349: The entire room froze! You call this protection?!

Su Chen's lazy voice wasn't loud, yet every word was like a dagger, piercing clearly into the depths of everyone's Divine Soul present.

"Too noisy?"

"The screams are unpleasant?"

On the square, the hearts of all the Great Xia citizens were gripped tight, nearly leaping out of their throats.

That was a true Great Emperor, striking with a world-ending blow in his fury!

This Divine Son of the Su Family actually only thought it was noisy?

Was he truly fearless because he had something to back him up, or had he become so arrogant that he no longer cared for life or death?

Even Ji Hongxue's phoenix eyes, which had just settled back into her heart, tightened once more.

She could clearly sense that Zhao Wuji's strike was far more terrifying than the previous probe!

That was a killing move that truly contained Imperial Law, intended to slaughter cities and destroy nations!

"Arrogant little beast! You dare to be stubborn even when death is at your door!"

Zhao Wuji's hideous laughter shook the heavens, his face filled with the distorted pleasure of imminent revenge.

In his view, no matter what sacred entity this Su Family was, facing the Law suppression of a Great Emperor, there could only be one outcome: total annihilation!

That magnificent Giant Astral Ship would be crushed into cosmic dust by his demonic hands!

Every living being on the ship would have their Divine Soul obliterated under the Imperial Might, falling into eternal damnation!

However, in the next instant...

A scene occurred that everyone would never forget for the rest of their lives, one that even overturned their worldview.

Facing those two pitch-black demonic hands capable of tearing the sky apart, no defensive light barrier rose from the nine heavens vessel.

Not even a ripple of spiritual energy appeared.

Only the hundred Nine Heavens Guards standing solemnly at the bow of the ship stepped forward in unison.

Just a simple step like that.

"Thump!"

The footsteps of a hundred people strangely merged into a single muffled thud.

That sound didn't explode in the ears, but hammered directly in the depths of everyone's Divine Soul!

Immediately after, they slammed the dark gold Dragon-patterned War Halberds in their hands heavily onto the deck!

"Kill!"

A hundred people roared in unison, and the sound waves actually condensed into a physical golden dragon shadow that soared into the sky!

No flashy Divine Abilities, no complex Laws.

Only a blood-colored Evil Qi, pure to the extreme as if it had just returned from harvesting billions of souls on an ancient battlefield, erupted violently!

Buzz—!

The aura of the hundred Nine Heavens Guards merged seamlessly into one at this moment through some ancient and mysterious battle formation!

Blood-colored smoke billowed and gathered above their heads, no longer a vague phantom.

Instead, it condensed into a... thousand-foot-long blood-colored war halberd that seemed almost real!

On that war halberd, not a single trace of Law circulated.

There was only a pure killing intent, the kind that could only be condensed after slaughtering demons and drinking their fill of blood, causing even the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth to retreat!

"Slay!"

Following the cold and merciless command of the hundred men...

The thousand-foot blood halberd tore through the Void Realm, boldly meeting the two black demonic hands descending from the sky!

There was no earth-shattering explosion as expected.

Nor was there the brilliant roar of Laws colliding.

The moment the blood-colored war halberd touched the black demonic hands, there was only annihilation.

Screech—

After a tooth-aching soft sound...

The monstrous emperor qi surging atop Zhao Wuji's world-destroying demonic hands was like thin snow meeting boiling water; it couldn't even manage a struggle before being instantly evaporated!

Immediately following, starting from the point where the blood halberd touched, dense blood-colored cracks appeared on the demonic hands themselves, which were composed of pure Imperial Might and Laws.

Those cracks spread frantically with an unstoppable momentum!

"What?!"

The hideous grin on Zhao Wuji's face completely froze.

His pupils shrank to the size of needles, his eyes filled with incomprehensible shock and fear!

His Imperial Law was actually... actually crushed by a burst of pure Evil Qi?!

How the hell is this possible!

There should be a limit to quantitative change causing qualitative change!

A hundred Great Sage Peaks forming a battle formation to contend with a Quasi-Emperor is already the limit!

To go head-to-head with a true Great Emperor?

That's a fool's dream!

The crushing weight of Laws is an absolute truth that transcends levels of existence!

Unless... a thought so absurd it even felt ridiculous to him began to grow uncontrollably in his mind.

Unless these guards and this battle formation were of a grade that had long since surpassed the understanding of this world!

This is not power that should exist in the Lower Realm!

"Crack—!"

At the moment Zhao Wuji lost his composure, a crisp mournful cry resounded through the world.

Those two overbearing black demonic hands finally couldn't hold on. Under the horrified gazes of billions of living beings, they shattered inch by inch, turning into a sky full of black light specks and dissipating into nothingness!

One strike!

Just one strike!

A full-strength blow from a Great Emperor was broken just like that, effortlessly, by a hundred guards!

However, this was not the end!

This was only the beginning!

After crushing the demonic hands, the blood light on the blood-colored war halberd did not weaken; instead, by devouring the resentment of the demonic hands, it became even more solid and more eerie!

It turned into a blood-colored divine punishment piercing through heaven and earth, ignoring the distance of space and time, and instantly appeared before Zhao Wuji!

"No—!"

Zhao Wuji's soul nearly flew out of his body. A shadow of death he had never felt before completely submerged his Imperial Soul!

He wanted to flee, but discovered to his horror that the space around him had already been completely pinned down by that pure killing intent, as solid as immortal divine gold!

He had nowhere to hide!

"Break for me!"

On the line between life and death, Zhao Wuji erupted with all his potential as a Great Emperor!

He frantically burned his Imperial Origin, and a pitch-black Qi shield composed of countless complex Divine Runes was hastily blocked in front of him!

The next second...

The blood-colored war halberd slammed violently into the Qi shield!

"Boom—!!!"

This time, a deafening explosion finally erupted!

The destructive energy storm tore the clouds within ten thousand miles into the most primitive void!

That hastily condensed Qi shield only held for less than half a breath before letting out an overwhelmed mournful cry and exploding violently!

"Puff—!"

Zhao Wuji was hit as if by a divine punishment, spitting out an arrow of blood that pierced through the sky!

That blood arrow was even mixed with fragments of internal organs shimmering with Imperial Law runes!

His entire body was pierced by that irresistible massive force, and terrifying halberd marks, deep enough to see bone, appeared on his indestructible Imperial Body!

Finally, with a muffled boom!

He turned into a pitch-black meteor, trailing a long line of blood, and was forcibly smashed from the sky into the square ground in front of the palace!

The earth shook violently, and dust shot into the sky!

A deep pit, its edges filled with terrifying cracks like a spiderweb, appeared in everyone's sight!