Chapter 690: Chapter 687: Assassination Skill
In Yunshui City, living corpses ran rampant, locked in a ceaseless battle with the city’s Cultivators.
Jiang Jichen moved through the night like a phantom, completely one with the Darkness.
PSST!
The head of a Tier Five Corpse Saint, who was leading living corpses to annihilate a clan, suddenly flew from his shoulders, spraying blood high into the air.
This Tier Five Corpse Saint was killed on the spot, but no one even saw a glimpse of Jiang Jichen.
Jiang Jichen struck once and vanished, only targeting the strongest among them.
The Cultivators of Yunshui City could handle the rest!
With no Supreme Realm figures taking action, the great battle in Yunshui City turned into a three-way slaughter.
After all, some of Yunshui City’s major powers still refused to recognize the Cultivators from the Land of Chaos, treating them as foreign enemies.
When encountering such people, the disciples of the Luochen Sect slaughtered them all without mercy.
Jiang Jichen’s figure flickered as he moved through the Darkness.
He pushed his Dark Night Assassination Technique to its absolute limit; even Tier Seven Corpse Saints were being ambushed and killed by him.
Jiang Jichen was like a god of death in the Darkness, reaping the lives of one powerful expert after another.
"What a terrifying assassination technique. I can’t believe Jiang Jichen has such astonishing methods."
"Without the Supreme Realm, he’s practically a king right now. Only a Tier Eight Corpse Saint or an Eighth Layer of Saint Realm cultivator would have the power to fight him."
"Besides, the forces from the Land of Chaos are too powerful. They form Battle Arrays, making them unstoppable!"
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The Cultivators gradually began to understand the current situation.
As the great battle raged on, the living corpses were slaughtered one by one, and the Cultivator forces of Yunshui City were also gradually collapsing.
In contrast, the Luochen Sect, which had charged in from the Land of Chaos, was growing ever more powerful. The Luochen Sect disciples who had entered Yunshui City slowly regrouped, sweeping their way deeper into the city.
All living corpses were slaughtered, not a single one was spared.
Any Human Cultivators who resisted were also killed without pardon!
Wherever the Luochen Sect passed, the area was either cleared out or forced into submission.
Jiang Jichen was up ahead, having already swept through an area.
He had already assassinated the strongest experts there in secret.
Therefore, the Luochen Sect’s advance was even smoother.
Half a day later, only one final contingent of the Celestial Corpse Sect remained, led by a middle-aged man.
He was Corpse One!
He had not yet fully recovered and was currently only a Tier Eight Corpse Saint.
If he were to recover to his peak, he should be able to step into the Supreme Corpse Saint Realm.
At his side were more than thirty other Corpse Saints, ranging from Tier Five to Tier Seven.
They were already surrounded by the Luochen Sect!
The Luochen Sect also had an Eighth Layer of Saint Realm Cultivator, who was currently facing off against Corpse One.
Jiang Jichen, concealed in the shadows, watched the scene unfold with a cold gaze.
This was the final battle. As long as they killed Corpse One and eliminated this last force of the Celestial Corpse Sect, it would be no different from the sect’s complete annihilation!
"The Celestial Corpse Sect is eternal! The Celestial Corpse Ancestor lives forever! Kill!"
Corpse One roared and was the first to charge out.
This space had already been sealed.
For the time being, no one could escape.
Unlike Corpse Two, Corpse One was loyal to the Celestial Corpse Sect and the Celestial Corpse Ancestor.
At this moment, he refused to accept this reality and was determined to fight to the death.
The Luochen Sect’s Eighth Layer of Saint Realm Cultivator also charged forward to meet him.
While the two experts battled, their subordinates naturally did not stand idle, and a desperate slaughter began.
Jiang Jichen struck from the shadows, weaving through the battlefield.
PSST!
Inexplicably, the Celestial Corpse Sect’s Cultivators kept losing their heads, or having their Qi Seas pierced and extinguished.
Corpse Saints fell one after another!
Everyone knew that the Luochen Sect Master, the monarch of the Darkness, had arrived.
For the Luochen Sect Cultivators, this was naturally a cause for immense excitement, and their morale soared.
In contrast, the members of the Celestial Corpse Sect were ashen-faced, their eyes filled with terror.
They watched as their companions died one after another in inexplicable ways.
And yet, they couldn’t even see a shadow of Jiang Jichen.
The fear and pressure this created for them were unimaginable!
"Jiang Jichen, if you have the guts, come and assassinate me!"
Corpse One roared, his eyes bloodshot!
By now, all the men at Corpse One’s side had been slaughtered, leaving him all alone.
He launched a frenzied assault, disregarding his own life and death. The Luochen Sect’s Eighth Layer of Saint Realm expert was now at a disadvantage, in a perilous situation.
The other Luochen Sect disciples could not interfere in a battle of this level and could only surround the area and watch, waiting for the outcome.
Jiang Jichen remained invisible in the Darkness, and no one knew where he was.
The people of the Luochen Sect were confident and at ease because they knew their Sect Leader was nearby.
Jiang Jichen did not respond to Corpse One’s furious roars.
He simply remained hidden in the Darkness, waiting for the right opportunity to unleash an ultimate killing strike.
And at this moment, Corpse One was surely hiding a Killing Technique of his own, waiting for him to make a move.
Within the Darkness, Jiang Jichen’s mind was as calm as still water as he slowly brought his body to its strongest state.
By this time, the fighting throughout Yunshui City had ended.
The Celestial Corpse Sect’s living corpses had been completely slaughtered, and not a single one of the Yunshui City Cultivators who resisted the Luochen Sect was spared.
However, the vast majority of powers in Yunshui City were willing to accept the eventual arrival of the Luochen Sect.
After all, if the Luochen Sect hadn’t charged in, they all would have died at the hands of the Celestial Corpse Sect’s living corpses, only to be refined into Corpse Puppets.
That was not a fate they were willing to accept.
Yunshui City was littered with corpses. Blood stained the Ancient Streets and alleyways. Who knew how many had died?
There were surely a million dead!
The scene was indescribably gruesome.
The once-prosperous Yunshui City was now like a veritable Purgatory.
But at this moment, it was finally over.
And even now, no one had had the time to figure out why those Supreme Realm experts and even stronger beings had all vanished, or where they had gone.
Now, everyone’s gaze was fixed on the last remaining battlefield.
They had, of course, also heard Corpse One’s roars of fury.
At this moment, the Luochen Sect’s Eighth Layer of Saint Realm Cultivator was in mortal danger, on the verge of being killed by Corpse One at any second.
But Jiang Jichen, hidden in the shadows, remained unmoved, showing no sign of making a move.
"Haha... Jiang Jichen, if you don’t make your move now, you’ll lose your chance."
"Once I kill this strongest subordinate of yours below the Supreme Realm, I’ll begin a massacre. Who will be able to stop me then!" 𝐟𝑟ⅇ
Corpse One continued to speak, using taunts to try and bait him into action.
Meanwhile, Youu, Elder Yao, and the Asura Ancestor had not taken action.
The three of them had gone deep into a forbidden area of Yunshui City, wanting to see what had happened there.
Thus, these three Supreme Realm experts were not here either.
Jiang Jichen held his sword, closed his eyes, and merged with the Darkness, quietly meditating.
Until, at a certain moment, Jiang Jichen’s eyes snapped open.
His body moved, his sword struck!
CLANG!
The ring of the sword echoed through the Nine Heavens as three Sword Shadows suddenly materialized, stabbing toward Corpse One from three different directions.
This strike was the Azure Heaven Sword Technique’s Third Form: One Sword Roars Nine Heavens.
The moment he attacked, Jiang Jichen unleashed his strongest strike.
This was the precise moment Corpse One was about to kill the Luochen Sect’s Eighth Layer of Saint Realm Cultivator with a single blow.
But three beams of Sword Aura suddenly stabbed toward him.
"Haha... I’ve been waiting for you!"
But at that moment, Corpse One just laughed heartily.