CHAPTER 851: CHAPTER 827: SLAYING THE DRAGON (2/3)

Whether it was Zhou Heng or the Dragon Emperor, they both longed for victory!

They both had the aura of kings, more inclined towards offense rather than defense in battle! Their belief was to destroy the opponent with waves of relentless attacks, rather than adopting a defensive stance and launching a counterattack upon spotting a flaw.

In this way, the battle became extremely perilous!

It’s not that they abandoned defense, but more of their strength was invested in the offense.

This proved effective, their attacks left the opponent deeply scarred!

There were chunks of ice clinging to Zhou Heng’s body, and the flesh beneath the ice was completely necrotic, while the Dragon Emperor wasn’t faring much better, getting sliced open and bleeding profusely by the Black Sword! With the Black Sword’s terrifying destructive force, unless the wound is gouged out, it has no chance to heal, and would bleed until dry!

An Immortal level fighter can heal even with just a single drop of blood, but that requires at least one drop of blood. If it bleeds to dryness, they would truly perish!

—— The wounds destroyed by the Black Sword, the fresh blood that flows out is devoid of any life, equating to wasted blood!

After over a hundred moves, the dragon and the man each retreated over a hundred feet, simply handled their respective wounds by cutting away the dead flesh for revival, or completely severed the continuously bleeding wounds.

They actually ended up in a draw again!

The Dragon Emperor was anxious, burning a drop of Essence Blood couldn’t sustain him to perform like this for long, and once he lost the ability to operate Laws, how could he confront Zhou Heng? Either retreat, or burn another drop of Essence Blood!

The former he didn’t even consider, he had already paid too much for the Lower Realm — just look that he doesn’t even have a single Treasure Artifact on him, they were all exchanged for this descent to the Lower Realm!

Returning would be easy, descending is extremely difficult, unless it was an inevitably lethal situation, he would never return to the Bright Realm.

But he only had about a hundred drops of Essence Blood, burning one more would reduce the purity of his bloodline! For the descendants of Divine Beasts, bloodline purity is the most important, and if he lost two drops of True Dragon blood, or more, he would be scorned among the Dragon Clan!

—— It’s a disgrace to rely on burning Essence Blood for survival or to achieve goals, isn’t that losing face of the ancestors?

Moreover, losing one drop of Essence Blood would lower his ranking among the Dragon Clan, losing two drops was inconceivable!

Thinking about those he had trampled underfoot, now able to rise above him, made the Dragon Emperor impulsively want to kill. It’s an utterly humiliating disgrace!

But having already burned one drop of Essence Blood, if he were to give up now and gained nothing, wouldn’t he be even more unwilling?

He let out a long howl, a dragon’s roar resonating continuously, crazily attacking towards Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng was also anxious.

His Nine Yuan Revival Pill had run out, and the Spiritual Power within his body could not sustain him for long. Fortunately, Chaos Heavenly Scripture did not require him to expend Spiritual Power to operate, it just needed him to communicate with the Artifact Spirit using Divine Sense.

This at least gave him complete self-preservation ability!

Given that, why not go a bit crazy?

Zhou Heng’s eyes shone with Divine Light, dragging on like this would only keep him unbeaten at best, not able to defeat the Dragon Emperor. And he still had a final lethal move... Sky-soaring Nine Forms!

One strike to settle the battle!

Do it!

Even if he couldn’t finish off the Dragon Emperor in one blow, with all his Spiritual Power exhausted and in the weakest state, Chaos Heavenly Scripture could still operate on its own to protect him, without worrying about being counter-killed by the Dragon Emperor!

He would definitely be exhausted, it was only a matter of time, so why not make a bold move while his strength is still complete?

However, he needed to find the best timing for an attack.

The Dragon Emperor’s impatience gave Zhou Heng an opportunity, his opponent focusing more on attack meant weakened defense!

Zhou Heng’s eyes sharpened, his bottom-line thought was to force the Dragon Emperor back to the Bright Realm, but now he wanted more to slay his opponent with one sword, leaving no future trouble!

Any success requires a price to be paid!

He took a deep breath, suddenly activated Chaos Heavenly Scripture, completely withdrew the defense, and rushed at the Dragon Emperor with full force.

Was this a fight to the death?

The Dragon Emperor sneered, was the opponent also impatient? Was he exhausted? Then let’s fight!

Abandoning defense meant the attack would be more fierce, but also more hazardous!

If he chose defense, Zhou Heng would gain the upper hand and the battle stagnate. If he opted for offense, though dangerous, it would quickly determine the outcome.

Could the proud talent of the Dragon Clan be afraid of a small figure from the Lower Realm?

The pride of the Dragon Clan did not allow him to retreat, especially since he didn’t want to exhaust more Essence Blood, this kind of abandon defense and counter-attack suited him perfectly!

Then let’s battle!

The Dragon Emperor roared, the dragon’s roar shaking the heavens and earth, he slapped with both claws, each forming a giant ice sphere, which he hurled at Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng’s figure swayed, suddenly splitting into two, one with Chaos Heavenly Scripture atop the head with colorful brilliance flowing all around, the other barehanded charging at the Dragon Emperor from an angle.

One was the true body, one was the Divine Aspect!

Which one was real?

The Dragon Emperor couldn’t divide his attack, that wouldn’t achieve a lethal strike, he had to choose!

Time was merely a brief moment, it was impossible for him to guess Zhou Heng’s true intention, but naturally, he considered the threat from Chaos Heavenly Scripture greater, with a thought, his double claws aimed at Zhou Heng holding Chaos Heavenly Scripture.

Boom!

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A heavy sound rang out, amidst the dazzling glow, the ice balls on Dragon Emperor’s talons shattered into countless fragments, while the five-colored divine light protecting Zhou Heng completely dissipated, the dragon talons slammed down towards Zhou Heng.

After this blow, the destructive power of both sides was significantly weakened.

Boom!

But as the dragon talons slammed down, Zhou Heng was without suspense turned into flesh and blood, fragments flying!

Dragon Emperor was first pleased, then stunned, and finally shocked!

He was naturally glad to have killed his opponent, but he immediately realized that this must have been just a divine aspect of Zhou Heng, explaining why it was effortlessly destroyed! But why would Zhou Heng deploy the Chaos Heavenly Scripture with a mere divine aspect, placing his true body in such danger?

There must be a grand scheme!

But without the Chaos Heavenly Scripture, what kind of battle power can the opponent exert? He had faced Zhou Heng before and had come to know Zhou Heng’s attack power inside out!

To sacrifice a divine aspect in exchange for a strike on him, trading injury for injury, this seemed decisive, commendable for courage, but actually foolish beyond limits. A divine aspect was far more "valuable" than the wielding of a sword.

Humph, this kid was also desperate and lost all sense!

Dragon Emperor extended a dragon claw to seize the Chaos Heavenly Scripture, this was the best chance to seize it, and once he obtained the Chaos Heavenly Scripture, even if the scripture would not recognize him as its master, it would greatly weaken Zhou Heng’s battle power!

Relying solely on Zhou Heng himself, how could he resist the combined power of his strength and the Power of Laws?

This kid was seeking his own destruction!

Zhou Heng dashed forward, with no other thoughts in his mind, hum, Black Sword was unleashed, his mind and spirit in unification, the Sword Intent of Sky-soaring Nine Forms surged flowingly.

Supreme and unrivaled, even the Five Elements Rune could not compare!

The sword is unleashed!

Black Sword Qi swept across, instantly plunging the whole world into darkness, without light or moon!

What!

Dragon Emperor had no time to utter a cry of surprise, Black Sword roared into attack!

He had never expected this sword to be so fierce, so dominant, so divine and immortal-breaking!

The opponent sacrificed a divine aspect, even temporarily abandoning the Chaos Heavenly Scripture, just for the sake of this sword!

If it weren’t for his greed, attempting to snatch the Chaos Heavenly Scripture, he would have had defensive power, but now? He had to bear it directly!

What a lad, truly a warrior sacrificing an arm, it was too decisive!

Dragon Emperor felt a secret fear, this determined nature was too terrifying, he must not let Zhou Heng grow, if this kid fled to Bright Realm, it would be a great trouble in the future! Even if he burned ten drops or twenty drops of Essence Blood, he must eliminate this kid!

What of enduring a sword strike, it wasn’t as if he hadn’t been wounded before!

Swish, one sword moved the Nine Heavens, the black sword shadow sliced through the skies!

Spurt!

A gush of blood erupted from Dragon Emperor’s chest, his dragon-shaped face still bearing an expression of disbelief!

His defense, his immensely powerful dragon body, remarkably could not withstand Zhou Heng’s sword!

Previously, he had only suffered flesh wounds, because after burning Essence Blood, his body was incredibly resilient, even with the Five Elements Rune and Black Sword, it could only break his skin, only causing minor blood loss.

But now, that terrifying sword unexpectedly pierced directly through his body!

Pierced through his heart!

His life force was swiftly fading, his consciousness became dim, within his Sea of Consciousness a darkness spread!

He was going to die!

Dragon Emperor painfully realized this, but he was already powerless to make any movement, even to turn a thought was extremely difficult, everything before his eyes became unfathomably blurred, only a solitary figure stood aloof in the sky.

He was unexpectedly killed by a lower realm ant!

A legitimate bloodline of the Dragon Clan, destined for great achievements in the future, unexpectedly couldn’t even escape back to Bright Realm, yet died disgracefully in the Lower Realm!

Died with eyes wide open!

But what of it, the aura belonging to Dragon Emperor suddenly extinguished, his body transformed into a ten-zhang long azure Heavenly Dragon, plummeting from the sky.

Zhou Heng also began to fall, flying required Spiritual Power, even with the brutal strength of the Sublimation Realm it was useless. With a wave of his right hand, he collected Dragon Emperor’s corpse into the Space Artifact, this was a True Dragon, a great source of supplements!

Boom!

He landed heavily, creating a deep pit on the hard ground, swoosh, Chaos Heavenly Scripture automatically flew back, merging into Zhou Heng’s chest.

Dragon, Dragon Emperor is dead!

The Nine Heavens Generals engaged in fierce battle were in mental disarray, this was something they never anticipated! They still dreamed of being led to Bright Realm by Dragon Emperor, effortlessly advancing to the Stellar Realm with Bright Realm resources, but who would have thought in a twinkle of an eye, the incredibly powerful Dragon Emperor would die at the hands of an Immortal Realm person!

Unbelievable! Unimaginable! Unacceptable!

The Nine Heavens Generals were like mourning their parents, losing all fighting spirit, but how would the five Dragon Sovereigns cease their attack over this, instead they grew fiercer!

This Dragon Emperor was defeated by Zhou Heng, how could they remain unaccomplished? (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote with recommended or monthly tickets, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)