Chapter 881: This General, I Keep My Word!

"Live." Xia Hanzhou spoke heavily:

"He will slaughter all the ancient divine beasts of the world and reverse this entire future."

Yin Xue's body trembled slightly:

"He is not Chen Yan."

Yin Xue's eyes slowly closed, leaving only two thin slits to glimpse the golden light spilling over.

"He will be." Xia Hanzhou used the aura of life and death as a secret technique to transmit his voice.

Yin Xue's body stiffened.

Suddenly!

Screech!

The world of malice pressed in, and an ancient divine beast of mist split into ten thousand arms to grab, each arm manifesting a twisted human face, lunging toward Li Zhiyi.

Ignoring Yin Xue, Xia Hanzhou transformed into a spear shadow and flew forward.

But Li Zhiyi did not dodge or evade, allowing it to wrap around his body.

The next moment, strands of destructive will emerged from his physical body, like more than forty blood-red flames, erupting continuously.

Those ten thousand arms turned to fly ash before they could even touch the red robe, and shrill screams came from the black mist.

Li Zhiyi flipped his palm and pressed down, the entire expanse of mist condensed into a black bead the size of a fist, following the force of his five fingers.

Boom!

A hundred miles of void collapsed into a black hole, swallowing all the remaining malice.

A massive dragon body emerged within the black mist of malice, coiling across the sky and occupying the earth.

It was the Dragon King, who had taken the opportunity to escape.

"What are you saying?"

The massive dragon head looked down on Li Zhiyi with contempt:

"The human race is the natural slave of the ancient gods. Do you think you can reverse reality with a few words?

Our becoming ancient divine beasts is an ascension, the noblest evolution; the human race is naturally meant to be our rations.

A group of livestock that can only squeal and chatter, you..."

Boom!

A radiance of will, vast as an abyss and a sea, shot straight into the firmament, burning away the endless malice surrounding the Dragon King.

Li Zhiyi took a step, and the entire world rippled violently, spreading continuously; the surrounding space began to twist and shatter.

"You!"

The Dragon King's eyes stared at Li Zhiyi, not knowing why the sense of fear Li Zhiyi brought it was even more profound.

Even though the Underworld Nightmare Beast had given it immense means, at this moment, its heart still began to palpitate.

"I will only strike one blade!"

Just five calm words, yet the Dragon King felt endless fear.

Screech!

It let out a sudden low roar.

Boom!

The ten-thousand-foot dragon body coiled and constricted like a black iron mountain range, layers upon layers of malicious scales glowing with scarlet blood light, and countless cracks were squeezed out of the entire void.

Just like that, it surrounded Li Zhiyi.

A massive tornado of malice rose between heaven and earth, the ground shattered, and the void turned into fragments.

The terrifying whistling sound drove back all living things in the four directions.

Accompanied by the mountains and rivers being blown apart all around, the one hundred thousand Evil-Slaying Army soldiers were all blown away by the gale of malice.

The Blood Sword Saint and the Longevity King, two eighth-rank experts, stood in the void, their bodies appearing as if struck by immense force, struggling to remain stable.

"This is..."

Xia Hanzhou's eyes widened, and he roared out:

"The power of the four great ancient divine beasts!"

He was about to make a move, but saw that Li Zhiyi remained standing calmly.

Chen Min and the other one hundred thousand Evil-Slaying Army soldiers watched with difficulty amidst the gale of malice.

Someone shouted, but they saw that figure standing as immovable as a mountain.

Li Zhiyi's red hair was wild, his red eyes filled with killing intent.

Surrounded by this massive dragon body, he was small to the extreme.

Within his body, more and more destructive will appeared.

The forty-ninth!

The fiftieth!

The pressure rose and condensed.

Rising again!

Condensing again!

Inside the world of malice.

Chen Yan stood within the endless sea of malice, his powerful aura boundless.

And the strength of Li Zhiyi's will increased tenfold.

All the way until.

The fifty-first!

The fifty-second!

Hum!

A sound of Great Rareness swirled within Li Zhiyi's mind.

Inside the gray fog world created by 【Return to One】.

Li Zhiyi bypassed the forty-ninth seat and sat directly upon the stone throne ranked forty-eighth.

At this moment!

The strongest in the human world, number forty-eight!

The next moment.

Li Zhiyi's body rose high like a long dragon, his entire being overflowing with a wanton and heroic spirit.

Boom!

The pressure of his will erupted all around him like Mount Tai crumbling.

Crimson-gold flames pierced into the dragon body like hundreds of millions of red-hot chains.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!!!

Screech!

A shrill dragon roar resounded through the nine heavens.

Burned by the power of his will, the massive dragon body coiling around Li Zhiyi disintegrated and melted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Towering black smoke rose from the surface of the dragon body, and rotting flesh peeled away with a rustling sound.

"You!"

The Dragon King wailed; it could not believe that the opponent could burn its massive dragon body just by overflowing with the power of his will.

Immediately after, it saw the most terrifying scene.

The blood blade in Li Zhiyi's hand was already raised at this moment.

His eyes were calm, devoid of any expression.

"I don't believe it, you can kill me with just one strike!"

The Dragon King hissed.

It thought of its past and present lives, it thought of its strength when it was of the human race.

It thought of how much stronger it became after becoming an Ancient Divine Beast.

It was an Ancient Divine Beast, the pinnacle of its species.

After the Dream-Eating Tapir died, it was the one most likely to become one of the five great Ancient Divine Beasts in the future.

It was noble, it was sacred.

Screech!!!

Within the shattered dragon body, countless blood-red worms suddenly emerged.

Hundreds of millions of worms surged like a river, rushing out of the Dragon King's body, transforming into ten thousand dragon claws that lunged toward Li Zhiyi.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

The ten thousand dragon claws formed a cage that blotted out the sky, the malice dripping from the claw tips condensing into tangible chains.

Countless twisted human faces appeared on the inner walls of the cage, emitting bewitching hisses as they continuously wrapped around Li Zhiyi.

Li Zhiyi's figure, exposed to the world, became less and less, less and less.

The Dragon King watched hideously, seeing Li Zhiyi's blood-red eyes blocked by the dragon claws filling the space one by one.

Immediately after, it saw.

The long blade in Li Zhiyi's hand slowly descended.

Silence.

A stillness accompanied by terror swept through the hearts and minds of every Great Xia human at this moment.

They dared not speak.

The one hundred thousand Evil-Slaying Army soldiers held their breath one by one, suddenly feeling their physical bodies turn cold.

It was only because that blazing light of will was locked inside the cage of malice.

Chills.

Worry.

Terror!

Li Zhiyi had brought people high spirits and ambition; Li Zhiyi's disappearance brought people even more panic.

Clang!

A crisp sound of a blade ringing out echoed.

The golden-red blade light, like a galaxy flowing backward, broke through the cage of malice from the inside out, brushing past the Dragon King's last dragon head.

Where the blade edge passed, a fire of will, more scorching than the blazing sun, burst forth from the cracks in the cage.

Boom!

The entire cage had exploded into sparks filling the sky.

The Dragon King's eyes widened, feeling the aura of death.

It was going to die.

Its brain slowly split apart, pitch-black, filthy brain matter spilling out.

It was going to die.

It had actually been annihilated by a single blade strike.

However.

At this moment, however, it felt a trace of relief.

It was good to die; at least it would not suffer endless torment like the other ancient divine beasts.

Yet, just as it was thinking this.

A pair of hands made of will tore open its skull, which was already on the verge of splitting apart.

The power of will devoured all the filth within its brain, devoured all malice.

Finally, it extracted a physical body that no longer resembled a human.

This was the human vessel of the Dragon King that had not yet completely dissipated.

Screech!

A terrified, sharp shriek rang out from within this body.

It could not speak; it had long since forgotten the instinct of human speech.

It was only afraid.

Endless fear.

Afraid of those countless hateful eyes, afraid of how those gazes, like flickering ghost fires, would swallow its future years.

This body was fragile, like a sheet of paper.

Yet, it could not die.

It wanted to die, but it could not.

"Want to die?" Li Zhiyi spoke coldly:

"How could the grievances of this human world allow you to die so easily?!"

His voice was like a god-king pronouncing a sentence, and with a flick of his hand, he threw it beside Yin Xue.

The Dragon King's remnant human body trembled, and where its eyes had long since vanished, the flesh constantly buckled and twitched.

It felt the cold, felt the endless cruelty awaiting it.

"You will live for me!"

Li Zhiyi's cold voice resounded, pouring into Yin Xue's ears.

"Live with your hatred; as long as the malice of this world is not extinguished, you are not worthy of death.

You shall watch with your own eyes as this General levels every malice in the world, watch as I..."

Yin Xue's body shuddered.

Li Zhiyi turned his head to look at the world of malice before him.

He reached out, his power of will forming hands, and within them appeared human heads.

Among them were the heads of Yin Qingshuang and Yin Youming.

They were already dead, but their heads stared fixedly at Li Zhiyi.

As if complaining, why did you come only now?

We were comrades who shared the same book of immortality, we went through fire and water with you.

Why did you come only now?

We would rather sacrifice our own lives to ensure your safety.

You...

Why did you come only now?

Chen Yan!

Why did you come only now?!

Li Zhiyi's throat choked up, and he continued:

"Watch this General reverse time and trace it back, to call all things back to how they were!"

On the dragon's back.

Yin Xue's drooping head slowly lifted, looking at Li Zhiyi's back, its lips parting:

"I am going to die, you must..."

Yin Xue smiled, but this smile appeared exceptionally miserable.

Countless people could not hold back, tears falling from their eyes.

One could only hear the dying old man, holding onto his last breath, unwilling to die, whispering:

"You must not lie to a dying man!"

Li Zhiyi stood calmly, head tilted upward, as he collected the heads of his comrades into his spatial ring.

"This General..."

Boom!

He stepped out, like a god or demon trampling the world!

The violent power of will condensed into a path to the heavens, spanning the long sky.

Like a golden celestial river pouring down, it crushed into the world of malice, leading straight to its deepest depths!

At this moment.

How many ancient divine beasts wailed, how much malice dissipated.

At this moment, the path of will led into Qi Province, sweeping away thousands of enemies.

Those ancient divine beasts cowering within were exposed under the brilliant radiance.

Their filthy bodies instantly ignited with golden flames, turning to ash before their wails could even escape.

"I keep my word!"