Chapter 450: The Gatekeeper of the Heavenly Court

Li Heng turned a deaf ear, still taking the final step.

He arrived at the other shore.

He immediately turned around, looked at the Heavenly Abyss before him, and smiled as he spoke, "Look, didn't I just come over?"

Once these words were spoken, the Heavenly Abyss fell into an inexplicable silence.

Shaoyang Jun and the little golden dragon sensed something amiss and hurriedly quickened their pace, also taking the final step to leave the Golden Light Spirit Bridge, setting foot on the opposite shore and exiting the range of the Heavenly Abyss.

The next moment, only a "Boom—" was heard, and the entire Heavenly Abyss began to shake, as if some behemoth were surfacing, causing the man and the dragon to tremble in great fear.

This was not because they were cowardly, but because the aura erupting from it was too Terror-inducing; their life instincts could not resist it, and they could not help but shiver.

"Damn it!"

"Why didn't you listen to me! Why didn't you listen to me! Since you won't listen, don't even think about staying alive!"

A roar, mixed with these words, sounded simultaneously.

Boundless baleful aura, killing intent, and black mist erupted from within the Heavenly Abyss, forming a pillar of momentum that reached the sky and penetrated the surrounding Void, within which a vague phantom appeared.

Following that.

An incomparably huge head, covered in black scales—each scale seeming to be a World, seemingly capable of occupying a Great Thousand World—broke through the darkness of the Heavenly Abyss and appeared before their eyes.

But a comical scene occurred.

Li Heng's Golden Light Spirit Bridge spanned the Heavenly Abyss, blocking exactly the path the head was taking to surface.

This monster head had intended to smash the divine bridge with one strike, but the divine bridge remained unmoved, stuck firmly in place, forcing it to be frustrated to the point of only revealing the upper half of its eyes.

It wanted to show its head, but couldn't, feeling extremely frustrated.

The man and the dragon, who had originally been trembling, both found it amusing upon seeing this.

However, they were also fortunate, fortunate that Li Heng was by their side. If they had to face such a monster alone, they absolutely would not have been able to withstand even its aura, losing all power to resist at the very first encounter.

"Look at what you're saying."

"Those two were never alive to begin with, and as for me?"

"Your true form can't even get out."

Li Heng stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the vague phantom within the pillar of momentum and speaking leisurely, having already seen through the connection between the phantom and this monster head—one was the physical body, the other the mental consciousness.

That phantom fell silent.

He had originally wanted to make threats, even intending to kill, but now that his own physical body couldn't even show its head, making threats would likely just lead to being mocked.

But who on earth was this person?

The Golden Light Spirit Bridge he manifested was actually sturdy to such a degree?

"With such strength, why bother throwing your life away?"

The figure stiffly changed the subject, speaking with Reason.

"It seems you know something? Tell me about your origins." Li Heng raised an eyebrow and smiled leisurely.

He had initially thought this monster lacked Reason, possessing at most an instinct to prevent people from crossing the Heavenly Abyss, until he saw the phantom within this pillar of momentum.

But this mental consciousness of the phantom seemed very weak, and it seemed even more at odds with his fleshly body. He felt that even without the phantom, this fleshly body could still derive a new consciousness.

"Hmph, why should I tell you my origins?"

"Tell a dying man who dared to walk to the other side?"

The phantom said with disdain.

"If you don't speak, I'll slaughter you."

Li Heng said calmly.

"You dare!"

The phantom was instantly enraged, and together with the monster head stuck beneath the Golden Light Spirit Bridge, it roared in fury, the sound waves echoing continuously in the surrounding Void.

"Incompetent rage is not a good habit."

"You think I don't dare to slay you? Then I shall slay you once."

Li Heng pointed his fingers like a sword, and a terrifying sharpness swirled at his fingertips, appearing as if a light wave could slice through time and space, pushing across the ages, making one's heart tremble.

The phantom looked on with disdain.

"If you have the ability, then come! Although your Supernatural Ability can trap my fleshly body and prevent it from surfacing, you want to harm my fleshly body? You are still far from it!?"

He was very confident in his fleshly body.

Because his fleshly body had become so strong that even his own consciousness was repelled from it. He had previously specialized in the Soul Dao, yet it was still not a match for his current fleshly body.

One could imagine how powerful the current fleshly body was.

Li Heng was calm and did not reply, simply slashing down with one finger.

The stream of sharpness poured out instantly, breaking through time and space, flowing against the years, and slashed toward him, illuminating the incomparably dark surroundings of the Heavenly Abyss in an instant, making it as bright as day.

The phantom was horrified and scrambled to dodge.

Because this sharpness was not slashing toward his fleshly body, but toward his consciousness!

"Damn it, you don't play by the rules!"

The phantom roared while dodging.

He had lived for so long and been dead for so long, and this was the first time he had encountered someone who didn't play by the rules; shouldn't he have slashed at his true form first? It was like a beast-tamer fighting—one should strike the tamed beast first, not the beast-tamer, otherwise, what was the point of playing with tamed beasts?

The sharpness arrived in an instant, locking onto the Causality.

No matter how the phantom dodged, the sharpness followed closely behind.

Even if it used the erupting pillar of momentum to block, facing this terrifying sharpness was still like a hot knife through wax; it was easily sliced open, and the sharpness struck the phantom.

The phantom exploded instantly.

And at this very moment, the monster head stuck by the Golden Light Spirit Bridge fell into an even more severe state of fury, and perhaps because of the phantom's explosion, it seemed to lose its Reason, extending those two giant claws also covered in black scales to strike at Li Heng.

"Kill, kill, kill, the... the... intruder... dies!"

At this moment, it was this monster that spoke, muttering and growling incessantly, at times clear, at times blurred, at times fluent, at times stuck. But the words were overflowing with killing intent toward Li Heng and the others.

Li Heng nodded; it was just as he had expected.

Although that phantom and this monster shared the same consciousness and physical identity, an identity is ultimately just an identity; it did not matter much now, and the connection was very shallow.

The phantom's consciousness had already exploded, yet this monster could still move normally. In fact, because the phantom had exploded, this monster had lost the suppression of reason and become even more frantic.

However, in those muttering words, it said they were gate-crashers?

Could it be that this monster was a gatekeeper in the past?

A Guard of the Heavenly Court, the gateway to the Central Great World?

He pondered slightly, while simultaneously forming his fingers into a sword again, a point of sharpness flowing at his fingertips; he did not even look at the pair of giant black monster claws slapping toward him, just casually swung out.

The sharpness poured out, like a knife cutting through tofu.

These giant claws were instantly sliced open and severed.

The monster roared in pain, the two severed claws falling into the Heavenly Abyss, while black blood flowed continuously from the cut surfaces of its arms, emitting an extremely heavy Inauspiciousness.

Li Heng did not care, turning his head to look at the little golden dragon, and spoke.

"Did you Heavenly Court Immortal Gods have gatekeepers in the past?"