203: Chapter 202 The Ninth Level of the Heavenly Prison, You've finally met your match?!

The Ninth Layer of the Nine Nether Heavenly Prison was completely different from the other eight layers.

There were no gloomy cells, no painful wails, and certainly no patrolling prison guards here.

This place was a massive, independent space suspended in the endless Void Realm, spanning a radius of ten thousand li.

In the center of the space, a nine-story black tower reaching a thousand zhang in height stood imposingly like an ancient demon god.

The black tower was inscribed with countless profound runes, exuding a terrifying aura that suppressed the heavens and earth.

Around the black tower floated hundreds of stars of varying sizes, each emitting distinct celestial spiritual energy or Devilish Qi; they were clearly special cages used for nourishment or suppression.

At the edge of this void, a massive blood-colored vortex slowly rotated, emitting a heart-palpitating devouring force, seemingly connecting to another unknown world.

The moment Lin Feng stepped out of the teleportation array, he sensed the eeriness and power of this space.

This place was no longer an area that a Golden Immortal expert could control; there was even a faint fluctuation of an Immortal King's Dao laws.

"What a grand gesture."

Lin Feng snorted coldly, his Chaos Sword Eyes scanning the area, and he quickly locked onto the solitary, arrogant figure in front of the black tower.

It was an old man wearing a tattered black robe, with white hair and beard, a withered physique, yet exuding endless Sword Intent and unyielding pride.

He held an ancient sword as black as ink, sitting quietly cross-legged before the black tower, as if he had merged into one with it.

His aura was more than a hundred times stronger than when he was in the Lower Realm, yet it also carried an indelible sense of decay and gloom.

"Sword Demon Zhang Cheng!"

Lin Feng articulated each word slowly, his voice filled with extreme coldness and complexity.

This aura, this Sword Intent—even if it turned to ashes, Lin Feng would never mistake it!

The withered figure before the black tower trembled violently, and those tightly closed sword eyes snapped open in an instant!

"You... you actually came?!"

Sword Demon Zhang Cheng's eyes were filled with shock, anger, fear, and a trace of... indescribable despair.

He never dreamed that the Mortal from the Lower Realm, whom he had treated as a Cauldron, a pawn, and groomed as a "Gu," that ant who was caught between Immortals and Demons in the Lower Realm and was almost certainly dead... had actually ascended!

Moreover, his aura was so powerful that even he, an old monster at the Peak of the Golden Immortal Realm with one foot in the Immortal King Realm, felt a hint of threat!

"Are you surprised?"

Lin Feng walked through the air, stepping toward Sword Demon Zhang Cheng. The cold killing intent caused the void to freeze.

"I, Lin Feng, said that I came to tear down the pigpen! Didn't you also escape from that same pigpen?"

The muscles on Sword Demon Zhang Cheng's withered face twitched violently.

He wanted to retort, but was powerless to do so.

Every word of Lin Feng's was like the sharpest sword, piercing fiercely into his Dao Heart.

"How could you possibly ascend?!"

Sword Demon Zhang Cheng roared with a hoarse voice; he could not accept this fact!

He had meticulously laid out plans for ten thousand years just to escape the pursuit of the Upper Realm's Immortal Emperor, to find the legendary [chaos green lotus], reshape his Dao foundation, and strike for the Realm of the Immortal Emperor!

Yet Lin Feng, this ant who was supposed to be his "wedding dress" and "Cauldron," had actually... actually exceeded his control, ascended to the Immortal Realm, and even slaughtered his way into his lair!

"Do you think only you know how to shed your shell like a cicada? Do you think only you know how to deceive the heavens?"

Lin Feng snorted coldly and waved his hand. A memory projection condensed from the Myriad Dao Furnace Sutra instantly unfolded in the void!

In that projection was the image of Sword Demon Zhang Cheng's benevolent Incarnation, in the ruins of the Lower Realm's imperial city, revealing his ten-thousand-year plan in its entirety!

"Your benevolent Incarnation has more guts than you. He dared to bet on my victory, but you? You are just a piece of trash who only knows how to hide in the shadows and scheme, not daring to face your enemies head-on, only thinking of sacrificing the world to run away!"

"No!!!"

When Sword Demon Zhang Cheng saw the memory projection, his withered face instantly twisted into extreme hideousness and resentment!

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn that benevolent Incarnation! He actually... he actually betrayed me!!!"

He looked up abruptly, his sword eyes filled with cannibalistic madness and brutality!

"Lin Feng! You damn Gu! How dare you use such despicable means to pry into my memories?! You are courting death!"

"A Gu?"

Lin Feng sneered, and that pressure of the Heavenly Immortal Realm instantly crushed Sword Demon Zhang Cheng's Peak Golden Immortal arrogance!

"Do you think you are still that high and mighty [Demon-Sealing Immortal King]?"

Lin Feng's gaze landed on the black tower where Sword Demon Zhang Cheng sat, on the blood-colored vortex, and finally, on his tattered black robe and withered body.

"You are now nothing more than a Vice Hall Master under the Hall Master of the Nether Palace. A stray dog, chased by enemies until you were heavily injured, forced to live under someone else's roof and reduced to a lackey!"

"What qualifications do you have left to put on airs as an Immortal King in front of me?!"

"Shut up!!!"

Sword Demon Zhang Cheng roared, that anger of having his sore spot touched causing him to completely lose his reason!

His most proud identity, his past that he least wanted to mention, and his deepest scars were torn open by Lin Feng, word by word, without mercy!

He, Sword Demon Zhang Cheng, the dignified [Demon-Sealing Immortal King], the savior of ten thousand years ago, had now been reduced to a Vice Hall Master of the Nether Palace, driven by others!

All his arrogance and dignity had been trampled under Lin Feng's feet, crushed repeatedly!

"Do you think, on what grounds can you garrison the Nine Nether Heavenly Prison? Do you think, on what grounds were you saved by the Ghost Mother of the Nether? Do you think, on what grounds can you safely search for the [chaos green lotus] to reshape your Dao foundation?"

Lin Feng pressed forward step by step, his words like blades, each one drawing blood!

"Isn't it because you staked all your value on... Huang Fugui!"

"You hid that cub of the ancient exotic beast, the [Treasure-Seeking Mouse], here just to offer it to the Nether Palace Hall Master and to Yuheng, the Disciple of the Immortal Lord Seven Luminaries, in exchange for their protection and support! You are just a... coward who uses any means necessary!"

"No!"

Sword Demon Zhang Cheng's face turned deathly pale. He stood up abruptly from before the black tower, his sword eyes filled with horror and despair!

What Lin Feng said was accurate down to every single word!

His deepest, most secret plans, all his layouts, had been clearly exposed by this "Gu," Lin Feng!

"How could you know?!"

Sword Demon Zhang Cheng's voice was no longer filled with anger, but with endless fear!

"Guess?"

Lin Feng sneered; he had already seen that faint fluctuation of vitality deep within the black tower.

Huang Fugui was still alive!

"Sword Demon Zhang Cheng, you should never, ever have touched my brother!"

"You should never have staked everything you had on a pawn that you could not control at all!"

"Your biggest mistake was that you should not have..."

Lin Feng slowly raised his right hand, killing intent bursting forth in his Chaos Sword Eyes!

"Should not have treated me as... a Cauldron to be manipulated at will!"

"Today, all your layouts, all your schemes, all your ambitions..."

"Will all... end because of me!"

Sword Demon Zhang Cheng's withered body trembled violently.

He understood now: Lin Feng really intended to kill him!

All his pretenses, all his arrogance, all his plans had become a colossal joke at this moment!

He never expected that his ten-thousand-year plan would be ruined by an ant from the Lower Realm!

Ruined by the "Gu" he had raised with his own hands!

"Lin Feng! Do you really think you are my match?!"

Sword Demon Zhang Cheng roared to the heavens, that madness of being forced into a desperate situation causing him to explode completely!

"Back in the day, I pacified the chaotic era of the Heavenly Demons, with one man and one sword, slaughtered my way through a million-strong Demon army, annihilated eighteen Demon Lords, and suppressed the Demon Ancestor! I was revered by all Realms as the [Demon-Sealing Immortal King]!"

"Back in the day, I was able to sever the Heavenly Gate with one sword, discard my body and reincarnate, just to escape the pursuit of the Immortal Emperor, to find the [chaos green lotus], reshape my Dao foundation, and strike for the Realm of the Immortal Emperor!"

"You, a mere ant at the Early Stage of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, on what grounds do you dare to clamor in front of me?!"

"On what grounds can you kill me?!"

Sword Demon Zhang Cheng, he was, after all, still that arrogant [Demon-Sealing Immortal King]!

His unyielding pride did not allow him to submit!

"Aren't you known as the [Demon-Sealing Immortal King]?"

Lin Feng snorted coldly, and the Life-Slaying Blade in his hand slowly unsheathed.

"Then today, I will use this blade of mine to slay you, an... Immortal King!"

"Come!"

Lin Feng's killing intent surged around him, and Battle Intent soared to the heavens in his Chaos Sword Eyes!

"Today, I will tell you!"

"What it means to... [Slay a Golden Immortal with One Sword]!"

"What it means to... [Slaughter an Immortal King with One Blade]!"

[Host: Lin Feng]

[Realm: Heavenly Immortal Realm First Stage]

[Cultivation Technique: Myriad Dao Furnace Sutra (Major Achievement)]

[Martial Skill: Immortal-Slaying Sword Technique (Perfection), Avici Prison-Suppressing Blade (proficient)]

[Movement Technique: Earth-Shrinking Step (proficient)]

[Domain: Myriad Laws Return to Void]

[critical hit multiplier: 180,000x]

[critical hit points: 10.05 trillion!]