Chapter 423: The Final Battle (Part 1)

The entire Li Family surrendered, leaving only Li Shizheng himself unwilling to accept it.

"You... you... traitors! Traitors!!!" Li Shizheng's eyes were bloodshot, and he was overcome with rage. "You bunch of traitors! How could the Li Family have a bunch of useless trash like you who can't even be propped up against a wall! You all deserve to die! You all deserve to die!"

Li Shizheng roared and shrieked hysterically to manifest the unwillingness in his heart, yet in truth, he knew clearly in his own heart that things had reached this point, and he had already failed.

"Patriarch Li, you had better save your energy and preserve a shred of dignity for yourself."

Chen Che looked at Li Shizheng and said, "We won't discuss your crimes for now; let's talk about another matter. Where is the Heavenly Book Stele?"

Li Shizheng let out a cold snort and said, "When all is said and done, even if you can defeat me, you still have to fear the Liuhe Divine Cult Leader. If you want to know where the stele is, kneel down and beg me!"

Chen Che laughed disdainfully: "Li Shizheng, I am giving you a chance. Even if you don't say it, if I turn the Li Family upside down, I might not fail to find it."

Li Shizheng remained unmoved: "I said it, if you want to know, kneel down and beg me."

Li Ziming's eyes rolled, realizing this was a good opportunity to atone for his crimes, and he immediately said: "I... I know!"

"Slap!"

Li Shizheng struck Li Ziming across the mouth, then pinned him to the ground and gave him a brutal, horrific beating:

"Trash! Unfilial son! Scoundrel! I truly raised you in vain! You piece of trash!!"

Li Ziming passed out, and Li Shizheng raised his head, panting, his fists covered in blood.

"I don't have the patience to watch your father-son affection. Since you won't tell me about the Heavenly Book, let's change the question. Where is Zanpu Dunzhu? That is, the Liuhe Divine Cult Leader you speak of," Chen Che asked again.

Li Shizheng glared with wide eyes: "I said it, if you want to know, kneel down and beg me."

"Bang!"

"Ah!!!"

Li Shizheng fell to his knees with a thud, clutching his leg and letting out a heart-rending scream.

Chen Che's face was indifferent, killing intent surging: "You can choose to speak later. I happen to be curious, too, how many bullets you can endure."

"Bang... bang... bang..."

The sound of gunfire echoed throughout the Li Family. Each shot was accompanied by Li Shizheng's heart-rending screams. The Li Family members present could not bear to look and closed their eyes, yet their souls were still shaken by the sounds over and over again.

The bullets ran out, and all four of Li Shizheng's limbs were broken. He had also lost consciousness and passed out.

Chen Che threw away the pistol and clapped his hands: "It seems nothing can be asked out of him."

Wu Qingkui had been watching Chen Che from start to finish, and she said with a gentle smile: "It doesn't matter. You are back now anyway. If we have people find the stele in a while, it won't matter even if Zanpu Dunzhu returns."

Chen Che nodded, remembered something, and asked: "Eh? Where is Master Senior Sister?"

Just as Wu Qingkui was about to speak, a strange phenomenon suddenly occurred.

"Boom!!!"

In the Li Family's backyard, a pillar of dark purple energy shot straight into the sky, instantly piercing the night sky and illuminating the entire courtyard with a ghostly, eerie light.

The sky was stirred into a frenzy by this energy, and the thick clouds rotated rapidly around the energy pillar as the center, as if they were about to be swallowed by that endless dark vortex.

The ground also began to tremble violently, and purple light flickered in the cracks of the stone slabs, as if an ancient, evil power were about to break through the earth.

"Heavens, what has happened?!"

"Could it be that the Heavens are punishing our Li Family?!"

"No! This is True Qi fluctuation! A Martial Dao Supreme has been born!"

"A Martial Dao Supreme?! How could one be born in the Li Family's backyard?! And this aura clearly carries an evil air!"

"Run! This is the aura of death, the aura of death that will swallow everything! Run!!"

In an instant, the entire courtyard was shrouded in panic. The Li Family members ran about in confusion, their screams rising one after another.

"Hehehehehe..."

Amidst this chaos, a hair-raising laughter emanated from the energy pillar, sounding like the roar of an evil ghost from the Nine Nether Abyss.

Hearing this gloomy laughter, Gao He and the other Patrol Bureau Warriors also panicked.

Gao He looked at Chen Che and asked: "Mr. Chen, what is the situation now?!"

Chen Che stared fixedly at the energy pillar that had changed the color of the world, and gritted his teeth: "He obtained it after all!"

Wu Qingkui was suddenly shocked and said in disbelief: "Could it be Zanpu Dunzhu?!"

Chen Che did not answer, but instructed: "Master's Wife, you take people and withdraw from the Li Family now, then bring the Patrol Bureau and the Martial Artists from other families—in short, the more combat personnel, the better. You guard the perimeter of the Li Family; once Zanpu Dunzhu escapes, kill him immediately!"

Wu Qingkui guessed Chen Che's intention, grabbed his hand, and said with a face full of worry: "Are you going to stay behind by yourself?!"

Chen Che was noncommittal and said: "Since Zanpu Dunzhu has already obtained the other Heavenly Book, his strength now will not be below mine. I do not have a one-hundred-percent certainty of defeating him, but it is absolutely impossible for him to kill me without suffering any harm.

In any case, I will do my best to exhaust him. Even if I am defeated, I will ensure he has no ability to resist further!"

Wu Qingkui was not a willful young girl and knew that she could not let emotions dictate her actions at this moment, so she said ruthlessly: "Alright, I will guard the outside, but you must also remember: you must survive!"

Wu Qingkui suddenly gave a charming smile, a few traces of seduction appearing amidst her worry: "As long as you survive, Master's Wife has a reward."

Chen Che nodded with a smile: "Alright, I look forward to it."

Wu Qingkui did not delay any further and led Gao He, the Patrol Bureau, and the Li Family members to withdraw from the Li Family entirely.

After watching everyone leave, Chen Che walked slowly to the center of the courtyard, took a deep breath, and formed a seal with his hands in front of his chest: "Xun Wind Rise!"

The air around his body began to flow, faster and faster, gradually evolving into a powerful pillar of wind.

The wind pillar enveloped Chen Che, jetting from top to bottom. Chen Che's feet left the ground, and he slowly floated into the air, arriving before the dark purple energy pillar.

At the same time, the energy pillar slowly receded, and a figure appeared faintly within the purple-black mist—Zanpu Dunzhu's whole body radiated a thick, dark aura, his eyes flashing with eerie purple-red light, and power surged around his body, as if in the next moment he would swallow all the light in this world.

"Chen Che, we meet again."

Zanpu Dunzhu's eyes emitted purple-black light, and deep purple Heavenly Book Characters, wrapped in black energy, floated around his body like loyal servants following their master's footsteps.

Chen Che examined him with a scrutinizing gaze. Besides the Heavenly Book Characters, his severed right arm had regrown, his body had become more robust, and the black energy on his body was even thicker, making one feel suffocated.

The Heavenly Book Characters did not purify his evil aura; instead, they fueled his eccentricity and ruthlessness.

Zanpu Dunzhu grinned hideously, as terrifying as a devil from hell, carrying an endless aura of death, determined to swallow every living soul in the world.

"I didn't expect you to have actually obtained the Heavenly Book."

Chen Che sighed, his hands shifting through incantation gestures, and beams of golden light shone out from his body, gradually evolving into individual characters that circled around Chen Che like joyful birds, the sacred radiance illuminating half of his cheek and making it shine brilliantly.

"The same Great Perfection of the Heavenly Master realm, the same half-volume of the Heavenly Book."

Zanpu Dunzhu straightened his arms, black Qi condensing in his palms and transforming into two Black Rods: "In the Taiyi Sect, you relied on the power of the half-volume of the Heavenly Book to defeat me, but this time, I will not fail again! I will wash away my shame, smash you to pieces, and then absorb the half-volume of the Heavenly Book from your body to become the only god of this world!"

Chen Che waved his right arm, and the golden characters gathered in his palm along with his True Qi, a golden longsword coming into being: "Useless to say more; who lives and who dies will be known in battle!"

In an instant, the figures of the two turned into two arcs of gold and purple light, unfolding a fierce confrontation.

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