106: Chapter 106 The Demon-Slaying Sword Dies, the God-Slaying Spear

High in the void, the remnants of a bloody light still lingered. The core rhizome of the demon-slaying sword trembled violently. Its indignation and madness over the failure of its grand plan due to the disappearance of the void-breaking sword transformed into a tangible killing intent that swept in all directions.

A thousand years of plotting, destroyed in a single day!

The great path to ascension was completely severed!

"I want your soul annihilated! You shall never be reincarnated for all eternity!"

This tiger that had suddenly appeared had destroyed everything it had. This hatred had already seeped into its very marrow. Only by grinding Lu Hu's bones to ash and sacrificing his soul origin to its own failure could it dispel even a ten-thousandth of the fury in its heart!

The demon-slaying sword held nothing back. That twisted, repaired core rhizome suddenly surged a thousand feet, its entire body as crimson as blood. Countless tiny vines surfaced on its exterior, each one radiating endless killing intent.

"Kill!"

The demon-slaying sword condensed the most violent slaughter laws in heaven and earth. Its piercing power was enough to ignore all defenses in the world; even an immortal physique would be pierced through, its vitality continuously devoured and its origin worn away!

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Thousands of blood-colored vines shot out like a rainstorm, their speed reaching the extreme, even tearing through space and leaving behind streaks of pitch-black spatial rifts. The tips of the vines were as sharp as swords, carrying the peerless power of slaughtering the heavens as they stabbed directly at Lu Hu's vital points!

Rumble!

Twisted, pitch-black thunder submerged the entire world. A gloomy light covered the heavens and earth, forming a domain exclusive to the demon-slaying sword.

An ominous and sinister light rose as countless spectral spirits emerged. Every single one of them was unafraid of immortal pressure as they roared at Lu Hu.

"Is this all you've got?"

Lu Hu's eyes turned cold. The Five Elements Domain spread out instantly, as the five origin powers of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth intertwined into a heavy defensive barrier to block the vine assault.

The piercing sound of shattering rang out. The demon-slaying sword's vines were like knives cutting through tofu, easily piercing the Five Elements defense without meeting any resistance at all!

"Hmm?"

Lu Hu was slightly surprised. This was the power of the Sword God's personal swords. The demon-slaying sword had absorbed five of the Sword God's swords—Heavenly Thunder, endless, World-Suppressing, Armor-Piercing, and Netherworld—and had mastered their powers.

One of them was specialized in breaking defenses.

Puchi!

Several of the thickest blood-colored vines had already pierced Lu Hu's chest, shoulders, and limbs. The hideous vines tore through his flesh, their barbed tips hooking firmly into his bones and sinews, frantically siphoning his life origin and soul power!

The power of the demon-slaying sword surged into Lu Hu's body along the vines. This power was overbearing to the extreme, specialized in breaking physical defenses; wherever it passed, meridians snapped and vitality dissipated.

"Hahahaha... Die!" Seeing this, the demon-slaying sword let out a crazed laugh. The blood-colored vines spread wildly inside Lu Hu, releasing power in an attempt to completely entwine and strangle him.

Lu Hu's body withered at a speed visible to the naked eye. The blood and qi throughout his body seemed to be drained dry, and even the Five Elements Power swirling around him grew dim and lusterless.

But at that moment, a vast and boundless vitality of creation suddenly erupted from within Lu Hu's withered body!

Buzz—!

A brilliant cyan-gold light gushed out from his body. The horrific wounds pierced by the vines healed at a speed that defied logic. The siphoned life origin and dissipated soul power were instantly replenished, becoming even more robust than before!

The majestic Power of Creation permeated the air, and even the dilapidated earth nearby began to sprout new buds.

"How can this be!" The crazed demon-slaying sword froze in shock.

"It is, of course, this Great King's peerless divine technique."

Lu Hu chuckled. After obtaining the Green Lotus, the system had rewarded him with a wisp of Power of Creation. Later, when the Green Lotus matured, the system rewarded him with the Creation Physique and the Green Lotus Creation Art.

His vitality was so exuberant it could be called a miracle of the world. Recovering from physical injuries was a matter of a single breath.

The demon-slaying sword's power struck directly at the life origin.

But his body possessed infinite vitality and heaven-defying recovery. The speed at which his wounds healed far exceeded the speed of the vines' destruction and the consumption of his origin.

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!" The demon-slaying sword's voice instantly turned from crazed to terrified. "How can there be an existence with an infinite recovery constitution like yours in this world?"

"There is much you do not know."

Lu Hu spoke no more and roared towards the sky. A world-shaking Tiger Roar resounded through the nine heavens. The cyan-gold light around him surged as his body expanded and grew at an incredible speed. His fur turned into the desolate color of the primitive ages, and his entire body was enveloped in the vast aura of the ancient primordial era. His muscles bulged, filled with a sense of power that could destroy heaven and earth!

A giant tiger ten thousand feet tall stood upon the void. Its eyes were like the sun and moon, its claws like mountain peaks, and every single hair radiated a dense plague poison.

With the Poison Spirit Body and Primitive True Form, theoretically speaking, the current Lu Hu could poison everything in the world to death.

"Roar!"

Lu Hu looked down. The vines inserted into his body had not been forced out when he manifested his Primitive True Form; they remained inside him.

This was intentional. The dark green power of the plague poison gushed out from his pores, following the blood-colored vines that pierced his body to frantically corrode the demon-slaying sword's main body in reverse.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

A piercing corrosive sound rang out. The moment the blood-colored vines touched the pitch-black poison, they began to rapidly blacken, wither, and rot. The originally brilliant crimson light quickly faded.

"Ah—! Stop it!"

The demon-slaying sword let out a shrill scream. Its main vines were being corroded and consumed bit by bit by the poison, its power draining away rapidly, and its originally violent aura plummeting at an alarming rate. It wanted to retract the vines, but they were locked tight by Lu Hu's physical body. The poison invaded its core rhizome along the vines, and the demon-slaying sword watched helplessly as it grew weaker and weaker.

Finally, in a fit of ruthlessness, the demon-slaying sword severed all its own branches, leaving only a single main core rhizome!

Whoosh!

"Thinking of running?"

Lu Hu swung his claws, and the Five Elements origin powers intertwined. Metal became sharp blades, wood grew into binding threads, water sealed spiritual meridians, fire burned away evil, and earth solidified the array foundation. The five powers were linked together, forming an airtight cage that firmly trapped the demon-slaying sword within.

"Wind, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning, heed my command!"

Lu Hu performed the Four Methods of Thunder and Lightning, drawing four Dao seals in the void. They transformed into endless wind and rain, Nine Heavens Thunder, world-destroying lightning, and raging gales. The four great slaughter divine techniques erupted simultaneously, their power stacking as they blasted towards the demon-slaying sword inside the trapping array!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Killing moves continuously struck the core rhizome of the demon-slaying sword. Light exploded within the array as the blood-colored vines were repeatedly shredded and ground away. The demon-slaying sword's screams rose and fell, its voice growing weaker and weaker.

Lu Hu's eyes flashed. After observing for a moment, he struck out with his palm again.

Bang!

"Ah!"

The demon-slaying sword shrieked as a clump of energy radiating the aura of laws was knocked out of its body.

Lu Hu continued to strike, and clump after clump of energy was beaten out of the demon-slaying sword's body.

Those were the origins of the five Sword God personal swords that had been devoured and refined by the demon-slaying sword!

They were all decent immortal swords. With the origins, they could be reforged.

With the origins of the five Sword God personal swords forced out, the demon-slaying sword was now extremely weak. Its core rhizome had become withered and dried, its entire body pitch-black and riddled with holes from the corrosion of the Poison Spirit Body. The crimson light had completely vanished, and it no longer possessed even a fraction of its world-ending majesty. It was like a dying venomous snake, gasping for its last breath within the Five Elements trapping array.

The demon-slaying sword was already at the end of its rope, lacking even the strength to struggle. Its core rhizome trembled slightly, letting out a faint and desperate voice: "I... I am not reconciled... I was only one step away... from ascending to the upper realm..."

"Not reconciled? It doesn't matter. This King will take you up there to have a look."

Lu Hu retracted his Primitive True Form and returned to his tiger form. He walked slowly to the front of the Five Elements trapping array, looking at the dying demon-slaying sword inside.

He reached out and grabbed. The Five Elements Power transformed into five-colored chains that pierced through the trapping array and firmly bound the demon-slaying sword's core rhizome.

"From this day forth, the demon-slaying sword no longer exists in this world."

Lu Hu clenched his hand slightly. The golden chains tightened, completely capturing the core rhizome of the demon-slaying sword and turning it into a palm-sized, withered sword root that fell into his palm.

Thus, this world-ending demonic sword that had stirred up heaven and earth and sought to sacrifice all living beings was completely captured!

[Ding! Discovered god-slaying thatch. Rewarding one wisp of God-slaying Origin.]

Heh—

It really is the god-slaying thatch.

Lu Hu held the sealed demon-slaying sword root in his palm, a faint smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

This fight wasn't for nothing.

The harvest satisfied him.

Lu Hu put the god-slaying thatch into the system space and looked at the world.

Without the demon-slaying sword, the blood-colored baleful aura in the world dissipated. The cracked vault of heaven closed, the azure sky reappeared, and sunlight spilled across the land.

The world was warm and peaceful, but Lu Hu felt that the earth beneath his feet was very silent. The spiritual energy in the air was dissipating, as if it was no longer being generated.

"It really wasn't the demon-slaying sword's doing."

Lu Hu walked in the direction of the Xuan Kingdom.

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