Chapter 1237: The Third-Ranked Devil General
Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire
As the sound of Qin Wentian's voice rang out, Huang Hanling's eyes narrowed as a dazzling light erupted forth, so cold that it chilled the bone.
A low-grade trash of the Nine-Emperors Immortal Empire?
Wanting to kill him within three strikes?
Qin Wentian's words were so arrogant that he had no way to accept it.
Although he, Huang Hanling, couldn't be considered as a peak-tier genius among the princes of the Nine-Emperors Immortal Empire, there was no doubt that he was one of the strongest ones there. If not, he wouldn't have been chosen as a participant for the adjudication battle.
When he reached the peak of immortal-foundation, the sacred academy hadn't even opened. At that time, Huang Shatian was only at the seventh-level but his status was already like the sun in the sky. This was something Huang Hanling has always been unhappy about.
The person in front of him now, had the same level of cultivation base as did Huang Shatian those years ago. Yet, this man actually called him a lowly trash?
"Now, I've decided that I won't allow you to die so easily." Huang Hanling coldly spoke. As the sound of his voice faded, the sharpest emperor sword frenziedly slashed out, causing destructive light to cover the area in an instant. Qin Wentian's body was surrounded by ancient characters, emitting radiant light that shrouded him protectively against that destructive emperor light.
His fingers tightened on the ancient halberd, and upon stepping forward, the shadow of a great roc manifested at the tip of his halberd.
God's Hand unceasingly channelled energy onto the halberd, causing the might radiating from the roc to grow stronger and stronger.
Huang Hanling furrowed his brows as a supremely powerful emperor light gushed forth from him. At this moment, this entire space was filled with golden-colored emperor light and it seemed that anywhere this light came into contact with, that place would be filled with his law energy.
"You want to kill me? Try walking out of my law energy domain first." Huang Hanling spoke. After that, his finger stabbed outwards as boundless energy coalesced into several figures of human emperors around him. All of them slashed an emperor sword out, aiming for Qin Wentian at the same instant.
Qin Wentian stood in the midst of the chaotic law energy. This law energy was something emitted from Huang Hanling. He has already briefly come into contact with that immortal-king gate and he has reached this height since many years ago. Qin Wentian actually dared to be so arrogant in front of him.
The ancient halberd stabbed out, causing Huang Hanling's expression to change. Has this Qin Wentian gone crazy? He actually disregarded his law domain and wanted to kill him in it?
"BOOM!" A supreme law energy covered his body as layers of emperor armor appeared, causing him to resemble an unexcelled human emperor of the world as he slashed out his sword towards Qin Wentian.
The ancient halberd collided into the sword. Destructive black rocs shot out, shattering the other human emperor silhouette's swords as his ancient halberd advanced step by step, breaking through everything.
"You are courting death!" Huang Hanling roared. His law domain reformed the shattered emperor swords as they slashed towards Qin Wentian's body. As the sound of piercing rang out, these swords actually managed to come into contact with Qin Wentian. Qin Wentian didn't seem to be bothered about his defense. His ancient halberd crushed the restrictive force of Huang Hanling's domain and continued forward, piercing into Huang Hanling's armor.
A wave of pain caused Huang Hanling's countenance to turn as pale as paper. The destructive energy gushed into his body, ravaging it from within. The ancient halberd's energy seemed to be able to pass through everything.
"Chi…" A groan of pain rang out as Huang Hanling coughed out blood. His eyes stared fixedly at Qin Wentian. Was this man crazy?
"You wouldn't mind dying to kill me?" The cold in Huang Hanling's voice could pierce bones. Those emperor swords were already slashing at Qin Wentian's body. Did Qin Wentian want to perish together with him?
"You truly overestimate yourself." Qin Wentian spoke. A terrifying divine glow erupted from his body, and those emperor swords fell onto the ground, completely devoid of strength. The swords were basically unable to break his defense, what did Huang Hanling mean by perishing together?
Huang Hanling didn't even manage to injure Qin Wentian.
"By saying three moves, I have overestimated your abilities." As the sound of his voice faded, the ancient halberd in his hands erupted forth with tyrannical might. Its entire body transformed into waves of destructive might that shot into Huang Hanling's body, ravaging his lifeforce and immortal-foundation. Huang Hanling's expression turn ashen as blood dripped continuously from his lips. A few moments later, his entire body toppled over, devoid completely of strength.
Qin Wentian squatted down and took all the interspatial rings from Huang Hanling's body. As a prince character from the Nine-Emperors Immortal Empire, this Huang Hanling should have plenty of good stuff in his possession.
The surrounding people and devil generals felt waves of shock in their hearts when they stared at Qin Wentian now. They all could sense how powerful Huang Hanling was when he released his strength earlier.
However, he died under a single strike.
Leaving aside three moves, Qin Wentian only used one to kill Huang Hanling, the protector under the third-ranked devil general.
This, naturally caused everyone to be extremely shocked.
Juyu's dark eyes flashed. She had never expected Qin Wentian to be so powerful, killing the protector of the third-ranked devil general Zong Yan so easily. This indicated that Qin Wentian's strength should be above hers.
For Lu Xuejia who was spectating the battle, she froze completely at this moment. She initially thought that Qin Wentian would die in that battle. Never have she expected that such an ending would occur.
With just a single strike, Qin Wentian insta-killed Zong Yan's protector.
This meant that if she didn't abandon Qin Wentian earlier, no protectors under the twenty-seven other devil generals would have been able to stop Qin Wentian. Qin Wentian could sweep through all of them and even fight devil generals for her.
Zong Yan's expression was exceptionally cold. Huang Hanling was actually killed by Qin Wentian.
This time around, he had very high expectations of Huang Hanling, Huang Hanling could block his challengers and even probe the strength of the top two devil generals while he focused completely on challenging them.
But now, Huang Hanling has already died. This meant that no one could block challengers from the ranks below him. He had to spend time and energy to handle them himself.
However, Qin Wentian didn't care about their thoughts. Leaving Huang Hanling's corpse there, he returned to Juyu's side.
After killing Huang Hanling, this was a tiny step with regards to gaining victory for the adjudication battle.
"Clean the place." Zong Yan coldly commanded. His subordinates took Huang Hanling's corpse away while Zong Yan's eyes were fixed on Qin Wentian and Juyu.
"Shall I help you to challenge some devil generals?" Qin Wentian transmitted his voice to Juyu.
Just like what Juyu said, as the last-ranked general, it was impossible for her to gain victory over any of the top six.
"There's no need. I've already said that reaching this step has already exceeded my expectations. It isn't suitable if I want to continue advancing my rank." Juyu replied. "Your strength has truly surpassed my wildest imaginations. You will become a devil general sooner or later. I will consider handing my general position over to you."
While they were conversing via voice transmission, Zong Yan had already stepped out. He stood there with his hands behind his back, exuding a chilling coldness as he stared at Juyu.
"Be careful, he has killing intent." Qin Wentian transmitted his voice to Juyu.
Juyu nodded. She stepped out and spoke, "I know that I'm not a match for the third-general. Hence, I admit defeat."
Juyu was an extremely decisive person. Although right now, she would become the #7 ranked general if there were no accidents, she still conceded so quickly. It might be considered shameful in the immortal realms, but in the devil world, staying alive was everything,
She clearly knew that Zong Yan had killing intent towards her, how would she participate in this battle then? If she did, Zong Yan would directly kill her, showing no mercy at all. She naturally didn't want to give Zong Yan a chance to do so.
"Juyu, since you have already reached here, as the #7 ranked general, how can you shy away from battle with just a single sentence of conceding? Such a devil general, our Sect would rather kill off, choosing not to permit your existence." Zong Yan coldly spoke as he stepped forward.
Even if Juyu conceded, he still wouldn't let her go so easily.
As the third-ranked devil general, how great was his authority and how would he care about this last-ranked general? But since his killing intent was invoked, there was no way he would allow Juyu to retreat safely.
"Devil general Zong Yan, what do you want?" Juyu's countenance changed.
"Nothing much, I just want a general battle between us." Zong Yan stepped forth again and in an instant, a terrifying apocalyptic might bore down on Juyu. His body shimmered with black flames of destruction that directly enveloped this battlefield. Grabbing out with his palm, the black devil flames blasted out towards Juyu. Juyu's countenance turned unsightly as she conjured up a devil shield to defend.
Qin Wentian's countenance also changed. Juyu didn't wish to advance any further and was willing to concede. However, Zong Yan didn't want to spare her.
In addition, Qin Wentian saw the first devil general calmly sitting on his war chariot and the second devil general observing the battle with a cold smile on his face. Both of them didn't seem to have any intentions to stop the battle.
The conflicts between devil cultivators had always been extremely brutal, it was very common for one of the parties to die. This Juyu, as the last-ranked general, shouldn't have climbed up to here, Zong Yan's words were right. This was also the reason why Juyu didn't want to advance any further. Everyone here in the devil sect worshiped strength above all else. Without sufficient strength, one simply wouldn't be able to garner respect. Even if she wanted to concede, Zong Yan wouldn't allow her to.
"BOOM!" The destructive flames incinerated everything it touched. Juyu retreated unceasingly, wanting to leave the battlefield.
She definitely couldn't fight this battle.
Lu Xuejia's eyes flashed when she saw this scene. As expected, the third-ranked general Zong Yan was finally enraged. Her prediction was right. If she chose Qin Wentian as a protector, Zong Yan wouldn't have spared her.
Naturally, if it was Lu Xuefei who climbed up to the #7 rank, and Qin Wentian died in battle, Zong Yan wouldn't have made things difficult for her.
But for Juyu, she arrived at this step due to luck and since Qin Wentian also killed Huang Hanling, the protector of the third-ranked demon king. How would Zong Yan spare her then?
The devil energy from Zong Yan's devil-foundation materialized a devil flame spear that shot forth with explosive speed. Thunderous rumblings rang out as Juyu did her best to defend. However, cracking sounds soon rang out as her devil shield was directly broken into pieces. She had no choice but to retreat hurriedly when facing the powerful Zong Yan.
Zong Yan continued stepping forth. The light in his black eyes were cold to the extreme!