149: Chapter 149 The Second Strike, The Heavenly Demon Severes His Wrist, The Dynasty Ends

Rumble!!!!

Before Emperor Xia's roar had even faded, the entire Imperial City, and even the capital region spanning a hundred miles, began to tremble violently!

That sinister altar, built from countless bones and vengeful souls, exploded with a deafening roar!

But this time, it wasn't some demonic creature that crawled out from underground, but billions of blood-colored resentful spirits. Like a surging river of blood, they shot into the sky and merged into the dragon-fixing pearl in Emperor Xia's hand!

After absorbing this immensely vast power of resentment, the dragon-fixing pearl emitted a "crack" sound of shattering. It could no longer withstand this power, but it had fulfilled its final mission—acting as a coordinate!

"Imperial Brother! Stop! You will destroy the eight-hundred-year foundation of the Great Xia Dynasty!!"

From within the dragon-suppressing stone, the remnant soul of Xia Yan let out the most mournful shriek of his life.

"Foundation? If I cannot have it, then none of you shall have it either!!"

Emperor Xia's hair was disheveled, blood flowed from his seven orifices, and he looked like a mad demon!

He held the nearly shattered dragon-fixing pearl high, aiming it at the sky!

"Respectfully welcoming... the Demon Lord's arrival!!!"

Riiip!

As if a black curtain had been sliced open by a sharp blade, the Nine Heavens above the Imperial City were actually torn open, revealing a pitch-black rift thousands of feet long!

Inside that rift, there were no stars, no Void Realm, only the purest, most nauseating Chaos and malice!

A terrifying pressure, indescribable in words, slowly seeped out from the rift.

Just this aura alone caused space to distort and made the remaining palaces and pavilions atop the Imperial City begin to silently weather and crumble!

Under this aura, the survivors inside and outside the Imperial City could not even feel fear; their Divine Souls were instantly crushed into powder, leaving behind only husks frozen in expressions of terror.

"Hahaha! Do you see it! Lin Feng! This is true power! This is the power of gods and demons... that transcends Earthly Immortals!!"

Bathed in this pressure, Emperor Xia's body was rapidly collapsing, yet he laughed with immense pride.

"Before the Demon Lord, you are but an ant!"

Just as he finished speaking, a terrifying giant hand, as large as a mountain and burning with black demonic flames, suddenly reached out from the pitch-black rift!

This hand was so massive that the mere pressure brought by its descent caused the ground within a hundred miles of the capital to collapse inch by inch!

It blotted out the sky and sun, its five fingers spread wide, as if it intended to grab this land, along with Lin Feng, and crush them to pieces!

"Young Friend Lin! Run! This is a genuine Outer-Realm Heavenly Demon Clone! It cannot be opposed! A single hand of it is enough to crush the entire capital! Run!!"

The dragon-suppressing stone flashed wildly, Xia Yan's voice filled with despair.

He exhausted his last bit of strength to propel the dragon-suppressing stone into a streak of golden light, seemingly intending to collide with the demonic hand to buy Lin Feng a sliver of a chance at survival.

However, facing this earth-shattering scene, Lin Feng's face remained as indifferent as it had been for eons.

He didn't even look at the demonic hand descending from the sky.

His gaze fell upon the dragon-suppressing stone that was rushing toward the demonic hand, vainly attempting to block the chariot with its arms.

"I said, it's too noisy."

He reached out his hand.

It was not forming a blade with his fingers, nor was it clenching a fist; it was just a casual grab.

Hum!

An invisible yet supreme will descended instantly!

That dragon-suppressing stone, which was attempting a "heroic sacrifice," along with the dragon-fixing pearl not far away that was acting as a coordinate and shooting blood-red light into the sky, seemed at this moment to be simultaneously gripped by an invisible giant hand!

"What?!"

Emperor Xia's manic laughter stuck in his throat.

"This..."

Xia Yan's will also fell into stagnation.

In their disbelieving eyes!

Lin Feng just gave a gentle squeeze!

"Whether it is suppressing the Dragon, or fixing the Dragon..."

"Before me, all are... dust!"

Crack!

Bang!!

Two crisp sounds rang out almost simultaneously!

The dragon-suppressing stone, representing the orthodox path of the Emperor, and the dragon-fixing pearl, which had condensed monstrous power of resentment—these two top-tier Divine Artifacts that had entangled the Luck of the Great Xia Dynasty for hundreds of years—could not offer even a sliver of resistance under Lin Feng's casual squeeze, and shattered with a roar!

Golden specks of light and blood-colored fragments intertwined and annihilated in the air!

"Sigh..."

The moment the dragon-suppressing stone shattered, Xia Yan's remnant soul let out a complex sigh of relief, then, along with the golden light, completely dissipated between heaven and earth.

He had schemed his entire life, but he hadn't calculated that what would end all of this was neither him nor Emperor Xia, but an absolute power... that he simply could not comprehend.

"No... My dragon-fixing pearl... My Imperial Divine Artifact..."

Emperor Xia completely collapsed! He watched helplessly as the two pearls turned into fly ash; all his reliance and schemes had become a complete joke at this moment!

At this moment, the sky-blotting demonic hand had already descended over the Imperial City!

The terrifying demonic flames had even scorched the corner of Lin Feng's clothes!

Only then did Lin Feng slowly lift his head to look at the demonic hand capable of destroying everything.

"Outer-Realm Heavenly Demon?"

"You've... reached too far."

The moment his words fell, he moved!

"With one thought, gods and demons..."

"Slash!"

Riiip!

A blood-colored blade light, indescribable in words, flashed and vanished!

This blade light was neither glorious nor domineering, but the moment it appeared, all Laws, Origin Qi, and even light in heaven and earth were forcibly "severed" by it!

Fast! Fast to the extreme! So fast that even thought could not capture it!

That arrogant, overwhelmingly oppressive, and terrifying demonic hand suddenly stiffened when it was a hundred feet above Lin Feng's head.

The next moment, a perfectly smooth blood line quietly appeared on its indestructible wrist.

Pfft!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only the soft sound of a sharp blade cutting through rotting flesh.

The mountain-sized demonic hand... was severed in response!

Boom!!

The severed demonic hand, having lost the support of the demonic flames, crashed onto the Imperial City square like a real mountain, creating a bottomless giant crater in the earth, before turning into black mist and dissipating without a trace.

Above in the sky, from within the pitch-black rift, came a silent roar filled with terror and fury!

The rift seemed to have seen the most terrifying existence in the world, and in violent trembling, it... closed in a panic!

Heaven and earth returned to clarity once more.

"No... No... No!!!"

Emperor Xia knelt on the ground, letting out the most mournful scream of his life.

He had never dreamed that he would bet everything, and his final trump card would be so casually... severed by a single blade from his opponent!

He wanted to flee, but discovered that his body had long been locked by an invisible and cold Saber Intent!

He could only watch helplessly as that figure, like a true demon god, stepped through the Void Realm, step by step, until it stood before him.

"You... what kind of monster are you..." Emperor Xia asked, trembling, using his last bit of strength.

"Your era has ended."

Lin Feng's voice was cold, devoid of any emotion.

Pfft!

The blade light flashed past, and a head wearing a purple-gold crown, filled with endless regret and unwillingness, soared into the sky.

[Ding! Successfully killed the Martial Extremity Realm Ninth Stage Peak Emperor Xia!]

[critical hit multiplier increased to 25,200 times! Obtained 400 million critical hit points!]