Chapter 33

He opened his mouth and spat, and a pitch-black trident engraved with strange runes appeared in his hand.

The moment the trident appeared, it emitted a thick, bloody stench; it was clearly a demon weapon that had caused heavy slaughter.

"Black Water Flooding the Heavens!"

The black-armored youth held the trident high and swung it fiercely downward.

"Boom!"

The sea surface below exploded instantly.

Thousands of tons of seawater, as if controlled by an invisible force, transformed into a ferocious black water dragon, roaring as it swept toward Su Chen on the cliff.

Wherever the water dragon passed, even the air emitted a "hissing" sound of being corroded; clearly, this seawater contained deadly poison.

Facing this world-destroying strike, Su Chen's expression finally had a trace of change.

He did not choose to resist head-on, nor did he use the "Shrinking the Earth into an Inch" technique to dodge.

He simply held his right hand in a sword finger and lightly slashed toward the roaring water dragon.

"Freeze!"

A simple word was spat from his mouth.

The voice was not loud, yet it seemed to contain some strange power of "speaking the law."

The black water dragon, which had been aggressive and on the verge of swallowing the entire cliff, abruptly solidified in mid-air.

Time seemed to have been pressed with a pause button at this moment.

The massive water dragon remained frozen in the air, maintaining its baring-teeth-and-claws posture; not even a single drop of water fell.

"This... how is this possible?"

The black-armored youth's eyeballs were about to pop out; he could feel that the connection between himself and the water dragon had been forcibly severed by an invisible force.

His water-control technique, which he was so proud of, was like child's play before the other party.

Just as his heart was shaken, Su Chen made another move.

His figure flickered and disappeared from his spot again.

Not good!

The alarm bells rang in the black-armored youth's heart; without thinking, he held the trident horizontally across his chest while pushing his entire demon power to the limit, forming a thick layer of black protective demon energy.

Almost the moment he finished all this.

"Thud!"

A muffled sound like a great bell exploded on his chest.

An indescribable massive force passed through the trident and slammed fiercely onto his protective demon energy.

"Crack!"

The protective demon energy, which was enough to withstand the bombardment of magic treasures, did not even last for a single breath before it shattered inch by inch like fragile glass.

"Puff!"

The black-armored youth was struck as if by lightning; he opened his mouth and spat out a large mouthful of black demon blood, his entire body flying backward like a kite with a broken string, slamming heavily into the seawater below and stirring up massive waves.

Su Chen's figure slowly appeared at the spot where the black-armored youth had just been standing.

In his hand, he had somehow gained an unremarkable axe.

It was the very same ordinary iron axe he had used for chopping wood at Fangcun Mountain.

However, at this moment, under the infusion of immortal essence, a layer of faint golden brilliance was flowing on the axe blade, emitting an indestructible, sharp aura.

"Cough, cough..."

The sea surface exploded, and the black-armored youth rushed out of the water in a disheveled state.

The black scale armor on his chest had completely caved in, with cracks spreading all over it; it was clearly ruined.

His face was pale, his aura withered, and looking at Su Chen floating in mid-air, his eyes were finally filled with genuine fear.

"Who exactly are you? You are definitely not an ordinary Human Immortal!" The black-armored youth's voice was trembling.

One move!

With just one move, he had been defeated, with almost no power to fight back.

The power contained in that seemingly unremarkable axe strike from the other party was overbearing to the extreme.

That power was not just the vigor of immortal essence, but also carried a kind of intent that could break through anything.

In his perception, his own demon power was like tofu before the other party's immortal essence—unable to withstand a single blow.

"Only now thinking of asking? It's too late."

Su Chen had no intention of wasting words with him.

If you cut the grass without removing the roots, the spring breeze will make it grow again.

Since he had already made a move, there was absolutely no reason to let the tiger return to the mountain.

He raised the mountain-opening axe in his hand, and his immortal essence surged in madly again.

"No! Daoist, spare my life! Spare my life!"

Seeing this, the black-armored youth was scared out of his wits; no longer caring about the dignity of a Demon Immortal, he knelt on the water surface on the spot, kowtowing desperately to beg for mercy.

"This small one had eyes but failed to recognize Mount Tai and offended the Immortal! I beg the Immortal to spare my life for the sake of how difficult it is to cultivate! I don't want that cave dwelling anymore! I'll get lost right now and will never dare to appear before the Immortal again!"

However, Su Chen's gaze did not waver in the slightest.

He was not someone who killed the innocent indiscriminately, but he was also not a soft-hearted saint.

This black-armored youth had a bloody aura; one look told him he was not a good person, and he didn't know how many lives he had stained his hands with.

Furthermore, he would not do the stupid thing of letting a tiger return to the mountain.

"In your next life, remember to keep your eyes open."

As Su Chen's words fell, the axe in his hand also swung down.

This axe strike used no flashy techniques; it was simply infused with his purest power.

A golden axe light over ten feet long left the blade, tearing through the sky and carrying an overbearing aura like the opening of the world, slashing down directly at the black-armored youth who was kneeling and begging for mercy.

"No!"

The black-armored youth let out a desperate roar, his eyes filled with endless regret and fear.

He wanted to dodge, but the axe light seemed to have locked onto his body; no matter where he fled to the ends of the earth, he could not avoid it.

"Boom!"

The golden axe light instantly submerged the black-armored youth and the sea area beneath his feet.

No screams, no struggle.

When the light dissipated, there was no longer any sign of the black-armored youth on the sea surface; there was only a bottomless, massive gap that could not heal for a long time.

Seawater rushed back in, emitting a massive roar.

The black-armored youth had already been destroyed in body and spirit under this axe, not even leaving behind a trace of a remnant soul.

Su Chen slowly put away the axe, looking at the churning sea surface below, his heart without the slightest ripple.

This was the first time since becoming an immortal that he had truly killed an opponent of the same level.

He discovered that his strength was even stronger than he had imagined.

His "Hunyuan Jin Dan Zhen Jie" was the supreme Great Dao personally taught by Patriarch Puti, emphasizing the accumulation of strength and a solid foundation.

The Golden Core immortal essence he had cultivated was, in terms of "quality," far superior to those of the same rank.

Moreover, he had obtained the remains of Yang Mei Daxian, making the Wood Dao patterns above his Golden Core perfect, and he had even gained a trace of Space Dao patterns.

It could be said that although he had only just entered the Human Immortal Realm, his true combat power likely did not lose to those veteran Human Immortals and was even approaching the Earth Immortal Realm.

"Is this the power of the Golden Core Great Dao..."

Su Chen whispered to himself, feeling more confident about his future path.

He calmed his mind, stopped thinking about it, turned around, and cast his gaze back toward the stone wall that hid the cave dwelling.