Chapter 589 - 585: I Want You Dead, and Not Even King Yama Dares to Save You

'This is bad!'

Hong Yu's pupils contracted violently.

The tail was simply too fast. There was no time to react.

By the time he noticed it, it had already pierced his clothes and was about to slam into his lower abdomen.

At a time like this, dodging was clearly impossible.

He had already used his three daily uses of Electric Flash. Forcing another one would put a huge strain on his body.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye.

Hong Yu had already made his decision. 'I have to risk it all!'

The surging Primordial Gang's Power within his Infinite Primordial Embryo instantly redirected to his lower abdomen, condensing to strengthen his defenses. Cyan Dragon Scales bloomed with a verdant light, sacred and transcendent.

BOOM!

A heavy blow struck his lower abdomen viciously.

"Urgh!"

Hong Yu's body trembled as if struck by lightning.

The vital energy and blood in his body churned. A sweet taste rose in his throat, and he coughed up a mouthful of thick blood.

"Get off me!"

Hong Yu endured the intense pain and kicked out fiercely.

BANG!

A ferocious and smug sneer appeared on Hai Wen's face. He didn't continue to entangle Hong Yu, but rather took the opportunity to pull back and retreat.

The black qi on his face gradually receded to the sides. A sinister, cold laugh emanated from his mucus-filled mouth. His face, sprayed with Hong Yu's blood, was now covered in red.

But Hai Wen didn't seem to mind at all.

He chuckled darkly, extending a scarlet tongue to lick the blood from his face. He swallowed it down, a look of intoxicated pleasure spreading across his features. "Tsk tsk, such rich blood qi, such a delicious flavor. Gahaha, this taste is truly exquisite! Even the Blood of the War Emperor slain by the City Lord back then can't compare to how delicious you are!"

"You..."

Hong Yu glared furiously.

His current situation was rather dire. Although his hasty defense had saved his lower abdomen from a fatal blow, the clothes over his stomach had been blasted apart. A large patch of his cyan Dragon Scales was shattered and dripping with blood. Streaks of black smoke now rolled over the wound, continuously corroding his flesh.

'Be extinguished!'

He tried to extinguish it with his Primordial Gang's Power, but discovered that even with the might of his Infinite Primordial Gang, he could only suppress it.

To completely eradicate this black qi, he feared it would take a considerable amount of time.

"Even the City Lord would have trouble eliminating this Demon Crocodile poison of mine if he were to be infected. Unless you continuously suppress it with your Primordial Gang's Power, it will keep eroding your body. Gahaha, but you still have to deal with me right now. If you divert your Primordial Gang's Power to suppress it, your strength will be significantly weakened, you know!"

Hai Wen grinned ferociously, looking immensely pleased with himself.

A vein throbbed on Hong Yu's forehead.

'How long has it been since I've suffered such a grievous injury?'

He studied Hai Wen seriously, his eyes filled with gravity. 'This is just a Divine General.'

'Above him are Divine Kings and the even more powerful Lord of the Divine City.'

'It seems I've still underestimated these geniuses!'

Hong Yu took a deep breath, clarity gradually returning to his gaze. 'But so what? They've been in the True Dragon Battlefield for so many years, while I've only been here for a few months. Just give me a little more time, and I'm confident I could even fight the Lord of the Divine City!'

As for using his Primordial Gang to suppress the black aura, although it would affect his strength...

...one shouldn't forget that Hong Yu had cultivated the Eight Desolates Saint Slaying Technique. His own Primordial Gang's Power was already eight times greater than that of other experts at the same level.

"Hai Wen, I admit I underestimated you before. But don't even think about injuring me again. You just said you were using seventy percent of your combat power, right? Heh, in fact, I was only using fifty percent of mine. In a moment, I will go all out and slay you!"

Hong Yu's words were cold, but they held an unquestionable resolve.

Hai Wen's pupils contracted violently before he sneered, "Fifty percent? Hmph, you sure know how to flatter yourself!"

"You'll soon find out whether I'm flattering myself or not!"

As he spoke, Hong Yu clenched his right hand tightly.

At this moment, flesh and blood had already regenerated over half of his right palm, leaving only his five fingers as golden bones.

Judging by the speed, the final inheritance and fusion were almost complete.

"Today, either you die or I die!" Hai Wen snarled.

Hong Yu replied, neither humble nor arrogant, "The one who dies will be you!"

FWOOSH!

Powerful Energy Auras erupted from both of them, colliding in the void.

They were separated by about a hundred meters, with some rubble and shattered ground between them. But under the impact of their powerful momentums, all of it was pulverized into dust, leveling the area.

"Kill!"

"Fight!"

With simultaneous low roars, the two charged at each other.

"Demon Crocodile Charge!"

Hai Wen dropped to the ground, using all fours to charge forward like a true ancient Demon Crocodile. His body then sprang up, and with a flick in mid-air, he spun around. As if detached, his thick crocodile tail whipped towards Hong Yu.

"Get lost!"

Hong Yu bellowed.

The Fire Cloud Divine Armor enveloped him in a red radiance, and his cyan Dragon Scales were vivid and lifelike.

He looked like a Cyan Dragon soaring through flames.

His arms shot out like two Coiled Dragons, catching the sweeping crocodile tail in one smooth motion.

The power behind this tail was immense.

The force was so great that it sent Hong Yu staggering back, his feet carving two deep trenches in the ground.

This ground had once been baked by Phoenix True Flame and should have been incredibly hard, but the two combatants' strength was simply too immense.

As a result, every move they made still possessed world-destroying power.

"Jiejie, Hong Yu, die!"

As Hai Wen laughed furiously, the spikes on his back shot out with a series of "PFFT" sounds.

A total of nine Bone Spikes, like nine Divine Arrows, tore through the air to kill. The whistling was deafening, even causing the void to boom. The air was burned red, nearly igniting into flames.

"Flying Thunder Divine Skill!"

At the critical moment, a blue light flickered in Hong Yu's left eye.

In that instant, nine Flying Sabers shrouded in blue light whistled out, circling around Hong Yu like orbiting satellites.

SWISH! SWISH!

The nine Flying Sabers flew out horizontally.

In a flash, nine thunderous booms echoed through the area.

It was Hong Yu's Nine Feather Flying Knives clashing with the nine Bone Spikes. As they collided one after another, terrifying and frantic energy surged outwards in all directions like a tsunami.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Hai Wen's Bone Spikes were simply too powerful.

Even Hong Yu's Nine Feather Flying Knives were shattered and completely destroyed in the collision with the nine Bone Spikes.

Similarly, Hai Wen's nine Bone Spikes were also in bad shape.

The light on each Bone Spike had dimmed, clearly having suffered heavy damage from the mutual destruction with the Nine Feather Flying Knives.

They wobbled as they flew back to Hai Wen's back.

Hai Wen's aura also weakened in that instant.

Hong Yu had no time to mourn the complete destruction of his Nine Feather Flying Knives. A fierce look appeared in his eyes; it was now a desperate, life-or-death moment.

"Brace!"

He suddenly yelled, and a roar like that of a furious lion exploded out of nowhere.

Hong Yu's legs were like steel pillars cast from molten iron. With two heavy THUDS, he drove them into the ground. The immense power shattered the earth beneath his feet, creating a web of cracks.

At the same time...

The cyan Dragon Scales on Hong Yu's arms swelled once more, and the veins on them bulged like Coiled Dragons ascending to the heavens, pulsing with a roaring rhythm.

The power to uproot mountains!

"Get up!"

Hong Yu roared.

He suddenly lifted his arms high, and as he held Hai Wen's body, he leaped into the air.

'Not good, I can't let him lead me by the nose,' Hai Wen cried out in alarm.

He frantically circulated his Profound Skill. Black qi surged around him, making him look like a Demon God wreathed in billowing black smoke as he tried to return to the ground.

But Hong Yu had already gone berserk.

His eyes were savage, his teeth clenched. With his immense strength, he could seemingly perform an Inversion of Heaven and Earth, turning the world upside down.

"ROAR!"

With a furious roar, Hong Yu's body began to spin, like a wildly rotating top.

Hai Wen's body completely lost its center of gravity.

With his tail caught by Hong Yu, his entire body was pulled into the air. As Hong Yu swung him around, Hai Wen's body began to spin like a hammer throw.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Hong Yu spun faster and faster, more and more frantically.

"No..."

"Let me down!"

"Damn it, let me down... ugh..."

Hai Wen roared.

But as Hong Yu's rotation speed increased, it whipped up a violent gale. The moment he opened his mouth, the strong wind rushed in, and he could only manage a muffled, whimpering sound.

CRUMBLE!

Hong Yu's speed reached its absolute limit.

He was like a drill, blasting a huge, circular pit in the ground and continuously descending.

Sand and stones flew as he bored through the hard earth.

As he descended, Hai Wen's body slammed against the hard ground again and again.

No matter how powerful his body was, he was battered and bleeding under such terrifying impacts. His black scale armor shattered piece by piece, revealing a mangled, bloody mess. The black aura spread out, seemingly sensing the smell of blood and growing even more frantic.

It was actually beginning to corrode his own flesh and blood.

"No, no, don't..."

Hai Wen screamed miserably.

Hong Yu showed not a shred of pity. He was spinning so fast his face was a blur, but one could feel his relentless ferocity and chilling killing intent.

BOOM!

Surrounded by a violent gale, Hong Yu suddenly leaped high into the air.

This was not flight, but a true jump. After reaching a height of several hundred meters, he plummeted back down.

He swung his arms from his sides, over his head, and then smashed them down toward the ground.

SMASH!

Hai Wen's face slammed directly into the ground.

His nose was broken, his teeth shattered, and blood flowed freely. His features were so mangled they were unrecognizable.

SMASH!

Hong Yu repeated the motion, swinging him up and smashing him down again.

This time, he broke one of Hai Wen's ribs.

Again...

And again...

Again and again...

After who knows how many repetitions, Hai Wen could no longer make a sound. But his heart was still beating; he was clearly, tenaciously, still alive.

"Be gone!"

Hong Yu's legs suddenly stopped spinning. His body came to an abrupt halt, and the immense inertia made the vital energy and blood in his body boil, causing him extreme discomfort.

He let go of his grip.

Driven by the inertia, Hai Wen's body shot out like a cannonball with a WHOOSH. It covered several thousand meters in the blink of an eye, crashing heavily into the Ancient Phoenix Tree with a loud BOOM. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

The massive Ancient Phoenix Tree swayed for a moment, then stood perfectly still.

As for Hai Wen, his body had unfortunately smashed into a forked branch. The sharp, pointed branch mercilessly pierced through his chest.

Blood dripped everywhere. A heart, hung on the branch, pulsed weakly.

Hai Wen was on the brink of death. Blood streamed uncontrollably from his mouth, and the light of life in his eyes was gradually fading. He didn't have long.

Hai Wen mustered his last ounce of strength, his venomous gaze fixed on Hong Yu. "I... I won't die for nothing. I... I'll be waiting for you in the underworld." As soon as he finished speaking, Hai Wen used his final bit of power to crush a Jade Order.

BOOM!

His body instantly exploded into a mist of blood, and the Jade Order radiated a crimson light.

It was a sacrifice, using his life to summon a powerful existence. As the bloody light spread, an aura of death instantly enveloped Hong Yu. Along with it came a deep voice, devoid of sorrow or joy, yet utterly sinister...

"You dare kill one of my subordinates? You are bold. Today, I will personally kill you. When I want you dead, not even King Yama would dare to keep you!"