"No!"

The Holy Emperor’s expression changed drastically. He had no time to think. At this life-or-death moment, his instincts took over, forcing him to make the fastest and most correct response—he slammed his eyes shut!

The very instant his eyelids closed!

A wisp of black flame—deeper than night and more silent than Nothingness—materialized and ignited upon his eyelids!

This was Amaterasu’s Flame, fused with the Silent Annihilation Nether Flame—a fire capable of incinerating both soul and Law!

"Ahhh—!"

The Holy Emperor let out a piercing, agonized roar. He frantically mobilized the Energy within his body to extinguish the bizarre flame, only to discover with horror that it was like a maggot gnawing on bone—not only could it not be put out, but it was also continuously eroding his Law and Life Force!

He watched as the black flame was about to spread from his eyelids to his entire face, and even drill into his brain!

A look of ruthless resolve flashed in the Holy Emperor’s eyes!

SSHHLLRRRP—!

Before the horrified eyes of the city’s millions, the Holy Emperor actually used his own hands to brutally tear the flesh of his entire face, eyelids and all, right off!

A bloody, featureless mess of a face was thus exposed to the air. The scene was gory to the extreme.

Although the injury looked gruesome, for a third-stage Life and Death Realm expert with tenacious Life Force, it was merely a flesh wound. It wasn’t fatal, and its impact on his combat ability wasn’t too significant!

But the extreme pain, coupled with the immense humiliation of losing face in front of his entire nation’s subjects, drove the Holy Emperor completely berserk!

"You beast!!!"

"I’ll tear you to shreds!!!"

His mangled, bloody face turned toward Chu Sheng’s direction and let out a heaven-shaking roar.

Seeing this, a glint of coldness flashed in Chu Sheng’s massive compound eyes.

’Hmph, not so easy to kill after all.’

With a thought, he deactivated the Silent Annihilation Battle Armor, which consumed a massive amount of power. His aura instantly dropped back to the level of a normal Early Stage Emperor Realm expert.

The next second, his enormous, hundred-meter-long body flashed and vanished from the spot!

"Trying to run?!"

The Holy Emperor laughed maniacally. He thought Chu Sheng was scared and trying to flee!

"Under my ’Ama-no-Murakumo’ Domain, there’s nowhere for you to run! Get out here!"

As his voice fell, his vast Half-Step Emperor Domain thundered outward. Like a giant, transparent bowl being slammed upside down, it instantly sealed the sky in a ten-thousand-meter radius!

Space was forcibly frozen, and just as expected, Chu Sheng’s figure was forced out of the void!

"Die!!!"

The Holy Emperor grinned savagely and swiped his hand. A thousand-meter-long greatsword of white light, formed from Domain Power, instantly took shape. It tore through the sky with the resolve to annihilate everything and ruthlessly chopped down on Chu Sheng’s massive, hundred-meter-long body!

BOOOOM—!!!

A deafening explosion echoed between heaven and earth!

The thousand-meter sword beam met almost no resistance as it struck the giant mosquito’s hard carapace.

The giant mosquito’s enormous, hundred-meter-long body was cleaved in two!

SQUELCH—!!

A sky-blotting deluge of foul, dark green blood mixed with shattered internal organs cascaded down from high above, like a burst dam. It was as if a filthy, bloody rain had begun to fall.

The two halves of the giant mosquito’s massive corpse tumbled helplessly in the air before finally losing all momentum. Like two falling mountains, they crashed one after another into the center of the capital, causing two muffled, thunderous booms that made the very earth tremble violently!

One half of the body completely crushed a surviving skyscraper, embedding itself deep within the rubble; the other half pulverized an entire commercial district into dust.

Its enormous, sky-blotting membranous wings were now broken and tattered. Stained with stinking blood and dust, they drooped limply, showing none of their previous ferocity or power.

One slash.

The giant mosquito... was dead!!

The entire capital city first fell into a dead silence.

Then, someone—it was unclear who—was the first to react, letting out a shout of ecstasy so wild it cracked their voice.

"We won! Lord Holy Emperor won!"

The next second, a tsunami of cheers and celebrations roared across the entire capital!

"Long live Lord Holy Emperor!!"

"Dead? It’s dead just like that?"

"That’s it? I thought Great Xia’s Divine Mosquito was supposed to be so powerful, but didn’t Lord Holy Emperor kill it in a single strike?"

"What damn Divine Mosquito! In front of our Sakura Empire, it’s not even worth a fart!"

"Hahaha! The thing raised by those losers from Great Xia is a loser itself, just as expected!"

Around the ruins, countless civilians and Samurai from the Sakura Country were red-faced with excitement, screaming their lungs out.

They looked at the two halves of the giant corpse lying in the rubble, bleeding green blood, and felt all the resentment from having their resources forcibly requisitioned over the past few days vanish in an instant!

So satisfying! This is just too damn satisfying!

Who says the Sakura Empire is inferior to Great Xia?

When a Demon Beast from Great Xia dares to run wild in our capital, the result is getting sliced in two by Lord Holy Emperor in public!

In mid-air, the Holy Emperor was panting heavily.

The flesh on the face he had torn the skin from was now rapidly squirming and regenerating.

As the victor, however, the Holy Emperor felt not a shred of joy. Instead, his brow was tightly furrowed.

’Something’s not right!’

’Something is very wrong!’

He looked down at the two massive halves of the mosquito’s corpse below, his heart filled with doubt.

’It was too easy! Far too easy!’

According to intelligence from Great Xia, this Mosquito Beast’s most terrifying trump card was those twelve bizarre stone statues! Back then, the four Half-Step Emperor Realm experts from the Qin Family were crushed by those twelve statues with overwhelming force!

’But why...’

’Why didn’t it use those statues from beginning to end?’

’Could it be that I struck too quickly, and it didn’t have time to summon them?’

The thought flashed through the Holy Emperor’s mind, and he immediately felt it was the only logical explanation.

’After all, I am a supreme expert at the third stage of the Life and Death Realm. It’s perfectly normal that my opponent, caught off guard by my enraged strike and suppressed by my Domain, would be killed in one hit before they could react!’

Just as his thoughts were racing, the Space not far above the ruins of the National Mansion suddenly began to warp violently.

Following that, a rift was forcibly torn open in Space.

The figures of Feng Wuji and Lin Yuehua stepped out from it, their faces grave!

After the two Nordic Saints had departed, they were ordered to temporarily stand guard over the Sakura Sea. Just now, they had suddenly sensed an extremely terrifying battle fluctuation erupting from the direction of the Sakura Country’s capital.

That aura was clearly the full-powered strike of a third-stage Life and Death Realm expert!

The two were startled, thinking the Sakura Country was about to make some major move. They immediately tore through Space to rush over and investigate.

But the moment they appeared, they were completely stunned by the scene before them.

They saw the two massive, all-too-familiar halves of the mosquito’s corpse below!

"This... This is..."

Feng Wuji’s mind went completely blank with a buzz.

"How... How could it be here?!"

Lin Yuehua’s face turned pale with fright. She stared at the lifeless corpse, a chill running from the bottom of her heart straight to the top of her head.

’Dead?’

’That mosquito is dead?!’