Chapter 0.7: Slay
“Qin Gou, what exactly are you… This Seat understands, this must be another Dao body you prepared in advance!”
Qin Gou didn’t respond, but instead, he directly went to the side of the injured crowd.
“Master, don’t mind me, you need to conserve your strength,” Ye Qishuang said, struggling to hold on.
“It’s fine.”
With that, Qin Gou unhesitatingly placed a hand on Ye Qishuang’s shoulder.
“This is…”
Xiao Shuang’er’s originally pale face, as white as paper, began to regain color at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was an astonishing power she had never felt before. It was completely different from other cultivators in the Realm Lord Realm, possessing some fundamental distinction.
“Qin Gou, I ask you…”
Before the Demon God could finish speaking, he was suddenly met by Qin Gou’s gaze and felt his hair stand on end. *How is this possible?* The Demon God was incredibly shocked by his subconscious reaction. It was merely a glance, but where did such immense terror and terrifying pressure come from?
While the Demon God was contemplating, Qin Gou had already stabilized the injuries of everyone. In the next second, he moved directly towards him.
“Boom!”
The two instantly clashed. To everyone’s surprise, after only a few rounds, when Qin Gou struck the Demon God’s chest with a palm, that extremely powerful physique suddenly exploded, splitting into countless small pieces. Following that, the separated flesh and blood rapidly transformed into new bodies.
“Attack together,” Qin Gou said without hesitation. Everyone immediately joined the fight. Of course, the most powerful one among them was still dealt with by Qin Gou himself.
“You guy, what realm are you in now?” the Demon God figure not far from Qin Gou asked disbelievingly. Being split into so many oneself was not something the Demon God wanted; it was forced by Qin Gou’s previous strike.
“If I said I don’t know either, would you believe me?” Qin Gou spread his hands.
The Demon God cried out hysterically, “As long as you haven’t ascended to immortality, you will never be my opponent!”
“When I wasn’t in the Realm Lord Realm yet, many people also liked to say I could never be their opponent.” With that, Qin Gou attacked again.
Strangely, under Qin Gou’s fierce and unparalleled offense, the Demon God could seemingly produce clones endlessly. Every time he was outmatched and Qin Gou tore apart his Dao body, more new versions of himself would emerge.
“Truly a monster,” Qin Gou couldn’t help but sigh at the sight.
“Do you finally know my capabilities now? You can never truly kill me!” the Demon God sneered, believing that Qin Gou’s current powerful state must be consuming a lot of energy, so he just needed to wait for Qin Gou to exhaust himself.
“Is that so?”
Suddenly, Qin Gou stomped his foot and rushed towards the sky again. His sword condensed all the colors of the world. With his current terrifying strength, he would once again condense a Myriad Phenomena Orb. “I’d like to see how you plan to tear through the void now that you’ve scattered your strength like this?”
“No!!”
Before the most powerful Demon God figure could speak, his weaker clones already let out unreserved, desperate screams subconsciously.
“Boom!”
In an instant, the Myriad Phenomena Orb descended, its radiant light engulfing the entire Underworld Profound Realm. The greatest characteristic of the Myriad Phenomena Orb was that it would only harm the targets Qin Gou intended to attack. Everyone else was already covered and protected by the power of the Underworld Profound Realm.
Following that, all the dazzling light rapidly receded like a retreating tide, finally converging at one point and completely dissipating. The surroundings regained their proper colors, and all the Demon God clones were completely frozen in place, their faces still frozen in expressions of terror, and then they crumbled inch by inch. This included the most powerful Demon God figure that Qin Gou was facing.
“Demon God? Has he truly perished?” Zhao Xinting was the first to ask.
Everyone immediately sensed.
“Completely unable to sense his soul aura, I’m afraid he’s truly gone?”
“No, his Dao body has merely perished.” With that, Qin Gou signaled Luo Wei Ban, and the two immediately summoned their ancient scrolls.
Two golden lights shot out from their ancient scrolls, covering a certain spot and revealing the Demon God’s soul. At this moment, the ancient scrolls clearly displayed the Demon God’s name, but in a script that Qin Gou and the others had never seen before. It made sense; after all, the Demon God was an outsider.
“You…” At this moment, the Demon God could no longer feign composure, his eyes filled with manic roars, “How is this possible? Qin Gou, how did you know?!”
“It seems I guessed correctly. What you fear is never any of the abilities within the ancient scrolls, but precisely the ancient scrolls themselves! This ability, which others see as caring, but which you view as a nightmare-like ‘rescue’…” Qin Gou said confidently, “If you had known this in advance, you probably wouldn’t have voluntarily joined the ancient scrolls back then, right? After all, this was originally meant to forcibly retain the souls of any fellow cultivators who unfortunately perished nearby, to help stabilize and even slowly nourish and help them recover… but it has completely trapped you!”
“As an outsider, once you become this weak, this world will expel you! Thus, although your future is uncertain, it will definitely be a glimmer of hope compared to falling into the hands of your enemies. But now, you no longer have this opportunity! That’s why you wanted to hunt down and kill all other ancient scroll users! Even if you couldn’t truly destroy the ancient scrolls themselves, you had to strictly guard against newcomers.”
“Why do you know these things? This Seat only asks you, why do you understand this matter!?” the Demon God roared madly, as if he had completely lost his mind.
Qin Gou swept his gaze over everyone present, then suddenly nodded slightly. In an instant, his sword was drawn and he slashed down at the Demon God. In the last moment, the Demon God heard Qin Gou’s voice in his ear. “Actually, I am also a stranger.”
“Wha…” The Demon God’s eyes widened with astonishing hatred, but in the next instant, his soul was completely annihilated by Qin Gou.
“Ding. Congratulations to the host for successfully slaying the ‘World’s Repudiated Scum,’ rewarding one million Merit points.”
“How much?!” However, at the same time, the sky of Qin Gou’s Underworld Profound Realm suddenly cracked open, revealing the real sky outside.
“Boom!” Thunder rumbled, and terrifying tribulation clouds condensed in the sky. “Could this terrifying tribulation cloud, containing the power of the Heavenly Dao, be the Ascension Tribulation mentioned in the records?” Qin Gou’s eyes widened in alarm, “But this heavenly tribulation is not targeting me, but…”
Everyone looked towards Luo Wei Ban, who was also bewildered.
“No, I’m not ready to go alone yet!” As she spoke, Luo Wei Ban’s eyes filled with emotion, her emotions becoming too agitated. With a moment’s carelessness, she directly separated from Luo Wei of the Western Heaven Realm. And after the two separated, the originally terrifying tribulation clouds gradually stopped condensing and slowly dissipated.
“Could it be because…” Seeing this, the usually bold Luo Wei Ban and Luo Wei tentatively tried together. As expected, once they merged, their strength would amplify and form tribulation clouds. When they separated again, because the critical point was not reached, the tribulation clouds would dissipate. This happened repeatedly without fail.
“What dog?” Qin Gou casually muttered, “Summoned at will, dismissed at will.”
Who knew that as soon as he said this, a bolt of lightning from the sky directly struck Qin Gou.
“Who are you calling a dog?” Qin Gou summoned the Kunpeng Fan and took the initiative to attack, neutralizing the lightning with a single move.
For a moment, everyone was in shock. This was the heavenly lightning of the Ascension Tribulation. Even though the tribulation clouds only served as a warning and were not using their full power, it was still too easily dealt with…
“What realm are you in now?” Qin Gou smiled wryly, “I really don’t know!”
