Chapter 776: I want this Heaven to lower its head when it meets my face, and I want this Earth to crack a thousand fathoms when it be

Ji Tianhe bared his teeth, but the blade in Li Zhiyi's hand slashed down once more.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!!!

Blood-red and golden-red collided in the void, splashing out countless sparks.

The speed of the two accelerated in an instant.

Roar!!!

Roar!!!

A deafening roar resounded, making it impossible to tell who exactly was roaring.

"What is your name?" Ji Tianhe slashed continuously, his eyes wide, asking the name of the person before him for the first time.

"You are the same as me!"

"You are filled with rage just like me, you are filled with killing intent just like me, you are a butcher just like me!"

"Why?"

"The Blood Brand tells me you are a butcher too?"

"Why?"

"Who are you?!"

Sharp shrieks rang out, but Li Zhiyi did not say a word, the blade in his hand slashing out incessantly.

Silence.

Silence.

Not a single word.

The radiance of his will flickered, reflecting his frame as even leaner, his features even more stern.

He seemed like an executioner who had slaughtered ten thousand men, ignoring reincarnation, acknowledging no Heavenly Dao, knowing only whether the blade in his hand fell.

Fast!

Ji Tianhe was fast, and Li Zhiyi was also fast.

Every time Ji Tianhe increased his speed, Li Zhiyi's speed would rise to match it.

At this moment, Li Zhiyi's momentum changed completely.

Bang!

He was kicked away by Ji Tianhe, his body hovering in mid-air, and suddenly he took a deep breath.

A deep breath!

"Kill!!!"

A roar of extreme fury resounded.

"How cheap is my life, exactly?!"

"Just because of a piece of clothing, my fate must be changed!"

"Just because of my own weakness, I can be slaughtered by others at will!"

"Am I easy to kill?!"

Li Zhiyi's angry roar resounded, and Ji Tianhe slashed a blade toward his neck.

Bang!

Li Zhiyi's neck was the first to be severed by the power of will; the head and neck separated, blood spraying out, but as the blade light passed, the severed neck and head were drawn together and stitched back by the power of will.

This scene was suffocating to watch.

High-level martial artists could survive decapitation, but below the Creation Realm, decapitation meant death.

Yet Li Zhiyi had severed his own neck, his expression unchanged.

No fear of death!

A madman!

Ji Tianhe was a madman, but Li Zhiyi was even crazier than him.

Zhang Yu, Li Xin, and the others, who had originally come to die, stood dazed upon the Qiong Heaven, their bodies stiff.

High above, the Pool Master watched intently, as if trying to see clearly what exactly Li Zhiyi was.

Even Ji Tianhe was stunned for an instant.

And it was precisely because of this momentary pause.

Boom!

The golden-red blade of will slashed into Ji Tianhe's neck, instantly biting into the bone, blood spraying out.

Agony struck, Ji Tianhe's eyes instantly erupted with blood-red light, his long hair exploding outward.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!"

An angry roar resounded.

Li Zhiyi, however, held the blade with both hands, pressing down with all his might, intent on completely severing Ji Tianhe's neck.

"Am I easy to kill?"

"Tell me!!!"

He burned like the great sun, the power of his will erupting completely.

"I want this Heaven to lower its head three parts when it meets my face!

I want this Earth to crack a thousand fathoms when it bears my feet!"

His voice vibrated, his will surged in an instant, his voice carrying endless rage and killing intent.

Boom!!!

The two crashed onto the great mountain, kicking up a hundred-meter wave of earth.

Rumble!!!

The Green Mountain collapsed and split, countless trees snapped and broke.

"Kill!!!!" Ji Tianhe's sharp battle cry rang out; dust swallowed his figure, but countless blood-colored blade lights slashed out in all directions.

"Kill!!!"

Li Zhiyi also roared, ten thousand golden lights sweeping across the heavens and earth like lasers.

Rumble!

It was as if two armies of ten million were locked in slaughter, their sky-piercing killing intent mixing together, colliding together, and strangling together.

It was also like two long rivers colliding in an instant, kicking up ten-thousand-foot waves.

The roars surged toward the sky, turning into a song of purgatory belonging to the human world.

In an instant, the mountain body crumbled, and mangled flesh splattered.

Amidst the exploding dust, two broken bodies were biting at each other regardless of everything.

Everything was about to crash together.

Xia Yuan watched as his sleeves fluttered and his Qi and blood surged; he opened his mouth wide, looking at the soldiers below, looking at the reckless Li Zhiyi.

"My Great Xia..."

He felt as if he had returned to the time he followed Lu Xunyang to trample across Ji Province.

It felt like returning to that night when Chen Yan executed the Ji Lord.

Endless hot blood surged within his veins.

"My Great Xia has existed for ten thousand years; we have never lacked warriors, never lacked heroes to defend the nation!"

The Pool Lord watched in silence; at this moment, the air around his body began to fluctuate.

A communication array disk appeared before him; the connection had just been established, and the other side had not yet spoken.

The Pool Lord directly barked out:

"Chen Qi, do you or do you not care about your clan's blood brand, do you care about Ji Tianhe of Ji Province!!!"

The Pool Lord was rarely this furious; on the other side of the communication array disk, Chen Qi's surprised voice came through:

"What happened to Ji Tianhe?"

In the distant heavens and earth.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

Suddenly, streaks of flowing light flew out from within the Heaven-Reaching Mecha.

Senses reached out toward the Green Mountain.

"How is this possible?!"

"Chen Qi!!!"

"Who is he?!"

Voices, some furious and some resentful, rang out.

Chen Qi stood in the firmament, looking down, stunned to the extreme, which in an instant turned into endless rage.

Boom!!!

The clouds in the sky shifted, black clouds swirled, and a massive palm print was manifesting.

"Chen Qi!"

A cold and indifferent voice rang out from a certain place within Jin Province.

An old man named Xia Hanzhou, whose aura had been low and whose expression had been dejected, suddenly had his eyes bloom with golden light, and he waved a single hand.

Boom!!!

A spear shadow that spanned the heavens and earth struck out from within Jin Province, traversing the sky.

As the long spear struck out to its limit, spatial array disks appeared one after another along the trajectory of the spear's approach.

Within Jin Province, Tui Province, and Yun Province, countless commoners only saw flowing light streak across, not knowing what had happened.

The next instant.

Bang!

The long spear was caught by Chen Qi with one hand.

Hum, hum, hum!!!

Ten thousand layers of spear shadows erupted, and ten thousand feet of space were instantly torn apart.

Chen Qi's pupils constricted, feeling only endless giant force pouring into his palm.

"The Second Under Heaven!!!" Chen Qi roared lowly.

Both were at the Eighth Rank; Chen Qi did not acknowledge Xia Hanzhou's title as the second, but at this moment...

Boom!!!

Chen Qi was instantly pushed back a hundred miles by the spear shadows; the palm print between the clouds and sky above the Green Mountain had not yet fully formed before it dissipated.

"If you want to tear up the agreement, then tear it up!"

The icy voice rang out from within Jin Province.

"That Lu Xunyang is cowardly, but I, Xia Hanzhou, am not!"

Xia Hanzhou's voice came, and the Eighth Rankers of the Five Clans within Qin Province all choked.

Look at the nonsense he was spouting.

But no one said anything more.

After all, the usually slick Xia Hanzhou had indeed wanted to organize the entire Great Xia to fight the Five Clans to the death that night.

If not for Lu Xunyang stopping him, the current situation of the world would truly be unknown.

The crowd looked down, and their breathing immediately grew rapid.

They saw, upon the shattered earth, a remnant body standing with difficulty, burning with the power of golden-red will.

And before that remnant body lay another broken corpse.

Ji Tianhe's arms were completely snapped, his head was split open diagonally, and red and yellow fluids flowed out; the Blood-Brand Long Blade still flickered with blood-light in his hand, like a scene of sin that would never reach its finale.

"Ji Tianhe..." Chen Qi's pupils shrank, filled with disbelief.

He looked again at the remnant body burning with golden-red will, and for a moment, his heart felt as if it had been twisted.

He almost thought that it was Chen Yan.

The Eighth-Rankers in the sky watched in a daze; how could their expressions remain calm?

As a war prodigy hand-crafted by the Five Clans, Ji Tianhe was not only a powerhouse of the future but also the hope and leader of the Alliance Army soldiers.

No one had expected Ji Tianhe to die at the hands of the Great Xia Military Guard.

This...

How is it possible?

Li Zhiyi gasped for air, already exhausted, but his will would not allow him to lie down.

He had to stand.

He had to stand with dignity.

The next moment, Chen Qi grabbed with one hand; he wanted to retrieve the Blood-Brand.

That was a divine artifact, after all.

Yet, at this very moment.

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Like the wailing of ten thousand ghosts, the blood on Ji Tianhe's body began to tremble, and streams of scarlet blood-mist surged wildly, centered around him.

"I will not die!!!"

Only half of his head remained, brain matter was still bubbling out, and there was no longer any aura of life on his body, yet his mouth began to move.

"If I die, who will avenge my brother and father, who will know what my family's names were?

I will bear all the charges; I only want to make the entire world suffer my wrath!"

He let out a deafening roar like a maddened beast; the void was shaken by endless killing intent, and visible ripples of blood-color spread out from him as the center.

"I will not die!"

"The vengeance for my brother and father is not yet fulfilled, I cannot die!!!"

"They are gone, they are gone, I cannot die!"

He stood up, his tattered body covered in hideous wounds, to the point where he no longer looked human.

"The killing intent is too thick; the body is dead, but the vengeful soul remains, and it is about to completely transform into a blood-beast controlled by the Blood-Brand."

An Eighth-Ranker watched in shock.

When a person's obsession reaches a certain level, this is what happens.

The physical body is merely a tool for him to fulfill his obsession.

All around.

Zhang Yu, Li Xin, the Deputy Battalion Commander, and others watched, their mouths agape, filled with disbelief and even a sense of despair.

How is he still not dead?

Even though his body is broken to that extent.

Is this a human or a ghost?

The no-longer-human Ji Tianhe shed tears of blood:

"I wailed, I knelt and begged, wanting him to spare my family, but he just waved his hand lightly, just like this..."

He slowly raised his hand and threw a slight punch.

He was simulating Chen Yan's movements from that time.

"It was just one punch, just one punch, and everything I had was gone!!!"

"My brother and father were bugs, bugs he crushed casually; that was my brother and father!"

"What should I do, what should I do?!"

"He cannot hear my voice..."

"I want revenge!"

He roared, even though the exertion caused his body to shatter even more severely.

"Revenge!!!"

"I want Great Xia to perish, I want him to regret it!!!"

Li Zhiyi stared fixedly at Ji Tianhe in this state and whispered:

"He is dead."

Li Zhiyi's voice fell.

Ji Tianhe paused.

"He is dead?"

"He is dead."

"He is dead!"

Ji Tianhe opened his mouth wide and roared with all his might:

"He is dead!!!!"

"Then let the entire world atone for him!!!"

He raised the Blood Brand in his hand high, endless blood-evil overflowing crazily, about to strike down in this very instant.

Chen Qi's pupils constricted; if Ji Tianhe could continue to exist like this, perhaps he could also allow the Blood Brand to be unleashed!

Yet, at this very instant.

Bang!

A hand gripped the hand with which Ji Tianhe held the blade.

Li Zhiyi's right hand erupted with the power of endless will, using all his strength to snatch the Blood Brand from Ji Tianhe's hand.

And then...

Slash!

Boom!

Ji Tianhe's physical body was completely shattered, falling down, and there was no sound from him ever again.

Ji Tianhe, dead!

This turn of events happened suddenly.

Chen Qi slowly closed his eyes; Ji Tianhe had died after all.

But the next moment.

Chen Qi furrowed his brows, suddenly discovering something amiss.

Boom!

The Qi all over Chen Qi's body surged violently, and he stared fixedly at Li Zhiyi.

The Blood Brand long blade was being held in Li Zhiyi's hand.

If it were not for recognition, the Blood Brand would never be held by anyone.

Quiet.

Quiet.

Quiet.

"Who are you?!!"

Chen Qi suddenly roared.