Chapter 1048: Heaven Unleashes the Killing Wave, Moves the Stars and Shifts the Constellations!

The sky was engulfed by a solar flare of annihilation, with no escape possible.

"Roar!"

The Flame Archdemon roared, walking upon the heavens, as countless faint and illusory order-fire dragons surged from all directions, once again charging into the solar flare without retreating or dodging.

Boom!

The solar flare is extraordinarily unique!

It was designed by the Immortal Gate with strict scientific precision, a targeted weapon created to oppose and destroy order.

Amidst the endless explosions, the Flame Order further dissolved; the light of the Taiqing Flying Sword pierced like sunlight, slashing downward and hurling the Flame Archdemon and his Flame Divine Spear away, leaving a deep gash across his chest—even the Flame Divine Armor infused with order was split open.

The order upon which the Archdemon relied to suppress the four directions had been shaken!

Without order, a lifeless thing—how could it possibly stand against a human prodigy of the Fourth Realm?

"Archdemon!"

"I claim your life!"

Jiang Ding's eyes burned crimson and searing as he roared.

He stood within the fleet of the Great Sun Star Special Group Army, as countless ship cannons fired in unison, unleashing wave after wave of solar-flare-infused sword light to annihilate the Flame Order in all directions, again and again destroying the Emperor's Palace of Flame Stone.

Boom!

Boom boom!

Beneath the sword light and amid the solar-flare explosions, space shattered repeatedly—even the deeper layers of space cracked open. The Flame Archdemon was pushed back again and again, his body broken and mangled.

The Flame Divine Armor and Flame Divine Spear, symbols of Flame Order, were now riddled with massive damage; the Flame Order continued to destabilize, beginning to lose its ability to conceal the Great Sun Annihilation Sword Domain.

The Great Sun Sword Realm in the sky grew ever more brilliant, as if truly becoming a real, tangible world of sword Dao.

Boom!

Boom boom!

Again and again, the Flame Archdemon was forced back, yet he surged forward relentlessly, fighting to the death without yielding—this was the mission implanted in him by the array set by Emperor Flame Stone: no matter what, he must protect the Emperor's heir, no matter what.

Boom!

The Tenth Sword!

As the Tenth Sword fell, the solar flare erupted; the Taiqing Flying Sword sliced through the Flame Archdemon's arm, brutally and violently severing his right limb. The Flame Divine Spear, symbolizing the offensive aspect of Flame Order, was shattered into nothingness by the solar-flare-infused sword light, not a single fragment remaining.

"Roar!"

The Flame Archdemon let out a roar of fury, tinged with agony.

"Archdemon."

"Remember the supreme glory you are about to receive today."

Jiang Ding whispered coldly: "You will be the first Archdemon I have slain—the one infused with order. Perhaps I shall remember you. Though you are a lifeless thing, you still possess this 【30】 glory."

such glory."

"I bestow it upon you without hesitation."

"Therefore,"

"Die with the glory I have granted you!"

He suddenly brimmed with murderous intent.

Boom!

Jiang Ding unleashed all his magic power, all his sword intent, synchronized with the barrage of the Great Sun Star Special Group Army's cannons and the detonation of the Great Sun Magnetic Solar Flare Formation, launching his strongest sword strike.

The terrifying sword intent, the supremely condensed magic power, and the collective force of the Great Sun Star Special Group Army's formation merged with the Taiqing Flying Sword, unleashing a sword strike of utmost brilliance.

In that moment, all of heaven and earth dimmed.

Not because light vanished, but because it was drowned beneath the even brighter Great Sun; beneath that radiance, the entire world turned to black and white, and everything moved in unison with the trajectory of that annihilating sword light.

Nothing else remained in heaven and earth.

Shhh!

The sword light—blindingly bright, transformed into black and white—sliced through the one-armed Flame Archdemon.

"Roar!"

The Flame Archdemon roared and bellowed, his body still towering like a mountain, like a celestial god; his Flame Divine Armor, infused with the fires of heaven and earth, was an extension of the cosmic Flame Order.

Even with his right arm severed and his Flame Divine Spear shattered, he still possessed the power to suppress countless kings; he roared and charged forward, obeying the Emperor's orders, determined to advance to his death.

Then, his body froze.

The brilliantly radiant solar-flare sword light slowly faded; heaven and earth regained their vibrant colors, and all fell still.

"Roar—"

The Flame Archdemon's roar cut off; his aura vanished completely.

On his skull, a bright, brilliant golden line appeared across his face—from his brow to his nose, to his chin, down his throat, chest, abdomen…a molten-like sword scar cleaved the Flame Archdemon cleanly in two, extinguishing all life, all restless flame energy, silencing every trace of vitality.

All was annihilated, neutralized, rendered harmless.

No explosion occurred; the Flame Archdemon split evenly from his brow, divided into two halves, each covered in brilliant golden solar flares, his flame body slowly obliterated by this terrifying force, leaving no trace of bones or flesh.

The Flame Divine Armor's order, symbolizing defensive power, offered not the slightest resistance—it was ground to dust by the solar-flare sword qi.

The Flame Archdemon was utterly dead!

Boom!

Boom boom boom!

At the instant the Flame Archdemon died, the earth shook for a hundred thousand kilometers; mountains collapsed, rivers dried up, volcanic lava erupted, annihilating all around; the land shifted between peaks and deep abysses, everything changing, everything being destroyed.

The Archdemon-level array set by Emperor Flame Stone himself had been shattered!

Such vast arrays are typically built in close dependence on spiritual veins and earth veins; now that the array was broken, countless mountains and lands were affected, triggering a catastrophic disaster as if the end of the world had arrived.

Amidst this destruction—mountains toppling, heaven collapsing, earth sinking—a blood-robed Daoist walked slowly forward, toward the Flame Emperor's Throne.

He gazed at the Flame Flow Imperial Son, who had curled into a ball on the imperial throne, weeping softly, no longer possessing the slightest shred of majesty or cruelty.

"Imperial Son,"

"You are going to die."

Jiang Ding's voice was soft, exceedingly gentle: "This sovereign has long contemplated the *Dao Heart Demon Slave Scripture*, and obtained a secret. Do you know what it is?"

"That is, as long as one slays the slave master, the slave can advance to the Imperial realm without needing permission."

"What do you think? Is that so?"

"No!"

"Don't!"

The Flame Flow Imperial Son wept like a child, snot and tears streaming down his face, having lost all confidence before a Sword Dao Quasi-Emperor, not even daring to resist, begging: "Dong Xue He Wang, please, please don't kill me!"

"I carry my father, Great Emperor Flame Stone's life-preserving methods!"

"You can defeat a Quasi-Emperor, but you absolutely cannot kill me. Let me go, and I will beg my father to spare you. Please, please, you should run now…"

He babbled incoherently, casting aside all dignity, pleading endlessly.

"Great Emperor life-preserving methods."

"Is that so?"

Jiang Ding smiled faintly, drawing his sword inch by inch, drawing it inch by inch, exceedingly slowly. At the same time, the Great Sun Unmanned Group army fleet likewise gathered power slowly.

After layer upon layer of buildup, a terrifying power—terrible beyond compare, enough to make a Quasi-Emperor tremble with fear—appeared between heaven and earth, stiffening everyone's divine soul and body, robbing them of all capacity for thought, reducing them to lambs awaiting slaughter.

"Ahhhh…"

The Flame Flow Imperial Son screamed in terror upon the Flame Throne, losing all reason.

So much so that he did not notice that Dong Xue He Wang seemed to be deliberately stalling for time.

At the same time, he also had no right to notice that this star domain, the Flame Stone Star Domain, had already been surrounded by an unimaginable force of karma, karmic obstruction, enveloping and shrouding everything.

When man awakens the killing intent, heaven and earth overturn;

When earth awakens the killing intent, dragons and snakes rise upon the land;

When heaven awakens the killing intent, stars shift and constellations change!

Such an immense force of karma, such karmic obstruction, had already taken shape as the embryonic form of a Heaven and Earth Tribulation.

Even an Imperial realm cultivator, caught within it, would lose all sudden inspirations, their instincts blinded, their divine soul darkened, involuntarily drawing closer to the place where the tribulation lay.

This is what is called a Heaven and Earth Tribulation.

And now, an artificial Heaven and Earth Karmic Tribulation, formed by an Immortal Dao civilization gathering all its power, had already enveloped the entire Flame Stone Star Domain!

They were waiting for their prey to walk into it!