Chapter 450 448: Killed with a Single Slap

Although a Little Saint Venerable at the Great Perfection realm had nine Divine Rings, Mo Li Dao was still young. Possessing two Divine Rings was already an incredible feat.

As a branch of the Sky Demon Clan, the Heaven-Reaching Race was known for their incredibly burly, giant-like physiques. At this moment, two Divine Rings encircled Mo Li Dao, and a tri-colored halo hovered above his head. As his Blood Qi surged like a torrential flood, he gave off the impression of a Primordial Fierce Beast—a gigantic rhinoceros capable of toppling mountains and tearing the earth asunder. His momentum was utterly menacing!

"Worthy of his reputation as the Fierce Mo Li Dao!" Seeing his ferocious momentum, many spectators exclaimed in awe. Unlike Ye Sha, who built his name on assassinations, Mo Li Dao had earned his formidable reputation through open combat.

Mo Li Dao stood tall and proud, his feet planted firmly on the ground as if he could support the heavens. He sneered at Li Qiye. "You had a chance to leave just now. But now, it'll be difficult even if you want to."

Li Qiye glanced at Mo Li Dao and said with a faint smile, "Oh? So you intend to keep me here?"

Mo Li Dao said coldly, "Apologize to Ye Sha, and I might spare your life. Heh. Otherwise, today is the day you die! In the Netherworld, the Human Race is nothing but a bunch of ants!"

"To think a member of the great Sky Demon Clan would insist on kissing the Ghost Race's ass." Li Qiye chuckled. "If the Celestial Demons from your Origin Ancestral Land heard you now, you would have brought utter shame to your ancestors."

Mo Li Dao's face turned livid. With a furious roar, a giant stele emerged from his Life Palace. As it shot toward the sky, it instantly transformed into a gigantic peak of immense size. This was Mo Li Dao's Lifebound True Artifact—the Heaven-Reaching Stele!

BOOM! Images of one Divine Peak after another materialized upon the Heaven-Reaching Stele, as if it were the abode of deities. Divine Rings began to appear within the stele itself!

"The Heaven-Reaching Divine Peaks!" Seeing the Divine Peaks manifest on Mo Li Dao's Lifebound True Artifact, a moved spectator cried out, "That's the Heavenly Essence Path of his Lifebound True Artifact! Legend says the 'Heaven-Reaching Divine Peaks' can crush even a Great Saint Venerable!"

"Brat, die!" Mo Li Dao roared. His Heaven-Reaching Stele blotted out the sky above Central City like a giant hand. As it smashed down, thousands of Divine Peaks thundered, the single stele carrying their combined weight as it crashed toward Li Qiye.

The roaring of the domineering Lifebound True Artifact was ceaseless as it descended, shattering the very Void. If not for the protective forces shielding Central City, it was feared this one strike could smash the entire city to smithereens!

"So powerful—" Seeing Mo Li Dao's Heaven-Reaching Stele crash down, many people were shaken and hurriedly retreated, lest they be caught in the crossfire.

BOOM! The immense Heaven-Reaching Stele crashed down on Li Qiye. At the very instant it was about to hit him, a wisp of mist flickered, and Ye Sha suddenly materialized behind Li Qiye. A cold light glinted as a dagger stabbed toward Li Qiye's back.

"Look out—!" Qiu Rong Wanxue screamed, terrified out of her wits. But it all happened too fast; she couldn't possibly help Li Qiye in time.

'That kid is dead for sure—' Seeing Mo Li Dao's Heaven-Reaching Stele crashing down from above while Ye Sha launched a surprise attack from behind, everyone assumed Li Qiye was doomed.

BANG! In that instant, the Heaven-Reaching Stele struck, and Ye Sha's dagger plunged into Li Qiye's back. Ye Sha was ecstatic.

Everyone was certain that Li Qiye was dead. Qiu Rong Wanxue was so frightened her face went pale, and she nearly fainted.

But at that moment, an eerie silence fell. When everyone got a clear look at the scene, their eyes widened in disbelief.

There, Li Qiye stood with one arm around Qiu Rong Wanxue, while his other hand had effortlessly caught the Heaven-Reaching Stele. The impossibly heavy stele was held fast by Li Qiye, and as for Ye Sha's dagger in his back, he hadn't even frowned.

"Is your dagger made of tofu? It's awfully soft," Li Qiye said with a chuckle, glancing back at Ye Sha.

Ye Sha's ecstasy instantly turned to terror, scaring him out of his wits. Only then did he realize his dagger hadn't penetrated Li Qiye's body at all; it had merely broken the skin.

Li Qiye's Prison Suppressing Divine Body was renowned for its toughness. While it couldn't compare to the Vajra Undying Body, for someone at Li Qiye's level of cultivation, blocking Ye Sha's dagger was a trivial matter.

Terrified, Ye Sha turned to flee. But at that moment, Li Qiye simply wrenched Mo Li Dao's Heaven-Reaching Stele away from him and, as if it were a great gate, swung it viciously at the escaping assassin.

BANG! Ye Sha was like a fly struck by a flyswatter. He was slammed into the ground, his blood instantly dyeing the earth red.

"Return—" Mo Li Dao spat a True Word, attempting to recall his Heaven-Reaching Stele. HUM! The stele in Li Qiye's hand trembled once. However, Li Qiye activated his Prison Suppressing Divine Body, and the power in his palm was more than enough to suppress it!

"Impossible—" Mo Li Dao was so scared he felt his soul leaving his body. The Heaven-Reaching Stele was his Lifebound True Artifact! It was impossible for an outsider to seize it unless they were several entire realms stronger than him.

"When it comes to weight, you're not even in the same league," Li Qiye said with a casual glance at Mo Li Dao. The Heaven-Reaching Stele was a weight-based True Artifact, and though it possessed the mass of a Divine Peak, it was nothing compared to his Prison Suppressing Divine Body. Once a True Artifact like this fell into his hands, its only fate was suppression.

"My turn." Li Qiye smirked and casually swung the Heaven-Reaching Stele. As the stele, now imbued with the weight of the Prison Suppressing Divine Body, came crashing down, the Great Dao itself rumbled. Countless Laws erupted from Central City to shield it. If this blow were to land on the city, the consequences would be unthinkable.

As the stele came crashing down, Mo Li Dao felt a cataclysmic force capable of sundering the earth. This blow was heavy enough to make the land itself collapse. He knew that even when he wielded the stele himself, the weight of his strongest attack was nowhere near the weight of this strike from Li Qiye.

Li Qiye's strike with the Heaven-Reaching Stele was like hundreds of millions of Divine Peaks crashing down at once, a force capable of suppressing gods and devils. The sight was enough to make Mo Li Dao's soul fly from his body.

Mo Li Dao let out a desperate roar and instantly summoned all of his most powerful weapons. Whether they were Treasure Artifacts, True Artifacts, or even Extraordinary Treasures, he brought them all out at once to shield himself.

BANG—! With a deafening crash, the very stars in the Nine Heavens trembled. It seemed as if the blow could shake them from the firmament. The Heaven-Reaching Stele shattered all of Mo Li Dao's treasures in a single strike. One could only imagine the terrifying mass of the stele combined with Li Qiye's Prison Suppressing Divine Body. This absolute weight crushed and obliterated everything; Mo Li Dao's artifacts were powerless to stop it.

Mo Li Dao was sent flying, violently spitting up a mouthful of blood. His face was deathly pale. If not for the barrier of treasures he had summoned, that single blow would have turned him into a mist of blood.

Mo Li Dao was utterly terrified, his heart pounding in his chest. He finally understood he had provoked an unholy terror. Without a second thought, he turned and fled, desperate to get as far away as possible.

Mo Li Dao had just begun to flee when Li Qiye executed Kunpeng Soaring in the Void. With the Void Nether Transformation, he crossed the Void in a single step, instantly materializing in front of Mo Li Dao and blocking his escape.

"Thinking of running now? I'm afraid it's too late," Li Qiye said with a leisurely smile, blocking Mo Li Dao's path. "Where has all your previous bravado gone?"

Mo Li Dao's face was ashen. "Fellow Daoist," he cried out desperately, "listen to me—"

However, Li Qiye couldn't be bothered to listen. He simply swung the Heaven-Reaching Stele again. This time, he didn't use his Prison Suppressing Divine Body. Instead, he channeled the Kunpeng Six Transformations, causing the massive stele to accelerate wildly as it swung, transforming into a streak of light as it came down.

Mo Li Dao's face drained of all color. He turned to flee, not hesitating to burn his own Longevity Blood to increase his speed. But no matter how fast he became, he could not outpace Li Qiye's Kunpeng Six Transformations.

SPLAT! As the Heaven-Reaching Stele landed, Mo Li Dao's fate was even more miserable than that of a swatted fly. The incredibly fast stele struck his body and instantly obliterated him into a mist of blood, leaving not even a single bone behind.

The sight made everyone turn pale, including Prince Shen Ran and Qing Jinzi. Prince Shen Ran's Dao Practice was definitely no greater than that of Ye Sha and Mo Li Dao. Since even those two had met such a gruesome end, one could only imagine Li Qiye's ferocity.

As for Qing Jinzi, he was indeed quite a bit stronger than Mo Li Dao and Ye Sha. However, Mo Li Dao had been swatted like a fly in Li Qiye's hands. Even if Qing Jinzi went all out, he could never hope to kill Mo Li Dao with such ease.

The rest of the crowd sucked in cold breaths, a chill running down their spines. 'This guy is just too savage,' they thought. 'Killing Mo Li Dao was as easy as swatting a fly. How terrifyingly fierce is he?'

"Who is he? Is he from the Qianli River? Or maybe the Yu Shan Old Immortal Kingdom?" someone murmured. A person this ferocious among the younger generation couldn't possibly be a nobody.

A young cultivator from Nanyao Yun shook his head. "I've never heard of anyone like him among the Yao Yun Human Clan. The Yu Shan Old Immortal Kingdom has no one like him, and the strongest from the Qianli River is supposedly the Bamboo Fairy!"

Li Qiye nonchalantly tossed the Heaven-Reaching Stele to the ground and smiled faintly. "A character like that dared to call himself fierce? If someone like him is considered fierce, then wouldn't that make me a Primordial Fierce Beast?"

His words sounded arrogant and savage, but at this moment, no one dared to accuse Li Qiye of boasting. He had killed Mo Li Dao—a notoriously fierce figure in Yao Yun—with ease. It was just as he said: if Mo Li Dao could be called fierce, then he was indeed a Primordial Fierce Beast!