[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons":3,"chapter-immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-chapter-778":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Immortality Begins with Slaying Demons",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2318666,4533,"Chapter 778: Out in the world, power matters","immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-chapter-778",778,"\u003Cp>“Crack… crack…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Lanting’s aged face was pale as death, his throat frantically swallowing, yet still unable to stop the crimson blood oozing from the corner of his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood quickly soaked his robe, but the old man clutched Shen Yi’s sleeve with all his strength, tendons bulging on his knuckles as if expending his last ounce of power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three Regional Commanders were severely wounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the vast Liusu Mansion, across the expansive Dananzhou, no one remained to stand against this colossal mountain of flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under these circumstances, Yan Lanting still tried to stop Shen Yi from stepping forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only those who had personally witnessed the Southern Emperor’s power could realize how pitifully thin the scattered mentions of him in ancient texts truly were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This fiend cannot be opposed by mortal strength!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even back then, when the Divine Dynasty enjoyed the protection of the Immortal Court and great sects intervened, they could only drive it into the wilderness—not kill it outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How much less so now, with Dananzhou abandoned by the Immortal Court?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go… Lin Shuya… find Lin Shuya…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Lanting finally forced out an incomplete sentence; the other two Regional Commanders also remembered the letter they had carelessly flung to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These three old men had consumed the people’s incense for years—they had no right to flee that path, but a celestial talent like Nan Yang had no reason to stay and die with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi did not turn back, only silently gazing at the towering indigo mountain of flesh above, its oppressive presence making breathing difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He gently patted the old man’s hand and whispered, “I’ll handle everything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, soft auroras illuminated the sky again, golden radiance rippling like a surging river, gradually weaving into a towering, majestic phantom body in the air above Liusu Mansion—far more fluid and solid than the Southern Emperor’s bloated form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, light finally pierced the shadows engulfing Liusu Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Golden Body’s phantom gradually took shape, six arms unfolded one by one, and blinding light wheels began to rise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the Southern Emperor—who had been calmly seated in the heavens—suddenly moved!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who hold high positions and possess overwhelming power and means often develop confidence—or rather, arrogance—it is a common flaw, for after indulging in luxury and authority, finding even a sliver of amusement over long centuries becomes exceedingly difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among these rare pleasures, utterly shattering the Dao heart of upstarts is undoubtedly one of the most significant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let the opponent exhaust all their techniques, while you calmly dismantle them, then deliver the final killing blow… the sensation brings bliss from head to toe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Southern Emperor did not seem to enjoy such pastimes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant it saw the auroras, its vast experience instantly judged: this man’s strength had already surpassed the previous three.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it was still far below its own level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this was enough to alter the Southern Emperor’s actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It cared nothing for the stigma of ambush; its survival had long taught it that as long as it lived to the end, such hollow notions meant nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one had ever imagined that a being so vast, whose fat rippled like water with every slight motion, could move with lightning speed—and yet remain utterly silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed to have mastered the art of Grand Void, appearing before the radiant Golden Body in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among all the demons Shen Yi had faced, this was the only one whose size dwarfed his own phantom—towering half a body’s height above it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, the Southern Emperor struck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its thick, layered arm suddenly tensed into a perfect sphere, its indigo skin gleaming like metal, and the massive fist slammed squarely into the phantom’s chest!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a war drum!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden phantom, still incomplete, shuddered violently; its outline blurred, the light wheel behind it barely risen, its entire form dimmed to a dark gold, fine cracks spreading across its surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi’s Path of the Traveler cultivates protective power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When breaking through the Three-Three Transformations, he chose the path of remaking Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire—to protect Heaven and Earth with Heaven and Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This ring of light is the Heaven and Earth he protects, the foundation of the Bodhisattva’s attainment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now… the Southern Emperor had shattered this Heaven and Earth with a single punch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi was only eight golden threads away from the peak of the Nine-Nine Transformations—a gap that seemed trivial, yet now it was devastatingly clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And even more despairing was…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That he had survived this blow at all was only because he cultivated the True Scripture of the Great Sect, and his transformation path was among the pinnacle of his realm; any other Six-Six cultivator would have had their Dao body shattered outright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the phantom, the faint, nearly invisible figure shot backward, ink-black robes flaring wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bodhisattva, you are going to die.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor, having landed the blow, sneered—and did not pause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a lion fighting a rabbit uses full strength; with Nine-Nine Realm against Six-Six Transformations, it first used an unexpected punch to repel the opponent, then seized the moment the phantom needed to reform to summon Tribulation Power for a killing strike, maximizing its effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its clenched right fist suddenly opened, fingers pressed tight; the fist, already mountain-sized, swelled hundreds of times more, as if ready to crush all of Heaven and Earth into its palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Luo Tian Da Shou Yin!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It fixed its gaze on the tiny figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The method the man used to rescue those others bore traces of Shen Xu Mountain’s techniques; thus, this sealing hand seal had already been prepared by the Southern Emperor since that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the Southern Emperor’s stare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shen Yi finally stabilized his stance, his expression unruffled—as if he had anticipated this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He extended his thumb and gently wiped the blood from his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the colossal hand seal descending like a flood, he did not so much as twitch an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What enraged the Southern Emperor most was the youth’s unchanging calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if all things lay within his control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By what right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor refused to ask further—it wanted only to crush him into smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the next instant, it saw the youth sweep his sleeve, and nine small flags flew out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flags were identical in form, differing only in the patterns painted upon them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They swiftly scattered into the sky, vanishing into the heavens like stars—tiny as grains of rice, faintly shimmering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor instantly realized it was surrounded by these starlights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turned its gaze away, only to find the golden phantom gone, and white clouds howling inward, gradually obscuring its vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Child’s play, dare you display it before this Emperor? Your Great Sects have grown truly impoverished.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor drew a deep breath, eyes brimming with mockery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, it shut its eyes, its massive form surging forward toward the remembered location of Liusu Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The colossal hand seal, once descended, would obliterate the entire city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t forget—it came to break Dananzhou, while the opponent was tasked with defending it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fleeing… would it help?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Southern Emperor’s speed, destroying Liusu Mansion required no more than a blink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It rushed forward with all its might, yet gradually sensed something wrong—why did such a short distance take so long?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor instinctively opened its eyes—beyond the scattered clouds, far ahead stood no mansion, only a single shimmering grain of starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how far it advanced, the starlight only grew slightly larger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chir…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor grinned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trying to drain its reserves with such tricks?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could this Bodhisattva open his eyes and see the true gap between them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It calmed its mind, fixed its gaze on the starlight, then unleashed unprecedented speed—unyielding, tireless—racing forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After roughly a stick of incense, the Southern Emperor finally halted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It stood before the starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The once grain-sized glow had now become a colossal star wrapped in cold radiance—their sizes had reversed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before this star, the Southern Emperor had become a mere speck, a mayfly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how it looked up, it could not perceive its full form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor stared fixedly at this terrifying behemoth, its malice blazing like fire, its grin growing wilder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“With this thing, you think you can stop me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Break—!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The long-charged Luo Tian Da Shou Yin struck the star like a fly battering a tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, with a deafening roar,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the entire star shattered into countless dust particles, its cold starlight surging like flames up the Southern Emperor’s arm and engulfing its body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Roar!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor bent slightly, roaring in strange pain, its fury ignited—its aura surged even stronger!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this roar carried an unimaginable, overwhelming confidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it could destroy one…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then these nine stars—it would shatter them all with brute force!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When that time came, would this so-called Nan Yang dare stand before it again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor instantly turned and surged toward the second starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It gave not a single thought to its own depletion—its attainment at the peak of Nine-Nine Transformations was the true foundation of its name as Southern Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, three more stars were destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surrounding white clouds seemed to have faded considerably; the Southern Emperor chuckled, its indigo skin cracked and oozing sap-like fluid, scorched by the starlight whose energies writhed around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the thought of soon crushing that arrogant brat made its excitement surge like a demonic flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor charged again toward the fifth star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a piercing whistle pierced its ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flesh mountain instinctively turned its head sideways, its pupils contracting sharply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, the white clouds turned as red as fire; before it could react, dozens of grotesque crimson dragon spirits dragged a magnificent chariot, blazing like a falling sun, their fiery tails like rainbows, hurtling straight toward it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor’s body was pierced through by the dragon spirits; its already cracked skin was torn apart by heavenly flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It staggered backward, its face twisted, teeth clenched, and at the crucial moment, it swung both arms violently, gripping the chariot frame with perfect precision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRACK! CRACK!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flesh mountain braced its legs, its entire body tensing into rounded, bulging masses like its arms had before, and forcibly halted the fiery dragon chariot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A smirk curled its lips as it exhaled sharply: “Haa—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The massive chariot was pushed back several feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Any other tricks?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I ask you! Any other tricks?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor finally burst into mad laughter, unaware that the golden dharma form it had been chasing had silently appeared behind it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dharma form’s expression was indifferent, just like the ink-robed youth in its center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both raised their arms simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The straight, heavy coiled-dragon mace swung across the sky and slammed violently onto the Southern Emperor’s nape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor’s laughter cut off abruptly; its entire face trembled slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clutching the chariot frame tightly, its knees gradually weakened and bent, until—with a BOOM—it knelt before the fiery dragon chariot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Behind it, Shen Yi’s actions mirrored those of the Southern Emperor moments earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as meticulous, cruel, and merciless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seizing the opportunity, the coiled-dragon mace drove straight into the Southern Emperor’s already cracked spine, spraying green sap!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You… you…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Severely wounded, the Southern Emperor was engulfed by starlight, its entire body covered in heavenly fire; it knelt half-bowed, slowly turning its head, looking pitiful, unable to utter a single complete sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet at that very moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another fully charged Luotian Palm Seal locked onto the void once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The anguish on its face vanished instantly, replaced by the cold, predatory stillness of a beast about to strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enormous palm instantly engulfed the dharma form’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether the earlier mad laughter, the constant mockery, or even kneeling to display weakness—all had been preparation for this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was no trace of triumph in the Southern Emperor’s eyes; it stared blankly as the dharma form dissolved into the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside it, the silent, hovering Shen Yi gazed down coldly, his figure also slowly blurring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Long before he thrust the coiled-dragon mace, the opponent had already left this place—the image left behind was but an illusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Caution was not merely the Southern Emperor’s trait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also the reason this youth had survived to this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You coward! If you have any guts, show yourself! Put down these despicable tricks and fight me honorably!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the empty sky again, only a few scattered stars flickered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Southern Emperor finally roared—its countless wounds and agony paled beside the greater wound inflicted by Shen Yi’s final cold gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a hunt—and the opponent was the hunter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All its schemes appeared crude and foolish in the youth’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond the Southern Emperor’s line of sight, in the eyes of the three Regional Commanders of Zhennan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky remained clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ink-robed youth sat quietly in midair; before him, the massive flesh mountain was trapped by nine small flags, now kneeling, battered and bruised, locked in stalemate with the surging fiery dragon chariot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Lanting and Yang Mingli both swallowed hard: “Gulch.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feng Xi stared upward, frozen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the youth had first struck and taken minor damage, the Southern Emperor had never regained a single chance to counter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For within moments, the youth had already employed the supreme techniques of two of the world’s greatest sects—so dazzling it left observers breathless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Shen Yi’s handsome face, his clear eyes remained as still as an ancient well, unmoved by the Southern Emperor’s words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this world, power speaks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing the master of the Three Immortal Sects, the Divine Dynasty’s Regional Commander of Zhennan, the Bodhisattva of Subduing Dragons and Tigers from the Bodhi Sect, and the imminent Third-Rank Qingyun General of the Immortal Court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mere mortal demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What do you have to stand before me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2332,"2026-06-20T15:00:39.179Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","5742b852031f5878c738c86de38b6d05be0c61ea4e849d1e208b98657543af88","immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-chapter-779","immortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-chapter-777",840,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fimmortality-begins-with-slaying-demons-cover.jpg"]