The Thousand Silk Dao Lord's body was already injured.
Now, struck by the Dragon King's ultimate move from the outset, his Great Dao began to collapse.
"Seeking death."
Even so, Thousand Silk maintained the dominance befitting a ninth-tier expert.
*Hum.*
Three thousand threads of worldly cares, three thousand minor Daos.
Fewer than half of these three thousand minor Daos remained. Over a thousand were lost pursuing the Lord of Order, and another portion was just obliterated by the Dragon King.
The remaining, less than half, threads of Thousand Silk began to converge.
"Rise."
The threads coalesced, forming a sword of Great Dao.
Its sword light was sharp and piercing, cleaving heaven and earth: "Die."
The target: the dragon's head.
A single sword stroke to sever the dragon's head.
"Roar."
The Dragon King felt the danger.
That last explosion had not been easy for him either.
If this sword strike landed, he would be severely wounded, perhaps even killed.
*Clang.*
At the critical moment, Chen Fan intervened.
He had torn open the storm of destruction precisely to prevent this.
Silver light flashed, and the Spatial Boots activated instantly, vanishing Chen Fan from his original position.
Before the Thousand Silk Dao Sword could strike the Dragon King, Chen Fan arrived.
*Clang.*
The collision of sword against sword.
Blinding radiance illuminated heaven and earth, nearly blinding the Dragon King.
"Chen Fan."
Thousand Silk roared, "Those not of our kind will surely have different hearts. The conflict between you and me is a human conflict. I would say nothing of our life-and-death struggle, yet you actually aid a beast."
His fatal sword strike had been blocked, and Thousand Silk was furious.
"Heh heh."
Chen Fan sneered, "Man or beast, in this City Lord's eyes, befriending the Dragon King is far better than associating with a beast in human skin like you."
All beings are creatures; where is the distinction of superiority?
This was Chen Fan's most genuine thought.
He didn't care if the Dragon King was human or beast; as long as they were friends, anything was acceptable.
What of "Those not of our kind will surely have different hearts"?
Did that matter?
Thousand Silk was human, yet his actions were worse than those of a beast.
"Chen Fan."
Thousand Silk retracted his sword and retreated, his eyes grim. "You have chosen to stand with the beasts. You traitor to humanity."
Chen Fan scoffed, "Enough nonsense. Since you dared to return alone, you must have prepared for death. Therefore… you may die now. Attack…"
*Boom.*
The Yin Yang Dao Master and the Sword Master both unleashed their attacks.
Kill.
No more words.
No matter how much more nonsense was spouted, it would be meaningless.
At this moment, only killing mattered.
*Rumble.*
Chaos erupted.
Thousand Silk now faced the same predicament as the Lord of Order.
Three top-tier eighth-tier experts and one ninth-tier expert had the Thousand Silk Dao Lord scrambling.
He was injured.
Severely.
Wounded by the Lord of Order, he had been forced to withdraw from the battlefield first.
He had thought he would fare better upon returning to the Thousand Silk Realm. Though he knew Chen Fan had attacked it earlier, he had never imagined this young man would be so ruthless, nearly annihilating the Ninth Land.
"Do you truly think you can defeat me?" Thousand Silk the Great roared.
"Rise."
Three thousand Daos ascended with the sword, each like a rainbow.
*Swish.*
A celestial river surged from below, brilliant as the firmament.
Ninth-tier power, terrifying indeed.
The figures of the four were instantly enveloped.
"Pfft."
Chen Fan spat blood and retreated.
The Sword Master and the other two were not faring well either, their bodies sent flying backward.
The sword intent, like a river of stars cascading down, pierced heaven and earth, transforming into the Thousand Silk Domain, which no living being could enter.
A thread of Thousand Silk Dao Law drilled into Chen Fan's body, wounding his Great Dao, his physical form, and his soul.
This sword was too sharp.
"Good sword."
The Sword Master, spitting blood, returned.
With a wave of his hand, he intercepted a segment of chaos, transforming it into a Chaotic Sword: "Try to block this one of mine."
*Boom.*
One sword, cleaving the heavens.
"And me…"
This was a clash of swords, the Amaterasu Sword resonating. Within him… twin Dao Spirits were nurtured, carrying the power of two great worlds, which were poured into the sword.
Strike.
The sword sliced through the celestial river.
*Rumble.*
The celestial river sword, like a curtain of silver, continuously shattered.
"That's it?"
Chen Fan's eyes shone like golden lamps as he looked at the Thousand Silk Dao Lord.
As his words fell… *zheng.*
Myriad Daos resonated, myriad swords rose, then bloomed.
"Myriad Swords, I Alone." Chen Fan roared.
The Great Dao of the Sword, which roamed the Ninth Land, seemed to respond to the slightest will.
The Daos of the Sword converged, submitting to the Amaterasu Sword.
*Swish.*
The Sword Master and the Thousand Silk Dao Lord simultaneously turned their gazes to him.
Unlike Thousand Silk Dao Lord's solemnity, the Sword Master's eyes held boundless envy: "Emperor of the Sword…"
Commanding myriad swords.
Merely this alone was enough to warrant being called an Emperor… Sword Emperor.
"Slash."
Chen Fan swung the converged sword.
A sword, a million feet in size, directly split the chaos and cleaved through the underworld.
*Boom.*
The three thousand sword Daos were split apart.
Even with the Sword Master's ability, he could barely withstand the might of this sword.
*Bang bang bang.*
The Sword Master's three thousand Great Daos were shattered by hundreds in an instant, falling below a thousand.
"Impressive," Ping Xi exclaimed.
She was the Yin Yang Dao Master, a ninth-tier Yin Yang Dao Master. Although she only possessed a second-stage Dao Spirit, she was still the strongest here.
That's right, she was now the strongest.
Thousand Silk's injuries were too severe.
Increasingly severe.
So she intervened, joining the battle of the swords.
"Yin Yang."
The twin Yin Yang spears appeared in her hands.
These were her original weapons, transforming Yin Yang into divine weapons to suppress the world: "Kill."
The Yin Yang divine rainbow propped up heaven and earth.
*Boom.*
In an instant, Yin and Yang reversed.
In the Thousand Silk Dao Lord's perception, everything reversed, even his perception of the Great Dao was interfered with by the Dao of Yin Yang.
"Roar."
The Dragon King bellowed.
Strike while the iron is hot.
If not now, then when?
A top-tier eighth-tier expert and a novice ninth-tier expert.
The moment they attacked, it was a killing blow, their strongest assault.
The Thousand Silk Dao Lord retreated, constantly being heavily wounded.
His expression was extremely grim.
Each collapse of a Great Dao inflicted immense damage upon him.
Continuously being wounded and harmed caused the rage within the Thousand Silk Dao Lord to surge infinitely.
"A group of ants," he was truly enraged.
The flame of extreme fury began to erupt.
His crimson eyes seemed to cast endless gloom: "You… will all die."
"Still have trump cards?" Chen Fan's sword was infinitely sharp.
Each swing shattered the opponent's Great Dao.
But a profound sense of crisis suddenly descended. The Dragon Mark Compass within him began to spin frantically.
Die, die, die… On the Dragon Mark Compass, the crimson character 'Death' appeared.
"This…"
Chen Fan's pupils contracted.
The Dragon Mark Compass foresaw his future, saw his death?
The blood-red character 'Death' seemed to flow with blood.
"Retreat."
At this moment, Chen Fan abandoned all else.
He grabbed the closest Sword Master and retreated madly.
*Swish.*
Silver light flashed.
This time… it was an escape. He initiated rapid spatial movement, performing spatial jumps.
"Ugh…"
The Dragon King and the Yin Yang Dao Master were momentarily stunned. Though they didn't know why, they chose to retreat.
However, their speed was not fast.
"Burn your vital blood," Chen Fan's voice became hoarse with urgency.
A crisis unlike any he had ever felt.
It was as if Death himself had descended, hanging the scythe of the Grim Reaper around his neck.