Chapter 1332: Killing God

The words had barely left his lips when Jian Changsheng's hand, poised at his lower back, suddenly drew something forth!

Boom—!!!

As if gripping the hilt of an invisible sword, a torrent of ancient murderous aura surged from within him the moment he drew it. Black killing intent shot skyward, piercing the clouds like a magnificent pillar. The instant this aura appeared, the surging, ceaseless tide of calamities suddenly paused, and almost all the calamities instinctively turned their gaze towards its direction. For some unknown reason, they sensed an extremely dangerous presence emanating from that pillar of killing intent that soared into the heavens.

"Hmm?" The white ape, its mind occupied by the Calamity of Thought, turned its head towards the pillar of killing intent, its eyes narrowing slightly. "Has a troublesome fellow appeared...?"

Tian Huai, currently locked in battle with an eighth-tier calamity, also turned his head in that direction. His eyes first showed surprise, then astonishment and confusion. "When did the Hanging Jade Realm produce such a unique War God Path master?"

The turbulent aftershocks directly knocked the surrounding calamities to the ground, and the stirred-up sand made it difficult for Huai Mang to open his eyes. Through the haze, he vaguely saw a figure slowly emerge from the surging killing intent. Black ribbons fluttered in the gaps of his armor. With every step, the dispersing killing intent created a crack in the ground. Jian Changsheng, longsword in hand, resembled a spirited young general, his brows furrowed with sternness and lethal intent.

Roar—!!

A calamity resembling a lynx suddenly sprang from the swirling sand nearby, so fast it left afterimages, ambushing Jian Changsheng from behind and biting at his body!

"Watch out!" Huai Mang, who happened to witness this scene, immediately shouted.

The sword-wielding elder beside him was about to move, but Jian Changsheng, walking slowly forward, seemed to have eyes in the back of his head. Without even glancing back, he thrust his sword behind him in a backhand strike! Killing intent erupted from Jian Changsheng's blade, piercing directly through the lynx's throat. The lynx's life force was instantly extinguished by the killing intent, and its body, now weightless like a piece of cloth, hung directly on the longsword, swaying in the wind.

As Jian Changsheng continued forward, he casually pulled the longsword free. He slowly raised the blood-dripping blade before his eyes, its reflection mirrored in his dark-tinged pupils.

Unending Purgatory, activate!

The killing intent around Jian Changsheng began to accumulate, and the fighting spirit in his sharp eyes continuously surged!

He gripped his longsword tightly, and the next moment, his figure shot forth like lightning, charging straight into the overwhelming tide of calamities!

Huai Mang, who was closest to Jian Changsheng, felt the terrifying aura emanating from him, his face still showing traces of shock. Once the figure was completely gone, he looked down at his own hands and smiled a little bitterly. "I'm still... too weak."

Back in the Tianshu Realm, his rank had even been slightly higher than Jian Changsheng's. He hadn't expected that after all this time, the other man would have grown to such an extent. There was no shortage of geniuses in this world. Even if the few owners of the Heavenly Star position were already recognized as top-tier geniuses in the human realms, there were always geniuses beyond geniuses. He secretly made up his mind that if the Hanging Jade Realm could escape this calamity, he would go into secluded cultivation at the Ancient Repository of Accidental Paths, striving with diligence to catch up to the pace of these geniuses.

As Huai Mang was lost in thought, a colorful flaming awakened lion and a white-haired figure wrapped in bandages descended from the sky, crashing nearby one after another like meteors.

Thump-thump—

"Why is Spades charging so far ahead?" Jiang Xiaohua felt a wave of exhaustion as he saw how far Jian Changsheng had already advanced. They had agreed to charge the formation together, but Jian Changsheng was moving so fast that it meant he had to speed up to keep pace. Running was something he was terrible at.

"Asuras are born for war... He's truly in his element here," Sun Bumian said unhurriedly. "It's fine if he charges ahead. It saves us the trouble of fighting to the death, after all, neither of us is particularly good at that."

Jiang Xiaohua nodded repeatedly. "Diamonds, can I ride on your back? Will you carry me?" Jiang Xiaohua looked longingly at the awakened lion’s broad back.

"?" Sun Bumian refused without hesitation. "No!"

"...Alright."

The colorful awakened lion pushed off with its four limbs, its massive body shattering the ground as it followed behind Jian Changsheng like a bolt of lightning, charging the formation. Jiang Xiaohua scratched his head, then silently started running on his own, bringing up the rear.

At this moment, if one were to look down from above the battlefield, they would see a ‘sword’ cutting forth from the Hanging Jade Realm, cleaving through the surging tide of calamities bit by bit, bypassing all human positions!

A colossal black moon bloomed amidst the tide of calamities. The next second, dozens of sword gleams of killing intent pierced through the tide, shooting skyward from various angles. Amidst a thunderous roar, hundreds of calamities were hurled into the air by the shattering ground, their faces etched with horror and bewilderment.

Above the black moon, the figure of a general, like a soaring dragon, rose into the air, longsword in hand. Black killing intent intertwined at the hilt's end, resembling a swaying ribbon. With a sweep of his eyes, Jian Changsheng's longsword slashed an arc in the air around him, instantly cleaving dozens of the closest calamities!

A surging mist of blood billowed in the air. Behind Jian Changsheng, a black divine ring of killing intent was rapidly forming! Under the effect of Unending Purgatory, Jian Changsheng's combat power was amplified with each enemy killed. As he had carved his way through to this point, the sheer number of calamities he had slain had already amplified his combat power more than tenfold from its original state!

Blood mist dispersed, black ribbons fluttered, and the young general, charging alone with his sword, now resembled a god of slaughter, unleashing terrifying pressure!

Roar—!!

As a roar echoed from the tide of calamities, two seventh-tier calamities simultaneously streaked out, lunging directly at Jian Changsheng!

Jian Changsheng scoffed, lightly brushing his palm. A few drops of blood floated from a sword wound on his palm. The next second, his figure vanished without a trace, reappearing above one of the calamities!

Dripping Blood Asura.

With one hand gripping his sword and the other pointed at the calamity below, he extended his five fingers and suddenly clenched them tight!

Boom—!!

Black killing intent, like thunder, crashed down from the clouds above him, instantly striking the calamity. The ancient killing intent, capable of purifying all impurities and acting as a bane to calamities, directly pierced its massive body, causing it to fall helplessly to the ground like a torn sack.

At the same time, Jian Changsheng, holding his sword in one hand, fiercely engaged in battle with the other seventh-tier calamity! After the more than tenfold amplification, Jian Changsheng, whose combat power was already formidable, had become an almost demonic existence. Coupled with the ancient killing intent, known as the calamity's bane, even a seventh-tier calamity could not withstand more than a few exchanges against him.

Moments later, Jian Changsheng cleaved that calamity in half with a single sword stroke. As the killing intent further amplified him, the divine ring of killing intent behind him grew increasingly solid!!