Chapter 296: Eighteen Sections

"Ah!"

This was the ultimate strike of Meng Chuan's divine power, 'Heavenly Fury', channeling thirty percent of the lightning within him into this single saber slash. Previously, when Yuanchu Mountain Lord faced this move, his 'Yuanchu Combat Body' had been shattered. Now, the Green Scale Demon King truly bore the full brunt of this attack and was instantly stunned by the impact! Its body was incredibly tough, its scales provided formidable protection, and it possessed a defensive divine power.

Yet, under this lightning, blood still seeped through the gaps in its scales, and its entire body felt an uncontrollable numbness.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz." The Green Scale Demon King's head buzzed ceaselessly. In its numbed and dazed state, it didn't even react before Meng Chuan's demon-slaying saber struck its body!

In fact, the lightning had erupted from the demon-slaying saber.

And immediately followed by the saber's downward cleave!

The Green Scale Demon King, paralyzed and disoriented, could offer no resistance and was fiercely struck by the blow.

"Tiger Roar Style."

It was the most violent strike.

The dark red saber blade sliced open a fissure in the void. Meng Chuan, gripping the saber with both hands, his face grim, put all his strength into a strike that cut into the Green Scale Demon King's waist. Capable of cleaving even the void, it naturally sliced through the scales... but it became stuck after cutting about halfway through the demon king's waist. The Green Scale Demon King's flesh was simply too resilient! Severing it completely was proving difficult.

"Demonic Qi." As Meng Chuan delivered this strike, the deep green demonic qi surged in. Without the external obstruction of the scales, once the demonic qi permeated the Green Scale Demon King's body along the massive wound, its freezing power immediately intensified.

"Cold, cold, cold." The Green Scale Demon King shivered uncontrollably, and seeing the huge wound on its waist, it truly panicked in that moment.

"Go." With a thought, the Green Scale Demon King's void threads quickly retracted, attempting to protect itself and escape.

"Boom-crack!!!"

Another incredibly dazzling bolt of lightning.

The divine power 'Heavenly Fury' exploded to its limit once more. The Green Scale Demon King, under the freezing assault and facing the speed of the lightning, had no time to resist and was struck again. The dazzling lightning instantly pierced through the demon king's entire body, invading its internal organs through the waist wound, wreaking havoc.

This time, the lightning caused even greater damage, and its injuries were more severe; some flesh was charred black by the strike.

"Pffft." While unleashing 'Heavenly Fury', Meng Chuan struck again, completely severing the defenseless Green Scale Demon King in two at the waist!

The lower half of the body below the waist had its resistance greatly reduced and was quickly frozen by the demonic qi, turning into ice.

As for the upper body, the Green Scale Demon King's upper body still resisted the demonic qi's invasion; its overall freezing process was very slow, and it was still frantically trying to escape.

"Pffft, pffft, pffft." Meng Chuan chopped wildly, his saber flashing.

With only its upper body remaining and the demonic qi invading both internally and externally, the Green Scale Demon King moved much slower. Its demonic power controlling the void threads to resist was also significantly diminished, rendering it unable to block Meng Chuan's saber. At this point, Meng Chuan was no longer willing to use 'Heavenly Fury'; he had used it twice already, and the consumption was significant enough.

"Pffft." Another strike, severing the Green Scale Demon King's left arm. The arm, as soon as it was cut off, was frozen into an ice sculpture by the deep green demonic qi.

"This demonic qi's freezing is too unbearable!" the Green Scale Demon King cried in alarm. "With internal and external invasion, I can't even exert thirty percent of my strength."

"Pffft."

Another strike, another section of its body cut off, and its resistance to the demonic qi decreased further.

"And I can't transform into water to escape. My water-escape divine power is completely countered by this demonic qi. If I transform into water to escape, I'll definitely be completely frozen." The Green Scale Demon King was extremely anxious, desperately manipulating void threads to protect itself, but its diminished strength allowed Meng Chuan's saber strikes to land repeatedly, and despair appeared in its eyes.

Soon, the Green Scale Demon King was cut into eighteen pieces, its head frozen separately. Each piece was frozen solid, unable to resist further.

The 'head' frozen in ice still stared at Meng Chuan and could still speak: "Meng Chuan, how can you let me live?"

"Whoosh."

Meng Chuan looked at the Green Scale Demon King, frozen into eighteen pieces, and only then did he sigh in relief. Ignoring what the head said, he first picked up his token and looked at it, then canceled the distress call he had previously sent.

Canceling the distress call also informed Yuanchu Mountain that his trouble here was resolved and no further rescue was needed.

"Pffft." Only then did Meng Chuan, holding the demon-slaying saber, thrust it into a severed thigh piece of the Green Scale Demon King.

The flesh of this thigh piece, independently frozen and further weakened by the demonic qi's invasion, had its resistance greatly reduced. Yet, the demon-slaying saber still absorbed it relatively slowly. This was because absorbing a living being... a living being resists! Unlike a Creation Realm corpse, which offers no resistance at all. When the Green Scale Demon King's body was intact earlier, even if a wound was inflicted, absorbing its flesh was very difficult.

"Now the resistance is much weaker," Meng Chuan observed as the demon king's thigh flesh shriveled. It took nearly ten breaths of time for this piece of thigh flesh to be completely absorbed.

The frozen Green Scale Demon King's head showed fright: "Meng Chuan, Meng Chuan, anything can be discussed."

But Meng Chuan continued to absorb with the demon-slaying saber.

Absorbing piece by piece.

Under the Green Scale Demon King's pleas, after about half a cup of tea's time, the other seventeen body sections were absorbed, leaving only the head intact.

"Don't worry, I won't kill you so quickly." Meng Chuan waved his hand and put the Green Scale Demon King's head into his Grotto-Heaven Pearl. Just a frozen head, within his own Grotto-Heaven Pearl, constantly under his supervision, naturally no accidents could occur.

"Whoosh."

Then he collected all the other spoils of war. As for Marquis Ziyu's corpse, it had already been collected before the fight began. Meng Chuan looked around at the two to three *li* radius, which was a desolate expanse of white. Clearly, all buildings, trees, and bodies had been completely pulverized into dust during the battle. Beyond that two to three *li* range lay ruins.

"This Fifth-Heaven Demon King, it truly wasn't easy to kill one," Meng Chuan thought to himself, then took out his token again.

On the token, the lowest-level distress calls from several locations had all disappeared, evidently all having been canceled.

"Three major cities, eight medium-sized world entrances—the truly critical battles should all be over," Meng Chuan mused. "The truly urgent ones were Silver Lake Pass and Dongning City. Most other places could handle it themselves."

Yuanchu Mountain's arrangements were quite appropriate.

Only a very few places needed urgent rescue.

"I wonder what the situation is like in other parts of the world," Meng Chuan thought to himself. "I'm afraid Dongning City isn't the only place attacked by Fifth-Heaven Demon Kings. I hope other regions have also held their defenses."

What he could do was very limited.

After all, even with the demon-slaying saber absorbing Creation Realm corpses, Meng Chuan could only be considered a top-tier Marquis-level combatant. In such a grand war, his impact was ultimately limited.

"Whoosh." Marquis Xihai flew over from a distance, looking at Meng Chuan with considerable excitement: "That demon king, is it dead?" He had waited until the demonic aura completely dissipated before approaching.