Martial Cultivator

Chapter 1002.1: All Eyes on Him - Part 1

There has always been an interesting saying in this world: never bully a poor youth.

Because youth is only the beginning stage of life, filled with limitless possibilities. If you humiliate someone in their youth, perhaps after a few decades, that youth will become one of the most remarkable figures in the world.

Back then in the desolate north, the Demon Emperor relied on his cultivation realm to oppress Chen Chao at will. At that time, in the eyes of this ruler of myriad demons, Chen Chao was merely a so-called young genius, someone he could kill with a casual hand, not worth any real attention.

Although the Demon Emperor knew that as long as Chen Chao lived, he would sooner or later step into this realm. Because before that, the cultivation speed this young martial artist displayed had been far too astonishing.

He never expected that in such a short time only two or three years at most after parting in the desolate north, the young martial artist before him had already walked a path that had taken him several hundred years.

If the Demon Emperor said he felt no regret at this moment, it would be a lie.

In the past, the demon race had countless opportunities to eliminate this great threat in its infancy, but for various reasons, they had all failed.

And now, that young man had, to a certain extent, already gained the qualification to stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Killing him now was no longer easy.

But he was, after all, the ruler of myriad demons, the strongest emperor in the history of the demon domain. The Demon Emperor looked indifferently at the spirited young man before him and said coldly, “Since Chen Che did not die at Our hands, then you can take his place.”Chen Chao smiled freely. “Don’t talk so big. Did my uncle ever lose to you?”

The Demon Emperor and the Great Liang Emperor had fought two battles. In the first, although the Demon Emperor held back, it ultimately ended in a draw. In the second, the Great Liang Emperor fought this demon emperor fiercely in the desolate north for a long time, and the final result was the Great Liang Emperor’s victory.

The Demon Emperor was not afraid of losing to Chen Che, but after that defeat, he could never find him again, and that was what angered him.

He firmly believed that if he met the Great Liang Emperor again, he would be able to kill this human ruler, but fate never gave him that chance.

Now, hearing Chen Chao speak like this, a rare trace of anger appeared in the Demon Emperor.

“Sharp words are useless. Since you have already stepped into this realm, then We will let you see what it means to be invincible in this world.”

The Demon Emperor looked at Chen Chao. The demonic qi around his body had long since surged. Though he had suffered some injuries earlier, he did not consider them important. First, it was because they were not severe. Second, because Chen Chao had only just stepped into this realm, and he did not think Chen Chao was particularly strong.

Chen Chao smiled faintly. “Who doesn't know how to talk big?”

Sensing the overwhelming demonic qi carried by the Demon Emperor, Chen Chao appeared calm on the surface, but in truth, he was extremely serious. The qi within his body had already been raised to its peak.

His first battle after stepping into Fuyun was against the current number one person under heaven. Chen Chao did not feel fear, but to say he was not nervous would be a lie.

After all, no matter what, the Demon Emperor’s cultivation realm was unquestionable.

But aside from nervousness, Chen Chao felt even more excitement.

In the past, when his realm was inferior to others, Chen Chao could still fight across realms. When he killed Yinli and Wuyang, it had been the same.

Now that their realms were equal, Chen Chao did not believe he would necessarily lose.

Exhaling a breath of turbid air, Chen Chao strode forward a step.

Behind him, that towering dharma idol, surrounded by sun, moon, and stars, extended one hand. In its palm, a great sun revolved, illuminating that hand with incomparable brilliance.

The towering dharma idol grasped that radiant sun and hurled it forward. In an instant, a blazing fireball tore across the sky, carrying endless flames and lighting up the heavens in a single moment.

The demonic qi across the entire sky seemed as though it would be dispersed by this sun, restoring a clear and bright firmament to the world!

The Demon Emperor remained expressionless, but the towering dharma idol behind him moved. With a sweep of its sleeve, countless streams of demonic qi surged out, transforming into black dragons that swam forward.

As those black dragons advanced, they collided and devoured one another, until after a brief moment, they formed into a single, incomparably massive black dragon.

Facing that great sun, the black dragon’s whiskers writhed as it suddenly opened its enormous mouth, spewing out wave after wave of terrifying demonic qi that extinguished the flames surrounding the sun.

Afterward, it even sought to completely swallow that great sun into its stomach.

But the great sun neither dodged nor avoided it, directly crashing into the black dragon’s mouth. In an instant, the people within the sea of clouds could clearly see a mass of fire moving through the black dragon’s body with the naked eye.

With the great sun entering its belly, the black dragon also began struggling in pain. Its enormous body started rolling through the sea of clouds, looking as though it had swallowed something it should not have eaten.

After a brief pause, Chen Chao’s towering dharma idol arrived before the black dragon. One massive hand instantly pressed down on the dragon’s head, then forcefully seized its horns and tore them off alive!

The black dragon screamed continuously, but the Demon Emperor seemed completely unmoved by it.

He merely watched as the towering dharma idol stomped down and shattered the black dragon’s spine, watching countless dragon scales fly everywhere.

Within the sea of clouds, sharp sounds rang out one after another. Those dragon scales were like the sharpest flying swords in the world, continuously falling down with streaks of black demonic qi, descending from the clouds into the human world.

For a time, countless cultivators not far from this place widened their eyes and fled into the distance.

Earlier, they had personally witnessed a cultivator with fairly high cultivation rise toward the sky, only to explode into a cloud of blood. Now, if those black streaks, which were terrifying even just to sense, fell upon them, they too could bid farewell to this world.

“This damned bastard has gone too far! Is there really nobody who can cut him down?!”

The cultivators’ realms were still too low, and they did not understand what was truly happening in the heavens at this moment. They only believed the Demon Emperor was deliberately doing this in order to toy with cultivators like them.

“Fuck this, Your Father is done watching! Damn him all to hell! If he won’t treat Your Father like a person, then even if Your Father dies, Your Father will bite a few chunks of flesh off the demon first!”

One cultivator roared in fury. After saying this, he immediately sped northward. Earlier, a friend had wanted to head to the Northern Frontier and had invited him along, but he had refused out of fear for his life. Yet now, after experiencing this, the fire in his heart could no longer be suppressed. He no longer cared about anything and directly rushed north.

At this moment, even if he died immediately upon reaching the north, he would not care in the slightest, as long as he could kill one or two demons before dying!

There were quite a few cultivators who shared the same thoughts as this man. In only a short moment, many cultivators began heading north.

Previously, they had not cared about things like the great trends of the world or the survival of the common people, but now they had truly felt despair and humiliation, and they could no longer endure it.

Everyone had a reverse scale in their heart. Once touched, even knowing death awaited them, they would not hesitate.

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