Supreme Emptiness

Chapter 2295: Chapter 2342: Slay

Jiang Fan looked down at him with a cold expression. "Are you already unable to run?

"What a disappointment."

Holding the blessing of the Heavenly Dao, he could destroy any enemy below the Saint. If he could fight his way into the Sin Realm and annihilate all formidable foes, he could permanently eliminate future troubles.

What a pity...

Overcome with humiliation and fury, the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis roared, "Shut up!

"What gives you the right to judge me?

"I predate the era of the Daqian Divine Kingdom. I once dominated the primordial times and stood proudly at the peak of All Races!

"I have witnessed the glory of the great era and established unmatchable Merit for the founding of Daqian!

"What are you even supposed to be?"

He could not tolerate a once-insignificant Core Formation ant looking down on him in disappointment. It was the greatest humiliation of his life!

A Human Skin Painting surfaced on Jiang Fan’s chest. It depicted a crown radiating supreme coercion. As soon as it appeared, it activated the banners of both Jiang Fan and the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis. One yellow and one red, they fluttered in the wind. The image drawn on this human skin was exactly the portrait of the Monarch of the Daqian Divine Kingdom’s crown.

Jiang Fan coldly raised his battle-ax and slashed his own palm, letting drops of scalding blood fall onto it.

A miraculous scene unfolded. The crown seemed to come alive, blooming with blinding radiance. Its coercive pressure became even greater than before.

Just as the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis tried to stand, he was struck by an unparalleled oppression and fell to one knee with a heavy THUD.

The Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s expression changed drastically. "Your blood can trigger a resonance with His Majesty’s crown?" he asked in disbelief. "You... you have the bloodline of the Daqian Divine Kingdom?

"You are a descendant of the Imperial Family of the Daqian Divine Kingdom?"

Wiping his finger across the wound to stop the bleeding, Jiang Fan said coldly, "You asked what I am. Now, you have your answer.

"I, representing the Daqian Divine Kingdom, execute rebellious traitors!"

With that, he raised his ax and cleaved it fiercely toward the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis.

In the final moment of life and death, the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis still refused to accept his demise, erupting with an overwhelmingly intense desire to survive.

"No! I cannot die!!"

He opened his mouth and spat, releasing syllables of a Quasi-Immortal Technique that blasted out at close range without warning, aiming straight for Jiang Fan’s life.

However, beneath the Sky Opening ax blade, the Quasi-Immortal Technique was like smoke and clouds, effortlessly cleaved apart.

The Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis gritted his teeth, his eyes suddenly losing focus. A mass of blood-colored, shriveled soul shot out from his Heavenly Spirit Cover, fleeing for its life.

Emotionless, Jiang Fan said flatly, "I guessed as much."

He flicked his finger, sending a transparent leaf—which had been pinched between two fingers at some unknown point—flying out. This was a parting gift given to him by Ye Banxia when they separated in the Southern Heavenly Realm. Her original intention was to help Jiang Fan kill the Moon Venerate’s soul, thereby freeing Chen Silin from her dual-soul predicament. Since he had resolved the hidden soul danger on his own, the leaf had been kept as a gift until now.

Finally, it was being put to use.

WHOOSH!

Without a physical body to protect it, the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s soul was struck by the transparent leaf in an instant.

"You think a mere mortal object can harm my soul?" the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis roared fiercely.

He was an existence that had attempted to break into the Saint Realm, meaning his soul had undergone a baptism. The strength of his soul had long surpassed the Sage level. Ordinary soul-targeting methods were utterly useless against him.

However, the transparent leaf easily pierced through his soul, carving a long line across his soul body from his head down to his abdomen. As the line gradually widened, his soul began to split in two.

The Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis widened his eyes in disbelief. "This... isn’t a thing... of our Daqian Divine Kingdom..."

The next moment, his soul split completely, dissipating into streaks of crystalline light spots.

Looking at the soul leaf as it lost its power and gradually dissolved, Jiang Fan felt tranquil, devoid of any surprise. Before Ye Banxia left, he had asked her which world she came from, saying he would visit her in the future. Her response was that it was quite far and that he probably wouldn’t be able to make it. Even back then, he had a premonition that Ye Banxia’s origins were perhaps even more mysterious than Xia Chaoge’s.

Once the leaf fully dissipated, Jiang Fan turned his gaze to the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s splitting soul halves. The soul was unwilling to succumb, desperately trying to fuse back together, but under the effect of the injury caused by the mysterious leaf, it simply couldn’t mend itself.

Panic filled the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s despairing eyes. "No! I finally waited for the Dark Tide! I finally waited for the moment when my imperial hegemony would be established!

"I cannot die. I cannot die..."

Jiang Fan ignored him, casting his eyes down at the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s Dao physique. This body, which had lost both arms and one leg, had been voluntarily abandoned by the Marquis. Yet, the majority of it was perfectly preserved. If it could be repaired, it would be an invincible Dao physique beneath the Saint Realm.

He made a grabbing motion in the air, pulling the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s Dao physique toward him. The moment he gripped its shoulder, the terrifying Evil Qi made even someone like him, who had stepped into the One Calamity Realm, palpitate with fear.

"What are you doing? Don’t touch my Dao physique!" the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis bellowed.

Jiang Fan looked at him apathetically. "You blew up my poison body, so I’ll just use your Dao physique to Reshape a new one."

Immediately after, he stowed it into his Space Storage Device.

"No!!" the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis raged. By abandoning his Dao physique, he had completely played into Jiang Fan’s hands! But no matter how furious he was, he could not change anything. He could only watch helplessly as his own soul continued to disintegrate.

He was filled with hatred! He was unwilling to accept this!

He wondered how he could possibly die at the hands of a mere ant.

Seeing that his soul was on the verge of total collapse, madness and resentment bled into his eyes.

"If I die, you won’t have it easy either!!!"

His bisected soul suddenly twisted, condensing into a grayish-brown character for "Blood."

"Ancient Soul Curse of the Wilderness!"

WHOOSH!

The very next instant, the "Blood" character shot directly toward Jiang Fan’s forehead.

Jiang Fan remained entirely unmoving, allowing the soul curse to strike into his own soul.

The Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis let out a venomous roar. "I will corrupt your divine soul and make you perish in both body and spirit!!!"

This was the fatal blow unleashed by an ancient Semi-Saint using the last of his soul. Anyone below the Three Calamities Realm was doomed to die.

However, to the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s surprise, after breaking into Jiang Fan’s soul, his vision suddenly went black. Then, a towering, magnificent tree appeared right in front of him!

"Where is this?

"How could there be a tree inside his soul?" the soul curse formed by the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis murmured in bewilderment.

Suddenly, it was shocked to discover that countless rare treasures of heaven and earth were hanging from the branches. The closest one to it was a fruit shaped like a cross-legged infant.

It let out a horrified voice. "A Holy Infant? The legendary Holy Infant that, once eaten, allows someone to instantly ascend to the Saint Realm?

"What Heaven and Earth Divine Tree is this?

"Wait! Could it be formed from the Taixu Divine Tree Seed that appeared in the heavens many years ago?"

Its voice began to tremble with overwhelming excitement as it continued, "Jiang Fan actually possesses the Void Divine Tree?

"No, I must spread this news! I will plunge him into a nightmare of being hunted by the entire world!

"Heheheh, Jiang Fan, you’re finished!!!

"Hahahaha!"

With a mere thought, it flew back the way it came, intending to leave Jiang Fan’s soul and transmit this explosive, peerless secret to the outside world.