270: Chapter 270 You're already an Emperor!

Facing the sweeping Nether Phoenix Flame that could incinerate stars and corrode Souls and bones, Xiao Hei stood still, his feathers unruffled.

In the depths of his sharp eyes, the monstrous black flames were reflected, yet there was no ripple, as if he was gazing at a destructive painting unrelated to him.

He allowed the destructive energy to roar closer, the scorching high temperature twisting and melting the space in front of him, the bone-chilling killing intent rushing towards him, as if replaying the pain and despair of that near-death moment ten years ago.

Just as the black flames were about to engulf him within ten zhang, and the Dao of Destruction had already scorched the Void Realm, Xiao Hei moved.

He did not flap his wings; he merely very slowly raised his right claw.

The sharp claw gleamed with a cold, dark-golden luster, its tips incomparably sharp, as if it could easily tear apart stars. Beneath the claw, faint Chaos Dao patterns circulated, exuding Supreme majesty that commanded life and death and shattered all laws!

He slightly opened his claw and, facing the roaring sea of dark fire that was enough to extinguish stars, he seemingly casually, gently clenched it.

“Om—!”

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no dazzling divine light.

But the moment he clenched his hand, the surging sea of dark fire was suddenly frozen in mid-air, as if an invisible giant hand had seized its throat!

All the destructive energy and corrosive Dao were forcibly confined and compressed at this moment, finally emitting a mournful wail of unbearable strain, then collapsing and annihilating with a rumble, turning into the most primal particles that vanished into nothingness!

The entire process was understated, as if merely brushing away a speck of dust.

“Pfft—!”

With its attack forcibly crushed and the backlash of Qi, the Dark Phoenix was struck hard. Its massive body trembled violently, and it spat out a large mouthful of blood burning with black flames, its aura instantly weakening by more than half!

The flames around its body dimmed, and its eyes were filled with extreme disbelief and utter horror!

“No… impossible! This is absolutely impossible!!”

The Dark Phoenix's shriek was filled with collapsing fear and incomprehensible terror!

Its pupils, burning with netherfire, contracted violently, staring fixedly at Xiao Hei, as if to see through him from inside out.

“Ten years! Only ten years! Your Origin was shattered, your Dao Foundation collapsed back then, you were clearly critically injured and dying, you should have been utterly annihilated!”

Its voice was distorted by extreme emotional fluctuations.

“How could you have survived?! Not only survived, but your power… this is not recovery at all! What Realm is this, after all?!”

A tremendous sense of absurdity and fear overwhelmed it.

Over these ten years, in order to stabilize and enhance its own strength, it had not hesitated to devour the essence blood and Souls of countless powerful Yao Beasts, and even made a dirty deal with the Nether Supreme Being of the forbidden zone of life, paying a huge price to stabilize itself at the Early Stage of the Quasi-Emperor Realm.

It thought that even if Xiao Hei had miraculously survived, his cultivation would surely be crippled, or at most only slightly recovered, and it could still easily manipulate him.

But the reality before its eyes completely shattered its understanding.

That understated clench contained a power of rules that it could not comprehend at all, transcending the scope of a Quasi-Emperor, unfathomably deep!

That absolute sense of suppression made it tremble from the depths of its Soul.

“You… you must have used some Heaven-Defying forbidden technique! Burned your remnant Soul? Or sacrificed something?!”

It tried to find a reasonable explanation, its voice trembling, filled with self-comforting, insane guesses.

“Yes! It must be so! You are overdrawing yourself! A spent force, a mere bluff!”

Xiao Hei watched its incoherent struggles indifferently, like overlooking a desperate insect biting wildly, his voice calm yet with a bone-chilling coldness.

“There are many impossible things. Mongrel bird, ten years have passed, and the power you gained by devouring and clinging to others is superficial and without any progress, truly… pitiful and pathetic.”

“Pitiful? Pathetic?”

The Dark Phoenix was deeply stung by these two words, especially coming from Xiao Hei's mouth, which made it furious with shame.

But even more, the deathly shadow, like ten thousand feet of profound ice, had completely enveloped it!

It sensed Xiao Hei's undisguised killing intent.

The instinct to survive overcame everything, and it shrieked madly: “No! You cannot kill me! I have now pledged allegiance to the Heavenly Desolation Supreme! If you kill me, the Supreme Being will never let you go!

Even if you somehow obtained some Opportunity and temporarily possess such power, in front of a true Supreme Being, you are still an ant! You cannot escape! You and everyone connected to you will die!”

It tried to bring out its biggest backer for a final gamble!

Upon hearing this, a hint of extreme sarcasm flashed in Xiao Hei's eyes, as if he had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world: “Heavenly Desolation Supreme? Hmph, coincidentally, I will settle his accounts later. Now, I will send you on your way first.”

Before his words finished, Xiao Hei's sharp claw had already condensed a wisp of deep, faint light, his killing intent as tangible as substance.

Just at the moment death descended, in the Dark Phoenix's pupils, that extreme fear was suddenly replaced by mad despair and ruthlessness!

“You forced me! Let’s die together!!”

It let out a hysterical shriek, and within its massive Yao body, a dark, eerie rune suddenly erupted with dazzling light!

That was a life-saving trump card bestowed by the Nether Supreme Being, and it even sealed a trace of the Supreme Being's power!

The rune exploded with a roar, and a surge of Nether Emperor Power, far exceeding the Quasi-Emperor Realm and filled with decaying and deathly stillness, burst forth like a breaking dam!

The grayish death light instantly tore through the surrounding starry sky. Wherever it passed, all things withered, even the starlight was swallowed and frozen, carrying terrifying power that could annihilate everything, rushing straight towards Xiao Hei!

This was a truly Supreme-level strike, capable of easily eradicating any Quasi-Emperor!

However, facing this sudden attack, Xiao Hei's eyes remained completely unperturbed.

He didn't even adopt any defensive posture; only the restrained Emperor's might around him subtly rippled.

That grayish death light, capable of destroying worlds, upon touching the invisible Emperor's might rippling around Xiao Hei, let out a mournful wail, like ice and snow meeting a scorching sun.

It actually recoiled at a speed even faster than it came, instantly engulfing the terrified Dark Phoenix!

“No—!! How could the Supreme Being’s power?!!”

The Dark Phoenix let out its last desperate and bewildered shriek. Its body, its Divine Soul, under this rebounded power belonging to its backer, instantly melted and annihilated, like dry paper thrown into a raging fire!

In the last moment before its consciousness completely dissipated, it finally perceived the true Realm represented by the subtly rippling aura around Xiao Hei—that was a Supreme majesty that transcended all Dao and commanded the world!

A thought that made its Divine Soul tremble, like the final thunderclap, shattered all its understanding:

“Em… Emperor’s might?! You… you are actually already… a Great Emperor…”

Before its words finished, its existence was completely erased, its form and spirit utterly annihilated!