Chapter 662: Chapter 659: Slaying Gods and Annihilating Saints
The Celestial God was beheaded!
The world seemed to freeze, fixated on this single scene.
Judging by the wide-open eyes on the severed head, it was clear that even the Celestial God Dharma Image couldn’t believe it had been decapitated by a single sword strike.
Its consciousness faded as its colossal body crumbled, turning into smoke and mist before vanishing from the world.
A wisp of divine light burst from the fallen head, trying to escape into the endless sky.
This was a wisp of the Celestial God Dharma Image’s origin divine thought.
A Celestial God Dharma Image was, in essence, a splinter of a Primordial Spirit from a Celestial God in the Nine Heavens, sent to wander the Six Realms.
They rarely manifested, their purpose being only to comprehend the boundless Great Dao.
Now that the Celestial God Dharma Image was destroyed, this wisp of origin thought sought to return to the Celestial God’s true body.
But would Jiang Jichen allow it to have its way?
The Soul Refining Banner swept out from a distance. A wave of Soul Power unfurled, drawing the wisp of the Celestial God’s origin divine thought into the banner.
The next moment, the Soul Refining Banner began to emit a soft, shimmering glow, and much of its tattered surface miraculously repaired itself.
The effect was far greater than all its previous restorations combined!
This just went to show how terrifying a Celestial God was; a single wisp of its origin divine thought was worth more than all the souls the banner had previously consumed.
After beheading the Celestial God and extinguishing its origin divine thought, Jiang Jichen acted as if he had done something utterly trivial.
His expression was indifferent as he suddenly spun around, Holy Sword in hand, and charged toward the ten Saint Law Enforcers of the Mortal World.
So dominant!
Only then did the crowd finally snap back to reality.
Jiang Jichen had actually decapitated the Celestial God Dharma Image. While this wasn’t true deicide, the Celestial God Dharma Image represented the True God itself, so beheading it was no different from beheading the Celestial God.
"But Jiang Jichen only just stepped onto the Holy Dao. How can he be this strong?"
"That’s right! Even with only a fraction of its power, the Celestial God Dharma Image was still comparable to an expert at the Sixth Layer of the Saint Realm, yet Jiang Jichen beheaded it in a single strike!"
"I still feel like I’m dreaming. This is no different from defying the heavens to slay immortals, gods, and demons!"
...
The crowd murmured, some gulping nervously, still finding it hard to accept the reality of the situation.
But high in the sky, the battle had already reignited.
Having just stepped onto the Holy Dao, Jiang Jichen’s momentum was like a tidal wave, establishing his dominance by taking the Celestial God’s head.
From this day forward, in addition to ’Beheading Mad Demon’ and ’Killing God,’ he would likely gain another moniker: The Blasphemer!
"To blaspheme a Celestial God... You deserve to die!"
"Just now, he must have completed his breakthrough and borrowed the might of the Celestial Dao, activating a trace of the Time Rule to slay the Celestial God Dharma Image."
"Now, he has no more power to borrow. He thinks he can fight us just because he’s a novice at the Saint First Realm? Ridiculous. He’s courting death!
...
The ten Saint Law Enforcers from the Mortal World spoke coldly.
They believed they had seen through the trick at a glance, certain that Jiang Jichen’s true combat power was nowhere near that level.
The Saint Realm has nine layers, with a massive chasm of power between each one. The hierarchy is especially rigid between the ranks of Little Saint, Middle Saint, Great Saint, and the Supreme Realm, with a power disparity nearly as vast as the one between the Foundation Establishment Realm and the Spirit Infant Realm.
Therefore, Jiang Jichen was only at the Saint First Realm, a novice on the Holy Dao. No matter how talented he was, his strength had to have a limit!
Among their group of ten, four were at the Saint Second Realm, three at the Saint Third Realm, two at the Saint Fourth Realm, and one was at the Saint First Realm! ℴ
Such combat strength could completely crush any novice on the Holy Dao, no matter how much of a genius they were.
The ten Saint Law Enforcers from the Mortal World were filled with this confidence.
PFFT!
However, even as they spoke, Jiang Jichen’s figure flashed past a Saint Second Realm Law Enforcer.
A fountain of blood sprayed into the sky as a head flew high into the air.
A terrified Spirit Infant shot out, its body radiating a shimmering glow.
This Spirit Infant had condensed two Spirit Veins. Even on its own, it possessed extremely potent power.
It was far beyond what the Spirit Infant of a cultivator in the Nascent Soul Fusion Realm could compare to.
"I hope you can still laugh now!"
Only then did Jiang Jichen’s voice finally ring out, his expression a mask of cold indifference.
He then swept out with the Soul Refining Banner in his hand!
CRACK!
The fleeing Spirit Infant with its two Spirit Veins shattered instantly, its soul harvested.
With the Soul Refining Banner in its previous state, Jiang Jichen certainly could not have destroyed this two-vein Spirit Infant with a single sweep.
But just moments ago, the sinister Soul Refining Banner had absorbed a wisp of the Celestial God’s Origin Divine Thought, which had not only repaired it significantly but also imbued it with a trace of divinity, greatly increasing its power.
This time, the remaining Saint Law Enforcers were certainly not laughing.
Their expressions turned incomparably grim!
Jiang Jichen’s actions had just been a vicious slap in the face to them.
"His peak combat power must be equivalent to an Extreme Genius at the Saint Second Realm!"
After one of their comrades was slain, the Saint Law Enforcers deduced this conclusion. No longer daring to be careless, their expressions grew solemn.
An Extreme Genius at the Saint Second Realm was equivalent in power to a cultivator like them at the Saint Fourth Realm.
"Attack together! Kill him as quickly as possible!"
The remaining nine Saint Law Enforcers communicated via voice transmission, then flickered into position, surrounding Jiang Jichen.
Meanwhile, Jiang Jichen was actually still getting a feel for his power at the Saint First Realm.
He had just stepped onto the Holy Dao and needed to familiarize himself with the vast, boundless power now coursing through his body.
Thus, he needed a battle to acclimate himself.
In truth, with his limit-breaking, taboo-shattering Sacred Body and Saint Realm cultivation, he could have absolutely crushed these Saint Law Enforcers had he gone all out.
The reason these men had so drastically underestimated Jiang Jichen’s strength was that they knew nothing of his achievements in the Six Paths Illusion Realm.
Facing the nine Saint Law Enforcers, Jiang Jichen took the initiative and attacked with his Holy Sword.
He was slowly getting the hang of it now. The power of the Seven-Color Holy Dao made him feel limitlessly strong.
The difference from before was like that between heaven and earth.
Once you become a Saint, the world opens up to you, free to roam wherever you please.
As long as he did not encounter an expert in the Supreme Realm, he could retreat unscathed even when facing a Great Saint.
And in the Mortal World, even with the great changes and the emergence of numerous Saints, those above the Saint Realm were still limited and had not yet revealed themselves.
The transformation of this land was still in progress, far from over.
For now, the conditions were not suitable for the appearance of beings above the Supreme Realm, as they would be suppressed.
Only when the world’s transformation was complete would beings above the Supreme Realm—and even those of higher Realms—no longer be suppressed. Their seals would be broken, and they would reappear in the world.
In short, the world’s drastic changes made anything possible.
Once Jiang Jichen had familiarized himself with his power, he no longer held back.
First, he unleashed the Star Sword Technique, followed by the Tai Chi Swordsmanship!
Countless Sword Shadows filled the air, crisscrossing the heavens and the earth.
The nine Saint Law Enforcers were immediately trapped, struggling to keep up.
Only at this moment did they realize just how gravely they had underestimated Jiang Jichen’s power.
And for them, this was clearly a fatal error.
Amidst the crisscrossing Sword Qi, Jiang Jichen used Shadow Step, easily closing the distance to his opponents.
In close quarters, the terrifying power of the Holy Body Realm was finally on full display.
Though he was only at the Holy Body First Realm, Jiang Jichen already possessed an invincible aura capable of contending with Divine Demons.
THWACK!
THWACK!
THWACK!
Jiang Jichen’s figure flickered relentlessly as he channeled the Undying Scripture, concentrating power into his fists and unleashing the Annihilation Fist.
Heaven and Earth Silence!
All Things Perish!
Six Paths Collapse!
The force of his punches was like the heavens themselves, causing mountains and rivers to crumble.
With every Fist Seal Jiang Jichen unleashed, a body of flesh and blood was blown apart.
Flesh and blood rained down as the Saints were blasted apart like rotten watermelons.
At last, the endless rain of gore dissipated. Jiang Jichen retracted his fists and stood, the only one remaining between heaven and earth.
He closed his eyes and meditated peacefully!
His aura was as deep and vast as an ocean, utterly unfathomable.
Only now could he be considered to have truly stepped onto the Holy Dao.
Then, he opened his eyes, and with a flash, his figure vanished into the Forest of Lost Souls.