178: Chapter 178 Entering the Demon Emperor's Tomb Alone, Slaying the Current Heavenly Demon Emperor with His Sword

Leaving his place of seclusion, Ye Qing's figure was like lightning as he flew straight toward the final ancestral land of the Heavenly Demon Imperial Court — the Demon Emperors Mausoleum.

The Demon Emperors Mausoleum was not located within any city, but hidden deep within an ancient mountain range perpetually shrouded in gray mist. There, the remains and Legacy of the successive Heavenly Demon Emperors were buried; it was the most sacred and forbidden place for the entire Yao Race.

Ye Qing spent several days crossing several maze formations and kill formations laid down by ancient Demon Emperors, which were enough to trap and kill experts at the Soul Transformation Late Stage, finally arriving at the core area of that gray mist.

Deep in the mist, a huge mausoleum, seemingly carved from an entire black sacred mountain, stood there quietly, emitting an ancient, desolate, and incomparably majestic aura.

In front of the mausoleum was a plaza paved with black stone slabs. On the plaza stood dozens of black stone pillars, a hundred feet high, carved with various ancient demon god patterns, as if guarding this sleeping imperial mausoleum.

Just as Ye Qing stepped onto the plaza, an invisible pressure filled with warning signs permeated from the black mausoleum, as if preventing his approach.

He stopped, his gaze calmly fixed on the black mausoleum, and said loudly: "Loose Cultivator Ye Qing has come to pay a visit. I ask that Your Majesty, the Heavenly Demon Emperor, come out for a meeting."

His voice echoed in the empty plaza, but there was no response.

Only that invisible pressure became heavier, as if an invisible sacred mountain was pressing on his shoulders.

Ye Qing raised his eyebrows slightly, stopped wasting words, and slowly raised his right hand. The chaos sword appeared out of thin air in his hand.

The sword body was chaotic in color, simple and unadorned, yet it emitted an aura that seemed capable of severing everything.

He held the chaos sword and, facing the black mausoleum, simply slashed down with one sword!

Swoosh!

A chaotic-colored sword beam, condensed to the extreme and seemingly capable of splitting heaven and earth, flew out from the sword, instantly expanding to a thousand feet in length, like a chaotic-colored heavenly river, slashing fiercely toward the black mausoleum!

Just as that chaotic-colored sword beam was about to strike the mausoleum—

"Hmph!"

A cold snort, seemingly from beneath the Nine Heavens, sounded from deep within the mausoleum!

Immediately after, a huge black claw, covered in dark golden scales with nails like sharp daggers, reached out from the mausoleum and grabbed that chaotic-colored sword beam capable of severing mountain ranges!

Crack!

A crisp sound!

That thousand-foot-long chaotic-colored sword beam, under the grip of that huge black claw, shattered with a bang, just like fragile glass!

"Human Race... you have finally come."

A hoarse voice, as if two pieces of sandpaper were rubbing against each other, slowly drifted out from the mausoleum.

Immediately following, the heavy stone door of the mausoleum, carved from ten-thousand-year obsidian, boomed open!

An even more ancient, even more terrifying aura, as if from the primordial era, surged out from the opened stone door like a tide!

A figure walked out step by step from the depths of that dark mausoleum.

That was a middle-aged man who looked to be about middle-aged, wearing an ancient-style black imperial robe, with distinct facial features, but eyes like two bottomless ancient wells.

The imperial robe on his body had no gorgeous decorations, yet it possessed an imposing imperial bearing that commanded respect without anger. His hands were clasped behind his back, as if nothing in the world was worth a second glance from him.

He was the contemporary Heavenly Demon Emperor, that legendary Yao Race Supreme who had lived for tens of thousands of years and whose cultivation was unfathomable!

The Heavenly Demon Emperor's gaze fell on Ye Qing, as if examining an interesting object: "Soul Transformation Late Stage... yet you were able to destroy the projection I left in the Holy City, and you were able to break through the maze and kill formations I set up... You do indeed have some ability."

"However," his tone changed, becoming cold, "you should not have come here. And you should not have disturbed my slumber."

Before his voice fell, an indescribable, terrifying pressure that seemed capable of crushing the heavens and myriad worlds erupted from him like an invisible tide!

The black stone slabs under his feet cracked inch by inch under this terrifying pressure!

The black mausoleum behind him was trembling slightly!

This pressure had already surpassed Spirit Transformation Consummation and reached a deeper, more terrifying level — Void Refining!

Although it was only a preliminary step into the Void Refinement Realm, Void Refining was Void Refining! Between it and Soul Transformation lay a chasm like a natural moat!

Ye Qing only felt his whole body tighten, as if suppressed by an invisible primordial sacred mountain, making even breathing extremely difficult! His bones were groaning under that terrifying pressure!

But the Battle Intent in his eyes burned like a flame!

"Void Refining... indeed very strong! But, it is not enough!"

He gritted his teeth fiercely, operating his Chaos Infant Essence to the extreme. On the chaos sword, chaotic-colored light shone brightly, and an equally sharp, equally unyielding Sword Intent surged into the sky!

He forcibly withstood that terrifying pressure and slowly raised the chaos sword in his hand!

"Hmm?"

A trace of surprise flashed in the Heavenly Demon Emperor's eyes. He clearly had not expected that Ye Qing could still make a counterattack under his pressure!

"Interesting. However, that is all."

He slowly raised his right hand, extended his index finger, and pointed lightly at Ye Qing.

A black finger wind, condensed to the extreme and seemingly capable of piercing the Void Realm, appeared silently, instantly crossing the space barrier, appearing in front of Ye Qing, and pointing at his glabella!

This finger seemed understated, yet it contained the profound understanding of Law by an expert of the Void Refinement Realm! It was enough to easily kill any Cultivator at Spirit Transformation Consummation!

Facing this fatal finger, not only was there no fear in Ye Qing's eyes, but an even more intense light erupted!

This was the moment he had been waiting for!

He gripped the chaos sword with both hands, pouring all the power of his body, including the power of the five million zhang heaven and earth of his Cave Heaven World, into this one sword!

"Chaos, Opening Heaven!"

He stabbed out with one sword, simple and direct!

This sword had no frills, no techniques, only the purest power and the purest will!

This sword seemed to return to the chaotic era before heaven and earth were opened, wanting to split this Chaos with one sword and reopen heaven and earth!

That black finger wind, which was enough to kill a Spirit Transformation Consummation, met the tip of the chaos sword and, as if encountering a nemesis, was silently annihilated!

The tip of the chaos sword, with its momentum undiminished, continued forward, stabbing toward the Heavenly Demon Emperor's heart!

The Heavenly Demon Emperor's expression changed for the first time!

His figure flickered, and like a teleportation, he retreated dozens of zhang instantly, avoiding this fatal sword!

However, a small sword hole remained on the imperial robe on his chest!

"You... you were actually able to injure me?!"

The Heavenly Demon Emperor looked down at the small sword hole on his chest, a look of disbelief flashing in his eyes!

After entering the Void Refinement Realm, his Physical Body had long been tempered like a Sharp Weapon, and ordinary Magic Treasures could hardly injure it in the slightest! He had not expected that he would be pierced by a Human Race Cultivator at the Soul Transformation Late Stage, injuring his main body!

"Injure you? I am going to kill you!"

Ye Qing did not let up, wielding the chaos sword like a madman, launching a storm-like attack on the Heavenly Demon Emperor!

He knew that there was a gap of a major Realm between him and the Heavenly Demon Emperor. If they fought normally, he had almost no chance of winning!

His only chance of victory lay in being caught off guard, in his chaos sword fused with the power of the Cave Heaven World, and in his unyielding, indomitable Sword Intent!

The Heavenly Demon Emperor was caught off guard by Ye Qing's crazy attacks and was forced to retreat repeatedly for a time!

However, he was an expert in the Void Refinement Realm after all, and soon stabilized his footing and began to organize an effective counterattack!

The two great experts launched an earth-shattering battle on the plaza in front of the Demon Emperors Mausoleum!

Every collision between them exploded with a thunderous roar, and the leaking energy ripples shook the hundred-foot-high black stone pillars on the plaza until they were tottering!

Ye Qing fought more and more bravely. He seemed tireless, bringing every wonderful use of the chaos sword into full play!

At times, the sword light was like the Nine Heavens Milky Way pouring backward, majestic and sweeping in all directions!

At times, the sword momentum was like a poisonous snake coming out of its hole, tricky and ruthless, specializing in attacking vital points!

At times, the Sword Intent was like a spring breeze turning into rain, silent yet pervasive!

The Heavenly Demon Emperor became more and more alarmed as he fought. He discovered that the Human Race Cultivator in front of him was like a piece of fine iron that could never be defeated. No matter how much pressure he applied, the other party could tenaciously endure it, and furthermore, grow and progress amidst the pressure!

"This cannot go on!"

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in the Heavenly Demon Emperor's eyes. He forced Ye Qing back, then opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of golden blood that seemed to contain endless life essence!

That blood was sprayed onto the pitch-black sword in his hand!

That pitch-black sword, after absorbing the Heavenly Demon Emperor's life essence, seemed to come alive, emitting a bloodthirsty hum. On the sword body, eerie, blood-like patterns emerged!

An even more evil, even more terrifying aura permeated from that blood-colored sword!

"Being able to force me to use my life essence and activate the 'Devouring Heaven Sword', you have enough to be proud of! Now, go die!"

The Heavenly Demon Emperor roared, holding the blood-red Devouring Heaven Sword, and slashed toward Ye Qing with one sword!

A blood-colored sword beam that seemed capable of devouring all light and destroying all vitality, like a blood-colored heavenly river, slashed down toward Ye Qing!

This sword was the strongest blow the Heavenly Demon Emperor could make by burning his life essence! Its power was already infinitely close to the Lianxu Middle Stage!

Facing this sword that seemed capable of destroying everything, a flash of determination appeared in Ye Qing's eyes!

He knew that success or failure depended on this one move!

He took a deep breath and mobilized the power of the Cave Heaven World without reservation!

The five million zhang Cave Heaven World trembled violently at this moment!

The ancestral earth vein issued a deafening roar!

The star sea spun crazily!

On the Floating Landmass, those few dragon transformation grass plants instantly withered, turning into the purest life essence, surging into his body!

Even that dragon heart crystal core, which he had been nourishing in the core of the Cave Heaven World, shook slightly under the traction of this power, releasing a trace of extremely subtle, yet extremely pure, Origin power belonging to a True Dragon!

This power, like the last straw that broke the camel's back, allowed the power in Ye Qing's body, which was already overflowing, to instantly break through a critical point!

His cultivation, driven by this power, actually broke through to Spirit Transformation Consummation in the middle of the battle!

"Chaos, Destruction!"

He held the chaos sword, poured this newly broken-through, not yet stabilized power into the chaos sword without reservation, and then met the slashing blood-colored heavenly river with one sword!

There was no earth-shattering collision!

There was no violent, raging energy turbulence!

Only a chaotic-colored sword light that seemed capable of destroying all Laws flashed and disappeared!

That blood-colored heavenly river that seemed capable of devouring everything, in front of that chaotic-colored sword light, encountered a nemesis and silently annihilated!

The chaotic-colored sword light, after annihilating the blood-colored heavenly river, although it also became extremely dim, still tenaciously swept across the Heavenly Demon Emperor's neck!

Puchi!

A soft sound!

A head with an expression of disbelief and wide-open eyes flew into the sky!

Blood sprayed out like a fountain from the smooth, mirror-like severed neck!

The contemporary Heavenly Demon Emperor, a Supreme existence in the Void Refinement Realm, fell right there!