagined he would see such a day. He possessed limitless glory, exceptional talent, was born into the War God Hall, and was mentored by the White Flag Master of Five-color Banner. Yet all of it came crashing down in this single moment.

He was too conceited and far too vicious. If he had recognized his opponent’s formidable strength and elevated Shen Lang to a higher level of threat, he might not have ended up in such a miserable state. But there was no cure for regret in this world.

This was a fundamentally mismatched battle from the start. On the surface, it appeared to be a clash between two King Martial Realm Second Heaven Martial Artists. In reality, Shen Lang was virtually unrivaled beneath the Emperor Martial Realm, whereas Tianchou—having lost his Demon Dragon Heart-Shattering Palm—was at most equivalent to a King Martial Realm Fourth Heaven expert. Factor in that Tianchou’s Fifth Grade Profound Artifact had been snapped by Lang during his very first attack, and the gulf between them was truly as vast as heaven and earth. They weren’t on the same level at all!

Had Shen Lang not intentionally sought to torture this malicious foe, Tianchou wouldn’t have survived even a handful of exchanges.

Having battered his foe to the ground, Shen Lang didn’t hesitate; he leaned down and pulverized the man’s right foot as well.

As the saying goes, “death should be swift and clean.” Ordinarily, Shen Lang would never stoop to torturing his enemies. But this time, he broke his own rule in an unprecedented manner. It was simply because his fury toward this man had reached its absolute limit!

Typically, Shen Lang would go out of his way to protect anyone originating from the War God Hall. But Tianchou was wicked and sinister to the core. Not only had he created a technique that left its victims begging for death—the Demon Dragon Heart-Shattering Palm—he deployed it on a whim. Even against strangers with whom he had no grudges, he would use this vicious Cultivation Technique to torture them to death.

No, in truth, it was worse than torturing someone to death. Once the Demon Dragon Heart-Shattering Palm locked onto a Divine Soul, it would ultimately result in complete Soul Scattering! Even when Demon Martial Artists fought among themselves, unless they were exceptionally heinous, they wouldn’t casually scatter the soul of someone completely innocent of any slight. The Celestial Dao dictates Reincarnation; everyone understands the unwritten principle of leaving a sliver of hope.

Yet Tianchou, despite residing in the War God Hall that acted as Commander of the Human Race, was far more evil and venomous than the worst Demon Dao fiends! Up to this point, there was no telling how many unforgivable atrocities he had committed. Even a brilliant and kind-hearted woman like Zhuge Xian’Er had fallen victim to his venomous hands!

Back when Shen Lang saw the Heaven-locking Earth-locking Array arranged with Black Crow Witchcraft inside Xian’Er’s body, he secretly swore that he would hunt this culprit down. He vowed to give him a taste of his own medicine, to make him beg for life and pray for death!

Having shattered Tianchou’s limbs, Shen Lang flipped his wrist. With lightning speed, he slammed a palm onto Tianchou’s chest. With a swiftness imperceptible to onlookers, he drove a Death God Nail directly into the flesh of this White Banner Lineage genius!

At this point, Tianchou could no longer move a muscle. The Death God Nail pinned down both his physical body and his internal Nascent Soul. The endless Resentful Fierce Souls contained within it began to continuously erode his spirit, forcing out inhuman shrieks!

These wails, compounded by the clash of the two Emperor Martial Realm Late Stage experts on Duanmu Xie’s side, instantly terrified the several experts who had just arrived at the second-tier platform, sending them fleeing for their lives!

“You animal! I want you dead!”

Nearby, Duan Chenfeng’s eyes widened until they nearly split. Taking a palm strike from Duanmu Xie squarely to his back, he madly unleashed a punch at Shen Lang! His punch condensed into physical substance, hurtling toward Lang like a meteor a foot in diameter!

Duanmu Xie was thoroughly enjoying the fight and never expected the man to pull such a stunt—risking severe injury just for a chance to kill his lord. He wanted to block it, but it was too late!

In the nick of time, a scream from the mysterious woman echoed from the sidelines.

At that exact moment, Shen Lang abruptly vanished. He disappeared completely from Chenfeng’s Divine Thought, entirely gone from the second-tier platform!

BOOM BOOM BOOM!

The powerful Fist Gang Chenfeng had desperately unleashed struck absolutely nothing. It shot off the edge of the cliff, producing a thunderous roar. Just as Chenfeng stared in stunned silence, Shen Lang reappeared out of thin air in his original spot.

“He struck at me, so I’ll strike at you!”

Shen Lang stomped heavily onto Tianchou’s stomach, causing the man to vomit blood wildly!

Meanwhile, the furious Duanmu Xie seized the opportunity of Chenfeng’s daze. He brutally smashed him with the Corpse Emperor’s Copper Coffin, leaving Chenfeng bleeding from all seven orifices and thoroughly suppressing him! After placing a Seal on Chenfeng and wrapping him in layer upon layer of Corpse Qi locks, Duanmu Xie sheepishly walked over to Shen Lang’s side.

“If I were counting on you to protect me, wouldn’t I have died without even a speck of ash remaining?” Shen Lang shot Duanmu Xie a sideways glance, voicing his intense dissatisfaction.

“Lord Shen possesses world-encompassing divine might! A petty thug like him could never possibly harm you, My Lord… Rest assured, there absolutely won’t be a next time, I swear it!” Duanmu Xie chuckled nervously and kept offering apologetic smiles, not daring to argue.

Subsequently, he vented his lingering frustration onto Chenfeng. Hauling the man up, Xie delivered a flurry of sharp slaps—SMACK SMACK SMACK—beating Chenfeng’s face until it swelled like a pig’s head. This caused Chenfeng to begin howling like a wild beast, just like Yin Tianchou. The wretched screams of the two men rose and fell in tandem, each wave louder than the last.

Shen Lang sent Duanmu Xie into the Heaven-Sealing Cauldron. He then bent down out of sheer habit and slipped the Sumeru Rings off both Chenfeng and Tianchou’s fingers.

Only then did he stand beside Tianchou and say softly, “When you struck at Xian’Er, did you ever consider you would face a day like this… Did you ever think you’d be begging for life, yet denied the release of death?”

At this point, Tianchou’s mouth was overflowing with blood. His limbs were broken, his meridians and Spiritual Power were Sealed, and even his soul was pinned down by the Death God Nail. How could he possibly speak?

“Good and evil will always face their reckoning; the Celestial Dao dictates Reincarnation. You struck to induce Soul Scattering upon others, so your ultimate end will be the exact same—Soul Scattering.”

At this moment, Duan Chenfeng fought through his immense pain and roared frantically, “You can’t touch him! You can’t touch us! We belong to the Five-Colored Banner of the War God Hall! If you dare lay a hand on us, the War God Hall will definitely make sure you die without a burial place!”

Hearing this, Shen Lang’s gaze darkened even further…

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*Author’s Note:*

“Brothers, If you have any, smash them my way. Old Hai knows the updates haven’t been explosive, but since being published, I’ve maintained two chapters a day without fail. I’ve never missed a day or dropped to one chapter, even when I was sick with a cold. To be honest, it really hasn’t been easy… because I work a full-time job and write part-time.

“Come on, let the monthly tickets hit me even harder! Let Old Hai see everyone’s support! Only then will I have more motivation!”