49: Chapter 49 Night Owl

Su Wu let out a cold shout, his figure advancing instead of retreating!

He trod upon the Void Realm, like a purple-gold lightning bolt, crashing directly into the dense forest of black spears.

The crimson saber in his hand erupted with blinding light.

The three-colored fire and three-colored lightning perfectly intertwined on the blade's edge.

Su Wu swung his blade like the wind, without any flashy Moves, only extreme speed and power.

Clang, clang, clang, clang—!!

The sharp blade light transformed into an airtight net of thunder and fire.

Those black spears, which would inevitably be corrupted upon contact, were instantly cleaved into wisps of black smoke by that immensely rigid and yang power the moment they touched the thunder-fire blade light, completely evaporating!

"Hmm?!"

Seeing this, the black-robed person's faceless mask seemed to distort.

He had originally thought that by relying on the Star Demon Cult's eerie methods, he could easily handle this Su Wu who had just gone through a major battle, but he didn't expect the other party to actually have countermeasures!

"How could it be so easily..."

His shocked words were still stuck in his throat.

Swish—!

A terrifying blade light, dozens of meters long and wrapped in heaven-burning thunder and fire, had already slashed through the last few spears at an incredible speed, fiercely striking towards his face!

Before the blade light arrived, that scorching temperature and violent aura of destruction had already caused the black Qi surrounding the black-robed person to begin dissipating on a large scale.

The black-robed person felt his scalp tingle, and he hurriedly dodged to the side at the critical moment.

Rip!

The blade light grazed past his shoulder.

Although he avoided the fatal blow, the sharp blade Qi still effortlessly tore through his protective black mist, slicing off his wide sleeve along with a large chunk of flesh, the wound scorched into charcoal by the thunder and fire.

"Ah!" The black-robed person let out a muffled groan.

"Can you dodge it?"

Su Wu didn't give him any chance to catch his breath at all.

After one strike missed, Su Wu's figure turned back in mid-air like a ghost, pressing forward once again.

The Star Vortex within his body spun crazily, and his Saber Domain instantly contracted, concentrating all the oppressive force solely on the black-robed person.

"Slash!!"

Su Wu gripped the saber with both hands and slashed three times in succession.

Each slash was faster than the last, each heavier than the last! Fire and lightning intertwined in the air into a brilliant and deadly storm.

The black-robed person was forced into a desperate situation. He dared not be careless, his hands frantically weaving seals before his chest, his mouth chanting obscure and difficult-to-understand incantations.

Boom!

Endless black Qi surged out from within his body, transforming into a huge, ten-meter-high, immensely thick black shield before him.

The surface of the shield revealed countless painfully twisted human faces, emitting hair-raising screams, as if it were condensed from thousands of resentful Souls.

Boom!!!

The first slash fell; the black shield trembled violently, the human faces on its surface emitted shrill screams, and a huge crack ran through half the shield.

The powerful energy shockwave swept out in all directions like a tsunami!

The Jinglin Garden below was completely reduced to ruins under the sweep of this aftershock at this moment.

"Block it! Block it for me!" The black-robed person frantically squeezed the Origin Qi within his body, attempting to repair the shield.

"Hmph, with just this much strength, you think you can reap the rewards?"

Murderous intent exploded in Su Wu's eyes.

"Break... for me!!"

The second and third slashes overlapped, transforming into a peerless blade radiance that could split the heavens and earth, fiercely striking that crack!

Crack—Bang!!

That Shield of Sighs, which claimed to be able to withstand even a Seventh-Order Star Lord for a moment, was directly shattered under Su Wu's unreasonable, violent crushing force!

"Pfft!"

The black-robed person suffered a backlash, violently spitting out a large mouthful of black blood. His mask fell off, revealing a face as shriveled as a skull.

His eyes were filled with terror.

He just couldn't understand why a guy who was only a Fifth-Order Star Lord, and someone who had just finished fighting nine Star Lords, could still have such a terrifying level of attack power!

He hurriedly retreated violently, raising his hands again, attempting to summon more black Qi to block.

However, Su Wu's speed was faster than his.

Space rippled slightly, and Su Wu's figure, like a teleportation, crossed dozens of meters of distance directly, sticking right in front of the black-robed person.

"Go to Hell and meet your Demon God!"

Su Wu raised the crimson saber high; on the blade's edge, thunder and flames roared, locking onto the black-robed person's crown, and slashed down fiercely!

The black-robed person widened his eyes in terror, his pupils reflecting the growing thunder-fire blade light. He had no time to make any reaction at all.

"Lord!!! Save me!!!"

In this final half-second of life and death, the black-robed person let out a roar.

Just at the moment the black-robed person shouted that "Lord".

Time seemed to become incredibly slow at this moment.

Just when Su Wu's blade edge was less than three inches from the black-robed person's head, and even the scorching blade wind had already scorched the other party's hair.

A sudden change occurred!

Rip—!!

Accompanied by a nauseating sound of flesh tearing.

The black-robed person's chest cavity, surprisingly, exploded outward from within, without any warning, revealing a huge bloody hole!

There were no internal organs in that bloody hole, only a bottomless, pitch-black vortex.

Immediately after.

A long, pale left hand, with fingertips burning with a cluster of pure black, eerie flames, suddenly reached out from that bloody hole!

This hand appeared too abruptly. It was as if it had treated the black-robed person's body as a flesh-and-blood door crossing the Void Realm!

Star Demon Cult High Priest—Ye Xiao!

Borrowing a body to descend!

Ye Xiao didn't pay any attention to the subordinate he had used as a disposable portal, who was about to die.

His enchanting and handsome face emerged from the bloody hole, cruel mockery flickering in his narrow, vertical pupils.

At the same moment Su Wu's blade slashed to kill the black-robed person.

Ye Xiao's figure, like a maggot on the bone, instantly stuck to Su Wu's side, in his defensive blind spot!

Too fast!

Too eerie!

"What?!"

Su Wu's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpricks!

He had calculated everything, but he didn't expect the other party to actually have such an evil secret technique that used living people as spatial stepping stones!

Moreover, the aura emanating from this pale left hand... it was a terrifying oppressive feeling that far exceeded a Sixth-Order, even surpassing ordinary Star Lords!

Ninth-Order Star Lord Realm!!

"Not bad, but it's a pity, die."

Ye Xiao's lips curled into a cruel smile.

His left hand, burning with terrifying black flames, carrying an absolute dead silence capable of annihilating all matter and Soul, struck like a venomous snake emerging from its hole, aiming straight for Su Wu's temple!

If this strike landed, let alone the Physical Body of a Fifth-Order Star Lord, even a Ninth-Order Star Lord Realm like himself would have their brain instantly burned through, resulting in death and the dissipation of their Dao!

The distance was too close!

Less than half a meter!

Su Wu had just slashed with all his might; his old strength was spent, and his new strength had not yet arisen.

Even if he possessed Micro-level control, even if he possessed teleportation-like movement techniques, in the face of this premeditated, absolute surprise attack from a Ninth-Order Star Lord, he simply couldn't dodge it!

The shadow of death, for the first time, loomed so clearly over Su Wu's heart.

"Could it be... that I'm going to end up here?"